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Show A8 Yeltsin the Cabinetmaker: Using Same Old Varnish THE ASS CIATED PRESS NATOsays the target was a security building THE ASSOCIATE ) PRESS BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — NATO bombed a Kosovo jail six times Friday, killing at least 19 peopleand injuring scoresin the initial strikes, Yugoslav media ported. A new tide of Kosovo re: ref. would not go back to the front line, said news reports in Montenegro, the republic that along with Serbia forms Yugoslavia cial as Russia's new interior min- poses Milosevic and his confron- ister, Yeltsin's office said Friday. Montenegro’s government op- tation with NATO over Kosovo, a ugees riding tra across Yugoslavia’s southern bor: ders into Albania — breaking a weeklong lull ATO official: s said bombers were targeting a security com plex” in the townof Ist ‘ok but had no word on casualties Alliance bombers rained mis: provincein southern Serbia c ale desertions by Yugoslav army reservists. There war demonstrations bysoldiers In the Montenegrin town Ceti nje, 5,000 people — almost one- third of the population — on Friday returned in the evening Planes roared over Be ade late ay and early today. and heavy anti aircraft fire resounded across the around their city and demanded the military withdraw capital There was no immediate word on casuaities or damage. but widespread power cuts blacked out parts of the city Many in the wave of 3.700 spoke of Serb security forces banging on their doors and order ing them to immediately leave their homeland. President Slobodan Milosevic blamed the “NATO. aggressor” for the mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians. After days of reports of n desertions by Yugoslav army r servists. a Foreign Ministry spokesman said troops who showed up in two central Serbian towns this week were just “regular soldiers returning home’ as partofa reductionof Serb forces in Kosovo Thereare no desertions,” Ne- bojsa Vujovie said About 400 armyreservists re turned this week to Aleksandro vac and Krusevac, saying they protested the recent his nominee for prime minister. Sergei Stepashin. vie declared to huge applause Before leaving for a vacationin southern Russia on Friday, Yelt- first andcertainlythebiggest pro- sin signed decrees reappointing Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev inst the Yugoslav army in Montenegro. Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov re- Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu and Justice Minis- peatedly blasted the Dubrava jail at Istok in northwestern Kosovo. Serb officials said the 1,000-in- ter Pavel Krasheninnikov to their posts, the presidential press ser- mate prison held mainly support vice said. ers of the rebel Kosovo Libera- Army. NATO. officia Yeltsin also promoted Nikolai The Assoc ex Serb electricity workers in Sombor, Yugoslavia, repair power lines damaged during reported NATOairstrikes on Friday. Brussels, Belgium, said a ty complex” was the focu sanddidn't explain whyajail might have beenhit repeatedly oners at bay One prisoner called out, “Help us! There are a lot of wounded back there!” and« guardreplied OK, bring themall into the hall We've called an ambulance, but the road is bad Milosevic, in a statement after meeting a Greek parliamentary Western reporters accompany- ing thefirst U.N. mission to Kosovosincethe start of the eightweek air campaign saw seven bloodied corpses coveredby blankets in the jail’s grassy courtyard, shrapnel-pocked buildings, and nervous-looking guards with automatic weapons keeping pris- delegation, Aksyonenko, a former railways minister,to the post of first deputy prime minister. And he named Vladimir Kosovo border, two buses with morethan 100 women, children and elderly refugees sputtered to a stop in a dustyspeck of a village near the Albanian coast. Out of the evening murk. 50 armed men surroundedthe buses “You survived the Serbs: now we will do what we want with you we are going to takethe girls.” a beefy Albanian mi n witha val) phone and a Ka rifle called out AsSerb force: half a million Ko: 100,000 people out of the north ern border whenhe tried to confiscate ahalf- camps at Kukes, thou- dozen illegal speedboats earlier this year. sands of women could soon be trucked to the mafia strongholds Ona protectedbayjust two and a half hours by speedboat from of Durres, Fier and Vlore, where miserable living conditions in Italy, Viore has beenthe hub of human trafficking in Albania since the early 1990s. when more than 100,000 Albanians fled this filthy camps guarded by corrupt banian police will make them easy prey There is growing evidence of trafficking in girls from Albania to Italy id Carol Bellamy, ex- country’s repressive communist reasonably widespread people a night ‘Thesex tradeis big business in Albania, where unemployment hovers at 30 percent. Albanian gangscansell the girls. usually to ecutive director of UNICEF. ondit that are n ing themselves ould regime on Albanian mafia speedboats. Another and the \ presentmake it get ions id the L bserver N. High ission for Refugees more ant more crim women’s organization. Other gangs work thegirls themselves welcoming human ATO-prote ted env ironm ust not true laces in Europeare less fouled thea eautieras Alvante When money-making pyramid schemes collapsedin 1997, poorly vaid police ndoned their posts looters ff a million turning Vlore and most lawle g high-pc ut of Viore poorest ‘affickers do b ferrying desperate tops downtow nized t A trafficker in Berat boasted that he makes $9,000 a night from thr oung girls in Switzerland As morepeople comehere, no more security is being provided said EricFilipink. headof the Or ganization for Security and Coop. eration in Europe field office in Vlore police forces are b ingstretched ear black ake traffic arful of ig »cal mob, and Meg dence is growi that Alt gangs are targeting Kos¢ Ea s month, Italian po lice ued a 27-year-old Pris as taken host of the nation’s giant state monop- economic management. Most analysts describe him as a Sovietstyle technocrat with little understanding of free-market reforms. Alexander Zhukov, the head of the Duma’s budget affairs committee, has also been invited by Stepashinto join the Cabinet but demandedan equal rank with Ak syonenko. Yeltsin spokesman Dmitry Yakushkin said the Cabinet's formation would likely be completed next week. 40,000 troops and special police from Kosovoand the deployment THE ASSOCIATED PRESS of an international peacekeeping MOSCOW — President Boris Yeltsin has ordered Russia's force with NATO at its core. Milo sevic opposes both conditions space she was to concentrate their meager resources on building a key Russian segment for the new international space station, his office said Friday. Yeltsin also supported propos. tina woman from a house in where officials als to extend thelifetime of Rus- sia’s own Mir spacestation, but being forced to work as a prostitute by her Albanian captors Asthecrisis wears on, the Alba: only on condition that the government doesn’t have to payfor it, thepresidential press servicesaid nian gangs have developed subtle in a statement are often capturedby false offers of marriage, the Kosovo girls also abandon the Mir and commit its funds to the international space station, which is more than a behind schedule due to Russia's methods. While Albanian girls NASA haslong urged Russia to face false offers of free travel. schooling and jobs abroad failure to build a key segment. Thefirst two components of the newinternational station were launched in November and December. Last month, the company RKK Energia finished construction of the overdue next segment, a key module intended to house the station's crew, and sentit for pre-launch tests to the Baikonur cosmodrome. The launch is scheduled for September, but Energia’s deputy chief Yuri Grigorev said Friday that tests may take longer than planned, further delaying the launch Grigorev said government funding for the module has been several times less than promised — up to 800 criminal organizations in Italy or Greece. for up to $10.000. accord: ing to a study done by an Albanian issell- of ‘thou huge webof Russian railways, one olies, but has no experience in wave crossed the Adriatic last year “It is Russia's Chechnya, has denied having links with Berezovsky. syonenko has overseen the Yeltsin Wants Space ComponentBuilt NATO’s peace demandsinclude a total withdrawal of Milosevic’s Rome, Rushailo as for his efforts to combat orga nized crime andrelease hostages from captivity in breakaway reiterated demands for an end to NATO bombings. Kosovar Women Abducted Into Albanian Prostitution Rings KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE VLORE, Albania — After a 24hour drive from the mountainous mersant said Friday. 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