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Kosovo civilians injured in street figl
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia (AP)
Sixteen French peacekeepers and 24 civilians were
wounded today when a street tight escalated into a fiery
battle in this ethnically divided town, another sign of the
difficulties NATO faces in easing tensions in Kosovo.
Two rockets later hit a high-rise apartment complex,
in the northern, Serb-held part of Kosovska Mitrovica,
where dozens of ethnic Albanians had recently been re
settled by NATO peacekeepers. An apartment on the
seventh floor of one building was damaged, but there
were no injuries.
Earlier in the day, a fight between a Serb and an eth
nic Albanian sparked a brawl, a French spokesperson
said. Then shots were heard.
“That created panic,” said Lt. Matthieu Mabin, a
spokesperson for the French peacekeepers. “Hand
grenades were thrown, we don’t know from whom or
from where ... but it created very many injured, espe
cially French soldiers.”
About four to five grenades exploded. Twenty Serbs,
16 French peacekeepers and four ethnic Albanians were
injured in the fighting, according to Lt. Col. Patrick
Chanliau, another spokesperson for the French peace
keepers. A seventeenth peacekeeper was injured in a
separate incident, he said.
Four suspects have been arrested, Mabin said. They
were not identified.
The number of wounded today is the highest since
Oct. 12, when 33 people were wounded near the bridge
that connects the ethnically divided neighborhoods.
French peacekeepers today immediately began
door-to-door searches in the Bosnjacka Mahala neigh
borhood, which was predominantly ethnic Albanian be
fore the war between Yugoslavia’s Serb government
and ethnic Albanian guerrillas began in Kosovo in 1998.
NATO’s 78-day bombing campaign last year forced
an end to the Serb crackdown in Kosovo, a province of
Serbia, and the pullout of Yugoslav forces.
Kosovska Mitrovica, 20 miles northwest of Koso
vo’s provincial capital Pristina, has been the scene of
repeated ethnic unrest in recent weeks, resulting in sev
eral deaths and dozens of injuries.
Earlier reports said the fighting took place outside a
U.N. registration center for displaced Serbs, but the vi
olence was later linked to the street fight. NATO peace
keepers recently returned dozens of expelled ethnic Al
banians to the Serb-controlled northern side, sparking
violent protests. They also plan to return displaced Serbs
to the ethnic Albanian-controlled southern side.
According to Oliver Ivanovic, a Serb official in
Kosovska Mitrovica, the violence began after an ethnic
Albanian man attacked a Serb with a metal bar.
When the Serb moved toward the ethnic Albanian,
another unidentified man appeared and shot at the Serb.
People gathered around the men, and ethnic Albanians
then threw hand grenades into the mob, Ivanovic said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Welcome to the brave new w orld
of bulging government surpluses. For the first time in 70 years,
the U.S. Treasury' is buying back part of the national debt —
$1 billion on Thursday.
While the buy back will represent just a tiny drop of the $5.7
trillion national debt, the repurchases — limited to 30-year
bonds sold between 1985 and 1990
— will let the U.S. Treasury De
partment do a test run of its new
procedures.
The announcement of the ini
tial $1 billion buyback effort was
expected to be followed later this
month with another $1 billion re
purchase.
Any investors who own 30-year
bonds, which are to mature be
tween 2015 and 2020, can offer to
unload them through a process
known as a “reverse auction,” in
w'hich the government will select
offers on a competitive basis based
on the lowest prices.
lion’s budget projects that the entire $3.6 trillion of the na
tional debt held by the public could be wiped out by 2013 un
der current projections for budget surpluses. The rest of the
national debt is held by the government’s large trust funds,
primarily Social Security.
The Clinton administration, which counts elimination of
soaring budget deficits as one of its greatest achievements, has
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remembers debt relief in
the fall if it is tempted to
complain that Congress
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argued that the most responsible
thing to do w ith the excess cash is
to reduce the national debt, putting
the government on a sounder foot
ing to deal with rising costs when
the baby boom generation begins
retiring in a few years.
While the administration and
Republicans in Congress agree the
surpluses generated by Social Se
curity payroll taxes should be ded
icated to paying down the debt,
they are split on how to use the
non-Social Security surpluses, es
timated to total $800 billion or
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as 11.25 percent.
Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers announced in Jan
uary that the government hoped to buy back up to $30 billion
of the $5.7 trillion national debt this year. The administra-
more over the next 10 years.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairperson Bill
Archer, R-Texas, said Tuesday that the surpluses resulted from
Republican efforts to restrain Clinton’s spending plans.
“I hope the White House remembers debt relief in the fall
if it is tempted to complain that Congress isn’t spending
enough,” Archer said in a statement.
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1 in 4 Hispanics
below poverty level
WASHINGTON (AP) — Census
data shows that more than a fourth
of the Hispanics, the nation’s
fastest-growing minority, live below
the poverty level. Only one in 10 is
college-educated.
More than 25 percent of the na
tion's 31 million Hispanics lived be
low poverty level in 1998, considered
then to be $16,600 for a family of
four. About 8 percent of non-Hispan-
ic whites lived in poverty in 1998.
The Hispanic population is ex
pected to triple to 98 million in
2050. Hispanics could become in
the half-century the nation’s largest
minority group with their percentage
rising from about 12 percent now
to 24 percent.
President rejects
Papon pardon plea
PARIS (AP) — French President
Jacques Chirac has rejected a plea
for pardon by Maurice Papon, the for
mer Vichy official convicted of com
plicity in crimes against humanity,
the president’s office said today.
Papon, 89, was convicted in April
1998 for his role in the arrest and
deportation of Jews from Bordeaux
to Nazi death camps while he was
a police supervisor in the Gironde
region during World War II.
Papon, a former budget minister
under conservative President Valery
Giscard d’Estaing, fled briefly to
Switzerland in October 1999, but
was apprehended and brought back
to France.
It is widely believed that Pa
pon’s politically powerful friends
lobbied for his pardon, but that his
attempt to flee French justice ru
ined his chances.
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The purpose of this article is to make clear the Department of Residence Life’s beliefs
regarding the acts of insensitivity recently directed towards individuals living in the
residence hall community. Specifically we are referring to the incident where a Black
History IVTonth poster was burned on a bulletin board.
Such incidents show a lack of respect for others and are destructive to our residence hall
community. As a department, we strive to foster an educational environment where
individuals communicate respect for one another and take responsibility for their actions.
Our changing population calls for tolerance, respect, and most of all inclusiveness. We ask
that all members living in our residence halls and their guests accept the responsibility of
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