NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, August 26, 1993
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State officials resign from posts
Weak U.S. response to Bosnian conflict leads to departures
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The cable was sickening: a 9-year-old Muslim girl raped by Serb militiamen in Bosnia, left lying in a pool of blood. Her parents, forced to watch from behind a fence, restrained from going to her. They kept watch for two days, until she died.
Jon Western, a young intelligence analyst at the State Department, read the account in disbelief. Then it came to his desk again,
This month he became one of four young State Department officials who, over the past year, have abandoned promising careers to protest the United States' hands-off policy in Bosnia, which in their view is tantamount to sanctioning a Serb genocide of Muslims. Two other State Department Bosnia specialists have asked to be reassured.
told to U.S. investigators separately by other refugees, and he was forced to believe
Not since a u.s. spirit of resignations 20 years ago over a U.S. policy in Southeast Asia has the State Department known such rebellion.
Several days earlier, his colleague Marshall Freeman Harris, 32, had also quit his fast-moving, eight-year, $50,000-a-year diplomatic career and went to work for Rep. Frank McCloskey, D-Ind, a proponent of more U.S. leadership on Bosnia.
"I found myself going home every night extraordinarily bitter and angry," Western said. He said that his regular accounts and
"I just couldn't stomach the policy any more," Harris said. "I lost all respect for the people who had come up with the policy.
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analyses to Secretary of State Warren Christopher received weak responses.
Harris and Western point to July 21 as a rock-bottom day when Christopher, asked whether the United States would act to prevent the fall of Sarajevo besieging
Serb forces, said: "The United States is doing all that it can consistent with its national interests."
"It was excruciating to watch," said Harris, whose job was to monitor the suffering of Sarajevo's Muslims and who did not think the United States is doing anywhere near what it could.
Harris drafted a letter to Christopher in April that was signed by 11 colleagues, urging the administration to follow through with two initiatives it had proposed: help the Muslims get weapons to defend themselves and bomb the Serb artillery bombing them.
Of the 12 signatories on the Christopher letter, only four are still at their jobs. The others have either quit or been rotated to other jobs, Harris said.
World Trade Center bomb plotters charged
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A radical Muslim cleric whose followers have been charged in the World Trade Center bombing and a plot to blow other towers and tunnels in New York City was indicted in the case for the first time yesterday.
Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and three others — including the man accused of organizing militant Rabbi Meir Kahane
— also were charged in the federal indictment with conspiring to murder Egyptian police.
Kahane's alleged assassin, El Sayid A. Nosair, was indicted on new charges in
that killing. Nosair was acquitted of state murder charges but is in state prison on a related weapons conviction.
The new indictment alleges that 11 men previously charged with a failed plot to bomb the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge and a building housing FBI offices also were involved in the Feb. 26 World Trade Center blast. That attack killed six people, injured more than 1,000 and displaced hundreds of businesses for weeks.
Many of the defendants were followers of Abdel-Rahman, 55, who preached at the police academy.
The Egyptian cleric has been in federal
custody in Otisville, N.Y., since July 2, after an immigration judge ordered him deported.
Named with Abdel-Rahman and Nosair in the alleged plot to assassinate Mubarak were Mohammed Aboulalima, the brother of a defendant in the Trade Center bombing, and Abdo Mohammed Haggag, who was arrested on a similar charge last month.
The federal indictment charges Nosair with racketeering for having murdered Kahane by shooting him to death at a Manhattan hotel. It said that he also attempted to kill a U.S. postal officer as he fled.
radicals and many of those charged earlier in the two cases were known to have supported him during his trial.
The new indictment had been promised a month ago by prosecutors who were transcribing hundreds of hours of tape recordings captured by a government informant who had become a close confidant of Abdel-Rahman.
Based on information from the informant, authorities arrested 11 men who allegedly plotted to bomb the United Nations, the building housing the FBI and two tunnels connecting New York City and New Jersey. All of them have pleaded innocent.
Nosar is seen as a hero to young Muslim
Former Contra rebels release some hostages after talks
MANAGUA — Former Contra rebels freed some of their hostages Wednesday after talks with a Roman Catholic cardinal, but rival Sandinista hostage-takers in the capital, residence and four others canvassed.
Jose Angel "The Jack" Talavare, a leader of the former Contra rebels, freed 11 of his 16 hostages after more than six hours of negotiations with Cardinal Miguel Obando y Benoît.
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quick end to the dual hostage crisis, which began here Thursday with the kidnapping of Congressional deputies and other officials, many of them Sandinistas.
Talavera off the talks when he said he saw government troops in the area but later resumed them, said Antonio Lacayo, the chief aide to President Violeta Chamorro. Still, Cromoamor and other officials said they hoped for a
"The situation in Nicaragua is improving..." President Chamorro said on arrival in Mexico City for a brief visit. "At the moment Heft there were no more than 10 hostages, five in Managua and five in the north."
"We are optimistic," Lacaya told reporters in Managua. Interior Ministry representative Maria Cristina Arguello said yesterday that the "simultaneous liberation" of hostages at both sites could occur soon.
The crisis is an explosive outgrowth of divisions remaining from the civil war between U.S.-backed Contra rebels and a Sandinista government.
The former Contras and Sandinistas accuse the government of failing to deliver promised land and aid when they disarmed. The government made the promises in hopes of receiving massive U.S. aid that never materialized.
Two congressional deputies who were among the five hostages still held by Talavera's men near Quilali threatened to go on a hunger strike if they were not freed soon.
Talavera's former Contras also are outraged that Chamorro has left the army and police in Sandinista hands despite defeating them in a 1990 election. They are demanding the resignations of top Sandinista officials.
The Managua hostages were seized on Friday by Sandinistas in response to the Quilah hostage-taking. Each group has released most of the hostages originally seized.
U.S. places China under sanctions
The Associated Press
The move constituted another setback to U.S. Chinese relations, plagued by differences over human rights and other issues relating to China's weapons export program.
WASHINGTON — The United States applied limited sanctions against China and Pakistan yesterday after concluding that China had sold missile technology to Pakistan, violating an international arms control agreement.
China denies selling the weapons to Pakistan. In Pakistan, a foreign Ministry spokesman Munir Akram said Pakistan purchased short-range missiles from China, but not the M-11s. He did not address the question of whether Pakistan had purchased M-11 missile technology.
The sanction bans the sale of sensitive high technology equipment to the Chinese entities responsible for the sale, said State Department representative Mike McCurry.
At issue is U.S. evidence suggesting that China transferred to Pakistan technology related to the M-11 surface-to-surface missile its export violates the Missile Technology Control Regime.
"It's our estimate that somewhere between $400 million and $500 million a year of commercial activity will be affected by the sanctions that are imposed today," he said. Those figures are less than 10 percent of U.S. exports to China last year. The impact on trade with Pakistan is expected to be minimal.
Officials said part of the U.S. case against the two countries was based on satellite photographs taken of a Chinese shipment that arrived last year at the Pakistan port of Karachi.
Pakistan already is prohibited from receiving most U.S. aid because of legislation barring assistance to countries developing a nuclear weapons capability.
Lym Davis, the under secretary of state for international security affairs, informed the Chinese and Pakistani ambassadors of the U.S. decision.
U. S. law requires that sanctions be applied when the Missile Technology Control Regime is violated. It bars the transfer of missiles with a range of more than 186 miles or a payload of more than 1,100 pounds.
Richard Brecher, of the U.S. China Business Council, said China had an $18 billion trade surplus with the United States last year. The net effect, he said, was to worsen the trade imbalance.
He said the U.S. company most affected probably would be Hughes Aircraft, which exports to China satellites that are launched on Chinese rockets.
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