2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 12, 1998 NATION/ WORLD - WSU dean chosen for federal post WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton announced yesterday the nomination of James Robinson, dean of the Wayne State University Law School, as the chief criminal enforcement officer for the Department of Justice. The Detroit attorney would become the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Criminal Division if confirmed by the Senate. Robinson would replace Jo Ann Harris, who left the department 2 1/2 years ago to return to her family in New York and teach law. In the interim, John Keeney has been the acting assistant attorney general. Robinson, dean of the Wayne State law school since 1993, has also worked in Michigan for the government, several law firms and another univer- sity. From 1981 to 1993, he was partner at the Detroit law firm of Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn and head of the litigation department, concentrat- ing on civil litigation and white collar criminal defense. From 1977 to 1980, Robinson was the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, over- seeing criminal and civil cases including narcotics, fraud and white collar crime. Robinson was president of the Michigan State Bar from 1990 to 1991. He also has published extensively on the law of criminal evidence. Robinson was born in Grand Rapids and is married to Marietta Robinson, who runs her own law office in Detroit. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1965. In 1968, he received his law degree from Wayne State, serving as editor in chief of the law review in the 1967-68 academic year. Robinson also worked at Honigman, Miller, Schwartz and Cohn from 1972-1977 and at another Detroit law firm, Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, from 1969 to 1971. From 1983 to 1984, he chaired of the governor's James Robinson will serve as the chief criminal enforcement officer for the Department of Justice if the Senate confirms him. Commission on the Future of Higher Education in Michigan. Robinson taught at Detroit College of law from 1970 to 1973 and was an adjunct professor at Wayne State from 1973 to 1984. Robinson did not respond yesterday to messages left at the law school seeking comment on his nomi- nation. AROUND THE NATION Judge: Iran must pay family $247.5M WASHINGTON -A federal judge ordered Iran to pay $247.5 million in dan ages to the family of an American woman killed in a suicide bombing in Gaza 1995. "The court is seeking to deter further terrorist actions," said District Cou Judge Royce Lamberth. The ruling yesterday was the first under a new law allowing Americans t4 nations believed to sponsor terrorism for damages caused by such attacks. Whil the victim's family is unlikely to collect the damage award any time soon, the ru ing could complicate tentative efforts to improve relations between the Unite States and Iran. "Terrorists and the countries which sponsor them should know that w will continue to increase the price to be paid for acts of terrorism," declare Rep. Jim Saxton (R-N.J.) who heads the House Task Force on Terrorisn "This decision clearly shows that we will hit them hard in the wallet s well." Iran vehemently denies it has any connections to terrorist groups ( attacks. Although Lamberth said Iranian representatives had been invite testify at court hearings on March 3-4, a spokesperson for the Iraniani, sion to the United Nations said yesterday he was not aware of the court cas in Washington. 3 U s C, Banner Day Camp Now Hiring Summer Staff! June 15-August 14 9 Excellent Wages Lake Forest, IL 847-295-4900 or 800-726-4901 Annan praised for work with Iraq WASHINGTON - President Clinton praised U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan yesterday as deserving "a lot of credit" for negotiating a deal with Iraq over weapons inspections and renewed administration pledges to lobby hard for money to pay the U.S. debt owed to the international body. In their first meeting since Annan returned from Baghdad two weeks ago with an agreement defusing a military confrontation in the Persian Gulf, Clinton rejected congressional criticism that the deal with Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was a "sellout." "The agreement on its own terms is clearly not a sellout," Clinton said, repeating the administration's position that what matters is whether Iraq com- plies with the deal to give full access to United Nations weapons inspectors. If so, Clinton added, Annan would have achieved "what the United States has always wanted, which is to complete the inspection process:' In private talks, Clinton pledged t Annan that he would make a "maximu effort" to persuade Congress to appro funds to pay off most of the $1.2 billio that the United States owes to the Unite Nations, according to a senior adm tration official who briefed repor about the session. Cinton testimony. remains uncertain WASHINGTON - Independe counsel Kenneth Starr has been seekin President Clinton's testimony in th Monica Lewinsky matter for more t month, but lawyers for the preside far have declined to say whether Clinto will testify, sources familiar with th investigation said yesterday. Starr's office has made seve requests in writing to the president lawyers, the sources said. Starr is seekin Clinton's testimony in the ongoing gran jury investigation voluntarily. "I've got to do the work that thepe ple of this country hired me to do," president said. 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Villagers gathered throughout the frigid day to recover the mangled bodies, identify those who could be identified, and place them, one by one, back into the ground. Fifty-two mounds of chopped earth formed three neat rows, a piece of wood planted on each grave to serve as a tomb- stone. When the villagers ran out of wood, they used broken tree limbs. Six hours after they started, ethnic Albanians from several nearby villages finished the task of burying 52 men, women and children killed in the dead- liest spasm of violence to wreck Serbia's restive Kosovo province since World War IL. The ad-hoc gravediggers were careful to turn each body's head toward the Islamic holy site of Mecca, in keeping with Muslim tradition. Other elements