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...colonize a tiny strip of ethnic-Albanian inhabited Serb territory just across the border from Kosovo are a sign that some Albanians won't be taking no for an answer, and may be hoping to provoke a showdown with Belgrade before the Bush Administration carries out its threat to withdraw U.S. forces from the region. The new government of President Vojislav Kostunica is prepared to restrain the Yugoslav army as long as NATO remains prepared to do curb the guerrillas, but that may put Western troops on a collision course with the Albanian nationalists. There's plenty of room...
...Horizon: Increased tension over Kosovo?s future, and a major showdown between Washington and its European allies over proposals to withdraw U.S. forces from Balkans peacekeeping. The Europeans have warned that the U.S. will cede its right to command NATO forces in Europe if it refuses to have its troops on the frontline...
Whether it's serenity or detachment, or a combination of both, Bush's ability to tune things out is real. But it is not the whole story. On election night, when Al Gore called a second time to withdraw his concession, Bush was famously "snippy" on the phone, his preternatural equanimity having been stretched beyond its limits. And some visitors to the Governor's Mansion in Austin during the postelection interlude say that Bush, when he was in town, was not always so sanguine and accepting about the things he could not control. He was especially bothered by the protesters...
...issue in the talks, as at Camp David, are the extent of Israel's withdrawal from the Palestinian territories it occupied in 1967, the fate of the settlements it built there in the intervening years, the claims of Palestinian refugees driven out of Israel in 1948, and of course sovereignty over the hill in Jerusalem that Jews call the Temple Mount and Muslims call Mazari al Sharif. Both sides have reported progress in talks over a deal brokered by the Americans, in which Israel would withdraw from more than 90 percent of the West Bank and Gaza and from most...
Last year India and Pakistan almost fought a war over Kashmir. Now they appear set to make peace, with India extending its unilateral cease-fire against separatist groups there, and now Pakistan beginning to withdraw its troops. Why the change...