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Show THE NATI oN THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL. SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSI'.IT. M_ONDAY, MAY 18, 1998 U.S. DIGEST DOCTORS DECLARE FffiST VICTORY IN FIGHTING CANCER BY ATTACKING GENETIC FLAWS: ln the first success of an entirely new approach to fighting cancer, scientists have shown they can lengthen the lives of some terminally ill breast cancer patients with a medicine that thwarts the defective genes causing their di~ease. Experts predict that the new drug, called Herceptin, will come on the market next fall and could quickly become a standard treatment for the one-quarter or more of breast cancer patients whose tumors are driven by multiple copies of a gene called HER-2. COURTROOM COLLISION LOOMS AS MICROSOFT NEGOTIATIONS COLLAPSE: The long-awaited courtroom collision between the government and Microsoft appeared imminent yesterday, with the Justice Department and at least 20 states set to file antitrust suits Monday that could change how consumers buy and use most computers. With negotiations stalled, Bill Gates Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said that Microsoft will go ahead and ship today to computer makers the latest upgrade of its flagship software, Windows 98. STARR INCREASES CAPITAL OFFICE SPACE, HIRES LAWYERS: Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr has hirea 10 new lawyers and more than doubled his Washington office space since January to handle new investigations and shift the focus of his activities from Arkansas to the nation's capital. Gershman confirmed figures reported by U.S. News ev World Report that said Starr's office rented an additional 7,400 square feet of office space, which raised his operation's monthl y Washington rent to $43, 186. Starr now employs 27 lawyers. nn Probe welcomed in satellite decision WASHINGTON (AP)- President Clinton India's nuclear tests, and the possibility that welcomed an investigation into whether he Pakistan and a regional nuclear arms race might improperly signed a waiver in 1996 to approve follow, also are heightening congressional exporting satellite technology to China. He said interest in the subject. yesterday the decision was not swayed by sixInvestigations are gearing up in both the figure donations from an executive who House and the Senate into the admi nistration's benefited. decision to let Loral and Hughes Electronic But the Justice Corp. export Department has satellites to be opened a preliminary launched atop - -~~_,,...,,_ inquiry into possible Chinese rockets. influence on the ·- - f Critics claim president's decision that, along with of more than the satellites, the $600,000 in two space firms donations to the gave China Democratic Party by ~ technology that Bernard L. Schwartz, ~ helped it improve chairman of Loral ~ guidance systems Space and of its long-range Communications ballistic missiles, Ltd., a government including some official said. I:! aimed at the Speaking in --=-~~--=---:--,:.-e----:---..,......__::= :::,_J I= United States. Russian President Boris Yeltsin, left, and U.S. Birmingham, China and India are President Bill Clinton, right, converse through England, where he longtime rivals and unidentified interpreters following the end of the GB was attending the Economic Summit in Birmingham yesterday. fought a border war economic summit of three decades ago. world leaders, - - - - -- - -- - - - - - - - - - - -Republicans see Clinton said he had heard about the new their investigation into the waiver as a political allegations but insisted the money did not winner this summer. They hope to tie the change the United States' China policy. contracts to big campaign donations that "All foreign policy decisions, we made in the Schwartz and other executives of both firms interest of the American people," the president made to Democrats. said. "If someone tried to influence them Now that India has proclaimed its member(decisions), that is a different issue. There ought ship in the nuclear club, the spread of missile to be an investigation," he said. technology into the region is under scrutiny. i THEWORL~ -- WO RLD DIGEST CLASHES IN HEBRON LEAVE SIX PALESTINIANS WOUNDED: Palestinian youths threw stones and bottles yesterday at Israeli troops who responded with rubber \ .... bullets, wounding six Palestinians in a fourth day of West Bank clashes. The latest round of violence began Thursday with mass Palestinian demonstrations to mark "al Ben;amin nakba," or the catastrophe - which is what N L h Palestinians consider Israel's founding SO years e anya u ago. Five Palestinians were killed in the clashes, the worst in nearly two years. The violence continued as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was to meet in Washington again yesterday with U.S. officials. ,..A: • ... UNIFORMED GUNMEN KILL NINE YOUTHS IN OIL REGION CAPITAL: Masked gunmen in a Colombian region that has been plagued by paramilitary attacks dragged at least nine young m en from their homes and killed them, officials said yesterday. Witnesses said about 50 gunmen arrived in trucks about midnight Saturday and consulted a list with the victims' names, the state police commander, Tobias Duran, told The Associated Press. Leftist rebels are known to operate in the district where the killings occurred. LEBED LEADS IN GOVERNOR'S RACE SEEN AS TRYOUT FOR PRESIDENCY: Alexander Le bed was elected governor of a huge Siberian territory yesterday, instantly catapulting himself into the front ranks of prospective Russian presidential candidates. With 85 percent of polling stations reporting this morning, Lebed, a former general and national security chief, Alexander had defeated incumbent Gov. Valery Zubov in Lebed a runoff election by 56 percent to 39 percent. Pakistan to test nuclear device ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan will test nuclear devices last Monday and Wednesday. a nuclear device in response to lndia's five Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said yesterday that Pakistan needs only 12 hours of explosions despite earlier assurances to U.S. officials that no such decision had been made, preparation to explode a nuclear device. Pakistan's foreign minister said yesterday. "We will be forced to test ... and no one can Other Pakistani officials and a top U.S. envoy stop us from doing so," if the international continued to deny that the leadership had agreed community's response to India is weak, he told on whether to conduct reporters outside his home in the Punjab its own tests. A U.S. delegation left provincial capital of Pakistan on Saturday Lahore. saying the Shari f did not say government had whether the indicated no "final or government had irrevocable" decision decided on tests. On was made. .,, Friday, he told a U.S. · But Foreign Minister delegation led by .~· ;:: Deputy Secretary of Gohar Ayub said yesterday that ~ Stace Strobe Talbot Qthat Pa kistan was in Pakistan's position 1?. no hurry to conduct had since hardened, sending the strongest 1 ~ nuclear tests. ,\ / • 2: Pakistan's signal yet that his country is ready to Strobe Talbot, left, deputy secretary of United States · information minister, Mushahid match India in kind. says farewell to Gohar Ayub, Pakistani foreign "It's a matter of minister in Islamabad after their meeting. Ayub Hussain, said the when, not if, Pakistan vowed yesterday that his country would test a country was still will test. The decision nuclear device in response to India 's test explosions. waiting and has already been taken watching. by Cabinet," Ayub told T he Associated Press in "Pakistan has not taken any definitive decisions," he said from Pakistan on CBS' "Face a telephone interview from his rural home in the Nation." " There is tremendous popular Pakistan. "We have taken in view everything and pressure in Pakistan for a test." The United States has also been hinting at discussed what it will cost us and we will go ahead," he said. · concessions and a lifting of longstanding sanctions, including the blocked sale of F-16 Pakistan has said its decision hinges on how hard the international community cracks down fighters, if Pakistan shows restraint on nuclear . . -~~ .~~-i~ _for its detonation of the underground tests. ! • .. • r • • • • • • - .., • • • • • • •• •••••.A•• > ~ .. ~ • ~ .. .._ .,• • • • ._•-• :. ._.,..:.._....,_,..,_''''-'-' .,.,-.-....• .... _ • • • • • -'•· • - • • . ) |