2A -The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 29, 1997 NATiON/W ORLD 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- i +i r i r 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 Continued from Page 1A 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 Continued from Page 1A 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. M ARouND THE WORD - . . :% . . .: : C C : V - ,..... ,+a ....t .; ...... > : nr .<::fis ra a.. ..... :!a u}....,...t,3 : ...:. t 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. 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