IP: NY Times Special report -- How a President, Distracted by Scandal, Entered Balkan War

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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.