Assistant managing editor Philip Bennett said plain-clothes police escorted Finn from his hotel room early today, telling a clerk he would be expelled from Yugoslavia. Dimitri Messinis, a photographer for The Associated Press, said he and the others were on the roof of the Hyatt Hotel when uniformed police detained them. Belgian journalist Phillippe Deprez, who works for RTBF Radio, was still being held. That is not surprising. For more than a year, as ethnic Albanian separatists fought for independence and Yugoslav forces pummeled them and the civilians who support them, the city of Pristina had largely avoided the conflict that raged in the countryside.
Gunfire is random.
Grenades are tossed into cafes and markets. Pristina is emptying out. Many of its residents are fleeing, coming here to Macedonia. An estimated 20,000 refugees are now in and around Skopje, the Macedonian capital. As darkness fell last night, the solitary police officer at the checkpoint on the road that leads out of Kosovo into Macedonia said that about 2,000 people had crossed the border yesterday.