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Yeltsin cites army for violations
Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW - An unapologetic
President Boris N. Yeltsin yesterday
defended Russia's use of force in
Chechnya to eliminate what he called
a "criminal dictatorship" as corrosive
as the Medellin drug cartel.
However, for the first time he ac-
knowledged that the Russian military
was not up to the job.
Although Yeltsin had ordered
troops into the secessionist Muslim
republic over the well-publicized ob-
jections of at least five top generals -
one of whom resigned rather than
send untrained conscripts into com-
bat - the Russian president blamed
military unpreparedness for the casu-
alties and human-rights violations of
the 2-month-old war in Chechnya.
He promised sweeping reform of
the armed forces in 1995 and hinted
that a shake-up in the military leader-
ship may be imminent.
t TU ITION
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categories used to evaluate appro-
priations, Whitaker said. Engler's
-mbudget used Carnegie classifications
for institutions of higher learning,
which classify schools by the number
of doctoral degrees they give and the
amount of federal funding they re-
. ceive, he said.
Engler's budget gives additional
funding to the three Michigan institu-
tions ranked lowest in funding in their
Carnegie classifications. These insti-
tutions will receive substantially more
than 3 percent, Whitaker said.
"We think a university ought to be
funded by its mission," Whitaker said.
-The state should consider program of-
ferings, the composition and mix of the
-astudent body, the number of students
V:enrolled in costly programs like engi-
neering or music, and numbers of part-
time versus full-time students when
making funding decisions, he said.
"We are very different institutio
and we have different funding needs,
Whitaker said.
Duderstadt said the funding dif-
ferential has the potential to disrupt the
cooperation that has grown between the
xtwo universities in recent years.
"For 20 years, the appropriations
of U-M and MSU have been locked
together, and because of that, compe-
tition between the universities had
disappeared," he said. "I think it's in
the best interest of both institutions
that we cooperate."
"This proposal breaks that equilib-
rium and could have a significant nega-
tive impact on cooperation," he said.
Regent Andrea Fischer Newman
(R-Birmingham) voiced concern that
the differential in state appropriations
could hurt in-state students.
"By giving some institutions addi-
tional funds, it forces other institutions
to admit more out-of-state students to
make up the differential," she said. "That
could hurt in-state students who want to
attend but now can't get in."
If the allocations are not changed,
the University may be under pressure
to increase tuition, Whitaker said.
The budget has not been approved,
and will not likley be up for passage
until June or July, said Vice President
for University Relations Walter
Harrison.
"Our chance to be influential be-
gins now," Whitaker said. He added
that he hopes the University can have
some impact on changing the pro-
posal before the budget is passed.
MSA
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Tuesday night, MSA voted to sup-
port the original bill without the
amendment.
"We support the idea of a tuition
tax deduction and we understand
the Senate's concern with rising tu-
ition costs, but the bill is meant to
benefit students and to put some-
thing in that would hurt some stu-
dents would be counter productive,"
Christie said.
Christie and LSA Rep. Andrew
Wright both attended the hearing with
LSA sophomore Andrew Schor, di-
rector of the Association of Big Ten
Schools, a student group. Christie tes-
tified before the committee against
the proposed amendment.
"I think Mike speaking did have
an impact," Schor said. "He was ques-
tioned by many people there and they
seemed interested in what he had to
say."
The House committee revised the
bill after Christie's testimony, elimi-
nating the amendment that ties the tax
deduction to a university's tuition rate.
"I think this finally proves MSA
can take a stance on state legislation
and can make a difference," Wright
said. "This shows the student at the
University can make an impact on
legislation."
State Sen. Alma Wheeler Smith
(D-South Lyon), who represents
Washtenaw County, said students
should lobby if legislation affects uni-
versities.
"If (student) lobbying is helpful at
all it's because the students and their
parents are the ones directly im-
pacted," Smith said.
Before the committee's decision,
Smith said students should be pro-
tected from universities that raise their
tuition more than the rate of inflation.
"I hope the House comes up with
a different requirement for the tuition
deductibility so it would go to a con-
ference committee and we (can) try to
come up with a better scheme for
making tuition deductible."
The committee's recommendation
will now go to the House floor. If the
panel's changes are accepted, the bill
would no longer allow an income tax
deduction, but instead would include a
4-percenttuition tax credit up to $6,025.
Christie predicts that the new bill
will be endorsed by MSA after spring
break.
" It will only be a formality to go
through and endorse it," Christie said.
N. A .7 ON A L :E P RT
Antimissile deployment voted down
WASHINGTON-The House Wednesday night voted M
to knockout asymbolically important portion of theRepub-
lican defense bill by rejecting a provision to deploy a "Star
Wars"-like antimissile defense system thatPentagon offi-
cials asserted was unnecessary and expensive.
On a 218 to 212 vote, the Democrats' amendment to
the House National Security Revitalization Act passed
with support from 24 Republicans, including leading
GOP deficit hawks. The original provision was cherished
by former Republican Cold Warriors who now head key
defense committees, but it was roundly criticized by Clinton
President Clinton and Defense Secretary William J. Perry, who began a full-
court press against the entire bill last week.
After the vote, GOP leaders tried immediately to rein in the two dozen
Republicans who crossedparty lines in the first vote against one ofthe basic items
in the Republican "Contract With America."
BAKER
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which one was his actual first name, I
would use it."
Tyrr said in her posting that she
herself was a victim in an Internet
story and was using her story to show
Baker how it felt.
"Pornography written about a fic-
tional character is free speech; even
if your character happens to share a
common name with thousands of
people on the globe," she wrote.
"Snuff/torture fantasies written and
published about a specific, real, liv-
ing person whom you have some
contact with and who is identified
by full name are something else
entirely.
" ... I'm not one bit ashamed of
having exercised my own rights to
free speech, in the defense of a name-
less woman in Michigan and in pro-
test of the fact that there seem to be
NO limits to what is OK to post," Tyrr
wrote. "So I'm deliberately pushing
those limits, in the hopes that some-
one will cry, Enough!"
Another story, "Baker Gets
Baked," was also posted on
"alt.sex.stories" and names Baker as
the victim of a woman he rapes.
The story, which is much less
graphic than Tyrr's, also involves a
gun-point kidnapping, but it is Baker
who kidnaps a woman and takes her
to his apartment. The woman fights
back as she is being raped.
"She pushed him up with her legs
and kicked him in the face," wrote a
man who says his name is Chris (Dan)
Ly. The message was posted from the
on-line service America OnLine,
which allows its customers to use
pseudonyms. "Jake fell, got up, tripped
over his gun, stumbled into the
kitchen, grabbed onto the oven door
which was opened, and Melissa
pushed his whole body into the oven
and turned on the gas."
Baker, now the target of others'
stories, was arrested Feb. 9 on charges
stemming from the discovery of simi-
lar stories he posted on the Internet
from September through January.
The FBI and U.S. Attorney's of-
fice say that the stories he posted in
addition to e-mail messages he sent to
Arthur Gonda of Ontario make for a
viable threat to a female University
student.
Baker's attorney said he plans to
plead not guilty today. Baker remains
in the Wayne County Jail as a federal
prisoner.
Justice plans appeal
in Microsoft case
WASHINGTON - Moving fast,
the Justice Department announced yes-
terday that it will appeal a federal
judge's rejection Tuesday of an anti-
trust settlement that the department
had worked out with the world's larg-
est software company, MicrosoftCorp.
The company later said it also would
appeal.
The department called the decision
"squarely wrong." It argued that the
settlement was in the public interest
and that allowing the rejection to stand
would undermine the department's
ability to negotiate with other compa-
nies.
Attorney General Janet Reno told
reporters that U.S. District Court Judge
Stanley Sporkin overstepped his role in
the case. Ajudge, she said, should evalu-
ate whether a settlement fits the case the
government said it would bring - not
whether the government should have
brought a different case.
Sporkin's decision suggests to com-
panies, she said, that "you may have a
decree, but it's an invitation forajudge
to investigate anything about a com-
pany."
The government said it would file
its formal appeal with the U.S. Court of
Appeals.
Dems debate balanced
budget measure
WASHINGTON-Senate Demo-
crats yesterday blocked an effort bo
testy Republican leaders to restrict fur-
ther debate on the-proposed balanced
budget amendment while Minority
Leader Thomas A. Daschle (R-S.D.)
ended weeks of fence-straddling by
announcing he would oppose the con-
stitutional measure.
Daschle, who has supported previ-
ous balanced budget amendments, led
an unsuccessful drive to alter the mea.
sure to exempt Social Security from
balanced budget strictures and to re-
quire Republicans to explain in ad-
vance how they intend to wipe out the
deficit by 2002.
"I support a balanced budget
amendment, but I also share the belief
that we owe it to the American people
to tell them how we will do what the
amendment requires," Daschle said.
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quester the jury."
Mitchell's attorney contends blood
samples should not be admitted, be-
cause the robbery victim was not sexu-
ally assaulted. Lankford further ar-
gued that his client was not linked at
that time to a series of Ann Arbor
rapes.
Ann Arbor police said, however,
that blood samples were taken to
compare with the bloody glove al-
legedly used in the robbery attempt,
and because elements of the rob-
bery attempt were similar to the
serial rapist's methods - particu-
larly the serial rapist's use of his
fists to beat his rape victims.
Lankford argued that simply be-
cause Mitchell allegedly used his fist
in the attack, that should not alone
imply his client is the serial rapist.
"If these (serial rapes) were un-
armed assaults, I don't know what
else a person would use in an un-
armed (robbery attempt) other than a
fist," Lankford said. "There's noth-
ing in this case to indicate an attempt
to commit sexual assault."
The prosecutor asked that the Feb.
27 trial date be postponed until March
13. Mackie said he needs more time to
get the results of a comprehensive
DNA analysis of the bloody glove.
"(The lab technicians) indicated
that three probes have been com-
pleted," Mackie said. "Their intent
was to do six probes."
Lankford said, "I object for a
couple of reasons: My client is sitting
on abondhecan'tmeet. I'm prepared
to go to trial on the 27th."
The judge, however, granted
Mackie's motion to delay the trial and
postponed the trial to April 3, with a
pre-trial conference on March 13.
LA ESTRELLA, Mexico - Fed-
eral agents suspended their hunt for
rebel leader Subcommander Marcos
on Wednesday, and the Zapatista Na-
tional Liberation Army said it is ready
to renew talks with the Mexican gov-
ernment-under certain conditions.
As President Ernesto Zedillo's new
peace offensive began to take shape,
members of a Mexican congressional
committee announced that they would
leave for the embattled southern state
of Chiapas yesterday to re-establish
contact with the Zapatistas.
But rebel Maj. Ana Maria outlined
some conditions Wednesday. "For us
to talk, the government needs to with-
draw troops from the places where they
are now, stop arresting people and can-
cel the arrest orders" against Zapatista
leaders, she said, according to the
Reuters news agency.
While the army search for the lead-
ers has been halted, the arrest warrants
are still in place.
But the Mexican Congress will con-
sider a blanket amnesty bill for the
rebels at a special session beginning
Monday.
Rabin, Arafat defuse
crisis over West Bank@
EREZ JUNCTION, Gaza Strip -
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
and PLO chief Yasser Arafat broke a
deadlock yesterday and agreed to step
up talks on expanding self-rule in the
WestBank.
Rabin promised to ease atravel ban
and permit 15,000 Palestinians in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip to return to
jobs in Israel next week. The move*
came after Arafat arrested militant op-
ponents of the peace talks and created
a military court to try those suspected
of attacking Israel.
Rabin also proposed that Arafat's
self-rule government take over the run-
ningof the WestBank city ofJenin. But
Palestinians were cool to the idea be-
cause he suggested this be done with-
out Israeli troops pulling out.
Rabin told reporters both sides were
committed to implementing the sec-
ond stage of the Israel-PLO autonomy
accord --troop withdrawal from Pal-
estinian towns in the West Bank and
Palestinian elections.
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