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�THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 6, 1996
MEMORANDUM FOR DON BAER
FROM:
JOSH KING
SUBJECT:
Oklahoma City
Yesterday was an example of how. a profound Presidential
message, combined with meticulous event planning, can result
in powerful reporting -- from TV, the major newspaperD, and
the wires.
I'm not very good at walking-through with people the A-to-Z
of bringing a good communications idea to reality. There is
so much involved after the ideas come out of West Wing
Planning meetings that it is difficult to stress how each
element has to fall in place to make something work.
In going early to Oklahoma City, I wanted to create a
documented example of "idea-to-reality" event management.
There are two goals: first, people here need to better
understand the process and, second, advance people need to
begin to employ these creative and technical tools to come
up with similar results as we can't hope to oversee every
detail of an event.
Here's what you have in this packet:
ITEM
PURPOSE
Event Color Information
To give to local and national press
to assist in color reporting.
Should be straight and lack any
hyperbole. Should be shared during
trip meetings at the White House and
countdown meetings on the road.
Event Rundown
Essentially a script that will leave
nothing to chance. Should be
developed by site advance person and
used at Countdown Meetings so that
everyone is "on the same page".
Should be faxed back to D.C. for
review by Communications and Advance
Offices.
�Detailed Site Diagrams
Should always be prepared for every
event open to the public. Should be
neat and roughly to scale. Should
incorporate security and logistical
issues so that Secret Service will
know our expectations and do what
they can to cooperate.
Shot Plans
Aqain, helps various organizations
on an advance team (Staff, Secret
Service, WHCA, the White House trip
planners) know the precise plan and
their role in the event.
Television and Photo Plan
Helps to outline our expectations
and predictions for video and still
coverage. Worth comparing to how
the story actually came out.
Chicago Tribune Editorial
Shows how even the smallest detail
can have a profound effect on
editorial content.
AP Stories
Shows how the details of an event
eventually get into the hands of
radio listeners and readers of
smaller newspapers.
Newspaper Stories
NY Times, Wash Post, LA Times, Wash
Times. Shows impact on large
newspapers of small event details.
Stills from Various Papers
Shows the emotion of en event unable
to translate to written reporting.
I also recommend that people watch the Network News Summary from Friday.
It's remarkable how closely the pieces from ABC, NBC and CBS followed
the video plans.
I'll call you when I get to Japan.
�PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
WREATH LAYING
AND
PLAQUE.UNVEILING
'AT THE SITE OF THE MURRAH BUILDING
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
APRIL 5, 1996
EVENT RUN DOWN
SITE DIAGRAMS
AND
OTHER PERTINANT INFORMATION
FOR THE
ADVANCE TEAM
C8UFIBBtJTIAL
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TO THE SITE OF THE ALFRED P. MURRAH FEDERAL .-BUILDING
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
APRIL 5, 1996
Upon arrival the President and First Lady will be met by children
who were in the Murrah Building Daycare center at the time of the
bombing. Each child was injured to some degree and are in
various stages of recovery. A parent or quardian will also
accompany each child •
. P.J. Allen, 2, accompanied by Grandfather Willie Watson or
-Grandmother Deloris Watson.
Joseph Webber, 2, accompanied by paniel Webber or Dawn
Webber, his parents.
Chris Nquyen, 6, accompanied by Thu Nquyen or Phuong Nquyen,
his parents.
Rebecca Denny, 3, and Brandon Denny, 4, accompanied by Jim
Denny or Claudia Denny, their parents. Mrs. Denny is an
employee of the IRS. The Dennys visited the White House
recently.
Nekia McCloud, ;5, accompanied by Lavern McCloud, her mother.
The Wreath that the President and First Lady, and their party,
will lay will be carried from the ~rrival site to the wreath
laying site by:
Captain Matthew Cooper, United States Marine Corps, of
Marine Corps Station Oklahoma City, and
Sergeant First Class Harold Davenport, United states Army,
of Headquarters, u.s. Army Recruiting Battalion, Oklahoma
City.
.
At the time of the bombing, both Captain Cooper and Sergeant
First Class ~avenport were in their offices in the Murrah
Building.
The Wreath that will be placed was donated by the Oklahoma City
Firefighters. A "Spring Bouquet" toerepresent renewal and life,
it is 3 feet in diameter and contains 168 flowers in memory of
the 168 v.ictims of the bombing. The wreath reads:
"From the People of the United States of America"
Four ribbons are attached to the wreath which correlate with
the ribbons worn after the implosion:
Purple - Courage
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�White
- Innocence
Yellow - Hope
Blue
- Oklahoma's flag color
The ribbons bear the words:
"Remembrance", "Rebirth", "Renewal", and "Rebuilding".·
The bagpipes will be played by Roger Hosea, 36, an employee of
the Oklahoma State Department of Environmental Quality. He will
be joined later by Sam Bundrick and his son Nelson, 9, of
Oklahoma City.
About the speech site itself:
The stage on which the President will sit is in the lot
immediately North of the Murrah Building site, about 50 feet
from the spot which is known as Ground Zero. Right next to
the stage is "The Survivor Tree", which amazingly survived
the blast even though is was only a few feet from Ground
Zero. The tree has become a symbol of hope and perseverance
for the people of Oklahoma City. At the time of the blast,
its newly sprouting leaves were completely blown off. One
year later, they are now beginning to return. Seeds from
the tree are being planted in different parts of the city.
Immediately behind the President's stage is the YMCA
Community Center, which suffered total damage in the
bombing.
At the time of the blast, downtown workers could choose
between two day care centers for their kids: the one in the
Murrah building and one in the YMCA building. Both were
destroyed.
The YMCA, working with the Lt. -Governor's Office and a broad
group of contributors, have raised the necessary funds to
build a new child care center which will have facilities for
more than 100 children. Because the YMCA will be the
manager of the new combined Heartland Child care Center, the
former YMCA building was selected as the backdrop for the
President's speech~
Immediately to the North of the President's stage is the
"Journal Record" Building, which housed a printing plant and
a legal publishing office. It also suffered total damage
from the blast. on the wall facing the stage is spraypainted graffiti, written by a bomb rescue team, which
reads:
"Team 5
4-19-95
�We search for the truth. We seek justice. The courts
require it. The victims cry for it. And GOD demands
itl"
The Pledge of Allegiance will be recited by:
Andrew Splaingard, 10, Boy Scout Pack 4, from the
Westminster School in Oklahoma City, and
Molly Malloy, 10, Girl Scout Troop 38, from Christ the King
School in Oklahoma City.
The speaking order will be as follows:
Welcoming Remarks
The Pledge of Allegiance
Remarks
Remarks
Remarks
Plaque Unveiling
Mayor Ron Norick
Gov. Frank Keating
Lt. Gov. Mary Fallin
President Clinton
The Plaque that the President and First Lady will unveil, with
the assistance of those on stage, reads as follows:
"Dedicated to the Children of Oklahoma City
Whose young lives remind us of the
enteral beauty of the,human spirit.
May each child who enters here
always find peace, warmth, love and safety.
And may each child know the joy and promise
for a bright and glorious tomorrow."
SIGNED,
William J. Clinton
President of the United states
Ronald J Norick
Mayor, City of Oklahoma City
The plaque will be affixed to the new Heartl~nd Chi.ld Care
center, which will be constructed in the old "Oklahoman"
Newspaper Building two blocks east of the speech site.
�PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
WREATH LAYING AND PLAQUE DEDICATION
MURRAH BUILDING BOMB SITE
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
April s, 1996
EVENT RUNDOWN
TIME
12:05
pm
12:10
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12:12
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12:14
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12:17
pm
EVENT
The President and First
Lady arrive, Murrah
Building Site and are
greeted by:
TBA
After greeting, the
greeters are
escorted to their
places at the
remarks site.
The President and First
Lady proceed into fenceenclosed Murrah Site and
are greeted by:
Surviving children of the
Murrah bomb and their
parents.
The President and First
Lady, accompanied by the
children and their parents,
proceed forward to the
wreath, which is attended
by:
TBA, us Army
TBA, us Marine Corps
NOTE: The Army and
Marines had a
recruiting statiopn
which was destroyed
in the bombing.
The Wreath Attenders,
followed by the President,
the First Lady, the
children and their parents,
proceed forward to the spot
where the former Day Care
center was located.
The Wreath Attenders,
accompanied by the
President and First Lady,
place the Wreath.
The location of the
former Day care
center will be
marked by a small,
draped platform on
which to set the
wreath.
pm
12:20
The Wreath Attenders Step
away from the wreath.
12:21
The President and First
Lady adjust the Wreath.
pm
ACTION
�12:23
pm
12:28
pm
Two by two, the children
and their parents add a
single rose to the wreath
as the Presdident and First
Lady look on.
As the children and
their parents place
their roses, a lone
bagpiper plays
"Amazing Grace".
After a moment of
reflection, the President
and First Lady, accompanied
by the children and
parents, depart the fenceenclosed Murrah Building
site and proceed
approximately 75 feet to
the Plaque Unveiling Site.
NOTE: The Plaque
unveiling site
stands immediately
next to the
"Survivor Tree", a
tree which
miraculously
survived the bombing
and as stood as a
symbol of rebirth.
In the backdrop is
the YMCA community
Center, whose
employees have been
instrumental in
planning the new Day
Care Center at the
"Oklahoman"
Building.
12:32
The President and First
Lady take seats on stage.
The children and parents
also take seats on stage.
They join Mayor Norick, Lt.
Governor Fallin, and child
TBA, who are already on
stage.
12:35
Mayor Norick makes
welcoming remarks.
pm
pm
12:38
pm
12:40
pm
12:44
pm
Mayor Norick introduces Boy
Scout/Girl Scout TBA, who
leads the audience in
recitation of the Pledge of
Allegiance.
Lt. Governor Fallin,
without introduction,
proeeds to podium and makes
brief remarks. · She then
introduces the President.
The President makes brief
remarks.
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12:50
pm
The President and First
Lady, accompanied by the
children and their parents,
with Mayor Norick and Lt.
Governor Fallin observing,
remov~ the drape covering
the Plaque.
12:55
pm
The event is adjourned.
1:00 pm
The President and First
Lady depart.
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Copyright 1996 Chicago Tribune Company
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April 6, 1996 Saturday, NORTH SPORTS FINAL EDITION
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SECTION: EDITORIAL; Pg. 12; ZONE: N
LENGTH: 414 words
HEADLINE: HOPE FROM THE BOMBMAKERS 1 RUBBLE
BODY:
Terror, death and anguish. The homemade bomb as political statement. Arrest
. and mourning. Speeches, wreaths a_nd, with time, the prospect of healing.
Powerful imaqes of the best and worst of humanity are on display this Easter
weekend. A man suspected of being the Unabomber sits behind bars. President
Clinton made a Good Friday trip to Oklahoma City, honoring a community that came
together after a downtown skyscraper was blown apart.
Bombs destroy families, but in different ways. Doubtless, the Unabomber's
18-year spree of terror, in which three died and 23 were maimed, did unspeakable
violence to the victims and their loved ones.
But consider, too, the tragic agony that must have been felt by the brother
of the suspected Unabomber. When David Kaczynski found manuscripts in the
1family's Chicago-area home, he felt the awful tension of duty versus family as
·he held in his hand evidence that might point to his older brother, Theodore, as
'the Unabomber.
All the facts are not in hand at this stage of the investigation, but the
point should be made that the controversial decision by The Washington Post and
The New York Times to print the Unabomber's rambling manuscript of
back-to-the-earth musings and anti-tech theology might have been correct.
Many media executives and editorial boards, including this one, wondered if
the Post and Times were surrendering to terrorist blackmail by publishing the
~ext in exchange for a promise, impossible to enforce, that the bombings would
halt. As it turns out, they might have helped to set a trap for a killer.
It appears that David Kaczynski read those transcripts (or excerpts) and
later recognized the Unabomber's familiar language in his brother's papers. He
~ave federal investigators the crucial tipoff. He took an intensely difficult,
but immensely honorable, step.
Yes, out of tragedy, hope and inspiration can rise.
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As Clinton said Friday of the April .19, 1995, bombing in Oklahoma City that
the soul of this nation:
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"There is nothing we can do to bring back the children that were taken from
But what we can do is show our children that good can lift them up. 11
Among the 169 people who died in the rubble of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
milding were 18 kids. A qroup of children who survived the bombing, several
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Copyriqht 1996 Associated Press
AP Worldstream
April 06, 1996: Saturday
06:28 Eastern Time
SECTION: International news
DISTRIBUTION: Usa:
LENGTH: 907 words
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
BODY:
The federal workers killed in the Oklahoma City bombinq a year aqo and those
who died with Commerce Secretary Ron Brown in a plane crash this week
\ demonstrated that qovernment has nobility and purpose, President Clinton said
'saturday.
.
Returninq from Oklahoma City where he honored the 168 people killed in the
,truck bombinq of that city's federal buildinq nearly a year aqo, Clinton was
,settinq off Saturday on ''a sad journey'' to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
There he was to preside in late afternoon at the return from croatia of the
bodies of Brown and 32 colleagues from qovernment and business who had joined
:him on a trade mission to the Balkans, ravaqed by years of ethnic strife. A
:Bosnian and a Croatian also died when the Air Force jetliner slammed into a hill
1while attemptinq a bad-weather landinq.
''These Americans literally qave their lives brinqinq to others the blessinqs
of a normal life that too often we here take for qranted,'' Clinton said in his
weekly radio address, recorded for broadcast Satuxd~y.
He said there was a common lesson from the devastation in Oklahoma City and
the plane crash.
''Sometimes it takes a terrible traqedy to illuminate a basic truth: In a
democracy, .qovernment is not them versus us. We are all us, we are all in it
toqether,'' he said.
''Government is our neiqhbors and friends helpinq others pursue the dreams we
all share: to live in peace, provide for ourselves and our loved ones, and qive
our children a chance for an even better life.''
Clinton was close to Brown, who as chairm~n of the Democratic National
Committee was one of the architects of his 1992 presidential election victory.
He said the secretary had succeeded in makinq the Commerce Department ''a
powerhouse for American jobs and opportunity and an instrument for promotinq
peace and freedom and democracy around the world.''
''Every minute of every day was dedicated to creatinq jobs for American
lorkers and opportunities for our companies,'' the president said. ''But he was
tlso in the Balkans to channel the enerqy of the American economy ••• into a
~owerful force for peace and freedom.''
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AP Worldstream, April 06, 1996
In Oklahoma City on Friday, Clinton laid a wreath on the site of the
now-demolished Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, where a terrorist bomb last
April 19 took the lives of government employees and ordinary citizens alike.
f The president and ''his wife, Hillary,· . were met by ....IIJ:x children who were in the
second-floor day care.center at the·Murrah buildingl-Jach child was injured to
some extent and all are in various stages of recove~Ninetee~ other children
were killed.
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From the bombing site, the Clintons walked 50 feet (15 meters) across the
street to a stage next to an elm known as the ''survivor tree'' called that
because it is the only surviving tree in the immediate area.
Addressing families of the victims, Clinton said: ''On this Good Friday, what
you have done has demonstrated to a watching and often· weary and cynical world
that good can overcome evil, that love can outlast hate, that the light of human
life can shine on through the most terrible darkness.''
With Mrs. Clinton at his side, he stood in a receiving line for 90 minutes to
shake the hands of every member of the audience.
In a final event, the president stood in a chill wind in a courtyard at the
University of Central Oklahoma in Edmund, to again urge Congress to pass tough
legislation to give law enforcement the tools he said are needed to bring ·
terrorists to justice.
Before leaving for Oklahoma on Friday morning, the Clintons planted a dogwood
tree on the South Lawn of the White House in memory of the Croatia plane crash
victims. It stands just a few feet from another dogwood they planted last spring
to honor the Oklahoma City victims.
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�Date: 04/05/96 Time: 17:24
CClinton Praises Community's Spirit Year After Bombing
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)
Accompanied by six children who survived
the Oklahoma City bombing, President Clinton bowed his head in
silent prayer Friday at the site where 168 people were killed a
year ago. He said the city has proven that ''good can overcome
evil.''
It was a day of sadness and celebration for Clinton.
He grieved the death of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and other
victims of Wednesday's military plane crash in Croatia, saying it
was a ''very difficult and painful day for me.''
But he also paid warm tribute to Oklahoma City's healing and
rebuilding.
''On this Good Friday,'' he said in a speech to families of bomb
victims, ''what you have done has demonstrated to a watching and
often weary and cynical world that good can overcome evil, that
love can outlast hate, that the light of human light can shine on
through the most terrible darkness.''
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After his speech, the president and first lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton spent an hour and a half shaking hands and speaking with
the hundreds of people in the audience.
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Clinton and his wife made their first visit to the site of the
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, destroyed in a thunderous
' explosion last April 19.
All that is left at the site is a grassy plot and the jagged
remains of the foundation, surrounded by a chain link fence that
itself has become a makeshift memorial. Handmade crosses of twigs,
boards, branches and palms are jammed into the links.
Across the street, other buildings still remain devastated, with
shattered walls, twisted debris and bombed out windows.
The silence of Clinton's visit was broken by three bagpipers who
played ''Amazing Grace.'' A chill wind and qray skies added to the
starkness of the scene.
Clinton visited Oklahoma City immediately after the blast but
avoided the bomb site so as not to impede workers still digging
·through the rubble. He came here now because he will be in Moscow
on the April 19 anniversary.
The president and first lady were met by six children who were
in the second-floor day care center at the Murrah building. Each
child was injured to some extent and all are in various stages of
recovery. Nineteen other children were killed.
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The children, ranging in age from 2 to 6, followed behind the
president as he walked with Marine Capt. Matthew Cooper and Army
· Sgt. 1st Class Harold Davenport ·to lay a spring bouquet of 168
, flowers in memory of the victims.
. Both Cooper and Davenport had been in their offices in the
Murrah building at the time of the explosion.
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The president paused to straighten four ribbons streaming from
the wreath. Mrs. Clinton left a teddy bear at the site. The
·children placed a single red rose inside the wreath, although
: 2-year-old Joseph Webber refused to let go of his flower. ·
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From the bomb site, the Clintons walked across the street to a
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·stage next to an elm tree known as the ''survivor tree.'' Only 50
fflll'l'\1\
feet from the bomb site, it is the only surviving tree in the
immediate area. The president dedicated a plaque to be hung in a
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,newly constructed YMCA day care center. Both the former YMCA day
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.care .center and the Murrah building day care facility were
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�Speaking to families later, Clinton said, ''Your healing has to
go on. A lot of you probably still have your doubts about all of
this. I'm sure there's some lingering anger and even some rage and
dark and lonely nights for many of family members.
''I can only say to you that the older I get, the more I know
that we have to try harder to make the most of each day and accept
the fact that things will happen we can never understand or ·
justify.''
The president proclaimed April 19 as a National Day of
Remembrance and asked Americans to observe a moment of silence at
10:02 a.m. EDT that day, the time of the explosion.
Clinton and Vice President Al Gore will go to Dover Air Force
Base in Delaware on Saturday to meet the plane bringing home the
remains of Brown and other crash victims.
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CClinton Visits Oklahoma City to Commemorate Bombing
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)
President Clinton today honored the victims
of the bombing here nearly a year ago and praised the spirit of
healing he said is helping renew the city.
''There is nothing we can do to bring back the children that
were taken from us. But what we can do is show our children that
·good can lift them up,'' he said. The president placed a wreath on
the site of the bomb-destroyed Alfred Murrah federal center, then
dedicated a new downtown day care center in memory of the 18
children who were killed in a second-floor day care center.
The president laid a large wreath of spring flowers at the bare
dirt field that is the site of the building where 169 people died
on April 19, 1995.
Other buildings around the site remained shattered with blown
out windows and walls ripped apart by the blast.
Six children who survived the blast placed long-stemmed red
roses near the wreath and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton,
holding a child by the hand, bent down to place a teddy bear.
With bagpipers playing ''Amazing Grace,'' Clinton stood under a
. cold gray sky and pointed to a deeply scarred tree that survived
· the blast.
''Its roots kept it strong and standing,'' he said. ''Your roots
kept you strong and standing. By rebuilding a place for children to
· learn, you have done the most honorable thing a nation could ask
for.''
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In a speech, Clinton praised the community spirit behind the
rebuilding of Oklahoma City.
''You've taken some of the meanness out of our national life and
put a little more love and respect into it,'' the president said.
And yet, he said, ''Your healing has to go on. A lot of you
,probably still have your doubts about all of this. I'm sure there's
some lingering anger and even some rage and dark and lonely nights
·for many of the families.
''I can only say to you that the older I get the more I know
that you have to try harder to make the most of each day and accept
.the fact that things will happen we can never understand or
justify.''
The president also proclaimed April 19 as a National Day of
Remembrance and asked Americans to observe a moment of silence at
10:02 a.m. EDT that day, the time of the explosion.
Before leaving Washington, Clinton again mourned the death~ednesday of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown in a plane crash in
Croatia and planted a tree on the South Lawn of the White House in
Iemery of Brown and others who died in the crash.
''We hope everyone will honor the contributions they made to the
7nited States,'' the president said before leaving for the airport.
rhe tree is just a few feet away from another dogwood Clinton
~lanted last year to honor the victims of the Oklahoma City
)Ombing.
In Oklahoma City, he again invoked Brown's memory and said he
Lnd the delegation that died with him on a hillside in Croatia
'lost their lives pursuing the very spirit we are here to
ielebrate today. ' '
At a second speech, at the University of Central Oklahoma,
1 inton was expected to renew his demand that Congress send him the
ough anti-terrorism legislation he called for immediately after
he explosion.
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�The Senate passed the administration version of the bill but
Clinton says the House voted to ''gut the bill.''
Clinton wants Congress to restore provisions to chemically mark
explosive materials commonly used by terro~ists, bar terrorist
organizations from raising money in the United States and permit
the quick deportation of foreiqn nationals who support terrorist
activities.
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The president also wants authority ''to use high-tech
surveillance to keep up with stealthy and fast-moving terrorists.''
A coalition of cons•rvative Republicans and pro-qun Democrats in
the House voted to remove those and other sections, contending they
would give federal law enforcement officials excessive power and
endanger individual liberties.
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,bowed and hill jaw claacbed, belpil!t
lay
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~~of tbe IUI&loR'B abWty' tbat just'as .a tree,tslrell a Ioiii time
to pull tlllethei' ID tl"qedy. But the· IDIJ'IIW, sometimes WOIIDds -take' a
pJau c:risbuear DubnMilk, Croatia, loD& time to beaL"
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that laok tbe llWB of Co11111181'Ce.Seco • 011 a cblii ll'llY day bare, Mr.
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retary Rcma1d B. Brownlllld at least • tDD walked beiiiDd two !DlllWY' offl· 32 odlers' dD Wedlle!sdaY left tbe CUD- .. cera wbo placed a, wreadl of ·118
1111111 opeqJy artevlllllllld made·tbe llower&- oae f!lr eadl Ylc:tlm -.on
day seem PD1Y more poJpaDL
• the spot wbere a day care center bad.
11owers today on the empty fi!Dced.ID
field wbere tbe bulldiDg bDce lllliOd.
1be' Rev;. Don Mexaader of tbe once lleeD located on the second Doot
Be tbaDIIed Olllihoma Qty for beiDa . Pilat <=brtstlaD Qmrc:b, wilD ldl:ro- . C!f tbe F~ BulldiD& ben: ~
· "a testament to the stieqtb' of tbe duced the CliDtoaa Ill the buQdJeds of teeD c:lllldn!D· ~ ID the ~
buiiWl spirit" Ill Its effor\ to rebuild. ~ famlly ~pthered IIi the iXJD. ' big. Mr. CllntDD stralghteDed the ~ ''
Mr. Clinton and hill wtre,-JIIIIuy; crete. atilbltlaa ball, tbaDked the bODs on the wreath-~ bowed •
botb ID black and weartaa jlurple PresldeDt and First Lady for com!DI head and· clasped hill ~ _ID a
ribbons of remembraace, aeemec1 ID lllelr on IIIOJIIIIIt of IIIGIIJ"'IIDg . momeDt of prayer. . .
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ever more. somber is they liloVed aad asked. dlat they be
Mr.CllntDDwasfollowedbytheu
from the wreath laytag at the banea atreDgtb.ADdMr. CIIDtllasaklbebad small cblldren whO IIUI'YlYed the 81·
sceae of 168 deaths, to the dedication· come "as macb ai aaydda& else" to · Jll!lslon. alq ·with tllelr famWes:
· Qf' a new cblld care center, ro aa tbaak Oldahoma·Qty ID retunJ.
. Mrs. CllntDD c:lutdlecl the~ of + .
address to the famllies of tbe v1c:t1ms
~'011 this ~ dlffic:ult lllld piiDful year-old Braadcm DeaDy'. and all!!
In the darkened exhibit ball of tlui · day for me. wileD I bave lost a SOOd placed a teddy bear :-: whlcb bad
Myriad ConvenUon Ceater.
· and great friend, lind a lot of Jlfted become a spon~ symbol last.
metlmes. cbokiD& wttb emadOD, employees of .abe Federal ~ year of the dead dllldren - ID tbe,
bls voice softer than 11111a1, Mr. CUD- .lllellt - ~ at tllem nr.v Jlllllll- · center of the wreatb. 1bree basiJipes
ton told tbe famllies tbat It was tbe aad some.WOIId,erfullilembera,of our played "Amazlllg Grace" and e&C!I·
Easter season of renewal, lllld that armed forces and some of our aa- · cblld placed a'II1JI&le red rose on top
"tbe miracles of Jesus IUid tbe m1r- UOD'aiiiOit able buBIDeBaleaders, tbe . of the wreatb, except Josepb Webber,
acles of tbe buman spirit ID 0~ · power of your 8111111Ple Ia wry mucb 2, a scar across hla face, wbo would
ma City ODly reflect the larier m1r- with me," be 8814- · . ·
· liot let 10 of hill flower. · · ~ · .
acle of humaa aature tbat Cliere Ia
Mr. CllntoD 8IIIIIIIIIICed tbat.be bad
All arouad, the deYutatiOD of the
something eternal within eacb of us. slped a proclamauoa calllq for a explosion was 8tiiJ evtdeat, the wto.;
tb8t we all have to die, aad dlat ao momaat of 8lli!Dlle IICnl88 America . clowsl!f then~ Y,M.CA ~
bomb caa blow -away even from tbe .at. 8:02A.M. ceatral c1a71Jabt time on atlll covered wtth pi~ aad a
liUiest cblld tbat -eternity wblcb Ia APril II, the one J88l' 8lllllveraar)' of dirty aad tom tarp stretcbed acrosS,
wiUtin eacb of us."
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the llombiDg. 'lbe. PresldeDt Ia IICbed- the mlallng roof of tbe state water :
Be spoke of tbose 8tlll burtla& of 1lled Ill be 1lalfway tbrousb a trip to resources. buildiag across tbe lltrei!L
the. "rap and dark aDd IODel)' Japaa aad Moscow on that day. ·
1be grilup walked across tbe
Dlshtl" Gf the family membera wbo
Before lea9lai ·.the Wblte Bouse street to a Btaie where the Prestdeat,'.
· . yet mourned tile Vlctlml puUed from this momlll& Mr. CllntoD plaDted a Joined by 'local officials, UDVeUed a.
therubbleofAmertca•sworatterro~ -elz..f~ wblte dogwood tree on
plaque dedicating ·a aew Y.M.CA ...
1st bombing. "I caa only say to you· the SoUth lawa IIi memory of tbo8e day care. ceater to tbe cbUdren of
that tbe older 1 set the more 1 1a1ow wbci cUed on secretary Browa's- Oklaboma City. ·,
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that we have to try barder to make plaae. Be put It IIi the s:louad ilot far · At the convention center,
the most of eac1i day aad accept tbe from tbe dopaod planted a year aso President aad. Mrs. CllntoD were.
fact that tbiDBi .WUI happen we 'can ID memory of tbe . Vlctlm8 of the sreeted by standing ovattons. Mr, · ·
neyer underatancl or justify," Mr. . bomblq of the Okllhoma Qty Fed· · Clinton l'ei:Jted the lyrics or a Clospel
Clinton &aiel.
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eral bu1ldiD&1111l before Mr. CIIDton song to the families of the cleacl.
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"Furtber aJons we'll Jmow ali' .
· Later IIi the.day, at the u~ new 11ere days after the exPlosiOD.'
of centre! Oklaboma, a far more · At tbat time. be recalll!d today, he .aboUt It," .he said. softly. "Further ·
composed Mr. Clinton ~lftle a some- told mouillera tbet a dogwood em-· aloag we'll wderataad why. RISe up:,,,
wl!at obllque pltcb · for support of bOdied · the· lesBOn or the Psalms, my brothers and walk ID die 111111- :~~:
anti-terrorism leslaliltlon tbat was "that the life of .a &ODd person Ia like ··shine. Further alq we'll under·
recently passed only In a IIUtpped- a tree wiiQse leaf c1oea DOt wither; stand wby."
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doWri version by the House.
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Mr. Cllaton neVer meDUODed the
House vOte but be aaumerated some
of tbe measures the House bad deleted by apprbvlag ail ameadmeDt
proposed by tbe NatloDa1 Rifle AlllloclaUon.' Be theD ca11ec1 on Ok1aboma
Qty re'slclents Ill speak out q8IDst
terrorism "because you WUI. bave
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more welsht than most people, tbls.
state has suffered, this state bas
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• ltruggled, t1ila state unclerataads tbe
buman dlmeaslon of· people kllllag
IDDocent people." He asked hill
cbeerlllg liateDera to "say In simple,
clear-terms this 18 DOt a piiUUcal
Issue, tlli8 Is not a partlsaa la8ue, tbls
18 !!,Ot ~ td_eOI~Ical _Issue.'~
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��LOs Angeles TUDes rU"St-edidoa Page 1 for
Saturday, April 6, 1tH: .
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Top of pap:
Col 1: Oaoo u oloto to hezely u 0110 oould oome ill
atheilt ~ tbe philoaophy of Olqlita1ist inequality is.
lpl'C8CiiDs 101011 tho islaDd almost .. rapidly .. the .
govenaDellt OIID ..U bUsiDeaa lioeales; Cuba is threateDiJis
to 01100 apia beoome a -iety of rioh ad poor. (CUBA.
movillg Saturday).
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Col 2:· Feature. OD looallifepads.
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Cola 3-5: ~·of PresicleDt CliDtOD at Oklahoma City
. oeremODY. for 'Viotims of tho fedenl buildias bombizla.
(R.efr:n to iaa*.lltoly, CLINTON-TIMBS.) .
·Col 6: Bomb-waiY federal apD1I, piokiN their way ..
oarefully aa· braiD - a - dDoush '1beodore J.
IC.Iczyuki'aiDOUidlill oabiD. baw f011114 a typewriter tbat
aeems to match aleagthy lll8l1li80ript 1011t by tbe ~
during his mp oftmor, SOveDIIIUIII1110111081 la1·
(UNABOMBBR·TIMES, moved.)
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CliatOa Remembers Victims of Oklahoma '
Bombiag (Oklahoma City)By Sam l'alwoocl Inii.\,.
(c) 1996, Los Aageles TUDes= .
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OICLAHOMA CITY Duriq a day 6lled with~
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IOIIOW, pubUo pf 81111 religious reflootion. President CJiDtoD
I'OIIIOIDherecl tho vietima 81111 survivors of tho 1lombiDa here a
year
offorills'oomfort ill tho Good Fridar oelobmtiOD'of
rebirth aDd resurreotion.
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Aided by his wife. Hillary. ad llix ohildml wbo ~
tbroush tho deadly blast. Clinton .llmlllled a hup wreath
of seuoual Oowors ill tho barreD field wbme tho Alfred ·
P. Munah federal OODter ODOO atoocl Tbo IIIBiBm baildiDa
waa destroyed OD Api119, 1995, wba a tnlok bomb
a:p1oclocl;, ki1l.iDs _168 people, iDoladills 1.8 ohildrcD at a
.aond-Ooor day-oare oenter. .
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- Aa a III01IIDlU1 baapipe rendition of .. AmaziDs 0raoe•
played • .mral family IDCIIIbors of the bomhiDg Yiotima
l.oobcl OD with teuY eyu u first lady Hilluy RDclbam
CliDtDA held the baDd of 4-)'ear-old BJIDdOD DeaDy, wbo
survived tho explosion. liDd bent down pntly to loaw •
teddy bl!ar ill the oenter .of tho wnsath. Blob of tho
obildron then plaoed a liqlo, red lVIII ill Wreath naept
2.,.,.Hid 1oaepb Webber, wbo refuaocl to lot sO of his··
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..1 bow.tblln la saOtbills that lillY~~ do to briq
back the ohildml wbose lives were tlbD from u, DOthiDa
>We 0111a do to 1We0J1 away the frishteDiDs IMIDoliel tbat .
Col l: The ClilltOD admiDistratiOD followecS tJui .. letter .
atillliDgoi·m tho ohildren who survivocl,• ClilltOD ~ ~
of tho iaw" required of the Uuited S1ates when tho.
later ill brief I'OIIIIUb to· doc:lioate a plaque for a DIW obild
oare oenter...But wbat you baw c10Do is shoW our ClbildroD
preside!it seoredy pvo • sreea lisht to 1ru1iaD ~zma .
lhipmellll to Bolllia, tbe White House aaya.
·tbat ill tlie wab of evil. JC10Cbae11 OIID IIIIIOmld them lad ·
lift them up.• . .
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(BALKAN8-ARMS-TIMES, mowd.)
While the preSident proooeded aoJomnly t1110uP tho
Cola 3-4: As investigaton probe Moiutay'a tolcvisecl
day'i obaommoos iD Oklahoma. he made DO effort to bide
beatiDs of Mexioan oitizeus by Riwnide CoUDty aberiffa
,·his 111J0Un1iDs for Commerce Seoretsry Ron Brown ad 34
deputies. BOURlOisBy they already
iDclioatiODS tbat
: others who clied Wednesday ill a plliDe oruh owr C:IOatia.
tho two deputies involved ~ bavo violated sheriff's .
Aides IBid CliDtoD and Vioe PmideDt Al Gore p1aDoecl to
dopartmol1t poUoios for haDdliDs vohiolo pursuits ad for
teid a deloptiOD tbat iDoludes tho faDWy
of the ·
usiDg bltou.. (BEAT, moved.)
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oruh viodms to Delaware Saturday to obaerw tho retum .
of the oruh vietima' remains. A briof'ooremouy waa p1aDod ·
at DoWr Air Foroo Base.
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Col 5: FoUowiq a jqo'a inquiry iDto poBil'blo
misoollduct by defCDBO attomoy Leslio .AhramaoD. tho
. Before lea'ViDS WaabiDston OD Friday, CJiDtoD plalltecl a
Meaondez brothers' murder trial plqos iDto obaos u
· dop.'ood tree OD tho White Houae South LaWD u a liviDs ·
Abramson invokes tho Fifth AzDondment·ID6tho judp deDiea
Jlllimorial to BroWD and those who dic4 with him. A yur:·qo, .
Clintim p1aDted a similar tree DCBJby iD IIICIDOI)' of tho ·
requests for a Diistrial. (MENENDEZ, ~ved.)
Oklahoma .City bombing 'Victims.
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·CilliDs tho day .. vory diftioult and painful• for him
Below fqld:
. poiiODIIliy, CliDtoD.told an eitimated 4,000 people .
· IIIIIIOIIlblod at the Myriad CoDwDtioD Celller for an aftemooD
Col 4:
historiaD8 ~ fiX tho blsme for
acldross that ''l·baw lost peat ad soocl frioDd ad a.
Ruuii's ougoills IDOBB, but with fewer tbaD 75 days 1oft
UDtil voters lllWil clOoide whether or not to put a Communist
lot of siftOd omployooi of tho federal ~•
baok ill OOIIIIIWid of tho ICrom1ill, 80DIO RuaaiaDB ~ hold ·
tho ~ and ref~ of yore respollliblo.
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(OptioDallldd oad)
(RUSSIA-REFORMERS,IDO'Yills Saturday.)
. · C1iDtoD also dee~ Aprulll u a National Day of ·
RemembraDoo ad requesto4 Amerioaas obaorw a IDOIIIIDt of
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aileDoe at 9:02 a.in. COT that ~ tO mark q.e moiuent of ·
Cola 1·2: Photo of looal Good Friday servioos.
tho Oklahoma City explosion. .
. Later iD tho day; CUDton waa to. deUwr a .apeooh at .
. Cola.4.(i:-Foi' tho Unabombor'l tarpts and tbeir friends
tho Ulliwrsity-of Central Oklahoma. wbme be waa expected
to reneW his demalld for the R.epubUoa:A-eontrolled CODpas
ad relatives, ·tho arrest of IIUIPOOl Tboodore 1. Kaczynski
does not ODCl tho nightmare; tho Uuabombor'l wolk OOWrl!4 .
· tO pa11_uti-terrorism legislatiOD be aabd for abortly
18 yeats aDd aff'ccted people aoro11 tho UDited Ststea.
after tho Oklahoma City explbaiOD.
·. Tbo trial·of the twO IAIIpOOtB ill the bombills..Timotb:y.
(with art) (UNABOMBBR-VICTIMS, moved.) ·
McVeigh ad Tcny Nichols. waa truisforred to Donwr
because a judSe ruled .thO two iaeD were ualibly to .-iw
a fair trial ill ~ A heariDg bas bCcD set for May 1
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dUlly and somber Good Friday,
President CIIDIDD paid tribute 1D
the victims of the Oklahoma Qty
l)omblng, a memorial made more
PQignant by the death or· Com·
l)lerce Secreiary ROD Bl'OWD aDd
In a 11lane Cl:'88h 1n ero.
:._others
· the WhlJe House tD commemerate
Mr. Bl'OWD aDd the other victimS
of the crash. The tree atBDds near
IIIIOther one they planted after the
· Oklahoma aty explosiOD. . ·
. · Mr. CIIDIDD and Vice President
AI GOre will Mat Dover Air Fori:e
. Base Iii Delaware tDday when the.·
bodies of the crash victims retum
1D the United States.
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As bqp1pes p~ "Amaz!DB '
· Grace," Mr. and~ CIIDIDDlald a
· lal'le floor,wecl wreath at the site
of the former Alfrecl P. MuiTah ··.
Federal BaiJdiDg, where 168 per. 80JIB died. 1bey watched. aa u
. cldldnm wbo surviVed the blast
droDPed long-steDUDed red roses
Oil die
wreath. One, 2·)'88J'Old Jo-
·BePh Web~ dung ID biB rose..re-
1 ~IDletiO.
..
· ·
. . The
..s::dent and first llidy
then
across the street IDa
new YMCA day care center that
· . replaced one. destroYed In the ·
bJait.Adaycarecenterlorfederal
. 'W01'11Brs· 1D the Murrah Bulldlng
·alaci _. destrcJYed, ldlliD819 cbll·
dieD. · •
··
. M1: CIIDIDD ursed ecmsress ID
Pll88 anti-terrorism legislation
diat be .Diwosed Just ·8f1er :the
,~~~::,~~.
·'A.UbduedMJ:.ClbltDD,whObas.. ·.
·
canceled
~
ei'a1 mtrlllllon on.clvilll.berties. .
since Wedn
.c:raa!i but de-' · . Ill a speech at the UDiwrslty.of
. drialded ID goce,ah. -·~!Jththetbia memo-of · Celitral Oklahoma In Edmond, the
servic:. ,p,......,..
peolile
presl.deiltdesc:ribedterr'orismand
Oklahoma City for rebuildlq
.Telated Uls aucb as oi'gallized
fJleir shattered Uws after the ex·
crlzile and dru8·traffic:ldD8 as the ·
plosion of a tenorist' bomb IIi the
i:blef threats to the nadon. ·
~ty's heart nearly a Je8l" qo. · .
Drawing on· his campaign ·
· He said the IDspiration of· the ·
-- · City's rebirth helpCd on what be
thenieoffocuitiigoiuhefulUre;he 1- ·
l!clalstWleds~ ~ a "wry diffi· . said while the previousgmeration
ciulf·and painful day for me." •
won World War ·II and the 'Cold
.
. · "I have lost'" 8 great IUld aood
War. "what we have to, do now is ID
triend, ind a lot or sifted employfilht ~ck these organized forces ·
t~U or the federal ~ • ofdestruction." ·
·.
.
some of them very JOWlS, and
. ~ ClniDn deniecrany poUtiCal .
some wonderful members of our· · IDteDt. "I am not saymg these
ar'med forces IUld some of our nathlnia ID frighten any Americ:ans,"
don's most able business leaders," · ··he said. "Let me say ID simple, ·
he told families of the victimi of .dear terms: 1bis is not a poUtical
the April lSI, 1995 bomblna. "1be · issue. Tbis is ;ts not a partisiUl ispower of )'OUr example ·li ver;
sue..1bis is ~ an ideolosical is- .
muC:bwithme,·IUldlthaDk)'IIUlor
sue;Mr.
,..,_
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that." .
.
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, Before leaviDg Wasb:lnlton, the
Apri1.19 ail a nad01ial day or ~
pfesident IUld first lady ~
membrance or the. bombing. He· ·
Rodbam ClntDD pliiDted a While .·.. ursed AmertCIIDB.ID oblerie a modogwood tree on the South Lawn of ,.:. mqt ~ silence at .9:02 a.m. Cen- ·'
~ "nine, the moment the bomb ·
-wentoff.
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�Typewriter may h~
Balkan
'ite had
·3os-type
beacons
Machine found in cabin is tied to manifesto
THE ASSOCIATE~> PREss
III1DA, - . - A manual typewriter
found in Theodore J. Kaczysnki's shack
appears to be the one the Unabomber used
to type his letters and his grand manifesto
about the evils of technology, a federal otfi.
cial said yesterday.
That apparent link between Kaczynski
and the mastennind of the 18-year bombing
.spree came as federal agents spent a third
day searching the tiny cabin and an out·
building in the wilderness near Lincoln.
Kaczynski, 53, was charged Thursday
:IDle to be probed
·n Brou.:n jet crash
Til£ AssOCIATED PREss
with possessing bomb components found in
bia cabin. The former Berkeley math profeasor was held without bail in a Helena jail
under a suicide watch
and decided yesterday
he did not want a prelim·
inary bearing or a bail
bearing.
Michael Donahoe,
Kaczynski's court-appointed lawyer, said his client will wait for
the grand jury to convene Aprill7 and its
decision on whether to indict him.
The charge filed Thursday made no men·
_._-Technology dating
o the pioneering days of air travel
•-as guiding the jetliner that smashed
.oto a Croatian hillside with Com·
:nerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34
Philip M
workers
others aboard.
"It is the kind of an approach [sys:cm] that's been around for a while.
·.here· s no question about that," Air
Force Lt. Gen. Howell Estes ill said
>f the landing at Dubrovnik. "But it's
;till a very valid approach."
Yet Ward Baker of the Air Line
?ilots Association pointed out that
:he radio beacons used to guide air?lanes to Cilipi Airport are "the old·
est type of na'igation aid there is."
r.s. and local officials said the airpar: "'~I missing a more modern
piece of comput·
• Donlll"- erized precision
-..........,.
landing gear. tak·
lbaul- of
en by the YugoA4. slav annv in Croatia's !WI ,.-ar.
that would help planes lane in any
weather.
Thus, the Air Force T-43 was fol·
US. may question
up to 200 in area
BY CHIP lONES
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFI' WRITER
...a.....,
Philip Morris USA has told some
Richmond-area employees that U.S.
Department of Justice investigators
may be contacting them about "a
broad range of grand juzy inveatiga·
lions into various activities" of the
company.
.
In a letter sent last week I<> cur·
rent and past employees, Denise F.
Keane. senior vice president and
general counsel of Philip Morris
USA, said the cigarette-maker "re·
cently received a request from the
government that the company identi·
fy current and former employees
who worked in certain departments
lowinR a Jnw-~u""ry ndin beam
·.h:''l'.:l!l!"l a t~a::e:.r.g ::-:'.::":~t:;~~'JTTi,
·,\.t:C:Jesday toward the airpon nes-
tled between mountains and the
Adriatic Sea.
1i eering off course between the
airport's two radio beacons. the military version of a Boeing 737 hit a
hillside. killing all aboard.
Sow, the causes of the disaster
must be untangled by a joint Special
Commission of Inquiry formed by
Croatian government and the t:.S.
Air Force accident investigation
team. Investigators from the U.S.
Sa:ional Transportation Safety
Board are assisting.
Complicating their task is the fact
that the plane had no flight data recorder to track the craft's movements. The recorders are required
on all commercial airliners.
A senior Air Force official, who
spoke on condition of anonymity, said
the plane had a ground proximity
warning system that should have
sounded as the plane neared the hill·
side.
But. de;>ending on the speed of the
plane and the amount of room for
maneuver. there may not have been
enough time to respond. Warning
time is a problem in mountainous
terrain where a hillside can loom up
suddenly, as opposed to a plane grad·
ually descending to a lower altitude.
:'\ondirectional radio beacons like
those used to navigate into Dubrovnik date to the 1930s. when the first
anempts were maqe to use radio to
guide planes flying in the dark and
through bad weather.
Since then. many more complex
and costly systems ha\'e been devel·
oped.
lion of att
killed thr
states: tl
keep Kac
tors builc
Kaczyr
convictee
mail bon:
Twom
the cabir
headquaJ
like the 1
Unaboml
accordin1
spoke o:
1
AppellatE
backs ga~
'Dorit ask, teU'
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cha1lenged
BY DIIIOIWIIIII.LY
TIMJ!s.DISPATQI STAFI' WRITER
The hurt Is still there
President Clinton comforted Claudia Denny yesterday as Nekia McCloud and her mother, Lavern
McCloud. placed roses on a memorial wreath. Nekia was one of those hurt in the April 19 terrorist attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City. -Denny's daughter was also injured. (Details, Page A2.)
Tbe Clinton administration's
"don't ask, don't tell" policy reaard·
ing gaya in the military baa survived
ita tint major federal appeals court
challenge.
Jn.a S.. decision, the Richmondbased 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said yesterday that former
Navy Lt. Paul G. Thomasson, who
was honorably discharged after an·
nouncing he was gay, was seeking to
upset "a carefully crafted national
political compromise ... that was the
product of sustained and delicate ne-
Dream hotne in resort now a nighbnare
1
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-.~;·.
'lhlacon,
saldtbere
Mr. Truscon
was classified as available for
·niUtary service in 1966, and the
1ext year, arter he entered Mich·
gan State Univeraity. he obtained
• student deferment. In 1969, Mr.
~=;~!.J ':;a~u~2f~ .:'&e~n~~:
:ates and took his physical exami·
.ation. He was rejected because
e was overweight by 2 pounds,
ee ENGLER, page A5
ByArrrt Koval
1'MI MIHlNOTON Tlt4S
boarded-up row bOuaes and· at a
spot where drup routinely are
eold. ·
.
They besan at St. Martin's
With a tall, wooden c:rou at Its
Church in Northwest, where a head and a IIIUIOPbonlat and pollee
drive-byshootlnalastsummerlert. cruiser aa an·eac:ort, the proces·
twa bullet holes In the stained: . sian of about SO . peor,le filed
slass windows.
.
.
throush tbe Bloom nsdale·
And then they walked the Eclcln1!1Dn nelshborhood, · taklnB
streets,atoppinstoprayataatreet the stations of tbe c:rou from. incomer where four persons have aide their churches out to tbe
been killed, SIDPpins In front or street.
By the time they ended a l'ew
btoc:hs away at Nash United Meth·
odlst Church, the crowd had
srown to about 100 marchera who
fUied tbe church to sin& hymns.
•In our community. aU or us
need our faith to keep goins
steady," said the Rev. Michael Kel·
ley, a priest at St. Martin's Catholic
Church who led the Good Friday
atations-of·the-cros& procession.
•stations of the ~sa .Ia a
Defense hammers away at Hale,
Jut witness ends day with a smile
Hugh Ay~eswonh
MSH••CnON 1Urotf5
LITILE ROCK. Ark.- Defense
, ·omeys yesterday continued to
· und the government's star wit·
ss in the Whitewater conspiracy
al here. trying to convince the
-y that the case is nothing but a
publican effon to brins down
' presidency of Bill Clinton.
But at the end of the day David
Hale. the former Little Rock
.micipal judge and the force be·
:d I 7 of the 21 counts of conspir·
: and fraud asainst Arkansas
, . Jim Guy Thcker and James
J Susan McDousal. former own·
, of the failed Madison Guar·
' · y Savinss and Loan Associ·
ation.lert the stand smilins.
Hale will be back on the stand
Monday. and probably won,.flnlah
testifying untU late next week.
Yesterday's questioning was
tough, sarcastic. often demeaning,
but Hale kept a remarkably steady
bearing. Often. he snapped back
with more than the defense anor·
neys wanted, with offerings like,
"That's the way Jim Guy and I had
done it earlier" and, "It was about
the same as the deal with Jim
IMcDougal)."
Hale's direct teatimony - that
he had been one or a handful of
opportunists (the defendants
amana them) who had worked a
clever loan seem on the federal
government in the 1980s - was
not countered, but tbe defense
spent the day lrYinB to establish
base motives on Hale's pan.
Sam Heuer, Mr. McDousal'a at· .
tomey, SUBseated that it was arter
the FBI confiscated Hale's busi·
ness records and the sovemment
Indicted bim in 1993 lhat Hate
. f~~~!,:'~~~~etfi.te'a
telephone records for September
through Deeember of 1993, show·
lng that the ex-judge bad made 26
ealis to Jim Johnson, a prominent
Arkanaas politician - onetime
Democratic nominee for governor,
associate justice of tbe state Su·
preme Court and constant needier
•n HALE, ·pog~ A$
:~----------------------------------------------->rincipal delayed report of sex attack
INSIDE
:ook 4 days to notify police of assault on girl at school
unexpected growth In tha number of
jobs aanda lntemt rates higher. D7
. Susan Ferrechio
.W.5MINGTONTIMIS
\ D.C. hi&h school principal
. 1ted four days to notify police
' era I 4-year-old student told him
I ' had been sexually assaulted by
' , boys in a school bathroom.
!J.C. school policy mandates
, 1 all criminal incidents in
1oot buildings be reponed "im·
idiately" to police and school selty.
dut Rooaevelt High School Prin·
:.1 LearlePbUlip insisted yeater·
I be did nothins wrong by delay·
ing action in the February lncl·
dent, because be first needed to
talk to the sirt's mother In pereon
about the young woman's report.
"We had to set the information
~~~~ !ro~ ~~e,.r.::.!. c~~:r.
"Once we got the information from
the parent, we acted expedi·
tiou•ly."
One high-rankin& school offi·
cial, however, said principals often
delay reponing serious Incidents
to police and security.
"They do it aU tbe time. It's a
standard operatina procedure,"
said the official, who asked not to
be identified. "They're really in
denial about a lot of tblngs."
The girl, & srudent at Rooaevelt,
said abe was lured Into a third·
floor boys' bathroom at tbe school
eometlme durin& tbe Feb. 5 school
day by twa brothers, both 15 and
both students there.
Once Inside, abe said, one
brother stood IIII8J'CI at the door
wbUe the other fondled her, srabblng her tes and her breast. Reports on the incident did not in·
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.·THE NATIO.N
Analysis of Brown phu
focusing on airport gui
U.S., ka.l officials say
facilltywas missing
key piece of equipment
D1JBROVmK, Croatia
HATObellcoll&erlcarrledtbelaat
boci:Y hap ofta craaY bWalde yea-
terday wllere COmmerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown lllld 34 otb·
era died ID a plane c:raah.
IDveattgatora focuaed tbelr search
for a cause on tbe l)ubrovDIJI: 1111'-
port'slandiiiiJIUidanee QBtem.•
Tile BUm aM Btrlpel Dew&pa•
toda!'a eclltloDa
that the commander of the plane's
squadron recentiJ raised questions about fi1IDI that tftle of aircraft In fo1l1 weather ID tbe former
Yugoalavta. wllere navlptlnnal
IUidanCe equipment sometimes 11
per reported ID
mllrllng.
· The commllllder,
Col.
James Albrl8bt. w'aa relieved ofbla
post on March 28,11ve dQB before
tbe c:raah. Tile paper quoted a pt.
lnt apealdniJ on condition of anonymity aa aaylniJ Colonel Albrl8bt
was replaced because oftbe aarety
Lt.
Jlinton remembers victims of Oklahoma City bombing
tim&, "What you have done has of evil. 800dneaa · can l1ln'OIIIId
demonstrated to a watchlnB and them lllld 11ft them up. •
often weary and cynical world that
Wlll1e tbe pruldent prooeeded
ROOd can overcome evil, that love IIOiemDlJr tbrou&b tbe day's obcan O!Jtlaat bate."
Mmlllcell ID Oklalloma, be made
"lldO...&ITIM81
Aa a moumllll bqplpe rendl· no ell'ort to bide b1a lllOIInlllll for
tton of "Amazing Grace" Jlla1ed, Commeree Secreta17 Ron Brown
OELAHOMAClTY-Durtnga several tamUy members of the , and 34 otbera wllo died Wednea·
ay lllled with personal aorTOw, bombing VIctims lnoked on with day In a plane c:raah In croatta.
abllc pier and reJ181oua re!lec· , teary eyes aa Mrs. Clinton held the Aides said Mr. Clinton and Vlee
on. President Clinton remem- hand of 4-year-old Brandon Den· President AI Oore planned to lead
: ered tbe VIctims and surVIvors or ny, who survived the explosion, a delegation that Includes the
.11 bombing here a year ago, olrer· and bent doWD pnt.lf to leave a tamUy members of ·the c:raah VIc·
, og comfort In the Good Prlcla.y teddy bear In the eenter of tbe ttma to Dover Air Foree ID Dela·
, elebratlon of rebirth lllld reaur- wreatb. Each of the cblldren than ware today to oblene the return
• ·etlon.
placed aslniJie, red roaeiDBidethe oftbecraabvlctlma'remalna. ·
' Aided by biB wire, HWary Rod· wreath - except 2-year-old JoBefore leaviDIJ Waablngton yea.
am Clinton, and lllx children who.. seph
Webber, wbo relllaed to let terda.y,Mr.
a dog·
, .,edtbrou&bthedeadlyblaat,Mr
goofbla!lower.
wood tree Clinton
on tbe planted
Wb1te House
Unton arranged a huge wreath or
"I know there 18 notblng that lloutb I.AWD aa.a 11Y1D1J ~rial
~aaonal !lowers ID the barren !leld anyone can do to bring lllu:k the to Mr. Brown lllld tboae 'IIIlo died
I ·here the Alln!d P. Murrah federal children whose lives were taken wltb blm. A year ago, Mr. Clinton
enter once stood.
from ua, nothing we can do to planted a lllmllar tree nearby In
' 'lbe maaalve bullcllng was de- sweep awa.y the &labtenlng mem· llleJIIOI)' of the Oklalloma 'at;y
: :royed on AprU 18, 1885, when a ortea that sWI linger In the chll· bomblniJvlctlma.
·
Mr. Clinton told an estimated
1:uck bomb exploded. lllll1n8' 188 dren wllo survived.• Mr. Clinton
eople, Including 18 children at a said later In brief remarks to dedi· 4,000 people assembled at the
econd·!loor day-care center.
cate a plaque for a new child care 1lf1dad Convention Oellter for an
"On tbl8 0ooc1 PrlclaY," be said center. "Butwhatyouhavedonela alternoon addreaa, "I have lost a
b a speech to ramwes of bomb VIc· show our children that In the wake sreat lllld good tttend and a lnt of
'resident leaves wreath
t site of MutTah buDding
THE SUN
ft9l'lllllllll\
l Beaders'
, Readm wW> COIIIIIIOIItl orquallonl
about...,....,..,... on..-10 call Zd
'1
Hn'ttt at (410) 332-&U& ort.oD·frft at 1·
·8QO.II2HOOO,Eit.-.HoWIIIDOlboable
•t.oNtumllllcall&,lnltCCIIIIIIniiWIIIbo
'puaed on t.otbeappropr!Ueedltorlond
11111111'membm. !.ettmllll!'bolddreued
t.o 111m at 1101 N. Cllvon BL. BaiUIIIore,
MD 212T8.
1
lilted
employees of tbe teclera1
government.•
'
Mr. Clinton IIIIo declared Aplll
18 aa a Nattc.llll DJ.> of fd.::.nem·
braDce and requested Amel1cana
obServe a moment of ll11eDce at
10:02 a.m. EDT that day to lll8l'k
tbemomentoftbeO~QtJ
ezp1oBicm.
Later ID tbe
dar, Mr.
'
Clinton
queattona be railed.
But Colonel A1llrllbt said early
\today that b1a CODCerlll pertained
to ear.levo, tbe eapltal ofBoanla·
Henegovtna lllld a regular atop for
cllplltarlea. lllld not to little-
u.s.
vlalted l)ubrvvnlk, w11ere the
c:raah occurred.
"It's a war mne, ao It's com·
pletely clllrerellt,. be said of Sara·
Jevo. Colonel Albrl&bt alao said b1a
being relieved or duty was "com·
pletel,y unrelated" to b1a · safety
concema, but ,Secllned lllrther
comment.
'A U.S. Air Foree spokesman at
Ramateln Air Base In OermaiiJ al·
ao denied any link between the
aatety laaues and Colonel AI·
brlaht's replacement.
.
U.S. Investigators relllaed to
comment on possible reasons for
tbe plane's craab Wedneaclay,lllld
Croatian oiDclala revealed few deta11a aa well, aa Vllcka bauled the
vlctlma' remains . that were
brou&bt ID by tbe NATO aircraft
to a warellouae serving aa a
morgue.
tile
era
tal;
Per
tba
cat
abc
, .
eel '
to I
c1a1
tiJr
pr1
per
!tal
10'
wl1
tbr
Dr-
ed.
tile
Co•
sal·
atr
ma
aoatta observed a dar of om.
cla1 mourniDIJ, wltb llaga at belf.
atatl'. State radln pla.yed somber
air]
canceled ·&lid sports evente were
ordered to oblene a llllllute'a IllleDce.
Mr. Brown's T-43 plane, the
mUitary versloD of a Boeing 737,
bad been cleared to land at nu.
brovDik airport wileD It veered olr
course lllld clipped tbe roc1r;y bW·
lo'll
tea
Jol
BuDablne broke. tbrouSb yea-
We
qe remained scattered above the
abc
Air
cor
eq1
music, tbeater performances were an
~eiDa~
terc1ay alter two days of blllb
winds and heavy raiD& 'nle wreCk·
Air
tba
11Y11
DOl
~
seaside homes lllld blue-peen wa· Col
teraoftheAdrlattcSea. ·
At RamateJn. wbere the plane
was baaed. an Air Foree team wUh
representatives from tbe National :...
Transportation sarety Board Was
~ plane's malnte- . ·:
B
was to deliver ai apeecjl ·at tbe Unl·
vpslty of 0entra1 Oklalloma,
.wtlere be was expected to renew el to
Tbeteam
was toclar.-State
expected
l)ubrovDik
Deb1a demand lbr tbe antt-temnilm
~~VIel..,.'
~ he asked for ahortl1 at·
tertbe Olililioma QtJaploalon. ' Ita elrorta ma.y be hampered bY
to~:~
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PAGE All SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1996 *
NATION
FBI cab
Clinton
\visits site
·of Okla.
bombing
turnsUJ
relic ty{
One may mat
Aprill9 declared
remembrance day
Bv Warren F' Strobel
THi:.........aTONnt.l!l
OKLAHOMA CITY - On a
chilly and somber Good Friday,
President Clinton paid tribute to
the victims of the Oklahoma City
bombing, a memorial made more
poignant by the death of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and
34 others in a plane crash in Croatia.
A subdued Mr. Clinton, who has
canceled most public appearances
since Wednesday's crash but decided to go ahead with this memorial service, praised the people of
Oklahoma City for rebuilding
their shattered lives after the explosion or a terrorist bomb in the
city's bean near!)· a year ago.
He said the inspiration of the
city's rebinh helpPd on what he
acknowledged was a "very dlffi·
cult and painful day for me."
"I have lost a great and good
friend, and a lot of gifted employ-'
ees or the federal government,
some or them very young, and
some wonderful members of our
Armed Forces and some of our nation's most able business leaders,"
he told families or the victims or
the April 19, 1995 bombing. "The
power of your example is very
much with me, and I thank you for
that."
Before leaving Washington, the
president and first lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton planted a white
dQ8WDOCI tree on the South Lawn or
President and Mra. Clinton help child survivors of the Oklahoma city bombing place flower& at the site yesterday.
the White House to commemerate
Mr. Brown and the other victims
of the crash. The tree stands near
another one they planted after the
Oklahoma City explosion.
Mr. Clinton and Vice President
AI Gore will be at Dover Air Force
Base in Delaware today when the
bodies of the crash victims return
to the United States.
As bagpipes played "Amazing
Grace," Mr. and Mrs. Clinton laid a
large flowered wreath at the site
of the former Alfred P. Murrah
Federal Building, where 168 persons died. They watched 81 six
children who' survived the. blast
dropped Ions-stemmed red roses
on the wreath. One, 2·)"W''lcl Joaeph Webber, clung to hla rose, refualns to let so.
th~~ac~:~~:~e ~~~~~~
theme or focusing on the future;!te
said while the prevlousaeneration
new YMCA day care center that won World War U and the Cold
replaced one destroyed in the war, "what ""' have to do now Is to
blast. A day care center for federal fisht back theae organized forces
workers in the Murrah Bulldin& ofdestruction."
also W81 destroyed, killing 19 chll·
Mr. Clinton danled any political
dren.
intent. "I am not aeylne theae
Mr. Clinton urged Congreaa to tbinla to frlahten any Americans,•
pass anti-terrorism Jealslation he said. "Let me say in simple,
that he propoaed just after tha clear tenns: Th1a Ia not a political
bombins but that baa been held up lasue. This is is not a partisan isby lawmakers' concern of a fed8118. This Is not an ideological Iseral intruation on civil llbenies.
sue."
·
. In a epeec:h at the Unlwrslty of · Mr. Clinton )'I!Sterday declared
Central Oklahoma in Edmond, the April 19 81 a national day of represident described terrorism and
membrance of the bombins. He
related ills auch as organized
urged Americana to observe a mocrime and dnla·trafrlcldna 81 the ment of aUence at 9:02 a.m. Cen·
clllef threats to the nation.
tral Time. the moment the bomb
Drawins on bia campaisn
~tolf.
Scientists find gene
that inhibits tulllors
Discovery may aid lung-cancer fight
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A
damaged sene found In many luna
cancer tumors appears to play a
critical role in developins the disease that kills 160,000 Americans
a year, according to cancer .re- '
searchers.
The diacovery may lead to new
approaches for cancer prevention,
said Dr. Carlo M. Croce, director
or the Kimmel Cancer Center at
Thomas Jefferson University.
The sene, named FHI'I; Ia inwived in a number of airway and
dlaestive tract tumors, and Ia
thought to work normally as the
vital shield that blocks the srowth
of
tumors. ihe re-
Issue of the journal Cell. Dr. Croce
announced the discovery of FHIT
crraaue histidine triad) on Feb. 23
as a stanins point for many common human malignancies, but the
new study is more specific.
The aene may be more frasUe
in some people than others, said
Dr. John Laszlo, national vice presIdent for reaearch of the American
Cancer Society.
"We've been puzzled for so long
about how some people can smoke
two packs or ciaarettes a day and
aet cancer, and others smoke just
81 much and don't," said Dr. Laszlo,
wbo did not take pan in the study.
"The flndin&s of the Jefferson
arouP seem to ausseat there may
be an interaction between genetic
811&ceptibWty and exposure to tobacco:• he said.
Exposure to aaents that interfere with DNA replication and
other known carclnoaena. auch 81
· benzopyrene in clprette smoke,
may lead directly to chanaes in the
FHIT a-and the inabWty to produce Ita protein, the researchers
said.
This
Federal autborltiel looldr.
Theodore John Kac:zynakl a:
elusive •unabomber" hew
cused on a manual tYPe"
found in hla crude Montana •
to determine It It wu the one
to write a 35,000-word tn
published last year.
The typewrltm; accordlr
Justice Department sources,
ins examined at the FBI
oratory, but federal autho
privately said they believe i
match. A - d typewriter
at the cabin near Lincoln. I
also Ia being checked.
"This case Ia too tmpona
them not to be very carefu
expect they will take their
and examine them very cart
said one Justice official. "Ia:
""' will have aome answers :
The Ions and often rar
treatlae was published last l
the New 'Vbrk Times an•
Waahinston Post. In it
Unabomber.mmplained abt
inhumanity of the lndustril
ety, but he promised to st
bomblnas If it w81 pub:
There have been- slnct
The twewilters were
ered durinB a painstaldnlJI
aearchof Mr. Kaczynski's co
FBI and Bureau of Alcot
bacco and F'lrearma ap·
alsned to the Unabom tasl
'lbey are X-I'IIYinB Items
they are mowed tD be 811
none Ia booby-trapped.
Tbe oearc:b of the 1CH>y
cabin, aimed at docwr
whether Mr. Kaczynski
bomber who ldlled three
jured 23 otbera 18 )
expected· to Clllltinue lbr
-raldaya.
Apnta also were que
possible witnesses acl'<
country,loolda(l to de Mr.
ski to one of the blast site
talk with people who mil
known him.
Mr. Kaczynski, a Harva
uate and former mathema
feasor at the University of
nia at Berkeley, was •
Thursday with one felony
Ulegally posaesslns a de:
device after "a panial
pleted pipe bomb" and c!
and "dlasrams and notes"
ins pipe bombs were faun
alfidavlt said.
He Is beinB held at tl
and Clark County Jail.
waived his rlsht to a prt
bearinB and a quick bail
The aovernment will se
eral indictment asa'
Kac:zynakl after It conve
17 in Great Falla, Mont.
Federal authorities
Kaczynski .... charged
ron to keep him in cust•
the Unabom investigatic
ues. The-= of his c:;
said, Ia aimed at finding
to Unk him directly to II
bombinsl !bat beaan in
at Nortllwatem Univer:
and continued thrt
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Sarajevo, the spirits of U.S. troops, and a handshake at the end of a muddy runway.
LEITER FROM TUZLA, WHERE THE SAVA MEETS THE ELBE
by Joshua King
In June, 1994, on assignment in France for the White House, I was privileged to
meet several recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Fifty years after D.: Day they
remained as proud of their cause as the fateful morning they earned their.ribbon. I left
wondering whether my generation, "children of their sacrifice" (to paraphrase President
Clinton) would ever know a cause so noble as Normandy. We could begin with Tuzla.
***
Like most Americans, Bosnia has seemed to me, since the war began, an intractable
web of ethnic violence and wanton destruction~.
During the same period, I have worked at the White House, arranging, among other
things, the President's visits to servicemen and women around the world, from Kuwait to
Korea, giving soldiers a chance to meet their Commander-in-Chief.
My inability to fathom the Balkan labyrinth, and my assignment to bring President
Clinton face-to-face with his troops, collided last week in Tuzla. For eight remarkable days
with Task Force Eagle, I lived (in a tent), slept (on a cot), ate (MRE's), drank (bottled
water), washed (rarely) and walked (through the mud) to prepare for a trip laced with
·
logistical and political booby traps.
We flew into Sarajevo on Saturday, January 6, about the time rumors were flying
in Washington that the President's hoped-for Christmas Day visit would soon occur. As
the C-130 ferrying us from Frankfurt dove towards the Bosnian capital, the Air Force
loadmaster, in a twist on the familiar "seatbacks and tray tables" refrain, said "please put on·
your helmets on and make sure you flack jackets are zipped." He was not kidding.
Sarajevo, as I knew it from coverage of the 1984 Winter Olympics, is no longer
there. It has been replaced, in large measure, by rubble. It is a modem Dresden.
But from behind the concrete barricades and sandbagged doorways came signs of
hope. The boulevards are bustling, the streetcars are running, and the coffee shops are
full. We visited the national theater where the Sarajevo Philharmonic keeps up the sprits of
its citizens. We visited a local school where children have returned to class. We sampled · .
pasta at a factory where U.S. aid workers help an ethnically-diverse workforce produce
food for starving refugees throughout Sarajevo, without regard for who controls the sector.
As I witnessed in Belfast with President Clinton just a few weeks earlier, Sarajevo
is hungry for peace. At the headquarters of the NATO Implementation Force (IFOR) it was
clear that if the Dayton Accord can give Bosnia a taste of it, the people will grab for more.
Sarajevo, starting place of one Great war, rriust be spared from starting hosting another.
But Sarajevo has a long way to go. As our armored Suburban snaked through
"Sniper Alley," our embassy guide pointed out macabre new sites on the standard tour.
"That's were the mortar landed in the middle of the market, killing sixty people," he
explained. We arrived at the Olympic Stadium as darkness fell. "French soldiers have
made the ice rink their headquarters. The soccer field is now a cemetery," he added.
�We spent one harrowing night at the Holiday Inn, where only a few floors are free
from artillery pock-marks. Peace was not in the air. Celebratory bullets from AK-47's
were. The staccato of weapons fire was punctuated, at 2:45am, by the pop of a mortar.
The shell hit far away, but the impact reverberated back to Washington. With IFOR on the
ground for only three weeks, Sarajevo was not ready for a presidential visit.
Flying on to Tuzla Air Base Sunday morning, we circled in our C-130, waiting
ninety minutes for the fog to clear. The dread that followed our first footsteps in Sarajevo
had evaporated with the fog. We were now in the hands of U.S. Task Force Eagle, signs
of whose awesome power came from every direction. Apache gunships hovered overhead.
Bradley fighting vehicles trained their sights at the camp's perimeter. Of every image that
smacked of American might, the most reassuring of all was the Stars and Stripes, flying
above the airfield at this former ho~e of Warsaw Pact MiGs. We were on friendly soil.
Moms and dads of U.S. troops in Bosnia, know this from my week living among
them: Tuzla is no picnic. It's cold and wet and there is little to do but work. If your son or
daughter hasn't yet written home, know that they are probably living in a damp tent, eating
T-Rations for breakfast and dinner, and MRE's at midday. No soldier is allowed outside
the perimeter unless part of a fully-armed patrol. The base is alcohol-free. No one walks
off established roadways. The woods, we were warned, could be mined. Everyone wears
their Kevlar helmet, bulletproof vest and weapon, with ammunition ready, at all times.
The limitations have a predictable effect on morale, but Brig. Gen. William Nash,
the cigar-chomping commander of Task Force Eagle, knows nothing could jeopardize his
fragile mission -military success notwithstanding- more than a non-combat casualty or
breach of conduct. Nash doesn't suffer fools. If we White House people were going to
live on his base, we were ordered to follow Nash's F.A.R.s (Flat Ass Rules). And we
did. To Moms and Dads out there, I'll tell you what I told my parents on a crackling
satellite phone outside our tent after meeting the General: "I'm in good hands."
The hardships notwithstanding, the "warriors for peace," as the President dubbed
them, are on a mission worthy of the finest traditions of the American military; they know
it, and they're proud of it, from the senior officers to the junior enlisted men. There is no
force better equipped, better trained and better motivated to accomplish the mission than the
20,000 soldiers of Task Force Eagle.
The first fortification we surveyed was an abandoned MiG hangar renamed
Command Outpost Lima, home now to 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, of the 3rd
Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment At all times, half the platoon is out on patrol,
scouring the perimeter for any breach. No enemy has dared test the mettle of "Charlie
Rock." Their only Bosnian visitors are students from the reopened grade school nearby,
who poke fingers through concertina wire in search of pencils. Inside the hangar, the guys
know they're not just giving kids pencils. Being in Bosnia, they're giving them hope.
At the airport, where the President would address the troops, I found similar
heroism. In early December, some of the first soldiers on the ground were the Air Force
621st TALCE (pronounced "talcie") Quick Reaction Team from McGuire Air Force Base.
They turned a decrepit runway into a massive air cargo facility, literally overnight. "Paving
the way" is nothing new to TALCE. Though the DoD drawdown has cut their teams from
six to two, they are always ready to go, from Kuwait to Somalia to Rwanda to Haiti.
Capt. Mike Hamill, the boss of the cargo ramp was, when I met him, nearing the
end of his mission. A permanent airport management team would replace the quick
reaction team shortly. Mike pined for his primary job of flying the C-5 Galaxy. His first
priority, he told me, was just to look at his wife, for a week. But halfway through our
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week, Mike's unit got orders to pack for Burundi; a planned airlift would need ground
support. This is a mission only TALCE can do. No complaints from Capt. Hamill. He
expressed hope, as I left, that we'd work together again, maybe when U.S. forces
implement the eventual peace between Israel in Syria in the Golan Heights. Shalom, Mike.
On my final day in Tuzla, I was busy with airport preparations. At dawn,
enormous Aeroflot transports began landing the first wave of Russian soldiers who will
serve alongside U.S. troops to implement the peace in the v_aunted Posavina Corridor. To
see Capt. Hamill's team move in swiftly to greet the Russians and help unload their aircraft
was to see, in one unblemished moment , the Cold War become a warm peace.
***
In April, 1995, Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin commemorated the 50th Anniversary
of World War II at a ceremony I set up in the Rose Garden. In tribute to the veterans
present, the Russian leader held aloft an enlarged photo of the link-up at the Elbe River fifty
years earlier when soldiers of the U.S. and U.S.S.R. met for the first time. The scene
was, by any measure, the high water mark of the Alliance.
I left the Rose Garden as dispirited as I left Normandy. My generation, which
witnessed the West prevail in the Cold War, also witnessed its powerful nation's
powerlessness to prevent slaughter in Bosnia. Could we ever know the pride of our
parent's generation -embodied in that photo of the Elbe- when our country looked beyond
its borders and united with its allies in a just cause to stop totalitarianism and genocide?
On January 12, 1996, at the end of a muddy runway in Tuzla, BosniaHerzegovina, I witnessed my generation's link-up at the Elbe. I was very proud, indeed.
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�THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 16, 1996
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
FROM:
DON BAER
SUBJECT:
Photographic Coverage of the Bosnia Trip
Attached is a representative sample of photographic coverage
of your visit to Tuzla.
The trip received a Page One photo in Sunday Papers
throughout the country, most frequently the photo of you and
General Nash walking toward the stage from the back of the
event.
Photographers also captured several compelling images of you
shaking hands along the ropeline. In some shots, however,
the photos of you wearing a beret or a baseball cap were
less than flattering. In events ~re every moment could
yield "the picture" of the trip, we should be careful to
avoid exposing you to photo opportunities wearing souvenir
headwear.
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1996
·Clinton VisitS Bosnia to Thank the G.L.'s
He Calls Them
the 'Waniors
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By ALISON MITCHELL·
As Veterans' Numbers Drop,
aQuarter of Beds in 173
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Homeowners like Christopher Hill of Katonah, N.Y., are frustrated
with built-up roof ice. But experts warn againat copying Mr. Hill
Melting Snow in Northeast Has
Nowhere to Go but Into Homes
By ROBERTO. McFADDEN
After a week of savage storms
that crippled government, com·
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and the Northeast, golden sunshine
and almost sprlnglilte warmth
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By PETER T. KILBORN
PHILADELPHIA - At a time
when the Federal Government Is
driving down the cost of health care
and forclng hospitals across the
country to close, the Department of
Veterans Affairs keeps expanding
Its own hospital system, the nation's
largest, and spending more for
health care.
Government reports call the Veterans Health Administration a bloated bureaucracy, with surgeons who
have gone a year without llfting a
knife, and rife with wasteful practices like admitting clients to hospitals for conditions that outpatient
clinics everywhere else treat in an
hour or two.
A quarter of the beds In the v.A.'s
173 hospitals stand empty as the
surviving soldiers of World War II
move into their 70's and SO's and the
veteran population shrinks. There
are 26 million veterans now, down
from 30.1 million In 1980.
Yet In Washington's battle over
the 1996 budget, President Clinton
has proposed an Increase of more
than $700 million for the Veterans
Health Administration, mostly for
new construction, and the Republican-dominated Congress has approved an Increase of $400 mllllon.
At the same time, Medicare, the
Government insurance program for
the elderly, and Medicaid, the program for the poor, face sizable cuts
In projected spending.
V.A. jobs have grown wi'tb the
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TUZLA, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
President Clinton viSited American forces at Tuzla, Bosnia, yesterday.
In Iowa Debate, Dole's Rivals
H~t Senator From All Sides
Jan. 13 - With Apache attack hellcopters patroUlng the slate-grey
skies overhead, President Clinton
stood today before rows of the AmerIcan soldiers be bad sent to Bosnia
and thanked them for being "warrlnrs for peace."
On a cblll and barren airfield, the
nearby roadways mired In thick
mud, President Clinton gazed at 500
soldiers In camouflage gear and told
them they represented the American ideal.
"Around the world people look to
America, not just because of our size
and strength but because of what we
stand for and wbal we're willing to
stand against," the President said,
speaking from a makesbtft wooden
podium piled with sandbags.
"We can't be everywhere, and
even you can't do everything," be
said "But where we can make a
difference, where our values and our
Interests are at stake, we must act"
Underscoring the Importance he ·
places on peacekeeping missions,
Mr. Clinton announced that he bad
signed an executive order creating a
new campaign medal, the Armed
Forces Service Medal, for those who
serve their nation In "slgriificant,
noncombat mllltary missions." He
said all the particlpants in the Bosnia operation would receive it
Before Mr. Clinton spoke, he viSited Ch~t Uma, a sandbag
bunker on the perimeter of the air·
field, and talked to the troops about
their living conditions. Dressed in a
brown leather bomber jacket and
tan khakis, be also presided over a
brief promotion ceremony for five
enlisted men. Outside the bunker, a
crude cardboard sign declared the
address as "Sniper Street."
It took Mr. Clinton two tries toda•
to make It into Tuzla, the headquB ·
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his tour yesterday of American troops attached to the NATO-led Bosnia peacekeeping mission, President Clinton joined soldiers at Tuzta /
air base, headquarters of the American forces in Bosnia, hailed them as "warriors for peace" and chatted with them about their living condition'jl.l
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from hts antagonists In the budget
squabble In WashlngiOn. Traveling
with the President' was Gen. John
ShallkaShvili, the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs or Staff.
SenaiOr Bob Dole, the leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, had wanted to visit
the troops over Christmas. But he
canceled his plans after Defense Secretary Wllliam\:J. Perry said NATO
and American military commanders
In Europe wanted to avoid distractions as the troops began arriving In
Bosnia
Mr. Clinton has begun pointing to
American peace-making efforts In
Haiti, Northern Ireland, the Middle
East and Bosnia as models of the
foreign policy the United States
should wage In the post-cold-war
\vorld
"We have a profound Interest In
seeing the United States be the
world's leading source of energy for
peace and freedom and democracy,"
he told assembly-line workers at a
truck-making plant In NaShville on
Friday shortly before he set off for
the whirlwind tour that was scheduled to keep him In the Balkan area
for about 18 hours before returning
to WaShington early Sunday.
Mr. Clinton's trip was marked by
heavy security. His precise Itinerary
was
held, and Secret Service
Isl11anlshoote'1rs followed him In Tuzla,
he stayed Inside the grounds
air field, seeing n.othlng of the
effects on the town. A senior
In his entourage said the
President's visit to Bosnia - had .
"more logistical, security and weather variables" than he had ever encountered before. Mr. CllniOn took
orr from Tuzla about two and a half
'Where our valpes
and interests are at
stake, we must act, ' ·
the ~ident says.
El==:r
Croara
0 Serbs OcroaiS
After a detour to Hungary, President Clinton reached Tuzla.
hours after his arrival as fog rolled
In, advised by the Secret Service to
leave before dark.
At Taszar airfield In Hungary, the
forward staging area for American
troops moving by land through Ceoatla Into Bosnia, the side of the tar..mac was littered with broken-down
Soviet MIG fighter planes, a reminder of the cold war.
"Just a1x years ago, Hungary·was
still part of the Warsaw Pact, and
now It's home to the largest American military operation In Europe
since World War II," the President
!Old hundreds or men and women In
combat fatigues, many with cameras, who crammed Into a makeshift
me's's hall 10 see him and take snapshots.
Green tents lined the air leld that,
like Tuzla, was such a sea of thick
mud that Mr. Clinton deScribed It In
hts radto address back home. "In
Tuzla, the headquarters for our
troops In Bosnia, the weather report
Is pretty much the same every day:
mud, mud and more mud," the PresIdent said.
Despite the primitive conditions,
the soldiers greeted Mr. Clinton with
applause and repeated guttural
shouts of "Hoo-aa," pep-rally. style.
This was In mark,ed contrast to the
early days of his Presidency, when
he was heckled at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as someone who had
avoid military conscription and was
joked about by sailors while visiting
the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt.
With many' or the nearly 7,000
troops In ·Tasiar heading on to Bosnia, Mr. Clinton told them, "I'd like to
be able to report that when you get
there, you will find deluxe accommodations."
"I'd like to be able to do that," he
said, to swelling laughter. "But even
for a political leader, that's stretchIng the truth a little more than people .
~·dare."
i.
: · Despite the living conditions, sonie ,
or the troops expressed support for ·,
the Bosntan mission and delight 1Jt ,
seeing the President.
' ··
"It's great, great, real great for·,
him to help us out," said Specialist ·
Doris Splunge, 31, who sets out io ·.
Bosnia Monday. Another 30-year-ol,d .
soldier, who would not give hts name,
said:.'~! appreciate him coming here. ;
Misery loves c'oinpany."
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Mr. Clinton also fit In time for::
diplomacy. In Tuzla he assembled an 1'
unusual delegation or religious anil .1
civic leaders or Bosnia, Including : 1
Tarlk Kupusovlc, the Muslim May~r '!
or Sarajevo, and Nedejlko Prstoje- ,, '
vic, the May(lr or llldza. a Serbian I: ·
suburb of Sarajevo. Mr. Clinton alsO! I
.met with President Alija lzetbegovl,c · /
of Bosnia In Tuzla and then wl!lJ " .
President Franjo Tudjman o! Cro- j 1
atla In a brief stopover In Zagreb •
1
before flying back to Wa.$1ngton.
Aides said Mr. Clinton wanted
urge Mr. Tudjman to seek a peacefUl, '
solution to the dispute with Serb!~ · /
over Eastern Slovonla
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Treated to a red carpet welcome
at zagreb's airport, Mr. Clinton :
urged the crowds that bed turned out :
to see him to "choose peace -:1- 1
choose the future."
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He expressed optimism about the I '
peBC!B despite recent violence In Sa- I .
rajevo and fighting. In Mostar.l ·
"Frankly I have to say I'm con.; I
cerned about those Incidents," he i ,
said. But he added, "Given the level,
or animosity which bed existed, l '
think the signs have been quite i 1
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good."
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France's
news anchorman, was or_dered oft' the nightly news by network executives after a court UPtop
i.tluyweaponry, President Clinton
called the NATO peacekeeping
effort a mission for heroes that Is
moving ahead "step by steady
step."
Addressing 850 American soldiers Saturday, all dressed in filii
combat gear at the heavily anned
U.S. base, the commander in chilif
said, "We thank you here for being wsrriors for peace."
"Sir, we are committed to do
our duly and we will suceeed,"
said Maj. Gen. WDliamNash, commander of U.S. forces in Bosnia.
Even with the words oC optimism, signs oC the region's insta-·
billty abounded. A Bradley lighting vehicle and Apache attack helicopter loomed behind the president Military police with guaid
does prowled the area, and radar
diShes circled. Clinton wasn't ex- ,
pected to veutore 1\'um the heavi· :I
Jy secured base to view any oCtlie '
damage wrought by 3'1> years oC i
war.
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jackets with M-16s slung
their backs: "Who ~ you can't ,
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note, he said, "I ihlDk the presi-- 1
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early April after another appeals
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fog and reWd in by safety concems,
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table talk a key
to child's literacy
"Time mu.! again, you have stood
down oggresSion. Time and again
you have triumphed in war. Bnt to
Bosnia you came on a mission of
peace, a mission £or heroes." Clinton
told some 850 soldiers, ainneo and
engineers gathered in formation on
Ute tarmae to hear hi.! address. They
rep~ted more than 8,200 American troops already in Bosnia to implement an Ameriean-brokered
peace deal signed last. month.
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marred by several appai-e.Dt
breacl1es or Ute peaoo 1:res1.y in~
Bosnian capital of Sanljevo and in
the ethnically divided cicy or M~.
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cred on the airstrip of Ute s.Mei;.
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~ISiting Bosni~ Cllnton calls troop,s 'warriors for peace'
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really wanted this chance to hear
him speak."
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"Democrats or· Republicans, we
!the ashes of war in Bosnia, you and
:tJiey are raising the torcll of a new,
all fully support our commander iJ1
chief," 2d Lt. Chris Meredith, 28, of
Selma, Ala., quiekly added.
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Asked if they resented Clinton
for having avoided military service iD
Vietnam, most soldiers demurred,.
but echoed the sentiments of Stsfr.
Sgt. Stephen Williams of Georgia:
"Whateyer happened in the past .iS
the past. H!!'i! still our commander iii.
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ehief."
Clinton spent his time on t!!ll
base visiting troops, getting brief!!d
.undivided Europe."
Clad in a leather bomber jacket
~decorilted with the symbol of the
:First Annoied Division, whiCh is
;1~ the Bosnian mission, Clinton
'joked .about the mud and poor
weather that have dogged the mfs.
;rim-so far. He prai8ed the soldiers
~or .bven:oming adverse conditlons,
~!Jcluding less-than-gourmet food
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;llroiighl with him 200 cases of Coca; Colli iilid 5,000 Hershey bars, along
~~J.I&gs of mail.
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~~history here In Bosnia," he
~reassured the !IDidiers. "Don't you_
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:~ct fpt in Taszar, Hungary, the
;mgmg area for thoussnds of Ameri;llai fl:69ps on their way into Bosnia.
&aritved in Tuzla five hours later
~~J'il. tlie sky finally cleared enough
ctirli~Kf; and was on the base for just
q If~ over three hours. He flew on
~tO Zagreb, Croatia, where he talked
'.with President Franjo Tudjrium be::flire: beading back to the United
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1mey Command Sgt. Ml\ior Jack
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:~ha.j and dry-run salutes, told and engineers yesterday at Tuzla air base In northwest Bosnia.
;thilln b\ take off their gloves in re:~ ~ even humorously admon- ing the long wait with the children's gians, Turks and Americans.
said they were plessed the president booster."
-~ iDe soldier to spit out his gum. song "This Old Man," quickly switchThough the well-practiced cheer was coming and felt his trip would be
"I just want to 8hake his hand
: • "Give me a big hooha! Don't hold ing to the national anthem when the that greeted the end of Clinton's a morale booster.
and get a picture with hitn," said
:back. Be mean, be tough, that's what president arrived. An_ honor guard speech was not quite booming with - "He sent us here because he Was Anny
Spec. Adam Schreiber, 25, of
::You're here Cor," he egged them on.
· 'IIf you keep serewing up, they'll marclled with five soldiers each from enthusiasm, soldiers said it was only worried about the place, so it's good Los Angeles, as he waited for Clin·Send you to B~" he added, to the the various batallions represented In because they were tired and cold he's· come," said Army Sgt: Lee Or- ton to arrive. •rm the only Demoberson, 25, who grew up in Stock- crat in the squad. rm the only one
the American-led sector: Pakistanis, after the long wait to hear him.
laughter ·of the troops.
American troops interviewed holm, Sweden. "It's a good morale who voted for him and I will again.. I
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meeting with political and religious
dignitaries, including Bosnian Presi-,
dept Aliya lzebegovie; the
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Serb strongholds Banja Luka and
Didza; the Catholic Bishop of Banja
Luka, and the Croat mayor of Novi
Travnik, among others.
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looking forward to seeing ClintOn
and moat disappointed when he was
unable to venture off the base were
some of the ordinary victims of tJie
war.
"We are disappointed that we
can't see him. He's a good man, 10\!l
president,". said Husein Habibovic,
48, amachinist who stood ouiBide the
base at 6 in the morning, hoping ir.
vain to get a view of Clinton or hif
plane. "America has been our on!)
friend. They've helped us a lot." "I'd love to see him," said Nezin
Halileevie, 62, in disappointment
saying· he'd have to wat.eh it on
vision instead. Clinton's aides neet
not have worried about bringing bin
out to meet mainly Muslim people it
- Tuzla, Halilcevie insisted. "We an
not a Violent people. Americans an
our best friends."
Others waiting ouiBide in hope
of a glimpse of their own presiden
weren't so complimentary of ClintoJ:
"After we get killed, he comes,
snorted Enes Tokic, 36.
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US are capable" we ask only "ths
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Allies Breach
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Sarlljevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina- Artillery exchanges were reported yesterday between Croats and Muslims sU.pposed allies under the Dayton peace •
agreement - even as President Bill
· Clinton was patting NATO's back for '
. ending the f~ghting in Bosnia.
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The artillery duel in the Usora valley
in northeast Bosnia represented the·
most serious violation of the peace pact
since it was signed a month ago. It took
place only 35 miles west ofTuzla, where
Clinton visited U.S. troops in the
NATO-led mission to enforce th!' peace.
The Bosnian pesce accord is struc. tured around a 'Muslim-Croat federation and a Serb republic. But the federation has been burdened by mutual
distrust since· it began in March, 1994,
after a 'year of Muijlim-Croat fighting.
Should the federation collapse, the entire accord would be jeoJII!I"(Iized.
There were conflicting accounts of
what hap)iened in Usora. .
. A Bosnian Croat commander, Drago
Dragicevic, said about 300 gOvernment
troops, armed with artillery, crossed
into the Croat-controlled U.Ora valley
Friday in an apparent attempt to take
two villages.
· But Bosnian President Haria Siliijdzic
said that Bosnian Croat forces "tried to
enter an area that should have been vacated by the Dayton agreement."
"They raised a·Croatiao flag there,''
the Bosnian prL'lle minister said. '"Our
forces responded."
He also said that a police unit from
Croatia, which supports the Bosnian
Croats, had been sent to Mostar, "but I
do not know of any agreement between
[Croatia. and Bosnia] for them to be
there."
· Capt. Michael Jensen, a NATO
spokesman in Zagreb, Croatia, said the
Bosnian Croat and government commanders from. the Usora area met yesterday with the NATO-led troops and
took the first steps to settling the problems and agreed to withdraw their
troops behind previously held lines. He
had no other details.
U sora added to the mistrust caused by
Mostar, a southwestern city that bore
the brunt of Musli.m-Croat fighting in
1993 and was left divided between the
two ethnic groups. Attempt~~ to reunite
Mostar are foundering, and a Muslim ·
and a Croat were killed there this month
by small-arms fire.
·Many Bosnians fear that Croatia
wants to annex regions of Bosnia where
ethnic Croats live.
"I think that some Croat political circles are not ready to give up what they
call the Croat state in Bosnia,'' Silajdzic
said. "I've been trying to warn about
this . . . but everybody thinks it will go
away. It won't go away until the people
that want to disintegrate Bosnia go
away."
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Tuzla, Bosnia- Clad in full battle gear, nearly 1,000
American service personnel who have been living in
mud, fighting rats and eating field rations for weeks
seemed'generally pleased yesterday after a pep talk by
President Bill Clinton, who also somehow managed to
leave Muslim and Serbian political and religious leaders smiling a,fter a series of private meetings.
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It was Clinton's f11"8t visit to the vanguard of what
will eventually become 20,000 U.S. troops he sent here
despite widespread public criticism to protect the peace
plan signed last month in Dayton, Ohio.
The troops had waited for several hours for Clinton's
giantC-17 military jet to penetrate a thick fog at Tuzla
Air Base, where about 2,100 Americans from the Army
and Air Force have been living in mud for weeks; some
· of them going without baths and clean laundry for
several days at a time. Clinton seemed to score the most .
points when he ackriowledged their hardships.
"Time· and again, you have stood down aggre88ion;
time and again you have triumphed in war," he said in
a makeshift; podiUm set up.on the tarmac againat a
backdrop of armored tracked vehicles and helicopter
gunships.
"In Bosnia, you came on a mission of peace, a mission for heroes," Clinton said. '"~hankyou for defending our nation's values and our nation's interests. We
thank you for helping the Bosnian people. We thank
you for baing warriors for peace.'~
Clinton also announced he had authorized a new
medal for those serving in the peacekeeping mi88ions.
Slightly more than 800 of the 2,100 troops on the
Tuzla Air Base greeted Clinton with a somewhat tepid
chorus of "Hoo-ilbh," even though they had rehearsed
the response during the hours they waited for the
dissipation of the fog that forced Clinton to detour to
Hungary. There he spoke to some 8,246 American
·
troops.
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There was tight security. Apache gunship helicopters hovered overhead and circled over hills that recently served as Serb artillery emplacements. Blackclad, counter-sniper teams sat on elevated towers
scanning the hills, and military policemen kept all but
heavily screened vistors from entering the base. Outside the gate, scores of Bosnians stood to catch a
glimpse of Clinton.
"They just love him," said a military policewoman,
Sbuna Richardson, 26, who grew up in the South
Bronx. She caught snatches of Clinton's speech and
seemed satisfied.
"He talked about our meals. There's not enough
variety," she said. Richardson seemed untroubled
about Clinton'slack of military service. "Some people
got to do what they got to do," she said, wearing a
sidearm, flak vest, combat knife, canteens, flashlight
and specially insulated boots to keep out the damp cold.
After he talked to the troops, Clinton was rushed
from room to room in the base headquarters by Assis·
tant Secreatary of State Richard Holbrooke, United
Nations Ambassador Madeleine Albright and the
president's coordinator for implementation of the accord, Robert Galluci. They were among a delagstion of
advisers and members of Congress who accompanied
him, including Sen. Charles Robb (0-Va.).
The rooms contained political and religious leaders
of all sides of the conflict in former Yugoslavia. Highranking American military officers clad in camouflage
clustered with them and there were many whispered
converstations in the corners, participants said.
Although Clinton is widely distrusted by Bosnian
Serbs for having seemed to force them to compromise,
with Croats and Muslims, Serb officials and· Muslims
seemed thrilled after their meetings.
"I can only wish him success in the coming elections.
This young man deserves to win. He is like President
Kennedy,'' said BaJUa Luka Mayor Predrag Radic, a
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President Bill CUnton exchangea a salute and a smile wHh a U.S. saldler while reviewing lhe troops at Tuzla·Afr Base In Bosnia.
Serb, who said Clinton bad been "equally nice and fair
to everyo)le."
Bosnia vice-president Ejup Ganic said the visit htien
a full.succeess and Clinton in full command of the
details of the conflict.
"Short and sweet," said Granich, who wore a brown
leather jacket similar to the one Clinton wore during
the visit. "He was in tight control of everything. He
knew the details. He was very well brieifed. He didn't
seem tired or under pressured. He was a relaxed guy."
Bosnian vice-president Granich, who seemed thrilled
he had spent a half hour with the president.
The troops seemed more concerned with Clinton's
familiarty with their complaints.
"It's muddy,'' said Staff Sgt. Ellen Houston· of
Queens, a parole officer who was called up and arrived
last night.
''That was a really good speech," said Senior Airman
Tim Johnson, 24, who grew up in Staten Island. "It's
good to know someone cares about us. It's getting a
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little chilly out here.''
Staff Sgt. Timoohtry Kiernan, 30; of Montgomery, a
small town near Peekskill, N.Y. took a while to comReporter's Notebook, Page A45
ment. He complained copiously about living in the.
mud, Jiatroling at night, rats in the tents, and food.
According to Bosnian Foreign Minister Mohammad "My wife doesn't know what's happening when I call
Seceribey, there were two main issues that clime up in her. At least he was interested."
the meeting. One was the Muslim plea that the Dayton
Senior Master Sgt. Bararba Wright, a 19-year veterAgreement's deadline of Friday for an exchange of an and a self-described Republican, seemed surprised
prisoners be put off until Serbs account for some that she bad liked what Clinton bad said. "He was a Jot
24,000 persons said by Muslims to be missing. The warmerthanlel(ptecedhimtobe,"shesaid,commentother issue was fighting between Croats and Muslims ing on his familiarity with their conditions. "The one
in Mostar, a threat to the delicate federation that is to thing we want is bot showers· and toilets.''
control half of Bosnia.
. Clinton met with two groups from the area, a halfCLinton did not make any commitment but did say hour meeting with Bosnian Federation PresidentAlija ·
th!lt while be wanted to encou~ Serbs not to flee Izbegovitch and top government leaders and a brief
areas around Sarl\ievo to be controlled by the Croat- ceremonial meeting with a group of 13 Muslim, Croat'
Muslii:n federation, he wanted to restore Serb-occupied and Serbian political and religious leaders people who
houses in the suburbs 'to Muslims who bad fled, said have not sat down together since the war started.
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Reaching Out
Mitterrand is dead, and
Kohl is ... German.
Europe is looking for
a leader and hasn't
found anyone at home.
Is Clinton the answer?
sive bombing campaign against the Bosnian
Serbs in the summer. American stroking
that kept Russians in the game, American
bulldozer diplomacy-in the shape of As·
sistaat Secretary of State Richard Hoi·
brooke-that seeured the Bosnian peace
accords at (where else?) a U.S. Air Force
base in Dayton, Ohio.
The commander in chiefs visit to Bosnia
last week-his first-underscored Ameri·
ca's prominent role. Security concerns kept
Clinton on the plane for a half hour after
landing; then be waded into a crowd of Gls
to shake bands and pat backs. "Your country is very proud of you," be said to "all the
veterans of the Tuzla mud." The trip g;.ve
Clinton a chance to see not just the mud but
some of the risks that lurk there. Showing
the president a large map dotted with col·
ored pins, Gen. William Nash told Clinton
that 2,000 minefields bad already been
identified in the U.S. sector. In his comments in Tuzla-and in stops in Italy and
Hungary-Clinton noted that what is at
stake is not just peace but a new Europe.
''You are making history bere," be said.
And don't think the Clinton administration isn't enjoying it. Officials boast that the
U.S.-led NATO alliance bas become, as
State Department spokesman Nicholas
Burns puts it, ''the central organizing insti·
tution for Europe." Burns goes further... It's
high time," be says, "that the United States
asserted itsel£ !(sa European power, and
Europe can't be stable without the U.S.
there... Fresh from its successes in Bosnia
and in Ireland, where the
Americans are indispensable to
the peace process, the administration is turning its attention to
another intractable European
problem: the 22-year-old division of Cyprus into Greek and
Turkish sectors. Holbrooke,
plamting to leave the State Departmentsoon.iswidelyexpect·
ed to give Cyprus the full blast of
his personality before be does
so. And so the aDS\\"er to the
question "Who leads Europe?"
seems plain: the Americans do.
Yet this is misleading. For
BY MICHAEL ELLIOTT
HEY FLOCKED BY THE TENS OF
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thousands to the Place de Ia
Bastille in Paris. as they bad
done on a May night 15 year.;
one thing. America's record on
Bosnia has not been an untarnished triumph, nor Europe's
an utter fuilure. The Clinton administration spent the better
part of two year.; talking tough
on Bosnia. but while the fighting raged was never prepared
earlier, when FranfirOis Mitterrand was elected president of
France. Then as now, they left
mountains ofred roses in the street, but this
time not in celebration but as a memorial,
for Mitterrand bad died. "He was my presi·
dent," said Karine Game, a 26-yeaNJid law
student. sheltering a candle from the rain.
"He represented France with dignity
abroad and watched over us at home." Was
there any other political leader, she was
asked. of Mitterrand's stature? "Living?
French?" she asked in reply. And then, after a moment, "Not even in Europe.''
The old continent, these days, finds it
bard to find homegrown leaders. But four
days after 1\<litterrand's death a man from a
to commit ground forces to the
region. For all their failings, the
Europeans kept countless Bos·
nians alive during the
war. And
the Europeans have a naggingand weD-justified -suspicion
that the Americans v.<>on't stick
around. "The problem with the
U.S.," says Carl Bildt, the Swede
in charge of civilian reconstruction in Bosnia. "is that atten·
younger generation flew to Bosnia. the el-
tion comes rapidly, then is very
lipsis that separates the two words "European" and "civilization." He told his troops
intense, and disappears quiekly
when something happens in an·
other part of the world." Be-
that they were "raising the torch of a new
and undivided Europe." He was Bill Clin·
ton, on a flying visit to Tuzla, the headquar·
ters of the American troops in the NATO
peace-implementation force. And so the old
question, asked periodically since 1945.
posed itself again: are Americans the most
effective European leaders?
It's easy to think so. "Leadership" is a
concept that doesn't come easy to Europeans or, indeed, to some European languages: Fiihrersclw.[t. the German word. is,
shall we say. problematic. And at least in
the case of Bosnia, the easy version of histor.- bas it that the Americans did indeed
show a leadership that Europeans lacked. It
v.--as American pressure that led to the deci-
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sides, as '\\-~come-as indispensable-astheAmericansmaybe
on the securitv architecture of
Europe, they ·have less to say
on questions of economic and
political integration. And those
are the questions that now engage Europeans. They will be
the subject of the Intergovernmental Conference of the European Union, whichissettobegin
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'You are maldng history hete':
Clinton's trip to Tuzla gave
him a chane>? to see some of the
risks tlw.t lurk in Bosnia
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; .bES MO~ J~ ~A 1IIOIIth front-runner, Senate~ Leader advertising~ rise to Second place in 1
tbe first crucial test in tbe bat- Robert J. Dole (Kan.), have been polls gauging the Republican race, '
tle. fOr the Republicin presiiteiltial titalled by the~ of the well-· . has become a serious factor in the
~. tbe niDe GOP-candidates fiDanced Forbes campaign. .~ . . . ~
contest.
-met bere today fnr a !Kkninute debate
So today, several of those rivals
Dole, who Friday launched a tete~)imed into a surprisihg and~ tOok direct aim at Forbes and his plan vision advertising strike on Forbes,
Cl!lllriled assault oo a wealthy lat& fur a 17 pen:ent "8at tu,• Which one · may have been the biggest beneficiaciometto the race, publisbing beir Mal- called "a nutty mea•·and OtherS said - ry of the constant sniping at Forbes
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been doing the heavy lifting in Washington to produce an agreement to.
balance the budget in seven years. . .
"'n many ways, it's a recognition
that this iS turning into a IaCe for second place_ in Iowa,• ~state GOP
Chairman Brian Kennedy. "It's a con-:
cession by the other candidates that
Steve
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tO expire on Jan. 26 if Congress and
the White House cannOt resolve the
~--·Fed's meeting.
· Tbe Commerce Department's
There is no timely data because budget impasse.
field staff should he conducting its the government has been shut doWn;-· ··- · . "I don't really know what is going
monthly survey of 56,000 bouse- started up, shut down and i-estartee'· . to happen;• Commerce Secretary
holds this week. but won't. Instead, again. The routine and the rhythm's · Ronald H. Brown said, echoing rankthe survey-Wied to calculate na- of the bureaucracy are out of Wluick. · and-file employees inteniewed last
· tinnal unemployment figures-will
The uncertainty caused by the week.
he conducted the following week. shutdown will not end soon at.dozens
As a result, when agencies reopen
That means the staff wiD not have of agencies and ~'CongresS on _Tuesday; they wiD he foa!sed on
tiJ:ne to do its JDOiithly survey of has put higbly visible or·. politically short-term priorities. and. apJirehencrime victims.
sensitive parts of the govemmeut- sive about making long-term comAt month's end, it is bigbly unlike- .. national parks, passport offices, vet- mitments.
IY that the first estimates- of 1995's erims benefits, the FBI-on a steady
At the U.S. Information Agency,
fourth quarter gross domestic prod- fiscal footing through Sept. 30. ~Jut which Bouse Republicans ~ ~
uct will he reildy fur Federal Re- it· .has left others-including the
key senators have targeted for elimi:serve policymakerS when they re- Commerce Department and the En- nation, the agency cannot transfef.
view monetary policy. It's _also viionmental Protection Agency-on
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President ClintOn, wltiiMIIJ. Gen. WIDiam L Nallll, walks through the
renka of U.S. troopa at tile Tuzla air base. Story on Page A30.
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At the Tllzll air INiae, ~ c:untaft ~ allf!1hdaJ Sift tO Air ForCe CoL ~eal ~- floni'Patton'B wife;
security advisei- Anthony lake and
Assistant Secretary of State Rich-
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Brd C. Holbrooke met .with a multi· · ·
etluiic group of more tban' a dozen
civic leaders. The meeting. included
SARAJEVO, Bosnia, Jan. 13NATO said today that it would help investigate :reports of masa graves in
Bosnia if asked by International orgaDizatiooa but said it was too busy with
military,tasks to do so immediately.
The issue is important because of
reports that the Bosnian Serbs have
bidden up to 8,000 bodies in mine
&bafts in noithwestem Bosnia. The
United States also says there are
masa graves near Srebrenic:a, a Muslim enclave in 'eastern Bosnia that fell
to the Serbs last June.
. A NATO spokesman,.Capt. Mark
van Dyke, told reporters that the alliIIIICe-led peace force would help es, cart officials. from the lntemationaJ
.War Crimea Tribunal or other organizations to sites where masa graves
have been reported, if asked by them
todoao.
But another spokesman, Brig. Andrew CUmming, said the NATO peac:e
force in Bosnia Ia currently preoccupied with making sure the c:ounby's
warring factions withdraw their
forces from zones of separation. This
is to be completed in less than a
week, by Jan. 19. Cumming said help
Vmko Puljic, the ·Roman Catholic
cardiDal of Sara.i!M); ·Sell,m Beslagic,.
the Musliril mliyor of.Tuzla; and Miuq,olit Nill:ollli; bead of the Bosnian
Serb Orthodox Church. White
House press secretary Michael
Mc:Curry said the: administration
believes the diversity of the group
and its cordiality are :a ·good sign
that the antagonists in the Bosnian
c:onOic:t are ready to cooperate.
Several Bosnian officia1B who at· Bosni3n government bas accounted
tended a half-hoilr seasion with for 450;' the Bosnian government
Clinton .expressed·Ji;.tisfac:tion with list totals 24,000-including thouthe president's visit:while citing ,sailds missing after the faB of Sreseveral problem areas.- Bosnian Forbreoica and other MUSlim strongeign Minister Muliamed Sac;irhey,
for example, said the· prisoner eE· holds-of whom the Serbs have
accounted for cmiY 123, Sacirbey
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But Bosnian ~~ hldent t:jup,'
the peac:e ac:c:ords remained unfW.
filled. Serb officials 'bave presented Ganic c:alled the' session with Clili- '
a list of 700 Serb prisoners of war ton "short ·and sweet. .• '.. I t1iink
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was not one of NATO's primary tasks
in Bosnia.
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"We c:an't afford it at the moment. • , • If we divert in too many eli. rections, we will not ac:hieve our task
••• and we will lose aedibility'," Cummiog said. He cleclined to Say-when·.
aucc:ess.• Notiilg that U.S. sec:urity NATO might be able to offer help.
Defense Secretary William J. Perry
officials had vetoed a Clinton visit to
Sarajevo aa too dangerous, .Genic: told the New York Times in an inter·
added, "We're sorry about Sarajevo, view published today that NATO
would protect hiDDID rights investigabut we understand.•
tors searthing for evidence of Dlii8Sllcres. The United Ststea haa accused
FOR MilliiiiFORMAnON .&J
the Bosnian Serbs of having murTo &toy •Pdatrd lhrr~~~~~lunlt tM daY dered thousands of Muslims fleeing
tnl'lhe lot8# BomiDn dnelopmentl, the Serb takeover of Srebrenic:a. The
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mvi«. ·To leam about Digitolln/1,
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MEMORANDUM FOR
FROM:
JOSH KING
SUBJECT:
Schedule
Wednesday, September 4
Fly to Tampa
Rent Car
RON Tampa
Thursday, September 5
Work Tampa Event, a.m.
Drive to Orlando
Check in at Orlando sites
RON Orlando
Friday, September 6
Work Orlando Events, am
Fly to Newport News, pm
RON Newport News
Saturday, September 7
Work Newport News Event, am
Fly to Washington
RON Washington
Sunday, September 8
Fly to St. Louis
Work on St. Louis Sites with Ed Emerson
RON St. Louis
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Fly to Kansas City
Work on Event Build-Up
RON Kansas City
Tuesday, September 10
Work Kansas City events (Welfare event and Southern Govs
Speech)
Fly with entourage to St. Louis and Pueblo
Visit Pueblo Site upon arrival
RON Pueblo
Wednesday, 'September 11
Work Pueblo Event (a.m.-Courthouse Steps Rally)
Fly with entourage to Phoenix and Palo Alto
Visit Palo Alto site upon Arrival
RON Palo Alto
Thursday, September 12
Work Palo Alto Site (a.m.-Literacy Event)
Fly with Entourage to Modesto and Los Angeles
Re-Evaluate Status
Either Return to D.C. or Fly to Iowa or Events Beyond
If a Northwest Bus Tour is signed-off on, fly North and
rendezvous with Bus Planning team.
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