The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 44, Ed. 1, Tuesday, February 22, 1994 Page: 10 of 14
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Bosnia Croatia try for peace
with plans for confederation
By Kurt Schork
Tha Routor Library Roport 1994
SARAJEVO Bosnia and Croatia have been dis-
cussing plans for confederation to try to dampen
Moslem-Croat Violence in parts of Bosnia and balance
Serb power in the area military and government offi-
cials said Saturday.
"We. have been discussing the issue of a confedera-
tion between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia for some
'time" Jovan Divjiak deputy commander of the Bosni-
an army.
"Moslems and Croats have been living together for
over 1000 years" Divjiak said. "To be fighting one
another is a disgrace."
Confederation was discussed at a scheduled meeting
Saturday in Frankfurt between Bosnian Prime Minister
Haris Silajdzic and Mate Granic Croatia's foreign
minister.
"It's correct to say that we have been disussing con-
federation with Croatia and that it's on the agenda in
Frankfurt but I can't give you any details" said a
senior Bosnian government official.
In Frankfurt Silajdzic and Granic met onc-on-one
before joining their delegations for the forma! start of
negotiations officials said.
Bosnia's charge d'affaires in Germany Indir
Ramovic said the talks were about cooperation and
confidence-building between Bosnian and Croatian
governments and Bosnian Croats.
Moslems fought with Croats against rebel Serbs
when war first erupted in Bosnia 22 months ago. That
alliance crumbled in the spring of 1993 as Croats in
western and central Bosnia began battling Moslems for
their own territory Hcrccg-Bosnia.
A confederation between Bosnia and Croatia could
undercut hardline Croat elements in both countries who
have been pushing for permanent territorial divisions
along ethnic lines.
Croatia has supplied its Croat brethren in Bosnia with
men and arms to fight against Moslem-led government
troops there.
A recent surge of regular Croatian army troops into
Bosnia has led to fresh calls for international economic
sanctions against Zagreb. "We Moslems and Croats
have been drawn into this conflict by the Serbs" Divji-
ak said "We arc hungry for a ceasefire between the
Moslem army and the Croat army."
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A strong mid-year Increase In trado holpod Hong Kong
retoin its status In 1993 as tho world's busiest port city
a roport said Saturday. More than 9.2 million 20-foot
oqulvalent units passed through tho colony's port ter-
minals last year a throe-fold Jncroose In port busi-
ness sinco 1987.
Oriphlc by Mark Houtton
Gunmen kill 14 AkMC supporters
DURBAN South Africa Gunmen shot and stabbed to death 14
sleeping African National Congress supporters 1 all but two of them
youths in South Africa's worst massacre this year ANC officials
said. Police said unidentified men with automatic weapons opened fire
on the 14 as they slept in an abandoned house in Natal province early
Saturday. Some were stabbed to death. Police spokesman Bala Naidoo
said 12 of the dead in the southern village of Crcighton were 12 17
years old.
Britain U.S. face new conflict
LONDON The British press on Saturday reported an alleged new
rift between Britain and the United States over differences in the coun-
tries' policies for ending the 22-month-old war in Bosnia-Hcrcegov-ina.
The Times and the Daily Telegraph said British Defense Secretary
Malcolm Rifkind had issued a thinly Veiled attack on Washington
condemning its refusal to send ground troops to establish peace in the
former Yugoslavia.
U.S. skiers surprise skeptic spectators
By George Diaz
Chicago Tribune 1994
KVITFJELL Norway Skeptics dismissed
them as clutter on the slopes nothing more
than obnoxious interlopers crashing skiing's ele-
gant international smorgasboard.
The world assumed the Austrians and Norwe-
gians would feast as kings and queens leaving
those woeful Americans to pick up leftover
scraps of salmon jerky.
A week into Olympic competition the U.S.
alpine ski tqam has conquered the Kvitfjell slope
by winning two golds and a silver.
"The big question of the day has been 'What's
going on with the Americans? How do you do
this?"' U.S. skier Diann Roffc-Stcinrottcr said at
a recent news conference celebrating her gold
medal run in the women's downhill. "If I knew
I'd tell you."
Confused? So arc we. Consider.
7 In the latest 54 World Cup races which
constitute the measure of international superiori-
ty American men and women finished in the
top three of five times.
Alaska's Tommy Moc considered Amcri-
7n a true sport sense
winning the season-long is
the measure of the best but
Americans don't know that
Howard Peterson
ca's top medal hope was ranked 16th in the lat-
est World Cup standings.
Since 1984 U.S. men had just one race on
the World Cup circuit A.J. Kitt's downhill
victory in 1992.
These and other unflattering facts were chroni-
cled in the Winter Olympics preview of Sports
Illustrated which labeled the team ns "Uncle
Sam's lead-footed snowplow brigade."
Since then the team has picked up the pace.
Moc began the run by winning the men's down-
hill Sunday followed by Roffc-Stcinrottcr's vic-
tory in Tuesday's Super-Giant slalom. Moc con-
tinued his charge striking silver in the men's
Super-Giant slalom Thursday.
Kyle Rasmusscn and Moc arc positioned for
another medal after finishing second and third
during the first phase of the men's downhill
combined which concludes with the slalom at
the Hafjcll course Friday.
Regardless of the results in the slalom events
the U.S. ski team already has matched the medal
count from Albcrtvillc in 1992.
Those within the program and a handful of
knowledgeable observers do not seem stunned
particularly by recent events in Kvitfjell.
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