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1115 E. Argues Ave. Surmvvale. CA 94036-THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1993 Clinton sending troops into former Yugoslavia rv ATHENS, Greece (AP) The United States will send a company of infantry to Macedonia as a warning to the Serbs to keep their attack forces from spilling over from neighboring Bosnia, Secretary of State Warren Christopher said today. The 300 ground troops, to be dispatched to the former Yugoslav republic as early as next week, will have as their mission "to contain the conflict," said Christopher said.

"Bosnia is very much on our mind today," he said as the Clinton administration asserted its leadership in the transatlantic alliance against a drumbeat of criticism that it was withdrawing from that role. He commented during a NATO foreign ministers meeting in which the tinderbox in the Balkans dominated the deliberations. In Washington, meanwhile, President Clinton called the move in Macedonia "a very limited thing no combat but an attempt to limit conflict." They will be combat troops, however, most likely drawn from units in Europe, the Pentagon said. In Clinton's name, Christopher also proposed a NATO summit meeting to be held later this year. And he said the European allies should contribute their air power to the defense of U.N.

peacekeepers in Bosnia as the United States pledged to do last month. In both cases, the allies enthusiastically fell in line, though NATO Secretary-General Manfred Woerner declining to identify his target grumbled about a lack of leadership in recent months. "There must be a clear sense of dent's commitment to try to ensure that this conflict does not spread. I think they will serve a deterrent purpose in that connection, and I think that the United States will not be faulted around the world for the courage that it's shown whether you are talking about Somalia, whether you are talking about Desert Storm." He concluded: "The United States does its part and we are doing our part here." There are now some 700 Americans in the Balkans, mostly working in hospitals or on other humanitarian missions. The commitment of a reinforced infantry unit of 300 troops is dwarfed by some 22,000 peacekeepers contributed by two-dozen countries.

Clinton, at a White House session with his domestic advisers, commented, "We said all along we would support the U.N. in limiting the conflict." White House spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers said the decision will "make very clear that further aggression in Macedonia will not be" tolerated. "I think it's a further demonstration of our commitment," she said. "They're in a peacekeeping role." Christopher was asked what the United States might do if the U.S. troops came under fire.

"The United States is not likely to leave its troops undefended," he said without elaboration. A senior Pentagon official, commenting only on condition of anonymity, said the troops most likely would be evacuated if they came under attack. purpose," the former German defense minister said at briefing for reporters. "There must be leadership. That is the important lesson of the past several months." Clinton, after long deliberation, decided in May on a tough policy of "lift and strike" to stem the bloodshed in Bosnia.

The allies would urge the U.N. Security Council to lift the arms embargo against the predominantly Muslim government in Bosnia and to bomb Serb artillery sites. However, when Christopher carried the proposal to Europe he ran into resistance and the United States shelved its strategy in favor of a milder approach that included establishing safe areas for homeless civilians. The spring meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization here gave the administration an opportunity to burnish its image and Christopher seized it He pledged some 100,000 troops would be kept in Europe "to ensure our ability to meet our solemn security commitments," offered the 300 troops for Macedonia and insisted that "new and tougher measures remain on the table should they be needed" to end the conflict in the Balkans. Even so, a European correspondent asked Christopher if sending troops to Macedonia, where there is no fighting, and keeping them from war-ravaged Bosnia was not "pretty spineless." Christopher shrugged off the suggestion.

"These troops are being sent to Macedonia to carry out the presi Elko Mining Expo opened its eighth annual show today at Elko Convention Center. Doug Driesner, at the microphone, and Bill Durbin of the Nevada Department of Minerals read a proclamation by Gov. Bob Miller honoring women in mining. A group of mining industry women, including several who recently testified before Congress, listened at left. Next to Driesner is Dorothy Kosich, managing editor of Mining World News.

Women's coalition honored at expo opening ceremony Nevada news summary: continue to take to the general public." The women honored today were those who went to Washington from Nevada. Each was presented a poster listing their names, and a proclamation from Gov. Bob Miller declaring today Nevada Women in Mining Day. Kosich also read a letter from John Lutley, president of the Gold Institute, praising the women. She said after the ceremony that her newspaper sponsored the ceremony because she felt the women deserved special recognition for their efforts in Washington.

They were able to get in to see people in Washington others in the mining industry were unable to see and they were able to get positive stories ab-out mining into the national media, Kosich said. "Both of these things impressed me," she said. Also honored with a copy of the proclamation was Winnemucca resident Arloa Woolford, who is president of the National Women in Mining organization's education foundation. In addition, Scott Barr, resident manager of Independence Mining Company, presented Murray's widow, Marcia, with a $10,000 check to start a scholarship fund for Elko County students in her husband's name. Tributes to Murray were read by The Elko Mining Expo officially opened at noon today with opening words by Mayor Jim Polkinghorne, a tribute honoring women in mining and a memorial for the late mining executive Joseph Murray.

Independent geologist Kathy Benedetto of Reno was singled out for special recognition as founder of the Women's Mining Coalition. "She has proven that one woman can make a difference," said Dorothy Kosich, managing editor of Mining Wodd News, and host of the ceremony honoring women in mining. Benedetto founded the grassroots group of women who traveled to Washington, D.C., twice this spring to protest proposed royalties on the gross proceeds of hardrock minerals mined on public lands and other proposed changes in the 1872 mining law that they felt would hurt the U.S. mining industry. With the help of fellow geologist Ruth Carraher and consultant Debra Struhsacker, both of Reno, the national group was formed.

Several women who work at Elko area gold mines joined the coalition and went to Washington. "We tried to present reasonable changes to the mining law," Benedetto said in her remarks to those gathered for the ceremony, adding that they also tried to show how "we are an environmentally conscious industry. That's a message we need to Tension said increasing in negotiations over SIIS Councilmen authorise CARSON CITY (AP) Tensions have increased in negotiations on a proposed overhaul of Nevada's workers' compensation system after a vote on an unrelated bill showed a split among Assembly Democrats. "The Democratic caucus has splintered down there," Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus, D-Las Vegas, said Wednesday. The rift was evidenced during a vote on a public records bill.

Majority Leader Gene Porter, D-Las Vegas, lost a vote 25-16, just after a rare women's caucus on the floor. Key lobbyists and lawmakers say Porter saw the vote as an attack from Assemblyman Chris Giunchigliani, D-Las Vegas. She and Porter have been vying for control of SB316, the proposed State Industrial Insurance System reform. Porter may have wanted to push SB316 out of the house as early as Thursday, in a form unattractive to Giunchigliani, because she pushed him too far, one source said. But top Democrats in the Senate and Assembly moved quickly to control the damage, asking Porter to give them a chance to mend tattered nerves.

"I think tempers flared this morning," said Assembly Speaker Joe Dini, D-Yerington. "I think we have to cool off a little bit" Closed-door meetings throughout the day, however, seem to have tied up the remaining concerns about the content of SB316. Several negotiators in sewer rate state Treasurer Bob Seale from state Sen. Dean Rhoads, Assemblyman John Carpenter and Assemblyman John Marvel, who represent this area. Murray was a president of Independence and president of the Nevada Mining Association.

Phyllis Peterson, executive director of the Elko Convention Center, said the expo was dedicated this year to Murray, and she presented a plaque to Mrs. Murray honoring her late husband for his contributions to the Elko Mining Expo, the community and the mining industry. The mayor said he sees "a real outgrowth of this expo as the realization that we're all interdependent," and that he hoped to see "the support base for mining broadened." The ceremony was held in front of the Elko Convention Center, which is hosting the three-day mining event featuring 400 exhibits. The event continues until 7 p.m. tonight, 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m. tomorrow and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Today and Friday have been designated as business days and no one under the age of 16 is permitted.

Saturday is family day. Saturday events include a benefit auction for the MacKay School of Mines at 9 a.m., an Old Time Miners' Hardrock Drilling Contest at 11 ajn. and a Tug-O-War at 1 pjn. In other action Tuesday, councilmen: Approved the subletting of 165 square feet in the Casino Express area in the city airport terminal to the Elko Coffee Company, owned by Donald and Karen Grock, for a coffee and refreshment bar. Approved, by a 4-1 vote, the closing of 13th Street between Fairgrounds Road and Elm Street June 25-27 during the Cowboy Music Gathering, which will be held at the Elko County Fairgrounds.

Strickland cast the dissenting vote. Approved a $10,476 materials testing contract with Summit Engineering for the Walnut Street reconstruction project with a list of costs to the county and city. Mayor Jim Polkinghorne, who sat in on the meeting, noted the Elko City Council earlier this week agreed to the concept of forming a joint organization, but would want equal funding. That could increase county spending on animal control, said Morris. The county has a part-time animal control officer, at a cost of $12,000, while the city, which runs the animal shelter, has a full-time employee and five part-time workers, said Morris and Bauer.

The city pays $27,000 for services and supplies, and $57,000 for salaries, Bauer noted. The city also plans to build a new $91,000 animal shelter. Currently, the county and city have an agreement in which the county takes city prisoners and the city accepts county animals at the pound. Morris, though, said he wanted more deputies before spending is increased on animal control. The board will meet next at 3 p.m.

at city hall. cent, from the present eight cents on every dollar to nine cents, with a quarter-cent going to the folkife center and the remaining three-quarters of a cent going to other cultural events that bring people and money into Elko. The money would be dispersed by the Elko County Recreation Board. Councilman Bill Strickland said: "I support the idea of using room tax dollars for tourism on a limited not long-term basis." He said a three-year limit should be put on the quarter-cent for the folklife center and any other group or event receiving such funds. The quarter-cent for the folklife center, if approved, is projected to earn about $30,000 per year.

say the two areas of contention have been largely settled. "My understanding is that preexisting (conditions) is not an issue with the governor, and not an issue with gaming," said Giunchigliani. "If that's true then I think that the managed care is real close to a compromise." Porter said the compromise could consist of floating the discount rate, used to calculate lump-sum permanent partial disability payments, and following a line of reasoning from a Supreme Court case on the compensability of pre-existing conditions. The remaining sticking point is the procedure lawmakers use to make the changes to the bill a political issue more than a substantive one. But repairing the political damage done Wednesday may set back a final vote on SB316, and earlier predictions of a floor vote this week are seeming less likely.

Plane found LOVELOCK (AP) Rescue crews planned to use a helicopter today to recover bodies from a plane that crashed east of here on Friday while en route from southern Nevada to the state of Washington. Sheriff James K. Mcintosh said autopsies would be needed to determine the number of people on board, as the craft appeared to have exploded on impact near Star Peak in the rugged Humboldt Range million dollar shortfall. Spitler said Nevada lawmakers' "tough on crime" attitude has created a bulging prison population that represents an incredible expense to state taxpayers. "The reality is it costs so darn much money to operate prisons," he added.

Unless lawmakers provide more funding to education and social services, Spitler said the conditions which produce criminals are only going to get worse. "We have to find some way to attack these problems on the front end," he said. Wednesday's Ways and Means vote all but guarantees that the seven rural honor camps will remain open over the next two years. Democratic leaders have condemned the decision by the Senate Finance Committee to keep the camps running, saying Republicans are kowtowing to a rural agenda that favors convicts over students. But Ways and Means Chairman Morse Arberry, D-Las Vegas, has said the issue died with the Senate Finance vote because there arent enough votes in his panel to resurrect the early-release plan.

28 miles from here. A Mcintosh said the victims were believed to be Richard Lee, 41, his wife Lynda and their children, Megan, 9, and Kristina, 14. They were flying from Henderson to Washington's Tri-Cities to attend a niece and nephew's graduation Friday night at Hanford High School, according to Richard Lee's mother, Mildred Lee Dall, of Richland, Wash. Mcintosh said searchers from the Civil Air Patrol located the single-engine Beech Bonanza on Tuesday and rescue crews hiked in Tuesday evening. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board planned to travel to the site.

Richard Lee was a Richland native who moved to Las Vegas four years ago, his mother said. He had been a pilot for many years and owned his own plane. Gang robberies LAS VEGAS (AP) Gang members shot at a convenience store clerk who confronted them after they took a case of beer without paying, then robbed a nearby donut store. The clerk at the Las Vegas Boulevard North store ducked as one of the three teen-agers fired four rounds from a semiautomatic pistol. A few minutes later, the beer bandits robbed a Winchell's Donut House on the same street, but their crime spree was short lived.

Police caught up with the three as they headed east on Cheyenne Avenue while making their escape. Police booked 19-year-old Terry Edwards, 18-year-old Gilbert Pompa and a 17-year-old on assault, robbery and possession of a stolen weapon charges. Police said it was the third armed robbery by gang members in a week. Murder charge LAS VEGAS (AP) The boyfriend of a 17-year-old Las Vegas girl found strangled late last month has been charged with the slaying. Lonnell Weathers was officially charged Wednesday when Justice of the Peace Nancy Oesterle issued a warrant in the case.

Weathers had turned himself in shortly after the body of Brenda Rene Smith was discovered. The 19-year-old had been kept in jail on a bench warrant in an unrelated battery case. Smith was found dead the morning of May 29 by her father, who told police she failed to call him after returning home from work. Luxor jobs LAS VEGAS (AP) Another new Las Vegas resort is drawing hundreds of hopeful job applicants. The $365 million Luxor hotel-casino began accepting applications Wednesday for 3,000 gaming and non-gaming positions the Egyptian-themed resort hopes to fill by its scheduled Oct 15 opening.

Assembly panel OKs prison camp money County, city to probe joint animal control hike Elko City Councilmen Tuesday raised sewer rates for residential and commercial users, and heard allegations from the Euzkaldunak, the local Basque club, that the city's plan to set aside a quarter-cent of room tax for the Western Folklife Center was discriminatory. The sewer capital improvement charge for residential users will be increased from $7.50 to $9.50. The commercial minimum charge will go from $21 to $23. The increase is to bolster the capital improvement fund for the wastewater treatment facilities, according to city officials. Councilmen tabled a proposed ordinance that would have added a quarter-cent to the room tax for hotels, motels and recreational vehicle parks to be earmarked for the Western Folklife Center after Bob Echeverria, Euzkaldunak board member, complained that it neglected other cultural events that bring tourists and revenue into the city, specifically the annual National Basque Festival.

Counclmen last month decided on the quarter-cent room tax increase after a yearly $30,000 donation to the folklife center was cut from the 1993-94 budget Echeverria said the Basque Festival has been in existence for 30 years, the Cowboy Poetry Gathering for only 10. He said that in 1964 every passenger in Europe that flew American Airlines received information on Elko's Basque festival. Mayor Jim Polkinghorne said the folklife center presented councilmen with information on the ecomomic impact to the city of the poetry gathering. "You need to get documentation," Polkinghorne told Echeverria. "What they can do with a full-time staff of 11, we cant do.

We're all volunteers," Echeverria responded. "I see you pitting us against them, dividing the community. You're telling us, 'Do what they Echeverria replied. Councilman Carol Davis suggested that the room tax be raised a full CARSON CITY (AP) The Assembly Ways and Means Committee has voted unanimously for a controversial state prison budget that includes $16.1 million in new money for rural work camps. But Assemblyman Larry Spitler, D-Las Vegas, who heads the panel which reviewed the prison budgets, said Wednesday it's time for lawmakers to try and reform Nevada's prison system which is siphoning millions of dollars from much-needed social services.

"No one wants to fund prisons over children's issues," Spitler said. Last week, the Republican-controlled Senate Finance Committee rejected a program sought by Democratic Gov. Bob Miller to curb prison spending by closing seven rural honor camps and letting up to 1,000 inmates out early during the next two years. The action by the Senate panel, which opened up a gaping $16.1 million hole in Miller's 1993 95 budget, left Ways and Means members with little choice but to approve the new money in the prison budget and then try and fill the gaps. Lawmakers must now decide whether to raise taxes or slash other state budgets to make up the multi- County and city officials plan to work together to form a unified animal control division, but are unsure whether ordinances should be applied countywide.

Members of a joint committee stated yesterday during a meeting at city hall that they liked the idea of combining animal control enforcement and fees. Implementing joint ordinances, though, may not prove so easy. Elko County Commissioner Barbara Wellington said she wanted countywide ordinances. Currently, ordinances in the county are only in effect in Spring -Creek, Lamoille, Pleasant Valley, Jackpot and Jarbidge. But Undersheriff Clair Morris noted that would lead to problems with enforcement Capt Bill Bauer suggested basing ordinances on zoning.

For example, a violation in residential neighborhoods may not be one in agricultural areas. Funding also became a question, and members decided to come up.