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NewsDigest Visa granted for Elian’s father ■ Cuban officials say father will not make trip unless guaranteed custody. WASHINGTON (AP) - American diplomats in Havana issued visas Tuesday to Elian Gonzalez’s father, but Cuban officials said he will call off his proposed trip to the United States unless he is assured of temporary cus tody of his 6-year-old son. An attorney for the boy’s Miami relatives, who are fighting to retain cus tody of Elian, said negotiations aimed at reuniting Juan Miguel Gonzalez with his son appeared to be breaking down without agreement However, the talks resumed in late afternoon. “We have not heard from the attor neys for the relatives in Miami that they consider the talks to have been broken off,” Justice spokesman Myron Marlin said at midday. “We continue to hope that we can all work together to resolve this in a fair, orderly and prompt man ner. Outside the Miami home where Elian has lived since he was rescued from a Thanksgiving shipwreck that killed his mother, about 200 angry pro testers broke down a barrier and formed a human chain. “Elian is not leaving!” they chant ed. Olga Hernandez said the protesters “saw a bus, and they thought (Immigration and Naturalization Service officials) were coming to take him.” Immigration officials have spent the past two days negotiating with the Miami family over how to transfer tem porary custody of Elian from Lazaro Gonzalez to Elian’s father. U.S. offi cials raised the possibility that Juan ' Miguel Gonzalez could travel to Miami to get his son. Absent an agreement, a Justice Department official said a letter could be sent to Lazaro Gonzalez announcing that temporary custody would be trans ferred from him to Elian’s father. A fol low-up letter would provide instruc tions on how and when the transfer would take place, said the official, ask ing not to be identified. In Havana, Vicky Huddleston, the chief of the U.S. Interests Section, ^ We have not heard from the attorneys for the relatives in Miami that they consider the talks to have been broken off." delivered visas to Cuba’s Foreign Ministry for Juan Miguel Gonzalez, his wife and their infant son, as well as a male cousin, a kindergarten teacher and a pediatrician. In late March, a federal judge affirmed an INS ruling that Elian belongs with his father in Cuba. The Miami relatives have asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to overturn the lower court ruling; opening arguments are set for the week of May 8. If arrangements can be worked out for a transfer of custody, Juan Miguel Gonzalez would stay at the home of the head of the Cuban diplomatic mission Myron Marlin Justice spokesman in Washington, Fernando Remirez. Entering the State Department on Tuesday afternoon for a meeting, Remirez said the elder Gonzalez’s U.S. travel depends on “the assurance he will get temporary custody.” U.S. officials are reviewing 22 additional visa requests, including 12 from Elian’s classmates. Remirez said his government believes all visa requests should be approved because the additional 22 compatriots will help facilitate Elian’s “recovery” after four months away from home. He stopped short of saying their approval was a pre condition for the father’s visit. Remirez lives in suburban Maryland. House blocks Clinton organ donation plan WASHINGTON (AP) - Taking on an issue that means life or death to transplant patients, the House voted Tuesday to block a Clinton adminis tration effort to move more hearts, liv ers and kidneys to those who are clos est to death. The legislation would strip the Department of Health and Human Services of its power to set transplant policy and comes after years of ten sion between HHS and the United Network for Organ Sharing, the pri vate firm that has long run the trans plant system under a government con tract. The House approved the measure, 275-147, shy of the 290 votes needed to override a promised presidential veto. It also agreed, by voice vote, to an amendment that would kill HHS regulations directing more organs to the sickest patients - even if they live far from the donor. The legislation also encourages organ donation, something all sides support. It calls for financial assis tance for living donors who give away a kidney or part of a liver and offers grants for states to encourage dona tion. The basic problem is supply and demand. Only about half of families asked to donate organs say yes, and many families are never asked. Meanwhile, nearly 5,000 people die each year waiting for organ trans plants, and 68,530 people are waiting for transplants today. The legislation would give the transplant network total control over the rules governing how to distribute more than 20,000 organs that are donated each year. $ Under the network’s system, patients who live in the same area as donors have first chance at organs. The Clinton administration wants to eliminate those geographic barri ers. Windy Partly cloudy high 76, low 40 high 67, low 42 NelSralskan Editor: Josh Funk Managing Editor: Lindsay Young Associate News Editor Dane Stickney Associate News Editor: Diane Broderick Opinion Editor: J J. Harder Sports Editor: Sam McKewon A&E Editor: Sarah Baker Copy Desk Co-Chief: Jen Walker Copy Desk Co-Chief: Josh Krauter Photo Chief: Mike Warren Design Co-Chief: Diane Broderick Design Co-Chief: Tun Kars tens Art Director: Melanie Falk Web Editor: Gregg Steams Asst Web Editor: Jewel Mlnarik Questions? Comments? 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ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 2000 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Microsoft awaits uncertain future Judge still to decide punishment WASHINGTON (AP) - The judge overseeing Microsoft’s antitrust cstse must now decide what punishment to mete out: Slice the software giant into Baby Bills? Impose a hefty fine? Force Microsoft to reveal its secret software code to rivals? U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson will spend the next few months trying to determine the best way to craft a remedy that won’t hamper the company’s ability to innovate in an industry changing at warp speed. Unlike the judge’s ruling Monday - a sweeping verdict that handed the government a pbwerful but anticipat ed victory after nearly two years of legal wrangling - the punishment Jackson will dispense is uncertain. He will hold hearings to explore the options, taking into consideration recommendations from Microsoft, the Justice Department and 19 states involved in the case. “The dilemma for the judge and for the Justice Department is how to make the remedy effective without making it overly regulatory,” said Warren Grimes, an antitrust expert who teaches law at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles. Joel Klein, who heads the Justice Department’s antitrust division, offered few hints at what remedy the government would seek, other than one “that will protect consumers, innovation and competition by put ting an end to Microsoft’s wide spread and persistent abuse of its monopoly power, and to rectifying its unlawful attempt to monopolize the Internet browser market.” The options before Jackson include items as diverse as breaking up the company that made founder Bill Gates a billionaire and ordering Microsoft to change its business tac tics. Among the milder options: pro hibiting Microsoft from using price as a way to punish clients who deal with competitors and forcing the company to relinquish control of the first screen most people see when they turn on their computers. Microsoft also could be ordered to license, if not completely surrender, U The drastic is the most effective and the most conservative approach to dealing with a monopoly.” Glenn Manishin attorney the lucrative blueprint, the so-called “source code,” for its Windows soft ware. While the government reportedly dropped its pursuit of a company breakup during recent settlement attempts, Jackson’s ruling may have emboldened Justice attorneys to ask for the toughest penalty possible. There are several scenarios for breaking up the company, said attor ney Glenn Manishin, who helped write a study for a prominent trade association that endorsed a divesti ture. The judge could split Microsoft into companies selling separate products, such as Windows software and Internet content, or break it into several “Baby Bills” or “Mini Microsofts” each with identical products. “The drastic is the most effective and the most conservative approach to dealing with a monopoly,” Manishin said. The alternative is a set of court enforced provisions that rarely curb behavior effectively, he said. Such an injunction, Manishin said, would be a “black hole of judicial regula tion.” “Black holes suck up everything around them - it would suck up all the resources of the Justice Department, all the time of the judge, and all the competitors would be focused on one courtroom in Washington where they would run when they had a complaint about Big Brother Bill,” he said. I DBlelln^^jl ■ Japan Political leaders expected to replace prime minister TOKYO (AP) - Japanese politi cal leaders were expected to name top ruling party official Yoshiro Mori as the new prime minister today, replac ing Keizo Obuchi, who is on life sup port after suffering a massive stroke. The entire Cabinet resigned Tuesday, paving the way for the quick selection of a Liberal Democrat to the country’s top post. After the new leader is named, a Cabinet could be installed late today. Government ministers promised to move swiftly to avoid a political vacuum after Obuchi’s collapse. The 62-year-old prime minister suffered a stroke Sunday and lapsed into a coma. ■ Uganda Tests show cult members alive when chapel burned KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - The 530 people whose charred bodies were recovered after a doomsday cult’s fiery climax were still alive when their gasoline-soaked chapel exploded in flames, forensics tests showed Tuesday. The doors and windows of the chapel were bolted from the outside, the preliminary investigation find ings confirm. “It was an attack from the inside,” said A.B.M. Lugudo, deputy com missioner of Uganda’s forensics agency. Investigators have yet to deter mine if whoever set the fire died with the victims, but their suspicions have been aroused by three, less badly burned corpses found in a separate room of the sect church at Kanungu, Lugudo said. ■ Maryland State House, Senate approve handgun lock regulations ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The Maryland House sent the governor legislation that would make the state the first to require new handguns to be equipped with built-in locks, allowing no one but authorized users to fire them. The locks will be required by 2003 under the bill approved Monday night by the House. Until then, all guns sold will have to be equipped with external trigger locks, beginning in October. No other state has approved such a measure. Gov. Parris Glendening is eager to sign the bill, already approved by the Senate. ■Yugoslavia Eleven U^. troops injured in NATO, Seth dash RISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - Kosovo Serbs angry over the arrest of a Serb for illegal weapons pos session clashed Tuesday with NATO peacekeepers, leaving 11 Americans and one Pole injured, the U.S. military said. The independent Yugoslav news agency Beta said 14 Serbs were also hurt, including 10 whp were struck by rubber bullets fired in an attempt to break up a Serbian crowd. However, the U.S. military said it could not confirm the number ojf Serbs injured in the melee - report edly involving shoving, clubs, dogs and rubber bullets - which began Tuesday in a southeastern mountain region near the Macedonian border. At the Pentagon, spokesman Air Force Lt. Col. Vic Warzinsld said the most serious injury to U.S! troops in the incident was a broken hand.