




			   THE WHITE HOUSE

		    Office of the Press Secretary
_____________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                                  April 15, 1994


			    PRESS BRIEFING
			   BY DEE DEE MYERS


			  The Briefing Room


3:14 P.M. EDT
	     
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Everybody should have the packet that we 
passed out, the background information on the economy and on the 
results of the President's tax plan and, actually, budget from last 
year.  So at this -- there's not a lot new in there.
	     
	     Q    Congressman Frank McCloskey says that Gorazde is 
falling, U.N. forces pulling out; that General Rose asked for air 
strikes and that Akashi denied them.  McCloskey says he has asked the 
White House for some kind of help to put pressure on the U.N.  Is 
this the case, and --
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Well, we're clearly monitoring events in 
Gorazde very closely.  I think our message to the Bosnian Serbs there 
remains the same:  that if they endanger the lives of U.N. personnel 
on the ground in Gorazde we stand ready to take action.  I don't know 
whether General Rose has requested additional air strikes.  I 
certainly hadn't heard that until just now.  And I don't know what 
Congressman McCloskey did in terms of contacting the White House.  
I'm unaware of any requests from him.
	     
	     Q    To follow, your message is not being heard.  I 
mean, the message of the air strikes were a message to the Serbs and 
the message from the President has been repeatedly that this show of 
force is to get them to negotiate, and that we don't have any --we're 
not seeking any advantage militarily.
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Correct.
	     
	     Q    Their troops are moving, the government forces are 
crumbling.
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Well, I think we're monitoring the situation 
there very closely.  I think it's a little dangerous to comment on 
incomplete information at this point, but obviously, we're concerned 
about the situation.  I disagree with your premise that this message 
isn't being heard.  There's been a reduction in violence.  I think 
our policy over the course of the last several months has been 
effective.  We've seen a stop of the siege of Sarajevo, a reopening 
of the airport in Tuzla.  I think there's been some other significant 
progress, and until the Bosnian Serbs started shelling Gorazde last 
week, there was significant progress toward a general cessation. 
	     
	     That clearly has stopped.  We're very concerned about 
it.  Our forces are on the ground in Sarajevo, including Ambassador 
Redman, are working very hard.  Deputy Foreign -- Russian Foreign 
Minister Churkin has been meeting with the Serbs today.  He's, I 
think, now briefing or has briefed Ambassador Redman about the 
results of those conversations.  We need to evaluate that.
	     
	     Clearly, we're concerned about Gorazde, and I think that 
the Bosnian Serbs should know that if they endanger the lives of U.N. 
personnel there, we stand ready to take the same action we took last 
week.
	     
	     Q    Well, aren't they doing so right now?
	     
	     Q    But if the U.N. observers are pulling out, they're 
endangering them right now.
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Well, that is up to the UNPROFOR forces on 
the ground to make a determination about how to proceed.
	     
	     I'm unaware of any requests from General Rose.
	     
	     Q    You're unaware of it or --
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I'm unaware of any requests.  Last time I 
checked we didn't know of any.
	     
	     Q    Has it been your understanding that there was none?

	     MS. MYERS:  As of the last time I checked, we were 
unaware of any requests.  That could have changed -- I haven't heard.  
But as of the last time I checked, there had been no requests from 
General Rose.
	     
	     Q    This begins to look as though the U.N. is cutting 
and running, which is certainly not the intent of the policy, but 
then where are you?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Well, we'll have to wait and see at this 
point.  Again, all I can tell you about Gorazde is that we're 
monitoring events there very closely and we stand -- if UNPROFOR 
commanders there and General Rose requests additional close air 
support, we stand ready to support them in that action, as we have 
over the course of the last week.  I think the Bosnian Serbs should 
know that we stand prepared to take action.
	     
	     Q    They apparently don't care.
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I think that remains to be seen.  Again, our 
objective there is a negotiated settlement.  The actions that we're 
taking there in support of U.N. resolutions and previous NATO 
commitments are all geared toward achieving that result, which is a 
negotiated settlement and an end to the hostilities, and an end to 
the violence, and an end to the cycle of bloodshed.
	     
	     Q    Do you think it might be a mistake for the 
President to emphasize, as he did both yesterday and today, that 
whatever military action may be taken by American and allied forces, 
that the Serbs should be comforted by the knowledge that we're not 
trying to change the military balance or to, presumably, turn them 
away from their military objectives.  Isn't that a signal to them 
that whatever it's going to be, it isn't going to be that bad?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  No, I don't think his message was as you 
describe it.  I think what the President was communicating was that 
we don't intend to enter this conflict on the side of any particular 
combatant.  What we intend to do is enforce U.N. resolutions and 
other rules that have been laid out there.  One of them was to stop 
the siege of Sarajevo.  It doesn't matter who's violating that, we 
stand prepared to enforce it, to protect the UNPROFOR personnel.  It 
doesn't matter who's in danger, we stand ready to protect UNPROFOR 
and its mission.
	     
	     Q    Doesn't that indicate that the air strikes on 
Monday maybe backfired?   That instead of getting the Serbs to back 
down, that they're, in fact, advancing and that this safe haven is 
going to be lost?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I think it's too soon to make that kind of a 
conclusion.  We have said that we would use force to protect the 
objective, to protect the mission of UNPROFOR forces there.  We 
clearly meant that, and we're pursuing that.  At the same time, we're 
pursuing a diplomatic solution, which has been an up and down process 
over the course of the last several years.  This is not an easy 
process and it doesn't lend itself to easy solutions.  There have 
been ups and downs throughout this.  
	     
	     But I would emphasize that over the course of the last 
few months, we've made progress; albeit a difficult and up and down 
road.  But we're going to continue to pursue that policy -- we 
believe it's the right policy.
	     
	     Q       better understand the policy.  If the U.N. 
troops are withdrawn, removed or evacuated, does that remove the 
premise for General Rose calling in any air strikes, since our 
justification has been that we were protecting UNPROFOR forces?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  It certainly does in -- yes, we have been 
operating under U.N. Resolution 836, the objective of which is to 
allow us to protect UNPROFOR forces on the ground.  There is an 
additional U.N. resolution which allows for the protection of safe 
havens.  I think that the chain of command on that is a little bit 
less clear, but I wouldn't rule out that the U.N. or that NATO would 
take additional action to protect the safe havens.  I wouldn't rule 
out additional action.  And I don't think the Serbs should interpret 
it that way.  If the -- and I don't know whether UNPROFOR forces are 
pulling out of Gorazde.  I don't have any information to that effect; 
I know that there are some wire reports to that effect.
	     
	     Q    Does the United States now believe that some 
additional action needs to be taken to protect that safe haven?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I think that's something that we have to 
review.  We've taken action to protect UNPROFOR forces on the ground.  
There is an existing U.N. resolution which allows -- which calls for 
the protection of safe havens.  But the steps from there are, I 
think, not quite as clear.
	     
	     Q    Well, would it be possible for the President and 
this administration to set that process in motion?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I'll have to take that question.  I believe 
it would take clarification through coordination between the U.N. and 
NATO.  That was something that was previously worked out for UNPROFOR 
protection.
	     
	     Q    Are you concerned that this process now may be so 
cumbersome, this multinational process, that it does not allow the 
kind of response in a battlefield situation that might save a place 
like that?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  No, I think that the activities of last week 
prove that that is not true.  Action was taken very quickly.  The 
coordination between UNPROFOR and NATO went exceptionally well.  I 
think both UNPROFOR and NATO forces were encouraged by that.  And I 
think that there is evidence that this process can work.
	     
	     Q    Yes, but the activity up to today suggests the 
contrary, Dee Dee.  You seem to be behind the information curve. 
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  No, I don't think that's true.
	     
	     Q     Everything that we're getting out of the field 
suggests that there is much more trouble here than you're prepared to 
acknowledge.
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I'm not suggesting that there's not a lot of 
trouble.  I'm suggesting that the broader -- you want to say that the 
broader -- this has conclusive evidence that the broader policy's not 
working.  And I'm saying, absolutely, that is not true.
	     
	     I mean, I think  -- I'm not denying that there are 
problems on the ground; I said that we're monitoring that closely.  
Obviously, we're concerned about UNPROFOR forces on the ground; 
obviously we're concerned about the safe havens and the civilians 
that have been caught in the bloodshed.  That's why we're involved in 
that country to begin with.
	     
	     What I'm suggesting is that we're pursuing a policy that 
has made progress and that that progress has often been interrupted, 
but that if you look at the course of the last few months, there has 
been progress.  We've stopped the siege at Sarajevo.  We've opened 
the airport at Tuzla.  We have a functional agreement that is 
actually being implemented between the Croats and the Muslims.  
	     
	     Now, I'm not suggesting that there are no problems and 
that the situation in Gorazde isn't serious -- it is.  But I'm not 
willing -- the United States government is not willing to abandon its 
policy.
	     
	     Q    Dee Dee, if NATO took additional action to prevent 
the stop of Gorazde, would it be consistent with the President's 
claim that NATO is not taking sides in this war?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Yes, because the U.N. resolutions declare 
safe havens.  And anybody who violates the U.N. resolutions --anybody 
who endangers UNPROFOR forces is subject to NATO action under the 
auspices of U.N. authority.
	     
	     Q    Should U.N. personnel leave Gorazde, as Andrea 
mentioned earlier?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Those are decisions that will be made by --  

	     Q    If additional action were taken, which you said is 
a possibility, would it be consistent with U.S. policy?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Decisions about activities of UNPROFOR 
forces on the ground are made by UNPROFOR commanders, not by the 
White House, as it should be.
	     
	     Q    Dee Dee, what is your current information about the 
situation on the ground?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Just that there have been -- we have had 
some initial reports of increased hostility in and around Gorazde.  
And we didn't have -- we, the government, didn't have anything 
conclusive as of a little while ago.  Obviously, we're monitoring it.
	     
	     Q    With the actions today and over the past few days 
this week, would you deny that there is a concerted effort by the 
Serbs to push the U.N. and to push NATO and basically just test it 
once again?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Well, I think you'd have to talk to the 
Bosnian Serbs about what their intentions are.  I think we stand 
ready to deal with their actions.  We've made it clear that if they 
endanger the lives of UNPROFOR forces, that General Rose and UNPROFOR 
forces on the ground can all in close air support, which they have 
done.
	     
	     I think if you look at what happened, there was a -- the 
Bosnian Serbs did stop shelling Gorazde, at least temporarily.  Those 
hostilities appear to be reignited.  We're watching that closely.  At 
the same time, we're working very hard in Sarajevo with the Russians, 
with the UNPROFOR and U.N. personnel there to work toward our broad 
objective, which is a negotiated settlement.  This is not an easy 
process and it doesn't lend itself to easy answers.  We'll see what 
happens.
	     
	     Q    What's was the President's involvement in this this 
afternoon or today?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Well, he met this morning for 90 minutes, as 
he said, with his foreign policy team.  And he's been kept updated on 
the situation throughout the day.
	     
	     Q    Does he have another such meeting planned tomorrow?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Right now, I think he had some -- I don't 
know what he's doing right this second.  He had some meetings in his 
office and some previously scheduled photos, which I think he's going 
forward with.
	     
	     Q    Does he have another session with his foreign 
policy team set for tomorrow?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Nothing is scheduled at this time, other 
than the daily security and intelligence briefing.   But I certainly 
wouldn't rule out the possibility that that would be added.
	     
	     Q    Dee Dee, General Rose, for the past several days, 
has followed a policy of trying to not respond to Serb provocations, 
not try to break the blockade around U.N. forces that were hemmed in 
and other things, in the hope that if he doesn't respond, that they 
would stop doing this and move back to negotiations.  To what extent 
was that policy that Rose followed taken in concert with the 
administration?  Was this something that he discussed with people 
back here through the chain of command, or was it something done 
solely on his own?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  No, again, the decisions on the ground are 
made by UNPROFOR personnel there.  The commander there is General 
Rose.
	     
	     Q    So you're relying on his tactical judgment pretty 
much exclusively on how to run that operation?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  That's the way the system is set up.
	     
	     Q    I'm just a little bit curious and I may be 
confused.  I hear you talking about the safe havens, and repeatedly 
talking about the U.S. concern for UNPROFOR forces and warning about 
action that might be taken if UNPROFOR forces are hurt or attacked or 
anything.  I don't hear anything about the people of Gorazde who are 
still in there, or other safe havens around there.  Is it a case 
where it's only the UNPROFOR forces being attacked that will trigger 
some sort of action, and nothing happens if the people are --
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  The U.N. authority under which we were 
operating was U.N. Resolution 836, which allowed for air strikes, 
close air support to protect UNPROFOR forces.  Since UNPROFOR forces 
were in Gorazde and threatened by attacks on the city, which were 
also attacks on civilians, what Secretary Christopher said and 
Ambassador Albright said this week was that there was sort of a 
distinction without a difference.  As long as there are UNPROFOR 
forces in Gorazde and other safe havens, attacks on the safe havens 
will endanger the UNPROFOR forces and thereby potentially trigger 
U.N./NATO response.
	     
	     Q    But what you said earlier today was that you would 
not rule out further action regarding the safe havens even after the 
UNPROFOR forces were out.
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  The hypothetical question was, what if 
UNPROFOR forces are removed from Gorazde?  And the answer --
	     
	     Q    That's not so hypothetical.
	     
	     Q    They seem to be on the way out.
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Well, but it hasn't happened yet, so it is 
hypothetical.
	     
	     Q    Our report is that it is, in fact, happening.
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  And I don't have any confirmation of that.
	     
	     Q    I understand that Haiti was another topic in this 
meeting the President had today.  Is that correct?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Correct.
	     
	     Q    Is there any change in the diplomacy over military 
policy?  And is any thought being given to tightening the embargo on 
Haiti?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I think that the policy -- the policy 
objectives have not changed; which is essentially restoration of 
democracy and the restoration of President Aristide.  We are 
currently reviewing the policy with an eye toward reaching those 
objectives.  We aren't ruling out any options at this point.  It was 
among the subjects discussed this morning.
	     
	     Q    What about the embargo -- the status of the 
embargo?  A lot of the critics of the administration's policy -- some 
of the milder critics are saying, at the least, tighten the embargo.
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  And that's something that's been under 
review at the U.N. and other places.  It's on the table -- I mean, 
something that's been looked at.  In the meantime, we're enforcing 
the existing embargo, working with Dominican Republic and other 
countries to enforce the existing embargo.
	     
	     Q    Dee Dee, several labor leaders yesterday wrote a 
letter to the President charging that there were all kinds of 
loopholes in the Haiti policy -- that baseballs were being sold and 
bought by the United States government in Haiti; that women were 
being paid two cents an hour.  Any response?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I think we'll do what we can to enforce the 
embargo; we'll continue to do that.  I don't think that I would try 
to guarantee that it's leak-free.  But I think we're doing what we 
can to work with the other countries to enforce the existing  
embargo; and additional sanctions is something that has been under 
review for some time.
	     
	     Q    You said just before that you're not ruling any 
options out.  Previously you ruled out the option of a military 
intervention to restore democracy and restore President Aristide.  Is 
that still ruled out --
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I think that our official position is that 
we're not ruling anything in or out.  What we've pursued up to --what 
we've been pursuing are diplomatic solutions to the problem.
	     
	     Q    Has that changed?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I don't think it's really a change.  I can 
talk to you -- I mean, I think something I may have said earlier 
today may have suggested that we have ruled out options.  I think 
that was incorrect.
	     
	     Q    What you said earlier today was a restatement of 
the previous administration policy.
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Obviously, we haven't chosen to use anything 
other than diplomatic initiatives at this point.  I think we're 
continuing to pursue a diplomatic solution to this.  But I think as a 
general statement of policy, we haven't ruled anything in or out long 
term.
	     
	     Q    Are you considering the Obey option?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I think we're not ruling anything in or out.  
I don't mean to suggest a change in policy, I actually am trying to 
clarify what is existing policy.
	     
	     Q    That does suggest a change in policy.
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  According to the policymakers here, the 
policy has been that we're pursuing diplomatic initiatives, but we 
have never ruled anything out.
	     
	     Q    You have previously ruled this out.
	     
	     Q    You ruled it out as recently as this morning.
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I know, which is what I'm trying to clarify.
	     
	     Q    But even before this morning -- what you said this 
morning, for me, was simply a restatement of administration's policy 
since it took office.
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Yes, and I think the answer to those at this 
time we're pursuing a diplomatic solution to the problem.  As a long-
term statement of policy, we haven't ruled anything in or out -- 
haven't ruled anything out.
	     
	     Q    You're saying that they never ruled it out even 
though we've always been told that they were ruling it out.  It's a 
little Alice in Wonderlandish, is it not?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  We're pursuing a diplomatic solution to the 
problem; we're continuing to review our policy with respect to our 
policy goals and --
	     
	     Q    This is only important if it's come up again in 
discussion about --
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I don't mean to suggest that there's been a 
big change.
	     
	     Q    Or any change?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Any change -- I don't mean to suggest that 
there's a change.
	     
	     Q    But it's being considered?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Well, Obey made a suggestion.  I think 
obviously we'll take his comments seriously; he's a serious and 
thoughtful person on this.  We're reviewing our policy with an eye 
toward reaching the same -- the objectives have not changed.  We've 
said over the course of the last week and beyond, that we're 
reviewing the policy.
	     
	     I don't mean to suggest any broad changes; I'm trying to 
clarify what the administration's view is overall, which is that 
we're not ruling out any policy objectives -- any policy actions.
	     
	     Q    Were Congressman Obey's suggestions discussed 
during this meeting today?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I don't know.
	     
	     Q    On the Supreme Court, is President Clinton taking a 
look beyond the dozen or so people that previously had been talked 
about as candidates?  Does he want a more political-type figure?  
What's the status?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Well, I think his views towards what kind of 
person should be on the Supreme Court haven't changed over the course 
of the last year.  It should be somebody with great intellect and a 
big heart; somebody who is ethically beyond reproach.  He's looking 
at a number of people.  As Lloyd Cutler said last week, a list of 
about 10 to 12 people would be presented to the President; that's 
happened.  He actually had another meeting on it this afternoon to 
continue to discuss the situation.
	     
	     Q    Are there more than 10 or 12 now under 
consideration?
	     
	     Q    Or are they a different 10 or 12?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I don't think so.  I think we certainly 
maintain the option of expanding that list or reducing that list.  
And I think beyond this, we probably won't comment on the numbers or 
certainly on the names.
	     
	     Q    When was the meeting and who was there?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  It was sometime earlier this -- recently, 
this afternoon, and I don't know all the people who were there.  I 
mean, Mr. Cutler was certainly there; Joel Klein is a member of that 
team; Vicky Radd; Bruce Lindsey; the Vice President if he's available 
-- I don't know when he was leaving for California, I'm not sure what 
time.
	     
	     Q    Have the individuals on that list been contacted?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Giving you a long list of phone calls to 
make when this breaks up.  I'm sorry what was the question?
	     
	     Q    Have the 10 to 12 people -- have they been 
contacted and asked, if offered, would you accept?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I think we're the process of perhaps 
contacting some of them.  I certainly wouldn't suggest -- I don't 
know whether all of them have been contacted.  And I think generally, 
we probably won't ever give specific comment about who's been 
contacted and what they've been asked for.
	     
	     Q    How long do you think it will take for a decision?  
Could it be very quickly, or long --
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I think we should start a pool on that, and 
I don't want to participate.
	     
	     Q    What's the value of putting a political figure on 
the Supreme Court at this point?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I don't think I'm going to -- I don't think 
it's my place to make a case for what kind of person the President 
should select.  I think a number of cases have been made for putting 
different kinds of people on the Court.
	     
	     Q    What case is being made to him that he should 
consider a political figure?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I'm not going to discuss that -- what kind 
of private advise he's getting, or what kinds of individuals he's 
considering beyond the general criteria that he's established.
	     
	     Q    Was the situation in North Korea discussed in the 
foreign policy meeting today?  And what does the administration make 
of some of the overtures that the North Koreans are making in 
interviews with CNN and HK and other networks, or other news 
organizations?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I don't know specifically if there was any 
prolonged discussion of North Korea this morning -- I'm just not 
sure.
	     
	     Generally, I think what we're looking for from North 
Korea is action.  We expect them to complete the IAEA inspections and 
to resume their dialogue with South Korea toward implementing the 
North-South agreement which was signed well over a year ago.  And 
that will establish a nuclear-free peninsula.  Those are our 
objectives.  We need to see action.
	     
	     Q    Dee Dee, can you give us a week-ahead on the 
President?  Does it include an announcement on search policy and has 
he received a recommendation from Reno and Cisneros on it?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I think -- on the second half of your 
question, I think we are -- the administration is moving toward 
announcing a new policy after much work by Secretary Cisneros and the 
Attorney General.  We'll have that soon.  
	     
	     Q    Does that mean today?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  No.
	     
	     Q    The radio speech?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I won't rule anything else out.  It won't 
come today.  It could come -- but I expect it to come soon.  The rest 
of the week ahead including the weekend, the President will leave 
here tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. to go to the Senate Retreat which is 
Kingsmill Resort Conference Center.  There he'll attend a reception 
and a dinner, spend the night in Williamsburg at a private residence.  
On Sunday he'll leave there around noon and go to Charlotte for the 
30th anniversary of the Mustang car.
	     
	     Q    Will Mrs. Clinton be with him?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I believe she is.  
	     
	     Q    She's on the Mustang car deal?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  She appears to be scheduled to travel with 
him, although I'm not 100 percent sure.  He comes back here about 
6:30 p.m. on Sunday evening and spends the night at the White House.
	     
	     Q    Is he speaking at this car rally?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Do you guys know the answer to that?  Is 
there a formal program?  We'll try to get you a little more detail on 
exactly what forum he might be speaking in.
	     
	     Q    Where is his Mustang?  Is that still in storage?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  His Mustang -- I was told today that he 
actually no longer owns it.  It is in a museum somewhere in Arkansas, 
that he's donated it.
	     
	     Q    Did he tax deduction on it?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  He did not, which you will all see in a 
short period of time.
	     
	     Q    When did he originally get the Mustang?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I don't know.  He had it for a number of 
years.  It was the 1965 convertible, turquoise.  I don't know -- it 
might have had something to do with his driving skills he had to give 
it up.  I have heard tales.
	     
	     Okay, on Monday he's here until sometime after -- around 
10:30 a.m. he leaves for Wisconsin where he'll do a health care 
event; come back and spend the night at the White House.  We're still 
working out the details of that schedule.
	     
	     On Tuesday he'll be here in Washington.  At 11:00 a.m. 
he's at the Kalorama studio in Washington for the MTV Safe Schools 
Crime Forum which is a town hall with young people.  On Wednesday 
we'll do a health care event on immunization here at the White House 
probably.  And then at 3:30 p.m. he has the Austrian chancellor here 
for a brief meeting.  And then he attends the DSCC-DCCC dinner at the 
Washington Hilton.  You won't won't to miss that.
	     
	     At 11:00 a.m. on Thursday he gives an Earth Day speech.  
We haven't established the venue yet.  And in the evening he'll have 
a reception at Blair House with Prime Minister Papandreou of Greece.  
On Friday he has a working meeting with Prime Minister Papandreou 
here.  I think it will probably be the usual schedule, which is an 
Oval Office meeting, an expanded meeting and lunch, followed by some 
kind of news availability.  And that's it.
	     
	     Q    One last quick question on Bosnia.  I know you've 
been out here for a while, but now the wires are saying the Serb 
forces have taken all the strategic points in Gorazde.  Had you heard 
that before you came in?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I had not.
	     
	     Q    Can you find a way to update us on Bosnia.
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Yes, if we have any more information we'll 
see if we can't find a way to update you.
	     
	     Q    Is there a charter for Sunday, Dee Dee?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  No.  We put up a sign-up sheet and paged out 
yesterday and said if there weren't enough people signed up by 10:00 
a.m. this morning, there would be no charter.  There were not enough 
sign-ups and so there is no charter.
	     
	     Q    Do you have a response to the L.A. Times story on 
Whitewater and the President's tax deductions?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  The Clintons were personally obligated for 
some of the Whitewater loans.  They made the interest payments on the 
loans for which they were personally obligated, and they deducted 
those payments from their personal income taxes.  Therefore, the 
interest payments would not have been expected to show up on the 
Whitewater corporate tax returns.
	     
	     Q    For -- Whitewater both?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  I don't know whether they are.  If you have 
additional questions, you need to either talk to Kendall or Podesta.  
But generally, that's the reason.
	     
	     Q    Do you know the general topic on the radio address?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  Crime.
	     
	     Q    Tony Lake said last week that the President wants 
the American people to know just exactly what the peacekeepers would 
do in Bosnia.  According to the wire services earlier this week, 
there was an agreement between NATO, the United Nations and the 
Pentagon that U.S. peacekeepers would disarm the Serbs.  Could you 
tell us what that means?  By force?  What kind of weapons they had to 
take away?
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  That's the first I've heard of that.  I'll 
have to take the question.
	     
	     Q    The Pentagon has also agreed, according to that 
same story, that the first units to go in would be armored units from 
Germany, which indicates that they expect some combat --
	     
	     MS. MYERS:  That doesn't sound consistent with what 
we've said, but I'm happy to take the question.  I'm unfamiliar with 
that.
	     
	     THE PRESS:  Thank you.

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