The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 25, 1994 - 5 , Mexico mourns candidate's death Likely presidential successor gunned down Wednesday MEXICO CITY (AP) - Hun- dreds of ruling party faithful chanted a mournful farewell yesterday to Luis Donaldo Colosio, the man who al- most surely would have been Mexico's next president but for an assassin's bullets. While Mexicans dealt with the shock of the country's first major po- litical assassination since 1928, party leaders began considering the loss of Colosio as their presidential candidate five months before the election. The slaying of Colosio at a cam- paign rally Wednesday in Tijuana was a stunning blow for Mexico's leader- ship, already struggling with a peas- ant uprising in the south and growing discontent over economic changes brought by the free trade agreement with the United States and Canada. The killing was "an offense against all Mexicans and an affront to the institutions which we have built throughout our history," said Presi- dent Carlos Salinas de Gortari. "It has injured the deepest convic- tions of the people of Mexico, who have always been partisans of the path of harmony, of law and of peace," Salinas said. Officials of the long-governing In- stitutional Revolutionary Party met with Salinas, who is barred by law from seeking a second six-year term and by tradition picks the party's candidate. The leaders refused to say when they might name a new candidate, who will be the strong favorite to win the Aug. 21 election and be sworn in as president in December. The Institutional Revolutionary Party has not lost a national election since it was founded in 1929. "It is a true tragedy. We still have not begun to think about the future," Oscar Espinosa, Colosio's campaign finance director, said as officials filed past the slain candidate's coffin at the party's sprawling concrete headquar- ters in downtown Mexico City. Salinas accompanied Colosio's body from the airport to the headquar- ters, where it lay in state under a banner adorned with the party's red, white and green symbol. Party activists applauded as Salinas stood at attention and chants of "Colosio! Colosio!" rang across the auditorium. While party leaders declined to dis- cuss new candidates, speculation soon focused on several possibilities. The front-runners appeared to be Ernesto Zedillo, who resigned as edu- cation secretary to coordinate Colosio's campaign, party chair Fernando Ortiz Arana, and Manuel Camacho Solis. Bosnian actress and author Suada Kapic signs copies of her book at Shaman Drum Bookshop yesterday afternoon. Actress tells story of *surianBsi IFC, Panhel conclude Greek Week withshow By MAGGIE WEYHING DAILY STAFF REPORTER After a week filled with Olympic events, donating over 500 pints of blood, and dedicating 1,300 hours of community service, Greek Week 1994 came to a close last night in Hill Auditorium with the annual Sing and Variety Show. Among the shrieks and chants of over 3,000 Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association members, the show began with the choral division during which 10 teams made up of different fraternities and sororities performed songs such as "A Welsch Lullabye," "Lean on Me" and "Closer to Fine." The second half of the performance was the variety division. Eighteen teams danced to various musical se- lections ranging from "Bandstand Boogie" to "Wild, Wild, West." Each division was scored by a separate panel of judges. The singing performances were judged by communication Prof. Joan Lowenstein; Steven Whiting of the School of Music; Paul Rauser, gen- eral manager of Ulrich's Bookstore; By DWIGHT DAVIS FOR THE DAILY "In Sarajevo there was no war. Only citizens and terror." So said Bosnian actress and direc- tor Suada Kapic on Wednesday to a brown-bag lunch crowd at Lane Hall Commons as part of the Center for Russian and East European Studies' 0 lecture series on the Balkan crises. Kapic, who is in Ann Arbor this week as part of the Performance Network's "Artists under Siege," is promoting a book she helped put to- gether, "Sarajevo: Survival Guide." After living for 15 years in Belgrade, Kapic moved to Sarajevo in 1991 and founded an independent production company. With other artists, they orga- nized cultural projects as away to resist the siege by maintaining some form of cultural normality. "We reviewed stoves, footwear, fashion - things that were available and important to people living under siege," she said. "We did it for our mental health. People went to work even though there was no work to do. People walked the streets even though it was dangerous. You couldn't just stay inside." Kapic related how her footwear changed from snakeskin shoes to some- thing swifter: "You need a shoe you can run fast in when you are in Sarajevo." Among other projects, author Su- san Sontag was brought to Sarajevo to direct a production of "Waiting for Godot." "Sarajevo was the perfect place for Godot," Kapic quipped. "He keeps waiting and waiting but nothing gets better." A film festival was organized and directors, including Wem Wenders and Francis Ford Copolla, sent films. "We still have a small theater in Sarajevo," Kapic said. "In a safe place. That is all that is important. You can't watch a movie while shells are going over your head." Kapic said humorwas an important form of resistance. In her talk, she displayed a sense of humor, tempered by her experience living in a city under siege. Likening Sarajevo to a scientific experiment on the ability of people to survive without the basics for life, she compared the city to the recently com- pleted Biosphere II experiment: "It was the same except that ours had the ad- vantage of being much cheaper; it only cost human lives." People in the audience laughed out loud until they realized what they were laughing at. Another example of Sarajevo hu- mor is the book put together by her production company, "Sarajevo: Sur- vival Guide," whose title pokes fun at other survival guides that equate travel with life-or-death struggle. The book itself graphically displays the "sights" of Sarajevo with hundreds of pictures and commentary. Kapic was on hand yesterday after- noon at Shaman Drum Bookshop to sign copies of the book, with all pro- ceeds going to a fund for Bosnian children's relief. Anyone wishing to send letters or packages toSarajevo can take them to thePerformanceNetworkthis week- end between 4 and 6p.m. Suada Kapic and others will take them when they return to Sarajevo. . PHOTOS BY CHRIS WOLF/Daily In a variety show, different fraternities and sororities show off their best dance moves at Hill Auditorium last night. Rebecca Vlisides, Ann Arbor Civic Chorus director; and Becca Greek, a University student working on her Masters in Education. The panel of variety judges in- cluded Ann Arbor Mayor Ingrid B. Sheldon, University Prof. Ed Rothman, Kevin Clayboun and Donna Pisani of the dance department, and University cheerleading coach Pamela Saint John. With the end of the show came the awards not only for the night's per- formances, but also for the many ac- tivities that took place during the course of the week. The winner of the choral division was a team of members from Zeta Tau Alpha and Sigma Nu for their harmonic version of "Heavenly." Al- pha Gamma Delta, Pi Lambda Phi and Delta Upsilon triumphed in the variety division with their deathly dance to the soundtrack from the movie "Dracula." Other awards given included the Spirit Award, taken by Alpha Chi Omega, Theta Chi and Delta Chi. The Olympic Award and the Diag and Hill Day Award were taken by Alpha Phi, Delta Tau Delta and Chi Psi - who all captured first place overall in Greek Week competition. Noriega's former party prepares to win in Panama LOS ANGELES TIMES PANAMA CITY - Four years and three months after U.S. troops in- vaded Panama and captured Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, the country appears poised to restore Noriega's old political party to power in the first free elections in decades. The startling turn of events reflects general disenchantment with the U.S.- backed government of President Guillermo Endara, whose administra- tion has been racked with corruption scandals and anger over economic policies that have deepened poverty and unemployment for many Pana- manians. Ernesto Perez Balladares of the Democratic Revolutionary Party, or PRD, Noriega's one-time political arm, leads most polls by a wide mar- gin. He is followed by the government's former comptroller Ruben Dario Carles. The wild card in the elections, which are scheduled for May 8, is actor and salsa star Ruben Blades. The singer returned to Panama last year from his home in Santa Monica, Calif., and founded a party called Papa Egoro, or Mother Earth in the indigenous Embera language. Blades prides himself on an unor- thodox presidential campaign that rep- resents a clean break from Panama's shaky past of rule by military dictators or pro-U.S. oligarchs. "Ours is an anti-party," he said in an interview at his apartment over- looking Panama Bay. "More than a simple change of parties, we are trying to present a change of attitude ... a change in political behavior." After a promising start, however, Blades' candidacy has been hurt by desertions from the party and his own, failure to campaign effectively. He had fallen to third place in a poll released early this month. The elections will be Panama's first conducted without military con- trols in more than 25 years and are expected to be the cleanest in its his- tory. A large number of international observers will monitor the voting. Panama has long been a focus of strategic importance to the United States because of the U.S.-built Panama Ca- nal, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and as the headquarters site of the U.S. Army Southern Com- mand, which oversees U.S. military operations south of the Rio Grande., Noriega was the de facto ruler of Panama through most of the 1980s, despite the presence of a series - of civilian figurehead presidents from the PRD. After years on the CIA payroll, the Panamanian leader fell out of favor with the United States in 1987. As anti-Noriega demonstrationsled by business leaders and others began to spread in Panama City, the U.S. government indicted Noriega on drug charges and slapped stringent economic sanctions on the isthmus nation. Finally, with Noriega refusing to step aside, then-President Bush ordered the Dec. 19,1989, invasion of Panama. Hundreds of Panamanians and about two dozen U.S. troops were killed, and Noriega was eventually captured, transported to the United States and tried and convicted for drug crimes. He is currently serving a 40-year prison term in Florida. U U Friday Q 76-GUIDE, peer counseling phone line, call 76-GUIDE, 7 - p.m.-8 a.m. U Alternative Career Center, ca- reers in nonprofit sector, 2213 Michigan Union, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. U Ann Arbor Pow Wow, spon- sored by the Native American Students Association, Crisler Arena, 5-11 p.m. i Archery Club, Coliseum, 8 p.m. U Asia & Australia On the Cheap, travel budget workshop, Inter- national Center, 3 p.m. U Campus Information Center, Michigan Union, 763-INFO; events info., 76-EVENT; film info., 763-FILM. 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