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Nightmare's End
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KOSOVO
Terrain of Terror
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Who Gets To Be a State?
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Survival of the Fittest
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Jordan: Dawn of a New Era
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The Heart of Darkness
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Up From the Flood
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Answers
The Serbian people have paid dearly in lost lives, lost jobs, lost hope, yet the leader responsible still rules Yugoslavia, no less prone to stir up trouble--though surely less able--than he ever was. The West has acquired an unstable Kosovo protectorate that will require intensive military and political care for years to come, and an immense bill, in the billions of dollars, to reconstruct the ravaged economies of Europe's Balkan quarter. The truism is the same for this as for every war: the peace is going to be harder to win. First come the inherent perils of doing deals with Milosevic. The very speed of his capitulation made everyone suspect a trick. From Washington to Brussels, officials urged caution, but the Pentagon privately believed the agreement was "the real McCoy." Unwilling to be caught wrong, Washington insisted the bombing would not actually stop until the Serbs have satisfied nato they are carrying out the stringent terms for withdrawal of 40,000-odd troops from Kosovo. nato will have to accelerate smartly to march its 50,000 peacekeepers into Kosovo right behind the departing Serbs. The peacekeepers need to move fast to prevent the armed and independence-minded troops of the Kosovo Liberation Army from swarming into the vacuum. Milosevic has shuffled off the problem of "demilitarizing" the rebels to nato, and it won't be easy. "It is our expectation," insisted Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, that the K.L.A. will cooperate and accept an agreement that promises self-rule but does not give them independence.
Questions
1. According to the diagram above, who will be responsible for keeping peace in Kosovo?
2. In what ways was nato's Kosovo campaign a victory? Where did the effort fall short?
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