UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 22, 1994
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THE NEWS in brief
OSAN AIR BASE. Korea
U.N. inspectors want to monitor plutonium in North Korean reactor
U. S. Patriot missiles arriving in South Korea will be ready for firing within a week, Defense Secretary William Perry said yesterday. He also said North Korea may soon obtain
'enough plutonium from a reactor to build four or five nuclear bombs.
The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency said North Korea had suggested it would let inspectors monitor the refueling of a nuclear reactor. That monitoring "is critical,"
Perry said "there is no imminent danger" of war but it is vital that North Korea permit international inspection of its nuclear activities.
In a possible step forward on that front, a spokesman for the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency said North Korea had suggested it would let inspectors monitor the
Perry said that "within weeks it will be necessary" for North Korea to remove fuel rods from the reactor.
The spent fuel contains enough plutonium to build four nuclear five nuclear bombs, Perry said, though the fuel rods would have to cool down for weeks or months before they could be processed to remove the plutonium.
In Vienna, Austria, David Kyd, a spokesman for the U.N. agency, said North Korea had sent a message stating its intention to refuel the reactor and "indicating its readiness" to allow inspections. The agency wants to ensure no plutonium fuel is diverted.
Perry noted that North Korean leader Kim Il Sung recently denied that his country intended to build any nuclear weapons.
Capt. David Cole, of Jefferson City, Tenn., commands C Battery, 2nd Battalion of the 7th Air Defense Artillery, which — along with five other Patriot batteries — arrived in South Korea this week.
*erry spent two days in Korea with South Korean and American officials — and then with troops.*
"I'm confident in the system, that it works," Cole told reporters who watched yesterday as the unit oriented the Patriot's radar in its new position about 50 miles south of Seoul.
Perry told reporters after visiting a Patriot unit at Suwon Air Base that the system would be ready for use in a week.
BRUSSELS, Belgium
NATO agrees to air strikes
NATO allies have tentatively agreed to meet today on President Clinton's proposals for using air power to protect U.N.-designated "safe areas" in Bosnia from Serb attacks.
The 16 allies held consultations yesterday on Clinton's recommendation that the alliance threaten Bosnian Serbs with air strikes if they refuse to withdraw their heavy guns from enclaves that are supposed to shelter Muslim civilians.
Although the Serbs' political leaders have promised several times in recent days to stop the attacks on Gorazde, one of the six "safe areas," there has been no let-up in the three-week offensive.
The meeting, which could be delayed until tomorrow, follows discussions this week on more involvement in Bosnia. On Wednesday, NATO countries gave their initial backing to a request from Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali for more action to protect the zones, but they delayed final approval.
Canada, which has been reluctant to back air strikes, again expressed doubts, diplomats said. Canada worries about the impact of raids on the safety of its peacekeepers in Bosnia and aid missions.
In Ottawa later yesterday, Prime Minister Jean Chretien said that Canada is ready to approve air strikes against the Serbs if they refuse to stop shelling Goradez. He spoke after a late-night meeting with his Cabinet.
A decision to expand air protection to civilians in the
enclaves would intensify NATO's involvement in the 2-year-old war that has left more than 200,000 people dead or missing.
NATO employed a similar strategy in breaking the Serb siege of Sarajevo, another of the U.N. "safe areas." At that time, the allies issued a 10-day ultimatum to the Serbs to withdraw their heavy artillery around Sarajevo or face air strikes.
SINGAPORE
Another sentenced to caning
A Hong Kong teen-ager was sentenced yesterday to 12 lashes for vandalizing cars, the second foreign student sentenced to be flgged in a case that has drawn widespread attention in the United States.
The conviction of Shiu Chi Ho, 16, came a day after lawyers for 18-year-old Michael Fay of Kettering, Ohio, submitted a final appeal for his flogging sentence to be suspended.
Shiu was convicted of four charges of vandalism and sentenced also to eight months in prison. His lawyers said they would appeal the conviction and sentence.
Defense lawyers argued that Shiu was too young to realize the seriousness of his actions. But District Judge F.G. Remedios said Shiu "acted willfully and deliberately" in a vandalism spree last year along with Fay and a Malaysian teen-ager.
Fay and Shiu said they signed confessions only after being coerced by police. Police denied those accusations.
A 15-year-old Malaysian boy, who cannot be named because of his age, was sentenced to two months in a boys home after pleading guilty to vandalism and mischief in Juvenile Court.
The Malaysian boy testified for the prosecution in Shiu's trial, saying that both Fay and Shiu were with him when they vandalized cars.
The lashes with a half-inch-thick rattan cane are meted out by prison guards trained in martial arts. Each stroke rips the flesh and leaves permanent scars.
Shiu faces a hearing next month on 38 other charges of vandalism and mischief.
WASHINGTON
U.S.-Haitian policy rejected
Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide denounced President Clinton yesterday as uncaring about the impoverished island, increasing his differences with the Clinton administration.
"So far, he hasn't demonstrated that he cares," Aristide told a news conference. He said that there was no political will to solve the Haiti crisis.
He called Clinton's Haitian policy, including the repatriation of refugees who try to escape Haiti by boat, "a cynical joke. It's a racist policy."
Administration officials have been critical of Aristide, saying he has failed to take the initiative required for his reinstatement as the island's first democratically elected president, relying too heavily on the United States to achieve that objective. They have urged him to reach out more to opposition groups to isolate the military that ousted him in 1991.
Aristide renewed his call for a reversal of the policy on Haitian refugees, which he said has led to Haitian deaths caused by the ruling military and police.
"Today we have pigs eating the corpses of people killed by the military," he said. "How many murders does it take to create a holocaust?"
Although the United States supports Aristide's return to power, the Clinton administration has been increasingly at odds with Aristide on how to make that happen.
Clinton said Wednesday that the trade embargo against Haiti was helping to restore democracy to the violence-torn nation.
But members of Congress this week proposed legislation that would strengthen the embargo to bar all but humanitarian goods, including raw materials that are now shipped by U.S. companies to Haiti for assembly and exported under an exemption to the regional embargo.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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