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...last week there were signs that Milosevic might be preparing his citizens for a deal with NATO. State-controlled TV led its evening broadcasts with stories about diplomatic efforts to end the war rather than about the conflict itself. More important, the Yugoslav press claimed that Serbian forces had wiped the Kosovo Liberation Army from Kosovo. While this was manifestly untrue--Western reporters visited K.L.A. soldiers inside Kosovo all week--the fact that Milosevic was touting the "victory" suggested he might be looking to declare himself a winner and end the bombing. If not, as the weather continues to clear...
...Serbs showed "Wag the Dog" when the bombing began, and now Belgrade is venturing into creating its own made-for-TV events. The Yugoslav army staged a tiny "troop withdrawal" Thursday, moving about 120 soldiers out of Kosovo before assembled Western reporters at a border post. A senior officer then spun the reporters the line that the only thing slowing Yugoslav withdrawal was NATO's continued bombing. It was a lame stunt, but it pointed to the key obstacle to a Russian-mediated peace process: Moscow wants a simultaneous Yugoslav withdrawal and cessation of NATO's bombing, but NATO...
...against Yugoslavia. The additional bombers will add 500-lb. iron bombs for attacks on troop concentrations, as well as precision-guided, Israeli-made missiles that carry 1,000-lb. warheads. Meanwhile, about 12 hours before word of the release reached Washington, Clinton imposed a U.S. trade embargo on the Yugoslav republic of Serbia, intent on choking off the supply of oil to Milosevic's military. The European Union's ban on oil shipments to Yugoslavia went into effect on Saturday. Said White House spokesman David Leavy: "The United States will continue to tighten the screws until our objectives...
...Friday, Washington had summarily dismissed a Milosevic feeler. In an interview with United Press International, the Yugoslav President, while insisting he would "never surrender" to allied demands for a NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo, set forth terms for ending the conflict, including his willingness to accept lightly armed U.N. monitors. But he would not abide a military peacekeeping force made up of his country's attackers, even if holding out means more air strikes. "One day [of bombing] is too much," Milosevic said. "But what choice do we have if NATO insists on occupying Yugoslavia? To that we will...
...Chinese cities came under fire from enraged rock-throwing demonstrators Saturday, following NATO's overnight bombing of China's Belgrade embassy that killed four people and wounded 26. The error -- which NATO officials said resulted from an intelligence failure in which the building was wrongly identified as a Yugoslav arms procurement office -- may further cloud the troubled relationship between Washington and Beijing. China denounced the act as "barbaric," demanded that NATO immediately halt its bombing campaign. Russia backed that call, insisting that the peace plan agreed with NATO leaders Thursday could not be implemented before the air campaign was halted...