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TARGET YUGOSLAVIA:  NATO's WAR OF AGGRESSION
Wednesday, 28 April 1999

Radio Havana Cuba presents its coverage of the ongoing U.S.-
led NATO aggression against Yugoslavia.

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Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has asserted
that Washington is getting ready to repeat in Kosovo the same
error committed in Vietnam: "sending troops from abroad to
resolve an internal conflict."  In statements to CNN on
Tuesday, McNamara also stated that "air strikes alone will not
be sufficient to obtain NATO's tactical and strategic
objectives," while a necessary land invasion would be
extremely difficult and very costly.

While admitting that a land invasion is not impossible, the
former U.S. defense secretary during the Vietnam War stated
that Yugoslavia's climatic and geographic conditions would not
be in NATO's favor.  First, he said, is the issue of
Yugoslavia's upcoming winter.  In the second place, while the
southern zone through which a land invasion would have to be
launched is an extremely rugged and mountainous region, the
sea ports to the north are very narrow.  McNamara stated that
as a result, "the best option is to negotiate" -- with, he
added, "the indispensable participation of Russia."

In related news, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan
today stated that a lasting solution in Kosovo cannot be
achieved on the battlefield -- in what has been called an
implicit denunciation of NATO's on-going aerial bombardment
campaign.  Following a three-day visit to Germany, Annan
insisted that the human cost of the violence in Yugoslavia is
unacceptable.

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