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Reports on the increasing possibility that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will launch airstrikes against Yugoslavia if a peaceful resolution to the violence in the country is not found. Details of a summit to be held in February 1999, in which representatives from the Albanians and the Serbs have been invited; Reasons why Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic is against a summit outside of Yugoslavia; Details of a possible settlement agreement to be discussed at the summit.

Focuses on international efforts to bring about peace between the Serbs and Kosovars over the Serbian region of Kosovo. The possibility of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) airstrikes against Serbia; The unwillingness of either side to make concessions; Questions about the willingness of Kosovars, or ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, to accept anything less than independence; The role of the Kosovo Liberation Army; Outlook.

Reports on a propaganda war in Yugoslavia concerning the massacre of ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo in January 1999. How the state-run media deny that civilians are being victimized; The threat of North Atlantic Treaty Organization airstrikes; Analysts view of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic; How Serbs believe that there is an international conspiracy against Serbs.

Examines the implications of the massacre of over 40 ethnic Albanians by Serbs in Kosovo, Yugoslavia. Option of airstrikes and ground forces against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic; Milosevic's breaking of the October, 1998, cease-fire; Expected meeting of the United Nations Security Council about the status of Kosovo; Role of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE); Continued violence in Racak.

Reports on violence in the Serbian province of Kosovo in January 1999. Lack of progress in peace negotiations; Tension in the region from the destruction of villages and massacres; Efforts of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); The capture of Yugoslav Army soldiers by Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in northern Kosovo; Assassination of ethnic Albanian Enver Majoku.

Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian man and an ethnic Albanian woman in Kosovo, Yugoslavia. How relationships between Serbs and Albanians are discouraged; Fighting between Serbs and ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo; Fighting stopped due to the threat of air strikes from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; View of the couple that they must leave Yugoslavia.

Focuses on Ibrahim Rugova, leader of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians. How his authority has eroded during 1998; Rugova's transformation caused by his own miscalculations, suppression from the Serbian regimes, and the sometimes misleading United States policy; How he is one of the primary obstacles to finding a political solution for the Serbian province of Kosovo; His role in Kosovan politics.

Questions who will make up the Kosovan police force as Yugoslav Army troops and Serbian special police forces withdraw from Kosovo in November 1998. The implementation of a police force that is representative of the 90 percent ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo as part of a political solution; Whether the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) should be included in the police force.

Discusses issues surrounding the return of 300,000 displaced ethnic Albanians in October of 1998 to their homes following an offensive by Serbs in western Kosovo in May 1998. Comments from some of the returnees; Mention of a deal between United States envoy Richard Holbrooke and President Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian police and Yugoslav Army; The lingering Serb presence.

Examines the effect of possible North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) airstrikes against Serbian forces. Massacres of ethnic Albanians discovered; When a decision on military intervention could come; Belief that airstrikes alone could aggravate the situation; Serbian claims in light of allegations; Diplomats and aid workers calling for neutral forensic experts to investigate allegations.

Reports that the United States and 15 of its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have authorized limited air strikes against Serbia should the country defy a United Nations demand for a cease-fire and negotiations in regards to ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo region of Serbia. The determination of NATO members to act before winter arrives in 1998; Why a political solution is becoming less likely; Uncertainty about how Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic will respond to NATO.

Examines the plight of the Albanian refugees from Kosovo after the Serbian offensive drove them out of their homes. The efforts by the Serbian officials to get the refugees to return to their home towns; The number of Albanians killed since the Serbian offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army; International efforts to pressure Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic to end the violence against ethnic Albanians; Number of refugees who are living in the open as of September of 1998.

Reports on the potential impact of the war-crimes indictment of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies. Diplomatic efforts to end the Kosovo (Serbia) conflict; The indictment released by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal concerning atrocities against Kosovo's majority ethnic Albanians; Others named in the indictment, including Milan Miluntinovic, president of Serbia.

Focuses on ethnic Albanians living in Belgrade, Serbia as of April 20, 1999. Fears, including the belief that they will be the next victims of `ethnic cleansing'; Their roles in Belgrade as manual laborers; Blame by some of their condition on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) airstrikes; Decrease in the number of ethnic Albanians in Belgrade since 1980 when Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic rose to power; Comments from ethnic Albanians.

Reports on the exodus of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo's capital of Pristina in Yugoslavia. Concern whether refugees are being forced out or leaving of their own will to neighboring countries; Signs of cooperation between the Serbian forces and the ethnic Albanians' Kosovo Liberation Army.

Focuses on the increasing anger of Serbs in Yugoslavia toward the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United States as of April 5, 1999. Results of this anger, including growing nationalism and support for Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic; Details of the NATO airstrikes on Serbia; Problems with the airstrikes, including reports of ethnic cleansing and mass executions of ethnic Albanians; Effects the attacks are having on surrounding countries, including the refusal by Macedonia to accept more ethnic Albanian refugees.

Reports on the escalating violence in Serbia since the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) began bombing the region in an effort to force Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic to sign a peace treaty with the Albanians in 1999. How the effort so far is seen as a worst case scenario; Details of the violence against the Albanians; How the downing of a United States fighter plane will increase the confidence of the Serbian army.

Presents the story of a Serb in Kosovo in light of the Kosovo conflict in early 1999. The relationship between Serbs and Albanians; Life in Kosovo for the Serb; The author's experience while living in Kosovo with his friend; Social conditions.

Discusses the music of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Use of a two-stringed instrument called a qiftelia; Importance of music in the culture; Prevalence of a war motif in the music; Many popular singers from the region of Drenica, the heart of Albanian resistance; Music rarely performed in public; Music aired in neighboring Albania; Comments from Valton Beqiri of the ethnic Albanian University of Pristina music school.

Reports that ethnic Albanian rebels accepted a United States-brokered peace plan for Kosovo that denies them independence from Serbia. Pressure on Serbs to accept a plan for self-rule for Kosovo; Serbian resistance to the plan; Plans for the deployment of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops in Kosovo; Intransigence of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic; Support for NATO airstrikes should the Serbs continue to resist.

Discusses the ethnic conflict in Kosovo as of February 1999. The history of the dispute between ethnic Albanians and Serbs; The United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's involvement with Kosovo. INSETS: Key events;Questions & Answers.

Reports that the fighting in Kosovo, Serbia between the Serb army and the Kosovo Liberation Army has begun to push toward major cities like Orahovac in July 1998. Number of people killed in the conflicts; The potential for damage which exists in cities; Efforts to reach diplomatic solutions; The insistence from ethnic Albanians in Kosovo on independence, not autonomy; Why Albanians in Kosovo have little to gain from international diplomatic efforts.

Examines calls from ethnic Albanians in the Balkan region for the formation of a so-called Greater Albania, which would include the Kosovo region of Yugoslavia, Albania and portions of Macedonia and Montenegro. Comments from Afrim Morina, vice president of the Kosovo Party of Albanian National Unity; International implications of a Greater Albania; Why many in the region feel that a Greater Albania is a militarily attainable goal; Albanian populations in the regions which would be united.

Discusses attitudes among ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, Serbia regarding the guerrilla war waged by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) against Serbia. Why many young men feel pressure to join the KLA; How there is no real consensus among Albanians regarding the KLA and its war; Friction between Ibrahim Rugova, who advocates passive resistance, and the KLA; How the division impacts the ability of the international community to intervene.

Focuses on the efforts by the Serbian military and police to stamp out the Kosovo Liberation Army, which is dedicated to autonomy for Kosovo. Public support for the KLA; The growing sentiment that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should send troops to Kosovo; Number of people killed in the conflict between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo; Limitations on press access to cover the conflict; Food shortages.

Discusses the conflict in Kosovo, Serbia as of June 4, 1998. The actions of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA); Choices faced by the Serbian forces in Kosovo; Why Serbian forces are attacking villages with suspected KLA members; How the international community is reacting; The work of Ibrahim Rugova, leader of the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo; Support for the KLA in Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania; Number of Albanians killed in Kosovo at the hands of Serb forces.

Looks at the situation in Kosovo as of May 11, 1998. Continued efforts at negotiation between ethnic Albanians and Serbians; Why the international community has decided to freeze foreign investment to Serbia; The position that Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic is facing; How the tensions appear to have escalated into a low-level guerrilla war; Why many feel that the Serbian army is not prepared to fight the Kosovo Liberation Army; Outlook.

Comments on reactions from Serbs in the Kosovo region of Serbia to international efforts to broker peace between the Serbs and the ethnic Albanians in 1998. The defiance shown by Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic; Efforts by the Serbs to crackdown on foreigners in Kosovo; Why the Serbs feel that Kosovo is an internal problem which does not merit international attention; Actions which could be taken against Iraq.

Examines the response of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo to the crackdown by Serbian police which has left at least 80 people dead in early March of 1998. Claims from the police that the crackdown was necessary to stop the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army; How the Albanians have reacted to Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic since he withdrew Kosovo's autonomy in 1989; Why the Democratic League of Kosovo has distanced itself from the KLA.

Focuses on Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic as the only person who can restore peace in Kosovo, Serbia. The pressures he faces after a crackdown in this southern province of Serbia; The 90-percent ethnic Albanian population that is calling for independence; The heavy fighting between Serb police and members of the Kosovo Liberation Army. INSET: Making Milosevic back off: Will sanctions be enough?.