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Ukraine
to retire
nuclear
weapons
President Clinton
offered more economic
and security aid in
return for the
elimination of nuclear
arms.
By BARRY SCHWEID
AP Diplomatic Writer
KIEV, Ukraine President
Clinton and Ukrainian President
Leonid M. Kravchuk yesterday
hailed an agreement to eliminate
the third-largest nuclear arsenal in
the world by the end of the cen
tury. Clinton offered increased
economic assistance and security
guarantees.
After a short airport meeting
with Kravchuk, Clinton said the
accord would be signed in Moscow
by them and Russian President
Boris Yeltsin on tomorrow.
But there is strong opposition
from some Ukrainian lawmakers.
"Kravchuk's desire to relinquish
all nuclear weapons is in opposi
tion to parliament's position," said
lawmaker Les Tanyuk. "As presi
dent he can take such a step, but
then it's up to parliament to decide
whether to ratify it."
"Yeltsin and Clinton are pushing
Kravchuk into a huge conflict with
parliament," said I3ogdan Goryn, a
member of the parliament's for
eign affairs committee.
From Kiev, Clinton flew to the
Russian capital for a summit
meeting clouded by rising discon
tent over Yeltsin's reform pro
grams and uncertainty about how
much more money the United
States could provide.
Clinton arrived at the Moscow
airport a little before 1 a.m. local
time. He was greeted in light snow
by a delegation including Prime
Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and
was handed a bouquet of flowers
by a woman in the group. He made
no statement before leaving for his
hotel.
Clinton said earlier his "urgent
task" in Moscow would be to press
for reform and against growing
nationalism.
Yesterday in the Czech capital of
Prague, Clinton won reluctant
approval from the leaders of
Poland, Hungary, the Czech
Republic and Slovakia for his
Partnership for Peace program.
They had wanted full membership
in NATO but accepted the offer of
a cooperative arrangement as a
first step.
At a joint news conference with
Kravchuk, who wanted the Kiev
stopover as a prestige boost, Clin
ton said Ukraine could count on
assurances from Washington, D.C.
and Moscow that it would not be
attacked with nuclear weapons.
'Here's the story:' Brady boy to hit campus
By JOHN LINCOSKI
Collegian Arts Writer
Twenty years ago, a rumor was born.
The burning question: Did Greg Brady have a
"thang" with Mrs. Brady?
Next week and 20 years later we will
finally be able to put this rumor to rest. And the
answer will come right from the source himself.
That's right, Barry Williams, a.k.a. Greg Brady,
will speak on Jan. 20 at 8 p.m. in Schwab Audito
rium. Williams will dish out plenty of juicy Brady
gossip and teach the grooviest Brady dance moves,
promised his agent Bret Scott.
Free tickets for the event will be distributed at
the HUB desk starting at 8 a.m. today, said Elliot
Dowling, Colloquy president. Colloquy and the
department of integrative arts are sponsoring the
event.
Dubbed "everyone's favorite Brady" by both his
agent and Dowling, Williams will present a multi
media lecture and-performance called "Growing
Up Brady: I was a Teenage Greg." The event will
be chock-full of classic Brady clips, Brady history
and, of course, Brady dirt.
Say ah!
Karl Fichthorn (senior-adminstration of justice) plays with his dog, Alex, in the falling snow. The pair
were wrestling yesterday on the HUB lawn.
Court closes Citadel gates to female student
By BRUCE SMITH
Associated Press Writer
CHARLESTON, S.C. The gates of The Cit
adel opened just long enough yesterday for
Shannon Faulkner to register as the first
female to attend day classes with cadets, then
closed again when nation's top judge blocked
her from attending classes.
At the request of the 151-year-old military
college, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Wil
liam Rehnquist granted a stay to keep Faulkner
from attending classes today.
"The significance is not so much that the
injunction has been delayed for three or four
days. The significance is that the Supreme
Court is taking this issue very seriously," said
Dawes Cooke, the school's attorney.
The Citadel and Virginia Military Institute
Scott, who calls the presentation "one of the
funniest things I have ever seen," said the show
has been a success at other venues. Williams has
drawn more-than-capacity crowds at the Univer
sity of Southern Illinois and other dates on his
lecture tour.
"For me, I grew up worshipping (Greg Brady),
he was everyone's older brother," said Dowling,
explaining Williams' appeal.
But Brady fan Shane Swiderski (junior-computer
science) said he wasn't sure if he would go see
Williams.
"I'm into the classic episodes, not in what the
Brady's are doing now," Swiderski said, adding
that Jan was his favorite Brady.
Williams, who is also the author of the book
Growing Up Brady: I Was a Teenage Greg, has
continued to act since his Brady years, appearing
in Man of La Mancha, Pippin and recently in City
of Angels.
Williams' performance represents a departure
from the norm for Colloquy, which typically brings
in serious speakers such as Spike Lee, Dowling
said.
Thursday, Jan. 13, 1994
are the nation's only all-male, state-supported
military colleges. Admissions policies at both
are the target of federal lawsuits.
Faulkner, 18, wouldn't talk to reporters after
the stay was issued, one of her lawyers, Suz
anne Coe, said.
"Shannon's crying. You don't see Shannon
crying at all," Coe said. "It's understandable,
the kid's dreams just got smashed another
time."
Coe said she expected to file the briefs in the
case by Friday. If the Supreme Court does not
lift the stay by Monday, Ms. Coe said she would
recommend that Faulkner enroll again at the
University of South Carolina-Spartanburg,
where she took classes last semester.
Earlier, Faulkner, who plans to major in
education, walked several hundred yards
through a driving rain and a horde of reporters
Collegian Photo/Betsy Blume
Science magazine declares p 53 gene
most important 'Molecule of the Year'
By DEEPIKA REDDY
Collegian Staff Writer
Time magazine has its Man of the
Year. Sports Illustrated has its
Sportsman of the Year. Not to be
left out, the editor in chief of Sci
ence magazine jumped on the boat
and declared a Molecule of the
Year.
"It occurred to him that the Man
of the Year had developed a sort of
a following," said Science Editor
Ellis Rubinstein about the honor
ary title, which is a spoof of other
magazines with similar desig
nations.
Every year for the past five
years, the editorial board of Sci
ence has awarded Molecule of the
Year to an object in science that it
thinks has provided the most
interesting and worthwhile
achievements of the past year.
Clinton OKs
investigation
Republicans still not satisfied
with Whitewater proceedings
By JOHN KING
AP Political Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Presi
dent Clinton reluctantly gave in
yesterday to relentless political
pressure for a special counsel to
investigate his 1980 s real estate
investment with a controversial
Arkansas businessman.
Attorney General Janet Reno
quickly said she would comply
with the request and name an
independent investigator "as soon
as possible."
While vehemently denying that
the Clintons had done anything
wrong or that the appointment
was even necessary the White
House said the controversy over
the Whitewater Development Corp.
investment had left Clinton little
choice but to drop his opposition to
a special counsel.
"The Clintons have been sub
jected to a barrage of innuendo,
political posturing and irresponsi
ble accusations," said White House
adviser George Stephanopoulos.
He said that even many of the
Republicans demanding an inves
tigation were predicting the Clin
tons would be exonerated.
"Nevertheless, the president
believes that it is important to take
whatever steps he can to assure
complete confidence in the federal
law enforcement system ... even
if the factual justification for spe
cial measures is entirely lacking,"
Stephanopoulos said.
"He believes the integrity of
high officials must be without
question. Above all, he believes it
is critical that his administration
not be distracted in any way from
the vital issues facing the Ameri
can people," Stephanopoulos said
of Clinton.
The dramatic reversal by the
White House, which for weeks has
opposed Republicans calls for a
special counsel investigation, was
to register in Bond Hall, the turreted adminis
tration building that dominates one end of The
Citadel's parade ground.
"I didn't expect all of this and I didn't really
expect to be here," Faulkner said as she
advanced through the crush to meet her aca
demic adviser, register and pay tuition. "I
actually expected the battle to be a lot longer."
She said she was treated nicely by college
officials and signed up for biology, math,
English, history and education. But she said she
felt "overwhelmed" by the attention.
"Everybody is saying, 'You're making histo
ry,' " she said.
Though cadets promised to treat her with
respect, they kept hoping for a last-minute
reprieve.
"We don't want the class of 1994 to be labeled
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"We don't regard
ourselves as oracles of
the field ..."
Ellis Rubinstein
Science editor
"We thought it would be fun and
educational if we could isolate a
molecule that stood for the major
progress in science every year,"
said Rubinstein.
The Molecule of the Year is what
the board deems a major achieve
ment, but it is not necessarily a
molecule. Judging includes con
sideration of the speed with which
a particular area has progressed
generally recognized by publica
tion of about 1,000 scientific
papers in the area as well as the
Published independently by students at Penn State
Sen. Wofford backs
special counsel
welcomed by Democrats who were
growing increasingly critical of
the administration's handling of
the matter and increasingly
worried the issue was developing
into a major political embarrass
ment for the president.
"It is my clear hope that the
president's decision will cut off
any further suggestion that the
president or the first lady have
been anything but forthcoming on
this matter," said House Speaker
Thomas Foley, D-Wash.
But the White House move did
not mollify Republicans, who after
weeks of demanding that Reno
name a special counsel reacted to
the White House decision by
questioning whether her pick
would be impartial.
Senate Republican Leader Bob
Dole said the fact that Reno was
acting at Clinton's request indi
cated "she's not in effect an inde
pendent attorney general. The
president ought to be free and
clear of this. It's clear he's calling
the shots." Dole said that lawmak
ers would not tolerate "any per
ception of a whitewash."
Meanwhile, FBI agents have
been working on the ongoing Jus
tice Department probe of White
water. Clerks at the Marion
County, Ark., Courthouse said FBI
agents went to the courthouse
briefly last month, while a real
estate salesman, Chris Wade, said
he turned over documents to
agents.
Reno said she knew her pick
would be subject to such second
guessing but said forcefully: "The
person I choose I want to be rug
gedly independent."
William Rehnquist
barred woman from Citadel classes
potential contribution of the work
to society.
And this year's award recipient
is, in fact, a gene called p 53. The
protein product of the gene func
tions as a tumor suppressor by
preventing unregulated cell
growth the cause of cancer.
Research indicates about 50 per
cent of all cancers are associated
with a mutation in the p 53 gene,
making it the gene most commonly
mutated in human cancers. All
cancer is a result of gene muta
tion, but all mutations do not result
in cancer.
p 53 and its fellow tumor
suppressors are generating an
excitement that suggests preven
tion now and hope for a cure of a
terrible killer in the not-too-distant
future," wrote Science magazine
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