2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 12, 1996 Christopher attempts Hebron deal .- :. ti ',K: N- 1N: Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM - In his last sched- uled overseas trip before he steps down as the top U.S. diplomat, Secretary of State Warren Christopher arrived in the Middle East yesterday for a last-ditch effort to get Israel and the Palestinians to clinch a deal on an Israeli troop with- drawal from the West Bank city of Hebron. .,Christopher was to meet late yester- day in Cairo, Egypt, with Palestinian jlapder Yasser Arafat. He was also to meet today with Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy, who is attending a regional economic conference in the Egyptian capital. In Cairo, Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa'told reporters last night that Christopher and media- tors from the European Union would meet with Palestinian and Israeli offi- cials at the economic conference to try to break the deadlock over Hebron. Moussa was pessimistic that there will be a breakthrough at the three-day meeting, the first regional conference bringing together Arab states and Israel since the May election of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "Until this time, we don't see any possibility for that" dramatic occur- rence, Moussa said. "There is a gap, more that one gap, between the posi- tions of Israel and Palestine." He blamed Netanyahu, who he said had abandoned the peace processes guiding principle: land for peace. "This is the problem," Moussa said. "He believes that he can have peace, territory and everything. He will never get it." U.S. officials have been trying to bring the Israelis and Palestinians together on a Hebron agreement since late September, when gun battles on the West Bank and Gaza Strip left more than 75 Palestinians and Israelis dead. E. coli outbreak may bring new rules- WASHINGTON - Alarmed by another E. coli bacteria outbreak that killed a child and sickened dozens of others in Western states, the government is con$sir- ing forcing all apple juices to be pasteurized. Also under debate are measures such as chemically washing fresh produce or forcing manufacturers to adopt programs that prove foods stay pure from harvest to dinner table. The deliberations come after at least 49 people, mostly children, were sickened from E. coli in trendy, unpasteurized fruit juices. One child died Friday in Denaver. Once thought a threat only in undercooked meat, the virulent E. coli 0157 strain now has surfaced repeatedly in apple cider and even in lettuce. Health experts weren't alarmed until two weeks ago when Odwalla Inc., based in Half Moon Bay, Calif., recalled its gourmet juices that contained tainted apple juice. That outbreak showed that even large companies known for quality are vulnerable. "The number of outbreaks are significant in the past year," said John Vanderveen of the Food and Drug Administration. But "there's no doubt this is a different prob- lem this time" Just hours after the recall began, he called a special meeting to warn apple jui makers "to ratchet up their quality control" while the government decides then step AP PHOTOI Israeli soldiers patrol a street in central Hebron yesterday. TICKETS Continued from Page I tickets, and the numbers aren't as focused. He added that they appeared to be made on a color copier, and were being analyzed further at the crime lab. "They're pretty good," Smiley said. DPS has asked officials at Penn State to tell their fans who are traveling to Ann Arbor this weekend to be alert. Officers will also be working under- cover with Ann Arbor and state police to try to apprehend those selling the tickets, Smiley said. If caught, the offense is a misde- meanor, punishable by up to 90 days in jail. RC sophomore Katie Neighbors said she has not had a problem with scalping because she usually buys her tickets from the University or from friends. "I wouldn't get it from a stranger because I've heard of (fake tickets)," Neighbors said. Neighbors said people are always scalping tickets on game day, During last year's season finale against Ohio State, at least 40 counter- feit tickets were discovered by DPS officials. Those seats were in section 36, row 69, seats 11 and 12. Smiley said this year's fake tickets appear to be different from the Ohio State counterfeit tickets of last year, but the motivation is the same: A big game with a tough ticket to get. He also said ticket-counterfeiting is a new phenomenon at the University. "Last year was the first time it really came to our attention," Smiley said. "Against Michigan State we were really filled, so it was a good time to try it." - Daily Staff Reporter Anupama Reddy contributed to this report. Keyhole popular for bypass surgery NEW ORLEANS - Coronary bypass patients recover faster, have lower hospital bills and suffer much less pain if doctors fix their hearts through a tiny slit in the chest instead of splitting open the rib cage, the standard approach for the past 30 years, a study found. Surgeons have been experimenting with the new approach, called keyhole surgery, for about two years. Yesterday they released the first head-to-head comparisons with the traditional opera- tion, which is performed on more than 400,000 Americans annually. So far, doctors are using it on patients with single blockages, which make up only about 5 percent of all bypass patients. But the field is moving so quickly that experts expect more complicated operations will be done this way within a year or two. "This is just the beginning," said Dr. Renee Hartz of Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago. In a presentation at the annual scien- tific meeting of the American Heat Association, Dr. James Magovernkof Allegheny University of Health Sciences in Pittsburgh compared 48 patients who got keyhole surgery mand 55 who underwent the usual operation. Texaco holds settlement talks NEW YORK - Moving on severl fronts to confront its racial scandal, Texaco Inc. held settlement talks-in a discrimination lawsuit, met with civil- rights leaders and released a report by an outside investigator yesterday saying that a former executive did not use a racial epithet in the secret tape recor* ing that triggered the controversy. Michael Armstrong, the formerfed- eral prosecutor hired by Texaco to investigate the scandal, reported that analysis of a digitally enhanced version of the August 1994 tape recorittg shows that, contrary to a courtVral- script of the tape, then-treasurer Rob'ert Ulrich did not use the word "niggers" in reference to black employees. -} Over 275,000 MCAT students knew. They took KAPLAN to prepare them for one of the most important tests in their career. -oin us and find out what most MCAT test takers already know. Practice with KAPLAN now - so you can practice as a Doctor later! the leader in test prep 1-800-KAP-TEST VETERANS Continued from Page 1 forces. "Each and every soldier has added to this delicate web, making this country strong and able," Miller said. "A mission is not accomplished by an individual, but by individuals mak- ing up the whole," he said. Though yesterday's ceremony hon- ored veterans from all American wars, it focused on World War 11. World War I1 veteran and history Prof. Sidney Fine said emphasis across the country was given to remembering the Vietnam War veterans. "(World War 11) was the great war of the United States, and was a war with- out the negative feelings," Fine said. "Every American, including myself, thought it was a war that had to be fought." Fine said he does not believe that the University has ever made a great fuss about Veterans Day, but it is not neces- sarily the University's position to do so. "I think it is perfectly proper for the country to remember it," Fine said. At the Diag ceremony, the Air Force Honor Guard and the Army drill team performed precise rifle maneuvers. The Tri-Service Color Guard was responsi- ble for retiring the old flag and raising the new one. The flag ceremony, which dates back to the colonial days of the nation, involves two parts. The first part was held yesterday at the Diag and the sec- ond part will be held in the near future. "The second part is done in private," said Maj. Sanford Blanton, assistant professor of military science. "The flag is disposed with in a digni- fied way. Usually it is burned in a dig- nified way, and the ashes are spread in peaceful place. We will probably take them to the Arb," Blanton said. Blanton said the ceremony represents respect for the flag and everything the flag stands for. "(The ceremony) was paying tribute to the flag and thereby paying tribute to every veteran," Blanton said. Japan's new remier seeks deregulation TOKYO - Four days after his re- election, Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto called yesterday for a broad deregulation of the nation's financial markets, saying he wants to lift Japan's economy by making it oper- ate more like the free marketplaces of Europe and America. Hashimoto's plan, which calls for more open financial markets within five years, is the most specific package of reforms proposed by any Japanese leader in the last decade. He has won plaudits for moving quickly and setting a time frame to achieve his goal. After booming in the 1980s, Japan's economy has slowed, partly because excessive government regulation has made Tokyo an unattractive market for investors. Hashimoto said he intends to make Tokyo's financial market more compat- ible with those of the rest of the world - "equivalent to those in New York and London by 2001" - by changing the laws covering banking, securities, insurance, foreign exchange and related areas. "This is going to be Tokyo's Big Bang,"' said newly appointed Finlam Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, alluding $o a broad range of financial reform' i Britain's financial industry in 1986. Goma hospitals lak drus, equpment GOMA, Zaire - After long delays at the Zaire-Rwanda border, 16 truck and jeeps packed with food and me4 icine arrived yesterday at the local soccer stadium, where aid workers haggled with rebel leaders over which supplies should go to each of Gofnd's three hospitals. Across the road, at the main hospi- tal, doctors were desperate for: any drugs or medical equipment -m.ad despairing that whatever aid the)( ¢o receive cannot possibly be enough." - Compiledfrom Daily wire rejort 7 C v:: :':: ... .. a ; f i We need help in our publications department. You must have approved work-study hours with U.M. We pay 16.50 an hour to start. We're north of North Campus in arelatively corporate buildingwith free parking.,(Very casual work atmosphere, however.) There is a possibility for continued employment through the Summer of 1997, including travel to Chicago for staffing our annual, international con- kbrence. 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