They must be sharply punished.More than 30 people have been killed in southern Serbia, and there have been deaths in Macedonia, too. For too long, Nato governments have pussyfooted around the problem - unwilling to help the Serb government too much and unwilling to appear too tough on the poor Albanians. Yesterday, Nato finally permitted the Yugoslavian army to patrol part of the buffer zone adjoining Kosovo. That decision is welcome, but far too late.Milosevic is politically dead, and (despite his supporters' continued fantasies) almost buried Within weeks he may be under arrest. The new government, meanwhile, tries hard to behave with tolerance - and should be given credit for that.Goran Svilanovic, the Yugoslavian foreign minister, understands that violent nationalism cannot be stamped out by more violent nationalism. The Albanians, by contrast, appear to have understood nothing.

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The 1959 British comedy I'm All Right Jack satirised industrial relations with a portrayal of corrupt bosses and bolshy trade unions so powerfully that the BBC cancelled its television screening during the 1979 election. Now along comes Traffic, which has kick-started the stagnant debate over drugs.The film may be simplistic and over-sentimental (and its ending is a cop-out), but it has made America wake up to the fact that the war against drugs needs to be fought in its homes, not just in foreign lands. It has shifted the debate from the trade to the demand, from cutting supply to treating users. This is a big step forward, and for that alone, it deserves all the awards it can win..

I am writing this article from my home in rural County Wexford, in Ireland. All around this part of the world are farmers who regard themselves proudly as the model farmers of Ireland and perhaps even of Europe. When you live here you realise just how precious and fragile such natural resources are. It also gives one an acute understanding of the great importance that agriculture still has in the Irish economy. It is for that reason that I feel so strongly about what has been happening in Britain since the first outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease.