2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, November 27, 2000 NATION/WORLD Four killed tring to cross border I ACROSS THE NATioN, '7W KFAR CHOUBA, Lebanon (AP)- Israel - still engaged in violence with the Palestinians faced fresh security problems yesterday in Lebanon, where it rained missiles and machine gun fire in retaliation for a Hezbollah bombing that killed one soldier. The assault was Israel's first cross-border retaliatory attack since pulling its troops from southern Lebanon in May to end Israel's 18-year occupation of a border enclave there. The Israeli army confirmed striking back with gunfire after the roadside bombing in Chebaa Farms near the Lebanese border. One civilian was slightly injured on the Lebanese side. Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, in comments on state-run television, called the Israeli raids a "grave precedent that may entail serious repercus- sions for which Israel is alone responsible." The violence at Chebaa Farms - an uninhabited strip of land in the western foothills of Mount Her- mon where the borders of Lebanon, Syria and Israel meet - occurred against the backdrop of continued Israeli-Palestinian clashes. Yesterday, Israeli soldiers killed four armed Pales- tinians as they traveled from a Palestinian-controlled area of the West Bank into an Israeli-controlled part, a military official said. Israeli soldiers also returned fire from Palestinian gunmen yesterday in the West Bank city of Hebron, the southern Gaza Strip and the southern edge of Jerusalem. Two months of fighting in the West Bank and Gaza have left more than 270 people dead, most of them Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak acknowledged yesterday on Israeli radio that "never has an Israeli government used such great force against the Pales- tinians - rockets, tanks, and returning fire when needed." Barak, who was a general before becoming a politician, assured Israelis that he knew how to han- a die the conflict. He said he was pursuing diplomatic efforts to salvage seven years of peacemaking with the Palestinians. Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, who was ten- tatively scheduled to travel today to Russia for talks on the Mideast crisis, said yesterday that Arafat has been sending signals in the past few days saying he wants to end the violence. "We have an interest in putting these signals to the test," Ben-Ami told Israeli Channel I television. The attacks in south Lebanon also came a day before the start of Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. Two Arab countries, Egypt and Jor- I i Clinton to review executive clemency WASHINGTON - The White House says President Clinton will review all pending requests for executive clemency before he leaves office in January including that of Leonard Peltier, the American Indian activist convicted of nur- dering two FBI agents in South Dakota. The president "will focus on all of the clemency cases after the electior and that will be one of them," White House spokesman Daniel Cruise saic yesterday. Also yesterday, the White House released the transcript of Clinton's Nov. interview with radio station WBAI-FM in New York City in which the president was asked about the Peltier case. Clinton said then that he would review all clemency applications "and see whal the merits dictate ... based on the evidence." Asked specifically about Peltier, Clinton said he has "never had time actually tc sit down myself and review that case." "I know it's very important to a lot of people, maybe on both' sides of the issue, he said. "And I think I owe it to them to give it an honest look-see." On June 26, 1975, FBI agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler pursued a rob. bery suspect into the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. A shootou erupted with activists from the American Indian Movement. Two suspects were acquitted and a third freed for lack of evidence. AP PHOTO Israeli border police officers aim at a Palestinian man who drove between concrete blocks barricading a side road leading to the West Bank city of Bethlehem yesterday. Three Palestinians had managed to squeeze their small car through the blockade, only to find a few meters further that the road was cut off by debris. dan, took the unusual step of using the Muslim holi- day to call for the "liberation" of a revered Jerusalem mosque from Israeli control. The al-Aqsa Mosque, part of a compound in east Jerusalem that Israeli troops captured in 1967, is the third-holiest shrine in the Muslim world. The Hezbollah, in a statement issued in Beirut, said the guerrilla attack yesterday was part of "its duty to complete the liberation of the occupied terri- tory." The Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim militant group, which led the guerrilla war against Israel in south Lebanon, has vowed to continue fighting as long as Chebaa Farms remain under Israeli control. Israeli soldiers patrolling the area found the bomb shortly after 6:30 a.m. about two-thirds of a mile inside the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Israeli Brig. Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky said yesterday. Guerrillas detonated it as a tracker and another sol- dier were examining the explosive from a distance, killing the Bedouin tracker, Kaplinsky told Israeli radio. The tracker was identified as Sgt. Maj. Khalil Taher. Soon afteru vo Israeli fighter jets fired six missiles at suspected guerrilla hide-outs in the hills near the vil- lage of Kfar Chouba, about a mile from Chebaa Farms, Lebanese security officials said. Helicopter gunships also fired missiles and machine guns, they said. In Jerusalem, the Israeli army confirmed that warplanes attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. "We did all we think we could do for a swift con- clusion of the incident," Kaplinsky said. "We will continue to do all we think we need to." Flying debris from a missile struck a Syrian laborer in the leg as he worked on a road at the northeastern entrance to Kfar Chouba, slightly injuring him. In Beirut, Rolf Knutsson, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's representative for southern Lebanon, said the roadside bombing and ensuing hostilities "are cause for serious concern." "This is yet another grave incident underscoring the urgent need to ensure full respect for the with- drawal line, on the ground as well as in the air," Knutsson said. Downey arrested for drug possession PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Robert Downey Jr. was arrested for drug pos- session nearly three months after being released from prison and relaunching his career, police said yesterday. An anonymous caller led investiga- tors to a hotel room at the Merv Grif- fin Resort Saturday night where they found the actor alone with cocaine and methamphetamine, Palm Springs police officer Ralph Landry said. "He was conscious and conversed with the officers," Landry said. "He was very cooperative." Downey was arrested for drug pos- session, being under the influence of a controlled substance and committing a felony while free on bail, he said. He was released yesterday on $15,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court within 30 days, Landry said. Downey had landed a recurring role on the Fox television series "Ally McBeal" after being released from prison in August: Telephone messages left by the Associated Press at his agent's offces were not immediately returned yester- day. The actor told a judge last year that his drug addiction was "like I've got a shotgun in my mouth, with my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste the gun metal." Pilot left dead after mid-air collision KATY, Texas - The pilot of a small plane was killed yesterday when his aircraft collided with another plane and then crashed on an inter- state highway, authorities said. Don Lee, of Katy was killed in the crash. He was flying a Cessna sing engine plane that collided with small experimental plane about 30 miles west of Houston at around 5:10 p.m., authorities said. The Cessna circled and then crashed into Interstate 10, said Texas Department of Safety spokesman Tom Vinger. 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Winfield said UHS' staff gynecolo- oist is not available at all times to han- dle possible surgical procedures like abortions. "It was his opinion we don't have the resources to manage mifepristone therapy," Winfield said. Women's Choice of Ann Arbor, a health care clinic, is expected to begin offering the drug by the end of the week, said Paula Davis, office manag- er of Women's Choice. University Hospitals and Planned Parenthood of Ann Arbor also plan on providing the drug but do not know when it will be available. AROUN THEWORL Amid tension, fear few Haitians vote PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Fear, apathy, violence and an opposition boycott marred Haiti's presidential election yesterday in a vote expected to restore former president Jean- Bertrand Aristide, who opponents charge will install a new dictatorship. Defying widespread cynicism and suspicions about his intentions, Aris- tide, a former priest, urged Haitians to head to the polls. "After 200 years of political and economic violence, we have decided to choose peace," Aristide said in a radio message. Despite such words, violence con- tinued: a homemade bomb exploded in a market in the densely populated suburb of Carrefour shortly after polls opened, slightly injuring one man. Another went off near an electoral office outside Port-au-Prince, but did not cause injuries. Nine pipe bombs exploded in the capital last week, killing two children. Aristide blamed the bombs on opponents, who he said were trying to "block the elections." Opposition lead- ers say the pro-Aristide government of President Rene Preval staged the attacks to justify an expected voter turnout. Charges pending for USS Cole suspects ADEN, Yemen - Yemeni investi- gators are ready to charge at least two people in the apparent terrorist attack on the USS Cole, a sour e said yesterday, six weeks after- explosion tore through the warship as it sat in harbor Charges are expected to be filed as soon as this week against the two *us- pects, the source said. They could be sentenced to death if convicted. . But any charges are unlikely to mean the end of the probe: U.S. inares- tigators suspect an international Con- spiracy was behind the bombing. - Compiledfvim Daily wire rep,$ 0 ' l .s I The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967( is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term. starting in September. via U.S. mail are $100. Winter term (January through April) is $105, yearlong (September through April) is $180. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. 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