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Tuesday, April 12, 1994
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NATO struggles with new role
Neutrality is over, but effect on war in Bosnia is unclear By Terence Hunt
WASHINGTON — NATO's bombing of Bosnia Serbs thrusts the United States and its allies across a political frontier, eroding their claims of neutrality and pointing toward a larger role in the two-year-old civil war.
By Terence Hunt The Associated Press
Coming just a week after U.S. military leaders had shunned the use of force in the Muslim enclave of Gorazde, the bombing also served to highlight the debate within the administration about how deeply the United States should get involved.
After months of confusion and hesitation, the clear signal now is that President Clinton is ready to use force in Gorazde and the five other designated safe areas to stop Serb
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nationalists and force them back to the negotiating table.
Secretary of State Warren Christopher said yesterday he would not rule out extending the Sarajevo model of NATO's no-arrillery zone to Gorazde and the other safe havens.
For months, the United States had insisted that it was an honest broker among the warring parties and wasn't taking sides, even though NATO forced the Serbs to lift their siege of Sarajevo and U.S. warplanes shot down Serb planes in a no-fly zone.
Now, having carried out the first bombing in the 45-year history of NATO, it's difficult for the alliance to continue asserting neutrality.
"Once we start using air strikes against one party, it is clear that this whole notion of neutrality is a fiction, has been a fiction for some time," said Andrew Bacevich, head of the For
eign Policy Institute of the Paul H.
Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
The stated reason for the bombings was to protect U.N. personnel in Gorazde endangered by Serb shelling.
There are various schools of thought about the impact of the bombing. The optimistic assessment is that the Serbs will back down under the threat of force as they have in the past. The pessimistic view is that it will harden their resolve and prompt them to take retaliatory action against N.F. forces.
Another fear is that the Muslims, encouraged by NATO's attack, will launch new counteroffensives against the Serbs, deepening the war.
"My bet is that the Serbs won't call it off, that they'll raise us, and they'll challenge us to move on to the next step," Bacevich said. "I wonder whether we have really thought through what that next step is and beyond."
Blood flows and chaos reigns in Rwanda
The Associated Press
BUTARE, Rwanda — Chaos, despair and blood flowed through this small African country for a fifth day yesterday. The air was heavy with the stench of thousands of corpses and the smoke from villages burned by marauders.
Hundreds of foreigners have fled since the ethnic-based violence first gripped Rwanda. Some foreign aid workers had elected to stay, but even some of the most dedicated were packing their bags yesterday and hoping to find a way to escape.
In Butare, Rwanda's second largest city, refugees told of gangs of men roaming the countryside, setting fire to villages and hacking the residents to death with machetes.
In Kigali, Rwanda's capital 50 miles north of Butare, automatic weapons fire in the streets played a counterpoint to the roar of shells on the city's outskirts. Armed men, many of them clearly drunk, manned checkpoints
and went house-to-house looking for victims.
"From the roof of the French school, while evacuees were being loaded on trucks, you could look across a valley and see people, especially women, being hauled out of houses and being beaten to death on the road," Mark Huband, a reporter for the London Guardian, said from Kigali.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said yesterday it had pulled all but one of its foreign staffers out of the country. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees also has withdrawn its workers.
The current bloodshed is an especially grisly episode in the feud between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups. The feud has wracked Rwanda and neighboring Burundi for decades.
Fighting between the army and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front broke out after the deaths in a plane crash Wednesday of the presidents of
Rwanda and Burundi. The two were returning from a summit in Tanzania aimed at finding an end to the Hutu-Tuti animosity. The Rwandan government said the plane was shot down. This has not been confirmed.
In the rampage that followed, people were dragged from their homes and shot to death or hacked to pieces. The acting prime minister was slain. Aid workers, priests and nuns were targeted.
The U.N.'s 1,900-man mission in Rwanda was monitoring a cease-fire negotiated last August. But efforts toward forging such a government repeatedly failed.
U. S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher said all of the 250 Americans, mostly missionaries and aid workers, who wanted to leave Rwanda had been evacuated by late Sunday.
The United Nations has been trying to broker a cease-fire between the rebels and the army, but the rebels yesterday rejected the efforts.
ALL ROADS LEAD HOME
ATTENTION 1994
GRADUATES
YOU ARE ALWAYS CLOSE TO KU AS A MEMBER OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Expect your Alumni Handbook soon. Use it as a reference now and after Commencement.
Turn in your application for degree at 121 Strong Hall.
Order your cap and gown (details in your Commencement packet).
Meet alumni staff on Wescoe Beach April 18 and 19.
Attend the Class of '94 Cookout sponsored by Student Alumni Association April 20 (RSVP form in Commencement packet).
Tour the Alumni Association April 26, 27 or 28. Call 864-4760 for details.
Study (yeah, yeah).
Pay your library and parking fines.
Give the Alumni Place post-Commencement address and job info. Invite your family and friends to
Invite your family and friends to Commencement (purchase announcements at the Kansas Union Bookstore, 864-4640).
Sign up for your complimentary Learned
Club membership at the Alumni Center.
Job hunt. Call the University Placement Center at 864-3624.
Attend Commencement Breakfast May 15 (RSVP form in Commencement packet).
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