2 - TheMichigan Daily -- Friday, April 9, 1999 Lab 0 Labsecunty heightene for Rongi visit NATION/WORLD AROUND THE NATION cIQ70 LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - Down a long corridor inside the physics build- ing at Los Alamos National Laboratory, past an open workshop crawling with robotic insects and a "clean room" for assembling unclassified satellite instru- ments, the free flow of science stops at a black metal grate. Only those with nuclear Q clear- ances can go any farther, passing into the secret world of nuclear weapons through a heavy, subway-like turnstile activated by a high-tech sensor pro- grammed to read palms. Straight out of a spy novel, the checkpoint looms large as a symbol of the tension here between open scientific exchange and national security, tension that lies at the heart of a highly partisan Washington debate over China's possible theft of warhead design secrets from Los Alamos. The allegations of Chinese espionage at U.S. weapons labs, and accusations that the Clinton administration was slow to respond, are likely to figure in a nine- day visit to the United States by Premier Zhu Rongji that began Tuesday with his arrival in Los Angeles and got down to business yesterday in Washington. Reacting to the charges, the admin- istration shut down classified computer networks this week at Los Alamos and two other nuclear weapons labs for a security review and soon plans to start polygraphing nuclear scientists about RELIGIOUS SERWICE$ AVAVAVAVA ASSEMBLY OF GOD Evangel Temple - 769-4157 2455 Washtenaw (at Stadium) Sunday Worship: 8am, 10:30am www.assemblies.org/mi/evangeltemple LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRY Lord of Light Lutheran Church (ELCA) 801 S. Forest (at Hill St.) 668-7622 Sunday worship 10 am. student supper 5 Wednesday 7 p.m. listening for God Fridays 7 p.m. Friday nite at movies John Rollefson and Donna Simon Campus Ministers UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL, LCMS 1511 Washtenaw, mear Hill Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. Pastor Ed Krauss, 663-5560 their handling of classified materials. Some Republican critics have proposed going further, including a moratorium on foreign exchanges with "sensitive" countries such as China. But here in the laboratories, scien- tists and security officials say they are afraid polygraphs and restrictions on foreign exchange could damage nation- al security far more than a possible leak of sensitive warhead data a decade ago. "To hear people say Los Alamos National Laboratory is a 'sieve,' it's a ridiculous statement," said physicist Geoffrey Reeves. "People are really concerned. We don't know what's going to happen." Los Alamos scientists who have pio- neered "lab-to-lab" contacts with their counterparts in Russia and China say they are worried that a crackdown on foreign exchanges could jeopardize del- icate, evolving relationships aimed at safeguarding nuclear materials and stopping the transfer of "loose nukes" to terrorists or countries hostile to the United States. "I can't imagine standing on the crater of what used to be an American city and explaining the timidity we hadin dealing with this issue," said retired Air Force Col. Houston Hawkins, a former military intelligence official who now directs Los Alamos' division of nonpro- liferation and international security. BALKANS Continued from Page I agencies about the fate of tens of thou- sands of Kosovo civilians who were blocked from leaving Yugoslavia Wednesday and marched back into Kosovo to an unknown fate. "We don't know what has happened to these peo- ple, who seem to have been forced back inside Kosovo," NATO spokesperson Jamie Shea said. "We are very concerned about their safety and well-being." The plight of more than 400,000 Kosovo civilians who have fled the province or been driven out by Yugoslav security forces appeared to be alleviated somewhat. Relief agencies established tent cities with food, water and sanitation in the neighboring countries of Macedonia and Albania, where the refugees flooded Reno urges 'racial profiles' examination WASHINGTON - Attorney General Janet Reno made an impassioned plea yesterday for local police and other law enforcement officials to deal with cit- izen complaints about searches based on "racial profiles." "We can't duck this issue," Reno said, adding that the Justice Department has had "a number of investigations under way" of specific cases, trying to deter mine if police are violating individual rights by targeting people based on thee race. While recognizing organized police opposition to such inquiries, Reno said "hard facts" are needed to determine if the practice is widespread. "And let's - where we see the problem - do something about it," she said. A proposal to require a national study of why police stop and search motorists died in Congress last year but will be taken up again. Meanwhile, the U.S. Customs Service said it was establishing an inde- pendent review panel to evaluate complaints of racial bias from airline pas- sengers who have been strip-searched by inspectors looking for smuggled drugs. The agency is facing at least a dozen lawsuits over body searches, includi a class-action complaint by 100 black women in Chicago who claim they we singled out because of their race and gender. AP PHOT Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji bows after a press conference with President Clinton in the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. yesterday. He and other top scientists here can only theorize that politicians in Washington have a hard time visualiz- ing the home of the atom bomb, a cam- pus spread across 43 square miles of mountain plateau that has many open buildings interspersed with some of the most heavily guarded pieces of real estate in the world. Since the end of the Cold War, the number of foreign scientists visiting and working at this fabled lab has sky- rocketed as the borders of science expanded far beyond the boundaries of countries. More than 10,600 have come in the last four years, including 3,600 from sensitive countries such as China, Russia and India. But none of those foreigners, offi- cials say, ever gets "behind fence" and into classified nuclear weapons facili- ties, where computer hard drives are across the border seeking safety But the relief teams were hampered by bad roads, spotty electricity sup- plies, the sheer numbers of people needing help and the traumatized state of many of the refugees, aid officials said. Relief agencies geared up for what may be a long-term program because NATO has decided that the refugees must return to their homes in Kosovo and there is little prospect of such a development in the near future. Despite signs Yugoslavia might be preparing an overture, there are no serious efforts under way to end the air war through diplomacy, State Department spokesperson James Rubin said. The only method the NATO alliance is using to pursue its goal of getting the refugees home safely, free of intimidation by Yugoslav security forces, is continuation of the air war until Milosevic accepts the alliance's terms, he said. Yugoslavia's state-run media said government security forces have ended their offensive in Kosovo, designed to put down a 13-month-old secessionist rebellion, and peace has been restored in the province. placed in safes at night, computer sys- tems are separated from the Internet by an impenetrable "air gap," and e-mail heading for the outside world is now randomly monitored. Such rigid control contrasts with a highly informal atmosphere prevalent across much of the lab, where neckties are a rarity and scientists wearing jeans and hiking boots arrive at work in four- wheel-drive vehicles. Helping Russia safeguard plutonium is only a sideline at Los Alamos pursued as the lab sought new frontiers once the end of the Cold War brought to a close nuclear testing and new weapons development. The lab's primary mission - certifying that aging nuclear warheads remain function- al and safe, without nuclear testing - is even more dependent on interaction with top scientists from around the world, Hawkins and other top lab officials say. DEGENERES Continued from Page 1. my thoughts and my feelings." Still, she said, some religious extremists are going to far. DeGeneres cited several examples, such as ads that interpret sexual ori- entation as something that can be changed. She said that this type of thinking only perpetuates hatred. DeGeneres also said she wanted to make it clear that she was not attacking religion. "I believe in God. "I don't want to change," she said. "I'm happy with who I am." DeGeneres spoke against those who fear the "gay lifestyle." "We don't have a lifestyle. We have a life." Everybody has a purpose in life, DeGeneres said, adding that she believes she was meant to be gay, that she was meant to be ashamed and she was meant to finally over- come that shame. She also said she believes she was meant to be famous because this would allow her to finally reach people and try to reshape social ideas. That is the only reason to be famous, DeGeneres said. Many members of the audience said they admired DeGeneres' courage for coming out in the public spotlight. "I admire what she's doing," said LSA sophomore Sarah Winstein, adding that it was "better for her to be happy and honest than staying in the spotlight." Former Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendcr Affairs administra- tive assistant John Vasquez, who coordinated a reception that fol- lowed DeGeneres' speech, said DeGeneres gives legitimacy to the LGBT cause. "She's a prominent lesbian woman on television and media. It's important to have that kind of repre- sentation from etr community," Vasquez said. OW NeEWS.? CALL76-DAILY.* FAA to test Y2K computer repairs DENVER - Tomorrow night, the Federal Aviation Administration plans to try the first live test of its Year 2000 air-traffic-control computer fixes. Officials hope for a better debut than the Denver airport's bag-shredding computerized luggage system. Late tomorrow and early Sunday, the agency plans to split the computers controlling air traffic around the airport and spin the clock ahead to Jan. 1, 2000, in half of the systems. The radar systems will track both commercial flights and an FAA Lear Jet flying over Grand Junction, in west- ern Colorado; Denver, on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains; and Colorado Springs, located to the south. During the four-hour test, techni- cians will check computer software changes designed to solve the Y2K problem. Early computer programs used a two-digit format to read dates, and there has been widespread concern about problems when the year changes from "99" to"00," which unrepaired computers may construe as 1900 instead of 2000. For safety's sake, the FAA plane and the small amount of commercial traffic expected during the midnight hours will be tracked by air traffic control systeng not participating in the exercise. Gasoline prices may peak next month WASH INGTON - Rebounding crude oil prices, sparked by recent cuts in world production, are expected to cause gasoline prices to be about a dime a gallon higher this summer than last, the Energy Information Administration said yesterday. 4 The agency predicted the average price for regular, self-service gasoline will peak at $1.18 a gallon in May and average $1.13 a gallon during the sum- mer. The price jump was attributed to an expectation of a continuing upward track in crude oil prices because of recent agreement among world produc- ers to reduce production. ___ AROUND THE WORLD The University of Michigan School of Music Friday, April 9 Opera Workshop Joshua Major, director " Leonard Bernstein: Trouble In Tahiti McIntosh Theatre, E. V. Moore Bldg., Sp. m. Choreographic and Design Performance Betty Pease Studio Theatre, Dance Bldg., 8p.m. Symphony Band H. Robert Reynolds, conductor Donald Sinta, saxophone * Bolcom: Concert Suite for Saxophone and Band (world premiere) * music by Bernstein, Benson and Torino Hill Auditorium, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 10 Faculty Recital Yizhak Schotten, viola Lorna McGhee, flute Lynne Aspnes, harp * music by Debussy, Jan Bach and Bax Britton Recital Hall, E. V. Moore Bldg., 8p.m. Sunday, April11 Faculty Recital Stephen Shipps, violin; Katri Evarmaa, cello Lorna McGhee, flute; Edward Parmentier, harpsichord Lindsay Ann Shipps, soprano * music by J. S. Bach Britton Recital Hall, E. V. Moore Bldg., 4 p.m. Campus Band and University Band Hill Auditorium, 4p.m . UM Percussion Ensemble and Steel Band Michael Udow and Michael Gould, directors * Music of Harison, Abe, Udow, Miki, Rouse, Grissom McIntosh Theatre, E.V. Moore Bldg., 8 p.In. Monday, April 12 Composers Forum Britton Recital Hall, E. V. Moore Bldg., 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 13 Small Brass Ensemble Charles Daval, director McIntosh Theatre, E. V. Moore Bldg., 8p.m. Thursday, April 15 Jazz Lab Ensemble Aaron Flagg, director Rackham Auditorium, 8 p.m. Former Mexican governor arrested MEXICO CITY - In one of the biggest narcotics corruption cases in Mexican history, authorities here ordered the arrest Tuesday night of a former state governor and more than 100 public officials and others on charges that they worked for the coun- try's most powerful drug cartel. Mexico's attorney general ordered the arrest of Mario Villanueva on alle- gations of drug trafficking and involve- ment in organized crime just 24 hours after his term ended as the governor of the southern state of Quintana Roo and 10 days after Villanueva apparently went into hiding. Attorney General Jorge Madrazo Cuellar said the arrest order against the former governor is part of a wide-rang- ing investigation into the activities of the country's most powerful drug mafia, the Juarez cartel, which has been using Quintana Roo as its prima- ry gateway for importing cocaine from Colombia. Arrest warrants for involvement in drug trafficking also were issued against more thanI100others, including federal police and prosecutors working in Quintana Roo "who provided prote Lion to narco-traffickers, often with the complicity of local officials," accord- ing to a ;engthy statement issued by the attorney general's office. Malaysia killer virus bales virologists KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- A tropical virus that has killed dozen of people in Malaysia is the first its kind and virologists are stumped as to how it spreads, U.S. health offi- cial said yesterday. 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