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Friday, April 22, 1994
NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Senate split over U.S. role in Bosnia
Christopher calls for expanded air power
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senior senators tugged in opposite directions yesterday as the Clinton administration worked to forge a tougher policy on the desperate warfare in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Secretary of State Warren Christopher said, "We just cannot turn our backs on this situation."
Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and an influential voice on military policy, said the United States and its allies must be willing to escalate military action against the Bosnian Serbs, even if American casualties result.
The West "should escalate all the way to Serbia if need be" to end the Yugoslav conflict, Nunn said.
Christopher went before a Senate subcommittee where he described
the administration's efforts to persuade NATO allies to approve wider use of air power to protect Gorazde and five other Muslim enclaves.
He could not persuade Sen. Ernest Hollings, D.S.C., the populist-style chairman, who took a stance in sharp contrast to Nunn's. Politely but skeptically, Hollings urged Christopher to apply "The Mother's Test" before committing U.S. warplanes to a wider conflict.
That is, Hollings said, the Clinton administration must provide a convincing response a member of Congress could give to a mother should a son or daughter die in combat in Bosnia.
"We are making a civil war an international war," Hollings said, brushing aside Christopher's assertion that "we are getting into Bosnia" to try to keep the war from spreading to Macedonia and Croatia.
"They have in mind a Greater Serbia," Christopher said in an unusually
strong indictment of Bosnian Serbs and their patrons in Belgrade.
Congress has been consulted regularly on Bosnia, Christopher said. But Hollings, who heads the Commerce Committee and is a member of the powerful Appropriations and Budget committees as well, was not mollyfied. "We haven't been asked," he said, "and we haven't asked the people."
From the opposite direction, Nunn, D-Ga., derided NATO's "pinprick attacks" last week against the Serbs and said the Serbs were undeterred because the West had taken a "sort of lowest-common-denominator approach" to Bosnia.
He said the American public must be prepared for the deaths of some U.S. airmen.
"We have to be willing to escalate. Otherwise, the escalation is all on the side of the Bosnian Serbs," Nunn said in an NBC-TV interview.
Crime bill passes House 282-141
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House passed a $28 billion get-tough-oncrime bill yesterday demanding life imprisonment of three-time violent and drug offenders and greatly expanding the federal crimes subject to the death penalty.
The bill passed 282-141. Negotiators from the Senate and House now will attempt to work out a compromise with a $22 billion version approved by the Senate last November.
"This is a historic moment," said Rep. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., head of the Judiciary Committee's crime panel. "For the first time, this body is recognizing the angush on the streets that calls out to us to do something tough on crime."
President Clinton cheered the vote.
President Clinton referred the vote: "The House of Representatives made their intentions clear: Crime will not pay." Clinton said in a statement read by Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers. "Democrats and Republicans joined together to break the gridlock and make our streets safer."
The bill drew the support of 219 Democrats, 65 Republicans and one independent. Voting against it were 107 Republicans and 34 Democrats.
Federal investigators swim through Whitewater papers
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Federal investigators have swarmed into the Rose Law Firm, poring over Whitewater-related documents that fill nearly 10 offices, the firm's managing partner said in a rare interview Wednesday.
Under siege in the Whitewater affair, Ronald Clark also said his firm had cut off contacts with former partner Hillary Rodham Clinton to avoid any appearance of impropriety.
The Associated Press
"We don't want to be accused of sharing information, conspiring to destroy documents, that sort of thing, so we've intentionally not communicated with Hillary," Clark said.
Sixteen of the firm's employees already have been questioned in connection with Whitewater special prosecutor Robert Fiske's investigation, according to one person familiar with the proceed-
ings.
Meanwhile, two federal banking agencies conducting their own investigations have sent eight to 10 people to the Rose firm daily for the past three weeks to review records relating to a failed Arkansas savings and loan, Clark said.
"We don't think we have anything to hide or anything to be ashamed of," he said.
The firm, itself, came under investigation after two courriers alleged that shortly after Fiske was appointed, they were directed to shred documents in folders bearing the initials of Vincent Foster, a Rose partner.
Meanwhile, investigators from the Resolution Trust Corp. and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. are studying all firm records related to Madison Guaranty, a failed savings and loan run by President and Hillary Clinton's Whitewater real estate partner.
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