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Show A4 The Salt LakeTribune NATION/WORLD Friday, May 7, 1999 While the agreement does not mention the word “NATO” once. Clinton and his top national secu- rity advisers insisted Thursday that a NATO force would be at the core of an international force in Kosovo. The troops would likely include large numbersof Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, seen by to Europe, including tank-busting \-10s and tanker refueling planes fhe agreement — signed outje Bonn, Germany, bythe for- ign ministers of the Group of Eight (G-8) countries of Russia, the United States, Germany, France, Britain, Canada, Italy and Japan — also calls for self-govrmment for Kosovo's ethnic Al- unians and “deployment in Ko- ovo of effective international ivil and security presences, en- jorsed andadoptedby the United Nations. Russia agreed the force could rry weapons, said U.S. National urity Adviser Sandy Berger For President Clinton, in Bonnto eet with German Chancellor rhard Schroeder and hundreds f ethnic Albanianrefugees, that as the key point in the agree- ent ‘This is a significant stepfor. ard,” Clinton said after meeting th Schroeder. “There is a real sace process under way, but it 1s no chance ofreaching asatis: ctory conclusion unless we the Serbs as neutral. Previously, Clinton said American troops must be part of the force to give confidence to the morethan a million expelled Kosovar Albanians that they will be protected. There were no signs Thursday that had changed, although the composition of the force remains a potential deal- breaker. Milosevic might balk if too many NATOtroops are Kosovo. “But the devil's in the details,” said Bozic, who is not a member of Milosevic’s party and exerts noinfluence over the president. “It’s obviousthat somekindofinternational forces will be in the field, and someof those forces will be from NATOcountries.” In Moscow, Chernomyrdin was vague about his plans to return to Belgrade after briefing Russian President Boris Yeltsin. “We'll do whatever we can to organize the work aimed at a political settle- ment,” he told ORT Television in stalled, while NATO might back out if its force is too small. “We are in a different mood, a different phase noweven from a few days ago,” Greece's amba dor to the United grade’s deputy mayor, Milan Bozie, said that “we are optimistic” the Bonn agreement would bring an end to NATO bombing and a withdrawal of Serb troops from States, Alexan- der Philon, said Thursday before departing for Athens to consult his government onthe talks. “The faster the bombing stops, the Moscow. “We won't bejust medi- ators, we'll see to it that everything is done in a just way.” Chernomyrdin, who held two earlier meetings with Milosevic that totaled 15 hours and who traveled to Washingtonlast weekendto brief Clinton and top U.S officials, enjoys the respect of Washington, Brussels and Bel- grade. Russia's lead on a diplomatic solution was particularly noteworthy considering that nation’s lingering economic crisis and its intense anger toward NATO’s bombing. Only two weeks ago, the Russian government “had threatened to pull their troops out of [the peacekeeping force in] Bosnia,” said a Washington-based foreign diplomat. “And [Prime Minister Yevgeny] Primakov wasbasically a failure in Belgrade. But Chernomyrdin made a lot of progress there. He's the one person who is trusted in a way not many other Russians wouldbe oneither side of the Atlantic.” According to a U.S. Department of Defense offi- cial, the NATO-Russia showdown in Bosnia was even more dramatic. “We were on the brink. The Russian troops had their bags packedandwereready to pull out of the deal.” Now,the Russians wantto close a deal, and their plan includes many step-by-step details on the progression of a cease-fire. According to Russia’s Interfax and NTV Television, after a NATOYugoslavia agreement, Belgrade have to happenin Belgrade In Belgrade on Thursday los Papulius, a key Greek Jar a ialkans war, the Republican-led House on Thursday more than loubled the Clinton administrayn’s funding request to pay for adding billions of dollars in spending to refurbish what e GOP regards as the country’s akened armed forces. In contrast to the chaos that acmpanied last week's votes on ssovo policy the GOP leaderF ip easily brushed aside a sub. antial number of potentially miroversial amendments and ed Thursday's $13.1 bil. eney spending bill to sy passage. by a bipartisan vote 311 to 105, House Speaker Dennis Hastert Ill, whose refusal to take a adership role in last week’s dete helped sow confusion, spoke ) in the first minutes Thursday unseling colleagues not to view e emergency bill as a referen: im on Clinton's handling of the ar fo my colleagues who dis. reewith the president's policy t me say sim ite last week,” you had your Hastert said. Nowis the time to rise abovethe irtisanship and vote for the vod of the country The $13.1 billion approved lay would come from sur funds generated by the So us al Security program in fiscal 199. IL to be usedto pay for the S. portion of NATO's ongoing ur war over Yugoslavia through pts ) The bill also funded a number 1 GOP military priorities, includ ng $1.09 billion in military con. diplomat said talks have already cil, the G-8 agreementsaid Chan. cellor Schroeder “will informthe Chinese government on the re- troops committing widespread atrocities against defenseless Albanians. The diplomat, who is well-in- formed on the negotiations, said the Russians would take a key role in the international force going into Kosovo. “The Russians will play a muchlargerrole than theydid in Bosnia,” where Ameri- CHICAGO TRIBUNE FORT DIX, NJ. — Only 14 1, a Kosovar woman gave birth to vy Thursday at a New Jersey yspital, the first baby born to © refugees in the tUnited The father, Naim Karaliju, said would consult 1 parents, who Karaliju and his wife, Lebibe d the city of Ferizaj in Kosovo nonth The child was deliv ed by physicians at Virtua-Me orial Hospital in Mount Holly NJ about 1 from this n han 400 where more avo refugees arrived Wednesday Michael Snyder ter, met for several hours with Milosevic and later reported to his government in Athens that “he naled that its opposition to NATO's bombinghaslessened Meanwhile, NATO’s bombing slowed Wednesdayand Thursday becauseof bad weather. But NATO spokesman Jamie Shea repeated Thursdaythat the bombingwastaking toll on Milo- sevic’s troops. manders oversee three districts. The Russians have fallen under American military command pretty much, them down,we have In Kosovo, “it’s absolutelycon- ceivable the Russians will be in chargeof a district.” he said As Chernomyrdin prepares to go to Belgrade, the (G-8 ministers will rush a draft proposal to the As of today, we have pinned, pretty much largely cut them off and are about to begin to take themout,” Shea said. “We have achievedthat by regularly andr lentlessly harrying them in the field. 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Chief among them is about $1 billion in relief aid to Central Americaandother Caribbean Ba sin nations, and $100 million in peacekeeping funds for Jordan as part of the Wye Accords on the Middle East Although top Senate and House officials said they expectedthefi nal bill to be approvedandsent to Clinton bythe end of next week serious differences between the two chambers and between Con gress and the administration re. main unresolved The House has complainedthat theSenatecluttered its version of thebill with unrelatedriders, and the two chambers havedisagreed for weeks about which domestic p ams to cut to find the money for the Caribbean, Jordan and farmers. Senators also have indi cated that want a smaller mili tary-spending package arly in Thursday's debate, the leadershiplaid down its rationale for approving the emergency funding. “While I object to the president's handling ofthe situa tion, our troopsare in harm’s way,” said Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, perhaps Clin ACM to abandon our field troops Peree Update your casualstyle Re a ed Tab™ makes Levi’s* 501° colored jeans Sale 34.99 ton's strongest opponent in Con. gress. “We have anobligation not in the All Levi's" shirts Save 25% the baby, said the child is in good health but was placedinaspecial care unit as a precaution Lebibe, 21, went into intense labor about two hours before the child's birth, Snyder said, Naim 28, who declined to be in the de livery room, was ecstatic when he saw his newborn child The experience of delivering the first child of a Kosovarfamily in America had Snyder flush with emotion, he said{ Twenty-four hours ago mother was in a camp and nowshe’s in a state-of: the-art facility,” he said. 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