Gazette (Newspaper) - September 25, 1995, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Surgery now outpatient with faster recovery Health & Science Monday 1995 FORECAST TODAY 1 i Partly sunny and warmer High 69 Low 48 TUESDAY - F 1 if Partly continued pleasant High 73 Low 49 Weather Details 12D FINAL VOL 113 NO. 259 THE NEWSPAPER OF EASTERN IOWA CEDAR IOWA 50 CENTS Amana workers picket Jim Wade of South English and Jon Frank of Cedar maintenance workers for Amana wave to passing cars while on picket duty at the company's plant in Middle Amana on Union workers went on strike after rejecting a contract The company said the plant will open as usual but would not call in replacement 5B. 4 v 4 Photo by Elli Gazette intern peace accord PLO reach historic accord on West Bank pullout PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres agreed a 460-page peace accord designed to prevent conflict between 140,000 Jewish settlers and the 1 million Arabs in the West Arafat and Peres plan to formally sign agreement on Thursday after it is approved by the Israeli and Palestinian A look at the main points of the Washington Post JERUSALEM - Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization Sunday agreed to extend self-rule to more than 1 million Palestinians living in the West promising an end to three decades of military occupation of Arab cities and towns and setting a course for the final settlement of a century-old The 460-page initialed Sunday marks a watershed in the historic reconciliation between Israelis and It is the first pact to address the heart of their territorial the West where a large Arab majority seeks to govern itself on land thought strategically vital by previous Israeli governments and regarded by religious Jews as God's patrimony to Abraham and his The pact's broad design is for free elections for a Palestinian with legislative and executive to follow Israel's military withdrawal from seven occupied cities and some 450 Arab The new council will have territorial jurisdiction over a large and gradually growing portion of the West the ultimate extent of which is deferred - along with decisions on the fate of Jewish settlements For ca at 363-7000 or 337-7000, category 2527. therein - until negotiations to begin next At Andrews Air Force Base near President Clinton welcomed the accord as big step on the road to a just and lasting peace in the Middle Administration officials said he would host a formal signing at the White House on After a week of all-night Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres had not slept when they arrived for the 2:15 p.m. initialing ceremony at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Their joyous not long after a predawn shouting match and a walkout by came hours before the Jewish New Year - the Jews on which God judges all people and inscribes their fate for the coming But Sunday's pact came under ferocious assault by opponents in both Israeli and Palestinian and it is not a foregone conclusion that it can be carried In the most fervently Israel's army will withdraw from the cities of Bethlehem as well as 450 towns and Israeli forces will remain to guard Jewish settlers in Palestinians will elect an 82-member self-rule council that will have executive and legislative The PLO said elections should be held by Jan. 20. Palestinians will have full control over about 30 percent of the West comprising 2,270 square miles Mediterranean Sea Tuk Qal PLO The PLO pledges to revoke articles of the Palestinian Covenant which calls for the destruction of Israel and the PLO will set up joint patrols that will share responsibility for escorting Israelis through Palestinian areas and for maintaining Palestinians will not have the power to arrest HOLY Holy sites will be turned over to the control of the Palestinians except for the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Special arrangements will apply to Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem and Joseph's Tomb in Free access and the right to worship at holy sites is Israel will retain the right to protect Israeli residents living in Hebron and visiting holy Israeli forces will redeploy in Hebron within six months of the formal signing of the Israel will increase the amount of water allocated to the Palestinians by 28 million cubic A joint water committee will manage resources and enforce will make releases of its 5,000 Palestinian prisoners in three The first stage will be after the signing of the The second will be on the eve of elections and the third according to criteria established * - * AP ideological Jewish settlers downtown among 100,000 to resist the agreement said it would regard the by A statement by the c n t u arrival of armed Palestinian tiny Jewish community in the West Bank city where lice as an of and about 400 Jewish settlers live would 5 Blacks get longer prison terms than whites Study Tenn. - Blacks get prison sentences about 10 percent longer than whites for similar federal according to a computer analysis published Whites convicted in 1992-93 received an average sentence of 33 while blacks got 36 the Tennessean The computer study examined all 80,000 federal court convictions during the two comparing cases where the seriousness of the crime and criminal histories were The study found the highest black-white sentencing disparity - 13 percent - in the The South had the lowest regional with 3 Sentences for blacks were 12 percent higher in the Midwest and 10 percent in the Hispanics received sentences comparable to Too few Asians and other minorities were convicted of federal crimes for a statistically valid the newspaper The Rev. Jesse Jackson blamed the disparity on subconscious cultural bias within the justice The federal court system has 82 black judges and 1,382 white But Richard of the U.S. Sentencing Com- said some of the differences may be attributable to factors in sentencing that the study did not take into such as a defendant's work The Sentencing Commission was created a decade ago to equalize federal criminal It keeps the records analyzed by the An analyst at the Sentencing who asked not to be faulted the newspaper's method of comparing categories of She said the seriousness of the crimes could vary within the For a bank robber might be in the same category as someone convicted of bank fraud and the judge might consider the fraud to be less serious than the robbery and give a lighter But statisticians from the University of North Mississippi State and Pennsylvania State universities all agreed with the is consistent with research I've The race effect is said Darrell who heads the Research Center for Crime and the Courts at Penn At least a dozen studies in the past 20 years have attempted to determine if one race received longer federal prison sentences than and those split almost evenly in their Your words may haunt you SEATTLE - Computer sleuth John Jessen knows what E-mail lurks in the heart of America's and it's not a pretty Stupid Love Sexist Breached All are in a day's work as Jessen dredges computer files for electronic embarrassments thought to be long gone by their Electronic mail is often a freewheeling It might be less freewheeling if people knew how many E-mail messages are actually saved in their computer They can pile up like little time bombs until someone like Jessen carrying a court order and a stack of blank memory you really delete Jessen it happen as a common Jessen is the founder of Electronic Evidence Discovery a Seattle company that since 1987 has been going after computer evidence in civil It's a specialized to be Jessen's only full-time competitor is Computer another Seattle started by one of his former Joan Attorneys are recognizing potential as a source of unguarded information about the companies they're Many workers think their E-mail is It's Federal law allows employers to monitor and even if they E-mail is fair game TIPS How to reduce your Ask Would I want a jury to read this Be Make sure short messages don't come across as brusque or Don't send offensive jokes or frivolous Don't write anything you wouldn't want E-mail can be forwarded to hundreds of in and out of a Work out problems face to not on Protect your and always log off when not using the in When someone sues a the rules of discovery demand that the company produce all relevant business Often files retrieved include E-mail thought to have been erased long It survives because most computer systems are geared toward saving not deleting it. Or suppose someone downloads an E-mail onto a desktop storing it on the hard Contrary to what most computer users a click of the key doesn't really erase that It merely renames it and makes that spot on the disk available for new The file readable by anyone who knows until BRIEFLY 1 U.S. loses Ryder Cup The European team captured golfs Ryder Cup on Sunday in Details on Toxic trouble The Duane Arnold Energy Center near Palo and other nuclear power plants are beginning to run out of space to store radioactive Details on Farming white corn White corn is used in many products for human less than 1 percent of Iowa farmers grow white Details on INDEX H - City 6B 6B D 6C 9D 6D Horoscope 11D 5-6C 5B 5B 3C 2B 12D 7D 4 Of image unfair Greek system members don't drink more than other they say By Patricia Harris and Jeremy Olson Gazette news interns IOWA CITY - Members of fraternities and sororities don't drink more than other they just have more opportunities to do say University of Iowa is a little more said junior and Delta Chi fraternity member Ron you're living with 40 other guys who are all your you can always find someone who wants to go the stereotypes In the wake of the alcohol-related Sept. 8 death of transfer student Matthew Garofalo in the Lamb da Chi Alpha fraternity the 2,507 students in the U of I's 22 fraternities and 15 sororities have been put under According to a Harvard University the relationship between the Greek system and alcohol is In the released the day after Garofalo Harvard School of Public Health researchers reinforced the image of the Greek The study surveyed students at 115 schools that had Greek It concluded that 86 percent of fraternity members and 80 percent of sorority members were binge many college personnel already being being white being a resident of a fraternity are all associated with binge the researchers The researchers defined binge drinking as having five or more drinks in sitting for four drinks for Many students interviewed on the U of I campus last week said the motivation to drink is equal among all regardless of where they Greeks just have more of an opportunity to said junior Rich who lives off campus in an have more than just going out to the If you want you can always find a party to go Most freshman and sophomores at the U of I are under the legal drinking age of 21. The U of I forbids students to drink on university Alcohol is not allowed in residence hall rooms unless every person in the room is 21. Fred a U of I junior and member of the wrestling said both Greek and non-Greek students need motivation not to Turn to 6A: Drinking ft
