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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 6, 1999
Nation/World
Better weather clears way for continued airstrikes throughout Yugoslavia
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Aided by clearing skies, NATO struck fuel depots, bridges and army barracks throughout Yugoslavia yesterday and said it was taking particular aim at Serbian ground forces accused of terrorizing ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
mass in Ruslav Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic brushed off the continued barrage, defiantly promising to rebuild the bombdamaged structures and denouncing NATO "aggressors" and "criminals."
As night fell, air raid sirens sounded again in Belgrade, likely heralding the 14th straight night of NATO bombardments. Two strong detonations were heard late yesterday in the northern city of Novi Sad, Tanjug said.
President Clinton promised an undiminished, unceasing and unrelenting air
campaign, saying it would no longer be enough for Milosevic to just stop the killing.
"A Kosovo denied its freedom and devoid of its people is not acceptable," he said. "Our plan is to persist until we prevail."
van. The 13th day of NATO airstrikes aimed to cut the Yugoslav military's lines of supply and transport — roads, bridges, airports, fuel depots and command centers.
Serb media said a bridge connecting Kosovo with the neighboring republic of Montenegro took a direct hit and that the Yugoslav air force command building in a Belgrade suburb was targeted.
The better weather was little comfort for the tens of thousands of refugees who continued to pour out of Kosovo in an exodus not seen in Europe for a half-century. The U.N. refugee agency said the number of ethnic Albanians reaching neighborhig states had reached nearly 400,000.
Conditions remained dire at a makeshift refugee camp at Blace, Macedonia, on the border with Kosovo, where
thousands were living in shelters of plastic and blankets in a muddy, fetid no man's land.
"There are too many people in that small concentrated area for safety and also for sanitation and health concerns," said Chris Thomas of the American Red Cross.
The human tide has overwhelmed Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro. As of yesterday, 239,000 refugees had arrived in Albania, 120,000
Clinton: Promises to continue unrelenting airstrikes.
in Macedonia and 35,000 in Montenegro, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said.
At least 831,000 of the 2 million prewar Kosovo population have been driven from their homes since the conflict began in February 1998, NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said.
NATO said relief flights carrying 200
tons of food and other emergency supplies were scheduled into Albania and Macedonia.
There was growing debate about plans for NATO nations including the United States to temporarily take in tens of thousands of the refugees.
Albania, despite its own impoverishment, said yesterday it would not ask others to take in the refugees who have arrived there because dispersing them outside the region would only help further Milosevic's aims.
in whose use. In Brussels, Belgium, NATO Air Commodore David Wilby said the alliance would take advantage of better weather in Kosovo to accelerate its attacks on the Serb and Yugoslav police, tanks and soldiers accused of systematically expelling ethnic Albanians from Kosovo.
"We will focus our attention on fielded forces in Kosovo," Wilby said. "We will disrupt Serbian military operations on the ground."
Wilby said NATO JETs striking at Serb forces in Kosovo during predawn raids yesterday drew heavy anti-aircraft fire, but all planes returned safely.
Mafia leader pleads guilty follows father to prison
The Associated Press
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — John A. "Junior" Gotti, the son and alleged successor of America's best-known Mafioso, pleaded guilty yesterday to racketeering, bribery, extortion and other charges in exchange for a prison term of up to seven years.
The plea was entered the day before jury selection was to begin in his federal trial. If convicted, he could have been sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined millions of dollars.
Gotti was charged with taking part in a criminal enterprise known as the Gambino family and extortion, robbery, loasharking, gambling and bribery. Many of the charges stemmed from an alleged extortion scheme at the Manhattan, N.Y., toppless club Scores.
He admitted bribing a union official, conspiring with others to commit extortion, supervising illegal gambling activities and filing a false income tax return.
Gotti entered the plea after learning that
federal prosecutors in Brooklyn had planned to indict him on income tax and loansharking charges, said defense attorney Gerald Shargel.
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"The government was putting Mr. Gotti in a position where he had no choice," Shargel said. He said Gotti pleaded guilty to bring "finality and closure" to the prosecutions. Among the charges he pleaded guilty to were the new loansharking charges.
Though the younger Gotti was accused of succeeding his father, John J. Gotti, at the top of the Gambino crime family after the elder Gotti was sent to prison for life in 1992.
In the entire federal indictment against "Junior," there was no mention of murder. No cement shoes, no sleeping with the fishes, no kiss on the lips followed by a bullet to the head. There wasn't even any leg-breaking.
So many Mafia leaders are in prison and so many mobsters are willing to cooperate that it's difficult now to carry out "the kind of blatant criminal activity people associate with organized crime," Goldstock said.
Court rules on car searches
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Passengers' personal belongings are fair game when police officers search a car for criminal evidence against the driver, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
Court had yesterday.
The 6-3 decision reinstated a Wyoming drug conviction and expanded the already considerable police power to stop and search vehicles without a court warrant. Police officials praised the ruling, but defense lawyers condemned it.
Officers must be free of unreasonable, confusing and unworkable restrictions on what may be searched," said Robert Scully of the National Association of Police Organizations.
Andrew Fine of the Legal Aid Society in New York said the ruling wrongly introduced an element of guilt by association.
The Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable police searches and seizures, generally requires police to obtain court warrants.
In a key 1996 ruling, the justices said police could stop motorists for routine traffic violations such as a faulty brake light even if the officers really wanted to search for illegal drugs. Yesterday's ruling means officers who participate in such stops can search all containers in the car if something gives them reason to believe they will find drugs.
The court's latest ruling on privacy rights stems from a routine traffic stop.
A car driven by David Young was stopped for speeding on Interstate 25 in Natrona County, Wyo., in the early morning hours of July 23, 1995. After a Highway Patrol officer saw a hypodermic syringe in Young's pocket, Young acknowledged that he had used it to take drugs.
During the ensuing search, two other officers asked the car's two female passengers to get out of the car. One of them, Sandra Houghton, left her purse on the car. Inside it, police found drug paraphernalia and liquid methamphetamine.
The Wyoming Supreme Court threw out her conviction last year, ruling that police were justified only in searching the car for drugs Young may have had with him.
She was convicted on a felony charge but appealed.
Writing for the nation's highest court, Justice Antonin Scalia said the Wyoming court was wrong.
Libya releases bomb suspects after 11 years
The Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Clearing the way for a trial after years of defiance, Libya yesterday handed over two suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland. Their arrival in the Netherlands triggered suspension of sanctions that isolated Libya from the West.
The surrender of alleged former intelligence agents Abdel Basset Al al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhlimah means the two men can be tried — under a complicated deal worked out in years of talks — in the Netherlands under Scottish law on charges of planting the suitcase bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103.
The Dec. 21, 1988, bombing killed 270 people — 189 Americans — and prompted the United Nations to impose sanctions on Libya in 1992 and 1993.
The sanctions, including bans on international air travel and sales of weapons and oil industry equipment, were suspended yesterday after U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan sent a letter to the Security Council saving the suspects had arrived in the Netherlands.
The suspects surrendered after intense lobbying by South African President Nelson Mandela and Saudi Arabian and U.N. officials. Libya promised last month to turn over the men by today.
Accompanied by U.N. legal chief Hans Corell, who witnessed the handover in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, the pair arrived at the Valkenburg military airport near The Hague.
near The Hague. The two Libyans swiftly were extradited to British custody in the Netherlands and were to be held last night at Camp Zeist, a deserted U.S. air base 30 miles southeast of Amsterdam, Dutch Justice Ministry spokesman Victor Holtus said.
The Libyans' trial will be held at Camp Zeist. The base was under heavy security yesterday, with more than 100 Scottish police patrolling the grounds, some with attack does.
The suspects will be arraigned this week on charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and violations of international aviation laws.
Under Scottish law, their trial should start 110 days after their extradition and arraignment.
Some relatives of those killed in the bombing expressed concern that the trial of the two Libyans would fail to point to the person they believe is responsible for the crash — Mammar Gadhaf.
"If trying these two is the ultimate goal of this trial, then it's a travesty," said George Williams, president of Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, which represents 160 American families who lost relatives in the crash.
Before leaving Tripoli, the two suspects said they hoped to return to their families after being found not guilty.
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