2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, March 7, 2001 NATION/WORLD Bush pushes tax cut in Chicago Los Angeles Tunes CHICAGO - President Bush took a page out of his father's political play- book yesterday, using the floor of one of the nation's major trading hubs to warn that the economy is sputtering and needs the kick that he said a tax cut would pro- vide. While he urged the traders to pressure Congress to support his proposal to reduce taxes by $1.6 trillion over 10 years, in Washington the House Republi- can leader was pressing for a larger cut. House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas said the apparent weakness in the economy justified cutting taxes even more. "There is no reason for us to be boxed in by that number," Armey said. "I will continue to prod everybody. ... We need to look at what we can do to move the economy along at a better pace." In what has become typical of his on- the-road campaign for the tax cut, Bush spent all of 13 minutes at the micro- phone, delivering a melange of political kidding - aimed at Mayor Richard Daley, in this case - presidential applause for the entrepreneurial spirit and red-flag warnings about the econo- my. Speaking in the high-tech pit of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange where cattle futures are traded, Bush said: "We're facing a problem. And the problem is our economy's slowing down. You all know that as well as any- body does. This kind of great boom is beginning to sputter a little bit." He added: "I think it is particularly appropriate to not only cut taxes to make sure there's fiscal discipline in Washington, but it's necessary to make sure this economy doesn't continue to sputter. When you give people some of their own money back, or don't take it in the first place, they will have money in their pockets to spend." The size and reach of the tax cut has begun to grip Republicans. As Armey argued to increase it, saying he would expand Individual Retirement Accounts and provide new tax breaks for invest- ments in software to boost the high tech industry, the chairman of the Senate AP PHOTO President Bush addresses traders on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange seeking support for his proposed Income tax cut. NEWS 1iIY BIxEF WASHINGTON Bush administration defends Census The Bush administration declared the actual "head count" from the 2000 Cen- sus the official population numbers for congressional redistricting, despite esti- mates showing 3.3 million people, mostly minorities, were missed. Commerce Secretary Don Evans agreed yesterday with a Census Bureau rE ommendation that the initial, raw count provided the most nearly accurate snap- shot of America. Democrats and civil rights groups had called for the use of a second, separate population tally statistically adjusted to protect against the undercount. But supporters of adjustment had expected Evans' decision following the bureau's recommendation last week. It may quiet -- but not end - a long politi- cal dispute between Democrats and Republicans over whether, and how, to count missed Americans. Evans called the initial figures the most accurate census in the history of the nation. The first numbers - for New Jersey and Virginia - are expected to, released today, and all states must have their redistricting data by April 1. The numbers will be used by state lawmakers to redraw congressional district boundaries to reflect population shifts, as is required every 10 years. RYE, N.H. Storm piles 2 feet of snow in New England After failing to live up to its billing in the mid-Atlantic states, a nor'easter piled snow 2 1/2 feet deep in New England yesterday and hammered the coast with waves that threw rocks as big as bowling balls across shoreline roads. Hundreds of flights were canceled and schools were closed across the No* east for a second day, and workers in Rhode Island's state lottery headquarters fled just before their roof collapsed under the weight of snow and ice. Schools, banks, businesses and government offices were closed in New Hamp- shire and much of Maine, and the only vehicles on many highways were snowplows. "Wolfeboro is a ghost town," snowplow driver Gary George said as he cleared roads in the small town in eastern New Hampshire. Vermont's Jay Peak ski resort got 29 inches of new snow, 28 fell at Ballston Spa, N.Y., north of Albany, and 25 piled up at Jaffrey, N.H. Elsewhere, however, the storm that had threatened to be the worst in years delivered only 'a few inches of snow in New York City, and Philadelphia got only Finance Committee, Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), said a bigger tax cut would not fly in the Senate. Given the Senate's 50-50 split, Grass- ley said efforts to increase the tax cut would simply split the GOP and drain support from Republican moderates. President George H.W. Bush visited the Mere in December 1991, using it as a political stage during the 1992 prima- ry election campaign while the nation was struggling to emerge from reces- sion. During that visit, he acknowl- edged that the U.S. economy, under his watch, needed a "kick" to "get it started up again." Dick Cheney released from hospital WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney was released from the hospital yesterday, a day after undergoing a surgical procedure to repair a damaged artery. The vice president walked out of George Washing- ton University Hospital, shook hands with his doctors and was driven away. "Good," he said in response to a reporter's shouted question about how he felt. Cheney was up about 7 a.m. and was "antsy" to leave, said senior aide Mary Matalin. Three sets of cardiac enzyme tests showed no damage to Cheney's heart muscle, and "multiple EKGs have been unchanged," she said. Speaking to reporters, President Bush said he last talked with the vice president Monday night, and, Cheney told him he felt great. Asked if Cheney should cut back on his duties, the president said no, because "he is needed. This country needs his wisdom and judgment." Bush said there is no question that Cheney is fit to continue serving as vice president. "Thanks for ask- ing. I don't think that he needs to cut back on his work," Bush said in a brief question-and-answer ses- sion. He said Cheney is the kind of person who "listens to his body" and takes care of himself when he is not feeling 100 percent. Cheney will rest at home and likely will return to work later this week, said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. "No restrictions have been placed on his work," Fleischer said. He said President Bush had not spoken with Cheney about his work schedule, but the presi- dent "expects him to follow his doctor's orders:' The procedure Cheney underwent Monday was prompted by "a common complication" of his prior heart procedure, not a progression of heart disease, Matalin said. Cheney should be able to continue in his job unim- peded by his latest heart problems, doctors say, shrug- ging off any suggestion that he should curtail travel or his intense workload. Sharon ascends during time of violence The Washington Post JERUSALEM - Ariel Sharon, the Israeli warrior who gained fame and notoriety through his exploits on the battlefield, takes power today in an angry, depressed nation reeling from the bloodiest wave of Palestinian violence in years. As- Sharon prepares to become Israel's fifth prime minister in six years, he has pledged above all to restore Israelis' sense of security. But his ascent to the job he has wanted most of his life coincides with what many Israelis consider one of the least secure moments in recent memory. At the outset of his term, Sharon's Israel is a place starting to feel itself besieged in a way it had not dur- ing most of the 1990s. Stunned by three bombings in or near major cities in the last week and frightened by grenade attacks and drive-by shootings, many Israelis say that ordinary parts of their daily lives - walking to the bank, taking the bus, shopping at the market, going to the movies - have become a frightening adventure. Israel remains vastly more powerful than the Pales- tinians, a fact starkly reflected in the count of those killed in the last five months of violence: 342 Pales- tinians, 65 Israeli Jews and 13 Israeli Arabs. But Israelis and Palestinians live in parallel universes, and the Palestinian deaths and injuries barely register with Jews in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. And they do nothing to ease the growing sense among Israelis that they are the ones truly at risk. At the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the country's premier cultural institution, attendance is off by half; rather than risk traveling the roads, Israelis are staying home, the director says. Shopping malls throughout the country are reporting dips in attendance, some of them quite sharp. In Holon, a city near Tel Aviv, this week's annual parade for Purim, a festive springtime Jewish holiday in which children wear costumes, was canceled yesterday. The mayor said citizens were too afraid to bring their kids. So many extra police have been deployed to watch for Palestinian bombers in and around Israeli cities that police officials acknowledge privately that com- mon criminals are less likely to be apprehended. Admir11als tour sub;" 0 S dismissals possible PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) -- Three admirals toured the USS Greeneville yesterday to try to under- stand the crowding in the control room of the nuclear submarine before it struck and sank a Japanese fishing boat. The tourdbegan the second day of a court of inquiry - the Navy's high- est-level administrative investigation - into the Feb. 9 collision. The probe could lead to courts-martial of the Greeneville's top three officers. The Ehime Maru, a high school fisheries training vessel from Uwaji- ma, sank minutes after the Greeneville surfaced underneath it. Nine of 35 people on the ship, including four 17-year-old boys, were lost. The slightly scraped Greeneville was dry-docked at Pearl Harbor as Vice Adm. John Nathman, head of . the three-member court of inquiry, and fellow court members Rear Adm. Paul Sullivan and Rear Adm. David Stone toured the submarine. In the control room, they were briefed by Rear Adm. Charles Grif- fiths Jr., head of the Navy's prelimi- nary investigation into the collision. "We did this primarily to better understand the evidence," Nathman said as the hearing resumed. Court members and attorneys for Waddle, Pfeifer and Coen will have a chance to question Griffiths on his b findings. The inquiry is expected to last at least a week. (h On Monday, Griffiths described a series of missteps by the crew. The mistakes ranged from the submarine rushing to get back on schedule to vital sonar data not getting to the skipper. Griffiths painted a picture of a crew flurries, sleet and rain. Sections of New more than a foot got only inches. SANTEE, Calif. School shooter faces lengthy prison ter Fifteen-year-old Charles Andrew Williams won't face the death penalty or even a life sentence without the possibility of parole if he is convicted of killing two students and wounding 13 other people in the Santana High School shooting spree. Williams is scheduled to be arraigned today on multiple charges, most likely two counts of murder and 13 possible additional counts of attempted murder, in addition to weapons charges. San Diego County District Attorney Paul Pfingst said the teen-ager could face at least 25 years in prison for each of the two murder counts. That sen- tence could be enhanced by 10 to 20 years for each additional count of attempted murder, he said. Under the maximum sentence sce- nario, he said, Williams could face a sentence totaling "hundreds of years." WASHINGTON Internet voting has high security risks Voting through the Internet from home or the workplace should not be allowed in the near future because sig- nificant questions remain about security, reliability and social effects, says a report commissioned by the National Science Foundation. Release of the study, requested by the White House in December 1999, comes as elections officials consider new tech- Jersey and Pennsylvania that expected nology after the problems of the 2000 elections. The report urged elections officials to resist pressures to embrace "remote Internet voting systems" as the techno- logical .cure for the problems that afflict- ed the presidential election in November, such as faulty voting sys- tems and inconsistent standards for lot counting. Internet voting at polling places, how- ever, could offer such benefits as conve- nience and efficiency. MOSCOW Russia to insure Mir for crash damage After months shrugging off for- eigners' protests that the Mir sp* station could come crashing down on a populated area, Russian officials said yesterday they are negotiating a $200 million insurance policy against any damage the orbiter could cause when it plunges to Earth in March. Mir set several records during its 15 years in space, but its history of accidents, including a near-fatal lision with a cargo ship, a fire, computer failures that left it drifting out of control, have fed speculation something could go wrong with plans for a controlled disposal of the obsolete station. "The insurance is just another attempt to assuage fears," Russian Aerospace Agency spokesman Sergei Gorbunov said during an Internet news conference. - Compiled from Daily wire repo. Old Way Buy the Sunday paper. Rend the classifieds Send your resumte. Wait. New Way Log on. Get hired. At the first Virtual Career Fair, sponsored by your Alumni Career Center, you'll find o opportunities in business, engineering and information technology. No wading throug the paper. Just the best jobs for the best people. 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