2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 30, 1998 NATION/WORLD House buzzes over Starr report AROUND THE NATION " Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - The House was out of session. There were no new investigative documents to read. Still, a roomful of Capitol Hill journalists assigned to the impeachment beat scribbled like mad yesterday after- noon, trying to keep up with the spin. Three Democratic attorneys with the House Judiciary Committee - do not dare ask their names - described the thousands of pages of documents the panel will release later this week as not particularly damaging to President Clinton. "Old news," one attorney said. Later in the day, however, a GOP source provided a different take on the very same papers: damaging tidbits that only strengthen the case for an initial impeachment inquiry. As next week's momentous vote on the matter nears, the bitterly divided Judiciary Committee is shifting into overdrive to spin in one party's direction or the other the mountain of facts collected by independent counsel Kenneth Starr. So far at least, Democrats have had the edge. They fretted so much over how angry Clinton was going to appear in his videotaped grand jury appearance that he came off as not all that angry. Someone - believed to be a Democrat - even spread the rumor that Clinton stormed out of the room midway through his tes- timony, an incident the videotape never captured. Democrats also have repeatedly portrayed the com- mittee's proceedings as partisan and unfair, a well-worn strategy designed to discredit whatever the panel accom- plishes henceforth. Acknowledging that they have been "outspun" by the competition, Republicans have begun firing back with a vengeance. Judiciary Committee Chair Henry Hyde (R-Illinois), for instance, has launched regular news conferences - folksy affairs that are televised live and feature Hyde bantering playfully with the press corps while repeatedly asserting his intention to be fair. Asked yesterday what he thought about the latest Democratic spin-fest, the Illinois Republican's spin was that he did not care a bit what they were up to. "My God," he said, "it's a free country." By week's end, another mountain of documents from Starr's investigative files will begin rolling off government printing presses and into the public domain. There will be transcripts of Monica Lewinsky's telephone conversations with her Pentagon colleague, Linda Tripp, as well as grand jury transcripts from scores of other figures in the investigation - from Secret Service agents to pres- idential aides to Lewinsky's mother, Marcia Lewis. Here's a look at some of what's to come, through Democratic and Republican eyes: Democrats say the Tripp tapes will show that Lewinsky was being manipulated by her elder colleague. They say the testimony suggests that it was Tripp that rec- ommended that Lewinsky seek job assistance from Clinton confidant Vernon Jordan Jr. Republicans do not stick up for Tripp. "I certainly wouldn't want a friend like Linda Tripp," one official said. High court to rule on sexual harassment WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said yesterday it will decide whether educators have a legal responsibility to stop students from sexually harassing their classmates, an issue of enormous importance to schools nationwide. The justices will decide whether a Georgia school district can be suet over teachers' alleged failure to step in after a fifth-grader complained thaT' another student was sexually harassing her. A federal appeals court said a federal anti-discrimination law does not allow lawsuits involving student-on-student harassment, although children can sue over such misconduct by a teacher. The case is not about ordinary teasing or schoolyard hazing. The girl says the boy, also a fifth-grader, repeatedly tried to touch her breasts and other body parts, rubbed against her in a suggestive way, and made vulgar comments indicating he wanted to have sex with her. In granting review to that case and I l others that arrived during their sum- mer recess, the justices got a head start on the 1998-99 term scheduled to begin Monday. _I_ CRIME Continued from Page 2. the decrease in crime to his efforts to keep more prisoners behind bars. "What we've done is fight to regain Michigan's prisons," Engler said. To cheaply increase prison space, "we're double bunking almost every prisoner today" The governor and both attorney gen- eral candidates said a package of truth- in-sentencing bills, which was passed during Engler's tenure as governor, will push Michigan's crime rate even lower. Spearheaded by Engler, truth in sen- tencing guarantees criminals will serve at least the minimum amount of days in iison to which they were sentenced. The Iolicy will be instituted by next January. "I spent a lot of time ... trying to explain to people how a person sentenced :o five to 15 years (can be out) of prison in 30 days." Smietanka said. The old guidelines lower citizen "sup- port of the system and creates a belief among hardened criminals that the sys- tem doesn't enforce the laws on the books," Smietanka added. "We now have guidelines so the same offender should get the same sentence across the state" Kelley is retiring this term after 37 years in office, and the candidates agree Kelley's office - comprised of 40 sepa- rate divisions - should be streamlined. Smietanka has a three-part plan for change, focusing on "reorganizing the office along a public service line. "The crime division, in charge of gangs, organized crime ... has only seven to nine people assigned to it," Smietanka said. "For a state of 9.2 million people that doesn't cut it. The first thing I'd do is dou- ble the size of the crime division." Smietanka's plan also includes using public relations skills as a criterion for hir- ing the office's attorneys and creating a series of task forces to deal with several types of crime, including gang-related street, organized and computer crime. Granholm said she also would increase the size of the attorney generals crime division and said the entire office must become more technologically savy. "With the advent of the Internet there is an enormous potential for wrongdoing," Granholm said. "You need to make sure children aren't lured into chat rooms. "You also see the theft of the identity of people, with some criminals (stealing) credit card numbers," she said. Although both candidates have similar plans to transform the attorney general's office, some policy differences between the individual candidates are pronounced. Granholm is pro-choice, while Smietanka is pro-life. He favors a bill to make it mandatory to give a concealed weapon permit to anyone who doesn't have a criminal record or history of men- tal illness. She opposes this measure. State Rep. Mary Schroer (D-Ann Arbor) urged both attorney general candidates not to lose sight of the prison system's responsibility to reform criminals She said a side effect of state officials talking and acting tough on crime has been a reduced effort to rehabilitate prisoners, and especially juvenile con- victs. CANCER Continued from Page 1 women about the risks and benefits of early detection of breast cancer, women will be more likely to get regular clini- cal breast exams when they reach age 20, and annual mammograms by age 50," Boyk said. UHS has no formal programs to sup- port breast cancer awareness because the risk to young women is so slight. "UHS still emphasizes that it is very important for all women to know how to do a breast self-exam," said Janet Zielasko, the assistant director at UHS. Zielasko said women should also be able to talk about the risks with a doctor. National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Boyk said, should be used to tell all mothers, sisters and friends about the impor- tance of breast self-exams and mammograms. "Twenty-five percent of women who get mammograms do so because a close friend suggested it," Boyk said. Microsoft says new book disproves case A soon-to-be-published book by two business professors that quotes employees of Netscape Communications Corp. admitting to technical and strategic missteps in their competition with Microsoft Corp. has emerged as a flash point in the govern- ment's antitrust case against Microsoft. The book quotes some Netscape employees, including company co- founder Marc Andreessen, as saying they should have focused more on "quality control" in developing their Internet browsing software, according to people who have read a manuscript of the book, which is titled "Competing on Internet Time: Lessons From Netscape and Its Battle With Microsoft." The book also quotes a Netscape employee as attributing the loss of two key business deals to distribute its browser software - with America Online Inc. and Intuit Inc., a maker of personal finance software - to soft- ware deficiencies, the people who read the manuscript said. The Justice Department and 20 state attorneys general allege that Netscape lost the deals because Microsoft offered AOL and Intuit the ability to promote their products on the "desktop" of Microsoft's dominant Windows operating sys- tem. Oprah's talks with0 Lewinsky cancelled NEW YORK - Daytime television queen Oprah Winfrey said yesterday that negotiations to bring Monica Lewinsky on her syndicated show fell apart over money. "I was told that I did have it andthen the conversation moved in a direction that I did not want to go," Winfrey said. "I do not pay for interviews, no matt* what the payment is called." Lewinsky's spokeperson Judy Smith said she wouldn't comment on the aborted interview talks. In a competitive television world, landing the first in-depth talk with the woman President Clinton had an affair with would be the year's biggest coup. INDOOR SOCCR Fall Season: Oct. 22nd - Dec. 19th Now accepting Registrations for Fall Leagues Registration Deadline: October 12th Individual Registrations are welcome Call (734) 913-4625 for Details D EWO RD www-wwsports.com SPORTS CENTER BILL Continued from Page 1 be cut. The solution is a government- funded subsidy that will allow banks to collect the same interest rate per loan, but now the student will pay less and the government will pick up the differ- ence: "You can't have borrowers if you don't have lenders," Kildee said. "The banks always wanted more, but we gave them what we felt would allow them to stay in the pro- gram." If banks were unable to handle the Senior Portraits will be taken daily Sept. 28 -Oct. 31 at the Union. new restrictions, the government-fund- ed direct loan program would have become the primary source of loans for students. Kildee said he was always consid- ering a subsidy, because he knew it would be necessary to keep banks interested. "The direct loan program would not be geared up enough to handle the whole program," Kildee said. Butts said he will now work with the U.S. Department of Education and the University's Office of Financial Aid to inform people about the new lower loan rate. FED Continued from Page sales. Lower U.S. interest rates help to case interest rate pressures in for- eign countries as well and also build confidence that the United States will remain a buyer-of-last- resort. Private economists said the Fed -nay have also been prodded to make the rate cut after central bank officials were forced to broker a $3.5 billion bailout for a Connecticut hedge fund. David Jones, chief economist at Aubrey G. Jones & Co. in New York, said Greenspan may have run into opposition for a bolder half- point cut from Fed officials who cite the lowest unemployment rate in nearly three decades and contin- ued strong consumer demand as offsets to the foreign weakness. "This was a difficult decision for the Fed. It is rather hard to make a convincing case for lower interest rates in the United States at the pre- sent time," said former Fed board member Lyle Gramley, economist with the Mortgage Bankers Association. "The Fed was taking this as a psychological step to settle markets down internationally." The Business Roundtable and other business groups who had been pushing for rate cuts applauded the action while urging more rate cuts down the road. "Given that one-third of the world is recession, lower rates are essential," said Jerry Jasinowski, president of the National Association of Manufacturers. While a number of banks in Canada, a nation whose economy is closely tied to the United States, announced cuts in their prime lend- ing rates immediately after the Fed's announcement, officials at major U.S. banks said they were still considering whether to lower their rates. Private analysts, however, said they expected U.S. banks would lower their prime ratewithin the next few days. Some suggested that the delnvwould lastuntil tnmorrow. Serbia massacre leaves 15 dead OBRIJA, Yugoslavia - They lay scattered on the floor of a pine forest: 15 men, women and children, or what remained of them. Some were carved up with knives, limbs hacked off. All had been shot in the back of the head. Ethnic Albanians say the victims were slaughtered Sunday after a Serb attack against the Kosovo Liberation Army, which is fighting for independence for this majority Albanian province. Most were killed in a makeshift camp in the woods where they were hiding after Serb troops overran their communities. The killers slit the throat of a 10- year-old boy, blew out his mother's brains, cut open the stomach of another female relative and shot a pregnant woman in the head. Two days later, the victims remained unburied, sprawled in the for- est where they died. "Serb police executed everybody," said one trembling elderly man, who identified himself only as Fazli. AROUND THE WORLD As he spoke, the occasional crackle of rifle fire rang through the valley about 25 miles west of Pristina, the provincial capital. The thud of two mortar rounds echoed as a Serb police armored personnel carrier escorted o0 about a dozen ethnic Albanian women and children on the back of a trailer drawn by a tractor. Former prime minister beaten KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's former deputy prime mini ter said yesterday he was beaten unco 'scious while in police detention and showed the court a bruised face and body at his arraignment on corruption and sex charges. In his first public appearance since his arrest nine days ago, Anwar Ibrahim - who is fast becoming a symbol of opposition to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's 17 years of rule - pleaded innocent to the nine charges against him. --Compiled From Daily wire reports. 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 su scriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of the Associated Press and the Associated Collegiate Press. ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1327. 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