Pro-Hussein forces take northern Iraq
WASHINGTON - Kurdish forces backed by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein swept into Sulaymaniyah yesterday, effectively extending Baghdad's control over all of northern Iraq for the first time since the United States created a Kurdish haven after the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Sulaymaniyah, the largest Kurdish city with a population of about 1 million, had been the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), which has waged serious battle with the Hussein-backed Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) since last month.
Women in Politics
Women are kicking off their high heels and putting on their walking shoes to hit the campaign trail - but they're still fighting an uphill battle, candidates say. Campaigning on campus yesterday with former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, Rep. Lynn Rivers (D-Ann Arbor) said the climb has gotten easier over the years.
Student camp-out for hockey tickets ends this year
Students who banked on camping out to get the best seats for the upcoming hockey season woke up to a new rule this year.
Netanyahu rejects calls to pull out troops
WASHINGTON - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday rejected calls by the Clinton administration to pull Israeli troops out of Arab-populated areas of the West Bank town of Hebron, while expressing optimism that a formula will soon be found to permit the resumption of peace talks with Syria.
Students say they practice safe sex, monogamy
With all the diverse interests and personalities on campus, it would seem that there would not be one activity that people from every corner of the earth share in common.
U.N. expected to support test-ban treaty
UNITED NATIONS - The General Assembly began a special meeting yesterday that is expected to end with an overwhelming majority of the U.N.'s 185 member states voting to support a worldwide ban on nuclear test blasts.
McDougal reports to jail, vows silence
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - A defiant Susan McDougal reported to jail yesterday morning vowing to keep her silence in the face of prosecutors' questions about the actions of Bill and Hillary Clinton in the Whitewater affair. How long McDougal's silence will last was the question of the day. McDougal and her lawyers have engaged in a shifting legal and public relations strategy over the past week that has taken as many twists as the Ozarks mountain road up to Whitewater.
Gore task force compiles new airline safety regulations
WASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday proposed $1.1 billion in new spending to tighten airline security and fight global terrorism. The request to Congress ties together a number of long-standing anti-terror initiatives and a list of recommendations from a new commission, formed in the aftermath of the July 17 explosion of TWA Flight 800, to find ways to make air travel safer.
TWA recovery on track after delay
SHINNECOCK, N.Y. (AP) - Divers and a giant underwater robot retrieved pieces of fallen TWA Flight 800 on Sunday, the first full day of salvage work after a weeklong delay caused by back-to-back hurricanes. Rough seas whipped up first by Hurricane Edouard, then just days later by Hurricane Fran, calmed earlier than officials had expected.
Survey sees rise in drug tolerance
WASHINGTON - The number of teen-agers expecting to use illegal drugs in the future has doubled since last year, according to a new national survey that also suggests young people and their parents are highly tolerant of drug use. Even though parents and their teen-agers said drugs are the most important problem facing teens today, 22 percent of teen-agers said it is likely they will use an illegal drug in the future - twice the 11 percent found in a similar poll last year.
Cardinal receives civilian honor
WASHINGTON - Chicago's Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who last month revealed he is dying of cancer and is expected to live less than a year, received the nation's highest civilian honor from President Clinton yesterday, while expressing major differences of opinion with the president.
Hurricane Fran leaves signicant crop damage in N.C.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Bill Hubbard looked at the 100-acre swath of flattened, soggy cornstalks, his $50,000 loss a fraction of the crop damage caused by Hurricane Fran as it cut like a scythe across North Carolina.
"This just makes you sick, said Hubbard, whose field should have yielded 10,000 bushels. "When you farm, you always fight Mother Nature, and she's got the upper hand this year."
Fed interest rate hike considered likely
WASHINGTON (AP) - The likelihood that the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates has jumped dramatically following a steep decline in the unemployment rate, in the view of many top economists. That position was bolstered by comments from Fed Governor Laurence Meyer, who pointed to Friday's unemployment report and various other statistics that showed the economy has developed "considerable momentum."
Climate of reason in Chechnya
GROZNY, Russia - One stroll through the destruction of what were once majestic houses, one glimpse of the sorrowful eyes of the widowed and the wounded, one thought about the billions squandered in wrecking and killing, and there would seem no hope here for peace and reconciliation. Yet in the cluttered courtyard where yesterday's combatants are training to be today's police officers, a surreal atmosphere of camaraderie has swiftly replaced wartime contempt between black-hooded Chechen rebels and a fresh contingent of Russian troops.
Crime Notes
MSA travels out of Union office for meeting
To increase student involvement in the political process and to better address minority concerns, the Michigan Student Assembly will meet today at Trotter House, a multicultural center on Washtenaw Avenue. "We are trying to get students out to see the meeting and get involved in the process," said LSA Rep. Dan Serota. "Instead of asking them to come to us, we are going to them."
Small fire in Natural Science Bldg. may affect classes
A small blaze in the Natural Sciences Building last night may affect classes today. Two Ann Arbor Fire Department engines, two ladders, a rescue vehicle and the battalion chief reported to the scene at about 10:15 p.m. last night. Battalion Chief James Breslin, who coordinated the firefighting effort from the median of North University Avenue, said the blaze started in a Natural Sciences Building laboratory.
UAW, Ford enter marathon talks
DETROIT (AP) - The lights will stay on into the night this week at the Glass House - Ford Motor Co.'s world headquarters - as contract talks with the United Auto Workers near Saturday's deadline. Both sides said yesterday that they were hopeful this week's marathon talks would result in a new national agreement for Ford's 105,025 UAW-covered workers by the midnight deadline.
Perot plans to end mystery, announce VP
DETROIT (AP) - Ross Perot will announce his vice presidential running mate tonight - during a 30-minute TV ad. He had said when he accepted the Reform Party's presidential nomination on Aug. 18 that he would announce a running mate soon after Labor Day. But he reportedly has been turned down by several potential choices.
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