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The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 3, 1994 - 3
Panetta lashes out at Republicans: GOP touts victory over Clinton

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White
House and Democratic lawmakers bemoaned
President Clinton's slumping political stand-
ing yesterday, angrily blaming his problems
on voter anxiety and critics who appeal to the
worst in people.
In an off-color shot clearly aimed at Re-
publicans, Chief of Staff Leon Panetta said
Clinton's foes take the easy way out by block-
ing reforms.
1 "My Italian father used to say that the
toughest thing to do is to try to build a barn.
Any jackass can knock the barn door down,"
he said.
"And we've got a lot of jackasses out there
trying to do that." He did not name any names,
or specifically mention the GOP.

.m. 01

Republicans proudly re- Dfai
sponded that their most visibl 'Defeatir
effort to block the president's the most
agenda was popular with voters podo
and good for the nation. proud of
"Defeating the president's
health care plan was the most
positive thing that this Congress
did. I'm proud of our role in it,"
Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) told ABC's "This
Week with David Brinkley."
The exchange signaled a decline in the po-
litical debate as the midterm elections draw
closer, threatening dozens of incumbents and
the Democrats' hold on both houses of Con-
gress.
With Democratic lawmakers running away

ng the president's health care pi
t positive thing this Congress did
our role in it.'
Sen. Phi
from Clinton and his record, Panetta said
many voters don't realize the strides Clinton
has made with the economy, job creation and
crime fighting. He was asked to explain why.
"Part of it is just the anxiety of going
through this transition in the post-Cold War
era. People ... do have fears," he told CBS's
"Face the Nation."

"At the same time there
an was are those that are exploiting
d. I'm fear, that are exploiting an-
ger, that are basically going
after those kinds of concerns
7 Gramm and appealing to the worst in
people," Panetta said.
R-Texas He also blamed special-
interest groups, which he
claimed have "attacked the president on issue
after issue."
Gramm and House Minority Whip Newt
Gingrich of Georgia promoted the Republi-
can campaign "contract," which promises a
balanced budget amendment, term limits and
a host of other reforms if the GOP gains
control of Congress.

"We have to look at transforming virtually
every area of the budget except Social Secu-
rity," Gingrich said on NBC's "Meet the
Press."
Appearing on the same show, House
Speaker Tom Foley (D-Wash.) said the Re-
publican proposal does not say where the
massive cuts would be made. "We are not
putting forth a dishonest plan to balance the
budget, which is what Newt Gingrich ... did,"
Foley said.
Also attacking the GOP plan, Panetta urged
Americans to set aside their cynicism when
they vote in November.
"They've got to make the decision: Are we
going to move forward - are we going to try
to take on issues like health care?

impson
judge asks
jurors not
to sell story
0 Newsday
LOS ANGELES - In an unprec-
edented move, Superior Court Judge
Lance Ito has asked prospective ju-
rors to sign a court order swearing
that.they will not sell stories about the
O.J. Simpson murder case until the
trial has been over for a period of at
least six months, or face penalties of
fines and even imprisonment.
The provision is one of five admo-
tions in a one-page court order at
the end of an 80-page questionnaire
completed by 304 prospective jurors.
Ito drafted the order on Sept. 23,
the day he erupted over an erroneous
television report on a sock taken from
Simpson's master bedroom, and four
days before California Gov. Pete
Wilson signed a bill that makes it a
cime forjurors and witnesses in crimi-
I cases to sell their stories before
the case is ended.
The Simpson jurors, like all oth-
ers, would be prohibited from talking
to the media during the trial, but as
soon as the trial is over, nothing in the
order or the new law prohibits them
from giving interviews for which they
are not paid.
The legislation, which goes into
fect Jan. 1, was spurred by the in-
nse publicity surrounding the
Simpson case and by the fact that
some potential witnesses said they
had been paid for their stories by
media outlets.
According to the Los Angeles
Times, Wilson said the bill was nec-
essary to "ensure that witnesses and
jurors are a force for justice, not
Adder for tabloids, and that attor-
ys will represent their client, not
lead a media circus." Wilson also
said that "checkbook journalism"
contaminates the right to a fair trial
by providing an incentive to lie.
Jurors who violate Ito's order are
subject to fines of up to $1,500 and
five days in jail for each offense under
the civil code.
Legal experts interviewed Satur-
*y agreed it was highly unusual for
to to require such a pledge in writing.
Typically, such admonitions would
be issued orally from the bench. "But
then, everything about this case is
unusual," said Bradley Brunon, a well-
known Los Angeles defense lawyer.
"This case has engendered its own set
of rules."

DONATIONS PLEASE?

16 arrested at
Fermi 2 protest

TONYA BROAD/Daily
A member of the Michigan Marching Band washes cars in a free car wash yesterday behind the Track and Tennis
Building. Members asked for donations after washing cars.
Law review to be published on-line,;
conference opens up issues forum

"Competition and the Information
Superhighway" was the theme of
Friday's symposium held in the Busi-
ness School's Hale Auditorium and
hosted by the newly founded Michi-
gan Telecommunications and Tech-
nology Law Review.
The symposium covered legal,
business and policy issues shaping
the future of the telecommunications
industry and will serve as a starting
base for the on-line Review's inaugu-
ral issue, to be published in February.
The Review will be published
solely on-line via Lexis/Nexis, an in-
formation library and publication
archive. A group of law students re-
cently founded the first-of-its-kind
Review, and their goal is to provide
timely articles and papers about the
legal aspects of the growing telecom-
munications industry.
To submit papers, send manuscript
and computer disk to: Articles Editor,
Michigan Telecommunications and
Technology Law Review, 625S. State
St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
Tiny Probes Created at New Uni-
versity Center
A $3.1 million grant from the Bio-
medical Research Technology pro-
gram of the National Institutes of
Health has spurned the new Univer-
sity Center for Neural Communica-
tion Technology to create miniature

Ressaroh &
probes so precise they can stimulate
or record signals from a single nerve
cell.
The probes will be distributed to
research technologists worldwide to
study the nervous system and neuro-
logical disorders.
David J. Anderson, professor of
Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science and director of the new cen-
ter, said, "Our primary goal is to pro-
vide the tools neuroscientists need to
learn how groups of neurons work
together to control motor and sensory
function."
Science in the National Interest
M.R.C. Greenwood, a science ad-
viser to the president, will deliver a
lecture today called "The Whole New
Context of Science."
The lecture is on the recent White
House report on national science
policy, "Science in the National In-
terest."
Greenwood's lecture at 1:30 p.m.
in Rackham Amphitheater will pre-
cede workshops in the Alumni Center

on "Partnerships: University, Gov-
ernment, Industry;" "Science & Edu-
cation;" and "Science & Social Inter-
est."
The workshop is sponsored by the
Office of the Vice President for Re-
search and is open to the public.
Psychoanalysis Lecture Series
Tackles Tough Issues
A lecture series called "Psycho-
analysis and Interdisciplinarity" con-
sists of five lectures started last week
and will continue through November.
The series consists of talks on uncon-
scious mental life, the resistance to
self-knowledge, the origin of reason
in the erotics of the body and the
significance of race and difference.
Preliminary lectures held Oct. 6,
13, 20 and 27 will serve to prepare
audience members for a conference
to be held Nov. 4-6 at Rackham called
"Psychoanalysis Among the Disci-
plines." The preliminary lectures will
all be held at the West Conference
Room of the Rackham Building at 8
p.m. All lectures are free and open to
the public.
The lectures are sponsored by the
Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and
other state agencies.
To attend the November confer-
ence, contact George Rosenwald at
the Department of Psychology, 580
Kennedy Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
AT&T Presents Walk Through
Technology
TechWalk, which begins Thurs-
See RESEARCH, Page 7

By DANIEL JOHNSON
For the Daily
Sixteen protesters, some of whom
handcuffed themselves to concrete-
filled barrels they placed on a state
highway, were arrested yesterday
outside Detroit Edison's Fermi 2
nuclear power plant in Monroe.
About 150 people took part in the
hourlong protest, which capped three
days of protests as nuclear power op-
ponents tried to put pressure on De-
troit Edison to keep the plant shut-
down. The plant was shut down last
Christmas because of a turbine fail-
ure.
"It's inevitable that there will be
another meltdown in the U.S.," said
Keith Gunter of Citizens Resistance
Against Fermi 2.
The objective of yesterday's pro-
test was to prevent anyone from leav-
ing or entering the plant, which is
about 35 miles south of Detroit, said
Sarah Bantz of St. Louis, a member of
the Student Environmental Action
Coalition.
"Half of the people here have come
from other places where nuclear plants
have had trouble," she said. "The big-
gest point we want to make is that
we're going to be around until it's
closed down forever."
Six of the protesters were arrested
for blocking Dixie Highway, Sgt. John
Bogucki said.
"We can't let them block a main
road," he said. "If everybody would
behave themselves, there would be
no problems."
The others were arrested at the
two plant gates where many of the
protesters gathered.
The Monroe County Sheriff's
Department said those arrested face
various charges of disorderly person,
resisting and opposing a police of-
ficer and failing to obey the com-
mands of a police officer.
Sheriff Carl VanWert said in a
statement that they were suspected of
blocking a public roadway, some of
them forming a human chain.
Those arrested, who are from Ohio,
Maryland, Missouri and Michigan,
were being held in Monroe County
Jail.
The Fermi 2 plant closed when a
turbine blade sheared off and resulted
in an explosion and fire inside the
plant last Christmas. That triggered a

series of problems that Detroit Edison
said cost more than $30 million to
repair.
Edison has made repairs to the
plant in Monroe and plans to reopen
the doors of Fermi 2. The plant is
scheduled to begin operation this
month or in early November.
Most of yesterday's protesters
marched in circles in front of the gates
chanting such things as, "Fermi 2 has
got to go. We don't want to blow,"
and carrying placards reading, "Built
by idiots, run by fools," and "Get
wise, use windmills."
Others weaved yellow yarn
through the plant gates, saying it was
symbolic of their effort to close the
plant's gates permanently.
"This symbolizes the reweaving
of life over this nuclear mess," Bantz
said.
Despite the risks, some feel nuclear
power is necessary.
"I don't think it generates any great
amount of risk, and it provides much
needed energy for southeastern Michi-
gan," said William Kerr, professor of
nuclear engineering at the Univer-
sity.
The Fermi power plant is expected
to supply one-third of all electricity
for southeastern Michigan when in
operation.
Fifteen University students were
among the protesters.
"We need a critical mass of people
to rise up in order to prevent a critical
meltdown," said Robin Saha, an
SNRE graduate student.
Opponents of the plant argue that
the 1993 accident could have had
more severe consequences, such as a
meltdown resulting in contamination
with a 700 mile radius.
"If people knew the potential for
danger, they would demand govern-
mental involvement," Saha said.
Critics of the plant's reopening
say the repairs have been less than
adequate and should be subject to
investigation by the Nuclear Regula-
tory Commission.
In protest of the opening, a cam-
paign is under way to persuade De-
troit Edison customers to refuse pay-
ment of their electrical bills.
- The Associated Press contributed
to this report.

orrection
Condom use during the first sexual encounter with a new partner declines as the number of partners increases. This
was incorrectly reported in a graphic in Friday's Daily.

Group Meetings
Afro-Cuban Music Workshop
& Conjunto Cespedes, spon-
sored by Puerto Rican Solidar-
ity Organization and Los
Jibaritos, 971-1539, Rackham
Amphitheater, 9 a.m.-noon.
U Graduate/Young Professional
Discussion Group, 663-0557,
Saint Mary Student Parish, 331'
Thompson St., 7 p.m.
Q Orthodox Christian Fellow-
ship meeting, 665-9934, Michi-
gan Union, Welcher Room, 7
p.m.
U Saint Mary Student Parish
Worship Commission, 663-
0557,331 Thompson St., 7 p.m.
0 Shorin-Ryu Karate-Do Club,
men and omen- beginners

sembly Welcome/First Meet-
ing, 971-4548, Michigan Union,
Pond Room, 9:30 p.m.
Q United Jewish Appeal, philan-
thropic organization, Hillel,
7:30 p.m.
Q VIA Hillel Mass Meeting, com-
munity group, Hillel, 6 p.m.
Events
Q "Angels at the Arno Photogra-
pher Talk and Book Signing"
Eric Lindbloom, Borders Books
& Music, 7:30 p.m.
Q "Bosnia: Before, During and
After the War" photographic
exhibit, North Campus Com-
mons Atrium, 7 a.m.-11 p.m.
Q "Investing in Ability Week"

Building, Room 1640, 4 p.m.
Q "Rosary" Saint Mary Student
Parish, 331 Thompson St., 5:45
p.m.
Q "Strategies for Applying to
Graduate School and National
Fellowships" undergraduate
seminar, sponsored by Ameri-
can Society for Engineering
Education, G.G. Brown Build-
ing, Room 1504, 7 p.m.
Student services
Q 76-GUIDE, peer counseling line,
call 76-GUIDE, 7 p.m.-8 a.m.
Q Campus Information Center,
Michigan Union, 763-INFO;
events info., 76-EVENT; film
info., 763-FILM.
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