	YUGOSLAV EVENTS CHRONOLOGY
	May-Aug., 1999

May 1 - Rev. Jesse Jackson meets w/ Milo. for 3 hours to try to obtain 
release of 3 American POWs; Pentagon confirms that it has captured 2 
Serb soldiers; Clinton freezes all Yugo. assets in US, prohibits export
of US oil, software, all other goods except food and medicine to Yugo.; 
NATO missile hits bus crossing supply bridge n. of Pristina, kills 
dozens of civilians; Mon. Dep. PM Dragisa Burzan says his govt. 
condemns NATO attack that killed 4 civilians in village of Murino, 
that such attacks only encourage Milo. and his policies there; Yugo. 
2nd Army command issues order prohibiting ships, boats from using 
civilian harbor at Bar thereby blocking last Mon. access to outside world
Fre. PM Lionel Jospin visits Mac., pledges supplementary aid package 
of $26 mil.; Mac. police arrest 4 suspected in grenade attack on Fre. 
sentry post

May 2 - 3 American POWs released to Rev. Jesse Jackson after he and 
delegation of 2 dozen religious/congressional leaders meet w/ Milo.; 
Jackson brings letter he encouraged Milo. to write to Clinton about 
how to resolve crisis, calls for two leaders to meet; White House has 
no real comment on release (it had discouraged mission); NATO spokesman 
Shea says alliance won=t reward Milo. for releasing prisoners, Def. 
Sec. Cohen says bombing will be intensified; 20,000 more refs. 
expelled over weekend to Albania, most coming from Prizren; some say 
women and children sent back into Prizren as human shields, others that 
they saw Serbs killing civilians; UNHCR=s Mary Robinson says ethnic 
cleansing Adeliberate and unacceptable while Yugo. Assistant FM 
Nebojsa Vujovic says Serb forces have not committed atrocities, that 
reports are NATO inventions; NATO acknowledges it hit bus on Nis-
Pristina road while crossing a bridge killing 40, also announces that 
F-16 downed in Serbia, pilot rescued; UCK takes control of road from 
Bajram Curri to Koshara, takes control of Koshara (near border w/ 
Albania), occupies Yugo. army barracks there, claims more than 200 
Serb soldiers and paramilitaries killed in fighting; UCK says it 
will link up w/ other units operating in Kos.; Shadow-state PM Bukoshi 
meets w/ Albanian PM Majko who says he wants to bring rival Kos. 
factions together at round table, calls for Aspirit of dialog
Serb, Albanian forces exchange fire in villages of Vlahen, Letaj in 
Has Mts.

May 3 - NATO drops Asoft bombs w/ graphite strips to disrupt but not 
destroy power plant in Bel., 70% of country=s power shut off; 11,000 
refs. at Blace border crossing point waiting to get into Mac.; UNHCR 
estimates 80,000 refs. living in very overcrowded camps in Mac., 90,000
living w/ families in country; also estimates 400,000 refs. in Albania; 
UCK spokesman rejects shadow-state proposal to form new provisional 
govt.; Mon. govt. says it wasn=t officially informed about decision 
to close port of Bar; Mac. PM Georgievskii comments that Aeither we 
will be ruined as a state or we will have to close our frontiers, also 
says Mac. might reconsider decision not to allow territory as base for 
land invasion of Serbia but that it's up to parl.; Tudjman agrees w/ 
opp. leaders Ivica Racan (Soc. Dems.) and Drazen Budisa (Social-
Liberal Party) to abolish separate elec. lists for Croats living 
abroad, although members of diaspora to still have right to vote, 
run for office, and will receive places on party lists on Croatian 
ballots


May 4 - Clinton says Awe can have a bombing pause, if it's clear that 
will be in aid of that larger purpose (stopping Kos. aggression) but 
also says Yugo. has to first accept basic demands on Kos.; former Rus. 
PM Viktor Chernomyrdin meets w/ Clinton as special envoy on Kos. for 
Russia, says they are closer to diplomatic solution; Kofi Annan 
cautions against quick dip. solutions; NATO spokesman says bus attack 
day before was result of fighting between UCK, Serb forces and not 
NATO bombing, that Athat there is no evidence to link our activities 
w/ this alleged incident; F-16 shoots down MiG-29 (6th of war), 
positions of Yugo. 125th motorized brigade (w. Kos.), 233rd brigade 
(e. Kos.) hitBombers hit TV building in Novi Sad (Serbs claim no 
injuries), mil. airport at Batajnica near Belgrade, other explosions 
in Bel. suburb of Rakovica, Strazevica, and bombs hit Ladjevici 
(near Kraljevo); Gen. Wesley Clark says NATO will destroy Milo's 
war machine, that Apache attack helicopters ready to be used, but 
2 US pilots killed in crash of their Apache on training mission 
Trains from areas north of Pristina w/ more than 5,000 refs. arrive 
unexpectedly at Kos.-Mac. border crossing, Serbs reported to have 
separated young men from rest of refs. at Pristina station; UNHCR 
estimates 83,000 refs. now in ref. camps, 93,000 more living w/ 
relatives in Mac., 24,858 refs. have been airlifted out of area, 
UNHCR wants to shift several thousand from Mac. to Alb. due to 
overcrowding; 248 Kosovars leave Skopje on flight to Canada; Refs. 
report of possible massacre of civilians by Serbs in Studime 
(near Vushtrri); NATO spokesman Shea says Serbs have nearly 
emptied Prizren, holding back inhabitants to use as human shield 
and that NATO has reports of mass killings in 65 towns and villages 
and reports of mass graves in 7 locations; Shea also says NATO now 
cutting off electricity to Serb communities as psychological 
pressure while Croatia says it turned down urgent request from 
Yugo. to supply it w/ electricity (after consultations w/ US);
Bri. PM Tony Blair addresses Romanian parl., says  "Milosevic and 
his hideous racial genocide will be defeated.  NATO will prevail; 
Chirac says NATO to continue efforts until Milo. accepts all demands, 
that war is based on Aa concept of morality and the honor of nations; 
Ger. Gen. Klaus Naumann uses farewell speech to state that NATO should 
have used surprise, overwhelming force in early days of campaign and 
that NATO will need to change its tactics if it hopes to prevent mass 
deportation campaign of Milo.; Serb shells kill 1 villager in Letaj, 
Albania; Bulgarian parl. votes to approve NATO accord to let alliance 
have limited use of air space; hundreds of riot police prevent pro, 
anti-NATO demonstrators from clashing; parl. also approves sending 94 
tanks, 108 howitzers to Mac.

May 5 - Rugova arrives unexpectantly in Rome, Yugo. For. Min. says he 
is free but that he wil remain involved in negs., Dem. League of Kos. 
unable to provide details; Clinton, in Germany, says Milo. campaign is 
evil and that Awe will continue to pursue this campaign...until 
[NATO's] objectives are met, also says there must be an Aintegrated 
vision for Balkans when conflict is over; Yugo. opp. leader Zoran 
Djindjic says Milo. should be tried before intl. war crimes tribunal 
modeled after Nuremberg, calls on EU for help in creating AEuropean 
Serbia and also says he fears for his own safety and moves frequently 
between locations; Missiles hit S. Serbian town of Vranje; France says 
it wants FMs from G-8 to meet ASAP, bring Rus. more into peace 
process; NATO denies it attacked bus in western Kos. which killed 
17, hints that UCK may have carried out attack; Serbian power plant 
on Danube experiences problems, disrupts supplies for country; 453 
refs. leave Skopje for New Jersey; Cohen says he will recommend 
release to Yugo. of 2 Serb soldiers held by UCK; Serbian troops again 
shell village of Letaj while skirmishes occur between UCK, Serb forces 
in Padesh (near Tropoja); Hungary agrees to NATO request to deploy 24 
F-18 fighters, 500-800 servicemen at Taszar mil. base (sw. Hun.)

May 6 - Thousands of refs. reported stranded across Serbian-Mac. border 
after Mac. closes its border on previous day, Serb police use clubs to 
force some refs. back into Serbia; train w/ several thousand more refs. 
arrives at border; G-8 meeting approves document on Kos., demands 
immediate, verifiable end to violence in Kos., withdrawal of Serbian 
police, mil., paramilitary troops, deployment of Aeffective intl. 
civilian and security presences mandated by UN, appointment of 
provisional administration by UN Sec. Coun., unhindered return of 
all refs., full access to Kos. for humanitarian relief orgs., and 
beginning of pol. process leading to autonomy for Kos. under 
Rambouillet principles w/ respect for sovereignty and integrity of 
Yugo. including disarmament of UCK, joint assistance program for eco. 
development of Balkans; Rus. FM Ivanov says G-8 meeting didn't 
produce breakthrough Abut a step in the right direction, says no pk 
force possible without Belgrade's agreement; Rugova holds press 
conference, calls for intl. pk force including NATO in Kos., demands 
immediate withdrawal of Serb forces, reiterates he is Afor peace and 
non-violent resistance; NATO to send 176 more aircraft for campaign 
for total of 800 planes; NATO targets Nis oil storage facilities, 
bridge on Belgrade-Bucharest rail line, claims that strikes have 
left Serb forces cut off from rest of Serbia and without 1/5th of 
tanks and heavy weapons; Former Yugo. Gen. Vuk Obradovic says Milo. 
conducting Apogrom against all those who disagree with him, calls on 
govt. to save the country by admitting intl. pk force to Kos. w/ 
fixed expiration date and limited to Kos.; Westendorp announces that 
he will leave his position sometime in summer, that he would become 
part of the problem rather than part of the solution if he stayed 
much longer; WCT sentences Zlatko Aleksovski to 22 years in prison 
for violating Alaws and customs of war against Mus. prisoners while 
commander of Bos. Croat prison camp in '93, but has already spent 2 
years, 10 months in prison and is therefore released; ct. rules 
that Mus.-Croat conflict was internal and not subject to Geneva 
Convention governing intl. conflicts meaning Croat auth. is Zag. 
can't be tried for roles in '93 Croat-Mus. war in BiH; Romania 
bans sale of oil, gasoline to Yugo. thereby outlawing sale of gas 
from motorists' cars in Yugo. 

May 7 - China says 3 NATO missiles hit its emb. in Bel. at night, 
4 injured, 4 missing; Yugo. FM Jovanovic calls it attack on diplomacy; 
Fed. Int., Def. Ministries also hit as Bel. attacked after 3-day 
pause; US to send Dep. Sec. of State Strobe Talbott to Moscow to 
discuss possible interim Kos. administration acceptable to Russia, 
composition of intl. military force to take place of Yugo. troops; 
Albright says despite Rus. cooperation there is still no sign of 
Milo. agreeing to terms; State Dept. spokesman James Rubin says US 
Avery pleased Russia has accepted in principle intl. mil. presence, 
other US officials say Russians told NATO must be in command of 
force; UN Sec. Gen. Annan names Carl Bildt as UN envoy on Kos.; 
UNHCR says Mac. auth. claim border to be open but aid workers say 
no one crossing; Vatican claims that Serb forces killed nearly 200 
civilians in unnamed Roman Catholic area; Mon. Pres. Djukanovic says 
Mon. can't remain in federation if Bel. continues current policies 
at home and abroad and that Milo. will undermine democracy as long 
as he remains in power; Ger. Bundestag votes to send 1,000 Ger. 
soldiers to aid in construction of ref. camps in Alb., Mac.;
Romanian DM Victor Babiuc says NATO to set up anti-aircraft systems 
in Rom. to protect its planes using Romanian airspace for bombings

May 8 - Solana apologizes on behalf of North Atlantic Council for 
bombing of Chinese embassy, calls it Adeeply regrettable mistake 
and says ANATO never has, and never will, intentionally target 
civilians, further comments that goals of stopping ethnic cleansing 
and ensuring Kosovars' safe return to their homes NATO's main goals 
and that NATO will suspend air strikes when Belgrade accepts 
unequivocally 5 key conditions set by NAC for settlement of conflict; 
Rus. Pres. Yeltsin calls Chinese emb. bombing Aact of vandalism and 
further flagrant violation of international law, Rus. FM Ivanov 
cancels scheduled visit to London as result; Hashim Thaqi states 
that Awe (UCK) have reservations about the G-8 declaration including 
the demilitarization of the UCK, says UCK wants firm sec. guarantees 
from NATO first; Poor weather conditions continue to restrict NATO 
attacks but planes still hit airfields at Nis, Sjenica, radio relay 
site at Novi Sad; in Belgrade area Dobanovci command complex hit 
including major bunker complex which NATO says is center of Milo. 
high command; Hotel Jugoslavia, thought to be owned by Arkan and 
used as his hq and possibly alternate MUP hq, Bel. Min. of Def. 
North and South, Army Gen. Staff building, FRY MUP hq, warehouses, 
electrical transformer yards;  Alb. FM Paskal Milo says that UCK, Dem. 
League of Kos. need to set aside differences and concentrate on 
expulsion of Serb forces

May 9 - Rus. special envoy Chernomyrdin has phone conversation w/ 
Milo., says Athere are some encouraging results; Clinton apologizes 
to Chinese Pres. Jiang Zemin for emb. bombing, NATO spokesmen say 
they thought it was Yugo. army's supply and procurement offices; 
Estimated 16,000 refs. flee into Albania in advance of Serb 
offensives in Peja, Gjakova, UNHCR continues to evacuate refs. 
at rate of 4,000 per day from Kukes; Ger. Chancellor Schroeder's 
foreign policy advisor Michael Steiner, NATO's Jamie Shea accuse 
Serb forces of having killed Fehmi Agani on May 6 which Serbs 
claim was work of UCK, Ger. govt. demands WCT investigation; 
Mon. Pres. Djukanovic, Serb opp. leader Zoran Djindjic issue 
joint statement that it is impossible for democracy to be est. 
in Yugo. Awithout a complete pol. transition; Intl. community's 
Westendorp calls for Kos. being made into international protectorate 
w/ foreign control over Ajudges, the police, and the army to avoid 
mistakes made in Bos.; UN's Annan recommends to Sec. Coun. that 
Sweden's Carl Bildt, Slovak FM Eduard Kukan to be UN special envoys 
for Balkan crisis

May 10 - Yugo. officials file charges against 10 NATO countries at 
Intl. Court of Justice in Hague to try to force end to air campaign 
and demand compensation; Rugova meets w/ Pope John Paul II ; Bad 
weather forces NATO to reduce number of sorties to 317; attacks 
against Nis airfield, military radio relay site at Kosovska Mitrovica 
and petroleum storage at Pristina; 2 Serb tanks reported hit along 
w/ 10 APCs (near Kalavaj), command post, and mil. assembly areas; 
Chinese Pres. Jiang Zemin tells Yeltsin US must bear Aall 
responsibility for emb. bombing; 2,000 refs. demonstrate at 
Stankovic camp in Mac. demanding that NATO take control of camp 
from Mac. authorities after Mac. police beat 2 ethnic Alb. refs.; 
UNHCR's Chris Janowski says Serbs have taken control of several 
villages near Peja, Istog and driven out thousands, says 8,000 
refs. have crossed into Alb. within last 24 hours, says it looks 
like many men have been abducted, dozens killed; very few refs. 
head into Mac.; UNHCR spokeswoman says 10,000 refs. turned back at 
Mac. border over weekend now appear headed to Kukes, Alb.; Yugo. 
Army Supreme Command says it has ordered partial troop withdrawal 
from Kos., will reduce remaining forces to Apeacetime levels prior 
to the NATO aggression when agreement is reached on deploying UN 
mission in Kos., say actions against UCK complete, US State Dept. 
spokesman Joe Lockhart says Awe have seen no evidence at all of 
any withdrawal, Albright calls decision Ahalf-measure and 
insufficient; Bri.to send 1,200 more troops to Alb. to build 
new camps w/ 1,000 coming from Mac., the rest from Bri.; NATO 
troops begin rebuilding mil. airport of Gjader (near Lezha);
Former RS Pres. Poplasen says NATO campaign an Aaggression, 
Westendorp says if negs. are wanted for Kos. Ainevitably they 
will have to include Milo., but his presence afterwards as a 
guarantor of the agreements could cause us problems

May 11 - NATO steps up bombing, launches 623 sorties aimed at 
airfields, bridges, mil. radio sites, petroleum storage facilities, 
Yugo. forces inside Kos., army barracks hit near Bel., Pancevo as 
well as special police hq at Valjevo; Cruise missiles hit industrial, 
communications sites around country including Bel., suburb of Pancevo; 
Serb forces attack Albanian villages in Has Mts., kill 2 elderly 
civilians, Alb. border forces fight back; 30 UCK troops wounded near 
Padesh in fighting while 3,600 Kos. refs. enter Albania; NATO leaders 
say there is no trace of pullout, dismiss Yugo. plan for partial 
withdrawal of troops, that this is what Milo. expects in exchange 
for halt to bombing, says all Milo. has to do is call NATO and 
unconditionally accept its 5 demands, otherwise all troops are 
fair game; Fre. Pres. Chirac says only complete turnaround in Yugo. 
position would satisfy West, Bri. For. Sec. Cook says Yugo. statement 
only a half measure; China says it may block peace initiatives at UN 
until NATO ends 49-day campaign; Nis hit again; Rus. special envoy for 
Kos., Viktor Chernomyrdin in Beijing for talks, calls for halt to 
bombing, says Rus., Chinese positions Aclose on Kos., calls emb. 
bombing Aaggressive behavior and a brutal act; Chinese amb. to UN 
says calls for end to strikes in favor of pol. solution, says anything 
else will make it impossible for UN Sec. Coun. to discuss problem

May 12 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin warns that Rus will"withdraw 
from cooperation in negotiations if its proposals and mediation 
efforts for the Kosovo conflict are ignored", complains that our 
calls, our repeated suggestions, clearly are not reaching somebody; 
NATO planes make 327 strike sorties out of total of 600 sorties in 
24 hours, highest number of yet in campaign for total of 20,000 to 
date, destroy 5 MiG-21s on ground, SA-6 surface-to-air missile 
launcher, hit airfields at Nis, Ponikve, Pristina, Sjenica, Obrva, 
rail and transport bridges, and petroleum storage sites; raids 
conducted military forces in Kos., but TANJUG claims 15 missiles 
hit residential areas in c. Serbian town of Paracin, injuring 3; 
Milo. delivers message admitting heavy losses; Beta news agency 
reports Kos. refs. wounded in NATO air raid on collective farm in 
village of Svetlje, missiles also fired at villages of Tresnja and 
Gornje Ljupce; NATO says Yugo. units trying harder to capture 
remaining UCK strongholds; Rus. special envoy Chernomyrdin says 
China may be willing to take part in intl. peace force if Bel. 
supports idea and it is organized by UN; Solana visits ref. camps 
in Elbasan, Alb. and Cegrane, Mac., says NATO committed to refs. 
returning to their homes; Rus. FM Ivanov holds talks w/ US envoy 
Strobe Talbott; Turkey has agreed to let NATO planes use its 
airbases; UNHCR says it is running out of money for ref. work, 
tensions rising in Mac. camps; Rugova, 16 family members, 
advisors take up residence near Bonn, Ger.;
Westendorp's office says Bos. Croat leadership obstructing eco. 
recovery and that intl. donor's conference in Sara. was sabotaged by
Dep. PM Dragan Covic and that Athe old spirit of distrust and refusal 
to compromise is alive and well among some Bos. Croat leaders; OSCE 
amb. to Sarajevo, Robert Barry comments that Ayou've got to be crazy 
to invest in this country where it is a given that if you obey the 
laws you're gonna lose money and that Aif I were a donor, I wouldn't 
be putting money down a rat hole; Bos. Int. Min. announces that 
Interpol has issued arrest warrant for Fikret Abdic for crimes 
against humanity from '92-'95 Croatian Justice Min. official says 
county court in Rijeka has to rule on possible extradition of Bos. 
Muslim leader Fikret Abdic but that Croatia doesn't allow extradition 
of its own citizens (Abdic granted citizenship in '95);
Albanian govt. recognizes provisional govt. of Hashin Thaci claiming 
that shadow govt. of Rugova has Aceased to function in Kos.; 

May 13 - Serbs withdraw 120 troops in busses, but NATO spokesman 
Shea says it is insignificant; Cohen says Serb mil. leaders 
evacuating their families from Yugo., says 50 days of air attacks 
having impact far beyond degrading Yugo. mil. forces; also announces 
that both Hungary and Turkey are now allowing their bases to be used; 
new attacks due to clearer weather causing major damage to Serb forces 
according to Gen. Shelton who also claims that more than half of 
modern Serb mil. radars used to guide anti-aircraft missiles 
destroyed or damaged, nearly 25% of Serb tanks, armored vehicles 
destroyed in Kos.; Bel. suburbs of Pancevo and Batajnica hit along 
w/ state TV center in Sremska Kamenica, oil refinery in Novi Sad; 
Bad weather again restricts number of attacks; TANJUG says Mount 
Goles (s. of Pristina) hit 5 times during night, Pristina's Slatina 
airport and village of Safajlija (6 miles ne of Pristina), 4 
missiles reported to have hit village of Kabas (s. Kos., close 
to border w/ Mac.); Refs. report Serb forces taking food stocks, 
Serb shopkeepers refusing to sell to ethnic Albanians, paramilitaries 
still in force in province; Nis Mayor Zoran Zivkovic, member of opp. 
Democratic Party, says Milo. should make his plan for Kos. public; 
Blair says Milo. is Adetermined to wipe a people from the face of 
his country; British chief of joint operations, Adm. Ian Garnett 
says Serbs show no signs of withdrawing and that UCK is tenaciously 
holding out in small pockets; UNHCR Commissioner Mary Robinson 
refused meeting w/ Milo.; Mon. Pres. Djukanovic says he supports 
NATO basic aims but not bombing, says democratic elections best 
way to remove Milo.

May 14 - NATO planes fly 679 sorties, highest number to date (number 
includes 2 support planes accompying each plane making attack, hit 
power facilities in Nis, Novi Sad, other cities, airfields, military 
radio relay sites, highway bridges, tanks, artillery, ground troops 
in Prizren, Shtima areas; one unmanned reconnaissance drone lost over 
Kos.

May 15 - NATO attacks against Serb forces in S and SE Kos. around 
Junik, Prahovo, Boljevac, West Rogovo, army barracks and command 
post at Pristina, 6 tanks and armored vehicles hit, along w/ 
artillery pieces, troop concentrations, military storage and command 
and control facilities; strikes also hit electricity transformers, 
iron and steel plan in Smederevo, border post at Knjazevac

May 16 - Bombing largely halted due to bad weather, some battlefield 
targets hit in se part of Kos.; US Sec. of Def. Cohen says Afor the 
Serbs to lament publicly about the deaths of these refs. (those 
killed in Korisa) is almost tantamount to Adolf Eichmann complaining 
about Allied forces bombing the crematoriums, also says that refs. 
may have been used as human shields; Bri. DM John Spellar echoes 
this theme noting reports that refs. were ordered back to their 
village by Serb troops where they were then put in harms way; NATO 
says attacks to continue Aagainst an adversary who has no scruples; 
Clinton says if US can't stop ethnic cleansing Ain the underbelly of 
Europe...then we're going to have a very difficult world ahead of 
us; 800 more ethnic Albanians arrive in Mac.; Serb forces and UCK 
fight inside Albania for 5 hours in village of Zogaj (near Tropoja), 
Serb forces shell village of Dobruna in Has Mts., Albanian border 
guards, Serb forces exchange fire in village of Letaj; only about 
a dozen refs. arrive in Kukes over weekend

May 17 - Up to 3,000 in Krusevac, similar number in Aleksandrovac 
demonstrate for return of Yugo. soldiers, police respond w/ water 
cannons against crowd of mothers, relatives of troops; Cook and 
Albright write letter in AWashington Post saying there have been 
perhaps hundreds of innocent casualties due to NATO attacks but 
it's impossible to eliminate such casualties; Serbs reported to be 
using artillery, turn back train w/ nearly 2,000 Kos. refs. trying 
to flee to Mac. according to UNHCR; Pentagon reported to have told 
DS Cohen that he cannot win without land war, Cohen says up to 
100,000 ethnic Albanian men of fighting age unaccounted for in 
Kos., bombings to be stepped up; Yugo. forces release 100 ethnic 
Albanian males in Rozaje after having checked them for connections 
to UCK; Ger. Chancellor Schroeder's junior coalition partners, the 
Greens, call on him to urge temporary NATO cf in favor of round of 
shuttle diplomacy; Schroeder and Ital. PM Massimo D'Alema meet in 
Bari, Italy to discuss crisis; Italian Comms., Greens set parl. 
debate on NATO mission for 19th; Schroeder says EU fully backs Finnish 
Pres. Martti Ahtisaari as intl. mediator for Kos.; Bri. For. Sec.
Cook says NATO not contemplating full-scale invasion of Yugo. but 
ready to send in ground forces once Aorganized resistance of Yugo. 
army broken; EU ministers pledge $13 mil. in assistance to Mon. for 
its ref. problem; Several hundred Yugo. troops have moved into 
Cetinje which is focal point of ind. movement from Serbia; NATO 
planes attack 3 Serbian towns; US Def. Dept. says 2 Yugo. POWs to 
be freed; Serb forces shell Albanian army tanks near Letaj in Has 
Mountains, Albania sends multiple rocket launchers to Kukes; UNHCR 
says refs. in Kukes refusing to be sent elsewhere as they are 
waiting for relatives; Rugova says he signed declaration w/ Serb 
Pres. Milutinovic on April 28 under duress, says it is meaningless 
and he did it to protect his family, calls for continuation of NATO 
airstrikes and that he doesn't recognize provisional govt. of UCK 
under Hashim Thaci; Hungarian FM Janos Martonyi says his govt. 
opposes use of Hungary as launching site for any ground operations 
against Yugo. and says war can be won from air

May 18 - Protests take place in Cacak, Kraljevo, and Novi Sad calling 
for end to NATO air strikes and negotiated quick end to war, army 
responds w/ violence that leaves 4 dead, 12 wounded; NATO makes heavy 
daylight raids across Serbia (566 for the day; 190 strike sorties; 62 
suppression of enemy air defense) cuts Yugo. main highway at Trupalske 
Sume overpass north of Nis, hitting fuel depots, mil. vehicles and 
artillery pieces in Kos., Bel. suburbs of Rakovica, Surcin (main 
civilian airport location), Bor (e. Serbia), fuel depot in Prahovo 
(near border w/ Rom.), Vladicin Han, Vranje, and Leskovac in 
southern Serbia,  Mount Fruska Gora, Becej (nw Serbia near Novi Sad), 
Suva Reka in west of Kos.; Evening passes with only few attacks 
against Batajnica mil. airport outside Bel. (MiG-29 and MiG-21 
both destroyed on ground along w/ 3 helicopters, and SA-6 
surface-to-air missile transporter/launcer),  Jugopetrol fuel 
depot in Smederevo (se. Serbia.) and sugar factory in suburb of 
Cukarica;; Yugo. now claims 1,200 civilians have been killed in 
air war, but US Amb. David Scheffer who is investigating possible 
war crimes says Serb forces have killed at least 5,000 civilians 
in Kos. since March, that 225,000 men are unaccounted for among 
approximately 550,000 displaced within Kos.; NATO spokesman Jamie 
Shea says there is evidence Serbs have begun digging up mass 
graves in Kos. and reburying bodies to hide evidence; Ger. 
Chancellor Schroeder, Ital. PM D'Alema meet in Bari, repeat their 
opposition to sending in ground forces, Schroeder calls it 
unthinkable, Canada's Lloyd Axworthy also negative to Bri. 
proposal; Yugo. For. Min. spokesman says govt. ready to cut 
a deal on Kos.; US to send $15 mil. in aid to relief orgs. for 
refugees (total US aid now over $200 mil.)

May 19 - Estimates of 800 Yugo. army troops leave units in Kos. 
to return to homes in Krusevac, central Serbian areas, some taking 
their weapons; Army spokesmen say they were reservists scheduled to 
be rotated home; Unofficial Acitizen's parliament in Cacak calls on 
govt. to protect ethnic Albanians and their civil rights and allow 
them to return to their homes; Yugo. radio reports army command in 
Krusevac bringing charges of treason against Aorganizers and 
instigators of protests that took place over last several days; 
US says there will be no immunity offered for war crimes violators 
in exchange for peace, State Dept. shows video that purports to 
prove massacre of group of elderly Kosovars inIzbica in mid-April; 
NATO flies 425 sorties but due to bad weather only 58 are strike 
sorties and 28 for suppression of enemy air defenses; NATO planes 
destroy 6 Galeb aircraft on ground n. of Prizren along w/ ground 
art. positions, petroleum storage facility in Belgrade, ammo. plant 
at Valjevo, radio relay sites, and army facilities; Serb contend 4 
killed, 20 wounded after attack on town of Gnjilane; Chernomyrdin 
in Bel. for another round of talks w/ Milo. while US Dep. Sec. of 
State Talbott goes to Ger. for meeting of G-8; Fre. FM Vedrine says 
Serb Pres. Milutinovic making interesting proposals on peace but 
these should be treated w/ caution, Chernomyrdin has to check on 
whether this is legitimate or not, while Greek FM Papandreou says 
he thinks Milo. increasingly ready to accept peace; Bri. says there 
is no split in NATO, Cook not to lobby for land war in Washington; 
Kofi Annan, visiting ref. camp near Skopje, says UN is Agoing to 
have to play a central role; Crowd attacks hq of main opposition 
Democratic party in Bel. for 3rd time in last 10 days; Rugova says 
in interview that intl. community must negotiate w/ Milo., says 
West should not arm UCK and that it should be disarmed when Serb 
forces leave Kos.; Mon. auth. report Yugo. army diverting 
humanitarian aid trucks to army barracks; Dep. PM Dragisa Burzan 
says Mon. govt. to try to convince mil. to leave border area; Mac. 
PM Georgievski promises Kofi Annan that he will keep border open 
for refs.; Bomb explodes outside mosque in ethnic Albanian part of 
Skopje;  Alb. FM Milo calls Aall pol. groups in Kos. to send reps. 
to Tirana to coordinate police; Army moves additional troops, tanks, 
mil. equip. into Kukes area; no new refs. cross border at Morina

May 20 - 2-3,000 new refs. cross over to Mac.; Cacak Acitizens' parl. 
calls on Milo. to Astop the war immediately, NATO says this is evidence 
of expanding mood of war weariness; Kofi Annan, in Kukes, calls on 
Yugo. to withdraw forces, allow rapid deployment of intl. mil. force 
that would allow refs. to return before winter; Attacks in Bel. cause 
damage to hospital, Yugo. sources claim 3 died; Mon. Pres. Djukanovic 
says Bel. plotting mil. coup against his govt., claims Yugo. soldiers 
have set up checkpoints on all main roads leading into Mon., halted 
aid convoys, prevented raw materials from being imported, and says 
his govt. to oppose army; Intl. donor conference sponsored by World 
Bank, EU and including 45 countries, 30 orgs. pledge $1.05 bil. in aid 
to BH for '99 (total pledged since '95 now $5.1 bil.); 50 bodies 
exhumed near village of Zijemlje (40 kilos. e. of Mostar), 124 people 
found in last 10 days believed to have been killed by Serbs in '92;
Croatia says OSCE report critical of lack of movement toward democracy 
insufficiently corroborated

May 21 - Largest attacks since bombing of Chinese emb. as fuel 
depots in Bel., fuel storage facilities in Sombor, Smederovo, 
ammunition depots in Vrdnik and Sremska Mitrovica, mil. barracks 
hit; blasts cause damage at Swiss ambassador's residence; 5,000 
hold rally in Cetinje, Mon. in opp. to army presence in city;
NATO recommends again that Kukes, Alb. be evacuated to prevent 
casualties if Serbs shell town; 4,000 Kosovar refs. arrive in 
Kukes over weekend; Provisional Kos. PM Thaci invites Rugova to 
come to Tirana, recognize provisional govt., Albanian PM Majko 
suggests a Nat. Sec. Coun. be established composed of all leaders 
who took part at Rambouillet, idea is welcomed by Albright

May 22 - NATO strikes hit UCK training base at Kosare, 19 killed at 
mil. complex at Istok; NATO says the prison was Alegitimate target 
and that Serbs may have placed Kosovars there as shields;
523 Kosovar males arrive at Morina, Alb. after Serbs release them 
from prison at Smrekonica; Mon. PM Vujanovic demands Yugo. army 
withdraw from Cetinje; Tudj. tells G-8 ambs. to Croatia that Serb 
forces should withdraw to northern part of province, NATO should go 
to southern part to facilitate return of refs. to their homes

May 23 - Much of Belgrade without electricity, water after NATO 
raids hit power stations for 3rd night in a row, Serb TV says elec. 
installations in Vojvodina, Nis also hit and most of Serbia is 
without power; Water reserves in Bel. down to 8% w/ only 40% of 
capital having water, tanker trucks supplying water to priority 
users such as hospitals, bakeries; Serbia's 5 major transmitting 
plants at Obrenovac, Kostolac, and Kolubara all hit over last 3 
nights; NATO says poor weather prevents all but 61 sorties on 61st 
day of conflict; Nis hit for 48th time since March 24; Serb police 
prevent demonstration in Cacak, but 5,000 army conscripts and 
families reported to have gathered in Krusevac to demand 
demobilization of draftees and sending them back from Kos.; 
similar protests said to have taken place in Aleksandrovac, 
Raska, Baljevac over weekend; Clinton writes that problems in 
region are result of Adecade-long campaign by Slob. Milo. to 
build a greater Serbia and says NATO strategy does Anot rule out 
other military options; Thaci says NATO attack on UCK base at 
Kosare a technical error and that air strikes must continue
Djukanovic says army in Mon. Aplacing itself in the service of the 
Bel. dictatorship; 15,000 refs. reported to have arrived at Blace, 
Mac. border-crossing over weekend; 506 more Kosovar males arrive at 
Morina, Alb. from Serb custody at Smrekonica prison, UNHCR says Serb 
forces abducted most of them from Mitrovica area in mid-April, 
prisoners report being systematically beaten by Serbs, nearly starved

May 24 - Air raids on country's electrical grid leave millions 
without power and water; Serbs shell Albanian territory near 
Tropoja while Serbs, UCK reported to be fighting around Junik;
Serb police arrest 4 members of Citizen's parl. in Cacak for 
taking part in Aillegal meeting, Cacak mayor Velimir Ilic goes 
into hiding as police search for him; Ger. DM Rudolph Scharping 
says in Mac. that Serbs may rejoin Europe but without Milo., US 
State Dept. echoes this; Scharping also calls for patience in waging 
war, that it will show successes; Chernomyrdin estimates air war 
has caused $100 bil. damage in Yugo., says he has persuaded NATO 
to let Yugo. leave some troops in Kos., but White House says this 
is not so and also says that NATO to be asked to assess what is 
necessary to put troops into. Kos. in hostile situation; Dep. Sec. 
of State Talbott flies to Mos. for more negs. w/ Cher.; 20 more 
American F-18s now in Hun. to take part in strikes (723 of total 
force of 1,000 are Amer.); NATO says 10,000 more Yugo. troops have 
been sent to Kos. since March possibly to improve def. positions;
Yugo. amb. to UN, Vladislav Jovanovic, says NATO lacks moral, 
political auth. to act as peacekeepers when they have carried out 
war against the country; US Senate approves resolution calling for 
vigorous prosecution of war crimes, supporters call for rejection of 
any agreement which grants Milo. immunity from prosecution for war 
crimes; Yugo. army command in Mon. says govt., media making baseless 
and malicious attacks on army which is carrying out its duties in 
a professional manner...under wartime conditions; UNHCR persuades 
Mac. auth. to admit 3,000 refs. who had been stranded at border and 
not to send 3 bus loads of them to Albania;  Alb. Def. Min. Hajdaraga 
says army reinforcing border w/ tanks, heavy weapons; NATO begins 
evacuating 30,000 refs. from camps in Kukes; 164 more Kos. men 
arrive from Smrekonica

May 25 - Several hundred make refs. arrive in Alb. from Morina 
border crossing after Serbs release them from prison in Smrekonica 
where they were held by paramilitaries along w/ up to 3,000 others; 
Yugo. army take 50 males from group of 500 ethnic Albanians before 
they cross into Mon.; NATO's North Atlantic Council approves 
buildup of KFOR force to between 45,000-50,000, says they won't 
go into Kos. until Milo. pulls Yugo. forces out and agrees to 
placing it under for. mil. control; Planes hit Novi Sad TV 
building, targets in Kos.; UNHCR says 23,000 refs. have entered 
Mac. in last 3 days, 2,000 on this day, total of 900,000 have been 
forced from homes since war began, refs. telling UN investigators of 
massive war crimes by Serbs; World Bank spokesman says Bos. to 
need $2.6 bil. in development, reconstruction assistance for years 
2000-2004; Westendorp says $760 mil. of $1.05 bil. approved at 
intl. donors conf. to go to reconstruction projects, rest for peace 
implementation costs, support for state budget and balance of payments

May 26 - War Crimes Tribunal reportedly to issue indictment, arrest 
warrant against Milosevic causing fear that he will have no option 
but to continue fighting; Rus. For. Min. calls it politically 
motivated, designed to undermine intl. peace efforts; Talbott 
holds talks w/ Chernomyrdin, EU mediator and Finnish President 
Martti Ahtisaari; NATO planes hit targets near Morina border 
crossing near Albania, fighting intensifies in area between UCK 
and Yugo. troops; other targets in Nis and Pristina; Serbs shell 
village of Vlahen in Has Mts. killing 2, Serbs use heavy artillery 
against village of Padesh (near Tropoja), intrude into Albania at 
Kamenica; Serb media says 2 children killed, 1 wounded in a raid 
UNHCR says refs. fleeing province could reach 1 million; 6,000 refs. 
cross into Mac., Mac. Pres. Gligorov says Mac. cannot cope w/ more 
than 200,000 refs and that to date it has accepted 300,000, calls 
on EU to take in more; NATO Gen. Walter Jertz says Milo. govt. 
using strong-arm tactics to stop demonstrations against war in s. 
Serbia; Italian PM D'Alema calls ground invasion Aquantum leap 
that would require UN Sec. Coun. resolution; Rugovo makes 10-minute 
visit to Stenkovec camp, 1st such visit since May 5, greeted by 
thousands of refs.; Serb mil. authorities issue arrest warrant 
for Cacak Mayor Velimir Ilic for Ahampering the mil. in carryingt 
out their duties and treason; police arrest RFE correspondent 
Ljubisa Popovic in Krusevac, detain him for 3 days, mil. ct. begins 
trial of 2 Australian aid workers for spying; Mon. says Serb 
authorities preventing aid supplies from West, Rus., and Belarus 
from reaching Mon., state oil company, Jugopetrol, imposes limits 
on gasoline sales in Mon. Rocket-propelled grenades hit 2 houses 
in Zvornik (RS) inhabited by SFOR pks, SFOR investigating

May 27 - UN War Crimes Tribunal formally issues indictment against 
Milo., Serbian Pres. Milutinovic, Yugo. Dep. PM Nikola Sainovic, 
Chief of Gen. Staff of Army Dragoljub Ojdanic, and Serbian Int. Min. 
Vlajko Stojiljkovic for murder of at least 340 ethnic Albanians 
(including massacre of 125 men in village of Izbice), deportation 
of 740,000 ethnic Albanians; all charged w/ Aindividual criminal 
responsibility, being in charge of mil., police, paramilitary units 
responsible for persecution and deportation of ethnic Albanians; 
Louise Arbour says other charges possible, says the evidence against 
them casts doubts on their abilities to be guarantors of any peace 
deals; Albright says there will be no immunity deal for Milo.; 
Serbian Information Min. responds that Arbour is Aa puppet in the 
hands of warlords while opp. politicians call them a mistake as 
Milo. is being cornered; Milo. meets w/ former Greek Premier 
Mitsotakis, says bombing must stop first before negotiations may 
continue; NATO flies 741 sorties, says Yugo. air defenses fired 
33 anti-aircraft missiles trying to bring down NATO planes; 2 main 
power distribution centers for Bel. hit causing city to lose 
power including Emergency Medical Care Center in Bel., hydroelectric 
relay station in e. Serbia damaged; no power in Smederevo 
(30 miles se. of Bel.), Novi Pazar (170 miles s.), Pancevo, which 
also loses water supply (outside capital), Sombor (110 miles nw.); 
Cher. mission delayed as Talbott, Ahtisaari continue talks w/ him; 
Fre. FM Vedrine meets w/ Thaci then w/ Rugova both as Rambouillet 
signatories; Clinton delivers radio address to Kosovars, tells them 
they will return, thanks Albania and Macedonia for taking in refs.; 
Rugova turns down invitation from Alb. govt. to meet w/ Alb. leaders, 
Kosovar leaders in Tirana, Thaci then refuses to meet w/ Rugova in 
Paris saying he represents no body but himself  HDZ, coalition of 6 
opp. parties reach agreement on new parl. election law, Croatian TV 
to become public broadcaster, efforts to increase Croatia's chances 
of joining EU, NATO

May 28 - Cher. leaves Bel. saying he is Avery pleased w/ talks w/ 
Milo. and that war crimes indictment complicates his mission; TANJUG 
says Yugo. accepts Ageneral principles agreed on by G-8 nations for 
peace (ending viol., repression in Kos.; withdrawing Yugo. forces from 
Kos.; deploying intl. sec. presence; est. interim admin.; ensuring 
refs. safe passage home); France, US say they need to know exactly 
what this means before proceeding further; Late night raids hit 
electricity grid, TV transmitters putting Bel., Novi Sad in dark 
again; US formally freezes assets of Milo., 4 other indicted 
aides; Intl. Fed. of Human Rights and Medecins du Monde release 
report based on interviews w/ refs. detailing summary executions, 
rapes, other atrocities; Intl. Rescue Committee in NY says it 
will make daily airdrops of food and supplies to 600,000 homeless 
Kosovars inside Kos.; Hague to rule on Bel. request that US, 
allies Acease immeidately their acts of use of force; US sees 
no change to indicate Yugo. compliance w/ G-8 conditions, 
UK agrees; Chirac, Schroeder say in joint statement Bel. has 
taken step forward; Solana calls G-8 effort a Agood initiative; 
68 more US planes (36 F-15s, 12 F-16s, 20 refueling tankers) added 
to bombing campaign for total now of 769 American and 1,100 total; 
218 strike missions, 78 strike sorties flown in heavy night of 
attacks; 2 Australian, 1 Yugo. aid workers held since March 31 
convicted of espionage in Bel., sentence to 4-12 years in jail; 
Serb police seeking out remaining ethnic Albanians, issuing them 
new registration cards to control their movement; 250 Kos. men 
released from Serb prison cross over into Albania; Yugo. soldiers 
enter Bos. near Rudo, take 6 NATO pks hostage back to Serbia for 8 
hours before releasing them

May 29 - 400 Kosovar males released by Serbs from prison in Smrekonica, 
arrive in Kukes

May 30 - NATO spokesman Jamie Shea says Milo. Ahas begun to move from 
a position of almost total defiance to at least accepting key demands 
of G-8; Solana calls Franco-German call for G-8 meeting a good one; 
Bel. hit by dozens of missiles as NATO attacks continue in clear 
weather, 9 killed when NATO bombs bridge in Varvarin which NATO then 
says is legitimate target as Amajor line of communication; 1,200 refs. 
arrive in Mac.; Military ct. in Belgrade sentences 2 Australian aid 
workers to 12 and 4 years in prison, Yugo. colleague to 6 year term 
for Acollecting and passing on secret info, Aus. govt. protests
Slovenian Pres. Kucan says Ljubljana willing to host major intl. 
conference on future of Balkans

May 31 - Serb police ban anti-war protest in Cacak, city officials call 
for calm and respect of ban to prevent trouble; opp. League for Change 
(SZP) in Bel. calls for general elections after bombing halted; mil. 
ct. in Nis sentences 3 army conscripts to 5 years in prison for 
desertion, army detains 24 conscripts in Krusevac for not responding 
to call-ups; Clinton calls Kos. a Abig test of what we believe in and 
compares Serbian regime to that of Nazi Germany; Yugo. govt. says 
NATO murdered civilians in air strikes after 11 killed on attack on 
sanatorium in Surdulica; NATO says heavy fighting between UCK, Yugo. 
troops near Pashtrik near Kos.-Alb. border, UCK wounded taken to 
hospitals in Kukes, Alb.; Serb artillery shells villages of Kamenica, 
Zogaj near Tropoja; NATO Gen. Clark says desertions among Serb units 
up and that some have revolted against commanders; UNHCR's Mary 
Robinson calls upon Yugo. govt. to immediately withdraw all 
troops from Kos., police, paramilitary who are responsible for 
gross violations of human rts., but also criticizes NATO use of 
cluster bombs, destruction of civilian sites including schools 
and hospitals; 500 Yugo. army reservists, 40 Mon. police exchange 
gunfire at police training camp near Cetinje, soldiers briefly detain 
3 police, 5 civilians from Cetinje but free them after civilians from 
city demonstrate for their release; Yugo. army reported to have placed
mortars, artillery on 3 sides of city; 10 ethnic Mon. families flee to
Shkodra, Alb. after refusing to send their sons to Yugo. army; 
NATO rocket lands in Hungary, 2.5 kilometers from Serbian border, 
doesn't explode; Hashim Thaci calls for intensification of air strikes, 
that they have prevented further massacres; also says he is willing to 
compromise w/ Rugova to promote Kosovar unity; Zagreb county court 
clears 4 men charged w/ committing atrocities against 13 Serbs at 
Pakracka Poljana in '91, sentences 2 others on lesser charges of 
extortion and abduction, judge says charges against men poorly 
formulated

June 1 - Yugo. FM Jovanovic send letter to EU Presidency, Ger. FM 
Fischer saying AYugo. has accepted G-8 principles, including a UN 
presence, mandate and other elements to be decided by a UN Sec. Coun. 
resolution, calls for immediate end to NATO bombing; Yugo. Gen. and 
dep. chief of General Staff, Ljubisa Velickovic dies while inspecting 
troops at front, although exactly where is not clear; Gen. Nebojsa 
Pavkovic, commander of 3rd Army, says his forces have lost fewer than 
1,800 men; 2 NATO planes mistakenly bomb Albanian bunkers when trying 
to hit Serb tanks attacking village of Morina, UCK trying to est. 2nd 
supply route on Pashtrik Mt.; Serbs shell villages of Pogaj, Vlahen, 
town of Kruma inside Albania; 46 Kosovars held by Serbs released at 
Morina, 430 other refs. arrive in Korca, Alb. from Mac.; Serb border 
auth. now demanding passports and identity cards be shown by those 
trying to cross into Mac. even though most have had them confiscated; 
150 refs. arrive at Kirkenes, Norway, near Arctic border w/ Rus., 
quota of 6,000 refs. now reached; Thaci says his govt. Awilling to 
coop. w/ everybody and of course also w/ Ibrihim Rugova, but that 
Rugova did not have the...courage to come and see me in Paris;
Mon. Pres. Djukanovic, Mac. Pres. Gligorov meet in Skopje, call for 
immediate, peaceful end to Kos. crisis; Cetinje mayor Savo Paraca 
calls for army to withdraw 1,500 troops from there, says town has no 
strategic importance; Navy vice-admiral Milan Zec says of Herceg 
Novi's demand for cessation of Aunnecessary activities near inhabited 
areas that Ait seems you (town officials) openly stand on the side 
[of NATO]

June 2 - Finnish Pres. Ahtisaari, Viktor Chernomyrdin arrive in Bel. 
after reaching broad agreement in Bonn w/ US Dep. Sec. of State Strobe 
Talbott, Chernomyrdin wants separate command structures for NATO, Rus. 
troops in Kos. PK Force (KFOR); NATO rejects idea of Rus. having 
separate occupation zone and Bri. For. Sec. Cook rejects idea of 
partition of province between NATO and Rus.; Clinton says that US 
to contribute 7,000 troops to KFOR; UN's Intl. Ct. of Justice rules 
against Bel. in complaint against 4 of 10 states it charges w/ 
genocide, ct. says there is no clear indication that they are trying 
to bring about Serbia's whole or partial destruction; NATO Gen. 
Wesley Clark says troops losses in last several days on Albanian 
border have cost Milo. Alogistics, command, and control; Albanian 
auth. says Serbs massacred 130 Kosovar males in village of Staradran, 
buried them in village of Rakosh; Mac. PM says that his govt. to allow 
NATO to station another 14,000 troops there bringing total to 30,000; 
Albright promises Georgievski additional eco. assistance but not clear 
how much

June 3 - Milo. accepts peace plan brought by Chernomyrdin, Finnish 
Pres. Ahtisaari as it Aconfirms sovereignty and territorial integrity 
of Yugo. and a role of the UN; terms of agreement yet to be agreed on 
although Serbian parl. approves plan (136-74) which calls for intl. 
sec. presence in Kos. under united command w/ a Afundamental role for 
NATO, all Yugo. forces to be withdrawn, but several hundred to be 
allowed back in to mark mine fields, guard Aplaces of Serb heritage, 
and be present at Akey border crossings; Cher. spokesman says NATO 
mil. mission to go to Bel. to discuss implementation and bombing to 
stop at that point, but White House says instead that middle-level 
meeting of NATO, Serb mil. to meet elsewhere, spokesman also comments 
that Awe are going to be in Kos. a long time and Athe first priority 
is to reverse ethnic cleansing and give sec. and self-govt. to the 
Kosovars; Cohen says deal also includes disarming of UCK and that US 
forces could be deployed within days of final agreement; Cook says 
bombing to continue until there is a Averifiable withdrawal of Yugo. 
forces while Fre. FM Vedrine says Serbian parl. agreement produces 
the outcome that we wanted; Seselj's Radical Party voted against 
proposal, Seselj says he will resign if NATO troops enter Kos.; 
Draskovic comments that it is Anot only an end to the bombing but 
also a new beginning for Serbia; Ahtisaari says Ano comment on 
whether Milo. demanded lifting of indictment for war crimes; Clinton 
says allies Acautious about offer, Pentagon says no troops have left 
Kos. and planes still being fired on so bombing to continue air 
strikes against Bel. halted while Ahtisaari, Cher. in city; Bridges, 
broadcasting towers hit in other parts of Serbia;
Mon. Justice Min. Dragan Soc says situation for Mon. potentially 
dangerous as Milo. may turn toward destabilizing Mon.;
Westendorp's office reveals that $11 million deposited in Sara. 
BH Banka for reconstruction projects and governmental monies 
diverted or unavailable for use, but bank director Fikret Pita 
says problem only one of liquidity; Stipe Suvar of Socialist 
Worker's Party attacked by unidentified men who him w/ a pistol 
causing him to be hospitalized, says this is the 4th or 5th attack 
in past year

June 4 - G-7 summit of Senior For. Min. officials in Cologne 
agrees to draft UN Sec. Council resolution, text to be discussed 
w/ Russian officials; Blair says NATO to continue bombing until 
verifiable withdrawal of Serb forces; 

June 5 - Cher. says Rus.-Western peace plan does not include NATO 
command for Rus. pks, says Aif NATO countries have a presence there...
then NATO will command its own troops...we can never be under NATO.; 
Serbs fire shells into Albanian territory hitting town of Kruma, 
other villages in Has Mts., 2 injured; Ital. coast guard intercepts 
ship w/ 350 refs. in Straits of Otranto

June 6 - UCK says Yugo. army pushing new offensive, shelling border 
area of Kruma for 2nd day and using chemical weapons (can't be 
confirmed), NATO planes hit Serb positions near border in response; 
UNHCR evacuates 1,000 from village of Golaj including 600 refs.; 
htisaari heads to China to try to get Chinese to agree to support 
UN res. on Kos.; UCK's Krasniqi says he is sure UCK Awill not reject 
[its] demilitarization and transformation [into a police force] and 
that UCK has never attacked withdrawing Serb forces and will not do 
so now; Bri. PM Blair says w/ Milo. in power there will be no aid and 
there Aisn't a future for Serbia w/ Milo.

June 7 - Serbs fire 30 mortar shells at ethnic Alb. village of 
Jazince on border w/ ne. Mac.; Rus. PM Stepashin says his govt. 
is not satisfied w/ NATO conditions for ending bombing and that 
too many questions are being solved w/ NATO calling the tune; Yeltsin 
tells Clinton by phone that he wants quick resolution to remaining 
problems but State Dept. says NATO will not accept pk mission under 
UN control, that this is Aour red line; NATO's Gen. Jackson says 2 
days of talks end without resolution on withdrawal, Yugo. side 
presented program which would not guarantee safe guarantee of refs., 
Serbs tried to renegotiate terms of peace agreement to delay 
withdrawal; Yugo. FM spokesman Nebojsa Vujovic says delegation has 
mandate to come up w/ agreement protecting territorial integrity and 
that they came in good faith; Opposition leader Zoran Djindjic sends 
letter to Chernomyrdin, Ahtisaari, appeals for Aserious guarantees 
for the security of Kos. Serbs and says it is difficult to imagine 
most Serbs staying there; Mon. Pres. Djukanovic says Milo. made 
correct decision in accepting peace agreement; Mon. govt. reported 
to have asked NATO to prevent retreating Yugo. forces from entering 
Mon. RS PM Milorad Dodik says Milo. accepted deal he could have had 
several months prior and he is responsible for deaths of 5,000 people 
in Serbia; SFOR arrests Dragan Kulundzija near Prijedor on indictment 
of killing, torturing, sexually abusing Mus., Croat prisoners while 
commander at Keraterm concentration camp in '92; Srebrenica town 
council elects govt. of 9 Muslims, 9 Serbs, and Mus. chairman;
Greece denies transit of 2,200 US marines through Greek territory 
into Mac. due to possible unrest from Greek population

June 8 - B-52s hit 2 Yugo. army battalions out in open near Kos.-Alb. 
border, hundreds of soldiers estimated to have been killed; Bombings 
intensify especially against Serb forces in Mt. Pastrik area, NATO says 
it will continue bombing until Serb commanders agree to pullout, but 
there is no sign of withdrawal at this point; Serbs fire 7 artillery 
shells 25 kilometers into n. Alb. hitting village near Bajram Curri; 
UNHCR reports increase in fighting between UCK, Serbs, Kosovar 
Albanians fleeing not being allowed to leave by Serbs; Refs. in 
Kukes says Serbs at Mitrovica prison used boys as young as 12 to 
beat, humiliate Kosovar males, police force Kosovars to sign 
confessions that they are terrorists so that later they will be 
denied right to return to Kos.; NATO, Serb military officials hold 
talks through night at Kumanovo airfield in Mac., Serbs break off 
talks twice to consult w/ BelgradeG-8 agrees on draft UN Sec. Council 
res. which calls for Aimmediate and verifiable end to violence and 
repression, intl. mil. and civilian presences under UN auspices and 
substantial NATO participation must be deployed under a unified 
command; resolution also calls for return of Aan agreed number of 
Yugo. and Serbian mil.  and police personnel; UN's Annan meets w/ 
OSCE's Knut Vollebaek to discuss role of OSCE in Kos. civilian 
admin.; Albright meets in Cologne w/ Thaci, Rugova, and Rexhep Qosja 
(United Dem. Movement of Kos.), first meeting between Thaci and 
Rugova since March; Albright says sides agreed to set up civilian 
admin. under UN special rep.; Thaci says UCK to declare that it 
won't attack retreating Serbs; Yugo. For. Min. says border police, 
customs officials must remain in Kos. to ensure that only legitimate 
refs. come back under peace settlement; South African govt. says Milo. 
won't be welcome at inauguration of new pres. in several weeks, that 
govt. has obligation to arrest him as indicted war criminal;
Mon. Pres. Djukanovic says NATO won't allow Yugo. troops to pass 
through Mon. territory and that his republic will admit NATO pks if 
NATO requests it; Zagreb County Court says it will honor request of
ICTY to extradite Vinko Martinovic for crimes against humanity 
committed during '93-'94 Mus.-Croat war

June 9 - Serb reps. Col. Gen. Svetozar Marjanovic and Foreign Ministry
rep. Nebojsa Vujovic leave withdrawal talks over issue of sentence in 
agreement saying intl. pk force to enter within 24 hours, but return 
after several hours when sentence is dropped on intervention by Rus., 
western foreign ministers meeting in Cologne, agreement signed within 
2 hours; TANJUG says first units of Serb police return from Kos. to 
Jagodina (c. Serbia); NATO Gen. Sir Mike Jackson says KFOR (Kos. 
Force) to be deployed within 4 hours, that if timetable violated 
air strikes to resume; NATO also says heavy equipment transporter 
vehicles spotted around Nis, heading toward n. Kos.; Air strikes 
continue up to point where withdrawal begins (Shea calls them sword 
of Damocles to persuade Serbs to pull out) w/ 523 sorties, of which 
130 are bombing raids in Kos. and against mil. facilities elsewhere; 
Rus. Pres. Yeltsin holds discussion w/ Bri. PM Blair, Ger. Chancellor 
Schroeder, Blair says he hasn't Aany indications there is backsliding 
(from Bel.) but...my experience...is that there will be backsliding; 
Crowds in Bel. celebrate end of conflict, state-run media report that 
agreement is w/ UN, not NATO; Delegates at talks on Mac. border given 
text of new version of peace accord arrived at by G-8 nations in 
Germany; Rus. DM Sergeyev says Rus. could send as many as 10,000 
troops as part of pk force but that they would be under UN and not 
NATO control; NATO says aid planes to continue dropping food supplies 
to estimated 503,000 Kos. refs. inside Kos. until pks arrive, USAID 
official says only small portion of refs. have gotten aid so far;
Djukanovic says Milo. politician of the past whose policies are 
quarrelsome and arrogant; Albright calls Mon. Aa shining example of 
what is possible in former Yugo.; Mon. officials give Yugo. army 
list of 151 criminal charges against army reservists for offenses 
committed in Mon.; Croatian police arrest former director of Croatian 
Intelligence Service, Miroslav Separovic, for leaking state secrets to 
press, opp. parties, journalist calls for his release

June 10 - Solana announces that he has instructed NATO to suspend 
79-day bombing campaing due to signs Serb troops have begun to 
withdraw given him by Gen. Wesley Clark, writes to Kofi Annan of 
decision, urges all parties to seize opportunity for peace; G-8 
meeting in Cologne decides to set up long-term program to promote 
stability in Balkans, EU to be main source of funds; UN says refs. 
will be able to go home by winter but warn refs. in camps not to 
return until mines, booby traps cleared from Kos.; Clinton addresses 
national audience, says there is hope for peace, but that Abitter 
memories will still be fresh, and there may well be casualties, also 
says there remains job to be done in putting NATO pks in Kos.; 
addresses Serbs that as long as Milo. Aremains in power, as long 
as your nation is ruled by an indicted war criminal, we will 
provide no support for the reconstruction of Serbia; Fre. Pres. 
Chirac says France prevented NATO and US efforts to destroy bridges 
in Bel., numerous targets in Mon., says Milo. made an unconditional 
capitulation; US marines land in Greece to travel through Mac. and 
into Kos.; Bri. force to move in first as part of mine-sweeping 
effort; NATO Gen. Mike Jackson says that UCK signature at Rambouillet 
still commits them to disarm, warns Serb paramilitaries to leave Kos. 
before pks arrive; Talbott in Mos. for talks w/ Chernomyrdin to 
discuss Rus. role in pk force; Milo. makes televised address declaring 
Happy peace to us all, says Serbs defeated NATO and Awe never gave up 
Kos.  Today the territorial integrity and sovereignty is guaranteed by 
the G-8, the UN, and that Kos. problem successfully raised to highest 
intl. auth., the UN; also states that pks Aserve peace, regardless of 
which country they come from and calls for great mobilization to 
rebuild country; Milo. meets secretly w/ Seselj, others of Serbian 
Radical Party to keep them in govt; Dem. Party leader Zoran Djindjic 
calls on opp. to launch campaign for Milo. to resign; Serbian Orthodox 
Bishop Artemije calls on Serbs not to leave Kos., says Serbs can 
lose the province only if they leave, calls for protection of intl. 
community for Serbs against revenge Croatian journalist of AGlobus, 
Antun Masle, escapes from hospital in Podgorica where he had been held 
by Yugo. army for espionage; Zag. police release Separovic from jail 
due ot lack of evidence, but Zag. prosecutor says he will continue 
investigation; Louise Arbour appointed to be justice on Canadian 
Supreme Court leaving her position at Hague after only 2 years
Hun. FM State Sec. Zsolt Nemeth outlines 3-tier auto. plan for 
Vojvodina, says Budapest supports restoration of province's 
autonomy; PM Orban demands peace plan for Yugo. have special 
chapter guaranteeing protection of 350,000 Hungarians in Yugo.

June 11 - 50 Russian vehicles including 20-30 APCs, 200 Rus. troops 
enter Kos. from Bos., move south after reaching Bel. catching NATO 
by surprise; NATO says its troops begin deployment, but Bri. forces 
in Mac. placed on lower alert and do not leave until next morning, 
possibly due to American desire to have its marines enter first; US 
says Mos. gives assurances its troops wouldn't enter Kos. 
unilaterally, but NATO officials do not know what orders Rus. 
troops have; Rus. FM Ivanov says troops only there to be ready 
to deploy in Kos. later; Albright visits ref. camps in Mac. where 
thousands cheer for USA; Hungary refuses Rus. planes carrying troops 
to Ko. to use its air space, For. Min. says this is only possible w/ 
permission of parl.; Chairman of Fed. of Vojvodina Hungarians, Jozsef 
Kasza, tells Hun. FM that ethnic Hungarians could play role in future 
Yugo. govt., call for 3-tier autonomy plan for Voj.;
Mac. PM Georgievskii calls for return of 250,000 refs., comprehensive 
intl. plan for Balkan eco. reconstruction if Mac. is to be developed 
properly

June 12 - Russian troop column enters Pristina in morning to cheers of 
thousands of Serbs who wave Rus. flags, breaking Rus. promise to not 
enter unilaterally, ITAR-TASS says Rus. had agreed w/ Yugo. mil. that 
they instead of NATO should be first to enter province; White House 
unsure of what is happening in Kos.; Dep. Sec. of State Talbott 
discusses situation in Mos. w/ Rus. FM Ivanov, but Yeltsin promotes 
Viktor Zavarzin, leader of Rus. KFOR force, from Lt. Gen. to Col. 
Gen.; NATO officials, Russians talk in Kos. to delineate areas of 
auth.; US Def. Sec. Cohen says there must be unified NATO command 
over province; Bri., Fre. pks enter Kos., progress slowly due to 
mines, booby-traps, Fre. officers ask for Yugo. liaison officers 
to guide them through mine areas; American, Ger., and Italian 
contingents enter Kos. in afternoon; NATO says 10,000 Serb troops 
and equip. have already left, 11 MiGs flown from Pristina to 
Belgrade, groups of paramilitaries reported to be packing up, 
some set fires in Albanian areas as they leave; Serb civilians 
in Pristina packing belongings; Serb policeman in Pristina killed 
by Bri. troops when he fires on them; Serbian Dem. Party leader 
Zoran Djindjic calls for new elections in fall rather than next 
year, says he can get message out to opp. if he has access to media;

June 13 - Clinton, Yeltsin speak for hour on phone trying to end 
NATO-Rus. standoff at airport, Talbott fails to convince Russians 
to give NATO full access, says US considering establishing zone 
of responsibility for Rus. pks in Kos. under NATO control; 2 
German reporters from AStern killed near Duha by unknown gunmen, 
Ger. troops kill Serb who fires on them; Serbs fleeing Kos. in 
large numbers, aid workers in Mon. say more than 9,000 ethnic 
Serbs have passed through area 

June 14 - Ger., Fre., Ita., Bri. pks in Kos. now number about 14,000, 
met by cheering crowds of ethnic Albanians; Hashim Thaci of 
provisional govt. says Awe are concerned about the entrance of 
these Rus. troops into Kos. without permission of the intl. 
community or the Provisional govt....we cannot guarantee the sec. 
of the Rus. troops that entered Kos.  They must leave as soon as 
possible.; Bulgarian govt. denies Rus. permission to use its air 
space to fly into Kos. until NATO, Mos. reach agreement on 
implementation of pk operation, says that partition of Kos. 
would be against Bul. interests; UN Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan presents 
plan for civil admin. of Kos. to Sec. Council, EU to be in charge 
of reconstruction, OSCE responsible for est. dem. institutions, 
organizing elections, and monitoring human rts.; UNHCR in charge 
of resettling refs., dps; UN Interim Admin. Mission in Kos. 
(UNMIK) to admin. police, justice, schools, public transport, 
telecommunications, power plants and intl. police unit of 2,000 
to oversee creation of Kos. police force; UN Undersecretary-Gen. 
Sergio Vieira de Mello (Brazil) to be interim special rep.; Dutch 
pks inspect mass grave site at Kacanik, turn location over to 
American 82nd airborne troops; Seselj takes his Serbian Radical 
party out of govt. (2 dep. PMs, 13 cabinet posts) since Kos. is 
under occupation; UCK, Ger. KFOR troops at Morina border crossing 
send 300 refs. back to their camps in Albania until NATO has cleared 
mines, restored order, while Thaci's Provisional Govt. calls on all 
refs. to remain in Albania; Mil. police arrest  Bos. Serb Igor 
Radocaj on charges of stealing from and murdering 2 ethnic Albanians 
while he served w/ Serb forces in Kos. (1st case of this kind);
Mon. Pres. Djukanovic says that Aif Serbia remains a prisoner of the 
former policy, Mon. will look for its own legal status; group of 
intellectuals in Podgorica forms Movement for the Independence of
Montenegro, calls for referendum on separate statehood

June 15 - Thousands of Kosovars celebrate in Prizren after Serb troops 
depart, Germans arrive; NATO pks say no holdups in Serb pullout, Bri. 
patrols in Pristina say no sign of armed Serbs as deadline for exit 
from south and eastern boundary zones, Pristina approaches; Dutch pks 
find burned remains of 20 bodies thought to be Kosovars massacred by 
Serbs in Velika Krusa (sw. Kos.), Ita. troops discover 2 mass graves 
near Peja (w. Kos.), 1 of which may have 120 bodies; Serb population 
fleeing by thousands in fear of UCK, some burn their own homes outside 
of Pristina, in Kosovo Polje; ICRC says 33,000 Serb civilians have fled 
Kos., about 8,000 Kosovar refs. return despite UNHCR efforts to convince 
them to wait (2 killed by mine between Mac., Kos.); UCK reported to be 
setting up checkpoints, conducting house-by-house searches, attacking 
Serb villages in Decan causing Serbs to take refuge in monasteries; 
Bri. pks arrest 5 suspected UCK members after Serb shot and killed in 
Pristina, but in Prizren, Ger. pks say they have no orders to stop 
UCK activity; US says it will give UCK several days before 
demilitarization and will only disarm those provoking confrontations 
w/ Serb troops, State Dept. spokesman says Ait is NATO, not the KLA 
or anybody else, that will be in charge of sec. for all of Kos.; 200 
UCK fighters refuse to turn in weapons to Fre. pks near Gjilan, 
withdraw to mountains while Bri. pks avoid confrontation w/ 50 armed 
UCK who set up hq in building in ne. Pristina; UCK in Prizren take 
over abandoned Yugo. army hq, hold victory celebrations there; Def. 
Sec. Cohen leaves for Finland and talks w/ Rus. DM Sergeyev on role 
of Rus. pks, NATO wants Azone of responsibility for Rus. that would 
be part of 5 sectors; Ethnic Albanians in Gnjilane (se. Kos.) say 
Serb throws grenade into crowd of Kosovars celebrating Serb pullout 
injuring13 people; Milo. promotes, gives awards to officers who led 
Kos. operations; Serbian Orthodox Church calls for resignation of 
Milo., govt., formation of govt. of National Salvation, and for Serbs 
to stay in Kos.; Milo. claims that combat potential Ano less intact 
than at the beginning of this war, promotes/decorates 3,000 officers 
including Gen. Dragoljub Ojdanic (under indictment for war crimes); 
Clinton leaves for European tour, G-7, plus Russia, meeting in 
Cologne; Rus. sends convoy of vehicles through Bel. on way to Kos. 
to resupply troops at airport, Rus. commanders ask Bri. KFOR troops 
to resupply them w/ water; Croatian leader Ante Jelevic (HDZ) 
replaces Serb leader Zivko Radisic as rotating head of Bos. 
joint presidency, says 3 priorities are promoting Bos. membership 
in EU, CofE, and WTO, strengthen join institutions to create 
multiethnic, multiconfessional, and decentralized state

June 16 - Villagers in Drenica region find bodies in 4 wells in area 
where Serbs said to have killed 100 Kosovars, dozens of bodies in new 
graves; Rus. DM Sergeyev meets w/ US Def. Sec. Cohen in Finland, 
reported to ask for NATO to grant access to Hun., Bulgarian air 
space to fly troops to Kos. even while still denying NATO access 
to Pristina airport; KFOR deployment continues, Serb troops still 
withdrawing according to schedule except for minor delays due to 
traffic, NATO extends by 24 hours deadline for Serbs to leave 
Zone 1 (southern Kos.) since Serbs making Agenuine efforts to get 
out; NATO negotiating w/ UCK about demilitarization, US Army Gen. 
John Craddock says Aour soldiers are not instructed to routinely 
disarm [UCK]; US troops take weapons from 200 UCK fighters in Zegra, 
arrest 6 leaders who refuse to give them up Bishop Artemije says he 
will leave Prizren for Pristina along w/ 9 other priests since it is 
no longer safe for him there w/ UCK patrolling streets; 15,000 refs. 
cross into Kos. at Morina border checkpoint, 3,000 more from Mac., 
UCK registering returnees at Morina, UNHCR on Mac. border; Gen. 
Jackson appeals to Serbs not to leave that there are enough refs. 
in world already;  Mac. PM Georgievskii meets in Skopje w/ UCK-backed 
provisional govts.' Hashim Thaci, both agree to open diplomatic offices 
in each other's capital, jointly work for Aconstruction of a new Balkans; 
EU says it will begin talks w/ Mac. on stabilization and association 
agreement, similar talks may begin w/ Alb., BiH, post-Milo. Yugo.;
Committee for Missing Persons in Mostar saysit has exhumed remains 
of 55 persons near Zijemlje, probably Muslims killed by Serbs in '92

June 17 - NATO says 11 Serbian T-55 tanks fired on ethnic Alb. villages 
n. of Pristina; 11,000 Serbian forces estimated to still be in province, 
all are to leave by June 20; UCK spokesman Lirak Qela says UCK ready to 
transform into a peacetime force, demiliitarize, all weapons to be 
collected and placed under guard; NATO spokesman Jamie Shea says NATO 
not willing to look other way at UCK carrying guns throughout Kos., 
Gen. Wesley Clark has prepared detailed  for removing their weapons; 
Unarmed UCK soldiers help Ger. pks register refs. at Morina, Germans 
allow UCK w/ weapons to keep arms if they have UCK identification; 
Bri. pks discover what they say is Serbian torture cell in Pristina 
police station basement, war crimes tribunal investigating; Clinton 
says arrest, trial of Milo. may take a Agood while to bear fruit as 
long as he remains in Serbia and beyond extradition power of other 
govts., both Clinton and Chirac say there will be no development aid 
for Serbia as long as Milo. is still in power, but humanitarian aid 
is possibility; Milo. invokes powers under legal state-of-war in force 
in Serbia, prohibits Seselj and his party from leaving the govt.; 
UNHCR says 26,000 refs. went back to Kos. over weekend; Red Cross 
says there have been 20 reported land mine incidents to this point; 
Serb Patriarch Pavle says he will move to Orthodox center of Peja and 
will do all he can to improve situation of Serbs in province, calls on 
them not leave their land, homes; Former UNPROFOR commander in Bos., 
Bri. Col. Bob Stewart, testifies at Hague trial of Croatian Col. 
Tihomir Blaskic over war crimes committed in Lasva Valley in '93, 
says HVO leadership must have known of the massacres;
Tudj. says in South Africa that South African Croats should Acome 
to Croatia.  It may not be a land of milk and honey, but you'll do 
better there than anywhere else; Romanian govt. approves decree 
banning Milo., members of family, Yugo. cabinet members, other 
officials close to the regime from entering Rom., declares them 
undesirable; parl. approves NATO request to permit transit of Pol., 
Czech pks through Rom., and will send 205-troop unit to KFOR, extend 
mandate of 200 pks in Bos. through end of 2000

June 18 - U.S., Russian DMs end 2nd day of talks at midnight (17th), 
continue session in morning to determine extent of Rus. involvement 
in Kos.; military experts meet throughout night to settle differences; 
NATO says explosion destroys NATO truck in Skopje; Senate panel 
threatens to block $750 mil. in aid to Rus. unless it cooperates over 
Kos., White House says it will veto the bill; ethnic Albanians continue 
returning home; Yugo. Dep. FM Nebosja Vujovic tells Gen. Jackson that 
pks must make Kos. safe for Serb refs. to return, US State Dept. says 
Serb flight only due to uncertainties of transitional period; World Food 
Program says nearly 50,000 Serbs have fled since end of fighting; Bri. 
For. Office Min. Geoff Hoon estimates 10,000 ethnic Albanians, possibly 
more, were massacred by Serbs in more than 100 incidents; US officials 
say they have been in secret contact w/ opp. leaders in Serbia to 
encourage Milo's ouster; Bri. pks, Serbs have standoff in Podujeva, 
Serbs finally withdraw; Czech PM Milos Zeman says govt. rejects 
replacing one terrorism w/ another meaning UCK for Serbs, and that 
one dictator might replace another meaning Vuk Draskovic who he terms 
part of Aextreme nationalist politics; US special envoy Robert Gelbard, 
other officials meet over weekend on Mon. coast w/ opp. leaders 
including Serbian Dem. Party's Zoran Djinkjic, former Yugo. PM Milan 
Panic, Mon. Dep. PM Novak Kilibarda, former Gen. Vuk Obradovic, others;
Zivko Radisic, Serb member of Bos. rotating presidency, authorizes his 
rep. at Hague to say that Bos. had dropped its case against Bel. for 
war crimes, Izet. says move illegal and abuse of office; UN Sec. Coun. 
extends SFOR mandate, UN police force for another 12 months;
Croatian ct. in Split sentences former Col. Zeljko Maglov of Cro. 
army, 11 others to 6-month to 3 year terms for role in organized 
smuggling of food, cars (first time that Cro. army officer charged, 
convicted for such crimes)

June 20 - Gen. Sir Mike Jackson, Hashim Thaci sign document on 
demilitarization of UCK, its Areintegration into civil society, 
UCK commits itself to est. weapons storage sites; document to be 
verified within 7 days; forces to be gathered in specified areas, 
outside these areas fighters to carry sidearms only; after 30 days 
KFOR, UCK to take joint control of sites, after 90 days KFOR to take 
full control after which UCK to cease wearing mil. uniforms, 
surrender auto. small arms; KFOR says Serbian forces complete 
withdrawal from Kos. nearly 12 hours ahead of schedule; Reports 
of Serbian forces taking several hundred Kosovar prisoners back to 
Serbia, UCK says some Serbian paramilitaries have crossed from Mon. 
back into Kos.; UN begins helicopter airlifts of food to refs. in nw 
Kos.; UNHCR says 50,000 Serb civilians have fled Kos., Serbian state 
media says several groups of Serb refs. including 1,000 from Nis, 
Kragujevac have returned to Kos. w/ promises of govt. assistance; 
Serb Dep. PM Milovan Bojic urges refs. to go home Awithin 48 hours, 
says KFOR will protect them; Several hundred Serbs from Kos. 
demonstrate in Bel. for govt. sec. guarantees for their return 
home; Bri. PM Blair says ASerbian people as a whole - and not 
just their leadership - must share responsibility for Kos.;
SFOR commander Gen. Montgomery Meigs says pks to be cut back from 
32,000 a Asignificant amount partially due to additional expenses 
incurred by KFOR mission;

June 21 - 2 Bri. pks, 2 Kosovar civilians killed while trying to 
defuse unexploded NATO cluster bombs in Orlate (18 miles west of 
Pristina); NATO says 10% of cluster bombs did not explode during 
bombing campaign; Clinton becomes first American president to visit 
Slovenia, praises it for its accomplishments in creating democracy, 
holds talks w/ Pres. Kucan, PM Drnovsek who applaud NATO intervention 
for its defense of its values and protecting of minorities; Clinton 
also meets w/ Mon. Pres. Djukanovic to show support for dem. efforts 
there; Jackson says of previous day's accord that it is a unilateral 
undertaking by UCK, not an agreement, and that UCK offered the 
pledges in document and Jackson only Areceived them; Clinton 
telephones Thaci from Ger., thanks him for signing agreement;
UNHCR says 135,000 refs. have returned from Alb. and Mac., refs. 
continue to ignore warning of land-mines, only about 6,500 refs. 
remain in Kukes camps; NATO says it will begin organized return of 
refs. on July 1 for all those without transport or want to wait until 
situation stabilizes; Several hundred Serbs, Roma leave Belgrade, 
Kragujevac, Krusevac for Kos.; Some Serb homes set fire over weekend, 
KFOR does not intervene in some cases where they are present, 
Jackson apologizes saying Awe fell short of what we wanted in 
providing security for returning Serbs; KFOR later escorts 50 Serb 
refs. back to their homes In Peja; Bishop Artemije returns to Kos., 
encourages Serbs to stay saying NATO has made it safe; UCK arrests 10 
ethnic Albanians on suspicion of arson in villages; UN's Annan 
appoints Dominique Vian as dep. special rep. for interim civilian 
admin. in Kos. (police, telecommunications, public transport) and 
Dennis McNamara as dep. special rep. in charge of ref. return and 
humanitarian assistance Bel. police break up protests for 2nd day 
in row by 200 angry Kos. Serbs, arrest leader and ban further 
demonstrations as illegal under Astate of war; Serbian opp. Alliance 
for Change says it will start organizing demonstrations calling for 
early elections, dem. change; Serb auth. now requiring all radio, TV 
stations to carry state-run Radio-Television Serbia news

June 22 - Clinton makes 6-hour visit to Mac., calls on Kosovars to 
not take revenge as they return to their homes; Pres. and his wife 
tour Stankovic I camp near Skopje which now holds only about 10,000 
of original 30,000 refs., meets w/ KFOR troops; Clinton thanks 
Gligorov, Georgievski, Meidani, and Majko for supporting NATO, 
promises intl. assistance for region and US assistance of $12 mil. 
in food for Mac.; 30 elderly Serbs in Prizren area say armed ethnic 
Albanians took their weapons, told them to leave their homes, some 
say they were beaten; rash of reports include Serbs being stabbed to 
death, decapitated, kidnapped; NATO says there are thousands of 
unexploded bomblets (from cluster bombs) in Kos. along w/ several 
hundred thousand land mines planted by Serbs; ANewsday reports 60 
Rus. volunteers participated in killings of ethnic Albanians, 
destruction of villages around Prizren, says they were members of 
single unit created by Int. Min. in March, and were ordered out of 
province by Ger. KFOR troops last week, Pentagon says WCT to examine 
role of these Rus. volunteers; 42 UN police leave Bos. for Kos., 
additional 158 to follow within 10 days; Djukanovic says on TV that 
he told Clinton in Ljubljana that he needs to protect Serbs and 
Montenegrins in Kos.; Dju. says Mon. to continue to promote 
democracy, market reforms, integration into Euro.-Atlantic 
structures, but that he did not seek support for Mon. ind.;
Mac. auth. arrest 10 ethnic Serbian citizens of Mac. in connection 
w/ recent attacks on NATO troops in Mac.; NATO officials lift ban 
on training, movement, air activity of various Bos. forces imposed 
during Kos. war; Westendorp's office rejects Izet. claim that charges 
of corruption can't be proven, say that corruption is a Acancer that 
threatens to destroy the society of BiH
               
June 23 - US marines kill 1 after unidentified gunmen fire on them 
in Zegra; FMs, DMs from Bri., Fra., Ita., Ger. tour Kos., meet w/ 
Thaci and Veton Surroi; Bri. For. Sec. Cook and Ger. DM Scharping 
visit site of massacre in Velika Krusa, Awe are not going to give up 
on trying to arrest Milo.; Fre. KFOR troops find mass grave in 
northern Kos. w/ possibly as many as 180 victims; Cook later calls 
on ethnic Albanians not to seek revenge for massacres and break cycle 
of violence; Serb village of Novake set on fire by ethnic Albanians 
who had looted it the day before; Fre. troops arrest 3 Serbs who fired 
on Fre. patrol in Kosovska Mitrovica after they tried to force ethnic 
Albanians to leave Serb section of town; Fre. DM Alain Richard visits 
town, defends Fre. troops against accusations that they have favored 
Serbs after Fre. pks do nothing to prevent Serbs from harassing 
Albanian resident trying to get to hospital in that town; UCK 
reported to be putting up posters in this town telling Serbs to 
leave; 19,000 NATO troops now in place; 34,500 refs. return home 
from Mon., Alb., and Mac. bringing total to 250,000 according to 
UNHCR; only 800 refs. still in Kukes; 69,500 Serbs estimated to have 
fled Kos. w/ 19,500 going to Mon., 50,000 to Serbia; Shadow-state 
PM Bukoshi says UCK must not be allowed to take over police forces 
or form a national guard, that this would endanger dem. and that 
we must make our presence known lest the UCK steal the whole show
Serb auth. fire 17 staff members of Radio B-92; Swiss police freeze 
assets of Milo., 4 others indicted as war criminals AIndependent 
(London) reports Yugo. army troops, paramilitaries including those 
of Arkan pouring into Mon. raising fears of coup; 74 professors, 
academics sign declaration in Podgorica calling for leadership to 
declare ind.; Bos. joint presidency issues report claiming still 
1.25 mil. in BiH are refs. or dps w/ more than half of these coming 
from RS

June 24 - Joint session of Yugo. parliament approves government 
proposal (1 abstention) to end the 3-month-old state of war, lift 
it by Saturday (26th); also all travel on men of conscription age 
ended, financing for def. expenditures, foreign trade and passports, 
but decree on price controls to continue until new eco. policy decided 
upon; Yugo. PM Bulatovic calls for end to all sanctions against Yugo. 
and readmission to UN and other intl. orgs., demands compensation for 
bombing damage; KFOR pks find 3 Serbs beaten to death in Eco. Faculty 
of Pristina Univ., also prevent 40 ethnic Albanians from breaking into 
Radio-Television Pristina building; Ital. pks arrest 4 ethnic Albanians 
on suspicion of rape; Serbs in Peja say UCK has ordered them to leave 
Kos.; More fires set in homes of Serbs, Roma; ADanas (Bel.) says govt. 
efforts to get Kos. Serbs to return home Ameager in their results; 200 
army reservists block roads in Kraljevo, Kragujevac, Trstenik 
(c. Serbia) for 2nd day demanding back pay for duty in Kos.; US 
offers $5 mil. for info. leading to arrest, conviction of indictees 
for serious violations of intl. humanitarian law by ICTY, including 
Milo., 4 others indicted w/ him; Solana, Clark, and Jamie Shea visit 
Pristina, meet w/ Gen. Jackson, Thaci, Bishop Artemije (latter 2 meet, 
shake hands); Rugova delays return from Geneva for fear of his 
security; OSCE's Knut Vollebaek appoints Dutch diplomat and former 
Amb. to Albania, Daan Everts, head of mission in Kos., 1 of 4 dep. 
special reps. of UNMIK to be responsible for rebuilding civilian 
institutions, promoting dem., monitoring human rts., organizing 
elections, training police and justice officials; Vollebaek says 
400-600 to be sent to province by OSCE; 59 FBI investigators arrive 
in Kos. to investigate war crimes Swiss govt. orders assets of Milo., 
4 other indicted war crimes suspects frozen Slovenia's Kucan says 
Milo. is Aa man of the past for the intl. community...and it's only 
a question of time when he will become a man of the past for the 
Serbs; 15,000 Macedonians organized by Soc. Dem. Union protest in 
Skopje against rapprochement between PM Georgievskii, Thaci, claim 
that govt. is endangering Mac. nat. interests by working w/ NATO 
against Serbia; OSCE's head of mission in Bos., Robert Barry, 
announces elections scheduled for Sept. to be postponed until 
April 2000 due to tensions in Yugo. and that there are practical 
difficulties particularly at this time in registering voters; 
Westendorp's office says he will lay sanctions against areas 
governed by SDA unless it implements local power-sharing agreement 
in Zepce

June 25 - Ethnic Albanian crowds run rampant, loot Serb shops in 
Pristina, BBC says NATO pks say they are unable to stop it; Ger. 
DM Scharping says there are estimated 40 mass graves in Ger. sector; 
Serbs turn over 166 prisoners from Kos. to ICRC at undisclosed 
location, ICRC still seeking access to prisons, info. on prisoners; 
US State Dept. says Afurther disintegration of Yugo. would not serve 
to promote peace and stability and is not the answer for Mon.

June 26 - Hundreds of Yugo. army reservists in Kraljevo, Kragujevac, 
Trstenik (central Serbia), and Velika Plana continue protests, 
roadblocks for 4th day demanding unpaid wages, call for Milo's 
resignation, senior army officials visit sites, pay off some of 
back wages causing some soldiers to remove roadblocks; protest of 
50 reservists in Milo. home town of Pozarevac; Alliance for Change 
opp. group to begin series of rallies centered around Cacak; Rus. 
Pres. Yeltsin approves deployment of 3,616 troops for KFOR until 
June 2000; Rus. plane w/ troops arrives at Pristina airport; Rus. 
Col.-Gen. Georgii Shpak says Rus. troops to give Arobust response 
if UCK attacks, says they should have been disarmed immediately

June 27 - Romanian air traffic controllers temporarily close air space 
to Rus. planes after 2 planes cross in short intervals in viol. of 
4-hour interval agreement, Rus. officials apologize; Ger. pks declare 
midnight to 5:00am curfew in Prizren; Ital. KFOR official says 
uniformed Albanians killed Serb woman, follow suit in Prizren; Gen. 
Clark calls on NATO, allied countries to send troops ASAP, says its 
clear that Serbian paramilitaries, some w/ connections w/ intelligence 
orgs.,...have remained behind in Kos.; Czech Pres. Havel visits Alb., 
Kos., says situation on the whole is Abright; AObserver reports that 
UCK has Ahundreds of documents proving Bel. plan to ethnically cleanse 
Kos. under name AOperation Horshoe; Croatian local elections held; 
Police claim to have found 5 classified documents in apt. of ind. 
weekly Nacional editor Ivo Pukanic, state to press charges of violating 
laws on classified docs.; Farmer protests block 4 intl. border 
crossings, all major roads in n., e. Croatia for 3rd day over 
raising of minimum price for wheat, banning of imports of foodstuffs 
produced in Croatia

June 28 - UNHCR finally begins its organized return of  refs. 
returning 380, says 400,000 have returned on their own; Serbian 
Orthodox Patriarch Pavle, Bishop Artemije of Kos. celebrate mass 
at monument at Kosovo Polje, Artemije calls on intl. community to 
prevent Serbs from being forced out, says Serbs are now ones being 
ethnically cleansed but that it is due to Milo's policies that Serbs 
are gone from Krajina, Slavonia, western Bos. and poorly cared for 
as refs. in Serbia; Church issues statement that commemoration differs 
from the previous ones in that Athe godless leaders of our people will 
take no part, later issues letter along w/ Kos. Serb leader Momcilo 
Trajkovic to Annan calling for better KFOR protection of Serbs in 
Kos.; Ethnic Albanians continue looting, burning Serb homes, KFOR 
still unable to control situation; First group of UCK begins handing 
in weapons to pks under terms of disarmament accord (permitted to 
carry weapons in designated areas, UCK commanders w/ no more than 
3 bodyguards can carry long-barreled, non-auto. weapons); US pks 
declare curfew in Gjilan, Vitina to prevent looting and burning of 
Serb, Roma properties; Ger. pks in Prizren find suspected torture 
chamber used by UCK after 3 Roma who were held there take them to 
the spot, Human Rights Watch says there is evidence UCK has been 
involved in rapes, murders of Serbs and Roma; Dragan Milovanovic, 
leader of largest ind. trade union (Assoc. of Auto. and Ind. Unions) 
says Athe union won't allow any more unpaid work and will actively 
join the fight against the regime and hopes Milo. will be out of power
by end of year; Vladan Batic of Christian Dems., coordinator of 
Alliance for Change says group has 2 aims: Milo's resignation, and 
early and free elections, petition drive to demand this to begin on 
July 5; UN Sec. Gen. Annan says he will appoint civil admin. for Kos.
by end of week; Yugo. army dismantles border checkpoints between 
Mon., Bosnia, and Albania, but ones on border w/ Croatia remain

June 29 - 10,000 defy police ban in Cacak, hold first large anti-Milo. 
rally since end of bombing, Mayor Velimir Ilic comes out of hiding to 
address crowd, says Milo's regime Amade us into monsters and God 
punished us; Crown Prince Aleksandar Karadjordjevic says in Peja 
that Milo. must go, calls for Serb civilians to stay in Kos.; 
Bukoshi's shadow govt., Thaci's provisional govt. both hold meetings 
in Pristina; Thaci meets w/ reps. of 13 of 17 political parties, but 
LDK does not show; UN says 18 countries have now pledged to send 
police to Kos., UNMIK estimates a force needed of 3,110 intl. officers to 
maintain law and order, has received promises of 1,938 to date; KFOR 
states that UCK has met demilitarization deadline of midnight for 
establishing sites for turning in weapons and gathering in designated 
assembly areas, UCK not to wear uniforms, carry arms outside of these 
areas, and may keep only pistols, hunting rifles in rural areas; 
Amnesty Intl. says return to Kos. of all refs. not a solution for 
everybody, that they should be provided w/ info. about conditions; 
UNHCR resettles another 370 refs. from Pristina, Ferizaj areas; 500 
Roma land in southern Italy from ship, are taken by coast guard to 
Bari; EU heads of govt. meeting in Rio de Janeiro agrees to accept 
Ger. nomination of Bodo Hombach to be EU coordinator for Balkan 
stability pact; Austrian Wolfgang Petritsch (member of Carinthia's 
Slovenian minority), former negotiator for EU during Kos. crisis, 
named as Westendorp's replacement as intl. community rep. in BH;
Croatian farmers continue blockade of key roads, Int. Min. calls on 
them to remove these and says they are illegal, Agr. Min. says demands 
are unrealistic while Nat. Sec. Council condemns protest for having 
blocked border crossings

June 30 - World Food Program announces it will expand aid to assist 
2.5 mil. people in Balkans, of which 1.5 mil. are Kos. refs., IDPs; 
Annan chair meeting in NY on quickly setting up civilian admin. in 
Kos.; UNMIK's de Mello swears in 9 judges for new ind. judiciary (5 
ethnic Albanians, 3 Serbs, 1 Turk), to deal w/ at least 221 who have 
been detained by KFOR, Aziz Rexha says he and other Albanians won't 
assume duties until ethnic balance of judiciary is altered to reflect 
real ethnic composition of province; KFOR finds 119 bodies in 2 mass 
grave locations nw of Prizren, KFOR also finds bodies of 11 ethnic 
Albanians burned in house in Kalilane (near Peja); UCK commander 
Rustem Mustafa Remi calls on Kosovars not to take revenge against 
Serbs, says UCK to bring rule of law and dem. society for all to 
province; Serbian Orthodox priest Radomir Nikcevic says 4 Serb 
civilians killed, 19 more disappeared near Rahovec in past 24 hours; 
KFOR sends doctors to Serb part of Rahovec for first time; Zoran 
Djindjic visits Prague, says dem. won't come to Serbia as long as 
Milo. stays in power, but says intl. community should not isolate 
Serbian people in the meantime; Croatian farmers end blockades after 
reaching agreement w/ govt. on back payments, price of wheat

July 1 - UNHCR says it is concerned about safety of 5,000 Krajina 
Serbs who are being targeted for reprisals by ethnic Albanians, 
security not being provided for them; UNHCR, Alb. govt. begin 
repatriating remaining 170,000 Kosovar refs.; 250 Kosovar Roma 
from Mon. land in southern Italy, Ital. coast guard takes them 
to Bari; Turkish convoy of 52 mil. vehicles leaves for Kos. through 
Bul., Mac. to be stationed in southwestern Kos. where Turkish 
minority primarily lives; OSCE's Vollebaek says 700-member OSCE 
mission to recruit, train 3,000 locals for 6,000 man intl. 
supervised police force; also says he has appointed US's Robert 
Barry, OSCE head of mission in Bos., to coordinate OSCE efforts 
in entire Balkans; Several hundred pensioners turn out to protest 
delinquent pensions in Bel., some call for Milo. to resign; Serb 
police arrest 4 members of League of Social Dems. of Vojvodina 
who were passing out leaflets calling for opp. demonstration in 
Uzice; Yugo. army Military Prosecutor request mil. court launch 
proceedings against Zoran Djindjic; de Mello appoints first group 
of 9 judges, prosecutors and investigators to act as "a kind of 
itinerant court"; Yugo. army continues to blockade Mon.-Croatian 
border, turns back hundreds of trucks preventing supplies from 
reaching Mon.; Pres. Djukanovic says his govt. to send to Hague 
anyone indicted by IWCT; Croatian govt. charges Yugo. of aggression 
and genocide at Hague; Bos. fed. parl. adopts law governing radio, 
TV over objections of HDZ

July 2 - KFOR arrests 5 Yugo. army soldiers, 6 suspected paramilitary 
police inside Kos. near Serbian border in violation of withdrawal 
agreement, men say they were part of border patrol; UN's Annan chooses 
Bernard Kouchner of France to oversee transformation of Kos. into dem. 
society, Kouchner to head UNMIK, be highest-ranking civilian in Kos.; 
Annan also appoints James P. Covey of US as Principle Dep. Special 
Rep., Daan Everts of Neth. as Dep. Special Rep. for Institution 
Building; de Mello warns that situation Ahas stabilized at a fairly 
high level of insecurity...and this cannot be allowed to persist; 
Daily Telegraph reports that gangs of young men from both Kos., 
Albania are making situation in Pristina difficult for Bri. pks; 
UNHCR's Dennis McNamara comments that org. has only $10 mil. budgeted 
per week for operations, needs $234 mil. for rest of '99; number of 
returned refs. now at 530,000; Police pledged for Kos. now at 2,486 of 
needed 3,110; de Mello warns that sec. situation in Kos. deteriorating, 
violence increasing and affecting more people including Serbs;
Westendorp reported to be ready to enact law on radio and TV if Croats 
defeat it in the House of Nations

July 4 - NATO blocks transport of Rus. troops to Kos. by getting Hun., 
Rom., Bul. to deny overflights of their territories;

July 5 - Between 10,000-20,000 protestors rally in Leskovac 
(120 miles se of Bel.), call on local governor to resign for abusing 
his auth.; rally organized by TV technician and non-opp. member Ivan 
Novkovic; NATO negotiators in Mos. reach deal w/ Russians to allow 
them to send more troops (total: 3,600), Clark says deal keeps same 
guidelines, Russians still only in Amer., Ger., Fre. sectors, but 
will operate logistical base in Fushe Kosova in Bri. sector; NATO 
rejects Rus. demand for corridor under their control linking Ger., 
Fre. sectors by way of Peja in Ital. sector, but there will be 1,000 
Russians in Ger. sector; Rus. to be under Atactical control of 
overall KFOR commander, commanders in respective sectors, Russians 
can turn down NATO orders if they conflict w/ Moscow, NATO to 
appoint chief of air traffic control, Russia the chief of ground 
operations at Pristina airport; Former Sen. Bob Dole visits mass 
grave site near Pec at head of Intl. Commission on Missing Persons; 
Time magazine reports that Clinton has ordered CIA to help oust 
Milo. by using computers to disrupt bank accounts, recruit dissidents 
in govt. and military; de Mello announces that KFOR can detain 
individuals suspected of criminal activities longer than 48 hours; 
KFOR spokesman says that Aa number of politicians have self-styled 
titles such as prime minister.  The only govt....that we recognize 
is that of the UN and de Mello says Awe are the only source of auth.  
We are not excluding (the UCK) but we are not recognizing a govt.; 
Clark warns tht NATO will not tolerate continued interference from 
paramilitary groups

July 6 - SFOR troops detain wanted war crimes suspect Radislav 
Brdanin and former dep. PM of RS during war, for ethnic cleansing 
of Muslims, Croats in Banja Luka region in '92, transfer him to 
Hague; Solana again calls on all indictees to surrender to ICTY; 
State Dept. reiterates offer of up to $5 million for info. leading 
to arrest or conviction in any country of persons indicted for 
serious human rights violations (including Milo., Kara., Mladic, 
and Arkan);  Novi Sad town council votes to call for Milo. to resign; 
Police in Leskovac attack 5,000 anti-Milo. demonstrators calling for 
Milo. to resign; 10,000 protest in Uzice, demand Milo's resignation 
and free elections, Djindjic tells crowd they need 2-3 months of 
protests to get rid of Milo.; Yugo. govt. denies visa to OSCE head 
Vollebaek for planned 3-day trip in Balkans

July 7 - Small groups of Serbs, Roma in Dajkovica, Orahovac call 
on KFOR to provide 24-hour protection or evacuate them to Mon. and 
Serbia; 9 Rus. planes bring in 300 Rus. pks, 25 tons of equipment to 
Pristina, Rus. to also send 210 policemen to UNMIK including 110 OMON 
troops; 2,000 protestors at Leskovac rally for 3rd day; Alliance for 
Change now claim to have collected 100,000 signatures, police in Nis 
say people collecting them are conducting illegal act; 20,000 ethnic 
Albanians in Mitrovica demonstrate against separation of town at Ibar 
River bridge, Fre. pks arrest 1 Serbian paramilitary member on Serbian 
side; 3,000 ethnic Albanians protest against planned deployment of 750 
Rus. troops in Rahovec under Ger. tactical control; but Serbs say they 
prefer to have Russians to protect them from the Albanians;
Bos. Croat officials, intl. community reps. agreed in Drvar to halt 
return of ethnic Serb refugees after recent conflicts between Serbs 
and displaced Croats who had settled in the area since '92; Croatian, 
Bos. govts. approve delineating of 1,000 kilo.-long boundary between 
them; Croatia estimates that Kos. conflict has caused it to lose $1.4 
bil. of tourist industry

July 8 - 3,000 ethnic Albanians protest against Rus. pks for 2nd day 
in row in Rahovec; Rugova, in Rome, says he will return as early as 
next week; Several thousand protest in Prokuplje along w/ Alliance 
for Change leaders demanding Milo. resign, Socialist Party of Serbia 
calls off planned counter-demonstration, but dozen show up anyway, 
man fires 8 shots into air from balcony of Socialist hq; 20 leaders of 
opp. joint Archbiship Artemije, Kos. Serb leader Momcilo Trajkovic at 
Gracanica monastery to demand security for Kos. Serbs and democracy; 
group of 100 Milo. supporters call Djindjic, Vladan Batic Atraitor; 
Dem. Party in Bel. says 100 were known agents-provocateurs from secret 
police; Milo. supporters, Draskovic's party members join in Bel. City 
Council to turn down demand by Dem. Party that council discuss issuing 
call for Milo's resignation since he is an indicted war criminal; town 
council in Pirot passes resolution calling on Milo. to resign while 
League of Social Dems. in Novi Sad calls for protests in cities and 
towns over next several days making same demand;  de Mello meets w/ 
Yugo. opp. leaders of AAlliance for Change including Djindjic, Vuk 
Obradovic, discuss his efforts to prevent more Serbs from leaving 
Kos.; Ger. KFOR commander Gen. Fritz von Korff says KFOR has arrested 
6 suspects in latest torchings of homes in Prizren, complains that 
ethnic Albanians indifferent to attacks, and has even prevented KFOR 
from getting water in homes to fight fires; water, electricity lines 
in Serbian neighborhood of city cut half hour before fires; Ger. mil. 
police register 91 incidents in Ger. sector alone (thefts, pillaging, 
fires); Unidentified assailant kills Dragan Simic, police chief in 
Savski Venac district of Bel. (5th police official killed in Bel. 
in '99); UNHCR survey of 141 villages shows 64% of homes severely 
damaged or destroyed, 88% without functioning health facilities;
Alb. Pres. Meidani visits Mac., tells Gligorov that in 5-10 years 
Kos., Mon. will be new parts of Europe, Gligorov disagrees, says 
territorial integrity of Yugo. should be respected...realization of 
dreams of greater nations is dangerous not only for the region, but 
for Europe itself

July 9 - de Mello speaks w/ Rugova, encourages him to return to Kos. 
to attend meeting of Kos. Transitional Council (highest level 
consultative body in Kos.); UNHCR estimates 100,000 Serbs have fled 
Kos. to Serbia where they are being denied pensions, educ., monthly 
fuel rations; Serbian Min. of Educ. sends instructions to all 
primary, secondary school directors in Serbia to reject enrollment 
of pupils from Kos.; 20 Serb houses burned in last 48 hours in 
Prizren, 130 Serbs still seeking refuge in Orthodox seminary at 
Bogoslavija; 360 Roma holed up in mined graveyard in Djakovica, 
UCK reported to have taken some of them away, group to be evacuated 
to Mon.; Serbs in Orahovac under Dutch KFOR protection; KFOR seals 
off possible mass grave site near Ljubenic (w. Kos.) until forensics 
experts arrive from Hague; Cacak Mayor Velimir Ilic says Serbs 
outside Bel. must Aencircle Bel. w/ protests, says Draskovic is 
unacceptable to opp.  due to his behavior, participation in Milo's 
govt.; Town councils of Nis, Sombor pass resolutions calling on Milo. 
to resign; Djindjic says strategy is to organize protests in 15-20 
largest cities over next 15-20 days leading to biggest protest in Bel., 
says Central Bank Governor Dragoslav Avramovic would be his choice to 
lead an interim govt. Drvar Dep. Mayor and Croat Ilija Sljivic says 
Serbs may return to Drvar once Bos. Serb authorities allow Croats to 
return to Bosanski Brod, says 15,000 Croats have formally requested to 
do so; Westendorp calls on Sanski Most Mayor Mehmed Alagic to resign 
or take leave of absence until corruption charges against him cleared 
up, West. also calls on town council to lift Alagic's immunity from 
prosecution

July 10 - US pks arrest 11 in Gjilan after unknown gunmen fire shots 
near patrol investigating grenade attack, pks discover dead body, 
wounded person inside building; US troops also fire at gunmen who 
had shot at their car; 1,500 protest against Milo. in Leskovac

July 11 - Artemije, Trajkovic say in statement that Kos. Serb 
leadership wil Acease coop. w/ the UN and NATO as long as the 
violence continues against Kos. Serbs, say they will not participate 
in de Mello's transitional council until then, both appeal to Clinton 
to receive a delegation of Kos. Serbs to explain the situation; Rus. 
troops move into Kamenica in US sector, Malisheva in Ger. sector; 
3,000 ethnic Albanians continue protests against them in Rahovec; 
Arbour arrives in Tirana to discuss war crimes w/ Albanian officials;  
4,000 rally in Kikinda (e. Vojvodina) to demand Milo's resignation; 
GoranVesic of Dem. Party, member of Bel. city council, sentenced by 
mil. ct. to 2 years in prison for failing to respond to call-up 
notice and for high treason, Vesic denies that he was ever drafted 
into reserve unit or received a call-up notice; Dem. Party says 
proceedings begun against 12,000 in Mon. for similar reasons;
Several thousand Muslim women and children from Srebrenica protest 
in Sara. on 4th anniversary of fall of Sreb., demand the intl. 
community take action to discover fates of 8,000 missing males 
from town

July 12 - 4,000 follow local artist Bogoljub Arsenijevic in storming 
town hall of Valjevo, police evict them, 4 hospitalized due to 
violence, calls for Serbs to try Milo. for what he has done to 
Serbian people over past 10 years and calls for storming of local 
Socialist Party of Serbia hq until Awe hear that Milo. is dead; 
Spokesmen for anti-Milo. petition drive say they now have more 
than 100,000 signatures despite police pressure; 500 army 
reservists protest wage arrears in Vranje; Gen. Clark says AI 
encourage the growing demonstrations by the people of Serbia to 
hold Mr. Milosevic accountable.  He is the source of their problems 
and should be removed from office; Pristina city hall officially 
reopened by UN head of civilian admin., JF Carter; 2 municipal 
co-presidents head admin. of 80 Kosovars, 60 Serbs; Serbian 
Justice Ministry gives ICRC list of 1,438 Kosovars currently 
held in Serb jails; Melazim Krasniqi, senior official w/ LDK 
says he doesn't know why Rugova hasn't returned to Kos., and 
that he (Rugova) has Acovered himself w/ a disturbing silence; 
UCK's Thaci condemns decision by local Serbs to stop cooperating 
w/ Kosovars, calls on them to reverse this; UNICEF says 
preliminary survey of 394 schools in Kos. shows that 43% were 
completely destroyed or severely damaged; Yugo. army denies NATO 
reports that it has increased its troops levels in Mon.;
Jacques Klein to replace Elizabeth Rehn as UN chief representative 
in Bos.; Nova TV becomes first nationwide private TV broadcaster 
in Croatia, although one main shareholder is AVecernji list which 
is associated w/ HDZ 

July 13 - ICTY prosecutor Louise Arbour, visits Kos., says indictments 
against Milo. could be expanded; UN's Annan outlines plan for Kos. w/ 
UN in charge of civil admin., UNHCR to be in charge of humanitarian 
relief, OSCE to deal w/ institution-building, and EU to oversee 
reconstruction in 5 stages; US State Dept. announces it will send 
post-war humanitarian aid to Serbian communities in opp. to Milo., 
that it can afford to withhold aid under these conditions since 
Serbia is not facing starvation; G-7 Fin. Mins. meet in Brussels to 
discuss rebuilding strategies also agree to withhold aid to Serbia 
while Milo. and other indicted criminals remain in power, but Mon. 
declared eligible for aid; US commander in Kos., Gen. John Craddock 
says Rus., US forces to begin joint patrolling, also says there are 
still far too many instances of random violence in province, comments 
that 50 Rus. troops of approx. 500 to come already in American sector 
along w/ 6,500 US troops, to have an area assigned to them and have 
reps. at US hq; also comments that US concerned about ethnic Albanian 
protests against Rus. presence but says he is not worried about it at 
this time; Djindjic calls on opp. to hold rallies for 10-15 days, and 
then begin march on Bel.; Assoc. of Free and Ind. Trade Unions calls 
on all Serbian unions to join in launching general strike against 
Milo.; Nis Mayor Zoran Zivkovic of Dem. Party leads march of 1,000 
through Leskovac to jail where police are holding TV broadcaster 
Ivan Novkovic; 300 army reservists continue wage protest in Vranje
Yugo. army, Mon. govt. hold separate ceremonies marking Montenegro's 
uprising against Ger., Ital. forces, first time that civilian govt. 
has not invited army to attend; Yugo. amb. to UN Vladislav Jovanovic 
gives letter to Sec. Coun. calling Croatia's Prevlaka Peninsula, which 
is under UN mandate, integral part of Montenegro's Kotor Bay and 
therefore part of Yugo. territory

July 14 - de Mello decries continuing violence, intimidation directed 
at minorities in Kos., calls these Acriminal acts.  They cannot be 
excused by the suffering that has been inflicted in the past, later 
speaks w/ Kos. Serb leader Momcilo Trajkovic, Bishop Artemije; KFOR 
troops search sites where UCK said to be holding prisoners, free 3 
Serbs, 4 Roma at one, find bodies at another; UNHCR reports Serb 
houses being set on fire every day in Prizren area, Orthodox Church 
in town giving refuge to 167 Serbs, Roma, and has received threats 
against it; KFOR evacuates 28 Serb refs. in Pristina from collective 
accommodation facility; 500 Roma seeking shelter near cemetery in 
Brekovac; UN Sec. Coun.  calls on all parties to coop. w/ UNMIK, 
KFOR; UN mission chief Bernard Kouchner arrives in Pristina; de 
Mello meets w/ Rugova who is met by crowd of 3,000 chanting his 
(Rugova's) name; 5,000 attend rally in Subotica, call for Milo. to 
step down; Belgian official confirm that Arkan's lawyers had 
contacted them about surrendering (possibly relocating to Belgium)  
although Arkan denies it as "crazy"; Mon., Serbian delegations 
begin talks on proposals to change structure of federation, 
Djukanovic comments that "ind. will be an inevitable alternative" 
if Serbs do not agree to dem., equality; also comments that army 
officers who committed war crimes should be "legally held accountable"

July 15 - Rugova returns from Italy, several thousand greet him 
chanting his name, says he will work for ind. for province, leaves 
after only several hours, shadow-state VP Edita Tahiri says Rugova 
to return next week to "restart work as pres. of Kos."; Rugova 
earlier says he will not share power w/ Thaci, but that one of his 
priorities is "building of pluralism"; Rugova, de Mello meet, discuss 
how to implement UN civil admin.; Thaci says UCK wants to "build a 
multi-ethnic, open, and tolerant society, create dem. institutions 
including Albanians, Serbs, and Montenegrins"; First meeting of 
UN-sponsored Kos. Transitional Council, to be highest pol. 
consultative body under UNMIK auth.; council consists of 6 Kosovars, 
2 Serbs, 1 Mus., 1 Turk as well as UN officials and KFOR Gen. 
Jackson, but LDK and Rugova do not attend; 20 people in Vitina 
injured by bomb blast, KFOR holds 2 males; New Democracy party pulls 
out of governing coalition in Serbian parl., coalition then votes  
to cancel 5 legislative mandates given to that party by coalition;
10,000 rally in Kragujevac, Cacak mayor Velimir Ilic, Gen. Vuk 
Obradovic tell them they hope Draskovic and Serbian Renewal Movement 
will join Alliance for Change; 1,000 rally in Leskovac for 11th 
straight day against imprisonment of TV broadcaster; 2,000 pensioners 
rally in Belgrade for higher retirement benefits, Milo's resignation; 
8 Dem. Party workers beaten by "regime thugs" while gathering 
signatures on anti-Milo. petition in Novi Beograd, police harass opp. 
party workers in Novi Sad, and prevent opp. from collecting 
signatures in Gornji Milanovac; 4 detained in Sremska Mitrovica 
for collecting signatures; Mac. govt. announces it will allow 
ethnic Albanians to open own university; Hague WCT rules that Bos. 
war was not just civil war but "an intl. armed conflict" making it 
possible to convict those for crimes against civilians, also decides 
that there was a "direct chain of mil. command" from Bel. to Bos. 
Serbs; Bos. Permanent Committee for Mil. Issues (chaired by intl. 
community officials) decides to cut RS, Bos. Mus.-Croat Fed. mil. 
spending by 15% for '99; UN Sec. Coun. votes to extend Prevlaka 
mandate for 27-member UN mil. observer force until Jan. 15, 2000

July 16 - Transitional Council agrees on procedure for recruiting 
all ethnic groups into UN-initiated police force, and to joint 
commissions to visit parts of Kos. to assess needs of local 
populations, also agree to quickly resolve disputes over operation 
of Radio and Television Pristina

July 17 - Yugo. army chief-of-staff Gen. Dragoljub Ojdanic 
(indicted by WCT in April) says "main task of all of us is to 
preserve the stability of the state", says others want to be 
vassals of the West; Army reservists in Prokuplje block streets 
in town demanding back pay, end protest after army officials agree 
to demands; Thaci, 300 UCK members in uniform heads parade into 
Rahovec (approved by KFOR) to commemorate deaths of UCK soldiers in 
war, says "the world must recognize our right to hold a referendum on 
ind." and that "we don't want an ethnically pure city here.  We must 
create conditions for all the ethnic groups to live here"

July 18 - 75 Roma under KFOR protection agree to return to their 
homes in Landovica (near Prizren); 100 army reservists in Nis end 
3 days of protests for back pay after Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic of 3rd 
Army (Kos.) promises govt. to meet their demands

July 19 - UNHCR says Serb population in Pristina systematically 
harassed w/ 1 Serb on average per night killed, elderly Serbs forced 
from their homes; 200-400 Roma now reported to have taken refuge in 
Mitrovica school; Kouchner swears in 7 new judges, 3 prosecutors in 
Prizren; 90 cases heard to date; Draskovic tells crowd of 15,000 in 
Kragujevac that easiest way to get rid of Milo. is to offer him 
position of figurehead in transitional govt. w/ possible immunity 
from prosecution; US State Dept. rejects possibility of amnesty for 
Milo.; Clinton agrees to attend intl. summit on Balkan reconstruction 
in Sara. on July 30; EU Fms reach compromise on dividing EU offices for 
Balkan reconstruction between Thessaloniki and Pristina, and agree to 
lift oil embargo on Mon., Kos. "soon"; US diplomats reportedly upset 
by EU "naked self-interests"; Djindjic meets w/ Ger. Chan. Schroeder 
who tells him he doesn't exclude EU membership for Serbia once Milo. 
is gone; UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary 
Questions approves initial $200 mil. to finance operation in Kos.;
Croatian Min. of Justice Zvonimir Separovic tells Louise Arbour that 
Croatia will not extradite Mladen Naletilic or Vinko Martinovic until 
court cases against them in Croatia completed, also refuses to give 
her documents she requested concerning Croatian atrocities against 
Serbs between '91-'95, says "we have to take care of our national 
interests"

July 20 - Gen. Jackson, UCK commander Agim Ceku inspect UCK arms 
collection site (UCK to have turned in 30% of small arms by this 
point); KFOR arrest 13 in UCK uniforms in Mihalic, confiscate arms; 
Ceku says in Isnic "I am sure I have control of the UCK units"; 
UNMIK opens office for recruitment of UN-trained police force in 
Pristina, Ceku tells Jackson that about 4,000 former UCK to apply 
for positions; Yugo. PM Bulatovic sends letter to Annan stating 
that pks "do not have sufficient strength to ensure the full sec. 
of Kos. borders, pop., and property", calls for Yugo. soldiers, 
police, customs officials to return to province; Pks arrest 4 Serb 
policemen in E. Kos. near border w/ Serbia, all armed w/ automatic 
weapons; Annan says reconstruction of province to take 10 years; 
KFOR restarts power plant near Pristina, 600 ethnic Albanians, 250 
ethnic Serbs to be employed; Albanian-lang. daily "Rilindja" 
published in Pristina for first time in 9 years; UNHCR claimes 
700,000 Kosovar refs. repatriated, less than 100,000 waiting; 
Annan calls on OSCE to work closely w/ UN to secure dem., 
prosperity for Kos.; Serbian PM Mirko Marjanovic reopens bridge 
over Danube at Beska; Serbian Min. of Educ. decrees that students 
from Mon. to no longer be able to register at Bel. Univ., priority 
now to go to soldiers and their families;
Westendorp "suspends from office" Sanski Most Mayor Mehmed Alagic 
over issue of abuse of office and corruption, Alagic denies charges 
and says he will remain in office;  Arbour says she will report to 
UN Sec. Coun. that Croatia not cooperating w/ WCT, says Zagreb's 
behavior little different from that of Belgrade; US emb. in Zag. says 
it has donated $100,000 to Journalist Assoc. Legal Def. Fund to help 
pay lawyers' fees, ct. costs due to govt. use of of lawsuits against 
journalists, press 

July 21 - NATO troops free 4 Serb police they caught in n. Kos., 
they claim they Amisread their map; UNHCR spokesman says rebuilding 
of Kos. to cost $333 million, World Bank Pres. says reconstruction 
costs for next 2 months approx. $50 mil.; New Euro. Commission Pres. 
Romano Prodi says EU to be first to contribute to rebuilding of Kos. 
but Awe desperately need to simplify things and warns that money 
should go directly to Kos. projects and not to EU officials' salaries; 
UN Asst. Sec. Gen. John Ruggie states that KFOR is responsible for 
security and public safety, not IPTF, says UN has made it clear that 
IPTF would make only a marginal contribution in providing security 
and public safety; 156 IPTF currently in province, all expected to be 
deployed by Nov-Dec.; Chief of the Yugo. Gen. Staff, Gen. Dragoljub 
Ojdanic says mil. will support the state and its elected leadership; 
Former Chief of Staff, Momcilo Perisic says govt. seriously 
mismanaged crisis, says army leadership is now openly politicized 
in favor of Milo. and wife Mira Markovic, Perisic says all dem. 
forces must unite if they want to get rid of Milo.; Several hundred 
reservists block road outside Kragujevac, demand army give them back 
pay within 48 hours or they will march on Bel., also call for 
payment of reservists' water and elec. bills, and benefits for 
families of dead or disabled soldiers; DM Pavle Bulatovic says army 
to pay back wages of $90 mil. in 6 monthly installments; Serb PM 
Mirko Marjanovic says Milo. opponents (Djindjic) Awere visiting our 
enemies and requesting them to keep bombing while we were defending 
our country, Dem. Party says auth. Atrying to settle accounts w/ dem. 
forces; Protests in Leskovac now in 17th day to demand release of TV 
broadcaster Ivan Novkovic who had called on air for anti-Milo. 
protests; Several hundred university, secondary students demonstrate 
in Nis demanding Milo. resignation; Reps. of Independent Farmers' 
Union call for protests, general strike on Aug. 2; Govt. sends 
$35,000 bill to ind. Radio Pancevo Afor use of state-owned frequencies, 
station spokeswoman says govt. trying to bankrupt station and it does 
not have money to pay the bill; Bos. legislature fails to adopt 
proposed leg. on regulation of TV by deadline of midnight set by 
Westendorp; Dutch Intelligence Service says in annual report that 
members of unnamed Balkan secret services have tried to infiltrate 
Hague to influence court's work and obtain info. about identity of 
witnesses

July 22 - Ethnic Albanians, Serbs in Mitrovica conclude agreement 
guaranteeing freedom of movement across Ibri River dividing town; 
Draskovic claims KFOR Ais closing its eyes to the atrocities committed 
against the Serbs by the Alb. terrorists and is therefore playing into 
Milo's hands, claims 130,000 Serbs have been forced to flee Kos. and 
that Aevery day, Serbs are killed, women are raped, the ethnic 
cleansing...goes on under the eyes of KFOR; 100 army reservists 
return to protests, blocking of traffic in Nis, demand immediate 
payment of back wages; 1,000 anti-Milo. protestors in Kragujevac 
chant Aoff you go to the Hague about Milo., several hundred anti-govt. 
protestors in Leskovac, Valjevo; Leskovac judge rules that Ivan 
Novkovic faces criminal charge of Amisusing an official position for 
his television appeal; Euro. Parl. passes resolution which will 
prevent all but humanitarian aid for Serbia until Milo. is gone, 
Mon. to be excepted from sanctions; Chief EU aid coordinator for 
Balkans, Bodo Hombach, says reconstruction aid for Serbia can only 
come when Milo. is gone; UN authorizes $200 mil. for Kos. mission; 
Kouchner calls on Rugova to take part in Kos. Transitional Council; 
UNWFP reports that Pristina airport getting 10-12 humanitarian flights 
daily; Mon. says it will take ownership of its airports, 2 of which 
are owned by JAT, set up public company named AMontenegrin airports 
to secure unhindered and regular air traffic and admin. of its 
airports at Podgorica, Tivat, Berane, and Zabljak (1st 2 taken over 
by Serbia in '93; Mon. appealed this law); Mon. Justice Min. Dragan 
Soc says govt. has rejected Yugo. PM Bulatovic's request to send 1% 
of all income in Mon. to Serbia to help repair damage, Soc says Mon. 
govt. will not help Milo. but instead find ways of helping Serbian 
people;

July 23 - NATO's Gen. Jackson postpones meeting until next day w/ 
UCK's Gen. Agim Ceku to allow them to Acheck its tallies of armaments 
before Jackson officially confirms that UCK meeting disarmament 
obligations; Nenad Cenak of League of Social Dems. of Vojvodina says 
in Vienna that opp. has Aagreed to coordinate our street 
demonstrations and that Milo. could be gone by autumn; Ger. 
Chancellor Schroeder commits another 100 police to Ger. 
contribution of 200

July 26 - UN Sec. Council condemns massacre of 14 Serb farmers, 
Kouchner pledges that no effort will be spared in bringing their 
killers to justice while Louise Arbour instructs Tribunal 
investigators to look into case; UN estimates $290 mil. needed for 
rest of year to deal w/ Kos. humanitarian problems, but cautions that 
this should not come at expense of less-high profile projects that 
underly the Dayton Accords; Kouchner issues first regulation outlining 
exec. and legislative authorities for Kos., says "under the mandate 
established by the intl. community, UNMIK is the legal authority in 
Kos.  We intend to exercise that authority fully"; regulation allows 
Kouchner to appoint any person to work in UN supervised civil admin. 
including the judiciary; Kouchner says he has appointed 11 new judges 
bringing to 30 total number of judges and prosecutors appt. by UNMIK; 
UNHCR says 4,527 Kosovars returned home from other countries in past 
3 days

July 27 - UNHCR estimates that in 1/3rd of all villages, 54% of 
housing suffered severe damage or complete destruction, 32% of 
village schools severely or completely destroyed

July 28 - UN Special Rep. Bernard Kouchner attends funeral 
service in Gracko for 14 Serbs killed, expresses condolences, 
meets w/ Bishop Artemije, UNMIK District Civil Admin. for Pristina, 
Enrique Aguilar, also present; Brussels conference of more than 
100 donor countries receives pledges of $2.082 bil. to rebuild Kos.

July 29 - Albright tells crowd of several thousand Kosovars in 
Pristina that they should reject violence and revenge; Kouchner 
says that in Kos. "the only govt. is UNMIK.  That is not to say 
that we are not going to work w/ the parties.  On the contrary, 
we are not competitors"; UN says several hundred gather outside 
UNMIK hq every day hoping to join future Kos. Police Force, 25,000 
forms relating to this have been distributed throughout the province 
and 10,003 have been returned

July 30 - Rus. PM Sergei Stepashin says at Balkan reconstruction 
summit in Sara. that "I do not cherish kind feelings for Milo.  
The sufferings of the Yugo. population were caused not only by the 
bombings but chiefly by the regime of Slobodan Milo.", but blocks 
critical reference about Milo. in summit declaration; Yelt. says 
that "we have to resolve the situation in Yugo. and est. friendly 
rels. w/ the US, Ger., Fran. and other western countries"; Clinton, 
Schroeder, other leaders at Sara. conference sign document on 
regional devel., EU issues separate statement blaiming Milo. for 
Serbian isolation;  Tudj., Izet. sign agreement defining border between 
two countries, Tudj. later denies Hague tribunal charges that  he is 
responsible for Bos. war crimes, says "that accusation...is as much 
surprising as it is completely unfounded.  Croatia, and I personally, 
have done everything to defend Bos."; Westendorp decrees measures 
creating single public broadcasting service for BiH, to provide 
newscasts to TV stations in all parts of country, action taken after 
local auth. fail to agree on issues "vital to the continued 
implementation" of Dayton Accord

July 31 - Father Sava tells Blair that Albanians have destroyed or 
looted 35 medieval Orthodox churches; Rus. KFOR troops briefly detain 
UCK's Gen. Agim Ceku near Kijeva after he is found in uniform and 
without KFOR identity card entitling him to carry gun, travel w/ 4 
armed guards, Thaci condemns action, says "we will defend our honor" 
against further incidents

Aug. 1 - Kouchner estimates mass graves may contain as many as 11,000 
bodies, later visits unfinished Serbian Orthodox Cathedral attacked 
previous night, condemns attack as unacceptable; Rus. For. Min. 
condemns Thaci statement as showing "the impunity of the UCK"; UN 
civilian police deploy at 4 border posts along borders w/ Mac., Alb. 
to track flow of people and goods; UNHCR estimates 4,500 Albanians 
have crossed from Serbia back into Kos. around town of Presevo, and 
that Yugo. army, paramilitaries have been beating, looting, and 
threatening to murder them; Amer. pks prevent ethnic Albanians from 
attacking 450-person convoy of Serbs as they flee n. from Zitinje 
(se. Kos.); Serbian banker Dragoslav Avramovic says Milo. must resign 
by late Sept. if intl. aid is to come by winter; Police in Paracin 
beat demonstrators trying to prevent them from gathering petition 
signatures on Milo. resignation document; Several hundred 
demonstrators come out in Leskovac, Valjevo against Milo.;
Mon. Pres. Djukanovic visits Moscow, Yugo. emb. in Moscow says it 
has been "neglected" in arrangements for the visit and that it 
violates diplomatic protocol; Djukanovic repeats warning that Mon. 
to declare ind. unless Serbia introduces reforms which will produce 
dem., market eco.

Aug. 2 - Serbs set up "flying checkpoints" in Kamenica, Albanians 
follow suit; 2 Serbs including 90-year old woman killed in Kos.; 
Kouchner reopens Pristina post office, telecommunications center; 
Opp. rally in Valjevo attended by 6,000, Serbian Orthodox Bishop 
Artemije calls on Serbs to put aside differences until Milo. resigns, 
says "we lost Kos. only when Milo. tried to solve the problem w/ 
force" says Milo. should be sent to the Hague; Obradovic tells rally 
after 2 buses of riot police arrive from Cacak that "the police and 
the army will be w/ us, don't worry"; police don't intervene; 
Spokesman for ind. G-17 group of Serbian economists calls on opp. 
groups to hold joint rally in Bel. on Aug. 19, says plan for 
nonpartisan transitional govt. will be discussed by church, 
political leaders and that it is irrelevant whether Milo. leaves 
before or after transitional govt. takes power; Police in Vojvodina 
force farmers in Pancevo area to end blockade of road between Bel., 
Zrenjanin and arrest some of them (farmers want Yugo. Agri. Min. 
Nedeljko Sipovic to resign); District ct. in Nis said to be 
investigating case of Igor Radocaj for stealing from and murdering 
2 ethnic Albanians while in Kos. (June 14); American advisor to 
Djukanovic says Mon. preparing to set up currency board should they 
decide to introduce own currency, says reserves of $70 mil. needed 
for this; SFOR arrests indicted war criminal Radomir Kovac, former 
sub-commander of Bos. Serb mil. police in Foca and paramilitary 
leader in Foca on charges of crimes against humanity for attacks on 
that city's Muslim population, systematic rape of women between 
April '92 and Feb. '93; 2,000 ethnic Serbs from Kostajnica demonstrate 
against new border deal which makes land near their town part of 
Croatia, call for firing of RS PM Dodik and Zivko Radisic (Serb 
member of joint presidency) over issue; 30 ethnic Croats of village 
of Unista say they do not want to be transferred from Croatian to 
Bosnian control under agreement, say they will ask to be resettled 
elsewhere in Croatia; Croatian Helsinki Committee sends letter to 
PM Zlatko Matesa saying incidents against returning Serbs on rise 
in Knin area and that national newspapers have encouraged anti-Serbian 
feelings among local Croats

Aug. 3 - UNHCR says aid pipeline through Mac. backing up due to 
Mac. imposition of customs inspection fee; spokesman also comments 
that of the 10,000 Serbs in Gnijlane area many are leaving mixed 
villages in favor of completely Serb ones, while between 4,500 and 
5,000 Albanians fled to this area after the bombing stopped; Sec. 
Coun. has asked KFOR to assume responsibility for sec., including 
police functions until IPTF can be put in place, new local forces 
can be trained; Human Rights Watch, Roma Rights Center issue reports 
blaming UCK for recent violence against both Serbs and Roma, criticize 
KFOR for not doing; Bishop Artemije says KFOR must either protect 
minorities or leave, says Thaci and Ceku have not sufficiently 
"distanced themselves" from violence; KFOR arrests 5 Albanians 
in Peja on suspicion of killing man they had taken hostage; Fre. 
KFOR troops arrest 15 Serbs in Mitrovica for trying to prevent 
ethnic Albanians from returning to their homes; Rugova says LDK 
will participate in KTC; 3,000 at anti-Milo. rally in Vrsac while 
several hundred more attend other rallies in Kragujevac, Valjevo, 
Leskovac; Draskovic says he will attend rally set for Aug. 19 in 
Belgrade; Opp. Vojvodina Coalition says authorities have threatened 
to take legal action against several farmers after they call on Agri. 
Min.;  OSCE reps. say that draft election law for Bosnia now ready; 
candidates must win at least some of their votes in both sectors of 
country, and voters won't be able to vote for party lists but instead 
for individual candidates; RS PM Dodik and Fed. PM Edhem Bicakcic 
agree in Banja Luka to divide between their governments Bosnia's 
debts to EBRD which will allow for release of $170 mil. in new 
loans; RS VP Mirko Sarovic says that border agreement violates RS 
constitution, calls for resignation of 2 ethnic Serb officials who 
approved it, but Westendorp's office says agreement changes nothing 
and only "reaffirms the legal border", says unnamed Bos. Serb 
leaders trying to use issue for their own political ends; Dodik 
says that new law establishing public broadcast service for entire 
country "not acceptable" to RS

Aug. 4 - 2 Serbs, 1 Albanian killed in Gnjilane when Serb vehicles 
fired on in Albanian village of Dobrcane; 3 ethnic Albanians kill man 
in his bed, beat his mother in Viti; Albanians attack Serb neighborhoods 
in Kamenica due to presence of Rus. pks; KFOR arrests UCK "Int. Min" 
Rexhep Sellimi when he and bodyguards can't produce ID cards entitling 
them to be in uniform, carry weapons; Sellimi aims gun at KFOR pks, 
who arrest him and confiscate his weapon; Gen. Jackson says no one 
should be surprised that Serbs are victims of violence in Kos. but 
says problem is not systematic or "ethnic cleansing"; Hague's dep. 
chief prosecutor, Graham Blewitt, says UCK will "fall into the 
tribunal's jurisdiction" if it conducts an "ethnic cleansing 
campaign"; Kouchner visits mass grave site near Mitrovica, says 
estimate of 11,000 Albanians in graves is inaccurate; Rugova, Thaci 
meet w/ Kouchner in Pristina, discuss Kos. and possible coop. between 
them; sides agree to create joint commission to administer financial 
resources collected by LDK's Bukoshi; US special envoy Robert Gelbard 
meets in Mon. town w/ Djindjic, Vladan Batic, Social Dems's Vuk 
Obradovic, Civic League's Goran Svilanovic, and banker Dragoslav 
Avramovic, holds separate meeting w/ Draskovic, official Bel. media 
calls them "quislings" and agents of NATO; Student org. "Otpor" 
(Resistance) issues "Declaration for the Future of Serbia" calling 
for free elections under OSCE control, says Milo. must be held 
accountable for policies of last 10 years; Mon. governing Dem. 
Socialist Party says it will not take part in talks w/ Serbian PM 
Marjanovic on joining govt.; Yugo. PM Bulatovic says there are 
"2,400 Serbian holy places" in Kos. and wants 4 policemen to guard 
each of them, notes that there were 9,600 police in Kos. before 
fighting Croatian Justice Minister Zvonimir Separovic says again that
govt. must protect it's "security interests" and will not hand over 
documents to Hague on Operation Storm

Aug. 5 - Rocket-propelled grenade fired into Mitrovica hitting house; 
group in Urosevac attack Serb-owned house, KFOR soldiers exchange fire 
w/ them, 1 wounded man held by KFOR; 3 Rus.-manned checkpoints at 
Koretin, Kamenica  fired upon, 1 Rus. wounded, pks return fire; 
grenade thrown in Lipljan, 5 suspects arrests in Velika Donbraja; 
KFOR soldiers seize weapons from 8 Albanians in cars; NATO reports 
108 Serbs return to their homes in Gorazdevac from Belgrade; Serbian 
Int. Min. Vlajko Stojiljkovic says KFOR has failed to protect 
Serbian civilians in Kos. and that this is a failure of their mandate; 
Djindjic says that rallies in Serbia will force Milo. to call for 
elections by Nov.; Yugo. army drops draft-dodging charges against 
Djindjic; Draskovic says possible transitional govt. should have 
both Milo. supporters and opponents, calls on Socialist Party of 
Serbia to reach agreement w/ opp. on forming this govt.; Leskovac 
TV editor, Ivan Novkovic, completes 30-day sentence for calling for 
anti-Milo. demonstration, says he hopes other protests will take 
place throughout Serbia; Mon. govt. approves plan to abolish Yugo. 
federation in favor of loose association of 2 sovereign states;
Croatia marks anniversary of Operation Storm in '95

Aug. 6 - UN civilian director in Pristina, Bernard Kouchner, holds 
dinner for Rugova, Thaci; UN announces that first 200 of total 3,100 
intl. police force to begin patrolling Pristina, 274 other officers 
already in Kos. getting briefed; police to set up small stations to 
be open 24 hours a day in dangerous locations; KFOR patrol fired on 
near Pec, 1 arrested; Finnish Pres. Ahtisaari says KFOR and not civilian 
police should provide security in Kos., and that "I fear the role of 
the intl. police has not been fully though out"; Rugova says in 
interview that he will run for president again in 2000,  and that 
"the Serbs can only accept our ind."; Milo. tells Serb emigres in 
Bel. that opp. are "corrupt politicians" who want to destabilize 
Serbia; Mac. govt. announces it is waiving fee on transit of 
humanitarian assistance to Kos.; ICTY Registrar withdraws counsel 
for 7 Croats who are no longer considered indigent after they receive 
over 4 mil. Deutschmarks in financial support from org. named 
Croatian Prisoners in the Hague from auction of artworks held in 
June in Mostar, defendants still claim that their financial situation 
has not been substantially altered; Westendorp's office opens border 
crossing near Ivanica on Dubrovnik-Trebinje road for first time in 8 
years

Aug. 7 - Rus. pks at 3 checkpoints attacked at night, 4 other 
checkpoints also attacked, 16 people arrested in connection w/ 
incidents; Fre. pks block 200-300 Kosovars from crossing Ibar River 
dividing line in Kosovska Mitrovica in UCK-led demonstration, 4 ethnic 
Albanians arrested (later released) after UN fails to work out free-
movement agreement and Serbs violate agreement to let Kosovars travel 
to their homes for 2nd day; gunshots, taunts by Serbs, Kosovars; UCK's 
Thaci tells rally of several thousand in Podujevo (18 miles e. of 
Kosovska Mitrovica) that NATO Aare allies people respect and will 
always remember for what they did for us; 3 Serbs wounded in grenade 
attack on bar in Pristina; KFOR troops observe ethnic Albanians use 
small arms, grenade in attack on Serb sector of Mitrovica, shoot 1 man, 
arrest 1; Multinational Brigade (MNB) East reports that 30-40 houses 
burned in Zintinje; Alliance for Change's Vladan Batic tells 2,000 
protestors in Vrbas that it is Milo. who is the traitor; Djindjic 
addresses 800 in Zabalj, calls for ouster of "tyrants, thieves, and 
criminal gangs", but Draskovic says Milo. to leave office only if there 
is a "pol. agreement", but also that PM Bulatovic must resign ASAP due 
to lack of recognition from Mon.; RS parl. speaker Petar Djokic says 
border agreement w/ Croatia must be changed and that Una River should 
form boundary

Aug. 8 - 2 Serb women shot in their homes in Pristina, 2 grenades 
thrown at house in downtown injuring 10-year old Roma girl; body of 
man beaten to death found on top of building; Rus. pks detain 2 Serbs 
for carrying weapons in Kamenica; Ethnic Albanians again clash w/ Fre. 
KFOR troops, KFOR accuses UCK of orchestrating situation to take over 
northern Mitrovica; rocket-propelled grenade fired into northern part 
of town but causes no injuries; First 500 intl. police (IPTF) formally 
begin duties; KFOR raids house of UCK's Int. Min. Rexhep Selimi, finds 
weapons, 20 radio frequency scanners, and illegal identity cards

Aug. 9 - Ethnic Serbs, Albanians meet in Mitrovica under UN mediation, 
fail to agree on freedom of movement; KFOR patrol fired on by car in 
Pristina; 200 ethnic Albanians stage protest in Mitrovica, 1 Fre. pk 
injured by rock, bridge over Ibar River later reopened; Danish 
bulldozer receives machine gun fire n. of Vucitrn; 2 Roma abducted 
in Prizren by 3 men, Serb man killed, wife wounded in their Prizren 
apt.; Serb woman, 2-year old daughter shot near Gnjilane, ethnic 
Albanian man detained for attempting to evict Mus. family from apt. 
in Urosevac; KFOR Rus. troops fired on in 2 separate incidents in 
area of Kosovska Kamenica, return fire; UNMIK police begin patrolling 
w/ KFOR; Gen. Jackson says in interview that he isn't confident that 
UCK is in full control of ethnic Albanians after demonstrations in 
Mitrovica; Thaci criticizes Fre. in Mitrovica for being "undemocratic 
and arrogant" and KFOR for planning to apply laws that were in force 
prior to March bombing and detaining UCK Chief-of-Staff Agim Ceku, Min. 
of Public Order Rexhep Selimi for carrying guns illegally; Kos. Serbian 
Resistance Movement leader Momcilo Trajkovic says Milo. must leave 
office if Kos. to remain multi-ethnic and part of Serbia, want to est. 
5 cantons as interim solution based on current KFOR sectors;
Patriarch Pavle meets w/ all key opp. leaders including Draskovic, 
Djindjic, to try to forge united anti-Milo. front, Seselj warns 
Church not to support "those seeking to take power by force"; 
Telecommunications Ministry informs local TV, radio stations they 
will lose licenses if they do not pay back taxes in 7 days;
Milo. meets w/ RS Pres. Nikola Poplasen in Bel. who continues to 
reject Westendorp's attempt to remove him; Wanted war crimes suspect, 
Vinko (AStela) Martinovic, transferred from Croatian custody to Hague

Aug. 10 - KFOR arrests 78 people throughout province for looting, 
carrying weapons, attempted kidnapping, other offences; 4 explosions 
in Mitrovica by 66-mm rocket launchers, fights break out between 
Serbs, Albanians, Fre. pks close bridge over Ibar to traffic, 
prevent 200 Albanians from crossing to where 200 Serbs are waiting; 
9 mortar rounds fired into center of Grabovac, 2 injured, 1 house 
hit; KFOR pks search building in Gniljane, find guns, knives, 
surplus military equip., arrest 60, some in UCK uniforms, 50 of 
whom are later released; Serb woman shot and killed, 4-year old 
child wounded near Donje Korminjane; KFOR estimates only 1,000-2,000 
Serbs left in urban area of Pristina down from pre-war pop. of 
27,000-40,000 Serbs and that only elderly, infirm are left and these 
are being terrorized by Athugs; KFOR says pattern emerging of warning 
letter being sent to Serbs ordering them to leave, followed by 
in-person threat, and then physical assault and sometimes murder; 
Serbs being forced to transfer rights of property to ethnic Albanians; 
freedom of movement for Serbs considered Avirtually non-existent; 
NATO says it Astrongly condemns this violence and urges AAlbanian 
leaders to use their influence to counter the hatred and hostility; 
UNHCR spokesman says Athere is some systematic organized effort to 
force Serbs out of Kos., but doesn't know exactly who is responsible 
for it; UCK's Ceku says Serbian govt. has secret service agents, 
paramilitary forces in Kos. to destabilize conditions, denies UCK 
organized Mitrovica demonstrations; Institute of War and Peace 
estimates 2,270 ethnic Albanians being held in Serbian prisons; 
Gen. Momcilo Perisic forms Movement for Democratic Serbia based 
on principles of democratic change, ouster of Milo., says it is not 
political party and is open to other political groups; Serbian 
Orthodox Bishops from Serbia, Mon., RS say they won't take part 
in opp. demonstration on Aug. 19 in Bel., but appeal to Milo., 
Milutinovic to resign, call on intl. community to end sanctions;
UN forensic experts confirm mass grave in NE Bos. w/ bodies of 250 
from Srebrenica, describe it as execution site as many victims had 
hands tied behind their backs

Aug. 11 - Orthodox Bishops' Conference calls on Milo., Milutinovic 
to resign Aif they really do not wish to turn their people and state 
into their hostages and take them into a certain disaster, also for 
transitional govt., early elections; Gen. Clark contends that there 
were leaks by NATO allies to Serbs about targets during early part of 
bombing campaign, that it was Aas clear as the nose on your face; UN 
appoints Carla Del Ponte, Swiss attorney-general, as new Prosecutor for 
ICTY (and Intl. Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda) to succeed Louise Arbour 
in Sept.; KFOR finds elderly Serb woman beaten in Pristina; KFOR arrests 
50 in Gniljane, all but 10 released, protest by several hundred people 
against their detention; 500 demonstrate in Dobrcane against Rus. 
troops in area, US, Rus. pks disperse crowd w/ warning shots; 17-year 
old woman kidnapped in Decane; UNHCR estimates that there are only 
2,000 Serbs left in Pristina out of pre-war total of 20,000

Aug. 12 - Ethnic Albanians fire on Bri. pks who are trying to prevent 
revenge attack against Serbs, 7 arrested, 3 wounded; 2,000 Kosovars 
protest in Kosovska Kamenica against presence of Rus. pks; ethnic 
Albanian boy killed, 2 brothers wounded by mine in Podujevo area; 2 
ethnic Albanians suffer gunshot wounds near Donja Gusterica; Rus. pk 
shot by sniper in Robotovo (8 km. ne of Gnjilane); 83 Serbs return to 
Gorazdevac from Mon.; KFOR reports that 750,000 people have returned 
to province; KFOR confiscates weapons including anti-tank rockets in 
Susica, at border crossing at Morina; Cabinet shuffle in Yugo. results 
in Zoran Lilic, 7 others being removed, Seselj's party getting 5 of the 
posts, Milo's Socialists 3, United Yugo. Left 3; all cabinet members on 
western list of 308 top officials barred from receiving western visas; 
Perisic says 1st goals of his new movement is to get rid of Milo., also 
that opp. has done little to change situation; 1,000 pensioners protest 
living conditions in Bel.; Croatian Serb leader Milorad Pupovac says 
killing of Djuro Mutic was deliberate and ethnically motivated, calls 
it a "lynching"

Aug. 13 - Several hundred Serbs protest in Gnjilane against both 
Albanian demonstrations and against Milo.; peaceful demonstrations 
reported in several cities in support of ethnic Albanians still held 
in Serbian jails; 2 ethnic Albanians bodies found in North Pristina; 
Several hundred Serbs demonstrate in Mitrovica against Kos. situation 
and Yugo. govt., bridge still open to traffic; 3 ethnic Albanians 
detained for questioning near Orahovac after vehicle found to have 120 
pistols, guns; 2 ethnic Albanians detained in connections w/ house 
burning in Prizren; 2 ethnic Albanians detained for possessing 2 rifles, 
ammo. near Klokot; drive-by shooting near Strpce wounds Serb woman; US, 
Canadian forensics teams investigating gravesite near village of Donja 
Stubla; Span. pks arrest 8 in Istok for threatening 2 women; Kouchner 
issues Reg. #2 on the "prevention of access by individuals and their 
removal" to secure public peace and order, reg. to give UNMIK, KFOR 
preventive tool to deter violence and public unrest and to possibly 
remove individuals from city limits or possibily from Kos. altogether; 
Thaci says "consultative and executive" body that would serve as a 
provisional legislature needed to pass laws before elections can take 
place, future elected parl. would have to approve leg. passed by that 
body for laws to remain valid; Vojvodina Hungarians to est. Provisional 
Council of Hungarians in Voj. on basis of fed., rep., provincial 
representation, informs Hungarian For. Min. of its intentions

Aug. 14 - Newly named Yugo. vice premier Tomislav Nikolic of Radical 
Party says Milo. should step down Abecause he capitulated in Kos.; 
Beta news agency reports that 110 cars, tractors, and trucks loaded 
w/ Serbs leave Dnjilane area for Serbia; Kouchner says in the future, 
I will not allow the homes of 10 or 15 Serbs to be burned down every 
night even if that means confrontation with the KLA, says he has told 
Thaci Athat my patience has run out.  If the Serbs leave Kos., we will 
have lost; Ital. FM Lamberto Dini says Serbs being brutally suppressed, 
calls for more KFOR action, and says there should be no reconstruction 
aid if there is no commitment to fight crime, drug trafficking; KFOR 
reports relative quiet due to increased patrols; 4 Serb men shot, 2 
wounded by 4 ethnic Albanians in car in Mitrovica; 2 Serbs arrested  
in Mitrovica for weapons possession, 1 arrested n. of town for drug 
dealing; 16 year old boy loses foot in mine blast at Donja Dubnica; 
woman found dead from stab wounds in Prizren, 80 year old Serb man 
killed by gunshot; weapons searches in Djakova

Aug. 15 - Serb PM Mirko Marjanovic calls members of Alliance for 
Change Arepresentatives of the aggressive policy of NATO and paid 
killers, says they seek violent overthrow of Milo. and are therefore 
a terrorist org.; Several thousand show up for protest against Milo. 
in Trstenik and Krusevac; Perisic says on Studio-B TV says army won't 
support Milo. if he cracks down on opp.; KFOR says level of viol. down 
for 3rd straight day in Kos.; Albanian man abducted, shot after he 
attempts to stop woman's abduction, 3 arrested; KFOR finds elderly 
woman murdered in Pristina; 3 ethnic Albanians arrested for looting 
in Prizren, 2 men arrested for carrying AK-47, grenades in Lesane; 
Rus. patrol comes under small arms, APC fires back; explosion in 
downtown Pristina; Kouchner suspends discriminatory legislation based 
on religious or ethnic grounds, appoints 19-member working group 
co-chaired by ethnic Albanian law professor Blerim Reka to review 
existing laws; Fre. FM Vedrine says Serbia will get no reconstruction 
aid as long as Milo. stays in power; Thaci visits Albanian Pres. Rexhep 
Meidani in Durres, Meidani pledges university teachers, other experts 
for Kos.; both sides call for intl. control of Mitrovica, Thaci claims 
that there are many Serb paramilitaries in north of city; 3 men fire 
on Ger. pks in Zjum area; 4 ethnic Albanians arrested for looting Serb 
house in Babus Soski (8 km. north of  Urosevac); 4 ethnic Albanians in 
Podgoce detained in connection w/ murder of Alb. man, stabbing his nephew

Aug. 16 - Milo. claims KFOR has Atolerated the rampage of bandit groups 
in Kos., demands KFOR speedup UCK's disarmament and expel Ahordes of 
criminal and robbers and that Serbian forces be allowed to return to 
the province; APolitika attacks Perisic as Atiny-statured, weak, and 
treacherous who is Anow trying to compensate for his loser personality 
and become Clinton's lieutenant; Serb Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic (3rd Army) 
says KFOR has not fulfilled its obligations, demands that NATO leave 
Kos. and allow his own troops to return; UCK-appointed mayor of 
Mitrovica Bajram Rexhepi asks ethnic Alb.crowd to disperse peacefully, 
says agreement reached to allow ethnic Albanians to return to homes 
in Serb part of town w/ 25 families to return home in north of town 
every day; Rus. Col.-Gen. Georgii Shpak, commander of paratrooper 
units, says UCK behind schedule w/ demilitarization; 3 civilians 
wounded in grenade attacks in Pristina area, 1 arrested; 9 mortar 
rounds fired on Klokot killing 2, wounding 5; UNHCR's McNamara says 
org. helped unspecified number of Serbs leave Kos. due to attacks by 
ethnic Albanians, may evacuate more and that some who weren't evacuated 
were later killed; also comments that 180,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, 
Roma, and other non-Albanians have left Kos., w/ 50,000 leaving before 
KFOR arrived

Aug. 17 - Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic of 3rd Army warns that army will 
intervene in protest if this is necessary Ato prevent civil war while 
Yugo. PM Bulatovic says a Apowerful, illegal intl. movement is trying 
to overthrow the Alegally elected Yugo. govt.; Draskovic says he will 
not take part in demonstration, that he cannot "accept many, many stupid 
ideas of irresponsible people"; Alliance for Change's Vladan Batic says 
he will not speak at Bel. rally; Prominent businessman Bogoljub Karic 
leaves govt. position as min.-without-portfolio; Kos. Serb leader 
Momcilo Trajkovic says no one from opp. has invited him or his Serbian 
Resistance Movement to rally; 7 policemen beat up, arrest artist 
Bogoljub Arsenijevic in front of Bel. offices of Perisic's Movement 
for Democratic Serbia; prosecutor's office in Pancevo begins to 
investigate opp. leader Vesna Pesic's remarks at rally in Vrsac after 
she tells protestors that Milo. could be gotten rid of by the 
Romanian method; Mitrovica Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic (member of 
Transitional Council) says Serbs, Albanians have not reached an accord 
as reported previous day by Albanian leader Rexhepi; Staff of Grand 
Hotel in Pristina reportedly discovers 2 prison cells, torture chamber 
in underground building belonging to hotel; Serb woman beaten, robbed 
while here daughter is sexually assaulted Grenade attacks on Roma house 
in Pristina, individual in Vitina; KFOR troops confiscate 3 rifles, 3 
pistols, 4 Joint Implementation Commission (JIC) cards not valid for 
Prizren area; Multinational Brigade (West) begins providing support to 
isolated villages in mountain region near Pec, Ital. troops distribute 
humanitarian aid, medical assistance to 187 people; USAID calls in 4 
loans to BiH Bank due to bank's providing false information concerning 
these loans, run on bank ensues w/ foreign govts., relief agencies 
losing millions of dollars as a result;  US govt. says as much as $1 
bil. in aid may been stolen by corrupt top officials including Izet's 
son who is now controlling much of public housing, part of state 
airline; Albanian educ. Min. Ethem Ruka urged by PM Pandeli Majko to 
draw up plans to unify educ. in Alb. lang. in Albania, Kosovo, and 
Macedonia

Aug. 18 - 25,000 turn out for protest against Milo. in Nis, Mayor 
Zoran Zivkovic says to crowd "we cannot keep suffering any longer" 
while Djindjic tells crowd they should attend demo. in Bel. for 
following day and that Archbishop Artemije, Kos. Serb leader Momcilo 
Trajkovic will both be there; SD leader Vuk Obradovic says 
unidentified persons tried to force his car off road on the way to 
Nis; Dem. Alternative party leader Nebojsa Covic says govt. will 
stage provocations at rally in Bel., while Bel. police claim they 
have arrested man "w/ a highly explosive device" and warn of possible 
bomb attacks at "mass public gatherings"; Socialist Party's spokesman 
Ivica Dacic says govt. willing to hold early elections; Serbs at 
Yugo.-Croatian soccer match in Bel. chant "Slobo go" and "you sold 
out" on Kos., as well as anti-Croatian slogans; Opp. leader Vesna 
Pesic goes to Podgorica for safety reasons, to "remove [herself] from 
what is happening in Serbia"; UNHCR says 180,000 Serbs have left 
Kos., fewer than 50,000 left; also estimates that only about 400 
people (half of these Bos. Serb and Croatian Serb refs.) have been 
given escorts out of Kos., 13 from Pristina ; Kouchner, Gen. Jackson 
issue statement calling on ethnic Albanians to coop. w/ pks, UNMIK, 
condemn "illegal and threatening activities"; KFOR says rate of 
criminal acts down; Grenade attack on 3 Serbs in Gniljane; More 
weapons, ammo. confiscated in Djakovica; 2 grenades, 2 Molotov cocktails 
thrown at Orthodox Church guarded by Ital. pks in Dokavice, 2 soldiers 
slightly wounded; KFOR reports that Ital. troops conducted border 
crossing searches of 1,300 vehicles, 4,500 people at their checkpoints 
in past week but find only small number of weapons; several house fires 
in Prizren damage 20 homes; UCK soldier shot and killed by sniper near 
UCK hq in Pristina; Alb., Croatian Fms meet in Tirana, agree to coop. 
in fields of agri., tourism, transport, telecommunications, and 
education

Aug. 19 - Estimated crowd of 150,000 turn out in Belgrade, demand Milo. 
go; Djindjic tells crowd opp. to hold daily street protests if Milo. 
doesn't resign in 2 weeks; Draskovic shows up at meeting after saying 
he wouldn't, says no one should try to take power from the streets, 
calls instead for early elections by end of Nov., is booed by crowd 
for his comments; Yugoslav Action (confederation of trade unions, 50 
NGOs, etc.) says Bel. auth. are preventing aid from abroad from 
reaching refs. from Kos.; Gen. Agim Ceku, chief of UCK's general 
staff says UCK has met NATO's 2nd deadline for disarmament, says UCK 
to complete demilitarization by scheduled date of Sept. 19, but also 
criticizes UNMIK for including only small number of former UCK members 
in first group of local police recruits; of 200 selected so far only 3 
are UCK; ethnic Albanians discover mass grave at Dragodan where as many 
as 200 may be buried; 1,100 Roma refs. from Kos. arrive in Italy by 
boat; KFOR arrests 2 ethnic Albanians in Pristina for throwing hand 
grenade near Serb apts., troops in Orahovac arrest 3 for suspicion of 
serious crimes, 2 other arrested in Prizren for illegal occupation of 
apt. belonging to Serb family; 2 teenagers injured by mines in 
Stoberce (near Alb. border); KFOR reponds to small arms fire in 
Gjakova, fight and exchange fire w/ 3 drunken men, 1 of whom is 
wounded; Brcko permanently assigned under joint control of both RS, 
Mus.-Croat Federation; US State Dept.'s James Rubin says NYT report 
on corruption in BiH exaggerated the problem, calls report "false 
and unjustified"

Aug. 20 - Dutch, Ger. pks in Orahovac arrest 3 Serbs on suspicion of 
committing atrocities against ethnic Albanians during conflict, Tanjug 
claims they are Arespected figures in community; 4 Serbs wounded when 
ethnic Albanians throw grenades from car in village west of Pristina, 
Serb villagers barricade road, demand intl. pk protection

Aug. 21 - Ger., Dutch pks in Orahovac post signs w/ names of Serbs 
given weapons by Serb police, demand they hand them in at collection 
points, says KFOR to conduct house-to-house searches after deadline 
and will arrest those w/ weapons, 120 weapons turned in by middle of 
day; Dutch pks to hand over control of this part of sector to Rus. pks 
on 23rd; Tanjug denounces previous day arrest of 4 Serbs on war-crimes 
charges, calls it Agrotesque; 2 Serb brothers wounded when ethnic 
Albanians attack village of Banje (c. Kos.), Fre. pks rush to area; 
Transitional Council holds 2nd meeting, Thaci does not show up, but 
Kouchner says he had told him he would be out of country and attend 
next session; UNMIK civilian police take over primary responsibility 
for law and order in Pristina including enforcing criminal codes, 
conducting investigations, making arrests for criminal offenses
Draskovic accuses Djindjic's Dem. Party of pushing country toward 
civil war by rejecting Milo. offer of early elections, says his own 
followers will boycott joint rallies w/ aim of forcing Milo. out

Aug. 20 - 3 Serbs arrested for war crimes by KFOR in Orahovac to stand 
trail at District Ct. in Prizren rather than at Hague, Tribunal 
officials say they support local trials so long as the judiciary is 
mature and democratic enough to ensure fair trials; Alliance for Change 
co-leader Vladan Batic calls on Milo. to resign by Sept. 21 or face 
protests throughout Serbia, says Athere will be no turning back for 
opp.; Economist Intelligence Unit release report putting total cost 
of Kos. conflict at $64 bil. and that GDP has shrunk by more than 40% 
in '99 making Yugo. poorest country in Eur. w/ per GDP of $880 compared 
to Albania's $905; National Council of Vojvodina's Hungarians formed of 
3 of 6 ethnic pol. orgs. in province, Subotica mayor Jozsef Kasza 
elected head of 55-member council, Hungarian Radio says council to act 
as mini-parl. for ethnic Hungarians living in Yugo.; 10,000 right-
wing supporters from throughout Europe turn out in Hungarian rally, 
demand UN-sponsored referendum in Vojvodina to determine whether 
ethnic Hungarians want to be reunited w/ Hungary proper; far-right 
Hungarian Justice and Life Party leader Istvan Csurka says this 
would ensure the safety of Hungarians in Yugo.

Aug. 21 - Kos. Serb leader Momcilo Trajkovic says Amulti-ethnic Kos. 
has failed.  We think that cantonization could stop the ongoing 
tragedy of the Serbian people, Kouchner says he will study the 
proposal, but ethnic Albanians reject it; New ICTY prosecutor, Carla 
del Ponte, says in interview that she will Ago after [top war 
criminals] aggressively, referring specifically to Milo., Arkan, 
Karadzic, and Mladic; UNHCR urges Albanians to use weatherproofing 
kits to repair 1 room per household as this may be the only 
reconstruction help they receive before winter; 500 Dubrovnik-area 
veterans of Croatian war protest opening of Ivanica border crossing 
linking area to Serb-held eastern Her., town of Trebinje saying intl. 
community did not take local sensitivities into account when they 
decided to do it, say they want several including Trebinje mayor 
Bozidar Vucurevic arrested for war crimes including shelling of 
Dubrovnik

Aug. 22 - Milo's Socialist Party in Kos. accuses Kouchner of trying 
to put Serbs into a ghetto after UN administrator says in interview 
that it might be temporarily necessary to regroup Serbs to protect 
them from ethnic Albanians; SPS says UN mission Askirting its 
obligations and favoring Albanian terrorists; KFOR investigates 
report of 2 bodies found at site 10km ne of Pristina; KFOR troops 
stop ethnic Albanian man from attacking Serb woman in Pristina; 3 
Serbs wounded when Molotov cocktail thrown at them by passing car; 
bodies of elderly man and woman killed by gunshot wounds found in 
Prizren apt.; Serbs in Orahovac hand over 500 weapons to KFOR 
troops after pks puts up posters in Serb neighborhood identifying 
those who received weapons during recent conflict; Ger. pks find 
cache of 143 mines hidden in ground near Zur; 3 people without ID 
cards arrested for carrying arms in Prizren; pks find 7 men claiming 
to be UCK conducting small arms training 20 km. sw of Decane, detain 
them for questioning; KFOR patrol fired on  in Crkolez (25 km. ne of Pec)

Aug. 23 - Rus. pk contingent headed for Orahovac turned back by 
roadblock of cars, trucks, and tractors set up by ethnic Albanians 
who tell they are not welcome; Gen. Jackson says Russians Adoing a 
good job in all areas they patrol; Jackson also confirms that UCK 
has handed in all of its heavy weapons, all long-barreled weapons, 
and 6-% of all auto. small arms by Aug. 19, says UCK must now 
concentrate on transforming itself into non-mil. group; UN's Annan 
appoints Ger. environmental expert Tom Koenigs dep. special rep. in 
Kos. in charge of civil admin. (replaces Dominique Vian of Fra. who 
served only 2 months); Draskovic says Athere will be no alliance of 
the opp. under any circumstances, says new govt. must come to power 
through elections and that there should be an early vote; Djindjic 
says Apolitics is not made in cabinets any more, but on the streets 
and squares; Muslim Commission for Missing Persons complete exhumation 
of 23 bodies from mass grave near Serb-held town of Zvornik, believe 
these to be from Srebrenica, up to 1,000 bodies may be in area;
Croatian FM Granic says veterans who blocked border crossing to 
Trebinje should sotp protests in order to promote good rels. w/ Bos., 
says Hague should deal w/ Serbs; current mayor of Trebinje, Obrad 
Gazda, says town has nothing to apologize for, that former Yugo. 
army was solely responsible for shelling of Dubrovnik

Aug. 24 - Pks discover 11 bodies, 4 of which are Serb, near Gniljane; 
Stand-off continues in Orahovac as local Kosovars contend that Russian 
mercenaries helped commit atrocities against their population in March-
April

Aug. 25 - UCK turns 107 small arms over to Fre. pks to be stored near 
Mitrovica; KFOR continues talks w/ Albanian, Serb contingents from 
Orahovac on deployment of Rus. troops; 25-year old Albanian man found 
dead from gunshot in Devet Jugovica (5 km. n. of Pristina); 2 Serbs 
seriously beaten in Pristina by group of 5-6 Albanians; grenade 
explosion in Kosovo Polje; KFOR conducts arms searches in village of 
Bencuk (8 km. s. of Vucitrn); Transitional Council holds first of 
regular weekly meetings, Kouchner later says he opposes Serbian 
Resistance Movement proposal of cantonization of province as this 
"takes us back ten years"; Gen. Momir Talic, chief of staff of the 
army of RS arrested in Vienna on indictment of ethnic cleansing of 
Muslims, Croats, other non-Serb populations from municipalities 
designated as part of Autonomous Region of Krajina (ARK) including 
Prijedor in BiH; to be tried together w/ Radislav Brdanin who was 
arrested on July 6 on similar charges

Aug. 26 - KFOR announces that since being deployed there have been 
13 mil. casualties due to mines and unexploded ordinance clearing; 
American-run 3 hour radio program begins broadcasting safety 
announcements, general interest items, and top-40 music in town 
of Ferizaj; ICTY, CID conduct investigation of mass grave in Ugljare 
(5 km. se. of Gniljane); 136 ethnic Albanian families to begin 
returning to N. Mitrovica w/ KFOR escort and UNHCR help; KFOR says 
it now has strength of 48,030 from 24 countries w/ 41,618 in Kos., 
6,249 in Mac., and 163 in rear hq in Greece, says there are no limits 
on raising figure over 50,000; UN says 19,500 Kosovars have applied at 
this point to join Kos. police force

Aug. 27 - Kouchner speaks at rally in Pristina on behalf of possibly 
5,000 detained Kosovars held in Serbia, says he has detailed info. on 
1,924 detainees in Serbian prisons, says withholding of info. from 
relatives against intl. law

Aug. 30 - Albanian man shot in Pristina; man's body found in Penduha 
area (7 km. s. of Podujevo, MNB Center); Fire set in Kos. A power 
station but put out by KFOR, Def. Fire Service; KFOR soldiers now
escorting city buses in Gnjiljane to ensure multi-ethnic 
transportation; Ethnic Albanian man arrested for beating death 
of Roma man in Istok; 4 small explosions in northern part of 
Mitrovica (MNB N.) targeting both Serb and Albanian apartments; 
some small arms fire reported, 3 arrests for looting in MNB S.; 
Albanian vehicle fired upon near Ranilvg (s. of Kamenica, MNB E.) 
wounding Albanian woman and man, Rus. quick reaction force responds

Aug. 31 - Kouchner swears in 7 judges (5 Albanians, 2 Serbs), 2 
prosecutors for District Ct. of Mitrovica 

Key Terms/Names:

Bildt, Carl - former Swedish Prime Minister, UN Secretary-General's 
Special Envoy for the Balkans.
Covey, James P.  - American appointed as UN Principle Dep. Special Rep. 
for Kos.
Economic Policy Advisory Board - body to act in concert w/ KTC, to 
propose and advise on functioning of eco. system, final filter where 
systemic laws are examined before being signed by Kouchner (not binding 
on SCSR).
Everts, Daan - Dutch diplomat and former Amb. to Albania, UN's Dep. 
Special Representative for Institution Building in Kos., also OSCE head 
of mission in Kosovo.
Fund of the Government of the Republic of Kosovo - money raised among 
Kos. Albanian residents and members of the diaspora.
Holbrooke, Richard - US Ambassador to the United Nations, former 
negotiator of the Dayton Accords ending the war in Bosnia.
ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia) - formal name 
for Hague investigative bodies regarding crimes falling under authority 
of Geneva Convention of 1949.
Joint Civil Commission on Education - reviews textbooks to eliminate 
hate langauge, review and produce new curriculum.
Joint Civil Commission on Energy and Public Utilities - chaired by 
UNMIK, responsible for ensuring multi-ethnic work force, overseeing 
management of utilities in 3 sectors: energy, water, and sanitation.
Joint Civilian Commission on Transport - in charge of railways, other 
transportation issues.
Jorsback, Col. Michael - Swedish, chief of staff of UN police force in 
Kos.
Koenigs, Tom - Ger. environmental expert appointed Dep. Special Rep. in 
Kos. in charge of civil admin.
Kosovo Transitional Council - highest level civilian advisory body to 
UNMIK, composed of members of all ethnic groups in province.
Kouchner, Bernard - UN=s highest-ranking civilian official in Kos., 
responsible for administration of province
 France to oversee transformation of Kos. into dem. society, Kouchner 
to head UNMIK, be highest-ranking civilian in Kos.; An

LDK (Democratic League of Kos.) - party of moderate political leader 
Ibrihim Rugova.
Marjanovic, Mirko - Prime Minister of Serbian Republic of Yugoslavia.
Meidani, Rexhep - President of Albania Rexhep Meidani
MNB (Multi-National Brigade) - formal designation for KFOR troop 
deployments. 5 sectors throughout Kosovo: 
    MNB-South - Sector 1, centered on Prizren, primarily German KFOR 
troops;
    MNB-North - Sector 2, centered on Kosovska Mitrovica, primarily 
French KFOR troops;
    MNB-West - Sector 3, centered on Pec, primarily Italian KFOR troops;
    MNB-Southeast - Sector 4, centered on Gnjilane, primarily American 
KFOR troops;
    MNB-Centre - Sector 5, centered on Pristina, primarily British KFOR 
troops, Russian
            presence at Pristina=s Slatina airport

OSCE - Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, 51-state 
organization coordinating civil administration aspect of UN program.
Pesic, Vesna - leader of 1996-97 opposition movement; current high-
ranking member of opposition.
Resolution #1244 - UN Security Council resolution (June 1999) 
authorizing KFOR deployment.
Sellimi, Rexhep - Interior Minister of UCK faction.
UCK (Kosovo Liberation Army) - principal resistance movement to Serb 
power, headed by Hashim Thaci;
UNMACC - UN Mine Action Coordination Centre, lead agency responsible 
for overall mine clearance;

Pristina Holding Center site for holding prisoners in Pristina area, 
behind military police station.