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To: Machaon who wrote (4515)	4/19/1999 6:07:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

How many more thousands are you willing to sacrifice for this goal? or is it as many as necessary?

To: Machaon who wrote (4515)	4/19/1999 6:15:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

FOCUS-Yeltsin urges Clinton to end Kosovo war 01:30 p.m Apr 19, 1999 Eastern MOSCOW, April 19 (Reuters) - Russian President Boris Yeltsin pressed U.S. President Bill Clinton during a telephone conversation on Monday to halt NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the Kremlin said. A spokeswoman said Yeltsin, on the telephone for nearly an hour, urged the ''quickest, immediate halt to military action against sovereign Yugoslavia'' as the best solution to end the crisis in the Balkans. Yeltsin praised the results of talks between Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in Oslo last week when both vowed to keep talking to close the diplomatic gulf opened by NATO's air campaign. The Russian president supported a return to the negotiating table to draw up a ''political agreement granting Kosovo wide autonomy under the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia,'' his press service said in a statement. It said the two leaders agreed that refugees, ethnic Albanians and Serbs who have fled the region, should be returned to their homes safely. Yeltsin emphasised their return could only be achieved with the involvement of Yugoslavia. The Kremlin spokeswoman said the two men began the conversation shortly before 1400 GMT and ended it 50 minutes later, an unusually long talk for Yeltsin, 68, whose work has often been limited by poor health in recent years. Earlier on Monday, Yeltsin said Russia would not allow the West to control Yugoslavia but, in a sign of a compromise with NATO, vowed no more Russian warships would sail to the Adriatic Sea. Yeltsin gave a foretaste of his thoughts in televised comments before the conversation. ''Bill Clinton hopes to win, he hopes (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic will capitulate, give up the whole of Yugoslavia, make it America's protectorate,'' Yeltsin said. ''We will not allow this. This is a strategic place, the Balkans.'' Yet, in a more conciliatory vein, the president said Russia was ready to carry on acting as a go-between and would not send further warships to the Balkans region. Russia, which sternly opposes NATO military action in Yugoslavia, has sent a small reconnaisance ship, the Liman, to the Adriatic and has kept several warships on standby. Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.

To: Machaon who wrote (4515)	4/19/1999 6:45:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

<< At least 100,000 and possibly as many as 500,000 Kosovo Albanian men are unaccounted for, raising fears that they may have been killed by Serb forces, U.S. officials said Monday. >> This is horrifying! >>> Barry allow me to ask you..you almost just said it anyway.... What prevents you to whisper-out that Nato/Clinton blunder was an absolute fiasco?

To: Machaon who wrote (4515)	4/19/1999 7:45:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

>>At least 100,000 and possibly as many as 500,000 Kosovo Albanian men are unaccounted for...>> If this is true, we need to step up the bombing So we can assure that ANOTHER 100,000 to 500,000 men go missing. Hard for me to understand why you think more bombing rather than calling a legitimate cease-fire to sort this thing out dipolomatically is helpful. As long as we keep bombing, they will keep killing. It's that simple. And that tragic. We just don't learn. And until we do, people will keep dying. But I guess that's okay if it proves to Milosovic that we can demolish his country and leave a wasteland for his people and the Kosovans to live in as best they can in "peace."