2- The Michigar. Daily -- Friday, March 23, 2001 N ATION WORLD Bush backs expulsion of diplomats V ashinzgon Post resident Bush yesterday strongly backed the expul- sion of more than 50 Russian diplomats and said he Was "confident that we can have good relations with the Rssians" even as Moscow vowed to retaliate. Iwas presented with the facts, I made the decision, it was the right thing to do,' Bush said. Iln Moscow, Russian. Foreign Minister Igor lvanov jj~omised an "adequate" response within hours of learn- ing that the State Department had ordered the immedi- ate expulsion of four diplomats suspected of being intelligence officers and had given 46 others until July 1 to leave the United States. By late last night, the Russians had served no official notice of their intentions. But lvanov and other senior officials indicated that Moscow would expel an equal number of Americans. Asked by CNN when U.S. diplo- mats would have to leave Russia, lvanov replied: "You won't have to wait long." Ivanov also warned against "those who are trying to push mankind and the United States back to the epoch of the Cold War." A Bush administration official speaking on condition of anonymity said the four Russians who have been declared persona non grata and must leave within 10 days were Washington-based intelligzence officers who had been involved in "handling" Robert flanssen, the veteran FBI agent arrested last month on charges of spying for Moscow since 1985. NEWS iN BRIEF - / r KORLYO, .Russia Russia sends M ir plunging into ocean After 15 years in the heavens, Mir took its last tours around Earth yesterday, accepting final commands that would trigger a fiery, suicide plunge into the Soth Pacific. On its last day, the using space station soaked up the sun's energy to pows fickle batteries and stabilizc its alignment. If all went well, Mir would fall harm- lessly into the sea. If not, the consequences of 27 1/2 tons of blazing debris futr - bling from the sky were frightening. The death of Mir marked the end of a proud chapter in the Russian space ,pro- gramn; it proved that long duration space flight was possible. Its passing came it much wistfulness, and some protest. About 15 demonstrators briefly rallied yes- terday outside Mission Control, holding up a portrait of Yuri Gagarin, the Rus$ihI who was the first man in space. "'Don't Give Up the Russian Space Industry," the sign read. But Mir was doomed. The impoverished Russian government could haot afford to keep it in orbit - and in good repair - while fulfilling its obligations to the construction of the international space station. Inside Mission Control near Moscow, the mood was strictly professional. t trollers bottled up regrets over Mir's demise as they pored over charts and figures in preparation for crucial commands that would power the final descent early today. BALLYMASCANLON, Ireland Nations bein slaughtering infected livestock Officials slaughtered the first of thousands of doomed livestock today, a day after the Republic of Ireland confirmed its first cases of foot-and-mouth disease, which is ravaging neighboring Britain. Confirmation of the first cases in a rural peninsula yesterday sent shock vW though the country, and stocks slumped more than 5 percent on the Dublin exchange. Prime Minister Berticr Ahern called the outbreak "a national challenge for our country." British Prime Minister Tony Blair telephoned Ahern late yesterday to express his "support and solidarty' Blair's Downing Street office said. For three weeks; Ireland's 3.7 million citizens had restricted their travel and can- celed other activities - even their St. Patrick's Day parades - in hopes of deter- ring the livestock disease, which is already hurting thne country's vaunted Celtic Tiger economy. "After all these nervous weeks, wve were just starting to believe wve'd beat it," said John Elmore, a cattle farmer about 10 miles from yesterday's confirmed out- break on a sheep farm next door to Northern Ireland. TT ' s ,Macedonia Government arrests scores of militants Unleashing a fresh assault on ethnic Albanian rebels yesterday, government forces claimed they seized large quanti- ties of weapons and arrested scores of militants who were fleeing without a fight. But the scene behind insurgent lines told a different story: one of manned rebel sniper nests, grenade attacks on police and scattered clashes in the coun- tryside, suggesting the rebels still have plenty of resolve-and firepowver. Rebel sniper positions as close as 2- 1/2 miles from Tetovo's center were manned, and police spokesman Stevo Pendarovski said mortar rounds were fired from nearby Kosovo at a police checkpoint near the village of Gracane, 15 miles northeast of Tetovo, wounding a policeman. Elsewhere, rebel fortifica- tions and road blocks remained in place, and there were no signs of mass retreat by the insurgents. LOS ANGELES 5 hurt when scaffold at Oscars collaps Scaffolding along the red carpet for the Academy Awards ceremiony col- lapsed yesterday, iniuring five workers. Most of the mangled metal fell just behind bleachers that will seat fans and reporters who gather to watch celebi- ties enter the Shrine Auditorium for Sunday's ceremony. A portion also tumbled onto a tent over the red carpet leading into the auditorium, Preparations for Sunday's show were halted in the area around the accident, but workers continued moving flowers, stage material and recording equipment into the Shrine through other entrances. "This will not delay the ceremony at all," city fire spokesman Richard Andrade said. The condition of the most sevOY injured person was upgraded from enit- ical to serious within two hours of .the accident, city fire spokesman Bob Cpl- 1lis said. WASHINGTON FDA approves new diabetes wristwatch. Diabetics are about to get a scic fiction-like way to measure their 1 sugar painlessly: The government approved a wristwatch-lookinug dev ice yesterday that uses tiny electric currents to monitor diabetes. The long-awaited GlucoWatch won't; completely replace diabetics' dread fina- ger-prick blood tests because it's not per- fect, the Food and Drug Administration warned. Nor is it for children, a disap- pointment to parents awaiting painoe alternatives to sticking little fingers. But it does promise adult diabetics important benefits: supplementing Oin- gcr testing for more frequent glucose monitoring that may keep them healthi~- cr, and sounding an alarm if blood sugar hits dangerous levels-possibly lifesav- ing if that happens during sleep. The GlucoWatch will cost $400, plus a $4 t~o $5 disposable sensor that the patient must replace every 12 hours. - Cwitpit~~n aiirci'r'ivp xv MEDY OF THE YEAR!" Sigoumney Weaver Jennifer Love Hewitt and Gene Hackman eart EAe1S The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Mondiay through Friday during~ thu fall and wainter torms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall termT, Starting in September, via U.,S. mail are $100. Winter term (January through April) is $115 yearlog j$Qptomner through April) is $1$0, On-cainpus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must Oct prepoid. 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