NATO's standoff with Yugoslavia over details of a troop pullout has put the Pentagon in an awkward position of accelerating a bombing campaign as it rushes to prepare for peace. Bombing was scaled back over the weekend to reflect steps toward peace, but the airstrikes escalated Monday. He said NATO planes carried out 93 strike missions Sunday, and plans called for doubling or tripling that number over the next few days. He would not discuss bomb targets. Sunday's strikes were almost exclusively against Serb army forces in southwestern Kosovo, where they were in fierce battles with the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army, Bacon said.
Time is on our side.
Serb air defenses continued to fire at NATO planes, Bacon said, but with less regularity. At the White House, press secretary Joe Lockhart reiterated that NATO will not suspend its bombing until the Serbs begin a verifiable troop pullout. Bacon said NATO saw no sign of a withdrawal Monday. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was in Bonn, Germany, for a meeting with Russian and allied foreign ministers. They broke up with all but Moscow agreeing to tough peace terms for Kosovo laid out in a draft U.N. Security Council resolution.