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NATION/WORLD
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MADISON
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Break away gates have been installed
between the student section and the field,
and if pressure is applied to the gates,
they will open automatically.
The Badgers have a tradition of hold-
ing a Fifth Quarter following the game's
end. During the extra quarter, the band
comes out onto the field and plays, and
all, the fans remain in the stands to listen.
But if the students rush the field as they
did in 1993, it is canceled.
"If people go onto the field we will
make no attempt to stop them, it will
make a lot of people unhappy not having
the postgame celebration, Burke said.
With all these relatively new precau-
tions, "there are very few problems, and
I have no reason to believe that this
Saturday will be any diflfrent," he added.
But there is still a potential for prob-
lems.
"This is the first Big 10 game of the
vear at home, and if it was the last ~
there might be some difficulty. There is
not this much riding on this game. But
the Badgers lost last week -- although it
doesn't have much importance which
works to our advantage," Burke said.
Cartwright said that all the hype
"makes for an interesting time to go out
to the bars with Michigan people:'
siders a renegade province.
Chinese President Jiang Zemin said
the disaster "hurt the hearts of people
on the mainland as the Chinese people
on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are as
closely linked as flesh and blood.",
China's Red Cross said it would pro-
vide S100,000 in disaster aid and
S60,000 worth of relief supplies.
The Taipei government expressed
cautious thanks.
"This would be a good beginning to
improving ties," said Su Chi, chair of"
the Mainland Affairs Council, which is
responsible for Taiwan's relations with
China. "I hope we can work on this
basis and make efforts together to build
up stable and peaceful relations."
Ties between Taiwan and mainland
China had recently sunk to a new low
after Taiwan's President Lee Teng-hui
said Beijing must deal with the island
on a "state-to-state" basis.
Lee surveyed the damage by heli-
copter and urged officials and citizens
to concentrate onl saving lives.
In TIungshih. a city of 60,000 in a
nearby mountainous area, virtually
every house was damaged and one in
three was ruined, with all power, water
and communications links cut off.
Several hundred bodies were piled up
in an open-air morgue, Lee Wen-wei,
an administrator at the Farmers
Association Hospital in Tungshih, told
The Associated Press. The hospital lost
power and was evacuating patients.
Exhausted rescue workers in Tungshih
said they did not have enough heavy
machinery to dig through all the rubble.
In the small city of Puli, in Nantou
county, roads buckled under the stress of
the quake, forming large asphalt waves.
An apartment building that lost its foun-
dation was left tilting at 45 degrees.
AROUND THE NATION
Republicans attempt to save tax-cut bill
WASHINGTON - lust when it looked like tax cuts of any kind \\ere dead for the
year, congressional Republicans may salvage some modest relie from the wreckage
of the $792 billion tax-cut bill that President Clinton is expected to veto this week.
Some Republicans - and even some Democrats -want to link a smaller pack-
age of tax breaks to a popular bill that would raise the minimum wage from the
current S5.1S an hour.
On another front, broad bipartisan support exists for extending tax credits A
research and development as well as other targeted breaks that otherwise would die
with the larger GOP tax bill.
Pressure also is building to fix a quirk in the tax code that could force a million mid-
dle-class taxpayers into a higher tax bracket next year.
So while Clinton's long-promised veto effectively will kill the measure that
Republicans had touted as their signature achievement, the tax-cut issue is like-
ly to remain in play.
Clinton had planned to exercise his veto today but a hoarse throat caused him to
postpone the action, the White House said last night.
At one time, attention focused on prospects for tax cuts as part of a grand com-
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promise between Congress and Clinton
ing Medicare and domestic spending.
Clinton urges U.N.
to use 'humility'
UNITED NATIONS - President
Bill Clinton called yesterday on the
United Nations to devote its energy in
the coming century to halting civil
wars, ending poverty and stopping the
spread of chemical, biological and
nuclear weapons. But he also urged
"realism and humility" in deciding
when and how to intervene.
"We look back on a centurv that
taught us much of what we need to know
to realize tomorrow's promise," he told
the U.N. General Assembly. "Yet for all
our intellectual and material advances,
the 20th century has been scarred by
external human failures: by greed and
lust for power, by hot-blooded hatred and
stone-cold hearts. Fifty years from now,
will nations be divided by ethnic and
religious conflict? Will globalization
bring shared prosperity - or make the
desperate more desperate?"
In a speech that appeared calculated to
address anxieties about the United
State's preeminence in the world, Clinton
on a range of other budget issues, inclu
said that the United States has supported
the U.N. in confronting an array of glob-
al problems and will continue to do so.
"We believe this moment of prosper-
ity and power gives us unique responsi-
bilities. I also know that to some it is a
source of concern." Clinton said.
Closing arguments liP
icrosoft case begin
WASHINGTON - After a lengthy
summer break, attorneys for the govern-
ment and Microsoft Corp. returned to a
federal courtroom here yesterday morn-
ing to deliver closinguarguments in the
software giant's antitrust trial.
In a two-hour presentation, the gov-
ernment's two lead attorneys told U.*
District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson
that Microsoft has injured consumers by
illegally using its market clout to squelch
competition in the computer industry.
Microsoft's attorneys, who concede the
company has behaved aggressively but
maintain that it has broken no laws, were
scheduled to begin their arguments in the
afternoon.
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KLA leaders balk at
shift to Kosovo Corps
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia Last-
minute demands raised by leaders of
the Kosovo Liberation Army delayed a
planned announcement Sunday of the
formal demilitarization of the rebel
army.
KLA leaders were still meeting
with top NATO and United Nations
officials in the early hours Monday in
an effort to resolve lingering differ-
ences over the nature of the KLA's
proposed successor, the civilian
defense Kosovo Corps.
KLA Gen. Agim Ceku was to have
presented written certification that the
rebels had demilitarized at a 10 a.m.
meeting Sunday with British Lt. Gen.
Mike Jackson, commander of the
NATO-led peacekeeping forces in the
province. But that meeting was canceled.
While the dispute had no effect on the
dissolution of the KLA, which would
have occurred at midnight Sunday with
or without the letter, NATO officials see
the Kosovo Corps as a key tool for con-
verting up to 5,000 rebel soldiers into
civilians charged with helping rebuild
Kosovo and responding to natural disas-
ters.
Under U.N. plans, only 200 core
members would be authorized to carry
weapons to provide security for corps
operations.
Habibie defends
policy on E. Timor
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's
embattled president B.J. Habibie made
an unprecedented appearance bef*
parliament yesterday to defend his poly
icy on East Timor and urged lawmakers
to ratify the territory's overwhelming
vote for independence.
"Because the people of East Timor,
according to their conscience, have
expressed a wish to live ... as a nation,
we must honor and accept that choice'"
Habibie said.
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