March 30, 1999

200 gold and silver objects excavated from ancient Thrace, and considered greatest Thracian treasures ever unearthed, go on display at Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on March 31; photo; actor Jerry Orbach, playwright Harold Pinter and composer-lyricists Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt will be honored when Bea Arthur and Ossie Davis play host on May 3 at presentation of 14th annual Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Achievement Off Broadway; expressive art of Sigmar Polke goes on display at Museum of Modern Art; photo; first completely researched and annotated edition of Gershwin musical is published, score of George and Ira Gershwin's 1927 satire Strike Up the Band (M)

NATO officials say Yugoslav Pres Slobodan Milosevic's goal in Kosovo is to carve out Serb-only enclave in province that he can keep after fighting ends; say campaign is under way to ethnically re-engineer Kosovo to achieve solution more acceptable to him; say Milosevic has proven adept over past eight years at creating 'facts on the ground'--territorial conquests that end in cease-fires and are presented to West for ratification through peace deal; concerns are heightened by visit of Russian Prime Min Yevgeny Primakov and Foreign and Defense Ministers to Belgrade; NATO officials fear Russians may try to broker agreement well short of allies' stated goal of autonomous Kosovo protected by NATO troops; photo; map (M)

NATO warplanes hunt for Serbian troops in embattled province of Kosovo as Clinton Administration claims evidence of genocide is growing to include abhorrent and criminal action on vast scale; language is strongest yet by State Dept in denouncing Yugoslav Pres Slobodan Milosevic; reports persist of assassinations of ethnic Albanian leaders and of scorched-earth torching of Kosovo's villages by Serbian forces; tens of thousands of refugees continue fleeing in terror; pour into Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro, compounding region's profound refugee problem; military officials acknowledge hunt for Serbian forces is complicated by fact that they are operating in small and dispersed groups; new attacks are aimed at barracks, headquarters and other bases, rather than tanks, artillery pieces and small mobile infantry units deployed in field against Kosovo villages; more US warplanes are earmarked for NATO operation, including bombers carrying antitank bombs and aircraft designed to confuse enemy radar systems; Belgrade claims forces shot down second NATO warplane; claim is denied by Pentagon; officials continue withholding information on what brought down F-117 stealth fighter over Yugoslavia days ago; map; photo (M)

Web site, entitled HillaryNo.com, created by Mayor's Friends of Giuliani fund raising committee, seeks to raise money and enlist volunteers by capitalizing on what Giuliani's advisers sense is untapped world of inveterate 'Hillary haters'; photo (M)

Article discusses Connecticut's victory over Duke in NCAA championship basketball game; performance of Connecticut players Richard Hamilton and Ricky Moore discussed; photo (M)