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By The Associated Press Edited by Kristine Long NEWS DIGEST Yeltsin seeks second chance with country’s new parliameni MOSCOW—On the eve of Pres ident Clinton’s visit, Boris Yeltsin opened Russia’s unruly new parlia ment Tuesday by urging lawmakers to cooperate with him and give his economic reforms “a second wind.” Three months after he sent tanks to crush the old, hard-line parliament, the Russian president warned the new lawmakers they must agree to “a com plete and categorical exclusion of vi olence from the political life of the country.” Clinton arrives for a summit Wednesday to a Russia wracked by political struggle and bitterly divided over Yeltsin’s free-market reforms and pro-Western tilt. The American president is expected to strongly en dorse Yeltsin and shun his political foes, including extreme nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. “It’s not enough to meet just with the leader... Clinton should feel the political climate in Russia and its problems,” said Nikolai Ryabov, a Yeltsin ally and head of the Election Commission. Yeltsin stood stiffly and spoke with little emotion throughout his 17 minute address to the upper chamber, the Federation Council. H is sober appeal for dialogue con trasted sharply to his fighting mood when he called in the army Oct. 4 tc resolve his conflict with his hard-line enemies, whose supporters had rioted in the streets. “Despite the diversity of parties in parliament, there is a fundamental basis for constructive work together,’ Yeltsin said Tuesday. He urged parliament to pass laws easing the transition to a market econ omy. “During the electoral campaign, a lot of fresh and original ideas were heard, which could provide a second wind to the economic reforms,” he Wed. R/B-Hip Hop. Thur. Rock Night. 50c Draws SI.25 Bud Boitics till 10p.m. Fri. Rave/Retro/Techno. College Happy Hour 25c Draws. (3p.m-8p.m) Sdt. Jan. 15th Lie Awake Lie Awake 9p.m January 15th. 226 "S" 9th. 477-1667 During the electoral campaign, a lot of fresh and original ideas were heard, which could provide a second wind to the economic reforms. —Yeltsin Russian President -tt said. Since the stunning success of ex treme national ists and Communists in December’s parliamentary elections, doubts have emerged about Yeltsin’s commitment to his painful “shock therapy” reforms. Yeltsin has ordered a Cabinet re shuffling to trim the bureaucracy, and some reformers could lose their jobs. Yeltsin has pledged that Yegor Gaidar, architect of his free-market transi tion, will remain. Addressing the lower house, or Duma, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin said Tuesday that the government “must avoid unjustified lurches and shock-type decisions.” “Society’s patience is largely ex hausted” with painful economic up heaval. the prime minister said. “We arc at a new stage in the reforms. 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Must present coupon wtoen ordering Expires Jan. 31.1994 228 N. 12th St. SPAGHETTI^ V^ORKS/ NATO leaders threaten Serbs BRUSSELS, Belgium—Presi dent Clinton and his NATO allies warned Serb forces Tuesday of a new determination to launch air strikes if needed to relieve embat tled Muslim enclaves in Bosnia. “My resolve is there,” Clinton said. At the end of a two-day summit, the 16 Western leaders announcedi their willingness to order bombing raids if Bosnian Serbs continue to prevent the opening of a major airport for aid supplies or the rota tion of encircled peace keepers. “Whether they occur or not de pends upon the behavior of the Bosnian Serbs from this moment forward,” Clinton told reporters at the end of the meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Serb chief of staff, Manojlo Milovanovic, warned U.N. troops would also suffer in any air cam paign because his forces would stay close to peacekeepers. “They can not strike at us without also hitting U.N. forces,” he said. Clinton and other leaders insist ed there was a new mood among the allies to carry out the threats first issued last June to use their formidable air power to case the situation in Bosnia. “1 made it clear that for our part we were prepared to follow through,” Clinton said. And if the Bosnian Serbs don’t get the message, he said later, after meeting with officials of the 12 nation European Un ion, “We ’ 11 see if our resol ve is there. My resolve is there.” “We don’t believe it is neces sary to have air strikes to protect 150 Canadian peace keepers in Srebrenica,” Canadian Prime Min ister Jean Chretien said. Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers said there was “still a margin of uncertainty” about whether an allied air campaign would be launched. The NATO leaders raised the prospect of bombing raids to evac uate the Canadians from Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia and force open the airport at Tuzla, a key conduit for aid to the north. -it I made it clear that for our part we were prepared to follow through. — President Clinton -ft The allies also reaffirmed their readiness to conduct air strikes “to prevent the strangulation of Sarajevo, the safe areas and other threatened areas of Bosnia Hcrzcgovina.” The Bosnian crisis dominated the final day of the NATO summit. The leaders also declared a readi ness to let their former foes in Eastern Europe join the elite frater nity one day. In their final statement, they endorsed the U.S. proposal for a “Partnership for Peace,” which in vites East Europeans to take part in military exercises and other limit ed activities. Health leaders seek smoke-free America WASHINGTON — Health lead ers and seven past surgeons general called on the government Tuesday to tax cigarettes $2 more a pack, ban smoking in public places, restrict to bacco ads and fully regulate ciga rettes in an effort to make America smoke free by the year 2000. “This nation remains in tobacco’s death grip” three decades after first being told cigarettes cause cancer, Dr. Alfred Munzer, president of the American Lung Association, said as the group sought President Clinton’s endorsement of their plans. Health groups marked the 30th anniversary of the original surgeon general’s report on tobacco by scold ing Congress and presidents alike for their past efforts to restrict a habit still blamed for 420,000 deaths a year. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders said 2 million lives have been saved since her predecessor, the late Dr. Luther Terry, first warned Americans on Jan. 11,1964, that smoking caused cancer. Two million people also have died of smoking-related lung cancers alone in that period. Back then, more than two in every five adults smoked. To day only one in four is a smoker. Terry’s crusade led to warning la bels on cigarette packs. Cigarette ads were banished from the airwaves, airlines created no This nation remains in tobacco’s death grip... — Munzer president of the American Lung Association smoking sections and eventually smoking was banned on most domes tic flights and in many offices. Former Bush administration Sur geon General Antonia Novello said tobacco is still “the least regulated consumer product” in the United States and is marketed “with reckless abandon” at the young by companies that need to replace smokers who die and the 1 million who kick the habit each year. Former President Jimmy Carter sent Clinton a letter urging him to stand up to tobacco interests and seek a $2 tax increase on each pack of cigarettes. Clinton has already pro posed a 75-ccnt hike to pay for health reforms. Congress has to approve any change. The seven past surgeons general said the country won’t become smoke free by the year 2000 if the tobacco industry keeps its “strangle hold over the Congress and the administration.” They urged Clinton “to speak force fully in favor of regulation of tobacco products,” including tighter controls on advertising and banson smoking in federal buildings and othcrpublic plac es. They also advocated full authority for the Food and Drug Administration to regulate cigarettes. The Coalition on Smoking or Health handed out a 30-year report card filled with Ds and Fs for Con gress, the White House and most of the executive branch. Their highest mark, a B-plus, went to the Environmental Protection Agency, which last January branded secorttttand smoke as cancer-causing and blfmed it for 3,000 lung cancer deaths a year among nonsmokers. One of the Fs went to the Federal Trade Commission. American Heart Association Vice President Scott D. Ballin said the FTC lets cigarette makers “promote smoking as some thing that is sexually attractive, so phisticated, healthy and makes us physically fit, cool and successful.” Elders, who will release the 24th surgeon general’s report next month focusing on smoking and youth, said, “Any form of tobacco is lethal.” Bobbitt denies striking wife as trial continues MANASSAS, Va.—John Bobbitt returned to the witness stand Tuesday and denied ever striking his wife be fore she cut off his penis, saying the worst he ever did was “push her, hold her down, restrain her from hitting me.” On the second day of his wife’s malicious wounding trial, Bobbitt dis puted a court record that a defense lawyer said showed Bobbitt pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife, Lorena. “I never pleaded guilty to noth ing,” Bobbitt said. Mrs. Bobbitt, 24, is charged with malicious wounding for cutting off her husband’s penis after he came home from a night of drinking June 23. If convicted, the Ecuadoran-born manicurist could get up to 20 years in prison and be deported. Bobbitt, 26, was acquitted late last year of assaulting his wife. The defense opened its case Tues day by calling Bobbitt to the stand as an “adverse” witness. On Monday, he testified for the prosecution, which rested its case Tuesday morning. Both times, and in his own trial in November, he denied ever forcing his wife to have sex. Mrs. Bobbitt contends that pro longed sexual, physical and verbal abuse by Bobbitt during their four year marriage forced her to cut off his penis in an “irresistible impulse.” Bobbitt is seeking a divorce. Amalia Hoyt testified for the de fense about an incident in which Bobbitt gave his wife bikini under wear for Christmas in front of several friends. Mrs. Bobbitt was embarrassed and walked away, she said. “He said 'Why are you trying to hide it?”’ Ms. Hoyt said. She said Bobbitt pushed his wife against the wall several times. “She was really scared,” Ms. Hoyt said. Terri McComber, who used to work with Mrs. Bobbitt, testified that Bobbitt would criticize his wife’s appearance, but could turn violent if other men paid attention to her. On a trip with the Bobbitts to Ocean City, Md., Ms. McComber said some body whistled and Bobbitt believed it was directed at her and his wife. “He came up, grabbed her by the hair,” she said. “He said the weekend was over. We’re going home.” Defense attorney Blair Howard showed Bobbitt records from a court case that the lawyer said showed Bobbitt pleaded guilty in March 1991 to assaulting his wife. Bobbitt disputed the records. Com monwealth’s Attorney Paul B. Ebert said the court did not issue a final finding of guilt in the case. Bobbitt said it was his wife who sometimes assaulted him. 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