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Page 8 • Tuesday, June 8, 1999 News Taking the plunge J.P. BEATO/Tm Battalion Sophomore psychology major Anitra Bigler dives from the the three-meter springboard at the Student Recreation Center this weekend. THE SUMMER THROWDOWN! 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NATO’s standoff with Yu goslavia over details of a troop pull out has put the Pentagon in an awkward position of accelerating a bombing campaign as it rushes to prepare for peace. Bombing was scaled back over the weekend to reflect steps toward peace, but the airstrikes escalated Monday. “You’ll see an intensification of the campaign today, tomorrow and in the future,” Pentagon spokesper son Kenneth Bacon said. He said NATO planes carried out 93 strike missions Sunday, and plans called for doubling or tripling that number over the next few days. He would not discuss bomb targets. Sunday’s strikes were almost ex clusively against Serb army forces in southwestern Kosovo, where they were in fierce battles with the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army, Bacon said. “Time is on our side. Time is against them,” Bacon said. “It’s their military structure that is being struck, and I assume they will see the wisdom of meeting the (NATO) conditions and getting their troops out of harm’s way.” “/ assume they [the Serbs] will see the wisdom of meeting the (NATO) conditions and getting their troops out of harm’s way. ,f — Kenneth Bacon Pentagon spokesperson Serb air defenses continue to fire at NATO planes. Bacon said, but with less regularity. At the White House, press sec- 1 Indonesian vote marked by pea[ JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesians held their freest elections in 44 years with remarkable peace Mon day, breaking a legacy of violence that had killed thou sands in the southeast Asian nation. It was another major step away from authoritarian rule that ended when riots by pro-democracy student groups forced President Suharto to resign in May 1998 after 32 years in power. “If this is democracy, I like it,” Rustan, a 29-year-old resident of Jakarta’s Chinatown, who voted in a makeshift polling station erected amid burned-out build ings that stand as a testament to recent turmoil, said. Bloodshed has wracked Indonesia for so long that retary Joe Lockhart reiterg \ Al t 1 will not suspenditl ing until the Serbs begin I able troop pullout. Bacf NATO saw no sign of ami al Monday. President Clinton nonfe gress in a letter released: of his intention to send: personnel to the Balkan; anticipation of a peacese": and to be prepared in cai; ; flict. "I have authorizedtht| merit of a significant conq military personnel to Kts part of an international; presence,” Clinton wroteit ter dated June 5. “Force;f enter Kosovo unlessitisci Belgrade has adopted NMli ditions and is withdraif forces. ” Secretary of State Mad; bright was in Bonn, Gem jn f>P ° ( meeting with Russian a: 3r f e( -i ,c foreign ministers. Theyf l0rnl:,er with all but Moscow ag:' enc V / e J tough peace terms for Ke^ 631 * 1 w out in a draft U.N. SecunrMri o\a cil resolution. deadly llAftei lush vo ng tin JBush romist :hute ju Ifhoi jeorge ace. an> many were taken aback by the relative lacko:^ le ^ surrounding the balloting for a new Park: - will help pick a president by year's end. “I'm surprised that the election ... has bee £ ful and safe. 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