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Payoffs or principles? Officials judge Clinton’s movesl
^ WASHINGTON — President
Clinton’s first weeks have been a
. boon for the interest groups that
both plague and sustain his party,
from feminists and gays to labor
unions and environmentalists.
Is he making payoffs or pursu
ing principles?
Republicans claim the first,
Democrats the second. Either way,
the new president is building good
will for future moves that his parly’s
traditional constituencies may not
like nearly as much.
“He wants to be able to point to
things he’s done for them,” said
John Scars, who managed both of
Ronald Reagan’s presidential cam
paigns. “The common thread is
none of these things cost money.
When he gets into the budget ...
we’ll see if he can hold it together
or whether it flies apart.”
In a series of rapid-fire execu
tive orders, Clinton has eradicated
policies abhorred by unions, envi
ronmentalists and abortion-rights
advocates. The jury is still out on
his efforts to end the ban on gays in
the military, but he can’t be ac
cused of not trying. The same goes
for his goal of naming a woman
attorney general.
The new Republican Parly chair
man, Haley Barbour, is already
calling Clinton’s moves on the gay
ban “a political payoff to a power
ful special interest group.”
But a senior White House offi
cial said Clinton’s executive or
ders, pastand future, “are notaimed
at individual groups. He’s over
turning 12 years of bad policy ...
stripping away a lot of nonsense.”
Clinton has been associated with
moderates trying to break the ste
reotype of their party as a collec
tion of special interests. His sup
porters say his recent actions don’t
change that.
“These are things that he cam
paigned on nationally. They are
part of his national program. Bill
Clinton didn’t go off in back rooms
and whisper to special interest
groups,” said Rob Shapiro, vice
president of the centrist Progres
sive Policy Institute.
Money is at the heart of many a
group’s agenda. Environmental
ists would like more for hazardous
waste cleanups. Labor groups are
interested in worker retraining pro
grams. Educators are eyeing wider
aid programs for students. The eld
erly are vehemently resisting any
tampering with Social Security.
And no one wants new taxes.
Prospective partings of the way
aren’t confined to money. Major
debates still loom over the military
ban on gays, trade policy, auto fuel
efficiency standards, the Endan
gered Species Act and countless
other issues on which Clinton won’t
be able to satisfy all of his party’s
factions.
Treatment of
hostages’ kin
will test Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Rela
tives of two British prisoners in
Iraq are heading to Baghdad to
plead for their release. How they
are treated could show whether
a new Iraqi strategy of avoiding
confrontation with the West is
genuine.
With a new man inthc.White
House and fractures showing in
the Persian Gulf War coalition,
Baghdad apparently believes the
time has come to change tack.
But what has been referred to
as Saddam Hussein’s “charm
offensive” still ainrts, ultimately,
to get Iraq’soil exports moviW
again and to reopen discussion
on a range of Persian Gulf War
cease-tire issues.
To achieve those goals re
quires ending the U.N. sanc
tions that arc crippling Iraq’s
economy and splitting the U.S.
led coalition against Baghdad.
Its attitude toward the Brit
ons’ visit will be watched as a
sign of a more compliant ap
proach than its usual defiance of
Western demands.
Iraq says that if Britain re
leases its frozen assets, the pris
oners’ cases would be reviewed
with co;mpassion.
Both hostages, Paul Ride and
Michael Wainwright, were ar
rested after they strayed into
Iraq last year.
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NATO weighs use of force in Bosnia
UNITED NATIONS — With time
running out for Bosnian Serbs and
Muslims to agree on a U.N. peace
plan, international
mediators held a
final series of
meetings Sunday
before the Security
Council takes over
the crisis.
Mediators held
little hope ol reaching a solution Sun
day after talks bogged down Saturday
over their plan to end the war. As
negotiations continued to go nowhere,
talk elsewhere increasingly turned to
the possibility of outside military in
tervention.
Secretary of Defense Lcs Aspin
mei in Munich, Germany, with West
ern military leaders lo discus;
Washington’s proposals for ending
the war in the former Y ugoslav repub
lie. Aspin refused to describe the pro
posals to reporters, saying only tha
Washington could act on them a;
early as this week.
NATO Secretary General Manfrcc
Woemer said at the Munich meeting
that the alliance might have lo use
force lo end the war in Bosnia
Herzegovina, which has killed more
than 18,000 people and made 1 mil
lion refugees.
U.N. envoy Cyrus Vance said Sun
day as he arrived at U.N. Headquar
ters that he believed the Security Coun
cil would gel involved Monday.
The talks were moved lo New York
; from Geneva last week so the Secu
; rity Council — especially the United
States — could pressure the factions
to compromise.
Many divisions remain between
; the two principal holdouts — the
Muslim-led Bosnian government and
I the Bosnian Serbs.
Under the peace plan put forward
by Vance and Lord Owen, a negotia
tor from the European Community,
each ethnic group would dominate
three regions of Bosnia. The area
around the capital, Sarajevo, would
be under joint control.
The Muslims contend the plan
would reward Serbian aggression by
giving the Serbs control over Bosnian
territory they conquered. The Serbs
took territory as they rebelled against
Bosnia ’s declaration of independence
a year ago from Serb-dominated Yu
goslavia. Muslims and Croats sup
ported secession.
The Serbs, who accounted for a
third of Bosnia’s population before
the war, control about 70 percent of
Bosnian territory. Under the peace
plan, the land under their control would
be cut to about 40 percent.
If no com promise could be reached,
Vance and Owen planned to present
their proposal to the Security Coun
cil, which might try to pressure the
parties closer to an agreement, said
Fred Eckhard, a spokesman for the
mediators.
Workplacewaming: Killing sprees on the rise
Bosses beware. Killing sprees by
disgruntled employees arc on the rise
in the workplace. Some say it’s be
cause of a growing sense of despair,
frustration and alienation by workers
losing their jobs.
“A lot of them arc actually trying
to kill the company because they think
the whole slinking place is against
them. They just want to get even, and
the more people that die the sweeter
the revenge," said James Alan Fox,
dean of the college of criminal justice
at Northeastern University in Boston.
“It’s called murder by proxy. The
reason why they kill co-workers is
they’re associated with the boss, an
extension of the original target,” Fox
said. “The message is: Look who’s
doing the firing now.’” So far this
year:
—Paul Caldcn, 33, a claims man
ager fired by the Firemen’s Fund In
surance Co., killed three bosses and
wounded two others at an office caf
eteria in Tampa, Fla., on Jan. 27.
'This is what you get for firing me,”
Caldcn said as he pulled a gun from
his suit. He later killed himself with a
shot to the head.
—Michael Wayne Bums, 37, is
accused of killing one co-worker and
wounding seven others Wednesday at
the Prcscolitc Inc. factory in El Dorado,
Ark., where he worked. The shooting
spree ended when one of the wounded
hit Burns in the head with a pipe.
Investigators said he was apparently
upset over harassment from fellow
workers.
—Phone company lineman Paul
Hannah, 46, is charged with killing a
Chicago union steward on Thursday
as Hannah was being suspended for
refusing to lake a drug test. He aimed
the gun at a company manager, but it
misfired six times. The union steward
was killed as he tried to intervene.
—Fernando Rui30, shot his boss
to death and wounded a female co
workcrat Dahn’s Fresh Herbs in Hous
ton on Saturday because liis boss
planned to fire him for theft and for
harassing the co-worker. Ruiz, shot
and killed himself in the building
attic.
“It is a growing problem. We have
to prepare for more of this for many
vears to come.” Fox said
Fox * s prol'i Ic shows the k i Hers tend
to be white middle-aged men, loners
with a history of frustration or disap
pointment on the job, a diminished
ability to cope with frustration and a m
tendency to blame others for their
problems. A gun is the weapon of
choice to maximize killing.
“The thing that is leading people to
commit these crimes is a sense of
hopelessness. They don’t feel there
arc any alternatives,” said Joseph
Kinney of the Chicago-based National
Safe Workplace Institute.
He attributed the escalating rate of
violence on the job to vulnerability—
few workers or managers have life
time jobs in these days of pink slips,
and strcsscd-oul people with easy ac
cess to guns arc more willing to resort
to violence.
Arthur Ashe’s life, last moments
remembered as brave, exemplary
NEW YORK — Arthur Ashe was
lucid in his last hours and alert enough
to make the OK sign shortly before his
death from AIDS-related pneumonia.
Dojjald Dell, Ashe’s agent and
frienu of 25 years, and Dr. Henry
Murray, Ashe’s physician, held an
emotional news conference Sunday
at New York Hospital, where Ashe,
49, died Saturday.
“He used to say,' Don’t feel sorry
for me,’” said Dell, who frequently
choked up. “He clearly felt he was not
a victim. Whatever happened, he
would rise to that particular occasion.
It was just another challenge.”
President Clinton called Ashe “a
true American hero and a great ex
ample to us all," adding in a statement
that “Arthur rose from the segregated
courts of R ic hmond, Va., to the cham -
pionship at Wimbledon displaying
grace, strength and courage every step
of the way.
“He was a friend of mine,” Clinton
said Sunday as he walked to church,
“I’m really sad about it.”
Murray said Ashe had been hospi
talized with pneumonia for two weeks
in January and was ill off and on for
several months. Ashe gave a speech
as recently as last Tuesday, bulquickly
suffered from a fever and other com
plications that began late Wednes
day, Murray said.
“He was fully alert, asking ques
tions. He was concerned about who
the next attorney general would be,”
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He clearly felt he was
not a victim. It (AIDS)
was just another chal
lenge.
Dell
Ashe 's agent
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Murray said of Ashe’s last hours.
Murray made the OK sign with his
thumb and forefinger, saying “his last
gesture to me was this.”
Murray said Ashe’s swift decline
was “unusual but happens.”
More extraordinary, he said, was
Ashe’s excellent health in the 4 1/2
years since he was diagnosed. Murray
said Ashe kept a very busy schedule.
Dell said he had discussed Ashe’s
strenuous schedule with Ashe’s wife,
Jeanne.
“He fell it was therapeutic,” said
Dell, president of ProServe Inc. “He
said it was better than silting home
and thinking about dying.”
Ashe, the only black man ever to
win the Wimbledon championship
and the U.S. Open, revealed April 8
that he had AIDS in a news confer
ence prompted by his fear that a news
paper was about to publish the story.
He said he was infected by a blood
transfusion during heart bypass sur
gery, probably in 1983.
Though adamant that he should
have the right to keep his illness pri
vate, he became active in the fight
against AIDS, forming a fund-raising
foundation and joining the boards of
the Harvard AIDS Institute and the
UCLA AIDS Institute.
Dell said that Ashe was angry at
being forced to reveal his condition.
But he said the anger passed quickly
as Ashe became a crusader against
AIDS.
“They didn’t hold any bitterness,"
Dell said of Ashe and his family.
Sports Wire
Tulane knocked off
North Carolina-Charlotte
pulled off the second biggest
upset Sunday, next to Nebraska’s
68-64 dismantling of no. 3 Kan
sas.
No. 18 Tulane (16-4) fell vic
tim to North Carolina-Charlotte
in overtime, 68-64.
In Big 10 action, Chris
Webber led no. 7 Michigan past
no. 19 Purdue Sunday, 84-76.
And in the PAC-10, no. 8
Arizona (15-2) beat California
93-81. No. 18 Tulane (16-4) lost
to N.C. Charlotte 68-64 in over
time.
Bowe’s win draws boos
NEW YORK — The violent
shortness of Riddick Bowe’svic
tory over Michael Dokes Satur
day night drew boos from many
of the 16,332 fans at Madison
Square Garden, but they got what
they paid for.
His performance in his first
heavyweight title defense was a
thoroughly professional one.
And Bowe knew it.
“He was no match for me,"
Bowe said. “I don’t want to kill
a man."