Italian diplomat looks to stability after Cold War
Ferdinando Salleo, Italian Ambassador to the United States, spoke on campus yesterday of the need for creative diplomacy to help establish "continental security" in post-cold war Europe.
"The Atlantic Alliance and NATO are in the process of redefining their aims ... from defense to security and crisis management," he said.
Panel stalls on open search amendments
A bill that would let universities search for presidents behind closed doors stalled in a state House committee yesterday in the face of warnings that the best candidates refuse to apply for jobs in Michigan.
State lawmakers got a lot of advice on the subject yesterday, some of it from Regent Philip Power (D-Ann Arbor) and Law School Dean Jeffrey Lehman.
Presidents at home in office, classroom
When University President-select Lee Bollinger returns to Ann Arbor next semester, he will not only be moving into the Fleming Administration Building - he also plans to move into the classroom.
Bollinger, a seasoned scholar on the First Amendment, said he would like to continue teaching a course on the ramifications of the amendment while he is president of the University.
Subway bomb kills 2 in Paris
PARIS - A rush-hour bomb blast in an underground commuter rail station last night killed two people and seriously wounded dozens of others, immediately raising fears that a terrorist bombing campaign last year had been resumed.
As ambulances and armored security vehicles converged on the Port-Royal station on the Boulevard Montparnasse, French authorities called the explosion a criminal attack, and Prime Minister Alain Juppe declared at the scene that he would reactivate a counter-terrorist operation aimed at Muslim militants linked to Algerian opposition factions.
Transplant patient sent home with new heart
Twenty-one-year-old Frederick Anderson went home to Kalamazoo yesterday after spending three weeks recovering from a heart transplant made possible by an artificial heart.
The artificial pumping device preserved his life until a donor heart could be located. Anderson said the device was not too uncomfortable, but it felt a lot different than an ordinary heart.
Senate leader vows fund-raising probe
WASHINGTON - Newly elected Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) pledged yesterday to cooperate with Democrats in the upcoming 105th Congress but immediately declared that the Republican-controlled body must first investigate allegations of illegal fund-raising by the White House.
Appearing at a news conference to trumpet his re-election yesterday as the Senate's top Republican and to showcase his new GOP leadership team, Lott suggested investigations of campaign finance irregularities could dominate both Congress and the White House for the next six months or more.
Gun debate touches on states' powers
WASHINGTON - The oral arguments yesterday were over the Brady handgun law, but the Supreme Court quickly moved to broader questions of how Congress treats the states.
Justice Antonin Scalia dismissed the Clinton administration's defense of the Brady Act, which forces local sheriffs to check the backgrounds of would-be gun buyers, saying the rationale would make states "dance like marionettes on the fingers of the federal government."
Michigan secretary of state to visit Israel to better trade
In a world increasingly referred to as a global village, Candice Miller is trying to raise Michigan's international profile in an effort to build stronger commercial ties.
The Michigan secretary of state is scheduled to travel to Israel from Dec. 7-16, as part of an entourage of government officials from several U.S. states. While there, Miller will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, members of parliament, Israel's chief rabbi and several members of the country's business community.
12 new members get first taste of MSA procedures
At last night's meeting, some members of the Michigan Student Assembly could not find seats around the table and were forced to sit in window sills or stand up.
The lack of seating was caused by the filling of six previously vacant seats.
MSA held two meetings last night: one to bid farewell to the six members leaving the assembly and another to initiate the 12 newly elected representatives.
Renowned author, 'U' prof. Baxter reads from his fiction
Seeking advice on how to get over her lost lover, Kit, a character in a short story titled "The Cures for Love," turned to the Latin writings of the Roman author Ovid.
"I tell you, when you're heartsick ... trust me, get knocked down in public, you'll be helped up," was Ovid's advice.
4 in GM-VW lawsuit seek postponement of criminal case
Attorney Plato Cacheris told a judge in U.S. District Court that he will file motions by Dec. 13 asking that the civil case be delayed against Jose Ignacio Lopez, Jose Manuel Gutierrez, Jorge Alvarez and Rosario Piazza.
All four are under investigation by German authorities in the alleged theft of trade secrets from GM and its German subsidiary, Adam Opel AG. They also are being investigated by a federal grand jury in Detroit, Cacheris said.
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