UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 13, 1996
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Clinton's Iraq policy criticized
Republicans say they've been left out of process
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — As U.S. warplanes flew to the Persian Gulf, Republican criticism of President Clinton's Iraq policy tore away the appearance of national unity customarily adopted during international crises.
James A. Baker III, secretary of state during the 1991 war against Iraq that left Saddam Hussein in power, told Congress yesterday the United States allowed its anti-Iraq coalition to break up and should have hit Hussein harder. Sen. William Cohen, said President Clinton has one eye on Iraq, the other on election day.
And in the House, Republican leaders, insisting the administration has left them in the dark, continued to block consideration of a Senate-passed resolution supporting U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf.
1rep. Curt Weldon, said the correct vote facing the House was not on the Senate resolution but on whether the president should be supported in his actions with U.S.
troops.
troops. The harsh words came as the Clinton administration girded for what appeared to be harsh action against Iraq. Eight radar-evading F-117A stealth fighter-bombers were being readied yesterday at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., for deployment to the Persian Gulf. Four B-52 bombers, most likely armed with cruise missiles, were headed to the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, a jumping-off point for a possible raid on Iraq.
The United States will take all necessary and appropriate actions to defend its forces in the Middle East from any challenge posed by Hussein, Defense Secretary William Perry warned.
On Capitol Hill, while attacking Clinton's policy, Republicans defended themselves against charges of disloyalty for criticizing the president during a foreign crisis.
"It used to be that foreign and security policy stopped at the water's edge. Unfortunately that's not the case," Baker said, paraphrasing the famous dictum uttered in 1948 by Sen. Arthur Vandenberg that politics should stop at the water's edge. "The idea that somehow Republicans should not feel free to speak their minds is a canard that just won't wash."
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Armed Services Committee, Baker cited failed leadership as a reason behind Hussein's apparent recovery of authority in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. He praised last week's cruise missile attack on targets in southern Iraq but said they should have been more comprehensive.
Sen. John McCain cited examples of Democratic criticism of President Bush's foreign policy and said Republicans have felt an obligation
to talk to the efficacy of this operation. McCain was particularly critical of White House declarations of victory after last week's strike.
Democrats sought to restrain their colleagues.
"I don't know how you can sit in the Oval Office and call the cruise missile strike a success when it clearly was not a success, and not expect a response from this side of the aisle." McCain said.
"The discussion here might lead Saddam Hussein to believe that he had succeeded in dividing the opposition," said Sen. Joseph Lieberman.
Cohen said Republicans aren't the only ones being political.
ben. John Glenn said administration actions in Iraq, far from constituting a failure of leadership, represent a continuation of the policy established under the Bush administration.
I'm not one to be critical here, but clearly President Clinton is concerned about the political factors involved on the eve of an election," Cohen said. "He's well ahead in the polls. He does not want to face the situation where we have blindfolded Americans being paraded around as President Carter faced with Iran. He does not want to see American pilots shot down and their bodies dragged through the streets of Baghdad."
Middle East peace talks to be in Cairo
Meeting to allow Israel to join ties
The Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt will hold a regional economic summit in November despite threats to cancel it to force Israel into concessions.
President Hosni Mubarak said yes.
terday that the conference will proceed as planned, but urged Israel to end the stalemate in negotiations with the Palestinians, Lebanon and Syria as a sign of good will.
"We are determined to have the meeting held here because we and the United States have vested interests in convening it." Mubarak said after a meeting with senior military and security advisers.
Egypt had sought to pressure
Israel by canceling the Middle East and North Africa Economic Conference, scheduled to take place Nov. 12 to 14 in Cairo. The conference is considered important to the peace process because it will help integrate Israel into the region's economy.
But in recent months, Mubarak and other Egyptian officials warned that without progress in peace talks, they would be hard-pressed to
justify rewarding Israel with better ties.
dies.
"What is required from both Israel and the United States is to help us to make the conference a success, otherwise the meeting will fail," said Mubarak, long a mediator in the peace talks.
Egyptian opposition newspapers reported Wednesday that the United States had put intense pressure on Egypt to hold the summit.
Serb relief doesn't mean Bosnian unity
People want state split from Muslims in spite of freedom
The Associated Press
"We cannot accept ethnic mixture any longer," said Momcilo Krajinsk, the Serbs' principal public face. "We do not hate Muslims and Croats any more than they hate us."
PALE, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian Serbs proceeding to the polls and savoring the idea of freedom in a Serb sphere for the first time in 600 years seem far from ready to unite with Muslims and Croats, old foes they fought to a bloody standstill.
From medieval mountain hamlets to traffic-choked city streets, the message is the same: Push the limited autonomy they gained at Dayton until the Republika Srpska is a fully independent state.
persistentiae in perpetuity.
According to the peace accord, Spska will share equal status with a Muslim-Croat federation within Bosnia-Herzegovina, under a joint presidency and parliament. However, anything could happen.
In the Serbs' tree-shaded urban stronghold of Banja Luka, poet-politician Borivoj Sendic brought laughter to a ruling party rally with wordplay that explained the stealthy strategy.
He said U.S. negotiator Richard Holbrooke's terms ratified the Serbs' territorial gains and autonomous status, and Serbs now must follow that logic and find loopholes to break away completely.
"Let us Holbrooke them," Sendic said, as other leaders of the Serb Democratic Party clapped behind him. "Let us Clinton them. Let us Dayton them."
Biljana Plavski, who is expected to be confirmed in Saturday's elections as president of Republika Srpska, was more blunt: "Why not just say it? Our final goal is a united Serb state in the Balkans."
Thousands of Bosnian Serbs gathered yesterday at the ruling party's final campaign rally in Pale, southeast of Sarajevo.
Party flags and banners fluttered as the crowd cheered party leaders. A parade of foreign supporters also addressed the crowd to say the party had saved the Serb people.
Just nine miles away in Sarajevo, the ruling Muslim party also held its final rally with green-and-white party flags, banners and portraits of party leaders dotting the crowd at the main soccer stadium.
Among the thousands of soldiers present were some Islamic fighters dressed in long, white chadors and green bandannas. They carried black flags with Arabic insignia.
Guide ranks Florida State No.1 party school
The Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Go,
Seminoles! Florida State University is No. 1 in partying.
FSU was named the top-ranked party school nationwide in the latest Princeton Review's Advantage Guide to the Best 310 Colleges.
It dethroned three-time champion University of Rhode Island, which banned alcohol on campus last year. George Washington University in Washington, D.C., was No. 2 and archival University of Florida came in third.
"Oh, that's good," said Tom Guillot, a 22-year-old junior at FSU. "We beat 'em again. We beat 'em in everything."
Florida State was ranked fourth in partying in the guide's first edition in 1993, and then came in second three years in a row behind Rhode Island. This is the
first year it is in first place.
Rounding out the top 10 party schools:
4. University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara
5 Emerson College, Boston
6. University of Wisconsin, Madison
7. St. Mary's College, St. Mary's City, Md
8. State University of New York, Albany
9. Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y.
10. University of Vermont, Bennington
The Princeton Review, the New Jersey-based company that provides test preparation classes and is not affiliated with Princeton University, publishes the annual guide to colleges for high school seniors. Its party-school ranking was based on a survey of 56,000 students at the 310 colleges listed.
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