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BIOPHARMA, INC 776-0400 Tuesday, September 8,1992 The Battalion War deprives baby of life's necessities THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegov- ina — No one will ever know what kind of chances Alija Catic's baby might have had in peace time. But in war, she's fighting for her life. For two weeks,Adelaida, born prematurely at Sarajevo's main Kosevo hospital, has been in a ward with no water or electricity, in an incubator that sometimes runs short of oxygen. Such shortages are becoming so serious that they relegated the crash of shells around the hospital on Monday to mere background noise. As winter approaches, they could bring Sarajevo to its knees. "I'm not letting her die," Catic said of the tiny, wizened baby wrapped in cloth napkins in a ma ternity-ward room lit only by can dles. "She's had two crises, but both times she's made it through," said Catic. "I'm hear her. I touch her. She can feel me. She's got to fight." Catic, a nurse at Kosevo, gave birth Aug. 16. Her contractions began after a night of heavy shelling on her apartment build ing in the hard-hit Dobrinja sub urb. A truck driver braved shells and snipers to rush her to the hos pital, where Adelaida was born nearly three months early. Since then, the infant's weight has dropped from 32 ounces to 27 ounces. And the war raging out side for five months now is hardly helping her chances. The Bosnian government claims that on Aug. 29, Serb mili tiamen cut Sarajevo's last avail able 2 megawatts of power — 1 percent of the city's normal pre war consumption. Since then, Adelaida has had to share an in cubator. Food shortages are a worry too, especially since the humani tarian airlift has been suspended after last week's crash of an Ital ian relief plane. In Geneva, a spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Syl- vana Foa, said Monday that food stockpiles in Sarajevo could run out within three days. Water has also become a weapon in the struggle for Saraje vo. Serb forces are accused of cut ting power on Saturday to pumps serving the Bacevo reservoir, the city's biggest water supply. By Monday, water flowed again from some Sarajevo taps, but the main hospitals still went without. One baby born at Kosevo could not be washed. Instead he was merely wined with cloth. Capt. Damien McKeown, a Royal Brihsh Engineer trying the help to restore the basic utilities, refused to lay blame for the short ages. "If we did that, we wouldn't get anywhere," he said. Crews escorted by U.N. peace keepers have come under mortar fire during repair operations. On Saturday, 15 minutes after a switching station was repaired, it was shelled again. Over the weekend, Ogrevtrans, Sarajevo's biggest coal and wood supplier, sold the last stocks from its warehouse. "If it stays empty, then all the forests around Sarajevo will dis appear," said Ljuca Rehim, the company's 29-year-old general manager. Communist leader quits, hostile forces gain power THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — The hard-line Communist president, Rakhmon Nabiyev, resigned Monday after armed anti-government militants stopped him at the airport and prevented him from leav ing the Tajik capital. Two presidential bodyguards were injured as Nabiyev was de tained. Nabiyev was the third president of a former Soviet repub&c to be toppled in the tumult following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet government. The Georgian and Azerbaijani presidents also were ousted amid civil strife. The resignation came a week after armed opponents seized the presidential palace, forcing Nabiyev into hiding and taking more than 40 hostages, who were later freed. Days later, Nabiyev's Cabi net and leaders of the Supreme Soviet legislature approved a vote of no-confidence in his government. He faced growing opposition from a coalition of former Com munists, the liberal Democratic Party, the Islamic Revival Party and Rastekhez, or Renewal, a nationalist people's front. They said he did not move fast enough to introduce political and religious freedoms and end civil strife. Nabiyev, 61, said that he decided to resign in order to end a civil war in the poorest former Soviet republic, a mostly Muslim country of 5.3 million people bordering China and Afghanistan. Tajik television showed the white-haired Nabiyev at the VIP lounge of Dushanbe airport, wearing a gray suit and brown tie and surrounded by 15 senior government and legislative leaders as he signed a document. He then said in a calm voice: "I'm submitting my resignation." He passed his powers to parliament speaker Akbarshah Iskan derov, in accordance with the constitution. "Taking into account the political situation, and in order to sta bilize it and stop the fratricidal war, I decided to relinquish my powers as president," he said. His statement was later broadcast on television throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States. Nabiyev also foreswore any "provocation or intrigues" in Tajik politics, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. The Cabinet voted to give Nabiyev a pension along with the home in which he lives, and to provide bodyguards. Nabiyev' and a group of lawmakers had gone to the Dushanbe airport to fly to his native Khuzhand, in northern Tajikistan, to meet with other pro- Nabiyev lawmakers boycotting the legislature. They were detained in the VTP lounge by militants who identi fied themselves as "the youth of Dushanbe," the group which last week occupied the palace and took officials hostage, Interfax said. They released the last of the hostages on Thursday and left the complex without incident on Saturday. Election-year politics makes Congress nervous THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A restive Congress will have to cope with election-year jitters and a more combative President Bush when it re turns this week to wrap up its legislative busi ness for the year. Crucial decisions on taxes, spending and family issues await lawmakers whose atten tion will be diverted by the onrushing fall elec tion campaign. President Bush, accepting the Republican Party's nomination for another term, served notice last month that "if Congress sends me a bill spending more than I asked in my budget, I will veto it fast." At least two other veto showdowns are like ly — on legislation to make employers provide unpaid leave for family emergencies and to impose trade restrictions on China. The 102nd Congress so far has failed to override any of some 30 Bush vetoes. Beyond the normal political tensions, law makers are nervous about special counsel Mal colm Wilkey's probe of the House bank scan dal. Wilkey is nearing an end to the initial phase of his review of members' check over drafts. Majority" Democrats in Congress will get an early opportunity to challenge Bush when the House on Wednesday takes up the family leave bill. This measure would require compa nies with 50 or more employees to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for a childbirth or medical emergency.The Senate passed the bill just before Congress recessed for the GOP con vention last month — but only after several Republicans insisted on a voice vote so the; could not be recorded individually. Bush vetoed a nearly identical bill two years ago as a hidden tax on business, and House Republicans helped sustain it for him. The White House is counting on them to do the same again. ' ’ Leaders in both parties thought they had avoided another tax brawl in August when the latest attempt to enact Bush's proposed cutsin capital gains tax rates garnered only 37 Senate votes as part of an urban aid bill. But that was before the Republican conven tion, where Bush said he would seek across- the-board tax cuts accompanied by equal re ductions in government spending — without specifying where — in a second term. Truman legacy part of presidential race THE ASSOCIATED PRESS George Bush and Bill Clinton opened their fall campaigns Mon day promising prosperity and fighting to claim Harry Truman's legacy of plain talk and presiden tial leadership. Presenting voters in key Mid western states with what Democ rat Clinton described as "the clearest choice in a generation," each man offered himself as the best hope for the future and derid ed the other's claims of common ground with Truman. The traditional Labor Day cam paign launch hardly seemed like a beginning. "I think the American people feel this one's been going on about 10 months too long," Bush told Republicans at a picnic in Waukesha, Wis. The president paid tribute to "all who punch the time clock, pay the bills, sweat it out at tax time." And he said his top priority in a second term would be to build economic security for them. Clinton, in Truman's home town of Independence, Mo., said Truman would "always be re membered as the working peo ple's president" and pledged to match the opportunity, security and dignity he said the Democrat had given workers. The candidates go into the final 50-odd days of the race with Clin ton leading in national polls, eco nomic indicators sagging and vot ers overwhelmingly unhappy about the direction of the country. Bush's uphill task was under scored by a pink bed sheet held aloft at the Waukesha fairgrounds. "Hey George," the sheet said. "This pink slip's for you." The president started his day with a chilly dawn walk across the Mackinac Bridge connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas. He headed for Detroit after the Wisconsin picnic. Clinton was speaking in Ohio and Connecticut after a rain- soaked rally in Independence. Truman has been the third man in the race almost since Ross Perot abandoned that role in July. Both candidates have invoked Tru man's name frequently, Bush so often that Margaret Truman Daniel, the late president's daugh ter, was moved to write a newspa per column in protest. Competition for the reservoir of good feeling that Truman ap parently has left behind reached new heights Monday. Clinton, the governor of Arkansas, pictured himself a can-do, Truman-style populist as he stood before a Tru man statue in Independence. Less than an hour earlier in Waukesha, Republican Bush was saying that while he hadn't voted for Truman in 1948, he had a lot in common with him. MSC Aqqie Cinema: 847-8478 Box OfficE: 845-1234 MSC AGGIE CINEMA The Film Society of Texas A&M - EPIC FILM SERIES PRESENTS - The 50th Anniversary of CASABLANCA starring: Humphrey Bogart Thursday @ 7:00 & 9:00PM Presented in Rudder Auditorium Tickets are $2.50 Next Week: Alternative Film Series presents FalLing From Grace and the Blockbuster Series presents Wayne's World. Clinton's past friend reports on draft status THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - At the height of the Vietnam War, two bright young men from small town Arkansas win coveted scholarships to Oxford Universi ty. Each manages to avoid mili tary service. A quarter-century later, their friendship long since dissolved in bitterness, one of them is running for president; the other would like to stop him. Cliff Jackson is an insistent voice from Bill Clin ton's past who says he helped the now-Democratic presidential nominee avoid military service during the Vietnam War. Jackson was active in the Arkansas Republican Party years ago but says that when he was approached recently by GOP offi cials he declined to discuss the draft controversy with them. Still, he has discussed it with the news media. Jackson himself had been ex cused from the draft for "minor health reasons," including aller gies. "I always felt a little guilty that maybe a doctor had mercy on me,"he says. "Maybe that's why I helped Bill." The Little Rock attorney has provided news organizations with information about Clinton's draft status, some of it contained in letters he wrote 23 years ago while he was helping Clinton stay in school. The question of military service has dogged Clin ton throughout the campaign. Responding to questions based on Jackson's information, he ac knowledged that he received a draft notice, explaining that it ar rived at Oxford in 1969 after the induction date had passed. 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