I anticipate that you'll see an intensification over the next few days,'' said Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon. He said NATO planes carried out 445 missions, including 93 strike missions, Sunday, and plans called for doubling or tripling that number Monday. In Brussels, Belgium, a NATO statement this morning said allied jets flew 658 missions over the past 24 hours - equal to the levels before the alliance scaled back attacks after Milosevic accepted a peace plan Thursday. In talks with NATO representatives over the weekend, Yugoslav military officers refused to accept the alliance's outline for implementing a peace plan. They objected to several aspects of the plan, including its requirement that all Serb troops leave the province and its timetable for peacekeepers to enter.
Time is on our side.
Bacon 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. Serb air defenses continued to fire at NATO planes, Bacon said, but with less regularity. In Bonn, Germany, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the foreign ministers of seven other leading industrialized nations, plus Russia, agreed on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution implementing a Kosovo peace deal. The State Department said it provides for a peacekeeping force with NATO at its core - a provision the Russians had opposed.