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

The targets included a radio-television transmission array atop the former headquarters of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's ruling Socialist Party in Belgrade. It was the second time in less than a week that the building was hit.

NATO's bombing campaign is working, and working well, said Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark in Brussels.

"NATO's solidarity is growing stronger every day," Clark said. "Every day more resources are becoming available. The noose around Yugoslavia as it continues its inhumane policies in Kosovo is tightening."

But Yugoslavia charged that the NATO campaign is itself inhumane.

NATO has "concentrated primarily on civilian targets," Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic said in a letter to the president of the U.N. Security Council. "NATO bombs dropped on the towns and villages to date have killed about a thousand civilians, including a great many children. A few thousand civilians have sustained injuries and will be crippled for life."

And, Jovanovic said, NATO's relentless bombing of oil and chemical facilities has "created an environmental disaster threatening almost the whole of Europe."

Clark, speaking at a NATO news briefing, said that NATO attacks are demoralizing the Yugoslav army and rendering Milosevic's forces ineffective.

"Essentially his air defense system is ineffective," he said. "When it's turned on, when it attempts to target us, it is destroyed. So what he has tried to do is conserve it by using it sparingly and when he uses it, we strike back and take it out."

Meanwhile, NATO and the United States held fast to what U.S. State Department spokesman James Rubin called their "political objectives": that ethnic Albanian refugees be allowed to return home; that Serb forces withdraw from Kosovo; and that an international peacekeeping force with NATO at its core be installed in Kosovo.

Milosevic has rejected the idea of an international force on Serb soil, and refuses to resume talks on the Kosovo issue until the NATO bombing campaign stops. But Rubin said the bombing would continue until the political objectives were met.

Ramirez, left, Stone and Gonzales received their first medical checkup from a Red Cross doctor

With Milosevic refusing to bend, Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Vuk Draskovic began Sunday calling on Serb officials to "tell the truth" about the conflict.

"We cannot defeat NATO," he told CNN on Monday. "We have no right to have such ambitions." ( 640 K/38 sec. AIFF or WAV sound)

Draskovic blamed NATO for the "aggression" against his "poor, innocent" country, however. ( 384 K/16 sec. AIFF or WAV sound)

In other developments, Yugoslavia allowed the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit three U.S. service members captured near the Macedonia border March 31. The ICRC initially met with the three Monday, but were not allowed a private meeting.

On Tuesday, the private meeting -- required under the Geneva Conventions -- was allowed, and a doctor was also permitted to examine the three.

Spokeswoman Suzanne Berger said that Staff Sgt. Christopher Stone, Staff Sgt. Andrew Ramirez and Spc. Steven Gonzales were in "satisfactory condition."

And in Moscow, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott met with Russia's Balkans envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin and Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov. Russia has strong cultural and religious ties to Yugoslavia. There was no hint of any progress after Talbott's meetings, however.

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