NATION/WORLD
The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 14, 2000 - 7A
European leaders refuse to give in to fuel protesters
LONDON (AP) - Prime Minister Tony
Blair, Joined by leaders in Belium and Ger- "We will not ha intimidatp We will not oiva in f1
I
many, yesterday defiantly rejected demands to
lower fuel taxes, despite spiralig protests that
have left gasoline pumps bone-dry and disrupt-
ed schools, businesses and transport across
Britain.
"Real damage is now bring done to real
people," Blair said on nationwide television,
blaming protesters for fuel shortages that trig-
gered school closings, elayed non-vital
surgery in hospitals and even threatened
deliveries by Britain's fanously reliable Royal
Mail.
Late yesterday, the National Blood Authori-
ty went on alert, saying ;t feared its blood sup-
plies soon could be afficted. The government
put military fuel tankers on standby in case
they are needed to getdeliveries through, and
banks reassured worried customers they would
still be able to get cash.
William Hague, bader of the opposition
Conservative Party, irged that Parliament be
called back from it; summer recess to deal
with the crisis, as Blair prepared for more
urgent meetings todiy with top advisers.
Europeans - 3ritons especially - pay
some of the high'st gasoline prices in the
world. British punp prices average S4.31 a gal-
violence, to blockades, to threats."
- Tony Blair
Prime Minster of England
Ion, with taxes accounting for three-quarters of
the cost.
Because of heavy levies, public anger has
been largely aimed at the government rather
than at the protesters who last week began
tying up traffic and strangling fuel supplies
with refinery blockades and go-slow con-
voys.
Other European countries, including France,
Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, have
experienced traffic-snarling protests in recent
days, but Britain was by far the hardest hit.
As the flow of gas dried up, so did rush-
hour traffic on normally busy London arteries.
Undertakers said they might have to halt funer-
als if they can't find fuel for their hearses.
School closures were expected to affect thou-
sands of pupils today.
Some truckers brought their protest almost
to the doorstep of Buckingham Palace. Scores
of trucks were stopped by police on a central
London street that passes near the palace gar-
dens, as the drivers tried to mass their trucks
close to the Parliament.
Blair insisted he would not be pressured into
lowering fuel taxes, saying that would shatter
his government's credibility.
"Whatever the protesters do ... it canrit
be right to try to force a change in policy by
these means," he told a nationally televised
news conference, his second in as many
days. "We will not be intimidated. We will
not give in to violence, to blockades, to
threats."
In Germany, where fuel taxes are slated to
rise at the start of the year, Chancellor Ger-
hard Schroeder was targeted by angry protest-
ers when he visited the northern city of
Schwerin. They blockaded the city center with
trucks and tractors as the chancellor arrive by
AP PHO
A fuel tanker driver speaks with protesters prior to taking his loaded truck from Grangemouth oil
refinery in eastern Scotland yesterday.
helicopter.
Schroeder warned that the protests would
only hurt Germany's economy.
"Drop this dangerous game, because it
could threaten the growth an employment
prospects we currently have," he said. But Ger-
many's national truckers association called for
new protests later this month to slow traffic on
the autobahn.
Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
also refused demands yesterday for a fuel-tax
rebate for the trucking industry, even as
protests expanded in Belgium to major free-
ways and border points.
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up contraception
WASHINGTON (AP) - A drug company will pay and Drug Administration's requirements, they are on
for thousands of women with the birth-control implant the low end and lower than any other batches of Nor-
Norplant to buy backup contraception because it can- plant. Thus, "the contraceptive effectiveness of these
not guarantee the effectiveness of certain Norplant specified lots cannot be assured at this time," Wyeth-
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In a strongly worded warning yesterday, Wyeth- Additional testing diue by the end of next month may
Ayerst Laboratories urged women who have received prove whether the questionable Norplant's hormone
Norplant since Oct. 20 to use a nonhormone form of levels are too low to work properly.
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backup. The company also asked doctors to check their have increased among Norplant users. The agency said
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Wyeth-Ayerst did not recall the questionable Nor- birth control was appropriate.
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side of caution. contraceptives - such as birth control pills or injected
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TRAFFIC
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LSA junior Michelle Figueroa said
when walking to and from class she
has experienced several close calls
with oncoming traffic.
"I was late for a class and I was
walking with a friend down East
William. We were waiting for the
lights to change and I just decided to
go. I almost got hit and my friend had
to pull me back by the backpack," she
said.
Figueroa said she still iitends to
cross the streets without the aid of
crosswalks but with more care.
"Pedestrians rule in Ann Arbor,"
Figueroa said. "I mean pretty much if
you're driving around here you have
to stop and wait for students to go
by."
Joel McWilliams, director of the
University's Tran sportat ion
Research Institute, said at lower
speeds the most common injuries
that pedestrians suffer in vehicle
accidents involve leg fractures and
knee injuries, while accidents at
higher speeds often result in head
injury.
"Your ty pical car weighs 2,000
pounds," McWilliams said. "Your
typical person weighs less than 200
pounds. Based on the laws of
physics here, you're not going 16
w in."
While McWilliams said he had no
specific statistics on the number of
vehicle collisions with pedestrians, he
said he estimated at least 100 acei-
dents each year.
"Typically these accidents occur a
lower speeds and don't involve serious
injury," Neumann said.
' has campaigns to fight drinking
DRINKING
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on," he said.
But the rush for the program may result in its misuse,
Haines added. "I've seen it happen at some schools (where
they have) misapplied the model," he said.
Taking steps to ensure the success of the Social Norms
Media Campaign, Haines and several of his colleagues trav-
el around the country to assist in the campaign's implemen-
tation.
Haines will soon be consulting at Ferris State University
in Big Rapids.
"We are starting our own program ... we are using him as
a consultant," Vice President of Student Affairs Dan Bur-
cham said.
The Social Norms Media Campaign "is an exciting
and promising way to approach mass behavior change,"
Haines said. "It's paying a lot of media attention to what
a population does right instead of what people do
- wrong.
The University of Michigan does not employ this system,
but there are several other anti-binge drinking programs i
place.
Among other things, Alcohol and Other Drugs Education
Coordinator Marsha Benz spoke of the Substance Abuse
Education Network, an organization she co-chairs. Univer-
sity staff members from departments all over the University
oversee mandated alcohol workshops.
Many types of literature dealing with alcohol are handed
out on campus, primarily in the residence halls.
Recently the University distributed blood alcohol educa-
tors - a CD-ROM that allows students to pinpoint their tol-
erance level. The educator can also be found at
wivwcenltUrtcouncil.Org.
The University is also searching for a Alcohol and Other
Drugs Initiatives coordinator to work with the entite
Department of Student Affairs
Current interim VP among chosen
- announcements
CAN D IDATES
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master's degrees in arts from the Uni-
versity. Harper is a Ph.D pre-candidate
in higher education administration at
the University's Center for the Study
the dean of students at Cornell since
1992. He received a bachelor's of arts
from Boston University, a master's of
social work, master's in public health
and Ph.D. from the University of
Michigan. He also worked as a lectur-
er in the University's School of Social
Schroeder said. "A culture of caring
where students are responded to is
very important."
Michigan Student Assembly Vice
President Jim Secreto, who is on the
panel of students interviewing the can-
didates, said the vice president for sti-