NATO warplanes have been taking off from bases in Italy and Britain for what is expected to be a sixth night of attacks on Yugoslav targets. A NATO spokesman insisted that the bombing was working. He said that NATO was going to tighten the noose around the Serb war machine in Kosovo.
There are reports from the part of Bosnia under Serb control that a NATO warplane has crashed. The Bosnian Serb news agency says the plane crashed near the Serb capital of Pale. Up to sixty NATO warplanes took part in last night's bombing raids. The Alliance said that it is intensifying bombardment of Yugoslav ground forces in an attempt to halt attacks on Kosovo Albanians by the Serb military.
It is not known how much damage the missile attacks caused. Serbian television showed pictures of a multi-storey building on fire in Pristina. The independent B92 radio station reported that apartment buildings and a dental clinic were damaged when the police headquarters was hit.
The radio, which can only be received by satellite or Internet after being banned by the Belgrade government, said that, shortly after the strike, separatist ethnic Albanian guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army launched attacks on police positions in the city. The official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug also reported that some 20 NATO missiles shook the town of Gnjilane in eastern Kosovo last night and an army barracks in Djakovica in the west, which caused heavy damage but no casualties.
American officials will still not say what caused on of their Stealth fighter aircraft to crash during a raid near Belgrade on Saturday night. Large bullet holes have been spotted on the wreckage but the Pentagon still is not ruling out a technical fault. Brigadier General William Lake says that, despite the crash, they still have faith in the effectiveness of the Stealth bomber.
