The World - News from Oct. 26, 1987

Yugoslavia has sent a special police unit to Kosovo, an impoverished province bordering Albania, because mounting ethnic unrest there could threaten national security. The move, reported by the official news agency Tanjug, follows demonstrations by thousands of people in Kosovo. The province has been plagued by tension between its ethnic Albanian majority and its Serbian and Montenegrin minorities. Several thousand Serbian and Montenegrin women demonstrated for three days recently in Kosovo to protest remarks attributed to Fadilj Hodja, a former Communist Party official in the region and an ethnic Albanian. He said that prostitution by Serbian women could halt rapes in Kosovo.