A day where much news was coming from Kosovo and the former Yugoslavia. NATO peacekeepers yesterday cordoned off three mass grave sites around this village in southern Kosovo that local residents said contained the bodies of 91 villagers killed in a two-day rampage by Serb paramilitary forces. Residents said the massacres happened on April 8 and 9 in three small villages around Kacanik. They said the victims were men, women and children, including a three-month-old girl. Villagers were either clubbed to death with rifle butts or killed by hand grenades and the wounded finished off by pistol shots to the head, they said. Shops were looted, leaving the town centre looking like a burnt-out shell.
Meanwhile Russian troops were driving toward Kosovo and might be planning to enter the war-torn province before NATO’s own peacekeepers could take up positions there, according to reports from Yugoslavia. The accounts threatened to knock the legs from Clinton’s victory lap because NATO and Moscow had yet to agree on how and when Russian troops would participate in the international se-, curity force planning to enter Kosovo. But Clinton and his aides dismissed the talk, saying they had assurances from Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov that no such thing was happening. Even after Clinton returned to Washington and sat down for a live evening interview with public television’s Jim Lehrer, he said the Russian soldiers apparently were “just prepositioning,” and there was no cause for alarm. A few hours later, however, chagrined administration officials were confronted with CNN footage of Russian armored personnel vehicles.
And Campers grabbed their children and ran when huge boulders came tumbling down a mountain below Glacier Point at Yosemite National Park, killing a rock climber and injuring three people. Peter J. Terbush, a student at Western State College in Gunnison, Colo., died from head injuries in the slide. The rockslide hit around 7:35 p.m. Sunday when the boulders broke loose from about 2,500 feet up the west shoulder of the Glacier Point apron at the eastern end of the park. About 1,300 guests and employees in 300 cabins were evacuated from Curry Village and allowed to return several hours after the slide.
And that’s just a sample of what happened in Kosovo and elsewhere, this June 14, 1999 as reported by the CBS World News Roundup.
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