By The
Associated Press
Edited by Todd Cooper
NEWS DIGEST
NelDraskan
Friday, February IS, 1993
Haitian boat sinks,
at least 1,000 die
PETIT GOA VE, Haiti—A packed
ferry carrying up to 1,500people sank
in stormy seas off Haiti, and only 285
people were known to have survived,
the Red Cross said Thursday.
Survivors told how they clung to
floating objects, in one case a bag of
charcoal, to stay alive.
“The sea was full of people,” said
one survivor, 29-year-old Madeleine
Julien, from her hospital bed in this
coastal town. “I kept bumping into
drowned people.”
The ferry Neptune went down late
Tuesday off Petit Goave, 60 miles
west of the capital. Communications
are so crude outside the capital it took
a group of about 60 survivors a day to
first report the accident.
U.S. aircraft and vesselsdispatched
Thursday to help in search-and-res
cue efforts reported “lots of debris
and lots of bodies,’’saidaCoast Guard
spokesman, Cmdr. Larry Mizell.
The Coast Guard said it had found
more than 100 bodies floating off
Petit Goave.
Coast Guard Cmdr. Larry Mizell
said there was “no correlation be
tween this and the boat people,” refer
ring to the tens of thousands of Hai
tians who have fled their homeland by
sea since the army ousted elected
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in
1991.
Haiti’s military approved flights
by U.S. aircraft over the disaster scene
and allowed two Coast Guard cutters
in the region to help in the rescue
effort, said Cmdr. Mizell, the Coast
Guard liaison in Port-au-Prince.
“We made the offer, and they
jumped on it,” Mizell said. U.S. ves
sels routinely patrol international
waters off Haiti for boat people, and
have increased their presence in re
cent weeks.
As two Haitian navy ships searched
for survivors Wednesday, relatives of
those aboard traveled to the site of the
sinking to await news about their loved
ones.
Destina Mom rosier, a seamstress
from Port-au-Prince, said her brother
and a cousin were aboard the Neptune
when it pulled out late Tuesday from
Jeremie, a port city 180 miles to the
west.
Momrosier, 42, said she had taken
the boat several times, usually with
500 to 600 other passengers, but as
many as 1,500 probably could fit
aboard.
, “It’s generally overloaded,” she
said. “It sways from side to side with
people standing, sitting, even up on
President’s plan unravels
12 years of Reaganomics
WASHINGTON — As more
details of President Clinton’s poli
cies surface, U’s becoming clear
l L ^ how fundamental a chaftge he
is proposing in the way govern
ment does business.
The unravel
ing of the
Reagan legacy
is written across
scores of
Clinton pro
gram changes,
large and small.
“Did I hear
right?”
opinion piece
i nursday s New York Times.
‘Tmafraid so,” the former presi
dent said. “Do they really believe
that those who have woiked hard
and been successful should some
how be punished for it?” Reagan
From huge cuts in defense spend
ing and the scaling back of expen
sive but popular projects like the
space station, to increases in pro
grams for women, infants and chil
dren, to widespread tax increases
hitting the wealthiest the irartfcst.
Clinton ’s spending proposal in
cludes dozens of items such as:
more funds to help restore dilapi
dated public housing, more money
for health care for veterans, in
creasing the number of federal meat
and poultry inspectors.
“There is a dramatic difference
in philosophy that is reflected in
Clinton’s program and his approach
to governance. The contrast is
stark,” said Thomas Mann, direc
tor of governmental studies at
Brookings Institution.
It may have been just too much
for the nation’s 40th president, who
wrote from his retirement in Cali
fornia: “In less than one month of
his presidency, (Clinton’s) prom
ise of a tax cut has not only been
broken but it has been reversed into
a tax increase for middle-income
workers.”
the roof.”
Skipper Benjamin Sinclair said as
many as 1,500 people were aboard,
but military authorities in Jeremie
earlier estimated 2,000 were on the
ship.
Soldier surrenders
after hijacking plane
from Haiti to Miami
Passengers suffer DC-3 hijacked from
no injuries in flight Haiti to U.S.
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MIAMI — A Haitian soldier hi
jacked an American missionary
group’s plane at an airport in Haiti and
diverted it to Miami on Thursday, but
surrendered when the plane landed.
The hijacker shot a hole in the
ceiling of the plane before it took off,
but no injuries were reported, said
Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for
the Federal Aviation Administration
in Atlanta.
The hijacker had given his gun to
the crew during the flight, a federal
law enforcement source said on con
dition of anonymity.
The plane was carrying nine pas
sengers and two crew members plus
the hijacker and a woman hostage he
had seized on the ground, a Haitian
government official said. Everyone
but the hijacker was American, other
sources said.
Moments after the plane landed at
Miami International Airport, the man
walked out the door of the plane with
his hands behind his head as about 10
uniformed officers crouched nearby.
The man then laid down on the tarmac
and the officers surrounded him.
Clinton and staff take to road
to win support for economic plan
WASHINGTON — President
Clinton led his administration on a
blitz across the mapof America Thurs
day to enlist the nation ’ s support for a
pain-then-gam economic plan that he
said would keep America’s children
from having to settle for a “lesser
life.”
n new re
lease of fine
print from the
White House
indicated the
administration’s
deficit cutting
to be less dra
matic than first
portrayed.
V* I 111 lull
brushed off
questions about new deficit projec
tions and set out for the Midwest to
generate grass-roots support that will
be vital if his plan is to survive attacks
by powerful interests, criticism by
Republicans and reluctance by some
fellow Democrats.
In his maiden appearance before
Congress Wednesday night, the presi
dent proposed raising taxes for most
Americans. His-ideas would also cut
spending in 150 programs but increase
it elsewhere. And, to reinvigorate a
soft economy, he would cut some
business taxes and undertake a quick
public works spending program.
This amounted to “reinventing our
government,” Clinton told the law
makers. Failure to take painful steps
now, he said, would amount to “con
demning our children and our
children’s children to a lesser life than
we enjoyed.” ___
The new figures from the White
House showed that when full account
is taken of the impact of spending
increases and pro-business tax cuts,
the four-year reduction in deficits
would not add up to the half-biUion
dollars bally hooed by the administra
tion. Instead, there would be a net
reduction of $325 billion.
Senate GOP Leader Bob Dole
called it “very heavy on the tax side
and very weak” on reducing spend
ing.
Former President Reagan said it
resurrected “thefailed liberal policies
of the past” In The New York Times,
Reagan said Clinton “has begun to
sound like an ‘old Democrat,’” not
the “new Democrat” he campaigned
as.
Ross Perot called the program “a
good artist’s sketch.”
“In the next 90 days, lobbyists are
going to collect more money than
probably in the history of man, be
cause that’s the way the system
works,” Perot said.
Administration officials fanned
across the country, scheduling ap
pearances Thursday and Friday in 28
states. House GOPLeader Bob Michel
of Illinois called this “thl biggest
propaganda campaign in recent po
litical history.”
Clinton, aboard Air Force One,
flew to St. Louis to address a crowd at
Union Station.
U .JN. votes to punish Yugoslav war criminals
UNITED NATIONS — The five
permanent members of the Security
Council agreed Thursday that an in
ternational court should be set up to
punish war criminals in former Yugo
slavia.
Agreement by the United States,
Britain, France, Russia and China vir
tually assured passage of the resolu
tion, which was to betaken up by the
full council Friday. British Ambassa
dor David Hannay said he believed it
would be adopted Monday.
One goal of the effort is to deter
■% • e
further atrocities in Bosnia and other
former Y ugoslav states by raising the
possibility that war criminals will be
pursued.
A commission set up to study the
idea of a court blamed Serbs for the
bulk of the war’s atrocities.
Then-Secretary of State Lawrence
S. Eagleburger named Serbian Presi
dent Slobodan Milosevic and Bosnian
Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in
December as possible war criminals.
He also released a list of seven Serb
and Croat military leaders accused of
atrocities.
The move toward a war crimes
court could also further complicate
efforts to forge peace in Bosnia, where
10 months of war has left 18,000
dead.
The resolution would authorize the
creation of the court and ask Secre
tary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
to study ways to set up its legal ma
chinery. The court's jurisdiction
would be strictly limited to atrocities
arising from the fighting that has ac
companied the breakup of Yugosla
via.
The draft text said war crimes com
mitted after Jan. 1, 1991, would be
punished by the court.
In October, the Security Council
authorized a commission to gather
evidence of war crimes.
The U.N. commission, led by
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland’s first
post-Communist premier, has said it
was overwhelmed by reports of atroci
ties. It said crimes were commited by
all sides in the Balkan conflict, but
blamed Serbs for the bulk of them.
ronce departments are letting gays serve
, LOS ANGELES—As some in the
military fight to keep homosexuals
out, police departments in many big
cities arc officially opening their doors.
Gay activists have taken note, hop
ing to use the growing police support
as ammunition against those who op
pose President Clinton’s moves to lift
the military ban on homosexuals.
Yet even in such cities as Boston
and Los Angeles, which have strict
anti-bias rules after years of tradi
tional hostility, only a handful of po
lice officers have come forward to say
they arc gay. In many other law en
forcement agencies, especially those
in smaller towns, homosexuality re
mains taboo.
Los Angeles police Officer John
Smith is one of six on the 7,688
member force'to go public with his
sexual orientation.
“It was cumbersome for a while,
but it’s not anymore,” said Smith,
who made his homosexuality public
in 1991, “You’ve still got some juve
nile antics — there may be someone
making a comment behind my back.”
The city Police Department re
cently agreed to efforts to recruit ho
mosexuals, start a harassment hot line
and increase sensitivity training.
Nationwide, numbers vary widely.
In San Francisco, 138 of the city’s
1,700 officers are opehly gay, but in
Boston Just two officers out of 1,950
have said publicly they were homo
sexual.
Norman Hill, a 10-year Boston
veteran who’s gay, said he knew of
several other officers who kept their
homosexuality private.
Cities including Baltimore, At
lanta, San Jose, Calif., Detroit, Ann
Arbor, Mich., and Phoenix have spe
cific policies against gay bias.
Activists credit grass-roots efforts
for the changes in some police depart
ments.
“The gay and lesbian community
has made great strides in certain local
areas” said David Smith, a Los Ange
les gay activist.
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