. [Small, illegible text] ment loan from the state, tati- [illegible] “Collect the loan proceeds.” PAGE 12

. Last night, at around 11:00 p.m., the road in Lazarat was unblocked. PAGE 12

. An appeal for financial support. We requested USD 142 million. PAGE 12

The President speaks to Americans WASHINGTON - U.S. President Bill Clinton on Thursday defended NATO’s intensified air campaign against Yugoslav targets as a “just instrument” and said Belgrade must meet the alliance’s demands before it could halt the attacks. Blaming Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosheviç for the conflict, Clinton said: “Although his ethnic cleansing is not the same as the ethnic extermination of the Holocaust, the two are closely related: both are brutal, premeditated and systematic outbreaks, fueled by religious and ethnic hatred.” Clinton said that refugees he had met in Germany the previous week had given him testimony about being driven from their homes by Serbian forces and threatened with death if they did not leave Kosovo. “Only one in ten Kosovars has now been driven from their homes: thousands have been killed; at least 100,000 have disappeared; many young people have been separated from their families; around 500 neighborhoods, towns and villages have been burned,” Clinton said. “All of this has been carried out... according to a plan carefully devised months ago in Belgrade,” he added. He listed NATO’s basic demands for ending the war: allowing ethnic Albanians to return to their homes in Kosovo, under the protection of an international peacekeeping force led by NATO, and disarming the “... demands are neither attainable nor unattainable. These things we have said are simply necessary for peace to work.” “Until Serbia accepts these conditions, we will continue to destroy its war machine,” he said, promising that “NATO’s actions will not stop in the field until the requirements I have set out are met.” He said that whoever was in the Balkans had to be stopped, and that the “hatred and poison” spread by Milosheviç had to be stopped too. “This is the right vision and the right course,” Clinton said. “This is not only morally right for America; it is right for our long-term security interests.” Before his speech, Clinton said Americans “may be frustrated” that the conflict was not coming to an end. But, he added, “we must be prepared to pay the price of time.” “The hardest thing is that, years from now, women will understand that we stood against ethnic cleansing and that we could turn the world toward freedom (cleansing),” Clinton told reporters. “When the years have passed, they will not forgive us if we do not act this way.” Albania Online. VISIT: www.albaniaonline.net (see page 3)

TOMORROW’S ANALYSIS: The police must take revenge on organized crime . After Berisha’s historic attacks over his links with Serbian agents. BRAHO: BERISHA AN UDB OFFICER. MP SPARTAK BRAHO. MP SALI BERISHA. The chairman of the Committee on Mandates, Spartak Braho, speaks. PAGE 16.

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