As farmers wake up to the fact that fuel shortages will hamper their spring crop sowing, trouble is brewing in Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's provincial heartland.
Tensions rise in Kosovo.
NATO analysts and intelligence think tanks across the Balkans are starting to believe so. It worked in Bosnia. It worked in Kosovo. It kept Milosevic, who has been indicted for war crimes by the International Tribunal in The Hague, in power, but it turned Serbia into a bombed and battered pariah state and sent the standard of living back to the level of the 1950s. Last year's NATO bombing destroyed the nation's infrastructure.