2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 9, 1995 '1 3ti ' , ° ss. ' ' sa r ,fit Arrest proves false lead in Unabomber search EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) - Police briefly thought they'd nabbed the Unabomber, but then found it was a false lead. Authorities said yesterday that the man arrested on weapons and traffic violations has no ties to the elusive terrorist. When police arrested him Saturday for having expired California plates on his maroon van, they found a gun and electronic equipment inside. CBS radio news, citing an unidenti- fied source, said authorities found bomb-making equipment in the van and, in the 37-year-old man's Evanston home, a typewriter with a font that could match the type used in one or more of the Unabomber's letters. Police said they called in the FBI because of the suspicious nature of the items in the van, but refused to confirm or deny the CBS report, as did the FBI. After further investigation, agents concluded the man, whose name was not released, had no ties to the bomber who began his campaign against tech- nology in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, killing three people and in- juring 23 with 16 package bombs since 1978. "Unfortunately, I have to say we do not have the Unabomber," Police Chief Gerald Cooper told reporters. Officials at the Justice Department's command center told White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta that "they did not believe the arrest in Chicago relates to the Unabomber case," Panetta told NBC. The FBI believes the Unabomber, so named because his first bombs targeted universities and airlines, might have gone to high school in Chicago's north suburbs in the 1970s and now lives in northern California. His first bomb was found in a parking lot at the University of Illinois at Chi- cago in a package bearing a return ad- dress on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston. In June, the Unabomber promised to stop planting bombs if The New York Times and The Washington Post pub- lished his 35,000-word treatise on the inhumanity of industrial society. Both papers cooperated and published the manifesto in the Post on Sept. 19. Clinton seeks to ease U.S. racial tensions WASHINGTON - President Clinton intends to help heal the nation's current racial rift by fighting to preserve social programs, his chief of staff said yesterday. Clinton's proposal to balance the federal budget without steep reductions in social programs is the best reflection "of what we want to do in terms of bringing the races together," said White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta. "If we pass a budget that gets rid of affirmative action, that cuts into the very programs that help to educate children, ... that's the worst thing we can do in terms of dividing the races in this country," Panetta said. The debate over racial tension in America grew hotter and The Clintons louder after the acquittal last Tuesday of O.J. Simpson. Last week, the President said he hoped the nation would not use the Simpson verdict as a reason to deepen the racial divide. There was more evidence of that divide yesterday in a poll that found a majority of white people harbor misconceptions about blacks - mainly that they make up a greater share of the U.S. population and benefit more from the federal govern ment than they actually do. Sm mmimmmmmmm--mm-mm mm mm m 3 5th at Liberty 761-9700- 4 BARGAIN MATINEES$4.00 STUDENT W/.D. $4.75 EVENINGS I UNSTRUNG Bring in this ad, and receive one o H EROESPE1 FREE200ZDRINK.' Ilk 1 with any popcorn purchase expires: October 27, 1995 pg* Lmmmmmme mm mm mmmm mmmmmm mm mm mm Don't Panic!! if you think you're pregnant... call us-we listen, we care. PROBLEM PREGNANCY HELP 769-7283 Any time, any day, 24 hours. Fully confidentiaL. Serving Students since 1970. 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Moreover, they note, discrimination against gay men and lesbians, unlike bias based on race, gender and ethnicity, has not been deemed unconstitutional. If the high court upholds the Colo- rado measure, Tebedo expects as many as 10 other states to follow with their own laws stripping homosexuals of le- gal protections. Gay-rights lawyers say they know they are fighting an uphill battle. Even if they win, they would only gain the right to seek favorable laws from city councils and state legislatures... Beyond legal issues, Loeffler says a Supreme Court ruling upholding Amendment 2 would send a devastat- ing message to gays nationwide. It would not be the first time the high court has sent such a message. In the 1986 case of Bowers vs. Hardwick, the justices voted 5-4 that the constitutional "right to privacy" did not protect homosexuals from prosecu- tion under anti-sodomy laws. Since then, gay-rights activists have made slow but steady progress in win- ning protections against discrimination. FCC to lift AT&T rate restrictions WASHINGTON - Federal regula- tors, finally acknowledging there is competition in the long-distance mar- ket, plan to let AT&T Corp. play by the same rules as its rivals. The Federal CommunicationsCom- mission is set on Thursday to free AT&T from residential price regulations un- der which the telecommunications gi- ant has operated for years. However, consumer advocates and rivals MCI and Sprint oppose the plan. AT&T, the nation's largest long-dis- tance company with 56.6 percent of the market, has been pressing the FCC for such freedoms for nearly eight years. While the FCC plans to lift residen- tial price regulations, it would impose other provisions to protect low-income customers and people who make less than $10 a month in long-distance calls. The Big Three phone companies' basic rates have gone up 15 percent since 1991, the FCC said. About one- third of all long-distance callers are not enrolled in a discounted calling plan and pay basic rates. Under the plan the FCC is consider- ing, AT&T would be freed from the price regulation that does not apply to MCI and Sprint. AT&T, like its rivals, would be permitted to charge whatever it wants forresidential service andwould no longer be subject to rate caps. Woman to use diabetes in defense QUEENSBURY, N.Y. - The de- fense for a woman accused of killing her boyfriend will argue her behavior was affected by undiagnosed diabetes. Jury selection begins tomorrow in the murder trial of Gail Hanna. Her lawyer, Gary Hobbs, said he plans to argue she was suffering from ex- treme emotional disturbance, and that she had a past history of mental illness. He also said she was later found to have diabetes, causing hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar, the day of the murder. "What we're indicating is that blood sugar discrepancies can cause abnor- mal behavior and affect cognitivethink- ing," Hobbs said. Philip Cryer of the American Diabetes Association said he's never heard of hyperglycemia leading to such behavior. I Classifieds. read them Dai 1 iy ")UND THE WORLD -m"M%;*hwwi 7/ F . ... P The Writing's on te Wall... Make Your Degree More Marketable Pakistan seeks U.S. mediation in dispute over Kashmir ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's foreign minister urged the United States yesterday to help resolve his country's worsening conflict with India over the Himalayan state of Kash- mir. "It is not just an India and Pakistan dispute," Foreign Minister SardarAseff Ali told reporters in the Pakistani capi- tal. "It is the principal issue in South Asia which threatens to destabilize the region." India and Pakistan have been at odds over Kashmir since the territory was divided between the two countries when they became independent from Britain in 1947. The two nations dispute one another's territorial claims over sec- tions of Kashmir, which has been wracked by fighting between Islamic separatist guerrillas and Indian gov- ernment troops. The conflict has triggered two of the three wars India and Pakistan have fought in the past five decades. AseffAli said he raised the issue with Defense Secretary William Perry dur- ing his recent trip to New York for the opening session of the U.N. General Assembly. "Now the ball is in the court of the U.S. to pressure India to come to the negotiating table," Aseff Ali said. The United Nations has repeatedly offered to mediate the dispute, but nei- ther India nor Pakistan has ever agreed to meet to discuss Kashmir. French nuclear tests protestedin Spain MADRID, Spain - More than 10,000 people opposed to French nuclear tests marched through central Madrid yesterday, the day before French President Jacques Chirac arrives for a visit. Organizers called on Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez to exert greater pressure on France to halt the nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Gonzalez currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, "President Gonzalez can do more and should do more to make it clear to Chirac that Europe wants the tests to stop," said Antonio Gutierrez of the Workers Commissions, one of the country's two main labor federations. The march was organized by a coali- tion of environmental groups, laboi unions and political parties. Waving placards and chanting slo- gans, protesters, many of them children and teen-agers, marched peacefully along Atocha Avenue, a main thor- oughfare, toward the center of the city. -From Daily wire services o receive a program brochure, complete this form and send it to: Roosevelt University Nam Lawyer's Assistant Program1 *Addes Icity 430 S. Michigan Avenue Room 460 Evolution? A recent biology textbook implies that evolution is fact. 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