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News
New Russian troops
stationed in Kosovo
Albanians
await news
of missing
DJAKOVICA, Yugoslavia (AP) — His family clings
to hope. But there is little reason to believe Kastriot
Zherka was not shot down by Serb police like so many
others, then dumped in a mass grave or a river, or
burned to unidentifiable ash.
Zherka’s wife, daughters, parents and sisters have
no body to bury, and they are not alone. Community
leaders say at least 1,200 men, women and children
are missing from Djakovica, more than has been re
ported from any other part of Kosovo.
This city on the Albanian border has been a well-
spring of Albanian nationalism, and was brutally tar
geted during the Serb crackdown on Kosovo Albani
ans.
“We really need to know, if only to bury him Zher-
ka’s sister Arta said.
Many are likely dead, but some of the missing may
be in Yugoslav prisons. Daloni Carlisle, the Red Cross
spokesperson in Kosovo, said at least 2,000 “security
detainees” from the Kosovo war are being l^eld, ac
cording to lists Yugoslav federal justice authorities re
portedly shared with local officials.
Those lists have not been given to the Red Cross,
and few Albanians have been able to approach offi-
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) — The first plane
load of new Russian peacekeepers landed in Koso
vo’s capital today, a day after NATO brokered an
agreement with Moscow on their deployment.
Their presence is seen as a way to help ease the
fears of Kosovo’s minority Serbs, who have come
under attack from vengeful ethnic Albanians.
With the ranks of the peacekeepers in Kosovo
filling out, the head of the U.N. refugee agency
warned that her agency was running short of funds
to help hundreds of thousands of returning
refugees.
The Russian 11-76 transport plane left from the
southern Russian town of Ivanovo this morning for
the flight to Pristina. It was to be followed by three
more planes today, Russia’s Interfax news agency said.
cials in Serb-dominated Yugoslavia for information
about their missing loved ones.
Last month, Yugoslavia released 166 prisoners to the
Red Cross, and this week it passed on the names of 481
others that Red Cross officials will be able to visit and
put in contact with their families. The organization also
has received complaints that nearly 300 Serbs were ab
ducted by the Albanian separatist Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA), which denies holding anyone.
The Red Cross has called on both sides to negoti
ate prisoner releases, an issue that was overlooked in
the U.N. resolution that ended Kosovo’s war. Carlisle
said that could be a lengthy process, noting 19,000
people still remain missing from unrest in the former
Yugoslav republic of Bosnia.
Deadline for nuclear ban nears
WASHINGTON (AP) — It has
been three years since President Clin
ton became the first world leader to
sign a treaty call
ing for a global
ban on nuclear
test explosions.
The U.S. Senate
has yet to hold a
hearing on it.
The Senate is
not alone: So far,
only 18 of the 44
nations with nuclear capabilities
that must ratify the wide-ranging
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
have taken action. Now, with a
September ratification deadline ap
proaching, treaty activists are step
ping up their campaign to bring the
measure to the Senate floor.
In Washington, the treaty remains
bottled up in the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee, whose chair. Sen.
Jesse Helms, R-N.C., is locked in a
dispute with the Clinton administra
tion over two other treaties.
“The Senate is dragging its feet
on this issue, and it’s unforgiv
able,” Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.,
a leader in the effort to bring the
treaty to a vote, said. He said he
and other test-ban supporters will
get “more aggressive” in the com
ing weeks.
Dorgan declined to say what that
meant, but there is no question a
handful of determined senators can
bring havoc to the Senate’s schedule.
“Russia is waiting for us; China is
waiting for Russia,” Thomas Gra
ham, president of the Lawyers Al
liance for World Security and a for
mer director of the U.S. Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency, said. “The
[reason for the] delay in ratification is
exclusively that there haven’t been
hearings. There is no other reason. ”
The 1996 pact includes a pledge
against all testing of nuclear de
vices and sets up a global system
of sensors to monitor compliance.
It was signed by 152 nations, but
ratification is moving slowly.
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Barak Cabinet choi
puzzle many Israel^
JERUSALEM (AP) — A foreign
minister who speaks little English, a
police minister who quotes de Toc-
queville, a justice minister who nev
er studied law, a rabbi to plan roads
and a finance minister whose ap
pointment sent stocks plummeting.
Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s new
government, sworn in Tbesday, is a
puzzlement to many Israelis, who
wonder whether it has what it takes
to make the hard choices Israel faces
in its negotiations with the Arabs.
Others said the ex-military chief’s
selections reflect his determination
to make fateful decisions alone.
“Judging by the composition of
his government, it seems he expects
to carry out all these tasks alone,
with a commando knife between his
teeth,” analyst Nahum Barnea said.
Presenting his government to
parliament on Tbesday, Barak
promised sweeping changes: a re
vival of peace talks frozen by the
hard-line government he ousted, the
creation of 300,000 jobs, the rescue
of Israel’s ailing education system.
'Judging by the
composition of his
government, it
seems he expects
to carry out all
these tasks alone. ,,
— Nahum Barnea
Political analyst
“Today, a new government sets
out on its way,’.’ he said. “This day,
I believe, will be marked as a mo
ment of change, a momel
onciliation, a moment oil
hood, a moment of peace |
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word many legislators oil
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Agent: Killer got guns i
CHICAGO (AP) — Benjamin Nathaniel Smith
bought the guns he used in his racist shooting spree
from an illegal street dealer after he was turned away
by a gun shop that did the required a background
check, investigators said Tbesday.
The background check showed that an ex-girlfriend
of Smith’s had taken out a protective order against him
because of abuse.
Gun control activists said the case demonstrates the
inadequacy of the nation's gun laws, while the gun lob
by said the problem is lax enforcement.
Smith, 21, killed himself during a struggle with po
lice Sunday night after a series of drive-by shootings of
Jews, blacks and Asians in Illinois and Indiana that left
two people dead and nine wounded.
The white supremacist had tried to buy two 9 mm
handguns and a shotgun on June 23 at a licensed gun
shop in Peoria Heights, Jerry Singer, an agent with the
federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said.
After being rejected. Smith bought a Bryco .380-cal
iber semiautomatic handgun on June 26 anci ,22-cal-
iber pistol on June 29 from an illegal dealeni
ready was being investigated by the ATF, Singe:
Both guns were found with Smith's body rj
killed himself near the southern Illinois towm
Tests showed that weapons of those calibers we:
in the spree.
The name of the unlicensed dealer who sold:
the guns has been turned over to prosecutorsfal
sible charges, Singer said. The dealer’s name,
er information about the purchases were not db
Tony Schneider, owner of the Heights
Hunter Supplies shop in Peoria Heights, confid
an interview that Smith had been at his store,H;1
Smith was calm when told he could not havetliej
and several boxes of ammunition.
“He just said he’d check it out and left,"lies
The denial was based on a two-year order feu
tection filed by former girlfriend Elizabeth Salt]
took effect in April 1998. Sahr had accusedhw
verely beating her and said she feared for he/
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