Thursday, April 22, 1999
The Univer sity Daily Kansan
Nation /World
Section A·Page 7
Attack helicopters land in Albania
Air strikes intensified against Yugoslav forces
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — With NATO missiles striking Belgrade by night and day, the first batch of Apache attack helicopters touched down in Albania on Wednesday as the Western allies intensified their air campaign against Yugoslavia.
The arrival of the long-awaited Apache attack helicopters represents a significant boost in NATO's capability to destroy tanks and troops of Yugoslav forces.
A NATO spokesman said the alliance, bolstered by extra aircraft, was hitting
double the number of targets it struck during the first two weeks of the campaign, now entering its fifth week.
Early Wednesday, NATO missiles slammed into a high-rise building which includes offices of President Slobodan Milosevic's ruling Socialist Party, and eight broadcast stations, one of them owned by Milosevic's daughter. A senior Yugoslav official called the strikes part of a "genocidal flying circus" perpetrated by NATO.
Hours later, NATO launched a rare daytime strike in the capital area, severely damaging a railway bridge over the Sava River a few miles west of Belgrade.
The strikes near Belgrade and the arrival of the Apache attack helicopters signaled NATO's resolve to escalate the conflict until Milosevic accepts a Western-dictated peace
plan for Kosovo, a province of Yugoslavia's republic Serbia with an overwhelmingly Albanian population.
"There's of course risk to us," Army Capt. Mark Arden of Washington, D.C., said in the Albanian capital, Tirana. "But the risks to the Serbs, I would sav, are great."
Ethnic Albanian rebels fighting for an independent Kosovo have regrouped there after the Serbs had driven them from many of their traditional stronghold
Milosevic: NATO bombed several of his office buildings
besides the bridge outside Belgrade, two others over the commercially important Danube River also were wrecked around Novi Sad, Serbia's second-largest city. NATO said it was targeting the bridges to prevent the army from resupplying its forces in Kosovo.
Yugoslav officials expressed outrage at the predawn air strike on the 23-story Socialist Party building in Belgrade, calling it a purely civilian target.
"The genocidal, flying circus of the NATO alliance has caused huge destruction," said Goran Matic, a federal government minister. "But citizens of Yugoslavia will not give in — NATO can destroy many more buildings and bridges, claim more human lives, but it cannot take away our freedom."
Domino's founder to use dough to start law school
The Associated Press
DETROIT — Domino's Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan spent nearly four decades making a lot of dough. Then he gave it up to work for someone else: God.
Now, after several years of Roman Catholic philanthropy and support of conservative causes, he is spending $50 million to establish a law school that he says will combine legal advocacy and Catholic morality.
"This is one of the most exciting things I've been involved in in my life," said Monaghan, 61. "Certainly, one of the most important. Certainly, a lot more important than selling pizzas, except, of course, that pizza made something like this possible."
The Ave Maria School of Law plans to open in 2000 with about 40 students and seven or eight teachers. It will rent space in or around
Ann Arbor, where Monaghan lives and Domino's is based.
The law school is part of Monaghan's larger effort to promote Catholic education. His foundation runs two elementary schools and two preschools, with another elementary school under construction. He is also building the Ave Maria College, a private liberal arts school.
"I've been very disappointed in general with Catholic education in the United States, particularly how it teaches the faith," said Monaghan, who went to 10 high schools and five colleges and never made it past his freshman year. "I'm afraid that much of it has become secularized."
Some critics, such as the Rev. Robert Drinan, a law professor at Georgetown University, say existing Catholic law schools do a good job of mixing the legal with the spiritual.
World leaders will celebrate 50th anniversary of NATO
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — It took a world war followed by a cold war to get the United States to give up some of its insular ways and look outward.
The nation underwent a remarkable transformation after World War II. Suddenly, faraway crises were America's problem, too. And no more so than in Europe, mother continent to a vast American majority, as she gained protection from her headstrong, grownup offspring in the form of NATO, the North American Treaty Organization.
talk about adapting," exclaimed then President Truman, who coaxed this transformation. "Talk about adjusting. Talk about responding as a people to the challenge of changed times and circumstances."
This weekend, Washington welcomes 42 foreign leaders for meetings marking NATOI's 50th anniversary.
At the start of the alliance, even as the United States was pledging itself to Europe's defense, the country was on the cusp of becoming less European. When NATO started, four in five immigrants came from Europe that's down to one in five today.
imperative was clear. No more would the United States hew to a foreign policy line first characterized by the founders. George Washington's caution — "Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation" — was for the past. Thomas Jefferson's injunction against "entangling alliances" would not hold the nation back.
But in the postwar world, America's
Collective security, so long mistrusted in a nation that didn't enter World War II until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, became "the foundation stone of all our actions now," as Truman put it.
And so came the U.S.-financed rebuilding of postwar Europe under the Marshall Plan. So, too, the formation of the United Nations in 1945.
And came the Truman Doctrine, proposing "to support free peoples who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."
And came NATO, now 50 years old and — unlike the Soviet Union it was formed to contain — still counting.
Also came Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Kosovo and more — bold and sometimes all too bloody engagements, some making Americans wish the world could go away once more.
Justices weigh housing choices for those disabled
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices worried aloud yesterday that mentally disabled people might be "abandoned on the streets" if an antibias law is judged to give them a broad right to live in homelike settings rather than state hospitals.
"What bother's me is writing something like as it works out in the real world, leaves many who need to be in institutions out, abandoned on the streets," Justice Stephen G. Breyer said as the court considered a Georgia case that could yield the decade's most important ruling on treatment for the mentally disabled.
Questions and comments from Justices John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O'Connor suggested similar concerns, and Justice David H. Souter appeared most hostile to Georgia's side of the case. The hour-long argument session gave no clear indication how the nine-member court would rule.
The court is to decide by late June whether the Americans with Disabilities Act and a related regulation require community placement of the mentally disabled whenever appropriate.
Ruling on a lawsuit by two Georgia women, lower courts said such placement was required unless living up to the 1990 federal law would fundamentally change a state's services to the mentally disabled.
nationwide, about 70,000 mentally disabled people are in state hospitals.
Elaine Wilson and Lois Curtis sued Georgia to get out of a state mental hospital. They had been approved for community-based care but faced long waiting lists. Now in group homes, both women were in the audience that packed the courtroom yesterday.
outer suggested that treating people able to live outside a mental hospital the same as those who cannot is a form of discrimination.
Justice Department lawyer Irving Gornstein, representing the Clinton administration, joined Gottesman in pressing for a more expansive view of the law.
Numerous advocacy groups for the mentally disabled, the American Psychiatric Association, American Civil Liberties Union and 58 former state officials with leadership roles in mental health treatment are lined up as friends of the court opposing Georgia.
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