UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, December 4, 1995
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U.S. soldiers ordered to Bosnia
Clinton sends first wave of troops to pave way for peacekeeping force
The Associated Press
MADRID, Spain — President Clinton said yesterday he had ordered the first wave of U.S. troops to Bosnia to help prepare the way for a 60,000-member international peacekeeping force.
Capping a five-day European trip in which he picked up strong British, Irish, German and Spanish support for the Bosnia mission, Clinton said he had authorized Defense Secretary William Perry to send 700 U.S. troops trained in communications and logistics to Bosnia.
Clinton made the announcement at a news conference after signing an agreement of economic cooperation with the 15nation European Union.
"Our destiny in America is still linked to Europe," Clinton said. "And what we're seeing in Bosnia is an affront to the conscience of human beings everywhere. Now the Bosnian people need the help of the international community ... to realize the promise of peace."
Clinton several days ago approved the plan for sending advance troops to Bosnia, but had not officially given the Pentagon the go-ahead. White House press secretary Mike McCurry said Clinton had done that Saturday night aboard Air Force One in a telephone call to his national
security adviser, Tony Lake.
The authorization was requested by U.S. Army Gen. George Joulwan, supreme allied commander in Europe.
The main body of American troops will start moving out from bases in Germany after the Bosnian peace treaty is signed in Paris Dec. 14. By February, 20,000 U.S. soldiers are to be in Bosnia, headquartered in the northeast town of Tuzla, and 5,000 others will be deployed in Croatia and Hungary in support roles. Those in Bosnia will be joined by 40,000 troops from about 25 other countries.
"I have authorized the secretary of defense to order the deployment of the preliminary troops ... to Bosnia, as I said I would as soon as I was convinced that the military plan is appropriate," Clinton said.
Concerning opposition by some Serb leaders to the Bosnia peace accord signed last month in Dayton, Ohio, Clinton said he was confident Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic would take the appropriate steps to honor the agreement.
Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic demanded on Saturday that it be revised so that Serbs would not be placed under Muslim and Croat control.
Clinton said he didn't take that as an indication that the deal was in jeopardy.
Present and new areas of control in Bosnia
Knight-Ridder Tribune/RON CODDINGTON
Mayor breaks Savannah's race barrier
The Associated Press
No one had threatened violence, but the staff couldn't take any chances, he said.
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Three days after this regal coastal city elected its first Black mayor, the campaign manager warned the staff. Beware of all packages delivered to the office.
In a majority Black city that has thrived on allwhite social clubs, segregated neighborhoods and separate debutante balls for each race, residents are adjusting to the latest shattered racial barrier.
"It was long, long overdue, but changes are happening in Savannah," said W.W. Law, an African-American historian who led the local NAACP chapter for 26 years.
The city is in the national spotlight as site of the 1996 Olympic yachting events and setting for "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," John Berendt's best-selling account of a murder in the historic home of a gay antiques dealer.
Before Black newspaper publisher Floyd Adams Jr. narrowly beat white incumbent Susan Weiner last week, Savannah already had witnessed the admission of the first African American to an elite all-white yachting club, the birth of a civil rights museum financed by local tax dollars and the lifting of a longstanding federal court order to desegregate the schools, all within the last two years.
Adams knows he owes his 256-vote victory margin to a small white crossover vote.
"They have faith in me that I will work hard and I won't cause them any harm or damage," he said.
Georgia's oldest city has long suffered subtle bigotry but never racial violence, thanks to its veneer of Southern gentility.
"Savannah never had a Black lynching," said
"Savannah never had college professor John Duncan, who teaches a course on city history. "There's a sense of civility here."
"I don't know what race problems you're talking about," said former Mayor John Rousakis, who served 21 years before he was ousted by Weiner in 1991.
While millions of tourists flock each year to its cobaltstone river
white community is holding its breath," said architect Eric Johnson, a white Republican state senator. "If Floyd immediately reaches out and shows that he's pro-business, then there will be a big sigh of relief."
Voters said personality was as big a factor as race. Weiner, a former actress and teacher from
"The Black community is justifiably proud. The
While Weiner has asked for a recount, the rest of the city is warily ready to accept Adams as the new leader.
front and stately squares dripping with Spanish moss, Savannah's Black neighborhoods suffer the same blight as many inner cities; poverty and ramshackle housing. And African Americans are typically missing from top corporate boards and social clubs.
Eric Johnson Georgia state senator
New York, is referred to affectionately as Savannah's Southern Yankee and, unaffectionately, as its Northern fluke.
Weiner got off to a rocky start when her husband, Al, called the former mayor a pig. When the City Council blocked one of his wife's proposals, Al Weiner said the combined IQ of four council members
During this last campaign, Susan Weiner ran a radio commercial that said the small difference between Adams and her was that she is white and he is Black. She denied injecting race into the contest.
would not equal his. Adams, then one of four Black aldermen, called the remark racist and demanded an apology.
Adams has said that his first act would be to create a human relations commission.
Regents hire new president for Pittsburg
The Associated Press
PITTSBURG, (AP) — John Darling, an economist and former chancellor of Louisiana State University at Shreveport, was appointed president of Pittsburg State University on Saturday.
The Board of Regents selected Darling to succeed Donald Wilson, who resigned April 7 as the Kansas Bureau of Investigation began examining his fund-raising activities for a school in Thailand.
Other finalists were Dale Nitzschke, former president of the University of New Hampshire and of Marshall University, and George DePuy, provost and vice chancellor for academic and student affairs at the University of Wisconsin's Stout and Menomonie campuses.
Darling was chancellor at LSU-Shreveport from 1990 until resigning last spring to become distinguished professor of economics at the school and to work for the World Bank developing bank programs for Russia.
He was provost and vice president for academic affairs at Mississippi State University from 1986 to 1990, and vice president for academic affairs and research at Texas Tech University from 1981 to 1986.
Darling is a native of Holton. His parents met on the Pittsburg State campus when his father was a student and his mother was an employee.
He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in commerce and business administration from the University of Alabama and a doctorate in marketing from the University of Illinois.
The presidency of Pittsburgh State was vacated when Wilson resigned after 11 years, citing policy differences with the Regents concerning his involvement with the private, proposed International University in Thailand.
Records showed Wilson spent $18,433 in state money for airfare, expenses and meals for four trips to Thailand between July 1994 and February 1995. The Regents called the expense justified because Wilson also recruited students to Pittsburg State during the trips.
But the Regents accused Wilson of giving an advanced degree to a person not enrolled at the university, violating Regents policy by granting honorary degrees to people in Indonesia and failing to adequately monitor work done under agreements with international universities.
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