NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, September 5, 1995
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Serbs refuse to withdraw weapons
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Defying a NATO threat of air strikes even as Bosnian Serb leaders appeared ready to give in, the Serb commander rejected an ultimatum yesterday to pull heavy weapons out of range of Sarajevo.
Two booms were heard in the Serb stronghold of Pale, southeast of Sarajevo, less than 30 minutes after a NATO deadline to move the weapons passed. Explosions were heard near the Serb-held town of Vogosca.
"All I can tell you is they were not the air strikes" in Vogosca, said U.N. spokesman Chris Gunness. He said U.N. commanders still were deciding whether to order NATO attacks.
In a letter to U.N. commander Lt.
Gen. Bernard Janvier, Gen. Ratko
Mladic said he could not order the
540 weapons withdrawn without a
popular referendum and approval
by the Bosnian Serb parliament.
The letter arrived at U.N. regional
headquarters in Zagreb, Croatia,
just 31/2 hours before an 11 p.m. (5
p.m. EDT) NATO deadline for Serbs
to start withdrawing the weapons
—or face more air raids.
Less than 30 minutes after the deadline, U.N. spokeswoman Myriam Sochacki said, "We have seen some highly unusual movements, which do appear to signify that the Serbs are preparing for a withdrawal."
She said weapons were being assembled at Ilidza, Hadzici, Grbavica and Lukavica — all Sarajevo suburbs or neighborhoods held by Serbs.
It wasn't clear whether the Serbs were withdrawing the weapons or moving them to areas with large civilian populations to confound NATO planes trying to hit them.
In Pale, the Bosnian Serb stronghold southeast of Sarajevo, streets were deserted and NATO jets roared overhead as the ultimatum expired. About five minutes later,
two loud booms were heard, and Serb anti-aircraft batteries nearby began firing. Sirens howled.
Miadic's letter did not sufficiently address the conditions put forth by Janvier, nor the conditions put forth by NATO, said U.N. spokeswoman Leah Melnick.
Bosnian Serb leaders, taking a more conciliatory position, had agreed to ease the siege of Sarajevo, but Mladic's letter made clear that they would have trouble getting their generals to keep promises.
The letter from the political leaders expressed overall compliance with the U.N. demands, U.N. officials said.
Those demands were an immediate halt to attacks on Sarajevo and other U.N. safe areas, a withdrawal of heavy weapons to 121/2 miles from Sarajevo and the complete freedom of movement for aid workers and U.N. personnel.
Madic's letter said the politicians had no right to agree to such
demands.
"No one, not even myself, has the right to order the withdraw," said his letter, addressed to Janvier.
In an apparent concession to avert air strikes, Mladic's letter said the Serbs would halt offensives around Sarajevo. He called for an urgent meeting with Bosnian army commanders to halt hostilities in Bosnia. But U.N. officials dismissed a similar promise by Mladic earlier in the day as too little to prevent renewed attacks.
NATO warplanes and U.N. artillery attacked Serb positions last Wednesday after a Serb shell killed 38 people in a Sarajevo marketplace. The attacks were suspended Friday to give diplomacy a chance.
As the prospects for Serb concessions dimmed, NATO officials said they would resume air strikes soon after 11 p.m. (5 p.m. EDT) unless the Serbs made tangible progress in meeting demands.
First lady to promote women's issues
The Associated Press
BELJING — After sharp criticism about her participation, Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived today for a global conference to make the case that treating women as second-class citizens undercuts economic and social progress around the world.
"It is important that America play a leadership role at this conference," the first lady said in a speech at a refueling stop in Guam.
"Issues of concern to women are crucial not only to the economic and social progress of our nation, but of every other nation," she said.
Albright said no one would be in doubt about the U.S. position.
Albright also fired back at criticism that the conference was pursuing a radical agenda. She said that
was a deliberate misunderstanding of what the conference was about.
Madeleine Albright, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the United States would make clear where it stood on human rights, even though Hillary Clinton was not expected to single out China for its abuses.
"I think, basically, there are people that would prefer to have women do something else," she said.
In her Guam speech, Hillary Clinton said that the 45-member U.S. delegation was comprised of Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives who spoke with one voice, trying to advance the causes of women.
"The main goal of the United States' delegation," she said, "will be to
are right for them.
"There is no preordained choice she said.
The conference will focus world
promote policies around the world including in our own country that improve the status of women, children and family and enable all women to fulfill their God-given potential by making the choices that
rutlary Rodham Clinton First lady
in focus word attention on issues that matter most to women, children and families. Hillary Clinton said, naming education, health care, economic opportunity, freedom from violence and the protection of human rights.
In Beijing, Hillary Clinton was greeted by two Chinese protocol officers and U.S. embassy employees, then went to her hotel. The highway into the city and the downtown streets were empty of cars or
people in the early morning hours following a 13-hour flight from Hawaii and the refueling stop in Guam.
An acrid haze of pollution hung over the airport as Hillary Clinton's Air Force jet landed.
This afternoon, she will address the U.N.-sponsored Fourth World Conference on Women as honorary leader of the American delegation. Representatives of 181 nations are attending the meeting.
U. S. officials fear pressure groups will demonstrate during her visit tomorrow to the Beijing suburb of Huairou to speak to a parallel meeting of unofficial women's groups called the NGO Forum.
Members of Amnesty International, which has condemned the Chinese tactics, scouted out the site where Hillary Clinton is to give a speech.
They will unfurl a 25-square-foot banner for human rights signed by nearly 1,000 women from around the world, said spokesman Casey Kelso.
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