Time Magazine Ignores KLA Drug Charges  Are editors following
Contra tradition?  Time magazine's May 17 issue ran a feature on
the funding of the Kosovo Liberation Army, titled "A Fighting
Chance," suggesting that the KLA is sustained by donations from
ethnic Albanians outside of Kosovo. The article reports that the
Republic of Kosova Fund holds "more than $33 million" in a bank
in Albania, yet in a graphic titled "How the KLA Gets Its
Money," Time cheerfully reports that the KLA gets its money from
"fund raisers, mailings and other sources." What "other
sources"? Bake sales? Time doesn't say.  Fortunately, there has
been some investigation into the question. The London Times on
March 24 cited an intelligence report that indicated as much as
half of the funding for the KLA's guerrilla war comes from drug
proceeds. And the San Francisco Chronicle on May 5 reported that
European and U.S. law enforcement groups see officers of the KLA
as "a major force in international organized crime, moving
staggering amounts