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] >T NATO puts squeeze o ■ Fifty-one warplanes will join the group’s attack force to intimidate the country’s leader into accepting the peace plan. WASHINGTON (AP) - Dram atizing a threat to bomb Serbia, the Clinton administration is adding 51 U.S. warplanes to an already power ful attack force in Europe to pressure the Yugoslav government to approve a self-rule plan for Kosovo and accept NATO peacekeeping troops. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said the United States had begun planning for the possible evac uation of U.S. embassies. While she didnot say where American diplo mats may be withdrawn, a senior U.S. official said Belgrade was an obvious choice because the diplo mats could not remain during a NATO bombing campaign. Plans were also made for the pos sible evacuation of a multinational monitoring group in Kosovo, accord ing to Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Vollebaek. Norway is currently the head of the Organization.for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Albright declined to say when NATO might attack. Later, she said planning for an evacuation had begun. As Western military officials pre pared for possible airstrikes, Defense Secretary William Cohen signed an order for 1,855 Marines to be part of 7,000 NATO troops, who would go into Pristina ahead of an eventual force of30,000 if a deal is reached. The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, on Navy ships in the Mediterranean, were to foe accompa nied by an unspecified number of communications specialists, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said. Cohen told reporters the addi tional planes would begin arriving in Europe this weekend. The purpose of sending more warplanes is to heighten the threat of force and thereby intimidate Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic into accepting a six-nation plan to end a yearlong conflict between Serb troops and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, a province in Serbia. Milosevic has defied the United States and five allied governments who have given him until noon Saturday to agree to pull most Serb troops out of Kosovo and see them replaced by some 28,000 NATO - peacekeepers, including about 4,000 U.S. troops. While his Serb negotiators at Rambouillet, France, are showing some interest in the self-rule plan for the Albanian-majority Serbian province, Milosevic has rejected a NATO peacekeeping operation. Asked what purpose airstrikes would serve, Cohen said, “It would reduce some of (Milosevic’s) ability to pose the kind of threat that he has posed to the Kosovar people.” Cohen’s order directs that the planes depart U.S. bases within the next 48 hours. The dozen F-l 17s will depart from Holloman Air Force Base, N.M. Five of the 10 EA-6B planes are at Whidbey Naval Air Station, Wash., and five are at Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station, N.C. New Hampshire holds meaning for Clinton WASHINGTON (AP) - As the White House said, there is something special about New Hampshire for President Clinton - and not just the comeback he claimed in defeat seven years ago. It is where he put on national display the traits that led to his impeach ment, and the survival talents that got him through it So it was fitting coincidence that Clinton’s first political outing since the Senate acquitted him was to New Hampshire on Thursday. First to Dover, where the 1992 candidate said he was on the ropes over his personal, not his public life, and then to Manchester to raise funds for faithful Democrats. i nere were reminders mat Clinton s personal behavior had once again threatened his undoing- the “disgrace” editorial on the frontpage of the conser vative The Union Leader, the protesters with their “shame” placards in Dover. But only cm die sidelines. Speeches, skilled television perfor mances, sometimes contrition, some times confrontation, and artfully dodg ing denials all were part of the cam paign course that saved Clinton’s presi dential campaign in 1992. And the setting was New Hampshire, where the then-governor of Arkansas moved onto a national stage, and collided with sexual accusations. The denials that got him through that were worded as trickily as his defense in the Monica Lewinsky affair. “The story is not accurate, the story is just not true,” Clinton said after Gennifer Flowers claimed a 12-year affair with him. Under oath, in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, Clinton admitted they’d had sexual relations in 1977- once, though, not in a long affair. Six years later; denying sexual rela tions with Lewinsky, the president glared into the television cameras: “1 never told anybody to lie.” His impeach ers tried, and failed, to prove otherwise. Clinton’s New Hampshire cam paign also was shaken by draft avoid ance of his youth, unfolded in install ments that shook his credibility. He d come to New Hampshire lead ing in national surveys of support for the Democratic presidential nomina tion, and ahead in state polls for the opening primary election. The late Paul Tsongas, former senator from next door Massachusetts, was his closest rival, and as the Flowers and draft episodes unfolded, Clinton’s lead faded Clinton asked for a second chance, saying he was suffering for his personal life, not for anything he’d done inoffice. He got second Tsongas won the prima ry, 34 percent to Clinton’s 25 percent The closest he came to conceding was to say that he’d proved he could take a punch. “New Hampshire tonight has made Bill Clinton the comeback kid,” he said Saying so made it so. He’d wait two more weeks to win a primary, but little more than a month later, Clinton effec tively clinched nomination. 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The capture of Ocalan continued to fuel Kurdish protests in Europe for the third day, particularly in Germany, where it was feared the Kurdish conflict would spill over • onto its soil. Thrkey saw its most violent protests yet when pro-Kurdish demonstrators and police clashed in the southern city of Ceyhan, injuring three policemen and one demonstra tor, the Anatolia news agency said. The Turkish military released a video Thursday showing Ocalan being led from a ship, his head cov ered by a hood, onto the island of Imrali, in the Sea of Marmara, where be was made to pose in front of a line of Ibrkish flags. Turkish stations ran the footage with a caption reading, “This is the image Turkey has beat waiting for the past 15 years.” ronce, meanwnue, tea sweeps that, according to die independent Human Rights Association, have netted as many as 750 Kurdish activists since Tuesday in Istanbul and the southeast, the heartland of Ocalan’s guerrilla war since 1984. With Ocalan’s rebel Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, leaderless, the military kept up its latest incur sion into neighboring-northern Iraq ' in pursuit of die rebel bases there. Turkish troops - numbering 10,000 according to newspapers -chased Ocalan’s fighters in north ern Iraq for a fourth day. Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said the government would renew a call for surrender, assuring rebels the Parliament would provide lenient punishment after elections in April Fallout was heavy from the Turkish commando operation that snatched Ocalan from Greek diplo matic hands in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, t Three Cabinet ministers, includ ing the foreign minister, were forced to resign in Athens, and in Nairobi, the Cabinet was reshuffled. u This is the image Turkey has been waiting for the past 15 years.” Turkish television BROADCASTS Even tiny Luxembourg felt reverberations. It announced it was tightening its borders to prevent angry Kurds, who have stormed Greek and other embassies in more than 20 major European cities to protest the capture, from spilling in. Ocalan was brought to Turkey on Tuesday after Turkish special forces snatched him away from Nairobi, where he was staying in the Greek ambassador^ residence. Three state security court prose cutors interrogated Ocalan on the four-square-mile island where he is detained alone. Ecevit said a trial would begin soon. Ocalan faces terrorism charges - and a possible death sentence - over the 14-year war that the PKK has led to win autonomy in southeast Turkey. State security courts include mil itary judges, and the European human rights court has questioned whether they are democratic. However, one of Ocalan’s lawyers, firitta Boehler, said she was “absolutely sure that he (Ocalan) is being tortured and mistreated” Meanwhile, the last embassy seizure in Europe ended Thursday when Kurds occupying the Greek mission in London surrendered to police. Some 60 Ocalan supporters forced their way into a U.N. building in Vienna, and held a sit-in before leaving. In Iran, police blocked a Kurds from storming a Turkish con sulate near the Turkish border. •In Germany, home to Western Europe’s largest Kurdish communi ty, Kurds attacked eateries run by Turks in Heilbronn and Muenster. ■ Washington Photo databank raises concerns over privacy The Associated Press - State offi cials and civil liberties groups are fear ful that privacy violations could arise from a planned national databank of driver’s license photos. Those fears heightened Thursday when they found die Secret Service helped finance the undertaking by a private company. The company developing die data bank says there’s nothing to worry about - die photos would only be used to combat check fraud and other crimes involving the misuse of personal identi fication. And the Secret Service would n’t have access to the photos or the sys tem, officials said. ■ United Kingdom Princess Diana’s former bodyguard wins case LONDON (AP) - A former body guard for Princess Diana won undis closed damages and an apology Thursday from a British tabloid that claimed his bosses blamed him for a break-in at Kensington Palace. Police inspector Peter Brown, who guarded the princess from 1991-94, ■ sued the Mirror in the High Court In a court statement die newspaper apologized and said it would pay dam ages and Brown’s legal fees. The Mirror reported that the late princess had been devastated by the break-in on March 31,1997. 4 ■ Washington Starr demands restrictions on Lewinsky interview The Associated Press Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr’s investigation is continuing, and he is limiting on what Monica Lewinsky can say in her first television interview. Sources familiar with negotiations between Starr’s office and Lewinsky’s legal team said Lewinsky could be interviewed as soon as Saturday by ABC’s Barbara Walters. The interview would be aired during the February sweeps period, which ends March 3. ■ Germany Two killed, 33 ipjured in passenger train collision MUNI Cl l (AP) - Two passenger trains collided near the southern German city of Immenstadt today, killing two people and injuring 33, authorities said. ' The cause of the accident near the Austrian border about 75 miles south west of Munich was under investiga tion, although German rail spokesman Reiner Latsch said sabotage was not suspected. A woman and a man on the Dortmund-bound train were killed; at least nine people were seriously hurt and 24 others suffered minor injuries. ■ Russia Yeltffln warns U.S. against air attacks on Yugoslavia MOSCOW (AP) - Boris Yeltsin warned President Clinton on Thursday not to launch airsti ikes on Yugoslavia, even if it fails to meet a peace deadline with Kosovo rebels. “We will not allow Kosovo to be touched,” Yeltsin said he told Clinton in , a recent phone conversation. “I conveyed my opinion by letter and by telephone to Clinton, that this (bombing attack) won’t do. That’s it,” Yeltsin told reporters today before talks 1 with European officials.
