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...first comment is in connection with "Students React to Bombings" (News, March 26). The obvious flaw in the piece was that none of the students interviewed were of Serbian descent, although there are several undergraduates at the College who are from Serbia. While I reluctantly support the NATO military action, I am severely distressed to see that the Serbian perspective was not at all represented...
...first comment is in connection with "Students React to Bombings" (News, March 26). The obvious flaw in the piece was that none of the students interviewed were of Serbian descent, although there are several undergraduates at the College who are from Serbia. While I reluctantly support the NATO military action, I am severely distressed to see that the Serbian perspective was not at all represented...
...infantry soldiers. Our relations with some of our allies around the world, especially Russia, have been strained. Finally, one of the stated goals of the strikes was to destabilize Milosevic's hold on power, but in the wake of the bombings, anti-U.S. sentiment has swelled, and the Serbian people are all the more supportive of the leader...
...Serbs, American allies like Italy and Greece nervously waffled on their support for the bombing, and neighboring states from Albania to Macedonia were convulsed by the prospect of ethnic violence. Inside Yugoslavia, in what may come to be regarded as the worst of the secondary effects of the strike, Serbian troops stepped up their campaign against Kosovo's Albanian citizens, squeezing the province in a pincer movement that stabbed south from Belgrade and north from the Macedonian border. The offensive produced thousands of refugees and inspired terrifying reports of mass killings...
...unable to continue its genocidal onslaught against the Kosovo Liberation Army (K.L.A.) and Kosovar villages. But so far at least, NATO's onslaught wasn't doing much to release the pressure. As strikes against air-defense systems continued, Kosovar Albanians were struggling against a quickly escalating ground war. Serbian troops, who had been massing on Kosovo's borders for weeks, began to squeeze the province, forcing many units of the rebel K.L.A. to fight for their lives. "We are encircled," a K.L.A. commander told TIME in a hurried phone call during a break in the shooting. "All around...