Wednesday, May 5.1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 7
Nation/World
NATO downs Yugoslav fighter
Bombings continue despite hint of pause
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — NATO downed a Yugoslav MIG-29 fighter jet in a dogfight over Serbia and struck a hydraulics factory, fuel storage depots and armored vehicles yesterday, showing no letup in the bombings after President Clinton hinted at a pause in air raids.
Pentagon officials said a U.S. Air Force F-16 shot down a Yugoslav MiG-29 in a high-speed engagement about 2.5 miles over Serbian airspace. The Russian-designed plane is the best in the Yugoslav air force.
At NATO headquarters, Maj. Gen. Walter Jertz of the German air force confirmed that an allied aircraft intercepted and shot down a Yugoslav aircraft in "what pilots call an air-to-air fight."
NATO also said its planes bombed a MiG-29 parked at an airfield.
While Yugoslav aircraft have been struck on the ground at various Serbian and Montenegrin airports—even seen hiding under the tails of large commercial airplanes
— the Yugoslav air force has avoided confrontations with NATO warplanes for much of the air war.
On the third day of the conflict, March 26, American F-15C jets shot down two Yugoslav MiG-29s after they entered the air space of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Most traffic lights were still out and many residents in Belgrade spent a second night in darkness after the power grid was crippled by NATO bombings. Power was restored in some parts of the capital yesterday, but went out again.
Work crews had struggled Monday to restore electricity to much of Yugoslavia after NATO targeted two major power grids late Sunday. Power rationing was imposed in the central Serbian city of Kragujev.
British Air Marshal John Day said the main focus of the latest
attacks on tanks, artillery and military vehicles. Allied firepower also struck fuel storage facilities and bridges.
Yugoslav media reported that a NATO missile hit a bus Monday in Kosovo, killing
Clinton: Says Milosevic could get a 'pause' in airstrikes.
20 people and injuring 43. NATO spokesman Jamie Shea denied the accounts, saying yesterday that NATO commanders had checked all gun cameras from planes operating in the area and interviewed all pilots.
"We can find no evidence of any NATO involvement in this incident," Shea said, suggesting the
attack on a rural road near Pec that has been blamed on NATO may instead have been the result of an ambush.
Yesterday's attacks came a day after Clinton said there could be "a bombing pause" in airstrikes if Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosev accepted NATO demands for a troop pullout from Kosovo, the return of all refugees and deployment of an international security force.
Clinton was to fly to Brussels, Belgium, yesterday for an update on the air war from Secretary-General Javier Solana at NATO headquarters. He was then heading to Germany to meet with U.S. troops and some Kosovo refugees.
NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia on March 24 after Milosevic rejected a Western peace plan to end the fighting in Kosovo, an ethnic Albanian-majority province of 2 million residents in Serbia, the main Yugoslav republic.
More than 675,000 ethnic Albanians have poured out of Kosovo since the airstrikes began.
Former White House worker details advance
The Associated Press
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Former White House volunteer Kathleen Willey testified yesterday that President Clinton was "very forceful" in an unwanted sexual advance near the Oval Office in 1993.
"His hands were all over me." Willey said, testifying for the prosecution in the trial of her former friend, Julie Hatt Steele.
Recounting her version of an incident she first described to the nation in an interview on 60 Minutes, Willey, in a soft but unwerving voice, said she told the president she desperately needed a paid job at the White House because of her family's financial difficulties.
Clinton then took her to a galley near the oval office and made his advance, she said.
Clinton has under oath denied Willey's allegation.
Willey said Clinton backed her against a wall and "tried to kiss me. He was very forceful. His hands were all over me."
Willey said Clinton kissed her on the mouth, touched her breasts and put his hands up her dress.
She testified at the trial of Steele who is charged with lying to investigators to undercut Willey's story.
tiguan's to understand Winyer's story.
Earlier yesterday, prosecutors summoned one of Clinton's lawyers, Mitch Ettinger, to describe his visit to Steele in January 1988, while he was working on
the president's defense in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit.
Under sometimes contentious questioning, Ettinger said he sought an affidavit from Steele but never pressured her to sign it. He insisted her affidavit wasn't crucial to the president's defense.
Friends of Steele have testified that she told them about the alleged incident between Willey and Clinton before 1997. Clinton has denied any such incident.
Steele told investigators she first heard the allegation against Clinton when Willey asked her to lie to back up her story to a Newsweek reporter.
Steele is charged with obstruction of justice and giving false statements and accused of lying to FBI agents and two grand juries in Kenneth Starr's investigation of the president.
Ettinger said Steele told him that Willey had "asked her to fabricate a story regarding Mr. Clinton and Mrs. Willey to the effect that Mr. Clinton had improperly made sexual advances toward her."
Prosecutors have argued that Steele lied to ally herself with the president. Defense attorneys maintain she is telling the truth.
The discrepancy is one factor that made it impossible for Starr to send an impeachment referral on the Willey matter to the House last year along with his referral on the Monica Lewinsky affair.
New York police on trial for brutalizing immigrant
Officers sodomized man, prosecutors say
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Five Caucasian police officers went on trial on civil rights charges yesterday in the case of Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant who investigators say was sexually brutalized in a stationhouse bathroom.
The 1997 case, along with this year's police shooting of an unarmed African immigrant, has strained relations between the Police Department and the African-American community.
In opening statements, federal prosecutor Kenneth Thompson described in graphic detail how the defendants supposedly battered Louima, who was handcuffed, inside a patrol car and then sodomized him in a bloody assault in a precinct bathroom in Brooklyn.
A defense attorney countered that Louima had "150 million reasons" to lie about the incident — a $150 million lawsuit against the city.
Officer Justin Volpe, 27, and three other officers are charged with assaulting Louima outside the precinct. And Volpe and Officer Charles Schwarz are charged in the attack inside the precinct bathroom, where Volpe reportedly stuck a broomstick into Louima's rectum and then jammed it into his mouth. A fifth officer is charged with covering up the attack.
Louima was hospitalized with severe internal injuries, prompting widespread demonstrations against police brutality in the city. He has recovered and is expected to be the government's star witness.
"Inside that bathroom, Abner Louima suffered more than a beating." Thompson told the jury of eight Caucasians, three Hispanic Americans and one African American. "Ladies and gentlemen, Abner Louima was tortured inside that bathroom."
The prosecutor said Louima was picked up in a case of mistaken identity: Police wanted Louima's cousin, who had actually struck Volpe during a melee outside a Brooklyn nightclub.
Mavryn Kornberg, Volpe's lawyer, said the lawsuit gave Louima $150 million in incentives to "cut the truth, to modify the truth, to in fact lie."
He suggested another explanation for Louma's internal injuries.
Those injuries were "not consistent with a nonconsentual insertion of an object into his rectum," Kornberg said. Also, he said, there was evidence of another man's DNA mixed in with some of Louima's feces found in the bathroom.
Volpe, Schwarz, 33, Thomas Bruder, 33, and Thomas Wiesen, 35, are charged with violating Louima's civil rights by beating him after his arrest outside the nightclub. Prosecutors also alleged that Schwarz held Louima down while Volpe rammed the stick into Louima's rectum and mouth.
The officers' supervisor, Sgt. Michael Bellomo, 37, is charged with helping cover up the attack.
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