2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, April 3, 1998 Str o sunlNATION/WORLD - Starr vows ruling wil l not derail probe AX~ A, , Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr vowed yesterday that the sudden death of the Paula Jones sexual-harassment lawsuit against President Clinton will not deter him from pressing his wide-ranging investigation of the president, including whether Clinton and Monica Lewinsky tried to obstruct justice in the Jones case. "Our facts are very different," he said, attempting to distance his investigation from the abrupt end that befell the Jones lawsuit. "Our scope is very different." And although an increasing number of detractors complain that his criminal probe is stalled and likely to go the way of the Jones case, Starr insisted other- wise. "We're moving very quickly," he pledged in vigor- ous and lengthy remarks to reporters outside his home. "This grand jury is sitting more frequently, or more regularly, more days than I think any grand jury in the country." On Capitol Hill, where Starr's investigative report ultimately will land, some congressional Republican leaders muted talk of impeach- ment proceedings against the president, wary that any such effort could now be seen as cheap and brutal partisan politics. "My opinion continues to be that there should not be impeach- ment unless there is an open-and- shut case," warned Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), acknowledging that the "political atmospherics" once again have shifted in the Clinton White House's favor. Meanwhile, Jones' attorneys began picking up the legal pieces of their lawsuit, grappling with whether and how to appeal a federal judge's ruling in Little Rock, Ark., that threw out their case Wednesday. "We think there are grounds-for an appeal," said John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, which is fronting the legal fees for the Jones team. But he cautioned that the appeals process, starting with the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and possi- bly ending at the Supreme Court, would not be swift. "I've heard estimates of from one to two years," he said. "The president could be out of office by the time we get our reversal." In other developments yesterday, White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles testified for nearly four hours before the grand jury, which he said later "asked a lot of questions about what goes on in the White House." "I answered all of their questions wholly and com- pletely," he said. "It was an easy time for me.' Bowles also said he knows of no wrongdoing by the president. Teen smoking rates up to 36.4 percent WASHINGTON - Despite a national debate on reducing youth smokin American teen-agers continue to light up in increasing numbers, according to ne government figures. Overall, smoking rates among high school students rose by nearly a third betwe 1991 and 1997, creeping up from 27.5 percent to 36.4 percent, according to the report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. More than half of white high school males - 51.5 percent - and more than third of white female students - 40.8 percent - reported smoking a cigarette i the previous month in 1997, the latest year the survey of 16,000 students in grad 9 through 12 was conducted. The sharpest and most troubling rise occurred among African American sti dents, whose smoking increased by 80 percent during the same period - risi from 12.6 percent to 22.7 percent. The increase narrowed a long-standing g between black and white teenagers and reversed what had been a consistent decli in smoking among African American students. "This report gives us dramatic proof that we must continue to fight to protect o young people from the dangerous lure of tobacco" said Vice President C appearing at the kickoff of the national "Kick Butts Day" at Hine Junior Hi School in Washington. .. rr r a rrrw+rwwrrw i + i , ,ye.6x Lab to make more H-Bomb triggers WASHINGTON - Los Alamos National Laboratory, birthplace of the atomic bomb, for the first time in almost 40 years is preparing to produce plutonium triggers, key components of hydrogen bombs, as a way to keep war- heads in the U.S. nuclear stockpile reli- able and to prepare a reserve supply if additional weapons are built in the future. The United States has halted produc- tion of new generations of nuclear weapons and stopped underground nuclear testing in 1992. President Clinton sent the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to the Senate last September for ratification. But the administration maintains a $4.5 billion annual program called "stockpile stewardship" that is designed "to ensure a high level of con- fidence in the safety and reliability of nuclear weapons in the active stock- pile," Department of Energy Secretary Federico Pena told Congress last week. The program includes building ne elements for existing weapons, such plutonium triggers, replenishing deca: ing nuclear materials in the weapor and designing new ways to te weapons components without conduc ing nuclear explosive tests that I banned by agreement or treaty. Web now has more than 320M pages WASHINGTON - A comput search for a needle in the cyberstac now involves sorting through abo 320 million Web pages and even tI best search agents index no more 40 percent of them. And things are unlikely to get easi on the Internet because the number Web pages is expected to grow 1,0( percent in the next few years, accordit to Steve Lawrence of the NE Research Institute, co-author of a stuc to be published today in the journ Science. "Hundreds of pages are being add( constantly," said Lawrence. . "" 3- U RELIGIOUS SERVICES AVAVAVAVA CANTERBURY HOUSE Episcopal (Anglican) Center 721 E. Huron St. (Beibid Frieze Bild.) SUNDAY JAZZ MASS 5:00PM W1 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 am. & 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. THURS.: Faith and Fiction Group 7:00 John Rollefson, Campus Pastor ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH (Anglican Communion) 306 N. 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Israeli authorities continued to insist Israel had nothing to do with the death of Sharif, whom they say engineered at least two terrorist bombings. Palestinian police say he was shot to death and propped near a car that was then exploded Sunday to make it appear he had blown himself up. But the Israeli protestations fell on deaf ears among Palestinians, already angry at what they see as Israel's fail- ure to fulfill past promises of peace, and resentful of the continuing t' taken by Israeli forces. In rece weeks they have seen thr Palestinian workers killed in truck, a 13-year-old stone-thr shot in the head, and now Shar killed within Palestinian-controll Ramallah despite a six-month lull 1 suicide bombers. Yeltsin to delay vot on prime mnmster MOSCOW - President Boris Y yielded yesterday to parliamentary lea ers and agreed to postpone a vote on I nominee for prime minister, Serg Kiriyenko, until after a "round-tabl discussion next week with political lea ers, including Communists who sa they will vote against Kiriyenko. Yeltsin backtracked - six days af demanding a vote - to avoid a cc frontation with parliament, aides and an lysts said. At a meeting with legislati leaders, Yeltsin offered to listen to suggestions for new cabinet members. - Compiledfrom Daily wire repor it, The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are. $85. Winter term (January through April) is $95, yearlong (September through April) is $165. On-campus scriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. 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