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Tuesday, 6:10 p.m., Belgrade. Fresh from a chat with Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister--in town to make sure Milosevic sticks to a promise he gave Boris Yeltsin to resume talks with Rugova--Holbrooke arrives at Milosevic's presidential palace. The two tuck into a four-hour dinner of steak, lamb and fish, while Holbrooke warns the Serb leader that NATO air strikes are inevitable if his army continues its clampdown. "What's left of your country will implode," Holbrooke says...
...Boris Yeltsin's income jumped sevenfold, from less than $45,000 to $325,000, last year. The presidential windfall became public after Rossiiskaya Gazeta, the state paper of record, published a list of officials' earnings. This has been an annual event (as have citizens' disbelieving snickers) since last spring, when, during a seasonal campaign against corruption, Yeltsin decreed that all government officials should declare their incomes and holdings. Intended to increase transparency at the highest levels of power and build public trust, the decree had the opposite effect. Nearly all the declared incomes were absurd. The oil-and-media tycoon...
...Russia, despite the promises of its president, may not be ready to change. "The Duma makes reform very difficult -- in part because the hard-liners wouldn't mind if the Yeltsin government fell," says Baumohl. Perhaps Yeltsin will disband the Duma after all -- if only to get his hands on that loan...
BELGRADE: Slobodan Milosevic didn't survive this long through brute force alone: After yesterday's NATO fly-by to encourage the Serb leader to end his aggression in Kosovo, Milosevic today emerged from a meeting with Boris Yeltsin talking compromise. Although he gave no specific response to NATO demands, he offered to hold peace talks with ethnic Albanian leaders from Kosovo. "Milosevic is an expert in exploiting disagreements within the Western camp and their general reluctance to intervene," says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "He will back off, but only slightly -- enough to leave the international community wondering what...
...next step won't come until after President Boris Yeltsin's Thursday meeting with Milosevic, where he'll try and persuade Russia's traditional ally to back down. "The U.S. believes it has nothing to lose by giving Yeltsin's initiative a chance," says Fischer, "but they're not optimistic about his prospects -- past experience has shown that Milosevic doesn't change course unless he feels the heat." If the West manages to muster the political will to use force over and above Russian objections, NATO's task won't be easy: "NATO can do considerable damage to the Yugoslavian...