2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 5, 1999 NATION/WORLD PAGEANT Continued from Page 1 "I enjoy performing, so this was a chance to perform and maybe make some money," Quaye said. The Black and Gold pageant is similar to fash- ions shows Quaye has participated in before, but "when you add the com- petition it adds a new twist," she said. z Because event organizers worked with the contestants, Quaye said knew what to expect. One member of the audien LSA sophomore Carla Butler, sa she enjoyed the show for the ent tainment and because similar eve do a good job of promoting un among black students at t University.. "It's putting African Americans a good light by showing posit qualities," Butler said. she ce, aid er- nts city the Equipment pulled from 'no fly' zones RECYCLE THE DAILY. DAILY 4 - -' 4 - bsolut FridaysTStoir 10pm JACK TDnk $ 150 Call Drinks_ - Over 25 Beers on Draft ~- Including: Bell's, Newcastle Guinness & Youngs DJ + DANCING THURS - SAT in Los Angeles Times ive WASHINGTON - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has begun withdrawing air-defense batteries, artillery, troops and other material from his country's north- ern and southern "no-fly" zones in the face of steady strikes by U.S. and British warplanes, U.S. officials said yesterday. Although the withdrawals may be temporary, U.S. officials pointed to the regrouping as evidence of the effective- ness of a six-week campaign in which allied warplanes have inflicted substan- tial damage on Iraqi air defenses without losing any aircraft or pilots. "He's been demonstrating to his con- stituencies his weakness, not his strength," a senior Clinton administra- tion official said. Hussein has been challenging jets patrolling the Western-imposed no-fly zones since mid-December, after inten- sive U.S.-British airstrikes on his coun- try. Iraqi fighter planes have repeatedly flown into the proscribed zones and occasionally fired at allied warplanes. Anti-aircraft missile batteries have "locked" their radar on the U.S. and British jets, often a prelude to an attack. In response, the allied air armada has struck about 40 surface-to-air missile batteries, knocking out roughly 20 per- cent of Hussein's long-range SAM installations, according to U.S. defense officials. The intermittent skirmishing has been more punishing than Operation Desert Fox, the December assault that targeted 34 air-defense batteries and struck about two-thirds of them. President Clinton gave military com- manders latitude last month to respond with broad counterattacks on Hussein's FULL MENU Salads - Phillys- Mexican - Half Pound Burgers Chicken - Gyros - Jumbo Wings m Bud Saturday Killans Miller Lite 10pm Rolling Rod Domestic Bottles Are Backl POOL TABLES & DARTS 310 MAYNARD ~ANN ARBOR ~995.0100 ~21+4 air defenses any time Iraqi planes or radar make threatening moves. The no-fly zones were imposed after the 1991 Persian Gulf War to shield the Kurdish minority in the north and dissi- dent Shiites in the south from air attack. A defense official said Hussein has been moving equipment around rapidly, following a long-established pattern intended to confuse his adversaries. He has apparently moved some equip- ment into the zones, which are south of the 33rd parallel and north of the 36th parallel. But, "overall, there's a net reduc- tion," this official said. "He's had only two choices: Move it or lose it." It is next to impossible to assess how many casualties the Iraqis have suffered in the course of the air-defense strikes, but analysts say troops and crews often work near the equipment. Still, some signs suggest that Hussein doesn't intend to stop his provocations right away. Although bad weather has made flying difficult in the region for several days, two Iraqi MiG aircraft were spotted briefly in the southern zone yesterday. As recently as Monday, Hussein offered a bounty of $14,000 for the downing of an allied warplane, and a smaller amount for the capture of a pilot. The limitations of Hussein's air- defense equipment and personnel have been underscored during the past couple of years by the Iraqi military's failure to counter air raids by neighboring Iran's antiquated air force against opposition groups based inside Iraq. "These should have been easy to stop, but Iraq couldn't," said Kenneth Pollack, an Iraq expert at the National Defense University in Washington. IMPEACH Continued from Page 1. While seen by GOP leaders as a way of expressing disapproval of Clinton's behavior despite his anticipated acquit- tal, the proposal threatened a major rupture with Democrats, and key Republicans said yesterday they will drop it unless they detect support across the aisle that does not now exist. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) underscoring GOP anxiety about prolonging a trial seen as hurt- ing the party politically, laid out a schedule that would allow the Senate to meet his goal of final up-or-down votes on the two articles of impeach- ment by next Friday - and "conceiv- ably" even a day earlier. "I do think it's time that we get to a vote and that we move on," Lott said. "We can complete this next week and (after a recess) we can be talking about education, defense and tax cuts and Social Security by the 20th of February." While resigned to their defeat, the House prosecutors who once envi- sioned a full-scale proceeding with 10 to 15 witnesses professed disappoint- ment at not being allowed to bring Lewinsky, the single witness they asked for yesterday, to the Senate floor. "Either Lewinsky or Clinton is lying and the Senate's job is to figure out whom," said Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.). "I don't think the Senate is making available the best evidence to itself. But from historical precedent, it's clear that the Senate is in charge of running the trial." The White House was not entirely claiming victory either. While success- ful in blocking live Lewinsky testimony, Clinton's legal team had fought even a video appearance by the former White House intern whose affair with the pres- ident led to the perjury and obstruction of justice charges against him. Although her voice has been heard since the House's release of her secretly recorded telephone conversations with Linda Tripp, never has Lewinsky been seen by the nation's public describing her dealings with Clinton. In a last-ditch appeal yesterday, his lawyers pleaded with senators to consider the emotional turmoil such video segments would cause Clinton's wife and daughter. "How can the Senate contemplate releasing Lewinsky's videotape testimo- ny discussing her relationship with the president without giving at least some thought to the impact that this might have on the members of the family?" White House special counsel Gregory Craig asked before yesterday's votes. R1I[GIOU RWI AROUND THE NATION NRA lobbies to prevent gun lawsuits ATLANTA - Unwilling to spend billions to settle litigation as the tobacco industry did, gunmakers and the National Rifle Association are firing back, lobby- ing state officials to outlaw lawsuits seeking to recover the cost of gun-related vio- lence. "It may bankrupt us, but we are never going to settle," said Bob Baker, president of Freedom Arms Inc., which manufactures high-end revolvers in Freedom, Wyo.* Five cities - Chicago, New Orleans, Atlanta, Bridgeport, Conn. and the unified Miami-Dade County government in Florida - have sued various gunmakers. Atlanta, site this week of the nation's largest gun and hunting trade show, filed its suit yesterday. Mayors of other cities say they are planning similar litigation. But the industry and the NRA, which boasts 3 million members and relies on more than 80 million registered gunowners, are using their considerable political clout to halt the lawsuits before the legal fees add up. "What the mayors are going to find out is that a direct attack on the freedom to bear arms is the toughest briar patch they can jump into," NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre said. "They think that there is no cost, and this is a way to a quick buck, like tobaco money. But their cost, politically and economically, is going to be high, because we're determined to expose this for the sham that it is." HIV medicines show unexpected results CHICAGO - When HIV patients take medicines that control the virus, their immune systems begin to recuper- ate in ways that are puzzling and con- troversial, doctors are finding. Patients recover immunity to some deadly opportunistic infections, but appear unable to fight diseases they were vaccinated for as children or to target HIV itself. Scientists reported yesterday that use of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, can in at least half of all HIV patients push the viral population down to undetectable levels, allowing the beleaguered immune system to recon- struct itself. But it appears the recon- structed system bears little resem- blance to the immune system of a healthy individual, and it's unclear exactly how well the cells and antibod- ies in the system can protect HAART patients. At the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Brigitte Autran of the Hospital Pitie Salpetriere in Paris presented evidence on patients with advanced HIV infection. She said that after two to three years on HAART, these patients can muster reasonable numbers of immune system cells t can recognize and destroy so pathogens. Microsoft revises court presentation WASHINGTON - Trying to restore its courtroom credibility, Microsoft Corp. yesterday played a new video demonstration at- its antitrust trial, after inconsistencies in the original tape drew the ire of federal judge hearing the case. B the company did not recreate an important test that the government had deemed was misleading ana inaccurate. Microsoft also acknowledged that the original video did not show an actu- al test, as the company had initially told the court. Instead, it was an "illustfa- tion" created in a video-production stu- dio. AROUND THE WORLD Serbs agree to Kosovo peace talks BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - Serbian leaders agreed yesterday to join ethnic Albanians in peace talks, but both sides in Kosovo's conflict insist they won't + drop demands that threaten to block a deal to end the bloodshed in the sepa- ratist province. After a daylong debate peppered with attacks on the United States and NATO, Serbia's parliament voted 227-3 in favor of sending a delegation to the peace conference, set to begin tomor- row near'Paris.+ But Serbian leaders rejected the deployment of foreign troops in Kosovo, a predominantly ethnic Albanian province of Serbia, to police any agreement. NATO is lay-+ ing the groundwork for a peacekeep- ing force, which is likely to include+ U.S. soldiers. "We don't accept the presence of for- eign soldiers on our territory under any excuse of implementing any agreement that is reached," said one article in a 12- page resolution approved by parlia- ment. It also condemned "in the sharpest terms" NATO's threats to bomb Serbian forces if their leaders do not reach a peace agreeme calling the threats a violation of t U.N. Charter because NATO didn't get approval from the Security Council. Dying Hussein returns to Jordan AMMAN, Jordan - King Hussein, who had been undergoing emergency treatment in the United States for lyr phatic cancer, flew home in criticY condition yesterday to a shocked and worried nation. A statement quoting Hussein's pri- vate physician and released by Jordanian officials yesterday said the condition of the 63-year-old monarch had "become critical due to the failure of the functions of the internal organs. A bone-marrow transplant per- formed earlier in the week in an effort to halt the progress of the cancer h failed. - Compiled fom Daily wire repts. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms byU students at the University of Michigan. 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