Serbs say retaliation will follow any attacks SARAJEVO,. Bosnia Herzcgovina (AP)—Facing threats of Serb retaliation against their peacekeepers, Western military ESiK , brass on Wednesday de manded a strat egy be devised (opacify Bosnia before consid ering air strikes. A Bosnian Serb com mander summoned a British army officer and warned him that British troops would be shelled immedi ately if NATO bombs Bosnian Serb positions. “We need to have the clearest guidance on what (the action) is seeking to achieve,” British Field Marshal Richard Vincent, NATO’s top military officer, said after an alliance meeting in Brussels. The defense minister of France was even stronger in demanding a coherent political policy. Francois Leotard told the Na tional Assembly that France might withdraw its soldiers unless the U.N. mission in Bosnia was belter defined. In Washington, President Clinton has been holding talks with advisers and Congressional lead ers on a tougher new line toward the Bosnian conflict. Clinton said he was pleased by the remarks of Russian President Boris Yeltsin opposing the Serbs. Bosnian Serbs on Monday re jected a peace plan by Lord Owen of the European Community and Cyrus Vance of the United Nations to give them 43 percent of the republic. Among the reasons Serbs op pose the plan is that it denies them the contiguity to connect Serb ar eas of the former Y ugoslav federa tion. British Maj. Brian Watters, scc ond-in-command of the 1st Cheshire Regiment, told Britain’s GMTV from Vile/., central Bosnia, that the local Serb commander warned him what could happen if NATO attacked. “If one NATO bomb drops on his country, he said he will launch an attack immediately,’’ Walters said. Military prepares to allow women to serve in combat WASHINGTON (AP)—In a revo lutionary change for the U.S. mili tary, Defense Secretary Lcs Aspin ordered the service chiefs Wednes day to drop restrictions on women flying combat missions and serving aboard most Navy warships. “The steps we are taking today arc historic,” Aspin said at a news confer ence attended by the chiefs of the Air Force, Army, Navy and MarineCorps. The policy change means that within a year, dozens of women could be flying Navy and Air Force fighter jets and piloting the Army’s most lethal attack choppers. Permitting women to serve aboard warships will require congressional action. Aspin said he had instructed Adm. Frank Kelso, the chief of naval operations, to prepare the ground work for a legislative proposal to end this prohibition. “The N^vy is ready to go,” Kelso said. The defense secretary also told the services to provide justification if they want to put any battlefield role off limits to women. Aspin said he also asked the Ma rine Corps and the Army to study ways of finding jobs for women in -44----— What we are doing today Is opening opportunities for women to compete, serve and advance. —Sullivan Army chief of staff -----99 - field artillery and air defense combat units. Infantry, armor and cavalry would remain off limits to women, the officials said. “Direct combat. . .is a role we should (limit) to men,” said Gen. Carl Mundy, the Marine Corps comman dant. Gen. Gordon Sullivan, the Army chief of staff, said women would be gin training for combat missions in Apache and Cobra attack helicopters “almost immediately.” - The changes mean thousands of jobs and prestige positions once open only to men will now be open to women. In the coming weeks, the Air Force is prepared to pul its first female pilot into training to fly its F-15 Eagle fighter-bomber, Air Force officials said Tuesday. Female Navy instructors who fly the EA-6 Prowler electronic warfare jets could be among the first to be deployed aboard aircraft carriers, Navy officials said, while others will enter specialized courses to command F-A-18 Hornet strike-fighters or F-14 Tomcats. Sullivan said the new policy will open more than 6,000 additional offi cer, warrant officer and enlisted posi tions to women. “In the case of the Army, this is not about women in combat. Today, women in the U.S. Army participate in combat,” Sullivan said. “What we are doing today is opening opportuni ties for women to compete, serve and advance.” Janet Reno asked ‘why now?’ before compound storming WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Janet Reno said Wednesday she considered every option to end the Waco standoff, ever tunneling into the Branch Davidian compound, but the failed tear-gas attack seemed to be the only viable plan. “Nobody will ever know what the right answer was,” Ms. Reno told a congressional committee looking into the disaster. She said she repeatedly asked the experts: “Why now? Why not wait?” And every day since, she said, she has wondered what she might have done differently. Reno was the first witness before the bouse i Judiciary Committee in a sometimes coifron talional day of second-guessing about die op eration that ended after 51 days in flames and •n ‘ the deaths of David Koresh, his followers and their children. She emotionally recalled a call from Presi dent Clinton after her final television appear ance that night. “I don’t think I’ve ever been so — I guess lonely is the word,’’ she said. “It was 12:20 at night. “The first call I got was from my sister,” she said. “She said ‘That-a-girl.’ The second call I got was from the president of the United States, saying, ‘That-a-girl.’” Reno received similar back-patting from most of the committee, but harsh criticism from Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. He called the operation a “profound dis grace” that failed to heed die lessons of the Jonestown, Guyana, mass suicide and other cull confrontations. “When in God’s name is law enforcement at the federal level going to understand that these are very sensitive events, that you can’t pul funs, barbed wire, the FBI and the Secret erviccaround them, sending in sound 24 hours a day and then wonder why they do something unstable? ” Conyers said. “You did the right thing by offering to resign,” he told Reno, adding that he would not join others who would “rationalize the deaths of two dozen children.” Ms. Reno said she was not rationalizing those deaths — or those of four federal agents killed in a Feb. 28 assault on the compound. Responding to Conyers’ suggestions that the government approach was too militaristic, she said it would have been wrong to “walk away” from the Branch Davidians after they had ki lied federal agents. “I feel more strongly about it than you will ever know,” she said, clearly angry. “1 will not engage in recrimination... .1 will look to the future.” Reno said she made the experts explain every option, including some that just popped into her head at 4 a.m. Why not dig a tunnel into the compound, or drop in by helicopter, or ram right into it with tanks? “Allowing the status quo to remain was not going to lead to an ultimately peaceful resolu tion, she said. Chavez Continued from Page 1 could learn from Chavez. “There’s a grealdeal to learn from Cesar Chavez,” Gricsen said. “We can learn from his intelligence; we can learn from his diligence." Gricsen said Chavez started the migrant worker movement, but now it was up to others to continue what he worked for. “There’s much work to be done in our own community,” he said. “There’s lots wrong with society and lots we need to do. We need to take this moment to reflect on what Chavez meant—and we must build on this.” Marty Ramirez, a counseling psy chologist at the University Health Center, said Chavez’s dedication to his cause was what set him apart from other great civil rights leaders. “He was not as articulate as Martin Luther King and not as educated as John F. Kennedy, but what he did for people puls him in that category,” Ramirez said. “His commitment separates him self from the other greats,” Ramirez said. “He had a vision and could at tract people to his cause. This man had leadership.” Virgil Armcndariz, the Omaha re gional manager of the Nebraska As sociation of Farm Workers, calling Chavez a “pioneer in social justice,” said he must not be forgotten. “While we pul him to rest now, we should not pul to rest his persistence for social justice," Armcndariz said. “Stand up with courage and make changes soon.” Eric Jolly, director of UNL’s Af firmative Action and Diversity of fice, said Chavez’s charisma was part of what made him great. “Cesar Chavez gave everyone he encountered the sense they too could be counted ... that they mattered,” Jolly said. Ness Sandoval, a first-year gradu ate student, said Chavez’s death was a call to action of sorts. “It’s better to die standing than to live on your knees,” Sandoval said. “Likewise, we need to start standing up, to start fighting for the poor, for migrants ... we must continue the movement. We can’t let it die.” Netfraskan • FAX NUMBER 472-1761 The Daily Nebtaskan