8A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 11, 1999 NATION/WORLD Dow Jones Industrial Average and the NASDAQ Composite for Week 3/3 to 3/10 Judge allows Kevorkian to present emotional testunony 3/3 3/4 3/5 3/8 3/9 DJIA 9,275.88 9,467.40 9,736.08 9,727.61 9,693.76 n 9 '7 n A Close Change -21.73 +191.52 +268.68 -8.47 -33.85 NASDAQ Close 2,265.20 2,292.89 21337.11 2,397.62 2,392.94 Change +6.17 +27.69 +44.22 +60.51 -4.68 AI%- jL% 3/10 9,772.84 +19.08 2,4Ub6.0V +3.V6 Highlights from the week: The DJIA saw a record setting day Friday, settling above 9,700 for the first time in the history of the Average. It beat its previous record, 9,643.32, set on Jan. 8. This all time high occurred after the Labor Department released data stating that 275,000 jobs were added to employers payrolls in February, which exceeded many analysts predictions. Yesterday, the Dow finished at another record mark, 9,772.84, due to the positive news surrounding the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries meeting March 23. It looks like there will be an agreement on production cuts, which sent energy stocks like Chevron and Exxon to gains of 3 5116 and 3 3/8, respectively. What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average? The DJIA represents 30 stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and are all major factors in their respective industries. These stocks are widely held by individuals and institutional investors. Many financial advisers think of it as a good indicator in telling whether the NYSE is doing well or poorly. What is the NASDAQ Composite? The NASDAQ is the fastest growing stock market in the nation due to it being a screen-based stock market, compared to a trading floor market like the NYSE. It also has almost all of the technological stocks available for trading, which has proved to be a very volatile indus- try in the last few years. -Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Kevin Magnuson from wire reports. The weekly stock market roundup is a new weekly feature in the Daily. It will appear every Thursday this semester. PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) - Jack Kevorkian's defense in his first-degree murder trial will be allowed to tell jurors about the pain and suffering of a man whose videotaped death was shown on "60 Minutes" - the type of testimony that has been vital to Kevorkian in previous trials. But Kevorkian will not be able to use Thomas Youk's con- sent or euthanasia as a defense. Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Jessica Cooper made those rulings late Tuesday as precursors to Kevorkian's trial, scheduled to begin March 22. Defense attorney David Gorosh said he was pleased with the decision. "I believe that a jury will not find what Thomas Youk and Dr. Kevorkian engaged in together is a crime," Gorosh said yesterday. "It was an act of compassion." Assistant Oakland County Prosecutor John Skrzynski did not immediately return phone messages yesterday. Kevorkian is charged with first-degree murder, assisted suicide and delivering a controlled substance in the September lethal injection ofYouk. Prosecutors had asked Cooper to bar potentially emotional testimony about how Youk of Waterford Township suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease. Family members have said Youk had become confined to a wheelchair, was fed through a tube in his stomach and had little movement in his arms and hands. In the 19-page written ruling, Cooper also denied defense motions to toss out the assisted suicide and murder charges. She agreed with prosecutors that Kevorkian's actions in Youk's death started as a planned assisted suicide and gradu- ated to active euthanasia. But Cooper also said the assisted suicide statuW requires prosecutors to show Youk intended to kill himself, and doing so would naturally bring up testimony about Youk's suffering. "However," she wrote, "it is irrelevant to the defense to murder in the first degree where defendant asserts that his intent to relieve pain and suffering is by way of a lethal injec- tion." In all of Kevorkian's four previous felony trials - none ending with a conviction - Kevorkian's lawyers presented evidence about the pain and suffering of the people who died with his help. One observer considered Tuesday's ruling a victory Kevorkian. "Every time the jury gets to hear about pain and suffering, that helps Kevorkian," Errol Shifman, a former assistant Oakland County prosecutor who unsuccessfully tried to con- vict Kevorkian, told the Detroit Free Press for a story yester- day. Shifman, a Court TV commentator on the Kevorkian case, predicts jurors will have a difficult time ignoring testimony about pain and suffering when they consider the murder count, even if the judge instructs them to so. Such instruction, he said, would be "ridiculous because it's already in their heads." The UMArts Coordinator, UMArts Advisory Board and Michigan League Programming present WEEKEND March 25-28, 1999 University of Michigan If you've got culture, have we got a party for you! &etf WEEKEND Afterglow Swing Dance at the Michigan League Ballroom Friday, March 26 Free admission with proof of attendance at an arts event.* *For details and a calendar of events check out our web page at http://www.umich.edu/ ,-oarts Passengers WASHINGTON (AP) - Michigan legislation real estate broker Barbara Plecas was of rights" stuck in an airplane on the runway at tion has o Detroit Metropolitan Airport for about of the bil seven hours during a monster January emergenc snowstorm. get passen Plecas told a House hearing yester- runway. day that during the last two hours the Rep. Bu situation became critical on Northwest the Transp Flight 479 because the bathrooms were is "enormo broken from overuse and there was no passenger food or water. treated" by "Passengers who needed to take their Rep. Ja medication food and water were in a passenger panic," she told lawmakers on the avia- point" w tion subcommittee of the House's "Perhaps 1 Transportation and Infrastructure Detroit wa Committee. Compl Plecas said when she flies, she under- sengers w stands "I give up my right to fly the than the y plane and to be drunk and disorderly, Transporta but not my right to use the lavatory." "We ha House lawmakers held the hearing to Shuster sa consider legislation that would spell out airline ind what kind of compensation and rights Two oth passengers should be guaranteed when fied befoi flights are delayed for hours or baggage two Mary is lost. ror stories Several lawmakers have introduced prisonersc vent anger at airlines n outlining a passenger "bill and the Clinton administra- offered its own version. Some lls require airlines to file an y plan on how they would ngers off planes stuck on the ud Shuster (R-Pa.) the chair of ortation Committee, said there ous antagonism on the part of s about the way they are being y airlines. mes Oberstar (D-Minn.) said rs had reached "a boiling with the airline industry. the tragedy of Northwest and as a trigger," Oberstar said. aints per 100,000 airline pas- as 26 percent higher in 1998 year before, according to the ation Department. ve struck a raw nerve here," aid. "I hope my friends in the dustry realize this is serious." her Michigan residents testi- re the committee, along with land residents. Most told hor- s about being held as virtual on airplanes. AP Photo Vice President Al Gore announces the Airline Passenger Fair Treatment Initiative yesterday at the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. Moon Church profits from guns The Washington Post With parts of its sprawling business empire in decline, the Unification Church headed by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon is finding profits in one 'of the least-known of its commercial ventures: making guns. Moon's four-year-old gun company, Kahr Arms, has prospered amid glow- ing reviews for the workmanship of its small, potent pistols. Last month, Kahr Arms expanded, purchasing the compa- ny that manufactures Tommy guns, fabled in Roaring '20s mob shoot-outs from speeding black sedans. The ties between Kahr Arms and the Unification Church headed by Moon have received almost no notice, both within the close-knit gun industry and among church members. The business arm of the church, whose members believe that Moon is the Messiah and was placed on earth to restore the Garden of Eden, declined to clarify its involvement in the gun business. One ex-member said that for years church leaders have tried to obscure the movement's involvement with Kahr Arms. "They were afraid if anti-cult groups found out, they'd have a field day," the former member said. An examination of corporate records' and interviews with experts on the Moon empire show the links between the church's business network and Ka Arms. Kahr, whose factory is in Worcester, Mass., is controlled by Kook Jin "Justin" Moon, Moon's fourth son and slated to be second-in-command of the multibillion-dollar Moon empire when the father dies. Justin Moon and his siblings are revered by church members as the Messiah's "True Children." Former members and gun industry crit- ics perceive a contradiction between the church's teachings and its corporate involvement in weapons promoted * their concealability and lethality. MORE THAN 40,000 SERVED DAILY. .I (§Le 3111 Caireers in P/Okrmcy 0 3/15 Careers 7ocusing on Meitat Health 3116 WhCatis a D.O.? 7n 9ntrodulction to I