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Yugoslavs say NATO bombed refugees
■ Pentagon officials
counteract by saying they
attacked only military
vehicles along the road.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -
Yugoslavia accused NATO jets of
blasting apart a convoy of refugees
under Serb police escort Wednesday.
The alliance said its pilots fired on mil
itary vehicles only, and the Pentagon
suggested that Serbs may have been
responsible for the carnage.
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Serb control showed bloody bodies
scattered along a roadway, damaged
farm vehicles and bombed-out budd
ings nearby. People in rough peasant
clothing loaded the dead and wounded
into cars or wheelbarrows to transport
them. A young boy sobbed bitterly.
The civilian bloodshed came as
NATO warplanes zeroed in on Serb tar
gets throughout Kosovo, hammering
ground forces in an effort to limit troop
movement and force Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic to
accept a peace deal for the province.
It also came amid diplomatic peace
efforts. The European Union voiced
support for a U.N. plan that calls on
Milosevic to end his crackdown in
Kosovo, while Germany caded for a
24-hour halt in bombings to allow Serb
and Yugoslav forces to withdraw from
the province.
NATO said it would study the
German plan, but it did not endorse it,
and there was no sign that Yugoslavia
was interested.
Pressing its version of the attack on
the convoy, Yugoslavia railed against
NATO’s “crime against humanity.”
Serb officials put the death toll at 64
and the number of wounded at 20.
Hours later, NATO said its pilots
had fired on military vehicles on the
same road in “controlled attacks,” and
that they had been fired on from the
ground with surface-to-air missiles and
anti-aircraft artillery.
“The pilots state they attacked only
military vehicles,” the allied military
command said in Belgium several
hours after the attack. The allies said no
civilian casualties could be confirmed
but promised a full investigation.
Pentagon spokesman Kenneth
Bacon said relief organizations in the
area reported that refugees entering
Albania had said Yugoslav planes
attacked civilian convoys. But he
couldn’t confirm that any of these
refugees had spoken of an attack
Wednesday.
If the reported death toll is accu
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NEWLY ARRIVED ethnic Albanian refugees fram Kosovo ciy after arriving to the Stenkovec camp near Skopje,
Macedonia, on Tbesday after crossing the border near Biace. Many more refugees flooded the camp Wednesday and
relief organizations say at least 1,000 more are waiting to cross the border.
rate, it would mark by far the largest
single loss of civilian life during the
military action between NATO and
Yugoslav forces.
The Serb Media Center said the
first refugee column hit was made up
of more than 1,000 people on tractors
and trailers, in private cars or on foot
near the southwest Kosovo town of
Djakovica. The second convoy was hit
on the road between Prizren and
Djakovica, it said.
Refugees crossing into Albania
said they saw three aircraft drop bombs
that hit two tractors in the convoy,
killing many people, said World Food
Program aid worker Jeff Rowand.
The strike was audible from across
the Albanian frontier at Tropoja, 12
miles away.
The videotape showed tractors that
had been hauling flatbed trailers. Most
of the bodies shown were near a single
smashed trailer.
Yugoslav Foreign Ministry
spokesman Nebojsa Vujovic
denounced the strike.
“The bodies are literally littered on
the highway,” he said. “Even those who
are spinning these malicious lies can
hardly swallow them.”
NATO hints attacks
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WASHINGTON (AP) - NATO’s
air campaign in Yugoslavia could
stretch into the summer, U.S. offi
cials suggested Wednesday, as the
first Apache attack helicopters began
arriving in Albania as part of a major
buildup of forces.
Clipton administration officials,
in closed-door meetings with con
gressional officials, have signaled
NATO is poised to continue the air
campaign for several weeks longer,
possibly into midsummer if Serb
forces continue fighting ethnic
Albanians in Kosovo.
Army Gen. Henry Shelton,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
told lawmakers that while bombing
has been hampered by weather, con
ditions usually improve in the
Balkans in June and July, the offi
cials said, speaking on condition of
anonymity. That would make it
longer than the U.S.-led, six-week
Gulf War in 1991.
“This is going to be a sustained
campaign,” said one lawmaker who
was briefed.
In the move to bolster the NATO
force, die Apaches began arriving in
Albania, and the Clinton administra
tion was preparing to call up of at
least several thousand military
reservists and deploy 300 more war
planes to join NATO airstrikes. That
would bring the total air power to
1,000 aircraft - two-thirds of them
American.
Maj. Gen. Charles Wald, a strate
gist for the Joint Chiefs, called the
buildup and intensifying air cam
paign against Serb forces “an indica
tion of our resolve that we’re going to
see this thing through to the end.”
Missing tax deadline costly
v WASHINGTON (AP) - For the
estimated 34 million taxpayers who
have yet to file their income tax returns:
The headaches will only get worse if
they miss deadline.
Although the Internal Revenue
Service offers extensions, they can be
quite costly. And the worst thing to do is
not file anything by the stroke of mid
night on April 15.
“The worst strategy, one that can
add thousands of dollars to your tax
bill, is to do nothing,” said Lawrence
Torella, an accountant and partner with
Richard A. Eisner & Co. in New York.
Torella said a “whole new genera
tion” of taxpayers with problems filing
returns on time could be created by
income from the booming stock mar
ket, an increase in die number of people
who have stock options and windfalls
from sales of small businesses. Tax
returns afe also more complex now.
The penalty for failing to file a
return is 5 percent of the balance per
month, up to a maximum of 25 percent
Taxpayers who aren’t going to meet
the filing deadline should send tiie IRS
a request for extension until Aug. 16
using Form 4868, which is available on
the Internet, IRS offices and some
banks and post offices. The IRS auto
matically approves such requests. .
But people seeking extensions
should still pay an estimate of their
taxes due, or at least as much as possi
ble, by Doing so will lessen the sting of
interest - now 8 percent on late pay
ments - and penalties of a half-percent
per month.
The IRS will refund any amount
overpaid, once the final return is sub
mitted. Last-minute forms from the
IRS are available in several ways. The
fastest is through the Internet at
www.irs.ustreas.gov. Taxpayers also
can call from a fax machine at (703)
368-9694 and have a form faxed.
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Couple attempts to sell
baby to undercover cop
GRAND ISLAND (AP) -
Needing money, a woman tried to sell
her 6-week-old boy, police said
Wednesday.
Zenaida Rios-Hemandez, 23, and
Pedro Vasquez-Jarquin, 28, both of
Grand Island, were arrested Tuesday
after trying to sell the baby to a woman
wired by police in a sting operation.
Rios-Hemandez, the baby^ moth
er, was charged Wednesday with
felony child abuse. Vasquez-Jarquin
was charged with aiding and abetting
felony child abuse.
■ Indiana
Former vice president
pledges renewed values
HUNTINGTON (AP) - Former
Vice President Dan Quayle, trying to
refurbish his image and jump-start his
GOP presidential campaign, declared
his candidacy Wednesday by pledging
to rebuild American values after “a
dishonest decade of Bill Clinton and
A1 Gore.”
Seeking office for the first time
since he and President Bush suc
cumbed to Clinton and Gore in 1992,
the former Indiana senator sought to
push beyond a history of political
gaffes and controversies.
■ Michigan
Kevorkian says he
won’t eat in prision
DETROIT (AP) Dr. Jack
Kevorkian says he will refuse to eat
while imprisoned on his murder con
viction, and a new jail policy prevents
him from being force-fed.
The assisted-suicide advocate,
sentenced Tuesday to 10 to 25 years in
prison, said he would begin a hunger
strike immediately, The Oakland
Press reported Wednesday.
State prison officials said they
reversed their policy on force-feeding
Tuesday.
■ California
Little increase found
in minority journalists
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Little
progress has been made in recent
years to increase the number of minor
ity journalists at daily newspapers,
according to a study presented at die
annual convention of the American
Society of Newspaper Editors.
The percentage of Asian
American, black, Hispanic and
American Indian newsroom employ
ees increased from 11.46 in 1997 to
11.55 in 1998, based on figures
released Tuesday. The survey also
found that female journalists repre
sent about 37 percent of news staffs.
■Pakistan
New missile test-fire
may spark response
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan
test-fired its newest ballistic missile
Wednesday, a weapon capable of car
rying a nuclear warhead and hitting
deep inside its neighbor and rival
India
Die eight-minute test flight of die
Ghauri II was launched from Dina,
about 35 miles east of the Pakistani
capital of Islamabad, government
officials said, speaking on condition
of anonymity. Analysts had anticipat
ed that Pakistan would respond to a
similar test by India on Sunday.
