The Michigan Daily - Monday, November 28, 1994 - 3 They just keep on shopping ... At Briarwood Mall, families of shoppers head toward Sears and stop at other retail outlets on their way to the department TONYA BROAD/Daily store yesterday. GATT trade panel sparks controversy The Washington Post gether," said Maria Elena Hurtado, WASHINGTON - Not since the policy director of the International birth of the United Nations in San Organization of Consumers Unions. Francisco a half-century ago has the That is not, however, how it looks country faced a decision quite like the to the opponents. An unlikely coali- one that brings Congress back to Wash- tion of America First conservatives ington this week in a rare post-election and liberal critics of Big Business session to consider U.S. membership oppose the WTO. To them, it amounts in a new World Trade Organization. to a surrender of U.S. sovereignty and The WTO, if approved as part of the control over the nation's economic General AgreementonTariffsandTrade destiny to a potentially hostile instru- by the United States and 122 other ment of world government, able to nations, would take its place on Jan. 1 challenge U.S. laws protecting work- alongside the United Nations as a pow- ers, consumers and the environment. erful international body, equipped to Even the name - World Trade bring down barriers to trade, invest- Organization - has a scary ring to ment and economic growth worldwide. many Americans, suggesting unseen World leaders will be anxiously agendas of powerful worldwide busi- watching the outcome of this week's ness and political elites, said Sen. votes, scheduled for tomorrow in the Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) the top-rank- House and Thursday in the Senate. A ing Republican on the Senate Finance defeat would doom the WTO and Committee and a WTO supporter. mean a return to "the law of the jungle" The critics have not exaggerated in world trade, said Peter Sutherland, the role of big U.S. corporations in director-general of GATT in Geneva. shaping the trade agreement - their Prospects for approval of the WTO lobbyists and lawyers worked hand in and an expansion of GATT now look hand with U.S. negotiators under three good. The breakthrough was last presidents and the congressional trade week's agreement by Senate Repub- committees to set the U.S. goals. lican leader Robert J. Dole of Kansas As President Clinton sees it, new to support the pact, after the Clinton rules expanding trade opportunities administration accepted his plan per- for the strongest U.S. industries should mitting a U.S. exit from the WTO if it be a cause for celebration. "Since the ruled consistently against the U.S. United States has the most productive Creation of the WTO would be- and competitive economy in the come "a symbol of the inexorable world, that is good news for our wotk- forces that are pulling the world to- ers and our future," he said last week. Pope VATICAN CIT placed rings on thi Maida and other pointed out their tas next century and se References to thi plans a worldwide particularly importa to dispel suggestio openly expressed hi the new millennium The pope elevate cardinal Saturday, Sarajevo and othe authoritarian regime and Vietnam. Maida "I tell you, it ge The Detroit News just focused on the Maida has be Michigan's 1.5 mil named him archbish bestows rgson Maida, Y (AP) - Pope John Paul II 86-year-old mother, Sophie, flew to Rome for the ie fingers of Detroit's Adam event, as did other family members and hundreds of new cardinals yesterday and Michigan well-wishers. k of leading the church into the "We are all so happy for my brother," said the lecting the next pope. Rev. Thaddeus Maida of suburban Pittsburgh. "It's 1e year 2000, when the church hard to express what is in our hearts." Roman Catholic jubilee, are John Paul has named 100 of the 120 cardinals nt to the pontiff, who has tried who are under 80 years old and eligible to vote for ns he is seriously ill and has pope. s desire to lead the church into The new cardinals, dressed in purple cloaks, n. received the rings from the pontiff during a special ed 30 clergymen to the rank of Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. including the archbishop of "Being named cardinal is a symbol of strength r clerics who were jailed by not only for me but for the suffering people in my s in the former Soviet bloc, Cuba country," Puljic said Saturday. was one of two Americans. The pope called the naming the new cardinals one ts you right here," Maida told of the "points of reference" toward 2000. He also and pointed to his stomach. "I noted the cardinals' duty to select his successor. Holy Father, nothing else." "The College of Cardinals has maintained, for en leader of southeastern century after century, the continuity of the succes- lion Catholics since the pope sion ...a continuity which has a fundamental im- op of Detroit in 1990. Maida's portance to the universal church," said the pope. new cardinals Pope John Paul 11 puts the Cardina"s Ring on Cardinal Adam Maida yesterday. The pope recalled the suffering and martyrdom of past clergymen and suggested threats to the church still exist. *EMU calls off classes Sfor MELK .Day 1996 ® Administrators bow to Black students' demands, follow other universities From Staff and Wire Reports Eastern Michigan University will cancel classes on Martin Luther King r. Day beginning in 1996, bowing to . pressure from student groups, who have threatened to boycott classes if the university did not make the day an official holiday. Some students still are unhappy because of the change will not take effect this year. At the University, Michigan State University and Wayne State University, classes have been *anceled for years. The delay until 1996 has not as- suaged criticism from members of the Student Union for African American Unity, who had threatened to boycott -classes if they were not canceled on Jan. 16, 1995. Anthony Daniels, a member of the group, told The Ann Arbor News that the boycott would go forward. mo"We intend to have the day off hrool one way or another," Daniels 'said. "I don't know how it is going to happen, but it's going to happen." The decision by a committee to cancel classes reversed a previous decision to maintain classes in honor of the civil rights leader, an EMU spokesman said. Last year, the University's Black Student Union boycotted the Jniversity's slate of activities, call- ing them "more academic than activ- ist" and charging that group members had not been involved in the planning of the day's events. The University has worked to in- clude the BSU in the planning of this year's events. NATO Continued from page 1 control of a rail link that runs through the town of Bihac and that could connect the Serb-held city of Banja Luka in Bosnia with Knin, the headquarters of the Croatian Serbs. U.N. officials have said one reason the Serbs pressed their offensive into the safe area was to grab the railway, which would put them on their way to uniting Serb-held parts of Bosnia with Serb-controlled areas of Croatia. Serb assaults on the Bihac pocket continued to squeeze the beleaguered Muslims. U.N. chief spokesman Michael Williams said that instead of blasting the Bihac safe area, Croatian Serb forces hammered the northern town of Velika Kladusa with tank and artillery fire along with a ground assault. Williams said that despite Croatian Serb denials, there was more evidence, that the two rebel Serb forces were closely coordinating the assault on Bihac. The U.N. Protection Force in the former Yugoslavia rejected a NATO request to destroy Serb antiaircraft missile sites around the Bihac safe area on Saturday in what one military official described as "the last NATO bid for an airstrike in Bihac and possibly in Bosnia as well." Western military officials said the U.N. mission in Zagreb rebuffed the NATO request to hit approximately six surface-to-air missile (SAM) sites in both northwest- ern Bosnia and Serb-held territory in neighboring Croatia. The airstrike would have been the most militarily signifi- cant NATO action in the 32-month Bosnian war and would have come at a time of growing differences between members of NATO about what to do in Bosnia. U.N. sources said the NATO request was rejected because of fears that the Serbs, who have launched a concerted and coordinated assault on the Bihac enclave, would respond by killing peacekeepers. KEVORKIAN Continued from page 1 Kevorkian left a "certification of medicide" form.t Garrish's home, listing her diseases, her diagnosis, her prognosis and her family physician, Schwartz said. Kevorkian wasn't at the home when police arrived. H'e didn't talk to police yesterday; Schwartz said. Schwartz declined to reveal Kevorkian's location but said he remained in the Detroit area. The Michigan Legislature enacted a temporary ban on assisted suicide in February 1993. Under the bill imposing the ban, the Commission on Death and Dying was set up by the Legislature to determine whether assisted suicide should be legal. The bill gave the commission 15 months to come up with a report, and said the law would expire six months later. Some contend the law expired Friday - 21 months after the bill was passed -but others contend the law expires Dec. 8 because the commission was late issuing its report. The report was inconclusive anyway, offering the Legislature options on whether assisted suicide should be kept illegal or legalized with strict controls. Bills aimed to extend the state's ban on assisted suicide are scheduled for debate in the Legislature this week. Sen. Fred Dillingham, a Fowlerville Republican who is retiring after 16 years as a lawmaker, has introduced a bill that would permanently extend the ban. Rep. Lynn Jondahl (D-Okemos) said he plans to intro- duce a measure that would set procedures for regulating assisted suicide. Jondahl, who is leaving office after 22 years after failing in his bid for governor, said the Legis- lature should ignore Kevorkian when taking up the subject of assisted suicide. AP PHOTO Israelis search for blood or human remains at the shooting site yesterday. Islamic militants kill settler rabbi in drive-by shooting BEIT HAGAI, West Bank (AP) "We must continue the peace pro- - A rabbi was shot to death and an cess and do our best so that such sad Israeli policeman wounded in a hail events will not occur in the future," of bullets fired at their car yesterday said Immigration Minister Yair as they drove toward a Jewish settle- Tsaban. ment. Islamic militants claimed re- An anonymous caller claiming to sponsibility. be from the radical Muslim group The shooting, on the eve of the Hamas called Israel radio and claimed Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, occurred responsibility for yesterday's shoot- 3 miles from Hebron, where tensions ing. Hamas carried out a suicide bomb- have been high since the massacre of ing that killed 23 people in Tel Aviv 29 Muslim worshipers by a Jewish last month. settler at a mosque Feb. 25. "We will continue the attacks," he It came a day before Israeli For- said. The man said the shooting eign Minister Shimon Peres was to marked the anniversary of the killing meet with PLO leader Yasser Arafat of a Hamas activist by Israeli forces in Brussels, Belgium, and as the cycle last year. of violence in the West Bank and Israeli sources said the gunfire Gaza Strip is pushing negotiators to came from a passing car carrying at speed up the peace process. least two men. The rabbi's car drove Jewish settlers blamed govern- off the road and flipped over. ment peace policies for encouraging Blood stained the muddy ground Islamic militants, but members of and seeped from cracks in the front Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's Cabi- windshield. Six bullet holes pierced net pledged to continue talks with the windows and 30 shell casings from an PLO. automatic rifle littered the ground. GRAND OPENING 304 S. 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