Casper Star-Tribune from Casper, Wyoming • 36

CI 4 Staf-Tribun, Caspar, Wyo Sunday, November 1. 1992 Thousands of Jajcc refugees head soulli V.V SARAJEVO, Bosnia Here-govina (AP) Serb rebel force! on Saturday subjected Sarajevo lo the heaviest bombardment in weeks with at least one shell crashing down every second, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, meanwhile, proposed that the republic be divided Into five ethnic cantons. Under his plan, Muslims the largest ethnic group would get little more than three cities, and Serbs and Croats would divide the rest. A Tanjug report on Friday indicated Serbs may be closing In on Tuzla in northeastern Bosnia. If the town falls, Muslims would hold virtually nothing except the center of Sarajevo.

The fall of Jajce, stronghold of Bosnia a Muslim-led government, was a severe blow. Thousands of refugees streamed south on Saturday from Jajce, the Serb rebels' latest prize. The city 60 miles northwest of Sarajevo fell on AP An old man whh fM-riou M-hraHHl wound arrives at Sarajevo's Kowvo hoiital Saturday Thursday Some 10,000 refugees from Jajce had arrived in Travnik, said Peter Kessler, the spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Me said they traveled the 22 miles by tractor, bus, car and on foot.

About 5,000 more who were trapped by shelling near Travnik had managed to escape and were beginning to arrive, and another 20,000 to 30,000 also were expected, he said. The U.N. refugee agency dispatched convoys carrying tons of aid to the Travnik area, and more were planned. An Open Letter to Wyoming Voters As citizens, we hope all of you will exercise your precious right to vote on Election Day Tuesday. As co-chairs of the ClintorVCore presidential campaign in Wyot ning, we'd like to tell you why we believe Bill Clinton is the candidate to lead America and Wyoming into the 21 st century.

You've heard us refer to the Wyoming Connection in describing our state's mystique and its links to people throughout this land. Bill Clinton has a special connection to Wyoming. As Governor and Secretary of State, we were among the first public officials in the nation to endorse Bill Clinton's candidacy last December. In March, Wyoming Democrats were the first to give Bill a victory outside the South. And on October 21, Bill Clinton demonstrated his commitment to Wyoming and the West by campaigning here with less than two weeks before the election.

Bill Clinton has our support because he represents a new kind of leadership for our country and a new kind of Democratic Party. People want fundamental change in government, not just fresh faces. They reject both the extreme right wing, with its belief that all government is bad unless it is helping a select few, and the extreme left wing, with its belief in big government and big spending. We don't need bigger government; we need better government and new leadership for a new global economy. That's why we're supporting Bill Clinton in 1 992.

We've worked closely with Bill In the National Governors' Association, the Democratic Leadership Council and on the Democratic Platform Committee. He comes from a 'small state' which we view as a positive rather than a negative, and he understands the problems of the people. We know his character and abilities, and we trust him. We respect the fact not everyone in Wyoming agrees with our assessment. But we are saddened that some oppose Bill Clinton Only out of blind fear of the unknown, spurred on by nameless, faceless fear mongers who suggest that 'to vote for Bill Clinton is to sin against God' or the carefully orchestrated attacks in the media.

It has been a negative campaign of unprecedented proportions, lifting the Wllie Horton approach to an art form. That is not the way we do politics in Wyoming. We ask Wyoming voters to reject the politics of fear and negativism and look instead at what the candidates will do FOR America in the coming four years. We believe the choice is clear. That choice is Bill Clinton.

Authorized and paid for by Mike Sullivan and Kathy Karpan Bosnians wonder if they will survive winter shelter, clothing, medicine and food. "Of the people 1 meet, often have a feeling about who is going to make it and who is not," said Svetlana Pancetovic, a 35-year-old widow who provides for two children and an aged aunt. "Many people, older ones especially, are exhausted and have no inner power to survive." Some Sarajevans have died trying to get out, hazarding barbed wire, mines and enemy bullets. Others offer small fortunes to fighters or other intermediaries to smuggle them through the Serb lines. U.N.

officials estimate at least 1.6 million people in Bosnia-Herzegovina are in need, almost evenly divided between displaced persons or refugees and people trapped in besieged towns with no food or fuel. "How could I ever imagine that one day I would need wood to heat my house7" Bajgoric, 52, shares his cold apartment with his wife and 84-year-old mother. The broken windows are covered with plastic sheeting. Sarajevo's extreme cold and thick snow were boons when they helped bring the 1984 winter Olympics. Now, apartments built for the world's athletes have been pierced by shells and rockets.

Hardly an apartment has all its windows and walls. There is no heat because electricity, gas, coal and heating oil have been cut off by the Serbs who besiege Sarajevo. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees estimates 400,000 people will die in Bosnia unless the foreign relief effort wins the race against winter and war in providing fuel, SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) With snow already blanketing the peaks and high passes on the horizon, hundreds of thousands of people in Sarajevo and across Bosnia-Herzegovina wonder if they will live Until spring. They comb the city's parks and cemeteries for fuel, cutting down trees, shrubs and fences, dragging home the scavenged wood.

They forage in barren markets for any green plant to eat, even grass, and pick up fallen chestnuts, competing with squirrels and mice for a winter store. Packs of skinny dogs, turned out by owners who can no longer feed them, search for scraps in garbage heaps. Some parents try to get their children admitted to hospitals for fear they will starve at home. "We are civilized people," said banker Hilmija Bajgoric, his face twisting in anguish. Om 9 0,000 An Effective Voice for Wyoming! Agencies Funded by the United Way of Natrona County Jobs Government can help boost our nation's economy by increasing Incentives for business growth, lessening the tax burden on individuals and by passing a jobs and economic growth package.

This is what it will take to put people back to work. EcOIMMHy The key to speeding up economic recovery is NOT new government programs and government spending. What government needs to do is keep regulation to a minimum, promote fair markets for our products and keep Interest rates down. It's private enterprise and small business that create new jobs. The best role for Congress is to get out of the way.

Flcad ResponaJbmty We need to balance the budget and start hammering away at the national debt. Controlling the growth of government is a beginning. We also need a Line Item Veto and a Balanced Budget Amendment. These measures work in individual states our federal government needs them too. BcfcjCroend My wife Susan and I have made our home in Casper for 17 )ears and we tove ft here.

Over the year, we have been activefy involved in the community through projects The Arc of Natrona County Boy Scouts Boys Girls Club Casper Day Care Child Development Center Casper Family YMCA Casper Youth Crisis Center Central Wyoming Rescue Mission Concerned Citizens Care Girls Inc. Girl Scouts Head Start Information Referral Interfaith Meals on Wheels Mercer House Nutrition Child Development Red Cross Salt Creek Community Recreation Salvation Army Self-Help Center Seton House United Service Organization United Way Office tike Wyoming Special Olympics and Developmental Disabilities. I served in the Wyoming House of Representatives for Natrona County. During my time with the Farm Bureau and the Rural Electrics I've built a lot of ties wfth Casper and Natrona County. r.

"My commitment to you is to never quit trying to solve problems. That means straight ta'k about the issues, support for the good ideas and firm opposition to the bad ones. I work for you. the people of Wyoming, and I never forget that." D7pr 3 MEjuBGD CONGRESSMAN REPUBLICAN United Vfay ot Natrona County Pa fcr by Cra-g Thomas for Congress, Inc..