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The BG News Thursday, October 7, 1993 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 76, Issue 31 Briefs Weather Basketball's greatest ever -- done APPMWMutEHo Get out the shorts and MJ: nothing more to prove sunglasses: Sunny and warm Thurs- The Associated Press glitziest attraction, and mil- day with a high in the upper lions of fans without the hero 70s and southwest winds 10 who redefined standards of ex- to 20 mph. Thursday night DEERFTELD, III. - Michael cellence. will be partly cloudy with a Jordan, basketball's greatest Jordan's departure at the top low SO to 55. player, announced Wednesday of his game occurred during a that he was retiring after nine year of unprecedented success seasons in the NBA, saying he - and personal tragedy. He led Inside the News "had reached the pinnacle of his Chicago Bulls to a third- my career" and had nothing straight NBA championship, University officials tell of else to prove. but also suffered the loss of his Bt'I i ^ importance of campus In a news conference at the father, who was shot and killed. health care plan: Chicago Bulls' training center, The 30-year-old superstar, Members of the Classified Jordan said the murder of his whose salary and endorse- Staff Council, Administra- father, James, in July made ments bring him more than $50 tive Staff Council and Facul- him realize that "it can be tak- million a year, also was dogged ty Senate tell how President en away from you at any time." by reports of excessive gam- Clinton's health care plan "I guess the biggest gratifi- bling. affects the University's cation - I am a very positive But Jordan left open the health care plan for faculty person ~ I can get out of my possibility of returning to the and staff members. father not being here today is, game. QPage three that he saw my last basketball "Would I ever unretire? I game. It is something that we don't know. I think the word have talked about a lot," Jor- 'retire' means you can do dan said. whatever you want, and maybe On campus The startling announcement someday down the road, that's by basketball's greatest player what I'll desire to do," he said. leaves the Chicago Bulls with- Jordan had three years left Rape of University stu- out their seven-time scoring on his $4 mllllion-a-year con- Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan smiles during a news conference at the Berto Center in Deerfleld, 111 dent reported: champion, the NBA without its tract. Wednesday, Oct. 6,1993 where he announced his retirement from professional basketball. A health official reported Sept. 30 a female University student was raped by an ac- quaintance. A dispatcher said Tuesday the health official, who is demands Clinton feels pressure required to report rapes for statistical purposes, told officers the student did not election reform Officials push for decision regarding Somalia wish to pursue the matter with police. by Alan Cooperman kept a stone-faced vigil at Lenin's by Terence Hunt However, Detective Sgt. The Associated Press Tomb on Red Square were un- The Associated Press secure the freedom of any Americans held in So- Brad Conner said Monday ceremoniously withdrawn. malia and requested that he state "your intention police said they have a sus- They did not even march away to expeditiously withdraw our forces in a safe and pect and will be interview- MOSCOW - President Boris in their customary goose step. WASHINGTON - Rejecting calls for swift with- orderly manner." ing him soon. Conner could Yeltsin followed his bloody vic- They simply waved their drawal of American troops from Somalia, Presi- Clinton met twice Wednesday with senior not be reached Wednesday tory over hard-line lawmakers white-gloved hands at tourists dent Clinton said Wednesday, "We are anxious to national security aides, including Secretary of to comment on whether with a demand Wednesday that and walked away from the red conclude our role there honorably," but not at the State Warren Christopher, Defense Secretary Les police are pursuing an in- opponents in the provinces re- granite and black marble mauso- risk of a return to famine and chaos. Aspln and Marine Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, the com- "It is essential that we conclude our mission in mander for the region. vestigation. sign and he yanked the ceremon- leum - the pantheon of commu- The location of the alleged ial guard from Lenin's Tomb - a nism where generations of Polit- Somalia but that we do it with firmness and steadi- Later, in an appearance in the East Room for a rape was not reported, the symbolic but potent blow against buro members stood on holidays. ness of purpose," Clinton said. bill-signing ceremony, Clinton referred to the talks The president held intense talks with foreign dispatcher said. Communist holdovers. Police said that for the time be- as "serious meetings." policy advisers to review his options, spurred by According to police, the In a stem, commanding voice, ing, the body of Bolshevik leader He recalled that U.S. troops were sent to Somalia alleged rape was unrelated Yeltsin said on national televi- congressional pressure and public horror over after 350,000 people had died amid anarchy, fam- Vladimir Lenin would remain in slain Americans being dragged through the streets to the attempted rape on sion that elections should be held its glass sarcophagus for tourists ine and disease. of Mogadishu by supporters of warlord Mohamed "We are anxious to conclude our role there hon- Sept. 23 and the rape on Aug. in December for every legisla- to see. tive body in the country ~ not For 18 months, Yeltsin has Farrah Aidid. orably but we do not want to see a reversion to the Clinton underscored his determination not just absolute chaos and the terrible misery which just for a new national parlia- struggled for power with diehard Representative will res- to prevent mass starvation, the original purpose existed before," the president said. chedule speech: ment as he previously decreed, communists, extreme nationa- but for new regional and local for sending troops to Somalia last December, but Rep. Pat Schroeder of Colorado was among Due to a legislative ses- lists and would-be populists who also to establish security in what recently was a Democrats pressing Clinton to announce a clear- sion rescheduled for Thurs- councils as well. bemoan and resist his painful ec- His aim clearly was to use the thoroughly lawless land. cut policy for withdrawing. "The question is how day Oct. 7, State Rep. Lynn onomic reforms. Inflamed by the deaths Sunday of 12 Americans and what time frames and what are your Wachtmann will be unable momentum of Monday's climac- The confrontation climaxed tic battle with hard-liners from and the capture of at least one U.S. pilot, Congress measurements and what are your goals," she said. to attend a student gather- Monday when government tanks was torn over which direction to take. Schroeder said she agreed with Sen. Robert ing in the Ohio Suite of the the dissolved parliament to and troops stormed the white sweep his opponents out of office Senate leaders put off consideration of a defense Byrd, the Senate Appropriations Committee University Union. The event marble parliament building. spending bill to spare the administration possible chairman who's prodding Clinton to set a with- will be rescheduled at a in cities and regions from Kare- Lawmakers and their heavily lia in the west to Kamchatka in embarrassment from amendments demanding a drawal date. "If they [the administration] don't later date. armed, paramilitary supporters pullout. Clinton said he would meet with con- have anything to put in the blanks [on a date] we the Far East. had holed up there for two weeks. The rifle-toting guards who gressional leaders Thursday and then announce will. And so I think they've got that message," she his course. said. Outside campus "It is not time for panic," Senate Minority White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers Tke BC NtwiMatku Wallac* Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., said. said, "I don't think anybody's for cutting and run- In a Senate speech. Dole reminded colleagues of ning." a resolution passed two weeks ago asking Clinton At the State Department, spokesman Michael Don't panic! It's just pre- to state a clear policy on Somalia by Oct. 15 and McCurry said Christopher believes it is not the tend: calling for a congressional vote on the deployment time "to abruptly change our posture," regarding On Saturday Oct. 9 at 10 of troops by Nov. IS. the deployment of U.S. personnel in Somalia. "I a.m. a disaster will occur in In a stinging rebuff to the administration. House think that's very clear." Bowling Green. The "disas- Minority Leader Bob Michel, R-Ill., and 64 GOP However, he said that issues such as ground tac- ter" has been in planning for colleagues sent Clinton a letter branding his Soma- tics and the degree of U.N.