0 ~42 *rnt I "f s.' M F. 'K Q t s'' One hundred four years of editorial freedom Big Ten title may be on the line as 'M' faces Lions By MICHAEL ROSENBERG Daily Football Writer Is tomorrow's Michigan-Penn State foot- ball game important? Only if you consider a Big Ten title, a Rose Bowl bid and a shot at the national title important. Penn State coach Joe Paterno and Michigan ch Gary Moeller apparently do, because they are taking this game seriously. "If you don't like playing in games like this one, I don't know what the devil you're doing here," Paterno said. "(You) might as well be teaching tiddlywinks or something." The implications of this contest are huge. If No. 3 Penn State wins, it will have the inside track on the Big Ten title and the national championship. No For an in-depth look at the Michigan-Penn State game, See Page 5. ranked teams remain on the Lions' schedule. If Michigan wins, it will be in prime position to go to the Rose Bowl. The Wolverines also don't play any teams cur- rently in the top 25. They will have a chance at the 3:30 p.m. contest as the one of the hottest teams in the country. They have won 10 straight games and have outscored their first five opponents by an average of 34.4 points. The Wolverines (2-0, 4-1) are coming off their best performance of the season, a 40-20 pasting of Michigan State. "I don't think there is any team in the conference playing as well as Michigan and Penn State," Nittany Lion wide receiver Bobby Engram said. "I'm looking forward to it. I think this is what college football is all about." This figures to be Penn State's first real test of the season. The Lions have beaten Southern Cal, Temple, Minnesota, Rutgers and Iowa so far this season. None of those squads was within striking distance in the fourth quarter. "I don't figure on beating everybody like that," Engram said. Michigan, on the other hand, has had noth- ing but close games this season. Boston Col- lege and Iowa put up a fight before falling to the Wolverines. The Notre Dame and Colo- rado games went down to the final play. "Every time I look up, the score is 35-0, Penn State, in the first quarter," Moeller said. As for the tightness of Michigan's games, Moeller says his team has to get used to it. "I don't think that's something that is going to end any time soon." If this game goes down to the final min- utes, Michigan figures to be in better shape than Penn State. The Wolverines have come back from deficits in every game. The Nittany Lions have trailed only once, 6-0 to Temple. This is the third year in a row Penn State started out 5-0. Each of the past two years, they failed to make it to 6-0. "We've been in great positions the past two years," Engram said. "We just haven't seized the opportunities." U.S. halts plan to scale back troops Los Angeles Times JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Iraqi forces abruptly halted their retreat back to Baghdad yesterday and U.S. officials responded imme- diately by suspending a plan to scale back U.S. military deployments to the region. The Iraqi move startled U.S. defense offi- cials, who hours earlier had announced that the United States was slowing its flow of forces to the region and were even talking about return- ing troops already in Kuwait to the United States "within weeks." As night fell, it was unclear whether the pause in the Iraqi withdrawal was merely a logistical foul-up or the beginning of a serious military challenge to the United States and its allies. In Baghdad, Washington and at the United Nations, there were rapid-fire diplomatic de- velopments throughout the day and evening yesterday that promised some progress toward an easing of the Persian Gulf crisis while raising the likelihood of a substantial long-term U.S. military presence in the area. Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, announced on state television that he would recognize Kuwait's sovereignty and its borders before Iraq occupied the country in 1990. Such recognition is one of the key requirements Baghdad must meet before the United Nations will consider lifting harsh economic sanctions imposed in the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf war. But U.S. officials all but dismissed Hussein's announcement as a propaganda ploy. "We are skeptical because of all the broken promises in the past," a U.S. diplomat said. See IRAQ, Page 2 Nike Humvee comes to campus to promote the company at a pep rally fof the football game this weekend. See story Peace Corps director outlines progress of 34-year program From the deserts of Mauritania to the jungles of Guatemala, 6,500 Peace Corps volunteers work in communi- ties around the world each year. Peace Corps Director Carol Bellamy visited the University on Wednesday to speak on the Corps' tradition of service and its place in a changing world. Bellamy was tapped by President Clinton in 1993 to head the organiza- tion that sends volunteers to more than 93 countries in programs tar- geting education, business, agricul- ture, health and the environment. Daily Staff Reporter Daniel Johnson spoke with Bellamy on Wednesday. Q: How do you define the Peace Corps? A: The idea of the Peace Corps is premised on what we call our three goals. Goal one is Americans going overseas to experience working at the community level with people and transferring some of the skills that they have.... Goal two is that people in other countries will get to know a little bit more about America through dealing with the volunteers. Goal three is, hopefully, America will come to have a bit more respect or at least understanding of other cultures. It is an opportunity to go overseas and make a small difference in other people's lives for the Peace Corps vol- unteer. The volunteer can learn another language, have a cross-cultural experi- ence, and, in my opinion, have the two most interesting years of their life. Q: Have there been shifts of focus since the Peace Corps' conception in 1961? A: The answer is yes. What hasn't shifted are those three goals. What has changed are the world's needs. For example, we are still working in education. We have math teachers, science teachers and English teach- ers, but a lot of our English-as-a- second-language teachers are work- ing in a number of the former Soviet Union states, because they see En- glish as important in terms of a stron- ger economy. ... A number of our health workers are still working in simple childhood nutrition, but they're also working in AIDS education and prevention. This is something, obviously, even 10 years ago we weren't involved in places like Thailand or Cameroon. Q: Do you have any specific goals as newly appointed director? A: Well, right now we are at a 15- year high. I would like Peace Corps to continue to grow. I have set a goal of 7,500 which would be a 20-year high. Another goal is to be open to new opportunities. Just last week, we signed an agree- ment with Cambodia, and we took the first step towards the signing of an agreement with South Africa. I think See PEACE CORPS, Page 2 U.S. gives Cedras $1M, 'golden parachute' to leave, sources sav agree to ceasemfire The Washington Post LONDON - Northern Ireland's ro-British Protestant paramilitary or- anizations signed yesterday to the ease-fire declared six weeks ago by heir Catholic nationalist enemy, the rish Republican Army, significantly idvancing the hope for an end to "the roubles" that have terrorized the area @25 years. The armed Protestant "loyalist" roups, responsible for about 900 leaths and countless maimings since [969, said they would "cease hostili- ies" at midnight last night and take ip arms again only if their opponents Los Angeles Times PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -The United States gave former Haitian military strongman Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras a million dollar-plus "golden parachute" to resign and go into exile, including the rental of three of his houses, according to U.S. and Haitian sources. Cedras, who fled to Panama early yesterday and whom President Clinton and otherU.S. officials have described variously as a "thug," "stooge" and "killer," was forced to resign as com- mander in chief of the Haitian army or face a hostile American invasion. As part of a deal to avoid arrest, INSIDE - - - - , - 7 - - - - - - - - 1 Cedras had promised early this week to leave the country and permit the return Saturday of President Jean- Bertrand Aristide, who was driven into exile by a military coup on Sept. 30, 1991. But Cedras delayed his depar- ture while he wrested final financial concessions from the United States - a promise that the Americans would rent his own home in the suburb of Peguyville, his mother- in-law's Port-au-Prince home and a beachfront house about 40 miles to the north. U.S. Embassy spokesman Stanley Schrager denied reports that senior American military officials would live in any of the three homes but con- firmed that the United States would rent the properties. He declined to give the price be- yond saying they would be leased "at fair market value," possibly to U.S. personnel. Sources close to the Haitian mili- tary, however, said the Peguyville home, which has been stripped bare, would be rented for $4,000 a month for a year, to be paid in advance. The leases for the beach house and the mother-in-law's home, also for a year, are for "several thousand dol- lars" a month each, the sources said. Palestinian police in riot gear drive through Gaza City yesterday to arrest 300 Islamic militants in a sweep to find a kidnapped Israeli soldier. U.S. works for peace "- _ u __ _ With winter near, UHS !! D'TC 12 I I _ _ _ _ _A-I _ IA_ 1 _ ___ ___ _ J 9