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- Three American soldiers on a ground mission near Blace, Macedonia, report gunfire and then are apparently captured.
- NATO widens geographic area of strikes, increases number of missions. US Army Gen. Clark acknowledges increased civilian casualties could result. Journalists hear explosions during daytime outside Pec.
- Refugees continue exodus of Kosovo by thousands. NATO estimates 118,000 people displaced since strikes began. Refugees from Prizren and Djakovica complained that NATO airstrikes in those areas have been ineffective. Clinto promises $50 million to aid Kosovars.
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Three Yugoslav brigades shell refugees trapped in Pagarusa Valley with artillery fire, NATO Air Commodore David Wilby says.
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Hashim Thaci, rebel Albanian leader in Kosovo, says Serbs creating three concentration camps with Pristina stadium camp detaining 100,000 people.
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Russia said today that it will send warship to the Mediterranean as a protest to NATO airstrikes.
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Clinton, who opposes independence for Kosovo, says Serbia's claim to Kosovo "increasingly jeopardized." US evicts Yugoslav diplomats, seizes embassy.
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- Three captured U.S. soldiers face a Yugoslav military trial on Friday. President Clinton says the United States will hold Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic responsible for the safety of the three, who are shown on Serb television with dirt or abrasions on their faces after they were seized by Yugoslav forces.
- Allied attacks destroy a major bridge over the Danube River and strike Yugoslav military units in Kosovo on the ninth day of a NATO campaign to halt the violence against the province's independence-minded ethnic Albanians.
- NATO's top military officer, U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark, says missile and bombing raids hit targets across Yugoslavia. But he acknowledges that NATO air power alone cannot stop alleged Serb atrocities being committed on the ground.
- In an attempt to eradicate ethnic Albanians from the region, Yugoslav forces pack 10,000 people so tightly into two refugee trains that at least two people died.
- A Vatican envoy travels to Belgrade to urge an end to the airstrikes, but NATO says the bombardment of Milosevic's forces would continue as long as necessary.
- Milosevic, who meets separately in Belgrade with ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova and the Vatican envoy, says his country is fighting a ''just battle'' and will never give up.
- Russian President Boris Yeltsin says the crisis could lead to disaster and appeals to the world's seven leading industrial nations to stop the airstrikes.
- Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy urges the sharply divided U.N. Security Council to address the ''very horrific'' humanitarian crisis in Kosovo.
- With Easter observances drawing near, Christian leaders in the United States press for an end to hostilities in Kosovo and the resumption of peace talks.
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- Serb officials begin gathering evidence against three U.S. soldiers captured Wednesday and held in Kosovo, the state-run Tanjug news agency reports. The judge in the case doesn't say whether the soldiers would be charged in the unspecified court proceedings.
- A Russian warship leaves the Black Sea port of Sevastopol for the Mediterranean to shadow NATO vessels participating in airstrikes against Yugoslavia. Moscow continues to insist the attacks must end. Six other warships are on standby for deployment in the Mediterranean.
- The NATO bombardment of targets in Yugoslavia continues, though it is deterred by what officials called poor weather that prevented some planes from carrying out missions. U.S. officials confirm that B-1 Lancer bombers flew missions against Yugoslavia for the first time Thursday night.
- Thousands of refugees continue to pour out of Kosovo. NATO spokesman Jamie Shea says there are more signs that refugees are being rushed from their homes and sent into exile. He says about one-third of the ''pre-conflict population of Kosovo'' -- 634,000 people -- is now displaced.
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- With Kosovo's neighbors facing a humanitarian disaster, NATO Secretary General Javier Solana says an alliance-led protection force could go into Kosovo to return ethnic Albanian refugees ahead of any signing by Yugoslavia of a peace agreement. Such a plan would be a change in earlier policy that Belgrade must first assent to a NATO deployment. An alliance official underlines that NATO ground forces are not preparing to invade Kosovo, and the United States says its position has not changed.
- NATO plans to send a force of about 6,000 troops to Albania to help in a mounting relief effort for more than 100,000 refugees there.
- Macedonia says it will no longer allow Kosovo refugees through its borders, fearing "the security situatin in the country could be seriously endangered."
- Germany announces it will accept some Kosovo refugees and will urge other European countries to do the same. NATO contries plan to airlift 1 million military meals, 187,000 blankets and drinking water to Macedonia for refugees.
- Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic refers to three US soldiers captured this week as prisoners of war, the most authoritative reference yet by a top Yugoslav official to the term that confers on them protected status under the Geneva Conventions on the conduct of war.
- NATO believes the three American soldiers who were taken captive were kidnapped by Yugoslav special forces in Macedonia, a high ranking Western official says.
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed publicly to revers what he branded Milosevic's policy of "ethnic cleansing." Speaking in a Sky News television interview, he says: "Our message to Milosevic is very simple. Your policy of ethnic cleansing is an act of barbarity. We will defeat you over it. We will not allow you to carry it through. The gains you think you have made will be reversed." He promises the fleeing Kosovar Albanians: "We will not let you down."
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- NATO airstrikes demolish the Yugoslav First Army headquarters in the capital, along with petroleum tanks, an ammunition plant and highway bridges elsewhere in Yugoslavia.
- The Pentagon announces it will send Apache helicopter gunships to Albania to increase NATO firepower in the region.
- NATO spokesman Air Commodore David Wilby says the Yugoslav military has been shifting forces in Kosovo to the southwest region of the province, where the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army was regrouping for what appeared to be a last stand.
- Macedonia agrees to keep its border open to Kosovo refugees as long as allied countries agree to take in the new arrivals. NATO spokesman Jamie Shea provides the following figures: Germany (40,000 refugees), the United States (20,000), Turkey (20,000), Norway (6,000), Greece (5,000) and Canada (5,000).
- NATO agrees to use nearly 12,000 NATO troops now deployed in Macedonia to assist in the humanitarian effort. Those troops originally were deployed to implement the Kosovo peace plan, which the Kosovar Albanians signed but Yugoslavia did not.
- U.S. officials visiting camps in Macedonia say at least 11 refugees have died in recent days as conditions continue to worsen.
- A Yugoslav official says the three U.S. soldiers captured last week will be returned when NATO's offensive against Serbia comes to an end. Speaking on the ABC program, ''This Week,'' Belgrade's deputy mayor, Milan Bozic, says the three will not face trial.
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- NATO airstrikes aim to cut the Yugoslav military's lines of supply and transport, blasting at roads, bridges, airports, fuel depots and command centers. The alliance says it is targeting Serb forces accused of terrorizing ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, a province in Serbia, Yugoslavia's dominant republic.
- Officials in the southern Serbian coal mining town of Aleksinac say a NATO missile attack killed five civilians and injured at least 30 others. Several homes were flattened.
- The U.N. refugee agency says the number of ethnic Albanians reaching neighboring countries had risen to nearly 400,000. An airlift of Kosovo Albanians to several countries outside the region begins, with refugees arriving in Turkey and Norway.
- President Clinton says the NATO airstrikes will continue as long as necessary, adding that "our plan is to persist until we prevail.''
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- President Slobodan Milosevic's government declares a unilateral cease-fire in its battle against Kosovo rebels in what it calls a ``gesture of goodwill'' in advance of Sunday's Orthodox Easter. The cease-fire declaration says nothing about holding fire against NATO forces.
- Western leaders dismiss the move, saying it falls short of NATO conditions for halting the airstrikes, and vow to press ahead with an intensifying campaign of airstrikes. A Kosovo rebel spokesman in Albania, Visar Reka, also rejects the cease-fire offer, saying the only way rebels will agree to a truce is if NATO troops enforce it.
- President Clinton says half-measures will not end the NATO air campaign and British Prime Minister Tony Blair's office says the Yugoslav declaration ``doesn't go nearly far enough.'' U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen says accepting a cease-fire now would be an ``abdication of responsibility'' by NATO. After meeting with NATO ambassadors, NATO Secretary General Javier Solana issues a statement, saying the cease-fire proposed ``is clearly insufficient.''
- Despite NATO's pledge to minimize civilian losses, a missile late Monday struck a residential neighborhood in Aleksinac, a mining town of about 17,000 people about 100 miles southeast of Belgrade. Yugoslav officials say at least 12 people were killed and dozens hurt. A NATO official concedes there is evidence that one of NATO's weapons accidentally struck short of its target, a military facility housing an artillery brigade.
- NATO nations and others rush in tons of aid for the 400,000 ethnic Albanians driven from their homes in Kosovo and into poor neighboring states struggling to cope with the influx. Some headway is made in setting up tent cities, but conditions remain desperate in some encampments, particularly a frontier enclave at Blace on the Macedonian border, where refugees are beginning to sicken and die amid squalid surroundings.
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