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Our classifieds really work and they bring RESULTS! If you've got something to sell or lease, have a service to offer, or are looking for a job, don't settle for anything less than POSITIVE RESULTS! When results count, call 845-0569. The Battalion WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. troop de ployment in Bosnia, originally set to end in De cember, is now expected to stretch well into 1998 and involve up to 10,000 Army soldiers, NATO’s top official said Thursday. The entire mission would involve 30,000 troops from 30 countries, including the United States, NATO Secretary General Javier Solana told reporters. “I had conversations with the (NATO) for eign ministers,” Solana said. “I would say that all of them ... are moving toward Option C,” the option among four being considered that would keep troops in the former Yu goslav republic. In Washington, Solana met privately with Vice President A1 Gore. Apparently caught off guard, White House press secretary Mike McCurry and State De partment spokesman Glyn Davies told re porters that Gore made it clear to Solana that President Clinton had not signed off on the troop commitment. McCurry added that the administration is anxious not to squander gains made in Bosnia and noted that Gore “did share some of that thinking’’ with Solana. Speaking anonymously, administration offi cials confirmed Solana’s description of the pri mary plan under consideration. These officials said Clinton was to approve the extended troop commitment as early as Thursday night. The issue is quite sensitive. A year ago the Clinton administration was assuring law makers that 19,000 American soldiers in Bosnia with a 60,000-member NATO peace keeping mission would be home by Decem ber. The U.S. force, now about 14,000, is scheduled to leave by mid-March. Renewed fighting in Bosnia this week has heightened worries over the.possible departure of NATO peacekeepers. Top advisers to the president — particularly diplomat Richard Hol brooke, who negotiated the Bosnia peace agreement in 1995 — vigorously urged Clinton to continue a U.S. presence to avoid resuming the vicious 3 1/2-year ethnic war that Hol brooke’s agreement halted. “That may require some type of presence in Bosnia,” McCurry said. “We’ve said that all along. It was never very likely that they were going to just pull up stakes and go home. We needed to preserve the gains that have been made.” Republican lawmakers have bitterly criti cized the administration over Bosnia. “After spending the better part of the year evading the question, the Clinton administra tion appears ready to finally own up to the fact that it was never serious about its commitment to limit U.S. involvement in Bosnia to one year,” said Rep. Floyd Spence, R-S.C., chairman of the House National Security Committee. Defense Secretary William Perry and his top deputy, John White, rushed to Capitol Hill on Thursday to brief members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Bosnia and a pending U.S. troop deployment to Zaire. “I remain deeply concerned about the in creasing use of U.S. troops for ‘policing’ opera tions throughout the world, as well as the costs Muslim weapons seizer NATO-led U.S. and Russian troops away two five-ton trucks and two armi personnel carriers from the Bosnian Ai 254th brigade just west of Celic after a dawn raid, Thursday. CROATIA I time IO On # Banja Luka «/ •• Korai 1 ByLalti The B Tuzla A< ministrati viral Texas ^fed on the T 0 VINA Sarajevo d; y for the I y Conference government- Croat federation 5$miles£r^£ Serb Rep. he conferei ne Depart fairs and thi isidence Life ; W«d prim aril > ifra^Bistrators a (Montere m profession ides on divers AP/Wm.J C: t u director ar associated with such operations," Sen ‘ n1 nl 1 '' 11 11 Thurmond, R-S.C., the Armed Services man, said after the meeting. Bonfire A congressional staffer speaking ontfir tion of anonymity said the ground-troop if in Bosnia involved 8,000 to 10,000 Armyc joining in the international effort. Their* would extend from mid-March for perk. - much as another year. The U.S. troop! would gradually decline during that time Korea rearranges day for college exa istening test portioi Government bans planes from landing during It was the SEOUL, South Korea (AP) morning after. The gong-beating crowds and 10,000 ex tra traffic police were off the streets. Airlines were back on schedule. And high school se niors were back in class Thursday after tak ing college entrance exams — a momentous, anxious annual event in a nation that reveres education. Nearly 795,000 students nationwide took the test Wednesday, competing for 567,000 freshman openings at Korea’s universities. Scores won’t be announced until Dec. 7, but the results were told on the young faces. Some seniors were smiling, said Oh Se- hoon, a Korean-language teacher at Paehwa Girls High School, in Seoul. “Those who did n’t do so well seemed a little glum,” he said. The days before had South Koreans rivet ed. The media reported students gripped by worry; mothers prayed at churches and Bud dhist temples. On test day, the government issued spe cial decrees — including banning airplane landings and takeoffs from 8:40 a.m. to 8:55 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 4:20 p.m. to keep noise down during the listening comprehension part of the exam. Employees started work an hour later than usual so students wouldn’t be caught in Seoul’s often horrendous rush-hour traffic. Extra taxis, subway trains and traffic police were mobilized. Younger students had the day off, but they flocked to the school gates anyway to beat gongs and wish the seniors good luck. As the exam started, some mothers pressed sticks of caramel-laced rice called “yot” to the gates of a favorite university. Superstition! that posting the gummy treat on exam cement a child’s future. The educational fervor in this nai 44 million is rooted in Confucian prai centuries old, in which young men show scholarly and aesthetic achieve! get a government job. Today, Korea has a 97 percent rate, and students attend school six week. As more and more young Koi shun labor and aspire to professional a university education is seen as the! success. ‘‘I’m very nervous about thett: which my future totally depends," Kim Hyon-shik said the day before should I do if the results fall short of! pectations?” Troops aim to keeil aid mission peacefi Featuring the single "Flowers In December," Among My Swan is the follow-up to their platinum album So Tonight That I Might See. Produce! by David Robark I’iod.u.-d l.v Hope Sandoval CafMtol Rr- ordv Inc NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The premise sounds straightforward enough. At least 1 million Rwandan Hutu refugees, displaced by fight ing from their camps in eastern Zaire, desperately need help. Food, water and medicine are available. But aid agencies cannot reach the refugees to distribute the goods without protection. France offers troops, and Spain and several African nations follow suit. Britain says perhaps, and Canada offers to lead. The United States, under pressure to offer its unique ca pacity to airlift troops and ma teriel over long distances and to build small cities overnight, signs on to the plan. Eastern Zaire is not a disaster ai'ea created by a hurricane, cy clone, tornado or earthquake. This disaster has been made by men — men with hearts full of revenge, armed with political agendas and guns. They include armed Hutus who participated in the slaughter of a half-million Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Whether the international operation can go ahead success fully will depend to a great de gree on the cooperation it from former Rwandan solii| Hutu gangs and Zairian rebi From indications so: international military fotci tends to avoid conflict! these armed groups. It wai work out accommodations! them, and does not inteaf shoot its way into the regioil Instead, it wants to coitf trate simply on feeding refa and opening a corridor bat Rwanda. The corridor coiiH low a permanent solutiont problem through the rettitj the refugees to their homelJ The force’s mandate, accoi] to U.S. officials, will not im disarming Hutu militiamen live among the refugees, separating them from their cf nient human cover. ^ t h 0 (j It is precisely those ml men and former Rwandaa 1 — . diers who have been keeping refugees from returning hoff Unless the refugees go lit 1 , ,p Rat* the assistance delivered iy ' international protection! just buy time for the refuge! dig in and create new camp! discontent in Zaire, leadir|jp0 another disaster. Tlshman M linrinti* Tlw rtimon Iklnuiu.sumioi) prepiitfiJ to M?nd «j>toi"Ol:; JL/Hli f? Hl/U'UVK' troops and support forces to Central Africa lo help alk ! :. the worsening hurnaniuvviim crisis. They wouki takepi' way throi along with troops Irom about a dozen other eoumricy , , r styearatA UGA ffi Aggielif Fighting resumed at dawn Thursday in Goma, where the shelling prevented the distribution of food. The U.S. mission ■ Refugee camps ZAIRE * Forces will remain about lour months under a U.S. commander. I ® Airlift forces from otter countries to the region. Provide security along a 3- mile corridor from Goma to the Rwandan border. Seek; the voluntary ** repatriatioii of refugees. Both albums available now at musicland SamGoodu WEOOTWH«r-SHOT.' Fonner Rwandan soldiers and Hutu rnili tinmen sheltering among about 300,000 civilian refugees. Route of refugees . ake Th< The U.S. forces jit SSiSi'””*A&M Foot \Gisenyi airfield in Goma 1 f Y w ' “ three-mik niclohm corridor from ihm) ^ f 1 Kiel 110 the Rwandan hori^ Bl a k eea | L-ioab surrey team Thursday in fgiMlltl _ , »ve You RWANDA 10 miles b Y e: A newp Nr transplai BURUNDI Kamanyola 10 km fcke people fusing theit Opin