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...journalists" killed in the predawn bombing, it seems, weren?t insomniac keyboard slaves at all but spies. In addition, the B-2?s bomb just happened to strike the compound?s intelligence-gathering nerve center. "That certainly encourages suspicion on the Chinese side," says TIME State Department correspondent Douglas Waller. "In their eyes, it provides a motive...
...conspiracy theory is that the U.S. struck there in retaliation for China's sharing intelligence with Belgrade," adds Waller. "But that?s a very common practice among the U.S.?s rivals, and certainly Russia was doing the same thing with Milosevic." In the end, though, even discounting the mounting evidence that the CIA and Pentagon merely bungled the job, the motive just doesn?t measure up. "It seems implausible that the U.S. would wreck its relations with China over something as trivial as intelligence sharing," says Waller. Incompetent but not stupid? China is sticking with villainous...
...Reported by Jay Branegan, Elaine Shannon and Douglas Waller/ Washington and Jaime A. FlorCruz/Beijing
NATO had originally favored the pacifist Rugova over the insurgent KLA, and began dealing with the guerrilla group only after Serb repression had propelled them to center stage. "Washington was originally suspicious of the KLA, but embraced them at Rambouillet," says Waller...
...spokesman James Rubin implicitly sought to distance the U.S. from Rugova last Thursday, pointing out that the moderate leader hadn't been the head of the Kosovar delegation at Rambouillet. "The inference was that Washington didn't consider Rugova the person to deliver a settlement," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller...