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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 19.1995
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Bosnia invasion questioned
Administration defends decision to Congress inquiry
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Conjuring images of body bags and bereaved families, lawmakers challenged the Clinton administration yesterday to justify sending Americans' sons and daughters to Bosnia to enforce a fragile peace.
President Clinton's top defense and foreign policy officials argued that the proposed 20,000-member peacekeeping mission is essential to prevent the 3 1/2-year-old war from
But many lawmakers remained skeptical.
spreading.
"My criteria in trying to decide on things like this is whether or not I could go to a family of someone, a young person who's come home in a body bag, and explain to that family how this young American has done a great thing for his country," said Rep. Joel Hefley, R-Colo.
"I have to tell you at this point I couldn't do that very well."
In a second day of congressional hearings, Defense Secretary William Perry, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, and Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, portrayed the proposed troop deployment as the only way of staving off a wider war.
"What I would say to a mother in that situation, I would recall that twice before in this century the United States has had to send, not a limited number of troops, but an almost unlimited number of troops to take part in a war that started from Central Europe, once from the very city that we're talking about here now," Christopher said. He was referring to the outbreak of World War I in Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital.
To avoid such a catastrophe, the officials said, the United States must take part in a NATO peacekeeping force that would come in with heavy arms and establish a buffer zone between the warring parties after they have reached a peace agreement.
Facing general skepticism about the mission, the administration officials argued that doing nothing would guarantee that the Bosnian conflict continues. That would increase the risk that it would spread to threaten U.S. allies such as Greece and Turkev.
At that point, Christopher said,
"we would have to put in not 20,000
troops, but maybe 10 times as
many."
Perry said the choice for the U.S. is not between going in or doing nothing but between helping establish peace or going in later at much greater risk.
"We do not have the choice between taking the risk and no risk but between two different qualities of risk," Perry said.
South Korea hunts probable intruder
The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — Dogs combed fields yesterday near the Korean border, and helicopters scanned the skies looking for signs of a North Korean agent who may have slipped into the South.
On Tuesday, South Korean guards shot and killed an armed North Korean spotted swimming across the Imjin River that separates the bitter rivals. Footprints, weapons and cameras found along the riverbank indicated he was not
alone.
A huge manhunt was launched for other North Koreans who may have infiltrated the heavily fortified frontier.
Prime Minister Lee Hong-koo ordered security tightened along the border yesterday and warned that North Korea, desperate over its worsening economic plight, might launch provocations across the border.
Military and police forces set up more than 350 checkpoints to inspect cars and people heading
toward Seoul. Thousands joined in the manhunt, and traffic into the city was backed up as some cars were subject to several different searches.
The Defense Ministry said yesterday that a man in a wetsuit, seen walking toward a guard post on the North Korean side of the river, may have been the same man whose footprints were spotted near the dead North Korean.
The man in the wetsuit was observed late Tuesday afternoon, the ministry said. The North Korean
infiltrator was killed near Paiju, 25 miles north of Seoul, shortly after 2 a.m. Tuesday. He was dressed in a South Korean military uniform.
North Korea has made no comment on the incident.
The intrusion was along the sensitive western corridor, where North Korea invaded its southern capitalist rival in 1950, starting a three-year war.
The two Koreas did not sign a peace treaty at the end of the Korean War and are technically still at war.
Teen band learns to av'oi'd certain song lyrics
The Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. — Three teenagers have learned their lesson: Don't yell "Oi!" in a crowded hall. Someone may think you're anti-Semitic.
The garage-band grunt earned the teens a trip to police headquarters and suspension from school.
Gunning for a $100 first prize in a high school talent show, members of a high school band called Utter
Confusion warmed up the crowd by yelling "Oi!"
Since the music they play is sometimes called "Oi!" — "Oi! Oi! Oi!"
It is a typical chorus — the three 16-year-old members of Utter Confusion started yelling, "Oi!" to get the crowd going.
The crowd yelled "Oj!" back.
Two people in the audience went to school officials, complaining "Oi!" was an anti-Semitic slur. ("Oi!" sounds like "Oy!" — a Yid.
dish expression of dismay.) The 16-year-olds, Len Longo, J.M. Burr and Albert Min, were kicked out of their Hasbrouck Heights school for a week and called to police headquarters.
No charges were filed.
"Personally I still don't have a clear understanding of what the whole thing was about," said Lt. Michael Colaneri, the bias officer who conducted the brief investigation. "I guess you could say it was
'Utter Confusion.'
"Oi is a gritty subcurrent of punk born in British garages in the late 1970s. A right-wing sub-cult of "Oi" includes German skinhead bands whose Doc Marten-booted members sing about bashing blacks, Jews, Turks and leftists.
Min said his band meant nothing offensive. He was angry about the school's reaction to the complaint.
"They just made up their minds we were guilty," he said.
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