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Clinton to face global agenda j By Neil Feldman Staff Reporter Although President-elect Bill Cl inton con tin ues to foe u s on h i s prom - ises regarding domestic issues, many experts believe he soon will face a torrent of problems abroad. Foreign policy experts say the Bush administration’s neglect of many prob lems overseas during the height of the presiden tial campaign will result in a heavy global ___ agenda for 4jFic,inlon Edward Hewett, a specialist on the Russian economy, points to the need for immediate con centration on the former Soviet Union. “It’s impossible to simply ignore the crises that arc currently inflamed within the former Soviet republics,” Hewett said. “It is absolutely critical for President-elect Clinton to estab lish an outline for a coherent foreign policy toward each republic within his first 100 days in office.” The most pressing conflicts in the former Soviet Union, Hewett said, lie in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Tajikistan and the three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Territorial disputes and ethnic dif ferences are the principal reasons for the widespread hostility throughout the former superpower. Many of these dilemmas arc decades old, though they were suppressed by the Kremlin. Communism’s disintegration has opened the door for the quarrels to balloon, and Hewett said it was the United States’ responsibility to help the republics deal with them. Don Perctz, a Middle East expert and author of several books and jour nal articles on the Palestinian upris ing, said the Middle East also needed immediate attention. “The Bush administration has ba sically left the Middle East peace process hanging by a thin line,” Perctz said. “Just when Secretary (of Stale James) Baker was displaying progress toward reaching an agreement over the Palestinian question of autonomy in the occupied territories, President Bush pulled him from the State De partment and moved him into the White House. That damaged the flow of the peace process.” A stalemate between the Arab and Israeli negotiators has been the result of peace talks without a sufficient mediator. Baker, who was appointed chief of staff by Bush in mid-August, had promised that he would continue to mediate negotiations while simulta neously running the campaign, but a settlement was not achieved. Perctz said both th<® Arabs and Israelis were looking forward to work ing with a new set of faces. “A new administration with a new approach might be the needed spark to ignite some kind of peace settle ment,” he said. With regard to Bosnia, Clinton has said he was ready to use force, in conjunction with the United Nations, to get aid to that warring nation this Brian Shellito/DN winter. He also has said that he wanted to tighten the embargo on Serbia. Robert Licber, a professor of for eign policy alGeorgclown University in Washington, D.C., said he sup ported Clinton’splans for the Balkans, but he said action must be taken within Clinton’s first three months in office. “What Clinton says he will do is what President Bush should have done many months ago,” Licber said. Clinton has emphasized the im portance of using multinational insti tutions, not only with Bosnia,butalso with Somalia, Iraq and other areas faced with troubling situations. “By acting quickly and aggres sively toward these problems abroad,” Licber said, “there is a good chance he could tone down the critics who say he will fail the test of foreign policy.” UNL helping Albania better itself By Corey Russman Staff Reporter _ As Albania undergoes economic reform, professors from the Univer sity of Ncbraska-Lincoln arc helping Albanian officials decide what is best for their country. Fred Luthans, a management pro fessor at UNL, said prolessors were offering Albanians the “tools and tech niques of how to make the transfer” to a free enterprise economy. The U.S. Agency for International Development is sponsoring the UNL project, he said. Luthans said the project was aimed at educating Albanian entrepreneurs, government officials and university faculty about the workings of a free enterprise economy. The project also will provide management training. The project includes four phases, Luthans said. In the first two phases, he said, 10 UNL professors visited Albania in May and September to provide training on the principles of a new market economy, he said. In ihc third phase, 16 Albanian officials are visiting Lincoln this month, Lulhans said. During this phase, he said, the Albanians arc gain ing experience by attending econom ics and management classes at UNL and visiting local and state businesses and government offices. The Albanians arc getting achancc to visit many of the “world-class com panies here in Lincoln,” such as Kawasaki and ISCO, Lulhans said. The final phase of the project prob ably will take place in May, Lulhans said, and will require four or five UNL professors to travel back to Albania to answer any final questions the Alba nians may have about making the transfer to a free enterprise economy. "We feel we can make a differ ence," he said. “We are learning as much from them as they arc from us.” UNL students also arc benefiting from the project, Lulhans said, be cause the visiting Albanians arc get ting involved by lecturing at classes. Lulhans said the Albanians’ ex pectations had been surpassed during their trip to Lincoln, and they were thrilled by what they saw. 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