JE* *rnL Weather Tonight: Rain changing to snow, low in the lower 30s. Tomorrow: Chance of rain or snow, high around 30. One hundredfive years of editord freedom Monday November 27, 1995 S-di arajevo stat indispute PALE, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - Rebel Serb leaders demanded interna- tional protection yesterday for Serb- held parts of Sarajevo, whereresidents' refusal to submit to government author- ity could jeopardize the Bosnian peace accord. The accord, brokered in Dayton, Ohio, would unify the capital under the Muslim-led government. Sarajevo's 120,000 Serbs, however, fear for their homes and future if they come under government control. Serbs in Sarajevo demonstrated for the third straight day yesterday to pro- test the accord, and rebel leader Radovan Karadzic called for protection for the city's Serbs while the peace terms are renegotiated. "A new solution for Sarajevo must be found," Karadzic told Bosnian Serb radio said after meeting all night with Rebel Serb leaders demand international protection representatives from Serb-held districts of the capital. "Until a new solution is found, it is the international community's duty to protect Serbs in Sarajevo," he said, add- ing that in the meantime, Serbs would not withdraw their troops as foreseen under the Dayton accord. Karadzic has urged the Bosnian Serb assembly to accept the peace accord, but he is under pressure to get the terms for Sarajevo changed. Despite govern- ment assurances that they can remain in their homes without fear for their safety, Sarajevo Serbs are unlikely to accept the plan without some guarantees of protection. The chances for changes in the ac- cord are slim. The Bosnian government is unlikely to agree to any renegotia- tion, having won its key demand that Sarajevo be united under its control. And U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, the chief Ameri- can negotiator, ruled out any changes to the plan, which is to be signed in Paris next month. "Dayton was an initialing. Paris will be a signing. There will be no change between Dayton and Paris," Holbrooke said on NBC's "Meet the Press." In the Serb-held suburb of Ilidza, about 1,000 women, dressed in black, gathered at the cemetery to protest the peace accord, chanting, "Slobo, come here and count our dead" in a reference to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who many feel betrayed the Bosnian Serbs in the Dayton peace talks. Thousands of Serbs demonstrated in their Sarajevo districts over the week- end, vowing never to leave their homes or submit to government authority. Yesterday, the Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA reported that a 63-year- old man, identified as Mihajlo Crnogorac, shot himself in the head in the Serb-held Sarajevo district of Grbavica. Terming his death "the first victim ofthe Dayton agreement," SRNA said he left a note saying his suicide was to protest the accord. A POU A woman bows her head in prayer at the Roman Catholic cathedral in downtown Sarajevo at mass yesterday morning. ICGA 31 Ate.° c r ION Michigan is Alamo-bound; Roses for Northwestern By Antoine Pitts Daily Sports Editor Ohio State came to Michigan Sta- dium undefeated for the second time in a row Saturday, needing a win to reach the Rose Bowl. For the second consecutive time, the Buckeyes left Ann Arbor on the losing end of the score. Behind 313 rushing yards from Tshimanga Biakabutuka, Michigan (5-3 Big Ten, 9-3 overall) handed Ohio State (7-1, ll-l)a31-23 defeat before 106,288 spectators at Michigan Stadium. The Wolverines will now head to the Alamo Bowl on Dec. 28 in San Antonio, Texas. They will face the loser of .Saturday's Texas-Texas A&M matchup. The loss kept the Buckeyes from going to Pasadena for the first time since 1985, and allows Northwestern to go to the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1949. "I'm tremendously disappointed," Ohio State coach John Cooper said. "I don't know if I've ever been as disap- pointed as I am right now." A Biakabutuka touchdown put Michi- gan up 31-15 with 7:55 to play. The Buckeyes managed one more score, but turned the ball over on their last possession of the game. Charles Woodson's interception at the Michigan 13-yard line with less than a minute to go sealed Ohio State's fate. "It's been a long season and I can't think of a better way to end than what these kids did this afternoon," Michi- gan coach Lloyd Carr said. "It was a tremendous effort by an unbelievable group of kids." - See SPOR TSMonday for complete coverage. 'U' health care merger proposal scrapped The Associated Press A proposed merger between the Uni- versity Medical Center and three large Catholic health care organizations was scuttled after the parties could not agree on a time line. University Hospitals signed a memo- randum of understanding and began talks in May with Mission Health and its two parent organizations, the Sisters of Mercy Health Services and Daugh- ters of Charity Health System. The University Medical Center was to merge with Mission Health's four hospitals -St. Joseph Mercy in Saline, McPherson in Howell and Providence in Southfield. The University also was negotiating to merge its M-CARE health maintenance organization with the Sis- ters of Mercy's Care Choices to form a joint pre-paid health insurance organi- zation. John D. Forsyth, executive director of the University Medical Center, said in May that the move would mean a broader geographic accessibility for the University, and could create a state- wide delivery system. Daughters ofCharity'snot-for-profit health care system includes hospitals in 50 cities nationwide. The Sisters of Mercy network includes 12 hospitals in Michigan. But by last Monday, the heads of the four organizations had agreed there was no way to bridge their differences. A formal statement said "the par- ties were unable to agree on an ap- proach to achieve full integration," but left open the door for future col- laborations. Task forces had been wrestling with several broad areas over the six months of discussions. Many felt that the issues of birth control and abortion would be a source of contention. Forsyth said in May that he felt the University could overcome the ideo- logical differences that might emerge between University Hospitals and the Catholic health care organizations. "I think it is an issue. The merging of the Catholic ethical issues and a public university will have to be addressed. But there have been Catholic hospitals in the past that have successfully merged with universities," he said. But neither that, nor question of who would control the merged operations, threatened the deal, the sides agreed. The issue, they said, was the University's demand for an immediate merger. Mission Health and its owners believed a gradual approach over three to five years was more prudent. "We believed that the only way to get the full economic benefit was through complete operational merger," said Kenneth Trester, the University Medi- cal Center's director of planning and marketing. "Others did not share that belief." Brian Conolly, president and chief executive officer of Mission Health, said he and the leaders of the two other Catholic health care systems were in- sistent about the longer time frame, citing that they have "more experience in integration than almost anyone in the country." One issue not addressed was how patient referrals would have been gov- erned - a key part of the University's desire for a merger. For example, St. Joseph, the flagship hospital of the Mercy system, specializes in the same kind of high-tech, complex procedures from which the university makes most of its money. A briefing document prepared for the University Board of Regents said the Medical Center needs affiliation and patient referral agreements covering 2 million Michigan residents to prosper over the long term. The deal's collapse means the Uni- versity will begin looking for other po- See MERGER, Page 2A WALKER VANDYKE/Dadiy Michigan sacked Ohio State's Rose Bowl chances Saturday. The Wolverines upset the No. 2 Buckeyes to earn a spot In the Alamo Bowl on Dec. 28. ptr at SCjonce re, poked FrJd Stiidy Al DS reat increases or youn Epit Piv 14-Tint An an ial nrnu r ullitu _ _. { WASHINGTON (AP) - One of ev- ery 92 American men ages 27 to 39 may be battling the AIDS virus, according to the most precise new estimates yet of the epidemic's toll. Minorities are especially hard hit, with one of every 33 young black men estimated to be infected in 1993, ac- cording to a report published Friday in the journal Science. The 1993 data are the latest available. If the trend continues, "the threat of AIDS may become a rite of passage" for young people, said study author Philip Rosenberg, a researcher for the National Cancer Institute. The government already has warned Minorities, men are most at risk that AIDS is threatening more and more young adults. In January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention an- nounced that AIDS is the No. 1 killer of people ages 25 to 44. Public health officials wondered at the time, if AIDS was killing that many, how many others were alive with the virus, posing the potential for the disease's continued spread. And be- cause HIV typically causes no symp- toms for 10 years, just how young were these people when they caught it? Rosenberg used CDC data on re- ported AIDS cases and fatalities. He then used a process called back calcula- tion, statistics on AIDS mortality, popu- lation data and information on the disease's incubation period to estimate the number of HIV infections as of Jan. l, 1993. "It is important to recognize that back- calculated estimates are based on mod- eling rather than direct data and are very uncertain," he acknowledged in explaining his findings. Nevertheless, Rosenberg's study is the most precise look to date at HIV prevalence among young Americans. People ages 18 to 25 experienced a rapid rise in HIV infections between 1986 and 1992, during the same time when older Americans' risk of HIV infection leveled off, Rosenberg found. Those youthful infections meant people ages 27 to 39 were the most likely to be alive with HIV in January 1993, he re- ported. He calculated that one of every 139 young white men was living with HIV then, as was one in 33 young black men and one in 60 Hispanics. Women were more than four times less likely to be infected. One of every 1,667 white women ages 27 to 39 had HIV in January 1993, as did one in 98 black women and one in 222 Hispanics, See AIDS, Page 2A Students use Netscape to send fraudulent e-mail K %||||lJi||| By Jeff Lawson and send mail. Other programs such as E-mail fraud had existed in the past, electronic mail." Dv Jff awsn an sed mil. the prgram suh a E-mil rau hadexitedin te pstelecronc mil.