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Wednesday, July 21,1993
Serb attack pressures Muslims
Bosnian Croats battle government forces for territory
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herze-
govina — Bosnia's president
pleaded for U.N. help Tuesday
against a strong Serb offensive
on the outskirts of Sarajevo that
seems designed to increase pres
sure on Muslims to accept ethnic
partitioning.
But in a move that could strain
the recent alliance of Bosnian
Serbs and Croats in pushing for
division, Bosnian Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic announced
plans to unite his self-proclaimed
state with Serb-held regions of
Croatia.
The Serb attack on Mount Ig-
man, overlooking Sarajevo's U.N.-
controlled airport, is the fiercest in
the area since the Serb siege of the
capital began in April 1992 soon
after the outbreak of the war.
Maj. Luuk Niessen, a
spokesman for U.N. peacekeepers.
said sketchy reports from Mount
Igman indicated night attacks by
troops of Bosnia's Muslim-led
government were recapturing po
sitions seized by Serb fighters dur
ing the day.
Bosnian President Alija Izetbe-
govic appealed for international
help in a letter to U.N. Secretary-
General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
and other officials.
The U.N. Security Council des
ignated Sarajevo and five other
cities as "safe areas" for Bosnian
Muslims, but it has provided no
troops to guard the zones.
Heavy fighting also was re
ported Tuesday between govern
ment forces and Bosnian Croats in
several areas of central Bosnia,
where the former allies are bat
tling for territory. Fighting was es
pecially fierce in the towns of
Gornji Vakuf and Bugojno,
Niessen said.
Croats initially allied with Mus
lims after Bosnia seceded from
Serb-dominated Yugoslavia 16
months ago, then began cooperat
ing with Serbs recently to push the
partition plan and gain territory.
That relationship could be un
dermined by the determination of
Serb extremists to create a "Greater
Serbia" from all lands controlled by
ethnic Serbs, including the one-
third of Croatia they hold.
The idea also could wreck the
attempt by Serbian President Slo
bodan Milosevic and Croatian
President Franjo Tudjman to con
clude a peace agreement embrac
ing both Croatia and Bosnia. Last
month, they agreed on a plan to
divide Bosnia into three ethnically
defined states.
Bosnian Muslims reject the
plan, fearing it would leave them
in landlocked pockets squeezed
between hostile Serb and Croat re
gions that eventually would unite
with Serbia and Croatia.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — The U.N. special en
voy complained Monday that the escalation of vio
lence in Mogadishu has obscured the success of the
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Thirty-five peacekeepers have died since June 5 in
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on several compounds believed used by Aidid's
gunmen, resulting in heavy Somali casualties and
triggering international criticism about excessive
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committed last year. During the
first six months of 1992 there were
no youths involved in homicide,
but there have been two in the
first six months of 1993.
The number of felony assaults,
which includes sexual assault,
committed has steadily increased
from eight in 1987 to 23 in 1991,
almost a 200 percent increase, she
said.
The number of nonviolent
crimes committed has steadily in
creased from the past year. Dur
ing the first six months of 1992
there were 32 cases of burglary, 10
cases of theft and 10 cases of mo
tor theft. In the first six months of
1993, there have been 50 cases of
burglary, 10 cases of theft, and 39
cases of motor theft, she said.
The ongoing trial of 16-year-
old Sherron Dante Greenwood,
who is accused of stabbing 16-
year-old Billy C. Williams in a
Bryan school cafeteria has
brought more attention to the rise
in juvenile crime and the debate
of trying juveniles as adults.
Dow said a lot goes into con
sideration when deciding
whether these juveniles should be
tried as adults. It depends on
whether they are on probation or
if they are a first time offender
and on the seriousness of the
crime, she said.
"When an adult commits a
crime you pretty much know
what will happen to them; where
as with juveniles, a lot goes into
consideration as far as rehabilita
tion," she said.
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show the emotional pain that is
involved," she said.
Dr. Richard Stadelmann, asso
ciate professor of philosophy,
agreed, "To try to work and take
care of children is a grinding ex
perience when you are a single
parent," he said. "Even the
shows that show poverty are usu
ally comedies, so you do not real
ly sense the hardships of having
children out of wedlock."
Stadelmann said the increase
in out-of-wedlock births could be
a result of changing values.
"With the number of out of
wedlock children, we have a dis
integration of values," he said.
"We ought not glorify having
children out of wedlock. That's
where I think Quayle was right."
Cerinovich said, Most of the
women are aware that birth con
trol exists, but for one reason or
another do not use it.
"There is also a stigma at
tached to being on birth control,"
she said. "If you're on birth con
trol, people expect you to be sexu
ally active. Many young women
don't want to admit this to them
selves. If sexual activity happens
and they are not on birth control,
they can say it was not planned or
it's true love."
Stadelmann said, "I think of it
like this: when I was in college I
was pretty wild behind the wheel
of a car even though I was thor
oughly aware of the dangers and
the risks involved. I think there is
a certain feeling of invulnerabili
ty. A feeling of 'it won't happen
to me', so they ignore the risks
and don't use birth control."
But VanHightower said many
women are consciously choosing
to become single parents.
"I spoke to a group called Sin
gle Mothers By Choice," she said.
"They are a group of women who
would probably like to be mar
ried but for one reason or another
did not find a mate, and they
wanted children."
"I feel quite comfortable with
people who take a rational ap
proach and decide that it is what
they want to do and have the
means to do it," she said. ."My
feeling is people just ought to be
thinking about the children and
if they are doing that, it's fine
with me."
all Dante's actions were an at
tempt to save his own life and
testified that a reasonable person
in the same situation would have
acted similarly.
Love-Clark said Dante felt all
his options were gone. "Self-
preservation is a very strong in
stinct," she said.
Esparza underscored these
points by presenting a school
binder to the jury on which
Greenwood had written, "If I
die, I die."
District Attorney Bill Turner
countered Love-Clark's testimo
ny by alleging that Dante was
guilty of "malingering"- feigning
mental illness to influence her
testimony.
Love-Clark responded that af
ter serving many years in a pro
fessional capacity, it would take
a degree of sophistication that
Dante did not possess in order to
lie convincingly to her.
The latter half of the day was
devoted to testimony from
Greenwood's classmates about
confrontations between the rival
gangs. Judge John Delaney had
to quiet laughter in the court
room during these proceedings,
reminding spectators to respect
the members of Greenwood's
and William's families who were
present.
An acquaintance of Green
wood testified that on the morn
ing of the killing, Dante acted
unusual and told her "he was
tired of everyone messing with
him and that he was going to kill
somebody."
While questioning the wit
ness, Turner walked over to a
markerboard and wrote the
word "somebody," underlined
for jurors to read.
Jury deliberation is expected
to begin tomorrow after the
prosecution makes its final argu
ment.
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