z- Ine Micnigan uaily --Friday, October 20, 1995 TI / .. Hamas leader wants to stop militant attacks From Daily Wire Servces JERUSALEM - Sheik Ahmad Yassin, jailed spiritual leader of the Hamas Islamic movement, is pushing for the militant group to both stop its military attacks on Israelis and com- pete in Palestinian elections, an Israeli lawmaker said yesterday. Yassin still opposes the Israeli-Pales- tinian 1993 peace accord in principle but acknowledges that it has changed politi- cal reality, said parliamentarian Talab Sanna, of the Arab Democratic Party. "I feel very optimistic after meeting with Sheik Yassin, who made clear to me that the Oslo (peace) accord is the new reality which must be respected," Sanna said. "He told me that he feared that a continuation of military attacks on Israel would lead to conflict in the streets among Palestinians." Sanna met Wednesday with the partly paralyzed Yassin, who has been held in an Israeli jail since 1989. Yassin reportedly said that he has 66I feel very optimistic after meeting with Sheika Yassin" f - Talab Sanna Arab Democratic Party approved a 16-point draft agreement reached between Hamas and the Pales- tine Liberation Organization that is due to be finalized next month in Sudan during a summit between Hamas and PLO leaders. A Hamas-PLO accord would be a political triumph for PLO leader Yasser Arafat, neutralizing his most important opposition' as he prepares to expand Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and to hold elections for a Palestinian self-governing council. Palestinianpolitical analysts say that once Hamas decides tojoin the political process, it will be nearly impossible for any of the smaller, left-wing opposition groups to sit out the elections. If all the opposition groups opt to com- pete, Arafat will have succeeded in rede- fining the rules of Palestinian politics. He will have forced the various fac- tions into a test of political strength that Palestinian analysts say he is bound to win. "Arafat is in very good shape," said Khalil Shikaki, apolitical scientistwho conducts public opinion polls for an independent think tank in the West Bank city of Nablus. "Nobody can compete with him in the presidential elections, and his organization, Fatah, stands to do very well in the elections for the legislative council." Arafat has said he hopes to hold elec- tions before Jan. 22. Palestinians in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza will elect a self-governing council and a president of the Palestinian Executive Authority. It will be the first time Palestinians have had a national elected legislature and president. Shikaki said that Hamas' efforts to reach an accord with Arafat are based on a hard political calculation that their only chance for surviving as a political opposition lies in competing in the elec- tions. "They have been looking at our pub- lic opinion polls," he said. . Both Shikaki and other Palestinian pollsters now predict that Hamas prob- ably would capture only about 10 per- cent of the vote, although Hamas lead- ers insist their share will be more like 30 percent. MINORITIES Continued from Page i within a few years. Flint campus Chancellor Charlie Nelms said, however, that while re- cruitment andaretention efforts are m- portant, they are not what the Univer- sity will have to look at in the future. "I feel that we are headed in the right direction," Nelms said at the regents' meeting yesterday. "But it is not just enough to recruit. We must make some effort to help the minorities achieve success while at school and beyond. This is our next task." Nelms saitlthe Flint campus has felt the effects of the Michigan Mandate with a large influx of black students in the past couple of years. Ruby Ridge case leads to tighter roles WASHINGTON - In an extraordinary display of contrition, FBI Direc Louis J. Freeh said yesterday that the 1992 Ruby Ridge, Idaho, siege was "a ser of terribly flawed law enforcement operations with tragic consequences" vowed to ensure that something similar will "never happen again." Although Freeh did not head the FBI in 1992 when an anti-governm fugitive's wife and 14-year-old son and a deputy marshal were killed in the Ru Ridge siege, he expressed regret for overreaction there by law enforcemr officials and for later promoting an official who had a major role in the episo During testimony before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on terrorism, Fre said that it had been a "mistake" to elevate Larry Potts to deputy director soon af censuring him for a management failure at Ruby Ridge. "It was a grave error on my part," Freeh said. "I'm paying a price for it." Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) chairman of the panel, said that the blame for t Potts promotion goes even higher than Freeh, citing Attorney General Janet Rer who approved the appointment. "The attorney general of the United States is in a position to say 'no,"' Specc said, as the subcommittee wound up its hearings. "The attorney general is: I BOSNIA Continued from Page 1 government "masterfully" .used the media to foster ethnic hatred. .The Serbs established news media under their own control, he said, creat- ing their own TV channels, which could reach almost all of Bosnia. "These stations were hate-monger- ing stations," Gjelten said. He said Serb' control of TV channels would be like David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan taking control of all U.S. news stations. The Serbs used TV to persuade people of the need to divide along ethnic lines, he said. He used the example of a news- cast that began with pictures of starv- ing African refugees while a reporter stated'that this is how everyone would . look if all ethnicities continued to live together. "Certain key points were drivenhome over and over again," he said. The Serb media emphasized that the Bosnian government was trying to impose an Islamic state. The media also characterized Mus- lims as-people who were trying to im- pose their religion on others. An ethnic slur was included in every program, *Gjelten said. Gjelten also included an example of the Serb media reporting that the Mus- lims had a plan to "systematically slaughter" Serb leaders. "These are the only versions (of the news) the (Serbs) are given," Gjelten said. "People are given very twisted stories of what is happening." Not everyone agreed with Gjelten's statements. "That's a lie!" an audience member shouted during Gjelten's speech. The speech was interrupted many times by angry audience members. Two Univer- sity officers arrived at the amphitheater and watched from the entranceway. "I was definitely embarrassed at the way he was treated," said LSA first- year student Jennifer Bradley-Swift. She said such "outpourings" were counter- productive to an effective discussion of the issues. Gjelten's speech was part of a two- day conference on the subject of media coverage during the Balkan conflicts. The conference will continue today with three separate sessions focusing on dif- ferent aspects of Balkans coverage. The sessions begin at 9 a.m. and run to 5:30 p.m. All sessions are held in the Rackham. supposed to be a rubber stamp." Re ort dets U.S. iltary problems WASHINGTON - Two-thirds of military housing is "unsuitable" for its family and single residents - a pr6b- lem that would cost the Pentagon as much as $30 billion and take up to 40 years to solve, according to a new study of life in uniform. The answer: create a military housing authority to recruit private know-how and money to get the job done at lower cost andin less than 10years. Noestimate of the cash savings was available. That is the major recommendation of a Pentagon task force that has spent the past year studying the living and work-i ing conditions of the all-volunteer mili - tary, including the amount of time troops spend away from home, and the ser- vices offered to their families.1 "I don't think we can count on the (forces') morale staying high forever in 1 the face of these problems," Defense Secretary William J. Perry said at ai briefing yesterday. "We have to ad-t dress them."t It is a central tenet of current defense f policy that if the forces are not paid and treated properly they will quit, threF ening the military's combat readir "Spending to modernize force stru ture should be appropriately balar against spending to enhance the quali of life in the military," said the ta force report. Clinton, Gore check on Midwest econom COLUMBUS, Ohio - The rest oft country could learn a thing or two fro the Midwest, President Clinton's nation economic adviser said yesterday. Since the beginning of the econom recovery three years ago, the regio has outpaced the rest of the nation i income growth, employment and th percentage of high-paying manufac turing jobs, Laura D'Andrea Tyso said after a speech to the Economi Club of Columbus. Clinton and Vice President Al Gor will have a chance to see the Midwes economy firsthand tomorrow when the: travel to Columbus for the third in series of regional economic confer ences. Take the Syracuse Advantage! Internships Extensive Professional & Liberal Arts Courses Action S t Our Racket Is Your Racket Badminton Squash F R a c u~ b f y\ 63-6771 419 E. Liberty 2 Blocks oAof te The ad for Jeffrey Michael Powers Beauty Spa in yesterday's Daily was incorrect. 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A worthy candidate has first to be se- lected," Yeltsin said. "He has tried hard. So, let us not squash him. Let him work. But my decision will remain." Speaking in the Kremlin's ornate Catherine Hall, Yeltsin reiterated his opposition to NATO leadership of the Bosnian operation. "We will not fight under NATO com- mand," he told the journalists in an interview that was broadcast on Rus- sian television later in the day. "This is not a NATO operation ... This is a peacekeeping operation of the armed forces of major. states." Russia has of fered to commit 20,000 troops, abou one-third of the peacekeeping force. Brazil, U.S. company plan joint project BRASILIA, Brazil - Flying over the Amazon is like skimming an ocean o green that goes on for hours, blurred by rising mist, then bright in the tropical sun. From horizon to horizon, it's green and more green. In the rain forest below live millions of species, the Earth's greatest treasure of biological diver- sity, a mysterious wilderness that Bra- zil has yet to masteror even understand in all its immensity and complexity. But in recent decades, the green has begun to wilt. Millions of people have pushed into the region, greatly worsen- ing problems such as deforestation, ero- sion, pollution, poverty and crime.. Now, to learn more about the Atna- zon, to watch over and protect it, Brazilian authorities and a U.S. com- pany are about to launch a pioneering project that would put the vast, vul- nerable region under electronic sur- veillance. The planned cost for this project is estimated at $1.4 billion. U Q .t o UVS-ar WIN 0 lip ,U I' rt DZ A Q ti - From Daily wire services ma-, I Rel igious Services AVAVAVAVA ECKANKAR Religion of the Light and Sound of God "Reading Past Lives to Unwind Your Karma" Sunday. Nov.5 at 11 a.m. NEW Center 1100 N. 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