Somalia options debated;
Republicans want withdrawl
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dent Clinton, angered at the spectacle
of an American corpse being draggec
through thfc streets of Mogadishu anc
chastened by congressional criticism
struggled Wednesday to reshape U.S
involvement in Somalia.
-One
lawmak
er who
met with
Clinton,
Rep.
Patricia
Schrnedcr,
D-Colo.,
predicted
Cl in ton
would
puDiiciy cianiy American inicnuons
in Somalia, addressing the subject of
wi thdrawal and putting a “t ighten rein”
over military operations.
Clinton held his second meeting in
12 hours with his top national security
aides, including Secretary of State
Warren Christopher, Defense Secre
tary Les Aspin and Marine Gen. Jo
seph P. Hoar, the commander for the
region.
Clinton cancelled several public
appearances to focus on the crisis.
In an interview Wednesday,
Clinton said: “It curdles the stomach
of every American to see that, be
— -:
It curdles the stomach of every American to see
that, because we went there for no purpose
other than to keep those people alive.
— President Clinton
cause we went there for no purpose
other than to keep those people alive.”
“It really makes me angry,” he
said, adding that he is increasingly
reluctant to operate under a United
Nations structure that he said no long
er provides “the help we need to pro
tect our people.”
White House aides and members
of Congress who met with Clinton
Wednesday said that the president
was surprised by the depth of congres
sional opposition to a continued U.S.
presence in Somalia.
PetcrG. Torkildsen, R-Mass, quot
ed U.S. Trade Representative Mickey
Kantor as saying that widespread calls
from Capitol Hill for a U.S. pullout
came “as a wake-up call at the White
House.”
Schroeder said the administration
promised a new pol icy announcement
soon.
On Capitol Hill, 65 House Repub
licans, including Minority Leader Bob
Michel, sent a letter to Clinton de
manding a clear and concise descrip
tion of U.S. policy on Somalia and a
-ff -
plan for the withdrawal of U.S. forces
“The Somalia policy your adminis
tration has pursued is a failure,” th<
lawmakers said.
But Senate Minority Leader Bob
Dole, R-Kan., speaking on the Senate
floor, urged caution and told his col
leagues, “it is not a time for panic.”
White House Press Secretary Dec
Dee Myers said there was “an honest
debate” going on among Clinton and
his national security advisers on the
subject, but that no decisions had yet
been reached by the president.
Earlier, Communications Director
Mark Gearan said the U.S. goal has
not changed: Establish a political
structure that will prevent the country
from descending into chaos and star
vation when U.S. troops pull out.
A senior official who asked not to
be identified by name suggested that
Clinton was not about to order an
abrupt withdrawal of troops from
Somalia and that the basic goal re
mained “to draw down American
troops as the security situation al
lows.”
Jordan ends career
amidstfather’s death
■ DEERFIELD, III. (AP) —
Michael Jordan, basketball’s great
est player, announced today tnat he
was retiring after nine seasons in
the NBA, saying he “had reached
the pinnacle of my career” and had
nothing else to prove.
- In a news
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/ center, Jor
dan said the
murder of
his father,
James, in
July made
him realize
that “it can be taken away from you
at any time.”
“I guess the biggest gratifica
tion—I am a very positive person
— I can get out of my father not
being here today is, that he saw my
last basketball game. It is some
thing that we have talked about a
lot,” Jordan said.
The startling announcement by
basketball’s greatest player leaves
the Chicago Bulls without their
seven-time scoring champion, the
NBA without its glitziest attrac
. tion, and millions of fans without
the hero who redefined standards
of excellence.
Jordan’s departure at the top of
--
I guess the biggest
gratification I can get
out of my father not
being here today is,
that he saw my last
basketball game.
—Jordan, retired Bulls’
guard
-tf
his game occurred during a year of
unprecedented success—and per
sonal tragedy. He led his Chicago
Bulls to a third-straight NBA cham
pionship, but also suffered the loss
of his father, who was shot and
killed. The 30-year-old superstar,
whose salary and endorsements
bring him more than $50 million a
year, also was dogged by reports of
excessive gambling.
But Jordan left open the possi
bility of returning to the game.
“Would I ever unretire? I don’t
know. I think the word ‘retire’
means you can do whatever you
want, and maybe someday down
the road, that’s what I’ll desire to
do,’’ he said.
Jordan had three years left on his
$4 milllion-a-ycar contract.
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Cop: Hungary needs crime-fighting help
By Jeffrey Robb
Staff Reporter
With crime in Hungary rising rap
idly as a result of open borders. Hun
garian law enforcement officials said
Wednesday they must find interna
tional help or watch their country
become a case for crime in Europe.
Speaking through an interpreter.
Andras Horvath, a Budapest police
chief said Hungarian police were in
the United States to demonstrate the
importance of cooperation.
Horvath and his colleagues gave a
presentation in the Nebraska Union
Wednesday on the last leg of their
U.S. tour. They have met with law
enforcement officials from Chicago,
Charlotte, N.C., and Louisville, Ky.
Lt. Col. Erno Toth, head of
Budapest’s organized crime division,
and Ferenc Esztcrgalyos, the Hungar
ian Interpol representative, are also
part of the two-week tour organized
ay University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
:riminal justice professor Chris
Eskridge.
Horvath said the crime Hungary
was experiencing now was unlike any
the country had ever seen. When the
Hungarian government began re
forms, Horvath said, criminals were
quick to take advantage of new targets
that freedom provided.
Execution-style homicides, drug
trad$. kidnapping and a myriad of
other organized crime activities be
came common, Horvath said.
Only recently, he said, has the
crime rate begun to stabilize. But a
week before he left Hungary, Horvath
said, a crime family threatened to kill
his and Toth’s families before they
returned.
Hungary lost its police trainers
when it left the Soviet bloc in 1989,
Horvath said. Now, Hungary needs a
way to organize its police in the fight
against the crime wave, he said.
Horvath said Hungary began its
break from the Soviet Union long ago
with frcc-market reforms. A side ef
fect of those reforms, he said, was a
stratification of rich and poor, which
became the root of crime problems.
Eariy in the reforms, “simple-mind
ed street robbers” were the only crim
inals. Then bars and nightclubs were
eventually bought by criminals, and
prostitution and gambling soon fol
lowed, Horvath said.
With the reforms, Hungarians
could also travel freely, Horvath said, i
and before longk criminals founcltfccir t
counterparts in other countries. Law ]
enforcement was still insulated then,
he said, and police officers couldn’t
even leave the country.
In 1989, when privatization inten
sified, the outlook for Hungary was
grave, Horvath said. The crime rate
grew by 40 to 50 percent, he said.
Eskridge said the United States
denied Hungary’s plea for help when
Hungary tried to break from Soviet
influence 30 years ago. But, he said,
the United States can’t afford to turn
its back now.
Eskridge said he hoped the rela
tionship between the countries’ law
enforcement agencies would contin
ue to develop.
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