1.   Because Kosovo is a Serbian province, outside intervention is harder to justify.

2.   Before meeting with Clinton, Senate leaders delayed until Monday legislation that could block money for any U.S. military involvement in the Serbian province without prior congressional approval.

3.   A U.N. mission has arrived here on its way to Kosovo, where it hopes to establish the fate of tens of thousands of refugees in the Serbian province.

4.   Above all, he believes, a political strategy is needed to stop the fighting in the southern Serbian province.

5.   Albania has long waged a campaign to unite with Kosovo, a Serbian province where Albanians are in the majority.

6.   But as any visitor to Kosovo will attest, the Serbian province is not exactly suited for an onslaught of visitors.

7.   But he wonders whether the outcome was worth the price, to his own comrades and to the Albanians of this southern Serbian province.

8.   But he wondered Wednesday whether the outcome is worth the price, both to his own comrades and to the ethnic Albanians of this southern Serbian province.

9.   Even before he leaves, it is clear that Kosovo and the presence of Russian troops in the Serbian province will take center stage.

10.   Government institutions are nonexistent in this Serbian province torn apart by ethnic hatred and war.