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Thursday. February 11. 1993
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U.S. forces could go to Bosnia
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. peacekeeping troops could be sent to Bosnia as part of a new U.S. strategy for dealing with the war in the Balkans, officials said yesterday.
Secretary of State Warren Christopher was to announce President Clinton's plan late yesterday.
Americans "want us to do more" to end ethnic warfare there, Clinton said earlier at a Cabinet meeting.
"I think the public will support the policy. I think they want us to do more and they want us to do it in a prudent way." Clinton said.
Reginald Bartholomew, a career foreign service officer and U.S. ambassador to NATO, was expected to be named special envoy to deal with the crisis.
Senior U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. troops would not be sent to the splintered former Yugoslavia until there was a settlement and only as part of a multinational peacekeeping force under the United Nations or the NATO.
Bosnia
Also, they said it was not certain U.S. ground troops would be part of the operation. Other options could be using U.S. air and
seapower to strengthen enforcement of the U.N. trade embargo of the federation of Serbia and Montenegro.
"It is an initiative by President Clinton to engage the United States directly and aggressively in trying to bring about peace," one official said.
White House spokesperson Dee Deey Marshes, said, "As of right now there are no specific plans to deploy troops." But she said the United States would be willing to enforce whatever agreement reached.
She said the aim was to build on a plan formulated by former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen that called for establishing 10 autonomous zones in Bosnia.
Clinton already questioned whether the proposal by Vance, the U.N. mediator, and Owen, who represents the European Community, was fair to the
Appointing a U.S. mediator to work with them could give the Clinton administration a chance to try to change the plan to make it more acceptable to the Muslims, who account for more than 40 percent of Bosnia's population but hold only a fraction of the country's territory.
Muslims.
Owen, appearing on Phi Donahue s TV talk show, said about 25,000 peacekeepers might be needed, 5,000 of them from the U.S.
More than 18,000 people have died in 11 months of fighting and tens of thousands have been left homeless and hungry. The United States has assigned much of the blame to a Serbian "ethnic cleansing" campaign. Bosnian Serbs backed by Serbian regular forces control more than 70 percent of the country.
The U.S. initiative is the product of a three-week review by the president and his senior foreign policy advisers. The Muslims had hoped Clinton would provide them with weapons, but the officials said there would be no lifting of the embargo the United Nations imposed on all sides.
However, the officials said, Christopher would call for enforcement of the "no-fly" zone the Security Council imposed over Bosnia last year.
There have been some 400 Serbian military flights in the past three months but no attacks from the air on Muslim forces or civilians.
The Bush administration also favored a New Security Council resolution to threaten force against Serbian violators but could not muster a coalition to approve it. Russia, for one, was unwilling to threaten the Serbs, with whom Moscow historically has had close ties.
Christopher also was expected to announce a stepped-up relief effort to aid war victims.
Currently, the Balkans are in the grip of winter. Food and energy supplies are short and Bosnian cities are under Serbian mortar attack.
Vance and Owen have tried to bring Muslims and Serbs together on a cease-fire. But the Serbs, as well as the Muslims, rejected the idea of setting up ethnic zones, and the Muslims also turned down cease-fire terms last month.
Thousands pay final respects to Ashe
The Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. — Thousands of people, ranging from heads of government and sports figures to everyday admirers, came from around the world yesterday to attend Arthur Ashe's funeral.
Ashe, 49, died in New York Saturday of AIDS-related pneumonia. Doctors believe he contracted the AIDS virus
They saluted his diligence in rising from a segregated Richmond to become the first Black man to win Birmingham and the U.S. Open. And they thanked him for his tireless efforts on behalf of minorities, children and AIDS research.
from a blood transfusion during heart surgery in 1983.
"in tennis and in life, Arthur always understood just how unfair this world can be," said Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder. "And he used every fiber of his strength, on and off the court, to right the world's injustice."
Other speakers included New York Mayor David Dinkins and Leroy Walker, president of the U.S. Olympic Committee. Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young delivered the eulogy.
Among the palebearers were former French Open champion Yannick Noah and several of Ash'e's Davis Cup teammates: Stan Smith, Charlie
The service was held at the Arthur R. Ashe J. Athletic Center, a sports arena built in 1981 and named after the city's native son.
Tuesday night, thousands waited in cold darkness for as long as two hours to view Ashe's body lying in state at the Executive Mansion.
Ashe became only the second person accorded the honor of a viewing at the mansion. The first was Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson.
"He always took adversity like a man," said James Jones, who drove 70 miles to be one of nearly 5,500 people to file past the open coffin. "He never complained, he never pointed fingers.
He was a man of integrity."
Ashe, a powerful voice for civil rights and against South Africa's policy of apartheid, devoted his final months to promoting understanding of AIDS.
In his youth, Ashe was barred from many tennis courts in Richmond because he was Black. He left the city in 1961 to pursue his tennis career.
"To me, it said you have to persevere, to make changes through work and discipline," said Valerie Muhmamad, who waited patiently in the chill for 90 minutes with her children, Ibrahim, 3, Khadijah 7, and Flora, 9. "I want the children to understand about his work and his discipline."
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