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...ground, the exodus continues. At a bus station in Pristina, about 100 Albanians, mostly old women, waited last Tuesday to board for the 60-mile drive to Skopje in Macedonia. An Albanian woman whispered that the trip cost 20 deutsche marks (almost $11) and took about four hours. With a Serbian army escort urging visitors to clear the area because "it is too dangerous," the woman was asked why she was leaving. The escort interjected, "Because of NATO bombs, right?" The Albanian woman glared. "No! The police...
Last week reporters were taken to a Pristina suburb to view the site of a NATO cluster-bomb attack. The bombs had missed the intended target, a welding factory, Serbian officials said, and hit an adjacent Albanian village, destroying 10 homes and injuring seven people. That did appear to be the case; the distinctive craters left by cluster bombs marked a vegetable and herb garden, releasing an incongruous aroma of onions and chives amid the debris. Roofs were shattered, and one bomb had landed in the center of a family's living room. Why bomb here...
...referring to the acronym for Man-Portable Air Defense System, used for the small-missile launchers. "We keep asking the Army," a Joint Staff officer says, "how many Apaches they think are going to come back." That's why the helicopters--initially heralded as saviors--still sit at their Albanian base, twiddling their rotor blades...
Most of the ethnic Albanian doctors had been fired from their hospitals in the early 1990s, but a few who had skills that the Serbian doctors lacked were allowed to remain. Those who stayed, however, faced strict regulations, including one rule that forced them to be off of the hospital's premises by 2 p.m., according to Leaning...
...medical director of the state hospital informed all ethnic Albanian physicians on staff, and directed all ethnic Albanian patients in the hospital, that they must leave that morning," Leaning said...