2 - The Michigan Daily -- Friday, February 28, 1997 NATIONIWORLD 'Law WASHINGT( today: If you're u buy cigarettes o lave to produce -you're old enoul question is how enforce the first on youth smokin Tobacco-frien Virginia flip-fl enforcement. In hasn't hired sta cigarette retaile means, at least tobacco volunte the whistle on of State laws a tobacco to anyo government figi $1.6 billion in to percent of teen :never been carde ups smoker ID age )N (AP) - It's official states like Indiana, which last summer nder age 27 and want to .discovered 41 percent of stores selling r chewing tobacco, you tobacco to teens. e a photo ID proving The FDA, in the first of sweeping new gh - at least 18. The tobacco regulations, ordered retailers to will the government card all customers younger than 27 to wave of its crackdown prevent mature-looking minors from g. buying tobacco. Store owners caught dly North Carolina and selling to teens face federal fines of upped yesterday over $250 per violation. addition, the FDA still The FDA is contracting with states to te inspectors to audit send undercover teen-agers to catch ,rs' compliance. That lawbreakers. But the agency still hasn't until summer, anti- picked the 10 states to share the first $4 ers will have to blow million in enforcement funds, meaning fenders. federal stings won't happen for at least Jready outlaw selling a month, and can't hire additional states ne under age 18. Yet unless Congress forks over more ures show minors buy money. bacco annually, and 75 FDA's inspectors could target smokers say they've states that don't do their own d - reports verified in enforcement. Are you Depressed? (Or know someone who is?) ARREST Continuedfrom Page 1 "It doesn't take much to get thrown in jail," Budig said. "In the past, American college students have been arrested for being intoxicated in public areas, carry- ing illegal narcotics or plain rowdiness." "The harsh truth is that anyone sus- pected of drug violations can face severe penalties, even the death penalty in some foreign countries," Budig said. "It's not uncommon to spend months or even years in pre-trial detention, only to be sentenced to a lengthy prison stay without parole in a foreign jail" Brandon Vernon, manager of Spring Break Travel company, said he tries to warn all the students of the potential danger in foreign countries. ' "We make sure to tell all the students if they act like idiots they are going to get in a lot of trouble;' Vernon said. "We also send them a full disclosure form telling them of what to be aware of when they travel to popular vacation spots like Cancun and Tiajuana." Budig said the Consular Office is limited in what they can do for a stu- dent being held in police custody. 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Fax resume to (810) 778- 6470 or mail to: 300 Maple Park Blvd., St. Clair Shores, M 48081 or come see usIn the Stearns Building on Monday, March 24. the United States, few countries believe you are innocent until proven guilty" But Budig said the U.S. government is not totally powerless to aid Americans in hot water abroad. "We can, however, intercede with local authorities to make sure that your rights under local law are fully observed and that your are treated humanely, according to internationally accepted standards," Budig said. LSA sophomore Josh Webber, who is traveling to Tiajuana, Mexico with his friends, said he plans to play it safe. "I went up a couple of years ago and it was a lot of fun. It's a popular place to go because you don't get hassled over the drinking age," Webber said. "It was a little crazy last year. A bunch of stu- dents got into a big brawl in one of the local bars. They left before the cops got there." LSA first-year student Julie Munchmeyer, who is going to the Bahamas during spring break, said it's important for students to know where they are staying. "A friend and I went up last year without really knowing what the hotel conditions were going to be like," Munchmeyer said. "When we got there we saw things crawling on the floor, water that was discolored and beds with dirty sheets." TRASH Continued from Page 1 Smith said. "Until Congress acts, this law will not have an effect." State Rep. Liz Brater (D-Ann Arbor) said she is planning to introduce a res- olution to urge the U.S. Congress to give states the power to control garbage imports within their borders. Brater said U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and U.S. Rep. Lynn Rivers (D-Ann Arbor) have both introduced similar legislation, which failed. "The trash-exporting states obvious, ly are against it," Brater said. Brater said she will also propose leg- islation to regulate the amount of new landfills created in the state. ' s Amendment defeat may end deficit WASHINGTON - Even though the balanced-budget constitutional amend- ment was designed to pressure lawmakers to eliminate federal deficits, its all-but- certain defeat may do the sam!e thing. That's because in opposing the amendment, President Clinton and some law- makers have argued that what's needed to balance the budget by 2002 is a will to make tough political choices, not a revision of the Constitution. The upcoming effort to strike a bipartisan budget-balancing deal will be chance to prove that argument - especially for returning members of Congr who oppose the amendment but want to cast a "yes" vote this year for eliminating deficits. "The pressure is on them to be very supportive of an honest budget attempt" said Rep. Charles Stenholm, (D-Texas), a sponsor of the amendment. "He's put in a position where it's kind of, 'Show me, Mr. President" Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), another amendment sup- porter, said of Clinton. The Senate continued debating the amendment yesterday, a day after Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-NJ.), sounded its likely death-knell by saying he would vote against it. Barring unexpected 11th-hour switches, that would make the final vote 66-34 for it - one shy of the two-thirds majority needed for constitutional amendments. I Clinton's approval reaches 60 percent WASHINGTON - President Clinton is drawing high marks for his job perfor- mance despite swirling questions over campaign financing, Whitewater and his personal life, a new poll says. The Pew Research Center survey found people are hearing a drumbeat of negative news about the president but, so far, it doesn't seem to matter. "The American public has no nerve endings,' said Andrew Kohut, survey director. "They overwhelmingly told us all they hear about Bill Clinton is scan- dal,' then gave him a thumbs up. Overall, 60 percent approved of the way Clinton is handling his job, a record in Pew polls and up one point from one taken the week before his second-term inauguration. Thirty-two percent disap- proved, also up one point. The new survey was taken from Thursday to Sunday, amid continuing revelations about Democratic money raising but before the release of docu- ments showing Clinton's direct involve- ment in offering big donors White House: access. In a USA Today-CNN-Gallup poll done after that disclosure, 42 percent said Clinton was wrong to invite large contributors to stay in the Lincoln Bedroom. King widow makes case for Ray trial MEMPHIS - Seven previous times over the past 28 years - beginning three days after James Earl Ray entered his guilty plea for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in March of 1969 - Ray or his lawyers have petitioned the courts for a trial. 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