2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 22, 1999 NATION/WORLD U. Wisconsin prepares TAIWAN - Continued from Page 1 I ]or Saturday s game MADISON Continued from Page 1 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- I 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. Be a Part of Michigan.OnTap.com Guaranteed to give you Fame (bleary eyes) Hot Dates (carpal tunnel) New Media Know-how (brain freeze) BORING people need not apply. EVERYONE ELSE, contact: michigan@iturf.com This is an unofficial site not affiliated with the schoolt tis maintained by and for you, the students. AnoUND T14E WORLD c;y« .' < u r v f:.. ,: :fie' 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. - Compiledfi'om Daily wire reports 41. x 99 Univ. pf Michigan, 194 g We didn't become Fortune magazine's World's Most Admired Company* by accepting the status quo. oin GE for an Entry We got there by hiring and training graduates with the eadership confidence and courage to think in innovative and Level Leadership Program revolutionary ways. Intern Panel No other corporation can match the diversity of The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fail and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan Subscriptions for fall term. starting inSeptember, via U.S. mail are $100. Winter term (January through April) is $105, yearlong (September through April) is $180. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35 Subscriptions must be prepaid. 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