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digital domain; sle ke ist Friastdays "Televisions Corp. .of Tomorrow". session of the Inustry. Summit pre- Sikes, focusing on the change that interactivedicted a massive transformation in. the:way people television will bring, said, that television willview television and in the way information is pre-- become a medium for social interaction. "All of thesented. - things that can be done gregariously will be done

Within five years television signals will romatinely interactively," he said.be distributed digitally, said Andrew B. t,ippman, "Television will be changing from individual,associate director of the Media Lab and chair of the uni-directional to group-oriented," said Robert L.session. This change will bring a revolution in the Carberry, chief executive officer of Fireworks Part-way people watch television by providing the tech- ners, an affiliate or iBM. -1-nology necessary for video-on-demand, interactive Ile resulting technologies will allow broadcast-services, multimedia applications, and a nearly ers to personalize broadcasts for a single individual,unlimited number of channels, he said. Carberry said. Broadcasters will shift from "narrow-

In addition, switching to the digital domain will casting"- broadcasting toward the wants of a groupmake television sets much more intelligent. The tele- - to "pointcasting" - broadcasting aimed at anvision of the future will be a full home entertainment individual.system in itself, with a full, built-in computer which "'The scale of this transformation is immense,"will "'allow you to program it and explore it in ways Lippman said. However, he noted that these changesnever possible before," Lippman said. are not the result of "a technological push,," but

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tional scale," he said, and willrequire extensive policy recommen-dations from industry, government,and environmental groups. Theworld has to study, to learn, and toknow, he said.

Coordination essentialThe panel generally expressed

thne view that inemrnationai coordina-tion of environmental policy is notsimply important, but essential toenvironmental management.

Rudenstine explained that theenvironment is not the nations canface individually. "Environmentalproblems travel," he said.

For example, air and water pol-lution generated in one country canspread to other countries throughglobal wind and ocean currents, hesaid. One of the world's worst envi-ronmental problems, ozone deple-tion over Antarctica, is the result ofpollution produced in distant indus-

Addressing the question of whoshould be responsible for the envi-ronment, discussion at the IndustrySummit's plenary session on Satur-day "Ecological Governance: WhoIs in Charge?" centered on theimportance of international coopera-iion, ine prospects for the success ofsustainable development, currentenvironmental problems, and thechanging relationship between theenvironment and mankind.

In his introductory comments,Harvard University President NeilL. Rudenstine emphasized that theworld has nearly no knowledge ofor experience with managing theenvironment. He raised many prac-tical questions, including whoshould be in charge, who shouldmake decisions, on what basis, andat what cost to whom.

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lending next year, but will insteadmonitor the program's progress,according to Stanley G. Hudson,director of student financial aid.

The Student Loan Reform Act'simpact on MIT students could besignificant. Hudson estimated thatas many as 45 percent of MITundergraduates receive Staffordloans affected by the law. Acrossthe country, Stafford loans will bereplaced by direct loans.

"Theoretically, it is very promis-ing," Hudson said.

This system of direct lending isnot mandatory for all colleges. AsMadeleine Kunin, U.S. deputy sec-retary of education, said in a Maypress release, "Schools that ... donot wish to originate loans may usethe services of alternative loan orig-

inators ... at no cost to the institu-tion."

Scchools that do create loans willbe financially compensated by thegovernment, she said.

The Department of Educationwill also help these schools find pri-vate lenders, who will compete forcustomers in an environment of freemarket competition. This differsremarkably from the status quo,under which lenders often requirestudents to pay a flat rate that is "3.1percentage points above the Trea-sury bill rate," Kunin said.

The new system corrects theinefficiencies of the old by eliminat-ing the involvement of the middle-man. This helps students because

ment and use of emerging commu-nications standards in the future,students will be able to use the sameinterface to browse and search otherlibrary catalogs on the Internet.

Marnie L. Harker '96 said thatthe current system is "ger,.,,ypretty easy to use." However, "I'vealways had trouble trying to use thesystem from Athena," so it is goodthat the new system will work moredirectly with Athena, she said.

Binkl M. Zidaric '95 said that heis pleased with the current librarysystem and has used a modem todialup Athena for infornation aboutbooks at Harvard libraries. Still, "ifthey could implement a bettersearch process, that would begreat," he said.

Since last fall, MIT Libraries andInformation Systems have workedjointly to select the system mostamenable to the needs of thelibraries and students.

The selection process began witheight original vendors under consid-eration; by this summer, the list hadbeen narrowed down to three; andthrough a series of on-campus inter-views and demonstrations, theyunanimously decided upon the Hori-zon system produced by NOTISSystems Inc. of Evanston, Ill.,Anderson said.

President Bill Clinton succeededin keeping his campaign promise toAmerica's youth when Congressapproved the Student Loan ReformAct in early August. This policychanges the procedures under whichcollege students obtain and repayeducational loans.

Under the new plan, universitiesare given the option to lend moneydirectly to their students. This savesstudents money because they avoidprivate lenders, who currentlycharge exorbitant interest rates andoften accrue unreasonable profits atthe expense of their borrowers,according to government pressreleases.

MIT will not participate in direct

By July 1994, MIT's librarieswill have switched the currentlibrary operating system to a newand more powerful one.

G.reg Anderson, associate direc-tor for library systems and planning,sees the switch-over as a "realchange in the technology base oflibraries," a move towards a moreopen ,n-' firievdly environment forstudents.

The new Horizon software,which emphasizes a graphical userinterface, should help make thelearning curve a little less steep,Anderson said.

The current Barton catalog sys-tem is difficult to use, according tomany students. It is very confusingfor a first-time user, said Anna D.Lukasiak '96. She said she had totake a mini-course in order tobecome familiar with it.

System works directlyv with AthenaNot only will the new system

provide greater capabilities than thecurrent one, now nine years old, butit will also work directly withAthena because it is UNIX based.

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Jonathan Howe, the retired American admiral who heads the trou-ble-plagued U.N. operation in Somalia, expressed hope Thursday thatthe Clinton administration would continue to support his efforts tohunt down Mogadishu warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid.

Asked at a news conference whether U.S. support would last if hisbloody but futile raids against Aidid went on for another six months,Howe replied, "Let's hope it doesn't come to that."

The U.N. official, who plans to brief members of Congress inWashington next week, laid down a spirited defense of his operation,disparaging Aidid for relying on women and children to attack U.N.positions and accusing private agencies such as the International Com-mittee of the Red Cross of exaggerating the numbers of dead civilians.

Howe, Who once served on the National Security Council staff atthe White House, acknowledged that the U.N. peacekeepers lackedexperience in dealing with rioting crowds and implied that the UnitedNations was considering new tactics in suppressing these riots.

"We can use tear gas, pepper gas, other things that are coming in,peopie trained in riot control," he said. "But what we are up against isthat these people use crowds as weapons."

ting up his campaign organizationand raising a huge warchest.

But polls taken for news organiza-tions showed Arizona Secretary ofState Richard Mahoney closing in onDeConcini in the Democratic primaryand Republican Rep. Jon Kyl runningahead of him in early soundings forthe general election - by 20 percent-age points in one poll. Another pollindicated that DeConcini's approvalrating had fallen by 17 points, to 42percent in the last three months.

DeConcini, 55, said at a newsconference at his Phoenix office thathe regretted leaving some workm 11 1 i ns; h it u to L ethrough with campaign fund-raising,implying that this was a major rea-son for his decision not to run again."I detest that part of it. I just havehad enough of all the BS that goesalong with it," he was quoted by theAssociated Press as saying.

It was fund-raising by Keating onbehalf of DeConcini and four othersenators, who intervened on Keat-ing's behalf with federal regulators,that led to the high-profile 'KeatingFive" ethics case. The ethics com-mittee found that DeConcini brokeno Senate rules but engaged in con-duct that "gave the appearance ofbeing improper" and exhibited"insensitivity and poorjudgment."

DeConcini also faced controver-sies over family land deals, an imageas a flip-flopper that went back tothe Panama Canal controversy of thelate 1970s and was reinforced byswitches on Clinton's budget and aiong-since-abandoned pledge toserve only two terms in the Senate.

In a telephone interview,Mahoney praised DeConcini's ser-vice to Arizona and the country andsaid he thought "it very much of apersonal decision - he thought he'd

served well and wanted to move onto other things." Another sourceclose to DeConcini said the senatorwas "'just fed up with everything."

DeConcini said he thought hecould have won re-election, andMahoney said he thought DeConciniwas sincere in that view. DeConciniaides said the senator made the deci-sion not to run again last weekend.

In his statement, Durenbergermade no reference to his legal diffi-culties, alluding instead to his -20years of fulitime public service,"which he said was "a long time fora Republican raised in Minnesota'sL-rrujzuro · rt 91ttx- twllaCI-- .

He wanted to continue publicservice "but not as a fourth-termU.S. senator," Durenberger told anews conference on the stps of thestate capitol in St. Paul that washastily put together after wordleaked that he had decided againstrunning again. Dlerenberger hadbeen planning to announce his deci-sion this weekend at a state GOPcoinvention.

A major Republican player in thedebate over health care reformz,Durenberger said he would concen-trate on the issue in his final months inoffice, saying his decision not to seekre-election ''clears the deck for me toseize this opportunity of a lifetime."

Durenberger, 59, was denouncedby the Senate in 1990 for ethicalmisconduct in connection with abook promotion deal and reimburse-ments he tooks from the Senate forstaying in a Minneapolis condo-minium that he owned. He wasindicted early this year on fraudcharges stemming from the condodeal and faces trial in January

A paternity lawsuit was dis-missed last month after tests shlowedthat the child was not his.

By Helen DewarTHE WASHINGTON POST

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Veteran Sens. Dennis DeConci-ni, D-Ariz., and Dave Durenberger,R-Minn., scarred by scandals andplagued by formidable re-electionproblems, announced Thursday theywill retire from the Senrate at the endof their third terms next year.

Durenberger, facing criminalcharges that he defrauded the govern-ment, and DeConcini, bearing multi-ple wounds including an ethics com-mittee rebuke for his involvementwith savings and loan executiveCharles H. Keating jr., were ihncirparties' most threatened incumbents.

In addition to their own vulnera-bilities, the decisions reflected awidespread apprehension amonglawmakers of both parties as chal-lengers across the country prepareto mount a repeat performance ofthe kind of outsider, anti-Washing-ton campaigns that triumphed inmany races last year.

Three other longtime senators-John C. Danforth, R-Mo., HowardM. Metzenbaurm, D-Ohio, and Mal-colm Wallop, R-Wyo. - hadalready announced their decisions toretire next year. Wallop faced thepossibility of a tough re-electionfight, but none of the three facedanything like the troubles ofDeConcini and Durenberger.

While Durenberger's decisioncame as no surprise, DeConcini'swas a shock even to his staff, whichhad been counting on a long, hardcampaign. The Democratic NationalCommittee had just finished runningtelevision ads in Arizona toutingDeConcini as a hero for voting lastmonth to pass President Clinton'stax and budget package, andDeConcini was in the midst of set-

A chunk of rock sizzled out of space and infto the Gulf of Mexicooff the Yulcatan Peninsula around the time the dinosaurs died off 65million years ago. Geologists have long blamed the meteorite for theextinction, but paleontologists argued the rock was too small to dothe job.

A refined analysis of the suspected impact site near the Mexicanvillage of Chicxulub indicates the suspect meteorite indeed may havebeen big enough to cause the extinction - perhaps twice as big andeight times as powerful as once believed, American and Mexicangeologists report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

Ranging from 5 to 10 miles in diameter, the meteorite - whethercomet or asteroid - packed an almost unfathomable amount of ener-gy, said Virgil L. Sharpton of the Lunar and Planetary Institute inHouston. He estimated it was equal to 200 million megatons of TNT,or I 0,000 times the combined power of every nuclear bomb ever made.

House Probe Uncovers Lax JustieeDe ]p-artment, FBI Se lIty

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Document security within the' Justice Department and FBI is solax that congressional investigators were unable to track classifiedpapers moving between the two agencies, according to a report by theGeneral Accounting Office.

The study, a copy of which was provided to the Los AngelesTimes, also found that the FBI failed to take disciplinary action formany of the 4,400 violations that its own security patrols uncoveredat FBI headquarters over a three-year period.

The GAO report, done for the House Government Operations sub-committee on information, justice, transportation and agriculture,noted that safeguarding classified and sensitive information is anabsolute necessity in the law enforcement area.|"With the increasing strength and boldness of drug trafficking car-teis, organized crime families and terrorist groups, it is vital that the(Justice) Department adequately protect its operations to insure that itdoes not itself comnpromise its law enforcement activities," accordingto Rep. Gary A. Condit, D-Calif., the subcommittee chairman.

Condit, in letters to Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI DirectorLouis J. Frech said that the security shortcomings "must be corrected."

He wrote that while procedures have been established to control andtback classified documents, "compliance with the procedures is in somecases so inadequate that the GAO was unable to track documents to insurethat they had reached their intended recipients ... A classifid documentcould be lost, stolen or simply vanish into thin air leaving the departentunable to identify and hold accountable those responsible for the lapse."

John Russell, a Justice Department spokesman, acknowledged thesecurity problems and said that the department's inspector generalalso is looking into the violations.

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now that necessitates us thinkingabout it and examining it everrvherewith the interest of maintainingdemocracy, yet at the same timemaintaining cohesion in the country."

Mustapha Hamarneh, a leadingscholar on electoral law in Jordan,argued in a separate interview thatthe elections "need to be postponed"in the wake of the PLO-Israeliaccord-which many Palestinianleaders assume will lead to ultimateconfederation with neighboring Jor-dan, if the Jordanians agree.

"We don 't want Jordan tobecome the center of debate for thatprocess - for or against,Harnarneh said, reflecting wide-spread apprehension here that anyintra-Palestinian discord over theIsraeli-PLO agreement is bound toaffect stability in Jordan.

"This is the only country in theArab world where such a debate cantake place. It will overshadow allother issues, anid this is detrimentalfor the process of social changehere," he said, adding: "How canyou have a legislative body that hasbeen chosen exclusively over on,-,issue? These are extremely challeng-ing times for Jordanl.... (PLO leader)Yasser Arafat did not pull a rabbitout of his hat, but a damned camel."

The Israeli-PLO accords envisioneventual self-rule for the I millionPalestinians in the Israeli-occupiedWest Bank, which was part of Jordanuntil it fell to Israeli troops duringthe 1967 Middle East war. Husseinrenounced all claims to the territoryfive years ago, saying this wouldallow Palestinians thefe to pursuetheir ideal of a separate homeland.This action, however, also allowedJordan to disengage from cumber-

some administrative involvementwith West Bank residents and exiles,and it limited West Bank representa-tion in the Jordanian legislature.

Hussein has emphasized in sever-al recent interviews that the time forconfederation between Jordan and aPalestinian state had not yet come,pointing out that such an associationcould only be forged by full-fledgedand independent states, still a distantprospect for the Palestinians.

Last Tuesday, Jordanian PrimeMinister Abdel Salam Majalispelled out details of a Jordanian-Israeli agenda for further negotia-tions that was initialed in Washing-ton by both sides that day.

The plan provides for a phasedimprovement in relations betweenthe two countries that would openthe way for "implementation" ofmeasures on which both sides canagree in advance of a comprehen-sive peace treaty. Such areas ofcooperation would include waterand energy resources, environmen-tal problems and, possibly, installa-tion of direct telephone links, Majalisaid.

The most contentious issue inthe talks concerns the return ofPalestinian refugees who fled theWest Bank to Jordan during the1967 war and afterward. Failingtheir repatriation, Jordan is insistingon some form of compensation byIsrael, in accordance with interna-tional law.

Psychological impediments sep-arating Arabs and Israelis would fallif practical solutions materialize, themonarch said. "Barriers wouldcome down if a context of peaceand opportunities that were neverthere would present themselves."

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Jordan's King Hussein, who hasguided his desert nation throughregional crises for four decades,expressed fears Thursday that theshimmering new prospect for MiddleEast peace may raise political hopeshere too abruptly, bringing with it thedanger of disillusionment.

As a measure of his concern,Hussein hinted in an interview thatparliamentary elections planned forNov. 8 could be postponed. Theelections, which would be the sec-ond here since 1989, had been billedas a bellwether of democracy in theMiddle East, but the fact that two-thirds of Jordan's 3.6 million peopleare Palestinians has obviously givenHussein and his government pause.

Speaking of this week's rap-prochement between Israel and thePalestine Liberation Organization,Hussein said: "Jordan is worriedabout the possibility that this opportu-nity for the establishment of a justand durable peace may raise expecta-tions too quickly and therefore bringwith it the dangers of a psychologicalsetback when it is realized how much(more) needs to be done."' He avoidedany direct reference to ominous fore-casts that a Palestinian state could atsome point seek to supplant Jordan-ian sovereignty.

The monarch insisted that hiscountry's avowed Tnarch towardmulti-party democracy would not bereversed, yet he signaled three timesduring the interview that plans for thefall elections were being rethought. Insum, he said, his govemment had notyet decided to shelve the ballot;"chowever, we have a new situation

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Bosnia's three warring factions are reportedly preparing to sign anagreement in principle Tuesday to end all hostilities, assure the unim-peded delivery of humanitarian relief supplies throughout the countryand open up all prisoner camps.

According to Bosnian govemnmnent and other sources here in theCroatian capital and in Geneva, the future agreement would clear theway for a resumption of the Geneva peace talks by putting off the keyissue of dividing up territory that led to the breakdown of the negotia-tions Sept. 1. The new accord also would relieve immediately the suf-fering of millions of displaced civilians as winter approaches.

Representatives of the Bosnian Serbs and Muslims signed a jointdeclaration in Geneva Thursday that was nearly identical to onesigned Tuesday between the Muslims and Croats. International medi-ators David Owen and Thorvald Stoltenberg hope to round out thetwo agreements into an all-Bosnia settlement and persuade the lead-ers of the three Bosnian sides to sign it Tuesday in Sarajevo, theBosnian capital.

It was not immediately clear, however, that the new agreement fora cease-fire and other limited confidence-building steps would haveany better chance of being implemented than scores of others thathave been signed and ignored over the past 17 months of fighting inBosnia.

Thursday's agreement between the Bosnian Muslims and Serbswas signed by the speaker of the Bosnian Serbs' self-styled parlia-ment, Momrcilo Krajislnik, and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic,who also signed a joint declaration Tuesday with Croatian PresidentFranjo Tudjman, acting on behalf of the Bosnian Croat faction.

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all going to be easy," Clinton said,pointing out that some of the youngand healthy would pay "slightlymore" for the standard health carepackage the government wouldguarantee. He added later, at a sepa-rate event in northeast Washingtonwith small-business owners: "In thesnort run, we can't make I00 per-cent of the people winners."

Clinton's shift in tone came as ana-lysts warned that the public might souron the plan if it doubts the administra-tion's contention that squeezing wastefrom the health care system willbroaden health benefits without majorfinancial sacrifices from any group.

The Rose Garden event, a pre-lude to Clinton's formal unveilingof the health plan before Congresson Wednesday, was calculated tobegin a complicated promotionalcampaign with an event of maxi-mum emotional impact. And by sev-eral signs, it succeeded: Several ofthe letter-writers choked up as thediscussion progressed, and the nor-

mally reserved Mrs. Clinton becametearful several times as cancer vic-tims, grieving parents and imperiledworkers told their tales.

Even some of Clinton's criticsagreed that the setting played to hisstrengths, particularly his ability toconvey through his words and bodylanguage that he cares about ordi-nary Americans.

"He's very very good at thisstuff," said Bill McInturff, a Repub-lican pollster who opposes the Clin-ton plan.

The gathering, held under a whitetent in the Rose Garden because ofsoggy Washington weather, wasbegun shortly after 8 a.m., so televi-sion stations across the country couldshow portions during the morningTV news shows. It marked the firsttime the president and Mrs. Clinton,his chief health care adviser, havepresided jointly over a policy eventsince the inauguration. Vice Presi-dent Al Gore and his wife Tipperalso joined them.

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President Clinton, inauguratinghis massive health reform promo-tional campaign with hard luck talesfrom the system's victims, acknowl-edged that even his plan would haveshort term "losers" - among themthe young and the healthy.

In an emotional Rose Gardengathering that Clinton said would"put a human face" on a complexissue, the president and first ladyHillary Rodham Clinton commiser-ated with 15 Americans who havesuffered family separations,wrecked careers and declining liv-ing standards because of the health-care system's inequities.

But as he promised that onlyoW~..,pEthg i o,,ul d rlu f:ieludy til!irproblems, Clinton also stressed --as he never has before - that suchimprovement would not come with-out costs.

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President Boris N. Yeltsin Thursday said he would return to hisCabinet Yegor Gaidar, the architect of Russia's "shock therapy" eco-nomic reforms.

Gaidar, who was acting prime minister until conservative legisla-tors forced Yeltsin to dump him last year, will now be first deputyprime minister.

In a surprise announcement to reporters while visiting a division ofelite Interior Ministry troops, Yeitsin said that Gaidar, 37, had agreedto accept the appointmernt, which will be made officially Saturday.

The decision indicates that liberal reformers may have gained theupper hand in an internal power struggle that had divided Yeltsin'sCabinet and threatened to weaken the president in his ongoing battlewith conservatives in Russia's parliament.

Gaidar will replace Oleg Lobov as first deputy prime minister.ILobov, who is also economics minister, had criticized the govem-ment's economic reforms and had proposed his own program to sta-bilize the economy, including giving his own ministry substantiallymore control over the economy and making wholesale changes in theway Russian enterprises are being privatized. It was unclear whetherLobov would keep the economics post.

At first Yeltsin accepted Lobov's program, but that infuriatedother Cabinet members, who said it would undercut the reforms andreturn Russia to Soviet-style central economic planning. Last weekYeltsin told his feuding ministers that they should work out the con-flict for themselves and come to some sort of compromise.

The return of Gaidar suggests no compromise at all. Instead, it is ahugely symbolic action for Yeltsin, who was forced to dump theyoung economist in December in a bitter power struggle with Rus-sia's Congress of People's Deputies.

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WASHINGTON protests from "a large number" ofcommunity countries in Europe and Asia thati is about to want to preserve the worldwidederground moratorium on nuclear tests,year, senior according to a senior U.S. official.

A new Chinese test could createsed on clas- a new political dilemma for Presi-Ice satellite dent Clinton, who said in a July 3or, China's radio address outlining the U.S.ns develop- commitment to a nuclear-testinglte Chinese moratorium that if it was "broken bylowered a another nation, I will direct theift in one of Department of Energy to conduct>r a nuclear additional tests while seeking

approval to do so from Congress."ent analysts But word of the Chinese testhe weapon preparations has provoked substan-y time, they tial debate within the administration'obably will over whether Clinton's promiseitil after the should be fulfilled, officials said.Committee Some members of Congress haveay whether warned that Capitol Hill will notin Beijing, support new U.S. tests unless the

Chinese conduct many new blastst the games and are joined by other nations.ig anything To help decide what to do, offi-ce, the offi- cials said, the National Securityedicted the Council has requested that thehin several departments of State, Defense and

Energy develop a variety of optionsBeijing has for a U.S. response to the expectedre that any Chinese test.last would "We.would view a Chineseward d isar- nuclear test with serious concern,"

the senior official said. "We havebeen actively engaged for severalweeks to dissuade China from car-rying out such a test ... (including)interventions at very senior levels."

U.S. officials said Undersecre-tary of State Lynn Davis was toldduring a visit to Beijing last monththat China supported a comprehen-sive ban on nuclear testing begin-ning in 1996, a statement thatWashington interpreted as a signthat Beijing wanted to conduct atleast a few more blasts before then.

Scientists involved in the Chi-nese program have told visitingWesterners they need the additionaltests to design new nuclear war-heads containing materials that areless prone to accidental detonation,according to several sources. Chi-nese weapons are less sophisticatedthan those made by the UnitedStates and probably contain fewersafety features, the sources said.

Several officials said Washing-ton has not made any public com-ment on the Chinese test prepara-tions so far because White Houseadvisers feared the administrationwould be embarrassed if Beijingdecided to go forward anyway. Butone official said many experts hadcounseled that private protestsmight have a greater impact than apublic condemnation.

The U.S. intelligencehas concluded that Chinaconduct the first untnuclear test in nearly a yofficials said Thursday.

The assessment is bassified U.S. reconnaissanphotographs of Lop Nolongtime nuclear-weapolment center, that indicaengineers recently 1weapon down a deep shathe final preparations foblast, the officials said.

While U.S. governmehave concluded that thcould be detonated at anyhave predicted China prndefer the nuclear blast unInternational Olympic (announces next Thursdato hold the 2000 Gamesthe officials said.

China is eager to hostand wants to avoid dointhat might harm its chan¢cials said. But they pretest would be held withweeks.

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Beneath a poster of a bloody dagger, Mohammed MahmoudTantawi said Thursday that the violence against Israel will not end. Ifa new Palestinian government intervenes, he said, smiling, "we wel-come a fight with them, too."

The biggest threat to the autonomy plan reached between Israeland the Palestine Liberation Organization is violence from men likeTantawi, one of about 1,000 who chanted against Israel and the PLOat a rally Thursday by the Islamic Jihad opposition group.

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat Thursday urged a summit confer-ence in Yemen with all opposition groups to avoid civil war whenIsrael turns over the Gaza Strip to Palestinian control in three months.

Hamas, the largest opposition group inside the occupied territo-ries, apparently already has made the pledge. A PLO official in Gazaconfirmed that Hamas gave its agreement Thursday morning not tofight the PLO. In Tunis, the PLO released an agreement signed byHamas and the PLO to respect a "code of honor" not to fight.

In numerous recent interviews, Hamas supporters in the Gaza Stripacknowledged that they have lost much public support and conceded thatopposition could be crushed by the most powerful PLO faction, Fatah.

But there are other splinter groups, and rebels from the main-stream, who are ready to fight against the new agreement, whetherthat fight is against Israelis or the PLO. They say they will not stopattacks against Israeli targets.

"The intifada is not over," said Tantawi, a former policeman inGaza. "It will continue until we get our territories back."

Old opponents of Arafat - Nayef Hawatmch of the DemocraticFront for the Liberation of Palestine, and George Habash of the Popu-lar Front for the Liberation of Palestine - have been clamoring thisweek for such an event. Thursday, they were joined by the AyatollahAli Khamenei, the spiritual leader of Iran, who is considered to influ-ence Islamic groups. He promised that "Palestinian fists will keep hit-ting the heads of usurpers."

Such outside voices have only a muted effect inside the occupiedterritories. But Arafat does have to worry that his peace-keepingmoves do not outpace his supporters, who are accustomed to decadesof avowed resistance to Israel.

Arafat has hinted - but not openly said -- that the intifada willcontinue until Israeli troops completely vacate the West Bank. Totalwithdrawal is not contemplated under the agreement for at least fiveyears - if at all.

By Paul BlusteinTHE WASHINGTON POST

Dee Myers called the package "agood first step... We hope to seemore."

Analysts here in Tokyo ques-tioned whether this package would domuch more good than the previousones, noting that the likely stimula-tive effect is considerably less thanthe $60 billion figure would suggest.

"It's support for the economy,but not stimulus," said Robert Feld-man, chief economist in SalomonBrothers Inc.'s Tokyo office.

The announcement comes at atime when Japan's economy isshowing fresh signs of weakness.Gross national product, the totalvalue of the nation's output ofgoods and services, shrank at a 2percent annual rate in the threemonths from April to June.

Japanese officials contended thatthe package announced Thursdaydiffers in an important respect fromthe previous ones, because itincludes not only the deregulationmeasures but also steps aimed at

passing on the benefits of the strongyen to Japanese consumers.

Those items reflect the prioritiesof Hosokawa, the first prime minis-ter from outside the Liberal Democ-ratic Party in nearly four decades,who has sought to portray himselfas the champion of the ordinaryJapanese against the interests ofindustry and the bureaucracy.

Manae Kubota, chief of the gov-ernment's Economic PlanningAgency, said Thursday's packagewould boost economic growth by atleast 1.3 percentage points.

But many Japanese businessexecutives and private forecastersexpressed disappointment with thepackage, saying it would likelyincrease growth by less than a halfpercentage point.

That is because the package,like previous ones, includes bil-lions of dollars in items such asgovernment land purchases andloans that generate little additionaleconomic activity.

Battling a stubborn recession,Japan unveiled yet another packageintended to boost the economyThursday - and once again, its crit-ics, including U.S. officials, com-plained that Tokyo is doing too little.

Prime Minister MorihiroHosokawa's government proposedan "emergency economic package"of public works, housing loans andother measures that it valued atabout $60 billion, plus steps to easegovernment regulation in 94 areas.

Japan's economic health is ofconsiderable interest to Washington,which has been pressing Tokyo to.adopt growth-oriented policies sothat Japan will absorb more imports,giving a lift to the economies of theUnited States and other nations.

In Washington, Clinton adminis-traticon officials said the packagewas not enough.

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an avid recreational shooter and fight hard toprotect my right to own guns, but when thingslike this occur, I feel it is necessary to alert thepublic to the misrepresentations of firearms bynaive people.

If any of these of these young ladies would

LSC Poster Is Off TargetI would like to draw the attention of the

MiT community to a recent poster displayedon campus. The ad pictures four women try-ing to get students to join the Lecture SeriesCommittee. The reason I point out this partic-ular poster is that three of the women in theposter are holding guns in their hands withtheir fingers on the triggers. Obviously, if theyhad ever taken basic pistol at the indoor rangein DuPont Gymnasium, then they would knowthat they were mishandling the firearms.

These young women could have also askedany member (or our coaches) of the pistol andrifle teams fOr help with the ad, but insteadthey proceeded to have their pictures takenwith their fingers on the triggers! I am sorry tosee how greatly these students have beenaffected by Hollywood and the media, for thefirst rule of gun safety is: "Never put you fin-ger on the trigger unless you are ready to fire."

It is cases like these that incorrectly makepeople think that having a firearm is a glam-orous thing. I resent the act that avid anti-gun-ners than think that all people who ownfirearms treat their guns in this fashion. I am

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I know of at least one MIT student wcho hassuffered through Castle's losses. Therefore, Isug , est to al! MIT studw;ts in dormitories, par-ticularly freshmien, to investigate the options

Many area college students were affectedby the recent bankruptcy of a local storagecompany, namely the Castle Moving Compa-ny of Boston. According to The Boston G!loe,Castle had rented 9,000 square-feet of storagefrom the Village House, an independent com-pany in Brookline. According to the owner,poor management and organization through-out the spring and summer depleted theirgilnds, and forced their closure several weeksinto the school year.

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archaeologist and his palcoboLanist girlfriend,the dinosaurs, both animatronic and computer-generated, are clearly meant to be the stars ofthe film. Most realistic of the menagerie is thesick triceratops lolling on her side; least, theherd of grazers that stampede across a field asNeill and two children run for cover. It's goodto see Neill, a talented actor and star of manyBritish and Australian films (including MyBrilliant Career) and Dern, who finally start-ed to get plum roles after her success in Ram-bling Rose, get the exposure they so richlydeserve. Jurassic Park isn't stellar filmmak-

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*l** Manhattan Murder MysteryWoody Allen's latest tale of angst-ridden

New York intellectuals tells the story of amild-mannered book editor (Allen) and hisenergetic but bored wife (Diane Keaton) asthey become involved in solving an allegedmurder case. As in any Allen film, sexual ten-sions complement the action, with old friendTed (Alan Alda) coming on to Keaton's char-acter, and sexpot author Marcia (AnjelicaHuston) setting her sights on Allen. The result

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again brings Shakespeare to the big screen,this time with a frothy comedy set in a sun-drenched Tuscan villa. Though the list of sup-

porting cast members is impressive - DenzelWashington, Michael Keaton, and BrianBlessed, to name a tew - all are outshown byBranagh's Oscar-winning wife, EmmaThompson. As sharp-tongued Beatrice,Thompson steals nearly every scene she's in;every scene, that is, except those withBranagh, who plays certified bachelorBenedick. The screen fairly sparkles when thepair is on and conversely, is merely ordinarywhen they are not. Of course, this is not somuch the fault of the actors or directors as it isof the play, which surrounds Beatrice andBenedick with a cast of one-note characters(particularly lovers Claudio and Hero, whodefine young, beautiful, and vapid). The cine-matography, however, is lush and gorgeous,and Branagh brings a lightness to Shake-speare's often slapstick and off-color humorthat makes the film well worth watching.-- DAL. Loews Harvard Square

***1/2 A River Runs Through ItRobert Redford directs this movie about

the growth of a family - its two sons in par-ticular - in a small Montana town between1910 and 1935. The movie moves slowly, butelegantly. Redford doesn't worry too muchabout actual events; instead he focuses on thespirit and the emotions of the family. Thefather, a Presbyterian minister, (Tnm qL-i-itlis stern and reserved. He educates his sons,Norman (Craig Sheffer) and Paul (Brad Pitt),at home, but instills his most importantlessons in church and fly fishing. Ultimately,the movie is about fly fishing, insofar as it rep-resents grace, peace, and the ideals Skerrittries to instill in Norman and Paul. The movieis also about the boys' coming of age: Nor-man is serious and studious and works hard tomake a future for himself, Paul is reckless,spending more time drinking and gamblingthan working. The kinship between them isstrong and the differences they realize as theygrow up are painful. The story is compellingand heartfelt but understated, relying on sur-prisingly successful narration by Redford. Thephotography is lush and gorgeous. -JH. LSCSundayMitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) discovers his new law firm Is not what It appeas to be In The Firm.

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of Corporate Design Foundation,and Session Chair Thomas L. Mag-nanti, professor of management sci-ence and co-director of the Leadersfor Manufacturing Program.

Sloan Professor of Managementand Leaders for Manufacturing Pro-fessor Arnoldo C. Hax led a sessionon "Emerging Best ManagerialPractices."

"Human and organizationaldevelopment approaches such asgreater employee empowerment,reliance on autonomous teams, andflattened organizational structuresare as key to enabling processchange as any technical tool," Haxsaid. "In fact, information technolo-gy is rarely effective without simul-taneous human innovations."

"As work becomes more partici-pative and team-oriented, this dis-tinction between manager and non-manager begins to fade," he said.

Customer needs must come first"The product is the object at the

intersection of the company and theuser," Lawrence said.

A company must "operate as ifthe final customer ... was the onlyfocus of the team," with personaland company goals given lower pri-'riy, Gardene r said. "The customeris always the one at the table withyou."

Chrysler needed to makechanges in its corporate structure tosurvive, much less compete, Gar-dener said. He described the "LH"team at Chrysler that experimentedwith a platform team design struc-ture to increase competitiveness.

The team rejected the "throw-over-the-wal" approach, whereeach section of the company worksindependently, Gardener said.Instead, it brought together suppli-ers, and design, engineering, manu-facturing, and marketing sectionsfrom the beginning, he said.

Individual members had theirown goals, responsibilities, authori-ty, and plans for profitability. Non-critical items, such as briefings andcoordinators, were removed fromthe critical path. The technical level,not mnanagerial level, now made thedecisions, Gardener said.

The LH team reduced the devel-opment time from 4.5 to 3.5 yearsand personnel from 1400 to 741,representing a savings of $42 mil-lion. The overall product came inunder-weight, S20 under target, andhad better fuel economy.

Lawrence also gave the exampleof Xerox Corp., which "shifted frommachine-centered design process touser-centered design process" to tryto regain its market share. Xerox

observed photocopier users and pro-jected their needs. They also usedmodels and crude prototypes earlyin the design process.

Need to know competitors

Along with teamwork, manage-ment is also important in a compa-ny's higher levels. Managers needto be clear about who the compa-ny's competitors are, on a regional,national, and international scale,Hax said.

Competitive benchmarking "isthe continuous process of measuringproducts, services, processes, andpractices against the toughest com-petitors or those companiesrenowned as the leaders," Hax said.But he warned that standards shouldbe established, because benchmark-ing against different classes of com-

goal of a company.Managers need to determine "the

key perspectives that [they] have tokeep track of in [their] businesses,"Hax said.

"We regret that our survival is atrisk against Japanese companies, letaione domestic," Gardener said.Chrysler's LH team was an experi,ment to compete against JaDaneseand other American companies, notjust to survive.

Design and manufacturing toolsCooperation between design and

manufacturing is especially impor-tant, both for total preventativemaintenance and design for manu-facturability and assembly, Hax said.

Flowers also emphasized con-current education, citing programsat MIT such as the class DesignProjects (2.73), the Leaders forManufacturing program, and theNew Products Program.

Designers use tools such as theHouse of Quality and Quality Func-tion Deployment, which correlatecustomer demands with engineeringattributes. Using computer aidedengineering and computer aideddesign, parameters can be changedand redesigned with a single key-stroke.

Even with this technology,designers still need to considertradeoffs between analysis and test-ing, risk and comfort, and methodand free form, Flowers said. Manu-facturing engineers also need toconsider cost, quality, speed, andflexibility of the manufacturingprocesses, Hax said.

It is "more costly to do thingswrong than do things right," Haxsaid.

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which span most of the productdevelopmnernt process.

Two of the sessions at the Indus-try Su;mmit last weekend addressedthis issue. "Design: The NextImperative of Industrial Competi-

tiveness" featured panelists WoodieC. Flowers PhD '73, professor ofmechanical engineering, G. GlennGardner, general manager of largecar platform engineering at ChryslerCorp., Peter G. Lawrence, chairmnan

Industry is increasingly recog-nizing the success of concurrentengineering and implementing itsuse in design and manufacturing,

Uwe Reinhardt describes his forecast of the rising cost of medical care.

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maintained while reducing costs.Stephen L. Brown, chairman ofJohn Hancock Mutual Life asked,"We need to find a way to measurebenefits, as well as cost .... But willlower cost lead to a sacrifice ofquality?"

The main problem is that thecost of health care benefits is usingup purchasing power, said JeromeH. Grossman, chairman of the NewEngland Medical Center and profes-sor of medicine at the Tufts Univer-sity School of Medicine. It is the"largest drag on economic growth"for individuals and companies, hesaid. "Regardless of what comes out[of the government], change will goon because we can't tolerate thisrate of [inflation], and the ideawe're moving to makes sense,"Grossman said.

We need to reward and sanctionperformance that has quality andtelusicitcy ~, 'Gro-ssarl said:

Care deliverers should restruc-ture and reorganize around patients'needs, Grossman said. Fifty percentof the money spent on health care isnot necessary, he said. A lot is spenton administrative work, he contin-ued. "It's not that we're giving toomany MRIs, rather it is the timespent writing, scheduling."

"The problem with health care isthat there is no standard by whichproviders and customers can mea-sure quality," said John W. Brown,president of Stryker Corp. "Highquality health care at reasonablecosts is what we want. ... To getbetter control of cost we will haveto get better control of quality."

In most major purchasing deci-sions we choose carefully, but thereis very little customer research inhealth care spending, John Brownsaid.

Another complaint with the cur-rent health care system is thatbecause most people receive their

insurance through their employers,they are not covered when they arebetween jobs or do not have jobs.

"Employees have unsurance ofinsurance," Reinhardt said.

Insurance company's viewJohn Brown called health care

"the single most complex issue thiscountry has ... tried to reform." Henoted that there is a singling out ofvillains. Because the "Clintonadministration has identified insur-ance companies as villains. I'm con-cerned," he said.

Stephen Brown was troubled byhow everyone who has "day-to-dayinterest" in health care spending,such as doctors and insurance com-panies, were excluded from makingthe reforms because they were con-sidered to be a part of special inter-est groups. "The United States has ahigher degree of societal problems,,h,. c haine chri;; .- rn cst '' haP eCaiC

Insurance companies supportuniversal access to medical care.However, they do not support limit-ing consumer choice, "arbitrary andcapricious price controls," ormandatory health insurance pur-chasing plans, Stephen Brown con-tinued. They want "reform on aplatform of openness."

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that a U.S. health care revolution isinevitable and that some reform hasalready occurred through industry.

"Something is going to happenfrom the Fortune 500 companiesrather than the government," saidJohn Brown.

Robert S. Galvin, manager ofhealth care and medical services atGeneral Electric, explained how hiscompany has already taken action.In the United States, the employer

health care." The diverse member-ship of the panel, which includedrepresentatives from medicine,industry, academic, and insurance,supported Berndt's statement.

Uwe E. Reinhardt, James Madi-son professor of political economyat Princeton University, said thatone dimension of the crisis is cost.In the 1970s, health care costsincreased rapidly in all developednations, he said. By 1980, most ofthese nations - except the UnitedStates - had geared the growth ofhealth spending to the growth oftheir gross national product.According to Reidhardt's graphs, if

U.S. health spending were toincrease at its current inflation rate,by 2000 it will be 18 percent of ourGNP, by 2050 it will be 49.6 per-cent, and by 2100 it will be 81.5percent.

Toward the end of the session,Berndt noted that the speakersfocused on two themes: cost versusbenefit analysis, and reform that isalready occurring outside of Wash-ington.

Benefits versus costThe panelists agreed that the

high cost of health care was detri-mental, but that quality needed to be

Health care, a hot topic withPresident Clinton on the verge ofAnnouncing his new plan, was theFocus of two interactive sessionsiuring last weekend's IndustrySummit. All the panelists agreedthat the U.S. health care system isundergoing a crisis and needsnational reform.

In "Health Care Crisis," the ses-sion chair Ernst R. Berndt, areahead for economics, finance, andaccounting for the Sloan School ofManagement, opened by saying thatthere is a "diversity of interest in

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about 15 million works over thenext 10 years, Ester said. Althoughcolor film has a life of 200 years, ithas only a !S year half-life, he said.

With a digital system, "the sameuniform nigh quality can be used forall images," Ester said. Digitalimaging will promote even qualityso thatillustrations can focus oncontent rather than color and size ascriterion for publication, he said.

But because of inconsistencies indigital image quality ranging fromcolor corrections 'Lo varying displayand print equipment, standards forarchival quality still must be devel-poped, Ester said.

In a digital system, texet andimages can also be combined to cre-ate a complete record of the work."T he image is just one moredescription of a work of art." Estersai'd.

Government, industry play rolesThe government and corpora-

tions complement each other in thesupport of artists and their work.

The government can promote artand artists by providing incentivesand disincentives, manipulating andredefining systems of propertyrights, and providing information,

fessor of urban studies and planning.In the United States, art institu-

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through federally-funded grantswhich match tile amount alreadyraised through private means.

But in some countries, like Ger-many, corporations pool theirmoney together to support theseinstitutions, Schuster said. Perhapsthey 'didn't feel they had the exper-

tise [to sponsor] on their own," butstill wanted to make a contribution,he said.

Sometimes government agenciesmay create autonomous organiza-tions to promote cultural events.These organizations are kept "atarm's length from the government"

to try to appear more attractive toprivate supporters who may other-wise be wary of the government'suse of the money, Schuster said. Forexample, the Boston 200 Corpora-tion was created to raise money forBoston's 200^year anniversary cele-bration.

Even art was featured at theIndustry Summit held last weekend.The interactive session, "Arts, Tech-nology, and Business in the 2ist Cen-tury," described how rapid technolog-ical growth has and will affect art.

Recent developments in digitaltechnology have facilitated the crewation, recording, and distribution ofart work. But they also raise ques-tions of artistic control, intellectualproperty rights, and the relationshipof the original artwork and its copies.

"With the growing importance ofdigital media in the art world, [thereis] a need for new sorts of organiza-tional structure," both in terms ofcataloging artwork and supportingartists, said William J. Mitchell,dean for the School of Architectureand Planning and chair of the ses-sion.

Digital imaging is less expensivethan non-digital imaging, in termsof overhead, storage costs, andphysical retrieval of the artwork,said panelist Michael Ester, presi-dent of Luna imaging. It also pro-vides better security and multiple-user access. he said.

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tion." On the other hand, some art-work, such as photographs. deterio-rate quickly, with a projected loss of

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rather are tne result or a "corver-gence of technology," since manytechnologies are reaching the pointto make these changes possible.

Cost of technology questionedWhen an audience member

asked, "Who is really going to payfor [the technology]?" each of thepanelists addressed the issue of theactual costs associated with thetechnology and how they will bepaid for.

Panelists agreed that new ser-vices like video-on-demand providea massive market which will subsi-dize the costs of implementing the

renting an average of 600,000 to800,000 movies per night, "by anymeasure this is a tremendous oppor-tunity," Carberry said.

Between video rentals, specialevents, and games, Carberry saidthat there is currently a $12 millionmarket available for video-on-demand to tap into.

"If you are going to ask who ispaying for it, you have to ask whatthey are buying," said Lippman,warning that the user will indeedface higher prices for televisions,since the services provided will bevastly expanded. "The value ofthose things taken together may bewhat turns your corners," he said.

In one experiment, an individ-ual's purchases at a supermaarketwere used to predict when the opti-mal time would be to direct adver-tisemnents to him, Carberryexplained. "What is not clear iswhether people want to know thatyou know that their toothpaste isabout to run out," Carberry said.

The panelists also addressedwhat affect the new technologywould have on the value content ofprogrammirng. As with any sort of amassive public network, the barri-ers to entry are diminished, and theuser has a much greater controlover the content, Carberry said.Thus, with a nearly unlimited num-ber of channels available, there

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reform, "We need to be sure qualityis excellent while controlling thecost. Also we want to reduceprovider disbursement, control lia-bility, and administrative expenses."

Former Massachusetts GovernorMichael S. Dukakis said that theUnited States is thc only countrythat doses not require a primary prac-titioner to refer the patient and actas a guide. Instead, most people seespecialists. "A lot of people in thiscountry are very spoiled," he said.Reform "will require patience."Health care reform will affect manygroups, he continued.

"There will be an enormousimpact on the insurance compa-nies," he said. "The larger ones willsurvive, but not necessarily prosper.TIhe small companies will go out ofbusiness or be merged unless theychange their ways." "There will bean impact on the pace of drugs andequipment developmcnt since a lotof [health care] money goes intoresearch," Dukakis saio. uTnc kinuof money that has made [medicaltechnology] possible isn't going tobe there."

" There is an expectation in thissociety which will take 20 to 30years to change," Thicr said. "Thisis restricting access to high technol-ogy."

Dukakis added, "There is goingto be an impact on the legal systemin the country, such as malpracticelimits.'

"We will also have to confront eth-ical and moral issues such as prema-

ture infants and the elderly," he said.Furthermore, there will be

implementation problems and politi-cal problems, Dukakis said. Thehealth alliances that the Clintonadministration is proposing aregoing to have a lot of political andeconomic clout, he said.

Dukakis said he supports muchin Clinton's plan, but is "wary oftthe health] alliances" because oftheir economic clout.

Health, from Page 11

became responsible for health carecost about 50 years ago, he said. Inthe late '70s and '80s, there weredouble-digit increases in health carespending, he continued.

, decided to be a "s-nart pur-chaser for health care" and look toanother GE department to see howthey purchased their goods, Galvinsaid. GE's solution was to use man-aged care, such as a health mainte-nance organizations, where patientspre-pay and can only see a specificgroup of doctors.

According to Galvin, because 50to 60 percent of diseases are pre-\,entable and related to risky behav-!o-, such as smoking, the compo-nents of the GE health programHncILude: prevention, like fitness cen-ic;r and Awellncss programs; pro-::r: ms fior high pressure detectionaiid cholestcrol screenina; and a 24-flour health line staffed by nursesnala empioyees can caii.

The program is "hard-hcadedaunti soft hearted." Galvin said. Thekev is "rewarding the best supplierA ·its v lume."

Second session has same messageAt the second health care inter-

active session "Resources for Med-ical Care in the 21st Century," pan-elists made predictions similar tothe first session panel.

Samuel O. Thier, president ofBrandeis University, said he wascertain the system will change. For

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results of the Rio conference as thebasis of a major shift in global envi-ronmental awareness, he added thatthe will to follow up Rio "for now isnot promising." While he congratu-lated the participants of the Rio con-ference on their success, he ques-tioned their "degree ofcommitment" for the future.

Strong also expressed hisextreme concerns about "therich/poor dichotomy" between thecountries of the North and those ofthe South. The panelists agreed thatglobal sustainable development andenvironmental protection will beimpossible without the economicgrowth of developing countries.

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co and Brazil cannot afford to curbpollution and deforestation that inturn affect the rest of the world. Thedeveloped world is not ready toinvest in the growth of developingcountries, Strong said.

Aamout A. Loudon, chairman ofAkzo, said that while there has beenmuch debate about what course totake concerning future sustainabledevelopment, "no one worries verymuch about the sustainable pre-sent."

Erhard Busek, vice chancellorand federal minister of science andtechnology for Austria, said thatwhat poor countries need is trade,not aid. For their part, poor coun-tries cannot have trade unless thedeveloped countries are willing toremove their debt. he said.

Unfortunately, "inertia keepspropelling us in the same old direc-tion," Strong said.

Busek viewed the situation morepositively. "The ability is existing"

for technology to overcome envi-ronmental and economic problems,he said. "Of that I have no doubt."Improvement in international, eco-logical government will come onlywith the transfer of information andtechnological know-how fromdeveloped to developing countries,he said.

Nitin D. Desai, UJ.N. undersecre-tary-general for policy coordinationand sustainable development, alsoforesees a future of promise. Headmired the degree of commitmenthe sees in young people today, say-ing that he has not yet visited aschool where environment was notthe top issue. "The winds of changeare , ., ot. x.,asto ,a ,. a ,,, , Uhaio."

Man must defend naturePanelists put the issue of man's

responsibility for the environment ina historical and philosophical con-text. "This is the first generationsince the dawn of civilization whenhuman beings are the deciding fac-tor in the environment,"' Strong said.in essence, we have gained "controlof our evolution," he said.

"We've slowly evolved from ahuman group that was a victim ofnature" to a group that is now themaster of nature, said Provost MarkS. Wrighton, who co-chaired thesession.

"Our rejection of the rules of thejungle is a product of our minds, notour genes," concluded Cousteau.Mankind is living an "extraordinarybut exceptionally dangerous adven-ture," he said. "We must becomerelentless defenders of nature."

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trialized countries. Also, local, trop-ical deforestation seenls to be lead-ing to a worldwide oxygen and car-bon dioxide imbalance in much thesame way in the coming fewdecades.

Although the panel agreed thatthere is clearly a need for interna-tional organization concerning theenvironment, Maurice F. Strong,chairman and of Ontario Hydro ofQuebec, asserted that a "world gov-ernment" is "neither necessary nordesirable." Instead, he looked tointernational agreements such asthose formed at the 1992 EarthSummit in Rio de Janiero as theirod t . ~'11v ttUtivlit~,lita! go v,'Cr' l"~t.,

The internationlally-knownexplorer and outspoken environ-mental advocate Jacques-YvesCousteau looked to the UnitedNations to provide a coordinated,international environmental protec-tion force, known so far as "GreenHelmets," to react to environmentalstresses worldwide. Cousteau, whois also a member of the U.N. High-Level Advisory Board for sustain-able development, noted that therehas already been some discussionof such a force in UNESCO andamong member nation govern-ments.

Fostering developmentThe practical questions of how

to safeguard the environment whilefostering sustainable developmentand of how to deal with currentenvironmental problems drew awide range of comment, not all of itoptimistic.

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Let's Argue, from Page 16 How about that Andre Rison/TimMcKeyer matchup. Rison did get oneof his two promised touchdowns, buthe just needs to shut up before hegets whooped."

In hockey notes, the Red Wingsstart camp with a new coach thisweek. The team finished up thesummer break with a golf outingduring which, needless to say, BobProbert stumbled into three fightsand spent a total of 12 minutes inthe penalty box.

TWIB. Cecil Fielder hit somemore RBI's and gained eightpounds - his base-rolling abilitywanes with each ball park frank.

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draw by judges. Chiefs 31, Broncos27: Several Broncos players caughtwatching tapes of Seinfeld seasonpremier instead of game films.Speagles 20, Skins 14: Middle Eastpeace treaty nearly torn up whenArafat and Rabin take oppositesides during "Tastes Great/Less Fill-ing" chant in stands.

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15-2 victory over Connecticut Col-lege, but Yale's undefeated A teamloomed large as the tournamentfinals approached. Determined tobeat one of their arch-rivals of lastyear, Show and Tell jumped to a4-0 lead without allowing Yale tocomplete a pass. This defensiveonslaught turned out to make thecrucial difference in the game, pro-pelling MIT toward a final score of15-11.

MIT was consistently tough andoccasionally sparkled, outscoringopponents by a total of 88-24.Especially encouraging was thesolid play of the rookies who joinedthe team this fall. The next tourna-ment is at Rutgers University onSept. 25.

Last weekend the ultimate team,Show and Tell, travelled to VassarCollege in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. forits first tournament of the season.MIT went undefeated in six gamesagainst other Northeast schools.

In pool piay on Saturday, MITswept past Worcester PolytechnicInstitute, Vassar College, and YaleUniversity's B team by allowingonly three goals while scoring forty-five. Thev had a tougher timeagainst Wesleyan College, who lastspring advanced Nationals, forcingShow and T'Fell to play intenselythroughout both halves to claim thegame, 15-8.

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y kept Be ball on their .MPopents' side ofthe field.Elms attempted to tie the ganme during the second

half but feilt short Their firt goat, by Linda Kieras,was not made until IS m5 eimutesi into ite Ka.f, TheresaChiueh '94 of MIT mathed it seven minutes laterWith her first gai of the season. With nine miniuteseft to play, Julie Heroux scoredthe scond* and finao

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The women's so=ccrteam won its third game ofthe season on Tuesday, defeating Elms College by aSore of 3o -2 -

Chantal Wright ' 95 starred in the first hatf, scor-ing two goals in two minutes:ow assists by BrindhaMamlappa n '94 am The y -Le:'97. Thee g goEgaveher five for the season, the team's ies Elms did na.,sce at.al in the first half, as the Enginm ,effective-

By Mike Duffyand Andrew HeitnerSPORTS COLUMNISTS

only good by-product of an 18-weekregular season is that the extra weekoff between the conference champi-onships and the Super Bowl hasbeen eliminated.

Our eyes have heen on Texasand they have seen how unclassythe management and players of theCowboys are. First, Jerry Jonesbreaks a pledge not to negotiatewith Emmitt Smith through thepress by showing his mug in frontof every camera possible. Second,word gets out in The Dallas Morn-ing News that the Cowboys mayextend Aikman's contract for $6million per year, even though Troyhas a contract intact for next year,while Smith doesn't even have onefor this year. Now, Charles Haley,after the loss to Buffalo, smashedhis helmet (not the German one)through a wall and proclaimed thatthe Boyz couldn't win without arunning back. This is no way toexpress confidence in Derrik Lassie,considering the fact that Smith maybe out for the year. Besides, in theBills-Boyz game we watched, Las-sic was not to be blamed for the loss-- it was Kevin Williams and Lin"Crazy Legs" Elliot who blew it.

Prior to this year's expansion,the teams in the National Leagueplayed 18 games against teams intheir division and 12 games versusteams outside it. With the advent ofexpansion and a balanced schedule,however, teams play 13 games with-in and 12 outside their divisions.This being the case, it is a sham thatboth San Francisco and Atlantacan't both be in the playoffs eventhough they have the two bestrecords in the league and play basi-cally the same schedule as thePhillies. This, of course, will changenext year with realignment and theintroduction of a wild card. Theextra tier of playoffs will extend the

schedule to late October. Consider-ing that the Colorado-Houston gameon Monday was postponed becauseof snow, let's hope the Rockies andBrewcrs don't ever- meet in the Fa!!Classic. Somehow turkey, pumpkinpie, and baseball don't roll right offthe tongue.

Menudo's Top 51. FSU3. Miami4. 'Bama5. Notre DameNo one is close to FSU, hence no

second place team in Mendoza'sselections.

Let's Argue Fan Top 51. Miami2. FSU3. Florida4. 'Bama5. Notre DameOur guest Top 5 was sent in

from Geno Torres '92, our man onThe Island, who put a distinctiveSouthern flavor in his choices.

You Heard It Here FirstThe NBA will award expansion

teams to Toronto, headed by MagicJohnson, and Nashville for the1995-1996 season.

Where Are They Now?Womcn's Tennis Players. Tracy

Austin, Carling Bassett, YvonneGoolagong, Billie Jean King,Andrea Jaeger, Wendy Turnbuli,and Virginia Wade.

Mondongo's Hueso de la SemranaA three-way tie this week. 1. To

Bobby Boni!la for tripping over sec-ond base and separating his shoul-der. Lucky for him, he will miss therest of the Mets' season. 2. ToCedric Pioline for serving a ball intothe seats to the right of the court in

Sunday's U.S. Open final. 3. To theHarvard grads doubling as judges inthe Azumah Nelson vs. Jesse JamesLeija fight who incorrectly added uptheir scorecards. The fight was orig-inally given to Neison, then changedminutes later to a draw.

Race For FutilityThis week's award goes to the

city of Pittsburgh, whose Steelersand Panthers combined for two loss-es by combined scores of 90-21 lastweekend.

Trivia Question of the WeekThe Toronto Blue Jays have had

11 consecutive winning seasons, themost in the majors. Can you namethe team with the second most, at 5seasons? Send answers, comments,and requests for beefcake photos ofTech ColUinniISS t JUslfy and ":ci r.-to sportscthc-tech.mit.edu.

Answer to last week's question:The Texas Longhorns. Kudos toPete Berger '97 who wins a free setof Tupperware. Please go to the firstfloor of the Student Center and fillout a credit card application to claimyour prize.

Final tally from last week's pollof favorite late-night celebs:

5 1% David Letterman (the king)22% Ted Koppel (shocking pop-

ularity for the newsman)15%/ Beavis and Butthead

(should increase when more stu-dents get cable)

14% Distributed evenly amongChevy, Jay, and Whoopi

MIT TWIB NotesJavier Nazario '95 leads the

men's water polo team into battlethis weekend in West Point, N.Y.for a tournament against the Mer-chant Marine Academy, UMass-

Amherst, Army, and the dreadedRams of Fordham. Nazario had 7goals and innumerable assists ingames against BC (an 18-15 win)and Brown (a 12-10 loss) last week-end. He also pitched in three moregoals in a 13-7 drubbing of theHelsinki Institute of Technology onMonday.

All fans are invited to come Sat-urday for a double dip of athleticcompetition, as the men's soccerteam takes on Nichols at 11 and thefbotball team tackles AssumptionCollege at 2. The soccer team iscoming off a tight 3-1 loss at Nor-wich last weekend during which theBeavers outplayed the Clams formost of the game. Standout linemanNeii Best registered seven blocks inthe football team's narrow 6-0scrimmage defeat to Salve Reginalast Saturday.

iMen's Lacrosse practice startedup on Wednesday. Look for HyungChang '95, Dylan Bruno '94, andAbe Udobot '95 to lead the team.

Sir Vix PicksMIT 17, Assumption 10: A more

experienced Beaver team than lastyear means a 'W' in their first regu-iar season game. BC 34, Northwest-ern 18: Eagles anxious to get gameover early so they can get to Cam-bridge in time for Greek Week Ball.Patsies 13, Doves 6: Ditka looksbored in studio for NBC; this gameis in no danger of waking him up.Boys 27, Bishops 16: No truth torumor that Jimmy Johnson tried toget Rafael Septien out of prison onweekend furlough to kick for theBoys. Steelers 10, Pussy Cats 3:Cincy players up late all weekcatching Conan O'Brien's newshow. Oilers 17, Lightning Bolts 17:Game ruled a majority decision

SAN ANTON IO, TEX.

While munching on tasty tacosdown here in the Lone Star State,we offer our thoughts on theWhitaker-Chavez fight in the Dome.Pernell Whitaker ought to get intouch with McGruff the Crime Dog,as he was robbed. Although TheTech scorecard had Whitaker a con-vincing 117-114 victor, it was notuntil Sweat Pea twice tappedChavez in the boys during the sixthround that Pernell took charge of thefight. Whitaker's cat-like quicknesskept Chavez off balance and swing-ing at the air. In front of a pro-Chavez crowd and heeding thelessons from Miami, however, theforeign judges were not about to befollowed from the Alamodome intheir rented cars, and they declaredthe bout a draw. Of course the samepeople who griped about the deci-sion will still shell out 30 clams tosec tlhe rematch. Stay tuned.

It's nice to see the NFL milkingthe networks for every penny theycan get here in the final year of theirlucrative television deal. How elsecan you explain the fact that eightteams have byes this week? Theidea behind the bye week was toallow teams to get some rest. Atleast, that was the theory trumpetedby the NFL owners. We know dif-ferently. With the exception ofTampa Bay (the boys of the BigSombrero have been outscored 50-10 in two weeks, thus marking themfor a possible appearance in themace for Futility), who else needs aweek off after their second game?Wouldn't this be better after game127 The owners wouldn't do that,though, because baseball post-sea-son play does not interfere withNFL games during November. The Let's Argue, Page 15

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