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Clinton urges Israeli-Palestinian pact
QUEENSTOWN, Md. (AP) - President Clinton opened Mideast summit talks yesterday telling Israeli and Palestinian leaders a peace agreement requires compromise and some risk. "There is hard work ahead," he declared.
With West Bank security the key, a U.S. plan aimed at uprooting terrorists took center stage as Clinton launched the discussions with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House and then resumed them at a secluded retreat on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
Campus experts: Miracles unlikely
With years of broken pacts and promises in the Israeli and Palestinian peace accords, University experts said they do not believe any major breakthroughs will occur at the negotiations held yesterday and continuing through the weekend in the Washington, D.
Computer items top theft in A.A.
You can't live without it. It's where you store all of your information. So what would you do if it was stolen?
According to the Ann Arbor Police Department, $681,730 in computers and accessories were stolen in the city in 1997, making it the top personal item stolen in Ann Arbor.
Group works for cancer awareness
Members of University Students Against Cancer passed out pink ribbons and information on the Diag yesterday for Breast Cancer Awareness Day.
"We made 2,000 ribbons and there is one left - we didn't think there would be such a great interest," said Jennifer Mirisciotti, an LSA senior and USAC member.
Schembechler defends former player: Former coach makes plea to Parole Board
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) - Former Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler asked the state Parole Board yesterday to release former player Michael Guy Smith, imprisoned under a life-without-parole drug law.
"I was crushed when Michael Smith was arrested," Schembechler told Parole Board Chairperson Stephen Marschke. "This is not a criminal."
Congress, White House reach budget agreement
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House and congressional leaders struck agreement yesterday on a $500 billion spending package showering money on school systems, farmers and the Pentagon, ending a week of election-season budget brinkmanship.
Liver virus spread through transfusions
WASHINGTON - Thousands of people will soon open their mailboxes to find warnings that they may have caught the dangerous liver virus hepatitis C from blood transfusions before 1992. It's the first step in a long-awaited government attack on a hidden epidemic.
Lebanon's military head voted president
CAIRO, Egypt - With unanimous approval in parliament, Lebanon's popular army commander was elected president yesterday. But the most important vote had been already been cast - by Syrian President Hafez Assad.
Syria has exercised an unofficial, although universally recognized, suzerainty over Lebanon since 1990. And Assad gave Gen. Emile Lahoud the nod last week from Damascus.
'U' work-study students teach literacy
Work-study became linked to President Clinton's initiatives in 1997 when Clinton initiated the America Reads Challenge.
America Reads Challenge is a work-study option for students in the University's work-study programs who are interested in tutoring children in kindergarten through third grade.
Universities deal with computer-aided cheating
The University, along with higher education institutions nationwide, is learning to cope with a new threat to academic integrity - students plagiarizing material from the World Wide Web. Informational Technology Division Director of Policy Virginia Rezmierski said students and faculty should follow the state copyright regulations and well as those of the University to prevent cheating.
Regents discuss concerns at Flint
Students on the University of Michigan-Flint campus could be spotted studying outside on tables and on the campus' green areas yesterday, just as students in Ann Arbor did. Students on the Flint campus ate and relaxed with friends in the campus' University Pavilion yesterday, just as students in Ann Arbor ate and relaxed in the Michigan Union.
Notes: Research samples stolen from Kresge Center
Valuable research samples were stolen from the Kresge Medical Research Center on Saturday afternoon, Department of Public Safety reports state. Someone allegedly broke into the research lab and stole samples that were stored in the refrigerator.
Project Vote Smart releases test results
LANSING (AP) - Project Vote Smart played 40 questions with state political candidates to test their political accountability. The results: Michigan politicians largely scored above the national average.
The state's gubernatorial candidates - Republican Gov. John Engler and Democratic candidate Geoffrey Fieger - both responded, giving a 100-percent participation rate. The national average is 80 percent, said Richard Kimball, executive director.
Case against human rights group dropped
LANSING (AP) - Michigan's attorney general's office yesterday said it doesn't plan to pursue its case against a human rights group that refused to provide the state with information on the alleged abuse of female prison inmates.
The attorney general's office had issued a subpoena against New York-based Human Rights Watch asking for information the group used to prepare a report alleging rampant sexual abuse at Michigan's two women's prisons.
Teen pregnancy rate on the decline
DETROIT (AP) - Michigan's teen birth rate fell 16 percent over five years, and the Michigan Department of Community Health is crediting a statewide campaign to persuade youngsters to abstain from sex for the drop.
The birth rate for Michigan girls and women ages 15 through 19 stood at 47.5 per 1,000 in 1996, the latest year for which figures are available, the department said yesterday.
Yugoslav army allows monitoring of withdraw
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - NATO signed a deal yesterday with the Yugoslav army, allowing spy planes to monitor the military's compliance in withdrawing troops from Kosovo so ethnic Albanian refugees can return to their villages.
Hyde defends impeachment investigation
Hyde (R-Ill.) defended his inquiry at a Chicago Bar Association luncheon, where he was touted even by die-hard Democrats as someone who will give President Clinton a fair shake. But praise was not everywhere. The president of the National Organization for Women needled Hyde in his own back yard about his decades-old extramarital affair.
Glenn's flight offers link for space studies
From the very outset of the space age, scientists and physicians worried about how the human body would react to the weightless environment. Some worried that astronauts' eyeballs would lose shape, affecting their vision, or that the space travelers would have trouble swallowing food.
Friday Focus: Code Blue
On a monumental day in the history of the Code of Student Conduct, 1,000 students staged a protest at the Fleming Administration Building and marched to former University President James Duderstadt's house. As they chanted, they set up a podium on his front porch.
10-16-98
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