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To: John Hunt who wrote (30504)	3/23/1999 10:33:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116786

Holbrooke leaving Belgrade in hours << U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke plans to leave Belgrade in the next few hours with no progress on a Kosovo peace breakthrough unless a dramatic development occurs, the White House said on Tuesday. ''There's been no breakthrough in these talks,'' said White House spokesman Joe Lockhart. >> biz.yahoo.com

To: John Hunt who wrote (30504)	3/23/1999 1:04:00 PM
From: scotty	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116786

The West has ignored Yeltsins warnings in the past. I'm not so sure Russia is bluffing now. This could get ugly.....Turn the tables, what would the US do if Russia was threatening to bomb a US ally?

To: John Hunt who wrote (30504)	3/23/1999 1:06:00 PM
From: Alex	Respond to of 116786

Japan fires warning shots at unidentified ships Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Associated Press TOKYO (March 23, 1999 12:37 p.m. EST nandotimes.com) - Japanese destroyers on Tuesday fired warning shots near two unidentified ships that intruded into Japanese waters and then fled north into the Sea of Japan. The decision to send military ships to stop the boats - the first such action since World War II for Japan - followed more than 12 hours of pursuit by the civilian Maritime Safety Agency. Government officials said destroyers dispatched to intercept the vessels fired into the water near both unidentified ships. Chief Cabinet spokesman Hiromu Nonaka said military ships were needed because Maritime Safety Agency patrol boats could not keep up with the vessels. The Maritime Safety Agency said its patrol boats spotted the vessels in Japanese territorial waters 150 miles north of the Noto peninsula, some 180 miles northwest of Tokyo. When the ships failed to heed orders to halt, the patrol boats gave chase and fired bursts from 20-millimeter and 13-millimeter machine guns, the agency said. That was the first involving live ammunition since 1953, when Japanese patrol boats fired warning shots at a suspected Soviet spy ship. After an emergency meeting of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and other leaders, the destroyers were sent to intercept and inspect the unidentified vessels. Nonaka said the ships, which did not display national flags or have any fishing equipment on deck, were fleeing north. He said they carried suspicious antennas. The antennas indicated the ships may have been in Japanese waters for spying operations. North Korea is north of where the ships were seen, across the Sea of Japan.