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Reports on continued ethnic intolerance and authoritarian power struggles in Kosovo after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) airstrikes and whether NATO forces will have to remain.

Explains that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic will likely remain in power despite any loss his country might face in a peace agreement with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Popular opinion in Yugoslavia about Milosevic; Nature of the plan Milosevic will have to accept from NATO; Possible sources for cracks in Milosevic's power; His effective crackdown on the media; Charges against Milosevic by an international war crimes tribunal.

Focuses on the Kosovo peace deal in light of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) bombings of Yugoslavia. Agreement of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and the Serbian Parliament to accept the peace principles put forth by Russia and the seven leading industrial nations; What the agreement consists of; Gains that Milosevic appears to get; Demands of NATO.

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.

Explains that the withdrawal of Serb forces from Kosovo (Serbia) might indicate their deadlock with the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Continuation of bombing in Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); Views of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic about a peace plan proposed by the Group of Eight (G8) countries; How Yugoslav officials see the conflict in Kosovo.

Describes the military strategy used by Yugoslav forces in battling with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) over Kosovo. System based on a Doctrine of Armed Citizens; Use of guerrilla resistance and light infantry units; No capitulation allowed; Positioning of tanks; Military training in high schools; How the strategy has frustrated NATO; Impact of NATO airstrikes on daily life in Yugoslavia.

Describes efforts to influence public opinion regarding the conflict in Kosovo. Role of television in public opinion in the West; Impact of the accidental strike against refugees by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on April 14, 1999; Use of the media by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic; Tendency of both sides of the war to stretch the truth; Reluctance of democracies to sustain a long conflict against authoritarian governments.

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.

Reports on paramilitaries, who are suspected of carrying out most of an `ethnic cleansing' campaign against ethnic Albanians in Pec, a city in Kosovo. Concern that the number of paramilitaries in the Balkans will increase if the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sends ground troops to Kosovo; Belief that Frano Simatovic, a former state security worker controls most of the paramilitary soldiers in Kosovo; Why they are being used in Serbia; Brief history of irregular fighting forces in the region.

Reports on how the bombings of Serbia, a region of Yugoslavia, by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) could increase the chances of Kosovo becoming an independent country. How an independent Kosovo could effect political stability in the region; Stance being taken by Milo Djukanovic, president of Montenegro which borders Serbia; The defiance being shown by Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic.

States that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) decision to bomb the sovereign state of Yugoslavia for atrocities within its borders has set a new precedent in March 1999. Argument by Yugoslavia's leaders; The prime objective of the imminent military campaign against Yugoslavia.

Discusses issues surrounding the airstrikes ordered by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) following the Serbs' refusal to sign a peace deal on the region. The question of whether Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic will resist to the end; Reaction from analysts.

Reports on the concern of Western officials that the Yugoslav Army (JNA) is willing to follow President Slobodan Milosevic into a war against the world. Serbs refusing to sign a United States-sponsored peace plan on Kosovo; The JNA offensive against Kosovar Albanians; North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) threat to bomb the Serbs; Evaluation of JNA defense capabilities; Speculation that Milosevic is preparing to battle the ethnic Albanian Liberation Army (KLA) or NATO.

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.

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 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 on the failures of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Kosovo. Failure of United States envoy Richard Holbrooke to persuade Serbia to accept NATO troops as a part of a Kosovo peace plan; Failure of the US to persuade Kosovo's ethnic Albanians to sign a peace treaty; Comments of diplomats; Death and exile statistics of the area.

Focuses on conditions in the Serbian province of Kosovo as of March 3, 1999. How Serbs and ethnic Albanians continue to fight; Details of the violence taking place; The dangers international peacekeeping troops face if they go in; Both sides as expected to consider a political settlement that would grant Kosovo's ethnic Albanian population broad autonomy and allow North Atlantic treaty Organization troops to police the region.

Discusses the role of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in the peace talks for the region. Success of the KLA; Political differences emerging within the KLA; The KLA's desire for independence from Yugoslavia; Question of whether the KLA will sign the peace agreement; Risks if the KLA rejects the peace plan; Pressure from the international community on the KLA; Role of KLA leader Adem Demaci, and his influence.

Discusses prospects for peace in Kosovo, Serbia. Possible impact of an all-out war in the region; Hopes for a peace agreement when talks resume in France on March 15, 1999; Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's rejection of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) peacekeeping forces; Resumption of fighting between Serb troops and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA); Number of refugees in the region; Concerns about more fighting in the Spring.

Focuses on North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO's) possible intervention in Kosovo as of February 19, 1999. History of NATO interventions in the Balkan states; Negotiators in Rambouillet, France as trying to work out a deal that would grant Kosovo's ethnic Albanians autonomy and require the Serbian and Yugoslav forces to withdraw from the region; NATO as awaiting a decision from Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic; Possible outcomes of the deal.

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.

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 efforts by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to build a coalition of states that could challenge United States influence. Why the international community blames Milosevic for instigating violence in the Kosovo province; The initiative being pushed by Serbian Vice Premier Vojislav Seselj to form a neo-communist bloc; Efforts by the US to set an ultimatum if Milosevic does not agree to give Kosovo maximum autonomy.

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 conditions in Macedonia as of December 1998. How the former Yugoslavian republic has become a source of stability in a region better known for war; Details of the country's newly formed government that is expected to enhance minority rights and continue on a road to reform; Macedonia's agreement to allow North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces to be stationed on its soil for backup in Kosovo.

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 the political situation in Yugoslavia as of October 7, 1998. Continuing violence in Kosovo; How people view President Slobodan Milosevic; Threatened action against Milosevic by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); The situation in Serbia; Place of Kosovo in Serbia's history; How Serbs view the rest of the world; Impact of former Communist dictator Josip Tito.

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.

Focuses on the political implications of the murder of Albanian Azem Hajdari on September 12, 1998. The violence that his murder touched off in Albania; How the situation in Albania will impact the war for independence in Kosovo, Serbia; Hajdari's links with former Albanian President Sali Berisha, who supports the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in Kosovo; Why many Albanians feel that the government of Fatos Nano had something to do with Hajdari's death.

Comments on the growing political instability in the Balkans. Number of ethnic Albanian refugees that have fled their homes in Kosovo; Number of refugees overall from Kosovo; Fears of United Nations' officials of a humanitarian crisis when winter arrives; People displaced by the civil war in Kosovo; Ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo's fight for independence; Why Montenegro fears that Kosovo may be granted republic status in Yugoslavia.

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 emergence of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosovo (FARK), a guerrilla organization dedicated to the independence of the Kosovo region of Serbia. The relationship between FARK and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA); How the presence of FARK indicates that people may be questioning the legitimacy of the KLA; The role that Bujar Bukoshi, Kosovo prime minister in exile, plays in FARK; Possible divisions that FARK will create among ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. INSET: KLA's `Blind One' speaks candidly about the Kosovo war.

Focuses on the fighting between Serb forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in Serbia's southern province as of August 26, 1998. The move of Serb forces closer to Kosovo's capital, Pristina; The possibility of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) interference; The pros and cons of military intervention ordered by the United Nation's Security Council.

Reports on the effects felt in Macedonia from the Serbian and ethnic Albanian conflict in Yugoslavia. High percentage of ethnic Albanian citizens in Macedonia; Macedonian support of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA); Refugee crisis developing in Macedonia; Similar complaints about government from the ethnic Albanians from Kosovo and from Macedonia; Macedonia's peaceful secession from Yugoslavia in 1991; Smuggling of arms from Macedonia to Kosovo by the KLA.

Describes the rejection of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) by local ethnic Albanians in central Kosovo. Why the KLA has been marginalized; Role of United States diplomats and pacifist ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova; Peace negotiations; Exercises by NATO troops in Albania; History of the conflict; The KLA's support of Adem Demaci; Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.

Comments on the political violence between the Serbian forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Successes of the Serbian military forces; Estimated number of refugees in Kosovo; Tactics used by the Serbian army; United Nations view of the Serbian attacks; Likelihood that the KLA will resort to guerrilla tactics; Russia's willingness to lend troops to possible North Atlantic Treaty Organization intervention.

Reports on fighting in Kosovo between Serbian troops and members of the Kosvo Liberation Army (KLA) and fears that the ethnic cleansing and mass graves that marked the conflict in Bosnia will happen there. European Union monitors discounting stories of a mass grave in the town of Orahovac; Serbs attempting to disrupt the ethnic Albanian KLA by forcing its soldiers to take care of refugees; Conflict's similarities with Bosnia.