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...What the Serb army has done to the Albanian Kosovars is terrible. However, the bombs that NATO drops do not discriminate between Serb and Albanian. Those who suffer more from the NATO attack are not the Serb leaders but the innocent Serb civilians, who watch their homes, bridges and the factories where they work being destroyed. With these attacks, NATO is uniting the Serb people under Milosevic. Now it will be impossible to overthrow this dictator. ANGELO GAITAS Athens...
...furious at how NATO commander General WESLEY CLARK first handled reports that one of his jets had mistakenly attacked a refugee convoy last week. Within hours of the Wednesday strike, which may have killed more than 70 ethnic Albanians, Clark told a news service he had "strong evidence" that Serb forces had fired at the refugee column. By the next day, embarrassed NATO officials admitted that their first claim was wrong and that an American F-16 had indeed attacked civilians. NATO tried to recover, releasing an audiotape of an F-16 pilot who may have struck the civilian convoy...
...latest accusations from the West include the charge that Kosovars are being used as human shields. "We certainly hear that [Serb forces] have surrounded military vehicles with civilians," says Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon. Such stories are particularly difficult to confirm, but there is special concern after the disappearance of tens of thousands of refugees who had been seen just inside Kosovo trying to get out. Last Tuesday night, at least 70,000 refugees had gathered on the Kosovo side of border crossings into Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia. At dawn on Wednesday, the crossings were empty...
Bombing Belgrade has certainly inspired the Serb city's thriving graphic-arts community. The "target" symbol worn by anti-NATO protesters, and Easter eggs (7), and now to be made into a Serbian stamp (5), is only the latest cultural icon to emerge from a people used to making memorable gestures--like the three-fingered Serb salute (2). From the sassy anti-American graphics of Serbian websites (4) to the menacing tiger patch (6) of Arkan's soldiers to the drawings that children (3) made reportedly "while the bombs were falling," the Serbs are winning the image...
CONFLICT Move for independence in 1991 brought Serb opposition and ethnic cleansing...