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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-4-1996 The BG News April 4, 1996 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News April 4, 1996" (1996). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5996. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5996 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Inside the News Opinion Nation • Unabomber suspect in custody. World • Death cult uncovered in Switzerland. 8 Aaron Weisbrod discusses a painful lesson learned on Spring Break. Sports • Scott Brown responds to Schott's comments. 10 E W S Page 2 Thursday, April 4,1996 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 82, Issue 109 The News' Careful Class Briefs NL Scores spends St. Louis 5 New York 3 break Houston Los Angeles at camp Atlanta Dawn Killer San Francisco The BC News Forty-seven University stu- AL Scores dents did nothing but homework during spring break at Michin- New York 5 doh Camp to help about IS Toledo Cleveland 1 sixth graders have a good time. Jim Davidson, professor emer- itus of education foundations and Chicago 4 Inquiry, said he requires his class Seattle 2 to have a field component with practical experience. He said most of the students work with the outdoor education camp be- Prosecutors: Court cause it opens eyes to how sixth should include graders act and think. The students worked as cabin smokers leaders and supervised all of NEW ORLEANS - Pros- children's activities, according to ecutors asked an appeals Steve Ferguson, sophomore sec- court Tuesday not to ex- ondary education major who clude millions of smokers worked at the camp. from a landmark lawsuit, "We made sure they got ever- arguing that it would delay ywhere they needed to go," he for years a decision on sold. "Although the camp was whether tobacco companies Hldekl K.b.y..M/Tke BG New. structured, they had some free deliberately hid knowledge time. I played ball with my guys that nicotine is addictive. Supervisor Sean Brennan closes off the construction site at Ice pressure of the pipes underneath. But Kenneth Starr, an at- Arena. The construction is to repair the swollen floor due to the one day." torney for the cigarette Ferguson said the week at the manufacturers, told the camp was good for the children. panel that smokers' cases "It was a good experience for should be tried separately them," he said. "They were out- because different circum- Ron Brown missing after plane crash side of their element and they did stances are involved with not want to go home at the end of each plaintiff. the week.- they wanted to stay A class-action suit is Disaster over Bosnia leaves four passengers dead and others unfound with us." proper only if the findings Stacy White, a sophomore apply equally to all plain- tiffs, he argued. Tin|« talc ing business possibilities in the Transport Ministry as saying the the rocky Adriatic coast. communications disorders major If the lawsuit remains a The Associated Press Balkans. A diplomatic source in tail of the plane had been found It said Prime Minister Zlatko who also worked at the camp, class action, millions of Croatia, speaking on condition of on land along the coast, between Matesa of Croatia and U.S. Am- said they tried to make sure the smokers could stand to col- DUBROVNIK, Croatia - Croa- anonymity, said 12 passengers the Adriatic port and nearby Ci bassador Peter Galbraith, who kids understood why they were lect damages from the in- tian police searching for the were aboard his flight to Du- lipl airport. had been in Dubrovnik to wel- at the camp. dustry, which has,never lost wreckage of a plane believed brovnik. The aircraft disappeared from come Brown, were touring the "The main reason was to get a smoklng-related lawsuit. carrying U.S. Commerce Secre- There were conflicting reports radar screens at 2:52 p.m. (7:52 crash site, where the bodies were them out of their natural envi- U.S. District Judge Okla tary Ron Brown found the air- ronment and meet other kids," Jones certified the lawsuit about wreckage found in the am. EST) between the tiny island found. craft's tall and four bodies, Croa- area. White House press secre- of Kalamota, a few miles south- Officials said the plane ap- she said. "Some let their guard as a class action last year to down - they learned a lot even represent all nicotine- tian officials said today. tary Mike McCurry said wreck- west of Dubrovnik, and the Cilipi proached the airport from Kala- dependent smokers and The White House confirmed age was spotted In the Adriatic, airport, Croatian security sour- mota. Its path to Dubrovnik took when they didn't even know it." their surviving family that Brown's plane disappeared but Croatian special police scour- ces said. Visibility In the area it over Zupski Bay, and it appar- White said she learned that all members. today In stormy weather, but was ing the mountainous coastline was no more than 100 yards, they ently crashed into a hill as it of the kids have the potential to unable to confirm reports it had south of Dubrovnik later report- said. crossed over land on the south do what they want. She said they Under Jones' plan, one crashed near Dubrovnik, a port ed they found the bodies of four The official Croatian news side of the bay. The airport, 10 just need someone to guide them. jury would determine dry on the Adriatic Sea. people from Brown's Air Force agency HINA placed the crash miles from Dubrovnik, Ues just Ferguson said he learned that whether the industry knew Brown, 54, bad been traveling plane. site near the coastal village of over the hill. no matter where the children are nicotine was addictive, from, they are all good kids. whether it covered up that in the region with about a dozen Croatian state TV quoted the Plat, four miles from the airport knowledge and whether it top American executives explor- country's Communications and on Zupski Bay, a small inlet on Sec BROWN, page men. See CAMP, page eight manipulated nicotine levels in cigarettes to keep smok- ers hooked. The question of whether an individual smoker is en- Egypt, U.S. work to preserve peace titled to damages could be sent to other courts. Robert Bums under way to develop a chemi- The Associated Press cal weapons production facili- The 5th Circuit Court of ty," Perry told reporters in an Appeals, which will decide only whether to keep the ISMAILTYA, Egypt - In an impromptu interview near this lawsuit a class action, has implicit threat to use military dry on the Suez CanaL not indicated on when it will force, Defense Secretary Wil- Asked whether the United rule. liam Perry said Wednesday the States would allow Libya to United States would not allow complete the plant, Perry said Libya to complete what Ameri- firmly, "No. I don't want to can Intelligence agencies be- comment further on that, but lieve Is a large underground the answer Is no." " Quote of plant to produce chemical He was pressed to say weapons. whether the Clinton adminis- the day Perry said he shared evi- tration was considering using dence, including photographs, force to stop the project, which "Some let their with Egyptian President Hosni Libya has said Is part of a huge guard down— Mubarak during private talks Irrigation system. "I wouldn't I they learned a lot Wednesday in Cairo. rule anything out or anything jeven when they "1 discussed a variety of evi- in," he replied. (didn't know it. dence we have," Perry said. He He would not say how close ftfekamrd H-Dakaattay/riK AiMciate4 Pm StacyYJhilssofhomote would not be more explicit ex- U.S. Intelligence believes Li- Egyptian President Hosnl Mubarak, left, meets with Defense Secretary William J. Perry and Egypt communications cept to say It included intel- bya is to beginning chemical Defense Minister Field Marshal Husse In Tantawi Wednesday to discuss cooperation with Egypt disorders major.on ligence photographs. weapons production at the lncombating the terrorism that Is threatening the Middle East peace process. the children who "They demonstrate that the plant, saying that would reveal attended Libyans are not now producing classified information. "It is say the Libyan plant Is under The Tarhunah facility was southwest of Tripoli. The Ra- Michindohin (~amp chemical weapons, but they not imminent," he said. construction at Tarhunah, 40 reportedly designed to replace have an extensive program U.S. intelligence agencies miles southeast of Tripoli. a plant at Rabta, SS miles See EGYPT, page t Colored Ink "*^P" Opinion page two Thursday, April 4,1996 He's no longer one phone call away "I had a friend once." know wouldn't appreciate my won't, find the time for anything. -Cool Grandpa Frank swinging by at 2:00 in the morn- You've got to make the time to do As of the day before spring ing just to stop in and say "Hi," If things. Laws come from reference to Mosaic laws until It break was to officially begin, it you know what I mean. tells of the discovery of the appeared as If my seven day hia- Given my jam-packed sche- I've realized that now, but now God not Tennessee "book of law" in the reign of Jo- tus from classes wasn't going to duele, it was practically by fluke Mike's dead, and I'll never see siah in 621 B.C.E., 400 years after betoobad.