Rally fizzles as neo-Nazis fail to show up TAKE A BITE OUT OF FUN .I * By SCOT WOODS DAILY STAFF REPORTER More than 100 spirited activists picketed the sidewalks at City Hall Saturday morning, determined to shut down what they believed would be a neo-Nazi/Ku Klux Klan rally. "Stop the Nazis, stop the Klan," they shouted, "only militant. action can." But their rivals never arrived. The picketers included members of the National Women's Rights Or- ganizing Coalition (NWROC), the socialist Revolutionary Workers League, the Communist League and labor organizations. Though the protest organizers said they had no direct knowledge that there would be a rally, they said they were convinced white supremacists and the neo-Nazi group SS Action would stage one at either City Hall or the federal building. They said the hate groups tradi- tionally stage the event at noon on the last Saturday before spring equinox. Jodi Masley, an NWROC mem- Self-rule talks may s ur Israeli withdrawal JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel of- fered to move faster on troop with- drawal from parts of the occupied lands if Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO Chair Yasser Arafat can agree on final plans for Palestin- ian self-rule during talks this week, officials said yesterday. A phone conversation Saturday between Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Arafat prepared the ground *for the session, Economics Minister Shimon Shetreet said. Both Peres and Arafat are due in Paris for a meeting Thursday of donors who have pledged money to support Palestinian au- tonomy. "We will try to speed up the completion of the negotiations as well as the implementation of the agree- ment," Peres said. * The main thrust of Israel's bar- gaining position was that imple- menting autonomy, rather than fur- ther government moves to corral settlers, was the best route to Pales- tinian security. "Change cannot come by this or that step ... but by hastening the imple- mentation beyond the declaration of principles, something Israel is pre- *pared to do," said Uri Savir, the For- eign Ministry director-general and head of an Israeli delegation sent to Tunis, Tunisia, yesterday for talks with the PLO. The two sides were close to work- ing out final details for putting the Sept. 13 Israel-PLO pact into effect last month, but talks were stopped after an Israeli settler killed 30 Pal- estinian worshipers in a Hebron mosque. Under the original timetable, Is- rael had four months - until April 13 - to complete its troop withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho. But the pullout was delayed by disagreements over security and borders, so its comple- tion date had been thrown into ques- hton. Peres said yesterday the process could take four to six weeks instead of four months.' He also stressed Israel wanted to get talks moving with Syria as a means of reaching comprehensive peace with the Arab world. 'We'll do everything to organize the people out here to drive them back into their slimy sewers.' -Jodi Masley, anti-Klan protester ber, said her group was willing to use "any means necessary" to prevent the Klan or SS Action from speaking. "We'll do everything to organize the people out here to drive them back into their slimy sewers," said Masley, a Michigan Student Assembly presi- dential candidate. NWROC flyers around campus last week called on students to "smash KKK/Nazi organizing through mili- tant, mass action," and proclaimed, "No 'free speech' for fascists!" But Ann Arbor Deputy Police Chief Craig Roderick said Saturday morning that his department had not received a protection request from any group. "We don't anticipate the Nazis to be here, because we have not had any contact from them to indicate they were coming," he said. "And they never have appeared in Ann Arbor without calling us first." Last year, violence erupted when the "anti-fascist" groups threw snow- balls at members of SS Action and the National Association for the Advance- ment of White People when the groups attempted to stage a rally. Roderick said the events have a violent history, including a confron- tation in the mid-1980s that resulted in injuries and property damage. The violent history prompted the Inter-Cooperative Council to send three members of its Multicultural Affairs Committee to encourage peaceful resolution of civil rights is- sues. Art senior Jonathan Hill, one of the three committee members, said, "I think we agree in that we think racism is wrong, but I think we differ in the means to end it." "People shouldn't leave impor- tant conflicts up to radical fringes," Hall added. A group of students from East Lansing also came to observe the event. One man, who asked to be identified only as "Scott," said he, too, was uncomfortable with violent tactics. "We don't argue about their inten- tions, it's just how they go about it," he said. "Bob," a green-haired Ann Arbor resident and self-described anarchist, spoke of unity among the protesters. "Nobody's dogging on anyone about their point of view or their looks or anything else," he said. The event was documented by a group from Prof. Kathrine Hurbis- Cherrier's Film/Video 301 class. LSA junior Ryan Kinnen said, "We were hoping there would be some violence, because that always makes good video." Saturday's rally ended peacefully, however. The protest lost steam by about 1 p.m., and the protesters drifted away. Saturn Corp. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Sat- urn Corp. is recalling some 1991 se- dans and coupes because the vehicles may not meet federal and California emissions standards,the General Mo- tors Corp. subsidiary said yesterday. "We've informed customers who bought 1991 models with dual over- head cam engines by overnight let- ter," spokesperson Bill Betts said. recalls some 1991 vehicles Betts said 28,704 Saturn owners were being asked to bring their cars back to dealers for replacement of a powertrain control module that regu- lates the car's exhaust. The work takes about 30 minutes, he said. "We did do durability testing on these cars, but in the real world you can't really antici- pate individual driving habits." Saturn, the small-car division founded by GM to compete with Japanese imports, Friday announced a 27-percent cut in production. Officials at Saturn's Spring Hill, Tenn., plant cited a huge stockpile of unsold cars for the cutback. The divi- sion said severe winter weather had kept buyers away, leading to a 91-day supply of Saturns, far above the in- dustry norm. BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME... ------------s JiUDITH iiPERKINS/Daily Delta Delta Delta successfully created a human pyramid, just one of the many events held yesterday as part of the Greek Olympics. U.N. relief arrives in besieged Bosnan town SARAJEVO, Bosnia- Herzegovina (AP) - Joyful cries of "Food! Food!" greeted a U.N. relief convoy that came yesterday to Maglaj, the first such shipment since October into the city largely reduced to rubble by a nine-month Serb siege. U.N. officials said Bosnian Serb forces withdrew late Saturday from the southern edge of the Maglaj- Tesanj area, home to 103,000 mostly Muslim people. People who have lived under- ground for months ran into the streets as the nine trucks carrying food and medical supplies arrived under heavily armed escort, including armored per- sonnel carriers. NATO warplanes roared overhead, ready to strike in case of any moves by Serb forces. "Maglaj is no longer a besieged city," said Larry Hollingworth, head of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' operation in nearby Zenica. Hollingworth, who led yesterday's convoy, said relief trucks would be coming regularly to the town, whose land supplies were cut off last October. It has been living on airdropped food through the harsh Balkan winter. In Sarajevo, residents took another step of their own toward normalcy, when the home team beat U.N. peace- keepers 4-0 in the city's first soccer match in two years. Such an open-air event involving thousands of people would have been unthinkable only a few weeks ago. The Maglaj convoy had been ex- pected for more than a week, as U.N. and Red Cross workers pressed the Serbs for permission to feed the town devastated by nine months of Serb siege and shellings. In Zagreb, Croatia, UNHCR spokesperson Peter Kessler described Maglaj as being in ruins. "Appar- ently, there are no buildings left in Maglaj," he said. However, witnesses told The As- sociated Press the damage did not appear as severe as Kessler described. Doctors arriving with the convoy were to help the sick and wounded and evacuate those who needed fur- ther treatment, Kessler said. Maj. Jose Labandeira, a spokes- person for the U.N. peacekeepers in Sarajevo, said the international forces would start patrolling the Maglaj re- gion today. Bosnian radio said the Serbs had withdrawn troops and artillery Satur- day night from positions along the Bosna river near Teslic, about 15 miles west of Maglaj. It said Serbs had held those positions since June 24 last year. Croatian radio said the withdrawal followed an "ultimatum" by Croat forces. Art School students wait anxiously to find out whether they won prizes during the school's JONATHAN LURIE/Daily annual show Saturday night. Political clash subdued in El Salvador election Know of news? Call our newsroom, 76-DAILY. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - Voters lined up for blocks yesterday to choose a president for the first time since the devastating civil war ended in 1992. Opinion polls showed the front- runners in the seven-way presidential race to be arch-conservative Armando Calderon Sol and Ruben Zamora, leader of a leftist coalition that in- cludes the guerrillas who fought in the 12-year war. If no candidate gets more than half the vote, there will be a runoff between the top two in April. The winner, the first civilian presi- dent elected in peacetime since 1930, will take office for five years begin- ning June 1. Voters also were select- ing a vice president, an 84-member National Assembly and 262 munici- pal governments. Unlike past years when elections marred by bloodshed, the capital as- sumed the air of a fiesta yesterday, with pickups draped in party flags picking up poll-bound voters. "The Salvadoran people are say- ing to internal and external forces that they want to experience true democ- racy," Calderon Sol before voting. Police searched voters entering the Perquin schoolyard, where election officials sat on children's chairs hand- ing out ballots. By mid-morning only one gun was found. Many across the country found their names weren't on the voting list. "In Nicaragua the government reg- istered the whole country in a month," said David Austin, a law student from Boston who is one of 550 American observers here. r ~ SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Division of International Programs Abroad 119 Euclid Avenue Syracuse, New York 13244-4170 1-800-235-3472 c 40 SYRACUSE ABROAD Something to write home about! " At SU's Madrid Center " SU credit: communications and liberal arts " Courses in English or Spanish " Two-week Hispanic Cultural Heritage traveling seminar to Toledo, C6rdoba, Granada, and Sevilla - Courses available at Universidad de Alcal de Henares or Universidad Autonoma " Live with Spanish hosts I Correction Ti :,..:. 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