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WASHINGTON - The Federal
Reserve nudged interest rates higher yes-
Ztey for the first time in two years,
hopig to stifle any threat of rising infla-
6ti: Banks immediately began raising
tle~tes paid by millions of Americans.
C A Alysts suggested the Fed's quarter-
point increase was not the end of the
story, with two or three more boosts
likely by the end of the year to slow the
;surprisingly strong economy.
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increase as "a prudent step" that would
guard against higher inflation and the
risk of recession.
But critics were unswayed, charging
that there is no inflation to pre-empt and
the central bank's credit tightening actu-
ally raised the risks of recession.
"In one fell swoop, the Fed has taken
money out of the pockets of every fam-
ily, small business and farm in
America," said Sen. Tom Harkin (D-
Iowa), a frequent Fed critic.
Added AFL-CIO union president
John Sweeney: "The Federal Reserve
has sacrificed the economic interests of
America's working families on the basis
of a hunch."
Financial markets, which had reacted
violently in 1994, the last time the cen-
tral bank launched a round of credit
tightening, were calmer this time around.
In fact, the Dow Jones industrial
average actually was up 50 points a few
minutes after the 2:14 p.m. announce-
ment as investors expressed relief that
the central bank had carried through on
the numerous signals sent recently by
Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan.
The Dow finished the day down 29.08
at 6,876.17.
The reaction was more pronounced on
the bond market, where worries about
more rate increases down the road sent
prices down and the yield on Treasury's
30-year bond up to 6.97 percent.
The central bank said it was pushing
its target for the federal funds rate, the
interest that banks charge each other, up
to 5.5 percent from 5.25.
Inmate bursts into flames at execution
STARKE, Fla. - A condemned murderer's black leather face mask burst into
flames as he was electrocuted yesterday, prompting the attorney general to warn
killers to stay away from Florida "because we may have a problem with the elec-
tric chair."
The governor said the state will consider changing its method of execution after
the grisly death of Pedro Medina, a Cuban refugee convicted of stabbing a teach
who had befriended him.
"We've had an occasion of smoke before;' Gov. Lawton Chiles said. "But the
question is really, 'Is this something that is torturous or painful?"'
However, Attorney General Bob Butterworth said Medina's gruesome end
would be a deterrent.
"People who wish to commit murder, they better not do it in the state of Florida
because we may have a problem with our electric chair," Butterworth said.
Medina, one of nearly 125,000 Cubans who came to the United States during the
1980 Mariel boatlift, was executed for stabbing a woman to death in 1982.
It was the second time an inmate's mask has burst into flame during a Florida
execution. The first time, in 1990, executions were suspended for three months
While there was no visible reaction from yesterday's 39 witnesses, some ID
said they were nauseated by the sight and the smell.
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,regulation," he said.
Panelist and English Prof. Ralph
Williams said the "slippery slope" argu-
ment,by which opponents of assisted-
suicide anticipate the practice being
abused if made legal, is ambiguous
because complicated moral issues natu-
rally force society to cope with the slip-
pery slope.
"Let us understand that the issue is
not only legal but pragmatic, not only
logical but of daily relations," Williams
said. "Our task is to live agilely, decent-
ly and lovingly on the slopes."
But Edward Rivet, legislative direc-
tor of Right to Life of Michigan and a
keynote speaker, opposed assisted sui-
cide and emphasized the difference
between analytical arguments and emo-
tional appeals in the debate.
"This issue can be debated at a
rhetorical level and a substantive level,
and by and large, at the rhetorical level,
I usually get creamed," Rivet said. "But
at the substantive level, I think most
arguments in favor of assisted suicide,
however they are constructed, will col-
lapse on themselves."
Rivet said the term "assisted suicide"
is an oxymoron and that a patient's free-
doms will be impinged on by doctors,
psychiatrists and the government if it is
legalized.
"The idea that it is a personal choice
is a myth because the patient takes con-
trol only insofar as they ask the physi-
cian;" Rivet said.
Rivet said doctors shouldn't be put in
the position to influence ethical deci-
sions reserved for patients.
"At the University of Michigan
Medical School, they might teach the
students biology and chemistry, but
they don't teach which patients it's okay
to kill" Rivet said.
But Murphy maintained that patients
are ultimately in control and can change
their minds about having the practice
performed. Patients must be allowed to
retain their dignity, he said.
"Life is a personal responsibility.
How you deal with your life is essen-
tially a personal choice," Murphy
said. "If you can't have the right to
choose to die, then you are not a free
person."
Panelist and political science Prof.
Mark Brandon emphasized nuances
between morality in different fields.
"The constitutional morality is dis-
tinct from religious and philosophical
morality," Brandon said. "They are not
entirely separate, but I think the consti-
tution has distinct and peculiar logic to
it."
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efforts to influence U.S. policy, and
echoed Gore's assertion that the affair
should not hinder Sino-U.S. relations,
which are currently on a relatively
steady footing after years of tension.
Gore is the highest-ranking U.S. offi-
cial to visit China since the bloody
Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-
democracy demonstrators in 1989, and
both sides are determined that his four-
day trip to the giant Asian nation will
pass without controversy. Plans for the
visit seemed to be progressing without
a hitch until the campaign-finance
scandal spotlight focused on China.
In recent months, reports have sur-
faced that the FBI was investigating
whether the Chinese Embassy in
Washington engaged in efforts to influ-
ence U.S. politics through campaign con-
tributions to the Democratic Party, and
that half a dozen members of Congress
were warned by the FBI last year that
China might try to funnel money to their
campaigns in an attempt to gain influ-
ence. The Justice Department is investi-
gating some of the charges but has said
little about the details of its probe.
Gore's message yesterday, in public
and private, was that the controversy
did not sour his talks.
Woman nominated
for high Army rank
WASHINGTON - The Army, buf-
feted by a sexual misconduct scandal
and eager to make itself more hos-
pitable to women, is likely soon to
have its first female three-star gener-
al.
Maj. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, an
intelligence specialist and 28-year vet-
eran, was nominated yesterday to
become a lieutenant general.
Kennedy, who has served as the
Army's assistant deputy chief of
staff for intelligence since July
1995, also is being nominated to
serve as the deputy chief of staff for
intelligence.
Kennedy's appointment must be
confirmed by the Senate. The Army
and Navy have already had three-star
officers.
Born in Germany, she began her
military career in 1969 in the
Women's Army Corps at Fort
McLellan, Ala., and has had a series
of increasingly responsible adminis-
trative and intelligence positions
since.
Before her current posting, she was
deputy commander of the U.S. Army
Intelligence Center at Fort Huachaca,
Ariz., and, earlier, director of
Intelligence, G-2, Forces Command
Fort McPherson, Ga.
Simpson lawyers
seeking new trial
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -
Arguing that jury misconduct, insuffi-
cient evidence and other irregularities
prevented O.J. Simpson from receiving
a fair trial, lawyers yesterday fil
motions seeking a new trial and asking
Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki
to reduce $33.5 million in verdicts
against the former football star.
Simpson's attorneys contend his trial
was tainted on 12 separate legal
grounds, including what the defense
labeled "errors in law," "abuse of dis-
cretion by the court" and other abnor-
malities in the proceedings.
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Palestiians react to
security demands
JERUSALEM - A Palestinian
security chief responded defiantly yes-
terday to Israeli demands to crack down
on Islamic militants, saying coopera-
tion with Israel on security issues
depended on progress in peace talks.
"Palestinian security cooperation
was buried with the first bulldozer that
went up on Jabal Abu Ghneim," said
West Bank security chief Jibril Rajoub,
using the Arab name for the hill where
Israel is building a Jewish neighbor-
hood in disputed east Jerusalem.
Palestinians in the West Bank towns
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sixth day of violent protests against the
project yesterday, with Israeli troops
firing tear gas and rubber bullets at
hundreds of stone-throwing
Palestinians.
Eight Palestinians were injured by
rubber bullets in Bethlehem, and at
least two Israeli soldiers were hurt.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
has accused Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat of giving the go-ahead to
Islamic militants to carry out attacks
against Israelis, and has demanded the
Palestinians take steps to combat ter-
rorism before peace agreements cars
forward.
Japan holds rice
surplus from Korea
TOKYO - The Japanese goven-
ment is spending hundreds of millions
of dollars to store record amounts of
surplus rice.
In nearby North Korea, United
Nations officials estimate that 20}fil-
lion people go to bed hungry every
night as famine looms and chronicM al-
nutrition threatens the entire popula-
tion. But Japan has refused to open its
vast rice reserves - which many peo-
ple here are not aware of- despife-the
urgings of international aid groups,the
United Nations and even Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright.
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