2A -The Michigan Daily - Monday, April 3, 2000 NATION/WORLD HASH BASH Continued from Page 1A legal in Michigan. . One of the featured speakers was Greg Schmid, the author of the PRA initiative. "It's time to fight despotism while we can in this. country ... Laws that don't respect people breed people who don't respect the law," Schmid said. Ted said he believes the PRA initiative has a chance of passing "if we can get enough stoners off their asses and registered to vote." Sporting knee-length dreadlocks, Chef Ra, the culi- nary columnist for High Times Magazine, cheerfully admonished police. "That's one more soldier laying down their lives for us," Ra said as he watched a young man get arrested by officers. Although DPS officers were often verbally abused by the crowd, there was little interaction between police and hash bashers - except for the assault of an Ann Arbor Police Department officer later in the day as he sat in his patrol car on South University Avenue. The suspect was subdued by DPS officers. Tensions also rose slightly when members of the crowd attempted to block access to the outlet providing power to the amplifier being used by speakers to address the crowd from the steps of Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. The University only supplies an hour worth of elec- tricity for the event, a consistent complaint of organiz- ers. The crowd in the Diag began to disperse after the power was cut, but revelers crowded the streets for hours afterward - some retiring to an outdoor party at Dominick's on Monroe Street, others milling the streets surrounding Central Campus, where vendors were hawking various wares. The event normally attracts curious onlookers as well as marijuana supporters, and Saturday was no exception. Shaun Gallo of Detroit "expected to see more people smoking in public," but was disappointed. SueJeanne Koh of Boston was visiting her friend Yolanda Rosi, a third-year medical student at the Uni- versity. "It's interesting to see how plants attract so much attention," Koh said, noting the "forbidden fruit men- tality" of marijuana. "Lots of people just look like they're out having a good time," Rosi said. By late evening, the only evidence of the hash bash- ers' presence was a blanket of litter in the streets and on the Diag, and the harbinger of spring had ended for another year. "It's a very hard day on our staff," Brown said. "We're glad it's over." - Daily Staff Reporter Elizabeth Kassab contributed to this report. %"J If yuthink yau're pregnant call us-We listen,w we care. PROBLEM PREGNANCY HELP 975-4357. Any tIme, any day, 24 hours. Ftd0y confiden tiaL $erving $tudents since 1970-. LAWSUIT Continued from Page :A merit. University spokeswoman Julie Peter- son said the University did not have any official comment on the latest develop- ments in the case. In 1997, CIR filed the lawsuit against the Law School and a similar suit against the University's College of Lit- erature, Sciences and the Arts. --- -- t1 1IIdGQ II Dpp 1DII 1( 0 .....e_. .---.__ Jackson meets with U'PUSH coalition JACKSON Continued from Page IA The group of students crowded the front rows for Jackson's speech at the meeting, where Jackson spoke to motivate people to take part in tomor- row's Dignity Day walk commemo- rating Martin Luther King's assassination. He also emphasized the need to improve schools and end racial profiling. Several times during his speech Jackson recognized the University's presence by asking the students to stand. "I'm certainly glad you all came to this," Jackson said. "We're glad that you keep in touch with us." University RPC members said they gained insight into how the campus group can make a differ- ence. "Interesting. Interesting is the first word that comes to mind," LSA senior Shanta Gilbert said. LSA freshmen Ola Oyinson echoed Gilbert's thoughts. "The speech was very powerful," she said. "Not just what he said, but how he said it, with all the repetition." The private meeting followed, where the group heard Jackson's thoughts on their organization. Jackson said he was supportive of the University's RPC voter registra- tion campaigns. "There's enough students in Ann Arbor and Lansing to have enough voters to determine our judges, our senators and our presidents," Jack- son said. "But only registered voters have a voice." Jackson also commented on the group's alliances with University organizations that support similar causes. "Building a multiracial community - a community that crosses the lines of gender and race and status - and learning to live together is so impor- tant," he said. Jackson specifically mentioned the University's Students Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality as an organization with a cause worth sup- porting. "The workers who struggle - they too deserve appropriate wages," Jack- son said. Most University RPC members waited two hours for Jackson's press conference, which followed a meeting with Jackson, other nation- al RPC leaders, police officers and public officials from Louisville, Ky. The conference addressed the cur- rent marches, protests and tension in Louisville in response to an unarmed black man being shot by police offi- cers and the officers being honored for their actions. They said that the two hour wait was worth it because they got to receive all the information, as opposed to the edited information they would get from the media. to settle because the Department of. together. LaBella: Reno's move not political WASHINGTON - The prosecu- tor who once led the Democratic fund-raising investigation said yester- day he did not think politics motivated Attorney General Janet Reno to reject his recommendation for an indepen- dent counsel. Charles LaBella, who lost his Washington assignment after recom- mending an outside investigation of President Clinton and other top White House figures, also said such an inves- tigation might well have failed to pro- duce criminal charges. "The standard was information, sufficient information from credible sources. ... I believe we had substan- tial information from credible sources to warrant full-scale investigation of many of these allegations," LaBella said on NBC's "Meet the Press." He was brought in from California in September 1997 to head a Justice Department team looking into alleged fund-raising abuses, largely by the Democrats, during the 1996 president ACROSS THE NATION Gap too wide to settle Microsoft case WASHINGTON - Talks between Microsoft Corp. and government lawyers failed after the company insisted on its own proposal to settle the antitrustjlaw- suit and not because of disputes between state and federal officials, perspes familiar with the negotiations said yesterday. The talks broke down Saturday, sending the case back to U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in Washington, who last fall issued a finding of fact that Microsoft used-its monopoly powers to thwart competition. A decision on the lawsuit is expected any day, and if Jackson sides with the government he will begin the lengthy process of determining a penalty that could include a breakup or restructuring of the company. Sources said government lawyers no longer were insisting on a breakup, but that Microsoft refused to accept proposals submitted by the Justice Department and 19 states who sued the company. Even before the states made new proposals Friday, "It was clear Microsoft was rejecting the government's proposal and insisting on their own approach," said an individual familiar with the government's position, who would not be quoted by name. "That approach had a lot of loopholes and would not have been effective." Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates contended Saturday that "it became impossible Justice and the states were not working campaign. The following July, he wrote Reno that his investigators had uncovered information that merited follow-up by an independent counsel without links to the White House. Reno declined to seek a special, prosecutor. Gonzales relatives closer to agreement LAS VEGAS - With the next deadline in the Elian Gonzales saga just two days away, President Clinton yesterday held out hope for "a princi- pled resolution" to the case that might avoid "a train wreck" for the 6-year -O old boy and the legal process. An attorney for the boy's Miami relatives, who are fighting to keep him in the United States, appeared to move somewhat closer yesterday to agreeing to U.S. demands for resolv- ing the case amicably. But the attor- ney, Manny Diaz, reiterated the relatives' charges that the govern- ment is placing undue pressure on them. ~4 v aoz.e.isounts., V Professional Bartending Training ~ Tips on Finding a Top Paying Job ~ Become a Talented, Socially Conscious Bartender ~ National Restaurant Association Alcohol Awareness Program ~ Great Part-time or Summer Job \ 16 Apply now at the Law Library *non-Law Students *Law Students *S.I. 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His hospitalization was not proceeding slowly with plans to fund an announced for 22 hours and officials Israeli withdrawal from the Golan offered no specific information about Heights, Secretary of Defense William his symptoms. Cohen said yesterday enroute to Israel. Japanese news reports today, quot- Cohen's spokesman Kenneth Bacon ing unnamed hospital sources, said said a proposed American aid package medical authorities were trying to to fund a withdrawal from the Golan, determine whether Obuchi had suf- Heights, captured from Syria in 1967,- fered a stroke. Japan's NHK television would be brought before the U.S. Con- said Obuchi's party colleagues believe gress if a withdrawal was agreed uppn the prime minister may be unable to The cost of relocating Israeli settlers Qrf resume work soon. the Golan and providing intelligent Chief Cabinet Secretary Mikio systems to replace the heights' strategie Aoki said in four-minute news confer- advantage has been estimated by Israeli ence last night that specific informa- officials to be as high as $17 billion. tion would be released "when the medical checks are done," but he gave - Compiled from Daily wire reports. The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745.967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by, students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are -F $100. Winter term (January through April) is $105, yearlong (September through April) is $180. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. 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