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Fire at Powerplant leaves Kosovo With Big Electricity ShortagesPRISTINA, Jan 12, 2000 -- (Reuters) Kosovo was facing days of major electricity shortages on Tuesday after a fire put its main power station out of action, international authorities said.
Link to story:
http://www.centraleurope.com/news.php3?id=124634
Among other things, the report says that the station's other unit is also under repair for unspecified reasons and that the fire broke out at the power plant late on Monday evening and started in underground cables.
-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 13, 2000
What?!!!!! Kosovo had electricity again?!!!!!
-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), January 13, 2000.
Of course thay have, er... had electricity.After Klintoon led NATO in bombing the daylights out of their plants, an Arkansas-based company gave them a real good deal on all the USED power plant embedded systems they could handle to rebuild their plants with. ;)
WW
-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), January 13, 2000.
WW--LOL!!
-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), January 13, 2000.