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Show mm The Daily Herald A Friday, February 5, 1993 sends aid to Bosnian towns as negotiators discuss peace plan U.N. talks in Haiti deemed fruitless U.N. By MAUD S. BEELMAN Associated Press Writer Haiti PORT-AU-PRINC- SARAJEVO, U.N. negotiator left Haiti after three das of talks with the militan backed government A CAP) near-starvati- lv,: ,i edge toward returning ousted Aristide Picsident ..iid allowing an international observer mission. v. d report to the United Nations, which is considering usher sanctions on the impoverished Caribbean nation if it fails to Viircc to the observers. v, Caputo ill r ! Glass cutter admits attack on memorial Netherlands AMSTERDAM, A P.i ' ld glass-cutt- AP Photo er has contessed to vandalizing an Auschwitz Holocaust memorial, claiming he did it under orders to cover up his companv'v construction Haw. The man told the Rotterdam daily Algemeen Dagblad he had no lacist motive in using a pickax to shatter the glass monument to the millions of Jews murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz. But the Van Tetterode glass company that produced the monu- ment denied the charge, and claimed the workman had sought to tarnish its reputation because it Killed to help finance a drug addiction. Christopher hopes for talks in April - U.S. Jl KL SAl KM (AP) M. Warren State of Secretary Chiistopher. who will isit the Middle East later this month, said Mideast peace talks likely will resume in April, Israeli radio and te!c ision reported. U.S. Air Force Technical Sgt. Daniel Suprenaut of Lowell, Massachusetts, pushes a Somali boy on a swing at a refugee camp, and orphanage today on the outskirts in Mogadishu. Somali gunmen ambush relief convoy, kill driver By REID G. MILLER Associated Press Writer MOGADISHU, Somalia -S- omali gunmen ambushed a relief convoy, killing its Somali driver, just west of Mogadishu, U.N. officials said today, detailing an attack that came less than a week after U.S. troops launched a major operation in the region. Also today, the United Nations Development Program announced plans for an interim police force in Mogadishu and some rural areas. Training was to begin Mondav. United Nations troops could begin replacing U.S. forces in Somalia in just weeks, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghasaid Thursday in li expected in Israel 'is l eb. 17 after stops in Arab capitals, where he w ill try to per- aade Arab leaders to stick with c I'. S. brokered negotiations Christopher is -- launched in 1991. "We are looking forward to the a spokesman Gad Pi ime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. alter Christopher's trip was Ben-Ar- i. u i : ".inccd Thursdav his first indication of when the transfer might begin. The United States, which first sent troops to Somalia on Dec. 9 to help protect deliveries of relief food to starving people, has pushed for a quick withdrawal. It has accused the world body of delaying moves to take over the mission. . The U.S. contingent has found its humanitarian mission marred by bloody conflict. On Thursday, a U.S. Marine Saudi woman wins refugee status A oung TORONTO (AP) Saudi woman who refused to wear Hie veil in her homeland has won retugee status in Canada in what some see as a small victor) tor women. been hiding since September 1991 when the Immigration and Refugee Board rejected her claim to refugee status. She said diat because she was female, she was unable to work, study or dress as she pleased in Saudi Arabia. She was subjected to violence on numerous occasions simply because she walked down the street alone without covering her face. in Pope meets with voodoo leaders COTONOU. Benin (AP) By CINDY SHINER Associated Press Writer Paul II left Benin today Per telling leaders of the coun-uv'- s voodoo religion they could convert to Christianity without los-iP- :' their ow n traditions. ope John voodoo leader was equally conciliatory, but criticized church oiikials who attack his religion. The exchange came Thursday evenmi!. the night before the pontiff left for Uganda, the second leg ot his eight-dapilgrimage to Afriwhich began Wednesca. The trip, to the 10th is the pope's day, A y - Nine KINSHASA, Zaire years of banishment, torture, detention and house arrest have honed opposition leader Etienne Tshisekcdi's resolve not to rest until President Mobutu Sese Seko is gone. is no compromise." the bespectacled Tshisekedi, now Zaire's prime minister, told reporters Thursday. He urged the United States. France and former colonizer Belgium to send troops to force Mobutu to end his 27- - ear dictatorship. The Zairian people's struggle for democracy has become personified in a bitter battle between former friends turned archenemies. Tshisekedi. 60. was with Mobutu of the ruling Popular Movement for the Revolution in 1966 and served as interior minister. He was arrested in 1981 after he and 13 other former National Assembly members signed a letter criticizing Mobutu. "Everthing that Mobutu created and imposed on the people of Zaire grim-face- er -P- lA SERBIA bosnia-nD- 1 MB HERZEGOVINA I. elsewhere. shot and killed a boy who Marines said was running after a U.S. vehicle with a package in his hand. The Marine thought the package might be a bomb and fired one shot, said Marine spokesman Col. Fred Peck. Two teen-ag- e bystanders suffered minor injuries and were treated at an Army hospital. The object the boy was carrying had not been found, Peck said. Although American and allied troops have restored some order in Mogadishu and parts of southern Somalia, the country still swarms with gunmen, and rival clan militias continue to negotiators prepared to meet in New York to discuss a peace plan, U.N. officials reported convoys were running into trouble in some of the areas where help was most needed. The supply question took on additional urgency following a U.N. report Thursday that nearly 5,000 hungry Muslims were fleeing two eastern villages on foot, some of them reportedly starving on their trek to safer haven. Another report said Sarajevo was down to its last three days of food stocks. About 20 planes, carrying more than 200 tons of aid, were to land in Sarajevo today. Nine convoys of food and other supplies left for Sarajevo, Vitez to the southeast, Zenica to the northwest, Konjic to the southwest and Bugojno to the west of the Bosnian capital. Peter Kessler of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Croatia described it as the largest relief effort in weeks. Other U.N. officials, who asked International mediators, Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen, avoided strict divisions along ethnic lines in their proposed map for to create a country that can exist without civil war. prVTo jLV J JJ V) y5 jX 6 4 Sarajevo tT"V Ctmeoegmly AjX X" BOSNIA- HERZEGOVINA 8 V 1 g tmi. Majority 1. Muslim T t 7. Muslim 8. Croat 9. Muslim 2, 4, 6. Serb 3. Croat 10. Croat, Muslim 5. Muslim AP not to be identified, said convoys continued to be hindered in southwestern Bosnia by Serb rebels denying access to Gorazde, Cerska and Zepa. More than 18,000 people have died and 1 million people have been driven from their homes since Muslims and Croats voted Feb. 29 to secede from Yugoslavia. Bosnian Serbs, backed by Yugoslavia, promptly took up arms to crush the secession, and despite Serb-dominat- continuing attempts at resolving the conflict through mediation and harsh sanctions against Yugoslavia for its role in the violence, peace has been an elusive goal. Bosnia's Muslim-le- d government continued to lobby against a peace plan hammered out in GeneBosnia's forva. In Washington eign minister, Haris Silajdzic, said the proposal makes unacceptable concessions to the Serbs and rewards "crimes against humani- - ty." Clinton withholds support for Bosnian peace plan By GEORGE GEDDA Associated Press Writer - by peace envoys Cyrus R.' Vance central government. One U.S. oband Lord David Owen as "the last jection to the plan is that it would chance we have of bringing about a not reverse the "ethnic solution with peaceful means." that Bosnian, cleansing" campaign "I asked that the United States Serbs have carried out for almost a take into consideration the fact that year against their ethnic rivals. there might be negative conse- Another U.S. complaint is that quences (if) the plan was not adopt- American military forces would be ed, but there was not an altern- required to enforce the plan. ed WASHINGTON President Clinton is withholding support for a Bosnian peace plan worked out by international negotiators despite an appeal by the German foreign minister, who called the proposal the "last chance" for a settlement. ative," Kinkel said. Klaus Kinkel urged Clinton to Nevertheless, he said there were embrace the plan during an Oval "certain hesitations" reflected on Office meeting Thursday, but the the U.S. side during his g president said the administration discussions with senior officials. was still considering other options. The Vance-Owe- n plan would At a news conference later, Kindivide Bosnia into 10 kel described the plan formulated linked to a weak day-lon- During the presidential campaign, Clinton indicated he would pursue a more assertive policy than the Bush administration. But the new administration has had difficulty coming up with an alternative approach. clash. Some of Somalia's clan fighters are no more than boy s. Two Marines and a civilian U.S. Army employee have been killed since U.S. forces arrived and were followed by troops from 2 allied nations. 1 Thursday's ambush again illustrated the problems the forces face in trying to enforce order so that relief agencies can n deliver food in this civil racked by country war and crime. Last year, 350,-00- 0 Somalis died from hunger, disease, and fighting among rival clans and crime. famine-stricke- Opposition leader determined to see Zaire's president ousted Immigration Minister Bernard Valcourt intervened last week in the cae of the woman known only s Nada. allowing her to apply for permanent icsident status in Canada. Nada. who is in her 20s. had CROATIA But as rival faction leaders and U.N. representative Dante Ca-- j Aito's intensive but fruitless talks v. ith Prime Minister Marc Bazin and the army command ended I huisday. He had tried to open a Jean-Bertran- i est towns to replenish alarmingly low stocks in Sarajevo and relieve ment foe. k Bosnia-Herzegovi- U.N. convoys carrying more than 650 tons of aid set out today for some of Bosnia's needi- ended in a shower of insults, according to one prominent govern- Proposed Bosnian Map HUNGARY is going to go out w ith sekedi said in 1991. him," Tshi- He was speaking in an Associated Press interview after Western donors put pressure on Mobutu to legalize opposition parties and then name Tshisekedi prime minister of an interim government to organize elections. Mobutu fired him two weeks later, but protests, riots and Western pressure forced Mobutu to reinstate Tshisekedi last year. Now the West is pressuring Mobutu again. Wednesday, the United States, France and Belgium demanded Mobutu transfer power to Tshisekedi. Tshisekedi listed among the aims of his Union for Democracy and Social Progress restoring the country's former name, the Congo, and the flag adopted when it became independent in 1960. Mobutu promised to install democracy by May 1991, but engineered delays while his troops harassed and attacked opponents. Security forces killed dozens of students and other protesters. They killed the son of one opposition leader in a rocket attack on his home, among the reported attacks on opposition strongholds this week. Tshisekedi blames Mobutu for the bloodshed: "If there is violence, don't blame us. It is Mobutu who provoked it." Tshisekedi said Mobutu loyalists attacked his house in 1990, beat him and assaulted his wife. His aides say he moves from house to house at night, as a security measure. He went into hiding when new violence broke out last week, emerging on Thursday only to make his call for help. nt z exhibits. -41 ra -- DISPLAYS jgypii rfWuh FUN, FUN, FUN! 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