2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 2, 1995 9'z - SECURITY Continued from page 1. "Social Security is very much on the table" for cuts by Republi- cans, Sen. Christopher Dodd (D- Conn.), general chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said yesterday. It is an assertion Republicans vehemently deny. But it is what the debate over the proposed con- stitutional amendment has evolved into. This time, a group of wavering Democrats - including North Da- kota Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan - are declaring that protec- tion of Social Security is the price for their support. Remove its vast sur- pluses from budget calculations, they say, and save the trust funds for their intended recipients. Republicans offered a compromise that over a. decade would gradually remove the Social Security surpluses from the budget. The offer would let the GOP, pledged to balance the bud- get by the year 2002, use the surpluses to fulfill its promise, while letting Conrad and Dorgan claim their demands had been met. No deal, the North Dakota senators said yesterday. On its face, the standoff seems confusing. Assuring the integrity of Social Security would seem an easy political call for Dole and fellow Senate Re- publicans, who unsuccessfully sought Social Security cuts in 1985 and lost control of the Senate in the following year's elections. Social Security, the government's biggest program, provides retirement, death and disability benefits to 45 million American families. Touching it might be considered political sui- cide. Why not agree to make it off limits? The reason is in the numbers. Without access to the Social Se- curity surpluses, "you'd create amuch higher hurdle in trying to balance the budget," said Sen. Larry Craig (R- Idaho), a chief sponsor of the bal- anced budget amendment. DEAN Continued from page 1 kindergarten through 12th grade to public school teachers throughout the country. SNRE Associate Prof. Robert Grese, a member of the school's ex- ecutive committee, said Brewer has been a strong dean. "I think a lot of the faculty, if not most faculty, have said the ties he has built to the Business School will be an advantage to the school," Grese said. Grese said a recent review of Brewer by the Senate Assembly Com- mittee on University Affairs showed the faculty supported the dean's ef- forts. SNRE senior Noah Hall said Brewer is one of the more conserva- tive people in the school. "I know a lot of students found him rather conservative and business- oriented for a school of natural re- sources, but he made changes which may turnout for the better," Hall said. Hall, who served on the school's student government, said he believes the time Brewer spent in fund-raising caused him to leave his post. "I know he's always out trying to raise funds. He probably wanted to get back to teaching," Hall said. "I think there's a lot of pressure on all the administration to raise a lot of funds. The (Campaign for Michigan) wants to raise $1 billion and every dean has to do their fair share." Whitaker said raising funds takes a lot of time for the deans. "I think (deans) know it's part of their job," he said. "All universities are look- ing for resources and that may get worse." The University now will begin the process of filling Brewer's post. Whitaker said he will name a com- mittee to conduct the search and an interim dean to serve until a new dean takes office. Brewer holds a bachelor's in eco- nomics from Berkeley, and both a master's in a public administration and a doctorate in political science from Yale University. a N ATwONA EPORT States unsure on budget amendment If Congress passes a balanced-budget amendment, it's no sure thing that 39 states will ratify the measure and make it a reality. . One month after an Associated Press survey found legislative leaders in only 32 states predicting passage, a second check this week found the same thing. The number of states where the leaders were uncertain went from 16 to 15. And the number that said they were unlikely to ratify the measure went fron two to three. With seven years to decide, of course, much could change on the political landscape. California shifted from the "uncertain" column to the "unlikely" one.. Tuesday, Willie Brown, the powerful Democratic speaker of the Assembly, said the chances for ratification in his state were "not even close." In Michigan, Republican state Rep. Terry London said language of the ratifying measure was being edited as the amendment changed in Washington. "We are ready to go when they pass it. It would be great to be No. 1. I'd be willing to do whatever it takes," he said. The measure was undergoing revision in the Senate yesterday as backer I I I The Medical School Information Fair Thursday, March 2 10:00 AM-2:00 PM Michigan Union Information Fair Pendleton Room Admissions Deans' Panel Kuenzel Room 10:00 AM-2:00 PM 2:30 PM-3:30 PM Meet with representatives from: Bowman Gray School of Medicine * Case Western Reserve University- Duquesne Unversity Post- Baccalaureate Programs - Excel Test Preparation- George Washington University - Kaplan Educational Center - Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine - Michigan State University College of Human Medicine - Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine - Midwestern University - Ohio State University MEDPATH - Princeton Review - Ross University - St. George's University- University of Cincinnati - University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey - University of Michigan - University of Osteopathic Medicine & Health Sciences - University of the West Indies - Wayne State University Co-Sponsored with the Pre-Med Club Career Planning. :Placement pportunity. at today! Gingrich hopes pay will get kids to read WASHINGTON--An inner-city school is so poor its leaky roof has damaged the few books in the library. Yet House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) urged this school's children to read yesterday by promising them $2 for every book they finish. Handing out hundreds of new books donated by a private charity, the speaker told children at Lucy Ellen Moten Elementary he wants them "to grow up and make a good living, so you can come back and do good things for this school." "But to do that, you have to be able to read," Gingrich told the kids. The youngsters - who live just outside the shadow of the Capitol but in a neighborhood so crime-ridden many fear walking to the local library -- clapped at his words. Twelve-year-old Erick Turner says he often reads in school. But, he admit- ted with a grin, it's awfully hard to find him at home with a book. "Just tired of Op A ROUND T HEW After U.N. pullout, Somali militiamen take over airport MOGADISHU, Somalia -War- lord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's mili- tiamen swept into the Mogadishu air- port yesterday, chasing away packs of looters and filling the void left by a retreating U.N. mission. American and Italian troops watched from the nearby dunes while the militiamen loyal to Aidid, who once carried a $25,000 U.N. price on his head, roared through the airport gates in stripped-down trucks and jeeps mounted with heavy weapons. After the last U.N. peacekeepers left the airstrip in the morning, hun- dreds of looters swarmed over barbed- wire fences to pick over wooden pal- lets and what little else remained. American and Italian troops pro- tecting the withdrawal of Pakistani peacekeepers nervously watched the looting. Rifle shots rang out, most fired by militiamen. The airfield looked like a hurri- cane hit it after the looters, a motley collection that was mostly young and female Somalis, many in long red skirts, finished carting off the remains.; No looters were hit by gunfire. reading, I guess," the boy said. The $2 incentive could change his mind. "I'll try it. Sure I will. I want the money." Court: Evidence can be used, despite error WASHINGTON - When Phoe7 nix Police Officer Bryan Sargent pulled Isaac Evans over for a traffic violation four years ago, the com- puter in his cruiser told him - erro- neously - that there was a warrant out for Evans' arrest. Evans was handcuffed, and a search of his car revealed a bag' of marijuana under the passenger seat But even though the search was un constitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday upheld his drug conviction based on the fruits of that search. In a 7-2 decision, the court held that computer errors innocently caused by court personnel do not fapi under the general rule that evidence obtained illegally should not be ad mitted in court. IO at The Americans, Italians and Paki- stanis, who were evacuating three miles away to the seaport for theif return home, suffered no casualties and fired only a few warning shots.' Mexico arrest breaks* old political taboos MEXICO CITY -- The lax laws of Mexican politics seemed as du- rable as the party that has ruled the country for 65 years. But then Presi. dent Ernesto Zedillo's attorney gen- eral ordered the arrest of Raul Salinas: de Gortari - brother of Carlos Sali. nas, who turned the presidency over. to Zedillo on Dec. 1. The attorney general's office Tues- day charged Raul Salinas with mass. terminding and financing the Sep: tember assassination of Jose Fran- cisco Ruiz Massieu, his former brother-in-law and the No. 2 man in. the ruling party. 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