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ff ll I'l? Yugoslavia looks to future, Kostunica ■ Potential resistance remains among Milosevic appointees and the Serbian republic THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -Fresh from engineering the ouster of Slobodan Milosevic, backers of President Vojislav Kostunica wrestled Sunday with a new daunting task - creating a government free of powerful Milosevic allies without alienat ing them. Even though Kostunica’s authority was cemented by his inauguration as Yugoslav presi dent Saturday, potential resist ance to him remained on two levels: from Milosevic appointees still in place in feder al ministries and from the pow erful government of the Serbian republic. Serbia, one of two Yugoslav republics, makes up 90 percent of Yugoslavia's population of 10 million. Its pro-Milosevic presi dent - who by law has more pow ers than Kostunica - controls about 100,000 police and, indi rectly, much of Serbia’s econo my. In addition, the Yugoslav army, whose top leadership switched loyalties to Kostunica on Friday, obliquely criticized the unrest that helped bring him to power. In a statement after a meet ing Sunday between Kostunica and the top army leadership, the army said that it expressed con cerns “about certain occur rences in the country during the post-election period that are not in accordance with the constitu tion and the law.” The statement indicated that the military was abandoning the role of complete subservience that it played under Milosevic for the more traditional one of a pillar upholding law and order in Yugoslavia. How to keep the state run ning on near empty coffers was another problem - Yugoslavia is bankrupt after a decade of sti fling international anti Milosevic sanctions and wide spread corruption. Mladan Dinkic, who heads the team of Kostunica’s econom ic advisers told a televised phpne-in program that backers of the new president turned off the central bank’s computer sys tem to prevent raids on state cof fers by Milosevic cronies. Yugoslavia suffered a decade of international sanctions under Milosevic meant to punish him for starting four Balkan wars that were accompanied by a string of atrocities. The sanctions - and rampant corruption ascribed to Milosevic cronies - have left the country bankrupt Seeking to ease the suffering, the European Union says it will make a start today toward lifting those economic sanctions. But the main challenge fac ing Kostunica and his advisers Sunday was how to form a feder al government quickly to replace the pro-Milosevic administra tion, while attempting to coexist with the Serbian republic’s lead ership. Kostunica’s 18-party bloc lacks a majority in the federal parliament, and will probably be compelled to cut a deal with the Socialist People's Party of Montenegro, the smaller Yugoslav republic. That party backed Milosevic until his downfall and now seeks to have one of its own appointed as Yugoslavia’s prime minister. The constitution says that if the president is from Serbia, the prime minister must be Montenegrin. Kostunica advisers have said they would push for new elec tions in Serbia in hopes the gen eral disenchantment with Milosevic on the federal level would be reflected in a Serbian vote as well. But that can only happen if the party now supporting Milosevic’s Socialists in the sepa rate Serbian parliament agrees to new elections. And that party’s leader, ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj, is opposed because he fears new elections now would hurt his Radical party and only benefit the Kostunica camp. Milosevic himself has vowed to try to stage a comeback, say ing he will remain in Yugoslavia as a political force. Kostunica has refused to extradite Milosevic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, which indicted him last year for atrocities commit ted by his forces in Kosovo. Columbus parade results in protest ■1 ft ■ route arresiea more man 140 activist who were against the celebration of the holiday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER -»Police arrested more than 140 American Indian and Hispanic activists protest ing Saturday’s Columbus parade, the city’s first since 1991. •' The activists, saying Christopher Columbus was a slave trader who committed genocide against their ances tors, poured a line of red liquid across the route to represent their ancestors’ blood. Police arrested 147 people on misdemeanor charges, including loitering and failure to obey lawful orders, but there was no violence and no one resisted arrest, police spokes woman Mary Thomas said. Clashes among protesters and Italian-Americans during the city’s 1991 parade had forced the annual parade’s cancellation until this year. Italian Americans and the activists had reached an agreement that there would be no protests if the parade was limited to an Italian pride parade, but several repre sentatives of the Italian commu nity later disavowed the deal. “It was a total success,” said parade organizer George Vendegnia. "We had our parade and they had their protest and nobody got hurt We got our her itage back after nine years.” Police had cut down a sec tion of a fence that had been erected to block protesters, and permitted demonstrators to take up spots on the street used for the parade. But after a brief demonstration, police moved back in, giving the Indians the choice of leaving or being , arrested. Among the 147 people arrested was American Indian Movement activist Russell “It was a total success. We had our parade and they had their protest and nobody got hurt. We got our heritage back after nine years.” . George Vendegnia parade organizer Means, who said the protesters would ask for individual jury tri als. The charges can bring penalties of up to a year in jail. “We broke no law today,” said fellow AIM activist Glenn Morris. In 1989, Means and three others were arrested after throwing fake blood on a Columbus statue. The next year, protesters shouted anti Columbus slogans during the parade. The 1992 parade was can celed moments before it was to start because of concerns about violence. Each October, about two dozen Columbus parades take place across the country, though none have had the intense protests of Denver, city manager of public safety Ari Zavaras said. Italian-American groups in New York and in San Francisco have removed references to Columbus and instead march for Italian pride. The Denver parade organiz ers and protest leaders have agreed to meet next week to avoid similar controversy next year. “It will remain a Columbus parade forever, unless they change it on the federal level,” Vendegnia said. Columbus Day is a federal holiday celebrated the second Monday in October. Spencer Pbu/Newsmakss Pro-Palestinian Musims protest in NewYbrtftTlmes Square am the weekend to show support for Palestinians in the Middle East Israel orders end to violence ■Prime Minister Barak presses Arafat to stop the violence by the end ofYom Kippur. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM - Israel on Sunday pressed its ultimatum to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat: Order an end to the violence or the peace talks are over - and what’s more, Palestinian com manders could become targets. Israelis settled down to fast through Yom Kippur wondering whether their Day of Atonement, which ends at sundown today, would carry echoes of the same terrifying day 27 years ago when a surprise Arab attack launched a Mideast war. The United States stepped up its efforts to get the sides talking. The days of rage that had consumed Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since Sept 28 has spread elsewhere: Israel was building up its forces on its northern border after Lebanese guerrillas seized three Israeli sol diers, shattering the calm that has prevailed there since May. The Iranian-backed Hezboll ah militia dedicated Saturday’s operation to the Palestinians who have died in the recent clashes. The fighting has claimed 83 lives so far, mostly Palestinian. Touring Israel's northern bor der, Prime Minister Ehud Barak had a simple message for the Palestinians, for the Lebanese, and for the Syrians who are the real power in Lebanon: It’s up to you to stop this from escalating. To Arafat, he repeated the ultimatum he delivered Saturday night: End the violence by tonight, when Yom Kippur ends. “If we will not see the differ ence actively implemented on the ground, and a calming down of the situation really occurring, we will draw the conclusion that Arafat deliberately has decided to abandon the negotiations,” Barak said He did not specify what Israel would do, but one of his top mili tary aides said Israel would move from a defensive to an offensive posture, and could target Palestinian commanders. The Palestinians said it was up to the Israelis to stop the shooting, and laid down their own condition: Accept a U.N. Security Council call for an inter “If we will not see the difference actively implemented on the ground... we will draw the conclusion that Arafat deliberately, has decided to abandon the negotiations.” Ehud Barak prime minister national commission to investi gate the violence. Nabil Aburdeneh, Arafat’s chief adviser, echoed Barak’s challenge, giving the Israelis 24 hours to stop shooting. He said Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov would visit the region today- Russia is a per manent Security Council mem ber - and that U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan might come soon. Israelis rejected the Security Council statement, saying it res urrected the organization’s bias against the Jewish state. ^ TODAY TOMORROW Sunny Mostly sunny high 60, low 39 high62,low41 L>rt/7)'Nebraskan Mitnr- CaraKRakar Questions? Comments? Managing Editor to&S&Sb Aikfo, thgipprofwtittigctiongdftorM Associate News Editor Kimberly Sweet __ J ». 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Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraskan by calling (402) 472-2588. Subscriptions are $60 for one year. Postmaster: Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, 20 Nebraska Union, 1400 R St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0448. Periodical postage paid at Lincoln, NE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 2000 DAILY NEBRASKAN Feline HIV study angers activists THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBUS, Ohio - A researcher’s plan to infect 120 cats with the feline version of HIV and then inject them with metham phetamme to study the effects has outraged animal rights activists and is raising ques tions about the need for the federally hand ed study. Ohio State University professor Michael Podell received a $355,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, for die first year of what he expects to be a five-year study costing $1.68 million. “We want to understand more about HIV and drug abuse in people,” said Podell, associate professor of veterinary clinical sciences. “One of the ways to do that is to develop an animal model that has similar characteristics.” Podell also is interested in the drug’s effect on the nervous system. Methamphetamine speeds up neurologi cal degeneration - something Podell says is becoming more of a problem as people with AIDS are living longer because of improved drug treatments. Feline immunodeficiency virus and human immunodeficiency virus have sim ilar effects nn the immune anrf nei imlncriral systems of their respective hosts, he said. Cats also respond to methampheta mine similarly to the way people do. When injected, methamphetamine is a stimulant that can cause a feeling of euphoria and hyperactivity. It’s also known to cause such long-term effects as paranoia, hallucina tions and strokes. Peter Wood, a spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, attacked the study as “cruel, wasteful and bizarre.” He argued that HIV and FIV aren’t similar enough for the research to transfer to humans and that the social pressures that would lead a person to take methampheta mine can’t be replicated with cats. “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know meth use will have an adverse effect on your body so the disease will be promot ed more vigorously,” Wood said. “Our limit ed resources would be better spent on teaching people how to avoid contracting HIV or on drug prevention.” Julio Abreu, spokesman for AIDS Action, a Washington-based AIDS activist organization, said his group supports stud ies that aim to find a cure or vaccine, but to simply establish a control study in which the results are already known, whether it involves animals or humans, is a poor use of mom irroc The Associated Press ■Japan Two earthquakes follow powerful trembler TOKYO - Two fairly strorig earthquakes rocked western Japan Sunday, two days after a more powerful temblor buckled streets, knocked down houses and paralyzed traffic for hours in & nearby region, officials said. A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck Sunday afternoon and was centered six miles beneath eastern Shimane prefecture, located 380 miles southwest of Tokyo, the Meteorological Agency said. About eight hours later, a 5.2-magnitude temblor hit at about the same location, the Meteorological Agency said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. ■Indonesia New Guinea mobs fight fbrindependence JAKARTA - Hundreds of police and troops patrolled a remote western New Guinea town Sunday after as many as 40 people were killed in fierce clashes with separatists fighting for independence from Indonesia, officials and news reports said. Mobs beheaded or burned some victims to death in fight ing in Wamena in West Papua province on Friday and Saturday, state-run Antara news agency reported. Many of the dead were given a mass burial late Saturday. Order had been restored Sunday, provincial police chief Brig. Gen. Silvanus Wenas said in a telephone interview from the provincial capital, Jayapura ■Illinois Electrical substation fire knocks out power CHICAGO - A fire at an elec trical substation caused a black out across downtown on Sunday, tangling traffic and stranding shoppers. Police on foot tried to direct pedestrians and motorists through a maze of darkened traffic signals. In some areas, motorists drove up on sidewalks to reach side streets in an effort to escape • the mess. The power was knocked out about 12:45 p.m. when a circuit breaker at a ComEd substation overheated, exploding and scorching the adjacent break ers, said Fire Commissioner James Joyce. It wasn't clear how soon power could be restored. ■California Gasoline pricesfell an average of337 cents CAMARILLO - Gasoline prices fell more than 3 cents per gallon nationwide in the past two weeks as crude oil prices slipped and demand decreased, an analyst said. The Lundberg Survey of 10,000 stations nationwide found that the average price of all grades and taxes was $1.58 per gallon Friday, down 3.37 cents from the previous survey. Analyst Trilby Lundberg said declines were found in almost all cities, with some exceptions in the Western region where prices rose slightly. The national weighted aver age price of gasoline, including taxes, at self-serve pumps Friday was $1.54 for regular unleaded, $1.64 for mid-grade and $1.72 for premium. ■Michigan Seat-belt buckle recalls affect300,000vehicles DETROIT - An auto parts maker has recalled seat-belt buckle latches in nearly 300,000 General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. vehicles over con cerns they may not adequately restrain an occupant in a crash. Both automakers said Friday they were unaware of any injuries resulting from the TRW Inc.-supplied buckle assem blies involved in the recall of 156,305 GM vehicles and 144,435 Ford vehicles. All were designated as 2000 model year x raVii/'lnc