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- US Apache Attack helicopters landed at Tirana Airport in Albania.
- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright expresses concern the conflict might be spreading into Montenegro, Yugoslavia's smaller pro-Western republic. She also asks Congress for its support -- but not to declare war.
- The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said at least 10 people were killed and 16 injured when NATO missiles hit a Croatian Serb refugee camp in Kosovo.
- At least one NATO missile hit the headquarters of President Slobodan Milosevic's Serbian Socialist Party in Belgrade.
- Yugoslav state news agency Tanjug said NATO damaged the last remaining bridge over the river Danube at Novi Sad; reports of NATO attacks on a television transmitter and an oil refinery near Novi Sad, an airport in central Serbia and the Kruzik factory in Valjevo.
- Britain said it was worried by signs Yugoslav forces could be trying to widen the Kosovo war, saying border clashes with Albanian troops and other incidents were the result of increasing panic in Belgrade.
- U.N. war crimes prosecutor Louise Arbour said she would not shy away from pressing charges against Yugoslavia's power elite, but cautioned that gathering incriminating evidence was a painstaking process.
- Russia's envoy on Yugoslavia is likely to fly to Belgrade on Thursday to try to find a peaceful solution to the Kosovo crisis, Russian news agencies quoted Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov as saying.
- U.N. relief officials pressed the Macedonian government to grant humanitarian access to a remote hamlet in snowbound border mountains deluged by up to 7,000 Kosovo Albanian refugees lacking food and other basics for survival.
- From Reuters, Globe Wire Services.
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- Former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin meets with Milosevic, says the Yugoslav president is ready to accept an 'international presence' in Kosovo. Clinton says he supposes that would represent a 'step forward.'
- NATO destroys one of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's two homes in Belgrade. Milosevic and his family were not inside when the missiles hit. NATO and other Western officials called the building a presidential command post and legitimate military target.
- Western leaders gather in Washington for NATO's 50th anniversary summit.
- NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana says no decision on sending ground troops into Yugoslavia will be made at the summit. Still, he has asked Army Gen. Wesley Clark, supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe, to update the military assessment made in October that the Yugoslav campaign be limited to the air.
- The Pristina area comes under what Yugoslav state news agency Tanjug calls NATO's fiercest daytime attack there yet.
- Romania's parliament gives NATO unrestricted access to the country's airspace, a move that will allow the alliance to expand its air campaign. Bulgaria is expected to take similar action Sunday or Monday. Both countries share borders with Yugoslavia.
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- As NATO's 50th anniversary summit in Washington, Western leaders pledged to intensify their strikes against Yugoslavia and maintain them until their demands are set.
- The headquarters of Serbian state television is struck by NATO forces who call it a key element in President Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown. Western media groups and Amnesty International condemn the attack.
- NATO calls for an oil embargo against Yugoslavia, without specifying how it would be carried out. NATO also says it would seek a UN Security Council resolution supporting demilitarization of Kosovo and an international peace force.
- The Russian initiative to settle the conflict is dismissed by NATO, as Belgrade still refuses to accept a NATO-led military force to enforce peace.
SOURCE: Wire, Globe staff reports.
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- NATO ministers, meeting in Washington, announce plans for an around-the-clock air war against Yugoslavia. They also hint American attack helicopters will soon see combat.
- Enlarging the mission of NATO for the coming century, the Western leaders, meeting in Washington, authorize the alliance to confront future crises beyond its borders.
- Serb media report NATO planes pounded targets around the Kosovo provincial capital of Pristina, after striking Yugoslavia's second- and third- biggest cities in overnight raids. The Yugoslav news agency says NATO fired at what it called civillian targets.
- Thousands of Serb civilians march in Belgrade to express their anger at Friday's bombing of the Serb TV headquarters, according to the state Tanjug news agency. Authorities say the attack killed 15 civilians.
SOURCE; Globe staff, AP Reuters.
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- NATO bombs destroy the last remaining bridge spanning the Danube River at Novi Sad, Yugoslavia's second-largest city.
- Refugees fleeing Kosovo give new accounts of Serb gunmen killing civilians by the dozens in villages around Kosovo's capital, Pristina.
- NATO leaders at a summit in Washington say the campaign against Milosevic will succeed, and pledge military protection and economic aid to Yugoslavia's neighbors for standing with the West.
- The rebel Kosovo Liberation Army appeals for NATO to supply them arms and deploy U.S. Army Apache helicopters against Serb forces immediately.
- Cornelio Sommaruga, head of the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross, tours wreckage from earlier NATO strikes on Novi Sad. He plans to meet Milosevic today, hoping to get ICRC staff back into Kosovo and see the three U.S. servicemen captured by the Yugoslav army March 31.
- U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott leaves for a meeting in Moscow with Russian officials, including special Kosovo envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin, who is attempting to negotiate a peace settlement.
- NATO commander Gen. Wesley Clark visits U.S. soldiers in Albania readying an Apache helicopter unit for action in Kosovo. He says the air campaign against Yugoslavia is "right on schedule.''
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