2- The Michigan Daily -- Tuesday, February 3, 1998 NATION/WORLD FBI investigates link between bombings U The "Army of God," a radical culating since the 1980s as a force for radical "We will be seeing patients on Thursday this anti-abortion actions, including circulating a week," said clinic owner Diane Derzis. anti-abortion group, is a suspect manual that contains information on how to make Also yesterday, hundreds of police officers in several clinic bombings bombs. gathered at the Homewood Church of Christ in a It's not clear who makes up the organization, cold rain for the funeral service for Birmingham BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The FBI said although various anti-abortion activists have police officer Robert Sanderson, who died in the yesterday it is investigating letters claiming the either been linked to it or claimed to be part of it blast. FMD THE NATION -. " fatal bomb at a Birmingham abortion clinic was orchestrated by the "Army of God," the same group that said it bombed an abortion clinic and gay nightclub in Atlanta last year. FBI spokesperson Craig Dahle said the letters signed by the "Army of God" are handwritten with block print - similar to ones sent after the Atlanta bombings. Dahle would not say who the letters were sent to or how the FBI obtained them. He said it is "too soon to say anything now" about the authen- ticity of the letters. The Army of God is a name that has been cir- over the years. Kathy Spillar, national coordinator for the Feminist Majority Foundation, said the letters from the Army of God "must be taken very seri- ously." She said the letters after the Atlanta clinic bombing warned that "the next facility targeted may not be empty. Clearly that is what happened in Birmingham." Workers preparing to reopen the New Woman All Women Health Care clinic said it was the "safest clinic in the U.S." after the bombing on Thursday. Sanderson was the first person to die in an abortion clinic bombing in the United States when a package detonated outside of New Woman. He was working off-duty as a security guard. The clinic's head nurse and counselor, Emily Lyons, was in serious condition yesterday. No arrests have been made, and authorities are still looking for Eric Rudolph, the North Carolina man sought as a witness in the bombing. A gray 1989 Nissan pickup truck registered to Rudolph was seen near the clinic following the deadly explosion. Texas denies killer's bid for clemency AUSTIN, Texas - A state board unanimously rejected Karla Tucker's bid for clemency yesterday, leaving only the Supreme Court and the governor with the power to halt the pickax killer's scheduled execution today. Despite pleas of mercy, including from Pope John Paul II, the gruesome nature of her crime left the Board of Pardons and Paroles with no qualms, the chair sai They turned down Tucker 16-0, with two members abstaining. "There is no question as to their vote. There is no question as to how they feel," said chair Victor Rodriguez. "I, myself, have absolutely no quarrel with the deci- sion to deny Ms. Tucker's request on all fronts." Tucker, a former teen-age prostitute who found religion in prison, would be the first woman executed in Texas since the Civil War. Her execution is scheduled for today at 6 p.m. In her appeal before the Supreme Court, Tucker's attorneys contend the com- mutation process is flawed and unconstitutional in part because of the consistent lack of favorable rulings. All 76 requests since 1993 have been rejected, including 16 last year when the state executed a record 37 convicted killers. "Texas has no mercy," said David Botsford, Tucker's lawyer. 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Race is only one of many factors used to determine whether an applicant will be admitted, postponed, delayed until further information is known (such as the applicant's high school senior- year GPA), or rejected by the University. Other factors, such as eco- nomic status, geographical location and special circumstances (such as being a male applying for the School of Nursing) factor into the selection index. "We don't use grids, we use a selec- tion index to handle to volume of appli- cations easier," said Monts. The use of grids was discontinued last year in favor of the index, which is more effi- cient, Monts said. The selection index is a formula that assigns points to each factor the University uses during the admissions process. The most important factor is GPA. Others, such as an outstanding essay, are only small considerations. Being a member of a race that is feder- ally designated as being underrepresent- ed in higher eduction or coming from an area that is also underrepresented at the University are factors that are considered less than GPA but more than an essay. Monts said he did not want to disclose the specific weights assigned to these factors. Some SACUA members said they sup- port Monts' view that diversity is a part of the University's educational experience. "I think the goals of the University are commendable," said SACUA mem- ber William Ensminger, a pharmacolo- gy professor. "The debate should be how much diversity is needed and not whether or not it is needed" AIDS-related deaths drop sharply in U.S. CHICAGO - The number of AIDS deaths in the United States dropped 44 percent in the first half of 1997 com- pared to the same period in 1996, with Los Angeles and New York City show- ing even greater declines. According to the newest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released yesterday, the num- ber of new A IDS cases dropped 12 per- cent during the same period, although the number of people living with AIDS rose 12 percent to 259,000. The improvements in statistics for both deaths and severe illness are due to new forms of therapy, particularly the advent of protease inhibitors about three years ago. When a protease inhibitor is combined with two other drugs that block a viral enzyme called reverse tran- scriptase, concentrations of the virus in the blood are dropped to undetectable levels in most patients who can tolerate the drugs. "We are at a very special moment in the epidemic of HIV/AIDS," epidemiol- ogist Dr. Kevin DeCock of the CDC told the 5th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. Clinton plans rest o tobacco payments WASHINGTON - The fate of President Clinton's most popular new domestic spending programs - child care, medical research and education -- hangs on the fragile hope that Congress will pass sweeping tobacco legislation to pay for them. He is gambling that the appeal of having $65.5 billion to spend on t programs will prod Congress in, moving ahead with a deal that lever- ages payments out of the tobacco industry. But some members of Congress are already predicting Clinton's payment strategy will fall flat. As a result, the money for his initiatives would likely have to come from cuts in spending, and the size of the initiatives would be scaled back. 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Saudi Arabia, one the most strategic nations on the Arabian Peninsula, is the largest gulf exporter of oil to the United States, as well as one of America's clos- est Arab allies. The Saudi government yesterday did not openly back the use of U.S. airstrikes to force Baghdad to allow unfettered U.N. weapons inspectors. But in an oblique statement, the king- dom gave an implicit, if reluctant, go- ahead for military action, saying in a statement: "Failure of (diplomatic) means would lead to grave con quences whose responsibility wo lie exclusively on the Iraqi regime, following (its) insistence on noncom- pliance with all Security Council res- olutions." Indonesia pushes ahead with reforms JAKARTA, Indonesia - Even riots over rising prices spread acr the countryside like small brush fires, Indonesia pushed ahead with one of its most painful but necessary reforms: dismantling monopolies. On Sunday, the prices of eight food- stuffs including sugar, cooking oil and wheat flour were freed from cartels' con- trols to be determined by the open mar- ket. Costs are expected to jump in the short term, before settling at a lower rate towards end of the year, economists'* making it a risky move in a volatile time. - Compiledfrom Daily wire reports. Salomon Smith Barney is an international investment banking firm that makes markets in securities and provides a broad range of underwriting, financial advisory and research services to governments, corporations, and institutional investors. A subsidiary of Salomon Smith Barney, Salomon Analytics Inc. is responsible for the development and implementation of The Yield Book, a highly sophisticated workstation-based fixed income analytics system. The Yield Book is used by Salomon Smith Barney Sales, Trading, and Research professionals as well as by many institutional fixed income investors to quantify and optimize investment decisions. 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