2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, November 6, 1997 - N T O I O L U.N. inspectors warn Iraq to not tamper with surveillance cameras s'i 444::,:Ltti;,; ., AROUND THE HATIO14 UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Taking advantage of a halt to U.N. arms inspections, Iraqis have hidden sen- sitive equipment and tampered with U.N. surveillance cameras, a senior U.N. official said yesterday. The chief U.N. weapons inspector, Richard Butler, said his teams would try to inspect two sites today, "to establish the whereabouts of material which has been moved." Butler suspended U.N. weapons inspections in Iraq last week after Baghdad ordered the expulsion of American members of his team. Butler said the inspections would go ahead as planned Monday, but they have been scrubbed for three straight days because Iraq refused to admit American inspectors. The inspections are meant to verify whether Iraq has destroyed its weapons of mass destruction. That was a condition for ending the 1991 Persian Gulf War, in which a U.S.-Icd coalition drove Iraqi forces from Kuwait. The United Nations also maintains surveillance cameras at sensitive sites suspected of producing illegal weapons. The inspectors are trying to deter- mine if Iraq has complied with U.N. orders to destroy all long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruc- tion. In a letter to the Security Council, Butler said there was evidence that the Iraqis have been tampering with surveillance equipment since the field inspections have not taken place. "Significant pieces of dual-capable equipment, sub- ject to monitoring by the (inspectors') remote camera monitoring system have been moved out of view of the cameras," Butler said. "The equipment includes, for example, gyroscope rotor balancing equipment which could be used to bal- ance prohibited missile gyroscopes," he added. In the letter, Butler, an Australian, noted that move- ment of the equipment is prohibited without U.N. per- mission "and the equipment concerned is subject to continuous camera monitoring precisely because of its easy adaptation to prohibited activities." He said it would "take only a few hours" to adapt some of the sensitive equipment "to produce seed stocks of biological warfare agent." "Furthermore, it appears that cameras may have been intentionally tampered with, lenses covered and lighting turned off in the facilities under monitoring," Butler said. Status quo remains after elections WASHINGTON -- As the dust settled from Tuesday's elections in Virginia. New Jersey and New York, rejoicing Republicans yesterday chanted a mantra of "It's the taxes, stupid:' and despondent Democrats muttered: "No. it's the mone': But while Republicans glimpsed favorable omens for 1998 in their exploitatidn of the tax issue and Democrats complained that their rivals had used a big fund- raising edge to buy the elections, pollsters and political analysts perceived anoth lesson. They said Tuesday's contests turned on a host of local issues that carried no broader resonance, plus one overarching trend that did: voter satisfaction with the status quo. That trend, the analysts said, bolstered Republicans because the four biggest prizes at stake -- the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey, the New York City mayoralty and a New York congressional seat - were all held by their party going into the election. If this incumbent-friendly trend continues into next year, when the 435 House seats, one-third of the Senate and 38 governorships will be in play, it will bolster Republican efforts to maintain their majorities in Congress and the statehouses. F OIA Continued from Page IA court's ruling, she cannot see any rea- son why the University would withhold instructor and course evaluations upon the request of FOIA. "The Michigan Supreme Court has said teacher evaluations are public. I can't think why, in the.college level, teacher evaluations would be different," Lowenstein said. Lowenstein said all students have a right to the evaluations since they are puiblic documents. ", can't possibly understand how history and English are considered -public documents but not physics," Lowenstein said. "It doesn't make sense to withhold some and release others." University professors said they thought that making the records avail- able to the public will not affect how students view professors. "1 don't think that it's going to make a whole lot of difference;' said American Association of University Professors Chapter President Thomas Moore. But Moore, a biology professor, said the ruling might help employees because it will give them access to doc- uments they previously were unaware of, but which were intended for them. Economics Prof. Jim Adams said the evaluations began about 30 years ago. While he said their purpose was to help professors improve their teaching, Adams said that having all the depart- ment evaluations made public would be more beneficial for students. Adams, an LSA executive committee member, also contends that those who are upset with the potential release of the evaluations fear that students will be more attracted to just popular classes instead of ones with substance. Physiology Prof. Louis D'Alecy, chair of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, said that the ruling hopefully will cause departments to look at themselves more carefully. "We have to be tending to our own house," D'Alecy said, adding that pro- fessors should be taking a closer look at their colleagues. "I think there should be peer access to these things for sure," D'Alecy said. D'Alecy said he fears that the evalu- ations could potentially cause problems for professors. "If a student has a personal distaste for a professor, they could respond with unwarranted and unfounded responses on their evaluations," D'Alecy said. "That can be very damaging to some- one's professional career." Chief Freedom of Information Officer Lew Morrissey said the University has five business days to respond to the FOIA request. Morrissey said that if the University does not grant permission to make the files public, it will have to use an exception that is allowed under FOIA. In DRUG Continued from Page A Legislators are hoping to curb the number of instances involving date-rape drugs by insisting on harsher sentences for rapists. Last year, Congress enacted legislation that increases the penalty for rapists who sell and use Rohypnol and other controlled substances. King said that Rohypnol has been around since 1983, but has only been traced to sexual assault cases in the last couple of years. TICKETS Continued from Page IA nitely worth the wait." Although Council offers students the advantage of cheaper student fares, other travel agencies also can find students some of the same prices through "last-minute deals" offered by airlines. "The risk you run with last-minute deals is that there won't be any space left on the flights that you want," said William Mitchell, manager of Conlin Travel on the corner of East William and Maynard streets. Mitchell recommends that students "book early" when possible. It is better to check with a travel agency then call the airlines directly because an agent can do a scan of all the airlines for the best price, Mitchell said. LSA first-year student Rachel Knopt said her parents arrange her flights home. "If my dad doesn't use his frequent flyer miles, then my parents buy the TWA student package which usually comes in a block of four or five tick- ets," Knopt said. "Together the tickets cost about S500 and with them you can fly anywhere in the Continental U.S." LSA first-year student Jeff Liou said he uses the online travel service "Travelocity" to find his tickets home to Oklahoma. "I've found the cheapest tickets through my online searches, but you have to be careful what kind of ticket you buy," Liou said. "I bought a non- refundable flight from Detroit to Tulsa for $256 over Thanksgiving, which I thought was a good deal but then the fare went down to $206." LSA sophomore Marilee Fiebig said that when she flies home to Maryland, she takes advantage of special deals offered by Northwest Airlines during the summer. "My parents usually start looking a month before school starts for tickets for Thanksgiving," Fiebig said. "That way we find tickets for $200 instead of the usual $400." Fiebig also recommended special cyberfares offered by Northwest that are available on the Internet every Wednesday. "I have friends from Maryland who have flown home for the weekend for only $99," Fiebig said. "I've never done it myself, but I might" One option for cheap international travel is to fly as a courier. Companies pay a large percentage of the cost of the passenger's ticket in exchange for the passenger's baggage space. Sending packages by commercial plane is often cheaper and more reliable for these companies. Because the goods are never han- dled by the passenger, there are no security issues with flying as a couri- er. But because of how couriers oper- ate, Bill Nolting, director of the University's Overseas Opportunities Office, said he knows few students who actually have taken advantage of courier flights. "Courier tickets usually allow only a week or two week stay and their flights go in and out of cities on the West or East Coast;" Nolting said. "Another disadvantage is you can't always deter- mine exactly when you're traveling and you might not find out until an hour before your flight leaves." Clinton tries to win votes for trade bill WASHINGTON - President Clinton pulled out the stops yesterday ; in a final drive to win votes for his controversial fast-track trade bill, offering concessions to Republicans on issues from school testing to cen- sus-taking.! With Cabinet members blanketing Capitol Hill, Clinton worked the tele- phones himself in a last-ditch effort to win the 218 votes needed for passage when the trade measure goes to the House floor tomorrow. The aggressive horse-trading between the White House and lawmak- ers, involving a bevy of issues.unrelat- ed to fast track, is unusual even by Washington standards and reflects Clinton's sense of urgency about the bill. At day's end, both administration officials and congressional sponsors said they still were unsure just how tomorrow's House vote on fast track would turn out. The Senate is expected to pass the bill handily. The bottom line is, neither side has 218 at this point," Commerce Secretary William Daley told reporters at a White House briefing. "Everyone is working extremely hard,"lhe said. Defeat of the fast-track proposal would be a visible setback for the administration, sending an adverse sig- nal to U.S. trading partners that some officials fear could have an impact on global financial markets. Committee says acupuncture works WASHINGTON - Long a stepchild in American medicine, the ancient Chinese needle therapy acupuncture got a limited endorsement yesterday from federal experts for treatment of some types of pain and nausea. A committee of medical experts selected by the National Institutes Health cited "clear evidence" that acupuncture effectively treats pain after surgery or dental procedures and con- trols nausea and vomiting caused by cancer chemotherapy or pregnancy. "We came to the clear-cut decision that the treatment ... really did work" for those limited uses, said Dr. David Ramsay, president of the University of Maryland at Baltimore. * . \ \' . f stop AROUND TH 'L.'-' Yeltsin fires Security Council secretary MOSCOW - President Boris Yeltsin yesterday fired Boris Berezovsky, a wealthy magnate who was deputy secre- tary of the Kremlin's Security Council, in the latest fallout from the struggle between Yeltsin's young reformers and a group of rich tycoons. Berezovsky, who built an auto, media, aviation and oil empire in the last years of the Soviet Union and dur- ing the frenzied early years of Russian free-market capitalism, held the securi- ty post for only a year. He was instru- mental in carrying out negotiations with the secessionist region of Chechnya. The Security Council deals chiefly with internal security matters, not foreign policy. Berezovsky's ouster was significant for what it says about the tug of war over the shape of Russia's emerging market economy. Yeltsin's two reformist first deputy prime ministers, Anatoly Chubais and Boris Nemtsov, have vowed to break the grip of a coterie of well-connected business magnates, often referred to as Russia's new oligarchs. Chubais and Nemtsov have insisted they no longer will tolerate the old rules of back-room deals and insider privati- zation of state companies in which tl oligarchs often gained lucrative state- owned businesses for a small price. AIDS epidemic looms in Russia ST. PETERSBURG, Russia- Under the chilly brick archways of the Right- Bank Market here, the Russian-style dance of death that experts say is bring ing an AIDS epidemic to this huge coun- try is in full swing. Since 1995, the human immunodefi- ciency virus that can develop into AIDS has started spreading into the huge drug- taking community here with little aware- ness of the dangers of infection from sharing needles and the home-brewed "black" opiate mixed with human blood. "The epidemic has begun," said Mikhail Narkevich, the health ministry National AIDS Program Coordinato. -- Compiled from Daily wire reports. IsI E E- The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term starting in September, via U.S. mail are $85. Winter term (January through April) is $95, yearlong (September through April) is $165. On-campus sub- scriptions for fall term are $35. 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