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Sr~~ News Digest Wednesday, February 22, 1995 Page 2 News... _ in a Minute Baboon bone marrow used to fight AIDS ATLANTA — In a sign of doctors’ growing desperation in the fight against AIDS, a patient with the disease will soon receive a bone marrow transplant from a baboon to rebuild his ravaged immune system. The transplant, described Tuesday at a conference sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is meant to resupply the human bloodstream with baboon blood cells, which do not get infected with the AIDS virus. One earlier attempt at the procedure has failed, but animal experi ments suggest that this time, the transplant might work, thanks to a new discovery in immunology. Many questions remain, however, including whether baboon blood cells can carry out the same jobs inside a person as human cells do. The experiment will take place sometime in the next few months and a terminally ill AIDS patient has already been picked to receive the therapy. Nicole was attacked first LOS ANGELES — Nicole Brown Simpson’s killer probably at tacked her first, then jumped Ronald Goldman, a detective testified Tuesday, citing the lack of blood on the bottom of Ms. Simpson’s bare feet. Detective Tom Lange, in his second day of testimony at OJ. Simpson’s murder trial, depicted a ferocious struggle between Goldman and his killer outside Ms. Simpson’s condominium on June 12. Lange said there was blood on the soils of Goldman’s white shoes and blood soaked through one toe, indicating he had struggled with his assailant. N1R0UCNL 1 * 1426 O Street _ IF YOU WANT TO MAKE IT IN THE REAL WORLD, SPEND A SET ZESTER IN OURS. Walt Disney World Co. representatives will be on campus to present an information session for Undergraduate Students on the WALT DISNEY WORLD Summer/Fall ’95 College Program. Attendance at this presentation is required to interview for the Summer/Fall ’95 College Program. Interviews will be held Wednesday, xMarch 1. The following majors are encouraged to attend: Business, Communication, Recreation/Leisure ■ Studies, Hospitality/Restaurant xManagement, Travel & Tourism, Theatre/Drama, Horticulture, and Agriculture. k lifeguards are needed to work at our many Water Parks and Resorts. Students with ANY major are eligible to apply. You need to hold lifeguard certification OR be , a strong swimmer and we’ll provide the training needed for an exciting , experience this summer or fall! For more information contact: Marcia Phelps ^ Phone: 472-1452 World Co. Where students spend a semester getting ready for the rest of their lives. ®Thc Walt Disney Co. An equal opportunity employ er I U.S., Mexico sign aid plan WASHINGTON — The United States and Mexico signed an agree ment Tuesday that will unlock $20 billion in U.S. support to stabilize the Mexican peso. But the tough terms of the agree ment could cause severe economic and political distress in Mexico. Officials in the Clinton administra tion and the government of Mexico under President Ernesto Zedillo ac knowledged that hard times lie ahead for Mexico. But they stressed the situation would have been much worse without the support package. “Under these agreements, Mexico should be able to take the steps nec essary to end its liquidity crisis and in time the Mexican economy, which is fundamentally sound, should stabi lize,” Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said at a signing ceremony. Rubin said the agreement had taken political courage by the Mexi cans in agreeing to the “kind of strin gent economic medicine this pro gram requires.” In order to receive the U.S. sup port, Mexico pledged to continue a tight-money policy that has already seen interest rates soar to nearly 50 percent, to run a budget surplus of 0.5 . percent this year and to move more quickly toward privatizing state-run enterprises. Already, Mexican businesses and consumers are complaining loudly about the surge in interest rates and private economists are predicting a Mexican recession, at least a short run, is all but inevitable. Mexican Finance Minister Guillermo Ortiz said negotiators had met virtually around the clock since Thursday to hammer out final details of the agreement. Also signing the agreement for Mexico in addition to Ortiz was Miguel Mancera, head of the Bank of Mexico. “This program will only work, you know, if Mexicans put all their efforts to overcome this very diffi cult situation,” Mancera said. “We have a strong program and we are committed to its full implementa tion.” Private economists called the plan bitter but necessary medicine. The slower growth will have an impact in the United States as well since Mexico is America’s third larg est export market. Wyss said DRI was forecasting U.S. exports to Mexico would drop by $10 billion this year, translating into a loss of 350,000 U.S. jobs. The $20 billion in U.S. loans and loan guarantees is part of a $52 bil lion international package that in cludes $17.8 billion in commitments from the International Monetary Fund and $ 10 billion in funds from several European countries. ine bzu Diiiion in u.b. assistance is coming from a fund that was estab lished to support the U.S. dollar. Presi dent Clinton tapped these resources after his original proposal to get con gressional approval for $40 billion in loan guarantees ran into heavy oppo sition. Opponents, however, continued to charge that Clinton was acting be yond his authority and putting U.S. taxpayers at risk in a huge bailout of international investors who were caught facing loses when the peso began to plummet last year. The administration, however, has insisted that U.S. funds will be fully protected by the agreement, which requires Mexico to divert earnings from oil sales through an account at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. Those funds then would sim ply pass through to the government of Mexico unless there was a default. In that case, the money would go instead to the U.S. Treasury. Mexico plan approved The U.S. and Mexico.XiidflJayp signed a $20 billion rescue-v" package to boost the^M exican economy. A look at the -ideal: The goal:C#j^ Let Mexicplpayioffsshbrt-term debt and rest'ruct'urMwihat it owes. As a result,xbstprbThvestor confidence in Mexicqc-V'’ The aid: .. $3 billion. in.;iy;Sj-:loans;.and (pari ,+4 guarantees available immediately $7?blllipn in;U^S;l6ans; and loan guarariteef ovbHhe next four months $10 billion more provided in > ...po stages, beginning in July The conditions: • Mexicq:;will iaunchieconomic reforms, including tighter credit. • $hpuld;Mexico default on th,e loans, repay ment will come ..f rom oil revenues News of the economic .plan and fighter credit'controls slightly , * strengthened -the peso.:: Pesos to the dollar DeCDec. eiife&Felifeh i: {16 :'20'-.30-\6..M3 tO tl 10 16 17 '20 L '94^94* 94 45 45 95 45 45 95 95 '95 .♦After government quits defending the peso’s value .—..— Source: AP research AP/C. Sanderson Supreme Court agrees to decide Colorado gays’ civil rights case WASHINGTON — The Su preme Court set the stage for its most significant gay-rights ruling in a decade, agreeing Tuesday to decide whether states can forbid laws designed to protect homo sexuals from discrimination. The court said it will review a Colorado constitutional amend ment that would cancel local laws protecting gays from bias in em ployment, housing and public ac commodations. The amendment, approved by Colorado voters in 1992, was struck down by state courts for denying homosexuals an equal voice in government. State officials say voters have the right to prevent homosexuals from being given “preferred legal status, uay-rignts advocates say local anti-discrimination ordi nances extend civil rights protec tion to homosexuals but grant them no special privileges. “The rights of any minority should not be swept away.by popu lar vote,” said Kevin Cathcart of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. Will Perkins, whose Colorado for Family Values wrote and cam paigned for the amendment, said homosexuals are not entitled to the same civil rights protection as eth nic minorities or the disabled. Voters in Oregon and Idaho defeated anti-gay-rights amend ments last November. Eight states provide some sort ot civil rights protection for homosexuals: Cali fornia, Connecticut, Hawaii, Mas sachusetts, Minnesota, New Jer sey, Vermont and Wisconsin. The Colorado gay-rights case does not address homosexual con duct. But the high court’s ruling, expected by July 1996, could pro vide insight to the justices’ views on the continuing validity of a 1986 Supreme Court ruling that let states outlaw consensual homo sexual conduct. The Colorado amendment, which has never been enforced, would cancel ordinances in Den ver, Boulder, Aspen and other cit ies that ban discrimination against homosexuals. Athletics Continued from Page 1 Peterson, who earns an annual sal ary of $57,769, was hired in April 1992 as the director of athletic devel opment. During Peterson’sthree years the department’s fund-raising rev enues have doubled, according to the 1994 Nebraska Football Media Guide. Sources who spoke on the condi tion of anonymity said the university turned itself into the NCAA for “mi nor” violations. Funds were possibly misused last year during a social golf ing event, the sources said, which could have included a few football players or their families. Sources told the Daily Nebraskan “a few thousand dollars” were in volved in the athletic department probe. Michael Mulnix, executive direc tor of university relations, said die athletic department operated on its own income — not tax dollars. He declined to comment on the amount of money in question. David Burst of the NCAA said Tuesday he could not say if Nebraska had turned itself in to the association. “We can’t ever respond to those questions regarding any school,” Burst said in a telephone interview from Kansas City, Mo. “We notify the involved institution in writing.” A1 Papik, senior associate athletic director and compliance coordina tor, said he didn’t know of any viola tions reported to the NCAA. “I would be aware of any type of self-reporting to the NCAA, and I can assure you that there was not,” Papik said. Nefcfraskan Editor Jeff Zeleny 472-1766 ManagingEdttor Jeff Robb Assoc. News Editors DeOra Janssen Doug Kouma FAX NUMBER 472-1761 The Daily NebraskanfUSPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board, Nebraska Union 34,1400ft St., Uncoln, NE 68588-0448, Monday through Friday during the academic year; weekly during summer sessions. 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