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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (43800)	4/24/1999 2:08:00 PM
From: JBL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Tens of thousands join Kosovo peace rally in Rome AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE 4/24/99 ROME, April 24 (AFP) - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Italian cities Saturday in rallies for a "fair peace" in Kosovo and against racism. In Rome, organizers said the demonstration, called by Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema's Social Democrats, drew 150,000 people in spite of driving rain but other estimates said the peaceful march was attended by 50,000, mostly students. A banner preceding the march read "Outlaw War" and "Peace on the Balkans." Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres, Lea Rabin, widow of slain Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin, and former French culture minister Jack Lang were to address the rally later Saturday. Demonstrators carried red flags of D'Alema's ruling party, and pictures of Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara and Palestinian flags were also seen. Several thousand Italian protesters, mainly students, staged demonstrations in Genoa, Milan and Naples to protest NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia, police said. In Milan, demonstrators threw colored smoke bombs toward the guarded US embassy and burned an Italian flag to protest Italy's participation in NATO's operation, dubbed Allied Force. In Naples, some 500 protesters, according to police estimates, demonstrated in front of both the public television building and near NATO's southern command headquarters. In each instance, protesters pinned paper targets to their clothes like the ones that have become a symbol of solidarity among Serbs in Belgrade. Most of the banners were hostile to NATO and the Italian government. In Genoa, some 1,500 people demonstrated peacefully, police said. The rallies were organised by pacifist associations and the Italian communist party. Anti-NATO sentiment has grown as NATO's targets, initially only military, have been widened to include civilian buildings in Belgrade. An attack on the Serbian state television headquarters overnight Thursday drew loud criticism in Italy, in particular from Italian Foreign Minister Lambertino Dini. The bombing in downtown Belgrade killed at least 10 people and left 18 wounded, according to the Yugoslav government. Some 20 people remained unaccounted for on Saturday as rescue workers searched the rubble for survivors.