2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, March 25, 1998 MSA Continued from Page 1 candidates regarding the alleged campaign violations, no investiga- tion has been launched because no one has come forth with evidence, said Elections Director Rajeshri Gandhi. "My position is that there is not enough information for us to inves- tigate," Gandhi said. "All we have right now is unsubstantiated rumors. If someone comes forward, that will require our looking into it." The addition of online voting last year has made monitoring MSA election regulations more difficult because students can now vote from anywhere and at anytime during the two days of elections. LSA representative Brian Reich said he furnished Thompson with the laptop, and the campaigning at the fraternity house, where alcohol was served, was planned before- hand. Reich said he and Thompson fol- lowed the rules and ensured that no campaign materials came within 50 feet of the computer. "Trent and I put (the computer) in a room and told people that they could vote," Reich said. "All we did was set up a polling site. He was at the party campaigning. None of the votes were gotten illegally. Trent didn't break any rules." N ATION! WORLD Yeltsin successor still in question AROUND THE NATiamm ,1 .__ __... .___ , r t l .-. , aiidfleTrn skills to improve both yourself and your organization. This conference is free to all U of M students. Registration deadline is Wednesday, March 25th. Registration forms are available at SAL, 2209 Union. Student Activities and Leadership Office A Division of Student Affairs www.umich.edu/-salead salead@umich.edu 763-5900 MOSCOW (AP) - While Russia awaits a new government, the larger question looms of who will replace President Boris Yeltsin when his term ends in 2000. The political turmoil created this week by Yeltsin's surprise government shakeup has spurred the speculation. At least five men appear likely con- tenders, but all have major weakness- es. Yeltsin, wary of becoming a lame duck, coyly declines to say whom he favors. "As of today, nobody can play the role of official heir to the throne," said Boris Makarenko, a political analyst with the Center for Political Technologies. It is widely expected that the "party of power" - a term encom- passing Yeltsin, his allies, and the country's business elite - will settle on a single candidate and lavish him with campaign resources. But if an election were held now, opinion polls indicate it would be a wide-open affair and the "party of power" candidate might not be the favorite. Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, ex-general Alexander Lebed and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, a Yeltsin ally, all could be in the race. Yeltsin has made contradictory comments about his plans in 2000, but his age, his questionable health and the Russian constitution all appear to rule out a third term. There has been speculation he might run again if the Constitutional Court rules that his first term, which began under the old Soviet constitution, does not count toward Russia's two-term limit. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin's presidential hopes may have been dashed Monday when Yeltsin fired him along with the rest of the Cabinet. "We can pronounce the once super-powerful premier politically dead," said Kommersant, the coun- try's leading business daily, which is usually sympathetic to Chernomyrdin. In a vague statement, Yeltsin told Chernomyrdin to begin making preparations for the 2000 election. But that didn't mean Chernomyrdin would be a candidate, and many ana- lysts saw it as a gentle way for the president to say good-bye to the loyal premier. Lake Champlain no longer a great lake WASHINGTON - The five Great Lakes can share some researching funding with smaller Lake Champlain, but not their great name. There are five Great Lakes, not six, senators agreed yesterday in a compromise measure deleting mention of Vermont's Lake Champlain as one of the greats. Instead, the senators agreed Lake Champlain is a "cousin." President Clinton signed a bill into law on March 6 that designated Champlain as a Great Lake for the purpose of competing for research funds under the National Sea Grant Program. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) had quietly put the sentence into the reauthorization bill for the program. But he underestimated the wave of controversy it would gen- erate among Great Lakes lawmakers and residents who had pride in the name and feared other landlocked states might also try to snag some Sea Grant funding. "It snowballed into concerns that we would have to rewrite our encyclopedias or throw out our atlases," Leahy said jokingly on the Senate floor. Michigan's senators had made it clear they would not accept the designation of Champlain as a sixth Great Lake - even for the intended purpose of getting more funding for Vermont. The Senate yesterday passed the amendment striking the designation by voice vote. In a compromise, the amendment does allow universities in Vermont to compete for the research funding on problems they have in common with the Great Lakes. Breast cancer gene is rarer than thought CHICAGO - Gene defects that have been linked to breast cancer are rarer than previously thought, and widespread screening of women for the flaws would not be worthwhile, two studies suggest. Any of several defects in two genes - BRCAI or BRCA2-- are known to raise the risk of breast and ovarian can- cer dramatically. Women who test pos- itive for the defective genes often choose drastic options - even having healthy breasts and ovaries removed - to avoid cancer. In previous research, up to 75 per- cent of breast-cancer patients with fam- ily histories of breast and ovarian can- cer were found to have defects in BRCA1. But, in a new study from North Carolina, only three women among 211 breast-cancer cases had a BRCA 1 defect. The women were 20 to 74 years old and were selected without regard to whether they had a family history of the disease. And in a new Washington state study, only 12 women had a defective BRCA I gene among 193 who developed breast cancer before age 35. Only 15 women had the trait among 208 who developed breast cancer before age 45 and also had a close relative with the disease. Manifesto trendy on Madison Avenue NEW YORK -You've come a long way, comrade. A stylish new edition of "The Communist Manifesto" aims to make Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels the lat- est in radical chic. The slender volume is being republished as a glossy, $13 hard- cover for release in New York and London on May Day. The fashion- able department store Barneys is thinking about it for a window dis- play. The publisher says the 1848 work speaks to a sense on Wall Street that the party can't go on forever. ' IARouND THE WORLD t- Clinton to children: Slavery was wrong MUKONO, Uganda - Before thou- sands of schoolchildren sprawled on a grassy hillside, President Clinton said yesterday that the United States was wrong long ago to buy slaves and guilty more recently of "the sin of neglect and ignorance" toward Africa. Promising new friendship and help, Clinton announced $120 million in aid for African schools to train more teachers and connect classes to the Internet. The United States also will spend $16 million to help Africa combat AIDS and malaria, which kill thousands of children. Although Clinton did not apologize for slavery, as some black people in the United States have urged, his remarks brought applause in this rural village where coffee and bananas are grown. "The United States has not always done the right thing by Africa," said the president, who was on the second leg of a six-country tour. He said Africa suffered during the Cold War competition between the United States and Soviet Union. And ear- lier, he said, Europeans and Americans "received the fruits of the slave trade. And we were wrong in that as wellA" "But perhaps the worst sin Amesc ever committed about Africa was the sin of neglect and ignorance," he said. "We have never been as involved with you, in working together for our mutual benefit, for your children and for ours, as we should have been:' New clashes erupt in troubled Kosovo GLAMOC, Yugoslavia - Fierc clashes between Serb police and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo province sent scared villagers i eing yesterday from the rattle of machin. gunfire and the boom of grenade and roctcIt launchers. One police officer was repoi t, . The new outbreak of violence, which authorities say began when Albanian sep- aratists with mortars ambushed a police patrol, came on the eve of a conference where the United States was to press strongly for sanctions against Yugoslavi* for police repression in Kosovo. - Compiledfrom Daily wire reports. h-- .w- it-- ieck out Oakland University and get ahead of the game next fall. Need a general education course? A course in your major? At Oakland University you can choose from more than 1,000 spring or summer classes offered at our beautiful, convenient campus. And many are scheduled for evenings or Saturdays, so you'll have plenty of time for working a summer job, soaking up the sun or having fun with hometown friends. You can transfer the credits back to your home institution in the fall, so Get Smart and Jump To The Head Of Your Class. - For a complete schedule of classes and application, contact the Office of Admissions today. 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