3s. NEWS DIGEST Monday, April 19,4993 World leaders say Clinton is informal and informed -Scott MaurarAH LONDON — World leaders who visit Bill Clinton’s White House por tray the president as informal, well briefed and brimming with questions. German President Helmut Kohl reportedly exclaimed that the “chem istry is correct,” and an Israeli jour nalist who covered Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s visit spoke of “good music” between the two. For Russian President Boris Yeltsin, it was a simple matter of “ty” — the Russian word for “you” used only between friends. “Maybe not in the First minute, but in the course of three hours we were already speaking vty’ to each U.S. plane bombs Iraqi radar.site WASHINGTON — A U.S. war plane destroyed an Iraqi radar track ing site south of the no-fly zone over northern Iraq on Sunday after the aircraft was threatened, a Defense Department spokesman said. The plane, one of two on a routine monitoring patrol in the zone, was not fired on but “the crew felt threat ened,” said DOD spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Brian Cullin. White House spokeswoman Lorraine Voles said the action “is consistent with our policy that when our forces foci threatened, we’re go ing to respond.” Both aircraft safely returned to their operating base at Incirlik, Turkey. Iraq’s official news agency re ported three Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the incident. The Iraqi News Agency, monitofedby the Brit ish Broadcasting Corp. in Cyprus, quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying the attack was provocative, hostile behavior. The spokesman, who was not named, said the attack occurred 33 miles south of the oil city of Mosul, apparently placing it outside the al lied-enforced no-fly zone. The two U.S. Air Force F-4G W i Id Weasel fighters were in the no-fly zone throughout the incident but were illuminated by the radar operating south of the 36th parallel, Cullin slid. “They operated under the guide lines that when you’re illuminated it is considered to be a threat,” he said. The 36th parallel marks the border of the no-fly zone over northern Iraq set up to protect Kurds from Iraqi attack after the Persian Gulf War. “One of the two F-4s in the flight responded by firing a single HARM (high-speed, anti-radiation missile)at the Iraqi radar,” the Defense Depart ment said in a written statement. other,"Yeltsin told reporters after his April 3-4 summit with Clinton in Vancouver, Canada. But Clinton’s meeting Friday with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa was an exception to this chummy style. After three hours of talks, the president still complained that “the simple fact is that it is harder to sell in Japan’s market than in ours." Overall, Associated Press bureaus report that the public expressions of goodwill are matched by favorable off-the-record comments from offi cials who have met Clinton. But personal diplomacy is fragile. Canadian Prime Minister Brian »• ^ ^ : ..I- .:..XJ AP Officials believe the site was de stroyed because “the radar ceased il luminating after the impact of the missile,” Cullin said. He said no im mediate assessment was available and there had been no response from the Iraqi government to the incident. “Although the Iraqi radar was lo cated south of the 36th parallel, its associated missi Ic system still posed a direct threat to coalition aircraft oper ating in the cxclusfon zone, making it necessary for the coalition aircraft to respond,” the statement said. Mulroney announced his resignation less than three weeks after meeting Clinton. Turkish President Turgut Ozal, a White House visitor Feb. 8, died Saturday. It remains to be seen whether it makes any difference that Clinton and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari discovered that they use the same type of watch to time their jog ging. Some leaders have been impressed by Clinton’s familiarity with issues and his desire to learn more. An aide to Mulroney, who met Clinton on Feb. 5, said some of Clinton s questions were quite tech nical, involving Canada’s health care system, a possible model for U.S. health care reform. In Paris, an aide who sat in on a May 9 conversation between Clinton and President Francois Mitterrand said the French leader was impressed and even charmed. “Mr. Clinton asked President Mitterrand lots of questions, and Mitterrand noted that he listened very attentively. That helped much to es tablish a meeting of the minds,” said the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Serb surge overtakes Bosnians at enclave TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Srebrenica’s defenders caved in to a relentless Serb siege Sunday and signed a truce that permits aid and evacuation, but amounts to virtual surrender of the strategic Muslim town. Many of Srebrenica’s fighters re sented the agreement and it was un clear if the cease-fire would last Scores of truces in the Bosnian war have collapsed over the past year. It would be the Bosnian government’s biggest capitulation in the year-long war and underlines the weak position of (he outgunned gov ernment forces against the Serbs and Croats who have seized most of the state. Serbs are driving for control of eastern Bosnia to hook up with adja cent Serbia and other Serb-held areas of Bosnia and Croatia into a “Greater Serbia.” Only two other Muslim cn claves?Gorazdc and Zcpa, remain in eastern Bosnia. Just hours after Serbs and the Mus lim-led Bosnian forces signed the truce, 130Canadian U.N. peacekeep ing troops entered the the town to a hero’s welcome, said ham radio op erators. Crowds mobbed the peacekeep ers’ 22 armored personnel carriers and 19 trucks and hugged and kissed the soldiers. French and British helicopters then began ferrying sick and wounded to Tuzla, under an agreement permitting airborne evacuation of the 500 most desperate cases before an overland ' evacuation starts for all those who want to leave the town. U.N. officials said they expected about 60 people to be evacuated be fore nightfall Sunday, and the heli copters would continue their mission over the next few days. Tuzla, 45 miles northwest of Srebrenica, is alreadv overflowing wi$ an estimated 6