Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 17, 1989 I Benched! LSA juniors Julian Gordon and Jon Sonnenschein try out the new benches outside of the almost completed computer center in Angell Hall. Investigator says Flight 103 bomb was hiden in a radio Court lifts ban on North trial WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court lifted its stay delaying the start of Oliver North's trial yester- day, but North's lawyers complained he cannot get a fair trial under a deal struck by his prosecutor and the attorney general for handling testim- ony involving national secrets. "Defendant North still faces two governments, rather than a single prosecutor with full power to make all trial decisions," said Brendan Sullivan, the head of North's defense team, in papers filed with U.S. Dis- trict Judge Gerhard Gessell. The Supreme Court, meanwhile, lifted a stay that had been requested by Attorney General Dick Thorn- burgh while he was still arguing with independent counsel Lawrence Walsh over whether rules on dis- closing classified information were tight enough. There was no word from Gessell about when he would summon jur- ors, who are already selected, to his court to begin the trial of the former Marine lieutenant colonel and White House aide. The newest Thornburgh-Walsh arrangement "would impose intoler- able burdens on the court, the wit- nesses, an the jurors," Sullivan said. He asked Gesell to tell the attorney general he can take action to dismiss the entire case or any of the 12 crim- inal charges but that he will not "have the right or the opportunity to intervene in the trial." Sullivan recalled that Gesell had said earlier in the week that Thorn- burgh would have no right to inter- vene "by bits and pieces" to object to the introduction of classified ma- terial. But Sullivan said the new ar- rangement does give Thornburgh that ability. Under the arrangement announced Wednesday, Walsh argreed to ask Thornburgh for an affidavit whenever Walsh believed undisclosable secrets were about to be spilled in the trial. The attorney general would stay out of the courtroom while the indepen- dent counsel carried the battle. "Under the independent counsel's proposed plan," said Sullivan, the attorney general will have the right to step in "whenever the going gets tough, precisely what the court has forbidden him from doing." In response, Walsh said North's lawyer is under a misconception of how the prosecutorial plan will work. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports AMA proposes Medicaid expansion WASHINGTON - A coalition led by the American Medical Association yesterday proposed a sweeping overhaul of the Medicaid program to expand coverage to 11 million more poor Americans, improve benefits and raise reinbursement rates for physicians and hospitals. The proposed expansion of the federal-state health assistance program for the poor would cost at least $13.2 billion and as much as $28 billion above current Medicaid expenditures, with most of the additional cost borne by the federal government, the coalition said. In fiscal 1988, the federal government spent $30.5 billion and the states spent $20.5 billion on Medicaid, but fewer than half of the 33 million Americans with incomes below the federal poverty line are enrolled in the program, the coalition said. "We're all for a system that truly cares for the needs of the poor," said James Tallon Jr., majority leader of the New York State Assembly and chair of the coalition's committee on Medicaid. Big Three garner record profits DETROIT - The nation's Big Three automakers set a record with combined earnings of $11.21 billion last year, but forecasts of slower economic growth are clouding hopes that the bonanza will continue. "I think that earnings in the aggregate will be off 10 to 15 percent in 1989," said auto analyst David Healy. "I think we're getting a little closer to saturating the market in cars, and interest rates will begin to take their toll." Automobile industry and economic analysts have been predicting a softening of the U.S. economy and the auto industry this year. Sales are expected to be around the 15-million mark for the 1989 model year, compared to 15.6 million vehicles that were sold during the 1988 model year. The combined earnings of General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., and Chrysler Corp. for 1988 were up 14.5 percent from the previous Big Three record of $9.79 billion set in 1984. Fed penalizes bank for 'red-lining' WASHINGTON - A Federal Reserve Board decision that for the first time will penalize banks for failing to serve poor neighborhoods appears to signal a new willingness by regulators to enforce a 12-year-old law against such practices, community activists said yesterday. The Board rejected a request by the Chicago-based Continental Bank Corp. to purchase a small Arizona bank because it said Continental had not fulfilled its duties under the Community Reinvestment Act. The act requires banks to meet local credit needs, including those in poor neighborhoods. The law is aimed at preventing "red-lining," the practice of denying loans to an entire neighborhood based on the predominant race or economic class of its residents. "The Fed has never denied an application on Community Reinvestment Act grounds before... This is a major breakthrough," said Allen Fishbein, a counselor at the Center for Community Change. State Dems link investigator's hiring to 1990 governor's race LANSING - Minority Democrats in the state Senate questioned yesterday the hiring of a special investigator, linking it to Senate Majority Leader John Engler's expected run for the governor in 1990. "This sets a very, very dangerous precedent on investigations," said Minority Leader Arhtur Miller (D-Warren). He warned the hiring may be "the initial move" to launching a "sleazy" campaign against Democratic Gov. James Blanchard. "What's the problem?" responded Engler. "We need to look at fraud (in state government), and that's what we're going to do. We need more help and that's what we're doing." Noting the Democrats' unease with the appointment, he added, "I don't know what he's (Blanchard is) hiding, but I'm sure interested in finding out now." EXTRAS Vicious dog mauls helpless child 0 LOCKERBIE, Scotland (AP) - A radio-cassette player held the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103, but the identity of the bomber still is unknown, the top investigator of the bombing said yesterday. Investigators believe the explo- sive that shattered the Boeing 747 on Dec. 21 was placed aboard the air- craft in Frankfurt, West Germany, where the flight began, said detective Chief Superintendent John Orr. It apparently had been put on the air- craft as checked baggage. "New positive lines of inquiry are unfolding," he told a news confer- ence in this southwestern Scottish town where the Jumbo jet crashed, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground. "While there is insufficient evi- dence at this stage to establish the identity of the person or group re- sponsible for this dreadful crime, the progress made and the evidence ob- tained has been substantial," Orr said. Asked whether the investigation would point to a specific country, Orr said: "It may." Share the news, h ai Mandela Continued from Page 1 from South Africa except this one, and as a result anti-apartheid leaders are redirecting attention to the real issues of the day - that is the struggle against the apartheid system," he said. Locally, Free South Africa Coordinating Committee member Barbara Ransby, a University Rackham graduate student, said, "For the (South African government) to focus on one individual in a seeming attempt to discredit her is highly questionable whether they are trying to cover what's really going on in South Africa." Mrs. Mandela, in the few public statements she has made, denied she was at home when the teen-ager and four men were abducted to her house on Dec. 29 by members of a so- called soccer team known as Mandela United who act as her unofficial bodyguards. But she has defended the abduction, saying the four were taken to protect them from sexual abuse at a Methodist Church residence where they were staying in S owe to. The church has denied the charge, and the anti-apartheid leaders made their denunciation of Mrs. Mandela at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg. Tom Sepina, a spokesman for the African National Congress, said from the organization's Lusuka, Zambial headquarters that ANC leaders were concerned at reports linking Mrs. Mandela with the boy's death. - Daily news staffer Lisa Fromm contributed to this report. A Self } Service with coupon the copy center 540 Eastliberty Open 24 Hours 1220 S. 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