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Wednesday, October 11, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Conditions ripe for cease-fire in Sarajevo
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Russian gas began trickling into Sarajevo today and electricity lighted up part of the city, prompting the United Nations to declare that conditions were set for a delayed cease-fire to begin.
The truce, broken by the United States, had been scheduled to begin one minute after midnight Monday. But full restoration of utilities was a condition for its implementation, and late Monday the government postponed the cease-fire because that provision wasn't met.
But by yesterday, U.N. officials declared that the conditions were met for
the cease-fire to take one minute
after midnight (7:01 p.m. EDT yesterday).
"Utilities are restored," U.N. spokeswoman Myriam Sochacki said.
It was up to the Bosnian government to agree, she said. There was no immediate announcement from the government confirming it would start the cease-fire. But Hasan Muratovic, Bosnian government minister for relations with the United Nations, said earlier if the United Nations declared conditions had been met, Bosnia would proclaim full implementation and the Bosnian army would receive an order for total cease-fire.
The decision to postpone the truce followed two days of deadly shelling that
The Bosnian government, its Croat allies and the rebel Serbs pledged to respect the cease-fire once it takes effect. But heavy fighting continued early yesterday, and more than 1,000 non-Serbs were expelled from Serb-held territory as both sides battled for land and bargaining power in anticipation of a truce.
provoked regaliatory NATO airstrikes.
The Serbs were reportedly close to losing the town of konjic Grad, which controls a key road to the northern Serb stronghold of Banja Luka. Serbs threatened to shell cities across the border in Croatia if combined Croat and government forces did not stop shelling the deserted town.
Croatian media reported that two people were killed and dozens were wounded in Serb cross-border shelling of Croatian towns on Monday.
The United Nations stopped the gas supply from Russia over the summer because the Bosnian Serbs had been cutting off gas to Sarajevo. U.N. officials agreed a few weeks ago to restore the gas because of the impending cold, but Russia was reluctant to start delivering it again because the former Yugoslav republics owe it $100 million for gas used over the past 3/2 years.
Russia relented last week because Bosnia and Serbia promised to pay their debts and because the United Nations
was pressuring Moscow to create conditions that would permit the cease-fire to go ahead.
The warring sides, meanwhite, continued to battle.
Combined government and Croat troops appeared to have surrounded Serb-held Mrkonjic Grad in the north-west, said Sochacki, the U.N. spokeswoman. Reporters taken there from the Serb stronghold of Banja Luka, 25 miles to the north, said heavy shelling destroyed much of the deserted town.
Croatian military sources claimed regular Croatian soldiers and Bosnian Croat militias entered the town this afternoon. There was no independent confirmation.
Yet another hurricane menacing Gulf
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Roxanne became a hurricane yesterday and headed for the Yucatan Peninsula with wind blowing at a steady 105 mph, threatening Mexico with its second natural disaster in as many days.
A powerful earthquake shook Mexico's Pacific Coast on Monday, killing at least 30. Roxanne menaced the same area where Hurricane Opal roared ashore a week ago, killing at least 10 people.
"We've got the real thing down there," hurricane specialist Max Mayfield said yesterday from the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
"This is a healthy hurricane, and I think it will continue to strengthen even before it gets to the Yucatan," he said. The hurricane's strongest wind was expected to reach the northeast Yucatan coast around midnight.
Roxanne — the 17th named storm of the busy 1995 Atlantic hurricane season — formed Monday south of the Cayman Islands, near where Opal was born, and became a hurricane early yesterday.
The record for tropical storms and hurricanes in a season is 21, set in 1933.
At 11 a.m. EDT, Roxanne was centered about 115 miles southeast of Cozumel, Mexico. The hurricane was traveling northwest about 8 mph and its top sustained wind speed had increased to 105 mph, making it a strong Category 2 storm on a scale that peaks at five. Forecasters said it could strengthen more before making landfall.
A hurricane warning was issued for the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula from Chetumal to Progreso. Civil authorities declared an emergency alert, warning skippers of fishing boats to return to port, the official Notimex news agency said.
"Most of the resorts there, Cancun, Cozumel, they're built quite well and know they have a hurricane problem," Mayfield said. "They've gone through this drill before."
Elsewhere, all watches and warnings for the Cayman Islands and western Cuba were discontinued as of yesterday, but those areas were told to expect as much as five to 10 inches of rain.
On Monday, people in the Florida Keys had been urged to monitor Roxanne, but forecasters shifted that caution to Texas early yesterday.
1995 hurricane season
Hurricane Roxanne's arrival marks the second most active tropical storm and hurricane season since 1933. This year has seen 10 hurricanes and seven tropical storms so far:
"The Keys are off the hook,"
Mayfield said. "It looks like most of the computer models take it westward across the Yucatan into mainland Mexico. Some say
it may turn in the general vicinity of south Texas."
The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.
The Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. — Despite manufacturers' best claims, disposable contact lenses may be a breeding ground for thousands of serious eye infections each year, researchers say.
Overnight use of contact lenses has been associated with an increased risk of infections, the worst of which can lead to blindness.
Disposable lenses were introduced with the idea that they would reduce opportunities for bacterial contamination, as they wouldn't be handled as much and wouldn't be stored in solutions that could harbor germs.
"That idea was simple, easy and wrong," said H. Dwight Cavanagh, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Speaking at a seminar sponsored by Research to Prevent Blindness, a voluntary organization that supports research, Cavanagh said. "The implication now in mass marketing of disposable lenses is that these things are safe. That's not true."
He stressed that the risk of infections with any contact lens is small.
Those who wear their lenses
overnight have a risk of eye infection 10 to 15 times higher than users who insert and remove their lenses daily, he said.
That contradicts the belief that the problem is that patients aren't using their lenses properly, said Oliver Schein, an ophthalmologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Tim Comstock of Bausch & Lomb, one of the nation's largest manufacturers of contact lenses, said the company had not made any special claims for the safety of disposable lenses other than to say that they are cleaner and fresher than reusable lenses.
Comstock, the manager of Bausch and Lomb's research clinic in Rochester, N.Y., agreed that overnight use is associated with an increased risk of infection.
Cavanagh's most recent research has shown that the increased risk of infection occurs because extended-wear soft contact lenses do not allow enough oxygen to reach the surface of the cornea.
That damages the surface of the cornea, giving bacteria an opportunity to invade, he said.
Experimental soft contact lenses that allow more oxygen to penetrate to the cornea may be available next year, Cavanagh said.
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