The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 11, 1994 -
-Clinton heads to Motor City to discuss job re-training
By DAVID SHEPARDSON
DAILY NEWS EDITOR
Making only his second visit to
Michigan since stopping in Ann Ar-
bor 18 months ago, President Clinton
begins a two-day whirlwind trip to
Detroit Sunday afternoon.
He will spend about 24 hours in
Michigan's largest city to kick off the
G7 Jobs Summit with an introductory
address Monday morning at the or-
nate Fox Theatre.
The G7 is a group of the world's
largest economic nations: Japan, Brit-
ain, France, Italy, Canada, Germany,
the European Union and the United
States. Russia will also participate the
meeting.
Clinton will arrive at Selfridge
Air Force Base outside Detroit Sun-
day afternoon.
He will then travel to the Focus:
HOPE center in Detroit to meet with
Father William Cunningham, direc-
tor of the nationally-recognized job
re-training and community service
program.
But earlier this week, Cunnigham
repaid the favor by going to visit
Clinton in Washington.
Cunningham and a student mem-
ber of Focus: HOPE were in the Oval
Office Wednesday to support
Clinton's new proposal to reform the
way the federal government hands
out money for job re-training and
unemployment benefits.
After spending the night at the
Renaissance Center Hotel, Clinton
will deliver a major address on jobs
and economic growth Monday morn-
ing to the economic ministers of the
assembled nations and to select De-
troit-area residents and state politi-
cians in the Fox Theatre.
Jeff Eller, an assistant White House
press secretary, said the president
would talk about the prospects for
recent college graduates going out
into the job market.
"The president knows that many
college graduates face a very difficult
time getting a job after graduation.
And he plans to talk about it," he said.
Clinton will visit a Diesel engine
factory in Detroit before returning to
Washington.
After Clinton leaves, the foreign
ministers plus half a dozen Clinton
Cabinet secretaries will meet in closed
sessions on developing strategies to
keep unemployment down and open
global markets.
Also on the agenda will be bilat-
eral efforts by the United States and
Japan to avert a trade war. Secretary
of State Warren Christopher has been
meeting in Tokyo to lay the ground-
work for an agreement at next week's
summit.
More than 250 different newspa-
pers and television stations from
across the globe will cover the two-
day job summit. C-SPAN and CNN
will have extended live coverage of
the event.
-- The Associated Press
contributed to this report.
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By SAM T. DUDEK
DAILY STAFF REPORTER
Felice Schwartz, an advocate for
working women, detailed a set of goals
to improve the status of women in the
workplace yesterday.
Speaking at an annual lecture,
Schwartz told approximately 150
about the changes she would like to
see in corporate America, to give
women equal opportunities in the
business world.
Schwartz founded Catalyst, an
organization aimed at improving
career and leadership opportunities
forwomen, in 1962..She stepped down
as president nine months ago.
"Business leaders don't seem to
realize that a competitive position in
-the world economy depends on how
well they harness the talent of every
individual entering their management
plans, including those who are
female," she said.
Schwartz added that having a
woman on the board of a corporation
is a win-win position because of the
positive statement her presence sends.
"Women face barriers in the work-
place that men don't face ... and are
different from men because they are
outside the circle of power."
Schwartz added that one major prob-
lem is most women adhere to these
rules, instead of trying to change them.
"If we fail to talk about these is-
sues we will perpetuate the status
quo, or worse, we will regress," she
added.
Schwartz advice to the young
women is to strive for the top, but to
"do it your own way," and that couples
should discuss who will raise the chil-
dren and if either spouse's career
should take priority over raising chil-
dren.
Schwartz also advisedwomen how
to approach management with regard
to taking time-off to raise children.
Women should emphasize their
productivity during the time they can
spend working, versus the time it takes
others to do the same work, she said.
First-year MBA student Andy
NEWSDAY
WASHINGTON -A federal
grand jury investigating the
Whitewater affair yesterday heard
from two top aides to first lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton and was handed
nearly 1,000 pages of subpoenaed
documents, including some an offi-
cial said had come from President
Clinton's files.
As the White House handling of
the Clintons' Arkansas land dealings
more than a decade ago took center
stage yesterday in a U.S. District Court
grand jury room, Joel Klein, the deputy
counsel, said about 400 members of
the White House staff, including the
president and first lady, had worked
to comply with the grand jury sub-
poenas served on the White House
last Friday.
The day had all the trappings of
Washington political theater includ-
ing protesters, an unruly media mob
and officials skirting reporters who
followed them in a swarm. Special
counsel Robert B. Fiske Jr. was be-
sieged by camera crews that formed a
circle around him, jamming cameras
and video equipment to within inches
of his face as he pushed his way
across the courthouse plaza. "I'm not.
going to talk about anything," he re-
plied to questions shouted at him by
reporters.
Klein would not characterize the
documents he turned over to the grand
jury or answer questions on whether
the president and first lady had turned
over any material. No documents were
withheld on a claim of executive privi-
lege or attorney-client privilege, he
said.
"Everyone has complied with the
subpoena, including the president and
first lady," Klein said in a briefing
before he left to deliver the doeu-
ments, which fit in his briefcase.
Officials said the fruit of the White
House search was 30 to 40 documents
from about three dozen people. Lloyd
Cutler, named to take over as White
House counsel, said the facts of the
meetings that prompted the dramatic
grand jury appearances would show
"no wrongdoing" by White House
officials
Included in the material were
notes, telephone logs, memos, some
outside correspondence to the White
House concerning the issue and other
paperwork. The subpoenas called for
any material concerning meetings or
discussions between White House and
Treasury officials on Madison Guar-
anty Savings & Loan, the failed thrift
with connections to the Clintons. The
status of the Resolution Trust Corp.
(RTC) investigation into Madison's
collapse was the subject of the con-
versations, from September to Febru-
ary, that were revealed last week and
instantly produced a Fiske subpoena.
An official familiar with the
See WHITEWATER, Page 7
Felice Schwarz gives a lecture about women's rights yesterday afternoon.
Chien also said he felt strongly about
women's roles in the workplace. "(It)
is in line with what companies have
been doing nowadays in terms of
streamlining to just make sure every-
one is actually adding value."
FBI says CIA questioned Ames 3 years ago
THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON - An FBI offi-
cial said yesterday that the CIA ques-
tioned alleged spy Aldrich Ames about
his sudden wealth three years ago, but
Ames did not become the target of a
criminal investigation until last May.
The questions were asked in a 1991
background investigation, given regu-
larly to long-term CIA employees, that
also included a polygraph test, accord-
ing to FBI agent Leslie G. Wiser, who
testified at a hearing in federal court
Thursday. CIA officials raised the
money issue in part because of Ames's
cash payment for a $540,000 house in
North Arlington, Va., he said.
"The subject of his wealth came
up, and he said the money came from
an inheritance," said Wiser, adding
that the FBI was not involved in the
interview. Other sources said Ames
claimed that he had inherited money
after the 1982 death of his Colombian
father-in-law.
Wiser's testimony shed more light
on what is becoming a major question
in the Ames saga, an issue that has
been the source of some friction be-
tween the CIA and FBI: Why did it
take so long for the CIA to uncover
what may have been the worst secu-
rity breach in U.S. history?
CIA Director R. James Woolsey
has promised angry House and Sen-
ate members that the agency will con-
duct three major internal probes to
figure out what went wrong in the
case and recommend a series of ad-
ministrative or legislative reforms.
The probes will include a sweeping
review of counterintelligence and secu-
rity practices at the CIA, a detailed
study of the damage caused to the CIA
and U.S. security by Ames's alleged
work, and an independent review by the
CIA inspector general of how the espio-
nage escaped detection for years.
"This espionage case is serious,"
Woolsey told reporters on Capitol
Hill yesterday. It "is not an episode or
a single incident, but a serious prob-
lem which we need to fix."
The 1991 questioning of Ames
took place about the same time the
FBI was brought in by the CIA to
search for a mole suspected of turning
over classified information to Mos-
cow and causing the unexplained
deaths and disappearances of Ameri-
can-paid Soviet agents during the pre-
ceding six years.
Former CIA officials have main-
tained that Ames passed the 1991
polygraph test, but FBI sources have
said the results were inconclusive.
Ames was among a number of
CIA people under some suspicion,
and he was transferred that year from
his super-sensitive counterintelli-
gence post to counter-narcotics. De-
spite the transfer, he continued to
gather and, apparently, deliver top-
secret documents to his Russian han-
dlers, according to prosecutors. Ames
continued to receive substantial
amounts of money until he was ar-
rested on Feb. 21 along with his Co-
lombian-born wife, Maria del Rosario
Casas Ames, on espionage charges,
they said.
The new details about the ques-
tioning of Ames emerged yesterday
at a hearing in U.S. District Court in
Alexandria, Va. that focused on the
whereabouts of what remains of the
more than $2.5 million that prosecu-
tors allege Aldrich Ames received
from the Russians since 1985. Pros-
ecutors said that they can account for
only $600,000 in assets in the United
States, including the Arlington house,
and that the Ameses "squandered in-
credible amounts of cash."
Judge Claude M. Hilton perma-
nently froze the Ameses' domestic
bank assets and ordered them to move
any holdings they have overseas in
Swiss, Colombian or Italian financial
institutions into a special account in
this country that will be under the
court's control.
In announcing his decision, the
judge said there is a "substantial prob-
ability" that Ames and his wife will
be convicted of espionage, which car-
ries a penalty of life in prison.
The judge agreed with the
prosecution's argument that in the
event they are convicted, the Ameses
probably will be required to forfeit
the gains from their alleged spying
activities. Prosecutors sought the
judge's order because the Swiss gov-
ernment has refused to freeze three
accounts. The Swiss, Italian and Co-
lombian governments do not recog-
nize espionage as a crime under which
forfeiture proceedings would apply.
The judge's ruling puts the burden on
the Ameses to bring the money back.
The judge's order covers 12 ac-
counts, including one in Colombia
and one in Switzerland in the name of
Rosario Ames's mother, Cecilia
Dupuy de Casas.
Although the prosecutors won in
yesterday's two-hour hearing, defense
lawyers highlighted problems the
government could face if the case
goes to trial.
Women unite to share
concerns as minorities
By SHARI SITRON
DAILY STAFF REPORTER
Black, white, Hispanic, Asian -
women from all different
backgrounds will come together to
participate in the first Women of Color
Symposium tomorrow at Campus Inn.
The symposium, titled, "Voices
and Visions," is sponsored by the
Minority Affairs Commission of the
Michigan Student Assembly, the
Office of Academic Multicultural
Initiatives and Student Affairs.
The purpose of the symposium is
to discuss issues that affect women of
color in a multicultural atmosphere.
While most conferences focus either
on issues of gender or race, this
symposium is unique in that it
combines the two.
ISA senior Jong Han, chair of the
Minority Affairs Commission of
MSA, said the symposium is
important because it is the first time
such an inclusive event has been
planned for women. "What's really
wonderful about it is that we will
have a variety of different perspectives
on issues," she said.
To be fully inclusive means that
not only will the symposium try to
represent various cultural groups, but
it will offer educational workshops to
cover many areas of women's lives,
Han said.
The symposium will feature
workshops on topics such as religion,
regulations on women's reproductive
health and sexuality, multidimensional
relationships and sexual assault ani
sexual harassment.
Guyan Chan, an LSA senior and
committee member for the
symposium, said she hopes the
Women of Color Symposium will be
an annual event.
"Previously, there hasn't been an
opportunity for women of color to
come together to share their
experiences and perceptions," she
said. "This is a chance to build
cohesiveness for women."
The symposium will begin at 8:30
a.m. with a keynote speech on "Images
of Women of Color," and will end at
5 p.m.
Friday
U 76-GUIDE, peer counseling
phone line, call 76-GUIDE, 7
p.m.-8 a.m.
U Alternative Career Center, ca-
reers in the nonprofit sector,
2213 Michigan Union, 10 a.m.-
5 p.m.
9 Campus Information Center,
Michigan Union, 763-INFO;
events info., 76-EVENT; film
info., 763-FILM.
I "History and Memory," and
"A Family Gathering," win-
ter film festival, sponsored by
the Center for Japanese Stud-
ies, Lorch Hall Auditorium, 7
p.m.
U Lutheran Campus Ministry,
foreign film festival, 801 S.
Forest, 7:30 p.m.
lQ Martha Cook Building, Inter-
national Tea, Gold Room, 3:30-
5 p.m.
U "Multicultural Personality
Development," sponsored by
the Committee for the Study of
fourth floorcommons, 3:30p.m.
U Psychology Academic Peer Ad-
vising, West Quad, Room
K103, walk-ins welcome or call
747-3711 for appointment.
Q Safewalk, 936-1000, UGLi
lobby, 8-11:30 p.m.
Q Shorin-Ryu Karate-Do Club,
2275 CCRB, 6-7 p.m.
Saturday
Q 76-GUIDE, peer counseling
phone line, call 76-GUIDE, 7
p.m.-8 a.m.
" Campus Information Center,
Michigan Union, 763-INFO;
events info., 76-EVENT; film
info., 763-FILM.
Q Chinese Film Series, "Once
Upon A Time in China," Lorch
Hall Auditorium, 8 p.m.
Q Pre-Medical Students' Sympo-
sium, sponsored by Career Plan-
ning and Placement, Michigan
Union, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Q "Remnants," sponsored by Hil-
lel, 8:15 p.m.
9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Sunday
Q 76-GUIDE, peer counseling
phone line, call 76-GUIDE, 7
p.m.-8 a.m.
Q Ballroom Dance Lessons and
Dancing, CCRB, main dace
room, 7-9 a.m.
Q "Biblical Roots for Environ-
mental Ethics," sponsored by
the Wensley Foundation, 602
E. Huron, 7 p.m.
Q Campus Information Center,
Michigan Union, 763-INFO;
events info., 76-EVENT; film
info., 763-FILM.
Q Focus Group - Graduate
School, sponsored by Psychol-
ogy Peer Advising, West Quad,
Ostafin, 7-9 p.m.
Q Guild House Students Involved
for Global Neighborhood, 802
Monroe, 5 p.m.
Q Heath Care Forum, sponsored
by the College Democrats,
Michigan Union, Kuenzel
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