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LEGISLATURE
Continued from page 1
"The party that is coming into
{power is unwilling to pass something
they would maybe like to pass in a
different form under their control,"
dhe said. "The party that has lost is
,more likely to try to get (its remaining
agenda) accomplished."
This is especially true in the Michi-
gan House. After two years of sharing
power, the Republicans will have an
outright majority for the first time
since 1968. With their 22-16 advan-
tage in the Senate and Gov. John
Engler's landslide re-election win,
- Republicans will be in full control of
state government when January rolls
*round.
. That does not give state Demo-
crats much time. Especially consider-
ing they have control of any floor
action only until the end of Novem-
ber. Since the session starts Nov. 29,
they only have two days before relin-
quishing control to the Republicans.
The Democrats do get control of
the committees for the last month, but
that is only a minor consolation since
the final decisions on bills are made
on the floor.
Rivers said it could also be a dan-
gerous time if responsibility is in ques-
tion.
"There's a willingness to pass perk
packages," she said. "The bills tend to
grow larger and larger as things are
added in."
But Tropman said future goals
could override some of these urges.
"People in any decision-making
setting are going to be concerned about
their reputation and how they come
across," Tropman said. "There are
some individuals who don't pay much
vattention to their community anyway
regardless if they're a lame duck or
not."
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GATT
Continued from page 2.
Dole appeared to back off that
stance yesterday, saying he hoped to
get a "fair hearing" on the tax reduc-
tion.
The House is scheduled to vote
on the agreement Monday and the
Senate, Dec. 1. The administration is
short of the 60 votes it needs to win a
preliminary procedural test in the
Senate, officials said.
Dole, whose support is pivotal,
says he needs stronger assurances that
WTO panels would not infringe on
American sovereignty by issuing ar-
bitrary rulings against U.S. laws.
The agreement Dole and admin-
istration officials are working on
would create a body of appellate
judges who would consider whether
WTO dispute panels had exceeded
their authority in cases involving the
United States, or whether panelists
had conflicts of interest that create a
biased panel decision, administration
and Senate sources said.
Three such rulings within a five-
year period would trigger a vote in
Congress on pulling the United States
out of the GATT dispute settlement
process, the sources said. "Three
Strikes and You're Out" is the plan's
informal name.
"This will help ensure that GATT
panels are accountable and act in a
fair way. We are confident they will,"
said Kantor.
He said an agreement is near on
another issue relating to charges fixed
on companies that have received "pio-
neer" licenses for new generation tele-
communications systems. The Wash-
ington Post Co. is a majority owner of
one of the companies.
The sovereignty issue has arisen
because the new WTO process would
eliminate an informal veto that each
GATT member has had over dispute
panel rulings.
Following the lead of their Re-
publican predecessors, Clinton's trade
negotiators agreed to do away with
the veto, believing that the United
States would win more times than it
lost.
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THANKSGIVING
Continued from page 1
"By this time last year, we had
people who had donated four turkeys
and the fixings. This year, we haven't
had one turkey donated," she said.
"Donations are dropping like a
stone," said Tom Wilder of Friends of
Night People, a Buffalo soup kitchen
expecting to serve up to 300 Thanks-
giving meals.
Ann Arbor, however, seems to be
bucking a national trend. LSA junior
Seth Wening, who works at the
Washtenaw County Shelter, said,
"We'd always like to get more," but is
pleased with how donations have

picked up these pastfew weeks-
Thanks to individual donors an#
local businesses like Cottage Inn
restaurant, the shelter will provide a
Thanksgiving meal free of charge to
anyone in need financially or emo-
tionally. "This is for the needy, but
also for the lonely who don't want
to eat Thanksgiving dinner by them-
selves," said a Cottage Inn em-
ployee.
Brandy Davis, a Social Work std
dent who works at the Arbor Haven,
said, "We got some turkeys donated,
and we'll be having a nice dinner for
our residents."
- The Associated Press contributed
to this report.


AP'"MO
Texas billionaire Ross Perot waves to the crowd as he starts his speech on
the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs yesterday in Wichita, Kan.

TAGS'
Continued from page 1
The society raised about $70,400
during last year's Tag Days fund-
raiser to help area children. This year
they hope to raise about $30,000 more
to meet an increased demand.
The increase is a result of more
groups worthy of funding applying to
Galens for money this year, Yousef
said.
Galens provides funds every year
to the Mott Hospital Child Life Work-
shop. The workshop provides recre-
ational and educational activities for
the children. It also provides some
support for parents. The society also
sponsors an annual Christmas party
and with presents for children at the
hospital.

Galens also gives funds to the Ann
Arbor Ronald McDonald House, a
place where parents can stay while
their children undergo long-term treat-
ment; the Washtenaw Association for
Retarded Children; and Safe House, a
refuge for battered woman and their
children.
"A lot of times people don't pay
attention to children or children s is-
sues," said Mark Richards, a Tag Days
co-chairperson.
The society is also involved i
other activities to improve health ip
Washtenaw County. They sponsor
blood drives, hold free pediatric clin-
ics and immunizations, and sponsor
lectures at the University Hospitals.
The Galens Medical Society was
founded in 1914 at the University as a
society open to all medical students.

POLL
Continued from page 1
face defeat when the measure comes
up before Congress, later this year.
The poll of 600 likely voters was
taken Oct. 19-20. It has a margin of
error of 4 percentage points either
way.
Opinions likely have changed little
since the surveys were conducted
since popular discussion of GATT is
just beginning, Sarpolus said.
Almost half, 47 percent, said they
were uninformed on the issue. Those
most knowledgeable on the issues
were union members, but still only 37
percent of them said they were well
informed.
Forty-seven percent of union mem-
bers said the agreement will help work-
ers and 29 percent said it will hurt.
"I think the workers are looking at
GATT as job security. I don't think
they are sold on the fact that it is some
great windfall," Sarpolus said.
"If the markets don't open up, we
are losing in competition to Japan -
that's more the perception here."

Party labels made little difference
in support for GATT, despite the
GOP's historic identification as the
party of free trade.
Twenty-five percent of Republi-
cans back the pact, 26 percent of
Democrats and 29 percent of inde-
pendents.
Republican support would have
been higher had it not been for the
strong opposition of GOP women,
Sarpolus said.
Only 19 percent of Republican
women favored GATT, compared
with 32 percent of Republican men.
Women may see GATT as a way
to undermine the equal pay for equal
work and other workplace protections
they have won in recent years,
Sarpolus said.
"It's just another threat to what
they've been fighting for for a long
time," he said.
Among all women, 19 percent of
workers backed the trade agreement,
compared with 34 percent of home-
makers and 33 percent of retirees.
Also, thirty-one percent of men
backed it.



WELFARE
Continued from page 1
lead to dramatic increases in hunger
in the United States at a time when
one in five children already doesn't
get enough to eat, and that governors
and mayors will be left to "pick up the
pieces."
"Not since the Great Depression
has the possibility of millions of chil-
dren lining up at soup kitchens been
so real," said Leahy, chairman of the
Senate Agriculture Committee.

The GOP's welfare overhaul also in-
cludes strict time limits for parents on
AFDC, establishes new work programs
expected to enroll 1.5 million welfare
recipients by 2001, bans cash benefits to
unwed mothersunder the age of 18, and
requires women to establish paternity as a
condition of receiving assistance.
In its analysis, the Center on Bud-
get and Policy Priorities said that if
fully implemented, the legislation
would make at least 2.5 million fami-
lies and more than 5 million children
ineligible for benefits.

BOS"NIA
Continued from page 1
They said that Bosnian President
Alija Izetbegovic called in U.S. Am-
bassador Victor Jackovic in Sarajevo
late Tuesday to express "very deep
concern" about the possibility that
Bihac might fall, providing a major
setback for Western peace-making
efforts.
The renewed Serb attacks ap-
peared intended to call the West's
hand following Monday's NATO air
strike on the Serb-held airfield at
Udbina. Damage from the raid was
modest. The NATO armada of 30
warplanes blew five craters in the
airstrip's main runways. But Western
officials said it was designed to "send
a signal" that the United Nations
would not tolerate the Serb offensive.
Still, for all their obvious embar-
rassment in the face of the new Serb
attacks, it was not immediately clear
what the allies would do to prevent
the fall of Bihac or to ward off any
further Serb retaliation against U.N.
forces.
The North Atlantic Council,
NATO's major decision-making arm,
is scheduled to meet Wednesday to
consider a U.S. proposal to create a
new "exclusion zone" around Bihac,
but officials said that Britain and
France still are reluctant to go along.
Key European allies have been
opposed to increased use of NATO
military power because they fear that
the Serbs would retaliate and endan-
ger U.N. peacekeeping forces, which
comprise mainly French, British and
Dutch soldiers.
The Europeans regard Washing-
ton suspiciously, partly because the
United States has no ground forces in
Bosnia and also because they regard
it as overly aggressive in its efforts to
punish the Serbs. Even so, top U.S.
officials renewed their push for the

new plan. U.S. Secretary of Stat.
Warren Christopher had "extensive
telephone conversations on the issue
with French Foreign Minister Alain
Juppe and British Foreign Secretary
Douglas Hurd.
The administration also pursued
the issue in the United Nations, where
U.S. Ambassador Madeleine Albright
conferred in a series of meetings with
hercounterparts from the major WesJ-
ern countries and Russia, but appaw
ently failed to win a consensus.
Defense Secretary William J. Perry
warned that if the Serb nationalists
launch additional air strikes against
Bihac from the Croatian airfield,
NATO warplanes will return and de-
stroy the 15 or 20 Serb fighters that
they intentionally did not attack Mon-
day.
Yet time appeared to be running
out. Some U.S. officials believe that,
unless some action is taken soon, the
fall of Bihac could be imminent.
Karadzic's intensified rhetoric was
not the only sign of heightened Serb
defiance. Serb forces near Banja Luka
fired two SA-2 surfac to-air missiles
at British Harrier aircraft patrolling
the area for NATO.
Serb forces in one area were sup-
ported by a rocket-firing helicopte.
And the Serbs briefly captured two
soldiers attached to a local U.N. peace-
keeping force but released them after
appeals by the United Nations.
If the Serbs actively attack U.N.
peacekeeping forces in Bosnia, NATO
would be obliged to provide some
protection, most likely in the form of
air strikes. If the U.N. forces decide to
withdraw, U.S. and allied troop
would have to cover their departure.
The U.N. Protection Force in Bihac
comprises 1,200Bangladeshi soldiers,
who are regarded as too poorly trained
and equipped to present much of a
threat to the oncoming Serbs. Serb
forces have blocked any U.N. efforts
to reinforce the soldiers.

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