2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 18, 1999 NATION/WORLD RESTAURANTS Continued from Page 1A cers will be posing undercover as servers, bartenders or managers when they enter restaurants to check for underage drinking. But the AAPD has sent letters to area restaurants such as Cottage Inn, Pizza House and Good Time Charley's informing them of the proposed program. "They are trying to turn the tables," Pizza House owner Dennis Tice said, explaining that usually it is the restaurants that the police target, not underage buyers. This was the case in September, when AAPD offi- cers ticketed four local restaurant-bars for not checking forage identification before serving alcohol. In the raid, undercover police officers posed as customers and asked to be served alcohol. Conor O'Neill's, Shalimar Restaurant, the Parthenon Restaurant and Old Heidelberg Restaurant were ticketed in the incident. Tice said AAPD has posed as customers in Pizza House in the past. They attempted to buy alcohol without identification, but the restaurant employees asked to see their IDs and refused to serve them. "They want to turn some responsibility" on the underage buyers, said Tice, adding that Pizza House has a choice in deciding whether it wants to cooperate with AAPD. "It is voluntary, we don't have to do it," Tice said. He said he does plan to cooperate because his restau- rant isn't in the business to sell alcohol to minors. "Liquor licenses are hard enough to get. We don't want to take a chance," Tice said. Logghe said AAPD has not set a concrete date for when it will begin entering the restaurants undercover. An LSA senior who asked not to be identified said she thinks the new program will alter the behavior of students. "It seems likely in certain places you might know whether they usually card or not," she said. If students know that a police officer may be under- cover in the restaurant, she said, they may be less like- ly to attempt to use fake IDs or order alcoholic bever- ages when underage. She added that the program would be useful in restaurants, because many students assume that "in a restaurant it is more likely that you wouldn't get card- ed at all," compared to a bar or convenience store where authorities might be more likely to ask for iden- tification. tROUND THE NATION Grand juror says Starr used the facts L ITTi LI: ROCK, Ark. Using a rare tactic, Kenneth Starr's prosecutors put a former Whitewater grand juror on the witness stand yesterday to testify that Starr's investiga- tors were after "the facts" and not out to get President Clinton. One of three ex-grand jurors appearing in Susan McDougal's criminal contempt trial, Jennifer Castleberry, tes- tified that when McDougal appeared before the grand jury in 1996, "We wanted to hear what she had to say" But the Clintons' former Whitewater partner "wouldn't talk." Clinton "She wanted to give a statement," Castleberry said. "She would not allow us to read the statement. She refused to answer the ques- tions. Did Castleberry believe the attorneys in Starr's office "were out to get the Clintons?" prosecutor Julie Myers asked. "No," Castleberry replied. Later, she added: "They wanted to give us the facts to determine whether crimes were committed." l I ST. PATRICK Continued from Page IA "The place was crazy and wild. People were screaming and yelling," Dalal said. Dalal said religious and ethnic rea- sons didn't motivate her to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. "I'm anything but Irish. I don't even know the meaning of the holiday. I just love to wear green," she said. The holiday is celebrated March 17 each year because it is the day when Patrick, the patron Saint of Ireland, died in 493 A.D. According to his autobiog- raphy, Saint Patrick was kidnapped at age 16 and sold into slavery in Ireland. He escaped to Britain and later returned to Ireland, converting the island from Druidism to Christianity. The three-leafed shamrock - a com- mon symbol of St. Patrick's Day - is found in the artwork of the Celt tribe to symbolize the divine nature of the trinity. The symbol was later worn by the Irish regiments and became the emblem of rebellion in the 19th Century. England's Queen Victoria outlawed the symbol, making it punishable by death by hang- ing. Today's "wearing of the green" was translated from shamrocks to wearing green clothes in the United States. Father Charles Irvin of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Ann Arbor said the holiday does not have the same political significance it once had. "In the 1800s, a huge number of Irish immigrants wanted to show that they were a significant group in America," Irvin said, adding that the Irish are no longer discriminated against like they were when large numbers of them first immigrated to the United States. "Saint Patrick's Day is now celebrat- ed like St. Valentine's Day in the United States'" Irvin said. LSA first-year student Andrew Shirvell said when he was a student in Catholic school he wore green on St. Patrick's Day every year. "This year I decided not to wear green," Shirvell said. "I actually feel a bit guilty, though, that I'm not wearing green." Members of the Students' Party, who are running in the Michigan Student Assembly and LSA Student Government elections next week, wore green shirts as they passed out cam- paign flyers on the Diag yesterday. LSA sophomore Brian Reich said that for the past three years St. Patrick's Day has coincided with elections. "We think it's a fun and festive way to recognize the holiday and to draw atten- tion towards our party," Reich said. The Pierpont Commons Program Board on North Campus used the holi- day to its advantage. The group hosted a jazz concert featuring jazz musicians from the School of Music last night at Leonardo's. All proceeds from the event will go to a scholarship fund for stu- dents with disabilities. Music junior Ben Yonas, the pro- gram's chair, said the group wanted to do more than just hand out green candy and carnations and traditionally likes to hold events on holidays. "Our musicians really wanted to donate their services for one night," Yonas said. "We also felt that people would be more inclined to donate their money to a good cause on a holiday." ouncil oninternational Educatbial Exchange 1218 South University Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Phone: 734-998-0200 Intel does not admit to monopoly status WASHINGTON - The govern- ment approved a legal settlement yes- terday and disclosed details of its secret agreement with Intel Corp. that averted a bitter antitrust showdown with the world's largest computer chip-maker. Under the settlement, approved 3 to 0 by the Federal Trade Commission, Intel promised to share important technical details with other companies about its computer chips, but allowed for excep- tions in rare circumstances. In return, Intel was not required to admit it has monopoly power. "We are going to be watching" warned FTC Commissioner Robert Pitofsky. "I believe Intel is a company that will follow the rules, but like any order, we'll be keeping an eye on whether they're trying to get around it in any way." The government's June lawsuit accused Intel of having monopoly power and using it to illegally withhold from three companies advanced technical details about new chips to "extort" valu- able technology that the companies had developed independently. The company acknowledged it did most of what the FTC alleged but said its practices did not violate federal antitr laws. Gender segregation in military opposed WASHINGTON - Efforts by con- servatives to separate men and women during basic military training were dealt a major- and perhaps lasting - setback yesterday as a panel convened by Congress declared that newly inducted troops would be far betters in close quarters. Emboldened by a series of sexual scandals in boot camps, congressional conservatives pushed hard in the past two years for greater segregation, and last fall set up a study panel they hoped would further advance their case. - Contrary to expectations, howeyer, the panel voted 6 to 2, in favor of recent moves toward integration. Announcin the Michigan Daily' 1999-2000 $upp} lem ent available now at The Michigan Daily. \Nlow down on wos who at the U! Second floor of the Student Publications Building, 420 Maynard St. or call 764-0550 for more details. Defense bill passes WASHINGTON (AP)--The Senate gave overwhelming approval on yester- day to a bill to commit the Pentagon to building a national defense against lim- ited ballistic missile attack "as soon as technologically possible." The lopsided 97 to 3 vote belied the years of partisan battling the issue had generated. Long a Republican priority, the bill drew turnabout support from Democrats and the Clinton administration after dis- closures of North Korean missile tests and Chinese weapons espionage. Republicans welcomed the day-old Democratic backing and the dropping of a long-standing veto threat by President Clinton, although they ridiculed the timing. "I'm glad to hear he's now dropped his veto threat. But as usual, his pledge comes a little late and falls short;" said Sen. Bob Smith (R-N.H.), a GOP pres- idential aspirant. Democrats said several amendments, including one pledging the United States would continue to seek nuclear arms reductions in Russia, made the legislation more palatable. "The bill is now acceptable to the pres- ident," said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who was the chief Democratic opponent in the past. The earlier version could have violated terms of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, Levin said. Ending the impasse helped Democrats defuse an emerging GOP political cam- paign against them on national security grounds, a campaign that intensified in recent days with reports that China may have stolen technology from the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory in the 1980s that could help them improve their ballis- tic missile program. AROUND THE WORLD I Yugosaly army prepares for NATO PRISTINA, Yugoslavia - Fearing a possible NATO attack, the Yugoslav army bolstered its combat readiness, moving thousands of troops closer to Kosovo amid reports yesterday that peace talks in France were on the brink of failing. The war preparations also came as European Union forensic experts issued a report saying that dozens of ethnic Kosovo Albanians slain in January appeared to be civilians, not combatants. Yugoslav army troops were setting up anti-aircraft missiles in the moun- tains northwest of Kosovo's capital, Pristina, rebel leader Suleiman Selimi said yesterday in his first interview since being appointed supreme com- mander of the Kosovo Liberation Army last month. Speaking to The Associated Press and another reporter at his home, Selimi said KLA fighters dug in at the Cicavica Mountains saw the missiles being unloaded from several covered trucks. Senior officials with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said the mis- siles could be the Yugoslav version heat-seeking, Soviet-built short-rage missile that monitors have seen on regional roads. Pope backs his first pop CD and video VATICAN CITY - Taking aim at the pop charts, Sony Classical Vatican Radio kicked off a CD-110 and music video yesterday by a fiist- time artist with some big-time backing: Pope John Paul II. Producers will release the first 1 mjl- lion copies of "Abba Pater" around tl}e world Tuesday, timing it for the Easter holidays and the upcoming 2,000th anniversary of Christianity. The pope got his copy, the first oe produced, at his general audience yes- terday in St. Peter's Square. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday tnrougn lriday during the fall and wintmtrrms uy 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. ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1327. 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