UARY 12,1998
Possible airstrike nears
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the
Clinton administration pressed
Congress to support a possible attack on
Iraq, the U.S. commander in the Persian
Gulf said Wednesday he’ll be ready for
an airstrike “within a week or so.”
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
should be “nervous,” Marine Corps
Gen. Anthony Zinni, the overall com
mander of U.S. forces in the oil-rich
Gulf region, told reporters there.
In Washington, lawmakers too were
nervous — about whether the planned
U.S. airstrikes, if launched, will succeed
in pushing Iraq to comply with arms
inspectors.
President Clinton sent his foreign
policy team to Capitol Hill Wednesday
to seek congressional support in a non
binding resolution backing the use of
force against Iraq.
“We all hope we can avoid the use of
force,” Clinton said. “But let’s face it, in
the end that is up to Saddam Hussein.”
The Iraqi leader, he said, “must let
the weapons inspectors back with full
and free access to all suspect sites.”
The State Department dismissed an
Iraqi proposal to open eight presidential
complexes for what Foreign Minister
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhafsaid could
be an inch-by-inch search.
“We have yet to hear about a con
crete Iraqi offer to reverse course and
allow the U.N. inspectors toe access to
do their jobs,” spokesman James P.
Rubin said. “This latest iteration
appears to fall short again of this very
simple standard.”
The congressional resolution,
which seemed sure of quick passage
when Senate Majority LeaderTrent Lott
first raised it two weeks ago, now is
bogged down over concerns about pre
cisely what kind of airstrikes the admin
istration is planning. Lawmakers also
question whether the strikes will suc
ceed in forcing Iraq to allow unfettered
U.N. inspections of its suspected chem
ical and biological arms sites.
Lott said Wednesday he and other
lawmakers want toe administration to
request congressional action.
“I don’t know if we can do it in one
day,” he said, but “there’s no need to rush
to judgment Asked if he was concerned
that an attack might occur while
Congress is in recess, Lott said, “I don’t
think the bombs will fall until we are
back in action.”
Congress will be in recess next
week, returning Feb. 23. No House
action is expected this week. In the
Senate, Lott and Minority Leader Tom
Daschle hoped to bring toe resolution to
a vote Thursday, but not if they can’t
muster solid support
Clinton: NATO additions
will strengthen alliance
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Clinton asked die Senate
to bring Poland, Hungary and the
Czech Republic into NATO, say
ing all three Eastern European
nations have pledged to “serve and
support with us” in military strikes
against Iraq.
Washington’s diplomatic com
munity joined Clinton’s national
security team, veterans’ groups
and members of Congress on
Wednesday at a State Department
ceremony opening the president’s
campaign to enlarge the 16-nation
alliance with three former allies of
the defunct Soviet Union. The
Czech, Polish and Hungarian for
eign ministers also attended.
NATO leaders approved the
expansion last July, but it still must
be ratified individually by each
nation. The Senate is expected to
approve, despite worries about the
costs and risks involved.
“I am confident it will be over
whelmingly embraced,” said Sen.
William Roth, R-Del. Clinton said
he too is confident of the outcome.
Amid increasing tensions with
Iraq, Clinton reminded the audi
ence that Czech, Hungarian and
Polish troops are participating in
NATO’s peacekeeping efforts in
Bosnia and served beside allied
forces in the 1991 Gulf War,
“And they recognize the threat
to the world posed today by
Saddam Hussein and by his efforts
to develop weapons of mass
destruction,” Clinton said. “I am
pleased that all three countries
have announced that they are pre
pared to serve and support with us
as appropriate should military
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said
lawmakers “are torn between their
desire to support die president as their
commander in chief and their very seri
ous concerns and reservations.”
Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright, National Security Adviser
Sandy Berger, Deputy Defense
Secretary John Hamie, Gen. Henry H.
Shelton, chairman of die Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and Budget Director Franklyn
Raines discussed Iraq privately
Wednesday with several senior
action prove necessary.
“We all hope we can avoid the
use of force,” Clinton said. “But
letls face it: hi the end that is up to
Saddam Hussein. He must let the
weapons inspectors back with full
and free access to all suspect sites.”
Russia has adamantly opposed
NATO’s eastward expansion and
its embrace of three former
Warsaw Pact members. NATO
doctrine stipulates that an attack
against any member state is an
attack against all, and some
observers suggest NATO’s risks
will be higher with Poland,
Hungary and die Czech Republic
as members.
Clinton said the three new
members will make the alliance
stronger, not weaker.
“These three states will add
some 200,000 troops to the
alliance,” the president said. “A larg
er NATO will be a better deterrent
against aggressors of the future. It
will deepen the ranks of those who
stand with us should deterrents fail.”
Clinton said 60 of America’s
top retired military leaders,
including five former chairmen of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, agreed
lastweek that adding the tee new
members will strengthen NATO.
Standing in front of a large
photograph of the razed Berlin
Wall, Clinton said NATO’s growth
“will erase the artificial line in
Europe drawn by Joseph Stalin....
NATO cannot maintain the old
Iron Curtain as its permanent east
ern frontier. It must and can bring
Europe together in security, not
keep it apart in instability.”
Republican senators. The senators
pressed the administration to make a
public appeal for support for strong
action against Iraq.
“We want the president to explain
(the mission) to the American people—
including that there will be civilian
casualties” in Iraq, McCain said. The
administration officials, he said,
acknowledged a bombing campaign
alone won’t solve the crisis over Iraq’s
biological and chemical weapons capa
bility.
keeps folklore alive
By Jonathan Houghton
Staff Reporter
Through the voice of artist and
storyteller Linda Anfuso, tales and
songs from American Indian culture
filled the F Street Recreation Center
Wednesday afternoon.
Anfuso, a Mohawk Indian, sang,
played a hand-made flute and told
several traditional stories to a group
of 50 grade school children.
The event showed the children
that stories can do more than enter
tain - they can keep a culture’s folk
lore alive.
The presentation was a part of
Native American Awareness Week,
which will culminate with a powwow
Saturday at the F Street center.
Anfuso, who has given such pre
sentations for 17 years, said she
started them after dreaming she
stood in the. middle of a crowd of
children, telling them stories.
“My dreams are an important
way to connect with my inner self,
my creativity,” she said.
bhe learned her ancient stones
verbatim from a mentor over several
years, she said. For an hour-and-a
half every day, she learned every ges
ture and word of the stories as they
were originally told to American
Indians thousands of years before.
But there are a few differences,
she said.
The stories slowly have evolved
to incorporate modem features. For
instance, during one story Anfuso
made the growling sound of an all
terrain vehicle approaching. Years
ago, die sound would probably been
that of a horse, she said.
Anfuso said one American Indian
woman came to her after a presenta
tion and complimented her, say ing
Anfuso had told the story exacdy as
she had heard it as a child, with one
exception. When the woman had
heard the story originally, the vehicle
had been a Model-A Ford.
Anfuso’s favorite story told
Wednesday involved a young boy
abandoned in a cave by his abusive
uncle, she said. In the story, the child
is adopted by a group of bears.
“It elicits such a strong
response,” she said. “Children hear a
voice of hope in that story.”
Anfuso acted out each character’s
part in the story, changing her voice
Jonathan Houghton/DN
LINDA ANFDSO tells e traditional
Mohawk Indian tale to aboat 50
grade school children at the F
Street Recreation Center
Wednesday. Anfnso, who lives in
New Hampshire, has been coning to
Nebraska for the last six years to
share her art and her stories.
and her mannerisms.
“The stories become me,” Anfuso
said. “I have been each of those peo
pie, and I allow them to come out as 1
speak.”
Whether she is telling stories,
writing or painting, Anfuso said she
does not divide her sacred life and
her everyday life.
“Everything I do is an act of
prayer,” she said.
Before installing a new program
onto her computer recently, Anfuso
prayed for the installation to go well,
she said.
Because many Mohawk Indians
remain highly spiritual and proudly
celebrate their ancestry, many people
fail to realize they have made the
same advances in technology as
everybody else, she said.
For instance, on a recent airplane
flight, Anfuso said she worked on her
laptop computer. The man sitting
next to her on the flight said he was
surprised she was computer literate.
“The romantic vision (of
American Indians)... that’s not who
we are,” Anfuso said.
“We’ve assimilated some aspects
of European culture to our benefit,”
she said, “and some to our great
detriment.”
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ASUN senators decided
Wednesday that the benefits of “twain
gain” did not outweigh the costs.
They voted against a bill giving
ASUN’s endorsement to Sen. Jon
Bnmingfe proposed“brain gain” biH.
Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska President Curt
Ruwe said he would not sign thebill, but
he plans to reintroduce it within the next
two weeks when a representative from
Gov. Ben Nelson’s office is present
Nelson’s Director of Media
Relations, Karl Biebei; was at the meet
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