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March 26, 1999
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- NATO fired a cruise missile from a warship in the Adriatic Sea Friday, marking the first daytime operation in NATO's campaign against Serb military targets in Yugoslavia.

CNN Correspondent Martin Savidge reported the launch of a U.S. Navy Tomahawk cruise missile from a U.S. Navy vessel about 2:20 p.m. (8:20 a.m. EST/1320 GMT) in the third round of attacks.

Earlier Friday, NATO officials said alliance warplanes would continue to destroy the Yugoslav armed forces' integrated air-defense system.

After two rounds of NATO bombings of Serbian military targets in Yugoslavia, a NATO spokesman in Brussels said the air campaign against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was never designed to last "only for one or two days".

"He will have to decide how much pain he is willing to suffer," NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said at a news conference.

Fifty targets hit

British Air Commodore David Wilby told journalists that in the first two waves of NATO bombings 50 Serbian military targets were hit.

Those included air defense facilities in Novi Sad and Batajnica in Serbia and Podgorica in Montenegro. The republics of Serbia, where Kosovo province is located, and Montenegro are what remain of the former Yugoslavia.

"On the operational front, we continue our attacks on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's air defense system," Wilby said, adding that the missions flown so far had been successful.

Soon to target ground troops

NATO Supreme Commander Gen. Wesley Clark said Friday that the alliance so far had only targeted Serb military facilities but would launch air attacks against Yugoslav troops soon, in line with NATO battle plans.

However, Clark declined to elaborate on what exactly that would involve or when it would happen.

If Milosevic does not stop attacks on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, then, "I assume that we will get additional military objectives or we will continue to work," he told CNN.

Clinton addresses Serb people

U.S. President Bill Clinton on Friday made a direct appeal to the Serb people.

In a taped speech sent out via satellite -- and also posted on the Web site of WORLDNET, the U.S. Information Agency's global information network -- Clinton told Serbs that NATO and the United States had "no quarrel" with the people of Serbia.

But he added that Milosevic had "diminished your country's standing in the world."

"I call on all Serbs and all people of good will to join us to seek an end to the needless and avoidable conflict," Clinton said in his address.

Russia expels NATO representatives

But Russia, which has repeatedly protested any military action over Kosovo, put its foot down Friday. Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said NATO representatives in Moscow were told to leave the country.

China -- like Russia a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and also opposed to the strikes -- again called for an immediate end to the NATO airstrikes, as did Greece.

NATO member Italy called for a brief and focused campaign by the alliance.

Reprisals feared

The U.N. refugee agency said Friday it feared more Serb reprisals against Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority now that international observers and relief workers have left.

"With only a handful of independent observers left on the ground, we are extremely worried about the plight of Kosovo's civilian population, which has already been through a terrible ordeal," U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata said in Geneva.

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