Russians claim progress in bombing investigations The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 20., 1999 - 7A Los Angeles Times MOSCOW - As Russian warplanes Russian *unded Chechen villages in pursuit of the rebel leaders officials believe Isla iC ordered a series of shocking apartment house bombings in Moscow and south- campail ern Russia, authorities here claimed to be making headway Saturday in pursuit sequence of bomb of the man they suspect organized and They blamet carried out the blasts. leaders based in With public sentiment, running Basayev and Kh high after the wave of attacks, ing a guerrilla ca Russian officials are eager to con- neighboring rep vince a frightened populace that from Russia. y are hot on the trail of the ter- But the Interio rorists, particularly given the gov- named Achemez ernment's poor record for solving the organizer of bombings and other violent crimes. Sept. 9 and last M The authorities say at least 329 people 130 and 18 peop have been killed in the unprecedented The toll from GRAMLICH Continued from Page IA rhe electronic money would have a prepaid balance of funds that would be recorded on a card or personal computer controlled by the consumer and updated automatically as payments or withdrawals are made. The Federal Reserve is debating two possible avenues to initi- ate the electronic payment system - the closed and open sys- tems. "Store-value products can be used in open or closed sys- tems. Closed systems involve a narrowly defined group of con- sumers, such as the MCards used by the students here," Gramlich explained. "This is narrowed to a relatively small area. "Open systems would involve many consumers and mer- jts over an extended geographic area, he said. ramlich added that the use and growth of electronic money systems in the United States is sluggish. It is well behind earli- er predictions of development, growth of credit and debit card use, and further behind in the growth ofother types of electron- ic commerce. The use of cash and checks is still predominant in n authorities blame two rebels in leading a separatist gn in Dagestan. ings. two Islamic rebel Chechnya, Shamil attab, who are lead- ampaign to split the ublic of Dagestan r Ministry has also Gochiyayev, 28, as the Moscow blasts tonday, which killed ple, respectively. the earlier attack was initially thought to be about 90, but that figure has since risen. Interior Ministry officials believe that Gochiyayev used the identifica- tion papers of a dead man named Mukhit Laipanov to rent space in two apartment buildings in Moscow. Gochiyayev and an accomplice, Denis Saitakov, allegedly smuggled explosives into the buildings in sugar sacks and blew up the apart- ments during the night, when most residents were sleeping. the United States. "A greater problem is that until the store-value system becomes universal, there is a risk that the sellers will not accept the card," he said. "Payment systems involve a network, money is not truly money unless it becomes universally acceptable and network problems have been a big impediment to the development of any currency system," Gramlich added. Gramlich suggested a possible government intervention to force or induce merchants, consumers and financial institutions to adopt the new technology. But he said he still believes that the current alternatives to the store-value products are cheap and safe enough that such intervention is both eco- nomically unwise and politically unlikely. The purpose of this symposium is to introduce the commu- nity to what we believe to be the future of money, said Prof. Jeff MacKie-Mason, the founding director of the Program for Research on the Information Economy. The Federal Reserve has an active research program on elec- tronic payments and is seeking ways to making the transition to this type of system more acceptable for people in the future. Trop set to enter E. Ti~mor DILI, Indonesia (AP) -The com- mander of the multinational peace- keeping force promised East Timor's terrorized population yesterday a new life "free of threat," with his troops set to enter the province early today. As thousands of troops sailed toward Dili, Australian Maj. Gen. Peter Cosgrove toured streets devastat- ed by rampaging militias, passing charred houses and buildings reduced to smoking ashes. "This is not a time for idle threats or words," he said after meeting the Indonesian military commander of the territory. "This is a time for the force to arrive, and to get about its tasks of helping to create a secure environ- ment. We will be here to ensure that all East Timorese are able to go about their business free of threat." The announcement two weeks ago that 78.5 percent of East Timor's voters approved a break with Indonesia led to a murderous rampage by pro-Indonesia militias that drove more than 300,000 people from their homes, and cost at least several hundred lives. The foreign intervention is a major humiliation for Indgesia, whose army had fought for nearly 25 years to put down separatist rebels. It also bodes ill for the nation's future, as sep- aratists elsewhere in the ethnically diverse archipelago take heart from the success of the East Timorese. President B.J. Habibie's decision to invite the peacekeepers a week ago has led to a nationalist backlash in Indonesia, and has sent angry protest- ers into the streets. Humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands of refugees, some of them facing starvation, was to be the first priority of the U.N.-approved peace AP PHOTO As part of the international peacekeeping force headed for East Timor, French troop and medical personnel exit the airport In Darwin, Australia yesterday. mission. The first combat troops in the 7,500-member force were due to arrive at 6:30 a.m. local time today aboard a C-130 Hercules transport plane, beginning a mission that Australian Prime Minister John Howard said was fraught with men- ace. By this afternoon, 2,500 Australian soldiers, helicopters and armored per- sonnel carriers would be on the ground in Dili, said Maj. Gen. Kiki Syahnakri, commander of the Indonesian forces in East Timor. Nine warships, from Australia, Britain and New Zealand, were sailing toward East Timor. About 250 Gurkhas, Nepalese fighters who serve in the British army and carry their trademark 13-inch kukri knives, also were to be among the first internation- al troops. Cosgrove said the force would have 3,200 troops in East Timor within a week. The mission will probably last several months before making way for a follow-up U.N. peacekeeping force, he said. Cosgrove flew from Darwin, the staging port in northern Australia where troops from a score of countries were assembling. He was greeted on the tarmac at Dili airport by Syahnakri, the Indonesian comman- der, whom he met for 90 minutes to coordinate the deployment. Cosgrove was guarded by seven Australian sol- diers in full battle gear. Indonesian soldiers were posted every 200 yards along Cosgrove's route as he went on a 20-minute tour. Visible effort had been made to clear away rubble and other evidence of the rioting, looting and killing. While Cosgrove toured the city, the few militiamen who have not left brandished machetes as families hur- ried aboard crowded Indonesian navy vessels and rusty cargo ships. Thousands of homeless people hud- dled under tarpaulins along a narrow strip of beach. Some looked out to sea for the foreign warships on their way from northern Australia. "We are staying here ... because we heard that the U.N. troops will come," said Frederico de Jesus, 18, who was on the beach. "They will bring peace. We will be safer then." WORK STUDY Office Assistants. Help in processing research grant proposals and other general office duties, some Mac exp. Mon- Fri. hrs. are flex., but should have blocks of times avail.(2-4 hrs.) $8.75/hr. Call Joanne 6' 7234. RK STUDY POSITIONS AVAIL. The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum needs Work Study students for several positions mnl. Explainer Guides, Education Assistants,. 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The Russians and the Serbs - who consider the KLA terrorists responsible for attacks against Serb civilians - oppose any formula that might enable the KLA to continue with its same organizational structure under a different name The transformation agreement was to have been signed yesterday morning by peacekeeping commander Gen. Mike Jackson and the KLA military commander, Gen. Agim Ceku, but the ceremony was canceled. And today, NATO and the U.N. mission were to begin orga- nizing the Kosovo Corps. The group was to help combat nat- ural disasters and take on other humanitarian and civilian missions, such as fire fighting and rescues. In a clear warning to the former rebels, NATO spokesper- son Lt. Col. Robin Clifford alluded to a former agreement to disband accepted by the KLA. He said Ceku must sign by midnight "because after that the KLA ceases to exist. So does its general staff." Ceku's staff told reporters the general was unavailable to speak to the news media. A well-placed Albanian source,' speaking on condition of anonymity. said Ceku insisted KLA fighters be allowed to keep their uniforms and red-and-black emblems but that Jackson refused. The KLA was promised new uniforms for the Kosovo Corps but they would not be ready for months, the source said. The rebels also want assurances they can retain a mili- tary-style command structure, the sources said. Hours before the midnight deadline, the two sides were still in what the sources described as difficult and intensive talks. NATO officials said Thursday the KLA had already turned in more than 10,000 weapons ahead of the deadline and that' the demilitarization is effectively complete. It is unclear, however, whether those weapons constitute the total number held by the rebels. Weapons shown to reporters at NATO-guarded storage sites include old, bolt- action rifles. 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