The Michigan Daily-Thursday, March 25, 1993- Page 3

Clinton's
economic
plan passes
Senate test
WASHINGTON (AP) - Demo-
crats rebuffed the Republicans' best
shot at derailing President Clinton's
economic plan yesterday as the Senate
voted to preserve his proposed tax in-
crease on the best-off Social Security
recipients.
By rejecting the GOP effort to kill
the tax increase on a 52-47 vote, the
Senate put ablueprint of Clinton's defi-
cit-reduction plan on a clear path to
passage.
"We tried your plan for 12 years and
it didn't work," taunted Sen. Donald
Riegle (D-Mich.) "And the American
people reached that judgment last No-
vember, and they sent that crowd out
and they sent in a new president who
came in with an economic plan for this
country."
The Senate is likely to approve the
outline of taxboostson therich, defense
cuts and long-Tange spending increases
today. The House approved a similar
measure lastweek, andnegotiators from
the two chambers plan to begin crafting
a compromise measure immediately.
The actual tax and spending changes
will be included in future legislation.
The key vote was on the Social
Security amendment which was aimed
squarely at the political soft spot of
Clinton's recovery plan. Party leaders
couched the vote as a loyalty test for
Democrats.
"This is a torpedo aimed at President
Clinton," said Senate Majority Leader
George Mitchell (D-Maine). "This is an
effort to slow down the momentum
that's gathering for the president in the
country."
Clinton has proposed raising $32
billion by boosting the amount of Social
Security benefits that some recipients-
would have to pay income taxes on.
The higher levies would affect the
best off 23 percent of Social Security
recipients, according to the Congres-
sional Budget Office.
Prospects for quick approval of
Clinton's accompanying $16.3 billion
jobs package seemed a bit dimmer.
Facing solid GOP opposition and
reluctance from conservative Demo-
crats, Senate Appropriations Commit-
tee Chair Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.) told
reporters that it will be "a very, very
difficult measure to put through." The
Senate plans to begin debating the mea-
sure today.


Voters cap MSA fee;
MCC gets extra cash

by Jennifer Tianen
Daily MSA Reporter
College students are poor, or so all kids claim to
their parents.
It is no surprise then that Proposal One on the
Michigan Student Assembly election ballot met
defeat. Proposal One-the MSAFunding Proposal
- was defeated by a narrow margin, with 1,314
votes in favorand 1,367 in opposition. The proposal
called for raising the mandatory MSA fee from the
current $6.27 to $7.
"I think that students should have voted for
Proposal One because it would have allowed us to
continue serving them through Student Legal Ser-
vices at our current level and increase the amount of
money that we transfer tostudentgroups,"saidLSA
Rep. Rob Van Houweling.
Without increased revenue from ahigher fee, the
assembly will face budgetary constraints for the
upcoming year.
"Unfortunately, without it passing, we are going
to face a budget crunch and we may not be able to

provide the services that we'd like to," Van
Houweling said.
A chasm between voters opened over Proposal
Two, which called for a 35-cent increase in the
MSA fee to fund the Michigan Collegiate Coalition
(MCC). Students in favor of the proposal totaled
1,381 votes, while the opposition numbered 1,219
votes.
MCC provides advocacy and action for stu-
dents by lobbying legislators in Lansing.
"We intend to lobby the regents for the 35 cent
higher fee that the students approved for MCC,"
said Brian Kight, vice president-elect of the assem-
bly. "Given the tensions between MCC and the
regents, there may be some problems in getting the
inquiries, but it's what the students have voted for
and it's what we're going to try and get."
The last ballot question, Proposal Three, asked
students, "Shall all financial ties between MSA and
the MCC be immediately severed?"
Students responded with a solid 1486 "No"
votes and a mere 878 "Yes" votes.

Report shows AIDS never rests

WASHINGTON (AP) - The AIDS virus can
hide for years in lymph nodes before launching a
final attack, scientists report in a new finding that
shows the disease is never idle.
Two studies to be published today in the journal
Nature show that once a person is infected, the
AIDS virus can congregate in lymphoid organs -
such as the tonsils, spleen, adenoids and lymph
nodes - where it steadily infects key blood cells
and breaks down cells that filter out viruses. This
eventually leads to a collapse of the immune sys-
tem, the classic sign of the lethal stage of AIDS.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and co-
author of one of the studies, said the discovery

answers one of the key mysteries about the course
of the AIDS virus disease.
"The bottom line of the study is that this virus is
present in the lymph nodes ... and it is actively
replicating ... even when there is little or no virus
activity detected in the blood," Fauci said.
In effect, said Fauci, the period that doctors call
the latent or symptomless stage of the HIV is not
latentat all. The virus is thriving in the lymph nodes
and insidiously eroding the body's immune system
toward a final collapse.
Dr. Ashley Haase of the University of Minne-
sota, said the"helper cells" of the immune system
seem to act as "a reservoir of infection."

- ERIK ANGERMEIER/Daily
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The Cats and Bats routine brought out the superheros last night during Variety -the
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Apartment
burglarized, student
loses $12,000
A student who was absent from her
Packard apartment on Tuesday night
came home to find that all her valuables
had been stolen.
Ann Arbor Police Department
(AAPD) officers arrived at the apart-
ment on the 2400 block of Packard
shortly after 10:30p.m. After searching
through upturned furniture and scat-
tered papers, officers found that more
than $12,000 worth of property had
been stolen.
Stolen items included several pieces
of jewelry, a camcorder, a television
and a compact stereo.
Police officers said they believe ac-
cesstotheapartmentwasgainedthrough

Police
Beat
a forced open window sometime during
the student's eight-hour absence.
AAPD officers said they have no
suspects but are currently investigating
the crime and attempting to recover the
stolen property.
Police nab notorious
bank robber
Employees from the National Bank
of Detroit on Plymouth Road reported
that they had been held up and robbed
by a lone suspect on Friday night.

A citizen observed the suspect get-
ting into his car and called the AAPD a
short time later with the license plate
number of the suspect's car.
Police officers ran a computer check
on the registration information and found
a match with a car owned by an Ann
Arbor resident.
Officer James Schook intercepted
the suspect in his vehicle at Huron Park-
way and Washtenaw Avenue less than
40 minutes later. The suspect was taken
in for questioning and was arrested after
a weapon was found in his possession.
The stolen money was recovered

shortly thereafter. Police did not release
the exact amount of the stolen funds.
The arrestee, identified as Paul
Aldridge of Ann Arbor, is reportedly
responsible for at least two other bank
robberies in the area.
Aldridge was arraigned early this
week and stands on a $100,000 cash
bond.
Since crimes of this type fall under
the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of
Investigations, Aldridge could be
charged with a federal offense. If con-
victed, he could receive up to 15 years
in the Federal Penitentiary.

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Student groups
Q AIDS Coalition to Unleash
Power, meeting, East Engineer-
ing Building, Baker-Mandela
Center, 7:30 p.m.
Q Amnesty International, meeting,
East Quad, Room 122, 7 p.m.
Q Ann Arbor Coalition Against
Rape, Take Back theNightplan-
ning meeting, Michigan League,
check room at front desk, 7 p.m.
Q Campus Crusade for Christ,
meeting, Dental School, Kellogg
Auditorium,7-8:30 p.m.
U Haiti Solidarity Group, meeting,
First United Methodist Church,
120 S. State St., Pine Room, 7:30
p.m.
Q Hillel, Dr. Arthur Green: New Di-
rections in Jewish Theology,
Rackham Amphitheatre, 8 p.m.
Q Homeless Action Committee,
meeting, Guild House, 802 Mon-
roe St., 5:30 p.m.
Q Institute of Electrical and Elec-
tronics Engineers, technical lun-
cheon, EECS Building, Room
1311, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Q Intervarsity Christian Fellow-
ship, meeting, Michigan Union,
Anderson Room, 7 p.m.
Q Islamic Circle, meeting, Mosher-
Jordan, Nikki Giovanni Lounge,
4 p.m.
Q Korean Student Association,
meeting, Michigan Union,
Welker Room, 7 p.m.
Q Newman Catholic Student Fel-
lowship Association, God's One
Earth, 7 p.m.; Leaven Group, 7
p.m.; PeerMinistry InfoNight, 7
p.m.; SaintMary Student Parish,
331 Thompson St.
Q Pre-Med Club, meeting, Michi-
gan Union, Kuenzel Room, 6:30
p.m.
Q Pro-Choice Action, meeting, East
tnea Pnn T nnnoP '7 n m

Room D, 7 p.m.
Q U-M Investment Club, meeting,
MLB, Room 2002,7 p.m.
Q U-M Pre-Dental Association,
guest speaker and officer elec-
tions, School of Dentistry,
Kellogg Building, Room 1033,
5:30 p.m.
U U-M Sailing Club, meeting, West
EngineeringBuilding, Room311,
7:45 p.m.
Q U-M Shotokan Karate, practice,
CCRB, small gym, 8-10 p.m.
Q Women's Issues Commission,
meeting, Michigan Union, Room
3909, 8 p.m.
Events
Q ArtTalk, Pictographic Images in
Native American Art, Art Mu-
seum, AV Room, 12: 10-1 p.m.
Q Carillon Auditions, for spring/
summer/fall study, Burton
Tower, Room 900, 764-2539,
12:30-2 p.m.
Q The Challenge of Change,
McGuigan Lecture and Awards,
Rackham, West Conference
Room, 4 pmn.
U Controlling and Observing Mo-
lecular Dynamics, physical
seminar, Chemistry Building,
Room 1640,4 p.m.
o Education: Job Search, Student
Activities Building, Room 3200,
Career Planning & Placement
Conference Room, 4:10-5 p.m.
Q Music at Espresso Royale Caffe,
"Classic Thursday," classic per-
formances of soloists and small
ensembles, 8 p.m.
U Music at Leonardo's, live jazz, 8-
10 p.m.
Q Nation as a Symbol in Romanian
Political Discourse, CREES
Ethnopolitics Colloquium,
Anno11 111 RnRm 91 A n m.

Q One River and the People of Four
Cultures: The 1992 Archaeo-
logical Survey of the Rio Del
Oso Valley, New Mexico, Mu-
seum of Natural History, Room
2009, 12-1 p.m.
Q Rural Education in China: An
American Perspective, School
of Education Building, Room
1211,1-3 pim.
Q Russian Tea & Conversation
Practice, MLB, 3rd Floor Con-
ference Room, 4-5 p.m.
Q Students for Volunteers for Is-
rael, mass meeting, International
Center, 1st Floor, 7:30 p.m.
Q Teaching as a Critical Dialogue:
Implications for Multicultural
Education, LSA TA Training
Program, Rackham, Assembly
Hall, 4-6 p.m.
Q Thylias Moss, reading from her
work, Rackham Amphitheatre, 5
p.m.
Q Writing a Medical School Per-
sonal Statement, Student Ac-
tivities Building, Room 3200,
Career Planning & Placement
Program Room, 4:10-5 p.m.
Student services
Q ECB Student Writing Center,
Angell Hall, Computing Center,
7-11 p.m.
Q Northwalk Safety Walking Ser-
vice, Bursley Hall, 763-9255, 8
p.m.-1:30 am.
Q Peer Counseling, U-M Counsel-
ing Services, 764-8433,7 p.m.-8
a.m.
Q Professional Development for
International Women, Interna-
tional Center, Room 9, 2-4 p.m.
Q Psychology Undergraduate Peer
Advising, Department of Psy-
chology, West Quad, Room
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