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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, December 16, 1994

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 2 the stars and stripes Friday december 16,1994 at a glance Gerald Levin chairman and chief executive of time Warner inc., stands near a giant replica of a television Remote control unit As he unveils the company s interactive to system. See Story on Page 22. Plane hits building a Learjet taking part in a National guard War game crashed into an apartment building in Fresno Calif. Getting off track train service will be reduced on virtually every route and eliminated on a few in Amtrak s 45-state sys tem officials announced.  A Page 9 court martial set four teachers at the naval train ing Center face court martial proceedings after an investigation into alleged sexual harassment. A  Paglia \. ,. Suicides mount a third japanese boy has committed suicide in less than three weeks because of bullying by class mates. ",.-. Page 16 military woes South Korea s military faces a Cri Sis of sinking morale and an upsurge in desertions experts say. Page 17 i Index Abby Ann Landers classifieds. Comics. Commentary. Faces a places. Entertainment. Horoscope. Jumble. Letters. Money matters sports. To listings weather. 31 34-38 31-3321 .18 23-3035 .35 .2022 39-4847 .19 Carter the peacemaker to tackle War in Bosnia Washington a securing promises of concessions from bosnian serbs and offering his diplomatic services to the War torn Region former president Carter Hopes to succeed  where president Clinton could not. For the third time this year Carter has waded into a foreign policy morass where the White House has floundered. With cautious approval from Clinton Carter who defused a nuclear standoff in North Korea and headed off a . Invasion in Haiti May now try to broker peace in bos Nia.   -.,  again the administration is Skepi Cal.  ./.,  Defense Secretary William Perry expressed his doubts thursday at a nato meeting in Brussels Belgium citing bosnian serbian Leader Radovan Karadzic s cease fire offer to Carter. To the extent that Karadzic follows through on that proposal that will be a positive step. Past history of offers from bosnian serbs have indicated there s some need for scepticism Perry told reporters. Nato Secretary general Willy Claes was More Blunt. I do not see Why it is Nec Essary to ask the former president of the United states to come in in order to obtain simply a cease fire. White House press Secretary Dee Dee Myers said wednesday night in a statement that subtly distanced Carter from the White House president Carter indicated that if he goes to Bosnia he would do so As a representative of the Carter Center and that he would do so Only if there were Clear evidence that the commitments outlined by the serbs were being  the statement was issued Only after car Ter announced that he met representatives of Karadzic at his Plains ga., Home and secured promises that would return . Operations in Bosnia to the shaky status exist ing before an escalation of tensions last month. The Leader of Bosnia s serbs told can that he would allow the free move Meh of . Convoys release All . Personnel whose movement has been restricted and release All Muslim prisoners of War under age 19. He also said he would order a uni lateral cease fire in and around Sarajevo reopen the Sarajevo Airport for humanitarian flights and guarantee human rights. Karadzic said that the proposals would be implemented within 24 hours and that he hoped Carter would travel to the Region in the next couple of Days to restart talks. Grozny Russia a Russia guns shelled a strategic Village and massed their Armor just outside the Che Chen capital thursday. President Boris Yeltsin gave the separatist Region s fighters another 48 hours to disarm or face the consequences. A regional official sympathetic to chech nya s cause said hundreds of civilians had been killed in four Days of fighting. Chechen had shown Little evidence of complying with the Kremlin s ultimatum to Lay Down their arms by thursday even As Moscow said russian soldiers had entered the Northern and Western outskirts of Grozny and were advancing from the  in a written message to the chechen people said he was pushing the deadline Back to Midnight saturday. In another veiled warning he said he was striving to reduce to a minimum the use of Force which unfortunately entails casualties among the civilian  he also urged that chechen president Khokhar Dunayev agree to head the de fiant Republic s negotiating team. Dunayev broke off negotiations with mos cow on wednesday recalling his delegates to the chechen capital Grozny. " but chechen leaders speaking shortly before Yeltsin s statement gave no hint they would Back Down. We will never give up our weapons said Yusuf Shamsedin foreign minister of the self declared Independent Republic in the caucasus mountains. We will never let the russians into  he spoke in his office in the presiden. Tial building his own Kalashnikov Rifle sitting on the Windowsill alongside a spare Magazine of ammunition. Russian tanks and other armoured vehicles were massing around the town of Tolstoi Yurt just North of Grozny and about eight Miles from the City Center. Defiant chechen hunkered Down to defend their Homeland. In Tolstoi Yurt grim faced fighters dug fresh trenches i anticipation of an All out assault. An estimated 10,000 to 40,000 russian soldiers supported by tanks warplanes and helicopter gunships rolled into Chechnya on sunday. The Region of 1.2million people located 1,000 Miles South East of Moscow declared Independence in 1991, but Russia has refused to recognize its claim. On wednesday russian troops shelled the outskirts of Grozny and strafed the City from attack jets. Chechen forces downed a russian helicopter wednesday and reportedly Tore apart its two occupants. Moscow claimed its jets destroyed30 chechen planes on the ground. For the third Day in a Row russian artillery pounded the Village of Pervo mais Koye nine Miles Northwest of Grozny. The Village lies on a Road that leads to the capital and the russians hold the Hills overlooking it. Along the Road chechen erected barricades and taped up the windows of their Homes. Artillery pieces stood by the Road and dozens or chechen Volunteer fighters were seen in nearby villages. Ireland gets new or Mem a Sfer Dublin Ireland a parliament elected John Bruton Leader of the conservative Fine Gael party As prime min ister thursday ending a monthlong government crisis that had stalled the Northern Ireland peace process. The new government combines Fine Gael and the left leaning labor party in a coalition with support from the Small marxist oriented democratic left party. Labor and Fine Gael shared Power in 1982-87 in the government headed by Garret Fitzgerald. In that government Bruton clashed bitterly with labor Leader Dick Spring and the two men who now dominate Irish affairs Are said to have a Cool relation ship. Bruton a 47-year-old lawyer has generally supported the peace process in Northern Ireland but had criticized the Speed with which his predecessor Albert Reynolds had embraced the Irish re publican army s political allies following the sept. 1 cease fire. Reynolds Leader of the fianna fail party resigned nov. 17 after Spring with Drew from their year-old coalition government. Labor walked out in a Contro Versy Over the government s handling of the extradition of a child abusing roman Catholic priest. Sinn in the political party Allied to the Ira has accused Bruton and his party of siding with protestant unionists in Northern Ireland in contrast with Reynolds forceful advocacy of the cause of the Catholic minority in the British ruled province. 8i  
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