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NATION/WORLD
Pentagon regrets
civilian deaths
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon
leaders expressed regret yesterday that
civilians were killed in a mistaken
NATO attack on a refugee convoy in
Kosovo, but seethed at the prospect of
Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic using the deaths for propa-
ganda gains.
"You cannot have this kind of con-
flict without some errors like this
occurring," President Clinton said.
Defense Secretary William Cohen said
the pilot was evading Serb anti-aircraft
artillery and missile fire at the time and
had to make a "split-second decision"
when he spotted the vehicle convoy.
"It was under extraordinary circum-
stances with the kind of stress placed
upon pilots," Cohen told the Senate
Armed Services Committee in the first
congressional hearing on the air war
since it began March 24. "Any time
there's a loss of innocent life, of civil-
ians being killed during the course of
combat, it is regrettable," Cohen said.
Clinton blamed Milosevic, saying the
civilian deaths would not have occurred
had the Yugoslav president not forced
them from their homes and used them
as human shields. He called the tragedy
"inevitable," but said it was no reason
to change the NATO mission.
"You cannot have this kind of conflict
without some errors like this occurring,"
he told the American Society of
Newspaper Editors in San Francisco.
"This is not a business of perfection."
Clinton said NATO had no choice
but to act against Milosevic's ethnic
cleansing. "He is now determined to
crush all resistance to his rule, even if it
means turning Kosovo into a lifeless
wasteland," Clinton said.
"We cannot simply watch as hun-
dreds of thousands of people are brutal-
ized, murdered, raped, forced from their
homes, their family histories erased, all
in the name of ethnic pride and purity."
Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright, testifying before a House
Appropriations subcommittee, said the
flood of refugees and their brutal treat-
ment have steeled NATO against
Milosevic. "His actions, far from
destroying his opposition, are galvaniz-
ing its strength and determination,"
Albright said.
Cohen, testifying with Gen. Henry
Shelton, chair of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, before the Senate Armed
Services Committee, said the Kosovo
conflict may stretch into summer and
emphasized that American casualties
are likely. Many committee members
expressed deep doubt that NATO can
win without ground troops.
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during the same period in 1996, the last
presidential election year.
"It demonstrates that our Democratic
supporters are convinced that we're
going to win back the House next year,"
said John DelCecato, spokesperson for
the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee.
Michigan appears headed toward a
major role in the coming elections, with
two races that should attract significant
national attention.
Democrats hope to pick up a seat in
the Senate with U.S. Rep. Debbie
Stabenow (D-Lansing), who will chal-
lenge incumbent Sen. Spencer
Abraham (R-Mich.).
The Post reported that the pace of the
air campaign, meanwhile, accelerated
again. In one of the most intense days
of bombardment since the attacks
began March 24, warplanes again
struck barracks, television transmitters
and bridges throughout Yugoslavia, the
NATO spokesperson reported.
As the bombing intensified, thou-
sands more refugees made their way to
the borders of Macedonia and Albania,
putting further strain on the policy of
the U.N. High Commissioner for
Refugees to keep them in the region,
able to return as soon as conditions
make it possible.
Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright, Secretary of Defense William
Cohen and the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chair Gen. Henry Shelton stressed in
congressional testimony that Milosevic
can stop the bombing by acceding to
NATO's demands: pulling his forces out
of Kosovo and letting its population
return home under the protection of a
NATO-led international force. But they
also offered a new alternative if
Milosevic refuses to capitulate: a
takeover of Kosovo by the separatist
guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation
Army, or KLA. "If he refuses, our mil-
itary campaign will continue to destroy
as much of his military capability as we
can so that each day his capacity for
repression will diminish," Clinton said,
taking a similar tack. "His actions ...
have not destroyed the armed opposi-
tion among Kosovars. Indeed, their
numbers and determination are grow-
ing."
Shelton said the bombing will go on
"until one of two things could happen:
One is that Mr. Milosevic could decide
that there's got to be a better way - i.e.,
that he would like to either start negoti-
ating or settle with NATO, or until such
time as the balance of power shifts
between the uniformed members of the
Serbs and KLA, which would "start
pushing him out of Kosovo."
The United States does not support
the KLA's objective, an independent
Kosovo. In fact, the United States
insisted that the peace agreement pro-
posed at Rambouillet, France, in
February contain a requirement that the
group disarm.
In any case, many analysts believe it
would take years for the KLA - which
has no tanks, no aircraft and few heavy
weapons- to pose a serious challenge
to Yugoslav forces, no matter how
much they were diminished by the air
campaign.
Moreover, some U.S. officials have
branded the KLA "terrorists" because
of attacks on Serb civilians, who made
up 10 percent of Kosovo's 1.8 million
inhabitants before the conflict. "The
KLA doesn't qualify as any kind of
choirboy circle," Cohen said. "There
are dangerous people in the KLA"
- The Washington Post contributed to
this report.
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Impeachment cost at least $1.2 million
WASHINGTON -- The House paid its top impeachment investigators as
much as $20,000 a month, part of the $1.2 million-plus price tag for the five-month
congressional proceedings that ended with President Clinton's acquittal, expense
records show.
In addition, Chief Republican Investigator David Schippers and Democrat'
counsel Abbe Lowell were given special consultant status that allowed them t
bypass congressional restrictions on outside income and continue work at their pri-
vate law firms.
Schippers, whose private practice is in Chicago, was paid at the rate of $20,000
a month during the height of the investigation, according to House Judiciary
Committee records. Lowell, a Washington lawyer, was paid at a monthly rate of
$18,000, according to expense records reviewed by The Associated Press.
Adjusted to annual salary, both men were being paid at a rate of more than
$200,000 per year.
In contrast, staff lawyers for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr earn
between $66,563 and $118,400 annually. The independent counsel's deputies
must also sever ties with their private law firms - a prohibition that does ni
apply to Starr.
House members and senators earn $136,700 a year.
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TWA 800 myster
could be encoded
Zeroing in on exactly what sparked
the explosion of TWA Flight 800,
investigators plan to issue a final report
and a probable cause of the crash as
early as December, National
Transportation Safety Board officials
say.
Several months of testing lie
ahead, but one scenario they are
aggressively pursuing is that electri-
cal energy migrated from one wire
to another to the rear bay of the air-
craft's center tank, utilizing the
plane's fuel-measuring system as a
pathway.
Even though the NTSB has said
that a massive fuel-tank explosion
brought down the aircraft, investiga-
tors have had a harder time pin-
pointing the actual ignition source
because they would have to prove a
extremely complicated chain of
events.
The Boeing 747 crashed off Long
Island on July 17, 1996, killing all 230
people aboard.
Last month, NTSB Chair Jim
Hall pledged to Congress that the
agency would do everything in its
power to resolve the lingering mys-
tery, putting an end to what has
shaped up to be a $35 million invc
tigation.
Scientists fimd traces
of other solar system
SAN FRANCISCO - For the first.
time, there is clear evidence that a solar
system other than our own exists,
researchers said yesterday.
Three huge planets are spinnin
around the star Upsilon Andromedae 4
light years from Earth in our Milky Way
galaxy, San Francisco State University
researchers said at a news conference.
Their presence indicates that many
of the Milky Way's 200 billion starsare
likely to have planetary systems.
"It implies that planets can form more
easily than we ever imagined, and that
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Briton: Pinochet
case can proceed
LONDON - Augusto Pinochet
lost another round of his bitter legal
struggle yesterday as Home Secretary
Jack Straw ruled that criminal extradi-
tion proceedings against the former
Chilean president can move forward in
the British courts.
The decision by the home secretary
was no surprise; Straw had ruled the
same way last December, the first time
he dealt with the Pinochet case. Lawyers
for the 83-year-old Chilean had argued
that their client was too frail to face
court proceedings, and that no courts
outside Chile have jurisdiction over him.
Straw rebuffed Pinochet on both points.
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on charges that he violated internation-
al human rights treaties after he seized
power in Chile. Specifically, Pinochet
is charged with conspiracy to torture
political adversaries, including Spanish
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prosecutors here can now bring
Pinochet into court for hearings on the
Spanish extradition request.
Pakistan conducts
second missile test
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - SoiLj
Asia appeared closer to a full-blo
arms race after Pakistan tested its second
nuclear-capable missile in two days yes-
terday, upping the ante on its rival India.
The latest test was of the Shaheen
I, a surface-to-surface missile with.a
range of 450 miles, considerably
shorter than the Ghauri II, tested by
Pakistan the day before.
The Ghauri II was tested in appar-
ent response to India's test flight of
its Agni II missile on Sunday.
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