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NATO exte; ASSOCIATED PRESS PRISTTNA, Yugoslavia (AP)?Just hours after NATO gave Yugoslavia more time to fulfill a peace pledge and avoid i?:i ri i j j 1 airsirifi.es, a cunvuy ui uuifis aiiu iruufis appeared to be heading out of warwracked Kosovo province, i The convoy Friday night and the arrival Sunday of a 20-member advance team to prepare for the mission of 2,000 unarmed observers signified more Yugoslav compliance with Western demands to end the conflict in Kosovo. NATO on Friday decided to extend the deadline until Oct. 27, allowing 10 days to reduce Yugoslav forces in Kosovo. About 400 NATO warplanes will be kept ready for possible airstrikes if Yugoslavia fails to meet its promises. Late Friday night, 144 army tanks, artillery trucks and other vehicles were seen driving in the direction of the provincial border with Serbia. While journalists were unable to follow the convoy due to unsafe conditions at night, it was considered virtually certain the vehicles continued on to bases in Serbia. A Yugoslav official said Sunday that President Slobodan Milosevic will withdraw forces in time to meet the new, pushed-back deadline. 1 am convinced that our leader has been pulling his troops out of Kosovo," Milos Radulovic, Yugoslavia's ambassador to London, told British Broadcasting Corp. radio. Scaling back Yugoslav and Serb troops and equipment in Kosovo is an important demand of the agreement Alumni celebraU ALUMNI continuedfrom page 2 career at the end of my tunnel," Sharpe said. Sharpe played for the Packers seven years. Although doctors told him he could have kept playing despite a neck injury, he decided to end his football career. What began as a joke between friends turned into Sharpe auditioning as a broadcaster covering football for ESPN. Out of sixteen other applicants, Sharpe proved to be the best and is now a football analyst for ESPN's_NFL Gameday and NFL Prime Monday. Sharpe was honored by the award, but he claims he does not like the attention or being recognized. "I was a great football player, but was never given an opportunity to be known as a great person. I say what the people want me to say," Sharpe stated. The Alumni Association Honorary Life Member award was given to Dr. Yakir Aharonov and L. Fred Miller. Aharonov is internationally recognized in the field of quantum physics and is the only South Carolina academician named to the National Academy of Sciences. Miller retired from being senior resident vice president of Merrill Lynch and is a loyal supporter of the University's School of Music and USC libraries. (I WONPER (THIS MEBL'S (rONNR CO 1^1 SHOUU>'? GONE TO mds Yogosfc reached Monday by Milosevic and U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke. The agreement, intended to avert NATO airstrikes against Yugoslav military targets, called for army forces in Knsnvn tn hp rpHiippd tr? fhp IpvpIs thpv were at before the crackdown began Feb. 28 against ethnic Albanian separatists. Hundreds of people have been killed by Serb forces, while Kosovo Liberation Army rebels have also killed more than 200 Serb policemen, civilians and ethnic Albanians loyal to Milosevic's government. In Washington, the Clinton administration said Friday that Yugoslav compliance with the U.S.-brokered agreement on Kosovo was substantial, but not yet enough to head off the possibility of airstrikes. "We believe NATO's guns should remain cocked and NATO's military commander should remain in a position to act," said State Department spokesman James P. Rubin. An advance team for the OSCE, Europe's main problem-solving alliance, arrived in Belgrade to prepare for getting the 2,000 monitors into Kosovo. The 13 staffers were to be joined by about seven others by the time they get to the provincial capital of Pristina on next Sunday. OSCE spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said in Vienna that the group hopes to have a sizable number of monitors in place in Kosovo within two weeks. The government signed a deal on Friday with the 54-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to let the OSCE "verifiers" monitor Milosevic's pledge to withdraw his > college days wit] HHHi rvL - J Hi. % * m lllfe^ ^xll Sterling Sharpe and his former bi exchange a hug and talk at the 19 dinner was held at the Adam's Ms Paula Bethea, winner of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, leads The United Way of America, the nation's largest charitable organization. She is the first female and non-CEO for the organization. "USC prepared me for the challenges in my life. My blood has always run garnet and black. We are the best of the best." Bethea said. The Distinguished Alumni Award went to the Honorable Helen Harvey If He likes Me?) N< ma.Jo I fPl L 3 hou you Help chili receive pi 5 Hotel Rest lira Men iv deadline frnnne anr} allntir +V\a rofnm n-f nn fn i/iuupa uixu uiiw tt viiv ivvuiu ui vu 300,000 refugees. NATO U-2 surveillance planes were expected to begin flying over Kosovo Sunday under an agreement signed with Yugoslavia, a U.S. official said Friday in Washington, on condition of anonymity. There was no immediate confirmation that the flights had begun. 'OSCE chairman Bronislaw Geremek, Poland's foreign minister, said Friday that the Yugoslav government had guaranteed the safety of the unarmed ground force and he would ask NATO to do the same. Teams of diplomatic observers who pulled out of Kosovo last week under the threat of possible NATO airstrikes were operating Sunday, said a U.S. official in Pristina, on condition of anonymity. After meeting with the main ethnic Albanian leader, Ibrahim Rugova, Geremek said in Pristina: "I have received assurances from Mr. Rugova about his participation in the peace process." But the rebel KLA issued a statement later saying it rejects the U.S.brokered deal for the strife-torn province. The KLA has been fighting for independence for Kosovo, where the vast majority of the population is ethnic Albanian. Serbia and the much-smaller Montenegro make up Yugoslavia. Meanwhile, at the United Nations, Security Council members held preliminary talks on a resolution to endorse this week's accord and lend U.N. backing for organizations that will verify its compliance, diplomats in New York said. I h dinner, dancing 1 vkyMgl ?? -fiS ASHTON JUNE The Gamecock isiness professor Ellen Moore >AO ww _ _ t y~? A M 7o numctuiiiiii^ inuo. mi ammm irk Hotel on Main Street. and Lawrence Kellner. Harvey is a member ofUSC's Board of Trustees and dedicates herself to supporting the university. "I can't find any better way of serving the state than through the university," Harvey said. Kellner is executive vice president ! and chief financial officer of Continental Airlines. He claims his happiest and best times were at USC and was honored to come and receive the award. ' 'r~ W -! PS ' -?v - *.#( ? sp "i*:, ^ bw donors can earn p to $215 r%m HdAHlk! si muiiui: rs of your time could earn up to $65 in one week! Iron, hemophiliacs and heart patients who roducts made from the plasma of oer donors. naII. The Quality Source NABI BioMedical Center assembly St., Columbia SC 29201 254-2280 ;aurant & Toi doza ^^Th^lospital Leading guberi ignoring envirc ASSOCIATED PRESS With education, a lottery, and video gambling c nating all the talk in the governor's race, Republican David Beasley and Democrat Jim Hodges have not much about the environment, something that may them in such a close race. "Environmentalism is the unsung tune in 1998," ( son University political scientist Charles Dunn said, candidate can come up with some kind of an environm record. There's no excuse not to. They both may wal and regret it." Environmental groups are disappointed in both didates, said Dell Isham, the South Carolina Sierra C executive director. "These are important issues an public has a right to know the candidates' position: said. "Neither of these candidates have shown much ership." Hodges has nearly impeccable environmental rec some environmental groups say. "He's got a great environmental history," said Bob ( an attorney who frequently argues cases before the Department of Health and Environmental Control. "I think of a dispute where he's come down wrong." Beasley has the most to gain by not talking aboi environment, environmentalists say. However, he die the state to its acquisition of the Jocassee Gorges and S Island, and the state passed tough factory hog farn ulations, they say. But Beasley pulled South Carolina out of a pact would have shifted the responsibility for a low-leve clear-waste landfill to North Carolina. Instead, landf erator Chem-Nuclear opened the Barnwell site to \ from across the country. The facility was supposed t( erate $140 million for education improvements but it 1 produced close to that amount. lorro/?tr mill Kn mioloni* urootn ** TcKom JLicaoicj a ltgatj mu uc uuvi&ax Traov^y i^uaui Beasley says he tried to balance the state's ecoi development with environmental needs. "I want ind to sit down and work with us and plan, so that we c; USC professor Palm compares politics palms, to consumerism areas such lems. politics continued from page 1 ^hat1 they defai David Beasle/s opposition to a state- and create rim lottery. In addition, the party would be 1 has used a group of children in an- sury bills 1 other ad to attack Republican Sen- ment. Th ate challenger Bob Inglis on his votes structui in Congress on education issues. economy." "It's all advertising," media po- Palms litical scientist Sonya Duhe said. ordinarily "That's the whole idea, whether it at a critici be for a candidate or a box of Chee- -In mj rios or Burger King. You're going to of help bel put things out that put you in the cratic free most favorable light. And the more visible the candidate, the more reinforcement among his supporters. "That's brand loyalty," Duhe said. The political parties' ads fall in an odd political loophole. As long as the ads don't ask voters to support a specific candidate on election day, then a party can buy as much TV time as it wants. And candidates have no say-so over the ads their party is buying for them. Berube said voters should be skeptical about any ad that goes heavy on negative tones. "I just get convinced that every __ time I see these ads they think everyone is a Joe Six-pack who doesn't think," Berube said. .... M n : ;,s a : : : v -> ?; # % ; a SIGN UPS GOING ON NOV THROUGH THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22. ENTRY FEE 1 PER TEAM. DIVISIONS FO MEN, WOMEN, AND CO-RE FOR MORE INFORM, RECREATIO Department of Student Life/Division of Studer USC is an irism School C( completed jymeCaw aatorial candidates >nmental dilemmas crease our environmental enhancement even more than now," he said. lomi- Until the candidates feel political pressure, ifs unlikely Gov. they will take the lead on the environment, Dunn said. ; said "Hodges could use the environment to broaden his appeal, hurt but he isn't," Dunn said. "And Beasley is too busy reacting to Hodges' strength. Both could use environmental isUlem sues to project themselves as better leaders." miy te up l canthe he it the lead Sandy ^^B?iPjj i regthat nuill opvaste ^Pgji )gen- H|^1gfl29Blj lasn't Q said. lomic IHHHHHPHPHHHHH ustry an ins participates in scientific panel continued from page 1 "We tried to make some quick money in Russia by speculating, and that i as Russia's financial prob- money is lost. Palms might return to Russia for 3 a critical issue, because more panel discussions in the future, llted on their federal debt but for now, he's got other work to do. ;d a crisis," he said. "That "I'm busy running this universiike our defaulting on trea- ty, so that's the one kind of activity I sacked by the U.S. govern- do for my country," he said "I hope to ey don't have the infra- be active here, and influence our own e to do a free market Congress to see to it that these [nuclear] materials don't get into the : J 1 i-l J. _ a L 1 1_ n cuiismei eu uie nip calra- wrung nanus. informative, enlightening Palms is also continuing his red time in Russia." search on radioactivity. He has been r opinion, they need a lot monitoring the Susquehanna River 'ore they can have a demo- in Pennsylvania in his work in tracmarket economy," he said, ing radioactivity in the environment. in tirs Jin Hi i 'i? 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