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Show _The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Saturday, July12, 1997 Slighted — AQ Palestinian Police Evict Exiled Russian Clergy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Yet Romania Cheers U.S. ments under which both sides JERUSALEM — PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top aide promised Russianclerics Friday he would try to help themreturn to a Hebron monasteryafter they were evicted by Palestinian LOS ANGELES TIMES BUCHAREST, Romania — police. Last Saturday, Palestinian po- pledgedtorespectholysites The incident refle the dispute between the Moscow-based Russian Orthodox Church and offshoot churchesset upin exile during the Communist era. The headof the Moscow church, Patriarch Alexy II, has been touring the Holy Land to recover proper- States this week, but Friday the lice served an eviction notice to the nunsand monksof the monastery, which is in an area under Palestinian control Netanyahu’s top aide, David pears to be siding with AlexyII whoheads theworld’s largest Or- italturned out for a massive, proAmerican party that brought nor- saying it violated peace agree- thodox church, with an estimated 80million followers. Their nation’s bid to join the West's military alliance might havebeen thwarted by the United citizensof this long-suffering cap- Bar-Ilan, denouncedtheeviction ties lost to the exile churches The Palestinian Authority ap- mal businessto a halt. President Clinton, whoinsisted ONE SIMPLE PLAY, ONE BIG JAZZ VICTORY on excluding Romania from a select group of nearby countries ineneouraging message to residents of Bucharest, a city of more than 2 million where stray dogs and Robert F. Bukaty/The Associated Prew SHOWBOAT horse-drawncarts remain part of the landscape. “Stay the course! The three-masted windjammerVictory Chimes cruises off Rockland, Maine, on Friday, one of several historic vessels taking part in the annual Schooner Daysfestival. Stay the course!” Clinton ex- claimed to a crowd estimated in the, tens of “The fu- SA| is Scour UL BM ING KUL A Big Price Tag for a Bigger NATO | Hubble Cres Wal wh | + Cray Hoses Hinge Fay Prowct UIAISJURASSICIEWEL COMING TO AHEAD DY CHRISTOPHER SMITH TH) SALTLAKE TRIAUNE tureis yours!"” Romanians responded with cheers, many shouting, ‘Clinton! Clinton!” as the president urged ip the nation to continue on the path Sa une The Salt Lake Tribsu | vited to join NATO, offered an * Counties Keep Ligon With Meeting ofpolitical and economic reforms it has adopted more slowly than some of its neighbors. Yet even as Clinton’s pep talk Cost Estimates Are All Over Map, "sparked an emotionalovation, the "White House whistle-stop visit through Romania underscored a chism between European officials who had madea big issue of "including Romania in NATO, and attitudes apparent within. Romania remains something of ‘an enigma in the West, saddled with a history of brutal violence and, widespreadpoverty, a place where the name of native-son © Dracula — actually the 15th-cen> tury Vlad the Impaler — now ap- ButBill Surely Will Be in Billions its new members — as required by the 1949 alliance charter — and the burdens each partner will bear. Thereare three workingestimates of the potential KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON — AsPresidentClinton returns from Europeafter marshalling NATO’shistoric ex- of $27 billion to $35 billion. The assumption is the Americans would payless than 10 percent, with the allies and new memberspayingthe rest. pansioninto the formerSoviet empire,the project's price tag is drawing fresh scrutiny. Concerns aboutbillionsin anticipated costs — and who should pay — are central to a brewing debate in the Senate about the wisdom of NATO expansion, President Clinton’s top foreign-policy goal. French President Jacques Chirac told reportersat the recently concluded Madrid summit that the cost to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should be “zero.” NATO skeptics and supporters alike question Clinton administration cost estimates, suspecting theyare tantalizingly low. A Clinton team, with an eye to history, is deter- pears on waterbottles. Romania was “always alone, surrounded by enemies who wanted pieces of her,” wrote Robert Kaplan in his 1993 book Balkan mined to make sure the Senate and the other 15 Ghosts, NATOparliamentsratify the agreements with Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Senate ap- A cross-section of Romanians interviewed Friday made clear that manyfelt deeply honored by the visit of a U.S. president, the first such visit since Gerald Ford came here 12 yearsago. We thought that if Clinton proval appears likely, though not without serious debate aboutthecosts. Cost estimates of extending NATO's defensesto the newallies range from $10 billion for simple improvements to $130 billion for a model that would station NATO troops in the new countries. comeshere, the world realizes we The costs would be spread over 10 to 15 years. The exist,” said Kathy Bodea, 18, a university student. costs of NATO’s plans. The Clinton administration calculates a total cost The annual U.S. cost would be $150 million to $200 million for a decade after a small but unspecified number of countries joined. The figure has been widely quoted. But the administration report adds: “Plus perhaps some shareof the costs of enhancing NATO's reinforcement capabiliti id the military capabilities of new memberstate: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and 19 other senators asked Clinton last month whether the NATOallies and the new memberswill pay their share. If not, they wondered, how will shortfalls be handled? Twoother studies of NATOenlargement define a range of costs. In some cases, they are significantly higher than administration estimates. The closest match to the administration estimate is an analysis by the RAND Corp., a respected think tank. The RAND and administration approaches both assumethat Central Europewill face no stern military threat for manyyears, thus permitting a gradual adaptation of a newly configured alliance. A price tag of $30billion to $52 billion over 10 to idea is to divide them amongthe United States, other NATOallies and the new countries that must convert Gertainly, many Romanians are their outdated Soviet-style armiesinto strong, flexible fighting forces. acutely aware of the U.S., the counterweight to nearby Russia in the: Cold War. One newspaper here, the National, trumpeted Clinton’s visit Friday with the However the numbersfall, the bill will be in the billions, and that is before any of the invitations promised by Clinton and his NATO colleagues to add still more Central European countries. Still to be resolved are NATO’s strategy to defend headline, “The Master of the World Coming to Bucharest.” 15 years is a reasonable estimate, the RAND study concluded. It assumed four new members. “Alliances save money. Collective defense is cheaper than national defense,’ wrote the RAND analysts. They pointed out that NATO's European members spend $160 billion annually on defense, while the U.S. defense budget this year is $250 billion. Bosnian Serbs Incensed at NATO Forces THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PALE, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian Serbs posted extra gudrds and took other steps Fri- @ Pullout OK’d day to protect their senior officials, determined to thwart any moreattempts by NATOforces to Senate approved a resolu- snatch indicted war-crimes suspects. One suspect, a Bosnian Serb accused of transporting Muslim prisonersto Serb torture centers during the war, woke up Fridayin a prison cell in The Hague, Neth- erlands, after being captured in a first-of-its-kind raid by the NATO-led forces in Bosnia. Bosnian Serbs were angry about the raid Thursday that led fo Milan Kovacevic's arrest and accused the peace forces of over- steppingtheir authority. Another suspect, Simo Drljaca, was killed during theraid in a shootout with British troops However, Momcilo Krajisnik the Serb member of the threemember Bosnian presidency stopped short Friday of threatening retaliation and instead urged hig;peopleto stay calm. Worried about a widening mission in Bosnia, the divisions.”” Krajisnik also expressed concern over “secret, private lists” of indicted war-crimes suspects. In addition to the 77 publicly indicted suspects, the U.N. war-crimes tion insisting U.S. troops tribunal has said some indict- mustpull out by next June as planned suspects can be caught off-guard. ments are being kept secret so the tiem __THE TRIBUNE O HE WEB http://www.sltrib.com The full contents of The Tribune's Webedition are available anytimeto anyone with access to theInternet. simply by connecting with the above Web address. 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After the session, Krajisnik complained the NATO peace force had “overstepped its au- thority” and “annulled the good cooperation we have had. But he urged restraint. “We will advise our army, police and people to stay calm,” he said. “We mustnot dramatizethis situation and directit towards further force had changed its mission, and Serbs should demand an explanation. But the commander of the NATO-led peace force, U.S. Gen. William Crouch, denied the force’s mandate had changed and said his troops would continue to detain any indicted war-crimes suspect they encounter. The peacekeeping force “will also use its rules of engagement, as it did whenone of my soldiers was shot and returned fire,” Crouchsaid The NATO force's orders bar tracking down war-crimes suspects, but allowtheir capture if Choose any: Serta” now at the Lowest Prices of the Year. including every: Premium Quality Perfect Sleeper’! 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