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Monday, October 19,1992 The Battalion Page 3
Six cadets receive grants
By ERIK MERK
Special to THE BATTALION
Six members of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets
were named recipients of grants given out by the
Wofford Cain Foundation, called Boot and Saber
Awards, on Thursday, Oct. 8.
The grant is presented annually in honor of Cain
in increments of $1200 for seniors and $600 for ju
niors. The grant is awarded to one junior and one
senior each in the Army, Naval and Air Force
branches of the Corps.
The awards, presented this year at the Corps fall
review, were given for outstanding achievement in
the University's ROTC program.
This year's winners were Army unit members
Michael T. Ripley and John K. Baker; Navy mem
bers Timothy Sueltenfuss and William G. Riels and
Air Force members Douglas G. Thies and Robert J.
McMurray.
Each of the winners had to be nominated by their
commanding officer for the position.
Ripley, in addition to being a senior cadet major,
is a member of the Ross Volunteers, the ceremonies
honor company of the corps; the Gen. Ormond R.
Simpson Honor Society and is the chair of the Cadet
Compliance and Review Board.
Baker, a junior, was named Outstanding Sopho
more Cadet in the Army ROTC unit with being se
lected both Outstanding Scholastic Sophomore for
Company A-l and Best Drilled Freshman and
Sophomore in his brigade.
Sueltenfuss, a member of the Navy/Marine
branch of the Corps, was honored as a distinguished
student four times and has also received an Out
standing Sophomore award and Distinguished
Naval Student award, in addition to being the com
mander of his unit, G-2.
Riels was previously selected as Outstanding
Freshman for Company E-2, served as Mascot Cor
poral, the cadet in charge of Reveille, during his
sophomore year.
Thies, a senior who currently holds the position of
First Wing Commander, was named winner of both
the Air Force ROTC Vice Commandant's Award and
the Air Force Association Outstanding Cadet of the
Year for Texas.
McMurray was previously recognized as a distin
guished student twice in addition to receiving the
Distinguished Graduate Recognition from Air Force
ROTC field training.
While the awards do not have to be used for any
specific purpose, the original intent of the award was
to help offset the cost of the cadet's senior boots and
saber, which can cost up to $1,200.
Yugoslavia
Continued from Page 1
lands in Bosnia, lit the fuse w'hich
started World War I. The Serbs
lined up with the Allies against
their neighbors
- the Croat
ians and Slove
nians — who
fought with
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the Austrians.
The war wit-
nessed the
deaths of the
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rope.
After the war the Allies carved
out Yugoslavia, placing all of the
southern Slavs under one govern
ment.
This move did not go oyer very’
well with the Serbians who want
ed their own Serbian state, said
Roger Reese, a Texas A&M histo
ry professor. Each group — Ser
bians, Croatians and Slovenians
- had their own ideas of how the
government should run.
A power struggle ensued over
the next 20 years with the Serbs
dominating the control of the gov
ernment.
When World War II came, the
Croatians and Slovenians looked
to the Germans as their liberators,
Hatchett said. The Germans estab
lished a Croatian state and placed
the Croatians in control of Yu
goslavia, including some Serbian-
occupied areas.
The Ustase, Croatian fascists,
used the opportunity to exact re
venge on Serbians for their 20
years of domination. The Ustase
engaged in ethnic cleansing
against the Serbs and committed
the same atrocities of which the
Serbs now stand accused, killing
an estimated 600,000 Serbs.
The Communists took over af
ter the war. And again, the Ser
bians controlled the government.
Josip Broz Tito led the new
regime. Under Tito, problems
were suppressed.
"Yugoslavia was forced back
together by the the strength of the
Communist Party, by the strength
of the Yugoslavian army, and,
more than anything, by the
strength of Tito," Hatchett said.
"When Tito died in 1980, the
strong personality which held that
country together and gave it some
sense of stability was gone.
"The country started to drift
apart again."
After Tito's death, the old eth
nic rivalries gradually resurfaced.
And lacking a strong, unifying
force, these divisions erupted into
war last year following the elec
tion of non-Communist govern
ments in Slovenia, Croatia, Mace
donia and Bosnia-Hercegovina.
The non-Communist govern
ments wanted independence from
the Communist-controlled gov
ernment in Serbia, Hatchett said.
But, the Yugoslavian government
refused. War followed.
Yugoslavian troops were first
sent into Slovenia to quell the calls
for independence.
"The original goal in Slovenia
was to hold the country (Yu
goslavia) together, keeping it un
der the control of the Communists
and the Serbs," Hatchett said.
"When it became obvious that
wasn't going to work, the Serbs
reverted to their 19th century goal
of getting all of the ethnic Serbs
under the control of Serbia."
Currently, of the seven and a
half million Serbs living in the for
mer Yugoslavia, only five million
actually live inside Serbia. The
rest are scattered among the other
six republics which made up Yu
goslavia. Both Croatia and Bosnia-
Hercegovina contain large Serbian
enclaves.
The current conflict revolves
around a people's right to choose
their own government and the
sovereign rights of a country,
Hatchett said.
"The Bosnians do not want to
give up territory. The Croatians
do not want to give up territory.
And the Serbs are not going to
abandon Serbs that live outside of
Serbia," he said. "It is a very emo
tional issue."
Serbians have argued that the
Bosnian conflict is merely their
protecting themselves from a fun
damentalist Islamic movement in
the republic, such as the one Iran
experienced in the late 70s. How
ever, Reese and Hatchett discount
the role of religious differences in
the conflict.
Reese describes the claim as a
scare tactic by the Serbian leader
ship to keep the people in line.
"That's an excuse and not a
reason," Hatchett said. "The de
gree of conservatism in the Bosni
an practice of Islam is not any
where near that of the Middle
East.
"It's an attempt by the Serbians
to find a reason to support what
they're trying to do which is ulti
mately to gain control over all Ser
bian lands and peoples."
Along the way to accomplish
ing these goals, old hostilities are
resurfacing after years of dorman
cy.
Ethnic cleansing has again be
come a weapon of war as Serbians
exact revenge on non-Serbs in
Bosnia for the crimes of the Ustase
during World War II, Hatchett
said. Currently, the Serbs have
taken control of 70 percent of the
land in Bosnia through "cleans
ing."
"It is all part of the belief of
Serbians that they can win from
terror more than they can get at
the negotiating table," Hatchett
said. "We've got to find a way to
convince them that's not true."
"The original goal in
Slovenia was to hold
the country
(Yugoslavia) together,
keeping it under the
control of the Commu
nists and the Serbs.
When it became obvi
ous that wasn't going
to work, the Serbs re
verted to their 19th
century goal of getting
all of the ethnic Serbs
under the control of
Serbia."
- Dr. Ronald Hatchett
Ultimately, Reese cannot fore
see any side coming out ahead in
the conflict. Even if the Serbians
do somehow manage to win mili
tarily, it will not solve the prob
lem. At some point, all parties to
the conflict will have to agree to
negotiations on the establishment
of new boundaries reflecting eth
nic borders.
"We have to use carrot and
stick with the Serbs," Hatchett
said. "We have to tell them that
they will not participate in the
world community as long as they
flaunt the standards of the inter
national community.
"But, there's going to have to
be pressure on both sides," he
said. "The Croatians and Bosnians
are going to have to understand
that there will be no peace until
the Serbian minorities in Bosnia
Local station
airs program
promoting
‘street smarts’
By LT. BERT KRET-
ZSCHMAR AND CPL.
BETTY LeMAY
Special to THE BATTALION
Tonight, KAMU-TV will
be airing a show entitled,
“Street Smarts — How to
Avoid Being a Victim.”
The program will feature
a former Chicago detective
and humorist, J.J. Bitten-
binder. He will explain how
victims of crime are select
ed, avoidance techniques
and what a person can do if
he or she becomes a target
of crime.
The U.S. Department of
Justice estimates that one
violent crime occurs every
11 seconds in this country.
The University Police De
partment hopes everyone in
the A&M community will
watch this program and be
come more aware of per
sonal safety issues and
some common sense ap
proaches to crime preven
tion and self-protection.
October is national crime
prevention month, and
KAMU-TV will be airing this
program tonight at 9 p.m.,
and Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 1
p.m.
The following crimes
were reported to the Uni
versity Police Department
in the period between
Sept. 9, 1992 and Oct. 16,
1992.
• 45 cases of misde
meanor theft.
• 10 cases of criminal
mischief.
• 37 minor in posses
sions were issued.
• five cases of public in
toxication.
• one case of criminal
trespass.
• four assault cases.
• five cases of felony
theft.
• six harassment cases.
• one abusive call to the
911 service.
• four citations were is
sued for driving while intoxi
cated.
• three vehicle burglar
ies.
• one case of making al
cohol available to a minor.
• one structure fire.
• one case of disorderly
conduct by fighting.
• one burglary of a coin-
operated machine.
• one burglary of a vehi
cle.
and Croatia feel secure."
And if the fighting does not
stop soon, hundreds of thousands
of lives will be lost during the
harsh winter months, Hatchett
said.
The CIA and the United Na
tions Refugee Agency estimate
between 150,000-400,000 people
will die in the upcoming winter
months.
"It just looks really bleak right
now," Reese said. "It is not a
hopeful situation."
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