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news digest Middle-aged, white males dominate Clinton’s appointments ^^^tSco^Maurer/DI President’s picks not as diverse as he promised WASHINGTON—Despite efforts to create a government that “looks like America,” President Clinton’s earliest appointments arc predomi nantly middle-aged and male — and not much more racially diverse than the Bush administration, an Associ ated Press analysis shows. To considerable fanfare, Clinton appointed a broad mix of men, women and minorities to his Cabinet — the lop 18 appointees. But his first wave of sub-Cabinet and White House ap pointces is not so diverse. In fact, the group as a whole looks Siite a lot like e president. A third are fellow Ivy League gradu ates while 36 percent are fel low lawyers. At least nine share cmic distinction ’re Rhodes schol White House staff ers and sub-Cabincl appointments announced so far: • 86 percent arc white, 13 percent are black, and just one person is Asian American. Of the group, 4 percent arc Hispanic. According to 1990 Census figures, 80 percent of Americans are white • Nearly two-thirds are men. America’s population is split evenly between the sexes. • The average age of an appointee is 45 years 10 months. More than half of Clinton’s ap pointees so far, the Cabinet included, are white men 35 and older. The Clinton administration record so far is only slightly more diverse than his Republican predecessor. In the Bush administration, 87 percent of political appointees were white, according to the Office of Personnel Management. • Clinton can 1111 aoout j.uuu jods through appointments. The posts he has filled so far, however, arc the government’s primary power brokers — Cabinet secretaries, their deputy and assistant secretaries, agency offi cials and White House deputies. During last year’s campaign, Clinton said he planned “to give you an administration that looks like America. I would be astonished if my Cabinet and my administration and my staff.. .is not the most fully inte grated this country has ever seen.” Below the Cabinet level, which has five women, four blacks and two Hispanics, his appointments so far have been less racially and ethnically diverse, the AP review found. I-*-1 Wounded Bosnians might wait weeks for relief evacuation U.N. head: Peace might only come through force TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Aid officials said Sunday the evacua tion of wounded refugees from Mus lim enclaves in eastern Bosnia could be weeks away despite a mis sion to the area by the commander of U.N. peacekeepers. Heavy shelling by Serb artillery was reported at Srebrenica, the Mus lim-held town that took in about 5,000 refugees from the Cerska enclave when it was overrun by Serbs last week. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said a failure of the warring factions to accept a peace accord might mean U.N. members would have “to send troops on the ground” to try to force a settlement. But he also said that it was more important for now to pursue negotia tions. There arc no signs the United Slates or other major powers arc inclined to commit troops to fighting in the in hospitable terrain of Bosnia’s moun tains. Boutros-Ghali said it was un likely a U.N. offensive could be mounted without U.S. participation. Peace talks at U.N. headquarters in New York recessed Saturday, but mediators said they planned to re sume discussions later this week. In Washington, Sandy Berger, a deputy national security adviser, said the United Slates hoped to increase pressure on Yugoslavia by tightening enforcement of U.N. trade sanctions. The members of the European Community planned a meeting Mon day to discuss calls by the United States and Germany for stronger sane lions. But officials said il was un likely any action would be taken while the U.N. peace talks continued. Gen. Philippe Morillon, the com mander of U.N. troops in Bosnia, said after returning to Sarajevo from east ern Bosnia on Saturday that the people in Srebrenica were desperate and that the area would become a focus of relief efforts. Hours later, U.S. Air Force cargo planes parachuted 37 tons of food and nearly 1 ton of medical supplies in the area, said officials at the Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany where the flights originate. It was the seventh straight day of the U.S. airdrop. • ramily: Bombing suspect not a terrorist " Motner, orotner claim Salameh not fundamentalist ZARQA, Jordan — Mohammed A. Salameh, held in the bombing of New York’s World Tradc Center, is a Palestinian whose family fled the Is raeli occupation of the West Bank. He played mock war games and soccer growing up in this mining town, loved Western movies and enjoyed wrestling. “He had big dreams. He wanted to fulfill his dreams in America. He is not a terrorist,” Salameh’s mother, Aysha, 45, said Sunday. “I am sure of America’s fair jus tice, and that my son will come out of this nightmare soon,” she said. Authorities say Salameh was im plicated in the bombing when he tried to retrieve a rental deposit for the van used to carry the explosives. Salameh had reported the van stolen. His attor ney says he’s innocent. Family members denied Salameh was a Muslim fundamentalist, as claimed by U.S. officials. But they also said his life underwent a notice able change in his final years of high school. “He became religious, started to pray and read the Koran with other friends in high schoolsaid a brother, Ahmed, 24. “He stopped most of his past activities and hobbies and even grew a beard.” “He was not a fundamentalist. He was interested in Islamic teachings,” said Ahmed, who was reluctant to be photographed, saying his blond beard might be misinterpreted as a token of -44 I am sure of America's fair justice, and that my son will come out of this nightmare soon. -Salameh’s mother fundamentalism. Fundamentalists usually have long, flowing beards, but shave their mous taches. Jordanian authorities say Salamch and his family do not have criminal or political records. Salameh, 25, is the eldest son among 11 children of a now-retired Jordanian army lieutenant, Amin Salamch. The family fled from the West Bank village of Bediah five months after the June 1967 Arab Israeli war. Mohammed was 2 months 7? old. The family lives in a four-bedroom house it bui It two years after the young Salamch traveled to the United States on Feb. 17, 1988, to study and try to fulfill his dream of earning a master’s degree in business administration. U.S. authorities said he stayed in the United States illegally after Tiis visa expired. Salamch wasarrcslcd Thursday on suspicion of involvement ig the Feb. 26 blast at the World Trade Center, which killed five people and injured 1,000 others. I-sports wire Graf earns her 70th career title Sunday DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Steffi Graf earned her 70th career title and her first this year, beating Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 6-4,6-3 Sunday at the Virginia Slims of Florida. Graf crafted the win using her favorite weapons, the forehand and serve. Sanchez Vicario had pre dicted a match with long rallies, but Graf hit with too much pace to let the Spaniard find her rhythm. The top-seeded Graf won $75,000. Sanchez Vicario, seeded second, got $30,000. Top-ranked North Carolina tops Duke CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Top ranked North Carolina opened the second half with a 16-0 run and went on to an 83-69 victory over No. 6 Duke Sunday. It was a game that didn’t effect any standings or seedings, but it was still Carolina Duke. The Tar Heels (26-3,14 -2) had already clinched first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference and Duke (23-6, 10-6) knew it could only finish third in the league. The win was North Carolina’s ninth straight, its last loss coining at Duke last month. sprinter Ben Johnson quits without tight IORONTO — This time, Ben Johnson is going down without a fight. Maintaining his innocence, Johnson chose to quit track rather than appeal the lifetime ban im posed on him by the International Amateur Athletic Federation for failing a second drug test. His lawyers presented what they thought was a winnablc — though cosily and lengthy — case at a news conference Sunday, then read a statement signed by the absent 31-year-old Johnson. Johnson was banned for life Friday by the 1A AFafter its doping commission ruled that a sample of t Johnson’s urine taken at a Jan. 17 meet at Montreal had unaccept ably high levels of testosterone, an indication of steroid use. Clear now a clear-cut favorite in marketing today’s products NEW YORK—It’s hip to be clear. Or is il hype? Marketers of well-known brands of soft drinks, dishwashing liquids, mouthwashes and deodorants arc scrambling to get clear spinoffs of distinctively hued old standbys on supermarket shelves. Next on line: clear beer. Miller Brewing Co. plans to intro duce the industry’s first clear beer, Miller Clear, in several markets later this month. Already, there’s Crystal Pepsi and Tab Clear. The Palmolive and Ivory names appear on clear dishwashing liquids. Lavoris is marketing a color less mouthwash. And Ban has a clear solid deodorant. Marketers say the clear products provide real benefits or emphasize other changes that distinguish theclear product from the original. Makers of clear deodorants, for example, say they leave no white residue like traditional sticks and pow ders do. But some marketing experts say the onslaught of clear products smacks of gimmickry that consumers eventu ally will see through. “People perceive clear substances to be pure and natural and somehow better,” said Roger Blackwell, pro fessor of marketing at Ohio State University. ‘The perception is the beginning of reality, but it is not al ways the reality.” He said clarity may be novel enough to draw some consumer inter est, but “only those with a distinct advantage will survive.” New Product News, a monthly Chicago based publication that chronicles prod uct introductions, spotted about four dozen clear products among 16,790 new food, personal care or household products in 1992. That didn’t include another 35 sparkling waters and juices that came out with clear variations. Its editor, Martin J. Friedman, said he doesn’t know of any new clear product other than the deodorants that can claim transparency as an attribute. “Everyone is desperate for some thing innovative. But a lot of this is just appealing to consumers' percep tions. I don’t think it will last,” he said. Marine evidently commits suicide in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia — U.S. Marines on Sunday mourned the death of one of their comrades, an apparent sui cide. Officials said they would not release the Marine’s name until his relatives were notified. He apparently shot himself to death Saturday night. Six other Americans have been killed in the Somalia aid operation, but they all died in hostile action. “It makes the loss, for some people, a little harder to ac cept,” said 1st Lt. Steven Kaegebcin, who had com manded the soldier. In Washington, Deputy Na tional Security Adviser Sandy Berger said the United States hoped to have a resolution be fore the Security Council next week to transfer Operation Re store Hope to U.N. peacekeep ers. “It will enable us to continue to withdraw American soldiers and eventually turn this over to basically a U.N. operation,” Berger said in an interview on CNN’s “Newsmaker Sunday." U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said the handover dale was expected to be May 1. Boutros-Ghali said he hoped the removal of the U.S.-led coa lition troops will be done gradu ally and that some American soldiers would remain in the country as part of the U.N. op eration. Nebraskan Editor Chrte Hoplensperger 472- 1786 Managing Editor Alan Phelps Assoc. 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