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Al-Ahram Weekly 27 May - 2 June 1999 Issue No. 431 
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Al-Ahram Weekly 27 May - 2 June 1999 Issue No. 431
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Egypt Region International Economy Opinion Culture Profile Living Features Travel Sports People Time Out Chronicles Cartoons Letters Media Day
PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak is expected to inaugurate a number of media projects as part of celebrations marking Media Day on 6 June. Information Minister Safwat El-Sharif said this year's celebrations would feature a complete restoration of the Radio and Television Union based in the Maspero building, including the construction of a new 10-floor annex.President Mubarak will also open new studios incorporating modern digital technology that will serve the first and second Egyptian satellite channels. Other projects to be opened include a control and follow-up centre for regional radio and television channels connected to a centre for crisis management.
In the old premises of the Maspero building a new library will be opened for the storage of more than a million reels of rare recordings and will also include a broadcast studio named after the renowned singer Umm Kulthoum.
President Mubarak is expected to honour a number of media figures and will hold his customary open dialogue with established and younger members of the media industry.
More raids
NATO unleashed extensive air attacks on Yugoslavia yesterday, bombarding Kosovo's capital Pristina, its surrounding areas and the northern town of Novi Sad.The raids came a day after the approval of a plan to nearly double the size of a proposed peace-keeping force for the troubled region from the original 28,000 to 50,000. But NATO backed away from plans to enforce an oil embargo against Yugoslavia, opting instead for a voluntary "visit and search" regime in the Adriatic Sea, Reuters reported.
In Moscow, US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott stood by NATO demands for a complete withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo and a central role for the alliance in any international force deployed there.
Talbott joined the Russian special envoy to Kosovo Viktor Chernomyrdin and Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari for talks on a diplomatic solution in Moscow yesterday, a day before the Russian and European envoys head for Belgrade for further negotiations.
Indian strike
INDIA conducted air strikes for the first time in Kashmir yesterday, prompting Pakistan to put its forces on high alert. Pakistan warned of retaliatory measures as border tension mounted in the disputed Himalayan region that has witnessed three wars between the two neighbours since 1949.India claimed its unprecedented air strikes were to flush out Pakistan-backed Muslim rebels that had sneaked into mountain ridges across the de facto border under Pakistani artillery fire. Pakistani Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz blamed India for escalating the tension and vowed to take defensive measures.
