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Albright calls for actio on violence
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LONDON - Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright pushed European allies yesterday to act deci-
sively to end the explosion of violence in the Serbian
province of Kosovo, but on the eve of a crucial six-
nation meeting on the issue here, it was far from clear
that she will win agreement on the kind of tough mea-
sures she seeks.
After stops in Rome, Paris and Bonn, Germany,
the only specific actions proposed yesterday for
consideration at today's meeting came from
'German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, and they
were aimed more at preventing the violence in
Kosovo from spreading elsewhere in the Balkans
than at ending the unrest itself.
Those proposals include expanding an Italian-led
European peacekeeping mission presently i neighbor-
ing Albania and extending the life of a small but effec-
tive U.N. peacekeeping force in another of Kosovo's
immediate neighbors, Macedonia, that observers believe
has been a key to preventing violence in the ethnically
mixed country that was once part of Yugoslavia.
About one-third of the members of the 1,000-
strong multinational force in Macedonia are
American. Albright praised the Macedonia force,
whose current mandate expires Aug. 31, saying it
has helped create a "more stable environment" in
the region.
In addition, Kinkel suggested a U.N. Security
Council debate on Kosovo; an urgent meeting of for-
eign ministers from countries in the region, includ-
ing Albania, Macedonia, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria
and Romania; and the immediate return to the region
of a special European envoy, former Spanish Prime
Minister Felipe Gonzalez.
"A dialogue and a compromise are the only avenues
open to us," Kinkel told reporters.
In Paris, French Foreign Minister Hubert
Vedrine called Kinkel's ideas "very helpful," but
gave no indication that France might be willing to
go further and back the kind of tough punitive
measures against Serbia's de facto ruler, Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic, that Albright
believes are needed to bring an end to the vio-
lence in Kosovo.
Clinton considers executive privilege
WASHINGTON - Though braced for a showdown over
executive privilege, President Clinton's inner circle knows the
legal doctrine has its limits: His most intimate conversations
with aides about Monica Lewinsky are unlikely to remain con-
fidential.
Members of Clinton's political and legal teams, deeply
divided over the issue, said in interviews that the president is
now considering asserting executive privilege - but in a more
targeted fashion than previously thought.
The officials said there are two broad categories of presi-
dent-to-staff conversations at issue:
® Strategy sessions at which Clinton sought advice about Clinton
how to handle fallout from allegations that he had sex with Lewinsky and lied
about it.
An example: Two senior advisers recalled Clinton asking whether he should
mention the controversy in his State of the Union address. "How would I do it?
the president was quoted as saying.
* Any discussion with aides describing his relationship with the former White
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NATO expansion
WASHINGTON - With little rancor
or dissent, the Senate is nearing approval
of the most ambitious expansion of U.S.
global commitments since the end of the
Cold War, enlarging the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization to admit three for-
mer Warsaw Pact enemies.
Despite the scope of the undertak-
ing, which will extend a U.S.
defense commitment deep into
Central Europe, few major treaties
in recent years have stirred so little
serious opposition in advance of a
final Senate ratification vote. The
partisan wrangling that has charac-
terized the current session of
Congress has been all but absent
from the NATO debate.
Opponents in academia and in
foreign-policy think tanks have said
for months that expansion will cost
too much, poison relations with
Russia and promote instability in
European countries not given NATO
membership. One study published
last week suggested that expansion
would be a boon largely to U.S.
weapons manufacturers hungry for
new markets.
But these arguments failed to inspire
a following in the Senate, where a2
unusual bipartisan alignment has all but
assured approval for expansion.
Whtewater figure
McDougal dies
FORT WORTH, Texas - James
MeDougal, the flamboyant Arkansas
savings and loan operator whose
business dealings with President
Clinton and the first lady spurre
the Whitewater investigation, died
yesterday in a federal medical
prison. He was 57.
McDougal became a key cooperating
witness for Whitewater prosecutors in
1996 and his death will significantly
alter the complexion of their four-year-
old criminal investigation.
The loss was apparent as Independent
Counsel Kenneth Starr huddled yester
day afternoon with his prosecution team.
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Indonesian officials
JAKARTA, Indonesia -
International bankers are worried, but
Indonesia's legislators have no doubts:
President Suharto is the best man to lead
the world's fourth-most populous coun-
try into the 21st century.
Delegations from all five factions in a
1,000-member assembly formally asked
Suharto yesterday to stand for election
this week for a seventh five-year term.
Asia's longest-serving leader accepted
each group's nomination during a series
of reverential meetings at his suburban
Jakarta home, just two days after new
doubts were raised about the progress of
an International Monetary Fund bailout
for Indonesia's battered economy.
"I am ready to accept this nomination
and with all my ability I will lead the
nation to overcome this crisis," one fac-
tion leader quoted Suharto as saying.
Despite the deep economic crisis and
outbreaks of civil unrest, Suharto has no
challengers in tomorrow's voting by the
partly elected, partly appointed assembly,
which acts as a presidential electoral col-
lege.
Assembly delegates also have chosen
to overlook his age -76- and earli
concerns about his health.
Infused with Suharto family members
and friends, as well as serving and retired
military officers, the assembly meets
every five years under a tightly con-
trolled political system created by
Suharto.
Netanyahu receives
little public supportq
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ended a
three-day European tour to promote
new Middle East peace initiatives yes-
terday, but at home, his proposals were
being viewed as more appearance than
substance.
The initiatives Netanyahu advanced
in Madrid, Bonn, Oslo and London
over the weekend were immediatel
rejected by Lebanon and th
Palestinians. Syria yesterday
denounced them as "dangerous."
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