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YUGOSLAVIA: KOSOVO: PRISTINA: NATO DENIES BOMBING CLAIM
Eng/French/Nat
NATO says it does not have any evidence to link it to an attack near a convoy of Western journalists in Kosovo on Sunday.
The injured included Eve-Ann Prentice, a reporter from "The Times" of London newspaper.
She was...
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YUOSLAVIA: ANTI MILOSEVIC RALLY PREPARATIONS
Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat
Organisers of a major rally against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accused police on Thursday of trying to intimidate their supporters by warning people to stay away because of possible trouble.
The first...
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YUGOSLAVIA: BELGRADE: VIOLINIST NIGEL KENNEDY CONCERT
English/Nat
British violinist Nigel Kennedy has become the first Western musician to perform in Yugoslavia since the Kosovo war.
Kennedy flew to Belgrade at his own expense to perform at a concert for peace on Sunday night.
After...
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BELGIUM: NATO KOSOVO CRISIS PRESS BRIEFING
English/Nat
NATO said on Sunday it has graphic evidence of 43 mass grave sites in Kosovo, some dug by Kosovo Albanian prisoners forced by Serb forces to bury their countrymen.
The alliance has evidence that Serb authorities are forcing...
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GERMANY: US SOLDIERS RELEASED FROM YUGOSLAVIA: HEALTH CHECK
English/Nat
The doctor in charge of examining the released American soldiers has said they are in good health despite being held by the Serbs since March 31.
Colonel Mark Blanton said the evaluation of the men would continue for a few...
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BOSNIA: BALKANS SUMMIT ENDS
Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat
World leaders have wrapped up their Balkans reconstruction summit vowing to get to work.
Some 40 leaders from Europe, Russia and the U-S gathered in Sarajevo on Friday to discuss ways of rebuilding the region in the...
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Yugoslav Army moves into village/minister sounbite/shelling.
Vaksince
1. Various of Macedonian police and soldiers entering village of Vaksince
2. Various of Macedonian soldiers looking through binoculars at suspected Albanian holdouts
3. More of entering village
4. Various of Macedonian Interior...
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Presidential elections fail because of low turnout
1. Man tapes up top of ballot box in polling station
2. Close up hands taping box
3. Mid shot ballot box
4. Woman counting names of people who have voted from electoral list
5. Close up woman's hands
6. Woman counting unused ballot...
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Belgium - Leighton Smith in Brussels
Before stepping down as commander of NATO forces in Bosnia, US Admiral Leighton Smith was in Brussels on Wednesday (17/7). NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana presented Leighton Smith with a medal and commented himself on the war...
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KOSOVO: ARRIVAL OF ALBANIAN LEADER RUGOVA
Albanian/Nat
Kosovo Albanian leader, Ibrahim Rugova, made his long-awaited return to Kosovo from wartime exile on Thursday.
Rugova has long been an advocate of passive resistance against Yugoslav authorities over their harsh treatment...
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MONTENEGRO: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS: EXPULSIONS
Eng/Albanian/Nat
The first refugees to be expelled by Serb forces within Montenegro have told of men being separated from their families and of being forced to leave their villages.
One mother of five children said machine guns were...
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MACEDONIA/FRANCE: NATO TROOPS PREPARE TO ENTER KOSOVO
German/Nat
NATO forces in Macedonia are making final preparations for their imminent entry into the southern Yugoslav province of Kosovo.
The Western alliance suspended the bombing of Yugoslavia on Thursday, after verifying the...
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USA: WASHINGTON: KOSOVO CRISIS PRESS BRIEFING
English/Nat
U-S President Bill Clinton is ready to give the go-ahead to call up more than 33-thousand reserve soldiers for active duty in the Kosovo conflict.
Pentagon officials say the first to be mobilised will be about two-thousand...
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YUGOSLAVIA: KARADJORDEVIC ARRIVES
Natural Sound
Thousands of monarchists have gathered in the Serbian city of Novi Sad to greet the Yugoslav Crown Prince, Aleksandar Karadjordjevic.
Karadjordjevic arrived in Yugoslavia on Sunday, shortly after elections that saw the...
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YUGOSLAVIA: ELECTION CAMPAIGNS
Serbo-Croat/Nat
Some ten days before the crucial presidential, federal and local elections in Yugoslavia, the campaigning is getting into full swing.
Around 10,000 opposition supporters gathered in the centre of the southern Serbian...
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State Dept reax on Milosevic's extradition
1. Wideshot U-S State Department briefing
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Phil Reeker, State Department spokesperson
"We will give a total of one hundred eighty one point six million dollars in new pledges of grant assistance for the Federal...
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RR7215B NAIVE ART IN YUGOSLAVIA
Naive Art in Yugoslavia began in the 1930s as an
attempt by a few peasant craftsmen to reproduce
picture postcards. Today it is still very much a
peasant art, strongly rooted in folk traditions and
easily identified by its flat...
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USA: CALLS FOR PERPETRATORS OF GENOCIDE TO BE TRIED
English/Nat
As the world reacted to the extradition ruling of Augusto Pinochet in Britain, a top international judge warned that more aggressive actions must be taken against suspects wanted for committing horrific acts against...
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SERBIA: PARLIAMENT APPROVE NEW ELECTION LAWS
Serbo-Croat/Nat
Yugoslavia's Federal Parliament has approved new election laws, which could extend President Slobodan Milosevic's time in power.
The laws were addressed by Milosevic's cabinet last week.
The parliament convened in...
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UK: NATO SECRETARY GENERAL GEORGE ROBERTSON
English/Nat
As the tumultuous events in Yugoslavia develop faster than diplomats can write cables, NATO defence ministers are trying to assess how the rapidly changing situation will affect security in the Balkans.
NATO...
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Bosnia - Bosnian Serb Army Take Bihac Suburb
Rebel Serbs were reported in hand-to-hand combat with defenders of
the last government stronghold in northwest Bosnia. Western
diplomats, stung by the United Nations' inability to save the
"safe zone," scrambled to broker a cease-fire....
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F.Yugoslavia - Sacirbey On Dayton Complexity
While United Nations troops began preparations for their handover
to NATO forces under the terms of the Dayton accord, there are
increasing signs it is an accord in name only. People in the Serb
held suburbs of Sarajevo fear for their...
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YUGOSLAVIA: SERBIAN RENEWAL PARTY LEADER PRESS CONFERENCE
Serbo-Croat/Nat
The leader of the opposition Serbian Renewal Party has predicted political clashes in Serbia once the NATO bombing campaign ends.
Vuk Draskovic said there was almost certain to be a power struggle between nationalists...
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USA: STATE DEPARTMENT KOSOVO CRISIS PRESS BRIEFING
English/Nat
The U-S State Department says military action against Yugoslavia is now closer because of President Slobodan's attitude.
The comments follow a day of widespread condemnation of the killings of at least 18 ethnic Albanian...