2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 23, 1997
NATION/WORLD
CLINTON
Continued from Page 1.
The debate probably will restore bat-
tie lines from the vote on the Clinton-
backed chemical weapons treaty, rati-
fied in April after many lawmakers
remained undecided until the last
minute. The president needs about 22
Republican senators to join Democrats
in support of the treaty.
"We intend to win this vote and fail-
ure is not an option," said Robert Bell,
a senior White House arms control
adviser.
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), chair
of the Governmental Affairs subcom-
mittee that handles this issue, said his
panel will hold a hearing next week on
whether the United States can count on
its nuclear weapons to work without
testing.
"If it creates a more dangerous envi-
ronment and is an incentive for others
to cheat and steal a march on the rest of
the world and puts us at risk, then we
would make a bad mistake to approve
the treaty," he said.
During a U.N. visit a year ago,
Clinton became the first world leader to
approve the historic Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty, which prohibits all
nuclear test explosions.
The United States has not conducted
a nuclear test since 1992.
The treaty would take effect next
September. A Senate vote is expected in
the spring. The accord is signed by 146
countries, including Russia and China.
India is believed to posses nuclear
weapons but is a treaty holdout.
Pakistan, another probable nuclear
nation, won't endorse it unless India
does. Clinton met with Pakistan Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif, but did not
mention the treaty and was also meet-
ing with Indian Prime Minister I.K.
Gujral.
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SACUA
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Bryant, while admitting that rela-
tions between faculty and the adminis-
tration were better than in previous
years, said he "thinks it is time that the
regents invite a faculty and a student to
the board" for a one-to-three-year trial
period and then evaluate the effects.
Bollinger said he is responsible for
keeping the lines of communication
open.
"I think it's (the president's and the
provost's job) to stay alert to the range
of the faculty's opinion and alert it to
the regents' said Bollinger, adding that
additional regents would be more sym-
bolic than substantive.
D'Alecy said he has been impressed
with the president's accessibility to the
faculty.
"I think he has set a tone," D'Alecy
said. "He is delivering. I think you have
to respect that."
Savic also said that MSA is working
with student governments at Michigan
State University and Wayne State
University in an effort to pass an
amendment to the Michigan State
Constitution in 1998 to get a student
seat on the Board of Regents.
SACUA approved a motion to hold a
conference with members of the
University of California's Board of
Regents at their Oct. 13 meeting to get
an idea of how having faculty and stu-
dents on the board has worked.
D'Alecy said that it was not fair to
compare what goes on at the University
to policies at the University of
California.
"They have different problems,"
D'Alecy said.
SKATEBOARD
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physically damage the pavement.
The skateboarders' plan divided the
group into committees that met at East
Quad last week, RC senior Douglas
Song said.
One committee will handle public
relations, possibly by advertising the
group's agenda on WCBN radio and
cable access television, Song said.
Another committee will write and pub-
lish a pamphlet on "Skater's Rights,'
and a third will manage a petition.
There is also a committee to develop a
presentation for the city council.
Philosophy Prof. Eric Lormand
attended the meeting to advise the
skaters.
"I thought they had a good cause,'
Lormand said. "I don't skateboard or
anything."
Song said that about two-thirds of
those attending the meeting were
University students.
Song said he hopes to work out a
compromise with the city on exactly
where people can skateboard.
"You shouldn't really be able to
skateboard on the sidewalk in front of
the businesses, but you should be able
to skate on the sidewalks around the
rest of the town," he said.
Paul Friedman, owner of the
Treetown skateboard shop, said that if
the city and the University deny skate-
boarders access to most public places,
then the city should be responsible for
providing a place open to skateboard-
ers.
Friedman said that the rationale for
their agenda was very simple. "If you
take something from skateboarders,
you should give them something back,"
he said.
A skate park called Sun and Snow
does exist in Ann Arbor, but some
skaters said they are frustrated by the
place because of safety restrictions.
"It's full pads," said Mike Schmidt, a
skater and student at Huron High
School. "The ramps are bad. It's too
overcrowded. It's just not worth it."
The skaters said they admit that a
decent skate park is a distant goal,
largely because of the enormous insur-
ance costs necessary in designating the
area.
Not only are skateboarders often
fined, but sometimes their skateboards
are confiscated.
Some skaters said they blame the
policies and local laws rather than the
police officers handing out fines and
confiscating boards.
"It's not really their fault. I mean,
they're just doing their job;' skater and
former MSU student Brett Bauder said.
Blumhardt, who said he has gotten
five tickets and had his skateboard con-
fiscated twice, said many police offi-
cers are sympathetic to the skateboard-
ers' cause. He said that several officers
admitted willingness to signing peti-
tions but said that they "would have to
talk to their (commanding officers)
before signing anything" out of fear of
being reprimanded.
The Ann Arbor mobilization was
largely inspired by a similar movement
that took place in Brighton, Song said.
A group of skaters successfully lobbied
the city council for a skate park there.
They held a fundraising pancake break-
AROUND THE NATIQNI7
SaturnT mission spurs plutonium debat
No doubt about it, the element plutonium has a bad name. It's the stuff<
nuclear bombs. It causes cancer. It's named after the god of hell, Plato:
was even given the chemical call letters Pu quite deliberately, "as a joke
said its 1941 discoverer, University of California, Berkeley, Nobel laureat
Glenn Seaborg.
Recently, plutonium has gained new notoriety as NASA prepares to laun th
Cassini mission to Saturn, which will carry 72 pounds of plutonium as a pow
source. Critics of the mission say that 5 billion people could suffer ill effects
Cassini blows up on the launch pad or crashes into Earth during a planned.199
fly-by.
Some South Florida residents say 'they are ready to leave town -- or even ti
country - before the Oct. 13 launch. And some anti-Cassini activists have threa
ened to send boats or parachutes to Cape Canaveral, Fla., in efforts to stop ti
launch.
Proponents say the risk carried by Cassini is minimal - less than the-no
mal background radiation that people receive from natural radioactivity i thl
atmosphere, rocks and soil. At worst, 120 people could die over 50 r
according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Fewer back-seat
riders buckle up
WASHINGTON - Only half the
adults who always use a seat belt in the
front seat of a car buckle up when they
sit in the back seat, a safety group said
yesterday.
About 77 percent of those surveyed
by the Air Bag Safety Coalition said
they always wear a seat belt when dri-
ving or in the front passenger seat, but
only 39 percent always wear it in back.
But unbelted back seat passengers are
at serious risk of being killed in higher-
speed accidents or potentially killing oth-
ers as they fly forward, said Janet Dewey,
the coalition's executive director.
"There's a perception folks don't
have to buckle up in the back seat," she
said. "The back seat isn't necessarily
safer if you don't buckle up."
"The tragic death of Princess Diana
has put a spotlight on the importance of
seat belt use," said Dewey. "The only
person who survived that high-speed
crash was properly buckled up in the
front seat and had the added protection
of an air bag."
Diana and her companion, Do
Fayed, were unbuckled in the bacJ _ser
when their car crashed in a Paris tunne
Aug. 31, according to French authori
ties. Diana, Fayed and their drive
Henri Paul, were killed. The only sur
vivor, bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jor i
recovering in a Paris hospital.
12-year-old
babysitter murdere
STANWOOD, Wash. - A teen-ag
boy who had escaped from a halfWa
house was arrested on suspicion o
beating a 12-year-old girl to deat
while she was baby-sitting five chil'
dren at a neighbor's home.
"She was like a flower, and it's lik
somebody stomped on her," said Sohr
Stephen Jones, the girl's father. "Sh
didn't deserve to die.'
Ashley Jones was attacked latt
Saturday, apparently during a burglary
said sheriff's spokesperson -. Jar
Jorgensen. It was not immediatli
known whether she had been sexual]
assaulted. The children, ages 2 18
were asleep and not harmed.
" AROUND THE WORLD
Crippled Mir faces
more troubles
MOSCOW - Troubles arrived in
threes yesterday at the Mir space sta-
tion, just three days before the U.S.
space shuttle Atlantis is to be launched
on a visit to the ailing station.
First the Mir's main computer failed
for the third time in three weeks. That
problem was followed by two new
ones: the failure of a carbon dioxide
removal system and the appearance of
a mysterious leak of brown fluid.
Those on the Mir - two Russians
and American astronaut Michael Foale
- were not in danger, space officials
insisted, and, as planned, NASA began
its countdown for Thursday's Atlantis
launch.
"We would strongly dislike it if the
shuttle launch is postponed, because it
is to bring a new computer and other
spare parts" said Viktor Blagov, deputy
Russian Mission Control chief.
However, the docking will only be
possible if the Mir's capricious comput-
er functions properly throughout the
procedure - which is far from certain.
"It functions for one week"*an
then it gives us a surprise likeit di
this morning," Blagov said -at
briefing.
Milosevic wins big
in Yugoslav voting
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -
Unofficial results compiled by-th
competing parties showed yesterday
that Socialists loyal to Yugoslas
President Slobodan Milosevic a
radically nationalist party
emerged as the big winners in Suny'
parliamentary and presidential elec
tions in Serbia.
But with final and official return,
still unavailable, Yugoslavii
Milosevic's party seemed in danger o
losing its outright majority in the,250
seat parliament. That could forci
Milosevic to seek an alliance eithe
with Vojislav Seselj, a xenophobic for
mer paramilitary leader whose S ar
Radical Party appeared to do e
than expected.
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