2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 20, 1997 NATION/WoRLD -uprei 8sues ruln Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - Police c a IIthe passengers, as well as th ti t out of the car during stems-even when they have no r stW t danger or wrongdoi :Samne Court ruled yesterday a 7-2 vote, the justices netto protect an officer's saf -wdgs the privacy rights of passengers. "Regrettably, traffic stops' dangerous encounters," sai Justice William Rehnquist. along, I 1 officers were killed ai assaulted or injured during traf or pursuits, he said. 'yesterday's ruling does not police must or should order pa out of cars, only that the decisi so lies entirely with them. The Supreme Court ruled ago that police can routinely o vers out of the car during traffi But until yesterday, many cou assumed that an officer needs some specific reason or st before ordering a passenger to and possibly be frisked. Dissenting justices said th takes away the privacy protec me Court . ,...., . ..,W ANEW raffic yesterday tens of millions of innocent passengers. an order The Fourth Amendment bans "unrea- ie driver, sonable searches and seizures" by the a traffic government, and in years past, the eason to court regularly said officers needed a ing, the "particularized suspicion" before y. invading a person's privacy. said the But more recently, the Supreme fety out- Court under Rehnquist has upheld innocent broad and routine searches by police even in instances where officers have may be no reason to suspect an individual did d Chief anything wrong. In 1994 In 1989, the Supreme Court upheld rd 5,762 sobriety roadblocks on the highways, fic stops and yesterday's decision brought to three the number of pro-police rulings say all in traffic cases in less than a year. ssengers In June, the Supreme Court said on to do police can use trivial traffic violations as a reason to stop a car and search the 20 years motorist. That decision, in Whren vs. rder dri- U.S., upheld a common technique in ic stops. the war on drugs. Police in Washington, rts have D.C. were stopping cars that eased > at least through stop signs in a neighborhood uspicion where drug use was rampant. get out Though the court agreed the traffic stop was a pretext to search for drugs, e ruling it unanimously upheld the stop any- tions of way. Trade deficit worst in eight years WASHINGTON -America's foreign trade deficit climbed to $114.2 billion in 1996, the worst showing in eight years, as a flood of toy and shoe imports helped push the deficit with China to an all-time high. The Clinton administration insisted today that 1997 would be better, but private economists said that they saw no quick relief for the nation's biggest economic headache. The trade news wasn't all bad. The deficit with Japan narrowed to $47.7 billion, the smallest imbalance since 1991. But the deficits with all other major trading partners worsened significantly. Commerce Secretary William Daley pointed to record U.S. exports in 1996 as proof that the administration's market-opening trade policies were working. He predicted that the overall deficit, which he blamed on sluggish economic growth overseas, would finally start to narrow in 1997 after widening for five years. But many private economists forecast further deterioration in America's trade performance in 1997. Critics of administration policies have blamed the rising deficits for the loss of millions of American jobs. "The trade deficit is going to be a lot worse in 1997 because everything is p- ing in the wrong direction, said Lawrence Chimerine, chief economist atf Economic Strategy Institute. AP PHOTO The Rev. Robert Schenck, general secretary of the National Clergy Council, meets reporters yesterday on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Hubble Telescope ABORTION- Continued from Page 1A abortion clinic in Falls Church, Va. Overall, yesterday's opinion endors- ing a 15-foot buffer around clinic entrances and its strong sentiment against violent disruptions strengthens the hand of abortion rights groups that seek court orders keeping protesters free from taunts. The decision reinforces a 1994 ruling first allowing so-called "fixed buffer zones" around clinic doors and shows that in the context of clamorous abor- tion protests a majority believes govern- ment's interests in public safety and a woman's access to medical care out- weigh protesters' free speech rights. In his remarks from the bench and opinion for the court, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who himself oppos- es abortion, vividly described the scene at clinics near Buffalo and Rochester New York, where the case originated: "(V)olunteers who attempted to escort patients past protesters ... were some- times elbowed, grabbed, or spit on.... (P)eaceful efforts at persuasion often devolved into 'in your face' yelling ... Men who accompanied women ... sometimes had to be restrained (not always successfully) from fighting with the counselors" repair a success R~c t .dso1s _ Continued from Page IA Ricfiarfson's*"'"'*-'' ship" of capitalism but believed China could modernize only by adopting new - technologies from the West. To that end, he opened diplomatic relations with the United States, concluded a peace treaty with Japan and oversaw an rGIORGIO ARMANI agreement with Britain for Hong Kong's return to Chinese control this 'A year. He also sent Chinese to study e Ae abroad, including tens of thousands to OLO RALPHLAUREN Calvin Klein the United States. Still, despite his flexibility in eco- 320 S. State St. nomic matters, Deng was a hard-liner (lower level of Decker Drugs) about politics throughout his life. Thus, 662-1945 when he rose to power in December 1978 - winning a power struggle that m t°' followed Mao's death in 1976 - Deng Announcing the lbe £llYC~tniran~tI 1996-1997 began to liberalize the economy while at the same time preserving China's Soviet-style political framework. He strongly defended the Chinese Communist Party's monopoly on power. Nevertheless, an unintended conse- quence of Deng's opening to the rest of the world was that along with foreign capital came an infiltration of Western political and social ideas. This ulti- mately led to the most precarious peri- od for the government under his rule - the massive demonstrations for democ- racy and the army crackdown on pro- testers in the spring of 1989. These demonstrations found their focal point at Beijing's vast Tiananmen Square, where many tens of thousands of people gathered in an anti-govern- ment rally that grew over several days. CHINA Continued from Page 1A gone down." Lieberthal said Deng's death will likely affect China in two ways. "Deng was a steady hand in Chinese politics," Lieberthal said. "(Deng's death) raises the possibility of future frictions in Chinese-American relations becoming out of hand. Also, it raises the possibility of an increased contingent in Chinese politics in the next year." The possible change in the politics of China will be played out at the 15th Party Congress in September, Lieberthal said. Jiang Zemin has served as the country's active leader since 1990, but the death of Xiaoping will bring about the possibility of more candidates challenging Jiang. "In the long run, it is much more likely that the succession will be chal- lenged," political science graduate stu- dent Pierre Landry said. "There will be a party congress in the year, which may begin to indicate changes in the leader- ship." Lieberthal said an attack on Jiang now will not be seen as an attack on Deng. "Jiang was put into power by Deng," Lieberthal said. "With him not still alive, it will be easier for the addition of challengers to weaken (Jiang's) power without feeling that they are attacking Deng on his deathbed" Lieberthal said it is important for Jiang to control the leadership during next fall's congress. "The key task is to manage the lead- ership line-up of the 15th Party Congress this fall," Lieberthal said. "If he manages that, he will stay on top." Political science associate Prof. Yasheng Huang said Chinese politics should stay status quo. "This will be symbolically the end of an era. You have to remember (Deng) has not been involved in day-to-day politics for the last five years," he said. SPACE CENTER, Houston - With Discovery's astronauts looking on like proud parents, a stronger, smarter Hubble Telescope drifted off into the blackness of space yesterday to resume its exploration of the heavens. The $2-billion observatory, anchored for nearly a week in the shuttle's open cargo bay, was set free to rousing music after being modernized and repaired in five wearying spacewalks, conducted one night after another. "It's been sitting in the mother's nest in the shuttle quite comfortable, and now our little baby's out on its own," said NASA's chief Hubble scientist, Ed Weiler. The orbiting Hubble will undergo an eight- to 10-week checkout by ground controllers before it can start gazing deeper into the universe with its new infrared eyes and two-dimensional imaging sensors. The first images are to be released in May. "Thanks to you ... the window on Aibrgt: NATO liely' to expFand LONDON --- On the first five stops of her round-the-world trip, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has made one thing clearer than ever before: Regardless of whether the Russians like it, NATO's eastward expansion will happen and it will hap- pen soon. In Rome; Bonn, Germany; Paris; Brussels, Belgium; and London, she has steadied - at least for now - any wobbling on that issue by the United States' major European allies and provided a morale-boosting pep talk to alliance foreign ministers who met with her in Brussels on Tuesday. Now comes the hard part - a visit to Moscow, a stop likely to show how much real substance is behind her diplomatically stylish maneuvers. In talks scheduled for today and tomorrow in Moscow with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and her counter- part, Foreign Minister Yevgeny the universe is about to be open just, a little bit more," NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin told the crew. Discovery's astronauts couldn't wait to get back home tomorrow to cele- brate. "I'll buy for the whole crew, and they're going to take me up on t" chief spacewalker Mark Lee said a is six crewmates cheered. 'Chilling' helps brain recover NEW YORK - Victims of severe brain injuries can recover faster and perhaps more fully if their bodies are chilled to 87 or 88 degrees for a day, a study found. The cooling treatment is "something every hospital could do," said Dr. Donald Marion, director of the brain trauma research center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "It's not high-tech." Marion and his colleagues report- ed their findings in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Primakov, Albright's task gets compli- cated. First, she must try to establish a personal rapport with Primakov, who is not just dead set against her pr*-t but is someone who got his job in part by trashing his predecessor, Andrei Kozyrev, for being too soft on the West. MeXico's awti-drug role questioned MEXICO CITY - Bribery charges lodged against an army general ser* as Mexico's drug czar illustrate how corruption has penetrated the military and casts doubt on the wisdom of expanding its role in the drug war, experts said yesterday. The general, Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, was chosen to lead Mexico's campaign against drugs in December in large measure because of his reputation for honesty and incorruptibility. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. you know Vr much your 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. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of the Associated Press and the Associated Collegiate Press. 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