Kokomo Tribune Sunday (Newspaper) - September 3, 1995, Kokomo, Indiana KOKOMO TRIBUNE Todays Weather pleasant High 80 Low 88 Sports Spot Purdue upsets West Virginia Page Bl Kokomo Indiana Septembers 1998 NATO warns of more airstrikes SARAJEVO ina AP Rebuffed again by the Bosnian Serbs an aggravated NATO gave their leaders a choice Sunday remove heavy guns and end the siege of Sarajevo or face more punishing airstrikes NATO Willy Claes also told the Serbs to give personnel complete freedom of movement back off other safe areas and allow the reopen ing of crucial airport If not he said NATO military commanders and their coun would be authorized to renew attacks that were suspend ed Friday The alliance set no fixed deadline but officials spoke in terms of hours rather than days They had better get on with said Robert Hunter the ambassador to NATO He dis missed demands by Serb military leader Gen Ratko Mladic that his forces wouldnt back off until NATO airstrikes stopped with one word If I were Mr Mladic I would not sleep very well tonight and I Vets join Clinton for anniversary of wars end Ceremony brings tears to the eyes of those who served in World War II HONOLULU AP At a mili tary cemetery on a hill high above Honolulu President Clinton marked the anniversary of the end of the most destructive war in history Saturday saying it taught Americans that the bless ings of freedom are never easy or Hundreds of World War II veterans many of them wearing the medals they won in battle long ago joined Clinton at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific atop a grassy extinct volcanic crater known as Many of the veterans were in wheelchairs Fifty years after Japans surren der ended World War II it was a day of solemn commemoration Its very touching to be here said Ralph Bowen of Salt World War II veteran Alfred Los Banos lowers his head during ceremony AP photo Lake City Utah Now 77 he was an artillery major who fought his way into Germany A half century I guess were history There also was a touch of parti san politics as Clinton used his weekly radio address to accuse Republicans of breaking faith with military veterans with a budget cutting plan that would reduce their retirement benefits At the cemetery memorial Clin ton placed a wreath with a ribbon that said A grateful nation He was accompanied by two WWII veterans Navy ensign Robert Allen and Army Sgt Alfred Los Banos who lost both legs in the war The mournful notes of Taps brought tears to the eyes of many veterans One of them was Henry Akana 75 of the Infantry Regiment the famed Japanese American unit that fought in Italy I was crying for my Akana said Many of them went down six very good friends That song is for them and it hits me The cemetery ceremony was the first event in a daylong program of observance Clinton visited the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in Pearl Harbor to dedicate a World War II commemorative stamp and drop a wreath into the water There was another ceremony at the memo rial spanning the hulk of the battle ship Arizona sunk in Japans sur prise attack on Pearl Harbor Dec 7 1941 with American sea men lost Most are still entombed there The Pacific journey started where we stand today in Pearl Har bor our darkest Clinton said Comedian Bob Hope 92 who entertained troops in the Pacific was the grand marshal for a veter ans parade in Waikiki Clinton recalled that five Ameri can presidents from John Kennedy to George Bush had served in the Pacific Inside TODAY Tribune will not publish on Monday The Kokomo Tribune will not ings are included with todays publish a Monday to edition allow its to enjoy Tto Tribune will pub Labor Pay boUday with Tuesdays Several features All the day WiJi Tuesday markets Entertainment Local mm certainly would not waste any time Hunter said If Mladic and Co dont do what they are supposed to do the bombing will start NATO ambassadors met for more than eight hours to discuss the way forward in Bosnia where envoy Richard Holbrooke has been making progress in driving forward the peace process According to a NATO official who spoke on condition of anonymity Holbrooke urged the alliance not to ease up on the Serbs and to be ready for more airstrikes if necessary He addressed the meeting after Mladic rejected demands to unconditionally withdraw all heavy weapons from around Sara jevo eliminate threats to other safe areas and agree to a ceasefire The attacks last week were launched after investigators concluded the Bosnian Serb rebels were to blame for the Aug 28 mor tar shelling of a Sarajevo market in which 38 people died Bombings of Serb communications facilities ammunition depots and weapons have reduced but not eliminated the Serbs military advantage After three days NATO called a pause Friday to give negotiators time to convince Bosnian Serbs to comply with demands In a statement Claes said airstrikes will resume unless the Bosnian Serbs withdraw all heavy guns from within miles of Sarajevo stop attacking the safe allow personnel com plete freedom of movement and allow unrestricted use of Sarajevo airport Mladic apparently fears that if he removes his weapons from around Sarajevo government forces will attack his troops from within the city which has been besieged for 40 months He walked out four tunes during a meeting with Gen Bernard Janvier the com mander in former Yugoslavia The Serb commander called the demands unacceptable and coun tered with some of his own Crews paint a pedestrian bridge as part of final preparations for Centres opening Friday developers are courting Kokomo and other Indiana shoppers to the downtown Indianapolis shopping and entertainment complex KT photo by Tim Bath wn Indianapolis Circle Centre Mall will have more than 50 stores eateries By DAVE PHILLIPS Tribune staff writer INDIANAPOLIS One of cen tral most anticipat ed retail developments ever opens this week facing unprecedented competition an uncertain outlook for longterm success and plans to draw shop ping and entertainment dollars from Kokomo Lafayette and Bloomington When the first shoppers enter the Circle Centre Mall in downtown Indianapolis on Fri day they will discover a upscale shopping and entertain ment complex featuring a floor of nightclubs nine movie screens and more than 50 stores and eater ies qew to the Indianapolis market including an FAO Schwarz toy store a Sam Goody superstore and the Franklin Mint On the drawing board for nearly two decades Circle Centre will offer two anchor department stores Nordstrom and Parisian a collection of specialty stores owned by the Limited and other stores and restaurants The malls developer and man ager Simon Property Group still hopes to court a third anchor department store as part of future development Simon one of the nations largest We do expect to draw people from Kokomo Muncie and Fort Wayne and Blooming ton Herman Renfro vice president of development mall developers also manages Mall of America a shopping and entertainment behemoth in a sub urb south of Minneapolis that attracts 38 million visitors a year We hope weve learned some things from Mall of said Herman Renfro Simons senior vice president of development and the man who has stewarded Circle Centres completion since 1989 We do expect to draw people from Kokomo Muncie and Fort Wayne and Renfro said of Circle Centre People now go to Chicago to shop at Nord strom so we do think that they will come to Indianapolis officials hope the million mall will complement more than billion in new downtown development over the last 20 years and serve as an anchor for future development in the 21st century Turn to SIMON page A5 flotilla comes to tragic end A rescued crewman of the Sundown Two gives thanks AP photo KEY WEST Fla AP A la of Cuban exiles determined to protest near Havana was forced back Saturday after stormy waves ripped apart one of the boats dumping dozens of people into the sea One person died The 47 people aboard were left bobbing amid the wreckage in their orange life preservers until they were rescued by some of the other boats and by crews of Coast Guard ships and helicopters All 24 boats remaining in the flotilla the second of the sum mer to protest Cuban leader Fidel Castros policies returned to port at Key West The Sundown Two sank in the Florida Straits 10 miles south of Key West about 20 min utes after the crew reported it was taking on water A man identified by friends as Lazaro Gutierrez died of heart failure soon after being lifted onto a helicopter the Coast Guard said Two other passengers were hospitalized He died doing what he wanted said Armando Duenas Mar tinez who was also on the Sun down He was shouting Abajo Down with He died like a patriotic Castros daughter Alina Fernan dez Revuelta who defected in 1993 was aboard one of the other flotilla boats She called the abort ed protest a success The experience was mar said Ms Fernandez
