2A -The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 18, 1997 NATION/WoRLD 5 Americans killed in Bosnian helicopter crash PROKOSKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - A U.N. helicopter slammed into a fog-shrouded mountain in central Bosnia and burst into flames yesterday, killig a top international envoy, five Americans and six others in the worst accident to hit the peacekeeping effort in Bosnia. . Those killed included German envoy Gerd Wagner, a deputy to top peace mediator Carlos Westendorp, and British diplomat Charles Morpeth. The others who died were not named pend- ing notification of next of kin. Four Ukrainian crew members of the U.N. helicopter - an Mi-8 leased from Ukraine -- survived the crash, two of them with light injuries, German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel said. The crew managed to escape through the shattered glass nose of the craft but was hindered from helping passengers because of fire and thick smoke. Wagner and his delegation, which included members from Westendorp's office as well as U.N. employees believed to be police monitors, left Sarajevo for Bugojno yesterday morn- ing, said Alexander Ivanko, a U.N. spokesperson in Sarajevo. According to one Ukranian crew member, the weather was fine when they left Sarajevo, but they encountered "dense fog" west of Fojnica, 20 miles east of Bugono, said U.N. spokesper- son Liam McDowall. When the pilot attempted to gain altitude, the heli- copter crashed into the mountain and burst into flames, McDowall said. Foul play is not suspected in the crash but an investigation was underway. The crash appeared similar to one in April 1996, when a plane carrying U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown plowed into a mountain in a heavy storm while traveling to Dubrovnik, Croatia. Brown and 34 others aboard were killed. Witness Halid Huskic said residents of Prokosko, a mountain village perched above a lake, saw yesterday's chopper crash. Hearing shouts, they clambered down and saw four uni- formed men pulling a fifth man from the wreck, he said. Then several explo- sions - caused either by fuel or ammu- nition - prevented any one from approaching the helicopter, he added. Villagers managed to summon help about 90 minutes after the crash. Dr. Damir Jaganjac of the nearby town of Fojnica said he found l1 burned bodies - one of them so charred that only a skull and ribs remained. One survivor's clothes were burning as doctors carried him away on a stretch- er, Jaganjac said. Having no water, they ripped open plastic bags of emergency glucose drips to douse the flames. "This is the worst day I have experi- enced in rhy life," said Kai Eide, special representative to the U.N. secretary- general. "The work these officials were carrying out was essential to ensure that the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina can live in peace." A R U D TH E -N A--------- Senator wants cigarette prices raised $1.50 WASHINGTON - Cigarette makers may be headed for an expensive congres- sional fight next year, as President Clinton called yesterday for changes to the pro- posed tobacco deal that could double the billions of dollars they would pay. Acting on the same theme, a Democratic senator says he is writing legislation that would add a $1.50 per pack tax to cigarettes immediately - as an alternative to the controversial tobacco settlement. Clinton's announcement, yesterday in the Oval Office, formally ends any chart a tobacco deal could pass Congress this year. Republicans have made clear they would not take up the complex legislation without a specific list of demands from Clinton, which he said he would not provide yesterday. Clinton will not endorse the $368 billion tobacco settlement that state attorneys general and the tobacco industry proposed in June as a way to settle dozens of anti-tobacco civil suits. Instead, he was expected to provide only one specific demand yesterday: Any deal must force the industry to make annual settlement payments high enough - and industry fines for teen-age smoking high enough -- that the two combined would raise cigarette prices by $1.50 a pack over 10 years. Under the proposed tobacco deal, cigarette makers would have raised prices only about 62 cents a pack, money that would have gone toward the industry's annual $ billion settlement payment. Clinton rejects Oslo land mine ban WASHINGTON - Stirring world- wide criticism, President Clinton rejected a ban on land mines that was endorsed yesterday by 89 countries. He said the accord would jeopardize "the safety and security of our men in uni- form." Bristling at suggestions that the United States was blocking a global ban, the president said he was willing to bless a limited prohibition, but added, "there is a line that I simply can- not cross." "No one should expect our people to expose our armed forces to unaccept- able risks," he said. Clinton announced his decision shortly after representatives of the 89 nations rejected U.S. demands for changes and accepted the text of a land mine treaty. Representatives of an additional 20 countries were in Oslo, Norway, for the talks as observers, but without voting rights. The text calls for a total ban on production, export and use of anti- personnel mines. The countries are expected to for- mally accept the draft text today, and supporters hope the actual treaty will be signed in Ottawa in December. Land mines kill or maim more th* 25,000 people every year. Senate rejects assault on NEA WASHINGTON - The National Endowment for the Arts survived an assault yesterday by Senate critics who want to dismantle it. But the federal arts agency st faced other debilitating amendment. The Senate, in a 77-23 vote, defeated an amendment that would have eliminated the NEA's proposed: $100 million budget for fiscal year 1998. Still on the agenda, however, were proposals to privatize the NEA, or transfer its entire budget to the states in the form of block grants. ARoUND THE WORL Israeli settlers refuse Netanyahu's request JERUSALEM - Scrambling to avert a new and possibly violent con- frontation between Israel and the Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried yesterday to persuade a group of militant Israeli settlers to vacate a home they occupied earlier this week in an Arab Muslim neighbor- hood of East Jerusalem. The Jewish settlers and their wealthy American patron, Irving Moskowitz of Miami, refused to leave. Instead, they announced that they will seek a court injunction to bar police from removing them by force. The deadlock over the settlement at Ras Amoud has posed a serious chal- lenge to Netanyahu, who postponed a trip to Europe to deal with it. Netanyahu is eager to avoid a new confrontation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which called the settlement a betrayal of the Oslo peace accords and a likely incitement to vio- lence. Some members of Netanyahu's right-wing government, however, have supported the Jewish presence in Ras Amoud and have threatened to leave the ruling coalition if the settlers are forcibly removed. In an effort to defuse the crib Netanyahu's aides yesterday floate compromise proposal under which the settlers would move out to make way forl0 Jewish religious students. Car sought in Diana crash investigation PARIS -French police are searching for a small blue Fiat that may he played a role in causing the automobire crash that killed Princess Diana and two others, police sources said yesterday Investigators searching the tunnel in which the Mercedes-Benz S-280 crashed at high speed early Aug.31, found shards of taillight covers from another car more than a dozen yards before the spot where the Mercedes violently slammed into a pillar. Also killed were Diana's friend, Dodi Fayed, and Henri Paul, the Ritz Hotel employee who was driving. *9 - Compiledfrom Daily wire reparts. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fail term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $85. Winter term (January through April) is $95, yearlong (September through April) is $165. Oncampus scriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. 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