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war crimes in former Yugoslavia ("N.Y.Congresswoman Grabs Spotlight and
Runs With It")
HERALD TRIBUNE International, Monday, February 7, 1994 By Paul F.Horvitz
Staten Island, New York - Americans love perkiness, and the media adore it,
especially in an upbeat New Yorker who also embodies that rare
combination in politics: feminist and Republican......
In foreign affairs, Miss Molinari remains an outspoken critic of the
world's cautious response to civil war in the former Yugoslavia, and she is
seeking stronger U.S. resolve to prevent ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, the
Albanian-dominated region controlled by Serbia. As chairman of the
Republicans' tiny Balkans Crisis Task Force, she favors punitive air
strikes against Serbian cease-fire violators and has called for the
resignation of the United Nations secretary-general, Butros Butros Ghali,
in part because she believes war crimes are not being effectiveIy
prosecuted. "Our kids and our grandkids are going to wonder about this
generation of Americans that allowed this atrocity to occur," she says.In
New York and Washington circles, the Susan Molinari story is fast
approaching legend. Both her grandfather and father served in the state
legislature. She was 16 when her father was elected to Congress. After
college, she went to work for the Republican National Committee in
Washington. By age 26, she had been elected to the City Council. At age 31,
she won a special election to Congress after her father left the seat to
run for borough president. Her first marriage, to a limousine company
operator, dissolved quickly. Now she is about to marry a man whom she
boldly asked out a decade ago and who, earlier this year, proposed to her
on the floor of the House of Representatives, where both serve.
