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'Ihe ©amecock Democrats head out West for fundraising * by Deb Riechmann Associated Press MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Con tributors paid $10,000 each to attend a Democratic fimd-raiser Saturday in Sil icon Valley where they listened to Pres ident Clinton muse about politics and world affairs. That’s roughly $475 a minute. The president’s appearance helped raise $400,000 for the Democratic Na tional Committee luncheon, one of eight events scheduled over three days in Cal ifornia and New Mexico. Seven are po litical events or fund-raisers for the De mocrats, who seek to retain control of the White House and reclaim majori ► ties in both the House and Senate. “I think that we are going to do very well in the Senate races and I think we’ll do very well in the House races,” Clin ton said, adding a plug for his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is running for a Senate seat from New York. “But we have to win the White House because of the stark differences on economics, the environment, crime, education, health care — all these issues. There are real differences.” The’guests, including many Indian Americans, gathered at the modem, pink stucco home of Dr. Anmol Mahal that sits on a hillside in Fremont, Calif. “I hope that if we do (win), and I believe we will, that you will intensify your in volvement — that you will continue to support the fund-raisers, but I want to see more Indian-Americans in the gov ernment.” Clinton began his day Saturday with a statement on the South Lawn of the White House, saying his decision to tap the U.S. emeigency crude oil reserve to drive down gas and heating oil prices was not motivated by politics. Then it was off to California for three days of pure politics. His three events on Saturday alone were expected to raise $3.75 million. Both Vice President A1 Gore and his GOP rival, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, want to pocket California and its 54 elec toral votes — a fifth of the 270 needed to win the presidency. On Monday, Bush begins a five-day West Coast campaign swing that includes California. Also on Saturday, Clinton was help ing raise an estimated $350,000 at a bar becue in San Jose, Calif., for Mike Hon da, a member of the California state legislature and former teacher, who is running for the House against Republi can Jim Cunneen, a state assemblyman and former corporate executive. He was speaking later Saturday night at a Democratic Congressional Com mittee Dinner in Los Angeles. State department suspends . Indyk’s security clearance by Barry Schweid Associated Press WASHINGTON - The U S. ambas sador to Israel is under FBI investigation for suspected security violations, clos ing a critical channel to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in the midst of dif ficult peace negotiations. Apparently the first American am bassador stripped of his security clear ances, Martin Indyk is denied access to classified documents and even discus sions with Barak or other Middle East figures, a senior State Department offi cial said Saturday. By their nature, such conversations are considered classified. President Clinton endorses the State ) Department’s handling of the case and does not think the Indyk situation will affect the U.S. peace efforts, said White House spokesman Joe Lockhart, travel ing with Clinton in California. While the investigation continues, Indyk, like all visitors, must be escorted personally by a department official to go beyond the State Department lobby, cafe teria and a few other nonsensitive areas. The two-time ambassador to Tel Aviv and recent head of the State Department’s Near East Bureau “can still talk to peo ple, but he can only have coffeehouse conversations,” said the official, speak ing on condition of anonymity. A law enforcement official, also speaking anonymously, said Indyk is al leged to have mishandled work-related classified materials, including taking some home. Indyk’s indiscretion involved the use of an unclassified, government-owned laptop computer to, while in transit, pre pare memorandums about discussions with foreign leaders, said a source out side the State Department who is fa miliar with the investigation. Vote count on hold in Yugoslavia by Dusan Stosanovic Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia— With the opposition claiming-victory, Slobo dan Milosevic was locked in a bitter elec tion race Sunday that could spell the end of his 13 years in power, after Yugoslavs turned out in laige numbers in chaotic voting. Hours after polls closed, it appeared the best that Milosevic could hope for was to head into a runoff Oct. 8 against his strongest challenger, Vojislav Kos tunica. Kostunica’s supporters claimed he had won outright and, after a day when vote monitors reported widespread ir regularities, accused Milosevic of try ing to manipulate the vote count to force a runoff. “There is no doubt that we over whelmingly won on all levels,” said op position campaign manager Zoran Djind jic. “Milosevic has to seriously understand the judgment of liistory, and he shouldn’t gamble any longer. He has to recognize the defeat. It seems, tliis is the end of his career. ” * Sensing a dramatic turn, huge crowds of opposition supporters streamed into the streets of downtown Belgrade late Sunday to await official results. Hel meted riot police carrying shields and armed with tear gas launchers cordoned off the group but later withdrew after a concert by Milosevic’s supporters ended. Similar gatherings were reported in Nis, Novi Si id, Cacak and several other towns in Yugoslavia’s main republic Ser bia. There were no immediate reports of clashes. Early Monday, the state election commission suspended the official count for the night without announcing any results. Kostunica’s supporters said they would offer proof that their candidate had won die election, while political par lies issued differing figures they said were based on their poll watchers’ reports. Cedomir Jovanovic, spokesman of Kostunica’s Democratic Opposition of Serbia, said that based on returns from 45 percent of 10,000 polling stations, Kostunica was leading with 57 percent to 33 percent for Milosevic. Three oth er candidates are in the race. Milosevic’s Socialist Party claimed the president was leading Kostunica by about 46.87 percent to 38.6 percent based on returns from 754 polling sta tions. Neither party gave the number of ballots counted. The ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party, Milosevic’s partner in Serbia’s government, reported Kostunica leaf ing Milosevic 51.34 percent to 38.32 percent with about 20 percent of the votes counted. The party admitted its own candidate was defeated. Kostunica had been leading in opin ion polls despite a campaign marred by a crackdown against opposition sup porters, one-sided coverage by tlie staunchly pro-Milosevic media and the lack of broad-based foreign moni toring. During Sunday’s voting, monitors reported that some boxes were stuffed with Milosevic ballots, prominent op position members were dropped from registration rolls and voters were forced to cast ballots publicly. The White House saicfit had “a lot of concerns about this election.” Deputy Press Secretary Nanda Chitre pointed to the monitors’ reports, saying, “These types of things show a pattern of irreg ularity that really brings into question the integrity of the whole process.” The United States, which has in vested millions of dollars in an attempt to oiganize the traditionally fractured Serbian opposition, has made ousting Milosevic a major goal, believing there can be no stability in the Balkans so long as he remains in power. The stakes were especially high in the voting, which also included selec tion of a new parliament and municipal governments. If Milosevic loses, he risks extradi tion to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, which indict ed him last year for atrocities commit ted by his troops in Kosovo. He may al so risk massive revenge by Yugoslavs tired of being an impoverished pariah country after a decade of his rule. The European Union has promised massive aid to Yugoslavia if Milosevic loses. Montenegro, the smaller repub lic that along with Serbia font’s present day Yugoslavia, said it would hold an in dependence referendum if Milosevic wins. The Center for Free Elections and Democracy, a private group including human rights workers, lawyers and oth er volunteers, reported a turnout of 74.6 percent in Yugoslavia’s main republic Serbia. In the smaller republic of Mon tenegro, where the pro-Western gov ernment boycotted the vote, the turnout was only about 24 percent, the opposi tion said. . Milosevic made no statement about the seemingly unfavorable returns. Ear lier Sunday, he brushed aside accusations that he would rig the vote to stay in pow er, predicting prosperity after he wins and liis troubled country is “cleared up” politically. The president’s statement, made af ter he cast his ballot in the Dedinje dis trict where he lives, may indicate he plans to crack down hard on political opponents—whom he has dubbed NA TO lackeys and traitors — if he’s de clared the winner. Kostunica, a 56-year-old law pro fessor, said after voting that he expect ed to win. “The regime is aware that it is los ing these elections and that the people are free from fear to say what they think about such authorities,” Kostunica said. Peacekeeping from page 2 ing like what we came in contact with when we got here,” Lt. Samuel Donnelly, an Alpha Company platoon leader, said in a sworn statement to Army investigators. The report said that last December, Donnelly slapped around a teen-age boy who was thought to have infor mation about a shooting. He and an other soldier also were accused of abus ing a man they put in a detention cell. Another soldier from the same unit, whose name was blacked out by Army censors, said, “We expected to get fired at and things like that. We didn’t ex pect things to be so calm and laid back. / — I actually thought it would be more like combat.” Combat is the primaiy focus of mil itary training. While the United States has not fought a land war since the Persian Gulf War of 1991, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki is adamant in his belief that soldiers must be trained for success in the full range of potential missions — from peace op erations to war. Sliinseki likes to remind people that in Somalia in 1992, U.S. soldiers in tervened to rescue millions from famine and ended up in a shooting war. In one disastrous battle, 18 American soldiers were killed and 83 injured in October 1993, prompting President Clinton to begin withdrawing the force. Even with the noblest of intentions, a U.S. peacekeeping operation can turn deadly with little notice, said Shinseki, a former commander of U.S. peace keepers in Bosnia, in a speech to Na tional Guard members on Sept. 14. “Someone else-can change the pa rameters in about 20 minutes, and we will find our youngsters in the middle of a hot firefight. That’s reality,” he said. Geoige Joulwan, the retired four star Army general who was comman der of NATO forces when the Bosnia peacekeeping effort began in 1995, agrees with Shinseki. “We need to have soldiers and qual ity leaders who can adjust to the mis sion,” Joulwan said in an interview Fri day. “We’re flexible enough as an Army, in my opinion, to make those kinds of adjustments.” Army Gen. Henry H. Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also opposes creating a separate peace keeping force. The best aignment against it, he says, is the disastrous U.S. entry into the Korean War in 1950. In the years immediately after World War II, th? Army partially demobilized and fo cused its attention laigely on occupa tion duties in Germany and Japan. Com bat training was put off. When communist Noijh Korea in vaded South Korea, U.S. troops were ill-prepared for high-intensity combat. “Training for combat is especial ly important when conducting missions other than war,” Shelton wrote in this summer’s volume of National Securi ty Studies Quarterly. “As Korea clear ly demonstrated, we can never be suie when those warfighting skills will be needed.” LOTTERY SEPTEMBER 28, 2000 Priority Reservations Lottery 2nd Floor Lobby Russell House September 28,2000 9:00 A.M. - 1st Ballroom Date 10:00 A.M. - 2nd Ballroom Date For more information, contact the Event Services Office at 7/7-7127 or stop by Russell House 218. \ Russell House University Union Priority Reservations Deadlines January - July 2001 Priority I: University Wide Events....by September 20 2000 (See definition on page 101 in the Carolina Community Priority II: Carolina Productions.by September 25,2000 (See definition on page 101 in the Carolina Community Priority III: Registered Student Organizations.on September 28 2000 (See information below about the Lottery on February 22,2000) Priority Other.after October 2,2000 (Academic Departments or administrative units or other student organizations as designated in the Carolina Community, page 101) NOTE: Academic Space will pot be reserved until January 30,2001 (See definition on page 101 in the Carolina Community) Because of the high demand for space in the Russell House a lottery system is used to ensure equitable distribution of space to registered student organizations. 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