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Monday, September 11, 1995
NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Missiles fired at Serbs
The Associated Press
SPLIT, Croatia — A U.S. warship in the Adriatic Sea fired 13 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Bosnian Serb anti-aircraft missile bases in northwestern Bosnia yesterday, NATO and U.S. military officials said.
The effect of the missiles fired by the cruiser USS Normandy wasn't immediately known, said NATO representative Maj. Panagiotis Theodoralidis.
It was the first use of cruise missiles in NATO's campaign to force the Bosnian Serb rebels to pull their artillery and other heavy weapons out of range of Sarajevo and ease their pressure on other U.N. "safe areas" such as Tuzla. Bosnian Serbs fired on the Tuzla airport yesterday.
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The U.S. ship fired Tomahawks at Serb surface-to-air missile sites in the Banja Luka area, said Navy representative Lt. Conrad Chun. Tomahawks were last used in 1993, when the Navy fired 26 missiles at Baghdad, Iraq.
Tomahawk
fired: Inertial
navigation
system
guides it over
Adriatic Sea.
Capt. Jim Mitchell, NATO representative, said cruise missiles were used because of their accuracy and because they can be used in all types of weather. He said their use also reduced the risk to NATO pilots flying over Bosnia. Mitchell said the U.S. ships were attacking Bosnian Serb "air defense assets" in northwest Bosnia.
2 Navigation system: A second system, the Terrain Contour Matching system (TERCOM), takes over. System scans terrain with radar, recording altitudes. Readings are compared to maps stored in missile computer. Adjustments are made if missile strays from course.
Speaking before the missile attack, President Jacques Chirac of France, in an attempt to end the 12-day standoff with the Serbs, said he had demanded the NATO raids stop for several hours to allow for a possible agreement on the withdrawal of Serb guns.
NATO warplanes carried out airstrikes yesterday in other parts of Bosnia, said alliance spokesman Franco Veltri in Naples, Italy. Earlier yesterday, the Belgrade-based news agency Tanjug quoted Bosnian Serb officials as saying NATO warplanes had been in action several times overnight in the wider region of Bania Luka in northwestern Bosnia.
SOURCES: U.S.
Department of
Defense, "The
Seaplane,"
"Seawater,"
"The World's Missile
Systems"
3 Final system: When close to target, the Digital Scene-Matching Area Correlation (DSMAC) system takes over. System doublechecks missile sensors with computer maps.
Since Aug. 30, NATO has carried out attacks against a broad array of
4
Impact:
Missile
strikes
target; can
hit within
30 feet of
target.
Serb targets across Bosnia, including ammunition depots and command and communication centers.
Knight Ridder Tribune
NATO and the United Nations have been trying to force Bosnian Serbs to withdraw their heavy weapons from the 12/12-mile exclusion zone around Sarajevo.
Bosnian Serb commander Gen. Ratko Mladic reportedly said Saturday that he would not pull back the guns that ring the capital. He argued
that it would allow Bosnian government forces to move in.
Following a telephone conversation with Chirac, Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic gave guarantees that his troops would not launch an offensive in the Sarajevo region if the Serbs withdrew their heavy weapons.
Chirac said the NATO airstrikes would continue if the Serbs refuse to bow to demands.
Rebuilding begins after Luis
The Associated Press
PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten — Five days after one of the century's most powerful hurricanes bore down on this Dutch-French Caribbean island, the sounds of pounding hammers and slashing machetes resounded through neighborhoods as people began to rebuild.
The Dutch have closed the border with the French side, imposed a curfew and barred reporters, saying they were tired of negative publicity. An Associated Press team flew to the French side of the island in a chartered helicopter on Saturday and slipped across the border with relief officials.
With 130-mph winds, Luis literally exploded homes, turning corrugated tin roofs into flying missiles. Debris was thrown hundreds of yards up hillsides that turned from green to brown as the storm stripped away vegetation.
It ripped up telephone poles, crumpled satellite dishes like paper and nearly destroyed the island's electricity and water desalination plants, leaving islanders without power or communications and with little water.
Helicopters dangled water-filled bladders from their bellies and
carried in supplies from the Dutch ship Van Amstel, sent with desalination equipment to help in the disaster. Trucks also were distributing water.
Doctors fear people drinking dirty water will contract diarrhea and other diseases.
Red Cross volunteers put up military tents for the 5,000-7,000 homeless, many of whom have been sleeping in the streets.
Thousands of tourists continued their exodus from the island, waiting hours in the hot sun outside Princess Juliana airport terminal to go home or go anywhere.
"Families with children first," said a notice at the Pelican Resort and Casino, advising of flights out.
Damage in St. Martin was not as widespread as in the Dutch part of the island, though half of the terminal at Grand-Case airport was demolished, and planes were tossed into a nearby lagoon.
Red Cross officials and witnesses denied rumors that bodies were found in some of the hundreds of smashed and sunken boats searched Saturday. The Red Cross on Friday reported seven dead in St. Maarten but revised the count to two yesterday: one from a heart attack and the other a victim of flying debris.
Radio Caraïbe Internationale, broadcasting from Guadeloupe, reported 10 dead on the entire Dutch-French island, while Radio France Outre-Mers, the official French overseas radio station, has reported as many as 30 dead.
Despite the hardship, there was a positive attitude in the shantytowns turned into junky yards of mangled iron and plywood by the storm.
Haitians and Dominicans who live there illegally fetched buckets of water from cisterns and relief centers.
"You all right?") they asked reporters in the Caribbean lilt, as if visiting a reporter's home that had been destroyed.
At Simon and Jude's Anglican Episcopal Church, in Philipsburg, the capital, the sound of a hymn flowed through shattered windows onto the street, where workers cleared uprooted palm trees, downed street signs and chunks of buildings.
"We thank you, Lord. Most of all, this morning, we thank you for sparing so many lives in the midst of the hurricane," intoned pastor Keith Gittens. "I do hope we will gain only strength from what has happened to us from Hurricane Luis."
Hurricane Luis pounds St. Maarten
rant of the Great Bay Beach hotel.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — For hours, the wind wailed. Then it rose to a roar and the explosions started.
Then the 40-foot tidal wave crashed into the building.
"In about 10 seconds all these huge glass panes were blown out one at a time just from the pressure of the water," said William Jakobleff, who was on St. Maarten when Hurricane Luis hit. "And then, this wave came."
"It sounded like the end of the world," he said.
Jakobleff, 26, a medical student from Yonkers, N.Y., and about 200 other Americans and Jamaicans had sought safety from Hurricane Luis last week in the third-floor restau-
The group was saved by two accordion-style room dividers that people rushed to close as the wave hit. Twenty-eight men, guests and hotel staff, held the second divider against the pressing water for three hours.
The others helped stack serving counters, tables and chairs to shore up the divider, and scrambled onto a stage.
*Everybody was just petrified for
our lives," Jakobleff said.
After three hours, the men holding the wall up said the hurricane must have moved on because they could feel the pressure subsiding.
Jakobleff arrived in St. Maarten on Sept. 3, two days before Luis hit, to start a new semester at the American University of the Caribbean.
Just last month, the university had evacuated its permanent campus in Montserrat, on the slopes of a volcano that was threatening to erupt for the first time in 20,000 years.
"It just wasn't meant to be," he said of this semester. "T'll try again next semester."
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