;2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 26, 1996
NATION/WORLD
UC stnke ends, fails in main goal
Bfy Janet Adany
Daily Staff Reporter
The recent teaching assistant strikes
that have plagued three of the
University of California campuses
ended Friday with singing and cheer-
ing, although the striking instructors
failed to obtain collective bargaining
rights at any of the state school cam-
puses.
University of California at Berkeley's
strike culminated in a "little party," said
Mott Prudham, executive board trustee
of Berkeley's Association of Graduate
Student Educators, during which pick-
eters chanted "up with the union, down
with the regents."
Prudham said that although AGSE
did not accomplish its main objective of
earning collective bargaining rights,
members were pleased with the recog-
nition TAs received.
"Realistically, we didn't think we'd
Vin," Prudham said. "Our goal was to
get a significant part of campus to know
what we're all about, and we certainly
achieved this."
Teaching assistant unions at the
University of California at Los Angeles
and the University of California at San
Diego voted last week to escalate their
efforts this spring in another joined
effort between the three campuses,
Prudham said.
"The first thing that jumps to mind is
a longer strike, but we obviously have to
2,400 graduate employees from the
three campuses went on strike through-
out the week.
Joseph Duggan, Berkeley's associate
dean of graduate studies, said the strike
did not change the
sit down and talk
about things,"
Prudham said.
"Now that we
" Our goal was to
have some edu-
cation of the past g et a
strike behind us, arto c
we're planning
on putting that to know wi,
use for future
efforts."b
A random-
sample survey-
performed by Berkeley'
three economic G
students at Graduate St
Berkeley esti-
mated that 60 percent of Berkeley
teaching assistants cancelled their sec-
tions. Protesters gathered approximate-
ly 5,000 signatures on petitions sup-
porting the strike that will be presented
to UCLA Chancellor Charles Young.
Prudham estimated that 2,300 to
mificant
:ampus to
tat we're
Scott Prudham
s Association of
udent Educators
administration's
position on col-
lective bargain-
ing rights and
estimated that
only 1-2 percent
of classes didn't
meet.
"AGSE has a
history of wide-
ly exaggerated
claims," Duggan
said. "This esti-
mate is totally
impossible"
Prudham
called Duggan's
estimate a
administration would handle AGSE's
planned escalation.
"The response that (Berkeley) will
make to that action will depend on
what's done and for what duration of
time," Duggan said.
Berkeley student body President
Grant Harris said that although the stu-
dent senate passed a resolution to sup-
port the strike, student reactions to the
strike were mixed.
Tamara Joseph, organizer for the
University of Michigan's Graduate
Employees Organization, said the
California strikes showed effective
organization and strategy.
"You don't look to see results in two
or three days after the strike happens,"
Joseph said. "Their efforts may well
prove to be part of a longer campaign,
which they will ultimately win."
Prudham said AGSE received sup-
port from a number of other campus-
es, including the University of
Michigan.
"The fact that at Michigan and
Madison TAs have collective bargain-
ing rights shows that we're not asking
for something that is unprecedented or
even controversial," Prudham said.
fNATIONAL REPORT
Family defends accused spy's record
WASHINGTON - The mother and brother of accused CIA spy Harold James
Nicholson shed tears yesterday while testifying about his patriotic upbringing, but
their pleas were not enough to win his release from jail while awaiting prosecution.
As Nicholson sat 10 feet away, dressed in olive-drab prison fatigues, his moth-
er, Betty Nicholson of Eugene, Ore., blinked back tears on the witness stand. She
said that she and her husband, an Air Force veteran, taught their son patriotism ar4
other values, and that "we never had any discipline problems with him."
She testified that they also raised their son to understand that "the most impor-
tant thing was to be honest:
"His family was very important to him," his mother said. She offered to pledge
equity in the family residence against any bond the judge might set to allow her
son's release.
But U.S. District Judge Thomas Rawles Jones Jr. was not convinced, saying the
defendant might flee to avoid prosecution and that he possessed secrets he might
try to pass on to the Russians.
Nicholson was charged last week with spying for Moscow in exchange for at
least $180,000. FBI officials said he betrayed American spies in Russia and pass
along "a wide range of top-secret information" for a period beginning in Jun
1994.
"complete fabrication," and said
Duggan "seemed ,to have no qualms
about lying to the press."
Duggan said he didn't think the strike
had an effect on shaping attitudes
toward acceptance of collective bar-
gaining rights and was unsure how the
Simpson leaves
questions at trial
Clinton's GOP
Cabinet prospects
still waiting to hear
WASHINGTON - President Clinton
promised to "cast a wide net" to install
Republicans in his second-term Cabinet,
So far, the net has landed few names.
The White House transition team,
three weeks into the search process, has
few GOP candidates for the lengthy list
of vacancies, Republican prospects
include:
O Retiring Sen. William Cohen of
Maine, a leading candidate for defense
secretary.
John Young, former head of
Hewlett-Packard Co., mentioned for
the Commerce seat being vacated by
Mickey Kantor.
* Edward McCracken, chief execu-
tive of Silicon Graphics Inc., also a
Commerce prospect.
Indeed, the most notable characteris-
tic about Clinton's list of Republicans is
the one name that's not on it: Colin
Powell. The retired Army general is
seen as a threat to Vice President Al
Gore's prospects in 2000, and is not
being considered.
And the administration lost a key
GOP appointee yesterday with the res-
ignation of Food and Drug
Administration chief David Kessler.
The former Republican congressione
aide was appointed by President Bush.
Astronauts seek,
dodge satellites
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In a
maneuver requiring precision flying,
space shuttle Columbia's astronauts went
after one satellite yesterday while trying
to avoid being rear-ended by another.
The crew slowly closed in on to
speeding, saucer-shaped satellite in
preparation for yesterday's retrieval. The
rendezvous was moved up three hours
because a telescope in orbit was gaining
on the satellite faster than expected.
The satellites were dropped off by
Columbia's astronauts last week. The
saucer was used to grow semiconductor
film in space; the 3.5-ton ultraviolet tele-
scope is looking at stars and galaxies. .
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -
Confronted with the toughest physical
evidence against him, O.J. Simpson
couldn't explain yesterday how blood
believed to be the victims' got into his
Bronco or how he suffered hand cuts
that plaintiffs claim were fingernail
gouges from a death struggle.
Showing Simpson a close-up photo-
graph taken three days after the slayings
of a crescent-shaped cut on his finger,
attorney Daniel Petrocelli charged: "It
was a fingernail mark, wasn't it, sir?"
"I seriously doubt that," Simpson
replied.
"It was somebody's fingernails rip-
ping into your skin, wasn't it?"
Petrocelli asked.
Simpson suggested his then-5-year-
old son, Justin, could have cut his fin-
ger while they were "rassling" in the
days after the killings of Nicole Brown
Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
"Unless it was Justin's, I really don't
know," Simpson said with a hint of
exasperation.
"Are you saying it was your son's fin-
gernail?" the lawyer asked.
"I'm not saying it was Justin's. I was
saying he was the only one I was any
heavy physical ... wrestling."
Petrocelli, pacing sometimes within
inches of the witness, challenged
Simpson to explain virtually every
move he made during 86 minutes on the
night of the June 12, 1994, slayings
when his whereabouts are unknown.
Simpson maintained he was resting
in bed or showering at the time, and
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also said he was chipping golf balls and
taking his dog out for a walk during
those unaccounted-for minutes.
Petrocelli clearly tried to get a rise
out of Simpson, but it didn't work.
Once, the attorney paced so close to
Simpson they were nearly nose to nose.
At another instant, Petrocelli pointed a
pen in Simpson's face and demanded,
"Answer the question, sir!"
Petrocelli quizzed the defendant
about blood, noting there was blood in
his Bronco, on a driveway at his home
and on a kitchen counter. The defense
has said the Bronco blood was planted
by overzealous police.
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Workers sift through
hijacking wreckage
MORONI, Comoros Islands -
Rescue workers dragged a chunk of an
Ethiopian airplane fuselage onto the
beach yesterday and used electric saws
to cut bodies from the jet, which crashed
when hijackers let it run out of fuel.
Wearing masks against the smell of
decaying flesh, the workers zipped bod-
ies into dark bags and hauled them to a
makeshift morgue set up in a former
meat warehouse. Feet and at least one
head could be seen in the crush of
metal, wires and seating.
One of history's deadliest hijackings,
Saturday's crash killed 127 of the 175
people on board. At least 101 sets of
remains have been recovered, but
authorities were having trouble identi-
fying some of them.
At least one U.S. citizen was among
the dead. Leslianne Shedd was a com-
mercial officer with the Foreign
Service, and had been headed to Kenya
to meet friends for Thanksgiving.
Two men were arrested for the
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hijacking, but officials said yesterday
that they may be innocent. The plane's
co-pilot, Yonas Mekuria, told police he
did not recognize the suspects as any o
the three hijackers who had refused
let the plane land to refuel.
100,000 jam streets.
to protest elections
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - More
than 100,000 demonstrators angered
over annulled municipal elections
jammed Belgrade streets yesterday
the biggest protest against Presider
Slobodan Milosevic and his Socialist
Party in five years.
While a flag-waving crowd shouted
"Red bandits" and "Death to commu-
nism" university students launched sit-
ins at four campuses in the capital and
pelted three symbols of Milosevic's
regime - state-run television, the pres-
ident's office and city hall - with eggs
and insults.
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