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To: stevedhu who wrote (41043)	3/27/1999 2:12:00 PM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Respond to of 95453

Steve, I just bought into TAVA yesterday-like their supply chain management software they do jointly with I2 Technologies... On the oil front, I now rate Russian intervention in the Balkans as having risen from 1 in 10 to 3 in 10 after the Dumas' action yesterday. Even if Yeltsin does nothing don't be surprised if a few Russian "Volunteer Brigades" show up in Yugoslavia. And weapon trafficking from Russia to Yugoslavia seems about a 50%/50% possibility now in response to NATO's unilateral military action. Surface-to-surface cruise missiles anyone? That should help spike the price of oil! One sure casualty of the insanity on both sides in the Balkans will be the Regime of the doddering old Yeltsin. What replaces Yeltsin in Russia may be something much more evil and bent upon revenge- to me the only question is whether Yeltsin and Foreign Minister Ivanov are voted out of office or the Army/Communist Party removes them via a coup-detat.. And in this Holy Week of Easter as one small voice I call upon both sides to stop the mutual genocide- one on the ground and one from the air.....All the air attacks are doing- besides killing innocent civilians in Serbia- is egging the Yugoslavian Army/Serbian Police elements in Kosovo on to murder even more Albanians in revenge...It will only lead to intensified murder,fighting and misery for both sides..... CNN WEB SITES: PATHFINDER SITES: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Russia's parliament denounces NATO airstrikes March 27, 1999 Web posted at: 9:27 AM EST (1427 GMT) MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian lawmakers Saturday angrily denounced NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia, calling for an immediate end to the attacks and demanding that Moscow give aid to Belgrade. The emergency session of the State Duma, the lower chamber of parliament, was expected to pass a resolution expressing outrage over the NATO attacks. But the measure would be mostly symbolic. "Today we witness how the 19 most powerful countries are using modern weapons to annihilate" Yugoslavia, said Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov. He called on the Russian government to break the United Nations arms embargo against Yugoslavia. Nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, wearing an army colonel's uniform, told the Duma, "The Third World War started on March 24," the date of the first NATO airstrikes. Yeltsin pledges support But there is little the Russian government can do at this point. President Boris Yeltsin and other top officials have already denounced the bombings. The government evicted two NATO representatives from Russia, cut some ties with the alliance and promised humanitarian aid to Yugoslavia. In a letter to Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic, Yeltsin pledged the "support of the Russian government to the people of Yugoslavia and support for decisive talks concerning the war-like acts of NATO," the Kremlin said. In its weakened state, Russia is in no real position to directly confront the West despite Moscow's anger over the strikes. Russia is no longer a major military power, and it desperately wants Western aid to revive its shattered economy. No rash acts The Duma's draft resolution called the airstrikes in Yugoslavia "a serious threat to the security of Russia." Still, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov told the Duma session that Russia would not act rashly or threaten a military response to the NATO strikes. "Those who expect Russia to act on impulse and retaliate with similar steps (as NATO) are mistaken," he said in response to the proposal by some deputies that the Russian army be put on a higher state of combat readiness. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Yakushkin told the Echo of Moscow radio station that Yeltsin "will not permit Russia to be involved in a war in Yugoslavia." The Duma resolution reflects the souring relations between the United States and Russia, at their lowest level since the end of the Cold War. Some lawmakers proposed breaking an international arms embargo against Yugoslavia and supplying it with arms. Also, parliament had been planning to debate the START II nuclear arms reduction treaty, which was signed six years ago, but has not yet been ratified by Russia. That discussion, which is scheduled for Friday, has again been thrown into doubt following the NATO attacks. Meanwhile, protesters staged a third day of rallies Saturday outside the American and British embassies in Moscow on Saturday. About 2,000 protesters, many of them elderly people, gathered near the U.S. Embassy, where Communist leader Zyuganov and other speakers assailed the attacks against Yugoslavia.