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NATION/WORLD
Chief U.N. inspector endorses Iraq accord
AROUND THE NATION
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Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON - Breaking his silence on the
deal, U.N. chief weapons inspector Richard Butler
yesterday welcomed the new inspections accord
reached with Iraq and described clarifications worked
ou with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan over the
past three days as "totally satisfactory."
But behind the scenes, U.S. and U.N. officials said
they have reservations about how the deal will work.
"The arrangements are entirely satisfactory to the
organization I lead," said Butler, the Australian diplomat
who heads the U.N. commission established to ferret out
and destroy Iraq's chemical and biological weapons.
Speaking at a news conference at U.N. headquarters
in New York, Butler added: "It gives us new resources.
It gives us access to sites that Iraq said were absolute-
ly off limits."
Despite the lingering doubts others have, Butler and
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright joined Annan in
defending the deal that the secretary-general reached
with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein last weekend.
The defense of the pact came amid a crescendo of
criticism from Capitol Hill.
"In the last 48 hours, some have jumped to conclu-
sions about the agreement, and I must say ... that it
will be very clear that those conclusions have turned
out to be wrong:' Albright told reporters at the State
Department. "If Ambassador Butler ... is able to carry
out his duties, then I think that we should understand
that we are really better off than we were."
Albright added a significant caveat to her endorse-
ment: The agreement must be tested soon to determine
whether Hussein will keep his pledges.
"If this does not work, then the whole world will
have seen Saddam Hussein renege on an agreement
that he made," she said. "And we will have support for
using other methods, and military force, to make sure
that his weapons-of-mass-destruction threat is dimin-
ished and that he can't threaten his neighbors."
Campaign fimance stonewalled in Senate
WASHINGTON - Legislation to overhaul campaign finance rules fell to a
Republican filibuster in the Senate yesterday, leaving the issue doomed for the fore-
seeable future despite the abuses uncovered since the 1996 election.
A final effort to punch through GOP delaying tactics failed, 51-48, nine votes shy
of the 60 needed. Moments later Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott ushered the mea-
sure off the floor.
Even as he did so, supporters of the bill said time - and the scent of scandal -
were on their side. "There will be more indictments, and there will be people going
to jail. And there is probably some scandal going on now as we speak, because the
system has become so badly corrupted," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz).
President Clinton said, "Just as the need for change has not gone away, campaign
finance reform will not go away."
Opponents, who contend the legislation would violate the free speech guarantee of
the Constitution, said they'd be ready. "The First Amendment doesn't allow us the lat-
itude to categorize certain kinds of speech as offensive and other kinds of speech as
laudable,"said Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky).
The centerpiece of the bill, which was drafted by McCain and Sen. Russ Feingolg
(D-Wis) was a ban on unregulated "soft money" that flows by the millions to nation-
al political parties from corporations, labor unions and individuals.
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Refuting claims that the budget could
set back technology resources at the
University, Kelly Chesney, deputy press
secretary for the state Department of
Management and Budget, said Engler
has amply funded the University in
recent years.
"We don't provide funding for specif-
ic purposes," Chesney said. "We give
them their state budget and they build
on that. The last few years were the
highest increases in a decade. For the
last five years, their appropriations have
increased by 21 percent - far above
the inflation rate"
State Sen. John Schwarz (R-Battle
Creek), who chairs the senate
Appropriations Subcommittee for
Higher Education, said he consid-
ered the rising costs of technology at
the University when he drafted his
proposal last year. Schwarz said he
plans to do the same during this
year's budget process.
"Last year when we appropriated
some extraordinary moneys, we took
into account the cost of technology,
the need for computer expertise
(and) the availability for students,"
Schwarz said. "We understand that
is expensive. That's why we put an
extraordinary amount of money in
the budget last year."
The University is currently undertak-
ing a number of costly projects, including
the introduction of Internet2 - an
expanded and more reliable Internet ser-
vice - the replacement of the nearly 30-
year-old administrative computer system,
and the continual process of advancing
technology at University libraries,
McClatchey said.
During an appropriations hearing last
week, Bollinger explained to Schwarz
how a lack of funding would affect the
resources of libraries on campus.
The University libraries are facing
the challenge of forging ahead and
improving technological resources,
said William Gosling, the University's
library administration director.
"If the state allocation is reduced, we
have less fiscal resources in the library to
continue our mission," Gosling said.
"We still have to wait and see what the
outcome is."
Gosling said it is hard to keep up with
the rising costs of library resources, but
traditionally, "the library is extremely
well-supported by the University."
"Part of our funding need is greater
than the cost of living index," Gosling
said. "Collections usually measure
between seven and eight percent. That
is our rate of growth for that part of our
budget.. We need to meet that level of
increase for that part of the budget or
else we cannot offer the same amount
of resources."
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FBI agrees to ay
former agent $16M
WASHINGTON - The FBI agreed
yesterday to pay a settlement worth
more than $1.16 million to agent
Frederic Whitehurst, the whistleblower
who triggered an overhaul of the FBI
crime laboratory.
Whitehurst returned to work from a
year-long suspension yesterday and
voluntarily resigned as required by the
deal to settle part of his lawsuit against
the bureau.
"The FBI did the right thing," said
Whitehurst's attorney, Stephen Kohn.
In the 16-page settlement, the FBI
agreed to pay $1.166 million now to pur-
chase annuities that would pay the 50-
year-old chemist-agent annual amounts
equal to the salary and pension he would
have earned had he kept working until
normal FBI retirement at age 57.
Under terms of the settlement, the
FBI will also pay $258,580 in legal fees
to Whitehurst's lawyers and the Justice
Department will drop all consideration
of disciplinary action against him.
In a brief statement acknowledging
Whitehurst's return to work and his deci-
sion to resign, the FBI said, "Dr.
Whitehurst played a role in identifying
specific areas (of the lab) to be examined
and some of the issues he noted resulted
in both internal and external reviews.'
Opralivwins dispute
with Texas cattlemen
AMARILLO, Tex. - After nearly six
weeks, more than two dozen witnesses,
untold legal fees and arguments about
agricultural economics and freedom of
speech, the case of the Texas cattlemen
against talk show host Oprah Winfrey
was resolved yesterday: Oprah won.
The jury decided that Winfrey, her
Harpo Productions Inc. and Howard
Lyman, a guest on her show, did not hurt
four Amarillo ranching families and their
cattle companies with a show on mad
cow disease. The plaintiffs claimed that
comments made during the program,
including Winfrey's disgusted vow that
she would never eat another hamburger,
caused cattle prices to plummet. 4
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Swiss catch possible
Israeli spy in Bern
ZURICH, Switzerland - The Swiss
government accused Israel yesterday of
violating its sovereignty after police
arrested a suspected Israeli spy who was
caught while trying to plant eavesdrop-
ping devices in the capital of Bern last
week.
Federal prosecutor Carla Del Ponte
said during a news conference there was
overwhelming evidence that Israel's
Mossad intelligence agency sanctioned
the illegal bugging mission against an
unidentified foreign resident during the
pre-dawn hours on Feb. 19. "We have
enough elements to prove that Mossad is
involved. We also havq a confirmation,"
Del Ponte said.
She refused to offer further details
about the target of Mossad's operation
other than to say he was not a diplomat.
Other Swiss officials ruled out any con-
nection to Iran's Islamic government,
whose activities in Europe are closely
monitored by Israeli and U.S. agents.
But Western diplomats said last night
it appeared the Israeli agents may have
been seeking to install listening devices
in the residence of a representative from
the Islamic militant organization Hamas
who has used Switzerland as a base t
promote diplomatic and financial sup-
port for the movement. Hamas militants
have orchestrated suicide bombings
within Israel and actively opposed most
Middle East peace initiatives.
New energy sources
draw investments
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The lur
of oil - as much as $4 trillion worth
-- is drawing the United States deep
into distant and dangerous lands
around the Caspian Sea.
Although few Americans know the
region, the prospect of enormous energy
deposits is likely to make the Caspian as
familiar a part of the world for the next
generation of Americans as the Persian
Gulf is for today's. It has already pulled
in a who's who of oil industry giants and
let loose a multibillion-dollar wave
international investment.
-- Compiled from Daily wire reports.
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