2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, November 23, 1998

NATION/WORLD


Clinton thanks troops

Los Angeles T"nes
OSAN AIR FORCE BASE, South
Korea - President Clinton yesterday
expressed a "debt of gratitude" to U.S.
.military personnel around the world for
,their role in deterring the development
And use of weapons of mass destruction
and stressed the need to remain "vigi-
lant," particularly in the face of threats
from Iraq and North Korea.
Although he was speaking in South
Korea, Clinton clearly had the ongoing
tensions with Iraq on his mind. Just a lit-
te more than a week earlier, he gave the
go-ahead for a massive airstrike against
Iraq. With the threat of force palpable,
Baghdad backed down, agreeing to let
U.N. arms inspectors do their jobs, and
the attack was called off.
"Our ability to succeed in promoting
peace is uniquely due to the fact that we
can back up our diplomatic efforts when
necessary with military strength," said
Clinton, who was flanked by an F-16 jet
fighter and an A-10 ground attack plane.
"And that depends on you, the finest
armed forces in the world."
The venue for Clinton's traditional
Thanksgiving address to the troops was
this base just a few miles from the site of
the first significant ground combat
action between American and North

Korean forces in the summer of 1950.
Forty-five years after that hot war ended
with an armistice - after claiming the
lives of tens of thousands of Americans
- cold war persists on the Korean
peninsula and U.S. troops still defend a
demilitarized zone 50 miles to the north
between the two Koreas.
"One of the greatest threats the world
now faces is weapons of mass destruc-
tion,' Clinton told the troops. "And
though our attention lately has been
focused on Iraq's efforts in that area,
North Korea is also a major concern.
Here at Osan, you are critical to this
most dangerous battleground deterring
and, if necessary, defending against
chemical and biological attacks."
Their role is particularly vital now,
Clinton said, as the "signs of danger
have intensified" from North Korea -
such as a missile launch over Japan in
August and a suspected underground
nuclear facility.
"So we must remain vigilant," said
Clinton. "And thanks to you we are."
Clinton told the crowd - representa-
tives of the 37,000 Americans based in
South Korea -that their efforts are crit-
ical for supporting democracy in South
Korea and defending it from the
Communist North.

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KEVORKIAN
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legalize assisted suicide. But Bishop
said he is not sure whether
Kevorkian will go to jail.
"He's been through three different tri-
als already, but this is a clear-cut case ...
12 people must agree that this was mur-
der- killing a human being with malice
of foresight. But there was no malice. I
would hesitate to call this murder"
But some members of the University's
Phi Rho Sigma Medical Society said
they disagree.
Medical first-year student Rahul Anand
said Kevorkian will definitely go to jail.
"If he doesn't go to jail it's going to set
a precedent for other doctors to do the
same thing" Anand said. "He says he's
looked at everything and there's no other
way, but that's not right."
Medical first-year student Michael
Roh said that down the road, practicing
assisted suicide could become a manda-
tory part of medical practice. "I wouldn't
want to have to be in the position of
injecting a patient," Roh said.
Medical third-year student Brian
McBeth questioned Kevorkian's motives
in airing the tape publicly.
He said he agrees the future medical
ramifications are dangerous, but he said
he feels Kevorkian's decision that Youk
was suffering too much to live is the
more important issue.
DEGREES
Continued from Page 1A
"It really takes very little.
Anyone in the University can nom-
inate people," Bollinger said. "The
process was changed because it
discouraged people from making
nominations."
Representatives from the
Rackham School of Graduate
Studies, a committee chaired by
Rackham Dean Earl Lewis,
Bollinger and the regents evaluated
proposed honorary degree recipi-
ents.
"This process reaches well
beyond what the regents vote on,"
said Regent Olivia Maynard (D-
Goodrich). "We know there is a
whole committee who thinks about
it ... we know a lot of people have
looked at it before us."
Bollinger said his criteria for the
recipients can include their intel-
lectual and artistic ability, as well
as their personal achievements.
"I judged not whether they will
receive the degrees, but whether
they are worthy," Bollinger said.
Ties to the University were not
among the criteria, although Yang
recently served as a visiting profes-
sor.
"Clearly we look for some level
of distinction," Lewis said. "We
look for something that lets them
stand out."
Maynard said both recipients
will contribute exponentially to
the University because they repre-
sent the "wide variety of ways we
learn and what is important in the
world.
"That's what a great University is
about: the great diversity and mak-
ing contributions from all aspects
of life," Maynard said.
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"I think he sees himself as a martyr or
messiah in an apocalyptic battle
McBeth said. "He's a total egomaniac.
He cares more about making headlines
than his patients' suffering."
McBeth said that although Kevorkian
is not advocating it, he "is taking a step
down the road" to the Nazis in Germany,
who systematically killed mentally
retarded members of society.
Medical first-year student Matt Hysell
said the decision to air the tape on televi-
sion was inappropriate. "It shouldn't be on
TV Just because a doctor may know how
to do this they shouldn't be expected to"
But Anand said he feels the tape
should have been shown. "It informs the
public and shows what he's doing"
Anand said.
Bishop attended the University's
Medical Center at the same time as
Kevorkian, although he did not personal-
ly know him. When Kevorkian was at the
University, he had a reputation for doing
projects that involved death, he said.
Bishop said he personally did not wit-
ness them, but Kevorkian's projects
"extended beyond the traditional studies
of pathology. He was interested in the
physiological changes that went along
with death"
"He's making a point and we have to
consider the point he's making," Bishop
said.
- The Associated Press contributed to
this report
MSA
Continued from Page IA
Science and Arts.
"Our party did great in the elec-
tion," said Curtin, who received the
most points in the Rackham elec-
tions. "MSA is going to be much
more active."
Curtin said Defend Affirmative
Action members will call on their
supporters to attend the assembly's
weekly meetings. Curtin said party
members have already submitted a
resolution calling for the assembly to
support a National Day of Action on
Feb. 24.
"We think (the election) is a really
positive indication of where the stu-
dent body is at," Curtin said. "We can
take the student movement to a whole
other level."
Students' Party incumbent Bram
Elias topped the LSA representative
election with 2,787 points.
"It's going to be a fun semester,"
said Elias, MSA treasurer. "It makes
me feel better about the things I've
been working on ... now I can finish
them."
Engineering Rep. Dave Burden,
who missed re-election by two points,
said he will attempt to be appointed
to the assembly if a seat becomes
vacant before winter break. Burden, a
Students' Party member, said the
election is not indicative of student
opinion.
"There's been a shifting in the
wind," Burden said. "This is just an
indication of whose got the most
active members."
Despite their full slate, the New
Frontier Party captured only one seat
on the assembly. Rep.-elect Alok
Agrawal narrowly captured the third
Engineering seat, edging Burden by
two points.
"I'm surprised more of my New
Frontier colleagues did not win
seats," said Agrawal, a junior. "I am
excited to win, but it is bittersweet
because my colleges did not win with
me."
New Frontier Party organizer Jacob
Oslick said his party suffered in the
election because it did not do enough

"person-to-person" campaigning.
"I was very surprised the Defend
Affirmative Action Party did as well
as it did," Oslick said. "We're very
excited Alok won and will be at the
assembly espousing our beliefs."
.Thompson said the assembly will
examine how it can reconstruct the
way elections process represents stu-
dents to better serve students.
"This is not something that is a
one-semester job;" Thompson said.
"This is something that will take two
years to do."
Thompson said assembly members
will speak with presidents of other
student governments to examine the
representation process at other uni-
versities.
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Speaker-elect hopes
for early vote
WASHINGTON - House Speaker-
elect Bob Livingston said yesterday that
he hopes the House will vote on
impeachment of the president before
year's end, even if it has to return to
Washington for several hours of debate
in a special session.
Sounding eager to make his mark
as a legislative manager in the new
year's 106th Congress, rather than as
the man who presided over impeach-
ment, Livingston (R-La.) said his
twin goals for next year are passage
of "significant tax cuts" and protec-
tion of the Social Security system.
"I would like to send the president
not just one tax cut, I'd like to send
him several over the next couple of
years," Livingston said on NBC's
"Meet the Press."
As for impeachment, Livingston
said that if the Judiciary Committee's
final recommendation requires a vote
by the full House, "I'd be prepared to
ask Newt Gingrich, as the current

speaker of the House, to call us in a
special session this year. I wouldn't
imagine it will take a lot of debate -
most of the issues have been on the
table for the last year - and consider
two or three hours of debate, vote on
the issue up or down and be dor4
with it."
Murder rate falls for
sixth straight year
WASHINGTON - The nation's
murder rate reached its lowest level in
30 years as serious crimes reported to
police in 1997 declined for a sixth
consecutive year, the FBI said yester-
day.
"These decreases are real and go
beyond a statistical blip" Attorney
General Janet Reno said. "But we
have not won the war on crime. We
cannot let up even one minute."
Final FBI figures for 1997
showed a 2 percent drop from the
year before in the number of major
crimes reported to more than 17,000
police agencies around the nation.

AROUND THE NATION r
Senator says strike on Iraq possible
WASHINGTON - Prospects of a new U.S. military strike on Iraq appeared to
grow yesterday, as a leading congressional Republican declared "we better be pre-
pared" for an attack, and Iraqi officials heaped scorn on the chief U.N. weapons
inspector who is at the center of the dispute.
"It's a very bad start, and it seems to me very clear that when the preside
returns home ... we'd better be prepared for the military strike," said Sen. Richarl
Lugar (R-Ind.) referring to Iraq's defiant stance since its promise to cooperate with
inspectors staved off a U.S. attack.
President Clinton is scheduled to return to Washington late today, follow-
ing a trip to Japan, South Korea and Guam. Although White House officials
have been chagrined at Iraq's posture in the week since its promise of coop-
eration persuaded Clinton to call off an attack, the administration has been
measured in its criticism.
Before leaving Seoul, White House spokesperson David Levy said that the
Clinton administration needed to "wait to see" how the tense process unfolds.
Levy noted that Richard Butler, the chief U.N. weapons inspector, complained
last week that Iraq responded "inadequately" to his request for documents about
biological, chemical and missile programs. "We support that" Levy said of Butler"
complaint. "We need inspections on the ground"

AROUND THE WORLD

Iraq: No new.
documents for U.N.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's foreign
minister yesterday accused U.N. arms
inspectors of "a savage campaign ... of
disinformation" in their quest for more
documents about the country's banned
weapons.
The minister, Mohammed Saeed al-
Sahhaf, said Iraq has already handed
over millions of papers to monitors and
claimed that no more files exist.
"Anything relevant to the work of
disarmament, we had already handed
over," he said, adding that Iraq has
given 2,188,020 pages of documents to
U.N. Special Commission and
International Atomic Energy Agency
monitors since weapons inspections
began in 1991.
Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz
said some documents in question are
long lost and accused chief weapons
inspector Richard Butler of trying to cre-
ate a pretext to continue sanctions or
allow the United States and Britain to
attack. Aziz told reporters that "Butler
has asked for a series of alleged docu-

ments ... that do not exist?
"It is quite provocative if you want
to dig in the whole archives of the gov-
ernment of Iraq, which might take
decades;' he said.
National Security Counci
spokesperson David Leavy said the
Iraqi comments were "insufficient" and
called for Iraqi cooperation.
Palestinians, Israelis
ask for U.S. money
JERUSALEM - Israel and th
Palestinians are both asking the Unite
States to dig deep in its pockets to help
them strengthen their claims in the West
Bank, at a price that may exceed $1.6 bil-
lion.
Israeli officials have hinted that the
pace of a West Bank pullback, part of the
U.S.-brokered peace accord reached last
month, may depend in part on receiving
the money that President Clinton
promised to sweeten the agreement.
Israel is expected to ask for $1.2 bil-
lion, officials said.
- Compiled from Daily wire reports.

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