- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, April 2, 1997 NATION/WORLD i MSA Continued from Page 1 approved to appoint SNRE Rep. Karie Morgan as MSA treasurer. Newly elected LSA Rep. Jason Korb proposed a resolution that urges admin- istrators to extend the hours of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. "What this does is basically ask the library administration to extend their hours by at least an hour," Korb said. The assembly then passed a resolu- tion, which was proposed by LSA Rep. Ian Lucas, and states that MSA supports tonight's March for Homeless Rights. C OLD SORES? Apply LYCALL OINTMENT when you feelthat first tingle, and the cold sore may not break out at all. Or if it has, LYCALL OINTMENT may help get rid of it in a day or two. VALU-RITE PHARMACIES Satisfaction guaranteed. The march is sponsored by the Homeless Power Union and the National Women's Rights Organizing Coalition. "Homelessness is a problem in Ann Arbor and I think it's MSA's job to repre- sent students' concerns - this is obvi- ously a concern of many students," he said. Both Rose and outgoing MSA Vice President Probir Mehta said they pub- licly thank many people who have shaped their MSA experiences and those who have supported them. "I'm so happy to be a part of the maize and blue tradition and I'm so thankful that I decided to come to school here," Rose said. Rose said she also wants to start focusing on aspects of her personal life. "I'll definitely be active in some dif- ferent student groups," Rose said. "I want to get back into sports, try out for the crew team and resume dating:' Mehta said he looks forward "to being a student again and raising my GPA." "1 have a sense of optimism and no regrets.' Mehta said. "I wish the new members of the assembly the best and hope that they will shatter the image ghat MSA doesn't keep its promises." Four Palestinians die amid peace talks The Washington Post JERUSALEM - A continuing swell of communal violence left four Palestinians dead yesterday - two in what were described as botched suicide attacks, two more under Israeli army fire - amid warnings from both sides that the survival of their deadlocked peace negotiations is in doubt. It was the deadliest of 13 straight days of street clashes since Israel broke ground for a new Jewish neighborhood in the traditionally Palestinian part of East Jerusalem. The confrontations between Israeli occupation troops and stone-throwing Arab youths, controlled with varying effort and success by Palestinian police, have begun to look increasingly like durable features of a new phase in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Twin explosions in the Gaza Strip, carried out minutes apart at Gaza's two principal sites of Jewish settlement, killed only the apparent bombers, Israeli authorities reported. But taken together with a March 21 bomb in Tel Aviv, which killed three Israeli women, the attacks suggested to many Israelis that a year-long silence by Islamic extremists has been broken in earnest. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pressed his claim again that Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian Authority, consented to a resumption of terror attacks, saying the "terrorist organizations ... continue to understand they have a green light from the Palestinian Authority to perpetrate their savagery." He said that "if peace is to survive" Arafat must tell Islamic mili- tants unambiguously to halt the attacks and take decisive steps to prevent them. Arafat and his lieutenants promoted a radically different account of the Gaza explosions. They said the second of the two incidents - outside the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom, in the center of the Gaza Strip, 10 miles southwest of Gaza City - was not a suicide bombing, but an unprovoked Israeli attack on innocent Palestinians. "This morning an Israeli jeep opened fire on a taxi in which one was killed and five were injured," Arafat said at a meet- ing of international donors in Gaza City. Crackdown on immigrants stirs fears WASHINGTON - A sweeping immigration reform law designed to shore up U.S. borders and expedite deportations took effect at 35 minutes past midnight yesterday here after judges, lawyers and advocates battled into the night over its implementation. Immigrants across the United States awoke baffled and scared as rumors of mass deportation swirled in their circles. "Fear and confusion are sweeping through immigrant and refugee commu ties," said Soya Jung of the Alliance for Immigrant and Refugee Justice Washington state. "This is the harshest piece of immigration legislation our nation has seen in more than 50 years. It's an unjust law and we can't take it lying down." Immigration and Naturalization Service officials said the statute is being phased in as planned, and tried to reassure frightened illegal immigrants it would cause no mass deportations or workplace roundups, as many have dreaded. "There is absolutely no truth to the rumor and falsehood that the INS has planned and defined massive deportation proceedings," said INS spokesperson Brian Jordan. "This is going to be a gradual process. It's going to take time." The most sweeping overhaul of its kind in a decade, the law paves the way for physical barriers at the borders - including a triple fence in San Diego - more border patrol staff, better INS equipment and an accelerated deportation proc that limits the legal challenges an immigrant can make. Live In New York City Thi s Summer NYU Summer Housing A ay 18-August 9,1997 Lving in an NYU residence hall offers a safe and convenient home base while you are worldng, taking classes, or doing an internship. 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"The economy is really strong," Fed governor Laurence Meyer, who won forecasting awards before joining the Fed board last year, said in an inter- view. "This is not a fluke." Fed officials, concerned that falling unemployment could cause wages to rise much more rapidly and lead to higher inflation, raised a key overnight interest rate last week. Meyer would not comment directly on what the Fed might do at its next policymaking session May 20, but an increasing number of financial analysts are convinced the Fed will raise rates again unless growth looks like * slowing. Judge to review files in Unabomber case SACRAMENTO, Calif. -A federal judge yesterday ordered prosecutors in the Unabomber murder case to allow him to examine law enforcement i that attorneys for suspect Theod Kaczynski contend should be thrown out. At a hearing, U.S. Magistrate Gregory Hollows told attorneys for both sides that he will review the disputed documents in private and decide later in the month which, if any, will be handed over to the defense. ROUND THE WORD~~ ix Pakistan repeals controversial law NEW -DELHI, India - Pakistan's parliament unanimously repealed yes- terday a controversial constitutional provision that allowed the country's president to unilaterally remove prime ministers from office. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif relied on his two-thirds majority, the largest in Pakistan's history, to push through par- liament in one day legislation to revoke a measure used three times in the last decade - twice to remove Benazir Bhutto from power and once to oust Sharif himself. The presidential prerog- ative, which Bhutto and others had denounced as undemocratic, was grant- ed to Pakistan's indirectly elected pres- ident in 1985 during the military dicta- torship of Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. Supporters described repeal of those powers as strengthening the prime min- ister's office and eliminating a major source of political instability that has prevented each of Pakistan's elected prime ministers from completing a five-year term. Such presidential pow- ers were last used in November to dis- miss Bhutto, who was also removed in 1990. Sharif was ousted in 1993, was restored to office by the Supreme Co and resigned soon afterward. Southeast Europe plagued by storms BUCHAREST, Romania - Rain and late-season snowstorms have knocked out power to scores of villages across Romania and Bulgaria, toppling trees and halting road, rail and river traffic. Seven people were hurt in accide on icy highways in Bulgaria's capit, Sofia, the nation's state news agency reported yesterday. Strong winds downed trees, which fell on tracks and blocked trains in moan- tains north of Romania's capital, Bucharest, Romanian national radio reported. 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