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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.
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