Belgrade blacked out again by NATO jets
Haxhi Haxhaj
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05/06/99- Updated 12:02 AM ET
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - Undeterred by poor
weather, NATO
pounded targets across Yugoslavia Wednesday and early
Thursday. Much of
the Yugoslav capital was without power for a third
day, as diplomats stepped
up efforts to find a solution to the war over Kosova.
Late Wednesday, NATO struck two large fuel depots
near the southern city
of Niš. Fire brigades rushed to extinguish massive
fires, Serbian television
reported, adding that dozens of family houses and
office buildings were also
badly damaged on the outskirts of the town. Secondary
explosions shook the
area and the private Beta news agency said intense
heat could be felt
hundreds of yards away.
A powerful detonation was also heard near Ladjevci in
central Serbia, where
a military airfield is located, Tanjug news agency
reported. Several strong
detonations went off early Thursday in the central
town of Uzice, the agency
said.
Strikes earlier in the day hammered Yugoslav military
airports, power lines
and oil depots all over the country. Allied officials
said some of the strikes
had to be abandoned because of bad weather.
Gen. Wesley Clark, NATO's supreme commander, said
allied warplanes had
intensified their airstrikes on Milosevic's ground
forces, hitting 10 armoured
concentrations, 11 artillery sites and three command
posts.
In a move bolstering NATO's muscle, Hungary announced
Wednesday that
it would allow 24 American F-18 jet fighters to use
its airfield at Taszar, 120
miles south of Budapest, for attacks against
Yugoslavia.
Use of the former Soviet base will shorten the
distance that NATO's attack
planes must travel to reach targets in Yugoslavia.
A convoy from the Greek branch of Doctors of the
World (Medecins du
Monde), meanwhile, was hit by a bomb Wednesday inside
Kosova on its
way from Macedonia to Prishtina, the humanitarian
group said. No one was
injured.
NATO denied Yugoslav claims it hit the convoy of
three trucks and a jeep
carrying medicine to a Prishtina hospital.
On the diplomatic front, a Kosova Albanian leader
thought to be under house
arrest flew out of Yugoslavia to Rome. Ibrahim Rugova
held talks with
Italian Premier Massimo D'Alema ''on a
political-diplomatic solution to the
conflict'' and the premier's office said afterward
that Rugova ''will be able to
contribute as a free man'' to the peace effort.
The main sticking point in diplomatic efforts to
settle the Kosova crisis
concerns what kind of peacekeeping force would
protect returning ethnic
Albanian refugees, 675,000 of whom have fled Kosova
since the air
campaign began March 24.
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