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New elections to be held in Israel
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JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's parliament
voted overwhelmingly yesterday to hold new
elections, after Prime Minister Ehud Barak - his
government shaken by two months of street bat-
ties with the Palestinians - reluctantly agreed to
hard-liners' demands for an early vote.
Polls have shown elections would be a risky
proposition for Barak, as his minority govern-
ment has been steadily losing support from
many Israelis who perceive him as ineffective in
ending the bloodshed.
However, a vote would probably not be held
before spring, giving Barak time for a last-ditch
effort to forge a peace agreement with the
Palestinians. Elections could serve as a referen-
dum on the agreement.
Palestinian officials said they were hopeful an
accord could be reached before the elections.
The 120-member legislature voted separately
on five bills calling for early elections. Four of
the bills were approved by more than 70 mem-
bers of the house. Only threelegislators were
opposed, and the rest abstained.
The date for elections will be set in the com-
ing days by party leaders. Barak said the vote
could be held as late as nine months from now,
while several opposition lawmakers said they
expected elections in May, two years after Barak
took office.
Parliament had settled into a long debate on
-the five bills yesterday evening when Barak
made an unexpected appearance before the law-
makers. In a speech, Barak announced that he
would no longer resist the opposition push for
elections.
"I do not flinch from elections. I say if you,
want elections, let there be elections for prime
minister and for the Knesset," Barak told parlia-
ment.
Throughout the day, Barak saw the opposition
gain more and more votes, until it became clear
that more than half the members would vote
against him.
In his speech, Barak blamed opposition
leader Ariel Sharon for rejecting his offer to
create a unity government. However, in a later
TV interview, Barak also acknowledged that he
had "made mistakes."
Recent polls have indicated that if elections
were held now, Barak would be defeated by any
opposition candidate, including Sharon and for-
mer Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israeli commentators said Barak's only
chance to remain in power was to reach a peace
agreement."[Thud Barak is running in the ele-
tion without a government, without a majority
in theKnesset, without a majority inthe polls
and without a majority of the public," said
Hanan Crystal, a political analyst. "He is run-
ning on one issue only, whether he is capable of
reaching an agreement with Yasser Arafat by
election day."
High court limits use of roadblocks
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court strictly limited yesterday the power o
police to use roadblocks to track down criminals on streets and highways.
By a 6-3 vote, the court ruled that it is unconstitutional for police to stop car
randomly at a checkpoint if their purpose is to "uncover evidence of crimina
wrongdoing."
The ruling came in a case involving the use of a roadblock to find vehicles cz
rying illegal drugs, but the court's opinion swept more broadly.
The opinion's author, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, expressed concern tha
roadblocks to detect crime, when officers have no reason to believe that someon
they stop will turn out to be a criminal, would become "a routine part of Americas
life.
In the past, the court had upheld roadblocks to check for drunken drivers or t
detect illegal immigrants crossing the border into the United States.
But it said yesterday that those kind of roadblocks were acceptable, constitution-
ally, because the interference with motorists' privacy is closely connected to keep-
ing the roads safe or keeping illegal immigrants out of the country.
By contrast, the court said, a drug roadblock is used solely "to see if there jusi
happens to be" a criminal in a passing vehicle. Unlike the kinds of roadblocks prj
viously upheld, one that is done to serve general crime control violates the FourtT1
Amendment ban against unreasonable seizures.
AP PHOTO
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak speaks to the Knesset
yesterday in Jerusalem where he agreed to call early
elections.
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The number of people who became
infected with the AIDS virus in sub-
Saharan Africa decreased this year for
the first time since the epidemic began
three decades ago, according to a Unit-
ed Nations AIDS Program report
released yesterday.
About 3.8 million people will
become infected with the human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in sub-
Saharan Africa this year, compared to
about 4 million last year.
Officials of UNAIDS, the joint pro-
gram run by the United Nations, World
Health Organization and the World
Bank, don't know whether the slight
decline marks a true turning point in the
epidemic or a momentary pause. Never-
theless, the data raises the possibility the
epidemic may be stabilizing in Africa.
Globally, there were 5.3 million peo-
ple newly infected with HIV this year,
down slightly from 5.6 million last year.
The number of people living with the
disease rose from 33.6 million last year
to 36.1 million this year.
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Team member Karl Steyaert, spoke to
the assembly in the hopes that represen-
tatives would support the Proposal for a
Sustainable University of Michigan.
"It is a student-led initiative moving
the University of Michigan toward
increased environmental and social
awareness through thirty specific
points,;Steyaert said.
The points include an environmental-
ly responsibly purchasing policy and a
sustainable campus transportation plan
for the University.
Later in the meeting, the assembly
unanimously passed a resolution to sup-
port the "National Summit of the New
Civil Rights Movement to Defend. Inte-
gration and Affirmative Action" to be
held Jan. 12-16 at the University.
The assembly also unanimously
passed a resolution in support of a two-
week outreach and educational program
about AIDS in the black and Latino
communities sponsored by the Black
Student Union.
A motion to form a select investiga-
tion committee "to investigate possible
unethical actions by Curtin in regard to
Affirmative Action 102 Week" was
withdrawn from the agenda.
Curtin sponsored Affirmative Action
102 through PJC.
"It was strictly a political attack by
opponents on the assembly, Curtin said.
"It was really good that they decided to
withdraw it."
MSA Student General Counsel
Alok Agrawal said he co-sponsored
the motion because "there were certain
loose ends that didn't fit" about the
effort of Affirmative Action 102 to get
anti-affirmative action speakers in
order to represent both viewpoints.
The motion was decidedly removed
because "it became a 'she said-he said'
sort of thing," Agrawal said.
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Euthanasia approved
in the Netherlands
THEL HAGUE. Netherlands - The
Dutch parliament approved a bill yes-
terday to allow euthanasia and physi-
cian-assisted suicide, which would
make Holland the first country to for-
mally legalize the practice.
The bill passed by a vote of 104-40.
It still needs the approval of the Sen-
ate and is expected to enter into force
next yeai.
Advocates say the law puts the
Dutch in the vanguard of patient
rights, while opponents say it will
replace caring with killing.
"Doctors shoud not be treated as
criminals. This will create security for
doctors and patients alike," said
Health Minister Els Borst, who draft-
ed the bill.
"Something as serious as ending
one's life deserves openness," she
told The Associated Press after the
vote.
The legislation mandates strict crite-
ria that require doctor and patient have
a long-term relationship, making it
unavailable to foreigners who want to
travel to the Netherlands to end their
lives, a government spokesman said.
Liberal party wins
majority i election
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Jean
Chretien, enjoying the biggest victo-
ry of his career, yesterday described
Canada's deepening political divide
between east and west as democracy
at work.
Chretien's Liberal Party registered
its third straight majority in Monda4
national'election, getting 173 seats in
the 301-member House of Commons
to give it a fresh five-year term.
The Liberals increased their total by
12 seats, overwhelming the opposition
Canadian Alliance in Ontario, battling
the separatist Bloc Quebecois to a draw
in Quebec and picking up seats in the
Atlantic provinces to offset the
Alliance's dominance in western
provinces.
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Researchers defend
giving humans toxin
LOMA LINDA, Calif. -- Doctors
doing a study of a toxic water pollutant
defended feeding it to human partici-
pants, saying the potential medical ben-
efit outweighed the risk.
The Loma Linda University Medical
Center researchers held a news confer-
ence yesterday to respond to media
reports raising concerns about people
being given doses of perchlorate, a
chemical used in rocket fuel that has
contaminated ground water in parts of
Southern California.
The hospital's institutional review
board, which oversees clinical trials,
concluded that participants would face
minimal risk.
Researchers said the perchlorate
doses being given in the study are about
100 times lower than those given to
people who are prescribed perchlorate
for thyroid illnesses.
Anthony Firek, the study's principal
investigator, said the dosages are also
lower than those given in a study pub-
lished earlier this year by Harvard Uni-
versity. Nine men received 10 mil-
li grams of perchlorate daily in that
study.
City to donate land,
money for museum
NEW YORK - City officials have
said they would donate land and
money toward the building of a pro-
posed new Solomon Guggenheim
Museum in lower Manhattan.
The new 40-story museum,
designed by Frank Gehry, would be
located on three piers at the foot of
Wall Street. It is expected to cost S678
million.
The city intends to provide the lar-
and approximately 10 percent of thc
construction costs, the New York
Times reported yesterday.
The proposed 575,000-square-
foot museum would be twice as
large as the one Gehry designed for
the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain,
and 10 times larger than the muse-
um's Frank Lloyd Wright-designed
headquarters on Manhattan's Upper
East Side. d
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