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Monday, April 18, 1994
'Some progress'in U.N negotiations
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United States will use force in Bosnia if asked, Clinton says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Clinton said yesterday that the United States will respond multilitarly if asked by the U.N. commander in Bosnia.
Clinton said that U.N. negotiations with the warring factions in Bosnia had registered "some progress." He pointed to the release yesterday of 16 Canadian soldiers, who were among more than 150 U.N. peacekeepers being kept under virtual house arrest by Bosnian Serbs.
"They are trying to hammer out an agreement that everyone can live with," Clinton said of the U.N. negotiators.
Earlier yesterday, the U.S. special envoy to Bosnia said the administration foresees no escalation of NATO military power in Bosnia despite a tactical victory by Serbian forces around Gorazde.
"We're going to have to find some way to negotiate our way out of this," Ambassador Charles Redman said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Bosnian Serbs said they were ending the siege of Gorazde but sent tanks into the Muslim enclave.
Redman said the Serbs control the Gorazde pocket "militarily and tactically," while the city itself remains in Bosnian hands.
Also yesterday, Sen. Joseph Biden, the second-ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said U.N. forces should pull out of Bosnia and the United States should lift the arms embargo. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said the Serbs have almost everything they want.
Ejup Ganic, vice president of the Republic of Bosnia, portrayed the fight around Gorazde as a Serbian victory. He said the Serbs stuck to a familiar pattern in the fight for Gorazde. "The enclaves become smaller and smaller and smaller and now, when they fix the deal, the tanks are in the city."
Redman said negotiations to consolidate a cease-fire in Gorazde were continuing with the hope of establishing a safe area around the city to allow greater freedom of movement.
The Serbian siege of Gorazde provoked two NATO air attacks over the past two weeks. On Saturday, a British jet was shot down over Gorazde while moving against a Bosnian Serb tank shelling the town.
"The United Nations is not here as a combatant," Redman said, but "to save lives, to protect people."
Biden said that if the Serbs refuse to advance negotiations over the next month, U.N. forces should leave Bosnia and the arms embargo on the region should be lifted to help Bosnia fight the Serbs.
"Let them fight because it's the only
way you're going to end up with a genuine settlement," Biden said.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, who appeared along with Biden on "Meet the Press," also urged a lifting of the arms embargo and criticized the Clinton administration for failing to lay out a clear U.S. policy in the region, "other than to support the United Nations."
Sen. Trent Lott, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on ABC that U.S. credibility has been diminished by the failure to follow established Pentagon doctrine: "Use massive force. If you're going to use a stick, use a big one."
Kissinger, also on ABC, questioned U.S. goals in the region but said the time for outside force to be effective in ending the conflict has passed.
"Now, I think the Serbs already have almost everything that they want, and we are now engaging in a sort of a symbolic tit for tat in the closing phases of an operation that is more or less concluded," Kissinger said.
Couple admits dumping body of daughter
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A Quebec couple who claimed their 2-month-old daughter disappeared in Central Park admitted yesterday that they had dumped her body in woods in Quebec more than a week ago after finding her dead in her crib.
Using a map the couple drew for detectives, Quebec police quickly found the body. The cause of death won't be known before an autopsy today, said provincial police representative Tom McConnell.
The discovery ended a search involving about 75 New York City police, including scuba divers who checked ponds in Central Park, said John Hill, chief of Manhattan detectives.
The parents — Joseph Bales, 33, and his wife, Helene Lemay, 31 — met with reporters at the station house late Saturday and made a tearful plea for the return of their infant girl, Mugnet.
The father had reported the infant missing Saturday afternoon.
The couple feared trouble, Hill said, when they found their baby dead in her crib on April 8 in their home in Saint Romain, in southern Quebec.
Hill said that within the past two or three years, the couple had a foster child taken from them by Canadian authorities because of abuse allegations.
Israel wary of PLO-Hamas talks
So the parents decided to get rid of the body that day. They wrapped it in three plastic bags and dumped it in woods near the remote Quebec town of Eastman, about 75 miles from their home.
JERUSALEM — Israel will strongly oppose any military cooperation between the PLO and a militant Muslim group that has claimed responsibility for two suicide bomb attacks this month, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said yesterday.
The Associated Press
The warning came amid reports that the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, had held meetings with officials of PLO chairman Yasir Arafat's mainstream Fatah faction.
Reports carried by Israeli media said Hamas sought Fatah's agreement to continue attacks inside Israel. But Palestinians said the meetings focused on arrangements between the two rivals自后elf-rule starts in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho.
"Israel will thoroughly check the reports of cooperation, and if there is any truth to it, Israel will be strongly against it," Rabin representative Oded Ben-Ami quoted the prime minister as saying.
"I don't consider it possible that we will reach agreement
with the PLO if it reaches agreement with Hamas to avoid a civil war but allows attacks on Israelis," Rabin later told reporters.
Hamas, which enjoys significant support among Palestinians, is the leading opponent of the Israeli-PLO accord. The agreement provides for an Israeli withdrawal and Palestinian autonomy in Gaza and Jericho, but it has been held up for months by violence and security disputes.
Hamas wants assurances from the PLO that it will be permitted to continue attacks within Israel after autonomy begins, Israel radio reported yesterday, citing Palestinian sources. The PLO has rejected the demand, the radio said.
A meeting between Arafat and a Hamas leader in Sudan last year collapsed after Arafat rejected Hamas demands for a large share of power in the PLO. There have been no known attempts since then to reconcile the two groups.
However, a senior Fatah official said there had been about 20 meetings in recent months with Hamas about local issues such as how to handle land disputes, control welfare institutions, share power in the Gaza municipality and prevent friction between Hamas and the PLO.
European economic bloc to grow amid shaky politics
The Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European Union plans to take in four prosperous new members, extending the reach of the powerful economic bloc into the heart of central Europe and north to Russia's Arctic frontiers.
If Austria, Sweden, Norway and Finland join as planned on Jan. 1, they will enlarge the union to 16 nations, 375 million people and an economy worth $7 trillion a year. The North American Free Trade Agreement of the United States, Canada and Mexico has 360 million people in a 66 trillion economy.
"A common foreign policy comes from common interests, not from a declaration in a treaty," said Jonathan Eyal, director of studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London. He said a larger membership will make it "even more difficult" to define those common interests.
Such expansion warms the hearts of those who dream of building a European superpower to rival the United States. But some Europeans believe increasing the membership will only delay progress toward united foreign and defense policies.
Supporters of ever-closer ties among European nations fear the newcomers will join Britain in defending national sovereignty against visions of a "United States of Europe."
Also, the NATO-aligned majority will have to accommodate the neutrality of Sweden, Austria and Finland.
Nor did negotiations with the four candidates boost confidence in Europe's ability to unite. Before they were completed a month after the March 30 deadline, foreign ministers spent weeks quarrelling about how to adapt voting procedures and share out Norway's fish stocks.
While they wrangled, U.S. and Russian diplomats pressed for peace in former Yugoslavia with some success, and the United States became the broker in Israeli-Arab talks.
"It demonstrates what American leadership can provide," said Stuart Eilenstat, U.S. ambassador to the European Union. "Europe is beginning to come together. But even with that, they still need the entrance of the world's only superpower to make things fully happen."
In January, the bloc appeared to recognize this when its foreign ministers appealed for American help to end the killing in Bosnia.
"Yugoslavia does point out the limitations of the common foreign and security policy." Eizenstat said. "It's very hard to manage a military crisis with 12 foreign ministers."
"Their initiatives in the Middle East were a disaster," he said. "On Yugoslavia, they spent three years bickering like fishyves."
Eyal was less diplomatic.
Member nations have scheduled a conference in 1996 to clarify foreign policy and strengthen the Western European Union.
As usual, however, they disagree about how to do it, but all realize change is necessary to make the union work and to continue growing.
Its potential for growth is enormous. In addition to the four nations scheduled to join Jan 1, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic want in by 2000 and a dozen others from Malta to Estonia are knocking at the door.
Stories from 'the most terrifying place on earth'
Reporter documents fear, fighting, death in Rwandan tragedy
By Arthur Allen The Associated Press
Editor's note: Associated Press reporter Arthur Allen was in Rwanda's capital until Wednesday, when he was evacuated by plane to Nairobi with other journalists. The following are vignettes from his coverage of Rwanda's terrifying tragedy.
That was the scene journalists took in during the ethnic slaughter and in war in Kigali, possibly the most terrifying place on earth last week.
NAIROBI, Kenya - Fitful sleep on airport luggage belts punctuated by hair-raising trips in hot-wired cars past machete-waving killers slugging down cane liquor. And the bodies, crumpled in bloody piles.
Like everyone else trying to keep
The red-bereted French paratroopers were icy, crew-cut and methodical. The green-bereted Belgians were bearded and friendly — and nervous.
from being killed in Rwanda, journalists depended on the protection of 1,150 Belgian and French paratroopers who flew to evacuate foreigners after the killing started April 6.
The Belgian troops were afraid. Ten of their colleagues were tortured and murdered by the presidential guard on April 7. The guards blamed the Belgians for the mysterious plane crash that killed Rwanda's president the day before.
Fear set in with sunset Monday night as the paratroopers got ready to board a C-130 transport from Nairobi, Kenya, to Kigali.
"It's bad," said the flight chief. "But it's quiet at the airport, right?" "No, it's bad there, too."
"How is Kigali tonight?" a reporter asked.
"After this, I'm quitting the paratroops," said Cpl. Alex Camerylnck, as the propeller plane took off with two jeeps and a military truck bouncing in the cargo bay and passengers jiggling in their webbed seats.
"My kids can't take these missions anymore," said Camerlynck, a veteran of the U.N. mission in Somalia. "My 12-year-old especially. It hurts his heart."
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Among the bands of maudring Hutus leaving their carriage strewn about the capital, antipathy to the Belgians was clear.
"They were savages," said a shaken Pascal Guyot, an Agence France-Presse photographer.
Two French photographers who ventured out without armed escort were stopped 100 yards from the airport by Hutus who put machetes to their necks and shouted, "You are Belgian! You are Belgian!"
their lives at a roadblock, soldiers executed a screaming woman a few feet away. Bullets kicked up dirt in Guyot's face. "Now go away," the soldiers said.
As he and his colleague argued for
--money exchange desk. French TV journalists slept on luggage conveyor belts.
The most remarkable feature of Gregoire Kayibanda Airport is a giant mountain gorilla carved in black soapstone in the arrival lounge.
Rwanda is best known outside Africa for Dian Fossey and her gorillas, immortalized in the film "Gilor-las in the Mist." Fossey was slain in 1986. No one really knows who killed her.
After a week of occupation by 450 French soldiers and about 30 journalists, the arrival lounge was strenued with cigarette butts and used ration cans. The toilets were clogged. Half the lights were out to save electricity.
But it was the only safe place in Kigali. Doctors Without Borders, the aid group, set up cots behind the
Each day the shelling got closer to the airport, located on a verdant plateau east of the capital that became a shrinking island of stability in a sea of violent chaos.
On Tuesday, Emonts-Gast, a Belgian representative, noted that rebel forces were firing 120-millimeter mortars across the airport at Rwandan army troops.
On Wednesday, the Rwandan army started shooting back. Shells crisscrossed the airport. Pilots ferrying refugees out to Nairobi took off during fire pauses.
"We don't think they will target the airport, but who knows, eh?" said a nervous Lt. Dirk Borms, a Belgian officer.
On Thursday, they did. As a Canadian C-130 ferried out to the runway, a mortar landed about 200 yards away.
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