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IONWORLD Decatur, Illinois Herald Review Monday, June 6, 1994 B0TOW18ilUHHlF i -mmss- lira From wire reports '-5- it rSr-'-r- "rx vi.f r- wx 1 1 "5 x- 'v eVT, --s -X -v. xirxj- 1 -'tl I "'T" TX sv- "'CXxitai ''77' kx4x President's actions under tough scrutiny By ANGIE CANNON Knight-Rtdder Newspapers PORTSMOUTH, England As he arrives in Normandy today, President Clinton, a man who evaded the draft and who learned about D-Day from books, faces one of the most important symbolic days of his presidency. His actions, his words, even the way he salutes, will be judged as he honors the brave warriors of the most critical military invasion in modern history. So far, Clinton, the first president born after World War II, has received mixed reviews from the veterans he has encountered in recent days in Italy and England. "It bothers me," said Elmer 70, of Cincinnati, who served on a tank destroyer at Omaha Beach 50 years ago.

"He doesn't know. But you put it behind you, I suppose. There were other presidents who didn't serve." "You respect the office," said Navy veteran Floyd Hodkinson, 67, of Boise, Idaho. "You don't have to respect the man." "I'm not going to judge his feelings back then," said Ridgely Kemp, 77, of Novato, who was a B-17 navigator during World War II. "When I was young, I had certain feelings about war and the military.

But I changed them rap- idly when I got into the service." f. Chuck McCarthy, 70, of Ocean Gate, N.J., who refueled fighter planes during the war, said: "He has been very inspiring lately. Maybe he has grown up. Maybe he has matured. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt." And listening to Clinton as he lays wreaths and shakes the wrinkled hands that killed Nazis, he seems clearly moved by the experience over the past few days in Italy and England.

It has been one of the great honors of my life for me to be able to come here to represent our en-; tire country in commemorating D-Day and the other great battles of World War II," Clinton told the crew on the aircraft carrier USS George Washington on Sunday. "This has been a very emotional Associated Press HAVAL REVIEW: The Royal Yacht, bottom, carries dignitaries including President Clinton through a review off left is the QE2, at right is the carrier USS George Washington. fXX. Munchie mania CAEN, France The D-Day mania sweeping Normandy in recent weeks has gone beyond the sand on the beaches to the sandwiches on the shelves. Food producer Bistro'Quick has come out with a series of sandwiches with names associated with the massive invasion of Normandy by the allies 50 years ago Monday.

The $4.70 sandwiches include the D-Day (tunafish); the Overlord (roast beef), named after the invasion's codename; the Omaha Beach (chicken and tomatoes) the Utah Beach (chicken with lettuce); the Gold (corned beef), and the Juno (ham). Wish fulfilled PEGASUS BRIDGE, France A D-Day vet who survived the invasion of Normandy got his final wish Sunday: his ashes were scattered across the beach he invaded 50 years ago. George Taylor, of Hesketh Bank, Lancashire, died about six months ago at age 71, said his friend Mick Crossley. Taylor, who came ashore at Gold Beach with the 4th7th Royal Dragoon Guards on D-Day, had said he wanted to be buried on the shore he helped liberate. "It's a little macabre, but we honored his wishes," said Cross-ley, a former member of the 127th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment.

Liberated cafe PEGASUS BRIDGE, France D-Day was celebrated Sunday as usual at one of its most tradition-steeped sifes: the Gondree Cafe at Pegasus Bridge, where the first D-Day engagement took place 50 years ago. But instead of the few dozen patrons and vets who usually show up, several thousand milled around the bridge and nearby fields to mark the British airborne troops' capture of the strategically important bridge. Hundreds strolled in and out of the tiny cafe, covered with photos, plaques, banners and newspaper clippings. Home to the Gondree family, it is the first house and the first cafe liberated during D-Day. One thing that didn't change at Sunday's commemoration: the cafe still charged only $1.75 for a large beer.

with famine in a heap. "Unlike Somalia, we have food in the field," said rebel Lt. Tony Kulamba. "The situation for the moment may be contained, but you see more people being brought in. There will be a need for international assistance." The scene here is likely to be repeated in cities across the country, as access to remote areas still wracked by fighting opens up.

Dr. Robert Karangwa, a Rwandan treating patients in the Ruhango hall, estimated that 30 of them had died since Thursday of starvation, malnutrition, and diseases such as tuberculosis and diarrhea. Down the road is a clinic where hundreds more people are waiting for treatment. Others lay dying on the grass outside, to be carted away through the teeming crowd of refugees and put into anonymous graves. 4 i Associated Press READY TO GO: Rollie Duff, 78, a veteran of the U.S.

Army 82nd Airborne Division, gets ready for a ground practice jump from a C-47 Dakota outside Caen, Normandy, Sunday. Portsmouth, England, Sunday. At as fertile Rwanda a sprawling, smoky camp of the barely living and the dead all within sight of banana trees and sorghum fields growing in the nearby hills. In a scene reminiscent of the Somali famine, hundreds of men, women and children huddled together in the former municipal auditorium. Most were too weak to sit up, their eyes sunken and cheeks hollowed by weeks without food.

One little girl in a red dress crawled toward a field of grass used as a communal toilet. Too exhausted to continue, she collapsed mexlt Ionia TFte harbor off Portsmouth. It was an armada of passenger ships, tugs, landing ships, motor launches, paddle steamers, submarines, mine counter measure vessels, aircraft, frigates, destroyers, assault ships, frigates, mine sweepers and liberty ships. The vessels were headed toward Normandy, part of a re-enactment of the historic invasion that carried more than 155,000 troops in more than 5,000 ships and 12,000 aircraft to ensure that freedom would reign. Hundreds of smaller sailboats, speedboats and other pleasure craft also bobbed in the water as those aboard tried to catch a glimpse of the festivities.

The queen told Clinton what it was like 50 years ago. "She talked about how important it was not only rallying to the cause of war but continuing to do ordinary things," Clinton said. "The queen told me that on D-Day, 'I was at the Ravages of RUHANGO, Rwanda (AP) A little Somalia is developing in this shady town of eucalyptus trees and winding dirt roads. Fifteen miles from the front line of Rwanda's civil war, Ruhango has become the last refuge for thousands of people fleeing the fighting. It provides a glimpse of what Rwanda could be come as a result of the war between the Rwandan Patriotic Front and the government a nation of skeletal victims surrounded by fertile land but unable to feed themselves.

Rwanda so far has not been hit by the mass starvation that accompanied the civil war in Somalia. Refugees pouring from wrecked cities carry huge bundles on their heads and appear healthy; some are fat. But Ruhango is just up the road from Kabgayi and Gitarama, the interim government's beleaguered time for Hillary and me. Her father was in the Navy during the second World War. My father was in the Army in part of the Italian campaign." The Clintons were spending Sunday night aboard the George Washington as it steamed across the English Channel for six hours toward Normandy.

"Exactly 50 years ago at this very time, young people just like you were right here in this channel on some 5,000 ships preparing for the most important battle of this century, Clinton told the George Washington crew. "Imagine how they must have felt in choppy seas and bad weather. Imagine how they must have looked to the enemy when they came across the horizon." Earlier Sunday, on the sun deck of the HMY Britannia, Clinton, Queen Elizabeth II and a contingent of world leaders reviewed a breathtaking D-Day memorial flotilla littering the sparkling green 40 miles -j UGANDAy 40 km ZAIRE CrV a RWANDA Kigali Kivu BURUNDI Bujumbura CP Associated Press TURNED BACK: An Italian envoy's plane was caught in heavy shelling at the Kigali airport, forcing the plane to take off without unloading passengers or cargo. Kigali and Gita-rama, a town 30 miles west of Kigali are targets of a new rebel offensive. any til 1 1 1 war could leave -ft- The situation for the moment may be contained, but you see more people being brought in.

There will be a need for international assistance Rebel Lt. Tony Kulamba stronghold, where weeks of fighting has made caring for the sick and wounded impossible. Aid agencies are virtually nonexistent in those cities and in vast areas of the country still engulfed in fighting. Most civilians not lucky enough to escape Kabgayi and Gitarama are now too sick to fend for themselves. The rebels claimed control of most of Kabgayi on Thursday.

On Sunday, they brought journalists to the area to see those who had survived. More than 5,000 people have escaped to Ruhango, turning it into President puts pressure on N. Etorea WASHINGTON (AP) Presi-! dent Clinton said Sunday he does not think North Korea would risk its own "destruction" by invading I South Korea and his defense chief warned of "devastating conse- quences" if it does. But even with growing bipartisan support for military action including support for contingency plans for a pre-emptive strike if necessary the president said he wanted to talk peace, not war. In Europe for D-Day anniversary ceremonies, Clinton sought in a round of television interviews to keep the rhetoric cool while at the same time underscoring U.S.

resolve in dealing with North Korea. "We have not sought a confrontation with them," he said during an interview on CNN. "I don't want to join their escalation of words," he said on CBS. "We will honor our treaty commitments, but we are not trying to provoke North Korea. We are only asking them to do what they already promised to do." North Korean officials have said they would consider economic sanctions to be "a declaration of war." Asked by ABC whether he believed North Korea was bluffing about invading South Korea if pressured by sanctions, Clinton said: "I don't think that they would risk the certain terrible defeat and destruction that would occur if they did that.

But I don't want any war talk. I want this to be about peace talk." Defense Secretary William Perry said he did not believe a military showdown was imminent over the North's refusal to allow inspection of its nuclear facilities. But he said the United States would, if necessary, strengthen the 38,000 U.S. troops already in South Korea, and use them if fighting broke out. esUhsM careers for chance to doctors company geologist, found herself acting as "a mother hen" on rounds with younger students at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

"They're incredibly bright, but they haven't in some cases developed social skills," said Duff, whose son also is in medical school. "I took it on myself to, in a friendly way, help them out with that. That extra 20 years of life gives me a little broader perspective." Of course, some life experiences can be more helpful than others. Bill Guthrie, who graduated Saturday from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, is a former trombone player who once backed up singer Tom Jones. "I think that got me into medical school," said the 41-year-old Guthrie, "because the dean was a big Tom Jones fan." struggled through," said Eyink, 39, who graduated from the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

"I've had some wonderful experiences talking to patients about being a chef. Everybody can relate to food." According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, there were more than 42,600 applicants to U.S. medical schools in 1971. That number plummeted to 26,721 in 1989, when this year's class applied for admission. It has since climbed to a record 42,808.

"There has been an increasing trend among medical school admissions committees to look at all of a person's life experiences in a more open light," said Dr. Jeffrey Bernhard, associate dean of admissions at UMass Medical. Many applicants who switched to medicine from other fields said they didn't think they could handle medical school when they were younger, but came to wish that they had tried. "I started out back in the dark ages as an undergraduate in a pre-med curric- ulum, but I felt like a little country boy gone to the big city," said Robert Lindsay, who changed his undergraduate major and became a farmer. Lindsay, 38, decided that he wanted more from life and was accepted to the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine.

He is scheduled to graduate on Friday and plans to go into family practice near his hometown of Massillon, Ohio. "I've been out in the real world," he said. "I really thinks that makes a difference. I've been through times when I didn't have the money in the checkbook to pay the bills. I can relate to these people." Diana Duff, a 43-year-old former oil Life experience may help new crop of physicians.

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) Five years ago, Daniel Eyink was a gourmet chef. On Sunday, he became a doctor, one of a throng of new graduates who switched to medicine after raising families and pursuing other careers. This year's crop of medical school graduates includes a former bartender, opera singer, tennis pro, shipbuilder, trombone player, tree surgeon, priest and aerobics instructor. They were accepted to medical schools at a time when applications were low, and life experience began to be considered an acceptable credential.

"I think I can relate to patients more as people, knowing what they've.