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GRAMLICH
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tunate enough to be nominated and
accepted."
Gramlich has worked as an econom-
ics professor at the University for the
past 22 years. Gramlich served as chair
of a federal advisory commission on
Social Security finances, which
released its report recently. For a short
time in the late '84s, Gramlich was act-
ing chief of the congressional budget
offices. Before coming to the
University he spent three years at the
Brooking's Institute, a liberal
Washington, D.C. thinktank.
National organizations sought
Gramlich's knowledge and expertise,
including an appointment by major
league baseball owners to conduct a study
on the economics of the league.
Regent Shirley McFee (R-Battle
Creek) said Gramlich's potential
appointment to the Fed is a great com-
pliment to the University.
"I think that it's a tremendous honor
both for him and the University," McFee
said. "He's done extensive work on design
and recommendations. I am very
impressed (with that) work and the work
he's done in the School of Public Policy. It
is a credit both to him and the University."
Public Policy graduate student Kwe
Akuete said "if we lose Dean Gramlich,
it would be a shame to see him go."
- The Associated Press and Daily
Staff Reporter Katie Wang contributed
to this report.
BIKES
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better standards, pollution is still
increasing because of the number of
cars on the road and the amount of
miles driven per day is increasing,' said
An Marie Rodgers, an SNRE second-
year graduate student.
Another purpose of the demonstra-
tion was to exhibit how difficult it is for
a cyclist to travel conveniently.
"Ann Arbor is a compact town where
a lot of people like to bike," Farleigh
said. "There have been a lot of people
pushing for bike paths."
Christa Hawryluk, an SNRE sec-
ond-year masters student, said the bik-
ing situation in Ann Arbor is not opti-
mal.
"One thing I hate the most is that
people ride their bikes on the side-
walks," Hawryluk said. "They are
scared to ride them in the streets."
The city's design caters to the
motorist, Hawryluk said.
"Bikers and pedestrians are second-class
citizens compared to motorists,'she said.
LSA junior Stephanie Cervelli, a
member of the Michigan cycling team,
said she always rides in the street.
"Cars don't like me on the street,
pedestrians don't like me on the side-
walk," Cervelli said.
The local event was modeled after
one that takes place monthly in San
Francisco to promote bike use.
"There must be over a dozen cities
that have demonstrations like this one'
Hawryluk said.
AROUND THE NATI N
Air Force may have plane wreckage
EAGLE, Colo. - A helicopter crew hovering beside a sheer cliff in the central
Rocky Mountains found what is likely the wreckage of a missing bomb-laden war-
plane, but saw no sign of the pilot, the Air Force said yesterday.
Because of high winds, a ground crew could not be sent in to examine the
wreckage stuck in the snow. The search could begin today.
"It is our collective judgment that what we have seen is likely to be A-10 airp e
pieces," Maj. Gen. Nels Running said, adding that he is 99.9 percent sure it was
Capt. Craig Button's A-10 Thunderbolt.
The plane has been missing since April 2, when Button, 32, took off from a
Tucson, Ariz., base on a routine training mission and veered north, heading to
Colorado with four bombs aboard.
An Army National Guard helicopter crew spotted the wreckage while hovering
within 30 feet of the steep cliff.
A close-up look revealed pieces of gray painted metal that could have been from
the plane's interior and several smaller pieces of metal, Running said. Yellow-green
paint used as an anti-corrosion coating inside the airplane was also visible, he sid.
FIRE.
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sixth floor."
South Quad resident Chithra
Perumalswami, an LSA first-year stu-
dent, said she and others were evacuat-
ed from the building twice.
"At first, we thought it was the barbe-
cue in the back. The second time, we
saw the water," Perumalswami said.
At the time of evacuation, about 600
students were in the building, Levy said.
Many students went outside without
coats, books or even shoes.
"Nobody thought the building was
on fire," LSA junior Ciara Benson said.
Students were eventually allowed back
into the building shortly after 9:30 p.m.
Some residents who were contacted
last night said several of Frazier and
Shea's hallmates attended the alleged
party in Room 6710 on Saturday night.
"There were a lot of people in the hall-
way. There were 40 to 50 people," said a
second hallmate, who spoke on the con-
dition of anonymity. The hallmate said
there were numerous cups left in the hall-
way and the resident adviser had warned
the students to be quiet.
According to the University's policy
for student-athletes, "unlawful posses-
sion, use, manufacture, sale or distribu-
tion of alcohol or other drugs" is prohib-
ited on campus.
Disciplinary actions could include any
of the following: "Verbal reprimand, ver-
bal or written warning, suspension from
practice or games, reduction or with-
drawal of athletic-based financial aid,
dismissal from team."
While Frazier and Shea's room was
left in shambles after the fire, students
who were left homeless for a few hours
expressed their discontent about having
to stay outside.
"We thought it was a regular fire
drill," Benson said. "We all have to stay
out here for four hours and we have
finals tomorrow. Not everybody is
going to be understanding."
Linguistics Prof. Rosina Lippi-
Green, whose Linguistics 211 class is
scheduled for an exam today, said she
will try to accommodate those students
kept out of their rooms, but they will
have to prove South Quad residence.
"I am certainly willing to try to
reschedule for hourlies for those stu-
dents who live in South Quad," she said.
Levy attributed the containment of the
fire to the fast response of Department of
Public Safety officials and the AAFD.
All campus residence halls are
equipped with fire-resistant doors, he said.
"The doors are very heavy wood-
frame doors that are highly fire-resistant
- they are especially designed for this
type of resident setting," Levy said. "The
walls are cement-brick, they're not spe-
cial but it takes a lot to go through.'
The corridor where the fire occurred
will be blocked off until wiring in the
area is repaired and power turned back
on, Ann Arbor Police Department Lt.
Wesley Skowron said.
The last time a similar fire occurred
was two years ago in Mary Markley
residence hall, Levy said.
"There was a candle fire in the dorm
from a menorah," Levy said. "That was at
the same time Christmas trees were
banned in family housing."
Levy said he did not know whether
Frazier or Shea will be fined or charged
for the damages.
- Daily Staff Reporters Katie Plona and
Katie Wang contributed to this report.
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A-bright asks for
treaty ratification
WASHINGTON - America's world
leadership is at stake, the Clinton admin-
istration's top foreign policy officials
insisted yesterday as they pressed for
ratification of a treaty banning chemical
weapons. The Senate takes up the pact
Thursday in a vote too close to call.
"We are the superpower. We are the
leader. This is a leadership question,"
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
said, her explanation of why the Senate
must ratify the convention that imposes a
global ban on the use, production, trans-
fer and stockpiling of chemical weapons.
The treaty, signed by 170 countries
and already ratified by 72, takes effect
on April 29, regardless of how the
Senate votes five days earlier.
Albright said the treaty, initiated by
President Reagan and negotiated by
President Bush, "has made-in-America
written all over it."
Still, the administration has had to
struggle to overcome opposition from
Foreign Relations Committee Chair Sen.
Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and the reluctance
of Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott(R-
Miss.) just to get a ratification vote
before the April 29 deadline.
With that accomplished, administra-
tion officials are lobbying hard for the
two-thirds vote needed to ratify. Senate
Democratic Leader Tom Daschle ol
South Dakota said yesterday on NBC'S
"Meet the Press" that all 45 Senite
Democrats will vote for the treaty, bul
with Republican opposition e
chances of passages are "no better
50-50 today."
GOP splits on
welfare opinions
WASHINGTON - Cracks are open.
ing in the once nearly solid wall o
Republican opposition to restoring wet
fare benefits for legal immigrants.
With nearly I million nonci
notice that they may lose disability ch
and food stamps in about 100 days
Republicans are beginning to break ranks
with congressional leaders on the issue.
The welfare law passed last Aug
would bar federal disability, and food,
stamp benefits to immigrants who have
not become citizens. Immigrant-righte
groups are encouraging lawmakers toalte
the cutoff, which was responsible fo
much ofthe savings the measureprOxv d
I
O AROUND THE WORLI
India selects Gujral
as prime mitr
NEW DELHI, India - Hoping to
end a three-week political crisis and
reluctant to call new elections less than
a year after the last national vote,
India's president yesterday accepted
Inder Kumar Gujral as the country's
new prime minister.
President Shanker Dayal Sharma
gave the 77-year-old Gujral, an
urbane two-time foreign minister
and former ambassador to Moscow,
two days to prove his United Front
coalition majority in Parliament,
which opens a special session today
to debate the national budget. Gujral
was to be sworn in today as India's
third premier since elections last
May.
Citing "considerations relevant to
the national interest;' Sharma said he
decided against holding a midterm poll
"so soon after the general elections
held in 1996."
Gujral's appointment was widely
seen as a compromise move that many
hope will stabilize the shaky India
political scene. No single politica
party holds a majority in the lowe
house of parliament, the Lok Sa
The latest crisis was precipitated e
the once-dominant Congress Part)
withdrew its support for Prime
Minister Deve Gowda, the outgoing
United Front leader.
Parisians overturn
lawn-standing ban
PARIS - In one of those little
lutions that tell a lot about contempo-
rary changes in French lifestyles, Paris
authorities have been compelled tc
revoke long-standing, Draconian regu-
lations that made it illegal to walk on
the grass in most of the city' 413 pub-
lic gardens, parks and promenades.
Officialddm has capitulated in the
face of lounging office workers.
Frisbee-tossing tourists and urbanites
who simply want to feel the freshse
of the grass between their toes.
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