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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, April 19, 1999
Nation/World
Airstrikes on Yugoslavia increase
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — NATO launched its most active day of airstrikes yesterday in its assault on Yugoslavia, pummeling refineries, bridges and dozens of other targets in what it said were highly successful operations.
But the refugee crisis only worsened on the 25th straight day of attacks aimed at making Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic halt his offensive in Kosovo and agree to a political settlement for the Serbian province.
Ethnic Albanians continued to pour out of Kosovo at the rate of a thousand an hour, bringing Serb forces closer to emptying the province of its ethnic Albanian majority. An estimated 40,000 refugees either left Kosovo for neighboring territory during the weekend or were at its borders preparing to leave, international
officials said.
In the latest tragedy to befall refugees, a car carrying a family across the border
to Alabama early yesterday struck a land mine planted at the edge of the narrow mountain path by Serb forces, killing three children, their mother and their grandmother.
NATO said they had graphic evidence,including film taken from allied aircraft as well as refugees' accounts of about 43 mass grave
Milosevic Urged to agree to a political settlement for Kosovo.
sites in Kosovo. Some were dug by groups of Kosovo Albanians rounded up and assembled into grave-digging "chain
"We understand they are being used by President Milosevic to dig graves for their countrymen killed by Serbian ethnic cleansing." Brig. Gen. Giuseppe Marani said at a NATO briefing at alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
gangs" bv Serb forces.
Maranti added that the burial sites were "neat rows of individual graves pointing to the southeast, toward Mecca," a sign the mostly Muslim ethnic Albanians were trying to "bury the victims of Milosevic with respect."
The alliance's jets flew more than 500 missions in the 24-hour period ending Sunday afternoon — a total that a NATO military spokesman said was the highest daily total yet. NATO pilots struck sites across Serbia and its Kosovo province, where they reported seeing smoke rising from burning villages.
Soon they will be bolstered by 24 U.S. Apache anti-tank helicopter gunships intended to target the Yugoslav army and special police forces accused of repressing Kosovo Albanians.
NATO said the first Apaches were expected in Albania from Italy by Monday, however severe rainstorms delayed deployment at least another day. An Albanian military source, meanwhile, said Sunday that several already had arrived elsewhere in the country during the previous two days.
Despite growing calls for NATO to send in ground troops, NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana insisted there were still no such plans.
But Solana said in a television interview with the BBC that if the moment came when a ground force was necessary, he was sure the countries that belong to NATO would be ready to do it.
U.S. companies finance 50th NATO anniversary
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Amid platters of stuffed grape leaves and hummus laid out in the Turkish ambassador's residence, diplomats, Congress members and federal officials mingled with executives whose corporations are kicking in $250,000 apiece for the NATO summit.
Schmoozing and talking business with leaders from 44 countries are part of the payoff for American corporate sponsors that help finance the receptions, logistics and hoopla surrounding NATO's 50th anniversary. The summit begins Friday in Washington.
General Motors, Ameritech and Boeing are among 13 companies so far that have donated at least a $250,000 in cash or goods and services. That buys one spot on the summit host committee's board of directors, which is dominated by communications and defense companies.
The committee has raised $6.5 million towards its goal of $8 million.
“It's a natural for us, because Ameritech is the largest foreign investor in European telecommunications," company representative George Steinitzer said. "Our purpose here is to support our existing relationships in Europe."
Ameritech is awaiting Federal Communications Commission permission to merge with another company with a seat on the host committee board, SBC Communications.
At last week's reception, Turkish Ambassador Baki Ilkin greeted guests alongside the committee chairman, former U.S. ambassador to Belgium Alan John Blinken. He is a senior adviser to a heavyweight lobbying firm with overseas clients, Akin. Gump. Strauss, Hauer & Feld.
Other board members also are well known in Washington political circles. As a group, the 13 companies spent $52 million on lobbying last year.
Olympic sponsor bails out
The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY - Johnson & Johnson has become the first company to abandon the Olympics in the wake of a bribery scandal, backing away from an estimated $30 million sponsorship deal for the 2002 Winter Games.
Company representative John McKee
company top. Company gan yesterday blamed the decision on internal disagreements about how to link the company's many brands under a sponsorship umbrella in time for the Salt Lake games.
banished or have resigned after being linked to the cash payments and other vote-buying inducements. Ten others have been censured or warned about their actions in what has been described as the worst scandal in the history of the modern Olympics.
Though Johnson & Johnson never has been a full sponsor for the games, it has
But he acknowledged
that Olympic corruption was also a factor.
"We can't say that it didn't have anything to do with it," McKeegan said. "It was certainly in the background."
A total of 10 IOC members have been
The Salt Lake bribery scandal sparked several investigations after it was revealed that members of the city's bid committee offered $1.2 million dollars in cash, scholarships and other gifts to International Olympic Committee members and their relatives during the successful campaign to win the 2002 Winter Games.
provides an incentive
athletes through the USOC for about 20 years. McKeegan said that relationship would continue.
John Krimsky, U.S.
Olympic Committee
Deputy Secretary General and the games' chief fund-raising officer, said the company pulled back in January or February, before Olympic organizations finished investigating and implementing reforms. And he added that the door still was open for an agreement for 2002, because company officials have since met with Salt Lake Organizing Committee head Mitt Romney.
Salt Lake already has commitments for more support than Atlanta had by the time it staged its more expensive 1996 Summer Games.
But since the revelation that Salt Lake bid executives wooed IOC members with bribes, no new sponsors have signed on.
TVcycle makes couch potatoes pedal to watch
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Parents may have a way to budge their chip-chomping, TV-watching kids from the family sofa: a bicycle hooked up electrically to the set. To see their favorite shows, couch potatoes have to pedal.
Overweight Americans
An obesity researcher who came up with the "TVcycle" says early tryouts helped youngsters shed fat and discouraged TV viewing.
David Allison of St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in New York says his small study of a few overweight New York children suggests tinkering with the technology that makes life more comfortable
According to the National Institutes of Health:
55 percent of American adults are overweight or obese. That is up from 43 percent in 1960.
13 percent of young-agers ages 6 through 17 are overweight.
and help trim Americans' expanding waistlines. The National Institutes of Health says about 55 percent of American adults are overweight or obese, up from 43 percent in 1960. Studies also suggest more than 13 percent of youngsters ages 6 through 17 are overweight and getting fatter each year. Research shows television is a major culprit for kids who otherwise might burn calories while playing.
For his experiment, an engineer rewired TV sets to work only while the viewer was pedaling an attached bicycle. Built-in computers measure how long the televisions were on. The TVcycles, which are back in Allison's office as he hunts money for a larger study, are not for sale.
with NIH funding, Allison delivered the TVcycles to six overweight TV fans, ages 8 to 12, and put standard exercise bikes in front of televisions for four similar children. The kids did not diet, and the televisions for the TVcycle group were locked to prevent cheating.
Ten weeks later, the four kids who watched television while lolling on the couch saw 20 hours a week and bicycled only 8 minutes a week.
The six TVcycle kids watched an hour a week and pedaled an hour a week. But that was not all the TVcycle kids watched. They did not pedal when the family watched television together, and there was some cheating. Allison said.
But the pedaling kids fminished the study with 2 per centage points less total body fat.
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