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Albright to help with peace talks
JERUSALEM - In a small but
potentially significant step toward reviv-
ing the moribund peace process, Israel
and the Palestinian leadership said yes-
terday they expect that a meeting with
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright today will lead to renewed
talks.
The peace process has been stalled
for six months over Israel's expansion
of Jewish settlements in traditionally
Arab East Jerusalem and the West
Bank, and the Palestinians' failure to
prevent Islamic suicide bombers from
attacking Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said the Palestinians' "pre-
liminary steps in the war against terror-
ism" had moved him to consider a
resumption of so-called committee
talks on implementing existing peace
agreements, and to release $17 million
in frozen tax revenues owed the
Palestinians. That is about half the
amount Israel is withholding from the
Palestinian Authority as a punitive mea-
sure after multiple suicide attacks in
Jerusalem this summer.
In July, the two sides had agreed to
restart committee talks just before two
bombers blew themselves up in
Jerusalem's central market. Netanyahu
called off the meeting in response to the
July 30 attacks.
Albright is scheduled to meet with
Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy
and Palestinian negotiator Mahmoud
Abbas in New York, where both sides
appear to be looking for a face-saving
way to return to the bargaining table.
Netanyahu appeared guardedly opti-
mistic about the possibility of renewing
committee-level talks, although he and
Palestinian Authority President Yasser
Arafat quickly dug in to their old posi-
tions.
"We want to go forward in the
process and we will progress, but he
(Arafat) must fight the terrorism,"
Netanyahu said on Israel Television.
"There is a change in the past few days.
I think something has moved."
Arafat countered, "What is important
is that Israel fulfill the commitments it
agreed to ... and that the closure be lift-
ed."
Israel has maintained a nearly contin-
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uous military closure of the West Bank
since the MahaneYehuda market bomb-
ing. The closure, which prevents
Palestinians from entering Israel or
traveling between the West Bank and
Gaza Strip, was partially lifted fora few
days only to be resumed after three
more suicide bombings on a pedestrian
mail in downtown Jerusalem on Sept. 4.
Netanyahu had said he would not
resume negotiations until Arafat
cracked down on Islamic militants who
oppose the peace process. In recent
days, the Palestinian Authority has
closed more than a dozen Islamic social
service organizations in the Gaza Strip
and arrested dozens of alleged mem-
bers of the militant Islamic groups
Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
CAMPAIGN
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cal performances by School of Music
students, video presentations and an
appearance by the entire Michigan
Marching Band.
The event was followed by a lun-
cheon in the newly renovated Track and
Tennis Building.
Wallace, who also served as a co-
chair for the campaign, said that at
first, nobody believed that the
University could raise $1 billion in
five years. Previously, the largest
campaign the University ever spon-
sored only raised $160 million. The
largest campaign ever held by a pub-
lic university took place at the
University of California at Berkeley
and only earned $464 million.
"There was a moment of stunned
silence, followed by strained and skep-
tical laughter," Wallace said of the
moment after Harris' original proposal.
"We looked at each other in disbelief
and then slowly began to shake our
heads. Think big, think blue, think a
billion:'
Former University Athletic Director
Bo Schembechler equated the success
of the campaign with this past week-
end's football game.
"Winning this campaign would be
like beating Notre Dame five years in a
row," said Schembechler, who also co-
chaired the campaign. "This is a great
victory for Michigan. The difference
between being good and being great is
a little more effort. We've given that
effort:'
Bollinger said the campaign was
necessary to ensure the University's
future stability.
"It is especially pleasing to begin as
president receiving a check as I did this
morning for $1.4 billion," Bollinger
said
Regent Olivia Maynard (D-
Goodrich) said she is interested in
Harris' proposal.
"You'd have to look at the figures
and see if it could be done. 1 think it's
something that should be looked at. We
definitely need to keep on intensely
fundraising;" Maynard said.
FESTIVAL
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appreciate them;' Gira said. "It's just so
exotic compared to mundane school
life"
Like several other Hare Krishnas at
the festival, Gaura-Nitai Das offered
literature detailing Krishna con-
sciousness beliefs, devotion and
lifestyles to students throughout the
afternoon.
"People have been taking books like
mad, actually," said Das, a West
Virginia native who travels across the
country visiting college and university
campuses to educate students about
Krishna consciousness. "It's blissful
because you're speaking about Krishna
consciousness."
Jagat Purusha Das said that being a
Krishna consciousness member does
not mean giving up other priorities,
including profession and family, but
rather connecting all aspects of life
through Krishna, or God.
The Rathayatra tradition is cele-
brated annually by millions of peo-
ple in the city of Jugannatha Puri,
India.
According to the ancient tradition,
those who pull the Rathayatra cart,
the giant chariot, or even those who
witness the event, are freed from the
restraints of the material world.
AROUND THE NAT "N
Armey promises law to overhaul IRS,
WASHINGTON - The House will pass legislation this year to rein in abuses
by the IRS, Majority Leader Dick Armey promised. He suggested an overhaul is
needed to counter such excesses as IRS targeting of conservative groups unfriend,
ly toward the administration.
Also yesterday, Newsweek magazine reported the Internal Revenue Servica
responded to searing criticism in a Senate hearing of its treatment of taxpayers
suspending several district-level managers.
Newsweek said in its edition on newsstands today that it had a memo signed by
a suspended manager, Arkansas-Oklahoma district collection chief Ronald James.
The document details how the IRS, in apparent defiance of law, evaluates agents
by the seizures and levies they make, the newsmagazine said
IRS spokesperson Frank Keith said he couldn't comment on specific cases
because of privacy laws, but he noted that agency's acting commissioner, Michael
Dolan, promised the Senate Finance Committee to act immediately against abus-,
es. That could entail suspensions of employees, Keith said.
Armey (R-Texas) told "Fox News Sunday" a bill is being put together to reform thb
IRS. He said it would be based on recommendations of a congressional commission
headed by Rep. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Sen. Bob Kerney (D-Neb.) that the resp,
sibility for watching over IRS activities be moved from the Treasury Department.
Nichols' bombing
trW opens today
DENVER -The second Oklahoma
City bombing trial opens today with
lawyers for Terry Nichols aiming to
avert the result of Timothy McVeigh's
trial - guilty on all counts and I1
death sentences.
Don't expect an autumn rerun of last
spring's epic, Nichols' lawyers say, even
as they acknowledge that some parts of
the trial may seem much the same.
The charges against Nichols are iden-
tical to those against McVeigh: 11
counts of conspiracy, transportation and
use of a weapon of mass destruction and
the murders of eight federal law enforce-
ment officers in the line of duty.
Much of the physical evidence is
similar. receipts for bomb components
and storage lockers, telephone and
hotel records. Presiding will be U .S.
District Count Judge Richard Matsch,
the same fast-gaveled jurist whose
even-handed supervision of McVeigh's
trial helped restore faith in the U.S.
judicial system that had been shaken by
the O.J. Simpson case.
But distinct differences between the°
two trials will become apparent today,
when Nichols enters the same court-
room where his one-time Army buddy,
McVeigh was convicted and con-
demned to death three months ago fo'r'
staging the worst terrorist attack e&
on U.S. soil.
Cheann found on
standardized tests
NEW YORK - The Educational'
Testing Service, which administers the'
SATs, citizenship tests and professional
licensing exams, has suffered serious
security lapses and cheating probl
The New York Times reported yeste4
The times cited numerous instances
in which the Princeton, N.J.-based
company had discovered widespread
cheating.
However, the newspaper said SAT
tests - reading and math skill evalua- '
tions taken annually by millions of high,
school students - have not been-
affected by similar levels of cheating.
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Mass fimeral set for
Indonesian air crash
M EDAN, Indonesia -- Heartbroken
relatives roamed among coffins and
cloaked body parts in a jungle morgue
yesterday, trying to find loved ones
killed in Indonesia's worst air crash
before unidentified victims are buried
in graves with no names.
Nearly 50 bodies, mutilated beyond
recognition, were readied for a mass
funeral today in a cemetery that already
memorializes plane crash victims.
Authorities said 187 victims had been
identified.
All 234 people aboard, including four
Americans, were killed when the Garuda
Airlines Airbus A3000134 slammed into
the jungle near haze-shrouded Medan
airport Friday afternoon. The crash was
one in a string of disasters to hit the
country in recent days.
All bodies had been recovered from
the jungle undergrowth and mud, Maj.
Gen. Rizal Nurdin told The Associated
Press late yesterday. He said soldiers
continued searching for the flight data
recorders, which could explain why the
plane went down during its approach tp_
the Sumatra island airport.
Visibility-reducing smog caused 'by
hundreds of forest and brush fires in
Indonesia is one of the possible causes
being investigated, although an air
official said the plane had been one
instrument approach for the main run-
way.
Japan cult survives
while guru is jailed - p
TOKYO -- Two-and-a-half years-
after the worst act of terrorism
Japanese history - a poison-gas'
on the Tokyo subway that killed 12 and
injured more than 5,500 -- the reli
gious cult charged with carrying out
the attack is still active and is rebuild-"-
ing its following.
At least 1,000 people, and perhaps-
twice that many, belong to Aum'
Supreme Truth and continue their'.
devotion to self-proclaimed guru'
Shoko Asahara, who is in jail and can.
trial for mass murder.
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