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NATO urges arrest of war criminals by Edith Lederer Associated Press Umted Nations — The outgoing pres ident of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal delivered a tough message to NATO and the U.N. Security Council, warning them of the risks they run by letting top lead ers accused of war crimes roam free. The Serb, Croat and Bosnian gov^ emments “thumb their nose” at the war crimes tribunal, and that sends a bad sign to the world community, Jucfge Gabrielle Kirk McDonald of the United States said Monday. McDonald, who is stepping down Tuesday, has spent six years on the court, the last two as its president. At a news conference after her final U.N. General Assembly briefing, she expressed frus tration that the court’s caseload was dom inated by low-level figures. Part of the problem, she said, is that the NATO-led force in Bosnia hasn’t ar rested key leaders indicted for war crimes, including wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his top gen eral, Ratko Mladic. Also, Seibia refuses to recognize the tribunal’s jurisdiction and arrest Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, she said “Are they somehow to be given pref erential treatment?” she asked. In its sixth annual report released two weeks ago, the tribunal said 35 individu als named in public indictments remain at laige, mostly in the Balkans. The court counts on NATO forces and national gov ernments to carry out arrests. McDonald noted that the NATO-led Stabilization Force in Bosnia, known as SFOR, has arrested six low-level figures indicted for war crimes. But four years after he was indicted, Karadzic remains free, reportedly in the city of Pale, in Bosnia’s Serb-controlled entity, which is controlled by French troops, she said. “SFOR needs to arrest them, very simple,” she said. McDonald also voiced frustration at the Security Council for ignoring her re peated appeals to take action against the Serb, Croat and Bosnian leaderships for their “obstructionism” toward the court and failure to hand over those indicted for war crimes. She warned that other countries might be led to believe they can delay or escape •justice. Danilo Turk of Slovenia, the Securi ty Council’s president, responded to Mc Donald’s criticism, saying “the effec tiveness of the tribunal is not an easy mat ter to achieve.” The council will discuss operations of both the Yugoslav and Rwanda tribunals Wednesday with the new chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, Turk said. McDonald, a former U5. federal judge and professor at Texas Southern Uni versity’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law, said she’s planning to live in New York City after she steps down. She has n’t disclosed her future plans. Four sentenced in World Cup beating by Erich Reimann Associated Press Essen, Germany — A German court convicted four soccer fans today in the near-fatal beating of a French police officer at last year’s World Cup and handed down sentences ranging from 3 1/2 to 10 years in prison. Andre Zawacki, 28, was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 10 yean. Prosecutors accused him of causing the most serious injuries to the French officer, Daniel Nivel, by smashing his head with a metal rod. Nivel, 44, was in court today along with his wife, Lorette, and one of their two sons. The beating, which lasted only a minute, left Nivel blind in one eye, speech-impaired and with difficulties concentrat ing, according to his lawyer, Harald Wostry. Hundreds of German soccer fans were in Lens, France, on June 21 for the sold-out match between Germany and Yu goslavia. Despite heavy police security, the situation became chaotic after the game ended in a 2-2 draw. As French offi cers sought to push back the hooligans, one group slipped in to a side street where Nivel was posted with two other po lice. “Get the cops,” they shouted, according to the indictment. The other officers fled, and the group surrounded Nivel. The next day, a photo of Nivel lying unconscious in a pool of blood hit newspapers around the world, shocking bil lions of fans following soccer’s premier event and casting a pall over the rest of the games. Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of 14 years for Zawac ki and six to eight years for the others, while defense attorneys had requested leniency because of their inebriated state. Tobias Reifschlaeger, 25; Frank Renger, 31; and Christo pher JRauch, 24, were each convicted of causing serious bodi ly harm and given sentences of six, five and 3 1/2 years, re spectively. Prosecutors had presented testimony from witnesses, most ly other soccer fans, and photographs taken during the attack by a 17-year-old Austrian, who has since entered a witness pro tection program. Defense attorneys sought to raise doubts about whether the snapshots showed what prosecutors said they did, and had stressed contradictions in witness testimony. Rauch was the only one of the four who denied involve ment in the attack. The other three admitted to participating in the beating, but not with the severity the prosecution al leged. They apologized to Nivel’s family during the trial. Another German suspect, 28-year-old Markus Wfcmecke, was arrested in France and faces trial there. I ^_• jp ..jmp Special to The Gamecock French police officer Daniel Nivel, center, suffered brain damage after a beating by four German soccer fans. They were sentenced Tuesday to serve Jail terms of up to 10 years. World Briefs ■ Christie’s art sale opens with $22.5 million Monet purchase New York (AP) — Buyers snapped up a Claude Monet “Waterlilies” for $22.5 million and paid a record $4.8 mil lion for a sculpture by Auguste Rodin dur ing fierce bidding at a Christie’s sale. Simon de Pury, former chairman of Sotheby’s in Europe, outbid four others for the Monet on Monday night. It was put up for sale by an anonymous collec tor. The Monet was part of the painter’s original 1906 “Waterlilies” series, cre ated at the lily pond behind his house in Givemy, France. The pre-sale price was $15 million. Rodin’s bronze “Eve,” part of his Adam and Eve group, had a pre-sale es timate of $4 million. It was sold to an anonymous European dealer. Edouard Manet’s 1873 “Punch,” a portrait of a clown, sold for $2.9 million, in line with pre-estimates of $2.5 million to $3.5 million. Fifty-two works of impressionist and postimpressionist art were offered and 48 sold, bringing in a total of $88.2 mil lion. ■ Choir student allegedly stole money Princeton, N J. (AP) — A choir stu dent stole money to pay his tuition bill but got caught when he returned to the scene of the crime, police said. Cameron R. Cahoon, 26, a graduate voice student at Westminster Choir Col lege, wrote a $1,100 check for tuition Friday even though he didn’t have enough money in his account, according to Lt. Charles Davall. Later that day, he broke into the col lege bursar’s office and stole two bags containing $331 in cash, Davall said. Two days later, he broke in to re turn the bags and the tuition checks they contained, Davall said. A school employee spotted him and called the police. Cahoon, of South Orem, Utah, sur rendered later in the day and returned all but $12, Davall said. Are Y< > r Free? Does Your College Mandate Thought Reform at Orientation? 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