US worried about Milosevic.

The AP reports: "The Clinton administration is worried that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic may be preparing stir up new problems in the Balkans with a move against Montenegro. Only 14 months ago, NATO airstrikes drove Serb forces out of Kosovo to end the Milosevic's crackdown on ethnic Albanians in the Serbian province. Montenegro, Serbia's junior partner in the Yugoslav federation, is seen as a potential target because it has a pro-Western government whose leaders have made no secret of a desire for independence."

Montenegro asks NATO for a no-fly zone.

The London Observer reports: "The Montenegrin government has raised the stakes in its war of nerves with Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic. It has asked Western governments to declare its air space a 'no-fly zone' and to increase significantly the Nato naval presence in the Adriatic Sea. A 'no-fly zone' patrolled by Nato warplanes would prevent the Yugoslav Air Force from taking offensive action in the republic in the event of a conflict. During Nato's bombing campaign in Yugoslavia last year, warplanes used aircraft carriers in the Adriatic and cruise missiles were launched from Western naval vessels. A renewed naval presence off Montenegro would also leave the Yugoslav military guessing as to whether any military landing would follow a request for help from the Montenegrin government."