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Sr““ News Digest Wednesday, September 28,1994 Page 2 Civilian senate returns to Haiti Soldier’s body discovered at Parliament site PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — American troops expanded their mis sion Tuesday from disarming the Haitian military to taking up posts around the Parliament building and City Hall in anticipation of Haiti’s return to civilian rule. The U.S. forces suffered their first fatality Tuesday. An American sol dier was found shotto death at hillside mansion being prepared for legisla tors returning to Haiti for Wednesday’s Parliament session. Pentagon spokesman Dennis Boxx said the soldier’s death was being investigated as “an apparent suicide.” He was part of the l Oth Mountain Division from Fort Drum, N.Y., and his identity was not immediately re leased. Military police strung concertina wire in front of the white colonaded Parliament building, aday before the Haitian legislative body was to begin discussing a bill authorizing amnesty for the country’s top military leaders. The amnesty measure was part of a deal worked out Sept. 18 between the U.S. delegation led by former Presi dent Carterand Haiti’smilitaryjunta. A soldier posted on the roof of the Parliament scanned the area with bin oculars, and others took up posts at the gate. Army vehicles stood watch in front of the building. Small crowds of Haitians gathered in front of the building. At City Hall, U.S. military police in armored vehicles were posted in side the compound and Army Hum vees, machine guns mounted on their tops, took up guard just outside. Mayor Evans Paul, exiled Presi dent Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s former campaign manager, is expected to come out of hiding and return to his office on Thursday, U.S. officials said. Paul has been out of sight for most of the three years since Aristide, Haiti’s first democratically elected president, wasoverthrown by the mili tary. The first U.S. fatality came as American troops were refurbishing the Villa d’Accueil, a Haitian state guest house during the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier that now houses the independent Electoral Council, which is to oversee elections. “They found him dead,” said U.S. Embassy spokesman Stanley Haiti developments ■ U.S. troops took over the Parliament building and city hall in the capital in preparation for the return this week o< Haiti's lawmakers and the Port-au-Prince mayor. ■ Americans readied their guns-for-money program, paying $50 to $300 to anyone who turns in a firearm. ■ Parliament is scheduled to convene Wednesday to begin discussion of an amnesty law, pat of the deal worked out by the military junta and an American delegation headed by former President Carter. ■ An American soldier was found fatally shot, but U.S. officials said evidence pointed to a suicide rather than an attack by Haitians Schrager. “They don’t know if this was a sniper or self-inflicted.” Boxx said in Washington that the shooting was being investigated as “an apparent suicide.” Witnesses said they heard two shots about 11 a.m. on the northern side of the Villad’Accueil. Helicopters hovered over the area after the shooting, and platoons of American soldiers stood guard be hind twin rows of concertina wire. They walked openly showing no signs of the tension that would follow a sniper killing. They refused to talk about the death. In Washington, State Department spoke women Christine Shelly said six Haitian Parliament members in Canada and five in the United States were expected to leave Miami early Wednesday for Port-au-Prince. “We are trying to be sure that there is an environment in Haiti which per mits those who have been in hiding to feel comfortable about coming out and participating,” in the session, she said. AH “I once admired the bald eagle for its grace,” Haitianj>en. Thomas Eddy Dupiton said. “Nowl am struck By its rapacity. They came to reinforce our institutions. Now they ate tollingtheir death.” Dupiton said he would not partici pate in Wednesday’s debate, saying the process was “a masquerade.” Sen. Firmin Jean-Louis, president of the 17-member Senate, and France Robert Monde, speaker of the 82 member lower house, said several other measures in addition to amnesty would be debated. Those included forming a committee of conciliation, a local government and a new civilian police force. Eleven other senators who were elected during military rule will be barred from the session. Looting and rioting broke out at least twice Monday night and Tues day. On Monday, a U.N. Develop ment Program warehouse lost 11 tons of food worth an estimated $35,000 when Haitians ransacked the build ing. News... in a Minute - Simpson sings "Memory” for kids LOS ANGELES —O.J. Simpson explained Tuesday that he softly sang the song “Memory” on the first day of his trial because it reminds him of his children, whom he misses. “That song really gets to me because it says touch me’ and I can’t touch my kids,” Simpson said of the song from the musical “Cats.” Simpson has been jailed without bail since June 17, the day he was arrested on charges of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman. His children from his first marriage, Jason, 24, and Amelle, 25, visit him in jail. His children with Ms. Brown, Sydney, 8, and Justin, 6, are living with their maternal grandparents and haven’t visited him at Simpson’s request. Simpson’s unusual public remark came just before the second set of potential jurors started filing into a small room for questioning in front of Simpson, attorneys and the judge. Suffer the little children " BOSTON — The number of children living in poverty is going up faster in suburbia, once a world of prosperity and promise, than it is in big cities or rural areas, researchers say. The proportion of children living below the poverty line rose 49 percent from 1973 to 1992, say researchers at the Tufts University Center on Hunger, Poverty and Nutrition Policy, who examined Census Bureau data. In rural areas, the share of children in poverty grew 36 percent, and in the inner city, 56 percent, they said. In the suburbs, the increase was 76 percent. “There’sbeenawholesale transformationofthe American economy,” Tufts researcher J. Larry Brown said. “Halfof our families are experiencing declining wages, and the other half are those who have always been struggling near poverty." Embryo research encouraged BETHESDA, Md. — A federal panel recommended Tuesday that the government end its ban on funding of human embryo research, saying very young embryos “do not have the same moral status as infantrand children.” Opponents of the research immediately labeled the decision “ethi cally and morally bankrupt” and pledged to carry their resistance to the floor of Congress. The 19-member committee of experts selected to advise the National Institutes of Health concluded that fertilized human eggs can be used for federally funded scientific research within guidelines that limit how long an embryo can be kept alive, the sources of the sperm and egg, and the purposes for the study. The panel would allow research only on embryos about 14 days or younger. GM workers walk out FLINT, Mich. — Up to II ,500 workers went on strike Tuesday at a key General Motors Corp. complex, shutting off the flow of parts needed to keep many other GM plants running. As many as 100,000 other GM workers could be idled within 48 hours, a union leader warned. A subcontractor in Tennessee shut down within hours and 6,550 workers in Lansing were told not to report Wednesday. The United AutoWorkers walked off the job at the huge BuickCity complex, complaining of production speedups, safety problems and subcontracting. ■ ■ . ■■■ ■ * * ■ ■ ■ ■ ■■ ■■ 1 College charges include PR expense BOSTON — The average tuition at America’s four year-year colleges rose 6 percent this year and studies show a growing share of the money is going toward public relations instead of teaching. Although the increase was twice the in flation rate, it was also the smallest since 1989, according to the College Board, an association of2,800 higher-education insti tutions. The figures were released Wednes day. According tothe College Board, average tuition is now $11,709 at four-year private schools and $2,686 at four-year public schools, both 6 percent increases over last year. The cost of two-year private institutions rose 5 percent, to $6,511, and two-year pub lic colleges, 4 percent, to $ 1,298. When room, board, books, supplies and transportation are added in, the average total cost ofa college education comesto $ 18,784 for resident students at four-year private schools and $8,990 at public schools. Separate government statistics also show that the proportion of money used by col leges for instruction, libraries and mainte nance is shrinking, and the amount spent on public relations, marketing and fund-raising is increasing. “We’re paying more and getting less than we got 10 years ago,*’ said Stephanie Arelonio, president of the U.S. Student As sociation. “We’re learning from videotapes in some instances. Class sizes have grown. ... It would be nice to see the professor sometime.” David Warren, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, said health-care benefits for faculty members and staff account for much of the tuition increase. Also, federal grants and loans have not kept pace with demand, forcing colleges to give their own scholarships, Warren said. School spending on scholarships and fel lowships rose 70 percent from 1982 to 1992, according to the U.S. Education Depart ment. The proportion of their budgets that col leges spent on instruction fell from 32.4 percent to 30.7 percent, the department said. Spending on libraries fell from 2.7 per cent to 2.3 percent and on maintenance from 8.4 percent to 6.6 percent. Administrative budgets increased45 per cent at private universities and 26 percent at public universities, the Education Depart ment said. “It raises the question of what educa tional institutions are here for,” said James Perley, a biology professor at the College of Wooster in Ohio and president of the Ameri can Association of University Professors. Warren said many of the increased ad ministrative costs are going to counseling and job placement services, which he said college students are demanding. And colleges must spend to promote themselves in an increasingly competitive market, said David Breneman, former presi dent of Kalamazoo College and now a pro fessor at the Harvard School of Education. "Marketing is a term you wouldn’t have even heard in higher education 15 years ago,” he said. Nebraskan Editor Jeff Zeieny, 472-176* Managing Editor Angle Brunkow Assoc News Editors Jeffrey Robb Rainbow Rowell Opinion Page Editor. 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