MAIL-IT REQUESTED: JANUARY 27, 2000 10580X CLIENT: PAUL LIBRARY: NEWS FILE: ALLNWS YOUR SEARCH REQUEST AT THE TIME THIS MAIL-IT WAS REQUESTED: FRANCE CROATS NUMBER OF STORIES FOUND WITH YOUR REQUEST THROUGH: LEVEL 1... 7 LEVEL 1 PRINTED DISPLAY FORMAT: FULL SEND TO: WEBSTER LIBRARY, # 1 CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 7141 SHERBROOKE STREET WEST MONTREAL, QUEBEC CANADA H4B 1R6 **********************************03656********************************** PAGE 1 LEVEL 1 - 1 OF 7 STORIES Copyright 1998 Deutsche Presse-Agentur Deutsche Presse-Agentur July 1, 1998, Wednesday, BC Cycle 12:54 Central European Time SECTION: Sports LENGTH: 1106 words HEADLINE: Spanish fans fascinated by their foreign World Cup stars BYLINE: By Duncan Shaw DATELINE: Madrid BODY: Spain's interest in the World Cup did not end with the early elimination of Javier Clemente's disappointing team. Far from it. Since then, Spanish fans have been fascinated to see their foreign stars in action for different national teams. Spain is the country with the most foreign players in the World Cup, no less than 48, and from 19 different countries. Italy has 46 foreigners in the tournament and England 44. Unsurprisingly, cosmpolitan Barcelona is the club that has provided most players for the World Cup, no less than 15: eight Spaniards, five Dutchmen and two Brazilians. Barca's Spaniards, of course, mostly performed poorly. Nor have their foreigners set the World Cup alight. Dutchmen Ruud Hesp, Michael Reiziger, Winston Bogarde and Boudewijn Zenden have usually been kept on the bench by coach Guus Hiddink. Barca fans, though, have been impressed by Phillip Cocu - snatched without a fee from PSV Eindhoven - and are already looking forward to him linking up with Giovanni and Rivaldo. Both Brazilians had an excellent season while helping Barca to a league and cup double. Many Catalans, therefore, have been surprised at Mario Zagallo consigning Giovanni to the bench after the opening match. Barca coach Louis Van Gaal is still desperate to sign the De Boer brothers from Ajax, both of whom have looked impressive in France. Real Madrid's foreigners have performed better in France than Barca's. Davor Suker's goals have taken Croatia into the quarterfinals and may yet convince Real to hold onto him. Robert Carlos has done well for Brazil, while Clarence Seedorf has forced his way back into the Dutch midfield. Striker Predrag Mijatovic, though, had a surprisingly poor World Cup for Yugoslavia, crowned by the penalty miss against Holland. Six weeks ago he was the hero in Amsterdam - scoring the only goal in the Champions Cup final against Juventus - on Monday night he slunk off the pitch in Toulouse in embarrassment. PAGE 2 Deutsche Presse-Agentur, July 1, 1998 Real have already signed up young Cameroonian midfielder Samuel Eto'o from minor Madrid team Leganes. They are also interested in German midfielder Dieter Hamann and Yugoslav striker Zoran Ognjenovic. Neighbours Atletico, of course, can boast the World Cup's joint top scorer in Christian Vieri. Atletico fans are not surprised at Vieri's goals in France, as he was top marksman in the Spanish league this season with 24. Vieri recently hinted again at a return to the Italian league. Atletico owner Jesus Gil and new coach Arrigo Sacchi, however, are obviously desperate to keep him. Atletico have just signed up Argentine defender Jose Chamot and are poised to capture Yugoslav midfielder Vladimir Jugovic, both from Lazio. Multinational Deportivo Coruna also had plenty of players in the World Cup, although none of their Brazilian contingent made Zagallo's squad. Deportivo's two African goalkeepers put in contrasting displays. Jaques Songo'o performed far more solidly for Cameroon than did the hapless Peter Rufai for Nigeria. No wonder Rufai rarely gets off the bench in La Coruna. There were even angry suggestions in Spain that Rufai had been bribed to let in three Paraguayan goals in the decisive Group D match. His pathetic performance against Denmark, though, convinced most Spaniards that Rufai didn't need to be bribed in order to let in soft goals. Deportivo's Moroccan trio of Noureddine Naybet, Mustapha Hadji and Salaheddine Bassir all did well for Henri Michel's luckless team. Unlike Deportivo's, most of Valencia's World Cup players are still in the tournament. Romanians Gabriel Popescu and Adrian Ilie are already on their way home of course, but Argentines Ariel Ortega and Claudio Lopez are still in France, as is Croat striker Goran Vlaovic. Valencia are hoping that Ortega's World Cup displays will fetch a good price for him, maybe from Manchester United. The mercurial midfielder was at daggers drawn all last season with coach Claudio Ranieri, who finally decided to stay on at Valencia. Betis fans can hardly wait for world-record signing Denilson to finally arrive in Seville. Their appetites have been whetted by the way in which they young reserve majestically set up Bebeto for Brazil's goal against Norway. Betis's Robert Jarni has done well for Croatia. Finidi George, however, only shone for Nigeria against, annoyingly, Spain. The same must be said of Real Sociedad's Mutiu Adepoju. None of the San Sebastian club's foreigners did well in France. Dietmar Kuhbauer did little for Austria, and the same applied to Gheorghe Craioveanu for Romania. Sociedad fans will be hoping that Darko Kovacevic's injury clears up before September. At least Kovacevic made it to France, unlike teamate Igor Cvitanovic, who was bizarrely thrown out of the Croatian squad a fortnight before the World Cup by coach Miroslav Blazevic for refusing to do extra running in training. PAGE 3 Deutsche Presse-Agentur, July 1, 1998 Espanyol and Zaragoza fans have been impressed by the displays for Paraguay of midfielders Miguel Angel Benitez and Roberto Acuna. Even modest Salamanca have more foreign players than Spaniards nowadays. They have just sold Gabriel Popescu to Valencia, but are about to replace him with fellow Romanian World Cup midfielders Lucian Marinescu and Dorinel Munteanu, from Rapid Bucharest and Cologne respectively. They will join Romanian goalkeeper Bogdan Stelea in the university city. In the light of Spain's World Cup failure some newspapers have hinted that there are too many foreign players in the Spanish league. The Spanish players's association has been campaigning for a strict limit since the post-Bosman floodgates opened in 1996. At the moment, the only limitation is six non-European Union players in the squad and four on the field at any one time. Many clubs get around this by signing on South Americans with a European passport, like Cristian Diaz at Atletico Madrid or Luizao of Deportivo. Of course, there is no limit on the number of E.U. stars. Most Spanish clubs, therefore, have around ten non-Spaniards on their books. The players's association plans to argue for stricter limits at the Spanish federation's annual conference this month. Practically all club presidents, however - with the notable exception of Jose Maria Arrate of all-Basque Athletic Bilbao - have already declared their opposition to any change in the rules. Most presidents love to sign foreigners as they are usually cheaper than Spanish players and pack the stadia with their talent and goals. There will almost certainly be even more than 48 Spanish-based foreigners playing in the 2002 World Cup. dpa ds LANGUAGE: ENGLISH LOAD-DATE: July 2, 1998 PAGE 4 LEVEL 1 - 2 OF 7 STORIES Copyright 1996 Agence France Presse Agence France Presse December 29, 1996 29:22 GMT SECTION: Sports LENGTH: 1187 words HEADLINE: PARIS, Dec 29 (AFP) - AFP sport summary for December 29: BODY: FOOTBALL Clark moves in at City as Neal resigns LONDON: Frank Clark took over as Manchester City manager ten days after quitting Nottingham Forest after Phil Neal resigned as caretaker boss at the Maine Road club. City secretary David Halford confirmed Clark's appointment and said he would meet City players and backroom staff Monday prior to holding an afternoon press conference at Maine Road. City issued a statement through Halford saying that: "Manchester City Football Club are very pleased to announce the appointment of Frank Clark as its manager with effect from 29th December 1996. "By mutual agreement Phil Neal has tended his resignation and the board of directors would like to thank him for his efforts in the difficult and unforeseen circumstances." Barnes fires Liverpool LONDON: Liverpool went five points clear at the top of the Premiership with a 1-0 win at Southampton thanks to a brilliant piece of opportunism by captain John Barnes. The leaders were heading towards a goalless draw when former England winger Barnes struck with just 13 minutes left on the clock. Saints' goalkeeper Dave Beasant had kept Liverpool at bay with a string of good saves until he scuffed a clearance. Barnes instantly hit the ball from about 35 yards into the back of the Southampton net with Beasant sprawling across the goalmouth in a desperate bid to rectify his error. Forest job exhausts Pearce NOTTINGHAM: Stuart Pearce admitted he feels mentally exhausted from his managerial duties -- after just one week in the Nottingham Forest hot seat. England defender Pearce, who took over as caretaker boss at the Premiership's bottom club when Frank Clark resigned, said the combination of playing, PAGE 5 Agence France Presse, December 29, 1996 captaining and managing was starting to take its toll. "I was aware when I went into the job how tough it would be," said Pearce. "It is mentally exhausting because I will go home now and am not stopping thinking about football." Stimac claims victimisation DERBY: Derby captain Igor Stimac claimed on Sunday he is being victimised by English referees because he is Croatian. The hardman defender hit out at his treatment by match officials after picking up his his 10th booking of the season in Saturday's goalless draw against Blackburn. "Refs are looking out for me because I am a foreigner. They say 'he is Croatian, therefore he must be dirty' and they look out for me with four eyes," fumed Stimac. But he vowed: "I am not going to change the way I play, I am the way I am." CRICKET Stewart pulls England to safety HARARE: Alec Stewart's ninth Test century steered England towards safety on the fourth day of the second and final cricket Test against Zimbabwe. The 33-year-old Surrey captain was 101 not out as England closed the day on 195-3, a lead of 156. Cronje rallies to India's defence DURBAN: South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje leapt to the defence of India after the media slammed their first Test showing against South Africa when they lost by 328 runs. "I was a little bit disappointed this morning when I saw a local paper having a go at the Indian side," said Cronje. After being hammered by South Africa's pace attack, Sachin Tendulkar's men were variously written off in the press as "no-hopers," "cannon-fodder" and "tigers at home but paper tigers abroad." SKIING More downhill glory for Alphand BORMIO: Frenchman Luc Alphand increased his lead in the World Cup downhill standings when he recorded his second victory of the season at the Italian resort of Bormio. Alphand, who says he plans to retire at the end of the season, timed 2mins 00.51 seconds. Switzerland's William Besse was second in 2:00.72 and Italian Kristian Ghedina third in 2:01.18. PAGE 6 Agence France Presse, December 29, 1996 First for Compagnoni SEMMERING: Italy's Deborah Compagnoni won her first ever World Cup slalom at this Austrian resort. Compagnoni, who was second in Saturday's slalom, timed 1min 42.94 for the two runs. France's Patricia Chauvet was second with 1:43.99 and New Zealand's Claudia Riegler, who has already won two slaloms this season, third in 1:44.65. TENNIS Hopman wins for Croatia, USA PERTH: Goran Ivanisevic and Iva Majoli helped defending champions Croatia defeat Australia in the opening match of the Hopman Cup here as the United States overcame France. The Croat pair won the deciding mixed doubles against Mark Philippoussis and Nicole Bradtke 7-5, 7-5 after Ivanisevic had been beaten by fellow power server Philippoussis 6-2, 6-3. Fourth-seeded France crashed to the unseeded United States, who came through after Justin Gimelstob and Chanda Rubin defeated Guy Forget and Mary Pierce 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the deciding mixed doubles clash. In the singles, Rubin beat Pierce 6-4, 6-1, while Forget saw off Gimelstob 2-6, 6-3, 6-3. afp AFP LANGUAGE: ENGLISH LOAD-DATE: December 29, 1996 PAGE 7 LEVEL 1 - 3 OF 7 STORIES Copyright 1995 Federal Document Clearing House, Inc. FDCH Political Transcripts September 26, 1995, Tuesday TYPE: SPEECH LENGTH: 4313 words HEADLINE: FRANK CARLUCCI DISCUSSES U.S. SECURITY AND GLOBAL CHANGE; WASHINGTON, D.C. SPEAKER: FRANK CARLUCCI, FORMER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE BODY: CARLUCCI: Well, thank you very much, Paul. It's a great pleasure for me to join this group again. I have been working with this committee since the days of Maury Liebman.(ph) And I've always admired the contribution that you have made. I congratulate you, John, and I congratulate you, Paul. I know that under Paul's leadership you will continue to move your agenda forward and continue to contribute mightily to our national security. You as lawyers are familiar with interpreting contracts, so let me tell you a story, my favorite story, about the interpretation of the marriage contract. This took place back in the early 60s, when I was a young Foreign Service officer serving in Zaire, what was then the Congo. And we had a visit from three American Senators: Senators Gore, Hart and Neuberger (ph); Senator Gore being the father of our current Vice President. And I'd organized the lunch at the home of a man named Victor Kumariko, (ph) the president of the Congolese Senate. And in those days you never saw Congolese women, but as we pulled up to the house Kumariko came out and he had a woman by his side. So I introduced her as his wife. And we were sitting around having cocktails, I was doing the interpreting before lunch, and another woman came in, shook hands all the way around and went over and sat down next to the first woman. "Who's she," Senator Gore said. And I said, "Well, maybe she's his wife." He said, "I thought you introduced that other woman as his wife." I said, "Well, I don't know, let me ask him." With that the interest of the American Senators picked up considerably. And Kumariko said, "No, no, you must, mustn't get excited about this; you must understand that over here in the Congo our customs are very different from yours in the United States. For example, where I come from, from the Lac Leopold (ph) district of the Congo, I'm a big tribal chief and, as a tribal chief, I'd normally be entitled to five or six wives. But since I'm a Catholic, I have only two." (LAUGHTER) PAGE 8 FDCH Political Transcripts, September 26, 1995 Not too many of you are old enough to remember it, but back in those days, the Congo was headline news. The goal was to keep the Soviets out of the heart of Central Africa. For many of us it's just a fading memory. But for me it was a defining experience, because the person standing before you today is probably the ultimate product of the Cold War. I came out of college time of Korea, right into uniform; in addition to the Congo, I was in Zanzibar when it was known as the African Cuba. I was sent as Ambassador to Portugal when the communists were in control, trying to pry Portugal loose from NATO. I was in the Agency at the time of the so-called "spy wars." And I was a point man on the budget under Cap Weinberger, during the Reagan build-up. I've had, the KGB has put out books on me; I've been arrested; I've been declared "persona non grata." And by the time I got to be Secretary of Defense you can bet I knew who the enemy was. Hence, my bewilderment when I was faced with a strange and important decision: The Soviets, Shevardnadze to be specific, had suggested that we establish military to military contact. And my predecessor, Cap Weinberger, had rejected that; partly, because he was distressed, appropriately so, with the brutal murder of Major Nicholson -- for the those of you who remember it, on a legitimate mission into East Germany -- but partly because he didn't trust the Soviets and thought nothing would come of the process. I decided to change that decision and told the Soviets I would negotiate with them if we got a formal apology for the murder of Major Nicholson. CARLUCCI: And I ended up in the first meeting virtually dictating that letter of apology to Marshall Yazov then the Soviet defense minister. And we went ahead and structured military to military relationships. I find myself to be the first non-Soviet military person to climb through the Black Jack Bomber. I gave a lecture to 200 of the top Soviet generals and admirals at the Boris Yulov Military Academy on what was wrong with their doctrine. Bill Krauss set up a personal relationship with Marshal Akrimaov and we set up ship visits and contacts all the way down. That had a remarkable effect. I'd been told this time and time again by people in the former Soviet Union. The Soviet military was able to see, at first hand, our strength. But they came to learn to, that our intentions were not hostile. And I think it's a very good use, the military as a tool of diplomacy. Certainly helped to unravel the then Soviet Union. And it has come unraveled, no doubt about that. Communism as a philosophy is dead forever. We have been spared Armageddon in our lifetime, but it's not as somebody said, "The end of history." What we're seeing are regional wars, irredentism, ethnic disputes and above all weapons of mass destruction, not just nuclear weapons but biological and chemical weapons. And it's very scary to see how close Saddam Hussein came. And one of the under-reported phenomena of our day, and I'm sure Ed Rowny (ph) here follows it, has been the leakage of nuclear material and technology from the former Soviet Union. The thought of nuclear weapons and mass destruction in the hands of terrorists is a very troubling thought, indeed. PAGE 9 FDCH Political Transcripts, September 26, 1995 Indeed, it's also, it's somewhat of a bewildering situation. We've lossed our, lost our guidepost. Monolithic threat, as massive as it was, was really in many ways easier to deal with. We now have to decide how much attention and resources to devote to each and every problem. And in certain cases, we have to decide, make the crucial decision whether or not to intervene. Were we right to intervene in Somalia or was it just mishandled? Was Haiti really a national security issue or have we helped to install a new dictatorship? Could we have saved lives had we intervened earlier in Rwanda? And then of course there's the case of Bosnia, about which more later. The point is, that there's no common thread that runs through these situations. Ah, you say. Everybody says, we intervened when our vital interests are at stake. OK. You're all lawyers. To find vital, one persons vital interest is not another's. I think we could all pretty much agree in this room that we did the right thing in Desert Storm. But think back to how close the vote was in Congress. There is no automatic tripwire anymore just a series of tough decisions. Decisions that are being made tougher by some of the, how will I say it, xenophobia that we are seeing in the current campaign. Pat Buchanan wants to build a wall around the United States. Pete Wilson, attacks immigration in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty. And Bob Dole has discovered that we shouldn't be a multi-tongue society after all. Dick Gephardt pursues the siren call of protectionism. Even Clinton, although I'd, I think he'd probably prefer to forget this ran as the domestic president. Are we going isolationist? Rudy Guliani accused the Congress of this the other day. Clinton accused the Republicans of being isolationist. The Republicans at the time of NAFTA accused the Democrats of being of being isolationists. CARDUCCI: It's really used more as an epithet. I don't think the American people are buying into any kind of isolationist philosophy. If for no other reason than that they realize that their jobs are at stake. Companies on whose boards I serve, and some people think there are too many, in almost every case the fastest growing area is the international area. In 1994 one-third of our growth came through exports, and people realize that their future lies -- depends on world growth and stability. But there is another trend that I find perhaps even more disturbing than the possibility of isolationism. It was identified in a brilliant speech the other day by Jim Schlesinger and that is to look at foreign policy as a pure extension of domestic policy or, if you will, domestic politics. To do what is popular and not what is necessary. If we do that, then foreign policy becomes driven by the media which, of course, is unaccountable. As Jim points out in his speech, we inherited a European tradition where foreign policy had primacy. It had to have primacy in countries like Germany and France because their very survival was at stake. In the UK because the survival of the empire was at stake. Even we, in two world wars, learned the value of a bipartisan approach. But that seems to have PAGE 10 FDCH Political Transcripts, September 26, 1995 broken down. The other day a senior White House person was quoted as saying, "Nobody gets to the right of us on Iran." It was a Gerry Adams visit, and Newt Gingrich's throw-away statement that maybe we ought to look at two Chinas. This kind of foreign policy by domestic compass, of course, leads to inconsistencies. Just to cite a couple -- we are castigating the Russians for selling a light water reactor to Iran, and we want to give the same kind of reactor to North Korea. We embargo Iran, yet we look the other way when they ship arms to Bosnia. The Chinese must be puzzled over our strong reaction to Tibet and Tiananmen and our mild reaction to Chechnya. And then, of course, there is Bosnia. Now, at the outset let me say that in my judgment at least there were mistakes made -- clear mistakes made by the Bush administration. And Bill Clinton came into office with the right instincts -- the so-called lift and strike philosophy. Warren Christopher went over to Europe to try and sell that approach, and he was rebuffed and instead of insisting we, in effect, abdicated and the situation got worse. What we have done is deprive a nation of its right under Article 51 of the UN Charter to self defense. We said don't worry, we will defend you if you put your people in safe havens. And then we failed to defend them. And the result, of course, was genocide, and an erosion -- an enormous erosion of credibility. Our policy evolved into a policy of non-involvement, and you can't solve problems through non-involvement. We offered the Serbs one concession after another, all of which they rejected because they knew the next concession would be better. Finally, thanks to France and the Croats and the move in Congress to lift the embargo, the Clinton administration moved and orchestrated military power and diplomacy together. And I have only words of praise for the way Dick Holbrooke has handled that. CARLUCCI: This approach is long overdue. But I wonder if we are pursuing the right diplomatic solution. Our avowed goal has always been the multi-ethnic democracy. But if you look at what seems to be coming out, these negotiations are talking about two federations, the Muslim Croat federation and a Serb federation with a weak Muslim government which could lead almost immediately to partition and the creation of a greater Serbia. Have we, in fact, blessed the result of ethnic cleansing? A lot of the world thinks so. And that, of course, has wider ramifications. Particularly in the Muslim world. The Muslims and, I go over in the Middle East fairly frequently. Our company is very active over there. And they are wondering if there isn't a double standard. Nobody defends Saddam Hussein. But they do contrast the way in which we dealt with Saddam Hussein and the slowness which we came to deal with the Serbs and the blind eye we cast in the case of Chechnya. After that the constant portrayal of terrorists as Muslims, as Arabs. The anti-immigration feeling in Europe and the United States and a view of our Middle East policy that we're only interested in the peace process -- and here by the way, we're doing well -- and selling goods to the Arab world, not in the broader security PAGE 11 FDCH Political Transcripts, September 26, 1995 of the interest of the region. And you have a kind of estrangement setting in. Now I don't believe in Sam Huntington's theory. The class of civilizations. The Muslim world will only be our enemy if we make it our enemy. But we in this country have a very inadequate understanding of the Muslim world. It is not monolithic, as our press portrays it. Fundamentalism isn't bad. Zeal was a fundamentalist. And the king of Saudi Arabia was our friend. Is a fundamentalist. What we have to worry about are the, what are called the Islamics. The so-called radical fundamentalists. But I don't even view them as religious. I think this is a political movement. Exploiting social unrest in the name of religion. And we have to be very careful that we don't play into its hands at the expense of our many friends in the Muslim world. Well you may say, Frank, if you're so smart, how would you put together a consistent foreign policy in today's world. Well, of course, there is no magic formula, but I would suggest to you that we take a look at five tried and true fundamentals. One, of course, is leadership. Now that's a much abused word these days. But, by leadership, I mean the ability to rise above domestic interests. Because unless we can rise above domestic interests, the rest of the world is not going to follow. We must be able to do the unpopular thing. It is up to our presidents to help shape public opinion in the national security area when necessary. And it is up to our Congress to allow the president the flexibility to conduct foreign policy. When we set a policy, we need to set a policy. We need to follow it. That's been part of the problem in Bosnia. We had a policy of, as I mentioned, a multi-ethnic democracy and we moved off of that to a policy, almost, of peace at any price. The result was we were unwilling to put resources and will behind our policy and we ended up with a good deal of confusion. CARLUCCI: Let's maintain, third, let's maintain our foreign policy tools. Under the current State Department budget that is being passed, Warren Christopher says that he'll have to close some 50 consulates and embassies at a very time when we ought to be expanding our diplomatic presence. Foreign aid has been slashed by ten percent. Now, I agree with the Republicans that we need to take a good, hard look at the aid bureaucracy, but we need to maintain aid as a tool. And Mitch McCullough has said that. Because, it is the one thing we have between diplomacy and sending in the Marines. In the defense area my own view is that we have cut too far, too fast, the overall budget's been cut by 40 percent, by some 40-some percent since its peak in 1987. Procurements been cut close to 70 percent. The GAO has observed that the Pentagon funding shortfall, in terms of its own strategy, its own program, is about $150 billion over a five year period. I think Bill Perry is a terrific Secretary of Defense and he's doing the very best he can with totally inadequate resources. PAGE 12 FDCH Political Transcripts, September 26, 1995 Fourth, we have to focus on our key relationships. If you can manage those key relationships, the others are much easier to deal with. And if I could just briefly run down some of them. Europe: Our relationships with Europe have been in some disarray. The most frequent comment you hear in Europe is what is your policy today? Are you turning eastward; are you becoming risk- averse. You're willing to put in your airplanes, risking our soldiers on the ground in Bosnia. In the UK they're still smarting over the Gerry Adams affair. And then there are serious issues. Serious differences, such as NATO expansion. Overall, I'd say relations, particularly the past couple of weeks are improving with our European friends, but they have a way to go. Japan: The perception, of course, is that our policy is driven by trade, confrontational trade. That which is domestically popular. And, that we're willing to sacrifice our national security interests in Japan on the altar of trade. Let's be very clear about one thing: If we're going to maintain a security presence in the Pacific, we have to have a close security relationship with Japan. And, unless we maintain that security presence in the Pacific, we're not going to participate as fully as we might otherwise in the region's enormous economic growth. China: We have a strategy, but we don't seem to be capable of implementing it. The strategy is engagement. But, one day we're talking about cutting off MFN, then we switch on that and say, oh, will you help us on North Korea and we're going to send over a trade mission. The next day we tell them that the President Li of Taiwan, Li Teng-hui , is not going to be allowed to be allowed to visit the United States. One day later our Secretary of State is overruled and Li comes to the United States. Now, the Chinese are behaving very badly. Rattling their sabers in the Straits of Formosa; in the human rights area and in the kinds of things we're talking about with regard to Hong Kong. But, we need to recognize that there's a leadership vacuum over there and that the only way to deal with that country is not, as some of our Republican friends are saying, through containment or confrontation, but through engagement. This is a major foreign policy problem and will be as long as we are around. In Russia, we may be overengaging. The question is whether we are supporting the man or the process. CARLUCCI: And this was, by the way, I think, a failing of both the Reagan and the Bush administrations. And Yeltsin is clearly becoming more isolated, has been isolated as a result of Chechnya. And despite some progress in the privatization front, there is rising nationalism, and right now it looks like General Ebeb (ph) may be the strongest contender to succeed Yeltsin. As a nation, we're used to dealing in black and white and we can't quite make up our mind whether Russia is an emerging democracy or a resurgent empire. Finally, I think we need to think ahead -- miss Herman Kahn (ph). You know, the Pentagon has done a study called "Revolution in Military Affairs." Very PAGE 13 FDCH Political Transcripts, September 26, 1995 good study. Those of you in the Pentagon, you are all familiar with it. And it looked into the weapons development in between wars throughout history, whether you talking about the tank, the carrier, the airplane, the machine gun. And they drew an interesting conclusion. And the conclusion is that it's not so much the technology that counts, but it's how the technology is used, what are the operational concepts. And the classic case was the tank, which was introduced into warfare in 1917, but wasn't used effectively until the Blitzkrieg when the Germans used the tank to defeat, practically overnight, a much superior French force. The point is that we shouldn't take too much pride in the technology that we have -- long range stealthy precision strike and information dominance are the revolutionary technologies that have come out of our time. But we have to worry about the future -- how they are used and how other people may be thinking about using that technology. Military warfare, military capability takes time to build up. The other day at, actually it was at the Wolf Trap Ball, a man came up to me, I think he said his name was Bob Sullivan. He said, you don't know me, but I fought in Desert Storm. And I just want to thank you and those who worked with you for what you did to get the equipment out there because we know that it took 10 to 15 years to get that equipment in the field. This is a lesson that coss us dearly in World War II and Korea. What we don't devote today in resources, we may end up paying in blood. The Cold War has, of course, been our greatest victory because there was no bloodshed, or at least very little. This is due to the fact that we had a bipartisan policy. We stuck with it. We put resources along side it, and we did the appropriate plan. We seemed to have managed confrontation and crisis well. Now we have to learn to manage success, and that may turn out to be a lot harder to do. It was a pleasure being with you. I thank you very much. (APPLAUSE) MODERATOR: We have just a few minutes for questions, but Frank has kindly agreed to take a few. QUESTION: Mr. Carlucci, if I may, I'd like to pick up on two subjects you touched upon. One is the American people are now isolationist. Congress is about to adopt a very impressive anti- immigration bill. What do you think can be done about either of those two subjects? CARLUCCI: Well, they're very, did everybody hear the question? What, first question is "have we become, maybe we're not isolationists, but have we become a nation that's unwilling to risk our young people in warfare." And the second was "What can be done about the wave of anti-immigration feeling that seems to be sweeping our country;" two very difficult questions, of course. And I worry a lot about the, the reaction that we seem to have to military losses. And I guess the only answer to that is, it's a function of leadership. Our leaders really have to explain much better than they've been accustomed to PAGE 14 FDCH Political Transcripts, September 26, 1995 doing, what is at stake when American troops are involved. And Colin Powell is absolutely right when he says the goals have to be clear, and we have to have the capability to achieve those goals. I don't happen to agree with those who say we must have overwhelming public support before we engage in any military operation, or that a military operation can't be used for limited purposes. I think the recent exercise in Bosnia Herzegovina demonstrates that it can be used for limited purposes if the goals are clear. And I think it is, as I said in my earlier remarks, the job of president is to shape public opinion. And presidents have to explain to people that warfare is a dirty business and that people are going to be hurt, are going to be injured. Part of it, as you know, is a press phenomenon, where they follow this closely. But I know of nothing, no other way to do it than to just step up to the bat on the issue. In terms of the anti-immigration feeling, I think it's perfectly appropriate to take whatever measures you can to cut back on illegal immigration. But to confuse legal and illegal immigration and to, some people are advocating denying benefits, social services, to legal immigrants, which I think is just abhorrent on the face of it. I think we need, as a society, to strengthen our immigration services, but I would be very much opposed to such things as trying to seal the borders. I objected at the time that our Congress wanted our military to get involved in seizing drug dealers coming into the United States. And I think sealing the borders using the military is the same kind of thing. I think it runs very serious posse comitatus risks, risks in civil liberties area. So, once again I don't have an easy answer to a very difficult question. I would only urge that our politicians temper their approach to this and try to distinguish between legal and illegal immigration. QUESTION: Sir, you have mentioned that, about NATO's expansion eastward. Do you really believe that they honestly, most countries in the East, want to join NATO and secondly, whether they deserve to, because I don't think (OFF-MIKE) CARLUCCI: My experience, and I've had some experience in one or two of the countries in eastern Europe, is that these countries very much want to join NATO for their own security purposes, of course. They are very worried about a recent, resurgent Russia and they see NATO as a possible solution to this problem. They also want the economic benefits of being tied to NATO and, of course, the EU. And any NATO expansion, in my judgment, has to move in lock step with the expansion of the EU. I think Partnership for Peace is a step in the right direction. You asked the question, Should they be part of NATO? CARLUCCI: And, I think that depends on their qualifications. Different countries are moving in differing rates of speed to meet the NATO criteria of a functioning democracy, civilian control over the military. I think once they do this, once we get a certain degree of interoperability, we should allow them to come into NATO. But, that's, that would be a slow process. PAGE 15 FDCH Political Transcripts, September 26, 1995 I don't think it's going to happen overnight. But I think we need to hold out that promise. At the same time, we have to try and develop special security arrangements with Russia and the Ukraine. And I think the Ukraine is absolutely crucial. The Ukraine, of course, can't join NATO. But, I think a free and independent Ukraine is essential to the stability of the, of Central Europe, and we have to find some way to accommodate their security concerns. I think with skillful diplomacy all this can be managed. But it won't be easy, and it will take some time. I'll only take one more. QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) CARLUCCI: I don't know what you mean by sufficiently alert. I think there've been some remarkable economic and political developments in Central and South America. And I was talking here today with some experts in that area. People who served at senior, senior levels in various administrations dealing with Latin America. And, the problem is that tend to pay more attention to other parts of the world, I think. If that's what you mean. And that is, that is true. But as you're probably well aware, it is the second fastest growing region of the world in economic terms. And a lot of our businesses are increasing their activities in Latin America. And I think, as that develops, our political and national security interests will follow. Thank you again for an opportunity to be with you, and I wish you well in your endeavors. (APPLAUSE) END NOTES: Unknown - Indicates Speaker Unkown Inaudible - Could not make out what was being said. off mike - Indicates could not make out what was being said. LANGUAGE: ENGLISH PERSON: FRANK CHARLES CARLUCCI III (94%); LOAD-DATE: September 27, 1995 PAGE 16 LEVEL 1 - 4 OF 7 STORIES Copyright 1995 Xinhua News Agency The materials in the Xinhua file were compiled by The Xinhua News Agency. These materials may not be republished without the express written consent of The Xinhua News Agency. JUNE 22, 1995, THURSDAY LENGTH: 176 words HEADLINE: croatia beat slovenia in euro basketball championship DATELINE: athens, june 22; ITEM NO: 0622222 BODY: croatia, bidding to win their first european title, beat slovenia 91-83 at a pool b game of the european basektabll championship here on thursday. croatia, the 1992 olympic silver medalists, held an upper hand throughout the match against slovenia, which dropped to 0-2 after losing their opener against france. the croats, helped by nba stars toni kukoc and dino radja, led by 20 points before slowing down in the final minutes and allowing slovenia to reduce the margin. forward teoman alibegovic and center slavko kotnik led slovenia with 20 points each. in another pool b game, russia overcame france 85-65 to clinch their second straight win. russia, runners-up in the last european and world championship, got 16 points apiece from forward andrei fetisov and guard sergei babkov. forward stephane ostrowski and jim bilba paced france with 13 points each. italy dismissed defending champions germany 68-67 on two free throws by vincenzo esposito with 4.6 seconds remaining. germany squandered a five-point lead in the last two minutes. LANGUAGE: ENGLISH LOAD-DATE: June 23, 1995 PAGE 17 LEVEL 1 - 5 OF 7 STORIES Copyright 1994 U.P.I. United Press International March 18, 1994, Friday, BC cycle SECTION: Sports News LENGTH: 532 words HEADLINE: Milan derby match highlights Italy's Sunday league soccer DATELINE: ROME, March 18 BODY: The city of Milan's two soccer teams -- AC Milan and Internazionale -- clash in a derby match Sunday and tough matches face all four top teams in the Italian first division socce program. AC Milan will start overwhelming favorites to win the 120th league derby between the two classic clubs and may add to what is already an apparently unbeatable lead of eight points at the top of the first division with only seven more matches to play. AC Milan is 16 points ahead of Inter, which has notched only three points in its last six league games and lost 4-1 to Parma last Sunday. Both teams had hard-fought European Cup matches in midweek. While Milan showed peak form in its 1-1 Champions League draw with Werder Bremen in Germany Wednesday, Inter nearly blew a 3-1 first leg lead against Borussia Dortmund in Milan Thursday. Borussia won the second leg tie 2-1, but Inter qualified on a 4-3 aggregate for the UEFA Cup semifinals. In Sunday's derby, AC Milan has international defender Alessandro Costacurta suspended and Inter will also be missing a star defender, Riccardo Ferri, also suspended. Milan's main problem is whether to leave out one of its three most regular foreign stars -- Marcel Desailly of France, Croat Zvonimir Boban and Montenegrin Dejan Savicevic -- to make room for French striker Jean- Pierre Papin, who has been left on the sidelines for several weeks. The Milan-Inter derby is the match designated this week for a late 1930gmt kickoff, to be televized live by a pay-TV network. Second-placed Sampdoria has a tough away match against Cagliari, which showed sparkling form Tuesday to beat UEFA Cupholders Juventus 2-1 in their second leg UEFA Cup quarterfinal. The defeat eliminated Juventus from the competition on a 3-1 aggregate. Sampdoria is expected to recover English midfielder David Platt after injury, but has defender Stefano Sacchetti suspended and midfielder Fausto Salsano injured his right knee in training and is expected to miss the match. PAGE 18 United Press International March 18, 1994, Friday, BC cycle Cagliari coach Bruno Giorgi has winger Massimiliano Allegri in doubtful condition with an ankle injury and may rest one or two of the team that played against Juventus. However Cagliari remains in the bottom half of the league table and needs to score points to keep away from the relegation zone. Third-placed Parma, which has a match in hand, with its abandoned game against Reggiana still to be re-played, takes on fourth-placed Juventus in Turin. Parma beat Ajax of Amsterdam 2-0 in their Cupwinners Cup quarterfinal Wednesday to qualify for the semifinals with a 2-0 aggregate, on the same night Juventus lost to Cagliari in the UEFA Cup. Juventus' star German schemer Andreas Moeller will be back in the team after injury. Striker Roberto Baggio is suffering some pain in his right knee tendons, but is expected to play against Parma. There is a possibility Parma will recover its Belgian star Georges Grun, who has been out of the game for four months after an operation to his right knee. Other matches Sunday see Foggia against Roma, Genoa take on Udinese, Lazio in action with Napoli, Lecce to play Cremonese, Piacenza meeting Atalanta and Reggiana facing Torino. LANGUAGE: ENGLISH LOAD-DATE: March 19, 1994 PAGE 19 LEVEL 1 - 6 OF 7 STORIES Copyright 1992 Newspaper Publishing PLC The Independent (London) April 1, 1992, Wednesday SECTION: FOREIGN NEWS PAGE; Page 16 LENGTH: 295 words HEADLINE: Civilians die in Croatia battle BYLINE: From RICHARD MEARES of Reuters BODY: BELGRADE - Two civilians died in fighting in the east Croatian town of Vinkovci yesterday, as the first United Nations peacekeeping troops coming to separate the warring sides sailed from France. Croat officials said Serb forces shelled the frontline city in a brief but fierce attack. In neighbouring Bosnia-Herzegovina, a grenade attack injured six people despite a truce and an appeal for peace by the Yugoslav republic's rival ethnic leaders meeting in Brussels. Five cargo vessels carrying about 1,300 French UN soldiers set sail from Toulon for Rijeka on Croatia's Adriatic coast. They will arrive towards the weekend. About 14,000 United Nations peacekeeping troops are expected to take up position in Croatia in the next few weeks and will have their headquarters in Bosnia's capital, Sarajevo. UN troops will control three Serb-held areas of Croatia and keep the warring sides apart. The Serb-led Yugoslav army is to leave Croatia, which won independence last January after a six-month struggle in which more than 6,000 Croats and Serbs died. At a second day of peace talks in Brussels chaired by the European Community, leaders of Bosnia's three national groups prepared a joint appeal for clashes to stop, Tanjug news agency said. On Monday they reaffirmed a shaky agreement to split the mountainous republic into three ethnic zones to try to avert more violence. The talks were continuing before a scheduled full session of an EC peace conference on Yugoslavia today grouping leaders of all six remaining and former Yugoslav republics. Ibrahim Rugova, a leader of the ethnic Albanians who form the majority in Kosovo, said the Serbian province should become an independent state and join forces with neighbouring Albania. LANGUAGE: ENGLISH PAGE 20 LEVEL 1 - 7 OF 7 STORIES Copyright 1991 The Seattle Times Company The Seattle Times March 21, 1991, Thursday, Final Edition SECTION: EDITORIAL; LETTERS; Pg. A15 LENGTH: 354 words HEADLINE: INSULTING TIRADE -- ARTICLE ON CROATIAN STRUGGLE WAS FILLED WITH INACCURACIES BODY: I am perplexed that The Times, as a newspaper that strives to be objective in its presentation of ethnic issues, would publish such an inaccurate and biased article as the one by Carol J. Williams (March 12 Close-up). First, the claim that the red-and-white checkered shield on Croatian flags "was used as a national symbol only once before: during World War II," is patently false. The shield was used as a national symbol throughout Croatian history, probably all the way back to the first Croatian king in A.D. 925. Secondly, it is equally false that Croats "systematically executed Serbs, Jews and Gypsies." The atrocities against Jews and Gypsies were committed by barbarous Nazis wherever they ruled: Croatia, Serbia, France. Croats were indeed engaged in a horrible civil war with Serbs, but Croats were neither its instigators nor the main perpetrators of its atrocities, as Williams writes, echoing Belgrade's communist propaganda. For instance, the first victims in that tragic civil war were the Croatian civilians killed by the Serbian royalists (Lika, 1941); the most inhuman atrocity during the war was the one-day slaughter of 10,000 Croatian women and children by the Serbian chetniks (Foca,1942); and the savage peacetime massacre of the 300,000 Croatian civilians and disarmed soldiers by the Serbian communists after the war (Bleiburg, 1945). Finally, the Serbian minority of only 12 percent of Croatia's population held, until last year, about 50 percent of all managerial jobs in Croatia and made up 60 percent of militia, 70 percent of army officers, 80 percent of secret police, and had practically total control of communications. In view of these facts, to write that the present Croatian struggle for equality and democracy in Croatia is "new-found chauvinism . . . insensitive" (to Serbs) as Williams does, and to try to blame Croats and their traditional flag instead of Serbian communists in Belgrade for stirring ethnic hostilities is, at the very best, unprofessional journalism and, at the worst, an insulting tirade against the Croatian people. - Ante T. Elezovic, Seattle LANGUAGE: ENGLISH MAIL-IT REQUESTED: JANUARY 27, 2000 10580X CLIENT: PAUL LIBRARY: NEWS FILE: ALLNWS YOUR SEARCH REQUEST AT THE TIME THIS MAIL-IT WAS REQUESTED: FRANCE CROATS NUMBER OF STORIES FOUND WITH YOUR REQUEST THROUGH: LEVEL 1... 7 LEVEL 1 PRINTED DISPLAY FORMAT: FULL SEND TO: WEBSTER LIBRARY, # 1 CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 7141 SHERBROOKE STREET WEST MONTREAL, QUEBEC CANADA H4B 1R6 **********************************03708********************************** PAGE 1 LEVEL 1 - 1 OF 7 STORIES Copyright 1998 Deutsche Presse-Agentur Deutsche Presse-Agentur July 1, 1998, Wednesday, BC Cycle 12:54 Central European Time SECTION: Sports LENGTH: 1106 words HEADLINE: Spanish fans fascinated by their foreign World Cup stars BYLINE: By Duncan Shaw DATELINE: Madrid BODY: Spain's interest in the World Cup did not end with the early elimination of Javier Clemente's disappointing team. Far from it. Since then, Spanish fans have been fascinated to see their foreign stars in action for different national teams. Spain is the country with the most foreign players in the World Cup, no less than 48, and from 19 different countries. Italy has 46 foreigners in the tournament and England 44. Unsurprisingly, cosmpolitan Barcelona is the club that has provided most players for the World Cup, no less than 15: eight Spaniards, five Dutchmen and two Brazilians. Barca's Spaniards, of course, mostly performed poorly. Nor have their foreigners set the World Cup alight. Dutchmen Ruud Hesp, Michael Reiziger, Winston Bogarde and Boudewijn Zenden have usually been kept on the bench by coach Guus Hiddink. Barca fans, though, have been impressed by Phillip Cocu - snatched without a fee from PSV Eindhoven - and are already looking forward to him linking up with Giovanni and Rivaldo. Both Brazilians had an excellent season while helping Barca to a league and cup double. Many Catalans, therefore, have been surprised at Mario Zagallo consigning Giovanni to the bench after the opening match. Barca coach Louis Van Gaal is still desperate to sign the De Boer brothers from Ajax, both of whom have looked impressive in France. Real Madrid's foreigners have performed better in France than Barca's. Davor Suker's goals have taken Croatia into the quarterfinals and may yet convince Real to hold onto him. Robert Carlos has done well for Brazil, while Clarence Seedorf has forced his way back into the Dutch midfield. Striker Predrag Mijatovic, though, had a surprisingly poor World Cup for Yugoslavia, crowned by the penalty miss against Holland. Six weeks ago he was the hero in Amsterdam - scoring the only goal in the Champions Cup final against Juventus - on Monday night he slunk off the pitch in Toulouse in embarrassment. PAGE 2 Deutsche Presse-Agentur, July 1, 1998 Real have already signed up young Cameroonian midfielder Samuel Eto'o from minor Madrid team Leganes. They are also interested in German midfielder Dieter Hamann and Yugoslav striker Zoran Ognjenovic. Neighbours Atletico, of course, can boast the World Cup's joint top scorer in Christian Vieri. Atletico fans are not surprised at Vieri's goals in France, as he was top marksman in the Spanish league this season with 24. Vieri recently hinted again at a return to the Italian league. Atletico owner Jesus Gil and new coach Arrigo Sacchi, however, are obviously desperate to keep him. Atletico have just signed up Argentine defender Jose Chamot and are poised to capture Yugoslav midfielder Vladimir Jugovic, both from Lazio. Multinational Deportivo Coruna also had plenty of players in the World Cup, although none of their Brazilian contingent made Zagallo's squad. Deportivo's two African goalkeepers put in contrasting displays. Jaques Songo'o performed far more solidly for Cameroon than did the hapless Peter Rufai for Nigeria. No wonder Rufai rarely gets off the bench in La Coruna. There were even angry suggestions in Spain that Rufai had been bribed to let in three Paraguayan goals in the decisive Group D match. His pathetic performance against Denmark, though, convinced most Spaniards that Rufai didn't need to be bribed in order to let in soft goals. Deportivo's Moroccan trio of Noureddine Naybet, Mustapha Hadji and Salaheddine Bassir all did well for Henri Michel's luckless team. Unlike Deportivo's, most of Valencia's World Cup players are still in the tournament. Romanians Gabriel Popescu and Adrian Ilie are already on their way home of course, but Argentines Ariel Ortega and Claudio Lopez are still in France, as is Croat striker Goran Vlaovic. Valencia are hoping that Ortega's World Cup displays will fetch a good price for him, maybe from Manchester United. The mercurial midfielder was at daggers drawn all last season with coach Claudio Ranieri, who finally decided to stay on at Valencia. Betis fans can hardly wait for world-record signing Denilson to finally arrive in Seville. Their appetites have been whetted by the way in which they young reserve majestically set up Bebeto for Brazil's goal against Norway. Betis's Robert Jarni has done well for Croatia. Finidi George, however, only shone for Nigeria against, annoyingly, Spain. The same must be said of Real Sociedad's Mutiu Adepoju. None of the San Sebastian club's foreigners did well in France. Dietmar Kuhbauer did little for Austria, and the same applied to Gheorghe Craioveanu for Romania. Sociedad fans will be hoping that Darko Kovacevic's injury clears up before September. At least Kovacevic made it to France, unlike teamate Igor Cvitanovic, who was bizarrely thrown out of the Croatian squad a fortnight before the World Cup by coach Miroslav Blazevic for refusing to do extra running in training. PAGE 3 Deutsche Presse-Agentur, July 1, 1998 Espanyol and Zaragoza fans have been impressed by the displays for Paraguay of midfielders Miguel Angel Benitez and Roberto Acuna. Even modest Salamanca have more foreign players than Spaniards nowadays. They have just sold Gabriel Popescu to Valencia, but are about to replace him with fellow Romanian World Cup midfielders Lucian Marinescu and Dorinel Munteanu, from Rapid Bucharest and Cologne respectively. They will join Romanian goalkeeper Bogdan Stelea in the university city. In the light of Spain's World Cup failure some newspapers have hinted that there are too many foreign players in the Spanish league. The Spanish players's association has been campaigning for a strict limit since the post-Bosman floodgates opened in 1996. At the moment, the only limitation is six non-European Union players in the squad and four on the field at any one time. Many clubs get around this by signing on South Americans with a European passport, like Cristian Diaz at Atletico Madrid or Luizao of Deportivo. Of course, there is no limit on the number of E.U. stars. Most Spanish clubs, therefore, have around ten non-Spaniards on their books. The players's association plans to argue for stricter limits at the Spanish federation's annual conference this month. Practically all club presidents, however - with the notable exception of Jose Maria Arrate of all-Basque Athletic Bilbao - have already declared their opposition to any change in the rules. Most presidents love to sign foreigners as they are usually cheaper than Spanish players and pack the stadia with their talent and goals. There will almost certainly be even more than 48 Spanish-based foreigners playing in the 2002 World Cup. dpa ds LANGUAGE: ENGLISH LOAD-DATE: July 2, 1998 PAGE 4 LEVEL 1 - 2 OF 7 STORIES Copyright 1996 Agence France Presse Agence France Presse December 29, 1996 29:22 GMT SECTION: Sports LENGTH: 1187 words HEADLINE: PARIS, Dec 29 (AFP) - AFP sport summary for December 29: BODY: FOOTBALL Clark moves in at City as Neal resigns LONDON: Frank Clark took over as Manchester City manager ten days after quitting Nottingham Forest after Phil Neal resigned as caretaker boss at the Maine Road club. City secretary David Halford confirmed Clark's appointment and said he would meet City players and backroom staff Monday prior to holding an afternoon press conference at Maine Road. City issued a statement through Halford saying that: "Manchester City Football Club are very pleased to announce the appointment of Frank Clark as its manager with effect from 29th December 1996. "By mutual agreement Phil Neal has tended his resignation and the board of directors would like to thank him for his efforts in the difficult and unforeseen circumstances." Barnes fires Liverpool LONDON: Liverpool went five points clear at the top of the Premiership with a 1-0 win at Southampton thanks to a brilliant piece of opportunism by captain John Barnes. The leaders were heading towards a goalless draw when former England winger Barnes struck with just 13 minutes left on the clock. Saints' goalkeeper Dave Beasant had kept Liverpool at bay with a string of good saves until he scuffed a clearance. Barnes instantly hit the ball from about 35 yards into the back of the Southampton net with Beasant sprawling across the goalmouth in a desperate bid to rectify his error. Forest job exhausts Pearce NOTTINGHAM: Stuart Pearce admitted he feels mentally exhausted from his managerial duties -- after just one week in the Nottingham Forest hot seat. England defender Pearce, who took over as caretaker boss at the Premiership's bottom club when Frank Clark resigned, said the combination of playing, PAGE 5 Agence France Presse, December 29, 1996 captaining and managing was starting to take its toll. "I was aware when I went into the job how tough it would be," said Pearce. "It is mentally exhausting because I will go home now and am not stopping thinking about football." Stimac claims victimisation DERBY: Derby captain Igor Stimac claimed on Sunday he is being victimised by English referees because he is Croatian. The hardman defender hit out at his treatment by match officials after picking up his his 10th booking of the season in Saturday's goalless draw against Blackburn. "Refs are looking out for me because I am a foreigner. They say 'he is Croatian, therefore he must be dirty' and they look out for me with four eyes," fumed Stimac. But he vowed: "I am not going to change the way I play, I am the way I am." CRICKET Stewart pulls England to safety HARARE: Alec Stewart's ninth Test century steered England towards safety on the fourth day of the second and final cricket Test against Zimbabwe. The 33-year-old Surrey captain was 101 not out as England closed the day on 195-3, a lead of 156. Cronje rallies to India's defence DURBAN: South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje leapt to the defence of India after the media slammed their first Test showing against South Africa when they lost by 328 runs. "I was a little bit disappointed this morning when I saw a local paper having a go at the Indian side," said Cronje. After being hammered by South Africa's pace attack, Sachin Tendulkar's men were variously written off in the press as "no-hopers," "cannon-fodder" and "tigers at home but paper tigers abroad." SKIING More downhill glory for Alphand BORMIO: Frenchman Luc Alphand increased his lead in the World Cup downhill standings when he recorded his second victory of the season at the Italian resort of Bormio. Alphand, who says he plans to retire at the end of the season, timed 2mins 00.51 seconds. Switzerland's William Besse was second in 2:00.72 and Italian Kristian Ghedina third in 2:01.18. PAGE 6 Agence France Presse, December 29, 1996 First for Compagnoni SEMMERING: Italy's Deborah Compagnoni won her first ever World Cup slalom at this Austrian resort. Compagnoni, who was second in Saturday's slalom, timed 1min 42.94 for the two runs. France's Patricia Chauvet was second with 1:43.99 and New Zealand's Claudia Riegler, who has already won two slaloms this season, third in 1:44.65. TENNIS Hopman wins for Croatia, USA PERTH: Goran Ivanisevic and Iva Majoli helped defending champions Croatia defeat Australia in the opening match of the Hopman Cup here as the United States overcame France. The Croat pair won the deciding mixed doubles against Mark Philippoussis and Nicole Bradtke 7-5, 7-5 after Ivanisevic had been beaten by fellow power server Philippoussis 6-2, 6-3. Fourth-seeded France crashed to the unseeded United States, who came through after Justin Gimelstob and Chanda Rubin defeated Guy Forget and Mary Pierce 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the deciding mixed doubles clash. In the singles, Rubin beat Pierce 6-4, 6-1, while Forget saw off Gimelstob 2-6, 6-3, 6-3. afp AFP LANGUAGE: ENGLISH LOAD-DATE: December 29, 1996 PAGE 7 LEVEL 1 - 3 OF 7 STORIES Copyright 1995 Federal Document Clearing House, Inc. FDCH Political Transcripts September 26, 1995, Tuesday TYPE: SPEECH LENGTH: 4313 words HEADLINE: FRANK CARLUCCI DISCUSSES U.S. SECURITY AND GLOBAL CHANGE; WASHINGTON, D.C. SPEAKER: FRANK CARLUCCI, FORMER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE BODY: CARLUCCI: Well, thank you very much, Paul. It's a great pleasure for me to join this group again. I have been working with this committee since the days of Maury Liebman.(ph) And I've always admired the contribution that you have made. I congratulate you, John, and I congratulate you, Paul. I know that under Paul's leadership you will continue to move your agenda forward and continue to contribute mightily to our national security. You as lawyers are familiar with interpreting contracts, so let me tell you a story, my favorite story, about the interpretation of the marriage contract. This took place back in the early 60s, when I was a young Foreign Service officer serving in Zaire, what was then the Congo. And we had a visit from three American Senators: Senators Gore, Hart and Neuberger (ph); Senator Gore being the father of our current Vice President. And I'd organized the lunch at the home of a man named Victor Kumariko, (ph) the president of the Congolese Senate. And in those days you never saw Congolese women, but as we pulled up to the house Kumariko came out and he had a woman by his side. So I introduced her as his wife. And we were sitting around having cocktails, I was doing the interpreting before lunch, and another woman came in, shook hands all the way around and went over and sat down next to the first woman. "Who's she," Senator Gore said. And I said, "Well, maybe she's his wife." He said, "I thought you introduced that other woman as his wife." I said, "Well, I don't know, let me ask him." With that the interest of the American Senators picked up considerably. And Kumariko said, "No, no, you must, mustn't get excited about this; you must understand that over here in the Congo our customs are very different from yours in the United States. For example, where I come from, from the Lac Leopold (ph) district of the Congo, I'm a big tribal chief and, as a tribal chief, I'd normally be entitled to five or six wives. But since I'm a Catholic, I have only two." (LAUGHTER) PAGE 8 FDCH Political Transcripts, September 26, 1995 Not too many of you are old enough to remember it, but back in those days, the Congo was headline news. The goal was to keep the Soviets out of the heart of Central Africa. For many of us it's just a fading memory. But for me it was a defining experience, because the person standing before you today is probably the ultimate product of the Cold War. I came out of college time of Korea, right into uniform; in addition to the Congo, I was in Zanzibar when it was known as the African Cuba. I was sent as Ambassador to Portugal when the communists were in control, trying to pry Portugal loose from NATO. I was in the Agency at the time of the so-called "spy wars." And I was a point man on the budget under Cap Weinberger, during the Reagan build-up. I've had, the KGB has put out books on me; I've been arrested; I've been declared "persona non grata." And by the time I got to be Secretary of Defense you can bet I knew who the enemy was. Hence, my bewilderment when I was faced with a strange and important decision: The Soviets, Shevardnadze to be specific, had suggested that we establish military to military contact. And my predecessor, Cap Weinberger, had rejected that; partly, because he was distressed, appropriately so, with the brutal murder of Major Nicholson -- for the those of you who remember it, on a legitimate mission into East Germany -- but partly because he didn't trust the Soviets and thought nothing would come of the process. I decided to change that decision and told the Soviets I would negotiate with them if we got a formal apology for the murder of Major Nicholson. CARLUCCI: And I ended up in the first meeting virtually dictating that letter of apology to Marshall Yazov then the Soviet defense minister. And we went ahead and structured military to military relationships. I find myself to be the first non-Soviet military person to climb through the Black Jack Bomber. I gave a lecture to 200 of the top Soviet generals and admirals at the Boris Yulov Military Academy on what was wrong with their doctrine. Bill Krauss set up a personal relationship with Marshal Akrimaov and we set up ship visits and contacts all the way down. That had a remarkable effect. I'd been told this time and time again by people in the former Soviet Union. The Soviet military was able to see, at first hand, our strength. But they came to learn to, that our intentions were not hostile. And I think it's a very good use, the military as a tool of diplomacy. Certainly helped to unravel the then Soviet Union. And it has come unraveled, no doubt about that. Communism as a philosophy is dead forever. We have been spared Armageddon in our lifetime, but it's not as somebody said, "The end of history." What we're seeing are regional wars, irredentism, ethnic disputes and above all weapons of mass destruction, not just nuclear weapons but biological and chemical weapons. And it's very scary to see how close Saddam Hussein came. And one of the under-reported phenomena of our day, and I'm sure Ed Rowny (ph) here follows it, has been the leakage of nuclear material and technology from the former Soviet Union. The thought of nuclear weapons and mass destruction in the hands of terrorists is a very troubling thought, indeed. PAGE 9 FDCH Political Transcripts, September 26, 1995 Indeed, it's also, it's somewhat of a bewildering situation. We've lossed our, lost our guidepost. Monolithic threat, as massive as it was, was really in many ways easier to deal with. We now have to decide how much attention and resources to devote to each and every problem. And in certain cases, we have to decide, make the crucial decision whether or not to intervene. Were we right to intervene in Somalia or was it just mishandled? Was Haiti really a national security issue or have we helped to install a new dictatorship? Could we have saved lives had we intervened earlier in Rwanda? And then of course there's the case of Bosnia, about which more later. The point is, that there's no common thread that runs through these situations. Ah, you say. Everybody says, we intervened when our vital interests are at stake. OK. You're all lawyers. To find vital, one persons vital interest is not another's. I think we could all pretty much agree in this room that we did the right thing in Desert Storm. But think back to how close the vote was in Congress. There is no automatic tripwire anymore just a series of tough decisions. Decisions that are being made tougher by some of the, how will I say it, xenophobia that we are seeing in the current campaign. Pat Buchanan wants to build a wall around the United States. Pete Wilson, attacks immigration in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty. And Bob Dole has discovered that we shouldn't be a multi-tongue society after all. Dick Gephardt pursues the siren call of protectionism. Even Clinton, although I'd, I think he'd probably prefer to forget this ran as the domestic president. Are we going isolationist? Rudy Guliani accused the Congress of this the other day. Clinton accused the Republicans of being isolationist. The Republicans at the time of NAFTA accused the Democrats of being of being isolationists. CARDUCCI: It's really used more as an epithet. I don't think the American people are buying into any kind of isolationist philosophy. If for no other reason than that they realize that their jobs are at stake. Companies on whose boards I serve, and some people think there are too many, in almost every case the fastest growing area is the international area. In 1994 one-third of our growth came through exports, and people realize that their future lies -- depends on world growth and stability. But there is another trend that I find perhaps even more disturbing than the possibility of isolationism. It was identified in a brilliant speech the other day by Jim Schlesinger and that is to look at foreign policy as a pure extension of domestic policy or, if you will, domestic politics. To do what is popular and not what is necessary. If we do that, then foreign policy becomes driven by the media which, of course, is unaccountable. As Jim points out in his speech, we inherited a European tradition where foreign policy had primacy. It had to have primacy in countries like Germany and France because their very survival was at stake. In the UK because the survival of the empire was at stake. Even we, in two world wars, learned the value of a bipartisan approach. But that seems to have PAGE 10 FDCH Political Transcripts, September 26, 1995 broken down. The other day a senior White House person was quoted as saying, "Nobody gets to the right of us on Iran." It was a Gerry Adams visit, and Newt Gingrich's throw-away statement that maybe we ought to look at two Chinas. This kind of foreign policy by domestic compass, of course, leads to inconsistencies. Just to cite a couple -- we are castigating the Russians for selling a light water reactor to Iran, and we want to give the same kind of reactor to North Korea. We embargo Iran, yet we look the other way when they ship arms to Bosnia. The Chinese must be puzzled over our strong reaction to Tibet and Tiananmen and our mild reaction to Chechnya. And then, of course, there is Bosnia. Now, at the outset let me say that in my judgment at least there were mistakes made -- clear mistakes made by the Bush administration. And Bill Clinton came into office with the right instincts -- the so-called lift and strike philosophy. Warren Christopher went over to Europe to try and sell that approach, and he was rebuffed and instead of insisting we, in effect, abdicated and the situation got worse. What we have done is deprive a nation of its right under Article 51 of the UN Charter to self defense. We said don't worry, we will defend you if you put your people in safe havens. And then we failed to defend them. And the result, of course, was genocide, and an erosion -- an enormous erosion of credibility. Our policy evolved into a policy of non-involvement, and you can't solve problems through non-involvement. We offered the Serbs one concession after another, all of which they rejected because they knew the next concession would be better. Finally, thanks to France and the Croats and the move in Congress to lift the embargo, the Clinton administration moved and orchestrated military power and diplomacy together. And I have only words of praise for the way Dick Holbrooke has handled that. CARLUCCI: This approach is long overdue. But I wonder if we are pursuing the right diplomatic solution. Our avowed goal has always been the multi-ethnic democracy. But if you look at what seems to be coming out, these negotiations are talking about two federations, the Muslim Croat federation and a Serb federation with a weak Muslim government which could lead almost immediately to partition and the creation of a greater Serbia. Have we, in fact, blessed the result of ethnic cleansing? A lot of the world thinks so. And that, of course, has wider ramifications. Particularly in the Muslim world. The Muslims and, I go over in the Middle East fairly frequently. Our company is very active over there. And they are wondering if there isn't a double standard. Nobody defends Saddam Hussein. But they do contrast the way in which we dealt with Saddam Hussein and the slowness which we came to deal with the Serbs and the blind eye we cast in the case of Chechnya. After that the constant portrayal of terrorists as Muslims, as Arabs. The anti-immigration feeling in Europe and the United States and a view of our Middle East policy that we're only interested in the peace process -- and here by the way, we're doing well -- and selling goods to the Arab world, not in the broader security PAGE 11 FDCH Political Transcripts, September 26, 1995 of the interest of the region. And you have a kind of estrangement setting in. Now I don't believe in Sam Huntington's theory. The class of civilizations. The Muslim world will only be our enemy if we make it our enemy. But we in this country have a very inadequate understanding of the Muslim world. It is not monolithic, as our press portrays it. Fundamentalism isn't bad. Zeal was a fundamentalist. And the king of Saudi Arabia was our friend. Is a fundamentalist. What we have to worry about are the, what are called the Islamics. The so-called radical fundamentalists. But I don't even view them as religious. I think this is a political movement. Exploiting social unrest in the name of religion. And we have to be very careful that we don't play into its hands at the expense of our many friends in the Muslim world. Well you may say, Frank, if you're so smart, how would you put together a consistent foreign policy in today's world. Well, of course, there is no magic formula, but I would suggest to you that we take a look at five tried and true fundamentals. One, of course, is leadership. Now that's a much abused word these days. But, by leadership, I mean the ability to rise above domestic interests. Because unless we can rise above domestic interests, the rest of the world is not going to follow. We must be able to do the unpopular thing. It is up to our presidents to help shape public opinion in the national security area when necessary. And it is up to our Congress to allow the president the flexibility to conduct foreign policy. When we set a policy, we need to set a policy. We need to follow it. That's been part of the problem in Bosnia. We had a policy of, as I mentioned, a multi-ethnic democracy and we moved off of that to a policy, almost, of peace at any price. The result was we were unwilling to put resources and will behind our policy and we ended up with a good deal of confusion. CARLUCCI: Let's maintain, third, let's maintain our foreign policy tools. Under the current State Department budget that is being passed, Warren Christopher says that he'll have to close some 50 consulates and embassies at a very time when we ought to be expanding our diplomatic presence. Foreign aid has been slashed by ten percent. Now, I agree with the Republicans that we need to take a good, hard look at the aid bureaucracy, but we need to maintain aid as a tool. And Mitch McCullough has said that. Because, it is the one thing we have between diplomacy and sending in the Marines. In the defense area my own view is that we have cut too far, too fast, the overall budget's been cut by 40 percent, by some 40-some percent since its peak in 1987. Procurements been cut close to 70 percent. The GAO has observed that the Pentagon funding shortfall, in terms of its own strategy, its own program, is about $150 billion over a five year period. I think Bill Perry is a terrific Secretary of Defense and he's doing the very best he can with totally inadequate resources. PAGE 12 FDCH Political Transcripts, September 26, 1995 Fourth, we have to focus on our key relationships. If you can manage those key relationships, the others are much easier to deal with. And if I could just briefly run down some of them. Europe: Our relationships with Europe have been in some disarray. The most frequent comment you hear in Europe is what is your policy today? Are you turning eastward; are you becoming risk- averse. You're willing to put in your airplanes, risking our soldiers on the ground in Bosnia. In the UK they're still smarting over the Gerry Adams affair. And then there are serious issues. Serious differences, such as NATO expansion. Overall, I'd say relations, particularly the past couple of weeks are improving with our European friends, but they have a way to go. Japan: The perception, of course, is that our policy is driven by trade, confrontational trade. That which is domestically popular. And, that we're willing to sacrifice our national security interests in Japan on the altar of trade. Let's be very clear about one thing: If we're going to maintain a security presence in the Pacific, we have to have a close security relationship with Japan. And, unless we maintain that security presence in the Pacific, we're not going to participate as fully as we might otherwise in the region's enormous economic growth. China: We have a strategy, but we don't seem to be capable of implementing it. The strategy is engagement. But, one day we're talking about cutting off MFN, then we switch on that and say, oh, will you help us on North Korea and we're going to send over a trade mission. The next day we tell them that the President Li of Taiwan, Li Teng-hui , is not going to be allowed to be allowed to visit the United States. One day later our Secretary of State is overruled and Li comes to the United States. Now, the Chinese are behaving very badly. Rattling their sabers in the Straits of Formosa; in the human rights area and in the kinds of things we're talking about with regard to Hong Kong. But, we need to recognize that there's a leadership vacuum over there and that the only way to deal with that country is not, as some of our Republican friends are saying, through containment or confrontation, but through engagement. This is a major foreign policy problem and will be as long as we are around. In Russia, we may be overengaging. The question is whether we are supporting the man or the process. CARLUCCI: And this was, by the way, I think, a failing of both the Reagan and the Bush administrations. And Yeltsin is clearly becoming more isolated, has been isolated as a result of Chechnya. And despite some progress in the privatization front, there is rising nationalism, and right now it looks like General Ebeb (ph) may be the strongest contender to succeed Yeltsin. As a nation, we're used to dealing in black and white and we can't quite make up our mind whether Russia is an emerging democracy or a resurgent empire. Finally, I think we need to think ahead -- miss Herman Kahn (ph). You know, the Pentagon has done a study called "Revolution in Military Affairs." Very PAGE 13 FDCH Political Transcripts, September 26, 1995 good study. Those of you in the Pentagon, you are all familiar with it. And it looked into the weapons development in between wars throughout history, whether you talking about the tank, the carrier, the airplane, the machine gun. And they drew an interesting conclusion. And the conclusion is that it's not so much the technology that counts, but it's how the technology is used, what are the operational concepts. And the classic case was the tank, which was introduced into warfare in 1917, but wasn't used effectively until the Blitzkrieg when the Germans used the tank to defeat, practically overnight, a much superior French force. The point is that we shouldn't take too much pride in the technology that we have -- long range stealthy precision strike and information dominance are the revolutionary technologies that have come out of our time. But we have to worry about the future -- how they are used and how other people may be thinking about using that technology. Military warfare, military capability takes time to build up. The other day at, actually it was at the Wolf Trap Ball, a man came up to me, I think he said his name was Bob Sullivan. He said, you don't know me, but I fought in Desert Storm. And I just want to thank you and those who worked with you for what you did to get the equipment out there because we know that it took 10 to 15 years to get that equipment in the field. This is a lesson that coss us dearly in World War II and Korea. What we don't devote today in resources, we may end up paying in blood. The Cold War has, of course, been our greatest victory because there was no bloodshed, or at least very little. This is due to the fact that we had a bipartisan policy. We stuck with it. We put resources along side it, and we did the appropriate plan. We seemed to have managed confrontation and crisis well. Now we have to learn to manage success, and that may turn out to be a lot harder to do. It was a pleasure being with you. I thank you very much. (APPLAUSE) MODERATOR: We have just a few minutes for questions, but Frank has kindly agreed to take a few. QUESTION: Mr. Carlucci, if I may, I'd like to pick up on two subjects you touched upon. One is the American people are now isolationist. Congress is about to adopt a very impressive anti- immigration bill. What do you think can be done about either of those two subjects? CARLUCCI: Well, they're very, did everybody hear the question? What, first question is "have we become, maybe we're not isolationists, but have we become a nation that's unwilling to risk our young people in warfare." And the second was "What can be done about the wave of anti-immigration feeling that seems to be sweeping our country;" two very difficult questions, of course. And I worry a lot about the, the reaction that we seem to have to military losses. And I guess the only answer to that is, it's a function of leadership. Our leaders really have to explain much better than they've been accustomed to PAGE 14 FDCH Political Transcripts, September 26, 1995 doing, what is at stake when American troops are involved. And Colin Powell is absolutely right when he says the goals have to be clear, and we have to have the capability to achieve those goals. I don't happen to agree with those who say we must have overwhelming public support before we engage in any military operation, or that a military operation can't be used for limited purposes. I think the recent exercise in Bosnia Herzegovina demonstrates that it can be used for limited purposes if the goals are clear. And I think it is, as I said in my earlier remarks, the job of president is to shape public opinion. And presidents have to explain to people that warfare is a dirty business and that people are going to be hurt, are going to be injured. Part of it, as you know, is a press phenomenon, where they follow this closely. But I know of nothing, no other way to do it than to just step up to the bat on the issue. In terms of the anti-immigration feeling, I think it's perfectly appropriate to take whatever measures you can to cut back on illegal immigration. But to confuse legal and illegal immigration and to, some people are advocating denying benefits, social services, to legal immigrants, which I think is just abhorrent on the face of it. I think we need, as a society, to strengthen our immigration services, but I would be very much opposed to such things as trying to seal the borders. I objected at the time that our Congress wanted our military to get involved in seizing drug dealers coming into the United States. And I think sealing the borders using the military is the same kind of thing. I think it runs very serious posse comitatus risks, risks in civil liberties area. So, once again I don't have an easy answer to a very difficult question. I would only urge that our politicians temper their approach to this and try to distinguish between legal and illegal immigration. QUESTION: Sir, you have mentioned that, about NATO's expansion eastward. Do you really believe that they honestly, most countries in the East, want to join NATO and secondly, whether they deserve to, because I don't think (OFF-MIKE) CARLUCCI: My experience, and I've had some experience in one or two of the countries in eastern Europe, is that these countries very much want to join NATO for their own security purposes, of course. They are very worried about a recent, resurgent Russia and they see NATO as a possible solution to this problem. They also want the economic benefits of being tied to NATO and, of course, the EU. And any NATO expansion, in my judgment, has to move in lock step with the expansion of the EU. I think Partnership for Peace is a step in the right direction. You asked the question, Should they be part of NATO? CARLUCCI: And, I think that depends on their qualifications. Different countries are moving in differing rates of speed to meet the NATO criteria of a functioning democracy, civilian control over the military. I think once they do this, once we get a certain degree of interoperability, we should allow them to come into NATO. But, that's, that would be a slow process. PAGE 15 FDCH Political Transcripts, September 26, 1995 I don't think it's going to happen overnight. But I think we need to hold out that promise. At the same time, we have to try and develop special security arrangements with Russia and the Ukraine. And I think the Ukraine is absolutely crucial. The Ukraine, of course, can't join NATO. But, I think a free and independent Ukraine is essential to the stability of the, of Central Europe, and we have to find some way to accommodate their security concerns. I think with skillful diplomacy all this can be managed. But it won't be easy, and it will take some time. I'll only take one more. QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE) CARLUCCI: I don't know what you mean by sufficiently alert. I think there've been some remarkable economic and political developments in Central and South America. And I was talking here today with some experts in that area. People who served at senior, senior levels in various administrations dealing with Latin America. And, the problem is that tend to pay more attention to other parts of the world, I think. If that's what you mean. And that is, that is true. But as you're probably well aware, it is the second fastest growing region of the world in economic terms. And a lot of our businesses are increasing their activities in Latin America. And I think, as that develops, our political and national security interests will follow. Thank you again for an opportunity to be with you, and I wish you well in your endeavors. (APPLAUSE) END NOTES: Unknown - Indicates Speaker Unkown Inaudible - Could not make out what was being said. off mike - Indicates could not make out what was being said. 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JUNE 22, 1995, THURSDAY LENGTH: 176 words HEADLINE: croatia beat slovenia in euro basketball championship DATELINE: athens, june 22; ITEM NO: 0622222 BODY: croatia, bidding to win their first european title, beat slovenia 91-83 at a pool b game of the european basektabll championship here on thursday. croatia, the 1992 olympic silver medalists, held an upper hand throughout the match against slovenia, which dropped to 0-2 after losing their opener against france. the croats, helped by nba stars toni kukoc and dino radja, led by 20 points before slowing down in the final minutes and allowing slovenia to reduce the margin. forward teoman alibegovic and center slavko kotnik led slovenia with 20 points each. in another pool b game, russia overcame france 85-65 to clinch their second straight win. russia, runners-up in the last european and world championship, got 16 points apiece from forward andrei fetisov and guard sergei babkov. forward stephane ostrowski and jim bilba paced france with 13 points each. italy dismissed defending champions germany 68-67 on two free throws by vincenzo esposito with 4.6 seconds remaining. germany squandered a five-point lead in the last two minutes. LANGUAGE: ENGLISH LOAD-DATE: June 23, 1995 PAGE 17 LEVEL 1 - 5 OF 7 STORIES Copyright 1994 U.P.I. United Press International March 18, 1994, Friday, BC cycle SECTION: Sports News LENGTH: 532 words HEADLINE: Milan derby match highlights Italy's Sunday league soccer DATELINE: ROME, March 18 BODY: The city of Milan's two soccer teams -- AC Milan and Internazionale -- clash in a derby match Sunday and tough matches face all four top teams in the Italian first division socce program. AC Milan will start overwhelming favorites to win the 120th league derby between the two classic clubs and may add to what is already an apparently unbeatable lead of eight points at the top of the first division with only seven more matches to play. AC Milan is 16 points ahead of Inter, which has notched only three points in its last six league games and lost 4-1 to Parma last Sunday. Both teams had hard-fought European Cup matches in midweek. While Milan showed peak form in its 1-1 Champions League draw with Werder Bremen in Germany Wednesday, Inter nearly blew a 3-1 first leg lead against Borussia Dortmund in Milan Thursday. Borussia won the second leg tie 2-1, but Inter qualified on a 4-3 aggregate for the UEFA Cup semifinals. In Sunday's derby, AC Milan has international defender Alessandro Costacurta suspended and Inter will also be missing a star defender, Riccardo Ferri, also suspended. Milan's main problem is whether to leave out one of its three most regular foreign stars -- Marcel Desailly of France, Croat Zvonimir Boban and Montenegrin Dejan Savicevic -- to make room for French striker Jean- Pierre Papin, who has been left on the sidelines for several weeks. The Milan-Inter derby is the match designated this week for a late 1930gmt kickoff, to be televized live by a pay-TV network. Second-placed Sampdoria has a tough away match against Cagliari, which showed sparkling form Tuesday to beat UEFA Cupholders Juventus 2-1 in their second leg UEFA Cup quarterfinal. The defeat eliminated Juventus from the competition on a 3-1 aggregate. Sampdoria is expected to recover English midfielder David Platt after injury, but has defender Stefano Sacchetti suspended and midfielder Fausto Salsano injured his right knee in training and is expected to miss the match. PAGE 18 United Press International March 18, 1994, Friday, BC cycle Cagliari coach Bruno Giorgi has winger Massimiliano Allegri in doubtful condition with an ankle injury and may rest one or two of the team that played against Juventus. However Cagliari remains in the bottom half of the league table and needs to score points to keep away from the relegation zone. Third-placed Parma, which has a match in hand, with its abandoned game against Reggiana still to be re-played, takes on fourth-placed Juventus in Turin. Parma beat Ajax of Amsterdam 2-0 in their Cupwinners Cup quarterfinal Wednesday to qualify for the semifinals with a 2-0 aggregate, on the same night Juventus lost to Cagliari in the UEFA Cup. Juventus' star German schemer Andreas Moeller will be back in the team after injury. Striker Roberto Baggio is suffering some pain in his right knee tendons, but is expected to play against Parma. There is a possibility Parma will recover its Belgian star Georges Grun, who has been out of the game for four months after an operation to his right knee. Other matches Sunday see Foggia against Roma, Genoa take on Udinese, Lazio in action with Napoli, Lecce to play Cremonese, Piacenza meeting Atalanta and Reggiana facing Torino. LANGUAGE: ENGLISH LOAD-DATE: March 19, 1994 PAGE 19 LEVEL 1 - 6 OF 7 STORIES Copyright 1992 Newspaper Publishing PLC The Independent (London) April 1, 1992, Wednesday SECTION: FOREIGN NEWS PAGE; Page 16 LENGTH: 295 words HEADLINE: Civilians die in Croatia battle BYLINE: From RICHARD MEARES of Reuters BODY: BELGRADE - Two civilians died in fighting in the east Croatian town of Vinkovci yesterday, as the first United Nations peacekeeping troops coming to separate the warring sides sailed from France. Croat officials said Serb forces shelled the frontline city in a brief but fierce attack. In neighbouring Bosnia-Herzegovina, a grenade attack injured six people despite a truce and an appeal for peace by the Yugoslav republic's rival ethnic leaders meeting in Brussels. Five cargo vessels carrying about 1,300 French UN soldiers set sail from Toulon for Rijeka on Croatia's Adriatic coast. They will arrive towards the weekend. About 14,000 United Nations peacekeeping troops are expected to take up position in Croatia in the next few weeks and will have their headquarters in Bosnia's capital, Sarajevo. UN troops will control three Serb-held areas of Croatia and keep the warring sides apart. The Serb-led Yugoslav army is to leave Croatia, which won independence last January after a six-month struggle in which more than 6,000 Croats and Serbs died. At a second day of peace talks in Brussels chaired by the European Community, leaders of Bosnia's three national groups prepared a joint appeal for clashes to stop, Tanjug news agency said. On Monday they reaffirmed a shaky agreement to split the mountainous republic into three ethnic zones to try to avert more violence. The talks were continuing before a scheduled full session of an EC peace conference on Yugoslavia today grouping leaders of all six remaining and former Yugoslav republics. Ibrahim Rugova, a leader of the ethnic Albanians who form the majority in Kosovo, said the Serbian province should become an independent state and join forces with neighbouring Albania. LANGUAGE: ENGLISH PAGE 20 LEVEL 1 - 7 OF 7 STORIES Copyright 1991 The Seattle Times Company The Seattle Times March 21, 1991, Thursday, Final Edition SECTION: EDITORIAL; LETTERS; Pg. A15 LENGTH: 354 words HEADLINE: INSULTING TIRADE -- ARTICLE ON CROATIAN STRUGGLE WAS FILLED WITH INACCURACIES BODY: I am perplexed that The Times, as a newspaper that strives to be objective in its presentation of ethnic issues, would publish such an inaccurate and biased article as the one by Carol J. Williams (March 12 Close-up). First, the claim that the red-and-white checkered shield on Croatian flags "was used as a national symbol only once before: during World War II," is patently false. The shield was used as a national symbol throughout Croatian history, probably all the way back to the first Croatian king in A.D. 925. Secondly, it is equally false that Croats "systematically executed Serbs, Jews and Gypsies." The atrocities against Jews and Gypsies were committed by barbarous Nazis wherever they ruled: Croatia, Serbia, France. Croats were indeed engaged in a horrible civil war with Serbs, but Croats were neither its instigators nor the main perpetrators of its atrocities, as Williams writes, echoing Belgrade's communist propaganda. For instance, the first victims in that tragic civil war were the Croatian civilians killed by the Serbian royalists (Lika, 1941); the most inhuman atrocity during the war was the one-day slaughter of 10,000 Croatian women and children by the Serbian chetniks (Foca,1942); and the savage peacetime massacre of the 300,000 Croatian civilians and disarmed soldiers by the Serbian communists after the war (Bleiburg, 1945). Finally, the Serbian minority of only 12 percent of Croatia's population held, until last year, about 50 percent of all managerial jobs in Croatia and made up 60 percent of militia, 70 percent of army officers, 80 percent of secret police, and had practically total control of communications. In view of these facts, to write that the present Croatian struggle for equality and democracy in Croatia is "new-found chauvinism . . . insensitive" (to Serbs) as Williams does, and to try to blame Croats and their traditional flag instead of Serbian communists in Belgrade for stirring ethnic hostilities is, at the very best, unprofessional journalism and, at the worst, an insulting tirade against the Croatian people. - Ante T. Elezovic, Seattle LANGUAGE: ENGLISH