Ivy: TODAY Partly sunny; High: 45, Low: 30. TOMORROW Sunny to partly cloudy; High: 47, Low: 32. 1£.4rIITr Ice hockey sweeps Minnesota, 7-3 and 7-6. See SPORTSMonday. One hundred and one years of editorial freedom Vol. CII, No.31 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Monday, November 11, 1991 copyrpt x;1991 ?he Mthgan 1at1y ,,ightmg rages / t WaSe cetfamn on between .Serbs, ( BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - The Serb-led Yugoslav army battled Croatian de- fenders street by street yesterday for control of Vukovar, a powerful symbol in the civil war over Croatia's independence drive. Belgrade media said federal troops had cap- tured a strategic hill overlooking the center of Vukovar, and the eastern Croatian stronghold appeared to be on the verge of falling after a three-month battle. The Yugoslav army also rained more shells on the republic's Adriatic port of Dubrovnik, another hotly contested region in the civil war over Croatia's attempts to break away from Yugoslavia with all of its territory intact. The fighting, which began after Croatia de- clared independence on June 25, continued de- spite an appeal on Saturday by Serbian-led Yugoslav leaders for the United Nations to send peacekeepers to Croatia. Serbia has said Croatia cannot secede from Yugoslavia within its present borders, claim- ing the republic's 600,000-strong Serb minor- ity would face persecution. Serb rebels and the Serbian-dominated fed- eral army have captured about one-third of Croatia's territory in 4 1/2 months of fight- ing. More ethnic tensions have been raised in Bosnia, where ethnic Serbs completed two days of voting yesterday on a secession refer- endum. There were no reports of any violence in thefballoting, and no results were expected before tomorrow. More than 1,700 people have died in the bloodshed in Croatia. Yesterday, Belgrade TV showed film of recent battles reminiscent of footage of the Sroats final Allied operations in Germany in World War lI. Federal soldiers climbed through shattered windows and the rubble of wrecked houses. Reports from both Serbia and Croatia on Saturday said the town's defenses were near collapse. Vukovar, on the Croatian side of the Danube River boundary between Croatia and Serbia, has stood in the way of the army's ef- forts to seize absolute control over a large piece of eastern Croatia. Croats outnumbered Serbs in Vukovar be- fore the fighting started, but Serb nationalists want the city for the capital of a new Serbian region carved out of eastern Croatia. Vukovar has been surrounded for weeks. An estimated 12,000 of the town's 40,000 res- idents remain, living in cellars to protect themselves from incessant shelling. Federal troops fired on the exclusive Belvedere hotel on the southern outskirts of Dubrovnik and the Babin Kuk hotel to the north, Zagreb radio reported. It said three grenades had fallen in the historic city center, but provided no details of damage. The Seroian appeal for peacekeepers came in a letter to the U.N. Security Council from.the four pro-Serbian members on what remains of the collective federal presidency. They urged that the peacekeeping forces form a buffer zone between areas dominated by Serbs and Croats in Croatia. A leading Yugoslav Army general, Nikola Uzelac, told reporters yesterday that his troops could leave the front in two to three days if peacekeepers arrived. Sacked!i KENNET OIERDiy Michigan defensive lineman Gannon Dudlar puts the wraps on Northwestern quarterback Len Williams in Saturday's, 59-14, Wolverine victory. For complete football coverage turn to SPORTSMonday. Reporter confident about M.iddle East peace talks by Lauren Dermer Daily Staff Reporter David Smith, a foreign correspondent for Reuters and Independent Television News, said the Middle East peace process, though it will be slow and agonizing, will eventually succeed. The British journalist, who just re- turned from covering last week's peace talks in Madrid, spoke Friday about "Superpowers and the Middle East" at the Michigan League as part of the Wa- terman Town Hall Celebrity Luncheon Series. "It wasn't a script anyone could have written," Smith said, referring to the overwhelming fact that Arab and Jew, Palestinian and Israeli, actually sat down at the same table to discuss peace. "I think that behind all the symbol- ism, there was real substance - it is a time when the peace that we dare to dream is possible," he said. "The most signifi- cant thing is that they are going to talk again." Smith explained exactly why each country attended last week's talks, stress- ing that although the most publicized problem is between Israel and its neigh- bors, there are also numerous local prob- lems that need to be unraveled. In Smith's opinion, the failure of the Soviet coup made President Bush a "super sheriff" and gives reason to believe the peace process will work in 20 to 30 years if the United States perseveres. . The effects of the attempted coup in August were so dramatic and so instant because it destroyed the illusion that what happens in Moscow is as important as what happens in Washington, he said. "It was not the superpowers that brought people to the table of the Middle East, it was the super sheriff," he added. "Rightly or wrongly, it is yours, and with it comes extreme responsibility." Smith attributed the urgency of the long-awaited peace talks to the end of the Cold War, which cut Syria off from So- viet arms supplies, left Israel with an in- flux of Soviet Jews, and gave Palestinians the message that they should, "take half a loaf now, because you'll never get any more." Smith said in a press conference fol- lowing his speech that he left Madrid feeling that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir is the right man to make history. "It will only be a Yitzhak Shamir who will sell Israel the idea of peace," he said. "It will only be a Yitzhak Shamir who will convince Israelis that land will See PEACE, Page 2 Westmoreland honors vets at new Vietnam memorial by Karen Pier Daily Staff Reporter Little do they know we spit on our hands Two young fans reach out to touch members of the Michigan Marching Band Saturday as the musicians make their way around the field before the half-time show. Forum to examine peace con eren ce ram ica Ions Songs, poems, the unveiling of a mon- ument, and speeches - including one by former Gen. William Westmoreland - honored Vietnam veterans from Washte- naw county at a ceremony at the Ypsilanti Township Civic Center yesterday. "This is a veterans' memorial - not a war memorial. It is a place where we can come to reflect on our own memories and continue the healing process," said Viet- nam veteran and memorial committee chair, John Kinzinger. The nearly two-hour long ceremony climaxed at the unveiling of a black gran- ite memorial. The memorial is divided into five sections to symbolize the five branches of service. Inscribed on the it are the names of the 72 men who died and of the three still listed as missing in action. These military personel were praised by Westmoreland, the keynote speaker of the program, who headed U.S. troops in Vietnam. "A soldier's call is to serve. He or she leaves behind life's normal concerns over danger and death so that ends more mean- ingful than comfort and security may be attained," he began. He also spoke of the Vietnam war in general. "Unlike most of our nation's wars, our objectives in Indochina were more political than military, more psy- chological than geographic." Because of this difference, there was confusion in the public mind about the war, he said. Westmoreland said the military was successful in the two objectives of the war, preventing communists from seizing more territory and creating a balance of power so that China, the U.S.S.R., and the government in Hanoi, North Vietnam, would stop trying to invade Vietnam and other countries in the region. During the 20th century, Westmore- land said, "America has been a major fac- tor and influence in fostering freedom and the self-determination of nations." Former University Prof. Woodrow Hunter spoke about his son, Michael, who was killed in Vietnam. Michael, who felt tormented when he had to kill, said in his last letter to his parents that he would be home in two See MEMORIAL, Page 2 by Joshua Meckler Daily Staff Reporter Two journalists, one representing an American paper and one a Lebanese paper, will speak tonight in Rackham Auditorium about the possible ramifications of the recent Middle East peace conference. The forum, sponsored by the University Activities Center (UAC) as part of its Viewpoint Lectures series, will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will include half-hour presentations by each journalist as well as an hour-long wanted to make it as much an analysis as pos- sible," she said. She added that government officials were shunned in order to avoid the forum breaking down into "contentious debate." Leshetz said she hoped the speakers would give students different perspectives from which to view the Arab-Israeli conflict. 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