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
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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
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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. The
government’s efforts will be concen
trated on stabilizing the economy and
forming favorable conditions for Rus
sia’s manufacturers.”
Clinton is likely to propose ways
the West could help develop a social
safety net to help cushion Russians
from the pain the reforms are causing.
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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.
In one instance, he said, she be
came upset when they weren't al
lowed in a restraunt because he was
wearing sneakers and began hitting
him as they drove home.
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