NwrlowlwafuLD Walis go up despite Belfast case-fire BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -As President Clinton will see today, a year's experimental peace in Belfast has not brought its walls tumbling down. Eighteen perversely named "peace lines" of brick, steel and barbed wire separate Protestants and Catholics, monuments to a quarter-century's bloodshed. Many locals want to keep them up. Clinton may see several ofthem dur- ing visits to a factory near the Spring- field-Springmartin peace line and a small business center in Protestant east Belfast near another wall protecting the vulnerable Catholic enclave, the Short Strand. "There's still a psychological fear within people and it applies in all areas where there have been a lot of murders or attempted murders - people living on the edge ofthe troubles," said Brenda Murphy, a short-story writer who lives on theCatholic side of a wall. Work began on Belfast's biggest and most solid wall yet on the same day that the Iish Republican Army announced a ceaso-fire 15 months ago. A million bricks later the 30-foot- high;$ 1.2 million structure runs along a ridgeline of west Belfast, keeping .neighbors in Protestant Springmartin andCatholicSpringfield Park separated byl00 yards and a 10 minute drive. It's not far enough. b "We're still getting attacks - stones threw over, bottles threw over, metal bars,; metal bolts," said Rosaleen Donnelly, a Springfield Park resident. The Michigan Daily - Thursday, November 30, 1995 - 7A Lawmakers move toward deal on Balkans mission From Daily Wire Services WASHINGTON-The Republican- led Congress appears to be moving to- ward giving President Clinton the vote he wants on his plan to deploy U.S. troops to Bosnia-Herzegovina - but not on the terms he is likely to prefer, congressional strategists said yester- day. Although no decisions have been made, House and Senate lawmakers have begun discussing proposed reso- lutions that would enable Clinton to claim congressional "support," but only after he has certified that he has met certain demands, such as developing an exit strategy. While the Senate proposal would pro- vide Clinton with a "statement of sup- port" if he meets those demands, any House measure may well be phrased negatively -that is, to deny Clinton the funds to pay for the Bosnia operation if lawmakers' conditions are not met. Congressional strategists stressed that the planning so far has been only pre- liminary, and that House and Senate leaders could change their minds by the middle of next week, when the resolu- tions are expected to come to the floor. The House, particularly, is in flux. Strategists said it could take several more days for Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) to put together a compromise that would take account of the varied views that House Republicans hold on, Bosnia. Senior administration officials said yesterday that the White House is plan- ning to send draft language to Capitol Hill early next week in hopes that Demo- crats will introduce legislation that closely follows the president's wishes. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) held a closed-door session on the issue yesterday to discuss strategy, but did not disclose details of what may have been decided. Clinton does not need Congress' ap- proval to send U.S. troops to Bosnia. As commander-in-chief of the armed forces, he is empowered by the Consti- tution to deploy military troops virtu- ally as he chooses. However, in a bow to congressional angeroverthepeacekeepingplan,Clinton has promised to seek a "statement of support" from Congress before most of the U.S. contingent is deployed, likely sometime in mid- or late-December. House and Senate committees are scheduled to hold hearings onthe Bosnia issue today and Friday, and will ques- tion Secretary of State Warren Christo- pher and Defense Secretary William J. Perry on the deployment. Clinton has pledged to send 20,000 U.S. ground troops to Bosnia to take part in a NATO-led peacekeeping op- eration that will include some 60,000 soldiers from the United States, Europe and some Third World countries. The United States also will provide intelli- gence and logistics support. Lawmakers have been criticizing the administration's plan on grounds that it lacks a clear mission statement for the operation, is unnecessarily risky and does not provide a credible exit strategy - that is, a set of conditions that would determine when U.S. troops would leave. President Clinton speaks in Washington before his trip to Northern Ireland. She had campaigned to get the wall built to protect her family from Protes- tant "loyalist" gunmen, who called a cease-fire in October 1994. "And they still shout abuse over, you know. If they hear the kids playing football down there, they'll cellotape bangers (firecrackers) together and throw them over, scare the life out of people. It's gonna blow some child's eye out." The walls running through Belfast's most downtrodden districts draw com- parisons with yesterday's Berlin and tomorrow's Sarajevo, and provide a marker for how difficult reconciliation will be. In Londonderry, the other city on Clinton's schedule today, tensions are lower partly because the River Foyle broadly bisects the town into secure Protestant and Catholic areas. "Obviously there is much less vio- lence overall since the cease-fires. But there is probably a higher level of low-level, disorganized violence along the peace lines than before," said Mari Fitzduff, director of the government's Community Relations Council. Fitzduff noted that more than a third of Northern Ireland citizens lived in religiously mixed areas in 1969, the year violence erupted. More than 120,000 people were forced from their homes within the first five years of "the troubles." The IRA quickly drove police and soldiers out of Catholic areas, while Protestant assassins forced Catholics from their lands. Today only 7 percent of Northern Ireland's 1.6 million people live in a religiously mixed area. 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In a day of speeches, ceremonial lunches and official meetings, Clinton adhered to the theme - meant for Ameri- cans as much as the British - that the effort to bring peace to Bosnia, like the Northern Ireland initiative, is difficult and delicate but worth the risk. With 20,000 American troops poised to participate in the 60,000-strong peace implementation force in Bosnia some- time after mid-December, the president laid out what he sees as the necessity for such a U.S. commitment in both his news conference and a speech to a joint session of Parliament. The well-received speech, in which he stressed the strength of U.S.-British ties through two world wars and all manner of political upheaval, included a plea for unity now. "We have fought our wars," Clinton said. "Now let us wage our peace." This "hopeful moment" in Bosnia, Clinton said, "cannot be lost without grave consequences to the future." The United States and Britain, he said, "must make the difference between peace and war in Bosnia." ' Britain, like other European allies, has been critical of the U.S. role in Bosnia, first arguing that the Europeans should devise a solution for the civil war in the former Yugoslavia and then complaining of a failure of U.S. leadership and its refusal to commit ground troops to end the conflict. With the initialing of the peace accord in Dayton, Ohio, two weeks ago, however, the United States and Britain are now in tandem. Britain, which has had troops in the U.N. peacekeeping operation in Bosnia since its outset, will have 13,000 in the new peace implementation force. Major reiterated Clinton's themes, warning that a "real and lasting peace" in Bosnia "is still a fragile prospect, and we need to make sure that it doesn't in some fashion just slip away from us. ... I very much welcome the president's intention to contribute a large force to that cause." Questions arise on Bosnia exit strategy From Daily Wire Services WASHINGTON- Although the Clinton adminis- tration has set a one-year deadline for withdrawing U.S. peacekeeping troops from Bosnia, it has yet to provide a definitive answer to the question of what will happen if the war flares up again as soon as the Americans begin to leave. In an interview yesterday, Secretary of State War ren Christopher said that he did not "anticipate" any extension in the deadline, which was established by President Clinton during a televised address to the nation on Monday. Christopher came close to saying that U.S. troops would leave Bosnia at the end of 1996 regardless of whether they succeed in enforcing a peace agreement between the governing Muslim-Croat federation and separatist Bosnian Serbs. "Our mission is to give the parties who signed this agreement ... the opportunity to achieve and carry out the peace," Christopher said. 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