2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, January 25, 1999 NATION/WORLD LEVIN Continued from Page 1A Levin said most Democrats and a few Republicans have expressed doubts about the case presented by the House team. "I believe there are some Republicans that are lean- ing to dismiss or vote no on the articles," Levin said. Levin spoke with reporters during a brief break in the trial Friday and appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" yesterday, continually saying that the trial needs to end, bi-partisanship needs to be maintained and the president needs to be censured. Pounding on the factual misrepresentations that he said the Republicans have presented, Levin said the House managers have not made a case for perjury or obstruction. The managers claim that the president obstructed justice when he gave Monica Lewinsky a bear carv- ing that they said was a sign to lie in any depositions he may give. But Levin went through a detailed account Friday of the testimony, coming to the conclusion that the only logical inference the managers made is actually u ~Wa ted: Op icanto "WAI Jfo'ej ( ueen FOR CALL ORS Pageant at M.S.U. on 3-12-99; age 17-21. Prizes $500.00 and a free trip to Houston, A Texas. Call Judy Schmaltz at 248-627-4556. not logical at all. Levin said he pointed out the prob- lem to former Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.), who then used it in his closing statement to the Senate on behalf of the president. "That is the kind of distortion that is not tolerable in the United States Senate," Levin said. Bumpers said these types of transgressions were not malicious attempts to get the president, but rather he accused the House managers of "wanting to win too badly." Arguing against the presentation of witnesses, Levin said the process could delay the trial for anoth- er month or more with discovery, depositions and other procedural questions. In addition, the House, by not calling witnesses of their own, made the decision that they were unneces- sary, so they should not appear in the House, Levin said. He added that the conflicts the House claims would be cleared up through testimony are not dif- ferences between witnesses, but rather differences between a witness and what the House managers want senators to believe. "I don't think the House has made out a case on "That is the kind of distortion that is not tolerable in the United States Senate" - Carl Levin U.S. Senator (D-Mich.) either (charge), to this point,' Levin said. "They have not made out a case that he committed perjury in front of the grand jury." While he won't say what he thinks the final out- come will be, Levin said there are two final goals of the process: first, dispensing of the process in a quick fashion, and second, maintaining the spirit with which the process has been handled to this point. "The House process went wrong," Levin said. "But the Senate has handled this matter with dignity." Sen. Spencer Abraham (R-Mich.) could not be reached last week for comment on the trial. AROUND THE NATION -C]7 Welfare level reaches 30-year low WASHINGTON - The number of people on welfare has fallen to its lowest level in 30 years, President Clinton is expected to announce today. But the new figures also show the dramatic declines of recent years are beginning to slow in certain states. The president will also offer a package of programs aimed at helping more peo- ple get to jobs and encouraging businesses to continue hiring them. Nationally, just under 8 million people remained on welfare at the end oF September, down 44 percent from 14.3 million in 1994. But state officials and academics alike have long cautioned that, at some point, nearly all the people who can move off welfare with relative ease will have left. That will leave those with deeper problems like substance abuse, domestic vio- lence and very little education. "With welfare reform, the more you succeed, the harder the job becomes," said Don Winstead, who heads Florida's welfare reform program. Clinton hopes to make that job easier. As he did in his State of the Union address, the president will also trumpet the falling welfare numbers. "On a national basis, the caseload drop has been remarkably steady," said Bruce Reed, the president's chief domestic policy adviser. But the figures show the drops in some states may have begun to slow in the final quarter of fiscal year 1998. I 1ASA Continued from Page 1A ASA conference, whose theme was "Mission: Limitless." LSA sophomore Sheila Krishnan said different fair booths were set up Friday, including an informational booth from ProjectSERVE and a bone marrow drive. Asian-American comedian Alladin Ullah entertained a crowd at the Union on Friday night and community activist Anju Bhargava gave a keynote address Saturday afternoon. "She talked about our role as sec- ond-generation Indian Americans, try- ing to establish our identity for our- selves in society, said LSA sophomore Vikram Sarma. Sarma said Bhargava's message stressed pursuing individual passion, and touched on challenges people must overcome. "It applies to anybody and every- body," Sarma said. "She not only pro- vided inspiration, but set forth a chal- Dn't SPanic!! 9 If you think you're pregnant... call us-we listen, we care. PROBLEM PREGNANCY HELP 975-4357 Any time, any day, 24 hours. Fully confidential. Serving Students since 1970. lenge for us." LSA first-year student Jasmine Bhatia attended three of the workshops Saturday. Two of them addressed get- ting involved on campus and in grass- roots campaigns, Bhatia said. "I found all of them to be really effective and inspiring;" she said. "It made me want to go out and do some- thin." Bhatia said the "Power of the Pen" workshop was especially interesting because it focused on how Asian Americans are portrayed in the media and how this portrayal affects their identities. People often cling to stereo- types such as the myth that Asian Americans are gifted in math and sci- ence, Bhatia said. "It focused on how to branch out beyond the stereotypes," she said. The people in her group generated ideas among themselves to confront the problem. The only disappointment, Bhatia said, was that "a lot of people didn't care enough to come" to the speeches and workshops the conference offered. "You get out what you put in," she said. "The students who didn't partici- pate would have gotten a lot out of it." -Daily Staf ReporterAsma Rafeeq contributed to this report. Color Calls! 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"For all the tornadoes Arkansas has, and the ones that have hit around Little Rock, we never had one just basically come down Main Street," Clinton said. "We had all these wonderful old trees. It's difficult to see." Still, Clinton was upbeat as he spoke to residents who took time from their attempts to patch splin- tered houses and crept through rubble to greet him. He chatted amicably with a group outside a house where an American flag had been strapped with duct tap onto a fallen tree's leafless branch. U.S. warplanes fire missiles on Iraqi sites WASHINGTON - American war- planes, threatened by Iraqi artillery systems while patrolling the "no-fly" zone in northern Iraq, attacked two surface-to-air missile sites in separate incidents yesterday. It was a second day in a row that U.S. jets enforcing the flight-interdiction zone met resistance and fired back. A US. F- 15E Eagle fired a precision-guided mis- sile and "suppressed" an Iraqi SA-3 sur- face-to-air missile site that threatened forces in the area, the military said. The missile scored a direct hit, Operation Northern Watch said in a statement. s AROUND THE WORLD Iraq fails to gamer Arab League support CAIRO, Egypt - After failing to achieve a blanket denunciation of U.S.- British airstrikes, Iraq's chief diplomat stormed out of a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers here yester- day and angrily accused fellow Arab states of bowing to the dictates of the United States. Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Said Sahaf expressed bitterness that the long-sought meeting, called to forge an Arab consensus on U.N. sanc- tions and U.S. military actions against Iraq, had fallen short of the Baghdad regime's hopes in almost every partic- ular. Instead of a statement condemning U.S. policies and calling on Arab states to unilaterally abrogate the U.N. Security Council sanctions imposed after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the Arab foreign ministers' draft mere- ly expressed "sorrow" about military action while urging Iraq to cooperate with U.N. efforts to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction. The draft statement also suggested that Iraq should behave better toward its neighbors, especially Kuwait, anf that sanctions could be lifted only in a "timely" fashion. In response, Sahaf said the state- ment would be taken by the United States as an encouragement to mount further military strikes. Pope gives Mass to 1 'illion in Mexico MEXICO CITY -A million faith- ful packed a dusty Mexico City race- track yesterday to hear a call to arms from Pope John Paul II - a summons to take to the streets and confront the challenge of Protestant evangelism. The papal Mass was a powelful dis- play of the aging pontiff's spell over this predominantly Roman Catholic nation. 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