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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 205, Part II, 23 October 2000

GORE SUGGESTS U.S. WOULD STAY IN BOSNIA, KOSOVA UNDER HIS ADMINISTRATION.
Democratic candidate and Vice President Al Gore told Reuters by telephone
on 21 October that "without U.S. participation in peacekeeping missions, we
would no longer be able to continue U.S. leadership of NATO. And without
U.S. leadership of NATO, the alliance would be doomed over time to collapse
[and] peace in Europe may not long endure." U.S. General Wesley Clark told
the news agency: "When [NATO] allies are putting in more than 80 percent of
the effort [in Kosova], there is not much room for an argument about
burden-sharing. If we want to be part of this, we can't do much less."
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said: "To be talking about [reducing
the U.S. role] right now, when Kostunica is putting together his new
coalition...I think is truly dangerous... We need to [concentrate and]
finish the job." Terence Taylor, assistant director of the London-based
International Institute for Strategic Studies, argued that "the Balkans is
the new NATO mission." PM

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