2- The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 12, 1999 Key Rugova aide shot to death PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - An aide to Kosovo's top ethnic Albanian leader was assassinated outside his home yesterday, hours after hard-line Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic set a deadline for rebels holding eight Yugoslav soldiers hostage. The shooting of Enver Maloku worsened the already explosive atmosphere in Kosovo, where the guerrillas are fighting for the Albanian-majority province's inde- pendence from Serbia, the main republic in Yugoslavia. A European official who met with Milosevic yesterday said the Yugoslav leader has set a deadline for the release of the soldiers, who were seized Friday after their convoy strayed into rebel-held territory. Knut Vollebaek, the Norwegian foreign minister who chairs the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, warned that Kosovo will explode in bloodshed unless the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army releases the sol- diers immediately. "There is very little time left, and we have to see an immediate release of the hostages if we should avoid a major conflict," Vollebaek said in Belgrade. He did not specify the time limit for Milosevic's deadline. The OSCE said the captive sol- diers were being treated well in a heated building near Stari Trg, a coal-mining village 30 miles north- west of Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. Maloku, the head of the Kosovo Information Center, was shot yesterday afternoon in front of his home in Pristina, and OSCE officials said he was pronounced dead shortly afterward. Initial reports said Maloku was targeted by a sniper, but the sources later said he was hit by semi-auto- matic gunfire from three assassins as he was about to leave his car. Maloku had escaped an earlier assassination attempt in November. He is a close associate of Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova, a moderate who has been at odds with the rebel KLA. Those differences have led to speculation that Maloku's killing may be connected to rivalries among the different Kosovo Albanian fac- tions. The KLA has refused an appeal by NATO and others to free the soldiers, demanding the release of their own fighters first. In Switzerland, a rebel spokesper- son said yesterday that some of the KLA hostages may be set free, but only in exchange for Albanians held by the authorities - terms the gov- ernment seems disinclined to accept. "We are going to make a step for- ward," Bardhyl Mahmuti told reporters in Geneva, saying "certain of them may be freed" in a deal for Albanians incarcerated by Serbs. A videotape of the hostages, made available by the OSCE to reporters late yesterday, showed the eight in apparently good condition. "Since we've been here, nobody has beaten us or abused us verbally," one of the unidentified soldiers told the camera. "They (the KLA) have behaved very correctly" Milosevic called the kidnapping of the soldiers "a criminal act" yester- day after his talk with Vollebaek. Their detention is the latest chal- lenge to the off-and-on cease-fire in Kosovo, where more than 1,000 peo- ple have been killed in the nearly year-old conflict. AROUND THE NATION Aides oppose clemency for Pollard WASHINGTON - President Clinton's senior national security aides appear united in opposing Israel's request for clemency for Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. Navy intelligence official who spied for Israel in the 1980s and is now serv- ing a life sentence. Yesterday was the date the White House set for receiving recommendations a* information from the departments of state, defense and justice as well as the CIA and other intelligence agencies. A senior U.S. official said yesterday that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has told Clinton there are "no compelling foreign policy considerations" to justify releasing Pollard. Albright's views, combined with the known views of other senior Clinton aides, could seal Pollard's fate. His imprisonment almost derailed the U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement reached in October during talks at Wye River Plantation in Maryland. Under last-minute pressure from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Clinton promised to take a fresh look at clemency for Pollard even though two pre- vious reviews of the case, also requested by Israel, found no grounds to commut his sentence. Court upholds NYC crackdown on porn WASHINGTON - New York City's crackdown on strip clubs and smut shops survived a Supreme Court chal- lenge yesterday when the justices reject- ed a pair of appeals in which X-rated businesses and their patrons said their free-speech rights were being trampled. The justices left intact regulations that prohibit sex-oriented theaters, book- stores, massage parlors and dance clubs from operating within 500 feet of homes, houses of worship, schools or each other. About 150 establishments previously deemed to be primarily adult-oriented now face one of three options: move to some outlying industrial area, close down or change the nature of their busi- ness. "We're obviously disappointed," said Beth Haroules of the New York Civil Liberties Union, which represented cus- tomers of adult businesses in all five New York boroughs. "The city might now get even more aggressive - sending what amounts to SWAT teams into establishments they believe are adult-oriented," she said. "It's unfortunate because what's under attack is protected expression. You may not like, I may not like it, but it's protected. The city should have used less intrusive regulation.' Report: Y2K to have minimal impact WASHINGTON -There is no fool- proof guarantee, but the dreaded mid lennium computer bug likely will have "only minimal impact" on electric power systems and the lights will keep burning, an optimistic industry review said yesterday. But Energy Secretary BiO Richardson, accepting the latest report on how the power industry is tackling the "Y2K" problem, said he was still concerned that not all of the industry will meet a midyear target of having ah its critical systems "Y2K" ready. "That there are no show stoppers that would threaten the nation's electricity supplies is welcome news," Richardson said. AP PHOTO Yugoslav army soldiers and a vehicle patrol the village of Stara Trg, near Kosovska Mitrovica. The army launched attacks yesterday to relase their eight soldiers. JOBS!!! Winter Term Apply wje at the Law Library- *non-Law Students *Law Students *S.I. Students Apply in person: Room S-180 in the Law Library's underground addition, 8-noon and 1-5 Monday through Friday. AA/EOE INTERESTED IN WRITING FOR DAILY NEWS? ATTEND A MASS MEETING AT 420 MAYNARD ST. ON JAN. 1 3r 19 OR 21 AT 7:30 P.M. U.N. weapons inspectors to return to Iraq AROUND THE WORLD I II -1 I I I Ir I Y! . '. - - -_ . WASHINGTON (AP)-- Chief U.N. weapons inspector Richard Butler declared yesterday his agency is "not dead" and will return to Iraq, possibly as a less intrusive monitoring system. "We'll be back under this new dis- pensation," said Butler, noting it may take months for the U.N. Security Council and member states to approve such a plan and work out the details. Iraq stopped cooperating with the U.N. Special Commission, or UNSCOM, last year, prompting the U.S.-British airstrikes Dec. 16-19 against Iraqi weapons sites and mili- tary and command centers. Since then, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has challenged other U.S. and U.N. controls, including "no-fly" zones Western planes patrol over northern and southern Iraq. In the latest U.S.-Iraq confrontation, U.S. Air Force planes fired missiles at two Iraqi air defense installations in sep- arate incidents yesterday after determin- ing they were about to be attacked. The incidents happened at about the same time - 10:45 a.m. Iraqi time, or 2:45 a.m. EST - near the city of Mosul. In the first case, two U.S. F- 15E strike aircraft patrolling the north- ern "no-fly" zone were illuminated by radar from an Iraqi surface-to-air mis- sile installation, said Army Col. Richard Bridges, a Defense Department spokesperson. The F-15Es fired two AGM-130 air- to-surface missiles in response. In the other case, a U.S. F-16 fired one anti-radar missile after being tar- geted by Iraqi radar at a separate air defense installation. None of the U.S. planes came under Iraqi fire, Bridges said. It was the fifth "no-fly" clash involving missiles since Dec. 28. I. President Clinton has vowed to con- tinue patrolling the "no-fly" zones as part of a strategy of keeping Saddam contained. The Clinton administration also backs maintaining robust U.N. weapons inspections, although U.S. officials haven't ruled out a revamped UNSCOM. State Department spokesperson James Rubin said U.N. resolutions requiring disarmament of Iraq before monitoring can begin "can't be leapfrogged." But he added, "We have always been open to ideas to improve the profes- sionalism, the competence and the effectiveness of the U.N. Special Commission's regime and we will con- tinue to be willing to discuss any such ideas with our partners in the Security Council." The pre-Christmas U.S.-British airstrikes on Iraq effectively ended UNSCOM's work, which began after the 1991 Gulf War to ensure Iraq destroyed its chemical and biological weapons and most missiles and did not rebuild them. The International Atomic Energy Agency was charged with halting Iraq's nuclear weapons development. Butler confirmed that all U.N. mon- itoring of Iraq has stopped, including high surveillance flights by American U-2 spy planes. But he said he was confident UNSCOM's weapons work would resume, although he said it's not yet clear how that will be accomplished. "UNSCOM is not dead," Butler said, speaking to a nonproliferation conference sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "We are hard at work designing that future monitoring system." Visitors urge to postpone statehood JERUSALEM -Visitor after visitor has urged Yasser Arafat not to declare an independent Palestinian state on May 4, fearing it will spark violence and hurt chances for real indepen- dence. Arafat, for now, is not saying what he will do. In response to the most recent appeals by Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) and Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura, the Palestinian leader simply said yesterday that May 4 is a special occasion that needs to be marked - leaving everyone guessing about what he had in mind. May 4 - the target date set by the Oslo accords for completing a perma- nent peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians - is less than two weeks before Israel's May 17 general elections. Declaring a Palestinian state then would raise tensions at a critical moment in the Israeli campaign. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is portraying himself as the only leader who can stand up to the Palestinians and has threatened to annex key parts of the West Bank if Arafat declares statehood. " Cigarette firms announce merger LONDON - British American Tobacco PLC, the maker of Lucky Strike, Kent and other cigarettes, is expanding its global business with the planned $7.48 billion acquisition of rival Rothmans International BV The merger announced yesterda would create a tobacco maker with 16 percent share of the world cigarette market, making it the second largest global cigarette company after Philip Morris Cos. Philip Morris, manufac- turer of Marlboro and other brands, has 17 percent of the world market. British-based BAT is now the No. 2 seller internationally, and Netherlands- based is No. 4. Together they produced more than 900 billion cigarettes i 1997. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. kk p z e I NEWS Janet Adamy, Managing Editor EDITORS: Maria Hackett, Heather Kamins, Chris Metinko. 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