Monday, October 9, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 7
Nation/World
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Government works against resistance
New president's regime must peacefully include Milosevic supporters
The Associated Press
BELGRade, Yugoslavia — Fresh from engineering the ouster of Slobodan Milosevic, backers of President Vojislav Kostunica wrestled yesterday with a new daunting task — creating a government free of powerful Milosevic allies without alienating them.
Even though Kostunica's authority was cemented by his inauguration as Yugoslav president Saturday, potential resistance to him remained on two levels: from Milosevic appointee still in place in federal ministries and from the powerful government of the Serbian republic.
Serbia, one of two Yugoslav republics, makes up 90 percent of Yugoslavia's population of 10 million. Its pro-Milosevic president — who by law has more powers than Kostunica — controls about 100,000 police, and indirectly much of Serbia's economy.
In addition, the Yugoslav army, whose top leadership switched loyalties to Kostunica on Friday, obliquely criticized the unrest that helped bring him
to power.
The statement issued after a meeting between Kostunica and army leadership yesterday indicated that the military was abandoning the role of complete subservience that it played under Milosevic for the more traditional role of a pillar upholding law and order in Yugoslavia.
How to keep the state running on near-empty coffers was another problem — Yugoslavia is bankrupt after a decade of stifling international anti-Miloosevic sanctions and widespread corruption.
A top economist said to become the new central bank governor said yesterday a further blow to the country's economy was narrowly averted in the dying days of the Milosevic regime.
Mladan Dinkic, who heads the team of Kostunica's economic advisers, told a televised phone-in program that backers of the new
Milosevic: might face charges from state prosecutors
president turned off the central bank's computer system to prevent raids on state coffers by Milosevic cronies.
Dinkic said Milosevic's associates tried to take away at least $22.5 million electronically and in cash.
Earlier, Dinkic demanded that Milosevic be prosecuted for vote-rigging in the controversial Sept. 24 election.
"We now expect state prosecutors to bring charges against Slobodan Milosevic." Dinkic said.
against Slobodan Mihosevic, Dhikie said.
A human rights group in Yugoslavia, the Humanitarian Law Fund, also demanded punishment for the ousted autocrat, issuing long lists of his alleged misdeeds.
Yugoslavia suffered a decade of international sanctions under Milosevic meant to punish him for starting four Balkan wars that were accompanied by a string of atrocities. The sanctions — and rampant corruption ascribed to Milosevic cronies — have left the country bankrupt.
Milosevic himself has vowed to try to stage a comeback and said he would remain in Yugoslavia as a political force. Kostunica has refused to extradite Milosevic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, which indicted him last year for atrocities committed by his forces in Kosovo.
Kostunica scored a stunning upset over Milosevic in the presidential election. The strongman's attempt to deny Kostunica's victory sparked a national uprising, and Milosevic conceded defeat on Friday.
Kostunica, a 56-year-old legal scholar, has promised to return Yugoslavia to "the family of democratic nations," secure a lasting peace and end economic devastation that marked the 13 years of Milosevic's rule.
Plan to infect cats in HIV study sparks outrage
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A researcher's plan to infect 120 cats with the feline version of HIV and then inject them with methamphetamine to study the effects has outraged animal rights activists and is raising questions about the need for the federally funded study.
Ohio State University professor Michael Podell received a $355,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, for the first year of what he expects to be a five-year study costing $1.68 million.
"We want to understand more about HIV and drug abuse in people," said Podell, associate professor of veterinary clinical sciences. "One of the ways to do that is to develop an animal model that has similar characteristics."
Podell also is interested in the drug's effect on the nervous system. Methamphetamine speeds up neurological degeneration — something Podell said
was becoming more of a problem because people with AIDS are living longer because of improved drug treatments.
Podell said feline immunodeficiency virus and human immunodeficiency virus had similar effects on the immune and neurological systems of their respective hosts. Cats' response to methamphetamine also is similar to the way people respond.
Peter Wood, a spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, attacked the study as cruel, wasteful and bizarre. He argued that HIV and FIV aren't similar enough for the research to transfer to humans and that the social pressures that would lead a person to take methamphetamine can't be replicated with cats.
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know meth use will have an adverse effect on your body so the disease will be promoted more vigorously," he said. "Our limited resources would be better spent on teaching people how to avoid contracting HIV or on
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drug prevention.
Podell defended the study and said the National Institutes of Health had a set amount of money earmarked for AIDS research.
"The NIH has predetermined how to proportion their funds into basic science, clinical science and prevention programs," he said. "The NIH has a very large budget for drug abuse prevention. There's already a tremendous amount of funding for that and it's not a situation where they'd take these funds and use them for a prevention program."
Clinton reflects, voices regrets about tenure
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Reflecting on nearly eight years in office, President Clinton said his tenure began with grand ideas, such as health care reform, that fell victim to political naivete, and his presidency would end with a graceful step to the sidelines in January.
"I don't think the new president, whoever it is, will have problems with me acting like I wished I were still president," Clinton said in the New Yorker magazine released yesterday.
If given a second chance, Clinton told political writer Joe Klein, he would do some things differently, from health care reform and U.S. involvement in Somalia to his personal life and Whitewater.
Of the health care effort led by Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1983, he said his administration's agenda was too crowded with other priorities such as
Clinton: Seid the new president wouldn't have problems with him wishing he was still president
an economic package for the United States.
"I was trying to get as much done as quickly as I could and also trying to learn the job, learn how to get the White House functioning," he said.
Another early challenge was Somalia. Clinton said his decision to try to capture warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid was based on the advice of Gen. Colin Powell, who retired as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff soon after the operation began. Hundreds of Somalis and 18 U.S. soldiers were killed.
He said his greatest achievements were dealing with impeachment and the government shutdowns in 1995 and 1996.
Clinton described 1998, the year of his impeachment and the Monica Lewinsky scandal, as both painful and pleasant.
"I had made a terrible personal mistake," he said. But the year also offered healthy economic indicators convincing Clinton his policies of deficit reduction, welfare reform and support for free trade were going well.
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