SThe Michigan Daily - Friday, March 13, 1998 NATION/WORLD - North Korea announces military move ARo,,UMD THE NATION .......... . -.- ...... - - - BEIJING (AP) - North Korea aid early this morning that it was ntering a state of "wartime mobi- ization" for nationwide military xercises, according to foreign aid fficials and reporters based in the :apital, Pyongyang. The mobilization was imposed late esterday for the war games, which ,ere being held out of concern over rowing foreign military threats, ihina's state-run news agency, Xinhua, uoted north Korean Deputy Foreign dinister Li In Gyu as saying this morn- ig in Pyongyang. In comments to foreign diplomats, Li cused the United States, Japan and south Korea of exploiting the econom- ic crisis in North Korea to plot against it, said the report, which did not provide further details. An international aid worker based in Pyongyang said the maneuvers were not unusual, and that North Korea had been staging military exercises for almost two weeks. He said there was no obvious increase in the military presence in Pyongyang and that no curfew had been announced. North Korea's economy has been in a free fall and the country has had to turn to the international community for help in battling famine because of waning harvests worsened by floods and drought. Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Li In Gyu accused the [United States, Japan and South Korea of exploiting the economic crisis in North Korea. The reports of mobilization followed unconfirmed rumors of troop move- ments and possible armed clashes in Pyongyang, but they did not cause immediate alarm in rival South Korea. South Korea's Defense Ministry this morning denied that North Korea had launched a wartime alert, saying the North's activities appeared to be a stan- dard military exercise. The reported mobilization follows an incident early yesterday when South Korean soldiers fired warning shots toward North Korean soldiers, who apparently crossed the heavily-guarded demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two countries, according to the Defense Ministry. Lindsey testifies before grand jury WASHINGTON - Presidential confidant Bruce Lindsey returned to the gran jury investigating the Monica Lewinsky matter yesterday for his third day of test mony - an appearance that may help set the stage for a constitutional battle ov President Clinton's ability to protect the secrecy of his discussions with advisers. Lindsey, a White House deputy counsel and longtime Clinton friend f Arkansas, has played an important role at several points in the Lewinsky saga and declined to answer questions at the grand jury about his conversations with the pres dent. Lawyers are compiling a record of which matters Lindsey considers confide tial in preparation for a court fight over the reach of Clinton's executive privilege. As he departed from the courthouse after about 2 1/2 hours before the gran jury, Lindsey would not discuss his testimony or whether the privilege issue cam up. "You know we aren't talking about that," he told reporters. The grand jury yesterday also heard again from White House steward Baya Nelvis, who works in the pantry adjacent to the Oval Office and befriende Lewinsky when she worked at the White House as an intern and later as a corrt spondence clerk. While testimony continued on one floor, the federal judge vh oversees the grand jury, Norma Holloway Johnson, heard arguments on ano about Clinton's complaint that independent counsel Kenneth Starr's office has ill gaily leaked grand jury information to the news media. Cancer cases decline nationally WASHINGTON - For the first time in nearly 20 years, the incidence of all cancers combined, and most of the lead- ing types of cancer, declined between 1990-95 in the United States, and death rates from the disease also decreased, health officials announced yesterday. The drop in the rate of new cases represents a reversal of a discouraging trend of escalating cancer incidence over nearly two decades, while the decline in the death rate sustains a turn around noted for the first time last year. Moreover, preliminary findings from 1996 show that declines in both inci- dence and death rates are continuing, officials said. "The chances of getting cancer are declining, and the chances of dying from cancer are declining even faster,' said Dr. James Marks, an official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Describing cancer as "one of the most feared diseases, and rightfully so," Marks said that with the new statistic "the burden of fear should begin to lift Stressing that "behind the numbers a peoples' lives," Dr. Richard Klausne director of the National Cancer Institul said that in 1995 alone, the trends nm 25,000 to 30,000 fewer cancer de and 70,000 fewer new cancer cases.: Children of working parents stll poor WASHINGTON - A boomin national economy has drawn millions poor parents off of welfare and into jot but many children still live in pover according to an assessment of the Is youngest poor released yesterday. In 1996, the most recent year f which data are available, 5.5 million ch dren lived in poverty across the natic and 63 percent of them lived in famili with at least one working parent, accor ing to Columbia University's respecti National Center for Children in Povert The number of poor children h declined since peaking at 6.4 million 1993. 1 RUJ LGIOU$ $I3RVICES AVAVAVAVA CANTERBURY HOUSE Episcopal (Anglican) Center 721 E. Huron St. (Behind Frieze Bild.) SUNDAY JAZZ MASS 5:00PM W/ QUARTEX Supper follows service Retreats, Bible study, Service Opportunities - Call 665-0606 The Rev Matthew Lawrence, Chaplain KOREAN CHURCH OF ANN ARBOR 3301 Creek Dr. 971-9777 SUNDAY: 9:30 a.m. English 11 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. Korean LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRY Lord of Light Lutheran Church 801 S. Forest (at Hill St.) 668-7622 SUNDAY:Worship at 10a.m. TIRJ Faith and Fiction Group 7:00 John Rollefson, Campus Pastor ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH (Anglican Communion) 306 N. 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But only 12 political prisoners were released, including six the Justice Ministry said were being freed because they are 70 years old or older. All six had been serving life terms and human rights groups said all had been subject- ed to torture, some for decades. While the vast majority of those affected by the amnesty simply had their records wiped clean of traffic and other minor offenses, 2,304 priso inmates being held for more serio crimes also were freed. Mexican massacre* planned in advance MEXICO CITY - A pro-goverr ment vigilante group plotted an attack o the hamlet of Acteal for more than tw months before gunning down 45 peopl there, the Mexico attorney general office said yesterday. In a preliminary report on the ma sacre in the southern state of Chiapa agency said some state police office apparently helped the attackers by .ian porting automatic weapons in polic vehicles. 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