U.S. Pushes Peace Amid Kosovo Killing

Serbian police shot dead an ethnic Albanian in disputed circumstances, and ethnic Albanian guerrillas opened fire on an army column in Kosovo as U.S. officials tried to salvage a ragged truce in the breakaway Serbian province. Accounts of the killing differed. Police said they were attacked by rebels; ethnic Albanians said the victim was shot in cold blood in the village of Zahac. In central Kosovo, the head of U.S. peace monitors in Kosovo, Shaun Byrns, and State Department official Larry Rossin met top rebel commanders in a remote village as part of an intensified international pressure to uphold the truce. In Belgrade, the U.N. refugee chief said about 175,000 people have still not returned to their homes in Kosovo, but they have found shelter.