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June 7, 1999
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pentagon officials warned Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic that he must implement a stalled peace plan and withdraw troops from Kosovo or continue to lose them to the allied bombing campaign.

"You'll see an intensification of the campaign today, tomorrow and in the future," Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said. He said NATO planes carried out 93 strike missions Sunday, and plans called for doubling or tripling that number over the next few days.

NATO continued to pound the Yugoslav army Monday after talks between allied and Yugoslav military staffs broke down in Macedonia. The White House said it required more than a promise of peace to stop the bombing: it also required "the beginnings of a verifiable withdrawal of Serb forces."

"I think we're looking down the wrong road if we're looking to do things on faith," said White House press secretary Joe Lockhart.

"We need to see, we need to verify, we need to set up a system of implementation that is precise and will allow us to make sure with our own eyes, based on what we see and what we know, rather than on what Milosevic tells us."

More U.S. troops to be deployed to Balkans

Clinton notified Congress in a letter released Monday of his intention to send military personnel to the Balkans both in anticipation of a peace settlement and to be prepared in case of conflict.

"I have authorized the deployment of a significant contingent of military personnel to Kosovo as part of an international security presence," Clinton wrote in the letter dated June 5.

"Forces will not enter Kosovo unless it is clear that Belgrade has adopted NATO's conditions and is withdrawing its forces."

He also said he is reinforcing Task Force Hawk, the Army group with Apache helicopters in Tirana, Albania, "to provide a deep-strike force capability in support of NATO air operations and to be ready for use against (Yugoslav) forces at a time and manner of our choosing."

Washington, Moscow discuss diplomacy and bombs

Russian President Boris Yeltsin assured President Clinton on Monday that he would encourage his foreign minister to resolve differences with NATO over language for a United Nations Security Council resolution implementing the Kosovo peace proposal

The talks among foreign ministers broke up with Russia opposed to making NATO the core of a Kosovo peacekeeping force. The Russians insist on an early pause in the NATO bombing campaign.

The talks, held outside the German capital Bonn, are to resume Tuesday. U.S. officials said they were optimistic the disputes would be resolved, but said keeping NATO at the core of the peacekeepers was not a negotiable point.

In his talks with Yeltsin, Clinton wanted to make clear the United States and its NATO allies were committed to the diplomatic track despite the continued military campaign.

Under a Western-sponsored plan agreed to Thursday by Milosevic: