| Show -- 4 WoricTNatlonal 4A Thursday June 3 1999 Standard-Examne- r CRISIS IN THE BALKANS Peace plan: US reacts cautiously Air campaign continues The White House said there was no immediate plan to halt Tie Associated WASHINGTON The Clin- ton administration reacted cautiously today to Yugoslavia's reported acceptance of a peace plan for Kosovo “It's a hopeful sign the bombing campaign “The air campaign continues” presiden- tial spokesman Joe Lockhart said but we need to see more” details said Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon “We're withholding judgment” National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer said In Belgrade Milosevic's government and the Serb parliament approved an international peace plan for Kosovo the state news agency Tanjug reported The government apparently gave in to almost all Western demands But the White House took a approach “It's not clear what the parliament was acting on what their vote was actually on” Lockhart said He said the peace plan earned to Belgrade by Ahtisaan and Chernomyrdin was endorsed by the L'mted States “I know what they went with Those details are expected from Finnish President Martti Ahtisaan who was due to report in Bonn Germans to Deputy Secretary of Slate Strobe Talbott Ahtisaan accompanied Russian mediator Viktor Chernomjrdin to Belgrade for the critical talks wait-and-s- with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic After Ahitasaari meets with Talbott in Bonn the Finnish president is due to go to Cologne Germans for a conference of Luropean officials while Talbott flies to Brussels to report to NATO leaders ee in Italy probably would go in ly as well Bacon said and it's something that was consistent with what NATO has articulated” Lockhart said “It’s consistent with what our views NATO a force engi- neers military police and others Marines’ role to establish order in Kosovo If diplomacy brings a swift end to the bombing campaign in Yugoslavia US Marines probably would be among the vanguard of an interek national is planning for of about 50000 soldiers are” ear- force peacekeeping there the Pentagon said Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit already are stationed nearby in the Adriatic Sea and could be in the disputed Kosovo province inside a day Bacon said The Marines would be part of an “enabling force” to seize control before a much larger more permanent contingent of US and European troops moved in Bacon said Wednesday Army troops from the Southern European Task Force once the bombing stops and safeguard the return of ethnic Albanian refugees The alliance is de- ciding how to divvy up responsibility for the peacekeeping mission and could begin to position more troops near Yugoslavia soon If the bombing drags on for several more weeks those forces could be in place and ready to go into Kosovo without help from the first wave of Marines Pentagon officials said US military service chiefs planned to meet with President Clinton today to discuss the conflict including the possibility of an eventual ground invasion to oust Serb forces should diplomacy fail ANALYSIS hand for a By GEORGE JAHN Press VIENNA - Austria NATO-dominate- d peacekeeping force safe and free refureturn of the 800000-plu- s gees driven out over the past months and autonomy for Kosovo Beyond containing many conditions originally rejected by Milosevic's people at two sets of talks in France in February and March the draft would leave Milosevic weaker In Rambouillet France for instance talk was of up to 11 000 Serb security forces remaining in Kosovo under any peace deal The draft would limit forces to “hundreds not thousands” and restrict them to guarding Serb churches and other cultural and religious sites under supervision of the Kosovo peace force So what happened? How did a plan that was unacceptable for so long suddenly become the formula for “the establishment of peace” as stated by Milosevic’s Socialist Party? Russia was key Over more than two months of NATO bombing Moscow moved from an outspoken advocate of the Serb position to line up with the United States and the European Union on most demands The Russians clearly did not want to risk their economic and other ties with the West by siding with Europe’s renegade nation “It is necessary for the Yugoslav leadership to accept this doc- The tones were defiant up to the last - no NATO presence in Kosovo no mass withdrawals of Yugoslav forces from the violence-tosouthern province Yet the peace plan accepted today by m Slobodan Milosevic imposes those conditions and others the Yugoslav president said he would never agree to The plan suddenly accepted by Milosevic is dressed up in language calculated to make it more digestible It talks of UN involvement and the inviolability of Yugoslav borders It avoids spelling out that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will have command and control of any Kosovo peace keeping force Milosevic made the most of that window dressing saying the draft confirms the “sovereignty and territorial integrity” of Yugoslavia “as well as the role of the United Nations” But scratching the surface of the draft reveals a plan that is basically the same list of Western demands originally rejected by Milosevic triggering the Western military air campaign on March 24 Among the original NATO demands agreed to by Milosevic: An end to the Kosovo fighting a quick and verifiable withdrawal of Yugoslav army and Serb police troops deployment of a security force "w ith essential NATO participation” - short Wednesday in language that was no match for the alliance could not have been a plainer signal to Milosevic The United States and its allies also compromised but only in language not in substance They agreed to let the United Nations play a role in the shape of a Kosovo peace plan and dropped explicit language - but not their commitment NATO-controlle- - With his military and econominfrastructure destroyed his soldiers hurting for lack of oil and other supplies and sentiment across Serbia building for peace he was looking for a way out The plan was the best way to end the crisis - because it was the only offer on the table ic to a and dominated d peace force In the end though Milosevic likely realized something that NATO said from the beginning - his small nation of 1 1 million George Jahn has covered Eastern Europe for The Associated Press since 1982 and spent nearly two months in the Yugoslav capital Holbrook serves as jP hil with 30 - NATIONAL BRIEFS “Parents need help to make sure their children are properly secured in those seats” Robert DalmlerChrysler plans child-seprogram Eaton at WASHINGTON - 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