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The Battalion
Tuesday, July 27,1993
Yeltsin faces
political war
after rubles
become void
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW — President Boris
Yeltsin scrambled Monday to
ease the Central Bank's voiding
of billions of old rubles, which
had angered Russians and inten
sified the power struggle with
the hard-line legislature.
Yeltsin ordered banks to give
citizens an extra three weeks to
trade in their old rubles for new
banknotes and substantially in
creased the amount of new
rubles they could obtain imme
diately in cash.
The uproar came as Yeltsin
faced a new battle with hard-line
lawmakers, who waged a bruis
ing offensive last week against
the president's economic and po
litical reforms while he vaca
tioned outside Moscow.
The developments could un
dermine the image of stability
and control that Yeltsin success
fully conveyed to leaders of the
world's richest nations at the
Tokyo summit of the Group of
Seven countries less than three
weeks ago.
The Central Bank's decree Sat
urday gave people two weeks to
change old bills for new ones, with
amounts over 35,000 rubles ($35) to
be credited as six-month savings
deposits at an interest rate well be
low inflation. Rubles printed be
fore 1993 were declared invalid for
purchases as of Monday.
The bank said the move was
intended to sop up cash in the
economy to cool inflation that is
running at 20 percent a month.
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U.N. commanders give OK to retaliate
Serb attack on peacekeepers increases intensity during humanitarian mission
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — U.N.
commanders Monday brought peacekeepers
closer to battle in Bosnia's war, warning Serbs
who attacked a U.N. base that they face imme
diate retaliation if they do it again.
"I cannot allow the lives of my soldiers to be
put in danger," said the U.N. commander for
Bosnia, Lt. Gen. Francis Briquemont of Belgium.
"I am angry at this betrayal," Briquemont
said. "I have told my commanders they must
reply immediately, within the next few sec
onds" if attacked again.
French Gen. Jean Cot, commander for all
U.N. forces in the former Yugoslavia, said
peacekeepers would have fired back Sunday
had they been equipped to retaliate.
The two generals bitterly dismissed a Serb
claim that Sunday's attack on French U.N.
peacekeepers in Sarajevo was the work of
provocateurs in the Muslim-led Bosnian army.
No soldiers were hurt, but four vehicles
were wrecked and six others damaged.
The 9,000 peacekeepers in Bosnia have
rarely used orders to use "all available means"
to fulfill their mission of getting humanitarian
aid to some 2 million in need.
U.N. troops in central Bosnia have fired back
at snipers, and in April killed two Bosnian
Croats who attacked a Muslim-led aid convoy.
But U.N. forces in and around Sarajevo haven't
dueled with the Serbs, making the peacekeepers
a butt of derision among Sarajevans.
The Serb chief-of-staff, Gen. Manojlo Milo-
vanovic, expressed "deep sorrow and condo
lences" to the United Nations over Sunday's
attack.
His letter offered Serb participation in in
vestigating the attack, even though it blamed
Muslims.
The attack and other Serb assaults on Sara
jevo in recent days underline the confidence of
Bosnia's Serbs — who control 70 percent of
Bosnia after 16 months of war — as new peace
talks open Tuesday in Geneva.
It also coincided with the supposed start of
an agreement among Bosnia's warring factions
to halt offensives.
Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic had in
sisted attacks on Sarajevo cease before going to
Geneva. But with his people outmaneuvered
in battle and at the negotiating table, he can't
dictate terms.
Thought control
The ultimate user-friendly computer
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
YOKOSUKA, Japan — Forget keyboards and "mice." Someday,
computers and other machines may be controlled directly by human
thoughts.
While other researchers struggle to develop computers that can un
derstand human speech, scientists here are trying to go a step further —
computers that can read your mind.
"Computers today are very difficult to use," says Norio Fujimaki, a
researcher for Fujitsu Corp. "First you have to be able to type. It would
be very nice if you could just think about something, and have the com
puter automatically do it."
No amount of deep thinking by the scientists makes this an immi
nent achievement, however.
Researcher Akira Hiraiwa says the goal will probably take years be
cause of the difficulty of deciphering the brain's weak and complex
waves. He works at a laboratory here at the telecommunications giant
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.
Hiraiwa and Fujimaki are studying electrical signals associated with
thoughts and body motions. They hope to develop ways of using those
signals to control machines — computers or otherwise.
Hiraiwa has created a computer-assisted robot hand that can mimic
motions of a human hand by analyzing the tiny nerve pulses sent by
the brain to the finger muscles.
The signals are picked up by coin-sized sensors attached to the in
side of a watchband and then sent to the computer, which divides them
into the messages intended for each finger and instructs the robotic fin
gers accordingly.
"It's difficult because the signals are so weak and are hard to detect
and differentiate," Hiraiwa says.
In a recent demonstration, Hiraiwa grasped a ball in his fingers —
the watchband strapped to his wrist — and the robotic hand clenched
another ball, copying each finger's motion.
It initially took a supercomputer three hours to learn a person's
nerve signal patterns, Hiraiwa says. Now, a much smaller computer
with special processors needs only a few minutes.
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appeared at either of the normally
busy harbors.
The Israelis also struck coastal
bases of Syrian-backed Palestinian
fighters.
Israeli Foreign Minister Shi
mon Peres said the raids had two
aims: "One, to directly hurt those
trying to attack us and the second,
to get the attention of residents
and governments involved so
they will put pressure to stop
Hezbollah."
Israel has accused Syria of al
lowing the guerrillas to operate in
Lebanese areas patrolled by 40,000
Syrian soldiers. Lebanese police
'said six Syrian soldiers were killed
in Israeli attacks Sunday.
Syria's Foreign Ministry said
Monday that the Israeli attacks
"cannot be considered as an ag
gression on Lebanon, Syria and the
Arabs alone, but an aggression on
the entire world community."
In the eastern town of Baal
bek, Hezbollah's leader, Sheik
Hassan Nasrallah, said, "What is
happening is not going to stop
us from continuing and escalat
ing our confrontation to drive
the Israeli enemy out of Lebanon
by force of arms."
A naval training base for the
Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine-General Command
was leveled, killing 10 people and
wounding 30.
Israeli gunboats and fighter-
bombers also attacked the Bad-
dawi refugee camp, where 12,000
Palestinians live near the northern
port of Tripoli, and the Mieh Mieh
shantytown on Sidon's outskirts,
also occupied by Palestinians.
The Palestine Liberation Organi
zation said from its headquarters in
Tunisia that "many Palestinians
were killed" and dozens wounded,
including women and children.
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Tuesday
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the Career Center at 845-5139.
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