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International News
NATO bombings cause blackouts
By George Jahn
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia —
Storekeepers lit their shops with
candles and work crews slowly re
stored electricity in Belgrade Mon
day after NATO blacked out the
Yugoslav capital with “soft
bombs” that short-circuited power
stations.
It was the first time civilians in
Belgrade and elsewhere across
Serbia had suffered such a mas
sive blackout since the allied air
campaign began.
Yugoslav media, meanwhile, re
ported NATO warplanes mistaken
ly hit a bus, killing at least 20 peo
ple and wounding 43. NATO
officials said they had no informa
tion on the reports of a noontime
airstrike on a bus traveling from the
western Kosovo city of Pec to Roza
je in neighboring Montenegro.
Cities and towns across Yu
goslavia slowly were recovering
electricity and water after NATO
jets blasted power plants in strikes
aimed at disrupting President Slo
bodan Milosevic’s military ma
chine. But many people were still
without power at dusk.
The strikes show that “NATO
has its finger on the light switch in
Yugoslavia now and we can turn
the power off whenever we need
to and whenever we want to,” al
liance spokesman Jamie Shea
said.
NATO has promised to target
military sites and installations and
tried to minimize disruptions to
civilians, but the latest airstrikes
on electrical sites temporarily af
fected 70 percent of Serbia, al
liance officials said. The alliance
said these strikes had damaged
command-and-control facilities
used by the army, and that damage
to civilian power networks could
be repaired by the Yugoslavs.
Warplanes struck at Kostolac’s
power grid 50 miles east of the
capital, which supplies much of
eastern Serbia. NATO bombers
also hit electricity transformer
yards as well at Nis, Novi Sad,
Drmno, Obrenovac and Banina
Basta on the 40th day of allied
bombing.
A NATO official said allied
forces used a “soft bomb” on the
transformer stations that explode
over it, dispersing graphite strips
that cause a short circuit. This
kind of weapon also was used in
the Gulf War, the official said.
The alliance emphasized that
important facilities like hospitals
had reserve power to continue op
erating.
Reporters, however, were taken
by Yugoslav authorities to what
appeared to be a difficult situation
at the only hospital for premature
infants in Yugoslavia.
Anxious nurses shuttled from
bed to bed at Institute for Prema
turely Bom Infants, hoping back
up generators would keep their
tiny patients warm and supplied
with enough oxygen to stay alive.
The outage was threatening the
survival of some 70 babies, Dr.
Slobodanka Ilic, the institute’s di
rector, told journalists.
At one point, the institute was
n’t able to keep the oxygen supply
going for some infants, forcing
nurses to ventilate the tiny chil
dren mechanically. One little boy
suffered severe problems when
his oxygen supply failed.
Civilians suffered disruptions
from the blackout all day. Traffic
lights were not working in Bel
grade, but by late Monday night
several local channels in Belgrade
were able to broadcast state TV.
Some stores opened despite the
power outage, using candles to
light their interiors. People
stocked up on canned food and
other non-perishables as well as
candles, batteries, small transistor
radios, and mineral water.
Air raid warnings sounded in
Belgrade on Monday evening,
with large parts of the city in dark
ness. Yugoslav air defenses were
active and detonations could be
heard. In Novi Sad, the TV build
ing was hit and was engulfed in
flames, eyewitnesses reported.
Yugoslav media, meanwhile,
blamed NATO warplanes for an
attack on a bus 12 miles north of
the Kosovo city of Pec. Television
footage from the scene about
showed a white bus with shat
tered windows, flat tires and three
or so bodies on the ground on a
rural mountain road.
Other footage by TV crews tak
en to the site by Serb authorities
showed dead bodies in the bus, its
doorway and beside a bumed-out
car. Belgrade radio and television
stations said 20 people were killed
and 43 injured.
NATO’s target was thought to
have been a nearby police and
army checkpoint, Montenegro’s
Montena-fax news agency said.
The Serb Media Center quoted of
ficials in Pec as saying the bus was
full of women and children.
NATO —which has admitted
mistaken airstrikes since April 12
that have left about 159 people
dead —began the air campaign to
force Milosevic to accept a peace
deal for Kosovo and halt atrocities
against ethnic Albanians.
Ex-cons protest use of old prison
By Christopher Bodeen
The Associated Press
GREEN ISLAND, Taiwan —
When officials prepared to move
new inmates into a dilapidated
prison that once held opponents
of martial law, former prisoners
protested that an icon of repres
sion was being defiled.
They said it would be a slap
against history for a structure
that housed people for crimes of
conscience to be used to jail peo
ple for crimes of greed.
Some former inmates want the
euphemistically named Green Is
land Lodge prison turned into a
museum chronicling some of the
worst excesses of Taiwan’s For
mer authoritarian military
regime.
The idea is being backed by
residents of this volcanic island
who see the museum as a way to
boost their growing tourism in
dustry with no harmful effects on
the environment.
“We have a responsibility to
preserve the history and make
sure people don’t forget what
happened,” said Chen Chia-wen,
secretary of the Green Island
township government. “Plus, it’s
something to see.”
Chen doesn’t think many
tourists would make the long trip
to Green Island just to tour the im
posing concrete prison on the is
land’s lonely northern coast. But its
historic interest might add to the is
land’s attractions—pristine beach
es, coral reefs for diving, spectacu
lar scenery and unique outdoor salt
water hot springs — that attracted
300,000 visitors last year.
Its heavy gate shut on the last
prisoner years ago, but the jail
still conjures up powerful associ
ations in Taiwan’s now open, de
mocratic society.
“This is one of the few extant re
minders of that era. Saving it
would provide an excellent edu
cational tool,” said Chang Mao
hsiung, a former political prisoner
who is helping lead preservation
efforts.
The premier’s office has sent
documents approving the muse
um proposal and virtually assur
ing the prison will be preserved as
a monument instead of being re
turned to jail service, Wang said.
Green Island’s prison was
opened in 1971 to house oppo
nents of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nation
alist regime that had been swept
out of mainland China by Mao Tse
tung’s communists in 1949.
Hundreds were sent there un
der martial law as accused com
munist spies. The charges often
were trumped up against people
who simply had criticized Chiang
or his son, Chiang Ching-kuo,
who ran Taiwan after Chiang died
in 1975.
Dozens of prisoners are be
lieved to have been executed, al
though the Defense Ministry,
which ran the prison, refuses to
open its files.
Martial law ended in 1987,
and by the early ’90s, the last po
litical prisoners had been freed.
The Defense Ministry closed the
prison for good in 1996.
Former prisoners, including
Bo Yang, a writer, and Shih
Ming-teh, a former chairman of
the main opposition party who
was imprisoned there twice, are
leading the drive to preserve the
prison.
Residents joined the cause when
the Justice Ministry began renovat
ing the old prison to turn it into an
extension of a jail for organized
crime figures. A low-security com
plex for drug abusers is also on the
island, and islanders didn’t want
more prison expansion.
Preservationists say they want
to restore at least some of the gut
ted cells to their original dire
look: bunks stacked to the ceil
ing, rotting floorboards from
which parasites emerged at night
to torment inmates with bites.
An hour’s boat ride from the
southwestern city of Taitung,
Green Island is a sleepy commu
nity of just 2,800 permanent res
idents for most of the year. Many
still earn at least part of their liv
ing by fishing, farming and rais
ing deer for their antlers, which
are brewed in medicinal wines.
But throngs of tourists are en
dangering some natural re
sources through demand for
fresh seafood and land for hotels
and by producing more waste
than the island’s facilities can
handle. And old ways are being
challenged by new opportunities
in the motorcycle rental, hotel,
restaurant and diving businesses.
“Before, almost every family
raised deer, but only a few do
now because you can make more
money in the tourist trade,” said
Chen Tsung-ming, 30, who sup
plements his income from deer
by running a diving shop. .
Lin Wei-ling, the local repre
sentative of the government’s
Tourism Bureau, said the prison
museum is a good idea.
“Here’s one more tourist draw
that won’t mean building a new
power ]51ant, opening up new
land or digging a new reservoir,”
Lin said.