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U.N. forces fire on Somalia; more than 100 die
The Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia — American Cobra
Helicopters fired on Somali women and chil
dren Thursday in what the United Nations
claimed was a “last-resort" effort to keep
them from killing peacekeepers.
Nearby residents said the street was lit
tered with the bodies of as many as 100 Soma
lis.
A U.N. spokesman said a Pakistani soldier
was killed and three Americans and two Pak
istanis were injured.
The peacekeepers had come under fire
from heavy weapons by Somali militiamen
and were trying to withdraw when women
and children joined in the attack with
grenades and small arms, said Maj. David
Stockwell.
Stockwell, the chief U.N. military
spokesman, initially said a mob of women and
children was swarming over the U.N. vehicles
when the helicopters fired on them with
20mm cannons.
Later, he said the women and children had
joined militiamen in attacking the soldiers
from behind walls lining the route of their
withdrawal and were clambering over road
blocks in their way.
"The women and children were combat
ants," Stockwell said.
"When the helicopters came in they shot at
the gunmen behind the walls, and the women
and children who were actively engaged as
combatants as well," Stockwell said. "Whoev
er was behind the walls was shot at.
"There were some people swarming on the
roadblocks, but not directly on the vehicles ...
and the helicopters shot down the middle of
the road to persuade people to leave," Stock-
well said.
The incident was sure to fire the debate in
the U.S. Congress over American involvement
in Somalia and to add fuel to the arguments of
some U.N. members that the United Nations
has lost sight of its humanitarian mission in
the country.
Stockwell blamed the attack on the forces of
fugitive warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid,
wanted by the United Nations for a series of
assaults that have killed 48 peacekeepers and
wounded more than 175 since May.
Stockwell said he had no information on
the number of Somalis killed or wounded, but
told reporters, "What I am acknowledging is
that if you go out there tomorrow, you may
find some women and children casualties."
The report of scores of Somalis killed could
not be independently confirmed. Stockwell ac
knowledged that U.N. troops and tanks, ar
mored personnel carriers and helicopters used
"heavy casualty-producing weapons" in de
fending themselves.
Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that U.S. troops
should stay in Somalia "for the foreseeable fu
ture" to ensure the success of the U.N. opera
tion there and to preserve America's credibili-
ty -
The U.N. road-clearing crew consisted of
100 Pakistani soldiers, three tanks, four ar
mored personnel carriers and an American
bulldozer.
One of the tanks was hit by what Stockwell
said was a 106mm recoilless rifle and set
ablaze.
"They got hit pretty hard," Stockwell said.
Stockwell said a platoon of 30-40 soldiers
from the U.S. Quick Reaction Force was called
in, then swiftly withdrawn without engaging
the militiamen when it became apparent it
could not be adequately reinforced.
Reporters who ventured near the fighting
said they saw an American patrol exchanging
machine-gun, grenade and automatic rifle fire
with Somalis.
Stockwell said the remaining two Pakistani
tanks, the four armored personnel carriers and
the bulldozer were withdrawing from the ini
tial ambush when they were surrounded by
the mob.
The initial attack, he said, was by "a sizable
militia force."
It was the first time Somali militiamen have
engaged heavily armored vehicles.
After the helicopters fired into the mob,
Stockwell said, the U.N. vehicles and troops
withdrew into a nearby stadium that houses a
Pakistani brigade.
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Senate votes to tighten Clinton's
military policy on homosexuals
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate branded homo
sexuality an "unacceptable risk" to military morale
and voted Thursday to tighten President Clinton's
policy toward gays in the military.
In the first floor vote on the issue’since Clinton
unveiled his "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue"
policy in July, the Senate rejected a measure that
would have left the matter to the president's dis
cretion.
The vote was 63-33, with members of the Demo
cratic leadership, including Senate Majority Leader
George Mitchell of Maine and Sen. Robert Byrd of
West Virginia voting against the amendment.
Part of the fiscal 1994 defense budget, the gays
in the military measure overshadowed debate on
billion-dollar weapons systems.
The House ana Senate worked Thursday on the
overall spending plan for the fiscal year beginning
Oct. 1.
The House Armed Services Committee has al
ready adopted the same legislative policy as the
Senate, and the full House was expected to pass it
next week.
Clinton could veto the legislation to eliminate
the congressional policy but he would also lose the
entire defense budget. Clinton has signaled to Con
gress that he finds this new policy acceptable.
The legislative policy states that Congress has
the constitutional right to make rules for the mili
tary, that the armed forces are unique and "per
sons who demonstrate a propensity or intent to en
gage in homosexual acts would create an unaccept
able risk to the high standards of morale, good or
der and discipline' in the military.
Clinton's compromise policy ended the practice
of questioning recruits and service members about
their sexual orientation, but allowed the military to
continue to discharge homosexuals.
The president's plan centers on the premise that
orientation is not a bar to military service and calls
for an end to witchhunts to ferret out gays.
It also urges even-handed enforcement of the
Uniform Code of Military Justice for heterosexuals
and homosexuals, a provision sought by gay rights
groups.
The legislation makes no mention of orientation,
witchhunts or the code, and says a future defense
secretary could reinstate the policy of asking re
cruits their sexual orientation.
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Reaction
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his family for generations.
He said the land would be val
ued at $1 million today and thinks
the Israelis should reimburse the
Palestinians for all the lands that
they've lost.
"I insist
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derstand the p U t their energies into
the"™ free turning the Middle East
Palestinians j nto f.]^ Garden of Eden in
is just sit back and watch what
happens and pray for the best."
Sharon Sernik, a senior veteri
nary medicine major and presi
dent of Aggie Friends of Israel,
said she is "cautiously optimistic"
about the agreement.
Sernik, whose family lives in
Israel, said it is hard for Israel to
trust the PLO because they are an
organization
stead of the killing fields
they've become."
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and prevent
their loss,"
he said.
"I don't
approve any
compromise
without full
right for stolen land."
Reuben Ehrlich, religious vice
president of Hillel, said he is very
pleased with the outcome of the
agreement yet he is still worried
about the future.
"This could be peace for the
first time in thousands of years,"
he said.
But, Ehrlich said he is skeptical
of the agreement.
He said he is curious to see if
the agreement written on paper
can happen in real life.
"I have never seen peace in the
Middle East in my life, so it's hard
for me to envision it," he said.
"We don't want to celebrate
just yet because peace hasn't actu
ally happened yet. All we can do
built for the
destruction
of Israel.
"I'm wor
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even if
(Yasser)
Arafat is rea
sonable he
may not
have control
of other fac
tions such as
Hamas and
other Palestinian fundamentalist
groups that will be satisfied only
with the destruction of Israel," she
said.
Sernik said she is confident in
Israel's decision and that they
have taken a very bold step.
"I, like all Israelites and Jews,
am dreaming of peace and we
hope and pray that everything
turns out for the best," she said.
Tarlow said the agreement
could bring peace that has been
missing from the Middle East for
centuries.
"Hopefully now they will put
their energies into turning the
Middle East into the Garden of
Eden instead of the killing fields
they've become," he said.
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the agreement "a historical break
through which was the result of
the foresight, vision and courage
of chairman Arafat and the lead
ership of Israel."
In Jerusalem, Rabin's 10-mem
ber inner Cabinet voted unani
mously to approve the mutual
recognition agreement.
Three hours after Arafat con
vened the PLO's ruling Executive
Committee to approve the recog
nition and self-rule accords, the
committee was still heatedly de
bating the pacts. Holst was still in
Tunis, awaiting the decision.
PLO officials, speaking on con-
dition of anonymity, said the
PLO's foreign minister, Farouk
Kaddoumi, boycotted the meeting
in protest. Arafat still was be
lieved to have the necessary ma
jority of eight or nine of the 12
committee members still in atten
dance.
Holst was then to take the text
to Israel for signature, said Yasser
Abed-Rabbo, one of the Palestin
ian officials closest to Arafat.
Clinton, in Cleveland, hailed
the accord as a "huge develop
ment" toward Middle East peace
and said "I am very, very hopeful
about the future." The cautioned
that "there are a lot of things that
still have to happen" to continue
the peace process.
NAFTA
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15 years there will be a move to
wards free trade with the rest of
Latin America.
"Many Latin American com
panies are familiar with Ameri
can products, and that gives us
the advantage over Japan and
Germany," he said.
"If the rest of Latin America
follows in Mexico's footsteps, on
the whole, the U.S. will gain more
than the rest of Latin America
gains."
Other criticisms of NAFTA
come from environmental groups
who fear that the lack pf environ
mental standards in Mexico could
be detrimental. £
"A wholeiot of the controver
sy boils down to the environmen
tal standards in Mexico," said
Charles Kennicutt, chief chemist
at A&M's Geochemical and Envi
ronmental Research Group.
"Their regulations are inferior
to those of U.S. companies, and
they will have to conform to
that."
If the Mexican government
doesn't begin to enforce environ
mental standards, Kennicutt said,
there will be a free incentive to
export polluting technology.
"U.S. companies will be able to
save large costs by moving to
Mexico where companies are not
regulated by the government," he
said.
"These polluting technologies
move into Mexico and dump
their waste into rivers that drain
into the U.S., and then the pollu
tion has to be dealt with on the
American side."
But, Kennicutt said, the envi
ronment by itself is not enough to
stop NAFTA, even though it
might hurt the issue.
Aside from the controversies
behind NAFTA, Caspar said, U.S.
exports to Mexico are increasing.
Caspar cited that in 1987, there
were $8 billion in exports to Mex
ico and last year there were more
than $40 billion in exports.
If free trade increases further,
he said, the U.S. Department of
Commerce estimates that each
billion dollars increased by ex
port generates 20,000 jobs in the
United States.
"NAFTA will have a positive
effect overall for both countries,"
he said.
"It will increase the number of
jobs because of an increase in ex
ports and economic growth."
"By increasing exports both
countries gain," Caspar said.
"There will be an increase in
jobs and an increase in income
levels. The more Mexicans em
ployed, the more their income in
creases and the more purchases
they will make of U.S. products,
and that means more American
jobs."
Another benefit of free trade
with Mexico is that as the level of
Mexican jobs increases, incentives
for illegal immigration decreases,
Caspar said.
"This means there is less pres
sure on the border patrol and so
cial programs," he said.
Gely said the positives of
NAFTA outweigh the negatives
in the long run.
"The main concern is how to
get to that point," he said.
"Who will pay the highest
price is where the debate is now."