| Show Standard Examiner CRISIS IN THE BALKANS NATO general: Kosovo cleansing ‘appears achievable’ Los Angeles Tmes WASHINGTON - US and allied warplanes claimed their most successful air day of bombing in the campaign Tuesday but a key NATO general conceded that there is not much the allies can do to stop Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic from emptying Kosovo of its ethnic Albanian population “President Milosevic's mass deportation campaign appears achievable” said Gen Klaus Naumann a German who heads NATO’s military committee “I think if he really wants to get them out he may have a chance to do this” NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said that during the past year about 90 percent of Kosovo’s 18 million ethnic Al banians have been driven from their homes either into refugee camps in neighboring countries or into an apparently far more precarious existence as displaced people unable to escape the embattled province of Serbia Yugoslavia’s dominant republic The plight of the ethnic Albanians who accounted for all but about 10 percent of the province's prewar population formed a grim counterpoint to the assessment by the Pentagon and NATO military commanders that allied bomband ing has mauled the Yugoslav army can do so indefinitely career solNaumann a his retirement announced has dier who said Milosevic cannot defeat NATO militarily But he may w'ell be able to WASHINGTON - By temporarily cutting off electricity to millions of Serb civilians NATO hopes to increase the psychological strain on a civilian population that after 42 days of bombardment has remained mostly defiant “We are able to turn off and on the light switch in Belgrade and hopefully also to thereby turn the lights on m the heads and minds of the Belgrade leadership” NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said this week It is part of tightening the “noose” as the senior NATO commander Gen Wesley Clark put it after the recent NATO summit where leaders gave the to use special cluster bombs that disperse carbon filaments across wires that conduct g electricity thereby the transformers The lights throughout much of Serbia were off for about seven hours Monday after the “blackout bombing” conducted by US Air I oree planes that dropped the highly classified weapons on electrical transformers Pentagon officials left little doubt that the main intent was to rattle the civilians "It should have the impact of alerting them to the fact that inconveniences like this will continue as we intensify the air campaign” Pentagonsaidspokesman Monday Kenneth Bacon “And that there's one easy way to stop them and that is to meet NATO’s demands for a settlement ” Most traffic lights m Belgrade were still out Tuesday and many residents spent a second night m darkness Whether the inconvenience of losing electrical power temporarily across as much as 70 percent of Serbia - and the knowledge that it can happen again at any time - is enough to seriously undermine popular support in Serbia for Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is doubtful m the view of some private analysts “It does have a psychological effect but untortunately it has the reverse psychological efiect: Y a giving the people of ugoslavia At the Pentagon Maj Gen Charles F Wald a senior defense planner said NATO is clearly winning the war but he said Milosevic may not realize it “He probably has no idea totally how bad off he is” Wald said “I imagine he has a general idea but he doesn't travel out of Belgrade (the Yugoslav capital) doesn't do his own assessments” That may prove crucial In a parallel diplomatic campaign the United States and its allies are trying to convince Milosevic that he has no alternative to meetfor ending the ing NATO's conditions bombing which include: withdrawal of INSTANT STORE REBATES APPLY FOR $149 99 27OO DUAL BAND PHONE A $3000 Sprint FOR TRADING IN Sprint PCS YOUR CELLULAR OR PCS PHONE 5 gaiagMiwsrow fs-l -- and Godiva® chocolates 1 this Mother’s Day Elegant 14 carat TGW emerald and diamond 10k gold pendant and chain or earrings reg $750 L1 s l TW diamond carat with this 14 her heart Capture in 14k gold pendant with chain reg $495 Sale $198 Get a FREE box Sale $300 your choice of delectable Godiva Chocolates when you purchase fine jewelry of $200 or more! These in a half-pou- world-renown- gold nd ‘ i J chocolates come ed P box ($17 value) gift-wrapp- ed Jh twli fci' This delicious offer is available through Saturday May 8 Not valid on prior purchases diamond d Straight from the heart a and garnet 10k gold nng reg $595 heart-shape- ts S £v sn - — ' V’ A fT -- V'3 T N 4 f yw J 4 ip c Cr 4 ! JtJ WJw "W Sale $252 A t I ft 74 rgyc Splendid 58 carat TGW sapphire and diamonds set in a 14k gold nng reg $630 Sale $233 1 'd yr ft Simply beautiful 2 carat TW amethyst and 14k gold lever-bac- k earnngs reg $300 imes WASHINGTON - Russia has moved closer to NATO’s post- tion for resolving the Kosovo crisis but they remain at logger heads over the composition of an international force the Clinton 'administration said Tuesday Shortly before President Clinton departed T uesd jy for talks at NATO headquarters in Brussels I Belgium the State DepartmentI said Russia and the N A I O countries agree enough on the basic principles of other points In brief remarks on the S hite I House lawn Clinton said he would “seize every diplomatic opportunity” for Yugoslav authoritics to accept NATO's de- mands But he insisted that the Serbs wiihJraw their security forces and he again reverted to I tougher rhetoric demanding an international security force wiih I “NATO at its core” to police ko-- J sovo following two days of talks ik- with special Ru'sian envoy DeState the tor CbcmomvTdm is no longer said Rusmj partment W cstem air- pressing for a halt to Y u- strikes rrior to agrecrrent bv Slobodan Milo-- I President godav scvic to the alliance's stated Keep those she loves close to her heart with this 14k gold hinged photo locket For mother's with fine taste 6mm 14k gold ball stud earnngs reg $40 '’ (chain not included) Sale $16 reg $155 Classic hoop earnngs made of 14k gold in a 34" hoop size reg $100 Sale $62 Sale $40 Sale $120 I condemns THE QUALCOMM Flatter her with fine jewelry iNATO position 1 REBATE OR CHOOSE REBATE FEE ROAMING WHILE ON THE SPRINT OFFER INCLUDES FREE LONG DISTANCE & VOICEMAIL CALLER ID CALL FREE PCS I00°o DIGITAL NATIONWIDE NETWORK HOME SERVICE AREA YOUR IN FREE WAITING & FIRST INCOMING MINUTE $3000 Russia moves closer to Los AngSts NO ACTIVATION NO ANNUAL CONTRACT REQUIRED RECEIVE A AND officials said Chernothat NATO will realizes now myrdin until its key condicontinue bombing tions are accepted These officials sayde-it some may be possible to negotiate Milosevtails of a final agreement but ic’s peace proposals put forward so far are unacceptable “As result of a lot of time spent with Russia we believe the Russians have a the rationale deeper understanding for behind NATO’s demands and our conviction that without these steps - espeSerb forces cially the full withdrawal of and a strong international security presence - we won’t be able to achieve a State Delasting peace in Kosovo’ said P Rubin James spokesman partment US and UN 120 MINUTES FOR $2999 PER MONTH MONTH OR CHOOSE 400 MINUTES FOR $4999 PER X PLUS Europe FINE JEWELRY MOTHER’S DAY SALE! short-circuitin- r al $9999 Losing electrical power is certainly not the only price civilians go-ahe- province Milosevic’s own assessment of the military situation is probably the most important single factor m the diplomatic effort Russian peace envoy Viktor S Chernomyrdin met Tuesday in Washington with Vice President A1 Gore and at the United Nations with Secretary-GenerKofi Annan and Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Vollebaek current holder of the rotating presidency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation m 1920 THF QUALCOMM sense of victimization that they are the unjust targets of NATO bombing” said William Arkm a military specialist who studied US bombing in the 1991 Gulf War in Serbia have paid during the bombing An undetermined number have been killed in the attacks - which NATO repeatedly -says are not aimed at civilians housand bombs have destroyed es pinched fuel supplies shredded many roads and bridges knocked out parts of Serb television and radio and disabled parts of the telephone system well-arme- siles How US can turn off the lights in Belgrade The Associated Press Yugoslav army and police forces from Kosovo a return of the refugees under d internathe protection of a tional peacekeeping force that includes NATO personnel and broad political autonomy for the population of the achieve his political aims Naumann said despite massive airstnkes that so far have dropped 15000 bombs and mis- Mother & Child 10k gold pendant with Precious chan to symbolize this special bond reg $250 Sale $100 reg $1750 Sale $490 Sale $700 It's all here S- - r:ns V Stunning 2 1 7 carat TGW emerald and diamond 10k gold bracelet reg $1225 Dazzling 2 carat TW diamonds set in an "S style 10k gold tennis bracelet n 1 Cultured pearl 14k gold earrings 6mm pead stud earnngs reg $75 k 7mm earnngs reg $330 lever-bac- Sale $30 Sale $1 32 ZCMI 11 uVand L Sir ihOS 13 w -- 7 1 u ant C6£6 S' Ge‘cct Vt Dwvan the lnttm1 1 w 'h zem tern ST-c- ‘' 10 a v 6 f ) |
