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Page 8 • Tuesday, June 15, 1999 News b- Kickin’ it ANTHONY DISALVO/The Battalion Texas A&M Soccer Camp attendees Whitney Brown (left) and Beth Merrifield practice the “pass-back” drill at the O.R. Simpson Drill Field Monday. The camp, which started Sunday, will run through Thursday. A Central Texas Managed Health Care Program Makes More Sense Than Traditional Health Insurance That’s why Bryan-College Station has FIRSTCARE. No annual deductible No claim forms to complete Low co-payments Brazos Valley Physicians Organization Quality health care and controlled costs Bryan-College Station employers have an affordable solution to their group health care needs: FTRSTCARE, a health care program created to help control your rising medical costs. FIRSTCARE is a service of Hillcrest. FIRSTCARE Your Partner in Health. 254-202-5300 1-888-817-2273 More than 100,000 Texans depend on FIRSTCARE, available in Bryan-College Station. Ask your employer about it. For affordable, quality, convenient and comprehensive health care, choose FIRSTCARE. FIRSTCARE is a service mark of SHA, L.L.C. — NATO forces uncovt evidence of atrocitii PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) — Ducking at the sound of gunfire, patrolling cautiously to avoid the ire of Serbs, thousands of NATO peacekeepers spread out Monday across Kosovo. Some uncovered grim evidence of atrocities as they tightened their control of the province. Serb forces complying with the pullout ordered by NATO to end the 78-day air war mixed in with civil ians fleeing in columns up to 500 vehicles long. Some ethnic Alban ian homes were set ablaze by Serb troops leaving Kosovo. Aiming to bring a measure of stability to the province shattered by war and a long history of ethnic hatred, NATO and U.S. forces sought to downplay the impasse over about 200 Russian soldiers oc cupying the Pristina airfield where the allies planned to establish headquarters. NATO lead commander Lt. Gen. Michael Jackson insisted the air field was not crucial to occupying forces, although the White House said Defense Secretary William Co hen and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will meet their Russian counterparts in Helsinki, Finland, within days. Kosovo’s Serbs fear the majori ty of ethnic Albanians will take bloody revenge on them for years of oppression and for reported atrocities. The West, meanwhile, fears a Russian zone will lead to the partition of Kosovo. Refugees, who began streaming out of Kosovo after the NATO bombing campaign began March 24, told of Serb slaughter and the massacre of innocent victims. The accounts could not be inde pendently confirmed at the time, and one of the peacekeepers’ gru eling tasks will be to investigate what happened. On Monday, they gingerly probed the town cemetery Standoff raises questioi about Russian intentio; WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kosovo airport standoff between NATO and Russia is more than a turf war. To the Western allies, a main worry is that Russian troops inde pendent of NATO could lead to a split in Kosovo, drawing the mi nority Serb population to a Russ ian-controlled zone and excluding the ethnic Albanians. To the Russians it is a foot in the door, a means of asserting themselves in a part of the world where they held great influence before the collapse of the Soviet empire. It is a matter of national pride — and perhaps political sol idarity with Slobodan Milosevic — that Russian troops in Kosovo not fall under NATO control. Partitioning of Kosovo could throw a wrench into then lions yet to come oval political future — thea self-government thep/tij allowed and what have with Serbia. Moscow and Belgrade placed on one side United States and NATtl other. Some suggest para division of Berlin after! II, which led to the be wail between East and! Those suggestions drawn, Anthony military analyst at the! Strategic and Internatr ies, said. “This isn't the Cold 1 said. "You aren't stnigt® control of Europe.” in Kacanik, where the stench of de cayed flesh hung heavy over a mass grave believed to contain 81 bodies. British Capt. Andy Reeds said war-crimes investigators would be called in to examine the site, 30 miles south of Pristina. Peacekeepers continued to pour into the battered Serbian province from neighboring Macedonia and Albania, and officials said about 15,000 allied troops had entered Kosovo by Monday. A convoy of 1,200 U.S. Marines began crossing just south of Ka canik at first light, and U.S. forces took over the area, including the site of the graves, from the British troops. One group of Marirrffl main road to Prisons p combat position bebi:;T.. hides when they her.: coming from houses; mile away. “We were all a little dw in,” Cpl. Will RapiercH Battalion, 8th Marine; just hope to get thistta we can all go home.” Despite the tension; troop movements wets out a repeat of Sunday;; tal confrontations, whe shot a Serb in Pristinij man forces killed ok wounded another atV| fired at them from an of Prizren. I fFRFESHO r ^ % Accoi 4^'ol and ^ O' vin § in x /potent «^W- V >E! PICK UP AT rtJich ei leninge There il.jvira asily tf 'eningc PRESENTED BY 7VISC TOWN HALL Persons with disabilities, please call 845-1515 to inform us of your ( Both needs. We request notification three (3) working days prior to thee| r thecc enable us to assist you to the best of our abilities. ^ariy hffness te key s