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prospect of NATO-backed military
action increasing, the State Department
is planning to issue an advisory urging
American citizens not to travel to
Yugoslavia.
The statement came as President
Clinton sent his national security team
to Capitol Hill on Thursday to lay the
groundwork; for possible NATO mili
tary intervention in Kosovo. “We’re at a
fairly critical moment,” Clinton’s
spokesman said.
State Department spokesman
James P. Rubin said the travel warning,
expected to be released later Thursday,
also would urge Americans in
Yugoslavia to consider leaving.
Rubin said military action is closer
to a reality ‘because of Belgrade’s fail
ure to comply with the requirements of
the international community.” *
Clinton’s senior advisers were to
brief senators on Sob atrocities against
ethnic Albanians and on international
efforts to stop the slaughter. The White
House urged Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic to heed Western:
demands for aeease*-fire and withdraw^
When faced with diplomacy
backed by force, he has in the past
backed down at various moments,9
presidential spokesman Mike MeCurry
said. He said NATO has started the
process that could lead to military
strikes.
“The activation warning has been
made to allied capitals by NATO,9
MeCurry said. “The next step in the
process would be an activation request
in which forces would be provided for a
pending military action. AncTthat’s a
serious piece of business,” MeCurry
said, i
“Because the U.S. leads NATO and
because we have obligations there, it
would involve* one way or another,
putting people in harm^ way-9the pres
ident’s spokesman said.
Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright endorsed a British call for a
special U.N. Security Council meeting
Thursday to deal with repression in
Kosovo.
“Clearly, the clocks ticking/.’ State
Department spokesman James Foley
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Bellevue man, 19, killed
after group sex incident
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Six people, including a married
couple and twtf 16-year-olds, were
arrested late Wednesday and early -
Thursday after Scott D. Catenacci’s
body was found in a park, Sarpy
County Sheriff Pat Thomas said.
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in a group sexual encounter with
Catenacci about two weeks ago, he
said. They plotted to kill him because
he “roughed up one of the girls,”
Thomas said.
The sheriff would not specify
what Catenacci had done or which of
those arrested had been involved in
die sex. Zeeb said one of the females
apparently changed her mind in the
middle of the encounter, and
Catenacci would not stop.
Authorities said they think
Catenacci was hired to the park under
the pi^tense that someone wanted to
buy hislaptop computer. The sheriff
said Catenacci was stabbed repeated
ly in the upper body and apparently
struggled with his killers.
He would not say how many times
Catenacci had been stabbed or
whether one or more weapons were
used, but said investigators had not
recovered a weapon yet
about it and tried to help cover it up,
Thomas said. Catenacci’s body was
found in a ditch near die park.
Investigators think Catenacci was
killed sometime between 9 p.m.
Tuesday and 6 a.m. Wednesday. A
man collecting cans around Haworth
Park spotted the body Wednesday.
missing afterhe didn’t letunihome
irom work at 'a ddughtiut $6pp\
Tuesday night in Bellevue.
“This tiling’s kind of bizarre,”
Thomas said. “It’s more involved than
any soap opera.”
Randy Glynn and James Hargett,
both 19, Niccole Wetherell, 18, and
two 16-year-olds were arrested on
murder charges. Glynn’s husband, 19
year-old Christopher Glynn, was
arrested on a charge of being an
accessory to murder.
Formal charges of first-degree
murder and use of a weapon were
filed Thursday against the two 16
year-olds, Daniel Jones and Patrick
Burden, and they were scheduled for
bond hearings today, said Sarpy
County Attorney Mike Munch.
He said formal charges against the
others were pending. The charges
were filed first against Jones and
Burden because they were juveniles
but were being charged as adults.
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When faced with diplomacy backed by
force, (Milosovic) has in the past backed
down at various moments.”
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presidential spokesman
NATO has completed plans for pos
sible airstrikes to halt Milosevic’s
troops, which have since February been
fighting a guerrilla movement seeking
independence for the Serbian province.
The pressure to act increased this week
upon discovery of fresh massacres by
Serbian security forces of 18 ethnic
Albanians, including women and chil
dren.
“This was not an act of war. It was
plain cold murder,” British Foreign
Secretary Robin Cook said from
Blackpool, England, as he called for a
special Security Council meeting.
Yugoslavia’s foreign minister
latest killings, and invited the
International Committee of the Red
Cross and the UN. High Commissioner
for Refugees to conduct an independent
probe into die incident
“Under their auspices, specialists
should come from a number of various
countries and in cooperation with
Yugoslav experts establish and prove
the facts,” he told reporters during a
brief visit to Washington. -
U.S. officials also were talking
tough, noting that Milosevic has
ignored a U.N. resolution approved by
the Security Council a weekago callingr
for a cease-fire and for withdrawal of
of force if fij^tmg coi^hues. ^ i.
Democrats won t ask
for censure of Clinton
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ed to the Lewinsky affair.
WASHINGTON (AP) - House
Democrats are drafting a proposal
for a brief impeachment inquiry
restricted to President Clinton’s
affair with Monica Lewinsky, offi
; rials said Thursday, effectively drop
3 ping an attempt to head off a formal
investigation with a swift censure.
Several officials said the
Democratic proposal, designed as an
alternative to the open-ended
inquiry envisioned by Republicans,
may refer to censure as an eventual
resolution of the case against
Clinton. But this would come into
play only after a formal investiga
tion.
These officials declined to say
how long an investigation
Democrats might propose, although
the party’s leader in the House, Rep.
Richard Gephardt of Missouri, has
suggested timetables of 30 or 60
days. They added that no final deci
sions have been made.
Republicans are certain to pre
vail, both in the Judiciary
Committee as well as in the entire
House, when they seek passage next
week of an open-ended inquiry
based on precedents established dur
ing the Watergate investigation a
quarter-century ago:, tqq b'&vtfsqn
But Gephardt and other
Democratic leaders have been labor
ing in recent days to craft an alterna
tive that their rank-and-file could
rally behind, thus enabling many of
them to vote in opposition to the
GOP proposal without exposing
themselves to election-year charges
that they sought to ignore evidence
against the president.
“This cannot be a never-ending
fishing expedition,” Rep. John
Conyers of Michigan, the senior
Democrat on • the Judiciary
Committee, told reporters at a news
conference.
~ “The American people should
know that when the Republicans
vote for an open-ended inquiry next
week, that they are committing all of
the country to a process that Could
last for months, for years - who
knows.”
Kepuoiicans responaea swiniy
in what has become a staple of the
impeachment drama unfolding in
the Capitol - one side troops before
the television cameras to level a
charge, followed a few moments
later by the other side offering a
rebuttal.
In this case, Rep. Charles
Canady of Florida was one of sever
al Republicans responding.
“I have a growing suspicion that
no matter what we do ... they will
criticize it,” he said.
“So one day they want us to fol
low the Watergate model. The next
day they say, ‘Don’t follow the
Watergate model.’”
On Wednesday, Rep. Henry
Hyde, R-IU., chairman of the com
mittee, announced plans for just
such an inquiry - unlimited in time
or scope, with Democrats receiving
limited ability to subpoena their own
witnesses and the White House
allowed representation at proceed
ings.
Democrats responded Wednes
day with strong criticism, as Conyers
and White House spokesman Mike
McCurry said that whatever
Clinton’s transgressions with
Lewinsky, they fell far short of the
offenses Richard Nixon committed.
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MF chief calls for bolder
action to deal with crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) - The >
Federal Reserve made the right deci
sion in cutting a key interest rate earlier
this week, the head of the International
Monetary Fund said Thursday. But he
said global powers must now do more
to overhaul the financial system and
hah a spreading economic crisis.
IMF Managing Director Michel
Camdessus, briefing reporters on what
could turn out to be pivotal annual
meetings of the 182-nation lending
organization, rejected suggestions that
the IMF hadbddly handled the global
currency crisis. ; ^
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countries must- push'for Stronger
growth to offset stfeep recessions in
litany Asian nations and Russia. He
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defense bill
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Settee Sent Resident Clinton a com
promise $270.5 billion defense budget
Thursday that the Pentagon and con
have called barely
3.6pcraai, support .G&tito&fe decision
to keep U.S. troops in Bosnia, impose
new curbs on satellite exports and allow
the Pentagon to continue to train men
and women recruits together.
The Senate vote was 96-2, with
Sens. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., and
Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., voting no.
The White House had objected to a
provision transferring satellite export
license? from the Commerce
Department back to the State
Department. Democratic aides said
Clinton was expected to sign die bill
. Final passage of die bill comes as
congressional leaders and top military
officers are embroiled in a controversy
over the readiness and morale of the
nation’s troops and who is to blame.
Members of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff were criticized earlier this week by
senators who claimed the brass hadn’t
warned them about the problems in
time to adjust the Pentagon budget
Adams, Trimble remain
at odds over IRA arsenal
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP)
-The two politicians central to the suc
cess of Northern Ireland’s peace agree
ment tailed Thursday to overcome their
disagreement about Irish Republican
Army weaponry.
After a tense 7 5-minute meeting,
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said he
“cannot deliver” weapons as the price
for his IRA-allied party’s admission
into a new cross-community adminis
tration for Northern Ireland.
Ulster Unionist Party leader David
Trimble said be wouldn’t let Sinn Fein
take part in die administration unless
IRA commandos “meet their side of
the bargain” by starting to disarm in
cooperation with an independent com
mission.
The standoff illustrates a weakness
of April’s historic agreement on how
Catholics and Protestants should jointly
govern Northern Ireland: To secure
support from both Trimble and Adams
- polar opposites in the long struggle
over whether Northern Ireland should
remain part of Britain or unite with
Ireland.