LOCAL/S TATE The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 12, 2000 - 7A &! I , " Palestinians strike funeral, Isreal retaliates PROGRAMS. Continued from Page 1A will get its report out by the end of this month. We will distribute the report at the November faculty meeting and the faculty will place a vote," Diana said. "If the faculty says no, the interim dean wants to act accordingly. If the faculty says yes, we will go forward." Diana said SNRE has experienced a continuous decrease in undergraduate applications, and despite attempts to turn this around, the numbers still dropped. "We used to have a stable envi- ronment, where probably 100 freshmein were accepted each year. There would be about 400 total students in the pro gram," Diana said. "Now, it's at 32) which is about a 20 percent drop in- enrollment." Diana said that no matter what the changes, he does not expect anything to happen before Fall of 2002. Neuman said a committee was formed to look at the studies in religion program. The committee will be meeting regularly to study new directions in the field and will bring a proposal to Neuman in December 2001. A Palestinian gunman displays his weapons during a show of force on th ouskirts of the West Bank town of Ramallah yesterday. Continued from Page 1 "Both attempts were flawed," he said. Not all saw Kleiman's approach as bi-partisan. "I think he was very partisan. I don't think it was a civil event, said LSA freshman Brian Lobel. "No one could speak with respect for anyone." Kleimen questioned the United tates role as a third-party facilitator citing the United States' approach as "impatient -- we can't sit with a stop- watch in hand. The peace process is a 7slow steady process:" The Q&A portion of last night's event turned heated concerning topics like the media concept of Palestinians as perpetrators citing the proportion of casualties on both sides. "Our goal tonight is to educate the University on the conflict in the Mid- dle East," explained LSA junior Lee kaskin, president of the Israel-Michi- -gan Public Affairs Committee, which sponsored the event with the American Movement for Israel. Michael Gold, LSA sophomore,3 -invited Kleiman to speak at the event to provide "an unbiased open forum.' I "I believe he came out in a very bi-I -partisan tone" said LSA sophomore 1 Eric Bukstein. "Through certai tions you are forced to take th sive, but I believe he meansN says." Bukstein was also please "tone of the event" adding that thing was accomplished tonight In keeping with his bi-p approach, Kleimen explained t ity of discussing which sid more power. "We cancel eac out. One stone is equal to on submachine gun," Klcimai adding that "pain is pain." But a Palestinian student audience quickly retorted, "Wh Israeli Mother mourns, 100 Pa ans mothers mourn." In response to the tension Muslim and Jewish students event, LSA sophomore Rania, executive board member of th lim Student Association sai came here tonight to see the oti and just to make sure that the n are put out clearly." "We're not asking people to us, we asked to come here, sai Mamou, LSA senior and repress of the Arab-American Anti-Di nation Committee. "but we feel tinians are suffering a lot mo Israelis." JERUSALEM (AP) - The U.N. secretary general extended his Mideast peace mission yesterday after meeting unexpectedly with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, but a truce remained elusive. Israeli tank gunners fired at a Palestinian village to flush out gunmen targeting an Israeli funeral convoy and three Palestinians were killed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The gunmen belonged to a newly formed Palestinian militia, fueling Israeli fears that the violence of the past two weeks - much of it large- scale rock-throwing riots - was evolving into a guerrilla war. Ninety- AP PHOTO one people have been killed, all but he five Palestinians. The Palestinians' anger at Israel, initially triggered by a visit by an in ques- Israeli hard-line politician to a con- e defen- tested Jerusalem shrine, showed no what he sign of abating. In a march in the West Bank town of Hebron, two men d at the pointed pistols at an effigy of Israeli "some- Prime Minister Ehud Barak before t." burning it to cheers from the crowd. artisan The fiercest battle erupted near the he futil- village of Kufr Kalil, just south of e holds the West Bank town of Nablus, as h other dozens of buses and cars carrying e oozie mourners to the funeral of Ameri- n said, can-born Jewish settler Hillel Lieberman passed by. in the As four helicopter gunships hov- ien one ered above, Israeli troops fired tank alestini- machine guns toward the village where the gunmen, memb'ers of a among new Nablus-based militia, weaved in at the an out of narrow alleys. Settlers Awaad, crouched behind their vehicles. Two e Mus- Israeli soldiers and two Palestinians d, "we were injured. her side "We shot at the settlers and it was umbers a successful attack. We beat them back," one of the assailants said support later, balancing an AK-47 assault d Najla rifle on his knees as he and his fel- entative low gunmen regrouped on a Nablus iscrimi- street corner. Dressed in faded jeans l Pales- and a muddied shirt, the 31-year-old re than man spoke on condition of anonymi- ty. The militia members are an off- shoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction in Nablus. The gunmen said they banded together to defend Palestinians against what they said were settler rampages. Tensions in the Nablus area have been running high since the slaying of Lieberman, a resident of the near- by Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh. Since Lieberman's body was found Sunday, groups of settlers have hurled stones and smashed car wind- shields in several Arab villages. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been trying since Mon- day to mediate an end to the vio- lence. Yesterday, Annan was to head to Beirut to help secure the return of three Israeli soldiers captured over the weekend by Lebanese guerrillas. However, Annan held unscheduled meetings yesterday with Barak and Arafat, and then extended his stay for another 24 hours. "He (Annan) continues to build international support for a formula not yet accepted fully by both sides for reducing tensions," said U.N. deputy spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva. It was not clear whether Annan hoped to negotiate a formal truce or simply calm the atmosphere. The U.N. chief is respected by the Pales- tinians; the Israeli government, although it considers the world body be biased, has embraced Annan as a fair mediator. However, by yesterday evening, the relative lull of the last few days had ended. Two explosives went off near Israeli positions in the Gaza Strip. 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But abortion has been a pressing cafnipus issue, particularly after last nth's display of the Center for mo-Ethical Reform's Genocide Awareness Project, which featured photographs of aborted fetuses jux- taposed with scenes of genocide. Student groups with abortion as their focus understand the impact the next president could have, though whether pro or anti-choice, neither endorses a particular candi- date. "We don't actively campaign or *d out any literature, but we do believe overturning Roe v. Wade is important. In that regard we hope a president would be elected who would choose pro-life judges," said Andrew Schrivell, president of Stu- dents for Life. By contrast, Students for Choice provides literature regarding the candidates positions; "This election will determine where Roe v. Wade stands and "This ele although we don't endorse a particu- determin lar candidate, we do give out infor- Roe v. 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An unexpected twist to the abortion debate developed in the race for the "m I action will me where Vade - Scott Burkhardt :udents Organizing for nd Economic Equality White House when the Food and Drug Administration approved the abortion pill known as RU- 486, or mifepristone, and reminded everyone of the political firestorm abor- tion carries. Abort i oin uY°a~ren s Were 0 " rig.h S.r I rights activists hailed the approval as a victory, and those on the oppo- site side of the issue greeted the decision with dismay. "I think it shows that when a sci- entifically objective examination of choices that should be available to women is done ... the right result can be achieved. The problem is when we have people who disagree attempting to impose their views on us and subvert progress," Steinham said. 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