Milosevic agrees to U.N. demands
WASHINGTON (AP) - Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic, bowing to NATO military
threats, has agreed to comply with U.N. demands to
end his seven-month repression of Kosovo Albanians,
Clinton administration officials said Monday night
The officials said Milosevic also agreed to the
deployment of 2,000 monitors to ensure that he
abides by his promises.
As an added incentive, NATO envoys meeting in
Brussels gave the green light for airstrikes against
Serb forces stationed in Kosovo if Milosevic fails to
comply, the officials said.
The disclosure came as U.S. envoy Richard
Holbrooke conferred with the NATO envoys after fly
ing to Brussels following another round of talks with
Milosevic in Brussels.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of
anonymity, said Milosevic agreed to aerial monitor
ing of Yugoslav compliance in addition to the moni
tors on the ground.
He made clear that mistrust of Milosevic was a
critical factor behind the U.S. insistence on thorough
monitoring of the agreement.
The agreement was hammered out by Holbrooke
during a week of marathon negotiations that often
seemed on the verge of collapse.
There had been repeated warnings by U.S. offi
cials that NATO military strikes were planned if
Milosevic refused to go along with the U.N. demands,
which were spelled out on Sept 23.
“Our patience is running out,” Defense Secretary
William Cohen said Monday in Kuwait, alluding to
the possibility of NATO airstrikes, which were autho
rized by the alliance early today.
The Security Council demands include with
drawal of more Serb troops from Kosovo, allowing
humanitarian aid to refugees and opening up serious
talks with the secessionists on the restoration of self
rule for the province.
Holbrooke had alluded to the compliance issue
Sunday, saying he “will continue an intense effort to
find a peaceful, acceptable, fully verifiable compli
ance system as an alternative to the other choice” -
meaning the use of force.
The Belgrade daily Nasa Borba reported Monday
that Milosevic was reluctantly considering the
demand, but there was no confirmation.
As Holbrooke arrived in Brussels, NATO forces
were awaiting a decision by the alliance’s policy-mak
ing North Atlantic Council in Brussels, Belgium, on
an “activation order” for airstrikes. U.S. military offi
cials familiar with the strike planning described a
phased air campaign that would evolve from limited
to heavy strikes interspersed with pauses to give
Milosevic a chance to reconsider.
B-52 bombers armed with cruise missiles, B-2
and F-l 17 stealth aircraft carrying 2,000-pound
bombs and F-16 fighters with radar-seeking missiles
were among the weapons ready to be called into
action. The carrier USS Eisenhower with some 70
combat aircraft and other ships armed with
Tomahawk cruise missiles were poised in the
Mediterranean Sea.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., warned against a rep
etition of the experience the United States has had
with Iraq.
“Obviously, we support any agreement that
avoids conflict,” McCain said. “But we also don’t
want to get into the situation as we are in with Saddam
Hussein and that is (Milosevic) makes significant
gains, floats back for awhile while we stand down,
and then resumes his activities again.”
Budget deal expected
as Congress debates
WASHINGTON (AP) - White
House and congressional budget bar
gainers intensified their talks on
school spending and other issues
Monday as Congress voted to keep the
; gpyetpipeiitopen for.{wo more days
. amid indications that a deal was near.
After more than five hours of
negotiating between White House
Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and
GOP leaders, House Speaker Newt
Gingrich said a deal could be complet
ed by that night and a package could
be on the House floor by Wednesday.
We ve reached many tentative
possible agreements, none of which
count until we’ve finished up the
whole thing,” Gingrich said.
Twelve days into fiscal year 1999,
spending bills controlling about $500
billion worth of spending - nearly
one-third of the federal budget - still
were in play.
The Clinton administration has
demanded about $3 billion more,
including $1.1 billion for hiring ele
mentary school teachers plus money
for dealing with climate change, aid to
Russia and other proposals.
Republicans had been offering
nearly $2.5 billion, but with some dif
ferent priorities. The GOP proposed
$1.1 billion that states could use to hire
teachers or take any steps they want to
reduce class size.
President Clinton tried anew to
keep his education demands in the
spotlight Before leaving for a political
fimd-raising trip to New York, he prod
ded Republicans on an issue that polls
show scores well forpemocarafsC V
“I ldiow there’s an election com
ing, but members of Congress can
return home to campaign knowing
that they put progress ahead of parti
sanship on tiie important issue of edu
cation,” Clinton said. “We need 21st
century schools where teachers can
teach and students can learn.”
This president thinks that if he
says something in the State of the
Union it will be done,” House
Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas,
fired back. “He hasn’t lifted a finger.”
Bowles met with Gingrich, Senate
Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss.,
and other top Republicans.
While the bargaining proceeded,
the House and Senate both agreed to
keep agencies operating through
Wednesday night. A prior stopgap
measure was expiring Monday night,
and both sides hoped the latest short
term bill would be the last
“We are almost there, I hope,”
House Appropriations Committee
Chairman Bob Livingston, R-La.,
said.
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Fight of their lives
Women struggle for re-elections
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -
Female outrage at the all-male Senate
Judiciary Committee’s handling of the
Clarence Thomas sexual harassment
controversy helped propel three women
to the Senate.
But now Barbara Boxer, Carol
Moseley-Braun and Patty Murray are
struggling for second terms.
All three were elected to the U.S.
Senate in 1992, the Year of the Woman.
All are liberal Democrats. And all are in
the political fights of their lives. The so
called Year of the Woman has been
replaced in 1998 by the Year of One
Woman - Monica Lewinsky.
nna yei, mere s no common mreaa
to tie the three together. The impact of
the scandal surrounding Clinton and
Lewinsky is imponderable. But there is
no question that Democratic bread-and
butter issues such as health care, educa
tion, and abortion rights have been over
shadowed by the scandal.
“This campaign in many ways is a
very surreal campaign. Nobody, or
almost nobody, is focusing on the issues
... so I’ve got to do it myself,” Boxer said
recently.
Boxer, Moseley-Braun and Murray
all are vulnerable. This likely is due in
part to the possibility the Democratic
vote may be depressed because of the
sex and coverup scandal. But it may be
because of the upset nature of the
women’s victories.
■ in tne state or wasnington,
Murray, who campaigned as a “mom in
tennis shoes,” has had lackluster job rat
ings since her election.
She faces a conservative
Republican, Rep. Linda Smith, who has
never lost an election and has a 35,000
strong volunteer army. The latest poll
shows Murray leading narrowly, but
one-fifth of the vote remains undecided.
Like Boxer, Murray has been derid
ed for her relative silence on Clinton’s
affair with Lewinsky.
■ In Illinois, Moseley-Braun, down
10 points in the latest polls, has been
hammered with ethics problems includ
ing allegations of misusing campaign
funds to criticism of a trip to Nigeria to
visit the dictator Gen. Sani Abacha, who
died this year. She was never convicted
of any wrongdoing. On Sunday, the
Chicago Tribune endorsed her
Republican opponent, State Sen. Peter
Fitzgerald.
■ In California, Boxer is in a neck
and-neck race with Matt Fong, a
Republican perhaps best known for his
legendary mother, Democrat March
Fong Eu, who was California’s top elec
ii
This campaign in
many ways is a very
surreal campaign
Barbara Boxer
California senator
tions officer for two decades.
To win, Boxer, Murray and
Moseley-Braun must galvanize their
core supporters, the loyal Democrats
and Republican women who helped put
them over the top in 1992.
The three benefited from the sup
port of voters infuriated by hearings the
male-dominated Judiciary Committee
conducted in 1991 into allegations that
Thomas repeatedly used suggestive lan
guage toward Anita Hill when she
worked for him.
The enduring image of Boxer’s
political rise was captured by television
cameras when she pounded on the
doors of the Senate demanding that
Thomas’ accuser be heard. Thomas
subsequently was narrowly confirmed
for a seat on the Supreme Court
Later, she took a lead role in
denouncing then-Sen. Bob Packwood,
R-Ore., who was forced to resign over
allegations of sexual misconduct
Boxer, who is related by marriage to
Clinton, was slow to criticize Clinton
over the Lewinsky matter, finally
speaking out after the president
acknowledged die affair in a nationally
televised address in August
Even then, her comments paled in
comparison with that of fellow
Democratic California Sen. Dianne
Feinstein, who said her faith in Clinton
was “shattered” by his admission.
Like Boxer, Feinstein was elected to
the Senate in the fabled Year of the
Woman, though she is not up for re
election this year. She was running to
fill the unexpired term of a Republican
appointee, then ran again two years later
for a full six-year tom.
A record number of women were
elected to Congress and state legisla
tures that year, many inspired to run by
the allegations that Hill, an Oklahoma
law professor, leveled against Thomas.
In 1998, that momentum is gone.
“There is no wind at her back this
time,” UCLA political science profes
sor John Petrosick said of Boxer. “The
wind is in her face, given what is going
on in Washington.”
Netanyahu’s Cabinet
balks at withdrawal plan
JERUSALEM (AP) - Only
days before a peace summit in
Washington, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet is
reportedly balking at a U.S.
authored plan for an Israeli pull
back in the West Bank.
The ministers are poised to
oppose an American initiative for
Israeli troops to withdraw from 13
percent of die West Bank, an Israeli
newspaper reported Sunday.
Such a declaration just before
talks in Washington between
Netanyahu, President Clinton and
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
could dampen hopes for breaking
an Israeli-Palestinian deadlock.
Netanyahu’s Cabinet, dominat
ed by hard-liners who oppose land
for-peace deals with the
Palestinians, is scheduled to meet
today to discuss the deal, a day
before the prime minister leaves for
Washington.
The Yediot Ahronot newspaper
reported that the Cabinet will
oppose a withdrawal now from 13
percent of the West Bank and a pro
posed withdrawal from an addi
tional 1 percent
Student dies from beating
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - A gay
college student who was hired from a
campus hangout, beaten and lashed
to a split-rail fence died Monday, and
the two young men arrested in the
attack now face murder charges that
could bring the death penalty.
Matthew Shepard, 21, died at
Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort
Collins, Colo., while on life support
His skull was so badly smashed that
doctors could not perform surgery,
hospital president Rulon Stacey said.
The University of Wyoming stu
dent had been in a coma since bicy
clists found him in near-freezing
temperatures Wednesday evening.
They at first mistook him for a scare
crow.
The attack has spurred calls
nationwide for hate-crimes legisla
tion protecting gays. President
Clinton pressed Congress to expand
the federal hate-crimes law to cover
offenses based on disability or sexu
al orientation.
House passes copyright bill
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Legislation to bolster copyright pro
tection in cyberspace is heading for
the White House following House
approval of the measure Monday.
The legislation, which the
Senate passed lasf week, imple
ments two treaties adopted in 1996
by the U.N. World Intellectual
Property Organization.
The measure seeks to strength
en protections for copyrighted
works transmitted online while
ensuring the public still has access
to information on the Internet, said
Rep. Thomas Bliley, R-Va., chair
man of the House Commerce
Committee, which wrote the legis
lation.
The measure prohibits users
from circumventing technological
devices that are placed around
works on the Internet. Such safe
guards are needed to prevent the
loss of billions of dollars each year
when Him, music and software are
stolen, business leaders say.