UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, August 31. 1995
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NATO strikes back against Serbs
The Associated Press
Knight.Dirndel Tribute
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
— Dozens of warplanes from NATO countries unleashed bombs on Serb targets around Sarajevo Wednesday in the biggest assault in the alliance's history. Bosnian and Western leaders hoped the open-ended strike would finally force the rebels to make peace.
A French Mirage 2000C fighter was shot down by Serb air defenses near the Serb stronghold, Pale, the French Defense Ministry said, confirming the only reported allied loss.
It said the pilot ejected. A U.S. administration official in Washington said two parachutes floated down after the plane was hit, and that two airmen apparently survived.
The NATO assault, backed by the heavy guns of the U.N. rapid reaction force, was in retaliation for Serb shelling of a Sarajevo market that killed 37 people Monday. NATO chief Wilfry Claes said the offensive would continue and possibly grow more severe unless the Serbs were brought to heel.
More than 60 aircraft from several NATO countries flew from bases in Italy and the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt to carry out the attack, said MaJ. Panagiotis Theodorakidis, a NATO snokerman in Naples, Italy.
Between the nighttime and daytime raids, the multinational rapid reaction force, positioned on Mount Igman, southwest of the city, fired more than 600 shells on Serb positions surrounding the Bosnian capital, the United Nations said.
Lt. Gen. Bernard Janvier, commander of U.N. troops in former Yugoslavia, said the air raids and artillery barrages were able to "seriously reduce the (Serb) artillery around Sarajevo."
NATO targets included air defense radar and communication sites, ammunition depots and command posts throughout
Bosnia, said Lt. Col. Chris Vernon, a U.N. spokesman. U.N. and NATO officials said the air strikes heavily damaged many targets, including a munitions factory and two ammunition dumps.
Later assessments, described by Pentagon officials as based on incomplete information, were less confident. One U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there was a "medium" level of bomb damage; another official advised against characterizing the damage as overwhelming.
Five waves of aircraft streaked through the skies over Sarajevo, striking first in the dead of night.
just after 2 a.m. (8 p.m. Tuesday EDT).
U. N. sources said the planes also targeted Bosnian Serb air defenses near the towns of Mostar in the west, Gorazde in the east, and Tuzla to the north, but there was no immediate NATO confirmation.
Spain said two high-ranking Spanish military officers and a Spanish envoy died near Sarajevo, but that it was not clear if they were killed by NATO bombs. A mission spokesman said in Brussels, Belgium, that the Spaniards' driver and interpreter also died. One was believed to be Irish, the
There were no other reports of casualties.
other Dutch, European Union officials said.
The overnight raids left bright flashes of light across the sky. The spectacle awoke Sarajevans, and many were hanging out their windows to watch the assault on their Serb foes.
"I feel good, oh, yes!" declared 85-year-old Musata Satic, leaning from her balcony for a better view. "I feel good, probably for the first time in this war. It looks like they are skimming them alive!"
NATO officials refused to specify which countries were involved in the raids, but officials in Washington said 50 U.S. aircraft participated in the first strike. French, British and Dutch planes also took part.
On their fifth run, planes struck in late afternoon near the Bosnian Serb headquarters in Pale, southeast of Sarajevo. An army barracks was hit, and sources there said a major Bosnian Serb air defense radar complex in nearby Mount Jahorina had also been damaged.
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was thought to have been in Serbia, called the NATO strikes "a moral disaster for the Western world and for the U.N." because they had taken a side in a civil war.
"Our lines are holding firmly despite all this, and because of it," he declared, "our lines will hold even firmer and we'll win in the end."
He indicated he might pull out of the latest U.S. peace initiative. "I think those bombs can destroy the peace process, too," Karadzic said.
The president of Bosnia's Muslim-led government, Aljiza Izebetovic, was in Paris, where he had just concluded two days of peace talks with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke.
He welcomed the NATO air strikes as a long-awaited sign that Bosnia is "moving toward peace."
Florida school ranks first in value, again
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — For a third year running, tiny New College of the University of South Florida ranks as the nation's best college value, according to a Money magazine survey released Wednesday.
Rice University, the Texas school that boasts the 10th largest endowment in the nation, ranks as No. 2 for the third straight year, Money reports in its special issue, "Money Guide: Your Best College Buys Now."
A member of the University of South Florida system, New College charges Floridians just $2,066 in annual tuition.
Northeast Missouri State University is third, followed by New Jersey's Trenton State College and the California Institute of Technology at No. 5.
Despite heat and humidity, which the glossy financial monthly says has shocked many of its 560 students, the Sarasota university gets overall high marks in Money's list of the top 100 schools.
Rounding out the top 10 are: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; State University of New York at Binghamton; Georgia's Spelman College, University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana; and State University of New York at Albany as No. 10.
High academic standards and its attractive bayside campus aside, the liberal arts college is affordable. Money says. Tuition increased just $7 this year for out-state freshmen to $7,950, compared with an average tuition increase of 6.5 percent nationwide.
"Seven of Money's 10 best college values are public schools, up from six a year ago," the magazine says.
"This is great news for students who live in the same states as these schools," Money says, "because their families will pay bargain instate rates that are even lower than the fees for out-of-state students
The top 10 values among colleges in the nation, according to a study by Money magazine.
1. New College of the University of South Florida
2. Rice University / Houston
3. Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, Mo.
4. Trenton State College / Trenton, N.J.
5. California Institute of Technology Pasadena, Cal.
6. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
7. State University of New York at Binghamton
8. Spelman College / Atlanta
9. University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana
10. State University of New York at Albany
on which our rankings are based."
Money determines the ranking by looking at 16 measures of educational quality — including entrance exam results, faculty deployment and four-year graduation rates — and comparing them with tuition and fees.
The magazine says its ranking excludes colleges with strong religious requirements.
Besides the top 10, some big names appear lower down on Money's list. Harvard University ranks 43rd, Yale University is 46th and Columbia University is 97th.
No. 100 is Pomona College in Californi a.