UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, September 27, 1994
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Bosnia embargo under fire
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS—Bosnian leaders have asked the United States to reconsider any push for early lifting of the U.N. arms embargo because it could work against them in their conflict with the Serbs, U.S. Ambassador Madeleine Albright said yesterday.
Other U.S. officials told The Associated Press that President Clinton would propose a resolution on Oct. 15, as promised to Congress, but they said it may call for a delay in lifting the weapons ban or ask that it be conditioned on the Bosnian-Serbs' actions in the former Yugoslav republic.
In some parts of the Bosnian government there is growing concern that immediate lifting of the embargo "may not be the wisest idea," said a senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity. He said some Bosnian leaders feared the Serbs might respond with a major offensive.
Clinton devoted only 90 words to Bosnia in his U.N. address yesterday, and what may be most significant was what he did not say: whether he intends to honor his pledge to provide the Muslim-led government with weapons.
Albright, in a news conference afterward, said there were consequences to the Bosnians if the embargo were lifted.
At the same time, Albright acknowledged Clinton was having difficulty persuading Russia to support a lifting of the embargo.
However, she denounced as inaccurate various newspaper accounts that suggested Clinton was searching for a way out of his promise to Congress to propose a resolution to the U.N. Security Council by Oct. 15.
But the ambassador said Russia was trying to persuade Bosnian-Serbs to accept a proposal to end the war. It would require the Serbs to relinquish about one-third of the territory they have captured.
Administration officials said the Bosnians were apprehensive that an influx of weapons, even to their forces, might escalate the conflict in the former Yugoslav republic.
Serbs penetrate U.N. weapons depot
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Underscoring their contempt for the United Nations, Serbs entered a U.N. weapons compound and staged "training exercises" with anti-aircraft guns stored there, officials said yesterday.
"Obviously the situation is tense," Lt. Col. Tim Spicer, a U.N. military spokesman in Sarajevo, said of the Bosnian Serb action Sunday at a weapons depot in Lukavica. "We believe this is a direct result of the airstrike."
NATO jets strafed and bombed a Serb tank near Sarajevo Thursday in retaliation for Serb attacks on French peacekeepers. It was the fourth NATO strike on Serb ground positions this year.
But Bosnian Serbs, hobbled by newly tightened U.N. sanctions for
rejecting a peace plan, seem only to have dug their heels in deeper.
They increased the pressure on HIU.
They increased the pressure on U.N. peacekeepers yesterday by: --denying permission for U.N. helicopter flights or convoys.
—announcing a new requirement that U.N. military vehicles get clearance three days in advance of any movements through Serb-held territory.
—making a veiled threat to shoot at any U.N. planes landing at the airport, dealing a setback to hopes of resuming Sarajevo's vital aid airlift.
Spicer said "a strong protest" was lodged with Bosnian Serbs after they warned Sunday that they could no longer guarantee safety of planes using the Sarajevo airport. A similar threat prompted Pope John Paul II to cancel a planned pilgrimage to Sarajevo this month.
Killer plague spreads through India
SURAT, India — Authorities listed no plague deaths in this industrial city yesterday for the first time in six days, but they reported a disturbing development: an outbreak of plague in a neighboring state.
The Associated Press
Since pneumonic plague was first reported in Surat Sept. 20, at least 51 people have died, more than 450 have been hospitalized and an estimated 400,000 have fled the city. Unofficial death tolls run as high as 300.
Soldiers searched shantytowns for more plague victims and guarded Surat's main hospital to stop infections patients from fleeing. Officials said 56 new plague cases were recorded in the city.
South of Surat, officials in Maharashtra state reported 31 cases of bubonic plague — a less deadly form of the disease that ravaged 14th century Europe and Asia and was known as "the Black Death."
Black Death
Outbreaks of Pneumonic plague, a strain of Bubonic plague, have a 90 percent mortality rate if untreated. A look at the disease:
U.N. council to study Rwandan massacre
SOURCE: Dorland's illustrated Medical Dictionary
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Medical Annual; research by BRENA SINK, PMK
The Associated Press
RWANDA — The Tutsi-installed government accused the U.N. relief agency yesterday of trying to discourage more than 2 million civil war refugees from returning home.
President Pasteur Bizimungu said the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees failed to provide proof supporting its allegations last week that Tutsi troops massacred Hutu refugees who came back.
Sylvanla Foa, spokeswoman at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva, disputed Bizimungu's charges about the agency's massacre report last week
"Our mandate at UNHCR is to protect refugees," she said. "This study was done to look at mechanisms by which we could speed up the repatriation process. In the course of this we found reason for concern. Our first responsibility is to the refugees and for this reason we brought the findings of this study to the attention of the Rwandan government."
Bizimungu said the UNHCR was trying to derail debate in the U.N. Security Council on how to disarm Hutu
militiamen and former soldiers so it could "keep themselves in jobs."
"There is manipulation somewhere.
... The UNHCR is not neutral. It is playing a negative role. We challenge them once again to show us evidence of bodies," he said.
Bizimungu said he led a government delegation to massacre sites blamed on government troops by the UNHCR, but found only mass graves of Rwandans killed by Hutu militias in April. He said UNHCR officials refused to cooperate in the government's investigation.
African leaders in on-air scuffle
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The African National Congress called yesterday for an investigation of the Zulu national leader after he and his bodyguards stormed a television studio and scuffed on-air with a political rival.
Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi's heavy-handed attempt to silence a political opponent was the latest twist in his power struggle with the Zulu king — and evidence of tensions that could explode into renewed widespread fighting.
The scuffle at the South African Broadcasting Corporation's studios in KwaZulu-Natal was broadcast live, and viewers saw a handgun in the hands of one Buthelezi's bodyguards. It was unclear who the gun belonged to, and no shots were fired.
Buthelezi, head of the Inkatha Freedom Party, said Prince Sifiso Zulu threatened him with the gun. But Zulu and SABC chief executive Zwelakhe Sisulu said the gun came from a Buthelezi bodyguard.
"Buthelezi's actions, seen by millions of TV viewers all over South Africa, amount to a frontal attack on freedom of speech and freedom of the press and are incompatible with the provisions of the Constitution," the ANC said in a statement.
Fourteen ANC lawmakers issued a separate statement, saying Buthelezi's behavior was especially troubling because of his status as a Cabinet member.
The Associated Press
Iran looks to Russia for weapons resources
WASHINGTON — The CIA believes Iran will be able to build its nuclear weapons in eight to 10 years, and that it is focusing on Russia as a potential source of key materials and direction, according to the spy agency's chief.
defenses, Iran has put a high priority on acquiring nuclear weapons.
R. James Woolsey, the director of central intelligence, told a Washington think tank that in addition to an aggressive effort to strengthen its conventional
Woolsey spoke to a conference sponsored by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Friday. A text of his prepared remarks was released by the institute yesterday.
"Iran has been particularly active in trying to purchase nuclear materials or technology clandestinely from Russian sources," Woolsey said. He did not elaborate on the Russian connection, but he added that Iran also is trying to buy fully fabricated nuclear weapons as a shortcut to becoming a nuclear power.
Iran, as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has officially forsworn any nuclear weapons ambitions. It has not acknowledged trying to build nuclear weapons.
Woolsey also sounded an alarm about Iraq's military ambitions.
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