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" . '~ The eather Today: Sunny, mild, 56°P (l30C) Tonight: Clear, chilly, 36°P (20C) :WS1D&I.er Tomorro : Swmy, 52°P (11 0c) Details, P 2 MIT Team. Garners. Seventh. Place ROTC Reinsumnce In Attnual Putnam Math Contest. Policy Gets Approval By May K. Tse 10 or 12 years," said Professor of test was ranked for individual By zareena Hussain Defense "don't ask, don't tell" ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Mathematics Hartley Rogers Jr., the prizes. Teams are ranked based on ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR enacted in 1993 prevents an openly MIT placed seventh iJi the 57th team adviser. Rogers also runs the scores of three students colleges The Committee on gay person from participating fully annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Problem Solving designate before the test begins, Undergraduate Admissions and in ROTC. The resulting discrimina- Mathematical Competition held in (18S34), a math seminar which although more than three people Financial Aid recently approved a tion conflicts with MIT's policy of December, according to results helps students practice for the com- from each school may paiticipate. measure that would compensate non-discrimination. released over the weekend petition. Duke University captured top ROTC students who lose scholar- "In its present structure, an open- "Although the MIT team of three The test was taken by 2,407 stu- honors, .followed by Princeton ships because of their sexual orien- ly declared homo exual would have students didn't do as' wen as last dents from 408 colleges and univer- University, Harvard University, tation by providing supplemental to be excluded from parts of the year's third place, the individuals as sities across North America and Institute loans that would later be program," said ROTC Oversight ) a whole did better than they have' in Canada. Each student who took the Putnam, Page 19 forgiven. Committee Chair William B. This move represents the first Watson, an associate professor of and only fully-implemented action history. taken by the ROTC implementation Under the reinsurance policy, team, which is responsible for real- ROTC students whose federal izing the recommendations of the scholarships are taken away because ROtC task force approved in a fac- . of their sexual orientation may ulty resolution last April. apply for need-based financial aid to The resolution calJed for a modi- help replace the lost scholarship. fied ROTC plan that would be open Since the money offered in an to an MIT students, regardless of ROTC scholarship often exceeds a sexual orientation, in keeping with student's need as detennined by the MIT's policy on non-discrimination. As it stanUs, the Department of ROTC, Page 22 • Spring Forward! THOMAS R. KARLO-THE TECH Daylight-saving time Rreftghters wearing protective suits work to contain a chemical spill on Massachusetts Avenue begins Sunday. Don't yesterday. evening. The street was closed to trafftc during the evening rush hour because of the forget to set your clocks accident. one hour forward at 2 a.m. Page . THE WASHINGTON POST Two senior White Hou e aides were acting out compas ion when they tried to line up lucrative employment for ebster L. Hubbell By Barton Cellman by U. uthoritie ince his arre tat to accept bu arzook, Jordan after his resignation from the Ju tice Department, Pre ident Clinton THE WASHINGTON POST ew York' Kennedy airport in July will look into it and and try to help." said Thursday. JERUSALEM 1995, et a 60-day clock in motion Part of I rael's reluctance to try Independent counsel Kenneth W. tarr is inve tigating whether Israel gave up it bid for extradi- by abandoning his objection to him, officials said, temmed from money paid to Hubbell after he left Justice was intended to buy his tion of a enior Hamas leader from extradition earlier this year. anxiety that it could not e tablish it silence in the Whitewater investigation. the United States Thursday, citing etanyahu and the Clinton adminis- charge. The White House this week acknowledged that in 1994 two of the same concern over "security tration raced the deadline - next Israel submitted more than 900 Clinton's closest aides made calls to business contact, encouraging and the prevention ,of terrorist Monday - to find a face- aving page of legal brien in upport of it them to hire Hubbell, who in March of that year announced his resig~ attacks" that in pired the initial retreat. extradition reque t, and U.S. nation as associate attorney .general and nine months later pleaded request nearly two year ago. According to Russ Bergeron, District Judge Kevin Duffy found guilty to bilking nearly $500,000 from his clients and former partner The Israeli decision to drop a spoke man for the Immigration and probable cause to try Abu Marzook at Little Rock's Rose Law Firm. longstanding request for custody of aturalization Service, Abu on charges that he helped plan and The aides were Thomas F. McLarty and Erskine B. Bowles, now the Hamas figure, Mousa Abu Marzook, who had lived for several finance 10 attacks that killed 47 Clinton's chief of staff. Clinton said Thursday he saw nothing Marzook, left his fate in the hands years in Falls Church, Va., was people and wounded 148. Many improper in what Bowles and McLarty did. of the Clinton administration. taken into custody as an "excludable accused terrorists in Israel are tried "They were people who were genuinely concerned that there was Expulsion seemed possible - and alien" even though he is a legal per- in closed military proceedings under a man who was out of work, who had four children," Clinton said. Abu Marzook predicted he will be manent resident of the United States laws that do not require the govern- "And as I understand it they were trying to help him for no other rea- sent to Jordan - but Attorney with a green card. He was charged ment to provide defendants with son than just out of human compassion." Genenl1 Janet Reno said in with exclud~bility under a statute access to the witnesses or the evi- Repeating an assertion offered earlier this week by other White Washington that Marzook will that applies to any "alien who has dence against them. 'Many others are House officials, Clinton said Bowles and McLarty had no way of remain in a U.S. jail for the time engaged in a terrorist activity" or is held without charge in renewab1e knowing how serious the allegations were against Hubbell, who later being and "we are reviewing all our considered likely by U.S. authorities six-month periods of "administra- went to prison for 18 months. options." to do so after entering the United tive detention." With Israeli-Palestinian talks States. Irit Kahan, director of the Israeli 0 unraveling and daily clashes sug- He was turned over to the U.S. Justice Ministry's international tudy s Day C e ge ting a return to something like Mar.shals Service when Israel department, said in a brief interview the Palestinian uprising of 1987- requested his extradition and now Thursday that neither legal route ToC · dDeveo ,e 93, Israel's army and secret-ser- will be remanded to INS custody so was available in Abu Marzook's THE WASHINGTON POST vice chiefs had warned Prime exclusion proceedings against him case. WASHI GTON Minister Benjamin Netanyahu '76 can resume, Bergeron said. Where Hamas political figures reached As a group, children in day care learn to think and talk just as well that Abu Marzook's arrival could he is sent will be up to an immigra- Thursday congratulated Israel on its as those cared for by their mothers, a long-term national study has touch off a major escalation of vio- tion judge. It could be the last coun- choice and continued to imply that found. lence in the deteriorating political try he left on his way to the United Abu Marzook's interrogation and The study, being released Friday by the ational Institute of Child climate. States, his country of birth, his trial would have resulted in further • Health and Human Development, did find, however, that the quality "There is no doubt that Abu country of nationality, or any coun- bloodshed. of care matters: Children whose caregivers respond and speak fre- Marzook deserves to spend many try willing to accept him. "Israel could. not have known quently to them perform better on thinking and language tests than years in jail until the end of his In an interview with Reuter news what would be the reaction, either those in settings where they have less verbal interaction. life," Defense Minister Yitzhak agency, Abu Marzook sa}d .he from the Palestinian people or The first phase of research, released a year ago, concluded that Mordechai told reporters in believes the United States, Israel from other Arabs and Muslims," day care of itself did not harm children's emotional attachment to Washington. "On the other hand we and Jordan have struck a deal for his said Ibrahim Ghosheh, the their mothers. are ware of the dangers and the expulsion to Jordan - the country Amman-based spokesman for When it came to intellectual skills, it was clear that the number of significance of the project called that forced him to leave in 1995 at Hamas. "The case of Dr. Abu hours in care did not have an effect, but quality of care did. Abu Marzook." Israel's request. The Jordanian Marzook is a famous case. "One very important take-home message '" is that children in Israel's hand on the extradition prime minister, Abdel Salam Majali, Everyone is following him, every- child care are not doing any worse than children not in child care" on .