Tuesday, April 13, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Section A · Page 7
Yugoslavian parliament votes to join alliance with Russia, Belarus
9 killed on train in NATO bridge attack
The Associated Press
BELGRade, Yugoslavia — A new wave of NATO attacks yesterday targeted fuel depots and heavy industry, and an allied hit turned a Yugoslav passenger train into a heap of burning wreckage, killing at least nine people and injuring 16. NATO said the bridge the train was crossing was the intended target.
Even as the alliance expressed regret over loss of civilian life, NATO foreign ministers — meeting for the first time since the nearly three-week-long air campaign began — vowed to press ahead, saying the Kosovo crisis represented a fun
damental challenge to the values of democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
Yugoslavia's parliament, meanwhile, voted to join an alliance with Russia and Belarus — an apparent move to try to draw Russia into the conflict, although Russian leaders have said it would not get militarily involved.
Russia favors the idea of incorporating Yugoslavia into the alliance that already includes it and Belarus, but said membership wouldn't be instantaneous and any military aid wouldn't be automatically granted.
Yugoslavia denounced the attack on the passenger train. The alliance did not directly confirm the hit, but acknowledged it had struck a rail bridge considered an important military supply line, and said the train may have been on or near it at the time.
"Regrettably, we cannot exclude the possibility of casualties in this instance," said a statement by the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe.
At the scene, a heavy smell of burned flesh hung in the air. Rescuers pulled charred bodies from the derailed cars, and body parts were scattered for 30 yards. Survivors told the Tanjug news agency they scrambled out shattered windows before the train was consumed in flames on the bridge, 180 miles south of Belgrade.
Journalists saw what appeared to be missile parts mixed with the wreckage. Nearby houses were lightly damaged, with windows broken.
Despite bad weather, NATO struck Serb targets, including a major fuel refinery the principal airport in Kosovo and the Balkans' biggest heavy-equipment factory.
The alliance says bombing will continue
until Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic withdraws his forces from Serbia's southern Kosovo province and accepts foreign troops to enforce the peace.
in the latest wave of NATO air strikes:
■ Flames leaped into the night sky over Pancevo, just across the Danube from Belgrade, as fire engulfed one of Yugslavia's biggest oil refineries early Monday.
The factory that makes Yugo cars — housed in a complex that also makes weapons — was hammered again early Monday after being badly damaged last week, Tanjug said. The manager of the Zastava complex in Kragujevac, 45 miles southwest of Belgrade, said damage totaled $1 billion.
Serbia's second-largest city, Novi Sad, where two major bridges were wrecked early on in the air campaign, was hit. Tanjug said a missile struck a residential area Sunday evening, but NATO said there were surface-to-air missile production and storage facilities in the area.
Awards announced for 1999 Pulitzer Prizes
Associated Press sweeps photography categories
The Associated Press
NEW VORK — The Associated Press, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal each won two Pulitzers yesterday, and The Washington Post was awarded the 1999 prize for public service.
The AP won the two photography awards, the first time any news organization had swept the photography categories.
The prize for commentary went to Maureen Dowd of the Times for columns on President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. The Times' staff, notably Jeff Gerth, won for national reporting for a series that disclosed the sale of American technology to China despite national security risks.
"To paraphrase Monica Lewinsky's favorite poet, T. S.Eliot, April is the coolest month," Dowd said. "My reaction is I'm just so grateful to President Clinton that he never spoke the words, 'Young lady, pull down that jacket and get back to the typing pool.'"
The Wall Street Journal won for international reporting for coverage of the Russian financial crisis. The Journal's Angelo Henderson won the feature writing category for his portrait of a druggist driven to violence by his encounters with armed robbers.
JOURNALISM PULITZERS
The AP won the spot news photography award for a portfolio on the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. It won for feature photography for a collection of photographs of the events surrounding Clinton's affair with Lewinsky and his impeachment. The AP has won nine Pulitzers in the past nine years, including eight for photography.
"Our photo team made AP and Pulitzer history today. We couldn't be happier or more
D. Lily Connell The Washington Post
Public Service: The Washington Post
Breaking News Reporting: The Hartford Courant staff
Investigative Reporting: The Miami Herald staff
Explanatory Reporting: Richard Read of The Oregonian of Portland
**Beat Reporting:** Chuck Phillips and Michael A. Hilkitz of the Los Angeles Times
National Reporting: The New York Times staff, and notably Jeff Gerth
International Reporting: The Wall Street Journal staff
**Feature Writing:** Angelo B. Henderson of The Wall Street Journal
Commentary: Maureen Dowd of The New York Times
Criticism: Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune Editorial Writing: The editorial board of the Daily News of New York
■ Editorial Cartooning: David Horsey of the Seattle Post-Intelligence
Spot News Photography: The Associated Press staff
Press staff Feature Photography: The Associated Press staff
proud," said Louis D. Boccardi, AP president and chief executive officer.
"It's overwhelming. It's just a tremendous tribute to the staff," said Vin Alabasio, AP vice president and executive photo editor. "We are definitely getting out the champagne."
The Post won the public service award for a series on reckless gunplay by city police officers.
The Pulitzers, the most prestigious awards given for journalism, are presented annually by Columbia University. The awards carry a prize of $5,000, except for public service. The winning newspaper of that category gets a gold medal.
Kindergarten teacher, Ellington honored for accomplishments
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Honoring both the little-known and the legendary, Pulitzer Prize voters yesterday gave the 1999 drama award to kindergarten teacher Margaret Edson for her play "Wit" and announced a special citation for Duke Ellington, who never won in his lifetime.
Edson, 37, was cleaning her classroom at Atlanta's Centennial Park Elementary School when she found out she had won the Pulitzer for her first play, an unanticipated look at a woman's fight with ovarian cancer.
"If this play speaks to people, it's because there's one thing I wanted to say," she said. "I wanted to say that knowledge is very good. But knowledge without love is a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal."
Michael Cunningham received the fiction prize for his novel The Hours and Melinda Wagner won the music prize for her composition Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion. Other winners included the acclaimed essayist John McPhee, who won in the general nonfiction category for Annals of the Former World, and former poet laureate Mark Strand, for his collection Blizzard of One.
know when these prizes are given out. I don't receive the paper every day and when I do I generally turn to the obituaries or the sports pages."
The history prize was given to Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, by two 56-year-old history professors, Edwin G. Burrows of Brooklyn College and Mike Wallace of John Jay College.
"It isn't the sort of thing one anticlipsates," said Strand, 65, known for his stoic, spare poems. "I don't even
"People keep telling me that this book is entertaining." Wallace said. "That to me is more important than anything else."
The biography prize went to Lindbergh, A. Scott Berg's book about the aviator Charles Lindbergh.
"This is the most exciting day since Anne Morrow gave me permission to write the book," said Berg, 49, who lives in Los Angeles and is the author of two other biographies. The author said it took him a year to persuade Charles Lindbergh's widow to agree to the project and another nine years to write it.
A special music citation was given posthumously to Ellington on the centennial of his birth. The Pulitzer board said the award was given "in recognition of his musical genius, which evoked aesthetically the principles of democracy through the medium of jazz and thus made an indelible contribution to art and culture."
"It just shows that Duke Ellington's music is timeless and still lives in the present," said jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. "Even though it was awarded posthumously, his music is still very alive and vibrant and meaningful today."
Deadlocked jury acquits McDougal of obstruction Judge declares mistrial on two counts of contempt
The Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — In a backset to Kenneth Starr, Susan McDougal was found not guilty of obstructing the Whitewater investigation and the judge declared a mistrial yesterday on the other two charges against her.
With the jury hopelessly deadlocked on the two criminal contempt charges, U.S. District Judge George Howard Jr. declared the mistrial on those counts and allowed jurors to deliver the one verdict they could agree on.
Afterwards, prosecutor Mark Barrett said he had consulted with Starr and that a retrial was
definitely an option that they would consider.
President and Hilary Clinton's former Whitewater partner was charged with obstruction and criminal contempt for refusing to testify to grand juries in the Whitewater probe in 1996 and in 1998.
She said her refusal was based on fear that she would have been charged with perjury unless she falsely implicated the president and first lady in wrongdoing.
McDougal: Said she had been afraid to testify.
McDougal said the obstruction charge on which she was acquitted was the big count because the question for the jury was whether or not Ken Starr was seeking the truth.
"They don't have the guts to retry this case again because now we know where the bodies are buried," said McDougal's lawyer Mark Geragos.
Barrett said that if there was a retrial on the two criminal contempt counts, it was unlikely McDougal would be allowed to inject her allegations that Starr wanted her to lie.
McDougal's accusation was allowed into the trial only as a defense to the obstruction charge. The jury was instructed not to consider it in regard to the contempt counts.
One of the jurors, Michael Nance, who wanted to acquit McDougal on all three counts, said Starr's office was not on trial, only McDougal.
Nance said McDougal's state of mind was the kev to the case.
"She honestly believed that she could be held for a false statement" and that explained why didn't she talk, said Nance.
Taking the witness stand at her trial last month, the Clintons' former Whitewater partner answered some of the questions she'd refused to address to the grand juries. She now says that as far as she knows, Clinton told the truth at her 1996 trial.
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