Ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova was reported to be in hiding, his home burned, Shea said.
In the most notable incident of its kind, last week a grenade was thrown at the residence of Kosovo's President, Ibrahim Rugova.
Though ever more militant, on March 22nd the Kosovo Albanians nonetheless re-elected their pacifist leader, Ibrahim Rugova, as president of their self-declared republic.
But for now, neither Ibrahim Rugova, the ethnic Albanians' peace-minded leader, nor Mr Milosevic seems willing or able to talk serious peace terms.
In Kosovo the more moderate ethnic-Albanian nationalists led by Ibrahim Rugova, who is expected to become the province's president, won a general election.
KLA, to Ibrahim Rugova, the community's more moderate elected leader, are being urged to meet in Vienna next week to find a common policy.
In Kosovo in 1990, he helped to found a Social Democratic Party whose manifesto was less nationalist than that of Ibrahim Rugova, the veteran leader of the Kosovar cause.
The West should also give clear backing to Ibrahim Rugova, the moderate president of Kosovo's (unrecognised) republic, who still looks set to win the election due on March 22nd.
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Opinion polls suggest that the most popular politician among the Kosovars is still Ibrahim Rugova, the pacifist leader who led the province's shadow administration when it was still under direct Serb control.
Some Kosovar Albanians especially supporters of Ibrahim Rugova, the moderate who holds the province's (relatively powerless) presidency will undoubtedly breathe a sigh of relief if the foreigners' bid to root out crime and extortion succeeds.
After three months of mounting violence in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo, peace talks have at last been arranged between Slobodan Milosevic, the president of Yugoslavia (which encompasses Serbia), and Ibrahim Rugova, the pro-independence leader of Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian majority.
He made such a powerful impression at the talks that he succeeded in sidelining veteran leader Ibrahim Rugova - who was more in favour of passive resistance to Serbia - and was appointed leader of the Kosovar Albanian negotiating team.
Whether they favoured the pacifist approach of Ibrahim Rugova, their unofficial president, or reckoned that only force would drive the Serbs away, the shrewder leaders of the Kosovar community calculated that the brutishness of Slobodan Milosevic was playing into their hands.
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