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THE BANNERGRAPHIC July 6,1991

Across Yugoslavia

Slovenia demobilizes its army; fighting erupts in Croatia

LJUBLJANA, Yugoslavia (AP) Moving to seal a trace, Slovenia has begun demobilizing its militia, and the federal government reportedly offered to let the separatist republic keep control of border checkpoints if it turns over customs fees. Meanwhile, fresh ethnic violence flared today in Croatia, which like Slovenia declared independence on June 25. The republic’s Defense Ministry said its forces were battling to oust Serbian nationalists from two villages in northeastern Croatia. THE MINISTRY did not elaborate, but it said two people died in similar fighting Friday. Slovenia on Friday began releasing Yugoslav prisoners of war captured during fighting over the past week between the non-communist republic’s militia and the federal army led mainly by commanders from Communist Serbia. The last busloads of prisoners were to leave the Slovene capital today, bound for home, while a cease-fire held for a third day despite accusations of some violations on both sides. THE RETURN of prisoners was one of the conditions demanded by the collective federal presidency after the truce agreed on early Thursday by Slovenia and the army. The presidency also ordered Slovenia to relinquish control of the republic’s 27 international bor-

Serbs see German-inspired plot to destroy their country

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) Even in better times, many Serbs are prone to see the world in “Us-against-Them” terms. With Yugoslavia splitting, some are more convinced than ever that Serbia is the target of an international conspiracy. If Serbian officials and media commentators are to be believed, Yugoslavia is now the victim of a German-Austrian plot to dominate central Europe again. THE REPUBLIC, Yugoslavia’s largest, has traditionally been distrustful of both Germany and Austria, against which it fought in two world wars. It perceives that the West Europeans consider Serbia, ruled for centuries by Turks who wiped out much of its impressive art and literature, as backward. The supposed conspiracy, aimed at resurrecting a “Fourth Reich” consisting of Germany and the preWorld War I Austro-Hungarian Empire, is responsible for Slovenia’s and Croatia’s break with Yugoslavia, said TV commentator Mila Stula. Both republics, Yugoslavia’s northernmost states, declared themselves independent on June 25.

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A Yugoslavian tank takes up position int he village of Marin Brod near Gina in Slovenia. While Slovenia is demobilizing its military and moving

der posts by noon Sunday. Stipe Mesic, the Croatian head of the eight-member federal presidency, was quoted Friday as saying the leading governing body was prepared to compromise with Slovenia on the border issue. “THE SOLUTION is: the

WHILE SERBIA is expected grudgingly to accept Slovenian independence, it is unlikely to see rival Croatia go the same way without trying to annex large chunks of its territory where ethnic Serbs live. Clashes broke out between federal troops and Slovene defense forces after they occupied border crossings controlled by the central government. “German and Austrian interests are once again behind Slovenia’s and Croatia’s secession,” said an editorial in the Politika daily, which usually reflects the opinions of the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia. A THEORY developed by Budimir Kosutic, a law professor and ideologue of Serbia’s ruling party, even implicated the United States in a global conspiracy to prevent the unity of Europe. Even before Slovenia’s and Croatia’s independence declarations, the Serbs smarted under the perception the United States was targeting them. State-controlled media condemned Washington’s admonishments that Serbia’s elected government of

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toward a truce with the federal government, ethnic fighting is breaking out in neighboring Croatia. (AP photo)

Slovenes retain control of the border posts, but customs revenues have to be given to the (Yugoslav) federation,” he told German newspaper Bild. “Slovenia can thus retain its sovereignly.” Slovenia had previously vowed not to give up control of its

renamed Communists was committing human rights violations and not observing democratic freedoms. THE SERBS ALSO rejected State Department urgings that they drop their objection to the election of Stipe Mesic, a Croat, as chairman of the federal presidency. They told the Americans to keep out of Yugoslav affairs, permitting Mesic’s election only last weekend, after the fighting broke out. “The U.S. fears that a united Europe would be an unbeatable global competitor,” Kosutic wrote in the mass-circulation Politika Ekspres. To prevent Europe from uniting, the United States is backing the “expansionism” of the united Germany, hoping it would tear the European Community apart. “GERMANY IS gathering around it countries which were the fascist allies of the Third Reich in World War II,” including Croatia and Slovenia, Kosutic said. “A scenario created in a special operations center in Vienna, which includes representatives from Germany, Austria, Croatia, Slovenia and some other states, is aimed at

Diplomats skeptical of Iraqi pledge

UNITED NATIONS (AP) Saddam Hussein has pledged cooperation with a new U.N. nuclear inspection team, but skeptical Security Council ambassadors are considering ways to guarantee Iraqi compliance. Spurred by the threat of U.S. military action, the Iraqi president said the U.N. team due in Baghdad today would receive a complete accounting of all his nuclear sites and immediate access to them. SADDAM ON Friday promised “prompt and unimpeded access will be ensured to the locations and items designated for inspection ... in addition to guaranteeing the security and safety of members of the inspection team. “It has been arranged that the mission should be provided with a list of the items about which it sought information,” the Iraqi statement added. Iraqi Ambassador Abdul Amir alAnbari said the list would be given to the inspectors in Baghdad on Sunday evening or Monday. THE WHITE HOUSE said Friday that if Iraq violates the Persian Gulf War cease-fire agreement by hiding its nuclear sites, U.S. military force could be used to en-

Wife, lover, friend jailed for Indianapolis man’s death

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) hearings are scheduled Monday for a woman and two men accused of the S9OO contract slaying of the woman’s husband. Paula Kay Willoughby, Douglas Stueber and Kevin Spore are charged in the death of James Darrell Willougby. POLICE ARRESTED Mrs. Willoughby, 29, at Conkle Speedway Funeral Home during

frontiers, viewing them as an important symbol of its self-declared sovereignty. But the Slovene news agency reported Friday that republican leaders were now willing to discuss the border issue with federal leaders and EC mediators.

establishing a German sphere of influence stretching from the Baltic to the Adriatic.” Their aim, according to Kosutic, “is the breakup of Yugoslavia (and) renewed genocide against the Serbian people.” In a veiled reference to Hungary, Politika also accused “other traditional enemies of the Serbian people in our neighborhood” of participating in the alleged plot. A JOINT German-Austro-Hun-garian army occupied Serbia in 1916. Fighting a rear-guard action, its army withdrew to Greece, where it joined a Franco-British force on the Salonika Front. Croatia and Slovenia, until then Austro-Hungarian provinces, joined Serbia to form the Kingdom of Yugoslavia after the defeat of the Central Powers in 1918. But when the Germans again attacked the country in 1941, most Slovene and Croat officers deserted from the Royal army. A pro-Nazi fascist puppet regime set up in Croatia murdered hundreds of thousands of ethnic Serbs in the infamous Jasenovac and other extermination camps.

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force compliance. Saddam’s declaration came in a reply sent to a request for full cooperation made Thursday by Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar. Three times last week, Iraqi soldiers denied U.N. nuclear inspectors access to trucks loaded with equipment believed to be a crude device for enriching uranium to weapons-grade quality.

the calling for her husband. They allege she, Stueber and Spore conspired to murder her husband, who was shot while riding his motorcycle to work Monday. All three were arrested separately Thursday. Police allege that Spore was paid S2OO to shoot Willoughby and would be paid the S7OO balance. Charles Gayler said he first was suspicious of two of his employees, Mrs. Willoughby and Stueber,

Soviets ease way for foreign investment i

MOSCOW (AP) Two weeks before President Mikhail S. Gorbachev heads to London to seek Western aid, the Soviet legislature has approved a law aimed at attracting more foreign investment. The law approved Friday strengthens legal guarantees and exempts businesses with substantial foreign investments from import duties and export taxes. THE MEASURE approved by the Supreme Soviet provides the legal groundwork for Gorbachev’s plans to revamp the economy with Western aid, investment and management know-how. It gives foreign investors equal legal rights with Soviet citizens and allows new businesses to be created with 100-per-cent foreign ownership, the official Tass news agency reported. Gorbachev can now present the law to Western leaders as proof he is serious about reform. He’ll get that chance at the July 15-17 summit of the Group of Seven most industrialized nations in London. SPEAKING IN Kiev at a news conference after talks with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Gorbachev said the German side “expressed solidarity with what we are doing.” Kohl said that the summit he will “push for the (Soviet) process of reform and openness within our capabilities,” adding that the G-7 participants would listen to Gorbachev’s plans before formulating an aid package.

Police check Japanese firm’s link to Iran-Contra

TOKYO (AP) of the Iran-Contra affair have led Japanese police to suspect that a major aviation supplier suspected of illegally exporting missile parts also illegally sold sophisticated equipment to Iran, reports said today. Police plan to call for U.S. cooperation in investigating Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Ltd. for the export to Iran of $5 million in aviation gyroscopes and accelerometers, Kyodo News Service reported today. THE PARTS ARE used in navigation and control systems of planes and missiles. On Friday, police raided the company’s offices to collect documents and evidence for use in their investigation of suspected illegal exports. After the raid, several

ON THE LAST inspection attempt on June 28, near the town of Fallujah, Iraqi troops fired over the heads of the U.N. inspectors to run them off. The Security Council met privately Friday to hear a report on the incidents and on the talks that three lop U.N. officials had with senior Iraqi officials who pledged their government’s full cooperation. “We’ve heard that many times before,” said the acting U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Alexander Watson. “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.” THE ACTING British ambassador, Thomas Richardson, said Saddam’s statement left several major problems unresolved. “What has happened to this missing material? ... The production of a list by the Iraqi authorities of items which might have been destroyed and which might or might not have been the same material that the inspection team saw on the 28th was simply not adequate,” he said. Rolf Ekeus, the executive chairman of the U.N. Special Commission to dismantle Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, told the Security Council that Baghdad

weeks ago and knew that they had a relationship. “Something funny was going on with Paula and Doug. I thought it was against the business,” said Gayler, owner of Tubs Are Us, a bathtub refinishing shop in Speedway where Willoughby and Stueber worked. STEUBER, 22, was arrested after questioning at Speedway police headquarters. Spore, 18, a former

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They have developed a warm personal relationship over the past year, during which the Soviet Union agreed to German unification and Germany pledged at least $lB billion in aid for the Soviet economy through 1994. WESTERN AID is crucial to Gorbachev’s efforts to keep together a country beset by political disintegration and economic chaos. Soviet businesses with a minimum of 15 percent foreign ownership will have the right to engage in import-export operations without licenses, the new law says. The need to obtain such licenses from the sluggish bureaucracy has been a major impediment to foreign trade.

government figures promised strict measures against the sales. Several newspapers, in stories that cited unidentified sources in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, reported a possible link between the arms sales investigation and probes of the Iran-Con-tra affair. “THE UNVEILING of this case was triggered by cooperative investigation (between U.S. arid Japanese authorities) on the IranContra scandal,” reported the masscirculation Nihon Keizai newspaper. The Iran-Contra affair, which unfolded during the Reagan presidency, centered on secret arms sales to Iran in exchange for the release of American hostages. Proceeds from the sales were diverted to the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contra rebels.

claimed to have destroyed some nuclear equipment because it might have been banned under the Security Council’s cease-fire resolution. HANS BLIX, the directorgeneral of the International Atomic Energy Agency, saw some of the destroyed equipment on July 2. “The large pieces of equipment which were thus inspected were related to nuclear research and could not have had relevance for the production of weapons-usable material,” Ekeus reported. “No meaningful explanation was given why they had been destroyed.” The council planned to meet again Monday after it sees how fully Iraq cooperates with the U.N. inspection team. DIPLOMATS speaking privately said they were grappling with the issue of how to enforce compliance if Iraq continues to hide its nuclear materials. With economic sanctions still clamped on Iraq, except for food, medicine and humanitarian goods, and with Baghdad barred from selling its oil or engaging in international trade, diplomats said there were limited options for punishing Iraq.

co-worker from Cannel, was arrested at an Indianapolis pool hall. All are held without bond. “They just came in and got her and left. There wasn’t a big disturbance,” said James Willoughby, the victim’s father, of his daughter-in-law’s anest. “I think anybody would be surprised. Don’t you?” he said of the anest.