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Authorities dose off border to refug
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Negotiator works to gain freedom of three U.S. solidiers as guards bury land
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — Yugoslav
authorities sealed off Kosovo’s main border
crossings Wednesday, preventing ethnic Alba
nians from leaving as the wave of refugees ap
proached the half-million mark. As NATO
stepped up its airstrikes, a Cypriot mediator
sought freedom for three captured U.S. sol
diers.
NATO planes and cruise missile struck mil
itary targets in Kosovo and inflicted heavy
damage elsewhere in Yugoslavia.
Albania’s parliament approved NATO plans
to send in 24 U.S. Apache attack helicopters •—
a move that should bolster the alliance’s fire
power against the Yugoslav tanks and armor
that have driven ethnic Albanians from their
homes in Kosovo.
After forcing more than 400,000 refugees
out to neighboring countries, Yugoslav au
thorities closed the main exit route on Wednes
day without explanation, forcing tens of thou
sands of people back toward the burned
villages they had been escaping from.
German Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping
warned that the Yugoslavs may be planning to
use the civilians in Kosovo as “human shields”
against NATO attack.
In Morini, the crossing point for Kosovo
refugees into Albania, the flow of cars and trac
tors suddenly stopped at 3 a.m., witnesses
said. Yugoslav border guards could be seen lay
ing what appeared to be mines and digging for
tifications just inside their territory.
“The refugees ... were told to return to their
places of residence — whatever is left of those
places,” said Doran Vienneau of the Organiza
tion for Security and Cooperation in Europe,
'The refugees ... were told
to return to their places of
residence — whatever is
left of those places/'
—Doran Vienneau
Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe
which has been monitoring the border.
Scharping said Yugoslav forces had begun
forcing ethnic Albanians back from the border
areas into the province. He showed aerial pho
tos that he said showed Serb tanks surround
ing a Kosovo village, separating the men and
women, and then opening fire on houses.
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on renewal of Independant Counsel law
STARR
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TON (AP) —
Independent
Counsel Ken
neth Starr and
the three-
judge panel
that appoint
ed him will
testify April
14 before a Senate committee
considering whether Congress
should renew the Watergate-in
spired law that provided for his
job.
The Senate Governmental
Affairs Committee, chaired by
Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn.,
will hear from Starr and federal
judges Richard D. Cudahy, Peter
T. Fay and David B. Sentelle, the
panel announced Wednesday.
In his own statement, Starr
confirmed that he would testify
and said he looked forward to it.
Thompson has pledged to
keep the hearings from focusing
on Starr’s controversial, five-
year investigation of President
Clinton, which led to only the
second presidential impeach
ment in history. The Senate ac
quitted Clinton on Feb. 12.
Since then, Thompson has
called former independent
counsels and scholars to three
hearings on the matter.
But it is Starr’s efforts that
brought Democrats into line
with Republicans long infuriat
ed with loopholes in the 1978
statute and built momentum for
letting the law expire June 30 or
renewing it only with a major
overhaul.
Among the statute’s weak
nesses, critics say, is that it does
not hold independent counsels
accountable for the money they
spend or the tactics they use.
In addition, critics contend
the three-judge Special Division
of the Court of Appeals, which
hires independent counsels, is
ill-equipped to make such ap
pointments.
Lawrence Walsh, the inde
pendent counsel who’s Iran-
Contra probe of President Rea
gan soured Republicans on the
law, told Thompson’s panel last
month that a special agency
within the Justice Department,
not a three-judge panel, should
appoint independent counsels.
The members of that panel
should be subject to confirma
tion by the Senate, Walsh said.
Without the Independent
Counsel law, such probes
would revert to the Justice De
partment — which is how they
were handled until the "Satur
day Night Massacre” in October
1973, when the department’s
top two officials lost their jobs
for refusing to carry out Presi
dent Nixon’s order to fire spe
cial prosecutor Archibald Cox.
Attorney General Elliot Richard
son quit and Deputy Attorney
General William Ruckelshaus
was fired. Solicitor General
Robert Bork fired Cox.
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President Bush raises money for son’s candidacy
PHOENIX (AP) — Former
President Bush raised an esti
mated quarter of a million dol
lars for his son’s potential presi
dential campaign.
A few hours later he was to
be raising money for an anti
drug drive.
Bush addressed an invitation-
only crowd of about 300 Repub
licans Tuesday night, including
Arizona Gov. Jane Hull, in Texas
Gov. George W. Bush’s first
fund-raising event in Arizona.
Gov. Bush has not an
nounced his candidacy and has
promised to remain in Austin
until the Texas Legislature ends
May 31.
On Wednesday, the elder
Bush was to discuss drug-free
workplaces at a luncheon to
raise money for Drugs Don’t
Work in Arizona, a public-pri
vate partnership offering help to
companies that want to set up
drug tests, counseling and reha
bilitation programs.
President Bush established
the Presidential Advisory Coun
cil on Drugs in 1992 that gave
rise to the Arizona program.
The luncheon is expected to
draw about 500 guests and to
raise about $200,000, backers
said.
Arizona’s Sen. John McCain
and former Vice president Dan
Quayle also are potential candi
dates for the GOP presidential
nomination.
Elizabeth, wife of former
presidential candidate and ex-
Sen. Bob Dole and another po
tential GOP candidate, has made
two campaign appearances in
Arizona and plans a third on
May 31.
Kyprianou, began a mission to win
of three American soldiers seizeda!(
goslav border with Macedonia
Cyprus, which is not a NATOraemb
torically had close ties with Yugosl
Kyprianou flew to Athens, where:*
was “waiting for the green lights
grade” before going to Yugoslavia
day.
He said he believed the release
diers was imminent.
Sandy Berger, President ClintoiT^
security adviser, was cautiousabe.'^
sion but said “we certainly wouldi||
any release.”
Another nightmare was brewing::!
of thousands of Kosovo refugee;
made it across into neighboring!,
only to be trapped for days in sqm
tions.
With frightening efficiency,Mace
ficials emptied the border city d
Wednesday, hustling thousands;
onto buses so quickly thatsomewt
ed from their families.
Macedonia, which has beencr
conditions at the makeshift can
shipped 10,000 refugees to Albania
25,000 others to NATO tent camp a ‘ rst Ste P
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the kids go to bed.”
Hundreds of universitiesarete
ing courses or degree pros
But a pair of reports beingtfai
day question whether a seaiin
a computer is as good asastaf)
lege classroom.
The reports’ complaints tat,
whether the programs’ eta
evaluated properly and whel!
cost too much to whether the'
fair to certain students.
The College Board warnsim
that Internet courses could hi:
progress of poor and minorih:
who arrive at college withlesse
to computers than white onto:
ent students.
“There’s this rush to geto!
go virtual. ... Colleges, poliq-
and (Internet) providers whe,
ving this market needtothini
broad access,” Larry F. Gladieffi
nior College Board research?:
Tuesday.
A second report, by the In
Higher Education Policy, say
still lack enough knowledgeah
ternet-based education to jus:
rapid growth.
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