In Kumanovo, Macedonia, the ethnically mixed town near the Kosovo border where three U.S. soldiers were captured by Serb forces Wednesday, villagers eyed U.S. journalists coldly. Many of the people here are ethnic Serbs who support Milosevic. Shufelt commands Camp Able Sentry, the base for the 350 U.S. Army soldiers in Macedonia who serve as a protection force for NATO's mission in Yugoslavia. We just back off and try to quickly get out of confrontations. Macedonian Serbs appeared in large numbers during last week's riot in front of the U.S. Embassy in Skopje, where graffiti equated NATO with the Nazis.
Feelings here run high.
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