Gen. Wesley Clark, the supreme allied commander in Europe, has asked NATO officials for three additional battalions from NATO's strategic reserve force in Kosovo to quell clashes in the town of Kosovska Mitrovica, a senior Defense Department official said today. Concurrently, French Minister of Defence Alain Richard told reporters in Washington today that France was committing the battalion of troops it has in the reserve force to shore up NATO troops in Mitrovica. The French battalion is comprised of 600...
