2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 4, 1999 NATION/WORLD Y2K problem could affect missiles MOSCOW (AP) - Russia needs up to $3 billion, to tackle the Year 2000 computer glitch - six times the original estimate - a top official announced yes- terday as he appealed to the United States and NATO to help fix computers that control Russia's nuclear weapons. While many countries have been working on the so-called Y2K "millennium bug" problem for years, some key players, including Russia and China, have been slower to address it. Last month, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre acknowledged "some nervousness" in Washington about potential computer problems in Russia. "They don't seem to have the same level of urgency that we have had over it," he said. The man leading Russia's efforts to solve the Y2K finally responded yesterday by asking NATO and the U.S. Defense Department for advice - and money. Russia wants all sides to "speak the same lan- guage," Alexander Krupnov, chair of the central telecommunications commission, said yesterday. "We're in a critical situation in several areas" - including the Defense Ministry. Russia has already agreed to let NATO experts investigate the potential danger to Russian weapons systems. While an errant missile launch brought on by a computer clock failure would be highly unlike- ly, computer snags could sabotage radar and telecommunications networks that are the backbone for Russia's system to detect foreign launches. Radar screens could go blank, and the bug could throw certain nuclear systems into a test pattern, which is apparently difficult to stop, making the computer system inaccessible. "It's not that nuclear missiles are going to pop off out of silos," said Paul Beaver, an analyst with Jane's Information Group in London. U.S. defense agencies want to place U.S. officers in Russian nuclear control rooms and Russian offi- cers in U.S. control rooms to monitor the changeover, Beaver said. But Russian defense officials have been stubborn- ly silent. The cost of tackling the problem is staggering, especially for Russia, overwhelmed by mounting debts. The latest estimate is $3 billion, Krupnov said yes- terday. That's in a country so broke that this year's draft budget foresees just $21 billion in revenues - none of which is earmarked for the Y2K problem. Krupnov said it was up to government agencies, including those that control military bases, air traffic and oil pipelines, to come up with their own cash. Weapons aren't the only danger. "The nuclear plants won't be able to get accurate temperature information, and you could have anoth- er Chernobyl," Beaver said, referring to the world's worst nuclear accident, at a Soviet plant in 1986. "And that would not just affect Russia." Meanwhile, in China, a survey of the country' most crucial enterprises showed that more than half didn't even know how to detect the computer glitch in their systems, the official Beijing Morning Post reported yesterday. Chinese officials doubt government ministries can meet an October deadline for fixing their systems. Little assistance is being provided to agencies and enterprises finance, aviation, telecommunications and transport sectors. Are you looking for a different kind of spring break? CHECK OUT THESE OPPORTUNITIES: Backcountry Dog Sledding Trip in Northern Ontario Feb. 28- March 6 $600 Backpack Cumberland National Seashore Feb. 27- March 6 $325 Backpack the Smoky Mountains Feb. 27- March 6 $325 For more information call 764-3967 or check out our website at www.recsports.umich .edu/outdooradv OUTDOOR ADVENTURES SPRING Br E PANAMA BEACHFLORIDA It's allgood! GOD Continued from Page A He next looked at the growing recog- nition within the scientific community that many things have to be "just so" in order for life to exist and small changes in the initial conditions of the universe can cause drastic changes. "It was quite a surprise to many sci- entists that really small changes in physical constants would render life improbable," Bradley said. "Small changes leave it unsuitable for life in any imaginable type." The next question asked, "If the uni- verse exhibits design, what is the pur- pose?" In response, Bradley said God has a desire to have a relationship with human beings. "The ultimate purpose in God creat- ing the universe is to make a habitat for people he could love and who would respond to his love," Bradley said. "God wanted to have a relationship with us." The fifth question of the night dealt with the controversial topic of whether evolution disproves creation. While prefacing his comments with the note that he is not a biologist, Bradley looked at the complex exis- tence of life as something which "does not defy the laws of nature, but can not GRADUATING STUDENTS Consider a lucrative career in commercial real estate sales. We're a local company, looking to hire a self-starting, business- oriented graduate with a good sense of humor. I have 32 years. in real estate, yet keep an open mind and respect for the abili- ties and opinions of younger agents. Sound interesting? Call Gary or visit our web site. Gary Lillie & Associates Realtors 663-6694 www. garylillie.com easily be explained by them. "Microevolution (evolution on a species level) is likely, but macroevo- lutiuon is more problematic," Bradley said. "There are still things we need to learn to show that macroevolution is probable." As a co lusion, Bradley briefly spoke on his personal beliefs and the process he went through to arrive at his current beliefs. "As a college student, I really wres- tled with my beliefs and they were widely challenged," said Bradley. "It was during this time I became per- suaded there is considerable reason to believe there was a creator. The God of creation was a God who wanted us to have a personal relationship with him." The majority of the students in attendance said they were convinced of the existence of God, but were interest- ed in seeing their beliefs confirmed from a scientific point of view. "We live in a world where you can philosophically come from two camps," Moore said. Some people believe "God is relegated to something that really doesn't affect us, but people are seeking after something beyond themselves." Last night's presentation was spon- sored by Campus Crusade For Christ and the Michigan Christian Graduates. CONTRACT Continued from Page 1A The University said it would provide a $200 stipend, room and board and insur- ance during all international graduate students' three week training period. But Shanmugalingan said she doubts the University will keep its word since this policy is not included in GEO's contract. "I want a more specific proposal we can hold the University accountable to," Shanmugalingan said. "Three years ago, they reneged on the same policy and we couldn't hold them to it. The same problem exists now." Gamble said the University will not include this policy in the GEO contract because international graduate students are not employees until they pass the training session and become GSIs. And this it's' Located net door to Spinnaker & LaV Beach Resort is Spring Break Headquart Beach, Honda. And as host to S's Beac immersed in the center of all the noni So partywiAth ousands, butdeep Sprrs iatel ~n **44e.-- AROUND THE NATION - NATO help could be needed in Kosovo WASHINGTON - A NATO-led peacekeeping force could be needed in Kosovo for three to five years to enforce any peace accord and might include up to 4,000 American troops, the Clinton administration told Congress yesterday. In testimony at a Senate hearing, and in private briefings with lawmakers, President Clinton's national security team sought to prepare Congress for*0 possibility of a second U.S. ground commitment in the Balkans. U.S. troops have been in Bosnia for the past three years. The administration also shared with lawmakers a draft of a U.S.-sponsored s peace plan that would dramatically reduce Serbian control over Kosovo and give the province considerable self-government powers - while allowing some con- tinued Serbian military presence. s The administration also pledged to provide a series of "benchmarks" to be f used as a basis for extricating U.S. troops once they are introduced, congressional and administration sources said. t Kosovo's ethnic Albanian rebels have agreed to participate in weekend peace' talks demanded by the United States and NATO allies as pressure increased on Serbia's hard-line government to join the talks. NATO has threatened airstrikes Serbia and the rebels aren't talking by Saturday and closing a peace deal by Feb. 19 under talks organized by the United States and five European powers. s Gore begins George Bush, to name two of Gore's recent predecessors, followed precise- election campaign ly the same pork-and-circumstance formula to woo supporters and fortify Brick by brick, trip by trip, one their position in key states. Each went heaping stack of federal dollars after on to claim their respective party no another, Vice President Al Gore is inations, with Bush winning the WIW building a political firewall on the House. Pacific. California, once an oversized after- Coalition to lobby thought in presidential primaries, has emerged as a cornerstone of Gore's for high-speed cable 2000 strategy, first to win the Democratic nomination by spring, WASHINGTON - America Online- then capture the White House in the is part of a lobbying coalition formed. fall. yesterday with the aim of getting access In dozens of visits - an average of to high-speed Internet and data lines more than one a month in the past controlled by cable TV companies. year - Gore has courted vital The announcement of the Open4 Democratic constituencies with con- coalition comes almost a week after nect-the-dots precision. Labor. the Federal Communications Hollywood. Black voters. Commission decided not to opena Environmentalists. Each trip, he proceeding that would force cable sprinkles tens of millions of dollars companies to share high-speed lines around the state; last week it was a with their competitors. Sacramento stop to announce $43 Still, the FCC said it would keep an million for California crime victims. eye on the matter to ensure that con- The strategy is hardly new. Vice sumers' options for Internet service are presidents Walter Mondale and not restricted. AROUND THE WORLD AIDS may claim AIDS. In 1998, the disease killed about 100 people a day, Marowa 70,uuu in Zimbabwe said."- Zimbabwe has one of the highest HARARE, Zimbabwe - The deadly of heterosexually transmitted Acqui- AIDS pandemic is expected to kill about Immune Deficiency Syndrome in south- 70,000 Zimbabweans this year -nearly em Africa. 200 people a day, the head of the nation's AIDS prevention program said yester- Mir to shine light on day. Evaristo Marowa blamed the spiraling former Soviet cities death toll on the continuing refusal of young, sexually active adults to use pro- MOSCOW - The crew of the Mir' tective measures. space station prepared yesterday for a daz- "The crisis continues to deepen with zling experiment with a space mirror little or no sign of behavioral changes in will send a beam of reflected sunli the young and economically active age flashing over the ex-Soviet Union and groups" he said. parts of Europe. By the end of 1999, Zimbabwe's death The Znamya experiment, which -it toll from AIDS-related illness since scheduled to start at around 5 a.m. today, 1985, when the first AIDS case was envisages unfolding a mirror made of a' reported, is expected to reach 400,000, membrane covered by a metal layer. Marowa said. The mirror is supposed to work like an Marowa talked to reporters after a artificial moon, reflecting sunlight onto three-day visit from Sandra Thurman, regions in Russia and other former Soviet director of President Clinton's White republics before reaching Germany and' House Office on AIDS policy. the Czech Republic, said Mission Con An estimated 1.6 million of the spokesperson an Valery Lyndin. country's 12 million citizens are infected with the virus that causes - Compiled from Daily wire repors- a 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 are $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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