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To: S.C. Barnard who wrote (656)	3/29/1999 7:57:00 PM
From: robnhood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Did he do an about face??

To: S.C. Barnard who wrote (656)	3/29/1999 8:13:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

He has a three page article in Newsweek. A newswire excerpt below: Newsweek: Kissinger Doubts Kosovo Reconciliation, Says Troops May Be Necessary 'An Unbridgeable Gap' Between Accounts of Kosovo Violence Stalled Negotiations, Says Holbrooke; KLA, OSCE Sources Document New Atrocities NEW YORK, March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Even though President Clinton has said that ethnic groups in Yugoslavia will reconcile after a brief period of NATO occupation, ''There is no realistic basis for that assumption. Ethnic groups in Bosnia have not reconciled after three years of NATO peacekeeping,'' Henry Kissinger cautions in a guest essay in the current issue of Newsweek. Violence will continue in Yugoslavia, Kissinger writes, until the airstrikes succeed in reaching clearer objectives. He suggests three terms for ending the air war: -- An immediate ceasefire. -- The withdrawal of Serbian forces introduced after the beginning of the negotiations at Rambouillet. -- The immediate opening of negotiations over autonomy for Kosovo. (Photo: newscom.com ) If Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic rejects these demands, ''there will be no alternative to continuing and intensifying the war, if necessary introducing NATO combat ground forces,'' Kissinger warns. He stresses that whatever happens, NATO must come up with a sustainable solution. The essay is part of Newsweek's April 5 cover package, ''War in Kosovo'' (on newsstands Monday, March 29), which also includes an interview with U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke. Earlier negotiations with Milosevic stalled because ''there was an unbridgeable gap between his version of what was happening in Kosovo and ours,'' Holbrooke tells Newsweek. ''He ... took the position that the offensive against the Albanians was in essence a Western media invention stimulated by KLA disinformation.'' Holbrooke asserts that he and the Clinton administration decided to end the talks because ''They would have simply become a smokescreen for delaying NATO action.'' In the interview, Holbrooke says that he was sure that Milosevic understood the consequences of not reaching an agreement: ''We did not leave Belgrade until I was 100 percent certain that Milosevic understood that our departure would trigger a major military action.'' In fact, Holbrooke says that Milosevic's last words were, ''I wonder if we will ever see each other again.'' As airstrikes continue, KLA sources in Kosovo tell Newsweek that Serbs are still systematically killing well-known Albanian professionals and intellectuals in Pristina, as well as destroying towns and villages. Serbs allegedly executed 115 men in Srbica, 200 in Podujevo and 100 in Suva Reka, according to KLA sources. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe independently confirmed that Pristina Serbs looted and set fire to a row of shops which later appeared on Belgrade TV as having been struck by off-target NATO bombs. SOURCE: Newsweek