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Vol. 91 No. 186 (6 pages) “Serving Texas A&M Since 1893” Monday, August 3, 1992
Former A&M baseball player
edges toward major leagues
Page 3
Orphans
evacuate
Saraj evo
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegov-
ina (AP) — A bullet-scarred bus
carrying dozens of crying or
phans raced from Sarajevo on
Sunday on the second leg of an
escape that has claimed at least
two young lives.
Left behind were about 100
other children awaiting evacua
tion as Bosnian forces try to
punch through Serb lines encir
cling the city. Bosnian officials
claimed some success in the bat
tles.
Many of the orphans sobbed
and struggled Sunday as they
were put on the bus in the west
ern suburb of Stup, the end of the
so-called "Sniper Alley" highway
from central Sarajevo.
One blond toddler kicked as a
burly soldier carried her under
his arm to the bus. But another lit
tle boy happily sucked a candy
bar and climbed aboard.
The bus traveled through war-
torn territory en route to the
Croatian port of Split, where offi
cials from a German orphanage
waited with a chartered plane to
take them to Germany.
The children stopped for the
night in a "secure" area in Fojni-
ca, about 25 miles northwest of
Sarajevo, said Anton Guenther
Cromme, spokesman for the Sax-
ony-Anhalt Soc'ial Ministry in
Magdeburg, Germany.
On Saturday, two orphans
.were killed when the bus was hit
by heavy fire.
"I heard the glass shatter, then
the bullet* whistle past and then
the gunshot," said bus driver
Zeljko Grgic. "At first I wanted to
throw myself to the floor, but
then I remembered the kids were
in the back and we had to make
the last 200 to 300 meters to safe
ty-"
It was not immediately clear
who fired on the bus or whether it
was caught in cross-fire. Yu
goslavia's premier, Milan Panic,
condemned the attack. "Serbian,
Bosnian . . . they are all terror
ists," Panic said during a visit to
Bulgaria on Sunday.
Bosnia's Serb leader, Radovan
Karadzic, denied his forces at
tacked the bus. "If the bus was
properly marked and if nobody
was firing from it, I guarantee
that Serbian soldiers would not
attack it," he said.
Bosnia is engaged in an in
creasingly desperate drive to cut
ethnic Serb lines encircling the
capital. An offensive by Bosnia's
mostly Muslim government
forces has concentrated on north
west Sarajevo, but the battle lines
expanded Sunday.
Bosnian troops claimed it
pushed back some Serb units, but
it was unclear whether Serb lines
were broken. Bosnian forces seek
to sever Serb supply lines and
connect with Muslim fighters out
side the city.
NICK PENA/The Battalion
Take five
Incoming freshman recruit Calvin Collins, an offensive lineman from West Brook High School in
Beaumont cools off during an evening session of the freshmen two-a-day workout routine. See
related story on Page 3.
Independent Croatia holds first elections
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Voters on Sunday
weighed hopes for peace and nationalist President
Franjo Tudjman's claim to have fulfilled centuries-
old dreams of statehood.
Croatians were voting — some in bombed out
polling places or close to fighting in neighboring
Bosnia — in their first general election since declar
ing independence last year. Polls showed Tudjman,
running for re-election, slightly ahead in a field of
eight.
"There is no doubt we will win," Tudjman, of the
ruling Croatian Democratic Union, said as he cast his
ballot in Zagreb Sunday morning.
Tudjman, a former Communist general, was cho
sen president by the parliament after his party swept
205 of 356 seats in the elections in spring 1990.
Tudjman asserts that under his rule Croats finally
gained statehood. They have won broad internation
al recognition as Yugoslavia disintegrated.
Opponents blame Tudjman for losing one-third of
Croatia's territory to Serbian and U.N. control in a
bloody war that has killed at least 10,000, devastated
the country's economy and destroyed much of its
cultural heritage.
"We expect these elections to bring us peace. We
had enough bloodshed," Katica Balic, an elderly
woman, said in Zagreb, the Croatian capital.
Besides the race for Croatia's first popularly elect
ed president, more than 25 parties were competing
for 120 seats in the parliament's lower house. Upper
house elections will be held later.
More than 6,000 polling stations opened in Croat
ia at 7 a.m. (1 a.m. EDT) for 12 hours of voting. First
unofficial results were expected Monday, but the fi
nal official tally was not expected before the end of
the week.
Rival Kurds square
KALAR, Iraq (AP) - The
deadliest so far of a growing num
ber of clashes between rival Iraqi
Kurdish groups was ignited by a
fight over a tombstone.
After a two-day battle that left
nearly a score or more dead — the
two forces vary widely in their ca
sualty counts — tensions Sunday
remained at the trigger point be
tween fundamentalist Muslim
Kurds and one of the leftist
groups bent on winning automo-
ny in northern Iraq from Saddam
Hussein.
The leftist guerrillas of the Pa
triotic Union of Kurdistan play
down the feud. But the funda
mentalists, eager to install Islamic
law in northern Iraq, say they're
ready, if necessary, to again attack
their Marxist-leaning rivals.
Just as their ideologies differ
radically, so did both sides' ac
counts of the battle that* began
Thursday and ended Friday.
Sparks began to fly when two
PUK guerrillas approached a
off over tombstone
training camp operated by the
fundamentalist Islamic Movement
of Kurdistan in hopes of obtaining
a tombstone for one of their dead.
The fundamentalists, who have
a monopoly on the tombstone
supply in Kalar, a town of 70,000
people, insist that any non-funda
mentalist seeking a marker show
up with the body of the dead per
son and then go to a mosque to
complete paperwork.
Apparently this arrangement
was not to the leftists liking. An
argument exploded into a
shootout, in which Patriotic Union
officials said the two guerrillas
were killed.
The Patriotic Union then at
tacked a mosque and two other
fundamentalist strongholds.
Kurdo Kasim, a ranking Patri
otic Union official, taking a jour
nalist on a tour of the area tour
early Sunday, first insisted that
his group suffered only two dead,
and that they killed 27 fundamen
talists.
Brush fires
burn across
3,500 acres
2,000 firefighters battle blaze
MOCCASIN, Calif. (AP) -
Their ranks bolstered by conquest
over one blaze, firefighters on
Sunday battled in steep terrain
against flames that burned across
more than 3,500 acres of brush
and timber dried by six years of
drought.
Smoke was so thick airplane
crews could not make an accurate
acreage reading, said David Or-
tegel of the California Department
of Forestry, adding that as many
as 4,000 acres were affected.
No injures were reported, but a
barn was destroyed and hundreds
of homes were threatened.
Rugged ter
rain hindered
firefighters
who also
faced the un
usual prob
lem of hard-
to-see abandoned mine shafts.
About 100 firefighters who
helped control a 425-acre blaze
near Fricot, about 50 miles away,
joined the fight against the larger
fire, which forced the evacuation
of 2,000 people, said Kathy Camp
bell, a state forestry spokes
woman.
The new contingent in Califor
nia brought to 2,000 the number
of people fighting the blaze. The
fire burned in picturesque Sierra
foothills country only four miles
from Stanislaus National Forest
and 20 miles outside of Yosemite
National Park.
Improved weather during the
night helped firefighters reach
about 15 percent containment, Or-
tegel said.
"We got a little cooling, a little
humidity," he said at a news con
ference Sunday.
Temperatures hovered Satur
day afternoon near 100 degrees.
Whipped by gusty winds, the fire
moved so fast on Saturday it
burned 1,000 acres in an hour.
Ortegel said there was no esti
mated time for full containment of
the blaze believed to have been
sparked by a camp fire.
Meanwhile Sunday, more than
700 firefighters were called to a
fire raging in mountainous west-
central Idaho. The blaze was re
ported Friday and has blackened
nearly 4,000 acres. Some campers
and sightseers were evacuated.
It was believed to have been
caused by lightning. The area is so
steep and re
mote that fire
fighters had
to hike in or
were dropped
in by heli
copter. One
suffered a broken pelvis jumping
from a helicopter on Saturday.
The California fire started near
Don Pedro Lake in the Moccasin
Point campground area. Flames
jumped the steep grade of Old
Priest Canyon and roared through
the canyon, which was jammed
with brush.
The evacuated people were
mainly from the hamlets of Big
Oak Flat and Moccasin.
"Fire is our biggest nightmare
at the ranch, and now it's coming
true," said Stacy Kennedy, an
evacuee from the Moccasin area.
Yet another wildfire near the
central California city of Salinas
had burned across 700 acres by
Sunday, said California Depart
ment of Forestry spokesman Don
Stacy.
"Fire is our biggest
nightmare at the ranch, and
now it's coming true."
-Stacy Kennedy, evacuee
Iraq, Kuwait ignore
invasion anniversary
UMM QASR, Iraq (AP) -
Before the quick trip across this
border town Sunday, the sec
ond anniversary of the Iraqi in
vasion, U.S. Marine Capt. Ralph
Croce offered a flak jacket and a
helmet in the light blue of Unit
ed Nations peacekeepers.
"Don't you know these will
stop anything? We're the
U.N.," he said, grinning.
But there is no need for such
battle props.
Where two years ago all the
menace of the Iraqi military
machine bore down on Kuwait,
the wreckage of tanks now
rusts in the 120-degree heat and
paint chips off faded murals
glorifying past battles.
The anniversary was virtual
ly ignored, both here and in
Kuwait City. Most conversa
tions focused not on the past vi
olence hut on current tension,
exemplified by last month's
standoff between U.N. weapons
inspectors and Iraqis who re
fused to let them enter a gov
ernment building.
Kuwaiti newspaper editori
als called for Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein's overthrow.
while the opposition said those
at home responsible for the dis
aster should be held account
able. /;;f if i;?:
State-run Baghdad radio and
Iraqi newspapers used the an
niversary to repeat the claim
that Kuwait is Iraq's lost 19th
province. They added that one
day, Iraq would have it back.
traq has refused to recognize
a new border drawn up by the
United Nations that would; give
the southern half of Urrun Qasr
to Kuwait.
This port, which straddles
the border, is nearly dead.
Only a few thousand of the
40,000 Iraqis who used to live
here remain. They wave at U.N.
jeeps passing in the distance; a
high-level protest issued Satur
day from Baghdad means the
peacekeepers now are forbid
den to talk with Iraqis.
The 260 peacekeepers and an
almost equal number of sup
port staff drawn from 33 na
tions have also been barred
from trips to Baghdad because
of security fears.
U.N. observers monitor protests in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - A na
tional strike originally intended to force the white
ovemment from power starts Monday with several
lack groups opposing it and United Nations moni
tors trying to prevent violence.
The African National Congress and its labor allies
called the two-day strike as part of protests against
chronic township violence and a stalemate in politi
cal talks.
But the strike, marches and other protests sched
uled for the next week have little chance of pressur
ing President F.W. de Klerk's government into major
concessions on ending white minority rule.
The planned strike also has drawn attention to di
visions among black groups and raised tension
throughout the country.
An ANC leader was quoted Sunday as saying
some of the group's supporters in black townships
We killed political opponents.
The ANC broke off negotiations with the govern
ment in June after the massacre of more than 40
blacks in the Boipatong township south of Johannes
burg, and launched a protest campaign.
But ANC President Nelson Mandela said during a
television interview Sunday night that he was opti
mistic that his group's disputes with the government
would be resolved.
"The clear picture that has emerged is one of
hope," Mandela said. However, he criticized de
Klerk for failing to act strongly to stop the violence.
"It gives the impression that because it is blacks
being killed it is not a national crisis," he said.
The demonstrations leading up to Monday's
strike have drawn small crowds, indicating general
indifference and raising questions about how widely
the national stayaway would be observed.
"From one perspective, this is the stayaway hard
ly anyone really wanted," the Star newspaper said in
an editorial last week. "So volatile is the climate that
no one can guarantee a peaceful protest. Yet the
paradox remains: once over, the way may well be
cleared for a return to negotiation."
Political leaders have called for calm, noting that
previous political ^trikes have sparked violence.
Some 5,000 police were sent last week to strife-
plagued black townships near Johannesburg.
Business leaders warn the stayaway will further
damage an economy already in recession, but have
agreed to a no work, no pay policy for strikers.
The ANC says its supporters have a right to
protest peacefully and that any trouble will be start
ed by political enemies.
But other black groups — including the rival
Inkatha Freedom Party and some smaller, militant
groups — oppose the strike.
Inkatha, locked in a power struggle with the
ANC, says a strike only hurts workers and under
mines political negotiations.
Leftist groups such as the Pan Africanist Congress
initially supported the strike as an effort to force the
government to resign, but now oppose it because
they say the ANC's goal is only to resume negotia
tions.
A team of United Nations monitors arrived Sun
day to try to help prevent violence. It came after U.N.
special envoy Cyrus Vance completed a 10-day mis
sion to assess what steps were needed to get political
talks restarted.
More than 8,000 blacks have died in political vio
lence since de Klerk took office and launched re
forms aimed at ending apartheid. Police on Sunday
reported 10 deaths in nationwide political violence,
including eight black men killed in an attack on a
squatter camp near Johannesburg.