2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 2, 1998 NATION/W ORLD Greenspan defends fund's rescue AROUND THE NATION / , - The Washington Post WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve ChairAlan Greenspan defended the Fed's role in brokering a res- cue of Long Term Capital Management LP last month, saying yesterday that failure of the huge investment fund could have severely disrupted world markets and damaged "the economies of many nations, including our own." But skeptical members of the House Banking Committee, both Republicans and Democrats, peppered Greenspan and William McDonough, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, with questions about why government regulators didn't know much sooner that the fund was in deep trouble and that some of the nation's largest banks and brokerage firms were exposed to very large losses if it went under. Committee chairperson Rep. Jim Leach (R-lowa) acknowledged that failure of the fund would have posed a risk for financial markets, but he labeled the episode a "fiasco." "From a social perspective, it's not clear that Long Term Capital or any other hedge fund serves a suffi- cient social purpose to warrant government-directed protection," he said. Leach and several other members suggested that additional regulatory powers might be needed, either by the Fed or other government financial agencies, to prevent such situations from occurring again. But Greenspan and McDonough said no addition- al powers are needed and that direct regulation of hedge funds -- unregulated investment funds orga- nized for large. save, investors - isn't feasible. If it were attempted, the funds could easily leave the coun- try, the officials said. Greenspan told the committee that if world financial markets had not already been in turmoil as a result of the Russian government's default on a portion of its debt in August, the Fed might not have become involved. Instead, discussions held under McDonough's auspices at the New York Fed resulted in a rescue plan in which 16 major banks and brokerage firms with large amounts of money already at risk in deals with the fund put up 3.6 billion to keep it alive. The new money is intended to allow an orderly liquidation of most or all of the fund's investment deals. California law strikes at paparazzi LOS ANGELES - California has passed a law that tries to put a lens cap on paparazzi and their raw, high-priced and widely circulated photos of celebrities in pri- vate moments. Next year, it will be illegal to take the now infamous pictures of Brad Pitt in the buff on a private beach or to shoot Madonna's 1985 wedding to Sean Penn from one of the army of helicopters that swirled above her Malibu mansion. Gov. Pete Wilson signed the bill into law Wednesday, saying it would give celeb ties, crime victims and others grounds for lawsuits when they feel their privacy has been violated by photographers or reporters. It becomes law on Jan. 1. "Under this bill, the so-called 'stalkerazzi' will be deterred from driving their human prey to distraction - or even death," Wilson said. The bill was introduced after Princess Diana was killed last year in a Paris car crash following a high-speed flight from paparazzi, or celebrity photographers. However, the paparazzi who chased Diana would not have been covered by California's law because her activities were in a public place and there was no expec- tation of privacy. Outrage at the paparazzi following Diana's death came from some of the bigge names in show business - like Madonna, Tom Cruise and Arnold SchwarzeneggeW WNho and What is ZS?, ZS Associates is a global management consulting firm providing world-class expertise in sales force management and marketing issues. 'Will 1 Fit in?, ZS will be on campus recruiting: Business Associates Business Information Sciences 0~ When Can 1 Meet ZS? October 6 Presentation 4:30 p.m. Room 1276 Business School Presentation 6:30 p.m. 1017 Dow Building Engineering School ZS Associates wwwzsassociates.con e-mail: careers@zsassociates.com USA: Evanston, Illinois Princeton, New Jersey Menlo Park, California Miami. Florida (Fall 1999) Europe London, United Kingdom Frankfurt, Germany Paris, France LS music Continued from Page 1 public, make them excited, and create meaning," ICMC98 music coordinator and Music Prof Evan Chambers said. "When I was in high school, I used to play around with sounds on my parents' tape recorder,' Chambers said. "Every year, a part of me gets very excited about the experience of listening to sound worlds created by minds from all over the Americas, Europe and Asia." ICMC98 is composed of a rigorous schedule of lectures and workshops that explore the spectrum of issues concern- ing computer music. From discussions about cosine fre- quency systems to waveguide mesh geometries, approaches to and theories about integration of technology and music consume the conference. In the Media Union Virtual Reality Laboratory yesterday, conference par- RELIIOUS SIRRVICI3JS AVAVAVAVA CANTERBURY HOUSE JAZZ MASS Episcopal Center at U of M 721 E. I luron St. Ann Arbor, Mi 48104 (734) 665-0606 The Re. 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UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL, LCMS 1511 Washtenaw, nar Hill Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. Pastor Ed Krauss, 663-5560 ticipants conducted a demonstration of the multimedia potential of new forms of music. "Virtual reality is an emerging field. This is a technology that goes beyond radio and television, that allows people to explore," said associate electrical -engineering and computer science Prof. Gregory Wakefield. The challenge to engineerng is to create the new brush- es, palettes and paints that artists can use in creating and organizing sound. "Music has been around as long as humans, and there are many dialects to this international language;" he said. An exhibit showcasing early elec- tronic instruments can be viewed from 1-7 p.m. at the Media Union's Design Lab No. 2. The music presented at ICMC98 rep- resents the most experimental edge of what is known in contemporary par- lance as techno, said Simoni who chairs the music and media department in the School of Music. "We do a lot of research, produce new instruments and ways of recording, and even performing that end up filter- ing into the mainstream." she said. "A lot of the big performers like Kraftwerk owe a lot of aesthetics and technology to our movement,'" Wakefield said. The ICMC is held on a "triangular rotation," Arnold said. It alternates between'locations in the United States, Europe and Asia, occurring in each of these continents every third year. ICMC99 will be held in Beijing, China next year. The 1CM \ is nearly 20 years old and is filled with experts in the field of computer music. Arnold said the organization has near- lvu 70(imembers from more than 25 countries. Students can join for SI5. More information is avail- able on ICMA's Website: ht i ri:n usic.wnichkeduicmcn98. LIKE TO WRITE? DO IT FOR THE DAILY. STOP BY OUR OFFICES AT 420 MAYNARD OR CALL US AT 76-DAILY. Role of women grows in Congress LOS ANGELES - Just like her father had done so many times over four decades, Democrat Janice Hahn hauled herself before a roomful of friends and strangers to plead for votes and support on an evening she could have spent with her family. On this recent weekday night in Torrance, Calif., things went well: Mayor Dee Hardison gave her a glow- ing recommendation in her campaign for Congress, and the crowd seemed responsive to her speech. A decade ago, there were 25 women in Congress. Today there are 63, and the trend shows little sign of slowing. Women have won half of the eight spe- cial elections held to fill vacant seats in this term of Congress, and nearly half of the most competitive races in the country this year feature female candidates. California, where 13 of the 52 House members and both senators are women, is considered one of the most receptive to female candidates, particu- larly Democrats. Theonly exception was 1992. when the combined number of women in the House and Senate jumped from 32 to 54 and the backlash over Senate confir- mation of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas propelled scores of women into politics. Day-care center Closes after abuse GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A day-care center operating out of a woman's home was shut down after three little children were found with what investigators said were deliberately broken arms. The children, II months, 12 months and 13 months old, each h both arms broken. Police said yesterday they would charge the owner of the day-care center, Beverly Bonds, with neglect and child abuse. She was not immediately arrested. "These injuries are not accidental in nature," police said Wednesday in the court papers used to close down the Bonding Babies day-care center. i a The University of Michigan School of Music E 0 , I I AROUNDTHE WORLDz Friday, October 2 International Computer Music Conference Concert 2 Rackham Auditorium, 3 p.m. International Computer Music Conference Concert 3 Rackham Auditorium, 8 p.m. Saturday, October 3 Victor Ullmann Centennial Celebration Concert I Faculty and Guest Recital " Ullmann: Der Kaiser von Atlantis (a 1944 chamber opera) Julia Broxholm, soprano; Wendy Bloom, mezzo-soprano Nicholas Phan and Michael Ryan, tenor Robert Gardner and Chris Grapentine, baritone Matthew Carroll, bass-baritone Bradley Bloom, conductor McIntosh Theatre, E. V. Moore Bldg., 8 p.m. International Computer Music Conference Concert 4 Rackham Auditorium, 3 p.m. International Computer Music Conference Concert 5 University Dancers; Jessica Fogel, choreographer Power Center, 8p.m. [Admission $12; seniors and students $6] Sunday, October 4 International Computer Music Conference Concert 6 Rackham Auditorium, 3 p.m. International Computer Music Conference Concert 7 UM Percussion Ensemble; Michael Udow, director Power Center, 8 p.m. [Admission $12; seniors and students $6] Victor Ullmann Centennial Celebration Concert 2 Faculty and Guest Recital of Chamber Music by Ullmann " String Quartet No. 3 " String Songs " Piano Sonata No. 7, performed by Robert Kolben " Cornet: a melodram after Rilke Freda Herseth, mezzo-soprano Siglind Bruhn, piano Willis Patterson, narrator Britton Recital Hall, E. V. Moore Bldg., 8 p.m. Monday, October 5 Vocal Arts Lab: voice students perform vocal repertory McIntosh Theatre, E. V. Moore Bldg., 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, October 6 University Philharmonia Orchestra Aharon Harlap, guest conductor from Israel Emilie Lin, piano, Concerto Competition winner " Harlap: A Child's World * Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 * Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 New World Hill Auditorium, 8 p.m. Wednesday, October 7 Victor Ullmann Centennial Celebration Concert 3 Faculty and Guest Recital of Vocal Music by Ullmann Britain planned attack on Soviets LONDON - Within days of Germany's World War II defeat, Winston Churchill ordered his aides to draft con- tingency plans for an Anglo-American invasion of the Soviet Union, a British newspaper reported yesterday. Citing documents recently discov- ered in Britain's public archives, The Daily Telegraph said the plan, code- named "Operation Unthinkable," was eventually rejected by Churchill and replaced with a defensive strategy to guard against invasion by Josef Stalin's Red Army. Historians had long believed that the tense period immediately after the war gave rise to such invasion plans, but had never been able to prove it until the doc- uments were found, the Telegraph said. "Nobody has ever seen this kind of thing before,' the newspaper quoted war historian D. C. Watt as saying. "But we have had strong suspicions that they must have been written." Churchill described the plan as "a purely hypothetical contingency," but WW~I!.fP IH regarded it as necessary enough to have his planning staff working on it amid the euphoria of victory, the Telegraph report- ed. The battle plan, presented as a report to Churchill on May 22, 1945- 14 da after the end of the war - included t use of German troops to back up 500,000 British and American soldiers. Talks boost talk of W. Bank pullback HEBRON. West Bank - Israeli and Palestinian leaders said yesterday th this week's top-level talks W Washington have moved them closer to a West Bank troop pullback. 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