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请巧凯查看CNN的当时有关报道：http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9905/10/kosovo.01/新闻题目手吵：Families grieve victims of Chinese embassy bombing as NATO air campaign continues- Embassy strike 'was a mistake'May 10, 1999Web posted at: 5:50 a.m. EDT (0950 GMT)新闻内容：BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- As NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia continued on Monday, relatives of those killed in NATO'孝薯唤s mistaken bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade arrived to claim the bodies of their loved ones. The sad mission took place as protests over the weekend bombing intensified in Beijing and elsewhere. The Saturday strike killed three Chinese journalists and injured at least 20 at the compound in Yugoslavia's capital. NATO officials said an intelligence gathering error led to bombing the wrong building. At the embassy compound, the father of one victim, holding a bloodstained bed cover, wept uncontrollably in the room where his daughter and son- in-law died. He was part of a delegation of leaders and others from China who visited the heavily damaged compound. The delegation, led by the deputy foreign minister, has been guaranteed safe passage by U.S. officials as they prepare to take the dead and wounded back to China by airplane. Apologies don't halt angry marchesApologies and overtures from NATO and the United States have done little to stem outrage over the bombing from Chinese protesters in Belgrade, Beijing, Toronto and elsewhere. In the Yugoslav capital, hundreds of Chinese demonstrators were joined by Serbian sympathizers who denounced the NATO attack and called for an end to the war. And in China, protesters hurled gas bombs, rocks and insults at diplomatic missions of the United States and other NATO countries, as tens of thousands protested in Beijing and provincial capitals throughout the country. NATO spokesman Jamie Shea defended the record of NATO in the air campaign against Yugoslavia. Since it began on March 24, the alliance has dropped about 9,000 missiles and bombs and only 12 have "gone astray," he said. "If you do a mathematical computation, you're talking about a fraction of one percent. So we continue to be accurate," Shea said. But Yugoslavia's charge d'affaires, Vladislav Jovanovic, disagreed. "When one commits something once, twice, three times it can still argue that it committed a mistake ... but when mistakes committed many, many times ... then it is a style, it is a policy," Jovanovic said on CNN's "Late Edition. NATO says it hit wrong buildingThe attack was the result of "faulty information," U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen and CIA Director George Tenet said in a joint statement. NATO believed the building housed a Yugoslav military facility, not the Chinese Embassy, officials said. "Those involved in targeting mistakenly believed that the Federal Directorate of Supply and Procurement was at the location that was hit," the statement said. U.S. President Bill Clinton sent a letter to Chinese President Jiang Zemin on Sunday making clear the U.S. government's deep regret over the attack. The CIA made the initial target suggestion that led to the bombing of the embassy, a U.S. official told CNN on Sunday. Maps of the area showed the Chinese Embassy in a former location; it moved four years ago. China joined a chorus of voices from Russia and Yugoslavia calling for an end to the bombing. But officials from NATO repeated their assertion that the air campaign would continue until the safe return of Kosovo refugees can be assured. "The air campaign is going to continue," NATO Secretary- General Javier Solana said. "The Yugoslav government hasn't done anything positive." NATO has recently been averaging about 500 overnight sorties, an alliance military spokesman said. Russian envoy heads to Beijing MondayThe Press Secretary to Russian President Boris Yeltsin confirmed to CNN that Russia's special envoy on the Balkans, Viktor Chernomyrdin, is leaving for Beijing Monday. The trip follows a Monday morning telephone conversation between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Chinese President Jiang Zemin. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry the two presidents discussed what the Kremlin referred to as the "further aggravation" of the situation in Yugoslavia caused by the "barbaric bombing" of the Chinese embassy. The telephone call was initiated by Yeltsin. Chernomyrdin's visit will continue consultations begun last week in Beijing by Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, Sergei Prikhodko. Sources said the Russian envoy will discuss the situation in Yugoslavia. Russia believes that it needs to cooperate more closely with China. Chernomyrdin has been making the rounds in Europe in search of a peaceful resolution to the Kosovo crisis. "Bombing won't resolve anything," Chernomyrdin said in Germany. "It has to be a political resolution." Chernomyrdin returned to Moscow on Sunday with "new factors" to discuss with Yeltsin, after speaking with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic by phone. "I can say there are some encouraging results from the conversations with Milosevic, but I will not say anything yet," the Itar-Tass news agency quoted Chernomyrdin as saying. While in Germany, Chernomyrdin met with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova and U.N. Balkans representative Carl Bildt. Correspondents John Raedler, Carl Rochelle, Rebecca MacKinnon, Matthew Chance, Brent Sadler, Jill Dougherty, and Nic Robertson contributed to this report.
