Clinton ends troop buildup;
forces in Gulf remain ready
WASHINGTON (AP) - Skeptical
that Saddam Hussein will keep his
word, the White House pressed for a
swift test of Iraqi promises to cooperate
with U.N. arms inspectors. The United
States stopped its military buildup in
the Persian Gulf but warned it could
strike “at a moment’s notice.”
“The world is watching Saddam
Hussein to see if he follows the words
he uttered with deeds,” President
Clinton said Monday. “Our forces
remain strong and ready if he does not”
Reinforcing Clinton’s statement,
National Security Adviser Sandy
Berger said that if Iraq does not comply,
“there will be plenty of opportunity for
military force.”
The administration said it would be
up to U.N. chief arms inspector Richard
Butler and his team to judge whether
Iraq, in fact, allows unrestricted access
to all sites the inspectors choose.
“He’s not been shy in the past about
expressing his views when he believes
his work has been obstructed,” White
House press secretary Joe Lockhart
said. Butler is to return to Iraq today.
With tensions cooling, Clinton took
the morning off to play golf. The White
House also resumed plans for a presi
dential trip at midweek to Japan, South
Korea and Guam that had been put off
as the United States moved toward
attacking Iraq.
Speaking to reporters, Clinton said
the best outcome would be to get the
inspectors back on the job with “unfet
tered access and full cooperation.”
Since the Gulf War, U.N. inspectors
have forced Iraq to destroy 40,000
chemical weapons, 700 tons of chemi
cal-weapons agents, a biological
weapons plant, 48 missiles and 30 war
heads fitted for chemical and biological
weapons, Clinton said.
“Governments all over the world
today stand united in sharing the con
viction that full compliance - and noth
ing short of full compliance - is needed
from Iraq,” Clinton added.
Berger made the rounds of televi
sion talk shows to make the case that
Clinton had assembled the strongest
consensus against Iraq since the Gulf
War.
Defense Secretary William Cohen,
meanwhile, announced a halt in the
U.S. military buildup. “We will keep
the forces that are already there for the
time being,” Cohen said. “Those forces
that did not yet arrive, will in all proba
bility be recycled back in the next sev
eral days.”
The United States said Iraq will
have to comply with five conditions:
allowing die resumption of inspections,
permitting unfettered access, releasing
relevant documents, accepting U.N.
resolutions and guaranteeing no inter
ference with the independence of
inspectors. Veterans of U.N. inspection
a
Let me say we re not
going to lose any
sleep if Saddam
Hussein suddenly isn’t
their leader, from
whatever reason. No
tears will be shed.”
James Rubin
State Department spokesman
teams said they were the same obliga
tions Saddam has ignored in the past.
“If he’s serious about wanting sanc
tions lifted, the easiest way to show it is
to comply with these issues,” State
Department spokesman James Rubin
said.
The administration also pledged to
work more closely with Iraqi opposi
tion groups to bring about a new gov
ernment in Baghdad, as Clinton urged
Sunday.
“Let me say we’re not going to lose
any sleep if Saddam Hussein suddenly
isn’t their leader, from whatever reason.
No tears will be shed,” Rubin said.
Netanyahu suspends
West Bank pullback
JbKUSALfcM (AP) - in yet
another blow to the Mideast peace
accord, Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu suspended a West Bank
troop pullback Monday and demand
ed that Yasser Arafat retract threats to
use force to bring about a Palestinian
state.
Palestinian officials countered
that Israel was making just as many
inflammatory remarks and accused
Netanyahu of inventing excuses to
avoid carrying out the agreement
The escalating tensions came on
the day Israel had been scheduled to
begin pulling its troops out of West
Bank areas and crippled U.S. envoy
Dennis Ross’ efforts to get the
Mideast peace accord off the ground.
Netanyahu said the suspension
was a result of Arafat’s statement
Sunday promising to declare a
Palestinian state in May and telling
supporters “our rifle is ready” to take
Jerusalem.
“I do not intend to implement any
withdrawal under these circum
stances ... until these things are cor
rected in public,” a defiant Netanyahu
said in a speech to parliament con
vened to debate the peace accord.
Despite the suspension of the troop
withdrawal, a parliament vote in favor
of the deal is expected today.
Late Monday, Ararat called in
reporters from The Associated Press
and Israel TV and said he was com
mitted to the peace process.
“I would like to reiterate here that
we are fully committed to implement
ing precisely and accurately what was
signed in the Wye River memoran
dum. As far as we’re concerned, our
position remains that peace is a strate
gic option, and we will not shift
course,” Arafat said.
He did not refer directly to his
statements Sunday, but said: “Surely
we will face difficulties when we
negotiate... the issue of Jerusalem. As
they say in English, where there’s a
will, there’s a way.” Arafat spoke
moments before a meeting with Ross.
Netanyahu’s senior adviser David
Bar-Dlan said Arafat’s comments fell
short of Israeli expectations.
“Mr. Arafat did not provide a
retraction of his statement regarding
the use of rifles, a statement which is
unacceptable. The government will
have to decide whether to continue
with the implementation of the
accord,” Bar-Illan said.
Since Netanyahu and Arafat
signed the accord in Washington on
Oct. 23, there has been no end to pub
lic finger-pointing, fiery rhetoric and
delays.
City Council appoints
Young as interim mayor
■ The councilman has
been chosen to finish
Johanns’term, which -
will end when a new
mayor is elected May 5.
By Josh Funk
Senior staff writer
While Lincoln Mayor Mike
Johanns is preparing to move into
the governor’s mansion, the newly
elected interim mayor will be mov
ing into Johanns’ old office.
Monday the City Council voted
unanimously to install Councilman
Dale Young as mayor.
Young said he would be hon
ored to fill the office.
“I think we have a great coun
cil, and I want to maintain the good
working relationship we have,”
Young said when he was nominated
at a precouncil hearing Nov. 9.
Councilman Jerry Shoecraft
nominated Young for the office,
citing the work Young has done on
the council.
Young was also nominated
because he was not planning to run
for reelection to the City Council iii
May.
The council was obligated to
fill the office with someone fronr
its ranks because Johanns was
elected governor in the Nov. 3 elec
tions.
The council decided to fill thet
office before Johanns officially
takes the governor’s office Jan. 6 to
ensure a smooth transition,
Shoecraft said.
Johanns offered to take Young
into his office now to get him up to
speed on the mayor’s duties.
“I’ll be flexible and work with
the new mayor to help him get used
to the office,” Johanns said.
Over the next two weeks, Young
will work alongside Johanns in the
mayor’s office, and tentatively
Johanns will submit his resignation
at the end of the month.
Young will serve as mayor until
the May 5 elections, when another
mayor can be elected.
Next week the council will
nominate someone from Young’s
district to fill his seat.
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Hurricane’s effects felt in Lincoln
HURRICANE from page 1
Castellanos has not heard from his
family in a month. His only link to his
home country has been the television.
“Every time I try to call, the phone
lines are busy,” Castellanos said
through his wtfe,; wfto translated.
He and his wife, Yolanda FewTails
Castellanos, a UNL senior, usually hear
from someone in his family at least
once a week.
But the good news, Castellanos
said, is that he has heard that his village
was not hit hard by the hurricane.
Castellanos worries because his
mother is sick. With communication
cut off and roads closed, his family may
not be able to get help for her if she
needs it
“I’m pretty sure they’re OK,”
Castellanos said. He said not being able
to communicate with them was hard.
His family, 11 brothers and sisters
along with his mother, nieces and
nephews, does not have a phone closer
than two hours away.
Castellanos hasn’t been able to find
them through the American Red Cross,
which called Castellanos last Friday
with an update.
A reminder
UNL’s Environmental
Resource Center is collecting
food, medical supplies, cloth
ing, blankets and money for
Hurricane Mitch victims.
Volunteers are also needed for
the collection, which will end
Friday. Drop-off points are
located in the Nebraska and
Nebraska East Unions. Call
472-8823 for more information.
Riguero’s mother and father were
able to get hold of Riguero and her sis
ter, who is studying in Alabama, short
ly after news of the hurricane hit the
states.
Strained phone connections caused
worry for Riguero and her family as
well.
Both a family friend and an uncle
were feared to be missing for good
when the family couldn’t get hold of
them.
The two lived in towns authorities
thought were hit too strongly for any
one to have lived. One was hit by a mas
sive mud slide.
Both her uncle and her family’s
friend survived. But many others are
slowly dying from disease, Riguero
said.
Water sitting outside is contaminat
ed with sewage and rotting corpses of
animals and humans.
Worse yet, Riguero said, people
who were left with no homes and no
food have eaten off of the dead animals
and have drank from the tainted water.
“The country is pretty bad,”
Riguero said. “A lot of people are dying
and starving. They don’t have enough
food”
The beauty of die country has been
destroyed, Riguero said
She took a set of pictures from her
desk, which showed a waterfall her sis
ter saw in her hometown of Managua,
which is about a half-hour from the
Atlantic Ocean.
“The country is so pretty because
we have so many natural resources,”
Riguero said
But when she goes back to her
home over the semester break, she
doesn’t expect things to be the same as
when she left.
Despite the destruction, she wants
to go back now and help those she
knows are suffering.
“I wish I could be there.”
P Street to return to one-way traffic
P STREET from page 1
P Street, will add one westbound lane
from 11th to 10th streets as a result of an
amendment to the resolution.
The westbound lane will be added
as a means of settling problems in load
ing that have occurred in front of the
Embassy Suites hotel project
Representatives from John Q.
Hammons Inc., the Embassy Suites
developer, told city officials that they
may have to stop construction and
reevaluate the project.
Hammons’ representative said the
company has built hotels all over
America, and it has pulled out of pro
jects that were a lot further along.But
city officials felt confident that they
could reach an agreement with
Hammons.
The City Council even included a
provision in the one-way resolution to
find an alternative agreeable to both
Hammons and the city.
Jim Wrenholt, a P Street business
owner and one of the driving forces
behind getting P Street back to one-way
traffic, said he would remain vigilant in
his research of the new plan, though he
said Monday’s vote was a step in the
right direction.
“It’s a victory,” Wrenholt said.
“They have allowed traffic to get flow
ing again.”
Wrenholt said he will wait to see
how the council and the public works
begin die task of adding the westbound
lane and reconfiguring before he gives
full support to the plan.
“We all need to wait and see how
improvements will go,” Wrenholt said.
“But if it gets the traffic moving, I’m
going to be happy; and I think we’ll see
evidence of it yet this week.”
Wrenholt organized a petition drive
gamering more than 4,500 signatures
and two protests that demonstrated
public support for one-way traffic.
Council members thanked
Wrenholt and other citizens for their
work.
“Often when government stubs its
toe, it’s the citizenry that brings us
back,” Councilwoman Colleen Seng
said.
Joan Modrell, the Urban
Development Director, said she was in
support of die new plan, though she felt
the two-way plan had not been given a
fair chance.
At the council meeting, Modrell
was called by Councilwoman Cindy
Johnson to give her perceptions of the P
Street change.
Modrell, who helped develop the
new Marketplace plan for downtown,
said that while one-way traffic was
popular, two-way traffic never had
much of a chance.
“I think you’re going to see some
disappointed folks because the (two
way) concept didn’t hold,” Modrell
said. “But you’re going to see some
happy people who have fought hard to
see P Street return to one-way.”
But Modrell emphasized that the
city will have to adapt die marketplace
plan to one-wry traffic.
Jon Camp, managing partner of
Haymarket Square, said that the city
should include Q Street in its plan to
develop a marketplace.
“Everybody had a vision for the
marketplace, and they got socked into
two-way,” Camp said.
“Two-way was just one ingredient
in the marketplace concept. Just
because you change one ingredient
doesn’t mean you can’t make a cake.”
