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April 27, 1999
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- NATO bombing attacks early Tuesday struck at the Yugoslav infrastructure, targeting oil distribution and supply facilities, army assembly areas, and communications facilities.

NATO airstrikes targeted the former headquarters of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's ruling Socialist Party in Belgrade for the second time in less than a week.

In Belgrade, CNN's Brent Sadler reported the rooftop of the 23-story building, which supports television and radio antennas, was struck.

"There was a tremendous explosion," Sadler said. "I can confirm that the top floor, the roof of that building where this array of antennas was situated, has been attacked."

The official Tanjug news agency also reported a series of explosions around Sombor, near the Hungarian border, and in Yugoslavia's second largest city, Novi Sad. Serbian television, which was knocked off the air by NATO airstrikes twice in three nights, remained on the air, Sadler said.

But while the bombing campaign continued, Yugoslavia's deputy premier signaled possible dissension in the ranks of Milosevic's government.

Vuk Draskovic, once Yugoslavia's chief opposition leader before joining with Milosevic in recent years, appeared to criticize his president in several interviews granted since the weekend. Draskovic called on his government to give the Serbian people what he called the truth -- that Yugoslavia could not prevail against NATO.

Although he blamed NATO for the "aggression" perpetuated against his "poor innocent country," Draskovic said Monday it was time for Yugoslavia to accept an international peacekeeping force in Kosovo -- a plan that led to the NATO bombing campaign when Milosevic soundly rejected the idea.

And on Tuesday, Draskovic told a Spanish newspaper that Yugoslavia would even accept an investigation into war crimes in Kosovo.

After Draskovic's Monday comments -- on both Serbian and international television -- the government ordered commercial stations to rebroadcast two national Serbian television newscasts at specific times and also imposed military censorship, according to Yugoslav officials.

The measures were seen as an attempt to minimize disruptions of the state-run network by NATO bombing raids, but they drew protests from Draskovic, whose party owns the private Channel, Studio B.

British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook also condemned the action.

"Within hours (after Draskovic's comments), Milosevic had given his answer to that plea for the people to hear the truth," Cook said Tuesday at a British news briefing. "He sent in a colonel of the army to take over the television station. There could not be a more brutal or swift example of how Milosevic silences the truth."

In other war-related news, a U.S. Apache helicopter crashed on a nighttime training mission in Albania on Monday, the Pentagon said.

Initial reports said the helicopter may have hit a tree and gone down about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of the Albanian capital, Tirana.

Army sources said the two-man crew escaped and was evacuated by helicopter to a mobile hospital unit, where the men were reported in good condition.

The Pentagon said the incident was being considered an accident and there was no indication the Apache was brought down by hostile fire.

Correspondents Brent Sadler and Jamie McIntyre contributed to this report.

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