2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 24, 1996 NATION/WORLD Perot sues commission over debates WASHINGTON (AP) -Ross Perot sued the bipar- tisan commission that voted to keep him out of the presidential debates, arguing yesterday that excluding him would deepen public cynicism and cause his cam- paign "incalculable dimage." Shifting strategy, Perot also was negotiating to buy network TV time to air three 30-second commercials denouncing the Commission on Presidential Debates. "Where's Ross?" asks an announcer in one. In anoth- er, the announcer asks, "What are they afraid of?" Perot complained he has been denied desirable broadcast times, and his spokesperson, Sharon Holman, said a complaint would be filed today with the Federal Communications Commission seeking "reasonable access to network facilities and equal time." Both the private debate commission and the Federal Election Commission were named as defendants in Perot's suit, which insists that he be included in the debates or the forums cancelled. The debate commis- sion has prevailed twice before, when sued by third- party candidates in 1988 and 1992. Perot's suit, filed in U.S. District Court, faults the debate commission's finding that he and running mate Pat Choate have no realistic chance of being elected. "Declaring the election essentially over for all can- didates but two before a single debate takes place will only deepen the nation's cynicism about government;" it states. The suit contends that the commission, in recom- mending debates limited to President Clinton and GOP candidate Bob Dole, violated federal election law and certain constitutional rights of Perot and Choate. Presidential debates are scheduled for Oct. 6 in Hartford, Conn., and Oct. 16 in San Diego. A vice presidential face-off is set for Oct. 9 in St. Petersburg, Fla. "We are going to fight this all the way to the end," said one of Perot's lawyers, Jamin Raskin, a professor of constitutionalf law at American University. The lawsuit contends that the4 commission violated Federal Election Commission rules requiring "objective criteria"u for determining whom to# include in debates. It faults the Perot FEC for failing to enforce its rules. Perot's lawsuit argues the debate commission used a mostly subjective standard in inviting only those it deemed to have a "realistic chance" of winning. Perot meets objective tests such as assembling a national organization, being on the ballot in all 50 states and receiving nearly $30 million in federal cam- paign funds, the suit said. "The Democratic and Republican parties should not be permitted to consolidate their monopoly on the political process by closing off the presidential debates'" the suit states. Furthermore, it says, Perot and Choate have been illegally barred from the debates, "thereby causing incalculable damage to their campaigns." The debate commission had little comment. "We're going to wait and see what the court does. Our attor- neys will study whatever is filed," said commission spokesperson Bob Neuman. There was a chance the court would combine the lawsuit with one already filed by John Hagelin, presi- dential nominee of the Natural Law Party. A hearing in that case was scheduled for Thursday. Both cases were referred to Judge Thomas Hogan. Clinton had urged that Perot be included in the debates and Dole had pushed for his exclusion. Dole, asked about Perot's lawsuit during a cam- paign appearance in Virginia, said only: "He has a right to file. The commission voted. I didn't vote." Russell Verney, Reform Party national coordinator, told reporters that Clinton and Dole were equally to blame for the shut-out. While the Clinton campaign publicly said Perot should be included, it privately negotiated to keep him out, Verney said. "It's one more example of the fear the two major parties have toward creation of a third party" Verney said at a news conference on the courthouse steps. Joe Lockhart, Clinton campaign spokesperson, dis- puted Verney's account. "We pushed very hard to have Mr. Perot included in the debate" he said. kATkNA E Truck plows into back of school bus ROSENDALE, Wis. - In dense morning fog, the yellow school bus pulled slightly off the two-lane highway and stopped to pick up 13-year-old Cassidy Robinson. A car stopped behind it. Then a tractor-trailer came out of yesterday's fog, smashing and shoving the car under the bus before plowing into the back of the bus. All four people in the car were killed, along with a 15-year-old high school stu- dent on the bus who was crushed to death in the next-to-last row. Cassidy saw it all. Her father said she turned away and ran up her driveway when she realized the semi was going to hit the bus. For hours afterward, she kept describing what happened over and over: "The bus stopped, the car stopped, and the truck didn't." Eleven children, ages seven to 15 were treated for cuts and sore backs and released from a hospital. The truck driver and the bus driver also were treated and released. The bus was carrying elementary, middle and high school students along a rural state highway about 60 miles northwest of Milwaukee. "It's spooky, but where we live it's a way of life," said Tom Robinson, Cassidy father. "I always taught them to watch for cars and she did good, she heard the semi wasn't stopping and she ran?' The University of Michigan HOCKEY __ EP BAND AUDITIONS Auditions will be held: SEPTEMBER 22nd, 23rd, 25th and 26th AUDITION: SIGHT-READING AND SCALES Call 764-0582 after 1 p.m. to schedule an audition SACUJA Continued from Page 1. said there is currently no timeline for when the position will be filled or implemented. This announcement comes in the wake of last April's news that University Hospitals are in the process of a massive downsizing that includes a three-year plan to cut 2,100 jobs to save a total of $200 million. In July, within the span of one week, both John Forsyth, then-executive director of the Medical Center, and Giles Bole, then-dean of the Medical School, announced that they were step- ping down from their respective posi- tions. Currently Dr. A. Lorris Betz and Larry Warren fill the positions of inter- im dean of the Medical School and the interim executive director of the Medical Center, respectively. TROJAN Continued from Page 1. General Janet Reno said last June that law agents faced major challenges in enforcing laws in this area. Some challenges include amending current computer-related laws, enforc- ing special training for agents and pros- ecutors on computer crimes and creat- ing a global law enforcement network to track down criminals easily, Reno said. Reno said the Department of Justice created a Computer Crime Unit to train prosecutors in this area. "The unit, which is currently dou- bling in size, operates with the active support of our United States attorneys nationwide," Reno said in her speech. "Indeed, the Computer Crime Unit has trained a national network of 120 pros- ecutors from every district to coordi- nate nationwide investigations and serve as resident experts in their offices.' CIA-backed rebels may have shipped crack to U.S. WASHINGTON - A former feder- al drug agent said yesterday that while stationed in El Salvador in the mid- 1980s he came across evidence that members of the CIA-backed rebel forces in Nicaragua were smuggling cocaine into the United States for prof- it. Celerino Castillo III, a former Drug Enforcement Administration agent, said at a news conference he sent reports to his agency about Contra drug flights in 1985 and 1986 and even spoke to U.S. Embassy officials about them. But he was told they were sanctioned by the White House, he said. Castillo's account at a briefing spon- sored by civil rights leaders added to the controversy over whether the CIA was involved in drug smuggling that supplied crack cocaine to the Los Angeles market. The House Intelligence Committee and the CIA's inspector general have begun inquiries into recent newspaper reports that such flights were part of a drug pipeline from Colombian drug cartels to black neighborhoods Southern California. GOPs change immigration bill WASHINGTON - Breaking a logjam that threatened to derail a measure to crack down on illegal immigration, House and Senate Republicans have decided to remove from the pending bill a con-G tentious provision that would restrict public education for undoc- umented students, congressional sources say. Under a new strategy to be unveiled today, the schooling provi- sion will be placed in another bill and brought up for a separate vote before the scheduled end of the con- gressional session this week, the sources said. 6 s < -- ' y AROND TH WORL (5 .ii REHEARSALS: Thursdays, 7:30-9:00 p.m. I U Yeltsin's health fuels political struggle MOSCOW - President Boris Yeltsin's heart illness, which his doctors have revealed to be a more serious con- dition than was previously known, has fueled a fresh and increasingly intense struggle among leading politicians who would like to succeed him. Although Yeltsin may survive bypass surgery and return as the vigor- ous leader who danced and rallied his way through last year's presidential campaign, his rivals have begun behaving as if his days in power are numbered. They seem to be preparing for a re- run of the leadership struggle that was seemingly settled only two and a half months ago, when Yeltsin won a second four-year term. The Russian constitution provides for a new election within three months if the president suffers a "sustained inability due to health to discharge his powers."Yeltsin's prospective heart sur- geon, Renat Akchurin, suggested over the weekend that the surgery may have to be delayed because of Yeltsin's frag- ile condition, adding to a feeling of uncertainty about the president's health and intensifying speculation about to constitutional provision for new elec- tions. Japan asserts claim to Islands HONG KONG - Japan yesterday asserted its claim to a chain of disputed islands by blocking a flotilla of Taiwa and Hong Kong demonstrators w tried to land on the stony outposts to plant flags of Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. According to reporters aboard the seven small vessels containing anti- Japanese activists, the demonstrators were turned back by Japanese coast guard craft before they could land on the tiny islands located 100 miles northeast of Taiwan. Japan, China and Taiwan all ca the rocky archipelago. A lighthouse up there by Japanese ultranationalists in July has sparked anti-Japanese demonstrations in Taiwan. The MTV Choose or Lose Bus rolls into town on Friday, September 27, 11AM to 2PM on the service drive between Shapiro Library and West Hall. Volunteers will be on hand to register new voters. Stop by and receive a Continental Cablevision/MTV Choose or Lose T-Shirt*. Sponsored by Continental !'"'s~hle~ ..eis L ;*. rs:rLrarci u i4 1A I I A Do you have 2 hours? Thursday eve 10/3/96 Must be a U/M student & World Wide Web user call Ursula at: 747-9945 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $85. Winter term (January through April) is $95, yearlong (September through April) is $165. On-campus sub- scriptions for fall term are $35. 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