2A -The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 26, 1998 N ATION/W ORLD Aibright: Iraq de meets objectives Los Angeles 'Times WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said yesterday that new clarifications show the U.N. deal with Iraq meets all of Washington's primary objectives, and she rejected Republican criticism that the agreement amounts to "appeasement." The next step, Albright said, is to attempt to enforce the pact as soon as possible to find out if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will abide by his writ- ten pledges, reached Sunday with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Responding to U.S. demands for more details of the deal, Annan said yesterday that the existing U.N. weapons team - and its tough chair Richard Butler - will retain "opera- tional control" of the inspection pro- gram, despite a new layer of U.N. bureaucracy, Albight sional committee. told a conres- lf Iraq reneges, she said, the deal does not diminish the U.S. capacity to use military force against Baghdad's sus- pected chemical and biological weapons programs. "This leaves us with a policy that is. quite frankly, not fully satisfactory to anyone:' Albright conceded. "It is a real-world policy, not a feel-good poli- cy. But I'm convinced it is the best pol- icy to protect our interests and those of our friends and allies in the gulf. It embodies both our desire for peace and our determination to fight if necessary." Albright's comments about the U.N. clarifications came as Republicans on Capitol Hill, led by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi, attacked the agreement and Annan. Lott said the United States should reject the deal, though he stopped short of calling for immediate mil i- tary action. "We cannot afford peace at any price," Lott said in a speech to the Senate. "It is always possible to get a deal if you give enough away. The secretary-general thinks he can trust the man who has invaded his neigh- bors, who has used chemical weapons 10 times, and who has tried to assassinate former President George Bush.I... 1 cannot under- stand why the Clinton administra- tion would place trust in someone devoted to building a human rela- tionship with a mass murderer." Annan's comments, he said, "reflect someone bent on appeasement, not someone determined to make the Think Summer!!, Over 1,000 Courses Undergraduate/Graduate Level A.M. and P.M. 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"We have organized ourselves much more aggressively and more closely with the Justice Department to get our hands around this," he added. Hamre said he was constrained from divulging too many details about the attacks because the military was work- ing with Justice in pursuing potential criminal activity. Harare told a group of defense writers the onslaught should serve as a "wake-up call" for the military in particular and society overall, arguing that neither the government nor the private sector has done enough to protect sensitive networks from such attacks. He described the intrusions as "fairly heavy cyber attacks" over the past twig weeks. Court decision will limit credit unions WASHINGTON - Bankers won a big Supreme Court victory yesterday that will keep many Americans from joining federally chartered credit unions, a traditional source of low-co loans. Congress already is being asked to reinstate the policy that has let credit unions add millions of members. The justices' 5-4 ruling threw out a 16-year-old government rule that allowed company credit unions to accept members from other companies. Federal law does not allow credit unions to expand their memberships that way, the court said. ARND THE NATION Compromise offered on student loans WASHINGTON -- A Clinton administration compromise offered yesterday would reduce the interest rate on college student loans while assuring lenders a greater return than promised under a 1993 law. Vice President Al Gore and Education Secretary Richard Riley announced the offer at a White House briefing. They released a Treasury Department report show ing that unless changed, a plan due to take eflect in July would cause banks to qui providing the federally guaranteed loans. "We will ensure that more students can afford to go to college and that lenders can afford to make the loans that will get them there, Gore said. Treasury said lenders would lose money in the first two years under the proposal but would turn a profit each year afterwards. The government is expected to guarantee more than $24 billion worth of new loans this year to more than 5.5 million borrowers. The issue was politically delicate. The administration did not want to be seen as caving to pressure from banks after backing a formula change in 1993 intended to make college cheaper. Nor could it afford to anger students. The interest rate on student loans now combines the rate on 91-day Treasury bill with a fixed markup. That produces a current student loan rate of 7.8 percent dur- ing a five-year period. THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY RUTGERS Division of Summer Session 191 College Ave. - New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8546 web site: http://www.sumnersession.rutgers.edu 11 r' AROUND THE W.O..R LD j 7 V . iV< j From now on the GMAT is only being given on computer. 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The stock market plunged 4.5 percent and the Korean won fell further against the U.S. dollar as the majority Grand National Party boycotted yesterday's assembly session that was scheduled to ratify Kim's choice for prime minister. The prime minister appoints the presi- dent's cabinet so Kim is now without an official body of government advisers. Analysts immediately voiced concern that this might be just the first sign of the steadfast political opposition awaiting Kim's every move. Pres.-elect gives up U.S. citizenship MOSCOW - Valdas Adamkus, the federal bureaucrat from Chicago who was elected president of Lithuania, for- mally gave up his U.S. citizenship yes- terday, one day before he is to be swor4 into office. Adamkus will take the oath of office in Parliament today, then celebrate his inauguration at a rally in central Vilnius, Lithuania, and a Mass in the capital city's landmark cathedral. 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