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
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What we are doing today Is opening opportunities
for women to compete, serve and advance.
—Sullivan
Army chief of staff
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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
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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.”
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Reduced Administrative and
Support Staff Positions (21 Full
time equivalent)
• Eliminate Associate Dean posi
tion for Cooperative Extension
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position at Research and Exten
sion Center
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versity Relations
• Eliminate Software Technician
II
• Eliminate Sponsored Programs
Specialist
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position in Purchasing
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Clerk in Inventory
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Coordinator in the Sheldon Me
morial Art Gallery
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• Eliminate one office/servicc
employee on Chancellor’s staff
• Withdraw funding for curator of
Mary Riepma Ross Film Theatre
• Reduce two administrators in
Home Economics Dean’s Office
in summer
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Economics program housed on
Omaha campus
• Reduce staff for ADAPT (Ac
cent on the Development of Ab
stract Processes of Thought)
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Editorial and Graduate Journalism
• Reduce officc/scrvicc employee
in ROTC
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Accounting, the Bursar’s Oliicc
and Data Entry
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FTE)
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ning
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tion
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• Rural Housing
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• Conservation and Survey Divi
sion (faculty FTE and student
wages)
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• Visiting professor pool, ADAPT
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struction, School of Music
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