2 -- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 18, 1998 MSA Continued from Page 1 the printed course guide. "Rackham students can benefit by .some degree from printed courseguides," Goodman said. "They can be more informed about offering in other departments." Voter turnout in the fall election is traditionally lower than the spring elec- tion, when president and vice presiden- tial slates campaign. "I'd love voter turnout to keep increasing every year but because its not an MSA presiden- tial election, I'm weary about how much it will increase," Thompson said. SMOKING Continued from Page 1. smoking are practically non-existent, due in part to the fact that many col- lege smokers are not interested in eliminating smoking from their diet, said Janet Zilasko, associate director for University Health Services. "We previously had smoking cessa- tion programs but we had very low student interest," Zilasko said. "A lot of the times, students are not at the point of deciding to quit." Many college students have picked up the habit fairly recently, Zilasko added, and they're less likely to con- sider smoking a problem. UHS does offer "quit kits" for stu- dents, which are filled with informa- tion on how to stop smoking and a coupon for over-the-counter nicotine- delivery medications such as gums and patches. NATION/WORLD UN inspectors to resume work today AROUND THE NATION q. q Nr IEY SSN --_- ExPREss YOUR INDIVIDUALITY WITH A CUSTOM-ESIGNED COLLEGE RNG. The Washington Post BAGHDAD, Iraq - Newly returned U.N. weapons inspectors plan to resume work this morning in Iraq, beginning with routine checks of the monitoring gear they left behind when they departed for Bahrain a week ago and building towards more sensitive inspections that could test Iraqi cooperation, officials said yesterday. Nearly 90 members of the U.N. weapons team returned to Iraq by plane and bus, arriving at their compound outside Baghdad at about 1:30 p.m. yesterday with a truckload of duffel bags and equipment boxes. They promptly unsealed doors they had secured when they left and began setting up computers and other equipment that had been disas- sembled. "We are back. We are ready to work immediately," said Jaakko Ylitalo, the UN's senior weapons inspector here, as he and the rest of the group unloaded from a military transport plane at Habaniya Airport, 60 miles from Baghdad. About 150 U.N. humanitarian workers who had been evacuated to Amman, Jordan have returned to the Iraqi capital over the past two days. The crisis over stalled weapons inspections led U.S. and British forces to threaten a campaign of airstrikes that was narrowly averted Saturday when Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein agreed to resume cooperation with the U.N. disar- mament team. With President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair saying they will not wait long to act if the insoectors are stymied again, U.N. officials say 5 Time Jeopardy ,. Champion! BOB HARRIS Teaching everyone's favorite class CRAMMING 101 How to stuff all that knowledge into your brain without forgetting where you put it! they will try to resume where they left off in August. That was when Iraq abruptly halted new inspections in the midst of a meeting with Richard Butler, head of the U.N. commission estab- lished to oversee Iraq's disarmament. Monitoring of previously inspected sites continued for nearly three months, but the Iraqis stopped that as well on Oct. 31, setting world opinion firmly against them. On returning to Iraq, the inspectors will begin checking and adjusting video cameras, air samplers and other equip- ment at roughly 40 Iraqi facilities with the potential to produce weapons. In perhaps a week or more, teams of experts from other countries will arrive to begin new site inspections that could provide a key measure of whether Iraq will live up to its pledge last weekend to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to cooperate. "This is certainly an opportunity to get on with the business we are here to do," said Caroline Cross, a spokesper- son for the Baghdad Verification and Monitoring Center, the field office established by the United Nations to ensure Iraq fulfills disarmament promises it made at the end of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. "Full and unfettered access means going where we want to go and seeing what we want to see," Cross said. "I'm sure we will want to go to the sites we've been denied access to all along." There is a list of issues on which Iraq has provided some information, but not enough for inspectors to independently certify that certain weapons, or the capacity to produce them, have been destroyed. Continued from Page 1 the University's bargaining team don't take the negotiations as seriously as the faculty team members. "The research we produce is vital to the University, and they are dismissing the research and the fact that we do 50 percent of the teaching;' Odier-Fink said. The University also dealt with previ- ous GEO proposals yesterday by offer- ing an option to pay for portions of GEO's affirmative action platform and a recalculation of weekly work hours, by taking the cost out of wage rates, Odier-Fink said. "They're not willing to pay for anti-discrimination policies, and this shows us that they are not will- ing to actively pursue this goal," Odier-Fink said. Gamble said GEO is misinterpreting the intent of the counterproposal because the University only tentatively tried to allocate funds to various GEO proposals, rather than representing them as portions of graduate employee incomes. "We don't have an unlimited source of funding to settle this contract," Gamble said. "All we did was illustrate the cost of these initiatives." In response to frustration at the bargaining table, the GEO Stewards Council probably will vote to open the meetings to all GEO members tomorrow, Odier-Fink said, "so they can see that we are not being taken seriously." "We're about three months ahead of where we were last time we negotiated a contract," GEO Bargaining Committee Chair Andrea Westlund said. Fed moves to stop economic slowdowit WASH INGTON - The Federal Reserve moved to protect the economy yesier- day by cutting interest rates for the third time in seven weeks but signaled to Wall Street not to expect any more reductions soon. After meeting privately, Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan and his col- leagues announced they had cut two benchmark interest rates, each by a quarto percentage point. The rate charged among banks on overnight loans fell to 4.4 percent and the rate on the Fed's own loans fell to 4.5 percent. Major banks responded by cutting their prime lending rates to 7.75 percent..That will translate into cheaper monthly payments on a variety of consumer and busi- ness loans, including credit-card balances and auto loans. Wall Street reacted favorably at first, but then read the fine print. The Dow Jones industrial average shot up 75 points from Monday's close but then finished down 25 points at 8,986. In its statement, the Fed said, with the latest cut, "financial conditions can rea- sonably be expected to be consistent with fostering sustained economic expansion while Keeping inflationary pressures subdued." Economists say that virtually rules out another rate cut at the Fed's next sche - uled meeting on Dec. 22, unless there's unforeseen deterioration in the economy4 financial markets. # , Tapes add 'humanity' to ewinsky, Trip WASHINGTON - Unheard, the tapes were paper evidence and tabloid trash, a prosecutor's bonanza and a voyeuristic plunge into matters of ulti- mate privacy. Yesterday, the 22 hours of chatter between Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp became both more familiar and more shocking - a sighing, giggling, sobbing soundscape of the American night, and a breathtaking study in betrayal. The recorded conversations released by the House Judiciary Committee were immediately and endlessly played for a nation that claims to have had enough of these two women. The content of the tapes was anything but new -- the tran- scripts were released more than a month ago. But hearing the voices, hearing Tripp's nasal tones alternately calming and cajoling the higher-pitched Lewinsky, revealed the humanity of two people who had become little more than caricature. The conversations Tripp secretly taped last fall as she led her erst- while friend and coworker through emotional crises over her relation- ship with President Clinton are steeped in the ambient sounds of suburban life. Study: Well-cooked meat a health risk WASHINGTON - Women who eat beef and bacon cooked until very well done have a four times greater risk of developing breast cancer than those who eat rare or medium meat, a study says. Yet experts said yesterday there is sti too much uncertainty to recommen. changes in cooking habits. Undercooked meat can pose a proven and well-known health risk they noted "We have found a link between well- done meat and breast cancer, but we aire still not sure of the cause," said Wei Zheng of the University of South Carolina. "This is just one study. It is too early to jump to a final conclusion. A ,~ /I MICHIGAN UNION BOOKSTORE Nov. 16-20th 11-4 p.m. (734) 995-8877 NORTH CAMPUS BOOKSTORE Nov. 16-18th 11-4 p.m. $25.00 DEPOSIT Admission Free!! % Thursday, Nov. 19, 7:00 pm Tap Room on the Ground Floor of the Michigan Union program board AROUND THE ORLD Thousands protest Kneeling in ther "We love you, Ocal for OCalan's asylum Ocalan. We will di "We want to s ROME - Kurds marched through PKK is not a terror Rome in a 10,000-strong protest yester- a people's organiz day to demand asylum for their captured Rizgari, who came leader - a demand Italy's premier said about 40 other Kur would be denied unless the rebel com- ty with the rebel le mander has truly renounced terrorism. The march was the largest yet in days Israeli par of growing protests since Italian police arrested Abdullah Ocalan at Rome's approves C airport Thursday. Kurds are streaming into Rome and JERUSALEM - launching rallies and hunger strikes overwhelmingly a across Europe in opposition to Turkey's Mideast land-for-p( request he be extradited for trial. More Palestinians late y than 4,000 protested yesterday outside way for an Israel the Interior Ministry in Bonn, Germany. from the West Ban Ocalan leads the Kurdistan Workers The Knesset er Party, or PKK, which is fighting for ment by a 75-1 autonomy for Kurds in southeastern abstentions. Turkey. The 14-year-old conflict has It was also a vo killed 37,000 people. Israeli Prime N Supporters marched past the Netanyahu, who si Colosseum and into Piazza Venezia with Yasser Arafat yesterday, waving red flags and making Oct. 23. the streets of downtown Rome ring with their cries. - Compiled fom piazza, they chanted, Jan. We are with you, e for you, Ocalan " how the world that ist organization Iti. ation," said MustaiW from Denmark with rds to show sofidari- ader. ament accord - Israel's parliament approved the tatp eace accord with tii esterday, paving the li troop withdtawal k. ndorsed the ag6ie- 9 vote with nine ite of confidence "in Minister Benjyiin gned the agreement at the White House Daily wire reports. 'I i 4w ihl (3 Y~~ X1/ - LI A0% rM4 A +J'2Ak .J EJ ti~ LU f"M~1E L4JSU)J.A~A3 ~.1 WaS 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 ie $85. Winter term (January through April) is $95, yearlong (September through April) is $165. On-campus sub- 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. 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