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Focuses on massacres in the Serbian province of Kosovo in 1998. The number of confirmed massacre sites listed by human rights investigators; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) airstrike preparations to stop the massacres; Possible repercussions of an attack against Slobodan Milosevic, president of Yugoslavia and leader of nationalistic Serbia; Brief description of recorded massacres; Expectations that Milosevic will comply with NATO's ultimatum. INSET: The Standoff.

Reports on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) agreement to force Serbian withdrawal from the Serbia province of Kosovo. Massacre of ethnic Albanian civilians; The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) demand for independence for Kosovo and integration into an Albanian nation; The dilemma of NATO in regard to bombing strikes against Serbian troops; Negotiations with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.

Focuses on the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) as of July 1998. Development of the guerrilla army; Their response to Yugoslavian President Slodoban Milosevic's efforts to drive ethnic Albanians out of the Serbian province of Kosovo, where they are a majority; The group's complication of European and United States efforts to broker a settlement of the fighting in Kosovo; The KLA's growing strength.

Reports on the proposed North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) bombing of Serbian forces in Kosovo. Serbs killing of civilian ethnic Albanians; Negotiations between United States presidential envoy, Richard Holbrooke and Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic; The Kosovo Liberation Army fighting for Albanian independence in Yugoslavia; The Serbs claiming that they have met the international community's demands; Concern of the United States that Kosovo will cause a Balkan war.

Reports on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) warning of military airstrikes to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic's agreement to withdraw soldiers and police from the Kosovo province and letting refugees go home; The observation of international monitors; Serb officials keeping Kosovars jailed for trials set for November 1998; Mention of farmer Murat Dobruna searching for his family in Pristina, Kosovo. INSET: A New Sort of Left.

Discusses the probability of a summer 1998 Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) uprising in Pristina, Kosovo. The KLA's rule of the streets in Pristina's Albanian neighborhoods; The move of the war from rural villages to Pristina; Efforts of moderate Albanian leadership to keep Albanians on a peaceful course of nonparticipation in Serbian life; Flight of Serb families from the capital.

Focuses on the growth of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Efforts of ethnic Albanians, known as Kosovars, to resist Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's attempts to force them out of the province; Financial support for the KLA; Complication of efforts of European and United States diplomats to broker a settlement of the fighting in Kosovo.