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Clinton breaks ground for WWII memorial,
salutes crew of USS Cole on Veterans Day
■ President also
says he will use
trip to Vietnam to
heal old wounds
by Lawrence L.
Knutson
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — On a Veterans Day
of remembrance spanning generations,
President Clinton saluted the crew mem
bers of the USS Cole for heroism and sac
rifice and broke ground for a national
memorial honoring Americans for their
service at home and abroad during 3\forld
Whr II.
The president also told an audience
at Arlington National Cemetery that he
will use his historic trip to communist
Vietnam this week to heal old wounds
and press for a full accounting of missing
Americans.
At Arlington, Clinton cited the stale
mated presidential election, saying the
country honored its veterans “by cher
ishing with all our hearts the freedoms
they paid such a price to defend.”
To laughter from the crowd, he said,
“If ever there was a doubt about the val
ue of citizenship and each individual’s
exercise of the freedom of citizenship to
vote, this week’s election certainly put
it to rest.”
Applause greeted 23 officers and crew
members from the Cole when they stood
at Clinton’s request during the ceremo
ny at the Memorial Amphitheater. The
guided-missile destroyer was bombed in
a suspected terrorist attack while in a
Yemeni port on Oct. 12. The blast killed
17 sailors and injured 39 others.
Three of the dead were buried at Ar
lington in the past few weeks. Address
ing the families of those killed, the pres
ident said, “We are grateful for the qui
et, heroic service of your loved ones.
Now they are in God’s care. We mourn
their loss, and we shall not rest until those
who carried out this cruel act are held to
account.”
Clinton then went to the National
Mall where he and his rival in the 1996
presidential race, former Sen. Robert J.
Dole —joined by World Whr II veterans
and officials—used 56 gold-painted shov
els to symbolically break ground for the
$100 million memorial. It will honor
Americans who served in uniform dur
ing the war and supported the war effort
at home.
“With this memorial we secure the
memory of 16 million Americans, men
and women who took up arms in the great
est struggle humanity has ever known,”
the president told a crowd of several thou
sand people. “We hallow the ground for
more than 400,000 who never came
home.”
“The ground we break today is not
only a timeless tribute to the bravery and
honor of one generation, but a challenge
to every generation that follows,” he said.
Dole, wounded in Europe during the
war, spoke a few moments earlier. “For
some, inevitably this memorial will be
a place to mourn,” he said. “For millions
of others this will be a place to learn and
reflect and draw inspiration.”
At Arlington, the president praised
survivors of the Cole for their bravery
after the attack, which blew a massive
hole in the ship — an image flashed around
the world.
“What we couldn’t see were that en
tire compartments were flooded,
hatches blown open, doorways bent, parts
of the top deck buckled. So, in addition
to finding and bringing home the dead
and the wounded, the surviving crew had
to save their ship,” Clinton said.
The president, speaking under a white
maible-arched arcade in the open air are
na where American flags hung between
each marble pillar, also mentioned his
upcoming trip to Vietnam. He is sched
uled to depart Washington on Monday
and begin his visit to the communist coun
try on Thursday — a first for a U.S. pres
ident since the war’s end in 1975.
“Over the past decade we have
moved, step by step, toward normalized
relations with Vietnam, based on one cen
tral priority — gaining the fullest possi
ble accounting of American prisoners of
war and Americans missing in action in
southeast Asia,” Clinton said.
“Continuing cooperation on these
issues is on the top of my agenda for this
trip.”
The new World War II memorial oc
cupies a 7.4 acre tree-bordered plot at
the crossroads of the mall, facing the
Washington Monument to the east and
the Lincoln Memorial down a long re
flecting pool to the west.
Because construction won’t actual
ly begin until next spring, Clinton and
the others turned soil in a long wood
sided container that fronted the speak
er’s platform.
Officials said they aim to dedicate the
completed memorial on Memorial Day
2003.
The memorial would have 56 pillars,
each 17 feet high, and two large pools
surrounding a sunken plaza, and foun
tains to provide a rainbow effect on sun
ny days. Visitors would enter through two
41-foot-tall arches. A wall of gold stars
would represent veterans killed in the
war.
Critics have contended that the
memorial’s design was confusing and that
the structure would mar the views of the
famed memorials honoring Abraham Lin
coln and George Washington, a claim the
monument’s designers deny.
Congress
from page 5
“This Week,” adding he hoped the four
leaders could all sit down.
Republicans, however, seem unde
cided about how quickly to proceed and
are unlikely to make decisions until they
meet among themselves. The House re
turns on Monday, the Senate on Tuesday.
Some top GOP aides, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said it made
little sense to agree to spending increas
es that would shrink the budget surplus
that Bush, if he takes office, would
have available for future tax cuts and oth
er purposes.
But others said Bush, if elected, might
uige them to quickly settle their differ
ences with Clinton. That would let
lawmakers go home, rest and return in
January for the new Congress and a White
House that will be far easier for them
to work with.
Other Republicans say partisan bat
tling already has gotten so bad in Con
gress that the uncertainty over the Bush
Gore election will make little difference.
“The undercurrent of misunder
standing and the unwillingness to bend
has been so bad that I don’t think it can
be any worse,” said Rep. Amo Houghton,
R-N.Y.
Whatever their strategies, leaders of
both parties will have to cope with weary
rank-and-file lawmakers who mostly seem
ready to finish their last business and ad
journ.
“There are things that just have to
be left to the incoming president, no mat
ter who that is,” said Rep. Judy Biggert,
R-Ill., adding, “People would like to have
a little time to recover.”
Elections
from page 5
federation cantons. The party also orga
nized an unauthorized referendum ask
ing Croats if they back its campaign for
an internationally recognized Croat min
istate and claimed 70 percent support
among Croats
International officials who adminis
ter Bosnia-Herzegovina under the Day
ton agreement ordered Bosnian media
not to report on the referendum. Foreign
administrators hope voters will follow
the lead of their neighbors in Yu
goslavia and Croatia and elect reform
minded leaders.
Chief among them is Zlatko
Lagumdzija, a 44-year-old Muslim man
agement professor whose Social De
mocrats were the only major party field
ing candidates in all three ethnic regions.
The party’s platform promised econom
ic development, legal reform and ethnic
tolerance.
“I hope that today the people of
Bosnia are choosing the future and get
ting away from the past,” Lagumdzija
told reporters Saturday.
His message appeared to have reso
nance in Muslim areas.
“I’m here to vote for change, to stop
the corruption, the lies and misery in
which we find ourselves today,” said San
dra Fazlic, 20, a student in Tuzla. “But
the Social Democrats should also know
that if they cheat us, we won’t wait an
other 10 years to come up with changes
again.”
Barry said the single vote fraud inci
dent took place in the Serb-controlled
town of Srebrenica, scene of the 1995
massacre of thousands of Muslim men
and boys. He didn’t elaborate but said the
alleged offenders were Serbs and noted
that regulations forbid parties “telling
voters how to vote” on election day.
Disenchantment with ethnically
based, nationalist parties has increased
throughout the country because they have
failed to improve the lives of Bosnia’s
people since the end of the war.
Because those parties were more in
terested in defending their own power
bases than promoting national unity, this
country of 4.3 million people has three
legal codes, three telephone networks,
three electric power systems and three
educational systems.
Western economic experts say the
country can never advance economical
ly without the sort of integration ethnic
parties have resisted.
Nevertheless, all major Bosnian Serb
parties pledged to resist any attempts to
curb powers of the Serb ministate. The
Croatian referendum was a clear sign the
Croat leadership opposes Western-en
couraged steps toward integration.
Embargo
from page 5
a humanitarian mission and have prior
approval from the U.N.’s Iraq sanctions
committee.
France, along with Russia, says Se
cunty Council resolutions only require
countries to notify the committee of a
proposed flight, not to get its explicit ap
proval.
Since the Russian and French flights
to Baghdad, dozens more have followed,
including some that haven’t sought com
mittee approval.
On Friday, a group of defiant
British peace activists flew into Baghdad,
the first flight in a decade to Iraq from
Britain.
“We didn’t notify the British gov
ernment, the United Nations—we came
here as free citizens of the world to this
country that we love,” British lawmak
er George Galloway told state-run Iraqi
television.
Hijacking
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the passengers, most of whom were from
Dagestan and possibly included children,
were apparently not harmed. There were
two to four hijackers, he said.
Israel initially refiised the plane per
mission to land and was especially con
cerned about the hijackers’ initial insis
tence on landing at Ben-Gurion
international airport near Tel Aviv, the
country’s main airport.
The plane was accompanied over the
Mediterranean by an Israeli Air Force jet
and was allowed to land after the Russ
ian pilot said he had fuel left for “slight
ly more than an hour.”
The aircraft was seized Saturday night
shortly after takeoff from Makhachkala,
the capital of the southern Russian re
gion of Dagestan in the Caucasus Moun
tains. It was headed for Moscow, but the
hijackers diverted the airplane to Baku,
Azerbaijan, where it refueled before head
ing toward Israel.
“One of the hijackers, together with
the bombs, is in the cabin. I do not know
how many of them are in the passenger
cabin. They demanded to land in Baku
and then only in Tel Aviv. They refuse to
fly anywhere else and promise to blow
up the plane,” the pilot said over the
plane’s radio, before reaching Israel.
Israeli officials said they were pre
pared for the worst.
“Wfeare ready to receive the injured
if there would be such. We hope it will
all end peacefully,” said Avi Zohar, head
of Israel’s emeigency medical service .