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Discuss NATO Plans to Strike Yugoslavia...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: This is a job for Dick Holbrooke -- or NATO bombers. Yugoslav president and Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic stretched the U.S.' Kosovo ultimatum to the breaking point late Tuesday by ruling out a NATO ground force in his country. After meeting with U.S. envoy Christopher Hill -- who was bearing news that the ethnic Albanian rebels appeared ready to deal -- Milosevic released a statement saying, "Our negative stand about the presence of foreign troops is not only the attitude of the leadership, but also of all citizens in our country." Bluster? Definitely. Bluff? Madeleine Albright certainly hopes so -- because...
...Administration privately decided after the Serb massacre of ethnic Albanians at Racak on Jan. 15 that G.I.s would have to be deployed as peacekeepers. With that decision in her purse, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sped through Europe last week, pushing the allies into an ultimatum that essentially orders Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic to sign an agreement on autonomy with Kosovo's ethnic Albanians within three weeks. If he doesn't, NATO formally warned him last Saturday that he will face bomb and missile attacks from the alliance's planes and ships. The fractious Albanian groups, including the hard...
...skirmishes over a road that had been closed by the rebels highlight the gulf that remains between the two sides. Yugoslavia's Serb government held a cabinet meeting in the territory Friday to underline its determination to resist KLA demands for independence. U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke brokered a cease-fire last fall to avoid NATO air strikes against the Serbs, but that was widely interpreted as the two sides taking a winter recess. "One explanation for the renewed fighting might be that the weather has warmed up a little," says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. And when spring sets in, young...
...exchange of ambassadors, but it's a start -- Kosovo's ethnic Albanian rebels were jubilant Thursday over a prisoner exchange with the Serb authorities. The reason? "By agreeing to exchange prisoners with the rebel KLA, the Serbs are effectively recognizing them as a legitimate warring faction," says TIME Yugoslavia reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "Until now the Serbs had dismissed the KLA as terrorists and treated KLA prisoners as criminals...