The flight, originally scheduled on yesterday, has several times been delayed because of unfavourable weather conditions fog over Kosovo and a heavy snowfall in Moscow. The situation in Macedonia, with the real threat of Albanian separatists occupying between a quarter and half the country, is becoming more and more real by the day. Clashes using artillery have been in progress here for already several days between Macedonian frontier guards and Kosovo separatists. Dr. Jaime Gama, the Portuguese Foreign Minister, is currently on a visit to Belgrade, Kosovo and Podgorica to prepare the ground for Portuguese collaboration in economic programmes for Yugoslavia and to suggest a peace initiative to quell the growing instability in Kosovo and southern Serbia. Little, for example, is known about the Albanian question in Macedonia outside Skopje.
Some passengers are in critical condition.
Yugoslavia s president is very likely to face today the first major discontent from the people who elected him president. It is today that the West s fighting for spheres of influence in Yugoslavia may get started. Interestingly, Javier Solana is going to become one of the first Western politicians to step onto the Belgrade soil. As such, one assumes that she is a woman who possesses at least a reasonable degree of intelligence. In Portugal, only one tenth of the military and civilian personnel sent to the Balkans has been tested for radioactivity or toxicity levels resulting from uranium and the official line is so far, so good.