-W Nf ORLD AfiyON/W The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 10, 1995 - 7 W esota 1ewspaper aysit wil e4court Student journalists, after refusing to give up negatives, face jail Use Pods y Staff Reporter The Minnesota Daily has said it will fy a court orderto turn over negatives photos taken by a staff photographer ring an anti-Nazi rally that turned olent in 1993. Now Michele Ames,the newspaper's itor in chief, faces a possible jail ntemce. "My motivation is the same thing at I Dope would inspire other j ournal- the protection of the First Amend- ent,'I Ames said. A fight broke out between Kieran nutson, a supporter of the group that ganized the rally, and Daniel Sim- er. The photos may indicate whether nutson, who is charged with two unts' of felony assault, acted in self- fen!W at the Oct. 22, 1993 rally. The negatives may indicate whether mmer wore brass knuckles, an issue contention. Witnesses have givenzv nflitting accounts of the dispute. Hennepin County Judge John Stanoch 'ginally allowed prosecutors to sub- ena the newspaper for the unpub- hed negatives and the testimony of a porter in May 1994. The dispute re- Ives around the paper's protection der Minnesota's shield law, which as created to prevent the courts from rcing reporters and photographers to lease informationgatheredonassign- ent. In November 1994, the Court of Ap- als" ruled that the reporter was not otected under the law and had to stify. The Minnesota Court of Appeals led Oct.30 that The Minnesota Daily ust turn over the negatives for an "in mera" review. On Nov. 6, the paper nounced its intentions to defy the urt order. "We have informed the court that we ill not appeal, nor will we comply," es said. "We had guessed that this holadecision was coming down to the ikeand we have had numerous dis- sskons.... This decision has involved e whole staff." University ofMichigan communica- on studies Prof. John Stevens said es could theoretically be held injail n contempt of court charges until the aper turns over the negatives. Stevens mpared the situation to having "the ey it your own pocket." Explaining their decision not to ap- eal, editors at The Minnesota Daily id an appeal to the state Supreme ourt'would be too costly and a higher ling against the paper could set a recedent for the future. The Minnesota Daily has been fight- g the order for two years. "It is diffi- ult as a small newspaper to pay legal ills forever," Ames said. Businessman donates $100M to Princeton PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) - Gordon Y.S. Wu, who got through Princeton University with "gentleman's C's" and went on to become one of Hong Kong's richest developers, is donating $100 million to his alma mater. "I feel very proud to be able to do this today," the 59-year-old Wusaid yester- day. "Please work hard to make sure that Princeton in the 21st century will still remain a top-notch university, and don't let it go down the drain." The donation, which goes toward Princeton's engineering school, is the largest ever for the Ivy League univer- sity and one of the biggest in the history of U.S. education. Wu, whose Hopewell Holdings Ltd. has vast interests in China and South- east Asia, received his bachelor's de- gree in civil engineering in 1958. Wu said he decided in his junioryear thathe would make a million dollars, his me- diocre grades notwithstanding. "I was what they call a gentleman's C student," he said. He has already given more than $12 million to Princeton, where two of his four children have gone to school. Wu has designed and developed more than 100 buildings, including his head- quarters, the 66-story Hopewell Center, " Please work hard to make sure that Princeton in the 21st century will still remain a top-notch university." - Gordon Y.S. Wu Princeton alum 4 AP PHOTO Former White House counsel Uoyd Cutler conceded yesterday he was wrong when he said the White House had been cleared in the Whitewater investigation. Cutler a ftshe W 1Nb u ethics assessmen which was Hong Kong's tallest building for 10 years. His current projects includ- ing a mass transit system in Bangkok, Thailand, and amultibillion-dollarpower plant in Pakistan. The $100 million includes pledges of $65 million in cash, to be received be- tween now and the year 2000, and $35 million in matching grants. The money will go to the university's endowment for use by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Dean James Wei said it will be used to improve facilities, attract top faculty members and provide scholarships for students. Wu said he realized when he gradu- ated that the $850 annual tuition paid by the school's 13 engineering students in 1958 covered only a fraction of the sala- ries of the 15 engineering professors. "I was taking a tremendous subsidy from the people who have come to Princeton before, and it would only be right" to reciprocate, he said. The biggest gift to an American school was made to New York Univer- sity in 1994 by Sir Harold Acton. His donation, valued by the university at more than $125 million, includes a 57- acre Italian estate and a collection of Renaissance art. In 1993, publishing magnate Walter Annenberg made twin$120million cash donations to the University of Pennsyl- vania and the University of Southern California. Former Coca-Cola chairman Robert W. Woodruff gave $105 million worth of stock to Emory University in 1979. A 1981 gift of stock and gas and oil royalties by Claude B. Pennington to Louisiana State University could reach $125 million when the full amount is received. . ยข .., ..* The Washington Post WASHINGTON - Former White House counsel Lloyd Cutler conceded yesterday he had been wrong when he toldCongress last yearthe White House had been cleared by government ethics lawyers investigating leaks to the ad- ministration about the Whitewater probe. - Armed with a letter from Stephen D. Potts, director of the Office of Govern- ment Ethics, Republicans on the Senate Whitewater committee forced Cutler to admit he had "transgressed" in declar- ing during 1994 testimony to Congress that the ethics office agreed with his assessment that White House aides had violated no ethics rules. The ethics office did not evaluate the conduct of White House aides, Potts said, and his office "did not 'informally concur,"' as Cutler testified, that no ethical standards were violated. During the much-publicized 1994 congres- sional Whitewater hearings, a bevy of top White House aides repeated Cutler's claim in defending their actions. "I may have gone too far when I testified before this committee," Cutler said. White House officials used Cutler's assertions as a shield to defend their actions in obtaining confidential infor- mation about the Whitewater investi- gation from political appointees at the Treasury Department, who themselves had learned about it from supposedly independent federal regulators. Cutler's assurance that the ethics of- fice had sanctioned their behavior "was like getting the Good Housekeeping seal of approval," which White House aides paraded before Congress, said committee Chairman Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.). "I can't be responsible for the en- largement of what I said by anyone else," Cutler responded. D'Amato and Sen. Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C.) contended the fruits of an in- dependent investigation by the ethics office were co-opted by Cutler's paral- lel review for use by the White House political apparatus. Cutler and White House lawyer Jane Sherburne defended the integrity of the report on the White House-Treasury contacts they made to the President. They denied using preparation of the report as a means to facilitate collabo- ration among the Clinton aides who were being called before Congress around the same time to account for their actions. The report concluded that White House aides sought information about civil, and criminal Whitewater investi- gations simply to respond to expected news inquiries. Committee Democrats complained that Republicans spent three days of hearings hashing over minuscule questions ofpro- cedure and that neither Cutler's review nor congressional testimony by White House aides was compromised. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) said the committee was lost in a "hall of mirrors ... in an investigation of an investigation of an investigation." Republicans presented new details about how the White House prepared forthe 1994 hearings, aprocessinwhich aides "substantially altered their testi- mony so it would not be contradicted," D'Amato said. Cutler acknowledged that he had tran- scripts of depositions from some White House and Treasury aides that he used in going back to reinterview some White House aides. UN. tribunal charges Serb soldiers with war crimes The Washington Post PARIS - A U.N. tribunal charged three senior Yugoslav army officers with crimes against humanity yester- day for complicity in the mass execu- tion of more than 260 men who were removed from a hospital in eastern Croatia in November 1991. The indictments accuse the three of- ficers of being responsible for the at- tack and occupation ofVukovar, a city near the Serbian border that was devas- tated by the Serb-led Yugoslav army after a bloody siege. The three men are the first Yugoslav army officers to be charged with war crimes by the international criminal tri- bunal for the former Yugoslavia, which was established in The Hague two years ago by the U.N. Security Council. The indictments appeared to bring investigators closer to Serbian Presi- dent Slobodan Milosevic, who has been accused of masterminding the violent quest for a "Greater Serbia" but lately has emerged as a key player in the search for a peace settlement. Chief Prosecutor Richard Gold- stone of South Africa said in a recent interview that in the absence of an effective "paper trail," he was deter- mined to follow a strategy of moving up the chain of command to find those ultimately responsible on all sides for crimes against humanity committed in the Balkan wars. Goldstone said he would not be de- terred either by continued fighting Allegations stem from November '91 ki lligsi among the warring Bosnian Serbs, Croats and Muslims or by delicate ne- gotiationsto reach a lasting peace agree- ment that are now taking place under American supervision in Dayton, Ohio. "These are matters that will not af- fect the decisions that we take, but they may affect how well we are able to do the job," Goldstone said. "We are inter- ested in building up a body of legal evidence, regardless of the political consequences."~ The charges brought yesterday date back to the fierce six-month war that broke out in Croatia after Serb separat- ists rebelled against the country's June 25, 1991, secession from the Yugoslav federation. The Croatian Serbs, backed by the Yugoslav army, captured about one-third of the country, including a mountainous swath along the Bosnian border known as the Krajina region and the oil-rich Eastern Slavonia section along the Serbian border that includes Vukovar and is the last part of Croatia still in Serb hands., The indictments accuse soldiers of the Belgrade-based Guards Brigade of the Yugoslav army, under the corn- mand of the three Serb officers -- Col. a Mile Mrksic, Capt. Miroslav Radic and Maj. Velelin Sljivancanin - ofremov- ing 261 non-Serb men from the Vukovar hospital and transporting them to a farm building in Ovcara, two miles from Vukovar, where they were beaten for several hours.b Later, the prisoners -described in the indictments as "wounded patients, hospital staff, soldiers and Croatian political activists" - were taken in groups of 10 to 20 to a site near the farm where Yugoslav soldiers and Serb para- military gunmen under Mrksic's com- mand shot and killed them. After the killings, their bodies were buried by a bulldozer in a mass grave at Ovcara. Tribunal spokesman Christian Chartier said all relevant documents .. had beenstransmitted to the Belgrade. government with a request that the three officers be arrested and turned over to the tribunal to stand trial. Mrksic is now the top commander of the Croatian Serb forces, while Sljivancanin commands" an army brigade based in Montenegro, - the small southern republic thattogether with Serbia forms the current Yugoslav federation. The third officer, Radic, is,:, believed to be stationed in Serbia. Up to now, Belgrade has refused to recognize the tribunal or cooperate with its proceedings. ?liowing crash, U.S. safety board -equests pilot perfonmnance ratings WASHINGTON (AP)-The airline dustry should develop a system for >llecting and sharing information on lot 'performance, the National Trans- >rtation Safety Board said yesterday. The recommendation follows aboard iling; Oct. 24 blaming a fatal 1994 ash on a pilot hired by an airline that d not know he had been recommended >r dismissal by another carrier. Fifteen people died in the North Caro- na crash of an American Eagle turbo- op last Dec. 13 that the board has amed on errors by pilot Michael atrick Hillis. The board said that a contributing ctor was the failure of airline man- ement to identify and remedy prob- 'ms in pilot performance and training. Hillis was hired by Flagship Airline, Aerating as American Eagle, after be- ig recommended for dismissal by an- her airline, Comair. Flagship was not aware ofthat recommendation or Hillis' training problems, investigators found. The board delayed issuing some of its recommendations at the time of the ruling on probable cause because of concerns about how information on pi- lots would be handled. It finally issued four recommendations yesterday. The proposals call on all airlines and private pilot training facilities to collect and maintain standardized information on pilot skills, abilities, knowledge and judgment. This material should be provided to the Federal Aviation Administration for storage and distribution, the board said. And it said airlines should be required to obtain this data from the FAA when evaluating applicants. To protect privacy,.permission from pilots would be needed for release of the information, the NTSB said. Walt Coleman, president of the Re- gional Airline Association, issued a statement saying his group supports the intent of the recommendations and will work with federal regulators to improve employee background information. The North Carolina crash was the fourth fatal accident the board has in- vestigated involving airlines not hav- ing all crew performance records on problem pilots, said NTSB Chairman Jim Hall. The accidents involved 72 deaths. In some cases, airlines failed to seek out pilot background, and in one earlier case, a pilot lied to get a job, Hall reported. Hillis, 29, had once been recom- mended for dismissal at Cincinnati- based Comair, but was allowed to re- sign, safety investigators learned. A fellow pilot there said he was concerned that Hillis would "freeze up or get tun- nel vision" in an emergency. '95 UM-OSU Blood Battle Save a life! Beat OS-U! 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