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...about a military solution even as they participate in on-again-off-again talks with ethnic-Albanian political parties. Those talks are a long way from conclusion, having briefly collapsed this week over ethnic-Albanian demands for veto power over major government decisions and Macedonian Slav reluctance to accept radical constitutional changes. But even as those talks continued in Skopje's cavernous parliament buildings, the government took delivery of eight new attack aircraft -including four helicopters - from Ukraine, doubling the size of its air force, and further draining the country's treasury . On Friday, government forces ended a two-week...
...secure the town with a few detachments of police troops, backed up by forces at the nearby airport," asks a local analyst. Government ineptitude has spawned conspiracy theories, including the suggestion that Prime Minister Georgievski actually wanted to lose Aracinovo in order to persuade a reluctant parliament to accept his call for the declaration of a "state of war" - a charge the Georgievski vehemently denies...
...There is a concern in the administration that Sharon's view is that he can simply maintain an extended cease-fire and keep political negotiations to a minimum. The Bush administration doesn't accept that view, and will try to persuade Sharon that it doesn't work - a long-term cease-fire won't be enough to keep a lid on things from the Palestinian side. Without both sides committing themselves to political negotiations, there would be an inevitable resurgence of violence...
...Even the demands of the more mainstream Albanian parties are unlikely to be met by the majority parties. They may agree on rewording the preamble to the constitution to make it more inclusive, but they're unlikely to accept the proposal that the constitution establish a principle that a certain percentage of government positions are reserved for Albanians, or that a permanent non-elected vice presidency be created for an ethnic Albanian. So even some of the demands coming from the more moderate side of the ethnic-Albanian community are problematic, and there's still a huge gulf between them...
...Mark Thompson: The whole missile defense architecture is conceptual at this point; it doesn't actually exist. President Bush wants the Russians to accept the principle of building such a system, and he may be prepared to sweeten the kitty by offering sharp reductions in each side's nuclear arsenals. But the details of that proposal will wait for the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review, due this fall at the earliest...