‘Last Chance’ for Kosovo, Envoy Says

William Walker, the U.S. official in charge of monitoring a Serbian troop withdrawal from Kosovo, arrived in the troubled province and said his mission was “the last, best chance” for peace. Walker added that resolution of the conflict is a long way off, and NATO officials also voiced concern about continuing clashes. Walker came to the breakaway province’s capital, Pristina, a day after three Serbian police officers were injured in an attack on their police station, presumably by ethnic Albanian guerrillas. Walker’s mission, arranged by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, will send as many as 2,000 unarmed monitors into the field to check whether Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is complying with agreements aimed at ending hostilities.