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Tuesday, December 5, 1995
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First group of Americans arrives in Bosnia
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Two American sergeants arrived in Bosnia yesterday to help lay the groundwork for a 60,000-strong NATO mission to enforce the Balkan peace.
The soldiers flew into Sarajevo on a camouflaged British C-130 Hercules transport plane carrying about two dozen NATO troops, including British, French and Belians.
Defense Secretary William Perry, noting the arrival of the first Americans, said yesterday a 738-member U.S. enabling force would be in Bosnia or on its way by the end of the week.
In a Pentagon news conference, Perry also said he anticipated a two-month buildup of the full 20,000-member U.S. ground contingent in Bosnia. Unless the mission turns out to be trouble-free, that force would remain in Bosnia at full strength for about eight more months, followed by a two-month drawdown.
A second plane to Sarajevo brought a sevenmember British logistics team, and a third flight carrying troops was expected later in the day. In Croatia, 56 British communications experts arrived in the port city of Split.
A third of the NATO force will be Americans — the first U.S. peace enforcing mission sent to Bosnia in more than 3 1/2 years of war.
"We'll be setting up the headquarters for the bigger force to come down," said Sgt. Matthew Chip man, of Beardstown, Ill., who arrived today with Sgt. Todd Eichmann, of Kansas City, Mo.
Chipman said the time frame for the rest of the troops' arrival was undetermined. "Everybody is hoping as soon as possible," Chipman said. He said he and Eichmann left their base in Augsburg, Germany, so quickly that he didn't have a chance to say goodbye to his parents.
A British soldier who flew into Sarajevo as part of the logistics team said that serving with the NATO force would be better than his previous job as a U.N. peacekeeper in Split because he now was authorized to use force.
"It's the same job," Sgt. Eric Johnson said. "But it's easier this way."
The soldiers who arrived yesterday are the first of 2,600 assigned to lay the groundwork for whole force. In all, some 60,000 NATO troops — a third from the United States — will take part in the mission.
Also yesterday, France ordered its general in charge of U.N. peacekeeping in Sarajevo back to Paris after he said the Dayton peace accord was unfair to Serbs in the Bosnian capital.
Gen. Jean-Rene Bachelet said that under the accord, Serbs in Sarajevo would have to choose between the suitcase and the coffin.
President Clinton gave the official go-ahead during the weekend for the first small groups of U.S. soldiers to leave, but their travel plans were unclear. Some Americans were expected to arrive early this week in Kaposvar, Hungary, to set up a transit point.
The 56 soldiers who came to Croatia yesterday as part of Britain's 7th Signal Regiment will start dealing with communications, logistics and supplies. Some will head to Sarajevo and Tuzla, and others will stay at Split, a key transit point for Bosnia.
A convoy of 15 to 20 trucks was set to leave a NATO base in Naples, Italy, today for Zagreb, Croatia, carrying equipment for the operation's headquarters, said NATO representative Franco Veltri.
Clinton, speaking Sunday in Madrid at the end of a five-day European trip, brushed aside a defiant statement by the Bosnian Serb military leader, Gen. Rato Miladic.
On Saturday, Madic demanded a reconsideration of the peace accord's transfer of control over Serb areas around Sarajevo to a new Muslim-Croat federation.
Clinton was unyielding. "No, I don't think the treaty is in trouble, and no, I don't think the treaty has to be renegotiated," he said.
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Chem-Bio avoids trial in Pap smear cases
Laboratory pleads no contest in reckless homicide of two women
The Associated Press
As part of the settlement between Chem-Bio Corp. and prosecutors, Judge David Hansher did not enter a verdict immediately against the company and allowed the lab to appeal certain elements of the case, including the basic question of whether a corporation could be charged with homicide.
MILWAUKEE — A medical laboratory accused of reckless homicide for misreading the Pap smears of two women who later died of cervical cancer entered no-contest pleas yesterday, avoiding trial in the case.
Terms of the ple a agreement were announced as the case was set to go to trial. Sentencing for Chem-Bio on two charges of reckless homicide was scheduled Feb. 22.
Prosecutors said they would seek the maximum fine of $20,000 for homicide by reckless conduct in the death of Dolores Geary and second-degree reckless homicide in the death of Karin Smith. The two charges are slightly different under Wisconsin law but carry the same maximum penalty.
Defense attorney Martin E. Kohler said an appeals court ruling in favor of the company could nullify the no-
contest plea. "We decided to file the plea to avoid a lengthy and inappropriate criminal trial," he said. "This also allows us to focus our resources on challenging the issues in the court of appeals."
Geary, 40, a mother of three from Oak Creek, died in 1993. Smith, 29, a Nashotah accountant, died March 8.
The women's families won settlements totaling $10 million after suing Chem-Bio and their health maintenance organization, Family Health Plan.
At an inquest earlier this year, experts testified that Pap smears — gynecological tests for cancer — repeatedly had shown obvious signs of the disease; but the cancer went undiagnosed for years.
In both cases, the cancer tests had been sent to Chem-Bio and read by the same technician.
McCann filed charges April 12 against Chem-Bio. At that time, he announced that the technician and the doctor who oversaw the lab had signed agreements freeing them from criminal charges, as long as they abided by conditions he set on their professional conduct for the next six years.
In signing the agreements, the two did not admit to any crime.
McCann said he believed it was the first criminal homicide prosecution for a misreading of Pap smears. "I'm hoping that's read as a message by any lab that reads Pap smears that it's got to be done carefully," he said.
Antitrust investigators consider incompatibility of Windows 95
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Justice Department antitrust investigators are examining whether Microsoft Corporation set up roadblocks in Windows 95 to disable rival companies' Internet-access programs, an attorney said yesterday.
The department issued civil subpoenas last month to Netscape Communications Corp. and CompuServe Inc. on-line service, said Don Baker, a Washington lawyer representing CompuServe.
The subpoenas indicate Justice Department investigators are focusing on whether Microsoft's Windows 96 and its related Internet software improperly disable rival programs that let users access the worldwide computer network known as the Internet.
"For a dominant firm to deliberately disable competitors in a dependent market raises serious antitrust concerns." Baker said.
The Wall Street Journal reported the subpoenas in yesterday's editions. Bloomberg Business News first reported the subpoenas in early November.
One objection to Windows 95 by major on-line companies is that it and an accompanying product called Plus! which provides Internet access, conflicted with rival access software, rendering it inoperable in some cases.
Microsoft executives said at the time that the problem was caused by weakness in the other companies' software. Microsoft said it had helped the rival companies fix snags affecting their products and that the problems caused were unintentional.
Michael Conte, Microsoft's group manager for personal systems, said that Microsoft did not deliberately make Windows 95 incompatible with rival products because that would detract from the popularity of its product.
The company previously has denied charges that it seeks to monopolize the on-line services business.
Netscape makes the most popular "browser" software for navigating the Internet's World Wide Web. About 80 percent of World Wide Web users, or 17 million people, use Netscape's software.
Netscape complained about the final version of Windows 95.
The dispute concerns a piece of software called Windows Sockets, or "Winsocks," a pivotal software code that allows the access software to work with Windows 95. Microsoft has said that most Internet tools worked fine with Windows 95, but some access software required modification of the Windows Sockets.
Microsoft distributed information last summer to users on how to fix the problem.
Marines say they were coerced to confess rape
The Associated Press
NAHA, Japan — An American serviceman accused of raping a 12-year-old girl testified yesterday that U.S. investigators dragged him out of bed before dawn and forced him to confess.
The testimony in a Japanese court by Marine Pfc. Rodrico Harp, 21, followed charges by family members that the three servicemen accused of raping the Japanese girl were treated unfairly by the U.S. military, possibly because they are Black.
The crime has galvanized local opposition to U.S. bases in Japan. American officials say bases are crucial to security in Asia. But Okinawa residents demand the bases be closed. Okiwanaws say bases cause too much crime and nuisance.
Outside Oldkawa's Naha District Court, where the three servicemen are on trial, someone posted a note to the Americans: "If you have a piece of pride, get out."
Inside, Harp admitted he helped plot the Sept. 4 abduction and rape of the schoolgirl in a rented car. But he said investigators from the U.S. Navy wouldn't listen to his full story. "When I told them that I did get into the back seat with the little girl but did not rape her, they were forcing me to say that I did rape her," Harp, of Griffin, Ga., told the court in a clear voice.
Harp also said the U.S. investigators routed him from bed between 4 and 5 a.m. on Sept. 6, just hours after his arrest, to answer questions.
Harp's lawyer, Mitsunobu Matsunaga, said the testimony was critical to convincing the three-judge panel deciding the case that Harp's confession shouldn't be trusted.
The other two defendants — Navy Seaman Marcus Gill, 22, of woodville, Texas, and Marine Pfc. Kendrick Ledet, 20, of Waycross, Ga. — are to testify at hearings later this month.
Gill has admitted to rape causing injury. Ledet, like Harp, admits involvement but denies the rape.
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