| Show n&qv'w hdW Jm tutnufi I riui page 1 WorldNational Standard-Examine- r Thursday May 6 1 999 3A CRISIS IN THE BALKANS Despite crashes Apaches ready for combat The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Two Apache helicopter crashes during training flights over Albania won’t delay or hinder NATO g US plans to use the gunships for combat in Yugoslavia US military officials said “The pilots are up and ready to roll” Army Capt Jeff Settle a low-flyin- spokesman for Task Force Hawk based in Tirana Albania said today The latest crash Wednesday in mountainous terrain near the border with Yugoslavia and Macedonia killed the two-ma- n US crew and marked the 50th serious crash for the helicopter since the Army began using it in 1985 Including the two latest victims 14 people have died in Apache crashes according to Army safety figures The military chief of Task Force Hawk halted training flights for a day to "honor the deceased” and give commanders time to talk to the pilots “so everybody could get their head back in the game” Settle said in 'm f y J' ' m r E vr - — Settle said there was no or groundApache “stand-down- ” ing because maintenance flights and other operations continued and the pause involved only training com-bat-li- Also today John Gen The Associated and NATO spokesman Jamie Shea welcomed the plan but said “a lot of hard work still has to be done” Meanwhile thousands of ethnic Albanians trying to flee Kosovo were stranded in a border village today after Macedonian authorities blocked the refugee exodus in an apparent moe to force more international assistance NATO continued its attacks Press BELGRADE Yugoslavia Yugoslav fuel depots were set ablaze by NATO warplanes and foreign ministers from the United States Russia and other powers reached agreement on the outlines of a Kosovo peace formula In Belgrade ultranationalist Serbian deputy premier Vojislav Seselj cautioned against the West expecting Yugoslavia's leadership to "come closer” to the NATO demands His government is only ready to accept “some form of foreign presence in Kosovo a kind of observer mission consisting of countries not participating in the (NATO) aggression” Seselj -- a telephone interview from Albania “A pause took place” on Wednesday he said Abrams commander of the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command told reporters in Washington it likely would take “a few more weeks to get to the bottom” of what caused the latest crash Yugoslav fuel depots blasted JON R ANDERSONTlie Associated Press Pallbearers prepare to carry the remains of two fallen U S a into aviators waiting C-- 1 7 cargo plane after a memonal ceremony Wednesday at the air base at Rinas Airfield Albania LAST RESPECTS: Yugoslav media reported stakes Wednesday night on two fuel depots - 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