CNN Saturday Morning - 1999-05-01
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[0:00] is coming. You'll get direct. Gene
[0:01] Randall in Washington. This is a special
[0:02] edition of CNN Saturday morning. The
[0:05] Reverend Jesse Jackson and Yugoslav
[0:06] President Sloban Malushovich met for
[0:08] three hours today. Jackson went to
[0:10] Belgrade hoping to gain the release of
[0:12] three captive US soldiers. So far, no
[0:14] luck. CNN's Walter Rogers joins us on
[0:16] the phone from Bgrade with the latest.
[0:18] Walter.
[0:20] The Reverend Jesse Jackson prayed with
[0:22] Yuguslav President Sloidon Malloich. the
[0:25] two men holding hands and reciting the
[0:28] passage from Isaiah about the lion lying
[0:30] down with the lamb. Reverend Jackson
[0:32] made a humanitarian appeal to the
[0:34] Yugoslav president to release three
[0:36] captured American soldiers. But after
[0:39] that three-hour meeting with the
[0:40] Yugoslav president, the answer is still
[0:42] no. Nonetheless, Malloich granted
[0:45] Reverend Jackson another meeting with
[0:46] the US Army soldiers. And this time,
[0:48] they took along some clergymen for a
[0:50] prayer service. That meeting with the
[0:52] soldiers just concluded. Jackson appears
[0:54] to have made less progress on the
[0:56] diplomatic front. Yuguslav Foreign
[0:58] Minister Jovanovich told the Reverend
[1:00] Jackson that there will be no reduction
[1:03] of Yugoslav forces now in Kosovo until
[1:06] NATO withdraws its forces from Yugoslav
[1:08] borders and stops the bombing.
[1:10] Jovanovich also insisted NATO must pay
[1:13] reparations to rebuild and reconstruct
[1:16] Yugoslavia after the bombing campaign.
[1:19] Meanwhile, NATO planes dropped leaflets
[1:21] over Belgrade just a short while ago.
[1:23] These were leaflets essentially
[1:25] propaganda warning Serb that t