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Monday, February 8, 1993
NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
U.N. may pressure Serbs with force
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — With time running out for Bosnian Serbs and Muslims to agree on a U.N. peace plan, international mediators held a final series of meetings yesterday before the Security Council takes over the crisis.
Mediators held little hope of reaching a solution after talks bogged down over their plan to end the nearly 11-month old war. Meetings elsewhere increasingly turned to the possibility of outside military intervention.
Defense Secretary Les Aspin met in Munich, Germany, with Western military leaders to discuss Washington's proposals. Aspin refused to describe the proposals to reporters, saying only that Washington could act on them as early as this week.
Previously, the United States said it was not ready to commit ground forces in the war-torn region.
BUTO Secretary-General Manfred Woerner said at the Munich meeting that the alliance might have to use force in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where a three-sided ethnic conflict has killed more than 18,000 people and created 1 million refugees.
"We must not shrink from the legitimate use of force if we are to remain credible." Woemer said.
U. N. envoy Cyrus Vance said yesterday that he believed the Security Council would get involved today.
The talks were moved to New York from Geneva last week so the 15-nation Security Council — especially the United States — could pressure the factions to compromise.
Bosnian Scoer leader Radovan Karadzic, going into a meeting with mediators yesterday, said all sides should "stop the war immediately."
In comments to reporters, Bosnian Croat leader Mate Boban ridiculed such statements.
The Serbian requests are illogical.
"They're unreasonable," he said. "The Serbians wish to have in their possession all the territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina that they have captured by force."
The Serbs began their offensives after Bosnia's declaration of independ-
dence a year ago from Serb-dominated Yugoslavia. Muslims and Croats supported secession.
The Serbs, who accounted for a third of Bosnia's population before the war, now control about 70 percent of Bosnian territory. Under the peace plan proposed by Vance and Lord Owen, a negotiator from the European Community, the land under Serb control would be cut to 40 percent.
The former republic also would be divided into 10 semi-autonomous provinces. Each ethnic group would dominate three regions of Bosnia and the area around the capital, Sarajevo, would be under joint control.
The Muslim-dominated government contends that the plan would reward Serbian aggression by giving the Serbs control over conquered territory.
As the peace talks dragged on, the
as in Bosnia claimed more victims.
A mortar round apparently fired by Serb forces besieging Sarajevo exploded near a line of people waiting for water in the city's old town. Two women and a child were killed and five people were wounded, said a doctor from Sarajevo's main hospital.
Bosnian radio reported clashes between Serb and Muslim forces in northern, eastern and central Bosnia.
Sarajevo's food reserves were desperately low a day after relief flights and ambulances were suspended. A.U.N. refugee agency said the airlift must resume today.
The flights were halted after anti-aircraft fire struck a relief plane over neighborbng Croatia, where fighting between Serbs and Croats has resumed after a year-long truce.
U. N. representative Shannon Boyd blamed rebel Serrb gunners for hitting the plane and said the United Nations protested the action to Croatia's rebel Serbs and the Yugoslavian government.
Tennis legend Ashe dies at 49
AIDS-related pneumonia takes life of U.S. Open, Wimbledon champion
The Associated Press
NEW YORK—Arthur Ashe was alert in his final hours, and he reassured his physician he was OR before his death from AIDS-related pneumonia, the physician said yesterday.
His physician, Henry W Murray and lawyer Donald Dell, a longtime friend of Ashe's, hold an emotional
news conference at New York Hospital where the tennis legend died Saturday at age 49.
Arthur Ashe
"He used to say, 'Don't feel sorry for me,' Dell said. "He clearly felt he was not a victim. Whatever happened, he would rise to that particular occasion. It was just another challenge."
Murray said Ashe was fully alert Saturday and asked questions about things such as who the
next U.S. attorney general might be.
"His last gesture to me was this," Murray said, making the circular OK sign with his thumb and forefinger.
President Bill Clinton mourned the death of Ashe, the only African-American man to win at Winbledon and the U.S. Open.
Tennis player Martina Navratilova offered a prayer for Ashe after she won a tournament in Japan yesterday.
"He was a friend of mine," Clinton said as he walked to church yesterday in Washington. "I'm really sad about it."
"I task that we stop for a moment of silence here to remember an extraordinary human being who transcended his sport, his race, religion and nationality and in his own way helped to change the world," Navratilova said. "We will always remember you, Arthur."
Ashe, who contracted the AIDS virus from a tainted blood transfusion, was credited with helping break racial barriers in professional tennis.
"It was because of him that I had a career in tennis," said France's Yannick Noah, who is black. "It was him who, when I was young, gave me the dream."
Last April Aseh announced that he had acquired immune deficiency syndrome at a news conference after a newspaper planned to run a story exposing his condition.
He defended his right to keep his illness private but nevertheless became active in the fight against AIDS. Ashe formed a fund-raising foundation and joined the boards of the Harvard AIDS Institute and the University of California — Los Angeles AIDS Institute.
"the sports world has lost a tremendous spokesperson for AIDS," said Julian Rush, executive director of the Colorado AIDS Project in Denver. "No one didn't like Arthur Ashe."
Murray said Ashe had been hospitalized with pneumonia for two weeks in January and had been ill off and on for several months.
Ashe delivered a speech Tuesday, but became ill with a fever and other complications late that Wednesday.
Clinton to cut costs before raising taxes, Gore says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Vice President Al Gore said yesterday that the administration would announce spending cuts this week to prove President Bill Clinton was serious about eliminating government waste before asking people to pay higher taxes.
Gore did not specify the cuts, but he said they would make it "unmistakably clear that we have been wrestling with the guts of these very difficult decisions."
A senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the first of the announcements, probably tomorrow, would focus on cutting the White House staff.
Labor Secretary Robert Reich,
appearing on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation," said Clinton was going through the budget in excruciating detail and would not approve cuts that would hurt the poor or middle class.
Meanwhile, Republicans suggested Clinton could most effectively reduce spending by scrapping his economic stimulus program, which they said was no longer needed.
The Republicans, in a letter signed by Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas and other senior GOP senators, said, "We fail to see how any short-term stimulus package of $10 billion to $30 billion can have any significant impact on our economy that is now experiencing solid recovery."
BRIEFS
African-American farmers receive smaller loans
WASHINGTON — Struggleging African-American farmers receive an average of $21,000 less than white borrowers from a Farmers Home Administration loan program that is intended to help save family farms, according to an Associated Press analysis of agency records.
The federal agency is a last resort for many farmers who cannot get loans elsewhere. Rejection can push a farm to the brink of failure.
The AP's analysis of lending records from 1980 to 1992 also found that while the number of loans to white farmers dropped by 66 percent during that period, the number of loans to African-American farm borrowers tumbled by 82 percent.
More women are turning to guns for protection
CARTERET, N.J. — For a long time, Maury Mangan hated even the sight of guns. After she was accosted three times by threatening men, her resolve began to crumble. At a rifle and pistol club, Mangan recently clutched a revolver and slowly blasted away at a paper target.
Mangan, a nurse from Oceanport, N.J., is one of an increasing number of women who have turned to firearms for protection. Gun sellers and advocates agree that women are a rapidly expanding segment of the gun-buying market.
From Associated Press reports.
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