Kosovo Crisis
*Five Serb civilians abducted by Kosovo rebels were released on Saturday after the mediation by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) cease-fire verification mission.
The five Serbs were turned over to members of the OSCE cease-fire verification mission.
*A group of Russian forensic experts are to leave for Yugoslavia's Kosovo Province to conduct autopsy on the 45 ethnic Albanian bodies, allegedly massacred by Serb forces in Racak Village a week ago.
According to Tanjug news agency, experts from Finland, Belarus and Yugoslavia will also join in the identification work, which aimed to trace out the truth of the death of the 45 lives.
The OSCE chairman emphasized that the OSCE would make no conclusion on the killings before forensic doctors finished the autopsy work on the bodies from Racak.
*German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Saturday did not rule out the possibility that German ground troops would take part in the NATO military intervention in the troubled Yugoslav province of Kosovo.
Schroeder said in an interview with the Focus magazine that military pressure is needed on Yugoslavia to prevent an increase in violence in Kosovo.
WorldNews 1999-01-25 Page6
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