Israeli troops kill 1 Palestinian, wound 12
JERUSALEM - One Palestinian was killed and 12 others were injured yesterday when Israeli troops fired on demonstrators protesting plans to expand a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. The incident was the first serious outbreak of violence between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank since September, when more than 75 people died in gun battles that plunged the Middle East peace process into crisis.
Bollinger may visit campus tomorrow
If everything goes as planned, Lee Bollinger will be on campus tomorrow to formally accept the position of University president. Vice President for University Relations Walter Harrison said last night that the University is in the process of negotiating a final contract with Bollinger.
Mich. court: Athletes can't sue colleges
LANSING - The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled in a case involving a former University gymnast that Michigan's public universities cannot be sued by college athletes over injuries. The court's 3-0 ruling, released Thursday, said intercollegiate athletics is a governmental function, which makes universities immune from lawsuits.
'U' club drops in on senior citizens
The members of the Riverview Nursing Home received a pleasant change yesterday afternoon when the usual Sunday routine was broken and the University's Pre-Med Club gave residents an ice cream social. With decorations following a red-white-and-blue theme to mark Veterans' Day today, about 10 students served ice cream to some 65 residents. While some students played board games and cards with the residents, others just chatted with them.
Group criticizes Hospitals' reductions
Concerned health-care workers, union representatives and citizens gathered Saturday to discuss the future of health care and the effects of budget cuts at University Hospitals.
Citizens for Quality Health Care, an ad-hoc group of about 25, discussed issues including the possibility of privatization of University Hospitals and the impact of managed care health plans on the public and on health-care employees.
Army sex charges spark controversy
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. - The phones began to ring about 4 p.m. Thursday, as soon as the Army announced rape and sexual harassment charges against three military trainers here and broadcast a toll-free hot line for alleged victims to report abuse. The calls came in waves, cresting with each television news report displaying the number. By 4 yesterday afternoon, 1,697 people had called the hot line, and Army officials said they were still analyzing the calls for patterns.
Week aims to increase alcohol awareness
Students will see first-hand the wrangled mess caused by drunk-driving accidents as they stroll through the Diag on Wednesday. This sobering display serves as an annual reminder of the ill effects of substance abuse. The crashed car is one of the many presentations and activities occurring in the next week as part of the University's annual Alcohol Awareness Week.
Students look to change cities by urban planning
To get students excited about urban planning and to reinforce the interest of students who may enter a career in the planning field, the urban and regional planning program sponsored a "Career Exploration Day" on Saturday. "We are trying to expose more undergraduates to urban planning and show them what it is all about," said urban planning Prof. Robert Marans, who is chair of the program. The weekend event, at the Art and Architecture Building on North Campus, attracted more than 40 students.
Greeks hit the streets to clean up for winter season
Nearly 150 people from nine Greek houses met at Phi Delta Gamma fraternity this Saturday - and the surrounding Oxbridge community may never look the same. Saturday was "Oxbridge Neighborhood Association/Fraternity Service Day," an outreach program organized by University fraternities and sororities to help the surrounding community. Greek members spent the day cleaning up local parks and preparing homes for the winter months.
Muslims celebrate heritage
Students who have always dreamed of being on "Jeopardy" will have the opportunity to test their brainpower this week. "Islamic Jeopardy" kicks off Islam Awareness Week today in the basement of the Michigan Union, testing students' knowledge and giving them new information. The question-and-answer game will run during the day through Wednesday in the common area across from the Michigan Union Ticket Office.
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Mich. Vietnam Memorial still short on funds
LANSING (AP) - Last November, Keith King vowed another holiday honoring America's veterans would not pass without visible progress toward a Michigan Vietnam memorial. But today's Veterans Day comes without ground being broken or even bank accounts bulging with donations for the eight-year-old dream.
Groups say to give wisely to charities
FLINT (AP) - As many charities prepare for their annual fund-raising drives, watchdog agencies are warning consumers to give wisely. "It's very easy to get fooled if you don't ask the right questions," Marion Gorton, administrator of the state Attorney General's Charitable Trust Section, told The Flint Journal recently.
Dole's campaign may be the last of WWII generation
LAFAYETTE, La. - As a photo op, it didn't quite rival Boris Yeltsin doing the twist. But it still was a sight to behold: Staid Bob Dole, short on sleep and hoarse of voice, shedding enough of his Midwestern reticence to get down and boogie, sort of.
Clinton says budget should be balanced
WASHINGTON - President Clinton declared yesterday that if he "could do one thing'' in his second term it would be to balance the federal budget, an accomplishment that has eluded every chief executive for nearly three decades but one that Clinton pronounced "easily achievable.'' Clinton said he believes a plan to eliminate the deficit can be passed within the first year of his second term, although he did not set a date by which the budget could be balanced and offered no details other than insisting that such a budget include two of his campaign pledges: tax incentives for college tuition and expanded health care coverage for the uninsured.
Debate rises over whether aid helped Rwanda
KIGALI, Rwanda - From the start, aid agencies knew the Rwandan refugee crisis of 1994 was an extraordinary one. There were the numbers: 1.1 million Hutus, Rwanda's ethnic majority, streamed into eastern Zaire in just a few days, seeking to escape reprisals after carrying out a campaign to wipe out the minority Tutsi tribe.
Bomb kills 13 in Moscow cemetery
MOSCOW - A remote-controlled bomb set off at a crowded memorial service in a Moscow cemetery killed 13 people and wounded two dozen others yesterday in what police and news reports described as a war among criminal gangs over rich, tax-exempt social funds. Although contract killings and Mafia feuds have become commonplace here in recent years, the attack was the single most deadly act of violence in the city in recent memory.
Decoded cables shed light on history of Holocaust
WASHINGTON - The date was July 18, 1941, less than a month after Nazi Germany's blitzkrieg attack on the Soviet Union. As was his custom, the German commander in the western Soviet republic of Belarus provided his superiors in Berlin with a daily update of the activities of the men under his command.
Pyres burn in India after cyclone
AMALAPURAM, India (AP) - At a makeshift crematorium on the edge of what remained of a coconut grove, Guruva Swamy lit a heap of car and bicycle tires under his father's body. Firewood is too scarce and expensive to build proper funeral pyres in this southern Indian coastal region, where a cyclone last week killed at least 1,000 people and destroyed homes, crops and livestock. Another 1,000 people were missing and presumed dead.
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