8 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 13, 1995 NAnaoN/Wafto Amid allegations of truce violations, Bosnia fighting decreases * Only sporadic fighting r continues In war-ravaged Balkans The Washington Post SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina >-The warring factions of Bosnia ac- cused each other of violating the truce -.hat began early yesterday, but the -United Nations said fighting experi- 'enced a "considerable decrease." For the first time since the war began ,in April 1992, the Bosnian government canceled a state of alert in the capital. A U.N. military spokesman, Lt. Col. Chris Vernon, said it would be "unreal- istic" to expect that armies that have :%een fighting for more than three years ::along a 600-mile front would be able to :ilence theirweapons in only afew hours. "People who have been fighting each other at a distance of 200 meters don't just put their rifles in the air and say, I'm walking backward, thank you very ,much,"' he said. The Muslim-led government accused -the Serbs of launching an attack to ~recapture the northwestern town of ISanski Most, which reportedly fell to a Muslim assault Tuesday night. The Serbs returned the accusation, ,saying Muslim forces were continuing their attacks in the area. U.N. observers counted 100 outgoing artillery rounds -from Muslim forces in that region. In Zenica, Monique Tuffelli, head of NATO making sure it can enter, leave war n osnia Bosnian Serb children sit in the Amarska refugee camp, 24 miles west of the Serb stronghold of Banja Luka. the local office of the U.N. High Com- missioner for Refugees, said the influx of Muslims expelled from northern Bosnia byparamilitaries from neighboring Serbia had halted, although she was not sure whether more would be coming later. U.N. officials had warned that a con- tinued expulsion of Muslims after the cease-fire started would constitute a violation of the truce. So far, more than 6,000 women, children and elderly men have poured into the Zenica region. YELLOW CAB 2MW Comrmee AnArbor,.Ml48103 663-3355 Largest and newest fleet 4 can share the fare 0 Service to metro airport . Night Ride service 663-3888 24 Hour Taxi Service About 2,000 men are missing in the ordeal, having been taken off at gun- point by the Serbians. In Sarajevo, the attempts of the U.N. mission to carry out one of the key elements of the cease-fire -the open- ing of a road to the isolated Muslim enclave of Gorazde in eastern Bosnia - were stymied yesterday by Serb mines and bureaucratic entanglements. First, French mine experts did not know that part of the roadhad been mined by the Bosnian Serbs. Then they spent several hours clearing it. By that time, however, a convoy of U.N. aid trucks had turned back to Sarajevo because the drivers had refused to spend the night in the isolated town without a U.N. military escort. The Bosnian government had already informed the U.N. command that the Russian soldiers escorting the convoy would not be welcome to stay over- night in Gorazde. Russia has been sym- pathetic to the Serb cause since war erupted. The Washington Post BERLIN - NATO this week de- cided how to get into Bosnia. Now it wants to be certain it knows how to get out. By approving a five-phase plan de- signed to separate the warring parties in Bosnia with at least 50,000 combat troops, NATO ambassadors Wednes- day night took the most concrete step yet toward the biggest military opera- tion in the alliance's 46-year history. Drafted by Gen. George A. Joulwan, NATO's supreme commander, the plan includes the advance positioning of logisticians, the funneling of troops into Bosnia through five "entry points" and the establishment of a 1,000-kilo- meter-long (621-mile) "zone of sepa- ration" between Bosnian adversaries. But it is the fifth and final phase - withdrawal of the force - that causes the greatest unease among some NATO civilian and military planners. "This is key, for the United States and many other countries. End points have to be defined," a NATO diplomat said. "What constitutes success? When can you say you're finished? The mili- tary is going to require more guidance on this as we go along. We have to look at this in much more detail." One senior NATO official, asked to describe the circumstances under which the force would be pulled out of Bosnia, said, "That we haven't gone into." Notwithstanding the cease-fire that took effect yesterday, Western offi- cials cautioned that a comprehensive peace accord - a prerequisite for any NATO deployment - may still be months away. So many thorny politi- cal issues await resolution, from the physical division of Bosnia to the re- turn of refugees, that planners believe they have time to further define the desired "end state" of the military de- ployment. Robert Hunter, U.S. ambassador to NATO, said in a telephone interview from Brussels: "This is going to be a limited-duration operation, 12 months max. ... We're not going to take re- sponsibility beyond that." But military commanders privately say they worry that such resolve may be difficult to sustain a year from now, particularly if it appears that a NATO pullout would prompt new bloodlet- ting. They cite such cautionary ante- cedents as the decades-long U.N. op- eration in Cyprus and, more recently, the U.N.-U.S. deployment to Somalia. "History doesn't help in this regard," said Col. Terence Taylor, assistant di- rector of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "All op- erations like this start with, 'Well, yes, it will probably be for just a year or two."' NATO Secretary General Willy Claes pledged in a speech in Washing- ton last week that "we will have an exit strategy. This will not be an open- ended commitment. This will not be intervention in a civil war, as in Viet- nam. It will not be an exercise in na- tion-building, as in Somalia." Claes said the operation is intended to "oversee the pullback of forces to agreed demarcation lines," to provide stability as the warring factions "imple- ment their new constitutional relation- ships and restore their economic ties" and to allow international reconstruc- tion to begin. "And then," he added, "we will leave." To limit NATO's involvement as much as possible, alliance ambassadors instructed Joulwan to focus strictly on military tasks, such as patrolling the separation zone, and to think in terms of ayear-long operation. Refugee resettle- ment, infrastructure repair and other civil tasks are being shunted to the United Nations and other agencies. Senate names Sasser ambassador to China MEMORANDUM# The Washington Post WASHINGTON-Just a few weeks ago, it seemed that Jim Sasser's nomi- nation as U.S. ambassador to China was in deep trouble. The Chinese de- layed acting on the appointment for months, because of the crisis in rela- tions between Washington and Beijing. ~ PRINTING LOWESTPRICES! "HIGHEST QUA LITY' FASTEST SER VICE! * 1002 PONTIAC TR. 994-1367 Then the former Democratic senator from Tennessee became embroiled in a tug of war over ambassadorial nomi- nees between the State Department and Senate Republicans. At the end of September, Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) poured cold water on the administration's hopes of filling the Beijing post any time soon. Sasser, he scoffed to a reporter, might be "a nice guy, but I'm not sure he knows a chop- stick from a tuning fork." Yesterday, Helms led other members of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee in praising their former colleague as ideally suited for the post of ambas- sador to China. At a committee hearing, Helmspromisedto"expedite" the nomi- nation, telling Sasser that he should "go home and pack" in order to be present at the Sept. 24 meeting in New York be- tween President Clinton and Chinese president Jiang Zemin. The turnaround in Sasser's fortunes reflected the efforts made by both the United States and China to put their relations back on track, following the disruptions caused by Washington's decision to grant a visa to the president of Taiwan and Beijing's detention of a Chinese-American human rights activ- ist, Harry Wu. But it was also a telling indication ofthe Senate's club-like code of etiquette and the ties of mutual self- esteem that bind senators and former senators. The hearing got off to a collegial start when Vice President Al Gore intro- duced his fellow Tennesseeanas along- time family friend who had worked on his father's senatorial campaign. Gore recalled the long tradition of congress- men and senators who had gone on to become ambassadors, including Mike Mansfield and Walter Mondale in Ja- pan, and George Bush, a former ambas- sador to Beijing. The enthusiasm for Sasser, who served for 18 years in the Senate until his defeat in last November's elections, transcended the political divide. A beaming Helms praised Sasser for"vot- ing the right way every time" to link Most Favored Nation trading status for China to Beijing's respect for human rights. St*deNJ I Vted All Undergraduate and Graduate Students Pam Hamblin, Leader To:m From: Date: Subject: 1995 M-Quality Expo Planning Team October 13, 1995 M-Quality Expo '95 , You are cordially invited to attend M-Quality Expo '95, October 19 and 20. The Expo will be held in the Michigan Union to showcase the latest examples of continuous quality improvement (CQI) principles in use on the Ann Arbor Campus. Students interested in careers in business and industry, government or education, or related fields, will gain valuable insights into contemporary methods of achieving improvement and innovation in the workplace. The CQI approach includes tools and techniques to improve services, promote effective problem solving, enhance the work environment, and foster a spirit of teamwork and empowerment. This year's Expo will feature the theme: "Making a Difference: Creating the Future Through Serving Others." The Expo, through a series of exhibits and presentations, is designed to give members of the University community more information about a wide range of quality-related activities being developed right on campus. Expo '95 is sponsored by the M-Quality Steering Committee chaired by Provost and Executive Vice President J. Bernard Machen and Executive Vice President Farris W. Womack. They join me in inviting all interested, or just plain curious, students. I Location: Michigan Union m.