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NATO secretary-general
MALISEVO, Yugoslavia (AP) - Government
forces scrambled Tuesday to meet the deadline for
pulling back in Kosovo, and NATO ambassadors
decided to extend indefinitely the alliance’s threat
of airstrikes against Serb forces.
The Clinton administration said the Serbs
were in “substantial compliance” with the Kosovo
peace accord.
Earlier Tuesday, private radio station B-92
j quoted Serb sources as saying the withdrawal was
complete and that government forces in Kosovo
were back to die level before Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic launched his crackdown
against ethnic Albanian militants on Feb. 28.
In Washington, White House spokesman Joe
Lockhart said reports from the field indicated
Milosevic was in “substantial compliance” with
terms of the Kosovo peace agreement
“Well over 90 percent of the security force
reinforcements” have been withdrawn, major
road blocks have been dismantled and heavy
weapons have been returned to garrison,
Lockhart said. V
“As we see this substantial compliance, we
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also need to make sure that coming into compli
ance isn’t the only issue. We need to send die mes
sage that (Milosevic) needs to stay incompli
ance,” Lockhart said.
In Brussels^ Belgium, a meeting of ambas
sadors from die 16 NATO nations agreed to indef
initely extend the “activation order” keeping
more than 400 allied warplanes on alert for posa
ble raids against the Serbs.
“We have instructed our military to remain
prepared... and maintain forces,” said NATO
Secretary-General Javier Solana.
He said the decision would maintain pressure
on Milosevic as it appeared his troops were com
plying with die alliance^ demand for troop rede
ployments in Kosovo.
“We know that President Milosevic only
moves when he is presented with the credible
threat of force,” Solana told reporters.
In Belgrade, the special U.S. mediator for
Kosovo, Christopher Hill, said reports from die
field indicated “substantial movement,” but he
stopped short of declaring the withdrawal com
plete.
“There is an effort to reconfigure the security
forces in a way that we truly hope will reduce the
violence substantially” Hill said. “We also hope
this... moving around of forces, will help resolve
die issue of the displaced... people who are afraid
to come back to their villages.”
In Geneva, a spokesman for the ethnic
Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army, Bardhyl
Mahmud, called the Yugoslav troop movements
nothing more than an “illusion.” Ethnic Albanians
maintain the government troops are withdrawing
only temporarily and want NATO to strike.
Storm continues .
threat to Honduras
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Hurricane Mitch roared through die
northwestern Caribbean with heart
stopping strength Tuesday, churning
I up high waves and intense rain that
sent coastal residents of Honduras
, fleeing for safer ground.
President Carlos Flores Facusse
declared a state of maximum alert, and
the Honduran military sent planes to
evacuate residents from their homes
on islands near the coast. Floods
struck poor coastal neighborhoods.
At 1 p.m. EST, Mitch was 80 miles
north of Honduras and moving west
southwest at 6 mph. Winds dropped
from 180 mph to near 155 mph
Tuesday, making the hurricane a
Category 4 storm, one category below
the most powerful. The 350-mile-wide
storm remained very dangerous.
“Mitch is closing in,” said
Monterrey Cardenas, mayor of Utila,
an island 20 miles off the Honduran
coast “And God help us.”
Earlier in the day, when Mitch’s
winds were at 180 mph, the U.S.
National Weather Service said only
three Atlantic storms were stronger
than Mitch - Gilbert in 1988, Allot in
1980 and the Labor Day hurricane of
1935.
Forecasters expected Mitch to
swirl parallel to the Honduran coast
and then turn northward over the next
two days and head for Mexico’s
lucaian reninsuia ana its resorts ot
Cancun and Cozumel.
The weather service’s latest report
had Mitch moving south from its pre
vious path, but forecaster Mike
Formosa said: “That’s just a little wob
ble.”
Mitch posed no immediate threat
to die United States, forecasters said.
In La Ceiba, on the western
Honduran coast, people waded knee
deep to their houses after rains from
Mitch’s outer swells sent rivers rising.
Many people took refuge in fire
stations and schools. At one shelter in
a fire station, about 150 people hud
dled in the damp, with nothing dry to
cover themselves.
Blanca Almeida Ramirez, 22, said
she and her three children fled in the
middle of the night when water began
to seep into her wooden house. “The
wood is all rotten inside,” she said. ‘T
couldn’t stay any longer.”
Others tried to stick it out
“I’m not going anywhere,” said
Teresa Nunez, 38, who lives in a sim
ple wooden home by the beach with
her 11 children. She said she was
afraid thieves would steal what little
she owned if she left
In the nearby village of Jutiapa,
two brothers were electrocuted
Monday when they tried to remove a
TV antenna from their roof in prepara
tion for the storm.
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Women, welfare
focus of forum
at White House
WASHINGTON (AP) - Most people think of Social Security as a
retirement program, but at age 20, 'tyra Brown already has had to rely on
it.
When she was 15, her mother died from heart failure. “My grand
mother became my guardian, and we received Social Security’s sur
vivors’ benefits to help us wife expenses,” said Brown.
Brown - who came to fee nation’s capital from Oklahoma City her
home town, to study at Howard University - was among a handful of
women who participated in a roundtable discussion at fee White House
Tuesday wife President Clinton and Vice President A1 Gore.
The conversation focused on the way the current Social Security sys
tem treats American women, as well as obstacles feat make it difficult for
many to support themselves in retirement. Women in 10 U.S. cities
watched the event via satellite.
“For elderly women, Social Security makes up half of their income,
and for many it is all feat stands between them and fee ravages of pover
ty” Clinton said Tuesday.
Rep. Karen Thurman, D-Fla., is among women Democrats in
Congress asking Clinton to speak up for women’s interests as he prepares
to hold a conference on Social Security’s future with congressional
Republicans at fee White House on Dec. 8 and 9.
Wife fee nation’s huge baby boom generation nearing retirement, the
president and Republican leaders have said they want to take action next
year to make sure Social Security won’t run short of cash.
“When they’re choosing or deciding on which plan of action to take
they should always remember the human values - our employment status
as women, and how we ’re paid less than men and wife our Social Security
fee difference that makes,” Brown said. «
Women are particularly dependent on Social Security for retirement
money and yet tend to get smaller pension checks from the system
because they live longer and have worked less.
Social Security also provides a sort of workers’ compensation insur
ance, sending monthly checks to fee families of breadwinners who die
before reaching retirement age - a benefit feat more women than men
receive.
Picasso’s notes, doodles
up for auction in Paris
PARIS (AP) - When a love
affair goes sour, some destroy die
evidence. Others save everything:
goofy postcards, tiny drawings on
matchbooks, a doodle on a menu.
Luckily, Dora Maar, muse to
Pablo Picasso for eight years, kept
all those things and more - from
grand oil paintings to a paper scrap
with her lover’s bloodstain.
On Tuesday, 15 months after
Maar’s lonely death, art lovers got a
chance to buy a piece of the treasure
trove. The three-day auction, which
is said to be the largest Picasso col
lection to go on the block, is conser
vatively estimated to bring in $30
million.
But it is the deeply personal
nature of the collection that has had
Parisians standing in the rain to get
a pre-auction glimpse at the Maison
de la Chimie near the Eiffel Tower.
Maar met Picasso in 1936. She
quickly became his lover and
model. But Picasso moved on to the
younger Francoise Gilot in the
1940s, and Maar went into a tail
spin, living a hermetic existence in
her apartment
She died in solitude in July
1997 at age 89. She had never mar
ried, had no heirs and apparently left
nowill.
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Chinese democracy activist
detained by police
BEUING (AP) - Police detained Xu
Wenli, one of China’s most prominent
democracy activists, and at least four other
dissidents Tuesday to thwart a planned
protest
Police took Xu from his Beijing home,
questioned him about his planned trip
Tuesday to eastern Shandong province and
released him about 10 hours latet Xu said.
He said he and as many as 30 other dissi
dents had planned to go to Shandong’s
Dongpin county, 280miles south ofBeijing,
to support Xie Wanjun, an activist they say
has been harassed by authorities.
A Hong Kong-based rights group,
meanwhile, said four other dissidents were
detained Tuesday in Beijing and elsewhere,
and that police also questioned nearly 20
others who had planned to go to Shandong.
Xu’s wife, He Xintong, said police
detained Xu’s associate, Zhang Hui, and
searched Xu’s home, confiscating a fax
machine, papers, magazines and photos.
She said the detentions demonstrated
that authorities have no intention of relaxing
their grip, despite China’s Oct 5 signing of a
UN. human rights treaty.
“This is their real face,” she said. “The
Communist Party says one thing but does
another.”
Republicans continues
to out-raise Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Republicans have out-raised Democrats by
roughly $92 million, but both parties are
bringing in more money than they did for
the last midterm election.
The record-setting figures were released
Tuesday by the Federal Election
Commission even as an independent review
of campaign finances suggested that rela
tively few races are competitive this election
season.
“The fact that you don’t really need it
doesn’t seem to reduce the fervor with
which they’re trying to raise the money,”
said Larry Makinson, executive director of
die Cents* for Responsive Politics.
Makinson called it further evidence that
big-money donors were less concerned with
helping to elect or defeat candidates than
they were about influencing policy in die
new Congress that will be sworn into office
in January. “They’re really talking about
lobbying; they’re not talking about trying to
change the results of the election,” he said.
FAA recommends pilots
not take Viagra before flights
WASHINGTON (AP) - Add another
line to a pilot’s preflight checklist: no
Viagra.
The Federal Aviation Administration is
recommending pilots not take the impo
tence drug within six hours of flying
because it could make it tough to distinguish
between die blues and greens found in cock
pit instrument and runway lights.
So far the drug doesn’t seem to be a
problem for other transportation workers.
“For the above reasons, ‘Six hours from
Viagra to throttle’ is recommended,” wrote
Dr. Donato J. Borrillo, a flight surgeon who
issued die warning in the most recent issue
of the Federal Air Surgeon’s Medical
Bulletin. Studies show it takes that long for
Viagra to leave the bloodstream.
In clinical studies ofViagra, 3 percent of
patients reported seeing a bluish haze.
Others taking higher-than-recommended
doses had trouble telling the difference
between blue and green.
Both conditions are troublesome for
pilots, since blue and green lights are used to
outline taxiways and illuminate digital^
instrument panels.