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Joint Chiefs Doubted Air Strategy
Officials say about 2,000
troops will handle missile
launchers and helicopters
used to escalate the attack.
From Wire Reports
While a heightened campaign
against Yugoslav forces developed
Sunday and the United States
announced it would soon send troops
to Macedonia, reports of deep reserva
tions within the Pentagon have surfaced.
Today’s edition of The Washington
Post reports that in the week’s leading
up to Operation Allied Forces, U.S. mil
itary chiefs expressed concern about the
Clinton administration’s approach to
Kosovo and warned that bombing
alone would not achieve its political
aims.
Sources familiar with their thinking
said the Pentagon’s senior four-star offi
cers, argued in closed door meetings
that the White House should employ
non-military levers such as economic
sanctions to encourage peace in the
Balkans, the Post reports.
And though military leaders eventu
ally voted unanimously in favor of
airstrikes, they remain doubtful that the
action will stop the violence in Kosovo
and drive Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic back to the bargaining tablet.
It also reported that officials ques
tioned whether the national interest
merited intervention in Yugoslavia.
“I think it’s safe to say that I don’t
think anybody felt like there had been a
compelling argument made that all of
this was in our national interest," said
one senior officer knowledgeable about
the deliberations.
But NATO warplanes and missiles
continued their campaign Sunday,
attacking an army headquarters, oil
refineries and other targets in and
around Belgrade, while Yugoslav forces
drove toward Kosovo’s western moun
tains where ethnic Albanian guerrillas
were preparing a last stand.
Also, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth
Bacon announced Sunday the United
States was sending Apache helicopter
gunships to Albania, adding to NATO’s
ability to attack Serb troops and tanks.
U.S. troops also will begin manning
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School Board: Cutting
Budget Difficult Task
By Roxana Bargoz
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education
members said Sunday that making expected cuts
in next year’s proposed budget would be easier
said than done.
School board member
Roger Waldon said the
Orange County Board of
Commissioners had given
the school board a clear sig
nal that the current proposal,
which was 18 percent more
than last vear’s, would not be
a reasonable request.
But school board mem
bers said they were reluctant
to cut many programs and
expenditures that they con
sidered vital to education.
“There really isn’t a lot
Student Leaders Say Court Case on Fees Won't Effect UNC
By Carrie Callaghan
Staff Writer
Student leaders are confident a U.S.
Supreme Court ruling slated for next
year on the allocation of student fees to
politically active campus groups at pub
lic universities will not affect UNC.
But a University professor says the
ruling is not as open-and-shut as that.
The dispute surrounding how student
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In a show of faith, an ethnic Albanian boy gives a victory sign as he travels on a bus after being expelled from Kosovo on Saturday.
As NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia continue, tens of thousands of Kosovars are forced to flee to neighboring countries.
Iraqi, Yugoslav Conflicts Divide U.S. Forces
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon
has diverted important parts of the U.S.
air fleet charged with monitoring the sky
over northern Iraq to sustain its role in
NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia,
officials who refused to be identified
said.
Asa result, the American and British
that can be eliminated,” school board member Bea
Hughes-Wemer said. “Much of the budget is tied
up in enrollment growth, the opening of the new
Scroggs Elementary School and the new wing to
East Chapel Hill High School and a state-mandat
ed teacher salary’ increase.”
At its meeting Thursday, the school board asked
Superintendent Neil Pedersen to make cuts, school
board chairman Harvey Goldstein said.
Commissioners have final approval of the school
system’s budget. Pedersen could not be reached for
comment Sunday.
One valuable program is the PREP Academy,
which would create transitional classes for those
who fail to meet proficiency standards before going
to middle or high school, Hughes-Wemer said.
“We must help these kids at these levels to increase
their chances at graduating high school.”
Goldstein cited additional proposals considered
crucial, including the hiring and recruitment of
See BUDGET, Page 6
School Board
Chairman
Harvey Goldstein
said money for new
teachers was crucial.
fees are divvied hit the court’s docket
March 29 when the University of
Wisconsin appealed a lower court’s rul
ing that students could not be forced to
fund groups they did not support. Both
a federal trial judge and an appeals court
ruled that such funding violated stu
dents’ rights to free speech.
If the U.S. Supreme Court rules to
overturn the lower courts’ decisions,
then fee allocation systems will not have
fighter aircraft used to enforce a “no-fly”
zone over northern Iraq have not flown
since March 20, four days before NATO
launched its airstrikes against
Yugoslavia.
Not coincidentally, U.S. officials have
reported no Iraqi violations of the flight
ban in that period, and almost daily U.S.
and British attacks on Iraqi air-defense
sites in the north have stopped. Air
to change at any university. However, if
the court upholds the decision, public
universities would have to allow object
ing students to opt out of funding groups
they did not want to support, according
to the ruling made by the 7th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals last year.
Rep. Mark Kleinschmidt, Efist. 1, who
plans to run for Speaker of Congress,
said UNC’s fee allocation system
already meets this standard and would
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler
Monday, April 5, 1999
Volume 107, Issue 24
Force F-15E attack planes conducted the
last attack in northern Iraq on March 16,
against anti-aircraft artillery.
In the 10 days prior to that, U.S.
planes attacked in northern Iraq almost
every day.
The pace of confrontations in south
ern Iraq also has slackened, although
allied planes are continuing to monitor
the sky.
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The band “Dirty Politicians" performed at the Street Scene Teen Center on Saturday night
as part of the center's annual benefit night. The Optimist Club of Chapel Hill, whicn does
fund-raising and volunteer work related to youth issues, sponsored the event.
not see any real changes. “The political
process we have in place should be suf
ficient.”
An argument used to oppose the sys
tem of fee allocation at the University of
Wisconsin was that it violated the free
speech rights of students by forcing
them to support certain groups.
This is not the case at UNC, Student
Congress Finance Committee Chairman
and Student Body Treasurer-select Ryan
On Sunday, American and British
fighters made two attacks on sites south
of Baghdad in response to Iraqi viola
tions of the southern “no-fly” zone,
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman
said. There also was a U.S. attack Friday,
the first since March 19.
U.S. planes did not fly over the north
ern “no-fly” zone Sunday, the 15th
straight day of no flights.
PUNK FUNK
Schlitt said.
“I don’t see (the allocation of) funds
corresponding to the free speech
amendment,” he said.
But UNC School of Law Professor
Arnold Loewy said this was a legitimate
First Amendment question. He said
Supreme Court decisions since the
1960s had banned unions and bar asso-
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Cabinet
Decision
Delayed
Nic Heinke, student body
president-elect, says all
officers and cabinet will be
in place by his inauguration
By Amy Anderson
Staff Writer
Student Body President-elect Nic
Heinke held a meeting that ran into the
early hours of this morning to select
members of his cabinet, which he plans
to announce today.
Due to the holiday weekend and
concerns of early disclosure, Heinke
did not choose his cabinet members by
Friday, his projected deadline.
But, with the exception of the press
secretary and the human relations head,
Heinke said he would fill all vacant
positions by early this morning.
Since he wanted to mull over the
interviews and discuss the applicants
with each cabinet member, and since
some people went away for the week
end, Heinke said he needed the extra
time Sunday to gather the cabinet mem
bers to finish the selection process in
person.
Heinke said he wanted to speak to
every applicant, both those who were
selected and those who were not, before
releasing the names of new cabinet
members. “One big reason why I have
not chosen the remaining cabinet mem-
bers is because I
wanted to talk to
everybody who
applied and did
not get (the posi
tion),” he said.
Rebecca
Hockfield, head of
the transition
committee that
sees to the smooth
changeover
between outgoing
and incoming
cabinet members,
said applicants
were told they
Student Body
President-elect
Nic Heinke
said the holiday
delayed interviews
for cabinet posts.
would be notified of the decisions by
late Sunday night or Monday morning.
“Technically, we had selected people
last Thursday in a meeting that ran
late,” she said. “But with people being
gone for the weekend it was difficult to
get in touch with all of them.”
Hockfield also stressed the impor
tance of applicants finding out the
results from the mouths of the selection
committee rather than reading about it
in The Daily Tar Heel. “It happened to
me,” she said. “I read about the results
in the paper, and I had not been noti
fied. Nic and other officers were out of
town this weekend which had a lot to do
See CABINET, Page 6
INSIDE
Hands to Yourself, Pal
After three women reported last week
that a man riding a child's bike had
grabbed their buttocks on Bolin Creek
Trail, both Sunday joggers and
plain-clothed police on patrols of the
path said they kept their eyes peeled
for the bicycle bandit See Page S.
Today’s Weather
Mostly sunny;
Mid 60s.
Tuesday Mostly sunny,
Upper 60s.
Be the Man
The Daily Tar Heel is looking for a
graduate journalism student to serve
as the paper's ombudsman for the fall
semester. The position entails writing
columns that analyze DTH coverage
and spending time in the newsroom to
learn about the paper’s operation.
Applications are available starting
today in Suite 104 of the Student
Union.
For more information, please contact
Editor-select Rob Nelson at 962-0245.