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To: engineer who wrote (11567)	6/11/1999 12:21:00 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Friday June 11 11:12 AM ET Russia, NATO Advance In Race Toward Kosovo By Deborah Charles BELGRADE (Reuters) - NATO and Russian forces swept toward Kosovo Friday in a race to enter the ravaged province as Serbian troops retreated. Russian peacekeepers crossed the border from Bosnia into Yugoslavia and headed toward Kosovo in a move that caught the West by surprise. NATO sources said the alliance had begun its own deployment to Kosovo but could not immediately say if its troops had already entered. ''A few hours ago they were on their way to the border,'' a NATO source told Reuters. Some 50 Russian vehicles, including 20 to 30 armoured personnel carriers, crossed into Serbia from Bosnia and by early afternoon had passed Belgrade en route for Kosovo. The United States said Moscow had given assurances that the troops would not enter the Serbian province unilaterally. NATO said it was seeking to find out what orders the troops had been given. ''Their future intentions are not clear to us,'' an alliance source told Reuters. [...] If things go on developing that way, I'm afraid the first sign Lt.-Gen. Michael Jackson will notice as he arrives in Pristina's outskirts will be the Russian FLAG at the top of the town hall! Well, let's hope that the Russians will offer him a guest room....