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Wednesday, February 16, 1994
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THE NEWS in brief
SARAJEVO, Bosnia Herzegovina
NATO escalates efforts to demilitarize Sarajevo with threats of strike
But the commander of Bosnian Serb troop ringing Sarajevo talked tough, saying his artillery would not be withdrawn despite a NATO threat to stage air attacks if the heavy weapons remain after midnight Sunday.
That appeared to leave the diplomats and U.N. military commanders only one option to avert bombing; ensuring that the Serb guns are under U.N. control before the deadline. Howitzers and mortars held by the Muslim-led defenders of the city also are supposed to be turned over to U.N. peacekeepers.
The United Nations has a big stake in the effort to demilitarize Sarajevo. If it succeeds in ending the threat of daily shelling and sniping for Sarajevans, the plan could serve as a model for other parts of Bosnia where fighting has raged in the six days since guns fell silent around the capital.
NATO's credibility is equally at stake. With its ultimatum to the Bosnian Serbs Feb. 9, the Western alliance threatened the first offensive action in its 40-year history.
NATO sources said the alliance's military commander, U.S. Gen. George Joulwan, would go to Zagreb, Croatia, this week to discuss developments in Bosnia with U.N. and NATO officers. The sources spoke on condition they not be identified.
So far, only about 40 heavy weapons around Sarajevo have been moved to U.N. monitoring points. Most are from the Serb side, which is thought to have about 500 guns. The outgunned government has far fewer.
Navy's top officer to retire early
WASHINGTON
Adm. Frank Kelso II, the Navy's top uniformed officer, said yesterday he had requested early retirement so the Navy "can finally close this difficult chapter" of the Tailhook sex abuse scandal.
Kelso, at a news conference in his Pentagon office, said he would retire April 30 — two months earlier than scheduled — because he believed that the issues associated with Tailhook were resolved and that top Pentagon leaders had backed his integrity and honesty.
Kelso, speaking to a room filled with reporters and television cameras, said, "As the chief of naval operations, I had a responsibility to lead the Navy through the process of changing the climate which allowed this incident to occur."
Kelso said that he had taken the step on his own and that he had not been asked to resign by Defense Secretary William Perry and Secretary of the Navy John Dalton.
However, Rep. Patricia Schroeder, a Colorado Democrat and a member of the House Armed Services Committee, charged that "the military's bad-faith handling of the Tailhook scandal shows that we are a government of admirals."
Kelso's announcement came a day after the four-star admiral opened a public push
not of laws."
to rebut a Navy judge's finding issued last week that Kelso had known about sexual misdeeds at the 1991 Tailhook aviators' convention and had interfered with the investigation of the sex abuse scandal.
TULSA, Okla
Employee wounds six in shooting
An angry employee walked through a fast-food restaurant and opened fire yesterday, wounding three co-workers and three high school students there for lunch, police said.
The gunman later surrendered to police at gunpoint in the parking lot.
Police identified the gunman as Muriel Marcus Thompson, age 26 or 27, whom a co-worker said had worked about two months at the Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers restaurant. No charges were immediately filed.
"He was real weird. He didn't have any friends. He was a loner," said co-worker Krystal Shaw, who was not in the restaurant during the shooting.
At least three victims were rushed to surgery for gunshot wounds to their abdomens. Two of those were in stable condition. The other's condition was not immediately available. One person was in serious condition, and one was in fair condition. A sixth person was treated and released.
The shooting occurred on a fast-food row in east Tulsa. It was the second time in less than two years for a multiple shooting at a restaurant in Tulsa. In August 1992, four restaurant employees died in a late-night robbery at a fast-food chicken restaurant about four miles from the scene of yesterday's shooting.
GAINESVILLE, F1a
Prisoner pleads guilty in murders
A drifter already serving life in prison entered a surprise plea of guilty yesterday in the 1990 murders of five college students, saying, "There are some things that you just can't run from."
Danny Harold Rolling, 39, of Shreveport, La., now faces a sentencing hearing to determine whether he will be sent to the electric chair.
The plea came just as the court was preparing to pick a jury. Starting tomorrow, a jury will be selected to hear the penalty phase of the trial and recommend the sentence for Rollery.
Relatives of the victims quietly wept during the plea and while the prosecutor gave a chilling account of each of the crimes, which included one decapitation.
They later issued a plea for privacy through Police Detective Sadie Darnell.
"They need this time to process the information," she said.
Rolling's plea covered 11 counts — five of first-degree murder and three each of sexual battery and armed burglary.
"Your honor, I have been running from first one thing and then another all my life. Whether from problems at home or with the law or from myself," Rolling told Circuit Judge Stan R. Morris.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
Don't Miss Your Chance!
Student Union Activities is looking for Coordinators and Committee Members for the 1994-95 school year.
Coordinators/Committees: Feature Films, Fine Arts, Forums, Live Music, Public Relations, Special Events, Spectrum Films, and Recreation & Travel.
Coordinator applications are available now in the SUA office and are due by 5 p.m., Monday, February 28.
Committee Member informational meetings will be held
Tuesday, April 5, in the Southwest Lobby of the Burge Union at 7:30 p.m., and
Wednesday, April 6, in the Frontier Room of the Burge Union at 7:30 p.m.
Applications for committee members will be available only at these informational meetings.
For more information call 864-3477.
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