August 17, 1999

                  PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Unidentified attackers fired nine mortar
                  rounds at a village in the U.S. sector, killing two Serb teenagers and injuring
                  five other Serbs, NATO reported Tuesday.

                  In a statement, NATO said a 14-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy were
                  killed in Monday evening's attack in the village of Klokot about 25 miles
                  southeast of Pristina, the provincial capital. In a separate incident, an
                  8-year-old ethnic Albanian boy was shot and wounded late Monday in the
                  village of Petrovce, also in the American sector, the peacekeeping command
                  said.

                  The wounded, including the ethnic Albanian boy, were taken to a clinic at
                  the U.S. Camp Bondsteel in Gljiane.

                  The attacks underscore the failure of the 40,000-member NATO-led
                  peacekeeping force to stop the cycle of ethnic violence which has rocked
                  Kosovo since Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic launched a bloody
                  crackdown on ethnic Albanians in February 1998.

                  There was no evidence that the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army
                  was behind the mortar attack. Under a demilitarization agreement signed in
                  June, the KLA is supposed to have turned in all its mortars to NATO
                  peacekeepers.

                  Attacks on Serbs by revenge-minded ethnic Albanians have persisted since
                  NATO and Russian troops entered Kosovo on June 12 to enforce a
                  Western-dictated peace plan, which ended the 78-day NATO bombing
                  campaign of Yugoslavia. Most of the 200,000 Kosovo Serbs have left the
                  Yugoslav province, despite a U.N. and NATO commitment to a multiethnic
                  Kosovo.

                  During the crackdown, Milosevic's forces drove more than 800,000 ethnic
                  Albanians from their homes. An estimated 10,000 ethnic Albanians were
                  killed.

                  On Monday, Milosevic accused peacekeepers of tolerating "the gravest
                  crimes" against the province's Serb minority. In Belgrade, the private Beta
                  news agency reported that a Serb official, Predrag Lazic, was hospitalized
                  Monday after being beaten in Pristina. Two other Serbs were killed over the
                  weekend around Pristina, it said.

                  Nevertheless, about 200 Serbian railway workers returned Monday to
                  Kosovo -- the biggest group of returning Serbs in the past six weeks.