2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 27, 1998 NATION/WORLD Chief U.N. inspector endorses Iraq accord AROUND THE NATION - 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. T-SHIRT PRINTING * LOWEST PRICES! HIGHESTQUALITY! FASTEST SER VICE! I * 1002 PONTIAC TR. U 994-1367 TECHNOLOGY Continued from Page 1 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." (t~ftIf~ U RIE ~3ONTh~ 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 3wqea 4eC -§Wmr Uoootui~tC8 ____ ~Pe l~cth1~a~ oel jtt z AROUND THE WORLD ]> C) St. Andrews Hall Detroit February 27th K. .. l- -- f-.e - AP .fr ' Ar n t . W-w A- wmw uA. T..y.Ipuukv, . w i -uTee- Itoe rt yu Dearborn Music, Dearborn, Canton Desirables Discs #1 Record Collector Cannibal Music Rock of Ages Fun House Noise Flips ide, Clawson Record Time, Rochester Record x-change, Southgate Record Time, Roseville 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. 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