I hope I'm not asking for repeats of discussion here .... 1. Why was the autonomy for Kosovo revoked in 1989? Was it, as Paul Phillips suggests, a response by Milosevic to anti-Serb activities in Kosovo? Paul noted: >The third purge of Slavs from the province began in the early 1980s >which culminated in the lifting of Kosovo's autonomy in 1989 which >Barkley and I disagree about. (He sees it as a cause, I see it as a >result.) 2. Chossudovsky (on the ZNet site) has a longish piece on the nefarious role of the IMF et al. on exacerbating social tensions in the region in the "transition" to capitialism. My question: to what degree are pressures responsible for the conflicts (pre-latest bombing)? That is, how have imposed austerity/privatization/etc. and ethnic/national conflicts interacted to produce the outcomes we are seeing? And comments: 1. I see a ground war coming. Do you? 2. Bolivian manufactures are taking a real beating with the avalanche of cheap Brazilian contraband flowing over the border, a direct effect of the crisis there. Various local factories have closed, others are jettisoning their subcontractors. The Argentinian border at Yacuiba has been closed to Bolivian goods, causing a serious shock among the dozens of micro and small (family) shops that sew cheap clothes here for export. Tom Tom Kruse Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia Tel/Fax: (591-4) 248242, 500849 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
