5 Suspected Rebels Killed in Shootout

In the worst violence in the breakaway province of Kosovo since a peace accord was reached last month, five suspected ethnic Albanian guerrillas died in a shootout with Serbian police, according to the Serb-controlled Media Center. The deaths raised the number of ethnic Albanians killed since Thursday afternoon to seven and reflected a surge in violence as the United States and European nations try to push ahead with the Oct. 12 political agreement reached with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. Meanwhile, U.S. envoy Christopher Hill met with Kosovo Liberation Army officials near Pristina, Kosovo’s capital. Sources said he gave the rebels a draft political agreement that will restore self-rule for the ethnic Albanian majority.