2 - The Michigan Daily -- Tuesday, November 3, 1998 NATION/WORLD Swedish fire's death toll hits 62 GOTEBORG, Sweden (AP) - The "It's important that people have a hdeath toll in Sweden's worst fire disas- clear understanding that the authorities' -ter of modem times rose to 62 after two approval of the premises was not a -youths died yesterday, the latest victims joke," chief prosecutor Ulf Noren, who of a dance-hall inferno. is leading the fire investigation, was Officials confirmed that one of the quoted by the newspaper Dagens latest victims was a boy, but did not Nyheter as saying. release any other details. Another 25 However, Noren said, a decision on people were still in intensive care. that question would come after the The dead, mostly teen-agers, were cause of the fire was determined. among an estimated 400 people at a Inspectors from the national criminal dance when an explosive fire broke out laboratory were conducting a painstak- shortly before midnight Thursday. ing "centimeter-by-centimeter" inspec- The local association of Macedonian tion of the electrical equipment in the immigrants rented the second-floor hall hall, police spokesperson Bengt Staaf to teen-agers who arranged the dance. said. "Most of those at the dance were immi- Police also said they were looking for grants or children of immigrant parents. a 15-year-old girl who reportedly had Many of the victims' families did not gone to the dance shortly before the fire have life or accident insurance. The broke out but hasn't been seen since. Goteborg local government yesterday The fire's ferociously quick spread decided to compensate the families of has prompted wide speculation that it those who died with $2,600 or double was set. But witnesses have given wide- that amount to families who lost two ly varying accounts. children in the fire. Some said it appeared to start in the The hall had a legal capacity of 150, equipment used by the disc jockey, and and officials say it is possible those others said there was smoke coming who allowed it to be severely over- from the emergency exit's stairway crowded could be charged with con- before the flames raced through the tributing to the deaths. hall. AROUND THE NATION Clintonmay use force in negotiations WASHINGTON - President Clinton held out the possibility yesterday that military force could be used to reopen Iraq to U.N. weapons inspectors, and dis- patched Defense Secretary William Cohen to Europe and the Persian Gulf region for consultations with allied leaders. Speaking publicly on the budding crisis for the first time since Iraq announced Saturday that it would halt all cooperation with the inspectors, the preside* declared: "Until the inspectors are back on the job, no options are off the table:' said Iraq's move was "completely unacceptable." He added "Once again, it will backfire." In Iraq, members of the inspection team were allowed to visit sites to put new tapes in their mounted video cameras and sensors but were not allowed to conduct new inspections, U.N. officials said in New York. For the second consecutive day, the administration's senior national security offi- cials met at the White House, this time for an hour with Clinton. White House press secretary Joe Lockhart said they discussed potential military measures intended to bring Iraq back into cooperation with the United Nations. The administration says it has the authority to take military action against Iraa withm U 1N Sp-i it Cnmi nnnvl I AP PHOTO Survivors wait to be taken to a helicopter In Nicaragua. Hundreds of villagers were buried In mudslides when a crater lake collapsed. SFriendly & Helpful ( cAffordable -Available Anydme (at pour campus bookstoe., www.whrpower"co MITCH Continued from Page 1 in a hospital bed beside Garcia, said that from the door of the shack, "All you could see was mud where the village had been. Nothing is left of Rolando Rodriguez." It was unclear how many residents of Rolando Rodriguez and nearby villages had escaped. By early yes- terday, soldiers had found 360 bod- ies, army spokesperson Capt. Milton Sandoval said. The international Red Cross yes- terday tripled its appeal for assis- tance to those hit by Mitch, to $7.4 million. In Washington, President Clinton said the U.S. government was pro- viding $2 million in food, medicine, water and other emergency relief supplies. "We'll be looking at what else we can do, Clinton said. At least one rescue effort led to additional deaths: the mayor of the Honduran capital and three others died Sunday in a helicopter crash while surveying flood damage. Tegucigalpa Mayor Cesar Castellanos had been seen as a likely presidential candidate in 2001 elec- tions. Officials in neighboring El Salvador were assessing the impact of floods caused by the storm. The National Emergency Committee list- ed 74 dead, 106 missing and 27,000 homeless. But its own regional affil- iate in San Miguel province reported 125 dead there alone. wunout. v.t ecuritouncii approval. Nation's saving rate makes historic drop WASHINGTON - Americans spent more money buying goods and services than they received in after-tax income in September, resulting in a negative national personal savings rate for the first time since 1959, when the monthly figures were first published. The savings rate, which measures the share of disposable personal income left after individuals make their purchases, fell into negative territory as such spending increased a robust 0.5 percent and personal income rose by a much weaker 0.2 percent in September, the Commerce Department reported yesterday. Much of the slowdown in income growth was the result of the month's small gain in new jobs and a cutback in the number of hours worked. Wages and salary income, which jumped 0.7 percent in August, rose only 0.1 percent in September. The savings rate has been falling for years as households increased their spending faster than their disposable incomes were rising. Many analystssay consumers have been encouraged to spend so much by the soaring value of U.S. stocks - the so-called wealth effect - which has provided many individuals with capital gains, which are not counted by Commerce as part of current disposable income. Supreme Court to investigate gifts WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is stepping into the world of Washington lobbying, agreeing yester- day to decide when a gift or a special favor for a government official turns into a federal crime. The special prosecutor who is inves- tigating gifts made to former Agricultur4 Secretary Mike Espy asked the court to rule that it is a crime to provide anything of value to an official solely because of that official's position in the government. A federal appeals court has ruled that a gift is illegal only when it is given to reward an official for some specific action, an act done in the past 'or promised in the future. JOIN THE MOST PROMISING PROFESSION OF THE 21ST CENTURY Prospective Teacher Education Meeting Tuesday, November 10, 1998 6:00 p.m. Schorling Auditorium Room 1202 School of Education Building Call 764-7563 for more information. ____ __ BRIEN Continued from Page 1 With such tight, round-the-clock sur- veillance personal time was not easy to find, Brien said. "I was able to leave with some semblance of privacy left," Brien said. "The production crew hated me because I found this pay phone in this hotel a block away, and they couldn't get clearance to film me there. So, basically every single day for almost two and a half months I went to this pay phone and made all my phone calls." Although the show may seem to LOOK FOR track events in a perfectly chronologi- cal order, this is certainly not the case. The MTV editors had no qualms about altering the timeliness of certain revents. "They make their story line. What we see on TV is totally different than the way it happened," Brien said. So an episode's worth of events might be a combination of footage from several different months. The finale of "The Real World: Seattle" airs tonight on MTV at 10 p.m. Find out what happens when Brien and the rest of the cast say their goodbyes and get on with their lives - their real lives. TIP OFF '98 AROUND THE WORLD ONE WEEK FROM THURSDAY. IT'LL BE SLAM JAMMIN'. Implementation of deal delayed JERUSALEM - In a surprising show of good will, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat agreed yesterday - the day the new Mideast peace agree- ment was to take effect - that imple- mentation would have to be delayed. In a telephone call, Netanyahu promised Arafat their land-for-security agreement would be carried out as effi- ciently as possible. Specifically, Israel said it would attempt to meet the target date of Nov. 16 for the initial troop pullback from the West Bank. However, Israel charged that a Palestinian action plan to fight ter, rorism, at the heart of the new !accord, was incomplete and could knock back implementation even further. In Washington, State Department spokesman James Rubin said "the necessary plans were provided on :ime." But Netanyahu's senior adviser, David Bar-Illan, told The Associated Press that the document was incomplete and unless a newer version was submitted, Israel's Cabinet would not debate the accord as scheduled today. Senior Palestinian negotiat Saeb Erekat said the document-wa a matter between the Palestinians and the United States and not Israel. Russia prnts more rubles to fix economy MOSCOW - What is a government to do when it has staggering debt, inad- equate revenue and a spiraling econon* ic crisis? In Russia, the pnnting presses ,start to roll out rubles. Two months after Yevgeny Primakov took over as prime minister promising an economic plan that would slowly, but surely, reverse this country's precip- itous slide, he has instead unveiled a strategy that promises to bring on hyperinflation and even bigger budget deficits. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. PAID ADVERTISEMENT In Memory Of Donald E. 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