"It is only in the United States that a penniless survivor of the Holocaust and a fighter in the anti-Nazi underground could have received aneducation, raised a family and had the privilege of serving the last three decades of his life as a member of Congress, " Lantos said in a statement at the time.
Mr Milosevic cannot bring himself even to implement an agreement he signed with Mr Rugova a year ago which would have brought Kosovo's undergroundeducation system back, uncurbed, into the state system.