Kenneth Bacon Quotations

What our lawyers have been looking at are the options we have for beginning to build the initial phases of this radar within the restrictions or terms of the ABM Treaty. And they have looked at that, and they have made some -- they have come up with some options which the president hasn't -- has not had a chance to decide on yet.

We certainly know that Russians participated. Russian volunteers, mercenaries, we believe, did participate with paramilitary and other Serb forces.

Obviously, we welcome the Russian efforts to try to achieve a diplomatic settlement here, but so far we have not seen much Serb flexibility.

It would be reasonable to expect a slowdown in operations during Ramadan.

He has a choice now between cooperation and confrontation. Confrontation has not gotten him what he wanted. It might be time for him to try cooperation.

The Russians have said they plan to stay out of this conflict and we take that commitment seriously.

I do not have verification that there were units or groups of the size that Newsday reports. But we do believe that there was some Russian participation.

A Greek government spokesman said he anticipated that they would be able to land soon and move through Greece to their posts.

The current level of violence is unacceptable, and we're trying to make that clear in all sorts of communications to Milosevic and to his army and his police forces.

We have designed a broad, seamless air campaign that should not be seen in terms of phases. It should be seen as one air campaign that will move through a series of targets and goals.