2A - The Michigan Daily -Thursday, November 2, 2000
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Los Angeles Tines
TAIPEI, Taiwan - As a violent typhoon continued,
investigators of a deadly Singapore Airlines crash were
trying yesterday to determine whether the jumbo jet
struck a mystery object on the runway seconds before
shearing apart and bursting into flames.
Reports circulated Taipei that the Boeing 747-400
bound for Los Angeles may have hit a wheel or a piece
,, of heavy machinery that had been parked on a runway.
"We still can't rule out any possibilities, said Chou
Kuang-tsan of Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council, the
agency investigating the accident.
Salvage crews recovered the jet's "black boxes," the
data and voice recorders that should contain informa-
tion about Flight 006's final moments during takeoff
Tuesday night.
The workers, wrapped in raincoats, often had to link
hands in a human chain to keep from being blown
away by roaring winds.
Wkeathier delayed dozens> of flights at ( 'hiang lKai-
slick liiiernat ional Air port here. It a so haitpered
tecovery of th? Iasi of the bodihes from the wxreckagze, a
grm task eortileied hv rnornitnu's eid.
Audhorities said an least 79 of the I 59 passengers
and 20 crew Iiembhers were killed. The death count,
which ineltudes 24 Taiwamese and 23 A mericans, could
climb higther gith ci icalyx injured viims elinging to
Ii fe in ar ea h'osp it als ( ne passenger was still not
accounted for and pr esum ed dead.
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"There were some common molds
being drawn in" by the air circulation
systems, Jeff Wurst of O'Neal said.
"We started noticing a problem at
the end of the summer, and more and
more people starting complaining of
things like headaches and not feeling
well," Olga Kornievskaia, a Computer
Science graduate student said.
"I myself don't feel any effects, but
most of my co-workers can't work in
the building. Two of the people right
away stopped working there, and
another person is starting to feel sick
right now," she said.
Honeyman said the fears of staying
in the building will not interfere with
the department's work,
"in principle, we can work any-
where we can find bandwidth," he
said.
The building, built in 1939, housed
the Argus Camera Company. The Uni-
versity owned the building for 20
years before selling it to O'Neal in
1983.
"It's an old building, and it has had
some leaks, but (O'Neal) have been
very responsive to coming in and
removing ceiling tiles," Honeyman
said. "These problems are being
addressed:'
Wurst said his company is working
closely with the University "to develop
a plan that may involve some cleaning,
that may involve the replacement of
some materials, including drywall."
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COLLEGE
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favor of a particular president ial
candidate. There are a total of 538
electoral votes in the United St ates
and 270 electoral votes wins the
election.
With the election so close, polls
have wavered, leaving only three or
four percentage points between the
two candidates - the scenario is out
there - leaving many to speculte
that one candidate will lose the popu-
lar vote and win the electoral colee.
The winner of the electoral cllee:
actually goes on to win the election.
Three times in American history a
candidate won the popular vote and
lost the electoral college.
The first was in 1876 between
Rutherford B. Hayes, who won the
electoral col lege, and Sanmu e I
Tilden, who won the popular vote.
In 1 888 Grover Cleveland lost the
electoral votes but won the popular
vote against George H arrison. H ar-
rison remained in office for four
years before being defeated by
Cleveland in 1892. .
The third involved President Andrew
Jackson in 1824 when .ack;on won the
popular vote against John Quincv
Adams, who was eventualy elected.
Jackson came back to win the 1828
election and then recommended the
elimination of the electoral collegte
altogether.
"The point is, generally speaking.
if its really close in the popular
vote, the electoral college majvority
margin of the victor is usumglvly
much larger. It very seldloin hap-
pens and never in the 20th Century
that if the popular vote is close, in
favor of the one candidate, the elec-
toral vote goes in favor of the oppo-
nent," Ballenger said.
Act-en sai d the next time there is
t split betwen ithe electoral vote
aiid the popular vote, he expects
that the elet oral college will be
Ni minate d.
lt i s s y st t w as de s i itn ed a t a
tme wlicn Amenicans considered
themnselveCs citizens of their state
She cit ,zenits o f a Cuitry, Atchen
s~iid.
"The idea was that \o waIted to
htave a presideit elected by a
wx eihed mtiajorihy of the states?
Achen said.
WVhi e electors imost Ii kely adltere to
the pupal ar vote, tey can vote for
whtomeler they want.
But Secret ary of State spokes-
woman Julie Pierce said that te state
electors will voe w1ith the popular
will.
I te oh of 'te electors is to vote in
ternts A whoever won tte popuahr vote
of tle s ' slesaid
AlthW i t miay seett mlk e tIhie
PoP Llar \ ot does not cotinit, some
Vin ers still beieve ha ite an ecc-
t orn I oi i ze does itot itertate t he
ppular vote.
"My vote counts in that I'm
tell inig my state Itow 1 want my state
to vote, said Jennifer Wilson, a
recent University graduate. Wilson
sai d th at voting allows her to at
least profess tier beliefs even if she
does itot some for the winning can-
didate. "At some poit what I want
sort of gets funneled through,' she
said.
Srtie analysts are skeptical about
tlte poss ib iity ol tlthis sit uat ion.
"hitlikel it would happen but it's
possible lialleneer said.
Lletural votes are a wxiitner-takes-
all situn iont int 48 of the states. Ontly
Nebraska amtd Mainie have electoral
votes diix ided by proportional repre-
seian.m
ACROSS THE NATION
Court hears arguments in warrant cas
WASH INGTON - Charles McArthur admits that given the chance, he woul
ha e flushed the drugs down the toilet before police could find the stash under h
couch.
What brought his arrest on minor drug charges to the Supreme Court yeterd
was the way police made sure McArthur never got that opportunity: They kept hit
outside his own house while they got a search warrant.
The justices will decide if that was an unreasonable search and seizure unde
Constitution, or whether, as the police claim, it was an efficient and humane way t
preserve evidence of a crime. A decision is expected by summer.
Several justices pressed McArthur's attorney to say what police did wrong, wit
Jlustice Stephen Breyer even suggesting the arresting officer might deserve amed'
for patience.
"Why isn't what he did a good thing?" Breyer asked.
The case began three years ago in Sullivan, IlI., when MArthur's estranged wi
arranged for police to wait outside the couple's trailer while she moved out. As sh
left, she told the officers she had seen her husband hide marijuana under a couch.
Sullivan Deputy Police Chief John Love knocked on the trailer door, tol
McArthur about the accusation and requested permission to search. McArt
came outside, denied he had drugs inside but refused to allow police inside wit
a warrant.
B fomia measure passing --this in a stat
Businessmen ury to that is tough on crime and has th
end war on drugs largest prison population per capita h
the world. If successful, the Californi
LOS ANGELES -Their political measure could signal a profoun
operatives call them "the funders," a change in society's approach to dru
trio of enormously wealthy business- abusers - as people needing help, n
men who are united behind one idea: as criminals to be locked away.
That the war on drugs is a failure. And
they wantto endit. n
So with their money, consultants and VVm te House turns
sophisticated polling, they are trans- 200 i c eo
trming drug policy in America with a W i C
steady stream of ballot initiatives about WASHINGTON - The occupant
medical marijuana, incarceration and of the White House usually snag th
drug-related fortiitures. They are win- attention and headlines. But this mont
ning at the ballot box and in the courts. the building gets a turn in the spotligh
The only other issue that has seen as The White House turned 200 yesterda
much activity in the states through the and a monthlong birthday party h.
ballot initiative process is campaign been planned, incuding presiden
finance reform, impersonators, historical lectures and
Their latest and most ambitious salvo black-tie dinner.
is aimed at California, where voters are The White House is quintessentiall
being asked to support a broad ballot American, an 18-acre residence that i
initiative that virtually would bar part Pentagon, part Smithsonian, par
authorities from sending nonviolent Graceland. Its a home for the first fami
drug users to jail. It is modeled after a ly and its pets, an office for the dail
similar measure, the first of its kind, affairs and state functions of the execu
that passed in Arizona. tive branch and a living museum tha
The most recent polls show the Cali- welcomes up to 6,000 visitors daily.
A RouND TH E ORLD
3 Israeli soldiers die after Palestinian gunfire prevente
Israeli forces. from evacuating th<
in continued clashes dead and four wounded soldiers.
Another Israeli officer died whe
.JERUSALE M - Three Israeli sol- Palestinians opened fire at an Israel
diers were killed yesterday in clashes outpost near Jericho. Israel retalid
with Palestinians in the West Bank, by sending helicopter gunships an
the military said, after wounded Israeli tanks to attack the Palestinian intelli
soldiers were pinned down by intense gence headquarters in Jericho, th
Palestinian gunfire that prevented military said.
their evacuation. They were the first
Israeli soldiers to die in combat sinceY.a.
Oct. . Yugoslavia adintted
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud to United Nations
Barak called his Cabinet into spe-
cial session and said Israel would UNITED NATIONS-Yugoslav'
not tolerate what he called "grave new democratic government joinedt
escalation." A statement from his United Nations yesterday, opening a
office said Barak told the Cabinet new chapter in Belgrade's relations
his army "will act forcefully but with the international community after
without being dragged into adven- eight years of U.N. ostracism under for-
turism. mer strongman Slobodan Milosevic.
The fiercest battle took place out- By acclamation, the General
side the village of Al Khader, near Assembly approved Yugoslaia's
Bethlehem. Two Israeli soldiers, one application for U.N. membership and
an officer, and three Palestinians, hailed Belgrade's democratic transi-
including a policeman, were killed in tion and the newly elected president,
the clash. Israeli attack helicopters Vojislav Kostunica.
and tanks were sent in to open fire Compiledfroum Dail wire repots.
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