2.- The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 9, 1996 NATION/WORLD Oregon hit with worst flooding in 30 years PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A mountainside moaned, then gave way in a rush of mud. High- ways vanished beneath stinking, caramel-col- ored floodwaters swirling with uprooted trees and raw sewage. One girl was dead, a woman was missing, and thousands of bregonians were driven from their homes. And the rain kept falling. As the state's worst flooding in more than three decades threatened to swamp downtown Portland, sandbags and concrete highway dividers formed a thin de- fense yesterday against the wide Willamette River. "Water's going everywhere," said Trase Myers, as he and others hurried to stack 40-pound sand- bags against abuilding downtown. "I can't believe the destruction the water has caused." .In the nation's latest extreme weather in a winter otextremes, hundreds of roads - including both of Oregon's cross-state freeways, Interstates 5 and $ - were closed by high water or mudslides. Amtrak trains were halted. Gov. John Kitzhaber declared 14 counties disaster areas. Amid the deluge, there were water shortages. Muddy floodwaters contaminated drinking- water supplies throughout the valley. Portland and Salem officials urged people to conserve water. Smaller towns shut down their water plants completely and told residents to buy bottled water. The flooding is the result of a series of storms that marched in from the Pacific beginning two weeks ago. The first were cold, piling up snow in the mountains that form a scenic backdrop to Portland - the Cascades to the cast, the rolling Coast Range to the west. On Monday, a warmer storm stalled over the state, and the snow started melting, adding to the record rains - more than five inches a day in some areas. Sparkling mountain streams, narrow enough to jump across two weeks ago, turned monstrous, tearing through the forest, ripping small bridges apart. SNATIONAL REPORT White House releases Whitewater notes WASHINGTON - White House aides dealing with Whitewater two years ago were speculating. Did they dare approach a state bank regulator to "make sure her story is OK"? It was touchy business, one said- if it's mishandled "we're done." Yesterday, the discussion came out at a Senate Whitewater Committee hearing. Months after the committee had asked for them, the White House turned over handwritten jottings taken by Mark Gearan, who was President Clinton's comm nications director at the time the meeting was held, on Jan. 7, 1994. A montW earlier, a Justice Department prosecutor had been appointed to take over the criminal investigation of Whitewater. White House lawyer Jane Sherburne told the committee yesterday that the notes had been hard to locate because Gearan inadvertently took them with him when he left the White House to run the Peace Corps last September. One area under discussion in the meeting of presidential aides: first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's contact with Arkansas securities commissioner Beverly Bassett Schaffer about whether the savings and loan at the center of Whitewater could issue stock. Schaffer concluded the S&L -represented by Mrs. Clinton's law firm-coui indeed do so. Schaffer had said during the 1992 presidential campaign she was pressured by Mrs. Clinton and had only one conversation with her. Heavy rains in Oregon have forced residents to evacuate. .ove 404t os tat ~i loveV j ak Put your Valentine message In a heart in The Michigan Daily-. 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Wilbanks said the increases vary across the state because of "additional adjust- ments made due to policy considerations" at each school. "The proposal gives us an additional four-tenths of a percent because of the fact that we provide graduate programs that cost a lot to deliver," she said. "There are several schools in the state that are given funds for programming and ser- vices that are excessively costly." Wilbanks said the increase across the state is in light of Engler's push toward improving higher education, "The governor's message (yesterday) was focused on his continuing dedication to higher education," Wilbanks said. "He said very clearly that because of the eco- nomic picture that the state will be able to provide more funds to higher education." University spokesperson Julie Peterson said the state appropriation may help the University curb tuition costs. "When we get a greater allocation it definitely makes it easier for the adminis- tration to hold down tuition," Peterson said. "This is certainly a good sign and a move in the right direction. E-MAIL Continued from Page 1. Burns said a password-capture program was used to obtain Krause's password and that there was probably nothing he could have done to prevent it. However, mnay accounts are broken into because the owner hasn't taken rea- sonable precaution, Burns said. "The best defense," she said, "is to pick a password that's very difficult to guess." Burns also advises students not to give their passwords out and to immediately report any unusual activity on their ac- count to the ITD User Advocate. RaschidSaliou-Diallo, thestudentwho forwarded the message to hundreds of University students, faculty and staffearly yesterday morning, said he was offended by its content. "I kind of got excited and sent it out to too many people before I checked up on it," he said. Saliou-Diallo, an LSA first-year stu- dent, said he didn't know the message had been thoroughly investigated in 1994. "I've apologized to President Duderstadt and everyone who sends me stuff,"he said. He also sent an apology to Krause. Since forwarding the message, Saliou- Diallo said he has received about 30 mes- sages an hour, most of them from people angered by the number of long e-mail messages they've been bombarded with. One of the recipients even suggested that Saliou-Diallo should have his fingers cut off, he said. "I regretthat I sentit tosomanypeople," he said Religious Services AVAVAVAVA CAMPUS CHAPEL Christian reformed campus ministry 1236 Washtenaw Ct. 668-7421 / 662-2404 Pastor Rev. Don Postema SUNDAY: 10 a.m. Morning worship "Following Jesus" WEDNESDAY : 9:30 - 10:45 p.m. University student group Join us for conversation, fun, snacks.. LORD OF LIGHT LUTHERAN CHURCH Lutheran Campus Ministry (ELCA) 801 S. Forest (at Hill), 668-7622 Sunday Worship 10 a.m. Wednesday Evening Prayer 7 p.m. Thurs. Study/Discussion 7 p.m. Friday Free Movies 7 p.m C PACKARD ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH. Contemporary worship services at OQl -nn , -and 1? NKnnn nn Cnndlvuc ' R( U '7'i i p- Yeltsin seeks compromse with Chechnya MOSCOW- President Boris Yeltsin acknowledged yesterday that he cannot be re-elected if.Russia's 14-month-old war against the separatist movement in Chechnya continues, but he ruled out withdrawal of Russian troops, saying it would lead to a bloodbath. The Chechen war has had a corro- sive effect on Yeltsin's political stand- ing for more than a year, and recent polls show him trailing several other contenders for the presidency. Al- though many Russians have recog- nized that the war is an enormous liability for Yeltsin, his remarks yes- terday marked the first time he has acknowledged it could demolish his reelection chances. Yeltsin announced the appointment of Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to head a government commission that will search for a pos- sible "compromise" resolution of the conflict, which has claimed at least 30,000 lives. In recent weeks, especially after a Chechen raiding party took hundreds of civilians hostage in the neighboring region of Dagestan, Russian political figures have been appealing for an end to the war and a pullout of Russi troops. Pope urges peace n war-torn El Salvador SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Pope John Paul II urged Salvadorans yesterday to drop their hatreds and de- sire for revenge, and rebuild their war- ravaged country on the principle of Christian forgiveness. Coming to El Salvador for the first time since civil war ended four years ago, the pope said the end of the super- power rivalry has given the poor Cen- tral American nation a golden opportu- nity for peace. "It is as if God has given you the roads to choose for the future of your country. The road of death or the road of life," the pontiff told an open-air Mass on a dusty field in the capital, Sai Salvador. - From Daily wire services nigration service to increase patrollers WASHINGTON - The Immigra- tion and Naturalization Service, one of the few federal agencies to receive a big budget increase from the Republican Congress, announced plans yesterday to use its cash windfall to substantially boost its roster of Border Patrol agents and workplace inspectors-especially in California. The agency will significantly increase the agents patrolling the California- Mexico border, staffing ports of entry and inspecting California's workplaces, adding 1,260 new staffers to the state, a rise of more than 25 percent. "With this budget, the INS will con- tinue its three-year effort to beef up the border - especially the South- west border - and remove criminal and other deportable aliens from our streets and prisons," INS Commis- sioner Doris Meissner said in unveil- ing specifics of the agency's record $2.6 billion budget, a 24-percent in- crease over last year. Critics fear that such an aggressive hiring effort will fill the Border Patrol with inexperienced rookies and result in a dramatic increase in abuses at the border - a recurrent problem with past hiring pushes at the Border Pa- trol and other law enforcement agen- cies. Justice Dept sues Days Inn, parent co. WASHINGTON - The Justice De- partment yesterday filed civil suits against Days Inn of America Inc. and its parent company, charging one of the nation's largest hotel chains with ig- noring the Americans with Disabilities Act in the construction of five hotels that are inconvenient and in some cas' dangerous for the disabled. 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