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. 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