Fraud investigation targets student: Alum's records allegedly lifted from 'U' office
A student who worked in the University's Office of the Registrar is being implicated in a federal crime for the fradulent use of alumni records.
The employee allegedly tapped into the University's records and used at least one alum's social security number to apply for an Ameritech calling card.
Regents to review hospitals, athletics
The University Board of Regents holds its first meetings of the semester today and tomorrow, and while the issues haven't changed much, a new leader sits at the head of the table.
"If there's any change from where students left off, the most noticeable element will be the presence of Dr. (Homer) Neal as president of the University," said Regent Rebecca McGowan (D-Ann Arbor).
Voice Your Vote campaign urges students to have a say
Students across campus are offering the latest in election year barters - a political voice for a vote.
Voice Your Vote, a non-partisan organization developed on campus in anticipation of the '96 election, has released its soldiers on the Diag, in the residence halls and all over campus to register University students. The deadline to register for the Nov. 5 election is Oct. 5.
FDA set to approve French abortion pill
WASHINGTON - The controversial French "abortion pill" moved a giant step closer to final approval yesterday.
The Food and Drug Administration officially declared that mifepristone - also known as RU-486 - is safe and effective, and said it can approve the drug once its sponsor, the New York-based Population Council, provides additional information on such issues as manufacturing practices and labeling.
N. Korean crewmen found dead in vessel
TOKYO - Before dawn yesterday, a small North Korean submarine foundered in the surf off the rugged and remote eastern coast of South Korea. What followed was one of the strangest and bloodiest days in the recent history of the two bitter enemy nations that share the divided Korean peninsula.
Feature photo: Strung along
Doctors: Leukemia killed Agnew
BALTIMORE - Former Vice President Spiro Agnew's death was caused by acute leukemia, a cancer of the blood and blood-making organs that apparently went undiagnosed until the end, his doctors said yesterday.
Agnew died Tuesday evening after being rushed to a hospital in Berlin, a few miles west of his vacation home in Ocean City. Acquaintances said he had seen a doctor earlier in the day after complaining of feeling ill.
Ex-death squad head accused of knowing activities
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Eugene de Kock, one of the apartheid era's most notorious assassins, accused former President Frederik de Klerk yesterday of deliberately lying when he denied even knowing about government death squads operating in the run-up to the 1994 democratic elections.
College Republicans draw local pols, campus activists
After several years of dwindling membership, the University's chapter of the College Republicans pulled in more than 140 students to its first mass meeting last night in the Chemistry Building.
Regent candidate urges student activism, pride
Mike Bishop promises to effectively represent undergraduates if elected to the University Board of Regents.
The Bloomfield Hills attorney and regent candidate delivered this message to more than 140 listeners at a mass meeting of the University's chapter of the College Republicans last night.
Research Notes
Bush raises funds for Romney
About 90 people paid $1,000 each for a breakfast buffet of cold cereal, fresh fruit, sweet rolls and tidbits from Bush about why Romney should beat Democratic incumbent Carl Levin.
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What's happening in Ann Arbor today
Perry takes personal responsibility for inattention in Gulf
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary William Perry took personal responsibility yesterday for the leadership failures that left a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia vulnerable to terrorist attack in June.
City accused of targeting Hispanics with zoning rule
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) - Like the Slavic, Lithuanian and Armenian immigrants before them, many Hispanic families arriving in Waukegan double up on living arrangements until they get on their feet. A sister lives in the basement with her kids, or Grandma stays home to baby sit while the parents work. Upstairs rooms are rented out to help make ends meet.
More companies testing for drug use
WASHINGTON - The sign taped to the front window of the Home Depot in suburban Alexandria, Va., delivers a warning to job-seekers. "We test all applicants for illegal drugs," the placard reads in bold orange letters. "If you use drugs, don't bother to apply."
Govt. reports child abuse rising in U.S. cities
WASHINGTON - The federal government yesterday reported an alarming increase in the incidence of child abuse and neglect in this country, relying on a comprehensive study designed to go beyond the number of officially reported cases in measuring one of the nation's most severe social problems.
Dole criticizes films for glorifying heroin abuse
WEST HILLS, Calif. - Bob Dole, who is making teen drug use a defining issue of his campaign, scolded the entertainment industry yesterday for glorifying heroin and slammed President Clinton for showing "moral confusion" on drug issues.
Clinton pronounces canyons national monuments
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) - Siding with environmentalists in one of the nation's biggest wilderness battles, President Clinton declared 1.7 million acres of southern Utah's red-rock cliffs and canyons as a national monument yesterday.
Perot protests exclusion from upcoming presidential debates
SAN FRANCISCO - An angry Ross Perot yesterday called his exclusion from the upcoming presidential debates "a major setback ... for democracy and the rights of voters," and sarcastically suggested that America ask "Bosnia and Haiti to send poll-watchers to help us clean up the election process."
Texas man executed quickly
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A man convicted 10 months ago of killing his former boss was executed by injection yesterday in the nation's speediest death sentence since Gary Gilmore in 1977.
Baltimore drug dealers use ground meat in trafficking
BALTIMORE - A raw scene: On a dark summer night in Curtis Bay, a 1994 Nissan pickup truck with a large cooler in back moves slowly down Pennington Avenue and turns left onto Cypress Street. A line of a half a dozen drug users - women and men - forms. One by one, they deposit their packages in the cooler. A man in the front seat hands out the drugs. The deal is done.
U.S. asks Kurdish warlord for policy aid
WASHINGTON - For the United States, Massoud Barzani committed the ultimate betrayal last month. The Kurdish warlord, with whom U.S. officials renewed high-level contact yesterday, sold out to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein after years and millions of dollars worth of American support - more than any other Iraqi opposition leader.
Japanese charging quickly into debt
TOKYO - At 24, Miyuki, a sweetfaced bookworm, has just applied for bankruptcy protection.
Say "sayonara" to the stereotype of Japan as a nation of compulsive savers. An estimated 10 percent of the population - mostly young people - is deeply in debt.
East Asia plays large evolution role
BEIJING - After yielding Java Man and Peking Man earlier this century, East Asia almost dropped off the map for archaeologists searching for clues to human evolution.
But the region's recent period of peace and stability has allowed archaeologists to start digging again, turning up a series of discoveries that is forcing a fundamental reassessment of how humans evolved. Strands of evidence being gleaned from sites in China and Indonesia during the past two years now suggest that Asia played a bigger role than previously imagined - possibly even giving rise to modern humans, who were thought to have originated in Africa.
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