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
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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
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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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