2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 19, 1995 a J '7 /ltL U.S. approves Castro's WASHINGTON (AP) - Republi- routinealthoughthe can senators bowed to Democratic op- State Department, position yesterday and dropped a bid to not wishing to seem starve the Cuban economy by denying overeager, an- ithard currency. They received another nounced its ap- y setback when the administration autho- proval nine days af- rized a visa to President Fidel Castro to ter the request was travel to the United Nations. filed. After a Saturday arrival in New York, The announce- Castro is expected to speak Sunday at the ment came shortly United Nations' 50th birthday celebra- after Sen. Jesse tion. Visas for foreign heads of govern- Helms (R-N.C.) Casts ment to travel to U.N. headquarters are dropped a provision from Cuba sa visa to attend UN. birthday anctions legislation that was aimed at drying up foreign investment on the island. Follow- ing the deletion, a watered-down Cuba sanctions bill remained, and final ap- proval is expected today. Cuba has been actively courting in- vestment from Spain and other coun- tries to reverse the nation's economic decline, and Helms argued that Castro's days would be numbered if his bill forced would-be investors to take their money elsewhere. Many lawmakers who had supported the provision also had been insisting that the administration deny Castro's visa request on grounds that Cuba has the hemisphere's worst human rights record. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole called the administration's deci- sion "regrettable." Dole's chief rival for the Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas, called the decision shameful. He said Castro was acriminal andshould be handcuffed and arrested upon his arrival. & NTIOAL EPORT Y Astronomers discover distant planet For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the discovery of a planet around a star similar to the sun. The star, 51 Pegasus, is just 40 light years distant and visible to the naked eye in the northern hemisphere. The long-awaited discovery of a planet in a system apparently similar to the solar system has made the fifth-magnitude star the focus of intense excitement among astronomers around the world as word spread this week. The only unshakable evidence of planets outside the solar system, until now, had been found in a system that is dramatically different from the sun's. That was the confirmation within the last three years ofat least two planets orbiting a whirling dead star called a pulsar that, instead of light, emits a barrage of deadly invisible radiation. The confirmation of the 51 Pegasus planet gives new credence to theories that there are other earth-like worlds that could harbor life, said Geoffrey Marcy, professor of physics and astronomy at San Francisco State University, whose team confirmed the discovery reported by a Swiss team at a conference Oct. 6. Last week, in four days of observations using the three-meter telescope at Lick Observatory near San Jose, Calif. Marcy and University of California at Berkeley postdoctoral researcher Paul Butler made independent measurements of the 51 Pegasus system. They had never studied that star during their own years of searching for planets because, they said, it had been misclassified in a leading star catalogue. -W-m-f .._._ - s-i S 1C --a + P" i Ui 'T . i C * MULTI COLOR SPECIALISTS - ARTIST ON STAFF -RUSH ORDERS * NEAR U OF M CAMPUS } 1.217 PROSPECT, ANN ARBOR 665-1771 OFF with this ad. Students fabricated stories in Rolling Stone interviews Yale Daily News NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Under- graduates fabricated the stories behind this month's Rolling Stone magazine expose depicting an active heroin sub- culture at Yale, student sources said. The Yale students featured in the Oct. 19 article, "The Hard Core Cur- riculum," made up stories about wide- spread drug use on campus to create a stir in a national publication, students said. According to the article, B and K, a Yale group known to students by names ranging from "Bong and Keg" to the "Society for Benevolence and Knowl- edge," once had the upper hand on drug parties, but has since passed the bong to "D Party." The article profiles the drug scenes at Yale and five other schools, alleging that D Party sponsors biweekly heroin bashes where the 40-60 attendees smoke, snort or shoot up. But students said there is little merit to the Yale angle of the story. "A lot of people interviewed exaggerated a lot to cause some controversy in the pages of Rolling Stone," said a B and K member who asked not to be identified. Other students who said they are aware of an obscure hard-core drug scene at Yale had never heard it named. "I've been to parties where people do heroin. I've been to parties where they have, like, a drug bar," a senior who declined to be identified said. But he has not heard of D Party, he said. A junior who said he is familiar with the B and K party scene said the idea of D Party is absurd. "They interviewed some people who just made up stories. There's no (wide- spread) hard-core drug use. Anyone who thinks you can get 40 to 60 people using heroin is ridiculous," he said. David Lipsky, the author of the ar- ticle, said in an interview Tuesday that two of the nine people with whom he spoke said they had heard of D Party. While the existence of D Party is questionable, B and K has been a pres- ence on campus since the 196N, the B and K member said. The article, which played up the sig- nificance of B and K, identified the group as a secret society - like Scroll and Key or Skull and Bones - where "all we do is smoke pot." Members had some gripes with this representation. They saidthey gatherto party each week, but do not have the secret meetings and elaborate rituals of Yale's exclusive societies. "I would vehemently say it's not a secret society. It's something to ensure that there will be a party every Thurs- day night, kind of like the Feb Club," the B and K member said. "It's sort of like the Pundits." Students who attend B and K parties said bongs and kegs are present, but they have not seen hard-core drugs - heroin, cocaine or hallucinogens - cropping up. "It's not the kind of thing where everyone goes to a party and does mush- rooms. I've never heard of that kind of thing," said ajunior who asked not to be identified. - Distributed by University Wire DUDERSTADT Continued from Page 1A president. Regent Laurence Deitch (D- Bloomfield Hills), said the board is not planning on having an interim presi- dent. "If it appears that we can't complete a search in June, we will appoint an interim president," Deitch said. "We have not given any thought to who that might be, but the person would come from within the rolesof University lead- ership, past or present." Duderstadt said he will not take the year sabbatical his resignation allows. He plans to return to teaching in the School of Engineering next September. "In 28 years at the University, I have never taken sabbatical; I think I have. four saved up," Duderstadt said. "I am very dedicatedto the school, and I know that (my wife and I) are not going to leave Michigan. I have had offers from half a dozen schools about presiden- cies, but I want to return to teaching. "I think I still have enough brain cells that I can teach. While I have some doubts that I can't do the same kind of research that I used to do, I am looking forward to teaching again." We cover Michigan - Daily Live rocket that terrified town turns out to be a toy LEVEL PLAINS, Ala. - Word that a live Air Force rocket had slammed into a backyard shed sent this commu- nity of 2,000 scrambling on Tuesday: the block was evacuated, an Army bomb squad was called in, and police fretted about detonation. It turned out the weapon was merely a model stuck with Air Force decals. "We're just glad it was a toy," court clerk Marsha Neagley said. "You just never know these days." The uproar began when Adrian Ashworth found a cylindrical, 18-inch, finned white projectile protruding from his shed. He alerted authorities because of its official-looking decals and numbering, thinking it could have been fired from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, about 100 miles southwest. After about four hours, specialists from Fort Benning, Ga., determined that it posed no danger, spokesman Rich McDowell said. "I thought it was a hobby rocket,'but I didn't know for sure," Ashworth said after the all-clear. "I wish whoeverfired it would come up and patch the hole in the roof." Police are investigating the origin of the device. Study: Geo Tracker, Corvette bave highest death rates A new report by an insurance indus- try trade group says the Geo Tracker and Chevrolet Corvette have the high- est and second-highest driver death rates, respectively, among 178 passen- ger vehicles studied - in both cases almost three times the average. The discontinued Volvo 240 and the Saab 9000, had the lowest and second- lowest rates, respectively. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety based the ratings on fatal crashes between 1990 and 1994 involving 1989' through 1993 model cars and trucks. - In general, vehicles with the highest death rates tended to be small economy or- sporty vehicles and those with the lowest rates were larger, family-type vehicles. _ _ _ ~ r MICHIGAN, RECORDS mw RAFP 4tA.Q phone: 6 63.5800 1140 south university (above goodtime chadeys), AA mon.-thurs.: 9:00a-10:OOp sundays f. & sat: 9:00a-11:00p :-: * AROND T HE Prime Minster urges Quebec not to secede QUEBEC - Prime Minister Jean Chretien ventured into a separatist stronghold yesterday to plead with Que- beckers to spare Canada a traumatic breakup when they vote in an indepen- dence referendum Oct. 30. "Think hard and long before you vote," Chretien told the Quebec City Chamber of Commerce. "It is an irre- versible choice." The latest polls show a deadlock be- tween the separatists and federalists as the referendum date nears. Chretien's speech yesterday, in the capital of the separatist provincial gov- ernment, was billed as his most impor- tant of the campaign. His main target was the separatists' claim that an inde- pendent Quebec could smoothly negoti- ate a partnership with the rest of Canada. "They are offering you a one-way ticket to separation,"Chretien said. "The price of the ticket is your passport and all the advantages that go with it." He mocked separatist leader Lucien Bouchard's recent remark that sover- eignty would be like waving a magic wand to solve Quebec's problems. "Mr. Bouchard's mandate after the referendum would be to unmake the omelette and put the eggs back in their shells," Chretien said. "I can tell you it takes one big wand to do that." Bouchard, the most popular and char. ismatic politician in Quebec, took over as the separatists' main campaign speaker 10 days ago and has been cred- ited with closing a gap in the polls. Britain may not insist on IRA disarmament LONDON - Prime Minister John Major and his Irish counterpart John Bruton plan to meet this week amid signs that Britain might ease demands, that the Irish Republican Army begin disarming before peace talks can start. The British disarmament demand and the IRA's refusal to comply with it have stalled negotiations on endingmore than; 25 years ofsectarian violence in North- ern Ireland. "I expect to be talking to Mr. Major during the week to further advance dis- cussions I have hadwith him and to build in the progress that has been made," Bruton told the Dail, or lower house of the Irish Parliament, yesterday. Last month, Bruton withdrew at the last minute from a summit planned with Major to pave the way for peace talks.; The key sticking point was Britain's insistence the IRA commit to giving up its weapons before its political ally, Sinn Fein, be allowed to join negotiations. . - From Daily wire services r real peop real music. gatprice -' = WS "', Nov. b'; J I5 -~aMoyI Q LO q1I% 5v*VJMi of ( I5TEJC Ifaf ab44dout as loud as we date 40,4' we a£4~re ra Cevii~n'ewj CPo and cubseites o Lima", ngvA 4 06. !g9 a12B9fl {f9 A 412 6 AZZM TZ flit tt I FfI 1A MLI, IFE SAWR & RAP~GI1*ABG#1CT n"Uttli 11 A11i The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Frday dunng tne fal ano wnter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $85. Winter term (January through April) is $95, year-long (September through April) is $165. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. 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