2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 28, 1998 FOOTBALL Continued from Page IA mere 22 yards in the second half. That, combined with stingy coverage in the secondary, prevented the Spartans from closing the gap. The Wolverines sacked Burke six times, easily the highest output this sea- son for the defense. As they have in every previous game, the Michigan offense continued to have significant success. The Wolverines compiled 206 rushing yards - 69 of them came on an Anthony Thomas touchdown on his first carry of the game. The play, late in the first quarter, was Michigan's first score of the game. "I was thinking about the coaches, who always say 'they better not catch you from behind,"' Thomas said. The Spartans could catch neither Thomas nor fellow tailback Clarence Williams throughout the contest. Thomas amassed 106 yards on the ground while Williams picked up 88. The other Michigan rushing touch- down of the game came on a one-yard quarterback sneak touchdown by Brady. The remainder of Michigan's scoring came from three field goals by Feely, one of which tied his career longest kick - a 51-yarder in the first quarter. Although the Wolverines did pull out a victory, they fumbled the ball four times and lost it twice. Both turnovers came on special teams plays - a fum- bled punt by James Whitley and a fun- ble on a pooch kickoff by Grady Brooks. "We're not a great football team, by any stretch of the imagination," Carr said. "But we played hard today and think that enabled us to overcome the mistakes we made." AROUND THE NATION House passes $80B tax-cut measures WASHINGTON - An $80 billion Republican tax cut calculated to appeal millions of middle-class Americans has passed in the House. President Clinton renewed his threat to veto the election-year bill because would spend part of the $1.6 trillion budget surplus forecast over the next decad instead of holding all of it until Social Security is safeguarded. The House passed the measure 229-195 on Saturday, sending it to the Senate, its future is less certain. The 16-member Michigan delegation followed a mostlyparty line vote with all six Republicans and Democrst Jim Barcia (D-Bay City) voting ft the measure. The delegation's other nine Democrats voted against it. On Friday, the House voted for 90 percent of any federal surplus to be held reserve until a Social Security rescue plan is in place. Republicans pushed through the Social Security bill on a 240-188 vote to blur Democratic criticism - certain to echo across congressional political campaign - that the GOP tax cut would amountto a raid on the popular retirement progran The Michigan delegation split along party lines, with all 10 Democrats votin against it and the six Republicans for it. Most Democrats do not support the use of a surplus that may not materialize t pay for the tax cuts. "They're rushing to spend a surplus that doesn't exist i House Minority Whip David Bonior (D-Mount Clemens). High court to look at appeal requests WASHINGTON - This morning at 9, one of the capital most important and least known annual rituals gets under way, heralded only by the sound of a buzzer on the first floor of the the way to the Supreme Court. And II high court is free to decide which cass and legal questions are worthy of i time and attention. For the justices, the first fall confe ence --coming a week before the off cial opening of the new term -e sets the agenda for the year ahea Supreme Court.Nu e oft e Gathered behind closed doors for the N u er WJIted first conference of the new term, the chickens declines nine justices will shake hands, trade a few words about their summer vaca- WASHiNGTON - The incident tions and sit down to decide on the of salmonella contamination in chicl 1,701 appeals that came in while they ens dropped by nearly half in the fir were away. six months of the Clinton administr In a rapid-fire series of votes, they tion's new food-inspection system, pri will select a dozen or so cases for full liminary government figures shof hearings and written opinions. Then, in The system, known as the large part because of negative recom- Analysis and Criticil Control Poin mendations from young law clerks, (HACCP), is a science-based methc they will reject the rest. of determining where contaminatic After a quick three hours, they will might occur all the way through II adjourn. Other appeals will be consid- chain of food production. Processo ered by the justices beginningin October must take action at those critical pois at conferences every Friday of the term. to head off contamination, rather thi As the civic textbooks say, in just poking and sniffing carcasses America you can appeal your case all the end of the line. A&ROUND T1HE WORLDa Arafat remarks may refer to statehood JERUSALEM - Israel has explic- itly warned him not to do it. The United States says it too would have to oppose. But as Yasser Arafat prepares to step to the podium at the United Nations today to deliver his first address to the General Assembly asa head of govern- ment, it is still unclear whether he will use the occasion to announce his plans to declare a Palestinian state in barely seven months' time. The Palestinian Authority presi- dent already has said that unless there is significant progress toward an Israeli-Palestinian settlement, he intends to make a unilateral declara- tion of statehood on May 4, 1999, the date marking the end of a transition period set by the interim peace accords reached in Oslo, Norway, in 1993. But an announcement from the stage of the United Nations would increase the stakes sharply. "If he goes forward with the announcement - and it's hard to imag- ine why he would give up the opport nity to drum up international suppc - it will make it much harder f either the Palestinians or the Isra government to back down," said l Alpher, head of the Jerusalem ofw the American Jewish Committee ai an expert on political and strateg affairs. Malaysian political crisis heating up KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Malaysia's political crisis enterete and more-confrontational phase yeste day as opposition groups and politic activists launched two broad-bas coalitions to push for sweeping poli cal reforms, an end to corruption a the ouster of longtime Prime Minist Mahathir Mohamad. 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