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Page 4 World & National News from the AP Wire Bombings in the Balkans might cease NATO warplanes attacked targets across Serbia Tuesday in a thunderous warning to President Slobodan Milosevic to implement a Kosovo peace plan, as eight major powers unanimously signed off on a text meant to secure U.N. blessings for the agreement. Besides drawing up a draft Security Council resolution authorizing a peacekeeping force for Kosovo with "substantial" N ATU participation, the G-8 group of Russia, the United States and six key democracies agreed on a NATO bombing pause, once Serb forces begin a verifiable withdrawal. "We got what we came for," said Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, suggesting that the draft's appendix that nailed down a dominant NATO role for the peace force had as much weight as the plan itself. 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By Krishnan Guruswamy Associated Press \ NEW DELHI, India ? Raising the t decibel level of their rhetoric, India de- c manded Monday that Pakistan with- g draw hundreds of fighters from its Kashmir territory. Pakistan, which denies its troops are involved, accused India of rebuffing its peace overtures. On the icy Himalayan peaks of Kashmir, where a month of fighting has left hundreds dead or wounded, India's air force and army rained shells on rebel foxholes, prompting a barrage of artillery from Pakistan's side of the Line of Control, a cease-fire demarcation dividing the region both nations claim. Pakistan officials said Indian shells fell on . their territory, killing four soldiers and wounding five others. In the Indian town of Dras, Pakistani shells ripped apart a military 1 barracks and badlv damaged its com- 1 munications room. At least 50 shells i hit the camp in a 30-minute span, killing one civilian, an officer said, t At least 10 rebels and three Indi- 1 an soldiers were killed in a fusillade of t artillery and small arms fire on an- ( other front along the border in Kash- ( mir, the Muslim-majority territoiy over ? which India and Pakistan have fought ] two wars in 52 years. Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari < Vajpayee went on state-run televi- ? sion to demand Islamabad remove the j guerrilla fighters or have Indian troops ( evict them forcibly. Minutes before Vajpayee's speech, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Tariq Altaf said, "India is on the , warpath... We offered peace talks, but they rejected it." Pakistan proposed a round of talks between the nations' foreign ministers that were to have taken place Monday. ] New Delhi, however, backed out, say- 1 ing the timing was "inconvenient." i In his five-minute speech, the first c nationwide address since the fighting began, Vajpayee accused Pakistan of I violating the Line of Control. i India says Afghan guerrillas sup- t ported by Pakistani soldiers are en- ? Proposed bill w warnings on co] By Dee-Ann Durbin so Associated Press vi Of] LANSING, Mich.-State Sen. Dale Shugars wasn't satisfied simply to hear at ibout the antics of shock rockers like ^ Marilyn Manson. He had to see them ? for himself. ' In April, Shugars attended a Manson concert. He was marveling at the ight show when Manson appeared, ^ strapped to a cross and wearing a black ^ jr-sinng. "He was like Satan," said Shugars, ^ 146-year-old Republican. -t The experience prompted Shugars gn o lobby even harder for a bill he spon Wednesday, June 2,1999 / in Kashmir renched on the mountains in Indialeld Kashmir. "They have been sent to occupy our erritory... to choke off our links with >ther parts of our country," Vajpayee aid. "No government can tolerate such in incursion. Our government certainly vill not," Vajpayee said. In an apparent effort to forestall 3akistan from making the question of ontrol over Kashmir a focus of the prorosed talks, Vajpayee said the "subject s one and one alone: the intrusion and low Pakistan proposes to undo it." Pakistan repeatedly has denied hat its forces are involved in the fightng In Islamabad, Altaf said Pakistan loesn't "know what other initiatives to ;ake" to defuse the tension. "The in;ernational community should focus ts attention on the Kashmir problem. Vithout a just solution to this prob* em. there can be no nermanent neace n the region," he said. On Monday, New Delhi for the first ime accused Pakistan of deploying heicopters to drop supplies to the miliants occupying strategic heights in Inlian territory. However, the helicopters lidn't cross the Line of Control, said rir force spokesman Group Capt. K. iajaram. India's casualty toll stood at 60 dead, 217 wounded and 14 missing, army spokesman Col. Bikram Singh said, ie estimated that 221 Pakistani solliers and an unknown number of )thers have been killed so far. Infantrymen struggled to carry the lead and injured down the steep rock aces, each body requiring geyen men is many hours to bring it down. Puffs nf crrav smnlrp msp frnm flip lilltops near Dras as soldiers trained L55-mm and 105-mm mobile field guns it them. Pakistani gunners respond:d with a volley of shells at the army :amp. The Indian air force pressed its soihisticated French-made Mirage 2000 ighter jets into battle," and officers on he ground said the planes scored more iccurate hits. ould require ncert tickets red that would require parental ad sories on tickets, posters and other Ivertising for certain concerts. The measure passed the state Sene last month and is now before a juse committee. If it passes the full Duse, it will be the first law of its kind the country. "We found that, a lot of times, rents weren't aware of what the lyrics e, lyrics about drug abuse, raping iH lrillinP-" Shucrars said T)nps fhic tarantee that parents won't let eir kids go to these concerts? No. But does guarantee a red flag" [for parts].