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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, December 3, 1998
Nation/World
Weather threatens shuttle liftoff
NASA's Endeavour faces rain and possible delays
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Lousy weather forecast on both sides of the Atlantic threatened to delay the liftoff Thursday of NASA's first space station construction flight.
Clouds and rain were expected to move ashore, possibly forcing NASA to scrub space shuttle Endeavour's predawn launch with the first American-built piece of the international space station.
What's more, cloudy skies and fog are forecast for the emergency landing sites in Spain and Morocco. NASA will not launch unless at least one of these sites is usable.
"Basically, whether we get off the ground with respect to weather is going to be a crap shoot," shuttle weatherman Ed Priselac said Wednesday.
The flight is already a year late because of a cash crunch in Russia, one of NASA's chief partners on the space station project.
The entire space station project promises to be the most difficult undertaking since the Apollo moon landings nearly 30 years ago.
Despite the dismal forecast, dignitaries from around the world gathered to see Endeavour and its crew of six off. Most were representatives of the 16 countries participating in the space station effort. The guest list included Secretary of State Madeline Albright.
our confidence in each other."
"We're not testing just hardware as part of this program," said Mikhail Sinelshikov, a Russian space official. "We're testing our relationship very much and our mutual trust and
Two weeks ago, the Russians put the first piece of the space station into orbit.
it's going to start out kind of small, but it's going to grow to the size of a football field," said Endeavour's commander. Robert Cabana.
During Endeavour's 12-day flight, the astronauts will use the shuttle robot arm to capture the Russian piece and attach it to the American component. Then, two astronauts will perform three spacewalks to hook up all the electrical connections and cables between the two cylinders.
In all, more than 100 components weighing 1 million pounds are to be launched over the next five years, requiring 45 U.S. and Russian flights.
Unity should have been put in orbit last December, but station assembly was put on hold because of Russia's economic crisis.
Clinton investigation to see fund-raising memos
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Reversing course, a federal judge gave permission to House impeachment
investigators to read secret Justice Department memos that detail evidence of alleged fundraising irregularities in President Clinton's 1996 campaign.
U. S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson said one Republican and one Democrat from the House Judiciary Committee staff will be permitted to see the memos written by FBI Director Louis Freeh and prosecutor Charles LaBella.
Clinton: is accused of breaking fundraising limitations.
Johnson's written order said it was "in the public interest that this
limited disclosure be made" to impeachment investigators from the 2-year-old grand jury investigation into fund raising. Johnson said she was granting the second version of the Justice Department's request to give the material to the committee.
The staff members will not be allowed to copy or take notes from the memos and can report their contents only to Rep. Henry Hyde, R-III., the committee chairman, and Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, senior Democrat on the panel, the judge said. Those limits, she said, were suggested by the Justice Department.
Attorney General Janet Reno said after the ruling that her department has "attempted to work with Congress in every way possible, consistent with the law. Our efforts sought to balance the committee's constitutional responsibilities with the needs of law enforcement. We feel that today's court order, granting our motion, has achieved
a iust balance."
The decision earlier this week by Republican impeachment investigators to veer into the fund-raising allegations against the president drew sharp Democratic criticism today. The White House called on House Republican leaders to "step up and figure out a way to get this thing resolved expeditiously."
White House press secretary Joe Lockhart complained that outgoing Speaker Newt Gingrich and incoming Speaker Bob Livingston don't want to touch the impeachment process, leaving it in the hands of Hyde.
Republican and Democratic committee sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the panel plans to convene final impeachment hearings Tuesday that would end Friday or Saturday of next week.
Johnson's ruling gave the Judiciary Committee access to four internal memos from the fund-raising probe:
Freeh's memo to Reno on Nov. 24,1997. Freeh has acknowledged that memo recommended a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton's fund-raising.
A July 16 interim report and an Aug. 12, 1998, addendum from LaBella and James DeSarno, the prosecutor and FBI agent who oversaw the campaign fund-raising task force. LaBella, too, urged appointment of a special prosecutor.
A memo from Lee Radek, chief of public integrity in the Justice Department, that reviewed the LaBella and DeSarno interim report.
An Aug. 25 memo by James Robinson, an assistant attorney general, analyzing the LaBella-Dearno report.
Boeing employees in Wichita at risk of losing jobs in '99
The Associated Press
WICHITA - Some of the 21,000 Boeing workers are going to feel the pain of job cuts that company officials are blaming on the Asian economic crisis.
Just how many Wichita jobs will be affected by the 20 percent reduction in the Boeing Co. work force is unknown, a representative said. Boeing officials planned to announce further details today.
In St. Louis, none of the 22,000 boeing jobs are expected to be cut because that plant works on military rather than commercial projects, representative Denny Kline said. The plant, with about 22,000 workers, produces the F-15 Eagle, F/A-18 Hornet, AV-8B Harrier, and T4-A5 Goshawk jets.
Seattle-based Boeing on Tuesday announced it would cut 20,000 jobs company-wide, on top of the 28,000 layoffs announced in July. In all, Boeing is reducing its work force by 48,000 jobs, a 20 percent drop from the high level of 238,000 reached in June of this year.
"I think this downturn in production will touch us, given that we make the front end of the 777, 747 and 757," said Dick Ziegler, communications manager for Boeing Wichita.
Those three commercial lines were the focus of the job cuts announced at company headquarters in Seattle.
Because the Wichita plant
builds components that are shipped to the company's Seattle assembly plants, the production cuts — and probably some of the layoffs — are expected to be felt in Wichita first.
"We are going to feel it, although to what extent and how severe it's going to be we have yet to determine," Ziegler said. "I also want to let you know that this does not mean we are not staying absolutely as busy as the dickens, because we are."
So far, fewer than 100 Boeing Wichita employees have been notified that they are likely to be laid off early next year. A small number of surplus notices, an early warning that a person may be laid off, were sent out Nov. 25, with more expected to be issued Dec. 18.
Most of the job cuts to date have come from administrative and engineering positions.
Ziegler said any new cuts in Wichita would be in addition to the earlier-announced plans to eliminate 2,000 jobs by the end of 1999.
"That was based on several things, not the least of which is the need to refine the process and do more with less," he said.
Ziegler said Boeing new employs about 21,500 in Wichita, higher than a year ago but below the 24,200 reached in 1989. Economic downturns took that number down to 13,800 by the mid-'90s.
World economy faces risk of recession
Stock market drops; recession in Japan could cause slump
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The world economy still faces a substantial risk that it could plunge into recession next year rather than experience sluggish growth, the World Bank said Wednesday.
Events that could cause a slump, a new report said, include a worsening recession in Japan, a loss of investor confidence that could halt the flow of international capital to developing countries, especially in Latin America, and a 20- to 30percent plunge in stock markets in wealthy nations.
The lending institution made these observations in its annual economic roundup that focuses on the developing countries and their experiences with the economic crises that began in Asia 17 months ago and then spread to Russia and Latin America.
In addition to forecasting growth rates for developing countries, the report also deals with why the crisis had such a
damaging effect, even in countries with sound economies, and prevention of future shocks by the international community.
With the frequency and cost of global crises rising, remedies need to be devised and applied swiftly, said Joseph Stiglitz, the bank's chief economist.
"When there is an isolated accident on the road, one tends to blame the driver," Stiglitz said. "But when accidents occur repeatedly at the same bend in the curve one begins to suspect something is wrong in the road.
"This report is devoted to understanding precisely what is wrong with the road and how we can make it safer, both for the countries and especially the poorest within them and how best to respond to the accidents that inevitably will occur."
According to the report, growth in developing countries is expected to diminish to 2 percent in 1998 from 4.8 percent in 1997, the worst slowdown in 30 years for these nations.
"Although 1999 is likely to be another year of slow growth in developing countries their situation could improve in 2000 and following years when their per capita growth could return to the 3.5 percent pace of recent
years," the report said.
The report said that in Indonesia, South Korea and Thailand, the three Asian countries hardest hit by the crisis, unemployment is expected to more than triple, while the number of people forced into poverty could reach 25 million in Indonesia and Thailand alone.
These countries and some other economies in Asia are unlikely to witness a revival of the booming growth rates they recorded earlier in the decade.
"Following their deep crisis, East Asian economies are unlikely to return to their extremely rapid growth rates of the early 1990s but recover to more moderately strong growth, with more reliance on productivity gains and less on high investment," the bank said.
The report said world economic growth in 1998 is expected to be 1.8 percent this year, down from 3.8 percent in 1997 with only a modest recovery to 1.9 percent in 1999.
But the report also includes a worst-case scenario that shows the global economy displaying no growth in 1999, with contraction in Japan and the United States offset only by a modest expansion in Europe.
Palestinians beat soldier; Israel stops troop withdrawal
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Stung by a vicious attack on an Israeli soldier, the government announced Wednesday it was suspending further troop withdrawals until Palestinians comply with a list of demands — including publicly abandoning plans to declare a state in May.
Palestinian officials rejected the demands outright and charged that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was looking for excuses to knock the peace process off track.
In Washington, the Clinton administration was sharply critical of the new Israeli conditions and said the accord "should be implemented as signed."
The Israeli government said its decision was prompted in part by the attack on the soldier and a civilian earlier in the day by a Palestinian mob in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
"The Palestinian Authority is encouraging acts of violence, such as today's brutal attack in Ramallah, in an attempt to pressure Israel with regard to the matter of the prisoners" the Palestinians want released, Netanyahu said in a statement.
The decision came only 10 days before President Clinton was to arrive in the region to usher in the second stage of the Wye River land-
State Department representative James P. Rubin said the pullback was an obligation and, in a statement aimed at Netanyahu, added: "We do not think it is appropriate to add new conditions."
for-security agreement he helped negotiate in October.
The Israeli announcement raised questions about whether the Clinton trip could take place while Israel was holding up the agreement.
In the ambush in Ramallah, dozens of Palestinian university students waited at a traffic circle, screening cars. Once they found what they wanted, a hail of stones hit a targeted vehicle, smashing its windows.
A young Israeli soldier was dragged out of the car and, as he cowered on the pavement, was struck repeatedly on the head with rocks.
Captured by cameras, the attack was shown again and on Israeli television, making some Israelis wonder if the Palestinian Authority really was trying to control violence like it pledged to in the land-for-peace agreement
Hours later, rioting throughout traditionally Arab east Jerusalem continued, with masked Palestinians throwing stones at cars and blocking roads with burning tires. Jerusalem police representative Shmuel Ben Ruby said five Palestinians were arrested for throwing
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stones that shattered a bus window and injured the driver.
Israel and the Palestinian Authority blamed each other for the violence.
Netanyahu's senior adviser, David Bill-Ilan, said the Palestinian Authority has incited residents against Israel in the dispute about the release of Palestinian prisoners.
A statement from Netanyahu's office said the Palestinians must acknowledge that Israel did not agree to release Palestinian prisoners who have committed acts against Israel.
In the Wye agreement, Israel promised to release 750 Palestinian prisoners' by January. In a first stage last month, it freed 250 prisoners, but most were criminals, not those held for anti-Israeli activities as the Palestinian Authority had expected.
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