8A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 9, 1995 Bosnia, Serbia battle for territory before cease-e AP PHOTO A group of Bosnian government troops make their way to the front lines near the Serb-held town of Samski Most Satruday. Ecolic poweb pledge to help Bosniarbuld SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina(AP) -A shell blamed on Serb rebels slammed into a government-run refugee camp yesterday, killing at least six people, as both sides battled for precious land and better negotiating positions ahead of a cease-fire. A local doctor told state-run radio that the attack at Zivinice, near Tuzla in northeastern Bosnia, also wounded about 30 people, 20 of them children; "The beautiful day probably drew them out," Duska Bericevic said, adding that many of the wounds were serious. U.N. estimates of the minimum death toll at the camp - which houses mostly Muslims driven from Serb-conquered areas - ran from six to 10 people killed. Bosnian army headquarters in Tuzla said more than 10 people were killed, the majority children. The United Nations did not say who was behind the attack, but state radio blamed the Serbs and said the shell contained several explosives that detonated above the refugee center. The attack came as Bosnian government forces made gains against Serbs in the north and launched a counteroffen- sive in the northwest. Both sides are trying to grab as much territory as possible before a U.S.-sponsored cease-fire freezes front lines. The truce, a prelude to a peace conference, is scheduled to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Bosnian time tomor- row -7 o'clock tonight Ann Arbor time. The Serbs warned the truce was being threatened by Croatian involvement in Bosnia. They had been making headway in the northwest until the Croatian army returned to help government troops. "The reinforcement ... jeopardizes directly the signed cease-fire," said a Serb statement carried by Yugoslavia's Tanjug news agency. It said Serb forces "will do everything to stop the aggression" should Croatian involvement con- tinue. Bosnian state radio suggested the refugee camp shelling was Serb retaliation for government army gains near Doboj, northwest of Tuzla. The radio, quoting army headquarters, said government forces continued advances there yesterday. Croatia's HINA news agency quoted Bosnian Croat units as claiming some Serb warplanes dropped cluster bombs on some of their units in northern Bosnia. There was no confir- mation. The Bosnian army also was on the move in the area of Bosanska Krupa, about 50 miles west of the Serb stronghold of Banja Luka in the northwest, said U.N. spokeswoman Maj. Myriam Sochacki. Banja Luka, however, is considered unconquerable. Women, children and the elderly continued gathering yesterday on the government-held city of Zenica in central Bosnia after being driven out of Serb-held cities, including Banja Luka. Sarajevo radio said 180 refugees arrived yester- day, in addition to nearly 500 who came Saturday. Some of Saturday's arrivals reported they crossed a river to avoid going through a minefield and that two women drowned in the crossing. The driving of rival ethnic groups from conquered areas WASHINGTON (AP) - The world's economic powers expressed an eagerness yesterday to provide debt re- lief and significant financial assistance to rebuild war-torn Bosnia, hoping that the lure of economic aid will provide momentum for the peace process. Finance ministers in Washington for the annual meetings of the Inter- national Monetary Fund and the World Bank said those two giant lending agencies would be expected to take the lead role in providing assistance to Bosnia. "We have to consolidate the peace process. We have to rebuild Bosnia quickly," French Finance Minister Jean Arthuis told reporters. The world's seven largest economies - the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Canada and Italy - urged both the IMF and World Bank to quickly draw up a plan of what finan- cial resources will be needed. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said this study should focus on a "timely, flexible and suitable" economic re- sponse to Bosnia's needs. In addition to financial aid, the ad- ministration made clear yesterday that President Clinton was committed to sending U.S. troops to Bosnia to help keep the peace. Leon Panetta, White House chief of staff, said on NBC's "Meet the Press," such U.S. military involvement "has to happen ... I don't think we can turn our backs on that." While Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic has said his country will need $12 billion for postwar reconstruction, the United States and its G-7 allies were not specific on exact amounts of aid they were prepared to send, saying it would depend on the needs determined by the IMF and World Bank. The issue of Bosnia was added at the last minute to the agenda for the annual meetings ofthe 179-nation IMF and the World Bank. While the world economy is per- forming reasonably well, the discus- sions in Washington have focused on ways to better cope with problems such as the near default of Mexico last De- cember, the worst global economic cri- sis in more than a decade. Ruza Batkovic prays during Mass In a church that Is near Sarajevo's Sniper Alley yesterday. has been a hallmark of the 3 1/2-year war. Serbs have been expelling Croats and Muslims from the Banja Luka region since 1992. Banja Luka, meanwhile, is choked with tens of thousands of Serb refugees who fled as Serbs suffered defeats in northwestern Bosnia and adjacent Croatia. Even if the fighting doesn't force postponement of the truce, other conditions could delay it, including restorationf of Sarajevo's electrical and gas systems. All sides have planted mines around a hill in Kokoska, about 12 miles west of Sarajevo, where main power lines are damaged. U.N. officials said it may take a day or two to clear the mines, but the electricity repairs could be finished on deadline. Sochacki said nearly all mines have been cleared, and that the United Nations hoped to begin fixing the lines late yesterday. She said the United Nations also would be clear- ing mines from a road leading to the government-held en- clave of Gorazde in eastern Bosnia, to meet another govern- ment demand. Pope tells followers tpromote BALTIMORE (AP) - Preaching in the cradle of U.S. Catholicism, Pope John Paul II urged the faithful yester- day to heed America's founding fathers and bring religious convictions to bear on political issues. On the final day of his fourth U.S. pilgrimage, the pope celebrated Mass from an altar in centerfield, the location of a saloon run by Babe Ruth's father a century ago. "Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought," John Paul said, warning of the dangers of a permissive society lacking amoral foun- dation. The scoreboard at Oriole Park dis- played the message, "He is here," as the rock group Boyz I1 Men serenaded the pontiff touring the baseball stadium in his popemobile. The stadium had not rocked to such cheers since Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's 56-year-old record of playing in 2,130 straight games last month. "This is Number One," said Walter Gentile, an Orioles usher. Ripken's record-breaking game last month? "That's Number Two." Three hundred gospel singers wav- ing yellow and white Vatican flags sang the spiritual,"I Want to be Ready When Jesus Comes," as the popemobile rounded the infield under sunny skies. Later, the popemobile took John Paul in a two-mile parade that police said was witnessed by around 350,000 IRS to face budget cuts, reduce services AP PHOTO John Cardinal O'Connor speaks to Pope John Paul 1i inside St. Patrick's Cathedral Saturday. people. He then joined 19 people in a soup kitchen for a lunch of chicken and rice casserole, peas, carrots and choco- late chip cookies. "I'm enjoyingmyself, I wish itwould go on all week," said Alphonso Alvarez, a regular at Our Daily Bread, run by the Catholic Church. John Paul bent down and kissed the foreheads of six children at the center. One child, Baltimore Cardinal William Keeler said, called the pontiff "Uncle Pope." The pope also visited the Basilica of the Assumption. As he was leaving, he saw a woman in a wheelchair. He clasped her hands and said, "Bless you my child." "I probably had some idiot grin on my face. I was awestruck. I kissed his ring and said, 'Thank you Father,"' 34- year-old Susan Grezson said later. At the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, the pope challenged Catholics to de- fend "against those who would take religion out of the public domain and establish secularism as America's offi- cial faith." Also on his schedule was a meeting with Vice President Al Gore before boarding his TWA plane for Rome. John Paul delivered his stadium mes- sage in America's oldest Catholic dio- cese, one established in the 16th cen- tury by English Catholics fleeing per- secution. The message was aimed at pushing Roman Catholics to raise their voices in the public policy debate, and to pro- mote what the church holds as moral truths. "Can the biblical wisdom which played such a formative part in the very founding of your country be ex- cluded from that debate?" John Paul asked. "Would not doing so mean that America's founding documents no longer have any defining content, but are only the formal dressing of chang- ing opinion? Would not doing so mean that tens of millions of Americans could no longer offer the contribution of their deepest convictions in the formation of policy?" After a especially busy schedule in New York on Saturday, John Paul ap- peared less vigorous than he had during Mass there in Central Park. He seemed to slouch in fatigue in his green vest- ments as he sat on the altar, set up at the 410-foot mark in deep centerfield. In a week, the 75-year-old pontiff will begin the 18th year of his papacy, the second longest this century, behind Pius XII. WASHINGTON (AP) - On the theory that it takes money to make money, the Clinton administration asked Congress to increase the IRS budget by 10 percent. Instead, the Republican- controlled Congress is cutting it by nearly 2 percent. That will translate into staff reduc- tions, fewer taxpayer phone calls an- swered and trouble shrinking the agency's $150 billion backlog of un- collected taxes, IRS Commissioner Margaret Milner Richardson said. "If you were running a business ... you might spend money to make money. But that's not often the way the federal budget process works," she said. The appropriations bill funding the agency in fiscal year 1996 is in confer- ence between House and Senate nego- tiators, who are hung up on the unre- lated issue of whether to restrict lobby- ing by tax-exempt organizations. But they've agreed to spend $7.35 billion on the IRS, compared with $7.48 billion in 1995 and an administration request for 1996 of $8.23 billion. As a result, the agency will have to reduce its staffing --at the equivalent of 114,000 full-time positions--by as many as 8,000 positions, Richardson said. The IRS has had a hiring freeze in effect since July but may have to fur- lough or lay offemployees to live within its reduced budget, she said. Congressional Republicans, how- ever, criticize the IRS, saying the agency wastes money and continues to expand while other agencies have been forced to cut back. "The IRS must learn to operate more efficiently with less just as all govern- ment entities are trying to do," said Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over the IRS. "It's difficult to view this as anything but a penny-wise and pound-foolish move," said Robert Tobias, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents IRS employees. HeIn for taxnavers will also he Clinton ma aOw Social Security cuts.. WASHINGTON (AP) - Thy Clinton administration could accept smaller cost-of-living increases for Social Security recipients, but not merely as an expedient way to bal- ance the budget, White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said yesterday Panetta said economists, and not politicians, should determine whether the current formula for ad- justing government benefits for in- flation is overly generous and needs to be changed. The Consumer Price Index, the standard for measuring inflation, should not become "a grab-bag mn order to try to fill a need in terms o the budget," Panetta said on NBC s "Meet the Press." Panetta's cautious approach to rethinking changes in Social Secu- rity benefits drew a quick reproach from Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), who said the administra.i' tion was being intimidated by se- mor citizens' groups. Moynihan, the senior Democr on the Senate Finance Comm ittee' has said reducing the CPI by a fRil percentage point could save the gov ernment $634 billion over the net, decade, mostly from Social Security. Many economists say the CP1 now rising at something under 3; percentage points a year, overstate' the actual inflation rate, Moynihan pointed out that one-'of the admi ni strati on's top economnis Alice Rivlin of the Office of Ian-, agement and Budget, last year con, eluded the CPI formula sbould adjusted to bring it closer to realiy. Senior Republicans, including Major loses hold on House of Com ns LONDON (AP) - A government lawmaker has tempt by too many Tories," he said in his resignation It cast a new cloud over the four-day annual party maptnar.tn;incrt-mrrnwTm .neratives have