2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday STAYING IN ANN ARBOR FOR THE SUMMER? WORK FOR THE DAILY. CALL 76-DAILY. y,A pril 6, 1999NATION!VORLD Russian crisis pushes some U.S. firms out AROUND THE NATION (~rv 0 AMSTERDAM -$419 - LONDON-$440 LIMA - $464 RIO DE JANEIRO -$691 TAIPEI -$880 - BANGKOK -$890 SYDNEY -$1060 ROUNDTRIP, PLUS TAXES, SUBJECT TO CHANGE MOSCOW (AP) - Dunkin' Donuts has taken its Boston Cremes back to Boston. Pizza Hut, unable to capture a large slice of the Russian market, has closed its Moscow restau- rants. And Ben and Jerry's ice cream operation melted away on the rocky road of Russian capitalism. Many of America's best known brands streamed into Russia during the early 1990s, drawn to one of the world's largest untapped markets. Russia's notoriously difficult busi- ness climate combined with last year's financial blowout has sent dozens packing, and prompted others to lay off staff and scale back expan- sion plans. "The worst case scenarios of what could have happened in a long, cold Russian winter have not played themselves out," said Scott Blacklin, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Moscow. "But if we get to the summer and there is no significant improvement, then I think we could see deeper dis- illusionment, which could lead to a serious bleeding of the American presence," he added. The Americans are by far the largest foreign investors in Russia, with more than 500 U.S. firms oper- Police givenpower to search tafi ckers WASHINGTON -The Supreme Court yesterday widened the power of police to search the belongings of passengers in cars stopped for traffic violations. If officers have reason to believe that the driver may have drugs or other illegal. items in the car, that allows them to search purses or other personal property ofall passengers - even if no passenger is suspected of a crime, the court decided by a 6-3 vote. Any container in the car that might contain illegal items, the court said, may searched. But that authority does not extend to searching the clothing or body of the passengers, the court stressed. It said the Constitution draws a distinction between searching persons and property, but not between driver and passen- gers. The dissenters complained that the decision expands police search power over passengers, based solely on the driver's actual or suspected misconduct. But the dissenters noted that the ruling only involves searches when an automobile is involved, and not other private property. The ruling was the latest in a long series of Supreme Court cases testing poli authority to search or conduct questioning after they have made legal trafficsto In most of those cases, the court has tended to favor added police power. AP PHC People relax outside a McDonald's In downtown Moscow Thursday. The natlon used to be part of one of the world's largest untapped markets. M ravel Council on International Educational Exchange 1218 South University Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Phone: 734-998-0200 ating here. Their activity peaked in 1996 and 1997 as Russia's financial markets soared and the economy hinted at growth after years of depression. Since the economic crisis struck last August, about 50 members of the American Chamber of Commerce have left the country. Financial services were the hardest hit, and those leaving tended to be IBombing held Cfl( CAMP ZEIST, Netherlands (AP) - The United Nations suspended sanc- tions against Libya yesterday after Moammar Gadhafi surrendered two suspected Libyan intelligence agents for trial in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet. The handover - hailed by Clinton administration officials as a victory against terrorism - ended seven years of punishing sanctions against Libya and began what could be a lengthy trial process in the Netherlands. "Now, at last, the road to justice has begun," President Clinton said in a statement. The two Libyans were being held at Camp Zeist, the former U.S. airbase, awaiting arraignment under Scottish law on charges of planting the suitcase bomb that blew up Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 peo- ple, including 189 Americans. Suspects Abdel Basset Ali al- Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, accompanied by U.N. representative smaller firms. Larger companies that have already invested big sums in Russia are still trying to weather the storm. Under Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, the political climate has stabilized. Still, critics say the government still hasn't come up with a coherent plan to reverse the economic decline. suspects ligtria slow heart BOSTON -The experimental drug that caused a sensation when it was found to wipe out cancer in mice by choking off the tumors' blood supply is also showing promise against heart dis- ease. The treatment involves the Harvard- developed drug endostatin, which has been shown to be remarkably potent against cancer but has not been tested yet on people. Now, the same team that discovered endostatin found that in mice, at least, the drug may also greatly slow the development of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. Atherosclerosis is a buildup of fatty deposits. The research raises the possibility that a new category of drugs, the blood vessel inhibitors, may be useful weapons against both heart disease and cancer, the two most important diseases of the industrialized world. A team led by Judah Folkman of Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital in Boston repoted the development in last Tuesday's issue of the American Heart Association journal Circulation. Folkman pio- neered the study of angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels. U.S. behind in contraceptive options WASHINGTON - In Germany, women can use a handheld computer to determine when sex most risks pregnan- cy: It flashes red if the woman should avoid intercourse, green if there's little chance she's fertile that day. European women have access to a hormone-releasing IUD that preven- pregnancy for five years, dramaticaY lowers menstrual blood loss and even is touted to shrink fibroids. Critics say the United States has been left behind as other countries embiace new contraceptives that provide women more choices in birth control. More than half a dozen new options deemed important by family planning experts sell abroad but not here. t, / I s == 14 -I . : . ยง-. % .. : . .. , .. fi y Hans Corell, landed at a military airport earlier yesterday near The Hague. They were swiftly extradited to British cus- tody in the Netherlands. Before leaving the Libyan capital of Tripoli, the suspects said they hoped to return to their families after being found innocent. "We are confident in ourselves," said al-Megrahi. "The days will prove that what we are saying is true" Fhimah flashed the victory sign and told Arab diplomats: "We hope to see you upon our return." Relatives of the victims killed in the bombing had mixed emotions - ela- tion that the suspects were finally going to be tried, fear that the trial would never touch Gadhafi, the man they felt was behind the crash. "If trying these two is the ultimate goal of this trial, then it's a travesty," said George Williams, president of Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, which represents 160 American families who lost relatives aboard the plane. KOSOVO Continued from Page 1. also for sanitation and health con- cerns," said Chris Thomas of the American Red Cross. The human tide has overwhelmed Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro. As of yesterday, 239,000 refugees had arrived in Albania, 120,000 in Macedonia and 35,000 in Montenegro, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said. At least 831,000 of the 2 million pre- war Kosovo population have been dis- placed since the conflict began in February 1998, NATO spokesperson Jamie Shea said. NATO said relief flights carrying 200 tons of food and other emergency supplies were scheduled into Albania and Macedonia. There was growing debate, however, over plans for NATO nations including the United States to temporarily take in about 110,000 refugees. Airlifts of refugees began yesterday from Macedonia, with the first flights going to Turkey and Norway, but chaos was causing delays. The United States has agreed to take 20,000. Albania, despite its own impoverish- ment, said yesterday it would not ask others to take in the refugees who have arrived there because dispersing them outside the region would only help fur- ther Milosevic's aims. In Brussels, Belgium, NATO Air Commodore David Wilby said the alliance would accelerate its attacks on the Serb and Yugoslav police, tanks and soldiers accused of systematically expelling ethnic Albanians from Kosovo. "We will focus our attention on fielded forces in Kosovo," Wilby said. "We will disrupt Serbian military oper- ations on the ground." Wilby said NATO jets striking at Serb forces in Kosovo duringpre-dawn raids yesterday drew heavy anti-aircraft fir hlt al a n-~r +t .-~3 A c ., h CAIRO, Egypt - Iraqi opposition leaders, under U.S. pressure to unite to remove Saddam Hussein from power, are planning to meet in Britain this week, dissidents said yesterday. But two of the main opposition groups said they would not attend the meeting - the first gathering since the Clinton administration last year named Frank Ricciardone to coordinate with the Iraqi opposition groups. "We want to discuss the leadership of the movement, its organization and its goals," Delshad Miran of the Kurdistan Democratic Party said in London. The Kurdistan Democratic Party's rival - the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan - and several smaller groups also were sending representa- tives to the discussions. But the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the Iraqi Communist Party said they did not think such meetings would be effective such a meeting will help in our efforts to save our country from Saddam," said Hamid al-Bayati,.* Supreme Council's representative in London. Fighting in Angola leaves 10,000 dead- LUANDA, Angola - The civil war between UNITA rebels and the govern- ment of Angola has killed 10,000 peo- ple in the last four months, a newsp r reported yesterday. About 6,000 troops from both sides and 4,000 civilians have died since fighting flared last December, the weekly newspaper Folha reported; cit- ing unidentified aid workers. In the government-held city of Kuito, which has been a major target by rebels, about 10 people are killed each day, according to an unidentified Roman Catholic priest it quoted.- AROUND THE WORLD Saddam opponents and turned down requests from Ricciardone to attend. plan another ousting -"We cannot see any possibility that - Compiledfrom Daily wire r II 1mzr 1I I r I I ,he Michigan Daiy , ,I SN,-,)i ,isube,,,Mond,,al y Uthough riday during th e alanwteer m...y 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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