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NATIONnmORLD
judgej finds officials in conltem-pt
WASHINGTON (AP) - Saying he
was fed up with lies and delays, a fed-
eral judge held two Clinton Cabinet
secretaries in contempt of court yester-
day in a dispute about $500 million in
Indian trust funds. The judge said he
had "never seen more egregious mis-
conduct" by the government.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and
Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin must
accept blame for years of bureaucratic
foot dragging and "outright false state-
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ments" concerning access to docu-
ments in a lawsuit on the trust funds,
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth
wrote.
Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs was
supposed to turn over statements, checks
and other documents on accounts held by
five Native Americans who are the lead
plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the
Interior and Treasury departments. The
lawsuit alleges mismanagement of
300,000 Indian accounts.
Lamberth ordered Babbitt, Rubin
and Assistant Interior Secretary Kevin
Gover to pay legal fees and other
expenses that resulted from delays in
complying with a November 1996 order
to come up with the documents.
While Cabinet heads are frequently
named as defendants in civil suits
against the government, Lamberth's rul-
ing is unusual in holding top officials
responsible. The money would come
from the agencies, not the men them-
selves.
In 1978, a federal judge cited
Attorney General Griffin Bell for con-
tempt for refusing to turn over FBI
files to the Socialist Workers Party.
And in 1984, a judge held William
Ruckelshaus, then the Environmental
Protection Agency administrator, in
contempt in a dispute over emissions
standards for nuclear facilities. The
EPA was not yet a Cabinet-level
agency.
AROUND THE NATION
Study: Rail safety not meeting standards.
WASHINGTON - A train collides with a motor vehicle every 90 minutes,
according to a study released yesterday. It blames reductions in maintenance crews
and outdated technology for poor safety on the nation's railroads.
The report by RailWatch, a Texas-based coalition of 300 local officials from
across the country, concludes that federal and state regulators fail to effective
oversee the rail system and railroad companies do not take enough action to pre-
vent accidents. The group called for a congressional investigation into rail safety.
More than 80 percent of public railroad crossings don't have lights and gates, the
study says. As a result, more than 90 percent of rail-related fatalities involve either.
a grade crossing or trespassers. Rail crossings were the sites of more than 500
deaths and 1,800 injuries in 1998.
According to the report, one-third of all states experienced more rail-related
fatalities in 1998 than six years earlier. During the first eight months of 1997, one
of the nation's major rail carriers, Union Pacific, had six serious train collisions
resulting in five crew fatalities.
The transportation of hazardous materials, a growing component of the rail-
roads' business, presents another set of problems. Every two weeks, a train car
ing hazardous materials runs off the tracks, spills some of its load and forces an
evacuation, the study says.
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28,000-strong peacekeeping force, including about 4,000
Americans, to enforce the agreement. Without the peace-
keepers, Albright said, the political pact would be only "a
piece of paper."
Although Serbia is the dominant republic of what remains
of the Yugoslav federation, the population of Kosovo
province is 90 percent ethnic Albanian.
The Contact Group - a consortium of the United States,
Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia that coordinates
Balkan peace efforts - originally gave Kosovo's two sides
until noon Saturday to reach agreement. But the group
extended the deadline until today.
Albright said Sunday that four outcomes are now pos-
sible: agreement by both sides, which would guarantee
the Albanian majority substantial self-rule for the next
three years while keeping the region legally a part of
Serbia; acceptance of the pact by the Albanians but not
the Serbs, in which case NATO would bomb Serbia;
acceptance of the plan by the Serbs but not the
Albanians, in which case the United States and its allies
would drop all support of the Albanian cause and clamp
an arms embargo on the rebels; and a failure by both
sides to agree.
In the case of disagreement by both sides, she said, "there
will not be bombing of Serbia, and we will try to figure out
ways to continue to deal with both sides." But U.S. officials
said it is unlikely that the Rambouillet talks will continue
after today.
U.S. officials said the main sticking point for the
Albanians is their demand for a binding referendum on
In the case of a
disagreement "there will
not be bombing of Serbia."
- Madeline Albright
U.S. Secretary of State
independence at the conclusion of the three-year auton-
omy period. Albright has told them that there is no
chance the international community would agree in
advance to honor the outcome of such a vote. The United
States, like most countries, opposes independence for
the province.
Instead of a referendum, Albright is offering the
Albanians a promise that the international community will
consider - although not necessarily endorse - "the voice
of the (Albanian) people" concerning Kosovo's final sta-
tus. Washington considers that to be.a major concession.
Albright's task is to bring the Albanians around to that
view.
Meanwhile, Russia stepped up its rhetoric against NATO
air strikes, saying peace talks had made "serious progress"
toward a Kosovo settlement and warning that no troops
should be deployed in Yugoslavia without its express
approval.
It is not clear how Russia would react to NATO airstrikes.
The country clearly lacks the military strength to block such
a move.
However, Russians feel a strong bond to Serbs, who like
them are Orthodox Slavs, and would probably be incensed by
any military action against them.
Agency investigates
motorist complaints
WASHINGTON - A federal safety
agency is investigating dozens of
motorist complaints of fires or heavy
smoke in some earlier model Ford
Explorer sport utility vehicles.
There are nearly 1 million of the
Explorers from model years 1992
through 1994 on the road.
There were 135 complaints of fire,
heavy smoke or a burning smell com-
ing from the ventilation system after
leaves or other materials entered
through the Explorers' fresh air cowl,
between the hood and the windshield,
according to a monthly report
released yesterday by the National
Highway Traffic Safety
Administration.
Two-thirds of the complaints
involved fires or heavy smoke. A hot
portion of the blower assembly may
ignite leaves, pine straw and other
material after it collects in the blower
assembly, the report said.
Twenty-two of the motorists com-
plained the problem occurred more
than once.
"Dealers can only advise consuners
to avoidparking under trees,"the report
said.
Ford Motor Co. had issued a recall O
48,000 Mercury Villager cars in 19
for a similar problem.
Chemo treatments
may cut cancer rates
BOSTON - In the first breakthrough
in the treatment spreading cervical can-
cer since the '50s, a series of studies
found that adding chemotherapy to radi-
ation can cut the risk of death in half.,
The five studies, made public yester
day, proved so convincing that th
National Cancer Institute took the
unusual step of mailing letters to thou-
sands of doctors urging them to adopt
the new approach immediately.
"We think the data are so compelling
that this should change the way women
are treated all over the country and
indeed around the world," said Edward,
Trimble, head of surgery in the inst-
tute's therapy evaluation progra4r
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scheduling one event, said MSA rep-
resentative and BAMN member
Jessica Curtin.
"Everything students at U of M
have done has been critical to the
building of the national movement,"
Wong said.
Both Wong and Curtin said that
over the past year, their organization
has accomplished a lot in defense of
affirmative action by putting oppo-
nents of affirmative action on the
defensive instead of the offensive.
"The tide is shifting and their
offensive has come to an end," Curtin
said.
. Curtin and Wong also said they
believe BAMN efforts have caused
Ward Connerly, an opponent of affir-
mative action who they believe was
aggressively campaigning against it,
to back off on his attempts to put an
anti-affirmative action initiative in
the state of Michigan.
But Connerly said BAMN organiz-
ers don't have their facts straight.
"Their suffering from a false state-
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adding that Michigan was just one
among a list of states that he believes
should reform their affirmative action
policies.
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ANKARA, Turkey -Turkey assert-
ed yesterday it has a "right to self-
defense" if Greece provides support to
separatist Kurds - a thinly veiled
threat of military force against its
neighbor and rival.
The warning came as a Turkish
newspaper reported that imprisoned
rebel warlord Abdullah Ocalan had told
interrogators that Greece gave his
fighters weapons and training, claims
Greece has rejected in the past.
Ocalan, captured in Kenya a week
ago, is expected to stand trial for wag-
ing a nearly 15-year insurrection in
Turkey's predominantly Kurdish south-
east that has claimed an estimated
37,000 lives. He could face the death
penalty.
A judge is expected to bring formal
charges against Ocalan today, after the
end of the seven-day period in which a
suspect can be held without charges.
The hearing, expected in a state
security court at the island prison
where Ocalan is being held, would be
closed to the press and the public.
Ocalan has not had access to an
attorney, which has drawn criticism
from international human righ
groups. Yesterday, a group of 1
lawyers - including several from
Turkey's independent Human Rights
Association - told the court they were
prepared to represent him.
Labor proposes
changes for Lords
LONDON - Prime Minister Tony
Blair has introduced legislation to abo
ish the centuries-old rights of heredi-
tary peers to sit and vote in the upper
house. If the measure is approved as
expected, some members could be out
of the House of Lords by summer.
The question is who will do the
governing, or at least the revising of
House of Commons legislation,
which is the primary role of the
House of Lords. Also, how to make
the upper house look less like a fusty
gentlemen's club and more like
branch of government.
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