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ANALYSIS NATO’s party without champagne New York Times The organizers of the big events and the champagne producers may not have been pleased when NATO changed its plans for the celebrations it had intended to hold in Washington this week for its 50th anniversary, as a result of the conflict in Kosovo, but the Alliance gave no indication that it felt bad about these changes. After unsuccessful attempts at its new objective, which it is now committed to—the first since the end of the Cold War—NATO has encountered a difficulty, but also seems angry about the situation that has arisen in Yugoslavia. Abstract debates about NATO’s role in Europe immediately produced results and led it to make a decision, followed by the choice of a solution, because of the destruction of Slobodan Millosheviç. A month of bombing in the Balkans has revealed the Alliance’s strengths and weaknesses. This weekend is a good opportunity for NATO to discuss how it will act to continue the war and find a way, once and for all, to deal in the future with outbreaks of violence between different nations within the same country. The doctrine of military force and the threat that once characterized NATO are obsolete, and the Alliance must accept that its role may now be that of both attacker and defender. Not long ago, Europe faced the danger coming from the East. Continued on page 9

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NATO: Oil embargo on Yugoslavia Clinton: Ground attack? Not yet Meidani: A bullet for every Serb who crosses the border UÇK asks NATO: “Send us weapons” Macedonia closes the border with Greece Vigna: The war is strengthening the Albanian mafia On pages 2-3-4-6-7-8-21

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