By MELISSA EDDY Associated Press Writer

                 PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - The resumption of shelling in Kosovo's
                 American sector has heightened fears of an upsurge of violence ahead of a
                 deadline later this month for demilitarizing the ethnic Albanian rebel army.

                 Two people were killed and four wounded - one critically - after shells
                 targeted two all-Serb villages late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
                 Residents of Donja Budriga said shells landed in their community for 20
                 minutes, blowing the legs off an elderly woman fetching water in her yard.
                 She died, along with a male villager.

U.S. troops serving in the NATO-led Kosovo peacekeeping force said the attack - and one on
the nearby Serb village of Ranilug - came after relatively frequent incidents of mortar fire
diminished for two weeks in the ethnically mixed eastern part of the province under their control.

With less than two weeks until the Sept. 19 deadline for the demilitarization of the rebel Kosovo
Liberation Army, international officials in the province fear such attempts to destabilize the peace
will continue to increase.

Some senior KLA figures are thought to vehemently oppose demilitarization, despite a plan to
allow the organization to maintain some of its structures as a reformed, lightly armed civil
emergency corps.

U.S. officers said investigators found evidence that a Chinese-manufactured mortar was used on
the attack on Ranilug. Chinese-manufactured weapons were favored by the KLA during the
fighting against Serb-led Yugoslav forces that ended in June.

Most of the more than 200,000 Kosovo Serbs have fled since NATO troops replaced Serb
forces in the province at the end of 78 days of NATO bombing that forced Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic to accept Western peace terms for Kosovo. Those who remain complain that
the 40,000 NATO-led troops in the province are protecting only the Albanians.

As tensions here increase, Russia has stepped up criticism of NATO's role in Kosovo -
complaining that Serbs are not adequately protected and expressing unhappiness with the KLA's
proposed new role as a lightly armed force that would respond to natural disasters and assist in
security missions as not amounting to full demilitarization.

Russia's complaints are expected to figure in talks in Moscow next week between Russian
Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev and U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen.