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Serbs, Albanians still in talks
NATO will not bomb the area if neither side will agree to peace plan
RAMBOUILLET, France (AP) -
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,
making scant headway toward a Kosovo
peace settlement, said Sunday that if
neither Serbs nor ethnic Albanians
accept the six-nation plan, NATO can
not carry through on its threat to attack
Sob targets.
With a new deadline set forTuesday,
Serb negotiators “are not engaging at
all” over the critical question of whether
NATO peacekeepers would enforce the
settlement, while the Kosovar
Albanians must still be persuaded to
sign on fully with the plan to give them
greater autonomy in the Sob province,
Albright said.
“They are dealing, and I think we
have to appreciate this, with decisions
that affect their lives,” Albright said. “It
is a question of war and peace for diem.
In think we need to understand the diffi
culty of the decisions that they
are making.”
Albright will return to this
small town southwest of Paris
today for more talks with the
ethnic Albanians, a senior U.S.
official told The Associated
Press.
Albright, talking to
reporters, declined to explain
what was holding up Albanian
approval. In fact, she said, US.
officials thought the Albanians had
given her a green light Saturday.
But other U.S. officials said the
renewed negotiations focused on the
Albanians’ quest for independence after
the plan’s interim three-year period, and
the U.S. refusal to endorse indepen
dence. And Albright, ruling out any
independence referendum in the agree
ment, said she was looking for a way
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If this fails because both
parties say no, there will not
be bombing of Serbia
Madeleine Albright '
U.S. secretary of state
“the voice of the people” could be
expressed in Kosovo.
But “if this fails because both par
ties say no, there will not be bombing of
Serbia and we will try to figure out ways
of trying to deal with both sides,” she
said.
However, Albright said that if die
Albanians give their total endorsement
to the complex plan - which would give
the majority Albanians significant
autonomy but stop short of inde
pendence for Kosovo - and if the
Serbs keep holding out, then the
Serbs would be attacked.
“The Serbian side is not coop
erative. The Serbian side believes
that it can have halftbe deal, which
is to talk about die political part of
the document.... There is no deal
and no cooperation if they are not
willing to engage in what is a basic
aspect or the agreement, she said, refer
ring to the NATO peacekeepers.
Albright’s spokesman, James P.
Rubin, said she left U.S. Ambassador
Christopher Hill - the U.S. special
envoy to the talks-to continue negotiat
ing with the Albanian representatives.
And British Foreign Secretary
Robin Cook also tried pressure the eth
nic Albanians to accept the agreement
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Divisions may mar
first post-scandal talk
WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Clinton and congressional
leaders mark the beginning of the
post-impeachment Congress with a
White House meeting Tuesday, but
don’t expect much beyond a shaky
image of bipartisan cooperation
Both sides feel pressure from the
public to demonstrate they are deal
ing with the nation’s businpss and
moving beyond the Senate impeach
ment trial, which ended Feb. 12 with
Clinton’s acquittal. The White House
session will be the first meeting in 19
months between the president and
Republican leaders.
But Republican distrust for
Clinton runs deep, as do partisan
divisions on Social Security and tax
cuts, major issues facing the two
sides.
Given the lingering animosity
and the differences on issues, there is
little chance that much will occur at
the White House beyond symbolic
gestures of intent to work together.
“It looks like something that’s
more for show,” said Bill Connelly, a
political scientist at Washington and
Lee University in Lexington, Va.,
who has studied Congress. “The gulf
between congressional Republicans
and the Democratic White House is
«
It looks like
something that’s
more for show.”
Bill Connelly
political scientist
enormous, and not likely to be
bridged by a single meeting.”
That distrust was sown in 1995,
well before the start of Clinton’s 13
month-long impeachment ordeal.
Republicans say Clinton used that
year’s failed White House budget
talks to create an illusion that he was
working with them but was actually
planning to use GOP proposals on
revamping Medicare to bash them
during his 1996 run for re-election.
The White House has long
denied the allegation. Even so,
Republicans say GOP trust for
Clinton just isn’t there.
Neither side is likely to show up
with specific new proposals on the
major issues confronting them,
which will leave gaping partisan and
substantive differences to deal with.
Iraq bombed again
for fly-zone breach
■ U.S. reports no damage
or casualties, while Iraq
broadcasted a Western
plane was possibly hit.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. and
British warplanes attacked an Iraqi mis
sile base and two military communica
tion sites Sunday after Iraqi jets violated
the no-fly zone, the U.S. military said.
There was no immediate word on
damage or casualties from the strikes
near al-Amarah and Tallil, about 170
miles southeast of Baghdad. All the
planes returned to their base, a state
ment from the U.S. Central Command
said.
The statement said die strikes were
launched after two Iraqi jets violated the
zone in southern Iraq. There was no
immediate comment from Iraqi offi
cials on the attack. Earlier Sunday, the
official Iraqi News Agency said Iraqi air
defenses may have shot down a Western
military plane in southern Iraq. But die
United States and Britain denied any
planes were lost
Iraq has made several claims in the
past about shooting down Western
planes, but none of them has proved to
be correct
Also Sunday, the government
announced that President Saddam
Hussein had sent a letter to Arab League
Secretary-General Esmat Abdel
Meguid urging “a new page” in rela
tions with the Arab world
The appeal followed a fence-mend
ing trip by Foreign Minister
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf to eight
Arab countries from North Africa to
Syria and the Persian Gulf.
“Iraq is ready to open a new page in
Arab relations on condition that Arab
countries come out with a united stance
against the aggression and sanctions
imposed on Iraq,” Saddam said in the
letter, state-run Iraqi radio reported
Saddam called for the league to
delay a March 14 meeting of a commit
tee created to study the Iraq situation
until there is Arab reconciliation. He
said such a meeting must “come out
with a united position, with no doubts
from any party,” the broadcast said
The committee was set up last
month after Arab League foreign minis
ters refused Iraqi demands to condemn
U.N. trade sanctions and the mid
December airstrikes by the United
States and Britain on Iraq. Iraq’s delega
tion walked out of the session in anger.
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Advertisers, broadcasters
targeted for discriminating
WASHINGTON (AP) - The^ov
ernment is urging advertisers and
broadcasters to adopt a system to pre
vent advertisers from discriminating
against radio stations owned by or
glared to minority listeners.
Vice President A1 Gore and Federal
Communications Commission
Chairman Bill Kermard make the pitch
today at a conference in New York.
Their challenge responds to a
report, issued by the FCC last month,
that said advertisers often bypass or pay
less money to minority-owned radio
stations or stations targeting black or
Hispanic listeners.
At the conference, Kennard plans to
suggest that the industries develop a
voluntary code guided by, among other
things, die principal of “fair competi
tion,” FCC and administration officials
said on condition of anonymity
. “Diversity of voices and views is a
pillar of our democracy, Gore says m
remarks prepared for delivery to the
conference via satellite. “That is why
we must ensure that our airwaves pro
vide opportunities for all Americans.”
The challenge is intended to be a
starting point for the industry to consid
er, the officials said
Thus far, tihe advertising and broad
casting industries have been open to but
noncommittal about developing such a
cede. The American Advertising
Federation is assembling a panel to
examine its feasibility. The FCC report
recommended industry adopt a code of
conduct requiring decisions about buy
ing ads to be based on market research.
Gore also plans to announce the cre
ation of a new interagency working
group to examine advertising practices
and their impact on minority broadcast
ers’ and advertising agencies’ ability to
compete and thrive.
■ Pakistan
India, Pakistan leaders
agree to reduce war risk
LAHORE (AP) - The prime
ministers of Pakistan and India, old
enemies who declared themselves
nuclear powers with underground
tests in May, ended a two-day visit
Sunday vowing to try to reduce the
ride of an accidental nuclear war.
They also promised to give
warning of ballistic missile tests.
Both Pakistan and India have mis
siles capable of carrying nuclear
warheads and of hitting populated
areas in both countries.
■ Pakistan
Kurds protest arrest of
Ocalan at U.N. building
SULAIMANIYA (AP) - About
4,000 Iraqi Kurds marched to the
United Nations office in northern
Iraq on Sunday to protest the arrest
of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah
Ocalan. Protests were also held
Sunday in Iran and Germany.
hi Sulaimaniya, hundreds of sol
diers armed with automatic rifles
stopped protesters about 250 yards
from the U.N. building. The demon
strators chanted slogans in support
of Ocalan, who was taken last week
from the Greek Embassy in Nairobi,
Kenya, by Turkish agents.
■ Poland
Turner apologizes
for joke about Pope
WARSAW (AP) - Ted Turner
sought the forgiveness of Catholics
after telling an ethnic joke about the
Polish pope. Now the media mogul
has apologized to Poland.
The apology sent Sunday came
two days after Poland’s government
threatened to halt cooperation with
Turner’s broadcasting company if he
failed to apologize.
■ Russia
Communist Party leader
pushes to impeach Yeltsin
MOSCOW (AP) - Gennady
Zyuganov, leader of the Russian
Communist Party, said Sunday he
would urge parliament to adopt a
motion to impeach President Boris
Yeltsin.
Addressing a rally marking
Defender of the Fatherland Day,
Zyuganov said an impeachment
commission in the lower house of
parliament had collected enough
evidence to confirm “Yeltsin’s
criminal activity.” The effort to
impeach Yeltsin is seen as a long
shot
■ Nigeria
Elections predict Nigeria
may return to democracy
LAGOS (AP) - The party of a
former general headed toward a
narrow win Sunday in legislative
elections, giving him a likely edge
in an upcoming presidential vote
that heralds Nigeria’s return to
democracy.
With about two-thirds of the
vote counted late Sunday, die party
of Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo had the
greatest number of seats in the two
legislative chambers. Obasanjo’s
successes were tempered, however,
by the strength of the other two
national parties, who are fielding a
single candidate for president in
- next Sunday’s presidential vote.