2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 16, 1997 NATION/WORLD Peruvian rebels agree to talks LIMA, Peru (AP) - Leftist rebels agreed yesterday to formal talks to end Peru's month-old hostage crisis on the condition that everything - including freddom for their jailed comrades - be on the table. The announcement - made via two- way radio from the Japanese ambas- sador's residence - raised hopes of a potential breakthrough in the hostage crisis, which has been at a standoff since the Tupac Amaru rebels released seven hostages on New Year's Day. Negotiations to free the 74 remaining hostages have been stalled since then, with each side hardening its position. President Alberto Fujimori has flatly refused the rebels' key demand that he free hundreds of jailed guerrillas. The government's initial response to yesterday's rebel announcement didn't waver from that position. Defense Minister Gen. Tomas Castillo said he welcomed a solution - but only within the bounds established earlier by Fujimori. The government did not immediately say whether it would accept the rebels' condition for the talks. About 20 heavily armed rebels seized the ambassador's residence on Dec. 17, taking hostage more than 500 people attending a party. They have released all but 74 men; Japan's ambas- sador, Peruvian officials, Japanese executives and Fujimori's younger brother remain captive. Government negotiator Domingo Palermo has talked face-to-face with rebel leader Nestor Cerpa only once, on Dec. 31. Plans for a second meeting collapsed Sunday when the rebels demanded that Palermo bring a propos- al to free the jailed rebels. MIDEAST Continued from Page 1A Congratulations poured in from abroad, with early signs suggesting the pact could help repair Israel's frayed ties with its friends in the Arab world. Israel's stock market rose sharply. But Syria, whose talks with Israel have been broken off, denounced the Hebron accord as enslavement of Palestinians, predicting that it would bury the peace process. And a hard- line faction of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, issued a state- ment in Beirut denouncing what it called "this submissive settlement" and warning Arafat's Palestinian Authority not to launch the crack- down it promised against the group. Confusion over U.S. guarantees caused a temporary crisis in the Israeli cabinet debate. Netanyahu and his allies portrayed Washington as adopting their view that Israel alone would decide which rural areas of the West Bank it would transfer to Palestinian control in three stages ending in mid-1998. But eight hours into the cabinet discussion, Israel Television's Yakov Achimeir broke into the evening broadcast with news that the State Department disagreed, saying the extent of the pullbacks would have to be negotiated. Netanyahu abruptly broke off the cabinet debate and sought urgent clarifications from U.S. special envoy Dennis Ross. Ross came down on Netanyahu's side, repudiating the television report. U.S. Ambassador Martin Indyk faxed a written statement to Netanyahu at 11 p.m., reaffirming that decisions on how much land to cede are "an Israeli responsibility," not issues "for negotia- tion with the Palestinians." Palestinians continued to disagree. Ahmed Korei, speaker of the Palestinian parliament and chief negotiator of the previous Israeli-Palestinian accord, said "the agreement is clear" that after the three Israeli pullbacks "most of the land would be under our control." Observers were impressed with Netanyahu's cabinet victory margin. But some Labor Party figures, pressing for a "unity" government in which Likud and Labor would share power, took the occasion to argue that Netanyahu has reached the end of his tether with a government based mainly on Likud and Orthodox Jewish parties. S'fig P N A I NLCorporations finance inaugu algaas , WASHINGTON - President Clinton's inaugural planners shunned corporate money for the main event. But special inter- ests are quietly paying for all sorts of sideshows, from black- tie balls to informal parades-watching parties for lawmakers and administration officials. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, drug giant Bristol-Myers Squibb,?. and a handful of telecommunications companies are financing a tribute to the conservative House Democrats who call them- selves "Blue Dogs." Blue, dog-shaped cookies will be on the buffet Monday for the pivotal bloc of lawmakers whose votes could swing many Clinton issues in a Congress narrowly controlled by Republicans. Then there's the gala jokingly called "The Farm Prom," honoring members of the House and Senate agriculture committees, both Republican and Democrat, as well as Agriculture Department officials. The event's 41 sponsors, chipping in about $5,000 each, include Archer Dar Midland, Tyson Foods and other agriculture and food companies, as well as groups representing farmers who raise corn, cotton or sugar, cattle, pigs or turkeys. Black tie is optional. *:.' r97, Do You Want to Talk About Teaching and Learning in Multicultural Classrooms at the University of Michigan? Undergraduate and Graduate Students, GSIs, and Faculty are invited to attend CRLT's Martin Luther King Day Event 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., Monday, January 20 Pendleton Room in the Michigan Union Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching Rcle. SEARCH 1 Continued from Page 1A me L/~4I1y A I FREE Parties FREE Meals *. FREE Activities Student Express. Inc. 1.O00.SIJRFS.UP has been decided years after McPherson took over. In the MSU lawsuit, the newspaper argued that McPherson was unlaw- fully chosen as the president in a pri- vate meeting before an open meeting. The newspapers had asked that any decisions made in private be invali- dated. After Ingham County Circuit Judge James Giddings threw out the suit and dismissed any claims of wrongdoing, the newspapers appealed. In a 2-1 decision made Tuesday and obtained yesterday by The Associated Press, the Court of Appeals reversed much of Giddings' decision by saying he was wrong to rule that the selection process was not subject to the state's Open Meetings Act. In fact, the university's presidential search committee violated the law by winnowing the field of candidates from 150 to four out of public view, by pri- vately reviewing applications of candi- dates and by holding interviews with candidates behind closed doors, the court said. The majority ruling affirmed just one portion of Giddings' decision. It agreed that the university board did not unlawfully delegate its constitutional authority to select a president to the search committee. Judges E. Thomas Fitzgerald and Janet Neff ruled in the majority. Judge Charles Nelson dissented, saying the Open Meetings Act could not be applied to the selection of a state university president without violating the state Constitution. Panel to revamp Senate operations WASHINGTON - As Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) put it in a letter to colleagues recently, "there has been much discussion about improving the way the Senate oper- ates." And, as he might have added, there has been little action. The big brass spittoons that remain under the front row of desks on the Senate floor illustrate more dramatical- ly than any words can the Senate's attachment to some of its most anachro- nistic ways - from "quorum calls" that never summon a quorum to secretive "holds" that senators use to delay and even kill bills they do not like. But now, undeterred by the failure of previous reform efforts, Lott, who has a penchant for efficiency, has teamed up with Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) to create a bipartisan task force that will, as Lott delicately put it, "examine the many issues sur- rounding life in the Senate." There is even reason to believe that this effort may produce some action, although deliverance from the spittoons is probably too much to ask. The task force will be headedd' Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah), a sa operator and former business executive whose company produced schedule organizers. Dole to receive Medal of Freedom WASHINGTON - President Clinton plans to present Bob Dole with the Presidential Medal of Freedom,$ nation's highest civilian award. A White House official, speaking anonymously, said Clinton plans to award the medal to Dole tomorrow dur- ing an event to unveil the winning design for a World War II monument. Clinton's decision became public yes- terday on the publication date of fallen political guru Dick Morris' inside look at the White House, which quo s Clinton as calling Dole "an evil, IA man.' 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Khazen met with Scotland Yard anti- terrorist police and private security experts who flew in from the United States yesterday to discuss safeguards for his staff after 13 letter bombs have been received so far this year at Al Hayat's offices in London, New York and Washington. Two security guards were injured, one seriously, when a let- ter bomb they were handling exploded ID ® " ._. Call 741-9669 for more information. -r :: Monday in the London office. "We are coping, but we are baffled. No one has threatened us, and no . has claimed responsibility," Khazen. said. There is no shortage of extremists who might bear a grudge against the Saudi-owned newspaper, but no early evidence linking any of them to the attacks. Thieves burrow way into bank thefts BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -For six months, someone was digging under the street. Neighbors heard strange noises. Then, two weeks ago, a gang robbed the local bank of as much as $25 million. 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