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FROM YUGOSLAVIA Serb media links U.S. shooting to NATO strikes
By Reuters, 04/21/99
Wednesday's coverage
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BELGRADE - Yugoslav media said Wednesday the shooting of at least 15 people by teen-agers at a Colorado school was a symptom of the ''American values'' NATO was trying to impose on Yugoslavia through air strikes.
The state-run Yugoslav news agency Tanjug described the killing as ''another manifestation of how profoundly disturbed American society is.''
Bomb squads combed a Colorado high school Wednesday for booby-trapped explosives left by two heavily armed teenagers who went on a rampage, killing at least 15 people including themselves.
Tanjug accused President Clinton of hypocrisy for saying the young had to learn to resolve their anger with words rather than violence.
''Clinton, who has been telling these same young people all over America on television that it was good and just to kill people in Yugoslavia with bombs, on the occasion of the high school massacre said that something should be done to pay more attention to the young, who evidently had problems,'' it said.
NATO warplanes have bombed Yugoslavia for almost a month to try to force President Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw forces from the southern Serbian province of Kosovo.
On the streets of Belgrade, some people had not heard of the high school shooting. Others were indifferent.
''Who cares?'' said one man. ''They're killing people here.''
A woman called Lula said: ''It's terrible, but not surprising. It's all rebounding on them.''
''It serves them right,'' said another man.
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