2 -The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 9, 2001 NATION/WORLD Bush delivers tax plan to Congress WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush sent his $1.6 trillion, 10-year tax-cutting proposal to Con- gress yesterday, insisting it is a necessary tonic for the economy. "A warning light is flashing on the dashboard of our economy and we just can't drive on and hope for the best," he said. "We need tax relief now. In fact, we need tax relief yesterday," the president said before dispatching Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill to the Capitol to deliver the plan to eager Republican leaders. Before a room full of reporters at the Capitol, O'Neill handed a summary of the plan to GOP leaders, who accepted it with glee. The documents were little more than a press release, and O'Neill said the admin- istration would be releasing details in coming weeks. "We need tax relief now. In fact, we need tax relief yesterday." - President Bush "We want to assure the American people that tax relief is on the way," said Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.). Bush spoke from the White House Rose Garden, where Latino business owners who he said symbol- ize the economy's potential, crowded around as he signed a letter formally sending the outlines of his proposal to Congress. "I urge the Congress to pass my tax relief plan with the swiftness these uncertain times demand," Bush said. Republican leaders have said they hope to have tax cuts signed into law by the July 4 holiday but a fight over the scope of the package is brewing on Capitol Hill. White House press secretary Ari Fleischer reiter- ated yesterday that Bush is "firmly committed" to the plan he put together. "The president believes that whether you're a Republican or whether you're a Democrat, the bill shouldn't be loaded up," Fleis- cher said. 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That tiny discrepancy could provide support for exotic theories such as supersymmetry, which hypothesizes that every particle has a much heavier, yet-to-be-observed counterpart. "I would say it's a glimpse or a sug- gestion that there's supersymmetry out there," said James Miller, a physicist at Boston University and member of the team that conducted the Brookhaven research. But team members and physicists uninvolved with the experiment cau- tioned that the case is not yet proven. "These people are doing beautiful work," said Charles Prescott of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. "But it is too early to say they're see- ing supersymmetry." Much of physics today is based on the Standard Model, a complex set of equations that describes how all the fundamental forces except gravity interact with known particles. For decades, physicists have designed experiments to challenge the model. The Brookhaven experiment may be the first time physicists have contra- dicted the Standard Model in more than three decades of trying. "If you find an experiment that dis- agrees with it then that's fairly signifi- cant;" Miller said. The experiment examined the behavior of muons, heavier relatives of electrons, as they floated in a powerful magnetic field. In a magnetic field, a muon modifies its spin, a subatomic property similar to the rotation of a toy top. Earlier experiments had found a spin modification fairly close to that predicted by the Standard Model. But the Brookhaven experiment, called g - 2 (gee minus two), was several times more precise than previous measure- ments. It concluded that the actual change in the muons' spin differed from predictions by just a few parts in a million. That small discrepancy suggests there is something lacking in the Stan- dard Model, though there is still a chance that further results could bring theory and experiment back into line. Formula -may lead to heart disease LONDON (AP) - Babies fed infant formula grow up to have higher blood pressure than those given breast milk, new research suggests. The findings, to be published tomor- row in The Lancet medical journal, come from the first experimental study of how early nutrition influences blood pressure, a predictor of heart disease risk later in life. Earlier studies have noted that adults with high blood pressure tended to have been fed formula as babies. But none took account of scores of other factors that raise blood pressure, such as a bad diet in adulthood, stress and lack of exercise. Experts say the results bolster the theory that an infant's diet influences NEWS IN BRIEF7 . WAsHINGTON U.S. attorney waits to charge nman Federal authorities weighed what charges to file against an accountant who fired and brandished a handgun outside the White House, as life returned to nor, mal yesterday at the executive mansion. Tourist lines reappeared a day after the episode as the man authorities app, hended, Robert W Pickett of Evansville, Ind., remained in good condition in a hospital. A uniformed Secret Service officer had shot him in the right knee at midday Wednesday outside a White House fence. Federal authorities did not file charges yesterday. Justice Department officials were considering whether to charge Pickett with violating the District of Colum= bia's gun law, which carries a maximum five-year sentence, or a federal countof assaulting a federal officer, with a maximum 10-year sentence. Channing Phillips, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office, said there was n- urgency to charge Pickett while he was still recuperating. Meanwhile, it was revealed that Pickett had bought the gun after passing an instant background check in his home state of Indiana, despite a history of mental illness. Law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, also said t a suicide note was found in Pickett's vehicle, found at a commuter rail station Fairfax County, Va., outside Washington. WASHINGTON Former official would have stopped pardon The Justice Department's former No. 2 official testified yesterday he would have tried to stop President Clinton's controversial pardon of millionaire Marc Rich if he had known the full details of the fugitive financier's case. "Knowing everything that I know now, I would not have recommended to president that he grant the pardon" former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holh told the House Government Reform Committee. Holder, however, acknowledged he did not pay much attention to Rich's case in the flood of pardon requests that came to the Justice Department in Clinton's last days. In addition, notes about Rich's case were misdelivered and there was a misunderstanding between the White House and the Justice Department about the pardon's chances for success. "The whole thing ended up falling through the cracks," said the committee's ranking Democrat, California Rep. Henry Waxman. Committee Republicans saw more sinister dealings. "It's like Keystone Cops, but I don't think it is," said Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.). "I think the president knew exactly what he was doing." SALT LAKE CITY Lawyers: Olympic scandal hurt no one Defense lawyers for the two men accused of securing the 2002 Winter Games through bribery argued yester- day that the charges should be tossed out of federal court because there's no victim, hence no crime. Tom Welch, who was president of the Salt Lake bid committee, and Dave Johnson, his vice president, are accused of paying $1 million in cash, scholarships and gifts to influence International Olympic Committee members who voted in 1995 to award Salt Lake the Games. "The IOC, how have they been victimized?" asked Johnson lawyer Max Wheeler. Magistrate Ronald Boyce, presiding at the hearing, said IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch could view the payments as a threat to his organiza- tion's integrity. The Salt Lake City Games begin exactly one year from yesterday. BELING China mulls murder charges for reporters Chinese police may seek homicide charges against CNN journalists and other foreign reporters who they allege knew in advance that five members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual group were going to set themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square last month, accord- ing to two state-run newspapers.. The article in the Yangcheng Evening News and the Southern Daily said police will consider charging the reporters with "abetting and assisting other people in committing suicide" if they can prove they were involved in planning the Jan. 23 incident, which left one woman dead and four more people hospitalized in critical condition, includ- ing a 12-year-old girl. It is the latest salvo in the government's escalat campaign to discredit Falun Gong dangerous cult supported by "Western anti-China forces" and win support for its 18-month effort to crush it. CHICAGO Porsche announces plans to make SUV A sleek new sport utility vehicle will be added to the crowded U.S. m ket next year: the Cayenne, made Porsche AG. "Critics say we're late to the game," said Frederick Schwab, chief of the German company's North American, operations. "The first word in SUV.is. sport, and Porsche is all about sports cars." More than half of the 25,00 Cayennes expected to be made n year probably will be for U.S. sho rooms, Schwab said during the media preview of the Chicago Auto Show which opens today. Also yesterday, Ford's Mercury unit unveiled the five-passenger Marauder; an incarnation of a muscle car that made its name in the 1960s, and Mazda showed off a vehicle resem . bling a combination station wagon-! SUV called the Premacy. - Compiled from Daily wire repo* . . . . . . . .. . . . . . They swore nothing could come between thl Then shy came 810 El~~ U -.1 I 1 wiLi 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 ard $100. Winter term (January through April) is $105, yearlong (September through April) is $180. On-camptjs subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. 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