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IP: NY Times Special report -- How a President, Distracted by Scandal, Entered Balkan War
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 15:02:43 -0400
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/041899kosovo-recap1.html How a President, Distracted by Scandal, Entered Balkan War April 18, 1999 THE ROAD TO WAR: A SPECIAL REPORT How a President, Distracted by Scandal, Entered Balkan War By ELAINE SCIOLINO and ETHAN BRONNER On Jan. 19, President Clinton's top aides met in the Situation Room in the White House basement to hear a fateful new plan for an autonomous Kosovo from Madeleine K. Albright, the Secretary of State. NATO, she urged, should use the threat of air strikes on Yugoslavia to force a peace agreement to be monitored by the alliance's ground troops. The President, who had other matters on his mind, was not there. His lawyers were starting their arguments on the Senate floor against his removal from office. That night he delivered his State of the Union address.
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