2- The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 17, 1997 NATION/WORLD Israeli soldiers hand over power i*n Hebron The Washington Post HEBRON, West Bank - Toward the end, as the moment neared, the handing over of power in the West Bank city of Hebron became a strangely prosaic affair yesterday. After all the years of blood and routine violence, all the apocalyptic words, all the countless hours of bar- gaining and interventions of statesmen near and far, the act of departure by Israeli troops came down to putting things in boxes and putting the boxes on trucks. Muted and huddling for warmth in the driving rain, Palestinians began to gather at dusk - by dozens and then by hundreds - at the three-story stone fortress atop Hebron's highest hill. Known as the Imara, it was built by the British, passed to the Jordanians, captured by the Israelis and prepared yesterday for transfer to the city's new masters from Yasser Arafats Palestinian Authority. The 400 Palestinian police who will take control, their names and the serial numbers of their weapons already conveyed to Israeli commanders, moved from staging areas outside town to inconspicuous gathering points inside. Col. Mohammed Jibri, who will be the police chief here, moved his furniture and office staff into a whitewashed building that used to house the city's motor vehicle bureau. Itching to get out and fearful of the consequences of a prolonged transition, Israel's army spent the day packing - even as the parliament in Jerusalem engaged in a daylong debate over the government's agreement to withdraw from four-fifths of the city. The vote in the 120-member body, its outcome a forgone conclusion, approved the pact late yesterday night, 87-17, as members of the opposition Labor Party as well as left-wing and Arab factions voted with Netanyahu's ruling Likud party. At the very moment yesterday morning when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began defending the Hebron accord, primarily against legislators in his own governing coalition, the army was hauling down Israel's blue-and-white flag and loading an armored sentry post from Hebron's Glass Junction onto a flatbed truck. Rain-soaked Israeli conscripts split open sand bags, hoisted cement blocks and bundled up the apparatus of an occupation that began in 1967. Like the soldiers, a majority of Hebron's 130,000 Palestinians were born after that year and have never known any other rule. "The most important change will be a feeling of protection," said Mohammed Mayalleh, 25, who rents out wedding tents. With only occupation troops in charge until now, he said, "there was no one to com- plain to except God" for the ordinary work of police. "When we went to the Israeli army, They would tell us to go ask Abu Ammar" -- Arafat's longtime guerrilla nickname. Confident of parliamentary victory he tried to rally his own discontented legislators. SNATIONAL RETORT Panel to set hearings for Gingich WASHINGTON - The House ethics committee last night struggled to reach agreement on a schedule that would salvage at least an abbreviated public presentation of its case against House Speaker NewtGingrich (R-Ga.) and culminate in a rec- ommendation on the punishment he should receive for break- ing House rules. The committee could hold its hearing as soon as this afternoon, but it appeared unlikely the televised session would last more than a single day or that special counsel James Cole would be allowed to review his written report 5 more than briefly. Under the format being discussed, most Gi ch of the session would be a debate over Cole and Gingrich's defense team's proposals for Gingrich's punishment. Cole's report spelling out the details of the case against Gingrich is likely to run hundreds of pages and was due at midnight last night. It will be sent to all 435 law- makers so they can review it before Tuesday, when the Republican leadership has scheduled the vote on Gingrich's punishment. The single committee session and curtailed opportunity for Cole to present his c would be a different format than the one agreed to last week bycommittee members. BAR Continued from Page 1 schools is about as unscientifically based as anything I have ever heard of. That's not what bar tests are for." The aim of the University Law School education is not to train the stu- dents to pass the Michigan bar exam, Lehman said. "I think each is trying in our own way to provide an intellectual environ- ment (that will allow students) to have meaningful careers as attorneys," Lehman said. "It is true that our stu- dents are recruited around the country, so they don't just take the Michigan bar exam." Lehman says that although the focus of the law school is not the bar exam, he believes the education pro- vides the Law School should allow students to perform successfully on the exam. Law Prof. Thomas Kauper said he does not believe that the exam's results will affect the University's program. "I don't think that it will have much to do with admissions," Kauper added. -Daily Staff Reporter Jeffrey Kosseff contributed to this report. .SUIT Continued from Page 1. Appropriations Sub-Committee on Higher Education. Landefeld said the attitude among non-minority faculty and students was that minority students received entry into the University through lower stan- dards. "I put a lot of blood and sweat and tears into the University," Landefeld said. "I was very active in the recruit- ment and retention of minority stu- dents. One of the principal roles (of such a position) is to be an advocate of the students. I want them to know that k -n k r there is someone outside of the For 24-hout concert and club no dial 313-99-MUSICww9 University who still cares." BOMB Continued from Page 1 The proportion of clinics experienc- ing severe violence has declined from more than 50 percent in 1995 to 29.5 percent last year, Smeal said of the sur- vey of 312 clinics in 45 states and the District of Columbia. Abortion-rights advocates attributed the decline to pas- sage of the Freedom ofAccess to Clinic Entrances law, which rakes it a feder- al crime to physically block access to clinics, damage their property or inter- fere with or intimidate their staff or patients. Since 1982, the BATF has investigat- ed at least 179 incidents of arson and bombings targeting abortion clinics. FORA Continued from Page 1 the candidate that was unflattering, that will remain unknown to the public under this legislation," Lowenstein said. "I think more information about candidates for public office is better than less information." Jeffrey Lehman, dean of the University Law School and former chair of the Presidential Search Advisory Committee, applauded the provision. He said it will guarantee honest candidate evaluations because the fear of releasing the letters to the public would be eliminated. "If you're working for someone and you're asked to give a candid opinion, you will often give strengths and weak- nesses,' Lehman said. "You will often be happy to say them, but you would not be happy to say them to the news- papers." Other provisions of the law include: A requirement that all requests for information be in writing. Requests by fax or e-mail are also acceptable. 8 A requirement that each public body appoints a FOIA coordinator, who will receive and respond to all requests. Morrisey already serves in this capacity for the University, 8 An allowance for internal admin- istrative appeals of FOA denials before the matter goes to court. Appeals to FOA may be made to the University Board of Regents, before going to Circuit Court. Phillips praised this amendment, say- ing it provided another channel for citi- zens to make an appeal for information. "I believe it is a valuable additional remedy for citizens because it allows citizens to have a second view of a denial of their rights," Phillips said. REIGIOUS $ERVICES CAMPUS CHAPEL Christian Reformed campus ministry 1236 Washtenaw Ct. 668-7421 Pastor: Rev. 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Police said they had no evidence he was singled out for attack. "He was my hero," a puffy-eyed Cosby told reporters outside his four- story house on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The entertainer, who was reached by police on the New York set of his CBS comedy, "Cosby," issued a statement saying: "We have every confidence in the LAPD, Our hearts go out to each aR: ''1ir i ,- .A.ROUND THF WORLD, and every family where such an inci- dent occurs. This is a life experiene: that is truly difficult to share." A female witness to at least part o, the incident has given police the description of a white male suspect, but no further details have been released. Raytheon to buy defense operations NEW YORK - Raytheon Co. maker of the Patriot missile, won the bidding yesterday to buy the defense operations of Hughes Electronics from General Motors Corp. in a $9.5-billion deal. The combination would create:t nation's third-largest defense contrP tor, behind Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. The deal, the most recent combiia- tion in the fast-consolidating defense industry, represents a setback for Northrop Grumman Corp., which was also a bidder for the Hughes unit. The Hughes Olefense unit builds mis- siles and employs 40,000. ::: ., ,a Attempt to impeach eltsm put on hold MOSCOW - Russian parliamen- tary leaders dropped their attempt to impeach BorisYeltsin over his ill health yesterday, and the Kremlin said the hospitalized president's condition is improving. The Communist lawmaker behind the long-shot ouster attempt pledged to push ahead with it on his own next week. Yeltsin had been sidelined since last summer with heart trouble and has been in the Kremlin hospital with pneumonia since Jan. 8. His hard-line ~ foes in parliament have called for his removal, even though the administra- tion insists the president is expected to return to full health. A day after legal advisers told parlia- mentary deputies they had no constitu- tional right to remove the president, the speaker of the lower house said the motion would not be raised for debate - for now. "We must heed our legal section's advice and take the issue off the agen- da," Duma speaker Gennad' Seleznyov, a Communist, told reporters. Viktor Ilyukhin, who raised the impeachment proposal, dropped f**' demand that the Duma debate the issa, Friday, citing requests by several fac-' tions for more time to study it. Surgeon infects patient with HIV PARIS - A French surgeon who apparently passed on the AIDS virus to a patient during an operation - ye after he unknowingly was infected another patient -called yesterday for anyone undergoing surgery to be tested 7 for the virus. Dr. Patrick Cohen said surgeons, too, should be tested for HIV to avpid spreading the disease during surgery. 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