By The
Associated Press
Edited by Jennifer Mlratsky
News Digest
Wednesday, January 18,1995 Page 2
Bosnian government
demands U.N. leave
SARAJEVO, Bosnia
Herzegovina — The government
demanded the withdrawal of 450
peacekeepers from a base in north
east Bosnia, a top official said to
day, signaling a sharp deterioration
in ties with the United Nations.
The government’s minister for
relations with the United Nations,
Hasan Muratovic, told The Associ
ated Press he sent a letter Monday
to U.N. officials demanding the
pullout from the airport at Tuzla.
The Muslim-led government is
angered by the failure of the United
Nations to open the airport and the
U.N. decision to allow a Serb liai
son officer there.
Bosnian army troops have block
aded 450 U.N. troops at the airport
for the last week, along with some
600 other peacekeepers in the Tuzla
area. Most of the airport troops are
Norwegian.
“This letter is an ultimatum. We
will not change our position,”
Muratovic said. He said airport con
tingent should begin pulling out by
Feb. 1 and complete the pullout by
March 1.
Tuzla is the largest city outside
Sarajevo in Bosnian government
hands. The U.N. commander there,
Gen. Gunnar Ridderstad, said he
regarded the letter as pressure to
open the Tuzla airport.
The Bosnian government has
long sought to have the airport open
to U.N. and aid flights, and turned
it over to the United Nations last
year for that purpose. Serbs de
manded a liasion officer to ensure
that the government did not use the
airport for military purposes.
“Despite even the presence of
the Bosnian Serb army liasion of
ficer at the base now, Bosnian Serb
authorities continue to refuse our
request to have this airport open,
said U.N. spokesman Paul Risley ii
Sarajevo. Serb artillery remain
within striking range of the air field
The order to withdraw fron
Tuzla airport was unlikely to caus<
more fighting directly, but it was <
sign of ill will that will make imple
mentation of a four-month cease
fire more difficult.
“The blockade isn’t aimed at us,’
Ridderstad said, “but we are suffer
ing from it.”
He said land telephone lines wen
cut off and soldiers were conserving
food and doing with less heat.
Another 600 Scandinavian sol
diers are blockaded in a base nortl
of Tuzla, but neither they nor Paki
stani peacekeepers farther south are
apparently affected by the
government’s order.
Former Treasurer says bad advice
led to Orange Countv bankruotcv
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Former
Orange County Treasurer Robert L.
Citron portrayed himself today as the
victim of Merrill Lynch & Co., say
ing its sales pitches and advice ulti
mately plunged the county into bank
ruptcy.
Citron said he believed he was
acting prudently and reasonably in
following a strategy that wound up
producing $2 billion in losses. Ex
pressing “deep sorrow to the people
of Orange County,” he said: “I relied
on the advice of financial profession
als.
It was Citron’s first detailed pub
lic defense since he resigned Dec. 2,
two days before the bankruptcy filing
of the affluent Southern California
county. The committee, formed to
produce laws to keep such losses from
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occurring again, is part of a national
examination of local government in
vestment policies stemming from the
crisis.
Merrill maintains it merely sup
plied Citron with investments he could
have purchased elsewhere. It says that
after warning him of the dangers if
interest rates rose and offering to buy
back the risky derivative securities it
sold him, Merrill’s duty was done.
“Merrill Lynch chose not to aban
don this client because it, as a sophis
ticated institutional investor, did not
share our views on the investment
outlook,” chairman Daniel P. Tully
wrote last week.
To state Sen. William Craven that
explanation sounded like a bartender
serving an inebriated patron on the
theory he could go elsewhere to get a
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drink if refused.
“I think there’s a business ethics
question here,” Craven said in an
interview Monday. “When you know
that something is not right, to go
ahead and do it anyway seems not
right to me.”
Rather than sound an early alarm,
Merrill “just moved in the direction
of sales - sell! sell! sell!” said Craven,
a Republican who is co-chairman of
the Senate Special Committee on
Local Government Investments.
Orange County, which has lost at
least $700 million of its money, has
sued Merrill Lynch contending it not
only sold the county unsuitable in
vestments but knowingly allowed the
county to violate debt limits set by
state law.
Sen. Byrd stops advancement
ofbalanced budget amendment
WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert
C. Byrd, one of the fiercest Demo
cratic opponents of a balanced budget
amendment, today temporarily
thwarted Republican efforts to ad
vance the measure through commit
tee.
With the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee debatingthe measure, the West
Virginia Democrat, invoked a little
used Senate rule to object to the pro
ceedings. Under Senate rules, any
senator may block any committeee
from meeting more than two hours
after the Senate has convened for the
day.
Republicans almost certainly will
have the votes they need to push the
amendment - the centerpiece of their
“Contract With America” - through
Congress and to the states for ratifica
tion. But Byrd’s tactic indicated how
strongly he and perhaps some other
Democrats are prepared to resist.
“It’s the acme of arrogance for us
as members of the Senate and the
House of Representatives to put for
ward a constitutional amendment to
balance the budget without laying on
the table so the American people can
see what the plan is by which we
expect to reach that balanced budget
by the year 2002;” Byrd said.
“I don’t propose to be rushed,” he
said. “I may be run over by the
streamroller but I don’t propose to get
out of its way or just jump upon it and
ride along with it.”
Sen. Orrin Hatch, the Utah Re
publican who chairs the Judiciary
Committee, said he would call the
panel back into session early Wednes
day to continue work on the amend
ment.
“1 hope he’ll restrain the use of
this rule,” Hatch said of Byrd, widely
acknowledged to be the master in
using the Senate’s arcane rules to
accomplish his political objectives.
The balanced budget measure is
the linchpin of the Republicans’ ef
forts to shrink government since it
would force lawmakers to cut spend
ing in order to balance the budget.
Committee meetings need the
unanimous consent of senators to con
tinue more than two hours after busi
ness has begun on the Senate floor.
This consent is almost universally
granted.
But at 1 lTh^a.m. EST today - an
hour and 58 minutes after the Senate
was called into session - Byrd said he
objected to further action by the Judi
ciary Committee.
He said that Republicans, by not
detailing what kind of spending cuts
would be required to balance the bud
get by the year 2002, were keeping
Americans “in the dark as to where
the pain will be.”
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Sixth-grade dropout
executed in Texas
for rape-slaying
HUNTSVILLE, Texas—A grade
school dropout with an IQ of 65 was
executed by lethal injection today for
the 1984 rape and strangling of his
14-year-old niece.
In a final statement, Mario
Marquez, 36, apologized and said he
was sorry, then added that he wasn’t
responsible for all of what happened.
“I’m sorry for all the burdens I
caused everybody,” Marquez said. ‘T
understand why I am here tonight.
Tonight I am going to pay with my
life.”
After a brief prayer, Marquez said
was ready to “come home.” He was
pronounced dead at 12:21 a.m., eight
minutes after the lethal drugs began
flowing into his arm.
As witnesses left the prison, there
was a smattering of applause from
some of the 100 people gathered out
side the prison.
A sixth-grade dropout, Marquez
was also accused of raping and stran
gling his estranged wife in the attack
but was never tried for the crime.
Marquez’s lawyers argued that
retarded people should not be put to
death.
“The public in the country over
whelmingly does not want mentally
retarded people to be executed,” Rob
ert McGlasson said,
v Prosecutor Edwin Springer argued
that Marquez knew right from wrong.
“He ’ s a very dangerous individual.
I have no reservations. I have no
doubts. He’s quite capable of doing it
again.”
The Supreme Court rejected the
appeal without comment Monday.
In 1989, the Supreme Court, in a
5-4 decision, said the Constitution’s
ban on cruel and unusual punishment
does not prohibit the execution of
juveniles as young as 16 or adults
with the reasoning capacity of chil
dren.
At least four other convicted kill
ers who were considered retarded or
claimed to be retarded have been put
to death in recent years in Texas,
which has executed 87 men since
1982.
Marquez was the 259th person
executed in the United States since
the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed
states to resume using the death pen
alty.
Defense attorneys argued that
Marquez was beaten with sticks,
boards and whips by a father who
thought he was “slow.” Once aban
doned to the streets at ‘age 12, he
turned to sniffing paint and doing
drugs.
He was arrested in the slayings of
his wife, Rebecca, 19, and her niece,
Rachel Gutierrez.
Testimony indicated Marquez
killed his estranged wife because he
believed she had been unfaithful. The
bodies were found at the Gutierrez
home in a San Antonio housing
project, where Mrs. Marquez was liv
ing with her mother.
When Marquez’s mother-in-law
returned home, he showed her the
bodies, then sexually assaulted the
woman before fleeing, prosecutors
said.
Springer recalled that Marquez
tried to attack a TV cameraman while
being taken to court, stabbed a fellow
inmate with a ballpoint pen and threat
ened to kill a prosecutor at the trial.
“The judge thought he was so dan
gerous he had him shackled in the
courtroom,” Springer said.
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Haiti moves towards popular elections
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Premier Smarck Michel has delivered
a long-awaited electoral bill to Parliament, a key step toward the first
popular vote since U.S. troops helped restore President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide to power.
The elections, which Aristide partisans are expected to sweep, will
shape the political landscape in Haiti for the next four to six years.
Michel gave Parliament the bill on Monday. Once the bill becomes
law, it will take at least three months to organize local and legislative
elections, U.N. and Haitian officials say.
The mandate of the entire 83-seat lower house and two-thirds of the
27-seat upper house ends Feb. 4. Aristide will have to govern by
executive order until a new Parliament is sworn in.
A new president is to be elected in December and inaugurated Feb.
7,1996. Aristide is constitutionally banned from succeeding himself,
but may run again in 2000.
Aristide was elected president in 1990. The Haitian armed forces sent
him into exile in 1991.
He returned Oct. 15 after a U.S.-led multinational force disarmed and
dismantled the Haitian troops.
Dads spend little solo time with kids
WASHINGTON — Preschoolers worldwide spend on average less
than one waking hour a day alone with their fathers, according to an 11
nation study that suggests the feminist ideal of men sharing equally in
child-rearing is still mostly “a lot of talk.”
The mother remains the primary adult in a preschooler’s life even
when she works outside the home and the child is in day care, said the
report by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educa
tional Achievement, a private research organization.
In their survey of the routines of 4-year-old children in the United
States and 10 other countries, researchers found young children are
rarely in the sole care of their fathers regardless of the culture.
In Hong Kong, for example, the average waking time spent alone
with the father is six minutes a day; in Belgium, 30 minutes; and the
United States, 42 minutes.
American mothers - about half of whom hold outside jobs - spend
nearly 11 waking hours as sole supervisors of their preschoolers each
day, the report said.
