KOSOVO NATO AIRSTRIKES ON CAPITAL PRISTINA LATEST

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(25 Mar 1999) Natural Sound • The Kosovo capital of Pristina took several heavy blows from NATO forces on Wednesday night. • And wailing air-raid sirens again cleared the streets of Pristina by early afternoon on Thursday. • Residents braced themselves for more NATO air assaults and possible retaliation attacks by angry Serbs. • Yugoslavia defiantly absorbed its first night of punishment from NATO air power. • It claims ten people were killed and thirty eight wounded overnight in an aerial barrage intended to force President Slobodan Milosevic to make peace in Kosovo. • The army reiterated its defiance after a night of strikes on more than 50 targets, saying the high morale of the units was preserved. • But for the ordinary residents of Pristina, there was little they could do as bombs rained down from the sky. • Some merely looked out from their balconies at the air assault around them, then retreated inside. • NATO's most spectacular hit was a heavy strike around midnight on an industrial plant to the southwest of the city, beside the main military barracks. • General Guthrie, NATO spokesman said the British vessel HMS Splendid fired its first Tomahawk missile against a key military radar facility located near Pristina airfield. • He said this facility housed two highly capable air defence radars and an associated control building. • It was reportedly capable of providing extensive data to Yugoslavian air defence forces, fighter aircraft, surface to air missile units and anti-aircraft artillery. • Some two dozen journalists were arrested as they tried to watch the assault from the roof of a Belgrade hotel. • All but one were eventually released. • In the cold light of day, soldiers surveyed the scenes of destruction in the city. • Power was restored to parts of blacked-out Pristina at dawn but water supplies were intermittent. • The normally bustling streets of the Kosovo capital were eerily quiet. • Air raid sirens again blared on Thursday and the state news agency reported more fighting in Kosovo. • General Wesley Clark, the NATO supreme commander, said that the allied operation will be just as long and difficult as President Milosevic wants it to be. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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