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Friday, October 6, 1995
NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Bosnian cease-fire precedes talks
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
A Bosnian cease-fire was announced yesterday in Washington, and Canadian officials said the United Nations planned to pull about 9,000 peacekeepers out of the republic after 3 1/2 years of war.
Speaking at a news conference yesterday, Clinton said Bosnia's warring parties would hold peace talks in the United States beginning Oct. 25 and continuing later in Paris.
In Ottawa, Foreign Minister Andre Ouellet said details of the peacekeepers' withdrawal were to be released late yesterday at the United Nations. He told Parliament that the 850-member Canadian battalion would not be replaced at the end of its six-month tour of duty in November. There are 30,500 peacekeepers in Bosnia.
The cease-fire was forged by Clinton's top envoy in the region, Richard Holbrooke, who spoke
with Bosnia's Muslim-led government yesterday in Sarajevo after meeting Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic on Wednesday in Belgrade.
President Clinton said the ceasefire, to take effect Tuesday, was an important moment in the painful history of the former Yugoslavia.
It is to run for 60 days. All parties agreed to ensure that military commanders would issue orders barring offensive operations. All sniper fire and laying of mines are to cease.
Also, all civilians and prisoners are to be treated humanely, with U.N. peacekeepers looking after prisoners, U.S. officials said.
Ouletel, the Canadian minister,
said Canadian soldiers might return to Bosnia as part of a NATO contingent to enforce a peace agreement.
Briefing reporters after Clinton, National Security Council aide Alexander Vershbow said the United Nations, not NATO, would oversee the cease-fire.
"NATO will go in when there's an actual peace settlement, and not until then," he said.
CONDITIONS
A combined Croatian-Bosnian army offensive beginning last summer forced Serbs to relinquish thousands of square miles of territory.
▶ Orders by all military leaders to bar offensive operations
All sniper fire halted
No further laying of land mines
Full gas, electrical service restored to Saralevo
Free passage established between Sarajevo, Gorazde
ROAD TO PEACE
Oct. 10:
OCT 10:
> Cease-fire for 60 days or until there is a peace settlement
Oct. 25:
Peace talks expected to be held in Washington, D.C., area
Late Oct.:
▶ Negotiations to continue in Paris
Peace talk objectives:
map dividing Bosnia-Herzegovina into two republics; establishing lasting peace in region
Secluded nuns venture outside to see pope
Source: Knight-Ridder Tribune
NEWARK, N.J. — It was a rare excursion indeed: A group of cloistered nuns ventured beyond their monasteries to see Pope John Paul II and were stunned by what they saw of the outside world.
The Associated Press
Helicopters hovered overhead, snipers with rifles patrolled the rooftops. Helmeted police on bicycles and horseback surrounded Sacred Heart Cathedral as more than 100 sisters from the Dominican order exited buses to attend the pontiff's twilight prayer service Wednesday.
What had become of the world since they renounced it?
"The noise inside the cathedral, everything was so different from what we're used to," said Sister Mary Daniel of the monastery of the Holy Rosary in Summit, N.J. She has led a cloistered life for nearly 50 years, going out only to see a dentist.
Besides the great swelling anthems of the cathedral organ, giant-screen televisions blared constantly right next to the Gothic pulpit. A mini-skirted anchorwoman reported at top volume on the pope's every movement, from his
touchdown at Newark International Airport to his arrival at the church.
The sisters at first seemed surprised at the congregation cheering and applauding wildly when the screens showed the pontiff slowly descending from the plane. But by the time he arrived at the cathedral, they enthusiastically joined in the applause.
They were ecstatic about thepews they were assigned; just four rows back from President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton and not far from Bob Hope. And they beamed with pride when one of their own, Dominican Sister Catherine from
the Newark monastery, climbed toward the tall marble pulpit usually reserved for priests to read the scripture selection.
The pope in his brief homily paid them gratitude for their contribution to the church's life and regretted if in the past their role was insufficiently valued.
Since the Vatican announced the pope's trip, nothing has been quite the same inside the monastery, Sister Mary Daniel said.
"All of a sudden, reporters are calling on the telephone for interviews," she said. "We never dreamed of being interviewed by anybody."
North Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins Nobel prize
The Associated Press
"As an Irish Catholic, he has concerned himself with analysis of the violence in Northern Ireland—with the express reservation that he wants to avoid the conventional terms," read the prize citation.
The Swedish Academy that awards the prize lauded the 56-year-old Heaney for poems "of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Poet Seamus Heaney of Ireland, whose lyrical works portray the pain of sectarian strife and the joy of growing up in a Roman Catholic farming family, won the 1995 Nobel Prize in literature yesterday.
"In his opinion, the fact that there has been unwillingness on both sides to speak out—even about manifest injustices—has been of great importance in the explosive development," it said.
Faber and Faber, his London publishers, said Heaney, a perennial candidate for the prize, was traveling in Greece and couldn't be reached.
Heaney, who writes in English and Irish, will receive his award at a ceremony on Dec. 10, with the 1995 laureates for physics, chemistry, economics, peace, and medicine or physiology, to be announced next week.
investing by the Nobel Foundation.
In 1991, Heaney told the Financial Times newspaper that "my language and my sensibility is yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendental dimension."
Heaney, a resident of Dublin, was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University until 1994 and is on a leave of absence from Harvard University, where he has been Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory since 1985.
His early poems, rooted in the farmland of his youth in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland, communicate a strong physical sense of environment with subtlety and economy of words. "Death of a Naturalist" was published in 1966, and "Door into the Dark" came out in 1969.
Heaney started exploring the political turmoil of Northern Ireland in 1975 with "North" and in 1979 with "Field Work."
He denies that his work is known only because of the bloodshed in Northern Ireland.
"There's an attitude that says, 'Were it not for the glamour of the Northern Ireland violence, were they not riding the rails of chic sociology, it would not have occurred,'" he told the Financial Times of his fame.
"It depends on none of that, though sometimes one has to say that there's something in it in terms of the reception of the work," he said.
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