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25. Ibid., remarks by Senator Chris Dodd: S 2203–2204.
26. Although it should be noted that according to Serb accounts, the
Albanians withdrew on their own. CNN News, “Thousands Protest
Kosovo Education Accord,” CNN.com, March 23, 1998,
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9803/23/kosovo.update/.
27. At a meeting of the Contact Group on March 25, 1999, it was
decided that most of the threatened sanctions except the arms
embargo, which was passed through the UN Security Council the
following week, would be delayed for another month until the next
meeting of the Contact Group on April 29, 1998 to give the
Serbian side more time for greater compliance with earlier
demands. Contact Group, “Statement on Kosovo,” March 25,
1998.
28. Contact Group, “Statement on Kosovo,” Birmingham, UK, May 18,
1998.
29. Daalder and O’Hanlon, Winning Ugly, 35.
30. Ibid.
31. The FRY, however, was always careful to point out that Albanians
were only one group amongst many in Kosovo and that the FRY
vision of autonomy was based on equal rights for all of Kosovo’s
ethnic and religious groups, not what they termed “Albanian
dictatorship.”
32. Boyer, Kirk, and Young, War in Europe. NOTES 211
33. Interview with U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen, in ibid.
34. Although it should be noted that the majority of refugees found shel-
ter with friends and relatives in other towns and that only a small per-
centage were left homeless. Cited in Daalder and O’Hanlon, Winning
Ugly, 40.
35. Cited in ibid.
36. Barton Gellman, “Slaughter in Racak Changed Kosovo Policy,”
The Washington Post, April 18, 1999, A1.
37. Daalder and O’Hanlon, Winning Ugly, 42–44.
38. Boyer, Kirk, and Young, War in Europe. While the NSC was ready to
take the necessary steps to go forward with this position, it ran into
resistance trying to convince the U.S. Congress to support such an
initiative. This was made even more complex by the fact that the
House of Representative’s Judiciary committee had just announced
impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton.
39. NATO, “Statement to the Press by Secretary General Following
Decision on ACTORD.”
40. Daalder and O’Hanlon, Winning Ugly, 48–49.
41. NATO, “Statement by Secretary General following the ACTWARN
decision,” Press Statement, Vilamoura, Portugal, September 24, 1998,
http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/1998/p980924e.htm.
42. Daalder and O’Hanlon, Winning Ugly, 45.

