'2- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 11, 1995 Israel releases prisoners, hands over office I Four Palestinian women have been denied release; 21 others stay in protest Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM - An Israeli-Pales- tinian peace accord moved forward in fits and starts yesterday when the Is- Taeli government began releasing sev- #eral hundred Palestinian prisoners amid much confusion and handed over a mili- tary occupation office in the West Bank village of Salfit. As the prisoner release began, an adviser to Palestinian leader Yasser .Arafat petitioned the Supreme Court to override the government's refusal to pardon femaleprisoners involvedin the murder of Israelis. Ahmad Tibi, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, argued that the high court should order the government to re- spect the interim peace agreement -signed by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Arafat in Washington on Sept. 28. The agreement calls for the .release of all imprisoned Palestinian women. Four Palestinian women have been .denied release - two by Israeli Presi- dent Ezer Weizman and two by a West Bank military commander following his lead. At least 21 other female pris- oners have refused to leave their cells without them. Early yesterday, Palestinian offi- I cials announced that the more than 1,000 Palestinian men who were scheduled to be released would not go unless all the Palestinian women were also freed. But soon, scores and then hundreds ofPalestinian men emerged from prison, all having complied with Israel's re- quirement to sign a pledge not to use terrorism. Israeli television showed hundreds of Palestinians greeting prisoners who returned to the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip with hugs and kisses and shouts of "God is great." Many Israelis fear Palestinians con- victed of politically motivated crimes will attack Israelis again as soon as they are freed. Palestinians view the con- victs as political prisoners who should receive amnesty like any soldier at the end of a war. Israeli authorities estimated that about 500 common criminals and 500 Pales- tinians convicted ofsecurity crimes will have been freed by today. The prisoner release overshadowed the fact that Israel took its first steps toward ending its 28-year occupation of the West Bank yesterday with the closure of four occupation offices. The office in Salfit, about 30 miles north of Jerusalem, was handed over to Palestinians in a signing ceremony while hundreds of Palestinians chanted "PLO! Israel no!" and waved Pales- tine Liberation Organization flags out- side. NATIONAL REPORT American wins Nobel Economics Prize CHICAGO - A University of Chicago professor won the Nobel Prize in economics yesterday for demonstrating how people's fears and expectations can frustrate policymakers' efforts to shape the economy. Robert Lucas' work is now part of the "standard toolbox" of all economists, said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Lucas found that government attempts to regulate unem- ployment and investment by regulating the national money supply often are undermined by the way people adjust their spending decisions and other behavior. For instance, if the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to Lucas slow economic growth and prevent inflation, people might stop taking out loans and making major purchases. That, in turn, could cause a recession and force the Fed to cut rates. "Models that we thought were guiding the fine-tuning of the economy through monetary and fiscal policy are more or less useless," Lucas said after winning the prize. "Those models presumed a lot of stupidity on the part of the ordinary citizen." p Perot's party coming up short in California LOS ANGELES - With less than two weeks to the qualifying deadline, preliminary voter-registration figures from California counties critical to Ross Perot's hopes of creating a new na- tional political party indicate that so far, the Texas billionaire's effort is fall- ing far short of the goal. To qualify in California - the first, and perhaps most critical, test of the proposed new party's appeal - Perot and his supporters must register 89,007 new party members by Oct. 24. But yesterday, voter registrars for Orange and San Diego counties reported that so far, only 437 people had signed up as new members of the proposed Reform Party. "I think we're all optimistic," said Perot's spokeswoman Sharon Holman, arguing that the figures released yester- day were stale. Perot, himself, triedto boost theparty in satellite television broadcasts yester- day to local television stations. He also filled in as the host of a San Diego radio station talk show. If Perot fails in California, even if it is a matter of legal logistics and lack of time, it will be difficult for his party to be a major force in the 1996 presiden- tial campaign, observed veteran cam- paign consultant Darry Sragow of Los Angeles. Columbia launch set for this Saturday CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -NASA will try for the fifth time Saturday to launch space shuttle Columbia on a laboratory-research mission. Columbia has been grounded for the past two weeks by a leaky engine valve, sluggish hydraulics, and most recently, a failed computer signal-relay box. Hurricane Opal also caused a delay. Mission managers decided last night to try again this weekend to launch Columbia on the 16-day mission as opposed to letting Atlantis fly next. Atlantis is due to lift off Nov. 1 on its second trip to Russia's space station Mir. That mission will be delayed about a week if Columbia goes because NASA requires at least five days between shuttle landings and launches. AP PHOTO Palestinians hoist their flag on Israeli military offices yesterday. great scores... Law School Business School a~ Dental School Graduate School Medical School great teachers... Kaplan helps you focus our test rep sstudywhere youneed it most. ur teachers wil show you the proven skills and test-taking techniques to help you get a higher score., et a higher score. A LAN DEPRESSED? GRADES ARE LOW HOMEWORK'S LATE YOUR BIKE GETS STOLEN YO LOSE OUR DATE A NE'BAD? YOUR ROOM IS TRASHED SOMEONE JUST TOLD YOU YA AIN'T GOT NO CLASS. MmONEY'S SHORT YOU CAN'T ADMIT IT YOUR POP WILL THINK YOU'RE A SPEND THRIFT IDGIT WE'LL PUT THAT SMILE ON YOUR FACE! WE'LL HELP YOU BACK 'CAUSE ONE GOURMET SUB OR A YUMMY GOOD CLUB CAN EVEN PUT A CHANGE ON YOUR SOUR MUG! EEIAE U EAULI 0 SENATE Continued from Page 1 But Kingdon said Nunn and other Democrats retired because they did not foresee the Democrats taking control of the Senate in the next election. "There's less reason to be in office, there's fewer things they can do in the minority," Kingdon said. "The thing that's common to all of them is they can see the Senate in Republican hands for quite a while." LSA senior Mark Fletcher, state chair for the College Republicans, said the Democratic retirements will' solidify GOP control. "The Republican Party is going to become the dominant party for at least the near future," Fletcher said. "I think the only chance (the Democrats) have is if the Republicans don't live up to their promises, namely the Contract With America." College Democrats co-chair Dave Donoghue, an Engineering senior, said his group is sad to see Nunn'scareerin the Senate come to an end, but he said it will allow the party tobring in new leadership. "I think the Democratic Parlyadefi- nitely has a chance to take the Senate in '96 with President Clinton's strong lead- ership," he said. ,: -- - - SA R OU ND T HE WORL D Belgian commi51on unclear whe sign or ask to begins probe of The re-eme NATO chif Uaes NA1 0 did aaeS at aotie itd dedicated lea BRUSSELS, Belgium-- In a devel- opment that could distract, even weaken, " NATO's leadership, the alliance's se- nior-most official, Secretary-General SaVe it: Willy Claes, has once again become embroiled in a domestic political scan- CAIRO, E dal in his native Belgium. earthquakesr With Claes proclaiming his inno- ened the allu cence, a special Belgian parliamentary three famedp investigative commission met for the breath of mil first time yesterday to weigh more than Egyptiana 700 pages of evidence gathered by state locked the d prosecutors that allegedly link Claes to pyramid yest illegal contributions made to his Flem- months so v ish Socialist Party party six years ago. humidairsap About $2 million in so-called gifts and restorers came to the party from the Italian de- stone walls. fense contractor Agusta shortly after Vapor fro the company won a major contract to lion touristsa supply helicopters to the Belgian army. the 4,600-y Claes was economics minister at the Cairo, drawin time and helped negotiate the Agusta stone blocks contract. Flaking,y Claes is scheduled to appear before chipped off, the commission Friday; next week, the beneath. In o panel is expected to recommend to the and pebbles h full Belgian Parliament whether to lift pushed again his immunity from prosecution. on moisture A parliamentary decision to lift the visible every immunity would almost certainly be followed by an indictment. It remains - ther Claes would then re- o step aside temporarily. iergence of the scandal is a to the alliance and comes desperately needs strong, adership. id closed to frorntourists gypt - Neither wars nor nor Mother Nature damp- re of Chephren, one of the pyramids of Giza. But the lions of tourists did. antiquities officials pad- door on the 450-foot tall lerday, closing it for three acuums can suck out the Aping its structural strength can preserve flaking, lime- rm the breathing of 2 mil- a year has taken its toll on ear-old pyramid outside ng salts from its huge lime- and weakening them. yellowed limestone has revealing a white surface ne tunnel, a heap of rocks has fallen, swept into a pile st the wall. Cracks blamed seeping into the rock are 'where. From Daily wire services r I How did the universe come into existence? Has it always existed? Or did it have a beginning? Are the laws of physics the products of chance, or have they been designed? Is there any knowable existence beyond the dimensions of the universe? Dr. Hugh Ross, astrophysicist and noted author, will provide some answers at The Veritas Forum. Dr. Ross held a five-year post-doctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. 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