Daily Globe (Newspaper) - June 16, 1995, Ironwood, Michigan Daily G MICH. JUNE 16, 1995 50 CENTS Weather Partly Sunny More Page 2 Today Ambulance licensed BRUCE CROSSING - manager of the South Ontonagon County Ambulance was notified Thursday that the Michigan Department of Public Health has approved the license for the ambulance located in Bruce The license approval paves the way for the ambulance to get on the road and operating in south Ontonagon County The Ontonagon County Board of Commissioners is expected to authorize payment of an Economic Development Corporation grant to the company at the next meeting of the Once funding is received and emergency medical technicians are the ambulance will Wolfe Court upholds Microsoft ruling WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court today approved the government's antitrust settlement with Microsoft Corp. over software ruling that a lower court judge erred by rejecting it. 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Box 83 Ml Member of the Home Builders Association COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION NEEDS WORK at a Price That Can't Be 906-663-6986 LICENSED and INSURED 2,000 hostages held Chechens reject passage offer Russia - Chechen rebels holding up to 2,000 hostages after storming a Russian city refused an offer of safe passage as Russian officials said the death toll from that attack rose to at least 95. or death is our said the Chechen Shamil whose rebels have vowed to blow up hospital where the hostages are held unless Russia agrees to end the war in their Federal soldiers maintained a tight cordon around the hospital in in a tense standoff with dozens of heavily armed rebels are ready to meet any conditions in order to free the hostages because we understand how this can Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Yegorov told said his rebels killed five hostages Thursday while waiting for Moscow to grant his demand of letting reporters into the Doctors inside confirmed the killings took The rebels have long threatened to carry the 6-month-old war in Chechnya into other parts of and Moscow worried the attack on - 90 miles north of Chechnya - marked the start of a major terrorist The rebel leader and 200 heavily armed men stormed the southern Russian city of on shooting at random and taking A funeral service for 36 of the victims was held at noon with military helicopters flying overhead to provide security for the Doctors said today that 44 bodies lay in the building's and city officials said as many as 51 more had died in fighting elsewhere in the town of 100,000 speaking to reporters in the said the Chechen's ultimate goal had been to hit the Russian did not intend to seize he had another task we wanted to get to Some 16,000 troops were deployed in Moscow - 850 miles northwest of - to guard against possible Patrols checked people's bags on the subway and halted motorists to search After sporadic negotiations by the Russians said today the rebels had rejected their offer of safe passage back to Chechnya or a plane to take them to any country willing to accept them come and storm the are sick of watching our villages being and our women and children being Police said the rebels released two female hostages who were but refused to free all children in the Russian town under siege Autonomous regions RUSSiA S UKRAINE KAZAKHSTAN Black Sea TURKEY * I 5V. ARMENIA ir Sea IRAN UKRAINE ous regions RUSSIA \A Gunmen hold hostages in A hospital Chechnya ARMEN 9 Fifty gunmen holed up in a hospital Thursday with as many as 300 They threatened to kill 10 hostages for every militant killed by Russian OThe terrorists are ' demanding an immediate Russian troop withdrawal from cease-fire talks between Russian leaders and Chechen rebel leader and a meeting with the Q About 25 gunmen tried to escape from overnight in four buses with hostages as human They were blocked and surrounded by troops at four different locations south and east of the 9 Authorities confirm 42 deaths and dozens including 56 Three terrorists were J. Castello on Sunday Lake Daniel age 4, splashes through Sunday Lake Thursday evening escaping the which reached into the Chelsea age 6, and her sister 4, get into the swim as the sun drops to the The girls are from Gerard Globe Lawmakers push to finish budget Mich. - With glazed eyes and loosened weary Michigan lawmakers worked almost until dawn today to approve the final pieces of next year's billion state Lawmakers began the marathon session Thursday morning with plans to stay at work until the budget was The effort ended just before 5 a.m. EDT with votes for a million budget for regulatory fights on that budget and on spending plans for the Department of Public Health and Michigan's 15 public universities took most of the lengthy session to iron The budget bills now go to Gov. John who was expected to look at vetoing at least two parts of the Those are million for Highland Park Community College and million to help pay for running courts outside of Wayne With its part of the budget work the Legislature adjourned for the In the Upper By The Associated Press A look at the general fund spending for Upper Michigan community colleges and universities as approved for 1995-96 by the House and Senate and the percentage change from this year's Bay de Noc - up 4.1 Gogebic - up 2.2 Lake Superior State - up 3 Michigan Tech - up 3 Northern Michigan - up 3 Cooperative Extension - up 10.6 House Fiscal makers are not scheduled to return to the Capitol until Sept. 12. The adjournment date met the target set weeks ago by legislative leaders and scoffed at by been around here many and I don't recall setting a deadline and meeting said House Speaker Paul Senate Majority Leader Dick said having Republicans in control of the Senate and governor's of- fice for the first time since 1968 made a big was easier to get the budget There were fewer philosophical he really got our budget under Despite Posthumus said he planned to set up a task force this summer to look at what he described as the issues of how state funds are how much should go out and the formulas in the current got a sound but now we have to deal with he referring to revenue sharing and other programs created during the 1970s. Outstate lawmakers have long complained that the state sends too much of its discretionary funds to Detroit and Wayne County at the expense of other communities in the That view was reflected in the court funding tthat the Legislature sent to Engler It includes million for courts outside Wayne which gets full state funding for its Some Democrats warned that funding was not enough and would be vetoed anyway by Jeff Engler's top said the governor agreed to look for the funds and had not said he would veto budget is million over target and he will have to find another place to cut McAlvey Department By The Associated Press A look at the general fund spending for major Michigan departments and agencies as approved for 1995-96 by the Legislature and the percentage change from this year's Agriculture - up 2.2 Attorney General - up 6 Capital Outlay - up 7.2 Civil Rights - down 1 Civil Service - up 5.5 - down 61.7 Community Colleges - up 2.9 Corrections - up 6.9 Education - up 0.9 - up 11.6 Financial Aid - up 9.7 Page 5) SERVING RANGE READERS SINCE 1919
