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Shades of postwar Germany? The U.S. and the Russians continue to squabble over who will control which sector of war-torn Kosovo, while the full horror of what transpired there comes to light. This time, however, nobody?s holding their breath for a Nuremberg trial. Britain alleged Thursday that at least 10,000 Kosovars had been massacred in more than 100 separate incidents, as NATO troops uncover scores of mass graves and returning refugees piece together the horrific tales of the victims? last hours. However, although U.S. forces have arrested two suspected war criminals from among retreating Yugoslav forces...
...officials, meanwhile, met their Russian counterparts for a second day in Finland Thursday, hoping to resolve the standoff over Russia?s involvement in the peacekeeping mission. Washington insists on a unified command, and that the Russians not be given their own sector; Moscow continues to demand its own sector and refuses to subordinate its troops to NATO. "They?ll probably reach a compromise agreement by creating some form of parallel command in name that appears to satisfy both concerns," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. Indeed, NATO is concerned that the outflow of Kosovar Serbs will create unstoppable momentum toward...
...strikes, when bad weather and alliance timidity limited the damage Serbia suffered. But "he was feeling the pain" in the second month, says a U.S. intelligence officer, as NATO racked up 350 attack sorties every 24 hours. Bombs and missiles had blitzed much of Serbia's heavy industry, energy sector and transport network. Citizen morale crumbled under water shortages and power outages as NATO hammered the country's electric grid. Protests broke out in the smashed industrial cities of the south...
Whereas NATO had envisaged dividing Kosovo into sectors run by its major members, Russian General Leonid Ivashov warned that Moscow wouldn?t "beg the U.S. to provide it with our own sector of Kosovo," but would simply "declare our sector and agree on this question with the Yugoslav side" if talks with NATO failed to resolve the issue...
...policies have been very good," Feldstein wrote in his e-mail message. "He dealt wisely with bringing down inflation, he responded well to two financial market crises (the 1987 stock market crash and the 1998 credit crunch), and he has helped to advance important improvements in deregulating the financial sector...