Wednesday, April 21, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 7
Nation/World
Tales of Kosovo atrocities mount
U.S. helicopters head to Albania to press attacks against Serbians
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — NATO launched daylight attacks yesterday in Pristina and other parts of Kosovo while accusing Serb forces of flushing out ethnic Albanians hiding in the province's hills.
U. S. helicopters and troops were headed toward Albania in a new phase aimed at boosting the alliance's ability to attack Yugoslav ground forces and stop their campaign to rid Kosovo of its ethnic Albanian majority.
NATO representative Jamie Shea said Serb military and
paramilitary forces were shelling hills where ethnic Albanians had fled, marching the refugees on roads and putting them on trains to the border, then closing the frontier to them.
"What we are seeing as we study these movements of people is a kind of safari operation ongoing by the Serb security forces against the Kosovar Albanians." Shea said.
He told reporters at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, that the alliance was investigating reports of 700 ethnic Albanian boys as young as 14 being used either as "human shields or as blood banks for
Refugees also said that as many as 700 men were used as human shields last week near the town of Orahovac.
Serb casualties."
The accusations came as the alliance continued its four-week assault on Yugoslavia.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said 15 wounded Kosovo Liberation Army fighters were brought to a hospital yesterday in the Albanian border town Bajram Curri, along with the bodies of two rebels killed during fighting.
Also yesterday, an Albanian soldier was wounded in a seven-hour exchange of machine-gun and sniper fire across the Yugoslav-Albanian border south of the Kosovo city Djakovica, the OSCE reported.
It was the first reported clash
between Albanian and Yugoslav forces since the NATO bombing campaign began March 24.
NATO also cited a series of "disturbing developments," including reports "too numerous" to ignore of Serb soldiers raping ethnic Albanian women, using tear gas to move ethnic Albanians out of homes in Pristina and mixing into civilian convoys, in addition to continuing reports of executions and mass burials.
Ethnic Albanians once made up 90 percent of Kosovo's 2 million people, and Yugoslav forces have expelled an estimated 640,000 of them from the province since last month. Many ethnic Albanians favor independence for Kosovo, a province of Serbia, Yugoslavia's dominant republic.
Administrators plan NATO summit details
The biggest headaches: Who should sit next to President Clinton at dinner? (Still unclear). And how to hang the flags? (Alphabetically.)
WASHINGTON — Details, details: For the State Department's office of protocol, taking proper care of the leaders of 42 foreign countries at this week's NATO summit is a logistical nightmare of motorcades, seating assignments, flags and music.
"We're going to try to stay calm. It works better that way," said Chief of Protocol Mary Mel French, her laugh masking the hours of frenzied planning her office is doing for Washington's largest-ever gathering of heads of state.
French's staff must make sure that the limousines run on time, that guests are properly attired, that cultural barriers are bridged and
The Associated Press
that visitors are not offended.
They know, for instance, that the flags of the 19 NATO countries are displayed alphabetically — according to the English language — with NATO's in the middle.
They know that NATO newcomer Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic since 1989, ranks No.1 on the seating hierarchy for one dinner the White House is holding for members of the alliance. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, his country's leader for just six months, ranks last.
But even that doesn't clear up who will sit next to Clinton. It also depends on how the tables are arranged, whether there will be other special guests and if seating is arranged male/female.
And the ranking will be different at a second White House dinner, for both NATO members and the 25 eastern and central European countries that are NATO partners.
"That changes the protocol order," French said
It sounds complicated, yet protocol makes seating at official dinners manageable, says Selva "Lucky" Roosevelt, chief of protocol from 1982 to 1989. during Reagan's presidency.
"If somebody says, 'Why does the person from that unimportant little country of Lower Slobovia get to sit next to the president, and my country doesn't?' You can say, 'We just followed protocol,' " Roosevelt said. "That gives you an out. Everybody observes the same protocol."
Does anybody really fuss about seating?
"Oh, my dear, do they!" Roosevelt said. An Italian foreign minister once threatened to leave the White House unless seating assignments were changed. "They take it not only as a personal affront but as an affront to their country."
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