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00:00And that people have gone home
00:02Fewer shops are open than there were in the past
00:05During the daytime and virtually none are open now
00:07And people are just sitting at home
00:09Waiting to see what happens
00:10And there really is a considerable worry
00:12Of course among ordinary people
00:13In case a missile or a bomb
00:15Does strike in the heart of the city
00:19Aircrafts were shot down over Bosnia
00:21Which an interesting point we'll pick up in a second
00:23And the two pilots were now in NATO detention
00:26According to a NATO spokesman in Brussels
00:292 Yugoslav Air Force MiG-29s shod down over Bosnia
00:33during an apparent attempt to fire on NATO ground forces there.
00:36So, Francis, if that NATO report firms up,
00:42then it does look like the first sign of serious retaliation.
00:46And also the first sign of serious spreading of the war zone,
00:50rather than it being in Yugoslavia itself,
00:52the various provinces, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia,
00:56undertaking this in Bosnia.
00:58That is a pretty serious action.
01:00And I think the other point is,
01:02if it does turn out they've lost two MiG-29s,
01:05and on the first night of the war they lost three,
01:07possibly on the second night lost another,
01:09at the best estimate of the MiG-29 strength,
01:12and the MiG-29 is the best aircraft they've got,
01:14upper estimates are about 27.
01:17Well, they've lost sort of six or seven now,
01:19which is a pretty bad loss.
01:21So, yeah, 20% almost.
01:23And if they keep on using them in this way,
01:26they're going to be losing one or two a night,
01:28and they will lose their best aircraft in probably about another five days.
01:32And, I mean, diminish their defence capability quite considerably, presumably?
01:38In terms of air-to-air,
01:39because the other aircraft they've got,
01:41especially the MiG-21,
01:42this is an aircraft whose design heritage goes back to the mid-late 1950s,
01:46to say that if they send those up against NATO aircraft,
01:49it's going to be like shooting fish in a barrel,
01:52actually overestimates the capabilities of the MiG-21.
01:55It might be useful to remind us,
01:56as it appears that this is, according to NATO,
01:59an attack on NATO ground force,
02:00might be useful for you to just remind us
02:03what NATO ground strength there is in the region,
02:07because there's quite considerable numbers.
02:08I don't know whether we've got a map that you can point it out on.
02:10We can have a look in a minute.
02:11Well, if we think of Bosnia and the ongoing stabilisation force there,
02:14which is basically NATO-run and operated,
02:16minimum of about 24,000 troops,
02:19from memory about 16 nations,
02:21Britain has a brigade there,
02:23the Americans have a brigade,
02:24the French have a brigade,
02:25it's a sizeable force,
02:27and if the Yugoslavs wanted to perhaps use the Bosnian Serbs as a proxy,
02:31or introduce their own ground forces in theatre,
02:34they would be making a serious mistake.
02:36They would not end up the winners there.
02:39They could create some problems,
02:40but they would not, as it were, win.
02:42It looks like a high-risk strategy.
02:45Let us now wait and see what happens over Macedonia.
02:47We know there are 12,000 NATO troops there already.
02:51Will they now start trying to target them?
02:53And in...
02:54...to stop the Serb offensive in Kosovo.
02:56Many Kosovar Albanians, of course, believe NATO's right.
03:00The Serbian military machine cannot go on for long like this.
03:04They hope that very soon,
03:06NATO will be able to take on Serbian tanks,
03:09and you hardly see a Serbian soldier away from a Serbian tank.
03:14They don't engage their food soldiers because they lack motivation.
03:18They don't want to die for Kosovo.
03:20Tonight, claim and counterclaim continues.
03:23Serbia says its jets have attacked Kosovan separatist bases.
03:26NATO says it has shot down two Serb planes.
03:29Whatever the truth is,
03:30it is clear that on its third day
03:32this war has escalated into the air
03:34and into daylight hours.
03:37Alex Tom...
03:37...deny flight,
03:39which patrols the airspace of Bosnia-Herzegovina,
03:42the no-fly zone there,
03:44and they've been patrolling there since 1995.
03:47The planes that shot down the two Yugoslav fighters
03:50were not in any way connected
03:53to the airstrike operation
03:56that is currently going on over Yugoslavia.
04:00Now, we're told that the latest thing is
04:02that we're told that the encounter occurred today
04:04at approximately 5.15 local time,
04:07that's Central European,
04:09and it occurred over the skies of Bosnia-Herzegovina
04:12in the vicinity of a town called Tiochak,
04:16which is on the Yugoslav border.
04:17Now, here with me at the moment
04:19is Dr. Jamie Shea, the NATO spokesman,
04:22who can perhaps bring us up to date
04:24a little bit more on what has been going on.
04:26Now, Dr. Shea,
04:28can you tell us a little bit about Operation Deny Flight
04:30and what they've been doing since 1995?
04:33Well, since 1995, Patricia,
04:35as you said very well yourself,
04:36we've been maintaining a no-fly zone over Bosnia
04:39as part of the date and peace agreement.
04:41That is ongoing.
04:43And, of course, at the moment,
04:44those planes are in a very high state of vigilance
04:46to ensure that Yugoslavia does not try
04:49to attack NATO forces
04:51as you say in the S-4,
04:54the NATO Stabilisation Force, in Bosnia.
04:57And that may have been the intention
05:00of these MiGs this afternoon
05:02flying into the Bosnian airspace,
05:04and that's why, of course,
05:05they were engaged immediately by NATO,
05:07and two of the aircraft have been shot down.
05:09Now, I've heard reports out of Shape Headquarters,
05:12the military headquarters of NATO,
05:14that the pilots were seen parachuting,
05:16but you're telling us now they were captured.
05:18Yes, the latest information I have is that
05:21once they landed on the ground,
05:22they were detained immediately by S-4 soldiers,
05:25and they are, of course, in detention at the present time.
05:28Now, what is going to happen to those pilots in detention?
05:31Can you explain what the procedure is?
05:33They will be kept in detention until such time
05:36as this current Kosovo crisis has been resolved,
05:39and then, of course,
05:40they will be handed back to their national authorities.
05:43Now,
05:44the important issue,
05:45the clusters of targets that have been hit
05:47and also where they've checked,
05:48and so, yes,
05:49they're around the three capitals,
05:50Belgrade, Pristina,
05:52Podgorica.
05:53You've got the keys there.
05:54It's interesting.
05:55There's only one target they've said they have destroyed,
05:58which suggests it will never operate again,
06:00which is a surface-to-air missile site
06:01outside Belgrade,
06:03but that is the only SAM site
06:06they reckon they've done any major,
06:08absolute damage to.
06:09A couple of other ones,
06:11and surface-to-air missile support sites,
06:13again, around Belgrade,
06:14they say they've inflicted severe damage,
06:16but we perhaps should be quite careful about that.
06:20Bombing reports on Iraq in the past
06:22have talked about destroyed, severe damage.
06:24Often they've turned out to be not quite right.
06:27Though, overall,
06:29looking at the list
06:30and looking at the target clusters,
06:32and again around Pristina,
06:33there's perhaps an interesting point.
06:35Most of the targets around there
06:36have been ammunition depots.
06:37They've been command centres
06:38for the Pristina,
06:40the Kosovo army base.
06:42They have been support facilities,
06:45fuel dumps and so forth.
06:46targets which, obviously, NATO says
06:48attacking these, destroying these,
06:51will limit the capability
06:52of the Yugoslav army
06:53at present operating in Kosovo,
06:55and we just saw the report
06:56of the refugees coming out.
06:58So...
06:58From CNN in Washington,
07:02seen live around the world,
07:04this is Worldview.
07:06I'm Judy Woodruff.
07:07Bernard Shaw is off.
07:09On day three of Operation Allied Force,
07:11Yugoslavia shows no signs of backing down,
07:14and NATO launches its first daylight attack.
07:18Here you see the launch
07:20of a Navy Tomahawk cruise missile
07:22streaking toward a target in Yugoslavia.
07:25It was fired from the USS Philippine Sea
07:28in the Adriatic Friday afternoon,
07:31a day when the Pentagon says NATO has begun
07:33to target Serbian and Yugoslav forces in Kosovo.
07:37In Washington, meanwhile,
07:40neighboring Macedonia.
07:41CNN's Chris Burns reports.
07:45Ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo
07:47trickle over the border into Macedonia,
07:50bringing with them a few belongings
07:51and stories of violence and terror.
07:54The accounts lend credence to reports
07:55that the Serb-led Yugoslav army
07:57has cracked down even harder
07:59on ethnic Albanians
08:00as it battles the Kosovo Liberation Army,
08:02that despite NATO's devastating airstrikes.
08:05Things happened tonight.
08:08There was a lot of shooting,
08:09setting houses and stores ablaze.
08:11Since international observers,
08:13most aid groups,
08:14and international journalists have left,
08:16the Yugoslav army
08:17and uncontrolled Serb elements
08:19have reportedly stepped up
08:20their attacks on civilians.
08:22A field officer
08:23of the UN High Commission for Refugees
08:25says Yugoslav soldiers executed
08:2720 men in the town of Gjakovo on Thursday.
08:30And there are reports
08:33of other atrocities,
08:34unconfirmed up to now,
08:36but here they are.
08:36A couple more.
08:37Humanitarian Law Center says
08:39a human rights attorney
08:40and his two sons
08:41were found murdered outside Pristina,
08:44and the agency of the Kosovo Liberation,
08:46the press agency
08:47of the Kosovo Liberation Army,
08:48says that there were mass executions,
08:51including 20 slain in Arahovac
08:53and 10 in Poduevo.
08:55But what's difficult
08:55is that without international observers
08:57or journalists in Kosovo,
08:59is very difficult to verify.
09:01Judy?
09:02Chris, could these...
09:03...sky behind us,
09:05some very bright lights approaching now,
09:07and this certainly looks like
09:08one of these huge B-52 bombers
09:10returning to base.
09:13Now, what we don't know...
09:13When it gets nearer,
09:15we'll be able to hear it
09:16and then we'll know for sure
09:17that it's a B-52.
09:18Now, you were explaining
09:19to us a little earlier, Andrew,
09:20that some of these planes
09:22took off first thing this morning
09:24and others took off
09:25around about lunchtime.
09:27So, of course,
09:27we don't know which of these this is.
09:30No, we don't.
09:32My own guess is
09:33the ones that took off
09:34first thing this morning,
09:35at 9.15 this morning,
09:36were actually going back
09:37to the United States.
09:39If they'd been on a bombing mission,
09:40they would have been gone
09:41for some 12 hours now,
09:43which seems far too long.
09:44But these ones here
09:45are returning
09:46exactly 10 hours
09:49after a group of three planes
09:50took off at 1.15 at lunchtime.
09:52So that would be
09:53the same 10-hour flying mission
09:55that was flown on the first day.
09:57And those planes
09:57that took off at lunchtime
09:58definitely were armed.
10:00When they've come back
10:02previously,
10:02in the last couple of days,
10:04have they all come in together
10:05or have they been spread out?
10:07They've come in
10:08within about 10 minutes
10:10of each other.
10:11I will just stop talking now
10:13and let you hear
10:14the sound of this massive plane.
10:22Well, that was number one,
10:37Andrew.
10:38So any more lights
10:39in the sky
10:40that you can see
10:41that would indicate
10:41that another one
10:42is on its way?
10:43Not at the moment.
10:46Those lights
10:47of that particular plane
10:48seem to be hanging
10:49in the sky
10:50beyond the horizon here
10:51for about 10 minutes
10:52before it came in.
10:54And just at the moment,
10:56no more lights
10:57behind me.
10:58Wait a minute.
10:58Just in the distance,
10:59maybe another plane
11:01coming in about
11:0210 minutes or so.
11:04Running reports
11:05from Belgrade
11:05say that there were
11:06seven huge explosions
11:07in the city.
11:09Two MiG-29 warplanes
11:10were shot down
11:11by NATO fighters.
11:12Serb television
11:13is claiming
11:13four NATO jets
11:15were brought down
11:15and at least
11:16two pilots captured.
11:18The bombing resumed
11:18as the United Nations
11:19High Commission
11:20for Refugees
11:21reported that
11:22Serb forces
11:23were killing
11:24ethnic Albanians
11:25in Kosovo.
11:26Here, Tony Blair
11:27went on British television
11:28to justify the use
11:29of force against Yugoslavia.
11:33Wave after wave
11:35of jets
11:35climbed into the night sky
11:37from their base
11:37in Italy
11:38as NATO prepared
11:39another onslaught
11:40against Serb targets.
11:42The reason for the action
11:44was all too clear
11:45on the ground.
11:47In Kosovo,
11:48rumours of reprisals
11:49and further ethnic cleansing
11:51spurred thousands of people
11:52to leave their homes
11:53in search of a safe haven.
11:56A trail of refugees
11:58heading into the wilderness,
12:00justification enough
12:01for the British Prime Minister
12:02to explain why the action
12:04had to continue.
12:05To those who say
12:06the aim of military strikes
12:08is not clear,
12:09I say it is crystal clear.
12:12It is to curb
12:13Milosevic's ability
12:14to wage war
12:16on an innocent
12:17civilian population.
12:19To those who say
12:21NATO is striking
12:22at a sovereign nation
12:23without justification,
12:24I say it was Milosevic
12:27who scrapped
12:29Kosovo's autonomy.
12:3090% of its people
12:32are not Serbs.
12:35Now they have no rights,
12:37no justice,
12:38no protection.
12:41NATO claims
12:42more Serb warplanes
12:43have been shot down
12:44this evening,
12:45apparently as they tried
12:46to attack peacekeeping forces
12:48in Bosnia.
12:48Video footage
12:51from the cockpit
12:51of NATO jets
12:52back up the politicians'
12:54claims that the air attacks
12:55are having a great deal
12:57of success.
12:58We inflicted...
12:59...fighters
12:59across the border
13:00in Bosnia.
13:02Mostly Muslim Albanians
13:03are fleeing Kosovo
13:05with reports of massacres
13:06by mostly Christian
13:08Orthodox Serb forces.
13:10President Clinton
13:10warned the Serbs,
13:12those who commit atrocities
13:13will be brought to justice.
13:16Television's most
13:17widely experienced
13:18Defense Department
13:18correspondent David Martin
13:20begins our coverage
13:21from the Pentagon.
13:22The crumpled wreckage
13:23of a MiG
13:24is all that remains
13:25of what may have been
13:26a dramatic attempt
13:27by Serb President Milosevic
13:29to widen the war
13:30by attacking NATO troops
13:31in Bosnia.
13:33F-15s on patrol
13:34over Bosnia
13:34tracked the two MiG-29s
13:36as they took off
13:37from Serbia
13:37and headed west.
13:39The evidence is unclear,
13:40but the MiGs
13:41might have been
13:41the lead aircraft
13:42in an attempted strike
13:44against NATO troops
13:45in Bosnia.
13:46If so,
13:47was thwarted
13:48when the F-15
13:49shot them down.
13:51A second possibility
13:52is that they were involved
13:55in some sort of
13:56a Serb scheme
13:57to shoot down
13:59one of our planes.
14:00The shoot down occurred
14:01as NATO was about
14:02to begin
14:03another night of attacks.
14:05B-52 bombers
14:06took off from England
14:07to deliver
14:08a salvo
14:08of cruise missiles.
14:10Other planes
14:10flew out of Italy
14:11loaded with laser-guided bombs.
14:14Air Commodore David Wilby
14:15showed off some video
14:16of a bomb
14:17hitting an ammo dump.
14:18You can tell
14:19by the veracity
14:19of the fire
14:20that's coming out
14:21that there has definitely
14:22been a fair amount
14:23of explosive in there.
14:25But the Serb army
14:26in Kosovo
14:27is still on a rampage.
14:29Some executions
14:29have been reported
14:30in a number of towns.
14:32Some destruction
14:33of villages
14:34has been reported
14:35in several towns.
14:36Certainly there is reason
14:37to fear for the worst
14:38and we do fear
14:41for the worst.
14:42NATO planes
14:43have not yet trained
14:44all their firepower
14:45on the troops
14:46who are doing the killing
14:47because they are still
14:48concentrating on knocking
14:49out Serb air defenses.
14:51Bad weather
14:52is rolling in
14:53and that will make it
14:54harder to go after
14:55the Serb defenses.
14:57Excuse me.
14:58It will make it harder
14:58to go after
14:59the Serb army.
15:01Military officers
15:02say that unless
15:04Milosevic surrenders
15:05the bombing could continue
15:06for at least another week.
15:08Dan?
15:08David Martin
15:09at the Pentagon.
15:10This the third night
15:11of air attacks
15:12is now in full swing
15:13with more huge explosions
15:14reported from strikes
15:15by NATO cruise missiles
15:17and bombs.
15:18Especially hard hit
15:19expected to be
15:20the outskirts of Belgrade.
15:22CBS News correspondent
15:23Mark Phillips
15:24who was expelled
15:25from Yugoslavia
15:26after the war began
15:27reports tonight
15:28from across the border
15:28in Croatia.
15:30The full might
15:32of the NATO attack
15:33still comes after dark.
15:34The southern industrial
15:35city of Nis
15:36endured a sustained attack
15:38setting off fires
15:39that burned into the night.
15:41The longer the air raids
15:42go on
15:43the more damage they do.
15:44But with images
15:45provided almost exclusively
15:47by Yugoslav television now
15:48the world is getting
15:50a selective view.
15:51This was said to be
15:52damaged in Pristina
15:53the Kosovo capital.
15:55Much of the NATO attack
15:56has been concentrated here
15:58in an attempt
15:59to stymie the Serb offensive
16:00against the Albanian population.
16:03While military
16:03and industrial installations
16:05have been targeted
16:05these Serb TV images
16:07show destroyed residences
16:09where the Serbs
16:10say refugees
16:10have been housed.
16:12Again there are
16:13no reliable figures
16:14on civilian casualties
16:15although the Serbs
16:16continue to broadcast
16:17images of the wounded.
16:21Just as they do
16:22of the continued defiance
16:23of the Yugoslav military
16:25these soldiers
16:26said to be maintaining
16:27their vigil
16:28on the border
16:28with Macedonia.
16:30The Serbs
16:30are not providing images
16:32of their continuing campaign
16:33against Albanian civilians.
16:35The UN in Geneva today
16:36spoke of reports
16:37of teachers
16:38being lined up
16:39and shot
16:39in front of their students.
16:41With the expulsion
16:41of Western journalists
16:42it's impossible
16:43to confirm those reports.
16:45But with NATO attacks
16:46so far
16:47concentrating on air defenses
16:48and military installations
16:50the Serbs on the ground
16:51have been given
16:52a free hand
16:52to continue their campaign
16:54of ethnic cleansing
16:55without outside observers
16:57or interference.
16:58Mark Phillips
16:59CBS News Zagreb.
17:01Government-controlled
17:02Serbian television
17:03tonight reported
17:03at least seven
17:04mighty explosions
17:06on the outskirts
17:06of the capital city
17:07Belgrade.
17:08From on the ground
17:09in Belgrade
17:10a short time ago
17:11we've got an eyewitness
17:12telephone report
17:13for you
17:13from Leanne Martindale
17:15of CBS Radio
17:16and Television.
17:17I can hear
17:18the air sirens
17:19they just went off
17:20about three minutes ago
17:22about five minutes ago
17:24I heard the first explosion
17:25I'm below buildings
17:28so it's difficult
17:29for me to get a sense
17:30of how far away they are
17:32I would say
17:32at least five miles away
17:34I heard about
17:35three explosions
17:37and now it's gone
17:38completely silent.
17:40Leanne Martindale
17:41of CBS News
17:42reporting from Belgrade.
17:44For the first time
17:45in the war today
17:45NATO launched
17:46an airstrike
17:47during daylight hours
17:48the cruise missile
17:49erupted from a
17:50U.S. Navy warship
17:51in the Adriatic Sea.
17:53CBS's Richard Roth
17:54is aboard the U.S.S. Philippine Sea
17:56on the firing line
17:58in the Adriatic.
18:01It was an unexpected order
18:03to launch quickly
18:04and for the first time
18:06since the strikes began
18:07it happened in daylight.
18:08Rising on a blaze
18:09of rocket fuel
18:10the cruise missile
18:11turned east
18:12over the Adriatic
18:13toward land
18:14less than 50 miles away.
18:16Even officers
18:17in the ship's
18:18ultra-secret command center
18:19wouldn't have known
18:20the target.
18:21The digital directions
18:22were locked
18:23in the missile's computer.
18:24The job
18:25of the U.S.S. Philippine Sea
18:26is simply
18:27to be ready
18:28and react.
18:29The fact is
18:30the change
18:31in this ship's
18:31operation
18:32from uneventful
18:33cruise to naval
18:34combat
18:34has not changed
18:35most onboard routine
18:37but it has given
18:38every sailor here
18:39something to think about.
18:41With last night's
18:42volley from the U.S.S.
18:43Gonzales
18:44sailing nearby
18:45a total of 35
18:47of the one-and-a-half
18:48ton missiles
18:48have been launched
18:49from U.S. warships
18:51since Wednesday night.
18:52For many in the crew
18:53it's a first-time experience
18:55in high-tech warfare
18:57at sea
18:57but not for
18:59engineman Eric Taylor.
19:00We're trying to do
19:01things that
19:02when a situation arrives
19:03we have to
19:04rise to the occasion.
19:07The Navy says
19:08their duty
19:08is to protect
19:09lives at risk
19:10in Yugoslavia
19:11with force
19:12when necessary
19:13and no one here
19:14has been told
19:15how long
19:16that mission
19:16will last.
19:18Richard Roth,
19:18CBS News
19:19aboard the U.S.S.
19:20Philippine Sea.
19:22On the political
19:23and diplomatic front
19:23Secretary of State
19:24Madeleine Albright
19:25said flatly again today
19:27NATO is united
19:28but there are
19:30rumblings
19:30of some nervous
19:31discontent
19:32from NATO's
19:32southern flank
19:33especially from
19:34Greece and Italy
19:35the NATO countries
19:36closest to the fighting.
19:38In Athens tonight
19:4010,000 protesters
19:41marched on the U.S. Embassy
19:43fighting with police
19:44and burning flags
19:45as they chatted
19:46anti-American slogans.
19:47that followed
19:48a statement
19:49from a Greek
19:49government spokesman
19:50saying quote
19:51it's time to stop
19:52the bombing
19:53and seek a
19:54political solution.
19:55Tonight
19:55Greek officials
19:56backed away
19:57from that somewhat
19:58saying they are
19:59not breaking
19:59with their
20:00NATO allies.
20:01In Italy
20:02the main staging
20:03point for U.S.
20:04airstrikes
20:04the Prime Minister
20:05backed away
20:06from his statement
20:07of yesterday
20:08calling for
20:09an immediate
20:09bombing halt
20:10and in Rome
20:11protesters
20:12disrupted
20:13parliament.
20:15In Russia
20:16protesters
20:16were out
20:17again today
20:17and the Kremlin
20:18cranked up
20:19its pressure
20:20to stop
20:20the allied attack
20:21expelling
20:22two NATO
20:23representatives
20:23from Moscow.
20:25The Russians
20:25are traditionally
20:26allied with
20:27their fellow
20:27orthodox Christians
20:28in Serbia.
20:29Here in the United
20:30States
20:30hundreds of
20:31Serbian Americans
20:32turned out
20:33to protest
20:33in Chicago.
20:34The demonstration
20:35was loud
20:36but peaceful.
20:38President Clinton
20:38put out a videotaped
20:39message to the
20:40Serb people today.
20:42He tells them
20:42President Milosevic
20:43has endangered
20:44their future
20:45by forcing them
20:46into a senseless
20:47conflict.
20:48But the main
20:49message from
20:49President Clinton
20:50and his aides
20:51is aimed at
20:52holding together
20:53the alliance.
20:54Scott Pelley
20:54is at the
20:55White House.
20:55Scott.
20:56Dan,
20:56keeping the
20:57alliance in line
20:58of course
20:58is the
20:59president's
20:59first priority
21:00and tomorrow
21:01he is expected
21:01to make a number
21:02of calls
21:03to other
21:03NATO heads
21:04of state
21:04to encourage
21:05them to stick
21:06with the plan.
21:07Now,
21:07the allies
21:08shared a good
21:09bit of intelligence
21:10today about
21:10the latest
21:11atrocities in Kosovo
21:12and the Italians
21:13and the Greeks
21:14sent word privately
21:16to the White House
21:17that they are
21:17still on board.
21:19The president
21:19also warned
21:20today that
21:21Milosevic
21:22and his generals
21:22could be tried
21:23later as war
21:24criminals.
21:25Dan.
21:25Scott Pelley
21:26at the White House.
21:27U.S. officials
21:28are keeping an
21:28especially nervous
21:29eye on Macedonia,
21:31the tiny Balkan
21:32country that borders
21:33the Serb province
21:34of Kosovo.
21:35During the past
21:3624 hours,
21:36anti-American
21:37demonstrators
21:37have attacked
21:38the U.S.
21:39embassy in Macedonia.
21:40CBS News
21:41correspondent
21:41Alan Pizzi
21:42is there.
21:44U.S. ambassador
21:45Christopher Hill
21:46who spent months
21:47on an exhausting
21:47round of diplomacy
21:48to try to end
21:49the war in Kosovo
21:50today surveyed
21:52the evidence
21:52that the conflict
21:53may be spreading.
21:55The American embassy
21:56was attacked
21:56by what were described
21:57as members
21:58of the Serb minority
21:59here.
22:00Macedonian security
22:01forces were on hand
22:02to ensure they got
22:03nowhere near the
22:04premises today.
22:05American soldiers
22:06serving with the
22:07U.N. protection
22:08force here
22:08were rushed in
22:09to beef up security
22:10inside the compound.
22:12The U.S. diplomatic
22:13mission here
22:14is classed
22:14as a small embassy
22:15post which means
22:16it doesn't have
22:17a permanent
22:17marine guard contingent.
22:19But the way
22:20things are going
22:20in this part
22:21of the world
22:21that may have
22:22to be reconsidered.
22:24The violence
22:25reflects anger
22:26at NATO bombing
22:27and fears
22:28about the growing
22:28number of ethnic
22:29Albanian refugees
22:30from Kosovo.
22:31An estimated
22:3220,000 are already
22:34here and Macedonia
22:35says it cannot
22:36cope with more.
22:37But news from Kosovo
22:39reaching the head
22:39of the expelled
22:40international
22:41monitoring mission
22:41indicates more
22:43will be on their way.
22:44Stories of the police
22:45coming in
22:46masked,
22:48smashing doors,
22:50searching apartments
22:51are stories
22:52we're getting
22:52from some of our
22:53people that we
22:54left behind,
22:55locals.
22:57In the meantime,
22:58the flag has been
22:59run up again.
23:01Alan Fizzy,
23:01CBS News,
23:02Skopje.
23:03NATO forces
23:04are looking at
23:05pictures of the
23:05Serb forces
23:06burning the villages
23:07and killing
23:07innocent civilians,
23:08then disappearing
23:09into the countryside,
23:11giving the impression
23:11that they're a
23:12ragtag guerrilla force.
23:14That perception
23:15is dead wrong.
23:17In Kosovo
23:18is a very ruthless
23:19and well-equipped
23:20force of 30,000
23:22troops,
23:23340 tanks,
23:25250 armored
23:26personnel carriers,
23:28and approximately
23:28280 artillery tubes,
23:31roughly the equivalent
23:31of US-US
23:32army divisions,
23:34both in number
23:36of troops
23:36and firepower,
23:38all inside
23:38of an area
23:39about the size
23:40of the state
23:40of Maryland.
23:41General,
23:42given the size
23:43and scope
23:44of those ground
23:45forces the Serbs
23:45have in Kosovo,
23:47what would it take
23:48for an air campaign
23:49to defeat them?
23:51Three or four days,
23:52three or four weeks,
23:53a very intense bombing.
23:55Three or four weeks?
23:55Weeks.
23:56And I'm talking
23:56about 200 to 300
23:58sorties a day
23:59in mountainous terrain,
24:01under and around clouds,
24:03dodging heat-seeking missiles
24:05low to the ground
24:06with AAA as a threat.
24:08Make no mistake
24:09about it, Dan,
24:10we would lose airplanes
24:12and we would lose pilots,
24:13but we would break
24:14the back
24:15of the Serbian
24:16fighting force
24:17if only
24:18we have the political will
24:20and the national patience
24:22to see it through.
24:23General,
24:23Professor Glossian,
24:24thanks.
24:25Our front and center.
24:27More tonight
24:27from Jeff Locke.
24:29As the stealth bombers
24:32return from what
24:33the Air Force calls
24:34successful missions,
24:35those who have supported
24:36the much-maligned
24:37multi-billion dollar B-2
24:39said essentially,
24:41we told you so.
24:42Both Congressman Dix
24:43and I agreed
24:45it was worth it.
24:46Congressman Ike Skelton,
24:47whose Missouri district
24:48houses the B-2's only base,
24:50and Washington Democrat
24:51Norm Dix
24:52have been fighting
24:53the critics since 1980.
24:55What was once supposed
24:56to cost $270 million
24:58a plane
24:58ended up more like
25:00$2 billion.
25:01And the B-2 has had
25:02trouble flying in bad weather
25:03and with maintenance.
25:05We have seen
25:05the kind of criticism
25:06on every single
25:07major weapon system,
25:08and then when we go to war,
25:10they work.
25:11The Air Force is eager
25:12to capitalize on the success
25:13of this mission,
25:15letting reporters
25:15not only behind the controls
25:16of the simulator,
25:17but up close to the airplane
25:18as well.
25:20Still,
25:20despite its success,
25:21the question remains,
25:22is the tremendous cost
25:24worth it?
25:25The plane is currently
25:26worth about five times
25:28its weight in gold.
25:29Not worth it,
25:30says the publisher
25:31of the Bulletin
25:32of the Atomic Scientists,
25:33despite all it does.
25:35It is stealthy.
25:35It's not invisible to radar,
25:37but it is very,
25:38very difficult to detect.
25:39But the contexto
25:41is this
25:55is
25:57this
25:57way
25:57is
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