2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 12, 1999 NATION/WORLD Birth rates decline worldwid Los Angeles Times Despite common perceptions that the pace of the world's population growth is spiraling out of control, women around the globe are having fewer children than their mothers and the birth rate is now declining in every nation on the planet. This phenomenon - which has taken shape worldwide in the past year or so - is driving projections by scien- tists that worldwide population is mov- ing toward stabilization or even a slight decline, perhaps as early as 2050. Today is the "Day of 6 Billion" -- designated by the United Nations as the likely day when a newborn child will raise the Earth's population to 6 billion. No one actually knows when, or where, that 6 billionth person will be born. But SH EPARD Continued from Page 1 Prosecutors say McKinney, accom- panied by fellow roofer Russell Henderson instigated the crime to rob Shepard of $20, but that Shepard may have been targeted because he was gay. McKinney could get the death penal- ty. Henderson pleaded guilty in April to murder and is serving life in prison. He is expected to testify. McKinney has said he had no idea Shepard was gay and does not hate homosexuals. His lawyers are expected to try to pin the crime on Henderson by arguing that he lied to save himself from the death penalty when he impli- cated McKinney. "Many people would be surprised to learn that the growth rate is declining." - Thomas Buettner United Nations population affairs officer population experts agree the 6 billion mark will be reached within a few months before or after today. While the number of people inhabit- ing the Earth continues to grow and put inordinate stresses on its natural resources, demographers agree that the pace is slowing substantially. The United Nations now projects that as more people move to urban areas and choose to have fewer children, population The killing provoked a national debate about hate crimes and led to measures across the country adding sexual orienta- tion to anti-discrimination laws. But hate-crime legislation failed in Wyoming last winter after lawmakers argued that gays and other protected groups would get special treatment. The trial also opened on the day that gay activists call National Coming Out Day and the beginning of Gay Awareness Week. In San Francisco, Jerry Falwell marked the occasion by preaching to gays and lesbians about how to "come out of homosexuality." By midday yesterday, nine prospec- tive jurors had been dismissed for rea- sons such as military duty, medical problems or job obligations. will peak - most likely, around 10 bil- lion. Under one of three scenarios devel- oped by U.N. demographers, the number of people on the planet could begin drop- ping in 50 years. The more likely sce- nario, they say, is in around 200 years. "Many people would be surprised to learn that the growth rate is declining. People think it's out of control, that popu- lation is growing like cancer," said MSU Continued from Page 1 paranoid about it,"he said. "Nobody I know has ever had it, McKeown added. Between December 1996 and March 1997 three MSU stu- dents contracted meningitis. Two of the students died from the infection. Following that outbreak 19,000 people were vaccinated. The last case of meningitis at the University, occurred in 1995 when a female student came to UHS with a rash that indicated meningococcal meningitis. The University dispensed anti-biotics to those in contact with the patient. - The Associated Press contributed to this report. Thomas Buettner, a demowapher the United Nations popaio officer. "But if you look hard, you se signs that not only suggest the p ityv but arc backed by son solid science - that stabilizati occur ... or go into the necative. For now, though, population is far from over. In a handful of Afrian natio woman on average rases sex enC - less than theirn mothers b enough to drive up global aera extra 78 million people inhabit th every year - almost entirelyi developing nations - adding th alent of a new city the size Francisco every three days. PRIDE; Continued from Page 1 The LGBTA office plans to lecture titled "What's Morally with Homosexuality?" given b Corvino, today in Anderson R the Michigan Union at 7 p.m. There will also be a showing movie "French Twist" tomorro" Conceptions of Drag show at Thursday in the Vandenburg R the Michigan League. "We wanted to become mo ble and instill a strong sense of Dennis said. "We want to he dents know there are strong, dent and happy people w LGTB."' ROUNDTHE NATION r;o Clinton threatens to veto 4 spending bills WASHiINGTON -- As this year's budget battle nears a climax, President e many Clinton is threatening to veto four spending bills. He and Congress are at odds over ossibil such issues as hiring teachers and police officers and regulating oil and gas com- ne very panics that use federal lands. on will The two sides are separated by about SI10 billion to $20 billion - about the same magnitude as most end-of-session spending fights since Republicans took contr ncrease of Congress in 1995. Though substantial, the funds at stake amount to about I pe cent of the near $1.8 trillion federal budget. s, each But this year's tussle is complicated by the GOP's stated refusal to pay for extra children spending from the Social Security surplus. For decades, both parties have used that ;t still till to find needed billions of dollars. ges Ar I-laving lost their coveted tax cut to a Clinton veto, GOP leaders want to cast e world themselves as defenders of the huge pension system - and are daring the presi- n poor, dent to do otherwise. e cquiv- Please work with us to guarantee the retirement security of our seniors of San and the quality of life of Americans before we give even more money to other nations," House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-1ll.) and other GOP lead- ers said after Clinton threatened to veto a foreign aid bill he said was t small. hold a Clinton asks to delay promise not to revive it during the 2000 Wrong election season, but White House offi- y John test ban treat vote ciais rejected that request. oom of "Even though there are campaigns WASHINGTON - President under way in the United States, we have g of the Clinton asked the Senate in writing yes- to take into account the larger national w and a terdav to put off voting on the nuclear interest," National Security Council 8 p.m. test ban treaty, warning that a likely spokesperson David Leavy said. oom of defeat in today's scheduled vote would do ' 1 n to "severely harm the national security." i oits pianS stop re isi- Republicans called his letter a first Fpride," step toward possibly postponing the gun production .lp stu- vote but sought further assurances the confi- issue wouldn't come up again during HARTFORD, Conn. -_ Colt's ho are this 106th Congress. Manufacturing Co. - inventor of the "I firmly believe the treaty is in the six-shooter, "the gun that won the national interest," Clinton wrote to West" - is all but getting out of the Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R- everyday handgun business because of Miss.) and Minority Leader Tom lawsuits against the industry. Daschle (D-S.D.) But he wrote that he Colt's plans to discontinue sev* recognized he lacked the two-thirds vote lines of consumer handguns. The com- needed for ratification. "Accordingly, I pany makes the famous .45-caliber request that you postpone consideration automatic that was the U.S. military of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty sidearm of choice for most of this cen- on the Senate floor." tury. By putting his request in writing, Sales to everyday consumers make Clinton met one demand of his up about 30 percent of the company's Republican opponents. The letter was business, The New York Times reported silent on their insistence that Clinton yesterday. 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Russian troops blocked off Goragorski, a town 30 miles northwest ofGrozny, where they believed Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev and his lieu- tenants were holed up, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. The report could not immediately be confirmed. Basayev is one of the leaders of the Chechnya-based Islamic militants that invaded neighboring Dagestan twice this summer with the aim of setting up an Islamic state. They also were sus- pected of bombing four Russian apart-, ment bombings in September a0 killing about 300. Zoning calls for removal of homes TEZIUTLAN, Mexico - The scope of the death and damage caused by last week's mudslides has shocked Mexico and the world. [ where they occurred was no sur- prise: A zoning plan drawn up last year called for removing houses built helter-skelter in the ravines of this mountainside city. 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