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A new cease-fire that promises to redesign Yugoslavia could mean an end to the fighting that soldiers such as this 16-year-old boy known

Cease-fire signed; a new Yugoslavia to be formed

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) A new cease-fire agreement in Yugoslavia’s civil war could finally end six months of brutal fighting, but plans to form a smaller, Serbdominated nation could jeopardize a true peace. The two sides continued to pound each other relentlessly today in the hours before the U.N.mediated cease-fire was to take effect at 6 p.m. (noon EST). FEDERAL JETS bombed Daruvar, 60 miles east of Zagreb, overnight. The city has been an important staging area for a major Croat advance along that front. A heavy exchange of artillery fire began after midnight around the key eastern city of Osijek, Croatian radio reported. Numerous shells slammed into the center of the Croat-held city, where one person was killed and 13 wounded in a similar bombardment on Thursday. Artillery and small arms fire exchanges were reported from the central Adriatic coast. THE CEASE FIRE pact, signed by commanders of the Serb-led federal army and Croatian defense 'officials on Thursday, appears the best hope yet for peace, foreseeing negotiations in the event of cease-

Clinton is top Demo fund raiser WASHINGTON (AP) Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton raised $2 million last month to take a clear fundraising lead among Democratic presidential candidates entering the stretch to crucial early primaries. Clinton aides said Thursday he had raised nearly $3.3 million through Dec. 31. They released the year-end figure as Clinton and his rivals made their second submission for federal matching funds. CANDIDATES aren’t required to report their year-end totals until Jan. 31, but several campaigns released the figures Thursday. Closest to Clinton’s figure was lowa Sen. Tom Harkin, with slightly more than $2 million for the year, followed by Nebraska ; Sen. Bob Kerrey at $1.9 million. ; None of the year-end totals in- ; eludes matching funds. ; President Bush also filed for a • second round of matching funds, • asking the Federal Election Com- • mission for slightly more than $1 • million. The FEC approved more ; than $2.6 million for Bush in the • first round. His campaign has raised • millions more in larger con- • tributions that are not eligible to be ; matched. • Neither of Bush’s GOP rivals,

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only as Goran have been waging for the past six months. Goran’s father is in the background. (AP photo)

fire violations. U.N. envoy Cyrus Vance, its broker, said local field commanders, who in the past have ignored orders from commanders to hold their fire, found it “completely acceptable.” “New hope yes, but a very moderate hope taking into account what had happened in the past,” said Fernando Balsinha, spokesman for the Portuguese foreign ministry. Portugal assumed the rotating European Community presidency Wednesday. FOURTEEN earlier cease-fires, including some brokered by the EC, have collapsed amid continued fighting. If the truce holds, it will pave the way for the dispatch of up to 10,000 U.N. peacekeepers. Fourteen previous truces were shattered within days. Under the cease-fire’s terms, federal troops will have to pull out of Croatia and be replaced by up to 10,000 U.N. peacekeepers. Lands seized by the army and Serb irregulars are to be demilitarized, with the estimated 700,000 refugees returned home. THE PLAN CALLS for the population in contested territories

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conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke, has yet qualified for matching funds. CANDIDATES are eligible for matching funds once they raise at least $5,000 in small contributions in each of 20 states. They can collect matching funds on the first $250 of each individual contribution. In Clinton’s new filing, he asked the FEC for $831,209, easily outpacing his five rivals. Clinton was certified for $581,000 last month. Harkin had been certified for sl.l million in matching funds last month. His latest filing sought $270,000.

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to eventually vote on whether to remain in Croatia or join Serbia. But a convention on a new Yugoslavia expected to be adopted today by more than 100 pro-Ser-bian groups, civic organizations and parties could interfere with such plans. The Belgrade meeting was expected to declare the new Yugoslavia as the legal heir to the old federation a contentious claim considering that the European Community will formally recognize Croatia’s independence on Jan. 15. DETAILS WERE unclear about the boundaries of the planned new country whether it would seek to include the Croatian territory seized by Serbs in the war, but it will certainly be dominated by Serbia. Nearly all of the parties to the convention are dominated by allies of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. The convention was expected to declare that the internal boundaries between republics are subject to change. That would allow Serbia to declare Serb-dominated parts of other republics part of the new nation.

Bayh’s plan to dominate education debate

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Gov. Evan Bayh’s proposal to improve Hoosiers’ preparation for the workforce by requiring a high school exit exam and raising the age for mandatory school attendance is expected to dominate the 1992 General Assembly’s debate on education. “It’s his first priority and the major priority” of the Democratic governor going into the short legislative session that starts Monday, said Stanley G. Jones, Bayh’s legislative director. “THE GOVERNOR’S convinced that to have a healthy economy, we need to have a skilled workforce,” said Jones. While other education proposals are sure to be floated by lawmakers and interest groups, only the workforce development initiative comes to the Legislature with the imprimatur of the governor, the State Board of Education and, possibly, state school Superintendent H. Dean Evans. In a short session, the advantage of unified support figures to help gain the proposal the attention it needs to be considered in the short period of time allotted for committee hearings. “I’M CONVINCED we ll be stronger if we come together with one package (on workforce development) than if each side

Panel wants to ease strain on child support payers

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Two changes in computing child support payments that could ease the strain on those paying have been approved by a legislative advisory committee. The 12-member Child Support Advisory Committee recommending on Thirsday changing the current limit on child support obligations from 60 percent of gross income to 60 percent of net income or 40 percent of gross income. IT ALSO URGED that the age for emancipation be lowered from 21 to 19 or when a child earns a high school or general educational development diploma, whichever

Bush to boost military presence in Singapore

SINGAPORE (AP) President Bush arrived in Singapore today to press arrangements to boost the U.S. military presence in that island state as the Pentagon goes packing from the Philippines. Bush began the second leg of his four-nation trip to the Far East after assuring Australian business leaders that the United States would not abandon its “special responsibility” for stability in the region. THE UNITED STATES is looking to Singapore to help fill the gap left by the forced U.S. pullout from Subic naval base and its abandonment of Clark Air Base in the Philippines, the traditional U.S. stronghold in the Pacific. The Bush administration wants to shift some security resources to bases and ports in this tiny tropical city-state on the southern tip of the Malay peninsula, U.S. officials said. That would likely include the U.S. command structures currently based at Subic Bay, as well as expanded rights to use Singapore bases and make ports of call, said one official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. A NOVEMBER 1990 agreement signed by Vice Presittent Dan Quayle and then-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew already provides U.S. warships and planes wider use of the city-state’s bases. Bush hopes to expand on that arrangement. Bush also was expected to announce in Singapore that he will lift the U.S. trade embargo against Cambodia where warring factions signed a peace treaty two months ago, U.S. officials said. The embargo dates to April 1975, when Khmer Rouge rebels forced the pro-Western government from power. BUSH, AFTER spending the first three days of his 12-day trip in Australia, becomes the first U.S. president to visit Singapore, a republic of 3 million people crammed into the smallest nation in Southeast Asia. Bush will meet Saturday with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and President Wee Kim Wee as well as Lee Kuan Yew, who ruled the island republic for 31 years before

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comes in with its own package,” said Evans, a Republican who predicted he and the Democratic administration will soon agree on a common workforce proposal. The final details of the proposal are still being worked out, but its major points appear to be set The program, a revision of a proposal that died in the 1991 session, includes: • Requiring each high school student to pass an exit examination to demonstrate proficiency in essential skills such as reading and math.

comes first. Emancipation means that a divorced parent, under most circumstances, is no longer financially responsible for the child. The committee approved other recommendations during a daylong meeting in the Statehouse but postponed final action on several proposals until March 24. The first recommendation will be sent to the Indiana Supreme Court, which approves guidelines for judges handling divorces involving child support. REP. JACK L. Cottey, R-In-dianapolis, a committee member, said the change in income percentage is needed to put “a little common sense, a little compassion”

stepping down in November 1990. On his final day in Australia, Bush vowed to resist protectionist pressures even as he sought to defend U.S. wheat subsidies that have hurt Australian farmers. BUSH SAID the protectionist pressures at home are mounting in this election year. “None of us are pure,” he reiterated. “Not one country can say, ‘We don’t protect in some way or another.’” But he pledged that as long as he remains president, “We are not going to go ... down the protection path.” Bush was accompanied to Singapore by U.S. corporate executives he brought along mostly to press the case for removal of trade barriers in South Korea and Japan, the next stops on his journey. Unlike those countries, Singapore poses no contentious trade issues. SINGAPORE AND the United States share what Washington describes as “excellent” economic relations, with part of the island’s prosperity due to $3 billion in U.S. business investment The United States and Singapore enjoy a growing s2l billion bilateral trade. More than 800 U.S. companies operate in Singapore. Singapore has a spotty human rights performance, but officials said Bush did not intend to make a public issue of that during his visit IN LIGHT OF the effort for a greater U.S. security presence in Singapore, it was not clear if the touchy human rights question would be raised in private. Singapore’s government has taken a hard line against political dissent, imposed controls on foreign journalists, and has a law permitting detainment of dissenters without charge. The State Department human rights report this year cited “credible reports of recent mistreatment.” A DISSIDENT listed by Amnesty International as the longest held political prisoner in the world, former opposition Parliament member Chia Thye Poh, was released from prison after 23 years, but now is forced to live on an island and is confined there at night. The United States looks to Sin-

BEGINNING IN the 1994-95 school year, students in the 10th grade would take the test. If they pass, they could qualify in their last years of high school for special advanced academic or vocational courses. Students who didn’t pass would have chances to take the test again in the 11th and 12th grades. If they don’t pass, they won’t graduate from high school. • Issuing a skills guarantee for a high school graduate who has [Kissed the proficiency test. Beginning in 1995-96, the state would back up this guarantee by providing remedial courses for a graduate whose certified skills don’t meet an employer’s expectations. THE SKILLS testing and guarantee would also be available to adults already in the workforce. • Raising from the current 16 to 18 the age for mandatory school attendance. This would take effect with the 1995-96 school year. At the same time, schools would be encouraged to offer alternative programs for 16- to 18-year-old students who want to leave the traditional classroom setting. The Bayh proposal, which also envisions streamlining the state’s administration of workforce programs, would be funded in its

into how child support is computed. The second recommendation will go to the Legislature because the age of emancipation is a state law. DAVID M. DINN, legislative coordinator for Parent’s and Children’s Equality Inc. and a committee member, pointed out that children of a married couple are emancipated at age 18, but divorced parents can be ordered to maintain support until the children reach 21. The committee discussed recommending there be no language in the guidelines specifying that divorced parents be obligated to pay for some or all of their children’s college education,

Bush’s V-sign offensive to Australians CANBERRA, Australia (AP) President Bush gave the V-for-victory sign as he drove in his armored limousine past some demonstrators here in Australia’s capital. A friendly gesture? Not down under. In Australia, holding up two fingers to form a “V” has the same meaning as a middle-finger salute in the United States. It’s not clear if Bush had been apprised of the local customs before his passing encounter on Thursday. That same day, at the opening of an Australian Center for American Studies, Bush noted that while the two cultures share much in common, “differences do exist And we can and should do much more to foster greater understanding.” On Wednesday he boasted about the warmth of the reception crowds in Sydney gave him. “I’m a man that knows every hand gesture you’ve ever seen and I haven’t learned a new one since I’ve been here,” he said.

gapore for leadership in influencing other members of ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, to liberalize their trading practices. The other ASEAN countries are the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. U.S. officials also are eyeing the other ASEAN countries for wider military contacts in the wake of the pullback from the Philippines. The U.S. Air Force currently sends aircraft to Singapore’s Peya Lebar Air Base several times a year for short-term training. The Navy uses Singapore ports of call for ship repair and maintenance. Some 95 U.S. personnel are based in Singapore, and 75 Air Force personnel are sent in on temporary deployments of planes from Japan and South Korea.

early stages by about $5 million to $8 million collected annually in penalties paid by employers for late payment of their unemployment insurance premiums. IN LATER years, the program could cost substantially more if more students remain in school and alternative programs are developed, said Evans. Jones said it’s impossible to predict how much the workforce program will cost the state in later years if more students remain in school. But he said that whatever the cost, it’s a price the state should be glad to pay. “OVER THE long run, Indiana society ought to benefit with fewer people unemployed, fewer people on welfare, fewer people in our prisons,” he said. In addition to the workforce proposal, lawmakers will be asked to consider a broad range of other initiatives. Among them are: • Rewriting the school funding formula to redistribute from richer to poorer school districts some state aid to public schools. Evans supports this proposal, which he argues would make school funding more equitable and remove the chance that a court might strike down the current funding formula. A challenge of that formula is in the courts.

but it decided to study the issue further. Other guideline recommendations to the Supreme Court approved by the committee included: • Subtract the 7.5 percent in income that self-employed people pay in federal FICA tax from their gross income when computing child support to make it equitable to all those who have employers who pay the tax. • If overtime pay or income from a second job is to be included in child support, the amount should be 7 percent of that income and obtained only by a separate court order.