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The Battalion
Page 9
Increased trouble in Bosnia
Muslim refugees scurry to leave town aboard U.N. trucks
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TUZLA, Bosnxa-Herzegovina
- Thousands of desperate Mus
lim refugees scrambled aboard
U.N. trucks Wednesday to flee
Serb-encircled Srebrenica. U.N.
officials said six died before they
could reach safety.
Bosnian government officials
later charged that the town had
come under renewed attack, and
radio reports indicated Serbs had
torched nearby villages.
A cease-fire in effect across
Bosnia since Sunday was in dan
ger of collapsing.
Two of the victims were chil
dren who were trampled to death
in the "mad rush and stampede"
to board the U.N. convoy, which
evacuated more than 2,000 peo
ple to Tuzla.
Four other people died en
route, and the 14 trucks were so
crammed with refugees that a
young, blond-haired boy fell off
during the journey.
The Muslim boy ran after a
truck, sobbing, until a Bosnian
Serb soldier, Maj. Vlada Dakic,
boosted him aboard.
Bosnian President Alija Izetbe-
govic said he signed an interna
tional peace agreement last week
in New York because the costs of
continued fighting were too
great.
"If we'd chosen the war op
tion, there would be enormous
suffering and casualties for an ex
tended period of time/' he said at
a news conference. "We weren't
sure we could win the military
victory." : y ■
Panic gripped thousands of
Muslims trapped by Bosnian Serb
forces in Srebrenica, 45 miles
southeast of Tuzla, representa
tives of the U.N. High Commis
sioner for Refugees said. Some of
the refugees have been on the run
from Serb forces for almost a
year,
UNHCR representative Lyn-
dall Sachs said the Muslims' des
peration to escape boiled over
with the arrival late Tuesday of a
relief convoy that stayed
overnight to ferry refugees out.
"There was a mad rush and
stampede onto the trucks," she
said in Belgrade.
The refugees in Wednesday's
convoy joined some 2,346 who
fled on 19 trucks Monday.
Bosnian radio said Srebrenica
authorities halted further truck
evacuations because of the wide
spread chaos.
Srebrenica is jammed with
tens of thousands of refugees,
many living in snow-covered
streets and dependent on air
drops for food.
Three convoys have reached
the town in the past 12 days, but
the Serbs had blocked other aid
since Dec. 10.
Security Council authorizes NATO to shoot down aircraft
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED NATIONS - The
Security Council increased inter
national pressure on Bosnia's
Serbs on Wednesday by authoriz
ing NATO warplanes to shoot
down aircraft that violate a ban
on flights over Bosnia.
But the council bowed to the
demands of Russia, a longtime
Serb ally, and ruled out the pre
emptive bombing of Serb air
fields as part of the long-delayed
enforcement measure, diplomats
said.
The resolution, which is a
symbolic victory for Bosnia's
Muslims, was supported by 14 of
the 15 nations on the council.
China abstained.
With the resolution, the inter
national community hopes to
pressure Bosnian Serbs to sign a
peace agreement already ap
proved by Bosnia's Croats and
the Muslim government.
In another development, the
United States apparently per
suaded its allies on the council
not to endorse or approve the
peace plan, apparently because
Washington wants to retain some
flexibility should the plan fall
through.
Enforcement of the no-flight
ban, enacted in October to pro
tect Bosnia's Muslims, hasHittle
military significance because al
most ail the attacks on the Mus
lims have been by ground troops,
not Serb warplanes.
But symbolically, it has been
promoted by Muslim states and
other countries as a display of in
ternational support for Bosnian
Muslims and outrage against
Bosnian Serbs.
Lord Owen, one of the authors
of the peace plan, said before the
resolution was passed: "I don't
think (the ban does) a lot but I
think it's important to go ahead
and do it and I think it makes it
clear that you can't flout Security
Council resolutions."
The outgunned Bosnian gov
ernment and Muslim states are
lobbying for the more militarily
significant step of lifting the
arms embargo against Bosnia.
So far, the no-fly zone has
been violated 465 times, mostly
by non-military flights, U.N. offi
cials say. But recently, small
planes attacked Muslim villages
in eastern Bosnia and then fled
toward Serb-dominated Yu
goslavia.
The Chinese representative on
the Security Council, Chen Jian,
explained m a speech that his
government abstained because it
opposes the use of force to ensure
compliance with the flight ban.
Earlier, Russia was a holdout,
delaying adoption of the resolu
tion three times last week for fear
that Yeltsin would be hurt politi
cally by endorsing new punitive
measures against Serbia.
Russian nationalist hard-liners
who came close to ousting
Yeltsin last week don't want to
further punish the Serbs, long
time allies of Moscow and fellow
Slavs.
Because of the concession to
Moscow, NATO warplanes will
be allowed only to shoot down
Serb planes already in the air
over Bosnia, and will not be al
lowed to bomb airfields to pre
vent Serb aircraft from taking off,
diplomats said.
Actor Brandon Lee dies during filming
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WILMINGTON, N.C. - Actor Brandon
Lee, son of the martial arts movies legend who
died at age 32, was hit by a projectile and
killed Wednesday in an accident on the set of
the movie he was starring in.
Lee, who was 27, was struck in the
abdomen when a gun rigged to shoot blanks
fired the object. He died at New Hanover
Regional Medical Center, where he had
undergone surgery.
The actor was starring in "The Crow," an
action-adventure film based on an adult comic
book of the same name. He was playing a rock
star who is murdered by a gang then comes
back to life with supernatural powers to
avenge his death and reunite with his fiancee.
Executive Producer Bob Rosen said the
accident happened during the filming of a
flashback scene.
Lee was standing about 20 feet from the
gun when it was fired.
Lee's father, Bruce, died in 1973.
Police were investigating Wednesday's
shooting, though they classified it as
accidental.
"After doing incredibly difficult stunts on
this movie, we were doing something
incredibly simple," Rosen said. "It was not
really in any way what one would think of as
a darigerous scene."
"We were doing something
incredibly simple ... It was
not really in any way what one
would think of as a dangerous
scene."
-Bob Rosen, producer
When a blank is fired, a piece of soft
wadding normally comes out of the gun, not a
projectile, Rosen said. "I've never heard of
anything like this before. I don't know how it
got in there," he said.
Filming in Wilmington began Feb. 1 and
was to conclude next week.
A series of mishaps have marred
production since the first day, when a worker
touched a high-voltage wire on a studio back
lot. He remains hospitalized.
The magazine Entertainment Weekly
reported in its April 2 issue that other
problems have occurred during the eight
weeks of production: a disgruntled employee
drove a car through the studio's plaster shop;
a construction worker slipped and drove a
screwdriver through his hand; a storm
damaged sets; and a publicist was injured in a
minor car accident.
Brandon Lee was 8 when his father died.
Though the cause was listed as a brain edema,
or swelling of the brain, the coroner described
it as "death by misadventure" and rumors
circulated that drugs or other factors caused
his death.
Brandon Lee was born in Oakland, Calif.,
and moved to Hong Kong with his parents
when he was 6.
Besides a series of martial arts movies, most
filmed in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee also appeared
in segments of the "Batman" television series
and starred as Kato in "The Green Hornet"
Freighter failed
to save Titanic,
inquiry says
THE ASSOCIATED tSS
LONDON - A nearby
freighter failed to go to the res
cue of the sinking Titanic part
ly because of an officer's neu
rotic fear of his domineering
and overcautious captain, ac
cording to a book published
Wednesday.
An inquiry concluded that
the British steamer Californian
might have saved all the vic
tims and faulted Capt. Stanley
Lord for not responding to the
Titantic's signal rockets. Lord's
family and supporters have ar
gued he was made a scapegoat
for the liner's owner not pro-
vidim
contends the Californian's sec
ond officer, Herbert Stone, re
alized the rockets were distress
signals. But Stone, who had
fled a domineering father at
age 16, was too afraid of the
overbearing and aloof Lord to
go below to insist that action
Betaken, the book says. :
"A normal man of average
character would have disre
garded Lord's order . . . and In
stantly have gone himself.
He would indeed have
'pulled' Lord out," wrote the
nook's author, Leslie Reade, a
British lawyer who died in
1989.
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Trade Center suspect
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NEW YORK — A sixth name
was added Wednesday to the list
of suspects in the bombing of the
World Trade Center as a new in
dictment was made public.
The new suspect, Ramzi
Ahmed Yousef, has not been ar
rested but was included in the su
perseding indictment that now
also includes Mahmud Abohali-
ma, the alleged organizer of the
Feb. 26 bombing.
Previously indicted were Nidal
Ayyad of Maplewood, N.J., and
Mohammed A. Salameh of Jersey
City, N.J., both 25.
In the new indictment handed
up Wednesday, the four men are
charged with using explosives to
maliciously damage and destroy
the World Trade Center, resulting
in the death of six people.
A fifth man, Bilal Alkaisi, 26,
has been charged with aiding and
abetting the bombing but has not
been indicted.
A sixth suspect, 42-year-old
Ibrahim Elgabronwy, is being
held without bail but is charged
only with obstructing justice after
a fight with two FBI agents exe
cuting a search warrant.
In a statement, prosecutors
said a warrant had been issued
for the arrest of Yousef, 25, who
once lived at the same Jersey City
residence as Salameh.
No other information was pro
vided about him. Salameh lived
with a group of about seven fel
low Muslims in two spartan
apartments in Jersey City.
Salameh, Ayyad, Abohalima
and Alkaisi, all from the Middle
East, are being held without bail.
Abohalima's attorney, Jesse
Berman, said he had never before
heard the name of the latest sus
pect.
The lunchtime blast at the
world's second-tallest buildings
killed a six people, injured more
than 1,000 and inflicted $500 mil
lion in damages.
Salameh was arrested after au
thorities linked him to a rental
van and he returned to the rental
company to haggle over a $400
deposit.
Ayyad, a chemical engineer,
was arrested a short time later at
his home. Abohalima was arrest
ed at his family's home in Egypt.
His brother said he left the
country shortly after Salameh's
arrest.
Alkaisi surrendered for ques
tioning and was charged in the
bombing several hours later.
All have denied involvement
in the bombing.
Earlier Wednesday, an office
printer belonging to Ayyad was
seized by authorities investigat
ing a letter claiming responsibility
for the attack, officials said.
The letter was sent to The
New York Times within days of
the blast.
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