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- In Yugoslavia: At least 11 people were killed and 60 injured when US and NATO forces unleashed a battery of cruise missiles and bombs aimed at Serbian military targets in Yugoslavia to force Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to stop his onslaught against Kosovo's ethnic Albanians. Four Yugoslav MiG-29 jet fighters shot down. Two more destroyed on ground. More than 40 sites targeted. 2,000 people cross Kosovo border into Macedonia.
- Yeltsin pulls Russia out of NATO. Clinton says action was taken to "prevent a wider war." Yuguslavian President Slobodan Milosevic promises resistance.
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- NATO launches second round of air strikes. Yugoslav army says bombing targeted military barracks, military airports, air defense systems, communications centers and command posts. NATO denies barracks targeted.
- In Russia, Boris Yeltsin promises not to used force to counter NATO. In Macedonia, Moscow and Italy, anti-NATO protests were staged. All foreign journalists were ordered expelled from Yugoslavia by the Serbian government. Refugees flood Macedonia and Albania as ethnic fighting surges.
- Radio B92, after being shut down, broadcasts news and RealAudio over Internet from Belgrade.
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- NATO began their third round of attacks in daylight with cruise missiles from the Adriatic. Two Serbian MiG-29s were shot down over Bosnia. Attacks begin targetting Serb troops
- President Clinton, Sec. State Albright appeals to the Serbian people for support. War Powers Act invoked. Says Milosevic has imperiled their future. U.N. Security council defeats Russian bid to halt strikes.
- Kosovo refugees streaming into Albania claim 20 men shot to death evacuating the village of Goden. Most of village burned along with neighboring Prush and Zylfaj.
- Protests in U.S., Germany, Britain, Moscow, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Athens, Toronto. U.S. staffer hurt during protests at U.S. embassy in Bosnia. Russia expels NATO's representatives Friday, promises humanitarian aid for Yugoslavia. Objections to strikes by Greece, Italian leaders.
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- US F-117A stealth fighter goes down in central Yugoslavia. Pilot swiftly rescued.
- New York Times reports 15,000 to 20,000 Serbs in forced march in central Kosovo. Evidence of Serb reprisals against Albanians mount.
- NATO says ground targets in and around Kosovo will be attacked. Nightime NATO air raids strike near Belgrade. About 20,000 refugees pour into northern Albania from Kosovo.
- Milosevic says NATO "despotism" must be resisted.
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- US Embassy in Russia attacked by machine gun and a grenade launcher (which misfires).
- NATO broadens attacks on Yugoslavia to target Serb military forces in Kosovo.
- Nearly 15,000 refugees flood into Albania. Thousands more Albanians stream into Macedonia and Montenegro. More than one million people displaced inside Kosovo, UN estimates.
- Rescued US pilot recovers at air base in Italy. Official indicates his jet was hit by surface-to-air missile.
- In Belgrade, a rock concert is held in defiance of strikes.
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- US A-10 "Warthog" tank killing fighters leave Aviano Air Base. Explosions heard in Pancevo. US says it will send five more B-1 bombers to join mission. Sixth day of strikes target Serb units linked to atrocities.
- Yeltsin orders Russian prime minister to Belgrade to seek peace deal. Russia says 1,000 civillians killed in Yugoslavia.
- Rallies for and against strikes held in London, New York, Israel, Portugal, Romania and Greece. Man killed, two wounded during rally in Prague.
- Fehmi Agani, Albanian negotiator, reported executed along with four other prominent ethnic Albanians. Serbs set fires in Pristina. Radio B92 reports mass exodus from city. To date, NATO says 80,000 to 100,000 people have left Kosovo since strikes began.
- Serb Gen. Spasoje acknowledges $300 million in damage, 7 air force deaths, 17 injuries.
- Rock concert held in Belgrade for second straight day.
- Macedonia pleads with neighbors to open borders to flood of Kosovo refugees.
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- President Slobodan Milosevic meets with Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov and tells state TV Yugoslavia was ready to withdraw some forces from Kosovo if NATO halted air strikes. Britain demanded "action, not words.''
- Sources in the Kosovo provincial capital say Pristina in flames and Serb forces seen attacking a valley packed with refugees.
- Air strikes continue around the clock. NATO ambassadors meet in restricted session, considering increased attacks.
- U.N. representative in Bosnia says only ground troops can bring peace to Kosovo.
- Crowds of Serbs attacked the shuttered U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, McDonald's restaurants and other Western targets.
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