2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, November 2, 1998 DRAGON Continued from Page 1A performances. Games at the festival ranged from picking up beans with chop- sticks to high-paced rounds of mahjong - a traditional Chinese game that uses tiles. Ann Arbor residents taught calligra- phy and Chinese knot making. The event included demonstrations of Chinese Shaolin Kung Fu, a style of mar- tial arts that originated in Northern China, and traditional Chinese ribbon and fan dancing. A local professional dance troupe performed the Dragon Dance - the evening's main event. While many Chinese and Asians participated in the festival, several non-Chinese and non-Asians attended the event as well "CSA creates events for everyone so we can all share our cultures," Wang said. Organizers said Dragon Fest '98 was the first event of its kind held on campus by an Asian student organization. "It's not every day we do this, and we want it to be perfect,' said Mabel Huang, CSA member and LSA first- year student from Los Angeles. "This festival is definitely, definitely a giant step for CSA." Jenny Chen, CSA vice president, said the event was held to illuminate the presence of Chinese American cul- ture on campus. "There is lots of potential here. Walking around campus, you don't see many APA faces. But after this festival, I know that Chinese unity is definitely on campus," Chen said. Dragon Fest '98 well exceeded the expectations of the organizers. "I liked the turnout tonight. We will definitely do it again next year," Li said. NATION/WORLD Leader had lengthy affair AROUND THE NATION c 4 JEFFERSON Continued from Page 1A Hemings' children were also Jefferson's. Partisan politics were extremely vig- orous 200 years ago and this led many historians to dismiss the allegations as scandal-mongering. "It surfaced as a partisan allegation," history Prof. Mills Thornton said. "It ini- tially was a Federalist political charge. It was very easy to dismiss because so much of what was said then was not to be believed." Jefferson defenders had asserted one of Jefferson's nephews was probably the father of Hemings' children, but the study suggests that possibility is extremely unlikely. Jefferson's beliefs on race - he fre- quently wrote and spoke on the inferior- ity of blacks -pose puzzling questions about the nature of his relationship with Hemings. "A loving relationship need not be an equal relationship, Thorton said. One possible explanation for their relationship is that Jetferson saw in Hemings much of his wife, who died in the 1780s. Hemings is said to have been the half sister of Jefferson's wife.' Regardless of the origins of the rela- tionship, the findings of the study are sure to re-ignite the long-standing debate over Jefferson's legacy. Although Jefferson espoused racist attitudes typical of the time period, Thornton said, he opposed slavery on the ground that it would destroy the Union. "He was a man deeply torn by racial questions," Thornton said. "More than any other man of his generation, he was sensitive to racial issues." Others counter that Jefferson's stance on slavery was much less ambiguous. "He was much more likely to stick to the pro-slavery line," Afro-American and African Studies Prof. Julius Scott said. "I think, in general, on racial mat- ters, Jefferson was not particularly enlightened." Cliton aides discuss Iraq inspections WASHINGTON - President Clinton's national-security team met for a second day yesterday to assess diplomatic and military room for maneuver against Iraqi efforts to complete the shutdown of United Nations arms inspections there. Officials reached during the afternoon, as Clinton's Cabinet-level advisers huddled in the Situation Room, described the atmosphere as one of "crisis," a word they were@ careful to avoid when Iraq began closing down the U.N. inspection teams in August. Several of them said or intimated that the finality of Iraq's present challenge - halt- ing all work by the inspectors, including passive monitoring - might engender the international backing Washington lacked earlier for use of military force. Inspectors from the U.N. Special Commission have pursued and destroyed Iraq's nonconventional weapons under Security Council authority since Baghdad's defeat in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. After many previous efforts to halt the work, Iraq announced Aug. 3, and made formal two days later, that it would permit no new searches at undeclared weapons facilities. 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"But if it can do somebody some good and if we're learning some- thing by it, that's the reason we're up here." The senator met the press in a TV hookup after the astronauts accom- plished one of their main objectives of0 the flight: setting loose a sun-gazing satellite for two days of scientific flight. Court awaits key vouchers decision WASHINGTON - This year's most significant shift in education law may take place this week, not at the ballot box tomorrow but at the Supreme Court today. In recent years, advocates of "school choice" have been pressing for the legal right to use public money to pay for pri- vate and parochial schooling. 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The threat, in a leaflet faxed to news organizations, cast a pall over this week's efforts to begin implementing the Israeli- Palestinian peace agreement, but as of yesterday, both sides still were pledging to move ahead as scheduled. In recent days, Arafat's security forces have rounded up more than 100 Hamas activists, detained some of its top politi- cal leaders and put its ailing, charismatic founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, under house arrest. That crackdown - and the Hamas demand to halt it - marked a spectacu- lar smashup of the uneasy peace that had prevailed between Arafat and Hamas over the past 14 months, ever since Yassin was released from Israeli prison and returned to his faithful following in the Gaza Strip. % Up until now, in deference to Arafat's enduring role as a symbol of Palestinian unity, Hamas had stopped short of direct threats against him. But the leaflet specifically accused the Palestinian leader by name of having "reached the point of treason" by moving against Hamas. It called for an immediate end to the crackdown in order to spare Palestinians "the horrors ... of civil war" Mitch death count about 1,000 to 1,500 MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Rescue* workers recovered bodies yesterday from areas buried when a crater lake over- flowed and sent mud and rock hurtling down a volcano on to 10 villages. In just two of those communities, Nicaragua's vice president said 1,000 to 1,500 people were buried and presumed dead. Earlier yesterday, the death toll stood at 982, including 360 bodies recovered from the muck in four of the stricken Nicaraguan communities. 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