The peace plan Milosevic accepted Thursday calls for the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops and Serbian special police forces from Kosovo, the return of the more than 850,000 Albanian Kosovo refugees to their homes, the stationing of a peacekeeping force in Kosovo to prevent more fighting, eventual autonomy for Kosovo and the demilitarization of the Kosovo Liberation Army. That's pretty much everything NATO went in to fight for, but details still need to be worked out. President Clinton was right when he said that the air attacks must be kept up until Milosevic's forces actually begin their withdrawals. Milosevic will not accept without struggle restrictions on his country's sovereignty - as the Serbs no doubt view outside peacekeeping forces and an autonomous Kosovo. At the same time, the Kosovo Liberation Army is not likely to be sanguine about laying down its arms.
Albanian refugees are understandably worried about returning home.
The answers depend on what the United Nations, the European Union and NATO do now. The first two must make a commitment to helping the refugees get home and to rebuilding those homes. NATO has to make sure it's safe to do that. A large part of the problem, of course, is Milosevic. In his desire to dominate the Balkans, he has brought untold suffering on Serbs, Bosnians, Croats, Kosovars and many others.