,9 ,--The' Michiani lv W- Tuesda~v.Snte~mber 29.1999 C lintlonsetsWestBL77aTN cOLD Clinton sets etBn ceue AROUND THE NATION " WASHINGTON (AP) - President Cinton set a mid-October goal for con- cuding a West Bank accord yesterday based on a report from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat that tliy had basically resolved how much land Israel will yield. "Netanyahu said he and Arafat had achieved a breakthrough on a long-elu- si e deal over West Bank territory. Clinton said after the three leaders met at the White House, "I believe that we all agreed that we have made progress on the path to peace." The president described "a signifi- cant narrowing of the gaps between the two parties across a wide range of issues." The new timetable calls for Secretary of State Madeleine Albright ani U.S. mediator Dennis Ross to go the region for further talks with the two leaders next week and for Netanyahu and Arafat to return to the White House for a meeting with Clipton in mid-October. "This process needs to be speeded up," Albright said after the three- way, 90-minute meeting the Oval Office. Netanyahu then returned for a separate meeting with Clinton, and STUDENTS WITH CROHN'S DISEASE OR ULCERATIVE COLITIS Please join Dr. Ellen Zimmermann Asst Professor of Gastroenterology, U of M for an informal discussion of topics including: *NUTRITION eNEW THERAPIES 'LATEST RESEARCH First meeting will be: Tuesday, Sept. 29 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm 3402 Mason Hall Central Campus U of M Monthly meetings planned (734)763-7278 Arafat was due to see the president today. Albright steered clear of any claims of breakthroughs, telling reporters, "We are very close on a number of subjects," acknowledging that an accord on how much land Israel was willing to relinquish was among them. But a senior U.S. official later told The Associated Press, "Everybody thinks we broke the back" of that issue and now can focus on other mat- ters. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Mideast leaders had committed themselves to go on from there to negotiations on a final set- tlement. Netanyahu, at a news conference before he flew home for the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, said, "What we have achieved is to set up a timetable, a path to completion of this process." He added, "We hope we will com- plete it by meeting in mid-October in Washington." Arafat, meanwhile, flew back to New York, where he asked world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly to support Palestinian statehood next May, saying this was the will of the Palestinian peo- ple. "I would like to call upon all of you ... to stand by our people," Arafat said. The Oslo peace accords will expire on May 4, "and our peo- ple demand of us to shoulder our responsibilities as they await the establishment of their independent state " The biggest hurdle, according to Israeli and American diplomats, cen- ters on Israeli demands that the Palestinian Authority dismantle ter- rorist cells on the West Bank and in Gaza, confiscate weapons and stop freeing apprehended suspects. Also, Netanyahu demands the Palestine Liberation Organization nullify numerous anti-Israel references in its covenant. Considering that no accord emerged from the White House meet- ing, Albright was peppered with questions at a news conference why Clinton had staged the three-way meeting. "Only the president of the United States could give it this sense of urgency," Albright said. Besides, she said Netanyahu and Arafat had been in New York to attend the special session of the U.N. General Assembly and "it really was a good use of time" to have them come down to Washington to see the president. Unlike her predecessors over the last quarter-century, Albright has not engaged in shuttle diplomacy to try to prod Arabs and Israel to reach agree- ments. And she said yesterday that was not her plan now. Netanyahu, earlier, said on NBC's "Today" program, "I think we're get- ting close to finalizing an agree- ment." Over the weekend, he and several Israeli diplomats said there was a basic understanding that Israel woul4 withdraw from an additional 13 per- cent of the West Bank, with 3 percent turned into an undeveloped nature preserve under Israel's security con- trol. In earlier accords, Israel pledged to yield 27 percent and has also surren- dered all of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority. Clinton cautioned that some obsta- cles remained. "There is still a substantial amount of work to be done until a comprehensive agreement can be reached," he said. Interest rates may fall after Fed meeting WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve policy-makers are expected to cut interest rates for the first time in nearly three years today, acting on Chair Alan Greenspan's alarm about a deteriorating world economy. The question, private economists said yesterday, is how much success any cut would have in containing a financial crisis that so far has proven unstoppable and now threatens more countries, including Brazil. "A Fed rate cut will help under gird a deteriorating global economic situ- ation. But it isn't a magic bullet," said Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at Norwest Corp. in Minneapolis. Emphasizing the urgency, international authorities were busy working behind the scenes on a rescue package for Brazil. The largest economy in South America is being hit by the same panicked rush to the exits by foreign investors that has already flattened many Asian countries and Russia. Officials in Washington said discussions were centering on emergency loans of around S30 billion assembled by the International Monetary Fund with contributions from the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and individual countries, including the United States. HURRICANE Continued from Page 1 a sopping rain and huge storm surge that would put the entire city under water - there was a collective sigh of relief. Instead of hitting the Big Easy head on, Georges struck at Ocean Springs, Miss., between Biloxi and Pascagoula, deal- ing New Orleans rain and wind but no catastrophe.. "We, by taking the brunt at Ocean Springs, saved the city of New Orleans," said Mississippi Gov. Kirk Fordice. "It was spared from the misery that would have occurred." Two storm-related deaths were reported. A man died yes- tert'ay in a New Orleans fire started by candles being used for light after the hurricane knocked out electricity. An 86-year- old woman died while she and 250 other nursing home resi- dents waited for beds in a Baton Rouge shelter. Earlier, in its odyssey across the Caribbean, Georges killed more than 300 people. "We got off pretty lucky," said Derek Pociask, who was walking his dogs through a burst of rain on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. "It'd be nice to have electricity, but I'm glad this has turned out to be just a bad rain- storm." More than 678,000 customers were without power across the Gulf Coast. As the storm moved in, more than 1.5 million people had been told to evacuate along the coast, and hotel rooms were hard to find as far away as Memphis, Tenn., and Dallas. "Everybody's been sleeping or everybody's been watching the rain," said Becky Chamberlain at a Gulfport shelter. "Mostly everybody has been waiting for this to go away and wondering when it's going to be through" Nearly 14,700 people in Mississippi alone were staying in shelters, though their safety was not assured: The roof was ripped off a gymnasium at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in Gautier, forcing the evacuation of 404 residents. Ninety others at Trent Lott Middle School in Pascagoula stayed put after the roof was damaged, apparent- Board faults feds for secrecy about JFK WASHINGTON -The government for decades "needlessly and wasteful- ly" withheld millions of records about the assassination of President Kennedy, causing Americans to mistrust their government, a federal review panel concluded. The Assassination Records Review Board closes shop this week after gath- ering and releasing a mountain of detail - tantalizing and mundane - about the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of Kennedy in Dallas. The documents it has collected over the past four years include new infor- mation about events in Dallas, the alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, the presidential autopsy, photographs and reactions of government agencies to the assassination. It provides new fodder to be debated by historians and conspiracy theorists alike. "The review board's experience leaves little doubt that the federal gov- ernment needlessly and wastefully classified and then withheld from pub- lic access countless important records that did not require such treatment," the board said in a 208-page report being released today. Such secrecy "led the American public to believe that the government* had something to hide," the report said. Impotence drug put in new form WASHINGTON - Researchers are turning anti-impotence pills and injected medicines into rub-on creams and gels -- part of a broader effort to make many drugs safer and easier to use by literally dissolving them through the skin. Early testing shows the impotence cream Topiglan is a leading candidate in this effort to give patients targeted relief for many ailments, with fewer side effects. "It's a no-brainer," said Dr. Irwin Goldstein of Boston University, a urclo- gist leading studies of the impotence cream who expects many of today's m&d- icines eventually to be applied to the skin. ly by a tornado. In New Orleans, " Availble Anytime (at W cmpus bookstore) www.wizpowor.com1 IMPACT Continued from Page I family back home in Boca Raton last week. "I was paying attention," Juran said. "But when they put Broward and Dade County on warning, I knew there was no real danger," since his family lives north of the warning area. When the storm threatened Florida, areas from Deerfield Beach south to Key West were put under a hurricane warning. As the storm moved over the Gulf of Mexico, Georges took aim at the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coasts. Rackham student Pamela Bennett, originally from Baton Rouge, La., is accustomed to deal- ing with storms like Georges. "Hurricane season comes every year," Bennett said. Not every storm 10,000 spent the night in the Superdome. requires close watching, she said, but "every now and then you have to stop and pay attention to these atypical storms." Bennett said her family in Louisiana prepared for the storm by purchasing supplies, but "it is hit- ting closer to New Orleans," where more than'one million people were evacuated from low-lying areas. Rackham student Amy Lawson is also keeping a close eye on Georges. Her family was one of those who had to evacuate New Orleans. My family "went about four hours north, so they're fine," Lawson said. New Orleans is a "dangerous place" to be during a hurricane since much of the city is below sea-level and is prone to flooding, she said. "The storm was projected to hit New Orleans," said Lawson, but the eye of the storm struck Mississippi yesterday. AROUND THE WORLD 7o r a Izv 'y Special olice to be pulled from Kosovo BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -Hoping to avert a NATO attack, the Serbian premier on yesterday promised to with- draw special police units from Kosovo, declaring that separatists in the province had been defeated. Premier Mirko Marjanovic, however, said the Serb crackdown would resume if the separatists stage new attacks. And Vice Premier Vojislav Seselj said if NATO carries out threatened strikes, Serbia would take hostage pro-Western Serbs who work for independent media, peace and rights groups. NATO has recently stepped up plans for airstrikes against Serb forces after repeated warnings that it would attack unless violence ends in the restive orovince. The Kosovo Liberation Army, which is fighting for Kosovo's independence, issued a statement pledging to continue what it called "the holy war" against Serbia and demanding NATO action. Hundreds of people have been killed and about 275,000 have fled their homes since February, when Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's forces began cracking down on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Kosovo is part of Serbia, the domi-@ nant republic in Yugoslavia. Most of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians - who make up 90 percent of the 2 million inhabitants - favor independence. Iranians angered by Rushdie peace TEHRAN, Iran - Four days after Ian promised Britain that it would not carryW out a death edict against writer Salman Rushdie, conservatives inside the country lashed out at the deal, insisting yesterday that the author of "The Satanic Verses" must still die for blasphemy. Several senior clerics and newspapers took up the issue, saying that the gov- ernment clear up ambiguities around the accord and hinting that no government can turn its back on a religious duty laid down by the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. 0 - Compiled from Daily wire reports. =own Lessons That Will Last A Lifetlime. Put that college degree to use by enrolling into the Air Force Officer Training School. Upon successful completion of the OfficerTraining School, you will become a commissioned Air Force officer with earned respect and benefits like - great starting pay, medical and dental care, management and travel AIM HIGH opportunities. For more on how to qualify and get your career soaring with the !.C;. 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