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2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, April 2, 1996
Protesters blame
Isrel for police raid

NATION/WORLD


Ls Angeles Times
NABLUS, West Bank - The hun-
dreds of police officers who stormed
a rally at Al Najah University over the
-weekend were very clearly Palestin-
-ans under the authority of Yasser
Arafat. But the students striking in
protest here yesterday blamed the raid
on Israeli Prime Minister Shimon
Peres.
Peres is pushing Arafat to crack down
-on the militant Islamic movement
Hamas for the four suicide bombings
that killed more than 60 people in Israel
a month ago, the students said, so Arafat
-is cracking down on the university,
which he considers a Hamas strong-
hold.
"You have to ask who this action
serves," said Omar Dhaher, a 20-year-
old engineering student. "Well, it is
against us and it serves Israel. We need
the Palestinian Authority to support us,
not to enter our university and practice
violence against students,"

A month ago, Palestinians across the
West Bank and Gaza Strip lashed out at
Hamas for the suicide bombings, say-
ing the violence threatens peace nego-
tiations with Israel.
Yesterday, after police raids, Israel's
destruction of the homes of suicide
bombers, the Israeli closure of the West
Bank and Gaza and other measures,
Palestinians have forgotten about
Hamas' bombs and are once again di-
recting their anger at Israel.
Faced with upcoming elections,
Peres is punishing all Palestinian sup-
porters of peace for the acts of a few
violent opponents, they say.
As a result, life under the autono-
mous Palestinian Authority currently
looks a lot like life under the Israeli
occupation.
The growing anger apparently has
not yet turned into outright opposition
to the peace process, as most Palestin-
ians still want to go ahead with negotia-
tions for a final peace agreement that

Clinton promisesto veto 3 more bills
WASHINGTON - It's an election-year battle of wills:
Bob Dole wields legislation as his-'weapon, and President
Clinton fights back with his veto pen.
Last week, Dole's Congress approved a stack of bills, three
of which are headed for the veto junkyard. By the time the dust
settles, Clinton will have boosted his veto output to 15 bills
during the two years of the Republican Congress.
Clinton plans to veto an anti-abortion measure, legislation
to dismantle three foreign affairs agencies and a bill to limit
damages in product liability lawsuits.
None has enough support for Congress to override the
president's decision, but Republicans are apt to try, particu-C on
larly on the abortion bill, to keep the heat on Clinton.
Smarting from Clinton's successful vetoes of a balanced budget bill, tax cuts
and massive welfare changes, Dole already has painted the president as "Veto
Bill." His strategy is to tar Clinton as the roadblock to an ambitious legislative
agenda. Clinton's response is that the bills put welfare children at risk, gave tax
breaks to the wealthy and cut too deeply into medical benefits for the elderly

AP PHOTO
Palestinian students hurl stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes on the outskirts
of the Palestinian-controlled town of Bir Zelt on the West Bank yesterday.

are supposed to begin in May. But the
frustration appears to be eroding sup-
port for Israel's partner in peace -
Arafat.
The Palestinian leaderisperceivedto
be doing Israel's dirty work, and his
actions are causing fear of civil strife
among Palestinians.
"People are in a state of shock be-
cause our own police attacked the stu-

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dents in the university," said Zuhair
Dubie, editor of the weekly newspaper
The Nablus. "I view this as a very
dangerous step. The Israelis are pres-
suring the Palestinian Authority to do
this, and the Palestinian Authority is
pressuring the people. But we're solv-
ing a problem with a problem, and the
most dangerous problem would be in-
ternal conflict," he said.
FOIA
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ity to uphold the law both with respect
to FOIA and FERPA," she said. "We do
that as faithfully as possible."
Barber, who hosts a three-hour talk
show at WFDF-AM, said the Univer-
sity acted "arbitrarily" in denying him
the documents. In response, he filed the
lawsuit yesterday afternoon at the
Genessee County courthouse in Flint.
"We are not asking for the players'
psychological history," he said. "We
are asking for a record of the cars stu-
dents drive and who pays for them."
COMMUNITY
Continued from Page 1.
for the 100 slots available to incoming
first-year students. After a March21 lot-
tery, 50ofthoseslots weredistributed and
half of the line went home. The other half
remained in line until yesterday morning.
But the resounding message that came
from those in line for the entire 15 days
was not exhaustion, outrage or relief- it
was a commentary on the school district's
educational choices.
"Our lIIves have been disrupted forver
two weeks. There has to be a better way to
support our children's choices for their
education," the Community High line
members said in a written statement.
"The issues are not lottery vs. line,
Community High vs. Pioneer/Huron,
number one in line vs. all the rest in line.
The real issue is many choices vs. not
enough choices," the statement read.
Metz echoed that sentiment. "The real
issue here is the lack ofoptions," she said.
"Ann Arbor doesn't offer our children
enough choices."
School board member Chris
Argersinger said the board is considering
ways to increase choices for all Ann Ar-
bor High School students. "It's important
that students have as many choices as
possible," she said last week.
"We are working to make serious
changes at the big comprehensive schools
to implement some ofthe things that draw
kids to Community."
Argersinger said that while
Community's educational program has
been very successful and highly praised,
parents have to keep some perspective.
"There are pros and cons to all three
schools - none are perfect," she said.
"This Community thing has gotten out of
hand. People got in line without knowing
a lot about the school - there are more
reasons to choose a high school than just
small classes and more choices."

High court rules on
age discrimination
WASHINGTON - The Supreme
Court made the nation's employers more
vulnerable to being sued for age bias,
ruling yesterday that some lower courts
have been reading a major anti-dis-
crimination law too narrowly.
The unanimous decision said em-
ployers who fire workers over 40 and
replace them with significantly younger
people may be breaking the law even if
the new employees also are over 40.
The court reinstated an age-bias claim
by a North Carolina man who was fired
at age 56 after his supervisor allegedly
told him he was "too damn old for this
kind of work."
The federal Age Discrimination in
Employment Act protects workers age
40 and over. Federal appeals courts had
split over whether any illegal bias can
occur if an employee is fired and re-
placed by someone over 40.
But Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for
the nation's highest court that the re-
placement employee's age is irrelevant.
"The fact that one person in the pro-
S. Korean president
denies martial-law
crackdown is political
SEOUL, South Korea - Former
President Roh Tae Woo, facing trial on
sedition charges stemming from a
bloody 1980 martial-law crackdown,
testified yesterday that the crushing of
student protests had been necessary to
safeguard against North Korean attack.
"At the time, North Korea had stepped
up provocations against our country,"
Roh declared defiantly in a court session
during which he vigorously disputed
prosecutors' interpretations of events.
"Students supported the North Korean
cause, so.I thought that the country was
facing an enormous crisis."
"We believed that the new govern-
ment had limited power to settle the
turmoil and the existing degree of mar-
tial law (in the Seoul area) was not
effective," said Roh, who was a general
at the time. "So we thought an exten-
sion of martial law was required."
Roh denied that the May 17, 1980,
declaration of nationwide martial law

tected class has lost out to another per-
son in the protected class is ... irrel-
evant, so long as he has lost out because
of his age," Scalia said.
Lower courts had thrown out James
O'Connor's lawsuit because after be-
ing fired he was replaced by someone
aged 40 -not 39 or younger.
Umpire's death castt
pall on opening day
CINCINNATI - On a day when it
dearly wanted to celebrate, baseball
mourned instead for a beloved figure.
The death of umpire John McSherry,
who collapsed yesterday while calling
balls and strikes in the first inning of the
Expos-Reds game in Cincinnati, cast a
pall over what many had counted on to be
a warm breath of life after a long, S
winter and two strike-shortened seasons
The game, which under a more tradi-
tional baseball calendar would have
been the first of the season, was post.
poned until today.
McSherry's death from an appareni
heart attack was the most tragic event o
a day when snow and rain forced post.
ponement of three other games.
'O R L r '
was designed to catapult then-militar)
strongman Chun Doo Hwan into th
presidency, a post Chun assumed late
that year.
Hong Kong citizens
face passport crunct
HONG KONG - Residents her
have argued up to the last minute abou
whether to apply for British passports
Some said it was like an insuranei
0olicy. Some said it made them fee
disloyal to their Chinese heritage.
In the end nearly 200,000 filed thei
applications in March to beat a
night deadline on Sunday.
Britain's 155-yeargovernmentofHon
Kong expires June 30, 1997. While th
approach of Chinese rule has had man
worried about the future of Hong Kong'
democratic freedom, the issue of the da
on Sunday was getting a passport.
Just 400 people attended a pro-de
mocracy rally here Sunday, while dow
the road, tens of thousands lined u
outside the immigration office.
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