2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 15, 1997 NATION/WORLD Serbian president concedes election returns' validity Milosevic ends eight- week struggle with political opponents The Washington Post BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic made a major concession yesterday in his eight-x week struggle with his political oppo- nents, validating disputed election returns that would give, the opposition control of Belgrade's city government and could seriously weaken his 9-year- old grip on power. Allies and foes alike cautioned, how- ever, against declaring an end to the standoff between Milosevic and an opposition movement that has staged daily protests since the Serbian leader annulled its victories in more than a dozen municipal elections held on Nov. 17, Belgrade's municipal electorial com- mission yesterday validated what were decribed as preliminary election results that gave control of the capital's city council to the opposition coalition known as Together. The ruling over- turned annullments by courts controlled by Milosevic's ruling Socialist Party and its allies, which had ruled that the elections were tainted by irregularities. In addition, the electoral panel in Nis, a city of 200,000 people, backed down yesterday from its refusal to implement an order restoring the opposition's vic- tory there. The government's reversal would give Together 60 of 110 seats on Belgrade's powerful city council, ful- filling a key opposition demand and laying the groundwork for a more-seri- ous challenge to Milosevic in national elections later this year. But politicians and observers here, citing splits within the Milosevic camp, refused to rule out a last-minute effort by hard-liners to thwart the opposition. Underscoring that possibility, an offi- cial Tanjug news-agency dispatch read on state and private television yesterday quoted legal experts who questioned the legality of using administrative electoral commissions to annul court decisions. The electoral commission's great scores...j ( findings can be appealed within 48 hours. Skeptical opposition leaders wel- comed the decisions as "reasonable first steps" but vowed to continue daily protest marches until victories in all 14 disputed municipalities are formally recognized and their representatives have taken up their official duties. Vuk Draskovic, one of the coalition's three leaders, said that only then would the opposition agree to meet govern- ment officials to "start a democratic dialogue on freeing the (state-con- trolled) media" before parliamentary and presidential elections later this year and establishing the "responsibility of those who have stolen our votes and those who have ordered people beaten" in demonstrations. Because municipal councils in Serbia do not have significant finan- cial resources, they are largely dependent on institutions controlled by Milosevic. But the councils have the power to investigate corruption and run their own radio and televi- sion stations. LIQUOR Continued from Page 1. Thompson said. "It's a real pain now." Some bar managers said the freeze on alcohol shipments had affected them long before Monday. "They haven't gotten any new ship- ments for at least a month," said Jeff More, manager of Ashley's. The new privatization plan would make it more difficult for bar owners to obtain alcohol from one specific location. This would result in an excess in certain types of alcohol and a short- age of others. "Different distributors provide dif- ferent types of alcohol," Thompson said. "It's really confusing." Attorney General Frank Kelley filed an emergency appeal to the State Court of Appeals to overturn Gidding's ruling and continue with the privatization plan. "We are very hopeful that by next week the new system will be up and running," Masserant said. In the appeal, Kelley wrote that the injunction against the new system will only result in a loss in profits for the new private distributors. KNOW.. .. . .. ? CAL hEDAr .76.D.A L' V " The only MCAT course in Ann Arbor that has 56 years of test prep experience behind it. " Personal MCAT attention...a KAPLAN Hallmark! * The most effective test taking strategies! " Expertly trained instructors teaching you what makes the MCAT tick. Last chance...Class starting now! 05 G O . G OS . CV S O G 0:- o* ° 0* 0 ,S Oy © CL MIDEAST Continued from Page 1 said they could, and would, complete their evacuation within 48 hours of receiving the order. The text of the Hebron agreement itself has been finished for nearly two weeks. It divides the city of 130,000 Palestinians and 450 Jewish settlers into two spheres of control, with Israel's army holding about one-fifth of the territory. Netanyahu sought basic changes in the framework agreed to 15 months ago by then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, but settled for small amend- ments such as limiting Palestinian police to short-barreled Ingram sub- machine guns. HUES Continued from Page 1 by our generation of women. Our gener- ation of women is sick of being fed a bunch of bullshit." The premiere issue of HUES was cre- ated as an assignment for Women's Studies 240, which co-publisher Ophira Edut was taking in 1992. "Once Ophi took that women's studies class, she was the one out of the three of us who final- ly got some direction," Logwood said. The April 1992 issue was passed out around campus and left in University buildings. Because many students took the early issues back home with them during breaks, word of HUES gradually reached the East and West coasts. "A couple years ago, we decided why not just do a national launch" Edut said. Logwood said before she began to 'work with HUES, she had been noticing the ways women were portrayed in the media for a long time. "I never really saw a magazine out there for black women. Definitely not for black teens," she said. "(I said) when I got out of school, I was going to create a magazine for black women or women of color." Logwood said she found it difficult to relate to Ebony and Essence magazines because they catered more to older, upper-class black women. Students say the HUES message is unique and welcome. "Instead of treating women solely as consumers, it respects women as people and different kinds of people," said LSA sophomore Colette Stevenson. "It's a more realistic view of women than most magazines portray" The co-publishers said they hope that as HUES gets older, it will become more commonplace, "I want it to be so that people are like, 'Hmm, YM, Seventeen? No, HUES!"' Tali Edut said. HUES recently began marketing itself with New Moon and Teen Voices maga- zines, which promote a positive self- view among girls and teens. HUES is available at Borders Books and Music, Shaman Drum, Main Street News and Common Language book- stores. JONES Continued from Page : Kerschbaum said. "She was such an upbeat person that we know she would want people to gather to share their- memories about her in this way." Kerschbaum said a representative from Jones' family will be at the service. Speakers will include faculty members and one of Jones' students. "The hope is that this won't be long and arduous, but simply will honor her," said theatre Chair Erik Fredricksen. "We're trying to keep it manageable so it can be brief and poignant." Jenna Davis, a Music and LSA senior who was part of the "Tooth of Crime" cast, will speak at the formal service. "It's really hard to write a speech on behalf of the entire theatre department because Betty Jean was extremely per- sonal and I think that everyone had their own kind of relationship with her" Davis said. Davis said the faculty's collaborative effort to coordinate her reception shows "what a mark she made just the two to three years" at the University. "The woman had immense strength and presence, but despite all of her cred- its and successes, she was able to be a human being and laugh with her stu- dents,"Davis said. Greta Enszer, a Music senior and member of the "Tooth of Crime" cast, said she thinks that many students will attend the memorial, which is open to the public. "She was such a vibrant, exuberant person that even if you didn't have con- tact with her on a personal basis, you knew who she was,' Enszer said. "Even if you didn't know her, you would still be interested in going to the service because the woman knew so much about theater." Davis said she learned "so much from Jones just in the way that she lived" "I feel beyond privileged to have been 1-800-KAP-TEST South Africa criticizes arms deal JOHANNESBURG - Faced with a U.S. threat to cut off aid because of a proposed weapons technology deal with Syria, South African officials yes- terday criticized what they described as Washington's heavy-handedness and suggested they were the victims of an American double standard. President Nelson Mandela and his cabinet have given provisional approval to a marketing deal that would allow a South African arms manufacturer to bid to sell a laser-guided firing control sys- tem to Syria to outfit its Soviet-made T- 72 tanks. The deal, on which a final decision is to be made later this month but which would not be consummated for about two years, would put Syria's tank capa- bilities on a par with Israel's. That prospect could upset the delicate bal- ance of power in the Middle East and adversely affect the peace process there. Because Syria is among the nations the United States defines as a state sponsor of terrorism, South Africa's Clinton looks for cuts in Medicare WASHINGTON - After blistering Republican plans to hold back Medicare and Medicaid, and riding the rhetoric to re-election, President Clinton is taking his own scalpel to the massive programs. Democrats may be unhappy, but that apparently is a price Clinton is willing to pay for a balanced budget. The president proposed similar reductions in 1995 and 1996, but deep- er cuts offered by GOP lawmakers allowed Clinton to declare himself the election-year champion of health care to the poor, disabled and elderly. Republicans accused Democrats of dis- torting the record. "Mediscare! Mediscare! Mediscare!" Republican rival Bob Dole bellowed again and again on the cam- paign trail. Heading to the voting booths, few people realized that Clinton wanted to cut the health care programs, Republicans complained. This time, it will be hard not to notice: Clinton is required by law to produce a budget plan, forced by polit- ical reality to introduce one that bal- ances and, aides say, bound by econom- ic forces to cut Medicare and Medicaid to do it. So Republicans will let Clinton make the first move. Even as they promisc9 work with Democrats on any serious balanced-budget efforts, Republicans welcome the prospect of Clinton sweat- ing Medicare and Medicaid cuts. Democrat leader to suggest tax cut WASHINGTON - In an unexpect- ed move, Senate Democratic leak Tom Daschle intends to propose m est capital gains tax cuts as part of a party agenda for the new Congress,, officials said yesterday. In addition to those cuts - for investors in small businesses and for small farmers approaching retiremeit age - Daschle is expected to announce support for steps to make Individual Retirement Accounts available to more taxpayers. McDermott withdraws from case WASHINGTON - Rep. Jim McDermott (.Wash.), the House ethics committee's top Democrat, said yesterday he would recuse himself from the case of House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) as controversy escalated over his alleged involvement in 4 disseminating a tape of an intercepted Gingrich telephone call. As the furor over the tape threatened to overshadow, at least temporarily, the committee's investigation of the speaker, the FBI said it has begun a criminal investigation of how the con- versation came to be taped and how it ended up in the hands of news reporters. In a stinging parting shot, McDermott blasted the panel's probe of Gingrich as a "charade" and the chairship of Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.) as "arbitrary, authoritarian Gingrich and autocratic." He never mentioned his role in the disclosure of the taped telephone conversation beyond a passing reference to "the present controversy" McDermott said he would recuse himself from the Gingrich case as soon as he was assured the panel would remain evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. Ethics committee Republicans and Democrats were discussing that matter even McDermott issued his statement in Seattle, and leaders in each party said they expect' ed an agreement. .,:- -~2<*. :~ . participation in such a deal, estimated. to be worth about $640 million, could subject it to sanctions under the U.S. Counter-Terrorism Act, including the cutting off of aid. U.S. aid to So# Africa for the current fiscal year stands at about $85 million. Swiss bank admits to purging archives ZURICH, Switzerland - Switzerland's biggest bank admitted yesterday it threw away archi material in violation of a gove ment ban on destroying records that might reveal financial transactions during the Nazi era.. Union Bank of Switzerland said one of its employees threw away the docu-, ments last week, apparently thinking they were unimportant. Zurich district attorney Peter Cosandey described the documents as "politically sensitive material," and said authorities had opened an inve* gation into their contents. - Compiledfrom Daily wire reports. '::' X -' . 'p 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.Sjmail are $85. Winter term (January through April) is $95, yearlong (September through April) is $165. On-campus s scriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. 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