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MOSCOW (AP)
— Russia needs up
to $3 billion to
tackle the Year
2000 computer
glitch — six times
the original esti
mate — a top offi
cial announced
Wednesday as he
appealed to the
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United States and NATO to help fix
computers that control Russia’s nu
clear weapons.
While many countries have been
working on the so-called Y2K “mil
lennium bug” problem for years,
some key players, including Russia
and China, have been slower to ad
dress it.
Last month, U.S. Deputy Defense
Secretary John Hamre acknowl
edged “some nervousness” in
Washington about potential com
puter problems in Russia. “They
don't seem to have the same level of
urgency that we have had over it,”
he said.
The man leading Russia’s efforts
to solve the Y2K finally responded
Wednesday by asking NATO and the
U.S. Defense Department for advice
— and money.
Russia wants all sides to “speak
the same language,” Alexander
Krupnov, chairman of the Central
Telecommunications Commission,
said Wednesday. “We’re in a critical
situation in several areas” — in
cluding the Defense Ministry.
The problem arises because ear
ly programmers trying to save mem
ory space used only two digits to
identify the year — meaning that
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DRAGOBIUE, Yugoslavia
(AP) — Separatists in Kosovo de
manded a guarantee Wednesday
that a vote on independence for
their province would be part of
any peace accord with Serbia —
a move that dimmed prospects
for this weekend’s peace talks in
France.
The rebel Kosovo Liberation
Army has accepted the U.S.-Eu
ropean summons to the talks.
And in Belgrade, the government
gave its strongest signals yet that
Serbia — Yugoslavia’s dominant
republic — will also join the ne
gotiations.
Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic’s Socialist party hinted
at attendance, saying that Yu
goslavia supported solving the
Kosovo issue “through political
means.”
Serbia’s hard-line Parliament,
under Milosevic’s de facto con
trol, is due to decide Thursday
whether to accept the summons
to talks scheduled to start Satur
day in Rambouillet, France, out
side Paris.
NATO is threatening to attack
if the Serbs and ethnic Albanians
don’t start talking by Saturday
and strike a deal by Feb. 19 to end
ll months of fighting.
The allies are pushing a peace
deal providing for a three-year pe
riod of autonomy for Kosovo —
where ethnic Albanians make up
some 90 percent of the popula
tion — followed by talks between
the two sides on the province’s
future.
Most of Kosovo’s Albanians
demand independence, a goal
that the allies have opposed for
fear of stirring up the Balkans’
volatile ethnic mix.
Kosovo’s moderate Albanian
leader, Ibrahim Rugova, an
nounced through a spokesman
that he would attend the talks.
Serbia’s state-run television al
lowed hours of air time lliesday
evening to a moderate who sup
ports participation in the talks, in
dicating leaders could be prepar
ing the public for a “yes” by
parliament.
However, even the moderate,
Deputy Premier Vuk Draskovic,
said Serbia will never agree to al
lowing Kosovo to become either
independent or a third republic
within Yugoslavia, along with
Serbia and Montenegro.
Envoys Christopher Hill of the
United States and Wolfgang
Petritsch of the European Union
were pressing Serb leaders
Wednesday for a positive re
sponse to the talks.
A commander in the Kosovo
Liberation Army said Wednesday
his side was joining talks with lit
tle faith they would resolve the
conflict.
Independence “will come with
war and not talks,” said com
mander Remi, who like most top-
ranking KLA officials identified
himself only by one name, speak
ing in northern Kosovo. “The
Serb side knows only force.”
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