The Battalion
Wednesday, October 21, 1992
Bosnian leader to let country divide
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA — Bosnia-Herze-
govina's president on Tuesday
agreed to permit his battle-torn
country to be divided into au
tonomous areas and said he
would resign by the end of the
year.
Separately, the presidents of
Serb-dominated Yugoslavia and
rival Croatia took steps toward
normalizing relations.
The three leaders were meet
ing in Geneva to end the blood
shed in Bosnia and seek a politi-
! cal resolution for the former Yu
goslav federation, which broke
up in civil war that has killed at
least 24,000 people and left more
than 1 million homeless.
Bosnian President Alija Izetbe-
govic, who long opposed any de
centralization of his republic, said
a proposal by international medi
ators to create eight to 10 au
tonomous regions is "fully ac
ceptable."
"We don't want to
form three religious
states. We want a
European country."
-Alija Izetbegovic,
Bosnian president
But Izetbegovic again rejected
Serb demands for their own state.
Bosnian Croats, who control most
of the rest of Bosnia, are nominal
allies of the Muslim-led govern
ment but also independence-
minded.
"We don't want to form three
religious states. We want a Euro
pean country," Izetbegovic said
in an interview.
The war began in April, when
Serbs took up arms after refusing
to accept a referendum for an in
dependent Bosnia. Since then, the
Muslims, who make up about 43
percent of the republic's 4 million
people, have lost control over al
most all of Bosnia.
The plan discussed by Izetbe
govic would create regions divid
ed along geographic lines, keep
ing major farming and industrial
regions intact and Sarajevo as the
administrative capital.
In an unexpected move possi
bly aimed at strengthening ties
with Bosnian Croats, Izetbegovic
also said he will give up his pres
idency by December as foreseen
under a 1990 constitution.
Serb supporters justify aggressive actions
By MARK EVANS
Staff Writer of THE BATTALION
While the world paints the Serbians as the ag
gressors in the former Yugoslavia, local Serbian
supporters maintain that Serbia is only trying to re
claim lands traditionally belonging to its people,
lands which Muslims want to take away.
"The Serbs in Bosnia now are presented as occu
piers. The fact is they have lived on those lands for
hundreds of years," said Dr. Marko Jaric, a Texas
A&M physics professor whose family is from
Bosnia.
Jaric blames the current Bosnian conflict on Mus
lims trying to take control of Serbian lands.
Throughout history, Serbs and Croats lived in rural
areas as peasants while Muslims made their homes
in the cities, Jaric said. Muslims want that to
change.
"Muslims would like to have their own state, but
they would like the Serbs and Croats to pay for it
because they don't have enough territory of their
own to form their own state," he said.
Muslims do not want to take land away from
Muslims, Jaric said. They (Muslims) want lands
where Serbs are in the majority.
Serbian enclaves were scattered throughout the
former Yugoslavia. Besides Bosnia-Hercegovina,
Croatia also holds a large population of Serbs.
When Yugoslavia broke up, the individual re
publics refused to allow the Serbian groups to join
the Serbian state. Then, the Serbian-dominated Yu
goslavian army tried to take back the Serb lands,
consolidating them under the Serbian government,
Jaric said.
"All of these statements that Serbs are invading
and taking the territory of Muslims is not true," he
said. "Serbia does not want to intervene in states
without Serbian populations."
However, these feelings toward the Serbs are not
new.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - U.S. offi
cials on a weekend trip to Viet
nam gained access to a cache of
secret information, including
thousands of photographs, that
could shed light on the fate of
Americans missing in action in
the Vietnam War, government
sources said Tuesday.
"There's a good chance we'll
get a lot of cases solved —
dozens, hundreds maybe," said
one Defense Department official,
like others speaking only on the
condition of anonymity.
One source said the pho
tographs are all of dead service
men.
Another official said intelli
gence personnel are "working
night and day" to glean clues to
what became of U.S. servicemen
believed captured or killed.
If positive identifications are
made, families of the missing men
will be notified first, the officials
said. President Bush is to be
briefed on the results Thursday;
then there will be a public an
nouncement.
At the Pentagon, spokesman
Bob Hall refused to comment on
the situation except to promise
that, if new information is devel
oped, "we will talk fairly quickly
with the families to alert them to
the issue."
Another official said the infor
mation "may be a whole new
vein" of evidence about those list
ed as prisoners of war or missing
in action during that war. It could
be especially useful in pursuing
the scores of so-called "discrepan
cy cases," in which servicemen
were last seen or heard from
alive, but in imminent danger of
capture.
"We know it's good, but we
won't know how good until we
can check it against what we al
ready know," said the official.
A Senate source said between
4,000 and 5,000 photos are in the
newly uncovered archives, but
many are duplicates, or different
shots of the same individuals.
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Study shows low-fat, high-fiber diet
does not protect against breast cancer
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — A major U.S. study suggests
that eating less fat and more fiber offers no
protection against breast cancer, contrary to
previous findings.
But a lean diet is still very important to
avert other diseases, such as colon cancer and
heart disease, the researchers hastened to say.
One critic said the study was flawed, and a
government researcher said it may present
only part of the picture.
Subjects were 89,494 women in the continu
ing Nurses' Health Study. Their diets and de
velopment of breast cancer were tracked for
eight years beginning in 1980, when the
women ranged from age 34 to 59.
Their fat consumption ranged from less
than 29 percent of total daily calories to more
than 49 percent. Fiber consumption ranged
from less than 11 grams per day to more than
22 grams per day. The government recom
mends 20 to 30 grams a day, about the amount
in five servings of fruits and-or vegetables.
A total of 1,439 women developed breast
cancer during the eight years, said the study
led by Dr. Walter C. Willett and published in
Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical
Association.
"We found no evidence that risk of breast
cancer was greater among women with higher
fat intakes," said co-author David J. Hunter,
an associate epidemiologist at Harvard-affili
ated Brigham and Women's Hospital in
Boston.
"Also, we found no relation between di
etary fiber intake and the incidence of breast
cancer."
It is the largest and longest-running of five
similarly conducted investigations about the
possible link between breast cancer and di
etary fat, according to a researcher who did
not participate in the work.
One of the five found no link and three
found a significant link, wrote Geoffrey R.
Howe of the National Cancer Institute of
Canada Epidemiology Unit in an editorial ac
companying the study.
"The results of the Nurses' Health Study
provide the strongest evidence to date from
any single study against the ... association," he
wrote.
Hunter said that even if cutting dietary fat
may not prevent breast cancer — which will
afflict one in nine American women today — it
is still a good way to reduce the risk for heart
disease and colon cancer.
Second typhoon puts
power out on Guam
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AGANA, Guam — The second typhoon in less than two months
swept over Guam early Wednesday, knocking out power and wa
ter to parts of the island of 135,000 people.
The eye of Typhoon Brian was passing over the southern tip of
the island, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center on Guam reported at
noon Wednesday (10 p.m. EDT Tuesday). The storm had maxi
mum sustained wind of 115 mph and gusts to 145 mph, and it was
moving west-northwest at 7 mph, the center said.
Forecasters at the warning center said the powerful winds of the
eye wall were expected to bash the island for about three hours.
Before the storm hit, residents had lined up at stores to buy bat
teries, propane and flashlights. "Everyone is prepared," said Kevin
Kerrigan, a reporter for KGUM radio.
Guam is west of the international date line, 3,800 miles west of
Hawaii and 1,500 miles south of Japan.
Campaign spending on record-setting pace
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The presidential ri
vals are waging what shapes up as the
costliest political advertising blitz in the
history of the airwaves, spending more
than $40 million on network television
this fall.
From pro football games to prime-time
sitcoms, presidential ads are everywhere
and will be until election eve, when the ri
vals are expected to air 20 -to 30-minute
final appeals at a rate of almost $1 million
an hour.
Beyond that. President Bush and Gov.
Bill Clinton are pouring millions more
into a barrage of radio ads and local TV
spots in key battleground states.
"If the opposition is doing it, you're
afraid not to do it,
that's what drives the
spending up," said
Professor Herbert
Alexander of the Uni
versity of Southern
California, an authori
ty on campaign spend
ing.
What are viewers
seeing?
Bush's latest ad
shows a Time maga
zine cover with Clinton's face and the
headline: "Why voters don't trust Clin
ton." Perot has been running half-hour
spots laying out the country's economic
problems and his proposed solutions.
Clinton's first network ad aired Thursday
night. It shows Bush telling voters in 1988
they would be better
off with him as presi
dent. "How are you
doing?" it asks.
Spending on net
work ads this year has
easily outpaced four
years ago. At this time
in 1988, for example,
ABC had taken in a to
tal of $5.9 million from
Bush and Democrat
Michael Dukakis in
post-convention ad money, compared
with $19 million so far this year from
Bush, Clinton and Perot.
Perot's presence in the race is one rea
son for the higher spending levels.
Another is Bush's underdog status in
most states, which has forced him to
spread his message far
and wide. He's taking
to the networks with
ads that in happier
times might have been
more economically tar
geted to key states.
"With Perot in the
race, it has to be the
most spending ever,
no doubt about it,"
said Washington polit
ical consultant Vic
Kamber.
"Obviously, we've taken in a lot more
this year," said ABC spokesman Stephen
Battaglio. The network so far has gotten
$7.9 million from Bush, $10.4 million from
Perot and $680,000 from Clinton.
CBS was still calculating its totals at
midday Tuesday, but network officials
did not quarrel with figures of $4.3 mil
lion from Bush, $3.3 million from Perot
and $2.5 million from Clinton that were
reported in Advertising Age.
NBC reported $5.5 million thus far
from Bush, $3.7 million from Perot and
$1.2 million from Clinton.
All told. Bush has thus far spent $17.7
million on network buys to $17.3 million
for Perot and $5.5 million for Clinton.
And ABC is scheduled to air three 20-
minute ads on election eve, one from each
of the campaigns, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.
EST, at a total cost for the hour of
$975,000. NBC is offering each of the pres
idential rivals a 30-minute slot for a final
pitch to the voters.
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