Army, Police Take Back Village in Buffer Zone
Yugoslav security forces pushed ethnic Albanian rebels out of a contested southern village in house-to-house fighting, sending civilians fleeing or cowering in basements.
Backed by a tank and several armored personnel carriers, army and police units clashed with the insurgents and retook Oraovica, a village seized earlier in the week by insurgents operating in the buffer zone between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia, Yugoslavia’s larger republic.
The zone was established in 1999 to reduce tension, but it soon turned into a fighting area itself.
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