NATION/WORLD The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 30, 1996 - 5 *Women attack Bosnian Red Cross office *s Angeles Times TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Several hundred an- guished Muslim women whose male relatives have been missing since July attacked the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross here yesterday, heaving bricks and brandishing as weapons the sticks they had brought to hold banners. It was the first violent demonstration in Tuzla, headquar- ters for the U.S. troops deployed in Bosnia, and the first attack on the ICRC, which is monitoring the release of prisoners and reunification of families in the former Yugo- 1avia. The women, wearing traditional headscarves and billowy trousers, broke windows of the building and of vehicles outside and then forced their way inside. The small contingent of local police charged with control- ling the crowd, which was estimated at about 1,500, was helpless against the mournful rage of the women. Police said the mob also included a few hundred men. The demonstration started at I1 a.m. as a peaceful protest against the slow pace of the international effort to provide, information about thousands of men missing since the fall of *ebrenica, a mostly Muslim enclave that Bosnian Serb fighters took over last summer. Residents were brutally expelled from the city -a U.N.-designated "safe haven" - and survivors of the onslaught reported a mass slaughter at the hands of the rebels in what is believed to be the worst atrocity committed in the Bosnian war. The number of missing has been estimated at up to 8,000. Yesterday's protest turned violent when the women un- leashed emotions pent up during months of uncertainty spent in crowded apartments and refugee camps. "I am angry because I have been left alone," said Fatima ' uic, 36, who has lost a husband, two sons, a father and a rother in the fighting. "The Red Cross promises help to us, but they didn't go anywhere and didn't do anything. Nobody cares about us." When cars - even an ambulance with a blinking light - attempted to drive near the site of the demonstration, women threw large rocks at them, breaking headlights and windows. As the dusk fell on the city, scores of women continued to occupy the headquarters and others blockaded a major thor- oughfare in downtown TVzla, with a 20-foot-long sign that read: "Where are our sons, brothers, fathers and husbands?" The women's actions reflected a sense of betrayal by the ternational community. Many of them recalled with bitter- ness the false sense of security they had in Srebrenica when Serb soldiers captured the city and separated men and boys from the women. "We want our men dead or alive," said Fatima Huseinovic, the president of the group of women. "It has been 200 days France ends nuclear testing in the Pacific The Washington Post PARIS - President Jacques Chirac announced last night that France has ended its controversial nuclear testing pro. gram in the South Pacific and will now embark on a fresh campaign in favor of disarmament. In a televised statement, Chirac said he decided to halt all further nuclear tests because France can now be assured of a "modern and secure" arsenal as a result of data gleaned from six underground blasts conducted over the past five months "A new chapter is opening. France will play an active and determined role for disarmament in the world and for a better European defense," he declared. "I will take initiatives inthis direction in the coming weeks." The French decision means China is the world's only declared nuclear power that still insists on the right to carry out weapons tests. Others, including the United States, have joined a moratorium while negotiations proceed on a world- wide nuclear test ban treaty. The Clinton administration hailed Chirac's decision and predicted it will add momentum to the treaty talks. "The United States has consistently urged that all nations abide by a global moratorium on nuclear testing as we work to complete and sign a comprehensive test ban treaty," the White House said in a statement. Under President Francois Mitterrand, France had abstained from testing for three years. Chirac's decision last June, shortly after he took office, to resume testing sparked world- wide protests and contributed to a I Above: Sgt. 1st class Giondon Pederson and Spc. Gerald Mullins of the 412th armored division watch as a hay wagon passes by near Tuzia, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Right: Ljubica Terzic, peers through a bullet- riddled window at her home near Tuzia yesterday. Terzic, who lost her son during the war, believes the icons in the window protected her from danger. AP PHOTOS since the fall of Srebrenica ... . The International Red Cross has only registered 200 people. We feel in our hearts that the International Committee of the Red Cross -is on the Serb side." The ICRC condemned the women's protest, and accused Bosnia's Muslim-led government of inciting their aggres- sion by repeatedly blaming the organization for the lack of information about the missing. The violence was "no doubt a reaction to a number of sharp drop in his popularity at home. He insisted that the tests were necessary to verify a new war- head for France's A neOW cnapter is openling." -Jacques Chirac French president aggressive and irresponsible statements made by Bosnian government officials against the ICRC," the organization said in a statement. Before the demonstration turned violent, Laurent Fellay, the head of the ICRC's Tuzla delegation, invited a small group into its building to talk. Two dozen women, many with eyes red from crying and some with fresh tears on their cheeks, vented their rage at Fellay. Tobacco company to subpoena CBS's Mike Wallace NEW YORK (AP) -A tobacco company got permission yesterday to seek sworn depositions from "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace and other CBS employees who interviewed whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand. Lawyers for Louisville, Ky.-based Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. will seek subpoenas for Wallace and the others in New York state court. CBS executives had no immediate comment on the ruling in Kentucky by Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Steven '1ershon. "It is up to them if they wish to make 4 motion to quash or limit the subpoenas," said Brown & Williamson attorney Jerome C. Katz. Absent those motions, he said, "the CBS witnesses must appear and testify under oath, and say what it is they know about the behavior of Jeffrey Wigand." The tobacco company is seeking depositions from Wallace and correspondent Morley Safer, segment producer Lowell Bergmann, executive producer Don Hewitt, CBS President Peter Lund, former CBS News President Eric Ober, and CBS attorneys Jonathan Sternberg and Ellen Oran Kaden. Katz said it was likely that CBS would seek to block the subpoenas and a court fight would ensue. "I think you can probably count on it," he said. CBS is hip-deep in legal hassles over a story it has yet to air in its entirety. It was quashed in November by CBS management, who were negotiating the network's $5.4 bil- lion takeover by Westinghouse and were fearful of a costly legal action. Brown & Williamson, which fired Wigand in 1993, is suing him for theft, fraud and breach of contract over alleged violations of a confidentiality agreement he signed with the company. The Wall Street Journal published excerpts Friday from a deposition Wigand made in a Mississippi lawsuit, and that night "CBS Evening News" aired excerpts from the "60 Minutes" interview. Wigand said in both the deposition and the interview that former Brown & Williamson chairman Thomas Sandefur had lied when he told Congress under oath that he did not believe nicotine was addictive. CBS said the full interview will air on Sunday's edition of "60 Minutes." DESIGN T HE DAILY Join the Daily's graphics staff Call 76-DAILY submarine-based missiles and to perfect computer-based simulation technology that would be employed once a test ban was imposed. The announcement that France is rejoining the morato- rium came two days after the final blast, described as "less than 120 kilotons," or six times the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was conducted at the Fangataufa coral atoll about 750 miles southeast of Tahiti. Chirac acknowledged that he was "not insensitive" to the fear and consternation at home and abroad provoked by the resumption of France's underground nuclear explosions. Despite what he called the "frightening" power of nuclear bombs and the threats to the environment, he insisted that France's arsenal will "serve the interests of peace." Chirac plans to travel this week to Washington on a state visit, where he will make a speech beforeboth houses ofCongress. He is expected to use the occasion to launch a diplomatic counter- offensive, promoting the virtues of the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty being negotiated in Geneva. French officials said Chirac also plans to co-chair an international conference on nuclear security in Moscow in April. The meeting, which will review safety problems at nuclear power stations, was conceived by the leaders of the world's major industrial democracies last year to prevent future disasters such as the Chernobyl nuclear accident a decade ago. With the South Pacific testing ground now due to be closed, the French presidenttreportedly will announce an aid package today to help compensate French Polynesia for the loss of its lucrative earnings from the nuclear testing center. Chirac said France can afford to stop its program well ahead of schedule - and two tests short of the eight he originally planned-because he is fully satisfied that results already obtained have fulfilled the program's objectives. But it, was clear that the surprising ferocity of global opposition to the French program hastened its conclusion. Japan, Australia and New Zealand have waged a vocifer- ous protest campaign since the tests started last September. A consumer boycott of French exports was launched in many countries, though the government here claims it did not inflict as much damage as initially feared on the French wine, perfume and clothing industries. Facultq! Staff! Students! I iI Frustrated bq traffic congestion? Concernedabout the environment? 1rgioQ to save mnoneq? Police conduct body searches at the site of a shooting that killed eight people near Johannesburg, South Africa. 8'job-seekers killed in South Africa JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - It was 2 a.m. yesterday when Alson Mbatha, desperate after two years * searching for work, arrived at the gates of a car parts factory, where hun- dreds of others also stood inline, hoping. The sun had not yet risen when a band of armed men walked up and opened fire on the crowd ofjob-seekers before fleeing into the darkness. Mbatha, wounded by a bullet in the Confrontations that elsewhere might end with shouting or a fistfight often erupt in gunfire in South Africa: Its history of political violence and prox- imity to civil wars in Angola and Mozambique have created an environ- ment where guns - even high-pow- ered automatic rifles - are readily available. Previously, violence often stemmed from rivalry between black political armed with assault rifles and handguns, fired on the crowd outside the NF Die Casting factory. The attack did not ap- pear racially motivated - the gunmen and almost all thejob-seekers were black. Terrified people fled toward nearby Tokoza, one of Johannesburg's black townships, some getting shot as they ran. One body was found hundreds of yards from the factory. 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