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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 4, 1999
Nation/World
Belgrade endures blackout, strikes continue
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Belgrade storekeepers lighted their shops with candles and work crews slowly restored electricity yesterday after NATO blackout out the Yugoslav capital with bombs that short-circuited power stations.
It was the first time civilians in Belgrade and elsewhere across Serbia had suffered such a massive blackout since the allied air campaign began.
Yugoslav media, meanwhile, reported NATO warplanes mistakenly hit a bus, causing heavy casualties. NATO officials said they had no information on the reports of a noon-time air strike on a bus traveling from the western Kosovo city of Pec to Razoa in neighboring Montenegro.
A Montenegri government official speaking on condition of anonymity said 17 people were killed and 21 injured.
Television footage from the scene about 12 miles north of Pec showed a white bus
with shattered windows, flat tires and about three bodies on the ground on a rural mountain road.
NATO's target was thought to have been
NATO's target was to a nearby police and army checkpoint, Montena-fax said.
NATO has admitted mistaken air strikes since April 12 have left about 159 people dead.
Cities and towns across Yugoslavia slowly were recovering electricity and water after NATO JETs blasted power plants in strikes aimed at disrunk President Sho-
bodan Milosevic's military machine. Many people were still without power at dusk.
Jackson: Delivered a letter to Clinton from Milosivic proposing a meeting.
NATO has promised to target military sites and installations and to minimize
disruptions to civilians, but the latest air strikes on electrical sites temporarily affected 70 percent of Serbia, alliance officials said.
The attacks came amid fresh diplomatic efforts to end the conflict, with Russian special envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin coming to Washington yesterday to meet with President Clinton.
His efforts came a day after three U.S. servicemen were released by Milosevic during a mission by the Rev. Jesse Jackson. The men, wearing big smiles and wolfing down American food for the first time in weeks, celebrated their freedom with their families at a U.S. base in Germany.
The three, seized March 31 along the Macedonia-Yugoslavia border, were freed suddenly by Milosevic after he would not allow Red Cross officials to see them for a month.
They were examined yesterday at a military hospital, where doctors found a stitched wound on the top of the head
of Staff Sgt. Andrew Ramirez, 24, of Los Angeles.
Medical tests revealed Ramirez had two fractured ribs, one on each side, as well as swelling of his lower right leg. The injuries have begun to heal so no surgery is planned.
Staff Sgt. Christopher J. Stone, 25, of Smiths Creek, Mich., was found to have a broken nose during examination of the bruises and abrasions on his face. Doctors said Spc. Steven Gonzales, 22, of Huntsville, Texas, seemed healthy in initial checkups.
Jackson left the men and returned yesterday to Washington on a U.S. military jet with a letter to Clinton from Milosevic proposing a face-to-face meeting.
But the White House and NATO said there could be no deal until Milosevic mets all their demands, including ordering his forces out of Kosovo, a halt to mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and accepting a Western plan that calls for 28,000 NATO troops to enforce peace in the province.
Man arrested for giving gun to Littleton suspects
The Associated Press
LITTLETON, Colo. — A man was arrested yesterday on suspicion of supplying the semiautomatic pistol used in the Columbine high massacre.
Mark Manes, 22, surrendered to authorities and was jailed on $15,000 bail for investigation of providing a handgun to a minor. He could get up to six years in prison.
"He was the last person who had it before it was supplied to one of our gunmen," said sheriff's spokesman Steve Davis.
Manes was the first person since the massacre 13 days ago to be arrested and accused of helping gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold arm themselves. Investigators have focused on anyone who could have helped them assemble and position their arsenal of guns and more than 50 bombs.
Investigators said an employee at a pizza parlor where Harris and Klebold worked served as the middleman who put the two teen-agers in touch with Manes.
the arrest came 13 days after the
attack in which Harris and Klebold — armed with a rifle, two sawed-off shotguns and the handgun — killed 12 students and a teacher and then committed suicide.
Investigators have said Klebold's girlfriend, Robyn Anderson, bought a carbine rifle and two sawed-off shotguns used in the massacre, but until yesterday they had not tied anyone to the TEC DC-9 semiautomatic handgun.
Also yesterday, Columbine students returned to classes at rival Chatfield High School.
For the rest of the school year, Chattfield students get their school for morning sessions. Columbine students, whose school is still a police crime scene, arrived around lunchtime to take over Chattfield for afternoon classes.
Three large banners adorned the school, one reading simply: "Welcome Columbine."
Chatfield, about 3 miles from Columbine, was decorated to welcome the roughly 2,000 Columbine students.
Supreme Court to clarify rights
The Associated Press
Justices to hear case about officers' power
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will try to decide whether people who run away after seeing a police officer can be chased, stopped and questioned.
The justicees agreed yesterday to use a case from a Chicago high-crime neighborhood to clarify on-the-street police powers vs. individual rights.
Although many Americans might assume police have the power to chase and question someone who flees at the sight of them, lower courts have been deeply divided on the issue. The justices' decision, expected sometime in 2000, could resolve that split.
At the heart of the dispute is the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. Courts long have interpreted that protection to mean police without court warrants cannot stop and question someone without a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.
State courts in Alaska, California, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey and Utah have said police generally cannot make investigative stops after pursuing someone who flees after seeing them.
Louisiana, Minnesota, North Carolina Ohio and Wisconsin have ruled that fleeing from police can create a reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct and justify a police stop.
But state courts in Connecticut, Indiana
The Illinois Supreme Court used the Chicago case to bar police most often from making such investigative stops.
In appealing that ruling, state prosecutors said a definitive ruling is needed. "Every single day, law enforcement officers at all levels throughout our country are confronted with ... whether to chase and temporarily stop a person in a high-crime area who runs away at the mere sight of the police," the appeal said.
The nation's highest court twice before had the opportunity to consider the issue in criminal cases but left it undecided.
Sam Wardlow was convicted of a weapons violation after he was arrested on a Chicago street in 1995 while carrying a loaded handgun in a bag.
Police officers in a patrol car had seen Wardlow spot them and take off running. They pursued and eventually cornered him and found the gun after a patdown search.
A state appeals court threw out his conviction, and the Illinois Supreme Court upheld that decision last September after saying "such flight alone is insufficient to create a reasonable suspicion of involvement in criminal conduct."
Clinton warns Japan to reduce steel imports
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Clinton warned Japan yesterday to reduce its steel imports on a consistent basis or the United States will act to block those imports.
Following a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, Clinton told a news conference
the United States would act to keep Japanese steel out of U.S. markets if those imports continue to exceed the levels existing prior to the Asian economic crisis.
"We will take action if steel imports do not return to their pre-crisis levels on a consistent basis," Clinton said. "Playing by the rules of trade is the best way to sustain a consensus for open trade."
The Commerce Department said last week it had determined that Japanese steel companies were engaging in
Obuchi: Met with Clinton at the White House.
illegal steel dumping — selling abroad at less than home-market prices — and that tariffs of up to 67 percent could be imposed on hot-rolled carbon percet a widely used product.
Such tariffs, which could be imposed retroactively to mid-November, effectively would price that type of steel out of the U.S. market.
Clinton said it was important that Japan respect both the principles of open trade and fair trade.
"I have fought for both objectives. It will help Japan adapt to the challenges of the new global economy." Clinton said.
Obuchi did not directly address Clinton's warning, but said Japan was "swiftly and boldly taking every measure in order to address the difficulties we are facing and to achieve Japan's economic recovery."
The steel troubles aside, Clinton warmly welcomed Obuchi to the White House for the first official visit of a Japanese prime minister in 12 years. He said the fact that Obuchi went to work on economic problems immediately after taking office last July was a positive indication that Japan will weather its woes.
As the two leaders met in the White House, the administration announced a package of new trade agreements in which Japan pledged greater efforts to expand sales opportunities for U.S. telecommunications companies, drug manufacturers, lumber companies, banks and brokerage firms and energy companies.
The agreements were part of a two-year effort by the administration to force Japan to deregulate its economy by removing trade barriers.
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