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Croats, Yugoslav army agree to negotiate settlement
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Yugosla
via’s army agreed in principle Thursday to
withdraw from Croatia within a month, and
Croat militants pledged to lift their blockades
of army barracks in the secessionist republic.
At the same time, the combatants agreed to
negotiate a political settlement to the civil war
that would address the grievances of the Serb
minority in Croatia, said Dutch Foreign Minis
ter Hans van den Broek, who announced the
agreement.
Van den Broek spoke after five hours of
talks with the leaders of Croatia, Serbia and the
federal military at a European Community-led
peace conference in The Hague.
The accord appeared to offer the best chance
yet for halting the 3 1/2-month-old civil war in
Croatia, which has pitted Croat militants against
ethnic Serb guerrillas supported by Serbia and
the Serb-dominated federal army.
It was unclear whether the latest peace agree
ment would be observed by fighters in the
battlefield.
More than 600 people are known to have
died since June 25, when Croatia declared
independence along with neighboring Slov
enia. Croatia reported more casualties from
clashes Thursday in the eastern part of the
republic.
Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and the
federal defense minister, Gen. Veljko Kadijevic,
both said they accepted the agreement. Tudjman
insisted that Croatia be treated as a sovereign
republic in the negotiations and Kadijevic linked
the army pullout to progress on the political
front. ,
“If what was discussed today is translated
into reality there is a good chance for the
settlement of the Yugoslav crisis to be done by
political means,” he said •
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic called
the one-month deadline “a realistic frame
work,” but added that all parties in the crisis
must “fully contribute to the settlement.”
Milosevic indicated that a final settlement
must give some kind of autonomy to Croatia’s
Serbian minority, which doesn’t want to be
part of an independent Croatia.
He said, the EC would discuss whether to
recognize the independence of republics want
ing to break away from the Yugoslav federa
tion.
Four killed
in rampage
Police say fired mail
worker surrenders
RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — A fired
postal worker armed with a machine
gun, grenades and a samurai sword
went on a rampage Thursday, killing
four people, including a former super
visor who had accusal him of harass
ment, police said.
Joseph M. Harris killed the woman
and her boyfriend at their home in
Wayne, then went to the Ridgewood
post office, where he killed two mail
handlers as they arrived for work,
authorities said.
He surrendered there after a 4 1/2
hour standoff during which he set off
two small explosives, police said. He
had weapons including a machine
gun, hand grenades and the samurai
sword, which may have been used to
kill the supervisor, authorities said.
An explosive booby-trap was found
at his rented room in Paterson in
northern New Jersey west of New
York City.
“In my opinion, considering the
way he was armed ... he intended to
kill more people,” said Ridgewood
police Chief Frank Milliken.
Harris, 35, was arraigned on four
counts of murder, two of attempted
murder, two of attempted kidnapping,
and charges of possessing automatic
weapons and explosives. Bail was set
AP
at SI million.
Hands and feet shackled, Harris
shook his head and smiled as the
charges were read. He blurted out
“It’s wrong!” and ‘‘I didn’t shoot!”
before being ordered to be silent.
Harris’ former supervisor, Carol
Ott, 30, was found dead in her home
about 10 miles from Ridgewood, along
with Cornelius Kasien Jr., who lived
with her. Police checked the house
when Ott failed to report to work.
Senate stage prepared
for Thomas testimony
WASHINGTON — The Senate
set the stage Thursday for the show
down between Clarence Thomas and
the woman accusing him of sexual
harassment. At stake: His bitterly
fought nomination to the Supreme
Court.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
subpoenaed witnesses while Repub
lican and Democratic members nego
tiated over whether Thomas or his
accuser, Oklahoma law professor Anita
Hill, would be questioned first when
the hearings begin today.
“He knows it’s been terribly dam
aging but he wants to do what he can
to clear this cloud off his character,”
said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who
will act as Thomas’ chief Senate
defender in the hearings.
HiU spent Thursday consulting with
her quickly formed legal team, said
Louise Hilsen, a publicist retained to
be her spokeswoman during the hear
ings. Hill’s parents and two brothers
were arriving to be with her in the
hearing room today.
“I support him 100 percent,” said
President Bush. He added, “I’m sim
ply not going to inject myself into
what’s going on in the Senate.”
“Letrs see the Senate get on with
I support him 100 per
cent. I’m simply not
going to inject myself
into what’s going on in
the Senate. preskjentBush
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this business in a fair fashion, get this
matter resolved,” Bush said.
The panel could hear testimony
through the weekend before the Sen
ate voles at 6 p.m. Tuesday on the
troubled nomination.
Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., the
panel’s chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy,
D-Vt., a former prosecutor, and Sen.
Howell Heflin, D-Ala., a former judge,
will ask questions for the Democrats.
Hatch will question Thomas while
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., former
Philadelphia district attorney, will
question Hill, aides said.
Two witnesses whom Hill once
told her allegations of sexual harass
ment were among those subpoenaed
to testify, said sources familiar with
the arrangements.
Susan Hoerchner, who graduated
from Yale Law School in 1980 with
Hill, has told investigators that Hill
once confided to her that she had been
sexually harassed at the Equal Em
ployment Opportunity Commission,
said sources, who spoke on condition
of anonymity.
Joel Paul, an American University
law professor, another witness, has
told investigators that when Hill inter
viewed in 1987 for a teaching posi
tion she said she left EEOC because
she had been sexually harassed.
At a Capitol Hill news conference,
Sen. John Danforth.R-Mo., Thomas’
mentor and chief Senate champion,
introduced several women who
vouched for the nominee’s character
and sensitivity to the issue of harass
ment. 1
Janet Brown, who worked with I
Thomas on Danforth’s Senate staff, J
said that when she suffered sexual
harassment “outside my immediate
family, no one exhibited more com
passion (and) more caring about what
was happening than Clarence Tho
mas.”
Pamela Talkin, who was Thomas’
chief of staff for three of the eight
years he headed the EEOC, said the
nominee “had a feminist understand
ing” of sexual politics.
Cuomo aides inquiring about race, officials say
WASHINGTON — Aides to New York
Gov. Mario Cuomo have been quietly inquir
ing about delegate rules and deadlines for get
ting on 1992 presidential primary ballots,
Democratic Party officials said Thursday.
Cuomo, who regularly denies any interest in
the 1992 race, also is the subject of a glowing,
16-pagc brochure mailed recently to some party
leaders and donors that louts his record and
promotes his views on the 1992 race.
The governor’s disavowals of interest aside,
party leaders view the activity as a sign that
Cuomo is seriously considering running.
“Some of his people arc telling people not 10
commit (to other candidates), they want people
to hold,” said Lynn Cutler, vice chairwoman of
the Democratic National Committee. ‘‘Clearly
they’re reminding people that he’s there.”
Cuomo’s office as recently as this week
repeated the governor’s assertion that he ‘‘has
no plans and no plans to make plans” to run in
1992.
Yet longtime Cuomo confidant John Mar
ino said this week that ‘‘anything could still
happen” and that the governor had not closed
the door on the 1992 race.
If nothing else, the attention and interest
Cuomo generates demonstrates his influence
over the race even as a non-candidate.
“Until Mario walks up to a microphone and
says, ‘No, No, No, a thousand times No,’ there
will be a large group of people who will believe
he’s going to run,” said one senior party official
who asked not to be identified.
Because of his high name recognition and
fund-raising base, Cuomo can wait longer than
other prospective candidates before making a
final decision.
But with five major candidates now in the
race, party officials interpret the recent in
quires “as a kind of mission to determine just
how long he can wait and how long istbolong,"
in the words of one party operative. This party
official, who was recently contacted by the
Cuomo camp, said the Cuomo aide “indicated
the governor was thinking seriously about running
but still undecided, and didn’t want to get
caught off guard if he decided to do it.”
Panel concludes King
plagiarized for study
BOSTON — A committee of
scholars said Thursday that civil
rights leader Martin Luther King
Jr. plagiarized passages in his dis
sertation for a doctoral degree at
Boston University.
“There is no question but that
Dr. King plagiarized in the disser
tation by appropriating material
from sources not explicitly cred
ited in notes, or mistakenly cred
ited, or credited generally and at
some distance in the text from a
close paraphrase or verbatim quo
tation,” the panel said in a report.
Despite its findings, the com
mittee said: “No thought should be
given to the revocation of Dr. King’s
doctoral degree from Boston Uni
versity” because that wouldn’t af
fect “academic or scholarly prac
tice.”
The group did recommend that
a leuer stating the committee’s
finding be placed with the official
copy of King’s dissertation in the
university’s library.
University Provost Jon Westling
accepted the report’s recommen
dations. He said the committee
“conducted the investigation with
scholarly thoroughness, scrupulous
attention to detail, and a determi
nation not to be influenced by non
scholarly consideration.”
Boston University established
the committee nearly a year ago to
determine whether plagiarism al
legations against King, who was
assassinated in 1968, were true.
King wrote "A Comparison of
the Conceptions of God in the
Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry
Nelson Wieman” in 1955aspartof
his requirements for a doctor of
philosophy degree.
Congress’AIDS bill
could create conflicts
If President Bush signs legislation
designed to protect people from AIDS
infected health care workers, it could
put Washington on a collision course
with state capitals that have adopted
guidelines of their own.
Several states, including New York,
California and Michigan, have poli
cies that differ from the federal man
date, passed by Congress last week.
The congressional legislation ini
tially required states to adopt a policy
written by the U.S. Centers for Dis
ease Control. It asks health care work
ers to be voluntarily tested for AIDS
and says infected workers should stop
performing certain “exposure-prone”
procedures.
In a comprom ise, Congress agreed
to allow states to adopt an equivalent
policy of their own. Some states have
policies that differ significantly from
the CDC guidelines and it isn’t clear
how flexible the federal officials will
be.
“I don’t think we know exactly
how ‘equivalent’ will be defined,”
said Dr. Ronald Davis, chief medical
officer for the Michigan Department
of Health. CDC officials said they
hadn’t decided yet.
States that don’t comply with the
federal policy could lose all federal
Public Health Service funds. In Michi
gan that could be more than S30 mil
lion a year, Davis said.
Dr. Lloyd Novick, community
health director for the New York Slate
Health Department, said his stale stood
to lose tens of millions of dollars.
The aim of the policy is to prevent
a recurrence of a Florida case in which
a dentist, the late Dr. David Acer,
transmitted the AIDS virus to five
patients. He is the only health care
worker in the country who is known
to have transmitted the virus to a
patient.
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