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“Either he will see the Kosovo agreement as a way to deal with the Kosovo situation or he can decide he will take his country into a desperate, chaotic situation,” she said at a news conference with Norway’s Foreign Minister, Knut Vollebak.Ms Albright said she had discussed with Mr Vollebak, who also heads the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the “very real possibility” that if the current stalemate continued, the OSCE’s verification mission in Kosovo would have to be evacuated ahead of Nato airstrikes. In Washington, the Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, said she had told the Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, in a phone call that he would be “hit hard” if Nato decided to attack. Some aid organisations said they planned to withdraw staff at the urging of the embassy. The embassy advised British nationals to leave Yugoslavia – comprising Serbia and Montenegro – immediately, “in view of the increasingly volatile situation”. THE UNITED STATES said it had begun preparing the evacuation of American personnel from Yugoslavia as peace talks on Kosovo approached tomorrow’s deadline with no sign of progress towards an accord.

The Canadian and British embassies also said they would start withdrawing staff as the noon deadline approached.
“There is increased tension in the air,” said a Canadian envoy, who added that 11 diplomats and their families would leave today but that the embassy, except for its visa section, would remain open.An official at the British embassy said non-essential staff and families would leave today but it would also stay open. An interview with Linda Tripp, the woman who secretly taped Ms Lewinsky’s confessions and passed the tapes to Mr Starr, gave CNN its highest figure this year – 2.5m viewers, double the average for February 1998.. Mr Starr’s office is believed to be concerned that nothing Ms Lewinsky says will affect investigations still in progress.These include the case of Julie Hiatt Steele, a one-time friend of the White House volunteer Kathleen Willey, who accused Mr Clinton of groping her.The Willey case is the closest Mr Starr has come to unearthing evidence of possible witness intimidation by the White House.Though thousands of pages of evidence were released by Congress from the Starr investigation into the Lewinsky case, the bulk remains under seal, reportedly containing even more salacious parts of Ms Lewinsky’s relationship with Mr Clinton, details of White House security, and information about other, so far unidentified women who may have been involved with Mr Clinton.Ms Lewinsky’s lawyers are concerned that she does not contradict the account she has given under oath, because this would arouse suspicions that she did not tell the whole truth and would endanger her immunity agreement.ABC wants to air the interview on 3 March, because that date is used to calculate ratings across US television. Her lawyers had submitted a formal request to lift it two weeks go, when the Senate voted that she would not be summoned for further questioning, but the ban remained in force. Ms Lewinsky is in effect under a “gag” order from Kenneth Starr, with whom she negotiated her immunity from prosecution last summer.The terms of that agreement, which waived her liability to prosecution for perjury in return for her detailed account of her relationship with President Clinton, also prohibited her from saying anything to the media without his permission.The ban remained through the congressional proceedings that culminated in the President’s acquittal last week. But restrictions on what she may say could leave basic questions unanswered. The interview, to be conducted by Barbara Walters, doyenne of US interviewers, is planned to begin a whirlwind of public exposure for the 25-year-oldwhose White House liaison nearly toppled the President.
The book, Monica’s Story, written by Princess Diana’s biographer, Andrew Morton, is out in the US on 5 March, then Ms Lewinsky visits Britain for an interview with Jon Snow on Channel 4 After that she goes to Norway.

AMERICANS COULD see the long-promised interview with Monica Lewinsky on or before 3 March, if negotiations between ABC Television, Ms Lewinsky’s lawyers and theindependent counsel, Kenneth Starr, are successful. He obtained most of them while he was in prison for a burglary conviction.One depicts the lynching of a black man while others show Nazi-type SS lightning bolts, a satanic star and the sign of a white supremacist group and the words “Aryan Pride”.”Obviously you can’t commit a crime this heinous unless you’ve got a lot of hate and anger in your heart,” Guy James Gray, for the prosecution, said on Wednesday.”Devils and monster faces and skulls and things like that are pretty consistent with somebody having a lot of hate in their heart.”Mr King’s lawyers had objected to photographs of the tattoos, saying the art was constitutionally protected as freedom of expression Their objections were overruled.. If convicted, he could face the death penalty.Two other men, Lawrence Brewer, 31, and Shawn Berry, 23, also are charged and are to be tried later.Prosecutors are portraying Mr King as so hateful he proudly adorned his body with dozens of racist tattoos. “Some may have expression of love and some of hate,” he said.
But he acknowledged motivation for the tattoos could be meant to intimidate other inmates who might prey on a white man in jail who was 5ft 7in (1.52m) tall.”It’s in the eye of the beholder,” Brack Jones, for the defence, told him. Mr Ford agreed.Mr King is accused of murdering James Byrd Jr last year by chaining him to the back of a pickup truck and dragging him for nearly three miles along a bumpy asphalt road, dismembering his body. Rich Ford, a Jasper police officer, acknowledged that the symbols on John William King’s skin could be interpreted in different ways.

The Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, said yesterday that he had told the Americans he would not permit air strikes on Russia’s Serb ally. “I conveyed to Clinton my view, both by phone and by letter, that this will not work,” he said. The US, however, said President Bill Clinton and President Yeltsin had not spoken.. RACIST AND satanic tattoos on a man accused of dragging a black man to his death were intended to help the defendant survive in prison, it was claimed yesterday. Britain, Italy and France will also provide aircraft if strikes happen. Operation Noble Anvil, as the Nato action is designated, would involve hundreds of aircraft, the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, B-52 and B-2 bombers.If the alliance does launch strikes, it risks a confrontation with Moscow.