The Last War Begins
While opposition figures gather in Montenegro, the Yugoslav Army is putting the second Yugoslav republic under increasing pressure.
While opposition figures gather in Montenegro, the Yugoslav Army is putting the second Yugoslav republic under increasing pressure.
While many families have been left without an income, harvests are at risk and some local authorities are breaking ranks with Belgrade to impose war-time rationing.
Belgrade is putting out signals that it is open to a settlement. The key question is how it will carry along its own public opinion - and crush dissent afterwards.
During the winter of 1996-97 Serbia's opposition appeared on the verge of ousting Slobodan Milosevic. Those days are long gone.
While the police, it seems, have been unable to turn up any leads in the murder of one editor, new attacks in the media have been launched against other opposition figures.
To help Macedonia and Albania cope, the international financial institutions have put together emergency aid packages.
Estimates of the cost of the destruction inflicted by the NATO bombing on the Serbian economy extends to billions of dollars.
A short sharp campaign is becoming a prolonged and devastating war. When the human cost of a "humanitarian intervention" becomes too high, is it time to stop the bombing?
"An agreement will mean the end of all the Serbs' pretensions and illusions in Kosovo. But Albanians will only accept Yugoslav sovereignty if NATO really comes."
Serbian political parties are united only in opposition to NATO. Their inability to elaborate any coherent alternative positions leaves Milosevic, as ever, in full control.