2- The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 17, 1995 In irony of war, Serbs suffer at former prison OMARSKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP)-Once Muslims suffered here as prisoners in a Serb-tun camp. Now, fortunes have shifted and Serb refugees jam-the grounds of an old iron mine. "I feel like a walking shadow," said Davorka Kuzmanovic, fighting back tears as she breast-fed her 10-month- old daughter. Kuzmanovic, 25, and her baby are among some 50,000 Serb civilians who have fled toward the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Banja Luka ahead of re- cent government and Croatian assaults that have touched off another refugee Crisis. As Bosnian Serb leaders sought to spread blame for battlefield losses that forced their civilians to flee, Kuzmanovic had more material con- cerns: gathering rain clouds and her next meal. "When you don't have anywhere to go, when you don't know whether your child will have something to eat the next day, then you don't care about politics," she said, sitting on a few be- longings atop a small tractor with only a nylon tarp for shelter. "People are dying in this camp." People have died here before. Omarska was among the most notori- ous prison camps set up when rebel Serbs overran much of Bosnia in 1992. Footage of emaciated Muslim prison- ers shocked the world and focused out- rage on Bosnian Serb atrocities. Today, more than 25,000 Serb refu- gees are struggling to survive there. Some have found shelter in a mine building. Others huddle in the open. Sanitation is appalling, and the camp supervisor said they can meet only 2 percent of the refugees' food needs. Elderly people, refusing to talk, sit on blankets as they fix their gazes on the SNAnFONAL REPORT Powell too far left for some conservatv WASHINGTON - Although the prospect of a bid for the GOP nomination by Gen. Colin Powell has drawn an enthusiastic response from some conservative national party strategists who view him as the party's strongest general-election candidate against President Clinton, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff could face enormous ideological hurdles if he actually enters the Republican race. Since starting his book promotions last month, Powell has spoken in favor of gun control, legalized abortion and affirmative action, and in opposition to school prayer and aspects of the Republican welfare reform plan. He has also repeatedly described himself as a "moderate." In his autobiography, Powell calls himself "a fiscal conservative with a social conscience." "If he emphasizes that he's a moderate and he wants to represent the middle, he'll have a very difficult time of it," said Republican pollster Fred Steeper. "If he decides to articulate the conservative agenda in his own way, he'll push (front- runner) Bob Dole right to the brink." Bill Price, the longtime president of Texans United for Life, thinks he has a pretty good idea of what might be awaiting Powell if he decides to run as a Republican. "The conservative interest groups would pull out every possible stop they possibly could to prevent him from coming out of the Republican primaries as the nominee," he said. A 16-year-old antI-aircraft gunner in the Bosnia Serb army looks around a market In the rebel Serb capital of Pale yesterday. camp gates, seemingly hoping for help from somewhere. Aid officials say some of the elderly at Omarska have died, but nobody knows how many. U.N. and Red Cross relief agencies are trying to rush aid to Omarska, but are overwhelmed with the scale of the refugee problem throughout northwest- ern Bosnia. "At this moment, we are watching something unfold which we can only explain as a total disaster," said anin- ternational Red Cross official, John Sparrow, in Sarajevo. Said Jean-Marie Boucher of the World Food Program: "We cannot de- liver food aid fast enough to the Banja Luka area. Entire villages are on the move." THAT'S WHY JOSTENS OFFERS SPECIALLY PRICED COLLEGE RINGS. FBI investigates derailment, questions motorists in Arizona PHOENIX-FBI agents setup road- blocks and stopped motorists yesterday near the site of last week's Amtrak derailment, hoping to find someone who could shed light on the identity of the saboteur who caused the crash. "It's too early to tell if the informa- tion will lead to anyone," FBI spokes- man Jack Callahan said. The Sunset Limited toppled into a desert gulch along a sabotaged stretch of track Oct. 9, killing a crewman and injuring 78 people. Copies of an anti- government letter were found around the wreck, 55 miles southwest of Phoe- nix. The roadblocks were set up early Sunday and taken down 24 hours later. The FBI is still trying to find the person in a cowboy hat spotted walking about 100 yards south of the accident site by an Amtrak employee and a pas- senger 10 to 15 minutes after the crash. Because it was dark, they couldn't tell whether the person was a man or woman. The person is being soatghtas a possible witness - not necessarily a suspect, FBI agent David Tubbs said. Women in Congress support child care WASHINGTON - Nearly half of the women in Congress urged lawmak- ers drafting a final welfare bill yester- day to provide enough money for child care and require states to continue to shoulder a fair share of the responsibil- ity for helping the poor. The 26 female legislators, in a letter to the members of the House and Senate conference committee on welfare, said that they have a "particular interest" in the issue because roughly 90 percent of the families on welfare are headed by women. They asked the conferees to keep intact the school lunch program, nutrition aid for pregnant women and babies, foster care and adoption assis- tance. The women went somewhat farther than 18 Republican moderates in the House, who also asked the confereesto craft abill that would attract substantial bipartisan support. AROUND THE L -> - ,,,. . ' ' .-, - : SEE YOUR JOSTENS REPRESENTATIVE TODAY! MONDAY-FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16-20 11:00 A.M.-4:00 P.M. MICHIGAN UNION BOOKSTORE NNW cartel's hit man fin y behind bars in Mexico City MEXICO CITY - They call him "The Eraser," and testimony in U.S. federal court indicates that Jose Adolfo de la Garza was in charge of hit squads that for years eliminated the enemies and competitors of alleged Mexican drug baron Juan Garcia Abrego. Yesterday, De la Garza was in prison in Mexico City, charged with serving as Garcia Abrego's fifth-ranking lieuten- ant and one of his key links to Colombia's drug cartels, which theU.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says supply four-fifths of the cocaine sold in America through Mexican smuggling cartels like Garcia Abrego's. De ]a Garza, 36, was arrested in a pre- dawn raid Sunday by Mexican federal drug-enforcement agents in Monterrey after an "intensive investigation in sev- eral northern states," according to Mexico's attorney general's office. Mexican prosecutors declared the ar- rest a clear signal that it is closing in on fugitive drug lord Garcia Abrego, the first international drug dealer to be placed on the FBI's 10-most-wanted list seven months ago. Arresting Garcia Abrego and disman- tding his Gulf cartel, has become a key issue in U.S.-Mexican relations. He-is charged in Houston federal court, along with De la Garza and more than a dozen other lieutenants, in a widespread crimi- nal conspiracy that includes murder and money laundering. Rabin visits ambush site, lks to Cabinet JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin yesterday visited the site in southern Lebanon where six Israeli soldiers were ambushed and killed the day before by Lebanese guerrillas, as government ministers here predicted that Israel will refrain from unleashing a massive retaliatory attack. Sources in southern Lebanon said Muslim guerrillas fired rocket-propelled grenades into the Sojod outpost, in the eastern part of Israel's self-proclaimed security zone. Israel Radio said that two Southern Lebanon Army militiamen were wounded and that Israeli and SLA troops returned fire. There were no re- ports of Lebanese casualties. Rabin called an emergency Cabinet session for today to discuss the situa- tion in southern Lebanon. 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