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Monday, November 27, 1995
NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Clinton seeks support of Bosnian policy
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Dayton treaty on Bosnia is final, senior American officials said yesterday. They rejected demands from Bosnian Serbs that provisions relating to the future of Sarajevo be changed.
"We are not going to renegotiate this agreement," Defense Secretary William Perry said of the pact worked out last week in Dayton, Ohio, with the presidents of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia.
Chief U.S. negotiator Richard C. Holbrooke, National Security Adviser Anthony Lake and Perry appeared on news programs yesterday as a prelude to President Clinton's speech tonight in which he hopes
to win public and congressional support for his Bosnian policy.
Congressional Republicans have led the opposition to Clinton's plans to contribute 20,000 U.S. ground forces to a 60,000-member NATO peacekeeping force. But two key Republicans on Senate Armed
William Perry
Services Committee suggested that the traditional tendency of Congress to follow the president's lead on major foreign policy issues might again prevail.
"I think the president can make the case," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Thousands of Bosniian Serbs in the capital of Sarajevo have protested the peace accord, which cedes control of their sector of the city to the Muslim-Croat federation.
Perry said on CBS that protests were expected but stressed that the terms were final and that the U.S. government expected all parties to comply with the treaty.
"Dayton was an initialing, Paris will be a signing," Holbrooke said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "There will be no change between Dayton and Paris."
Lake said on ABC's "This Week With
David Brinkley" that the Paris meeting to sign the accord would take place in mid-December and that U.S. troops could be in Bosnia a few days after that.
The three officials — echoing Clinton's Saturday radio address — said that American can values are at stake in the commitment to join NATO in keeping peace in Bosnia.
In addition to maintaining the integrity of NATO and stopping the war from spreading to other countries, Americans could not ignore the fact that half the people in Bosnia either have been uprooted from their homes or killed since the civil strife began more than three years ago, Lake said.
"Throughout history American soldiers have been called upon to take risks, to pro
tect those values," Perry said.
McCain and Sen. John Warner of Virginia — two Republicans who carry considerable weight on defense matters — have pledged to keep an open mind when Clinton takes his case to Congress.
"If we go, we've got to remain, we've got to sustain the casualties," Warner said. "There can be no cut-and-run if we endure casualties. That's got to be made very clear from the outset."
Republican presidential candidate Phil Gramm, a Texas senator, was adamant in his opposition to Clinton's policy and what he said was an unworkable agreement. "I don't think he has made the case," he said on ABC. "Foreign policy is not social work."
Israeli police question rabbis
Religious men incited the assassin to kill, authorities have said
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Police interrogated two rabbis suspected of giving an assassin religious sanction to kill Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, police sources said yesterday.
"rodef" may be killed to prevent him from causing deaths of his victims.
The rabbis allegedly reassured confessed gunman Yigal Amir that he would be justified in killing Rabin as a "rode" — or persecutor
— on the grounds that Rabin's peacemaking with Palestinians had put Israeli lives in danger, said the police sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Jewish religious law states that a
from causing deaths of his victims.
Suspicion against the rabbis reflects the tension between Israel's secular majority and the extreme nationalist religious groups, which peaked in Rabin's Nov. 4 assassination after a Tel Aviv peace rally.
Amir and the other suspects under arrest, for alleged involvement in the killing are religious Jews who oppose the government's peace efforts with the Palestinians.
Rabbi Yehuda Amital, a moderate religious leader who was appointed by Rabin's successor, Shimon Peres, to the Cabinet last week to make amends with religious Israelis, told army radio that rabbis who had advocated violence against Rabin should be prosecuted.
must be brought to justice, no doubt," Amital said of the two rabbis under interrogation.
"If they carried out incitement and encouragement of rebellion, they
Amital, who heads a Jewish seminary in the West Bank, said that he had taught one of the rabbis, Shmuel Dvir from the Karmel Tsur settlement and that he remembered him as extremist in his views.
Dvir and another rabbi, identified by Israel Radio as David Kav, arrived at police headquarters in Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv after being summoned.
Kav taught at the Kerem seminary in the Israeli town of Yavneh, where Amir also studied several years ago, army radio said.
They are being investigated on suspicion of incitement to murder. Police sources said interrogators also suspected they had known of the plan to shoot Rabin.
Dror Adani, a friend of Amir who also has been arrested in the assassination, has said that Amir had asked him to get rabbinical permission for the killing several months before the slaying.
Adani's attorney said that the rabbi approached by Adani had agreed that Rabin was a "rode" but did not give his blessing to kill Rabin for fear it might lead to civil war. The rabbi was not identified.
In another development, senior Tel Aviv police official Yaakov Shoval was to testify yesterday before a state-appointed commission about allegations that police failed to keep civilians out of the area around Rabin's car and that detectives assigned to guard the prime minister were missing on the night of the murder, security sources said.
Japanese stage march against U.S. presence
The Associated Press
TOKYO — More than 700 people marched in downtown Tokyo yesterday to demand the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Japan's southern island of Okinawa.
Police said there were no clashes during the 1.2-mile march through the Ginza, a major shopping and entertainment district.
Demonstrators carried banners with such slogans as "U.S. troops get out from Okinawa," and "Scrap U.S.-Japan Security Treaty," under which U.S. troops are stationed in Japan.
The rally was organized by an association of Okinawans living in Tokyo and small citizens groups.
Sadako Yonamine, leader of the Okinawa citizens group, told the rally that Okinawa Gov. Masahide Ota's refusal to force landowners to renew land leases for U.S. military bases was the first step to build an Okinawa with no military bases.
Opposition to the U.S. military presence has grown since the rape of an Okinawan schoolgirl Sept. 4, for which three U.S. servicemen are on trial. One has pleaded guilty to rape and the other two to lesser charges.
U. S. officials have said some forces could be moved from Okinawa, but the total number in Japan
— about 44,000 — must remain the same to ensure U.S. protection of Asia.