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Returning starters Bryant Bowden and Peter atton will be counted on to pick up some of the oad. v SEASON OPENS Bud et battle sen federal workers home 5$, FILE PHTO Sophomore forward Willie Mitchell looks for a rebound against Athletes in Action two weeks ago. Mitchell and the Michigan basketball team tip off their season against DePaul tonight in the Preseason NIT at Crisler Arena. While the Michigan coaches have not seen this year's Blue Demon squad, they are at least somewhat familiar with most of the players. Two DePaul players - Charles Gelatt and Juan Gay - played junior college ball at Barton County (Kan.) Community College last season with Wolver- ine recruit Brandon Hughes. Michigan assistant coach Brian Dutcher saw both Gelatt and Gay play in high school and in summer camps. "Gelatt is a big, strong inside player," Dutcher said. "He signed with Syracuse originally out of high school. Gay could easily be a starter. He will be a starter before the year is over." Fisher won't say whom he plans to start against the Blue Demons - or even if he has definite plans. Taylor is a lock to start, and guard Dugan Fife and forward Maceo Baston will likely get the nod as well. Guard Travis Conlan and swingman Jerod Ward are the best bets to fill out the lineup. "I like where we have come," Fisher said. "I like what we have done. Defensively, we know what we want to do a little bit more. If we don't play well I would be shocked if it was because of lack of effort. If anything, it will be because we are trying too hard." Newsday WASHINGTON - As President Clinton and Republican leaders traded insults and threats, 800,000 federal workers across the country were or- dered home yesterday morning when the budget standoff between the White House and the Congress left much of the government without funds to oper- ate all but essential services. Both sides dug in and made almost no progress in resolving their differ- ences as harsh rain pelted the Capitol and overnight polls indicated that Re- publicans may have taken a dangerous gamble in challenging Clinton. After White House officials and congressional bud- get leaders held a gloomy meeting on Capitol Hill yester- day morning that offered little hlope A for a breakthrough, Clinton infuriated Republicans by strolling into the White House brief- Clinton ing room and de- livering a confrontational, seven-minute statement. "Unfortunately, Republican leaders in Washington have put ideology ahead of common sense and shared values in their pursuit of a budget plan," Clinton said, taking no questions from the press. Clinton's remarks - and the Repub- licans' angry re- sponse - sug- gested that the shutdown could last for days. A sec-x ond Capitol HillY meeting late yes- terday also made little progress. "We are at an impasse," White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta Gingrich told reporters as he left the meeting. Indeed, House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said Republicans would not send a new stopgap spending bill until later this weekwhen they complete work on a seven-year bal- anced budget that the President has also promised to veto. The budget plan is the crux of the dispute between the White House and Congress, with Republicans hoping to gain a commitment to bal- ance the budget in seven years as the price for letting the government con- tinue operating. Pushing every partisan hot button likely to rile the congressional leaders, and quickly succeeding in doing so, Clinton blamed the impasse squarely on Republican intransigence and mis- guided budget-balancing ideas. Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) stormed into the Senate news studio just minutes after Clinton's speech and delivered equally barbed attacks on the President. Gingrich, who has publicly said all yearthat he relished a fightwith Clinton that would lead to a shutdown, com- plained, "It is very difficult to know how to proceed with so many factual errors in one statement." He added that it was "tragic to have a president of the United States so misinformed." The two leaders then refused to take questions as well. Gingrich later told reporters that there was no chance he would agree to meet with the President yesterday after his televised attack. Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), the chairman ofthe Budget Committee who See SPENDING, Page 12 State GOP reps: 7-year plan -needed WASHINGTON (AP) - Start- ing yesterday morning, hundreds of federal civilian workers were fur- loughed in Michigan, including most of those working in veterans administration services or at na- tional parks or federal museums such as the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids. Rep. Lynn Rivers (D-Ann Ar- bor) was so upset by the furloughs that she decided to give back her pay for the days federal workers must miss their pay. All congressional offices also got a notice to furlough personnel who were not essential to their legisla- tive duties. Each office was left to interpret the notice. Rep. Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) and Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) decided all their employ- ees were needed during the legisla- tive impasse. Rivers adopted a strict interpre- tation of the notice, sending home 75 percent of her employees and shutting down her district offices. House Republicans from Michi- gan said yesterday that the key to passing a temporary spending bill that would cancel the government shutdown is President Clinton's agreement to balance the budget in seven years. After that, the lawmakers say, the budget wrangling between Re- publican leaders and Clinton can turn into negotiations in which ev- erything is on the table. "All we want is for the President to agree to balance the budget in seven years based on (numbers that can be verified by) the Congres- sional Budget Office, and then our door is open for negotiations on the best way to do that," said Rep. Nick Smith (R-Addison), a leader of the House Debt Limit Coalition. The temporary spending measure was necessary to avert a partial gov- ernment shutdown yesterday be- cause only three of 13 spending bills have been signed into law to fund government agencies for the fiscal year that began six weeks ago. Clinton refused to approve the temporary measure keeping gov- ernment running through Dec. 1 because other GOP legislative ini- tiatives were added on to the bill including an increase in monthly Medicare premiums. But Republican House members from Michigan interviewed by The Associated Press repeatedly said they would be willing to negotiate on any items once Clinton agrees to balanc- ing the budget in their time frame. "I think the bottom line is that we have to have the commitment to balance the budget in seven years," Rep. Dave Camp (R-Midland) said yesterday. "Everything is on the table once the White House agrees that we are going to balance the budget by the year 2002," Upton said. Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Holland) said the budget could not be bal- anced without reigning in spending on entitlement programs - which account for about half of all federal spending. or By Michell Daily Staff Re Election promises th dent Assen today, will past years. Last yea the membe to explain was temp( assembly's ballots cha representat nary result "This ye an imposs adding that been revan ing of box votes. "There's ng yur encils: canididates ru MSA rep today * Lee Thompson misplacement," she said. porter In addition to those changes, a pilot Director Meagan Newman program being tested at West Quad will iat this year's Michigan Stu- have voters fill out Scan-Tron forms nbly elections, which start instead of hand-written ballots. be more organized than in Today's ballot includes: ®*83 candidates for 12 open MSA r's winter term election left representative seats in eight schools. rs of the assembly fumbling Three questions involving funding why one locked ballot box to Student Legal Services. orarily misplaced in the ® A proposal to create a Campus chambers. The box's 200 Safety Commission from a current task inged the outcome of one force. ive race after the prelimi- M®An LSA-Student Government pro- s were reported. posal to create four more voting mem- ar, that problem would be bers. ible one," Newman said, MSA President Flint Wainess, who the counting methods have spearheaded the efforts to move elec- nped to include color-cod- tions to the Scan-Tron format, said that es and double-checking of if the West Quad voting site proves to be successful, next year's elections going to be no error or would be conducted completely by JOE WESTRAT E/Daily Campaign posters decorate the walls of Angell Hall the day before MSA elections. Scan-Tron. "The Michigan Party is dedicated to electoral reform, especially in light of past ballot-count defficiencies," Wainess said. Newman said the Scan-Tron ballots would be counted by hand before they are taken out of the assembly's office and tallied by machine. About 200 stu- dents will vote with Scan-Tron ballots. Five parties are running tickets in the election, though only three currently hold seats on the assembly. "It's wonderful to see that so many people are interested in MSA," Wainess said. At last night's MSA meeting, Wol- verine Party member Andy Schor asked members of the assembly to "please keep the elections clean," adding that he was concerned over dirty politicking. See MSA, Page 7 (.% V i Striking unions ecky Detroit to publish newspaper 'U' offers baier-free housing By Anupama Reddy Daily Staff Reporter University Housing welcomed resi- eration as any other student. "We followed Michigan barrier laws and ADA. They both overlap to some environment. "When you're installing something, you have to make sure it's usable," said m '' - I 15s