UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, November 28, 1994
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THE NEWS in brief
SARAJEVO. Bosnia-Herzegovina
Serbian rebels attack Bihac; U.N. troops might withdraw
Rebel Serbs pounded the outskirts of Bihac in northwestern Bosnia yesterday as U.S. and NATO officials admitted they were powerless to stop the advance.
U. S. Defense Secretary William Perry even suggested that the Bosnian government had now lost the 31-month war. And the commander of U.N. forces in Bosnia, Gen. Sir Michael Rose, said the 24,000 peacekeepers may withdraw if the military situation continues to deteriorate.
The Bosnian government said it would accept a U.N. proposal for a Bihac cease-fire, demilitarization of the safe area and withdrawal of forces, said Michael Williams, an official for Yasushi Akashi, the chief U.N. envoy in the region.
Serb fighters from Bosnia and neighboring Croatia now control 30 to 40 percent of the U.N.-designated safe area at Bihac, and there is no sign their assault would stop. U.N. officials said shelling and heavy machine-gun fire could be heard southwest and east of Bihac town.
A rabbi was shot to death and an Israeli policeman wounded yesterday as they drove toward a Jewish settlement. Islamic militants claimed responsibility.
Bosnian Serbs have demanded a nationwide cease-fire. Their answer to the U.N. proposal was not immediately known.
The shooting, on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, occurred three miles from Hebron, where tensions have been high since the Feb. 25 massacre of 29 Muslim worshippers by a Jewish settler at a mosque.
It came a day before Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was to meet with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat in Brussels, Belgium.
BEIT HAGAI, West Bank Israel's suffer Islamic violence
Jewish settlers blamed government peace policies for encouraging Islamic militants, but members of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's cabinet pledged to continue talks with the PLO.
Israeli sources said the gunfire came from a passing car. The victim was Rabbi Ami Olami, 35, the spiritual leader of Otniel, a nearby settlement with approximately 50 families.
A policeman riding with him was shot in the back of the head, but managed to get out of the car and fire at the attackers, settlers said. He was hospitalized in fair condition.
DETROIT
Kevorkian assists another death
The possible expiration of Michigan's temporary ban on assisted suicide had no effect on the timing of the death of an ailing woman who inhaled a fatal dose of carbon monoxide. Jack Kevorkian's lawyer said yesterday.
"Our position is that the whole thing has been unconstitutional since day one," attorney Michael Schwartz said. "He wasn't waiting for the law to expire. He doesn't time these things. It's up to the patients to decide."
Kevkarian was present Saturday at the death of Margaret Garrish, T2, who suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, colonic diverticulitis, osteoporosis and other ailments. Both her legs had been amputated, and she had lost an eye.
Oakland County Medical Examiner Ljubisa Dragovic ruled Garrish's death a homicide. Dragovic said that Garrish could not have killed herself without someone's help
Royal Oak police continued investigating the death yesterday but declined to comment.
WASHINGTON Baby born on plane doing well
WASHINGTON
A baby born more than two months premature on a speedingjetliner was removed from a ventilator and taken off the critical list Sunday, his happy and relieved mother said.
"He's doing quite well," Theresa de Bara said in a telephone interview. "He's responding quite well to the medication. Basically his biggest problem is his lungs."
The de Bara family boarded TWA flight 265 in New York on Wednesday as a family of three en route to Disney World for the holiday. Ninety minutes later the de Bara's left the plane in suburban Virginia an excited and anxious family of four — now counting Matthew Dulles, who weighed 4 pounds, 6 ounces and was 17 inches long at birth.
ELLAND, England Boy's crime spree causes anger
A 14-year-old boy has united a West Yorkshire town against him. After six years of vandalism and theft, he's blamed for causing insurance premiums to soar and some firms to move away.
Since age 8, when he already was notorious for stealing candy, he has been arrested 88 times and convicted of 130 crimes, all within 11/2 miles of his home, courts and police say.
"he ought to be hanged," Jackie Smith said of the boy, who began stealing from her newsstand at age 7.
The one-boy crime wave rolls on because the courts are unable to lock up one so young. The boy is often ordered to go to a supervised youth center or perform community service.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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