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Show THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL • SOUTHERN UTAH U.NIVERS1TI • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1998 U.S. DIGEST D O W'S RECORD SETTING TREND D OES NOT CONTINUE: After soaring above 9,000 for the first time ever Monday, the Dow's record stetting trend did not continue yesterday. At late af temoon, the Dow was down as much as 139.75 points, slipping below 8,900 as traders sold shares to take profits on the latest gains and as technology issues continued a retreat. The final nudge to Monday's record was the announced merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group, two financial services .companies. At $82 billion, it could be the biggest business deal ever. MRS. CLINTON URGES FOCUS ON MATERNAL HEALTH: In the time it took Hillary Rodham Clinton to deliver her World Health Day speech, she said, an estimated 15 women died around the globe from pregnancy complications or unsafe abortions. "No woman should ever die in childbirth," Mrs. Clinton declared yesterday, calling for •H:.1ill::::;a.::ra;:y...,.- • renewed global attention to maternal health. Clinton Ne~rly 600,000 women and ~ls_die each year - - -- - while pregnant due to comphcauons, according to the World Health Organization. Mrs. Clinton said simple hygienic handling of mother and baby can save lives at an estimated cost of $3 per person per year. NTSB URGES INSPECTIONS, CHANGES IN BOEING 747 FUEL SYSTEMS: .A government safety agency sa id yesterday that damaged wiring in the fu el monitoring systems of TWA Flight 800 and three retired Boeing 747s "illustrate u nsafe conditions chat may exist in other B-747s," and called fo r inspections as soon as possible. But, the agency stressed that it has not concluded what caused the TWA Flight 800 crash, in wh ich a Boeing 747 blew up killing 230 people. In a statement, the FAA said ic was preparing rules for many of the recommended changes. THE NATION Clinton opens national dialogue on Social Security KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - President Clinton opened what promises to be a years-long national dialogue on the future of Social Security by saying that it would take on.ly relatively small changes - and not a drastic overhaul - to guarantee the program for millions of baby boomers. "We should not abandon a basic program that has been one of the great successes in our nation's history," he said. Clinton told more than 700 Midwesterners from all walks of life at a town meeting yesterday that with the federal government now operating in the black, refom1s are achievable without increasing the payroll tax paid by almost all workers and their employers. "'i:u.....---."Most of us are committed to trying to find a President Clinton chats with Sen. Bob Kerrey, way to solve the problem without increases in left, as they participate in a National Forum on the payroll taxes," the president said. Social Security iri Kansas City, Mo. yesterday. The meeting in a college gymnasium kicked But virtually every speaker at the forum agreed off the national discussion that Clinton called that with no other action taken, Social Security for in his State of the Union address in January. is likely to run short of cash by 2029. With the agi ng of the baby boomers And many agreed that som e limited amount of threatening the retirement program, the "privatization" - with individuals investing·a president has asked Congress not to touch the portion of their payroll taxes privately - lay in country's first budget surpluses in 30 years without first agreeing to change that will ensure the future. The Clinton administration has raised the solvency of the Social Security system. concerns about "privatization," however, sa ying He was more specific here. He said that $100 Social Security's fucure could be ensured with billion of the surplus could add at least a year to less radical changes, such as adjusting tax rates Social Security's financial stability, "with no and benefit levels and raisi ng the retirement age. other changes being made." - - - -- -- -- - - -- - - - -- ---1! THE WORLD WORLD DIGEST 12 FREED CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONERS ARRIVE IN CANADA: Twelve former Cuban political prisoners, including two jailed for exposing a governm~nt spy in dissident circles, came to Canada yesterday after bemg freed at the request of Pope John Paul II. The 12 forn1er prisoners, along with about two dozen relatives, reached Toronto's Pearson International Airport after an overnight flight £rom Havana yesterday. Canada initially agreed to accept 19 of the 200 prisoners whose cases were cited by the pope during his recent visit to Cuba. Two of the 19 are to arrive in Canada later, but five are still imprisoned because Canadian authorities decided not to accept them a.fter conducting health and security checks. IN RARE KREMLIN GATHERING, YELTSIN PRESSES FOR HIS CHO ICE FO R PREMIER: President Boris Yeltsin took on his political opponents in a rare face to-face meeting yesterday, coaxing them to accept his nominee for premier but rejecting their demands for a coalition government. Two weeks ago Yeltsin fired the government and elevated the little-known Sergei Kiriyenko Boris Yeltsin to acting prime rninister. A few days later, he made Kiriyenko, who had been in government less than a year, his formal nominee for the post. BO MBS KILLS SIX IN PAKISTAN: A bomb ripped through a passenger bus packed with 50 passengers and parked at a gas station yesterday, setting the vehicle afire, killing five people and injuring 20 others, police and ambulance attendants said. The bombing at Sukran, 100 miles north of the Sindh provincial capital of Karachi, occurred hours after a bomb exploded in the town of Khairpur, killing one person and injuring 11. T here was no claim of responsibility for the bombings. Ulster Unionists reject settlement The Ulster Unionists represent about half of BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - British the north's Protestants, and must be part of an Prime Minister Tony Blair flew to Northern agreement. Ireland to make personal entreaties yesterday But Trimble had told Blair by phone that he after the major Protestant party rejected a draft couldn't accept many of the plan's peace accord honed through months of bitter, recommendations - most critically, a new cross painstaking negotiations. border council in which politicians from both Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, the chairman of the peace talks, wants the parties to parts of Ireland would work together. "People want to use his confidential see progress being 65-page document as made. But they do the basis for reaching not expect unionists a peace accord by to sign up to some tomorrow. kind of all-Ireland The Ulster government," said Unionists' rejection Ulster Unionist of the compromise negotiator Jeffrey threw that deadline ~ Donaldson. into doubt. g: The IRA-allied "I feel the hand of o Sinn Fein party history upon our ~ wants the crossshoulders," Blair 8 border council to said. "Now, maybe ~ wield real power it's impossible to :i! over both parts of find a way through ... ..__ _ __.f- Ireland, an idea but it's right to try." anathema to most of David Trimble, the Gerry Adams, left, and Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein talk to reporters at Stormont Castle after the Northern Ireland's leader of the proUlster Unionists re;ected a-proposed peace settlement. Protestants. British Ulster Leaders of the Unionists, repudiated the proposed settlement just hours after Mitchell north's substantial Catholic minority accused the Ulster Unionists of using brutal tactics at a delivered it to the eight parties involved. critical hour, but stressed that there was still Blair huddled almost immediately with his room to maneuver. Northern Ireland secretary, Mo Mowlam, and Since they began work in June 1996, the Trimble, and was expected to meet with negotiators have faced the daunting task of how representatives of other parties. to craft a settlement that both the Ulster Blair acknowledged that negotiators from both Unionists and Sinn Fein could accept and have sides felt "extremely anxious and nervous as the thus far been unsuccessful. time for decisions" grows near. |
