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To: Ahda who wrote (31627)	4/12/1999 7:12:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 116791

Good to know there are some reasonable people..Quebec reminder :) Canada's Chretien opposes partition of Kosovo Reuters Story - April 12, 1999 18:36 Jump to first matched term (Adds Chretien's remarks, debate, paras 1-6, 8-10) By Randall Palmer OTTAWA, April 12 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien voiced opposition on Monday to the partition of the Yugoslav province of Kosovo and said the use of NATO ground troops there was also out of the question for now. As NATO policymakers searched for a long-term solution to the conflict, Chretien said it was important for all the Kosovo refugees be able to return to their homes. "There is no discussion at this time about partition of Kosovo as a part of the deal," Chretien told Parliament. "We want all Kosovars to go home, in their homes where they have been for a long time." Chretien drew fire from Canada's four opposition parties for repeatedly refusing to agree on Monday to submit to a vote on any eventual decision to use ground troops to fight NATO's way into Kosovo. "It's shameful to see this prime minister skating around this issue and doing everything he can to deny a rightful vote in the Parliament of Canada on this important issue," fumed Diane Ablonczy of the opposition Reform Party. Canadian Defense Minister Art Eggleton said last Wednesday that military planners were examining the possible use of ground forces in case the current air campaign does not succeed in pressuring Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his Serb forces from Kosovo. Polls published on Saturday and Monday in Canada's National Post and Globe and Mail newspapers showed 57 to 58 percent of the Canadian people support the use of ground troops if necessary. Both the opposition Reform and Bloc Quebecois parties said they were ready to back this if the objectives were clearly spelled out. However, Chretien said the government was "not considering such a move at this moment at all." Some were quick to pick up the nuances of his remarks. "I note the prime minister said 'at this time,'" the Bloc Quebecois' Gilles Duceppe told the House of Commons. Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy said earlier on Monday that NATO foreign ministers in Brussels had discussed sending in ground troops but decided for now to proceed with bombing. "It was clearly one of the issues that was raised," Axworthy told journalists by telephone from Brussels. "There was a feeling that at this point in time the present course of action would be maintained." Axworthy backed NATO's insistence that Yugoslavia must withdraw its forces from Kosovo, but reiterated his opposition to redrawing the map by force. "The objective of having the Serbian troops withdraw is centerpoint. It's pretty inconceivable that after what some of the people of Kosovo have been through that they would be willing to live under a regime that would be dominated by that kind of police and repressive regime," he said. "But there's also a sense that we don't want to start changing borders. There will have to be some kind of political arrangement that preserves the autonomy of Kosovo.

To: Ahda who wrote (31627)	4/12/1999 7:21:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 116791

Judge Cites Clinton For Contempt In Jones Suit 07:10 p.m Apr 12, 1999 Eastern LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright said Monday that President Clinton gave false testimony in Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit and cited him for contempt of court. In her order, Wright said, ''The record demonstrates by clear and convincing evidence that the president responded to plaintiffs' questions by giving false, misleading and evasive answers that were designed to obstruct the judicial process.'' Wright ordered Clinton to pay for Jones's legal fees caused by his ''willful refusal'' to obey discovery orders in the lawsuit and also for the court's expenses in traveling to Washington to hear his deposition on Jan. 17, 1998. She also said she was referring the case to the Arkansas Supreme Court committee on professional conduct for possible sanctions on Clinton's license to practice law in the state. Wright specifically cited Clinton for saying in the deposition that he had not had sex with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. ''It is difficult to construe the president's sworn statement in this civil lawsuit concerning his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky as anything other than a willful refusal to obey this court's discovery orders,'' she said. In her lawsuit, Jones charged that Clinton, then governor of Arkansas, asked her for oral sex during a meeting in a Little Rock hotel. Wright dismissed the suit in April 1998 for lack of evidence, but later said she would consider citing Clinton for contempt after he admitted having an affair with Lewinsky. Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.