2 -The Michigan Daily -Tuesday, February 20, 2001 NATION/WORLD Iraq threatens Kuwait, Saudis BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi media yesterday threatened to punish Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, saying they helped U.S. and British airstrikes against sites around Baghdad last 'week. Some 11,000 Iraqis marched yester- day in the capital, some burning American, British and Israeli flags and carrying banners declaring "aggres- sion will not scare us and sanctions will not harm us" - the latest in daily rallies since Friday's attack. 'In Kuwait, the foreign minister brushed off the suggestions of retalia- tion in Iraq's state-run newspapers. "They have the right to ... say what they want," Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah told reporters in the Persian Gulf emirate. "But Kuwait is protected by its people, its friends, its Arab brothers and its allies." The indirect threat came in yester- day's edition of A-Thawra, the news- paper of Iraq's ruling Baath Party. "Must Iraq forgive Saudi Arabia and Kuwait for participating in the aggres- sion?" the paper asked. "Does Iraq have the right to take military measures to retaliate for the aggression and those who facilitate it ... if they continued the aggression and repeated it?" The answer, it said, was left to "Arabs, especially those in the Gulf states." The Iraqi government is basking in widespread international support against the U.S.-British raids. Arab allies of the United States have criti- cized the attacks, as have France, Rus- sia and China. Now the uproar threatens to overshadow U.N-Iraqi talks next week. The United States and Britain say their planes hit long-range radar and associated facilities that Iraq has increasingly used to coordinate its defenses against allied planes patrolling no-fly zones over southern and northern Iraq. The United States and Britain say Iraq cannot fly its planes over those areas of its own ter- ritory; Iraqi says the no-fly zones are illegitimate. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia allow allied planes to fly from their air bases to enforce the no-fly zones. U.S. offi- cials said the planes in Friday's attacks flew from land bases and carriers in the Gulf, without specifying. Bush dedicates bombing site museum NEWS IN BRIEF BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank Sniper assassinates Palestinian activist A leader of the militant Palestinian Hamas was shot and killed from long range yesterday in another apparent targeted killing by Israeli forces. Witnesses said Mahmoud Madani was walking from a mosque in th Balata refugee camp when he was gunned down. His brother Noor said Madani cried out, "I've been hit" and tried to crawl away. Doctors said Madani was shot four times in the upper body. He died several hours later in a Nablus hospital. Witnesses said the gunfire came from Israeli positions 150 yards away. Palestinians and Israeli media assumed this was an Israeli killing of a Palestin- ian uprising activist, though the Israeli military refused to comment. Israel has targeted and killed at least a dozen Palestinian activists in recent months, according to Palestinians. Usually the Israelis refuse to comment, but officials say often that Israel will hit those who attack Israelis. In a newspaper interview, the deputy Israeli military chief of staff, Ma Gen. Moshe Yaalon, said a decision has been made "to deal with, includ- ing harm, those who activate gangs against us." Yaalon told the Maariv daily that Israel prefers to capture militants instead of killing them. NAIROBI, Kenya U.N. employees charged with extortion At least four United Nations employees are under investigation for allegedly extorting bribes of up to $5,000 from refugees seeking resettlement in Western countries, a U.N. spokesman said yesterday. Paul Stromberg, a regional spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner A Refugees, said three Kenyan employees have been assigned new duties pending the outcome of the probe.An Italian employee did not have his contract renewed after reports that refugees seeking resettlement in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe had been asked to pay bribes, he said. Three U.N. employees - an American and two Europeans who reportedly knew about the scheme - were withdrawn from the Nairobi office last year after they received death threats, Stromberg said. "They were threatened with death if they cooperated with the investigation,' he said. "We had real reason to take the threats seriously, so we moved the staff out of the country.' A fourth person was relocated at least temporarily because of death threat Stromberg said. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Offering a simple "God bless," President Bush yesterday dedicated a museum devoted to the Oklahoma City bombing, recalling the horror of the deadliest terrorist attack hon U.S. soil and the heroic response. "The time for mourning may have passed, but the time for remembering never does;" Bush said before joining Gov. Frank Keating in the official opening of the Oklahoma City National Memorial Center. The memorial is near the site where a powerful truck bomb sliced into the Alfred P. Murrah Federal B3uilding in April 1995, killing 168 people, 19 of them children. u: At an outdoor ceremony, Bush quoted St. Paul: 'Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good." He said the memorial may not ease the pain of the bombing but it can encourage the nation to -Jkeep its obligation "to confront evil wherever and whenever it manifests itself" y : "Your loss was great and your pain was deep, but -far greater and deeper was your care for one anoth- dr" Bush said. "That is what lasts." 3 He said: "Oklahoma City will always be one of those places in our national memory where the worst rand the best came to pass." Bush toured the museum 'with his wife, Laura, and afterward they signed white tiles to be added to a guest registry on one fwall. Bush signed his name and "God bless,' while the first lady wrote "With love" and her name. The Bushes stopped first at a wall showing a mon- -age of pictures from ordinary days at the building before the blast. They stood grim-faced before a -gallery of photos and mementoes of the dead. "This is my daughter here;' said tour guide Jean- ; ine Gist, pointing to a picture of victim Karen Carr, ::isplayed with one of Carr's business cards and a snapshot of her car with a sign, "Please honk, it's my birthday." "That was really a hard job, to pick out something 4hat represented somebody's life," Gist told the aZBushes, who nodded sympathetically. Bush walked past pictures of Secret Service agents who died. "We knew some of the agents here," Bush said, noting Alan G. Whicher, who had served on the elder President Bush's detail. Besides Gist, the Bushes were guided by Okla- AP PHOTO President Bush and first lady Laura Bush yesterday attend the dedication of a museum at the Oklahoma City National Memorial Center, a monument to the 1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing. They are escorted by Jeannine Gist, whose daughter Karen was killed in the blast. homa City Police Maj. Ed Hill, a rescuer, and bomb- ing survivor Richard Williams, a General Services Administration employee. The center depicts the frenzied panic after the bomb exploded at 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995, a short distance from the building's day care center. Visitors can hear a tape recording of the blast, and see per- sonal effects of the victims: car keys, watches, a brown leather briefcase, the pink-and-white sneaker of a 4-year-old girl, as well as window blinds, file cabinets and concrete mangled by the blast. Gulf War veteran Timothy McVeigh, convicted in the attack, is scheduled to die by lethal injection May 16 in what would be the first federal execution in 37 years. He has halted his appeals. U .. .. ' " .. *-A,, , Ok " IW Celebrate Kinko's Grand Opening in Ann Arbor Tuesday, February. 27, 2001 10:00 am - 7:00 pm Enjoy Special Prize Giveaways, Free Food, Drinks and Fu Learn about Kinko's products and services at our "Mini Trade Show" and enter to win great prizes! Congress approved $5 million to create the muse- um. It will be maintained through endowments, membership dues and admission fees. The visit set a somber start to a week that Bush otherwise is devoting to education and taxes, Bush scheduled visits this week to Ohio, Missouri and Tennessee to lay the groundwork for budget and tax-cutting proposals he will present to Congress on Feb. 27. Republican lawmakers warned last week that Bush's $1.6 trillion tax-cut plan was in trouble. Polls suggest Americans favor tax cuts, but do not want the reductions to come at the expense of popular government actions, such as school dollars and reducing the debt. on Melting icecas treaten cilimate GENEVA (AP) - Tropical island paradises and glistening Alpine skiing retreats may be lost to future genera- tions, while melting ice caps in polar regions could unleash climate changes that would continue for centuries, . according to a U.N. report released yes- terday. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said poor countries would bear the brunt of devas- tating changes as a result of global warming. But it warned that the rich wouldn't be immune, with Florida and parts of the American Atlantic coast likely to be lashed by storms and rising sea levels. in! "Most of the earth's people will be on the 1oninn 4cidp " Harvai tivPr~itv McCarthy, who co-chaired the panel, told reporters. The report was a summary of 1,000 pages of research into "Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability," conducted by some 700 scientists. Given the political sen- sitivities of the climate debate, the 19- page summary was subject to line-by-line scrutiny by government representatives during weeklong dis- cussions prior to release. "Projected climate changes during 36 A81) the 21st century have the potential tc lead to future large-scale and possiblk h irreversible changes in Earth systems; with "continental and global conse- quences," said the report, adding that climate change will lead to: More "freak" weather conditions A like cyclones, floods and droughts. tions. Massive displacement of popula. tions in the worst-affected areas. 0 Potentially enormous loss of life. SAO PAULO, Brazil Prison riots sweep through Brazil Authorities regained control of pris- ons across Sao Paulo state yesterday after the biggest riot in Brazil's history left least 15 inmates dead and pointed up the growing power of the group that led the rebellion. The uprising began Sunday after- noon at Sao Paulo's. notorious Carandiru prison complex, the nation's largest, where some of its 10,000 inmates took guards hostage and held nearly 8,000 visitors inside. That touched off revolts in 28 other prisons in the state, in what officials said was a well orchestrated plan set in motion by an organized crime group called the First Capital Command, or PCC "It was a carefully planned opera- tion by an organization that exerts its influence over inmates in other pris- ons," said Marco Vinicio Petreluzzi, Sao Paulo's public security secretary. MOSCOW Russia warms up to NATO alliance By playing host to NATO Secretary- General Lord Robertson this week, Moscow is signaling its desire to ease a tug-of-war with the alliance. But talks are sure to be difficult: Rus- sia saw NATO's 1999 decision to bring Poland, Hungary and the Czech Repub- lic into the alliance as a direct threat to its security, and has warned that granting membership to three former Soviet republics in the Baltic region - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania -would be going too far.Robertson's packed two-day visit, which began late yesterday, is timed for the reopening of NATO's information office in Moscow, which Russia shut down in spring 1999 in protest of the NATO air campaigt against Yugoslavia. He also has plans for talks with Russ- ian officials, including peacekeeping, Russia's military doctrine, the alliance's strategic concept and arms control. KIEV, Ukraine - Ukrainian president accused o misdeeds Ukrainian President Leonid Kuc ma, who has long painted himself his country's leading defender of democracy, now faces accusations he is anything but that. His opponents allege he ordered the abduction and murder of a crusading journalist, condoned a grenade attack on a political opponent, threatened to jail officials who didn't produce enough votes for him and knew about the th of$100 million of government revenu ' The scandals, which Kuchma calls "absurd" and "insane," have cost him control of parliament and drawn pro- testers to the streets of this capital. The controversy comes at a pivotal moment in Ukraine's 10-year.-old democracy. It could determine whether Ukraine, which is about the size of France and has 47 million people, is a Soviet-style dictatorship in disguise, like neighboring Belarus. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. ° ' : ° , . . - ° a: ;. . .,. 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