Aristide
focuses on
selecting
pficials
Los Angeles Times
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The
flags still waved, the troops remained
on the streets and crowds milled about
the Presidential Palace yesterday, but
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
spent his first full day back in Haiti
out of sight, attending to the dull
routine of governing.
According to diplomats, Aristide
advisers and Haitian political figures,
his first task will be to name a new
prime minister and Cabinet and find
money to restore a bureaucracy that
had become the personal servants of
the military over the last three years.
Aristide, who was accused of in-
decision and even sloth during the
seven months he ruled before the Sept.
1991, coup that sent him into
Wle, immediately went to work Sat-
urday after an official luncheon, talk-
ing to political and parliamentary lead-
ers into the night and again yesterday.
Aristide told reporters on his Sat-
urday flight from Washington to Port-
au-Prince that he had selected a prime
minister but had not decided when to
announce the nomination.
First, he indicated, he wanted to
int Haiti toward reconciliation and
peace in order to convince the nation
that his focus will not be the past and
vengeance.
"Nice words," said Franz Voltaire,
an aide to caretaker Prime Minister
Robert Malval, "and obviously the
guiding principle of the government,
but what he is doing now is looking at
the hard work of translating words
eo action .
The prime minister is a key figure
in Haiti, actually more powerful on a
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By FRANK C. LEE
Daily Staff Reporter
Following the brutal rape of a
woman Thursday night, Ann Arbor
police released a more detailed de-
scription of a serial rapist operating in
the Ann Arbor area.
The suspect is described as a Black
man with a light complexion, between
25 and 35 years old, approximately
six feet in height, weighing nearly
170 pounds, with short hair, police
said Saturday.
Due to the nature of the attack and
the description of the assailant, police
believe the rape to be the work of the
city's serial rapist.
The 41-year-old Ann Arbor
woman was sexually assaulted near
the city's Community High School at
around 9 p.m.
The woman is currently being
treated for multiple head injuries at
University Hospitals, where she was
listed in fair condition Sunday.
Police believe the unidentified
man has raped and beaten three other
women and killed a fourth. He has
been implicated in six attempted rapes
in the Ann Arbor area over the past
two years, most of which occurred on
the city's west side.
The woman is the only victim so
far to get a good look at her attacker.
The rapist's other victims were taken
by surprise and too disoriented after-
ward to provide much of a description
to the police.
The woman was returning home
via a sidewalk along the school prop-
erty off Fifth Avenue. There, she was
approached by her attacker.
The victim was punched in the
head and beaten repeatedly until she
lost consciousness. When she awoke
about 20 minutes later, her attacker
had dragged her into some bushes,
sexually assaulted her and fled.
The woman managed to walk to
her apartment and called the police.
Investigators searched the crime scene
for clues and for possible witnesses.
As of last night, no suspects had
been identified. Police are offering a
$36,000 reward for information lead-
ing to the rapist's arrest.
A police tracking dog was brought
to the area where the assault occurred
and traced a scent that led to the
entrance of the Women's Hospital of
University Hospitals, the same com-
plex where the victim is being treated,
one-half mile away from the crime
scene.
Police initially thought the rapist
may have been a hospital employee,
but have since found contradicting
evidence.
"The reason that has been ques-
tioned is because some of her belong-
ings were found west of the location
in West Park," said Sgt. Phil Scheel,
a spokesman for the Ann Arbor Po-
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MOLLY STEVENS/Daily
This walkway behind Community High School is the site bf Thursday's rape
of a 41-year-old Ann Arbor woman.
Iraq pulls troops
from 'no-fly' zone
U.S. threatens Hussein with retaliation
Rape strikes
anerve in
community
By KELLY FEENEY
Daily Staff Reporter
Students and residents responded
to Thursday's attack much the same
way they've responded to previous
rapes: They're scared and tired.
Police say the attack on a 41-
year-old Ann Arbor woman is likely
the fourth rape committed by a serial
rapist in the past two years.
LSA firs-year student Diana
Grossman said of the latest rape: "It
makes me feel really scared. I feel
like I should be able to walk around
on my own campus.
"This definitely limits my free-
dom to do what I want. I feel like I
have less freedom here than I had
back at home."
Many students echoed these senti-
ments.
Michael Anne Erlewine, an LSA
sophomore who sat enjoying the fall
weather on the front lawn of Commu-
nity High yesterday, did not know of
the rape that occurred near the high
school. "It makes me feel sick, hon-
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Perry in
China on
diplomatic
mission
The Washington Post
BEIJING - First there was talk
about butter. Now comes talk about
guns.
The thaw in U.S.-Chinese relations
continued with the arrival here yester-
day of U.S. Defens'e Secretary William
Perry, the second cabinet member to
visit since President Clinton eased ten-
sions between Washington and Beijing
by cutting links between human rights
and trade in May.
Unlike Commerce Secretary
Ronald H. Brown, who delivered a
sales pitch for American companies
during a visit in August, Perry has
diplomatic objectives. He aims to re-
new ties with the Chinese military,
because of the importance of Chinese
politics and because the United States
and China share security interests
ranging from arms control to defense
conversion, Pentagon officials say.
Perry's mission is a sensitive one,
both in the United States and China.
In the United States, human rights
advocates have condemned the resto-
ration of military contacts cut in 1989
after Chinese troops opened fire on
pro-democracy demonstrators around
Tiananmen Square. Other critics have
raised concerns about China's exports
of sensitive missile technology to
Pakistan and other nations. This con-
cern continues despite an accord
signed in Washington this month by
Chinese Foreign Minister Qian
Qichen in which China promised not
to sell medium-range missiles abroad.
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -Iraq appeared
to be pulling the last of its elite Re-
publican Guards out of the "no-fly"
zone near Kuwait yesterday, but the
Clinton administration kept the pres-
sure on, warning Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein that the United States may
retaliate immediately the next time
the troops threaten Kuwait.
A day after the U.N. Security
Council approved a resolution order-
ing the Iraqis to withdraw from the
border area with Kuwait, Pentagon
officials reported troop movements
indicating that the second of two Re-
publican Guards divisions sent south
two weeks ago were pulling out and
moving north.
One of the divisions left the area
several days ago, but another had re-
mained camped around Nasiriyah,
south of the 32nd parallel, prompting
the Clinton administration to press,
over initial Russian objections, for a
new Security Council resolution warn-
ing the Iraqis of "serious conse-
quences" if they did not withdraw.
The resolution was finally passed
unanimously late Saturday after a day
of intense negotiations that, for the
time being at least,. appeared to paper
over the administration's differences
with Russia over Foreign Minister
Andrei Kozyrev's mission to Baghdad
last week.
As recently as Saturday, Pentagon
officials said that the 10,000 Iraqi
troops camped around Nasiriyah were
showing no signs of leaving. But al-
though the troops were still in the area
yesterday, officials said there were
now signs that the division was pre-
paring to move north.
An administration source said af-
ter a White House meeting between
President Clinton and his senior mili-
tary and foreign policy advisers yes-
terday that the president was now
"cautiously optimistic" that the Iraqis
were finally complying with the U.N.
ultimatum,
"We're not announcing that it's
finished yet ... but (Hussein) does
seem to be moving in the right direc-
tion," Secretary of State Warren Chris-
topher added yesterday on NBC's
"Meet the Press."
AP PHOTO
A Bangladeshi U.N. soldier stands with his vehicle about six miles from the
border between Iraq and Kuwait on Satudray.
But as the latest gulf crisis began
to recede, it seemed apparent that the
administration had only temporarily
bridged a widening gap with Moscow
over what to do about Hussein and his
continuing refusal to comply with a
series of Security Council ultimatums
that the United States insists must all
be met before it agrees to ease any of
the trade sanctions that have crippled
Iraq's economy and cut off all its oil
exports.
In a clear departure from the
Clinton administration's position,
Kozyrev announced in Baghdad last
week that Russia would work toward
an easing of the U.N. sanctions in
return for what he said was a promise
by Hussein to recognize Kuwait and
respect its borders.,
But arguing that Iraq should re-
ceive no reward for withdrawing its
troops, U.S. officials strongly opposed
the Russian initiative and pressed the
Security Council to approve a diluted
version of the resolution, which
warned only that Iraq would face un-
specified "consequences" if it failed
to withdraw, without specifically
threatening or authorizing the use of
force. In the end, it passed unani-
mously.
itian President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide waves after arriving back in
Port-au-Prince on Saturday.
Kohl's coalition
ekes out win in
German election
From Daily Wire Services
BERLIN - Chancellor Helmut Kohl capped a re-
markable political comeback yesterday with a razor-thin
re-election victory that appeared to give him a fourth term
as Germany's leader.
Kohl's ruling center-right coalition captured an esti-
mated 48.3 percent of the vote - enough for an absolute
ajority in the federal Parliament under Germany's com-
-x election rules - compared with an estimated 48.1
percent for the combined opposition parties, according to
network television computer projections.
Kohl's coalition was projected to win 330 seats in the
656-seat parliament, a two-seat majority that Kohl called
"workable."
A iubilant Kohl claimed victory less than 90 minutes
Israel set to resume
Palestinian talks
Cabinet reopens
Gaza Strip; Arafat
feels heat after
cracking down on
Hamas movement
Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM - Moving to ease
tensions with the Palestinian self-gov-
erning authority, Israel's Cabinet de-
cided yesterday to end the closure of
the Gaza Strip, imposed last week
after an Israeli soldier was kidnapped,
and said that peace talks with the
Palestinians will resume tomorrow in
Cairo.
ers blocked Netzarim, a main junc-
tion in northern Gaza, and threw stones
at Jewish settlers and soldiers yester-
day morning. Israeli soldiers report-
edly fired shots in the air, then re-
treated to form a defensive ring around
a nearby settlement. They left it to the
Palestinian police to disperse the dem-
onstrators peacefully. No casualties
were reported.
Israeli Cabinet ministers expressed
satisfaction with Arafat's decision to
confront Hamas, the main Palestinian
group opposing Israel's peace accord
with the Palestinians. Foreign Minis-
ter Shimon Peres and other ministers
reportedly urged that Israel move for-
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