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A2 Sunday, April 10, 1994 The Honolulu Advertiser UoKL tifireateias air strikes Bosnian Serbs seize strategic hill in Gorazde IN THE WEWS At least 85 people, mostly Muslim civilians, were killed during the offensive and more than 400 were wounded, according to another U.N. spokesman. In Sarajevo, cease-fire talks between the rival military commanders with British Lt. Gen. Michael Rose, the U.N.

commander for and U.S. special envoy Charles Redman became deadlocked and broke off. The Bosnian army commander, Gen. Rasim blamed the breakdown on the Bosnian Serb military leader, Gen. Rat-ko Mladic, who refused to withdraw from land seized around Gorazde and sought to freeze the territorial status quo as the basis for U.N.

troop force in the Balkans requests it. It was the threat of NATO air strikes against Serbian rebel artillery encircling Sarajevo that halted the deadly bombardment of this battered capital two months ago. The United States and other Western powers had appeared reluctant to issue similar warnings to protect Gorazde, a U.N.-designated "safe area" that has never been accorded a protective deployment of troops. Only 13 U.N. military personnel are stationed in the region; all but four arrived in the last two days.

Serbian forces used tanks and artillery to seize the Gradina promontory, said a U.N. spokesman who described the assault as "a major advance." cover of a 24-hour truce designed to improve the atmosphere at negotiations. In Geneva, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali demanded that the Serbian forces withdraw to positions they held before the Gorazde offensive that began nearly two weeks ago, and said "all available means" could be used by U.N. troops to push them back.

"We don't exclude any measures, and air strikes are included," said Therese Gastaut, Boutros-Ghali's spokeswoman in Geneva. Meantime, commanders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, meeting in Naples, Italy, confirmed that they are prepared to intervene with air power if the U.N. peacekeeping By Carol J. Williams Los Angeles Times SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina The United Nations yesterday renewed threats to launch air strikes against Bosnian Serbs after the nationalist rebels conquered the most strategic high ground around the besieged eastern town of Gorazde. Tensions also heightened after talks aimed at wresting a cease-fire out of the warring factions broke down when Serbs rejected Western mediators' demands that they pull back from Gorazde.

The Bosnian Serbs assaulted and captured the Gradina heights, a commanding position overlooking the trapped Muslim community of 65,000, under for their lives' AP photo The old West rides again Native American actor Iron Eyes Cody, center, is joined on his 90th birthday by western movie stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans yesterday in Burbank, Calif. The gala dinner was a fund-raiser for Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. 'People rannin! 1 1 11 IJ" HHIIMLIIIIJITHI 1IJII.W Ml .11.11 )( -T i A to stop choosing Bishop Estate trustees. Page B2 iff. ifc -f --'-if 4" '-k Fred Eckhard, a U.N.

spokesman, said in New York. About 80 aid workers were still in the capital, but they may leave with the French and Belgians, he said. A military transport plane carrying 43 French citizens left Kigali airport last night. A French official said all foreigners could be evacuated within 48 hours. Canadian missionary Vernon Demille said that in Kigali "people were being pulled out of our church and slaughtered out in front of the church." "We're seeing people running for their lives, houses being grenaded, people being shot some of them are being butchered by machetes," he told CBC Radio yesterday after escaping to Bujumbura, Burundi.

The fighting erupted hours after the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi Juvenal Haby-arimana and Cyprian Ntary-amira died in a plane crash on return from a conference in Tanzania aimed at ending ethnic strife in their countries. Marines join other forces to aid flight Associated Press MULINDI, Rwanda About 330 U.S. Marines arrived yesterday in Burundi to help evacuate foreigners fleeing neighboring Rwanda, U.S. officials in Germany said. Belgium and France sent hundreds of soldiers to Kigali, Rwanda's calital, to assist any of the 1,500 Belgians and 600 French who want to leave.

President Clinton said in his weekly radio address from the Oval Office that he was concerned about the safety of the Americans in Rwanda. "I want you to know that we're doing all we can to assure their safety," he said. About 80 U.N. staff and their dependents left Kigali by land, AP photo Soldiers from the Rwandan army check refugees leaving Rwanda yesterday at Kanyaru, on the border of Rwanda and Burundi. da, Tutsi rebels claimed to have advanced to within 10 miles of the capital.

One commander indicated that they wanted to reinforce 600 rebels battling the Hutu guard and government troops in TTifTali The Rwandan government said the plane was shot down by unidentified attackers. U.N. officials were prevented from going to the site of the crash in order to check on the cause. In, the countryside of Rwan FUNK CASE Tot's body still unburied For nearly a month, miscommunication has kept the body of Sheri Lynn Funk at the city Medical Examiner Office. The body is still in Hawaii because mortuaries in Honolulu and Indiana have yet to make transportation arrangements.

PageA5 a SPACE Radar woes on map mission Part of Endeavour's Earth-monitoring environmental mission runs into a glitch just hours after the space shuttle's liftoff. Page A27 SPEND IT AGAIN, SAM Spending waste in tax coffers With Tax Deadline Day looming, federal watchdogs have reported some of the many ways Uncle Sam has misspent your tax dollars. Page A24 EDITORIAL Judicial integrity The Hawaii Supreme Court's own Commission on Judicial Conduct has given the justices the best of reasons GOLF Lehman leads the Masters Tom Lehman shoots a 3-under 69 to take the third-round lead in the Masters. Page CI BASEBALL Rainbows fall to Fresno State Poor fielding again spells doom for the University of Hawaii baseball team, which loses for the second day in a row to Fresno State, 7-3. Page C3 TRAVEL Staying healthy on the road Traveling can be risky health-wise and it's a good idea to take precautions so your trip won't be ruined.

Page D1 THE WORKPLACE Job stress is on the rise As companies downsize in Hawaii and across the country workers say their stress levels are increasing. Page E1 Agenda: Hawaii's cost of living poses dilemma FROM PAGE ONE been systematically adjusted for inflation, says Brewbaker. "It's known as bracket creep. As incomes have risen, income tax burdens have also risen." Inflation. Hawaii has had a "relatively hich" rat nf praicnmpr nriro inflatinn cnm- "Some of the rents did startle me." Ronald Lopez pared with the Mainland, in part because of the state's economic boom during the late lOSftQ cava RroirVmlror TPrnm 1085-03 tln- I about job opportunities and costs.

He's not going now, but says "I'm thinking that if I want to be comfortable, I'll have to move to the Mainland." Ronald Lopez, a 25-year-old substitute teacher, plans to stay put. On a recent visit to his aunt in Las Vegas, he recoiled a bit at the 40-degree temperatures. And there are certainly no waves in Vegas for the Waianae surfer. So Lopez vows to remain in Hawaii even though, in his quest to move out of his parents' home and get his teaching degree, he has already run into a Paradise Tax-sized obstacle. "Some of the rents did startle me," he said.

A federal survey of household expenses showed that Hawaii "shelter" costs money spent on rent or a mortgage were 43 percent above the Mainland average in 1991. That's a far larger discrepancy than the next largest category, food, a hefty 32 percent higher. (See chart at bottom of Page A3.) "Markets have a way of meeting the demands of people," says Rod Reimann, a consultant with Runzheimer International, a Wisconsin-based management consulting firm that specializes in regional living costs. "There's a value to the weather, climate, sand and surf in Honolulu, and people will continue to see that as a value they're willing to pay for." Says Brewbaker: "As long as Hawaii remains a nice place, you will probably never find a narrowing of the housing cost differential." Government policies also contribute to high living costs, says Randall Roth, a University of Hawaii law professor and editor of the "The Price of Paradise" The Honolulu Advertiser 138th Year, No. 48,056 Copyright 1994, Gannett Pacific Corp.

nolulu's average annual rate of inflation was 5.2 percent, well above the average of 3.8 percent for cities nationwide. Brewbaker predicts living costs will not rise much more in the next few years because of the flatter real estate market and the state's troubled economy. In addition, competitive pressures have meant price drops in some areas, notably retailing with the recent entrance of discounters such as Kmart and Costco. He says Hawaii's mid-Pacific location and small size virtually guarantee that prices will always be somewhat higher here. But he adds that government can help by becoming more efficient, and eliminating overlap in state and county development approval processes to speed construction and thus lower housing costs.

Roth is especially keen to see both political candidates and voters this year consider the increased population pressures that might result from lowering living costs. "Then people would see the series of very tough choices that have to be made," says Roth. "And unfortunately if candidates don't talk about tough choices, we end up with a frustrated community, because they don't understand why something isn't being done to solve the high cost of living." Advertiser Staff Writer Vicki Viotti contributed to this report. READERLINE: 539-8517 books. For example, he says, land-use regulations limit the amount of land available for housing, thereby raising costs.

But such regulations may also have a benefit. "If we were to change them, it's hard to imagine what pressures there would be on our population size," says Roth. "As upsetting as the high cost of living is, it may be that gross overpopulation would be even more upsetting." Although costs have consistently been higher here than on the Mainland, in the last decade the gap has widened substantially, putting even more pressure on residents. The Paradise premium, for example, almost doubled between 1985 and 1993 -from 23 percent 40. In contrast, between 1975 and 1983, the premium only went from 17 to 24 percent.

Why the rapid rise since 1985? Brew- baker points to three reasons: Real estate. Values shot up because of interest in Hawaii by foreign investors and a construction backlog caused by lengthy government approval processes. Income taxes. Personal exemptions, as well as the income levels at which marginal tax rates increase, have not We'd like to hear from you. If you have a comment about the news, or our coverage of it, call our 24-hour ReaderLlne (539-8517).

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