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...Clinton Legacy: Clinton eventually managed to cajole European NATO allies to act decisively to stop the bloodletting in Bosnia and to drive Yugoslavian troops out of Kosovo. He also funneled support to the Serbian opposition parties that helped bring Milosevic down. But the equilibrium he?s leaving behind is unstable - five years after the Dayton Accord and 18 months after the Kosovo cease-fire, the region's old enemies show no greater inclination to just get along...
...problem or Belgrade will. But that's precisely what the former KLA men who've returned to arms want: Their goal is to annex the Presevo Valley villages, which house some 70,000 Albanians, for an independent Kosovo, and they've calculated that by forcing a confrontation with the Yugoslavian army, NATO would once again be forced to intervene on their behalf...
...Serbs, when given a choice, elected a moderate nationalist to represent them; now the Kosovar Albanians appear to be doing the same. Initial indications are that Ibrahim Rugova's Democratic League of Kosovo won an impressive victory in the first elections held in the territory since NATO expelled the Yugoslavian army. Although the vote, which was boycotted by the territory's Serb minority, was to appoint representatives to local authorities, they represented the first opportunity for Kosovo's Albanians to state their political preferences since the war. And Rugova's victory appears to have been a stunning setback for Hashem...
...fact that both the Serbs and the Kosovar Albanians have now chosen scholarly men of reason to lead them doesn't diminish the differences they'll have to bridge. Despite his pacifism, Rugova is as firmly committed to independence as Thaci is, while Yugoslavian president Vojislav Kostunica is determined to hold on to it by legal means. And of course right now, Kostunica has the "law" on his side, in the sense that the U.N. resolution that ended last year's war affirmed Yugoslavian sovereignty over an autonomous (but not independent) Kosovo. That's an issue that may still split...
...tyrant dictator calls elections thinking they'll legitimize his rule. The people vote him out, so he tries to steal the result. And the masses rise up and toss him in the trash can of history. But then the Ivory Coast story starts to diverge a little from the Yugoslavian one. The capital of the West African nation, Abidjan, was seized by street violence again Thursday despite a popular victory on the streets the previous day, in which General Robert Gueï was forced to flee the country in the face of massive demonstrations just days after fraudulently proclaiming himself...