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By Arben ILIAZI The Serbs are rapidly mining the border to block the flow of refugees and possible ground-to-ground attacks by NATO. A ground intervention is now an urgent necessity. “With the air strikes, we are exposing precisely those we want to protect, namely the Albanians,” a senior “Alliance” official said yesterday, stressing the idea of a ground intervention, now that NATO has begun the third week of air strikes. While NATO chief Mr. Solana suspects that the exhausted refugees may be held hostage by the Serbian authorities, to be used as human shields around military installations during the bombardments, other NATO leaders are optimistic that the bombardments will destroy the Serbian military machine and NATO will win. After smoke appeared over the headquarters of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Army, the number of strategic targets to be bombed in the “Alliance's” bombing strategy has risen to 140. NATO will win this war, since its structure is elas-

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• Podujeva, covered with corpses. The dead were taken away by Red Cross volunteers. I saw people with their eyes gouged out. The Peja scandal is exposed at the Durrës Hospital. How 40 people were killed at the Lezha Camp. Pages 7, 8 • 100 testimonies are filed with the Prosecutor’s Office. • “Shqiponja,” first at the scene of Azemi’s killing. Page 9 • NATO, 8,000 troops in Albania • Ogata: Macedonia’s action is condemnable. Page 6 • Kasparov checkmates Millosheviç • Serbs shoot down a NATO aircraft. Page 4 • Serbs destroy their own buildings. Page 2 • Albania is admitted to ICO-MOS. Page 16 • Kosovars are looking for one another. Pages 8, 15

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