The Battalion
1893 — A Century of Service to Texas A&M — 1993 Tuesday, February 22,1994
awaits Clinton's next move in Bosnia
officials to talk with European leaders about extending NATO's ultimatum in surrounding areas
The Associated Press
■WASHINGTON - It took 22 months
and the slaughter of 68 people before
NATO mustered the will to act decisively
to end the siege of Sarajevo.
■The question now is whether President
.Clinton and Western allies will go a step
further and extend their bombing ultima
tum to other cities in war-torn Bosnia.
■The apparent answer is, not immedi
ately.
■In view of NATO's strong reluctance
to take the first step, there's likely to be
stiff resistance to doing more.
H"Our first and most important objective
is to secure the gain we've already made
and we will not seriously
consider taking more op
tions until we are certain
that this one is really se
cure/' Defense Secretary
William Perry told a Pen
tagon news conference
Monday.
"So, those options are
certainly weeks away;
they're not days away,"
Perry said.
More warplanes and
more pilots would be required to expand
the demilitarization formula and the
threat of air strikes.
Clinton
The risk of retaliation against allied
forces on the ground would grow. There
would be a threat of deeper and deeper
involvement.
Clinton, at a news conference, would
go no further than to say that U.S. offi
cials would talk with European leaders
this week about extending NATO's ulti
matum to other parts of Bosnia.
He said the United States must be sure
its allies are prepared to back up any fur
ther ultimatums, guaranteeing that
"NATO not undertake a mission it is not
fully capable of performing."
Secretary of State Warren Christopher
said "Let's wait and see" if a wider com
mitment is prudent. He said the emphasis
should be on the peace table.
"This situation is not going to be re
solved on the battlefield," Christopher
said.
Muhamed Sacirbey, Bosnia's ambas
sador to the United Nations, pleaded
with the West to protect other cities,
such as Bihac, reported to be under Serb
attack.
He said weapons removed under
threat from Sarajevo are being rushed to
other battlefronts.
"It seems to us that the focus on Saraje
vo has somehow encouraged the Serbian
forces to attack in Bihac," Sacirbey said
on NBC's "Today" show.
"But there is also, for instance, Zepa,
Srebrenica, Gorazde, Tuzla, not to men
tion Mostar and several other Bosnian
cities that are suffering quite badly right
now," he said.
It was not until the world was re-
vulsed by the massacre of 68 people by a
single shell in a marketplace that NATO
laid down an ultimatum for the with
drawal of heavy guns and the end of the
shelling of Sarajevo.
Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic said
life would have been normal in Sarajevo
if NATO had issued its ultimatum two
years ago.
Ganic sadly wondered "why they
needed 10,000 graves in Sarajevo in order
to write one page of NATO resolutions."
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[sFour Kappa Alpha members
accused of assault begin trial
By Angela Neaves
The Battalion
Attorneys gave opening statements
Monday in a civil case involving the al
leged assault of a former Texas A&M stu
dent by four fraternity members.
The assault occurred April 9,1992 after
I former student John Walker left Zephyr
night club with two females, prosecuting
attorney Chris Kling said.
The three were followed by the four
students, all members of Kappa Alpha
fraternity.
I The prosecution alleges that Walker
was misidentified as a man that assaulted
a female friend of one of the defendants,
Kevin Ormston.
The four followed Walker to Redstone
Apartments where he was beaten, kicked
and hit.
The beating resulted in a broken nose,
seven stitches and multiple bruises and
abrasions, Kling said.
One female witness also sustained in
juries, he said.
"Walker never threw a punch," Kling
said. "He never hit anyone. He was the
only male hurt."
The four defense attorneys maintain
that only Ormston assaulted Walker,
claiming that the three other men,
Stephen Swan, Earl Dyke and Gregory
Pappas were only bystanders.
It was a case of being at the wrong
place at the wrong time, defense attorney
Judith Foster said.
"College students go places together,"
Foster said. "I did it when I was a stu
dent. There doesn't necessarily have to
be a plan. The others did not go along
with intent to become involved in the sit
uation. It was a situation that simply got
out of hand."
College Station Police Officer Jay Ma
son said he saw the four men leaving the
scene and blocked the entrance with his
police car. After securing the scene. Ma
son observed Walker's injuries.
"He had no shirt on," Mason said. "He
had blood on his face and arms and a cut
around his eye. In my opinion, all four of
the students were involved in the assault
one way or the other."
Mason said he does not believe alcohol
played any part in this case.
Two of the men, including Ormston,
have already pleaded guilty to criminal
charges of assault.
Survey says close down
Lubbock Street for walkway
By Karen Broyles
The Battalion
The majority of Texas A&M students and faculty members are in favor of closing
Lubbock Street to automobile traffic and adding a pedestrian walkway, according to a
survey released Monday.
The survey, conducted by the Texas A&M Public Policy Resources Laboratory,
found that 76 percent of students and 64 percent of faculty members polled were in fa
vor of closing the street that runs in front of the Commons and the Quadrangle.
The Public Policy Resources Laboratory will give the results of the survey to the
Texas A&M Board of Regents, who will make the final decision.
David Godbey, assistant director of Engineering Design and Services for the Physi
cal Plant, said the closing of the street to automobile traffic will relieve the conflict be
tween pedestrians and automobiles.
"We are out of buildable sites on the main campus," he said. "Workers who need ac
cess to the street and service and emergency vehicles will be allowed access to the street."
A&M officials are considering closing the street to make an addition to the Sterling
C. Evans Library and also building a student computing center and a parking garage.
The proposed library addition and computing center would extend toward Nagle
St. between the Heldenfels and Peterson Buildings. The parking garage would be built
between the Pavilion and Heep Building.
Parking lot 34, which is between the Peterson Building and the Pavilion, would lose
some parking spaces if the new parking garage is built.
The intersection of Lubbock and Nagle and the intersection of Lubbock and Spence
will remain open for access to the parking garage.
Cars will have to go through gates or checkpoints at the intersection of Coke and Lub
bock, the intersection of Bizzell and Lubbock and the intersection of Bizzell and Lamar.
Lubbock Street was closed temporarily from Jan. 24 to Jan. 28 to determine the ef
fects of closing the street permanently.
The two-part study consisted of calling 202 students and 100 faculty members at
random and the random interviewing of 333 pedestrians and 570 motorists.
A&M baseball player saves
man's life at local restaurant
By Jennifer Smith
The Battalion
Texas A&M baseball player Lee Fedora came up with the biggest play of his ca
reer Monday, as his timely reaction saved the life of a man choking at an area
restaurant.
Fedora, who plays third base and outfield, was eating lunch at Double Dave's
Pizzaworks on George Bush Dr. when he heard a man gasping for air.
"I saw a guy beating on his own back," he said. "He was gasping and slobber
ing."
Fedora said he jumped up and ran over to the man.
"I asked him if he was choking, but he didn't reply," Fedora said. "You could
tell he was panicking."
Fedora performed the Heimlich maneuver on the man five or six times without
any results.
See Fedora/Page 6
Woman promotes adoption, not
abortion for fellow rape victims
By Angela Neaves
The Battalion
Babies should not get the death penalty for their father's crime, said a rape victim at
the Brazos Valley Crisis Pregnancy Service's annual fund-raising banquet Monday
night.
Lee Ezell discovered 20 years ago that she had become pregnant after being raped.
She decided to give birth to the baby and put it up for adoption instead of having an
abortion. Pregnancy/Page 10
■|FCC expected to cut cable television fees again
fore Sprfe The Associated Press
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H WASHINGTON — Responding to com
plaints that its first attempt to cut cable televi
sion rates didn't work, the Federal Communi-
EL! cations Commission is expected to order an-
Free other reduction this week.
Free 11 ^ s not Y et c l ear how much the rates for
*20 ■rvice and equipment will be cut when the
j’/ ccimmission meets Tuesday. But cable indus-
tree try executives said rate cuts could range from
Free 5 percent to as much as 15 percent.
$20 H When the FCC adopted cable price rules
p ree last April, it predicted that rates for regulated
services would go down at least 10 percent for
Bjyo-thirds of the 57 million cable subscribers.
- Thurs./B Some did. Other rates went up — an unin-
fCard/f- tended consequence of the regulations, which
cqver virtually all 11,000 cable systems, the
FCC has said.
The 1992 Cable Act gave the FCC authority
to oversee rates for channels not included in
the basic package — channels like ESPN and
MTV — and any special equipment needed to
deliver these channels. Rates for premium ser
vices, such as HBO, are not regulated.
Basic service generally consists of broad
cast signals and public, educational and gov
ernmental access channels, and a few cable
channels, such as CNN. Rates for that service
are regulated by local governments, who also
regulate rates for more common equipment,
such as convertor boxes and remote controls.
FCC economists and attorneys were refin
ing the new rate structure late last week and
none would discuss either the size or scope of
the expected cuts.
What the economists has been wrestling
with is how best to estimate what price a local
cable system would charge if it had competi
tion. Only 3 percent of the nation's cable sys
tems compete with another cable provider.
Cable rates were virtually unregulated un
til Congress in 1992 directed the FCC to craft a
rate structure that was unveiled last April.
Not only was there no regulation, there
were no records of what cable companies
were charging, which has made it difficult to
determine a fair rate structure.
The cable industry has been furiously lob
bying the FCC not to cut rates dramatically,
warning it could cripple cable investment in a
national information superhighway and stifle
jobs creation.
The Consumer Federation of America has
been urging the FCC to slice cable rates by an
other 18 percent.
"We want the whole enchilada," said
Bradley Stillman, CFA's general counsel.
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