Wagers on Balkan peace are paid in blood. Negotiators in Macedonia were willing
to risk an outbreak of ethnic savagery for the slight hope that compromise, and
3,500 NATO troops, could halt the five-month-old struggle between government forces
and ethnic Albanian insurgents. But it was a sucker's bet. On Aug. 8, hours
after the European Union's envoy, Franois Léotard, announced
that the two sides had agreed to sign a peace deal, gunmen in the village of Rastani
killed an 11-year-old Albanian boy. Guerrillas in Tetovo murdered a Macedonian...
