2 -The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 2, 2001 NATION/AORLD Barak calls off summit with Arafat NEWS IN BRIEF' ~ 4: ® Prime minister cites continuing violence as 4 die from gunfire JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak yesterday called off international efforts to arrange a summit meeting with Yasser Arafat, his aides said, citing continuing violence on a day two Israelis and two Palestinians were killed by gunfire. The prime minister made the decision even though some analysts said a summit might have helped his bleak chances of being re-elected next Tuesday. Barak trails challenger Ariel Sharon by a wide margin in opinion polls and had come under pressure to allow elder statesman Shimon Peres to run in his place. But Barak chose to remain in the race, allow- ing a midnight deadline to pass yesterday, after which parties can no longer change candidates. Meanwhile, Barak's government gave Sharon a pre-election boost yesterday with a report analyzing the beginning of the Palestinian unrest, clearing Sharon of responsibility. The violence started after Sharon visited a disputed hilltop in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sept. 28, declaring that the site, where the Al Aqsa Mosque compound sits atop the ruins of the biblical Jewish Temples, belongs to Israel. In four months of violence, 383 people have died, including 322 Palestinians, 13 Israeli Arabs, 47 other Israelis and one German doctor. Sharon has demanded that Barak stop contacts with the Palestinians while violence persists. Yesterday was the first time since Jan. 15 that at least four people were killed in a single day in the Israel-Palestinian conflict. An Israeli doctor was killed when Palestinians shot at a car he was driving near Hebron, the military said. The car was on a road used by settlers to bypass Pales- As you consider career choices, think Podiatry. 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Another Israeli, Lior Atias, 23, was fatally shot as he picked up his car from a Palestinian garage next to Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank. Earlier, Ahmed Mouhasim, 22, from the Jabaliya refugee camp next to Gaza City, was killed by Israeli gunfire at the Karni crossing point into Israel, Pales- tinians said. They charged that Israeli soldiers were firing indiscriminately. The Israeli military said the soldiers were returning Palestinian gunfire. Student faces life for bomb arsenal SAN JOSE, Calif (AP) - A com- munity college student accused of assembling an arsenal of guns and explosives in his room and plotting a mass campus killing faces 108 years in prison if convicted. Police found dozens of explosives and weapons in Al DeGuzman's room of his parents' San Jose home. He faces 122 criminal counts of possess- ing weapons and explosives and pos- sessing them with the intent to injure a person or personal property. "Our theory is that there was going to be a massacre," Santa Clara County Assistant District Attorney Karyn Sin- unu said as a criminal complaint against DeGuzman was filed yester- day. "And he has to be responsible for every weapon he made." The alleged plot to blow up De Anza College in nearby Cupertino unraveled Monday night when a photo lab clerk called police after developing pictures of DeGuzman allegedly pos- ing with the arsenal. Police have characterized DeGuz- Y man as brimming with hate and fasci- nated with the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado. His attorney, Craig Wormley, said late Wednesday he had yet to see the police reports and would not comment on the case or his client's alleged fixa- tion with Columbine. But Wormley disagreed with authorities about DeGuzman's level of hatred. "That's an absolute falsehood. There are many people he cared about and loved," Wormley said. "Both his par- ents are in an extreme state of shock." Amid the 30 pipe bombs and 20 Molotov cocktails stashed under clothes and in duffel bags in DeGuz- man's messy bedroom, investigators found magazine articles about the Columbine killers, writings worship- ping them and pictures of them on the wall, Sgt. Steve Dixon said. They also found detailed plans, including positions and corners at the school where bombs could be placed and ways to distract police. "He was going to kill as many peo- ple as possible before he died," Dixon said. "He seemed to think the more people he killed, the better it'd be, the more media attention." Antarctic t . ice sheet melting WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists have worried for decades that the Antarctic ice sheet was shrinking, threatening a global rise in sea level. Now, satellite studies show that about 7.5 cubic miles of ice have eroded from a key area in just eight years. Melting of that much ice doesn't mean that it is time to get into boats; said one researcher, but the finding may be a "yellow warning flag" that confirms long-term changes are under way in the ice fields covering the South Polar region. The study, which appears today in the journal Science, involved altitude measurements of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet, the smaller of two major ice sheets. It covers 740,000 square miles of the frozen continent. Based on satellite measurements, said Andrew Shepherd, a University College London geologist and first author of the study, it appears that since 1992 the ice sheet has lost ice Win a $1,000 scholarship Enter the Sole Searching Essay Contest Enter online at www.solesearchessay.com, but hurry, the contest ends April 30th. SACRAMENTO, Calif,. Calif approves plan to ease blackouts State lawmakers approved a $10 billion plan yesterday aimed at keeping California's lights on while they try to fix the state's spiraling energy crisis. Gov. Gray Davis was expected to sign the measure that allows the state to sign long-term contracts for up to a decade to buy power and sell it to cus- tomers of cash-strapped Southern Cal- ifornia Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric Co. The Assembly's 54-25 vote -- cast after legislative leaders and Davis won over a Democratic holdout and two Republicans - came despite GOP protests that the bill will result in high- er electricity rates. The bill failed to pass earlier yesterday. The two utilities are California's largest and together serve nearly 9 million residential and business customers. WASHINGTON Bush unveils plan to aid disabled citizens President Bush sought yesterday to show the compassion behind his brand of conservatism, unveiling a multimil- lion dollar plan to aid disabled Ameri- cans and promising to stop government from "discriminating against religious institutions" that help the needy.. In separate events, Bush capped a weeklong campaign designed to reach BHUJ, India Searches for quake survivors called off Some international rescue teams made the wrenching decision yesterday to aban- don the search for possible survivors of last weeks earthquake in India, as a lack of coordination appeared to hamper the other task - feeding and housing the hvi and treating their wounds. W Aid was reaching many, but bundles of blankets, bags of rice and lentils, cartons of mineral water and other supplies were heaped outside the railway freight office in Ahmedabad, the main staging point for the relief effort and the commercial center of the western state of Gujarat, where the epicenter of the Jan. 26 quake was located. So far, 14,241 bodies have been recovered, Gujarat officials said yesterday, esti- mating the final toll would reach 35,000. The full toll may never be known, because many of the dead may have been cremated in remote villages or remain buried under flattened towns and cities. In Washington, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said a fourth American died in the quake but declined to give details. More than 60,000 people were injured as chunks of concrete and stone rained down from collapsing buildings. About 600,000 people were left homelesn Although it has released no official damage estimate, the central governmeW announced a 2 percent income tax hike yesterday to help pay for relief and rebuilding after India's worst earthquake in 50 years. WASHINGTON 2000 was worst on record for flight delays The government confirmed yesterday that last year was the worst on record for air travel delays, and the head of the nation's largest business group immediately demanded improvements. Department of Transportation statistics showed that airlines had an overall time record of 72.6 percent in 2000-- the lowest since 1995, when the government began collecting such data. That means about three of every 10 flights were delayed. Meanwhile, travelers' complaints filed with the government rose by 14 percent to 23,381. Thomas Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, declared that problems in the air traffic system have reached the point where they threaten the economy. The Federal Aviation Administration released figures yesterday which indicate that gridlock is largely concentrated at major airports on the East Coast, contrary to the widely held perception that the entire air travel system is mired in slowdowns. Chicago's O'Hare International had the highest number of delays - 49,202 - but New Jersey's Newark International had the highest rate of delays when th volume of flights was taken into account. out to moderate voters. Advisers say the president will turn next week to another. challenge: promoting tax cuts by trying to show they would benefit families, small businesses, the high-tech industry and the sluggish economy. His day began with the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual gathering of lawmakers, foreign heads of st4 arid spiritual leaders. Bush promised to respect the separation of church from state even as he tries to funnel more government money to church groups. CHESAPEAKE, Va. Dad 'ailed for puttin daug ter in doghouse A father was ordered yesterday. spend 30 days in jail for forcing his year-old daughter to sleep in a dog- house to show her how she could end up if living with him didn't work out. Christian Williams, 33, also must pay a $500 fine and take a parenting class for pleading guilty to felony abuse and neglect charges. He told a judge he kept the child outside for two nights because less severe punishments had not deters her bad behavior. He wanted her to understand that she could end up homeless if living with him didn't work out, he said. Prosecutors said the punishment lasted two weeks. Williams and the girl's stepmother were arrested Aug. 13 after a neighbor told police she heard the girl scream, "Please, Daddy, let me in." The step- mother pleaded guilty to the same charges and is to be sentenced today. - Compiled from Daily wire reports i L TAGLIT" -w f i n birthright israel fo;% 35 h AJ O li b rgt ,S h ~ 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. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Collegiate Press. 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