The World - News from Sept. 29, 1988
Yugoslav police have seized 41 ethnic Albanians suspected of trying to break links between Kosovo province and Yugoslavia, an Interior Ministry statement said. It was the biggest police sweep announced in Kosovo since Albanian riots there in 1981 and the first major action since paramilitary police were sent in to help quell growing unrest among Kosovo’s Albanian majority and its minority Slavs. The Tanjug news agency also reported that Kosovo provincial police said they seized guns, ammunition, printing equipment and subversive propaganda when they seized the group.
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