TARGET YUGOSLAVIA:  NATO's WAR OF AGGRESSION / Friday, 4 June 1999
 

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TARGET YUGOSLAVIA:  NATO's WAR OF AGGRESSION
Friday, 4 June 1999

Radio Havana Cuba presents its coverage of the ongoing U.S.-
led NATO aggression against Yugoslavia.
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AND THE BOMBS JUST KEEP ON COMIN'...

As NATO airstrikes continue in Yugoslavia, the peace agreement
accepted by Belgrade has sparked deep divisions within the
Russian government and armed forces.

According to sources from the Russian Parliament, Deputy
Foreign Minister Alexander Avdyev has distanced himself from
the agreement hammered out by the Kremlin's special envoy
Victor Chernomyrdin, stating that Chernomyrdin acted on his
own.  The statement reportedly came at a closed-door hearing
in the Duma, the Lower House, which is expected to draw up a
resolution highly critical of the conditions imposed by NATO.

Avdyev reportedly accused Chernomyrdin of accepting a
withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo before a cease-fire,
when Moscow had insistently demanded just the opposite.

Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergheiev has openly criticized
the accord following a meeting with President Boris Yeltsin.
One of the participants in the Russian delegation headed by
Chernomyrdin, General Leonid Ivashov -- chief of the Russian
Defense Ministry's Foreign Department -- strongly criticized
the deployment of NATO forces in Kosovo and the lack of a
specific date for the end of the bombardments.  He said the
hasty withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo could create a
vacuum that will be occupied by the Kosovo Liberation Army --
which would pose a serious threat to Kosovo's 250,000 Serbs.

Ivashov also deplored the aspect of the agreement stipulating
that Russian troops in Kosovo will have to depend on the good
or bad will of NATO, which is to decide on the size, place and
other details of Russia's participation in a peace-keeping
force.

Meanwhile, in a phone conversation with German Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder, President Yeltsin said that there was
absolutely no reason for the continuation of NATO airstrikes
against Yugoslavia.


ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS ARRESTED AT THE WHITE HOUSE

A group of 24 anti-war activists were arrested Thursday
afternoon when they tried to deliver an open letter to U.S.
President Bill Clinton -- calling on him to stop the bombing
of Yugoslavia.  The group, blocking a driveway entrance to the
White House in Washington, was led by Catholic Bishop Thomas
Gumbleton from Detroit and included two priests and three
nuns.

Earlier in the day, about 100 protestors gathered in Lafayette
Park, across the street from the White House, shouting their
opposition to the ongoing U.S.-led NATO war against
Yugoslavia.  The anti-war activists announced that they would
be back on Saturday -- along with thousands of others -- when
they plan to march from the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial to the
Pentagon.

According to reports from the U.S. capital, among those
arrested Thursday at the White House were members of U.S.
peace and religious organizations including Catholic
Worker, the American Friends Service Committee and the
Fellowship of Reconciliation.


CLINTON BROUGHT UP ON CHARGES IN "YUGOGATE" SCANDAL;
WHERE'S MONICA WHEN REALLY NEEDS HER?

Attorneys from the New York-based Center for Constitutional
Rights are charging that the U.S.-led NATO war against
Yugoslavia is not only illegal under international law, but
also a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Verbal arguments were heard on Thursday by Federal Judge Paul
Friedman.  The opening salvo of the legal battle is based on a
petition by a group of bipartisan congressional
representatives who claim that U.S. President Bill Clinton is
in violation of the constitution for carrying out a war
without Congressional authorization.

According to Michael Ratner, an attorney with the Center for
Constitutional Rights, Clinton is in clear violation of the
War Powers Act, which requires the approval of Congress to
wage a military action.

Ratner told reporters in Washington that a legal decision is
expected early next week, but that if the court rules in favor
of the U.S. war, attorneys are prepared to take the case to
the Court of Appeals and even the U.S. Supreme Court.


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