1 9 - Tha NMirhio;;n nnil - T11rpcr'M- , ntpmr OP ' )Q100~t NATION/WORLD GOP plans to link wages, taxes The Washington Post WASHINGTON - With the Republicans' $792 billion tax bill offi- cially dead, lawmakers and lobbyists for business interests are looking to a bill boosting the minimum wage as their best vehicle for achieving significant tax relief this year. Republicans had previously promised to provide help to small busi- nesses most affected by a wage boost, following the same approach they adopted in 1996 when they raised the minimum wage from .4.25 to 55.15 an hour. Now lawmakers are considering broader measures, including pension reform and eliminating the estate tax, which could transform a relatively modest bill into a much more ambitious package. "Instead of having a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine down, some of our members would like a wheelbar- row of sugar," said Trent Duffy, spokesperson for House Ways and Means Committee Chair Bill Archer (R-Texas). "That's why some of our members are talking boldly about attaching major tax relief to the mini- mum wage increase." Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.), a leader in the effort to raise the minimum wage by more than Sl across four years, said "everyone's throwing everything but the kitchen sink" into the mix of proposals under consideration. "We're looking at targeted tax cuts that would make small business able to live with and better accept a minimum wage increase," Condit said. "We want to be realistic and not overreach, but if members are interested in a larger scale package, we certainly would consider that" ADMISSIONS Continued from Page 1 evaluated in LSA and Law School admissions processes, which use race as a factor. University General Counsel Marvin Krislov will moderate the event. University spokesperson Julie Peterson said the purpose of the event is to clarify the current sta- tus of the lawsuits facing the University and address developments in the cases that occurred during spring and summer terms. "It's a chance to hear from those who are going to be involved in the cases," Peterson said. In August the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled that a group of intervening defendants must be allowed to join the University in defense of its practices. The ruling marks the first time a court has allowed a group of minority advocates into an affirmative action case. Peterson said one of the goals of the event is to also clear up misconceptions of the University's admissions system. Citing results from The Michigan Daily Student Survey, published in April by the Daily in con- junction with the Department of Communication Studies and the Institute for Social Research, Peterson said "students showed some misunder- standings regarding the admissions process." Nearly 51 percent of respondents - in a sam- ple representing 87 percent of the student popula- tion - opposed the use of race as a factor in the admissions process. One student planning on attending the program is LSA junior Rory Diamond, a Michigan Student Assembly representative and president of the campus chapter of the College Republicans. "I encourage anyone to attend, but go with a critical eye," Diamond said, adding that misinfor- mation can cloud opinions regarding issues such as affirmative action. "We think that everyone should be there," said Luke Massie, a member of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any Means Necessary. "We plan to explain the particular legal and political arguments the intervenors will bring into the cases," he said. Regardless of where members of the University community stand on the issue of affirmative action, Lehman said that "all members of the Michigan community should make time to learn about the current litigation." The program will be broadcasted live on chan- nel 22 within the University Cable Network and on Media One in the greater Ann Arbor area. AROUND THE |NIATION Rift grows between Justice Dept., FBI WASHIN:GTON - Last Tuesday at a House hearing on Puerto Rican clemen- cy, a draft letter from FBI Director Louis Frech undercut the Justice Department. On Wednesday, a team of FBI agents told a Senate committee that Justice Department attorneys had stymied their campaign finance investigation. On Thursday, at her weekly briefing, Attorney General Janet Reno fielded que- tions that kept returning to the same unpleasant theme - the unusually hos* relations between Justice and the FBI. A healthy tension always animates the relationship between the nation's premier law enforcement agency and the lawyers who handle their wiretap requests and decide whether to prosecute their suspects. But last week seemed different to longtime observers. "This town seems to be dividing up between supporters of Reno and supporters of Frech. I think that is unfortunate," said Tim Lynch, a criminal justice expert at the Washington-based Cato Institute. For years, there was widespread regard around the country for many of Reno's decisions on independent counsels, including her repeated requests for special prosecutors to probe Clinton administration figures that enraged the White Ho and delighted Republicans. 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Director of Patient Services at Planned Parenthood Jill Michele said the drug carries similar side affects to RU-486. The success rate for these drugs arc 95 to 97 percent. When asked on the possible usage of RU-486 at the clinic, Michele said "I don't know. It depends on who is making it and how much it costs. We will be excited when the drug is available." AROUND THE ORLD 1 ,u- _ v f i A \ is is t c t 1 t f t 1 c Dance $1.50 Longneck bottles Lawyers prepare for case against Pinochet LONDON - With supporters and opponents and Gen. Augusto Pinochet clamoring outside, lawyers for Spain laid out their case against the former Chilean dictator on Monday, saying it constituted "some of the most serious allegations of crime ever to come before English courts." On the opening day of a long- delayed extradition hearing, lawyers for Spain urged the magistrate to consider not only 34 allegations of torture, but also the anguish of relatives of the 1,198 people who allegedly disap- peared during Pinochet's 17-year rule. "It is our case that the continuing offense of conspiracy totorture .... has, as one of its objects, that the fate of these people would continue to be con- cealed from families causing severe mental pain, suffering and demoraliza- tion,' said Alun Jones, a British lawyer acting for Spanish prosecutors. j Pinochet, who did not attend, the I4 hearing, has been detained in Britain since his arrest Oct. 16 at a London hospital. Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzon wants to put the 83-year-old general on trial in Spain. Peacekeepers calm hungry looters DILI, East Timor - Struggling to keep the situation in East Timor under control, peacekeepers stopped crowds of hungry refugees from looting yester- day, collected weapons from pro- Indonesian militias and sent advance team into the territory's ond-largest city. But in the first show of defiance toward the international force, armed men killed one Western journalist and attacked two others. Many Indonesians accuse the for- eign media of stirring up problems in East Timor and conspiring with the United Nations. - Compiled f'oln Daily wire reo- 21 & over J iting n Future? GNAVIGANTCONSULTING, INC. (formerly Peterson Worldwide), a publicly-traded multinational consulting organization invites you to learn more about the opportunities available in our FINANCIAL AND CLAIMS GROUP. 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