Show t g- - - Logan USh OIC 50 Cants Ji l&sldo NATO radius against time Bombings enter sixth day as refugees flee to Albania BELGRADE Yugoslavia (AP) — NATO bombs pounded Yugoslavia for a sixth day as thousands of ethnic Albanians fearing Serb paramilitary forces streamed out of Kosovo today in what may be Europe’s worst humanitarian disaster since World WarIL of Kosovo's populace has now been made homeless since Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic launched the Kosovo crackdown 13 months ago An ethnic Albanian leader Fehmi Agani was executed Sunday NATO said Agani a close aide to ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova and one of the negotiators at the failed Rambouillet peace talks had just attended the funeral of a human rights lawyer Four other prominent ethnic Albanians were also reported executed NATO said in what it called a “scorched earth policy" — including Baton liax-hi- u editor in chief of the Albanian-languag- e news- One-quart- er Aggies win thwr first conference homo Page 6 gam Update mm AP photo Is there logic in decisions to use force? Ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo receive bottles of drinking water after arriving in the northern Albanian town of Kukes today They were forced to leave their houses and villages in Kosovo by Serbian forces Clinton seeks to hold silled unity — Page 5 paper in Kosovo's capital Pristina Koha Dilore The newspaper's publisher Veton Surroi and Rugova both have gone into hiding in fear of their lives NATO officials reported NATO said refugees were arriving at the Albanian border at the rate of 4000 an hour today straining the already desperate resources of one of Europe's poorest countries “We are trying to stop this catastrophe and stop this killing” NATO SecretaJavier Solatia said ry-General The Albanian prime minister appealed today to his countrymen to take in the refugees most of whom were carrying their only possessions by hand See RACE on Page 8 Court lets local firm’s By Calvin Woodward Associated Press Writer reverse-bia- WASHINGTON — This decade — never mind this century — has been awash in blood but the world's great power has been selective in using force to stanch the flow Multiply the loss of life in Kosovo by a magnitude of 100 and still it does not equal the toll in 90 days of Rwandan slaughter Mass starvation in North Korea brings food shipments but no force from the United States to break a repressive regime’s relief bottleneck Sudan’s civil war has left almost 2 million dead and counting How the United States picks its enemies can bear little relation to the scale of suffering it wishes to ease even when intervention is conducted on largely humanitarlanroond- s- "" "" “Any justification you can use for getting involved in Kosovo applies even more so to other conflicts’ says Gideon Rose a national security official in the fust Clinton administration “There is not a coherent intellectual rationale for doing just Kosovo but not a whole variety of other interventions” The naysayers — and there are many — will fall quiet if the NATO attacks on Yugoslavia somehow result in a stabler safer life for Kosovan without major casualties among the allies For now foreign policy analysts are to see a logical pattern that would explain why Somalia hut not Rwanda why Bosnia but not Siena Leone why Kosovo but not so many other places where tyrants crush their people or their neighbors "If we’re going to do humanitarian interventions I’d rather do them in Africa because more Africans are dying" said Michael Mandelbaum a European and national security scholar at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies 4 “Africans are suffering more and they on’t have wealthy neighbors that can actually do something for them" As Kosovars push for more autonomy g) do others whose pain is not seen on JV — among them Tibetans Turtixh Kurds Tunils in tiny Sri Lanka and ethnic groups in Indonesia where the Moodletting cranes with a propensity for off heads so much going on it probably is o ask why the United States does hard-press- S j See FORCE on Page 8 Cocho tonlflht i'TIm Alliance for the Verted Arts presents Karen WHeon African American folk artist In concert at 7:30 tonight In the Bullen Center 43 8 Main 8t Logan i Other events Page 4 Woofhor Enjoy It while you can We might lose the sun this week Page 8 lawsuit die By Richard Carelli Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today refused to revive a challenge to a program that gives companies owned by disadvantaged people extra help in winning contracts on federal highway projects the justices without comment turned away a Utah company's arguments that the affirmative-actio- n program adopted by Congress unlawfully discriminates against companies owned by white men Today’s action was not a decision and cannot be read as a court endorsement of the federal program The justices merely refused to review the dispute and thereby left intact a lower court’s ruling The Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program requires that no fewer than 10 percent of all reverse-discriminati- Trisha Socwel Doo-to- os They’re swapped for chemotherapy to treat cancer-stricke- n youth By Arrin Brunson BtflTT WflUff For many sods lovers the sound of crunching aluminum followed by the fizz of fresh pop means sweet refreshment each time a new can is popped open But for Trisha Socwell of Richmond that noise means something else entirely Throughout the school year the Sky View senior has rallied fellow students teachers and even bus drivers in an effort to collect as many of the tiny aluminum "pop-tops- ” as possible The tops so small most people don't even think of them as separate from the aluminum container can mean the differ ence between life and death for children “small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged to help kids with cancer Socwell said In an arrangement between Ronald McDonald’s House and Primary Children's Center sick children can receive a charitable donation of one minute of chemotherapy for each donated pop-to- p Socwell became involved with the service program after she met USU graduate student Mindy Knowles who fulfilled an internship at Sky View Knowles learned about the charitable project from her sister who is a nurse at Logan Regional Hospital It started as a family project for the Diet Coke-lovin- g Knowles' clan Both young women are involved in the department of human environments in USU’s College of Family Life and the project fulfilled service requirements for them both More importantly Knowles and Socwell say over 200000 minutes of chemotherapy have resulted from the community effort Vice Principal Dee Ashcroft said all Sky View's classes have become drawn con- struction contracts be awarded to sha has coltected for fraa chamotharaov minutes for cancer victims i Teen uses pop-top- s individuals" One of the federal laws encompassing the program defines “small business concern" as one with less than $166 million annually in average gross revenue for the preceding three years The program also presumes that racial minorities and women who own small businesses are "socially Good Neighbors into the project — collecting and counting the tops The school has been supportive of the effort hosting a pizza party for the class with the most tops at the end of the trimester Ashcroft said Knowles and Socwell say coordinating the project was difficult at first but it has been a huge success Youths get involved in many projects Knowles stud and many of them fail Because this is a worcollection thy cause she said the pop-to- p has been a huge succeu "I think the projects that are not meaningful are the ones that fail” Knowles said “The kids aren’t doing it for the and economically disadvantaged" v That presumption was challenged by CVE Construction for- merly part of Cache Valley Electrical Co after it lost out on two 1993 contracts for traffic signal work on federally funded road projects in Sandy Both times the company submitted the lowest bid but contractors awarded both electrical subcontracts to an enterprise owned by a Hispanic woman CVE Construction of Salt Lake is owned by Cache Valley See POP on Page 8 See SUIT on Page 8 NYPD blues? Brutality case rocks Justices to rule nation’s largest police department on political use NEW YORK (AP) — After weeks of demonstrations that led to some atmos1000 arrests and a siege-lik- e phere at Police Headquarters the protests over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man may be ending The Rev A1 Sharpton said Sunday the daily protests would end today perhaps taking some heat off a department buffeted by a series of embarrassing incidents that has thrown the nation's largest police behind-the-scen- es Police Department over its tactics and relations with minorities in the city will persist long after the protesters have gone The department's troubles come just two years after it was riding high on news that the city's crime rate was dropping with murders under 1000 annually for the first time in 28 years What's created the most anger is the case of Amadou Diallo an unarmed West African immigrant shot to death by police in a Bronx apartment vestibule The police apparently believing Diallo was reaching for a gun fired 41 bullets at him He was hit by 19 shots In daily protests outside Police Headouarters since March 9 charges have been hurled against police of prejudice against the black man and protesters have demanded the four while police officers be jailed Among the more than 1000 people arrested in the daily protests have been prominent whites Latinos and Asians as well as blacks And politicians have criticized high-ranki- city leaders for not paying more attention to the problem The department's trouble have also sullied Mayra Rudolph Giuliani In Sunday's editions a Daily News poll found the mayor's popularity at an e low with a 40 percent approval rating down from 60 percent in November and 63 percent a year earlier all-tim- of student fees WASHINGTON (AP) — The US Supreme uniCourt has agreed to deckle whether state-ru- n versities can dedicate a portion of the activity fees collected from all students — even those who object — to subsidize groups that pursue political and ideological goals In a case that reflects a recent debate in the Idaho Legislature the justices said on Monday that they will review rulings that barred the University of Wisconsin from using a portion of the activity fees it collects from every student to finance such groups A federal trial judge and an appeals court ruled tams-r- vi m (POOR COPY! federally funded highway S John Wftkifttorald Journal holds a fow boxes of force into its worst crisis in years But Sharpton said the pressure on the New York wwwhjnewscom ' s wvn - j irs- -r |