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The Battalion
Thursday, March 4,1993
Russia assists with Bosnia relief effort
Clinton recognizes
support in airdrop
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - The
Clinton administration on
Tuesday hailed Russia's
announced participation in the
Bosnian airdrop as a milestone of
post-Cold War cooperation.
"It's very important that they
participate," Pentagon
spokesman Bob Hall told
reporters. "They have a
tremendous military capability."
During the past two nights, six
C-130 transport planes have
dropped 38.3 tons of food and
medicine over eastern Bosnia, the
latest drop to the region of Zepa,
Hall said.
It is the most direct U.S.
intervention so far in the conflict
among the warring factions of
former Yugoslavia.
NATO Secretary General
Manfred Woerner also welcomed
Russia's participation. "I think
this is a good signal," Woerner
told reporters in the White House
driveway. "And from the talks I
just had, I know that the new
administration sees it the same
way."
Woerner said NATO also was
playing an active role in the
Balkan crisis "and we are
prepared to do more if the United
Nations gives us a mandate."
Hall pointed out that the
Russians have "major interests"
in the Balkan region, contending
it is significant they participate
"in this kind of humanitarian
mission, essentially changing as a
result of the end of the Cold War
as our military has changed."
Defense Secretary Les Aspin,
speaking with reporters on
Capitol Hill, termed the airdrops
a "great success" because they
had resulted in the Serbs allowing
land convoys to reach isolated
regions.
Aspin said the third airdrop
taking place Tuesday night might
be the last for a while because
humanitarian aid was now
reaching the region by land.
"What we're trying to do is
use the airdrops to leverage freer
flow . . . through the land
convoys. And in that way its been
a great success," he said, adding
that since the airdrop was
announced, relief convoys that
had been held up at checkpoints
had all been let through.
President says Haitian
repatriation necessary
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration told the Supreme
Court on Tuesday that its policy of intercepting and returning Haitian
refugees is necessary "to prevent a mass migration and the loss of lives
at sea."
A lawyer for returned Haitians argued, "This is not rescue. This is
aiding and abetting their persecutors."
The court must decide sometime by July whether the U.S. govern
ment's policy of stopping Haitians on the high seas and returning them
without considering their pleas for political asylum violates federal im
migration law or international treaty obligations.
A federal appeals court last year ruled that the policy was illegal,
but the Supreme Court postponed the effect of that ruling until it rules
in the case.
Some 37,000 people have fled the Caribbean nation in boats since
their country's army overthrew elected President Jean-Bertrand Aris
tide in September 1991. The repatriation policy, begun by the Bush ad
ministration last year, virtually ended such boat traffic.
The Bush administration said most of those people were not fleeing
violence, but were trying to escape economic devastation in the hemi
sphere's most impoverished nation.
Candidate Bill Clinton last year called the policy "cruel" and "ille
gal." But after his election. President Clinton reassessed his position.
"Maybe I was too harsh in my criticism of him (Bush), but I still
think there's a big difference between what we're doing in Haiti and
what they were doing in Haiti," Clinton said Tuesday at a photo op
portunity with visiting NATO leader Manfred Woerner.
"And there's a big difference between the kinds of problems that
are created by the Haitian circumstance," Clinton said. "You know,
something that was never brought up before but is now painfully ap
parent is, that if we did what the plaintiffs in the court case want, we
would be consigning a very large number of Haitians in all probability
to some sort of death warrant." He said many people have been lost at
sea.
White House spokesman George Stephanopoulos said Tuesday that
Clinton "at the moment . . . believes that the practice has to be main
tained.
"Even though he believes this is a policy for exceptional circum
stances, it is one he feels should be maintained for now (as) the best
way he can avoid loss of life," Stephanopoulos said.
He added: "The president has reconsidered his position. He be
lieves that this is the right thing to do. . . . He believes the president has
the legal authority to carry out this policy.'
National News Briefs
NASA grounds
shuttle for 2 days
CAPE CANAVERAL (AP)
— NASA delayed this month's
planned launch of space shuttle
Columbia by at least two days
Wednesday because of a rup
tured hydraulic hose that
sprayed fluid in the engine
compartment.
It is the second delay In
three weeks for the German
Spacelab mission.
Columbia was supposed to
lift off around Feb. 25, but con
fusion over engine parts last
month forced a delay until
March 14. NASA now is aiming
for no earlier than March 16.
The latest problem occurred
during a test of the three main
engines Tuesday night. A hy
draulic line burst and sprayed
about three gallons of hy
draulic fluid over one of the en
gines and nearby components,
said NASA spokesman Mitch
Varnes. Electrical connections
were soaked.
Perot demands
government cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Ross Perot, bearing sharp
words for both Congress and
the White House, exhorted
lawmakers Tuesday to aban
don lives of "opulence" and ac
cused President Clinton of sur
rounding himself with aides
"who never created a job or ran
a business."
The 1992 independent presi
dential candidate told a House-
Senate committee on congres
sional reform that he intended
to begin citing a "pork-of-the-
month" project to highlight
wasteful spending.
"You must eliminate all of
the perks and practices that
have caused the American peo
ple to lose confidence in Con
gress," Perot told the panel.
‘The White House must do the
same," said Perot.
Officials advise
curfew for teens
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Federal safety officials Tuesday
urged a nationwide crack
down on teen-agers who drink
and drive, including curfews to
keep young motorists off the
highways at night.
The National Safety Trans
portation Board said underage
drinking and driving remains a
lethal combination despite ma
jor progress the last 10 years
spurred by state laws that
made 21 the minimum age for
buying alcoholic beverages.
"IPs still fairly easy for
youths to purchase alcohol,"
said Barry Sweedler, head of
the board's office of safety rec
ommendations. And, he said,
"binge drinking" among teens
is on the rise.
"Thousands of lives each
year could be saved" by
tougher laws, Sweedler said.
1 he five-member board ap
proved a report to governors
and state legislatures that calls
for limiting or barring nighttime
driving by teens; lowering to
zero the legal alcohol blood con
tent for young motorists; and
imposing penalties for teens
who buy beer, wine or liquor.
The board lacks any enforce
ment power but has achieved
some notable successes in its
role as national scold.
Senate
Continued from Page 1
In other business, the Senate passed a course repetition bill. The bill
would allow students who take a course twice to average both grades
for credit in the course.
The Student Services Building was added to a list of areas that are
off-limits for student government campaigning. The MSC and Rudder
Complex are already off-limits to campaigning.
The Student Senate reaffirmed its support of a X-notation policy for
students who drop out of a class because of unforeseen circumstances
or illness.
The registrar would assign the student a grade of X at the end of the
semester instead of a withdraw-passing or -failing mark. A grade of X
is usually assigned by the registrar when a grade is not submitted by
an instructor.
The Student Senate also approved having the same number of teach
ing days during the Fall and Spring semesters. Further, the bill pro
vides an extra reading day before final examinations for the fall and
spring semesters and two reading days in mid-October just prior to
mid-term exams. The bill still must be approved by the faculty senate.
The senate also approved a plan to allow students or their parents to
purchase advance payment contracts.
The Prepaid Post-Secondary Education Expense Program allows stu
dents or parents to pay for an academic year of undergraduate educa
tion prior to the time of enrollment.
The cost would be lower than what students enrolling normally for
the upcoming academic year would pay, according to the bill.
The senate also denounced pending state legislation that would
force students with more than 158 undergraduate hours to pay nonresi
dent tuition.
In other business, the senate endorsed state legislation regarding a
research center for Texas beaches and shores and an academy for for
eign languages.
Two new senators were sworn in. Will Looney, representing the
Southside and Bryan Garcia, representing the College of Engineering.
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