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Wol. 93 No. 98 (8 pages)
1893 — A Century of Service to Texas A&M — 1993
Monday, February 21,1994
| Artillery withdrawn under U.N., NATO threats
The Associated Press
I WASHINGTON — Encouraged by the with
drawal of Serb artillery from the hills around Sara
jevo, the White House said Sunday that "no air
strikes are necessary at this time," even though
some weapons remained after a NATO deadline.
I After a brief meeting with President Clinton
shortly after the deadline. National Security Advis
er Tony Lake said all known Serbian weapons were
either withdrawn, under control of the United Na
tions "or should soon be."
I "Therefore, the United Nations and NATO com-
ipanders have concluded that no air strikes are nec
essary at this time," Lake said.
I The announcement at an unusually crowded
weekend White House came after the U.N.'s senior
official in former Yugoslavia said he saw no imme
diate need for air strikes.
I President Clinton, who was in his White House
Residence as the deadline passed, said earlier he
was optimistic that the bombings would not be
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U.N. declares aggressive Bosnian policy a
The Assnriated stage for me to request NATO to use air power," deadline passed, the roaj
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian
Serbs pulled back enough heavy guns from snowy
hills around Sarajevo to stave off immediate air
strikes as a NATO deadline for removal passed ear
ly Monday,
Bosnia's Muslim president, Alija Izetbegovic,
urged NATO to bomb the remaining guns. But
Yasushi Akashi, the U.N.'s senior official in for
mer Yugoslavia, said he saw no immediate need
for air strikes.
"I have decided that it is not necessary at this
Stage for me to request NATO to use air power,"
Akashi said in a statement released at his Zagreb,
Croatia headquarters and at NATO headquarters in
Brussels.
"1 am pleased to announce that as a result of
U.N. and NATO initiatives, there has been a sub
stantial withdrawal or regrouping of heavy
weapons in and around Sarajevo," Akashi said.
NATO, after nearly two years of painful debate
over whether to get involved in Bosnia's war, had
demanded all heavy weapons pull back that dis
tance from Sarajevo or be placed under U.N. con
trol. Otherwise it would launch air strikes.
As the midnight GMT (6 p.m. GST) Sunday
deadline passed, the roar of a solitary jet could be
heard in misty skies. A C-130 which has been flying
over on nightly surveillance also droned through
the skies.
Some five hours before the deadline, the U.N.
commander for Bosnia said the situation remained
unclear at nine of 41 Serb gun sites around Sarajevo
which U.N. soldiers have not yet visited.
But Lt. Gen. Sir Michael Rose said then "T find
it hard to imagine" that air strikes would go
ahead immediately.
In Sarajevo, skies cleared Sunday for the first
time in days of snowy weather. After dark, over
flights by NATO planes increased.
needed. artillery sites were still not under U.N. control, al- in place: air strikes could be summoned if the Serbs
"Fm hopeful because of what I see happening," though U.S. officials were confident they could be fall out of compliance,
he said. secured Monday. "If they re-arm, they will be at risk," said a se-
As the deadline passed, a small number of Serb White House officials said the ultimatum is still nior administration official.
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MSC directors refute Student
Senate charges of abusing funds
By Kim McGuire
Dyanna Wilson, a sophomore political science
major from Pearland, was elated by her win in
Roger Hsich/Tm Battalion
the Miss TAMU Scholarship Pageant Saturday
night at Rudder Tower.
The Battalion
Memorial Student Center leaders rebutted the allegations of
wasteful spending within the MSC that erupted during the
closed session of the Feb. 9 Student Senate meeting.
After the closed session, the Senate voted to cut the MSC's
student service fee allocation by $400,000. The Senate recom
mended $220,000 be allocated from the Student Service Fee re
serve and the MSC reserve to offset the initial cut pending the
approval of Dr. J. Malon Southerland, vice president of stu
dent affairs.
The Senate met in closed session for twenty minutes during
this meeting while at least three senators told the Senate of
discrepancies in the MSC's budget as well as other informa
tion given to them by an MSC student leader who wished to
remain anonymous.
After the minutes of the closed session were obtained by The
Battalion, two of the senators who spoke during the closed ses
sion agreed to elaborate on the allegations.
Sen. Ben Dale said an MSC student leader told him the bud
get the MSC presented to the Senate Finance Committee was not
the correct budget. He said two budgets existed.
"The informant told me the budget we had was not what
they operated on," Dale said. "He took some papers out of a file
cabinet and said 'Here, this is the real budget. And then went on
to say (MSC Director) Jim Reynolds would have his butt if that
got out."
Dale said the informant also told him the MSC would request
more money than it needed.
"They requested money for programs they don't need, mon
ey for staff they don't need," Dale said. "They said by us cutting
their budget we're hurting students, but their budget is so over
inflated they knew it wasn't going to hurt them."
However Chris Cowan, MSC vice president of finance, said
he thought the alleged "two budgets" may have resulted from
Senate Finance Committee representatives misinterpreting the
budget recommendation process.
"When we plan our budget we plan it nine months in ad
vance and plan for the optimal," Cowan said. "Sometimes we
meet our goals and sometimes we don't, so we make adjust
ments accordingly. Perhaps they saw budget adjustments and
misconstrued that as two budgets."
Similarly, MSC Director Jim Reynolds denied the allegation.
"There are absolutely not two budgets," he said. "First of
all, there would be a paper trail. The budget that was given to the Senate Finance Committee was the
only budget."
Sen. Tracey McAllister said the MSC has some "useless committees" that have no committee chairmen,
no members or no real purpose for existing other than to "pad" the MSC's budget.
She said both the Literary Arts Club and Recreation Club have not operated in the past two years but
have been allocated funds.
MSC President Heather Hartman said funds have been allocated for the two committees.
"We feel there is a need for literary programming so we budget for the Literary Arts Club in hopes we
will be able to offer programs," Hartman said. "Yes, it's true some years the club isn't active, but we want
to have that money in case we're able to bring in some one like W.P. Kinsella, the author of "Field of
Dreams," like two years ago. But it depends on student initiative."
Reynolds said the MSC Council has activated and terminated these programs based on productivity
and student leadership efficiency.
"It's all a part of streamlining the MSC," he said.
McAllister also alleged the MSC had no viable means to evaluate program performance and implied
the programs were inefficient.
"I had heard a complaint from a MSC officer that there was no evaluation process for the programs,"
she said. "They end up wasting a lot of money on ineffective programs. A lot of the programs are so
poorly attended, the only people there are the committee chairman and their dates."
However, Keith Sundstrom, MSC vice president of. programming, said every committee is asked to fill
out a program evaluation form after every program.
"We ask them things like 'How many people attended?', 'What kind of people attended?', 'What did
See Spending/Page 4
Walker to name
panel to review
allocation policy
Student Body President Brian
Walker will appoint a committee
this week to review the Senate Fi
nance Committee and the process
by which it make its recommenda
tions for student service fee alloca
tions.
"Twill concede there are some
things that could be improved,"
Walker said. "The committee will
look into how this might be ac
complished."
Heather Hartman, MSC presi
dent, agreed with Walker that the
process should be examined.
"I wish they would review how
the Senate Finance Committee
members are selected, train them,
educate them and enforce uniform
guidelines by which to review the
departments," she said.
Currently members of the Sen
ate Finance Committee arc select
ed by application and are inter
viewed.
Cnee selected, the committee
members select their top three
choices of departments to review,
and the committee chairman
makes the final selection.
Committee representatives in
terview department officials, stu
dents and staff within the depart
ment, tour the department and re
view the department's previous
budgets.
^ Ambassador: Bosnian war linked to fascism
By James Bernsen
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The war in Bosnia is not a result of ethnic
land religious intolerance, but rather the result
r of a new wave of fascism in Eastern Europe,
Muhammed Sacirbey, Bosnian ambassador to
the United Nations said Friday.
; Sacirbey told Texas A&M students and fac
ility members that the region, particularly
I Sarajevo, were almost perfect models of mul
ticultural societies before the war.
i "I come to you knowing you'll understand
; what it means to be part of a multicultural soci-
lety," he said. "There wasn't so much hatred
pind rivalry as there was respect and tolerance."
Sacirbey said the West likes to see Ser
bians and Muslims as "cats and dogs" that
I can't live together.
But he said the real cause of the war is a new
nationalist Serbia that arms the Bosnian Serbs.
"There is a regime in Serbian Belgrade that
is trying to preserve its absolute power and
privileges on the basis of converting itself
from a communist philosophy into an ultra
nationalist and fascist philosophy," he said.
Sacirbey said ethnic violence is a tool of
this fascism.
"It's very easy to use religion, or to use his
tory, as a tool for fascism," he said.
Sacirbey said people in’ the West believe
giving Serbia what it wants would solve the
problems in the region.
"The West is only too willing to separate us
and forget about the problem," he said.
Sacirbey stated that even NATO threats to
Bosnian Serbs will not do much to end the
suffering in Sarajevo.
"Even if the guns are removed, Sarajevo re
mains besieged," he said.
Sacirbey said the introduction of Russian
troops as peacekeepers will only help the
Serbs because the Russians and Serbs have
long felt a kinship.
The Serbian model of neo-fascism could
even become a model for a future Russia,
with ultra-nationalists like Vladimir Zhiri
novsky rising to power in the economic tur
moil, he said.
Zhirinovsky recently claimed that any at
tack on Serbian positions in Bosnia would be
seen as an attack on Russia.
"Bosnia was the place to stop the new fas
cism of Eastern Europe, and the West has
failed to confront it," he said. "They have
now encouraged it and legitimized it in other
nations, perhaps in Russia.
"The Bosnians will have to pay for this for
quite some time. The world may have to pay
for it too."
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