2 - The Michigan Daily -- Friday, March 30, 2001 NATION/WORLD Bush pledges support in Mideast WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush pledged yesterday to help end the Mideast's "tragic cycle of incitement, provocation and violence," telling the Palestinians to stop their killing and urging restraint from the Israeli military. But he said he won't try to force a settlement. In an impromptu news conference mixing domes- tiC and foreign policy, the president also told Con- gress it must not bypass his massive 10-year tax cut in a rush to short-term reductions and promised to reduce the arsenic levels of U.S. drinking water. In a 30-minute session shortly before meeting German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Bush pre- empted his visitor by rejecting calls by Germany and other allies to back a global warming treaty. "We will not do anything that harms our economy," he said. It was the new president's second full-scale news conference and, like the first, came with little notice. Advisers say Bush hopes to avoid formal, prime- time news conferences from the White House East Room with their accompanying buildup of expecta- tions. He seemed to enjoy the session yesterday, joshing with reporters who tried to interrupt his answers and pardoning one whose beeper sounded. When Bush said Americans might "misunderestimate" his tax plan, he corrected himself with a chuckle. "Excuse me. Underestimate," he said. "Just mak- ing sure you were paying attention." Bush spoke as fresh clashes and harsh rhetoric scarred the Middle East. A defiant Yasser Arafat said the Palestinian uprising will continue despite Israel's warnings, which were delivered a day earlier with rocket attacks on the bases of Palestinian forces. Bush has been urging both sides to end the vio- lence but his actions have been subdued, in contrast to former President Clinton who personally mediat- ed failed peace talks. Bush's remarks yesterday seemed to signal a more assertive, direct role in the Middle East though his outline of U.S. policy still stressed rhetoric over per- sonal diplomacy. He urged Palestinian leaders to speak out against violence and suggested that Arafat won't be invited to the White House along with other regional lead- ers until he does so "in a language that the Palestini- ans can understand." "The signal I am sending to the Palestinians is stop the violence," Bush said. "I hope that Chairman Arafat hears it loud and clear." *SPACES AND FINANCIAL AID STILL AVAILABLE!*** SPEND NEXT SEMESTER IN ZIMBABWE! ~COURSES IN WOMEN'S STUDIES, AFRICAN STUDIES & ART AND SCIENCE INTERNSHIPS STUDY-TRAVEL THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN AFRICA ~GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY " 119 Euclid Avenue 9 Syracuse, NY 13244-4170 " 443-3471 " suabroad@syr.edu - http://sumweb.syr.edu/dipa --v I E I What would a sister do to save her brother? What should she sacrifice? What would you do? By William Shakespeare March 29 - 31 April 5 - 7 at 8pm April 1 & 8 at 2pm Trueblood Theatre Tickets are $1 5 * Students $7 with ID League Ticket Office * 734-764-0450 E 's NBRIEF t WASHINGTON House passes proposal to cut taxes The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to cut income taxes for most married couples and to gradually double the $500-per-child tax credit, endorsing two major pieces of President Bush's $1.6 trillion tax relief plaO A few hours after the 282-144 vote, which included 64 Democrats in favor, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a third component of the Bush plan: a measure that would eliminate the estate tax by 2011 at a cost of almost $193 billion. That bill is expected to reach the House floor next week. Before the votes, Bush told a news conference that Congress was well on the way to enacting "meaningful, real, long-lasting tax relief," even though the legislation that is speeding through the House faces almost certain change in the Senate, which is divided evenly between 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans. The House has already passed Bush's package of $958 billion in across-the-board income tax cuts. Bush repeated that he would not back away from his $1.6 trillion fi~e over 10 years and that any short-term economic stimulus tax relief - such as a $300 individual tax rebate suggested by Senate Democrats - must be part of a broader plan. RAMALLAH, West Bank Arafat vows to forge ahead with revolt A defiant Yasser Arafat, inspecting the charred rubble left by Israeli airstrikes on the headquarters of his elite security forces here, vowed to forge ahead with the 6-month-old Palestinian revolt despite the ominous warnings of Isoli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "Our people will continue the uprising until we raise the Palestinian flag on every minaret and church in Jerusalem," the Palestinian Authority president said. He accused Sharon of launching a 100-day military offensive against Palestinian forces. Sharon said he was firing the opening shot in a "protracted campaign against terrorism." Clashes and gun battles raged again yesterday, with at least three more Pales- tinians - a police officer and two teens - killed and eight wounded. In the tense divided city of Hebron, where a Jewish baby was killed Monday, Israeli army tanks shelled Palestinian houses after gunmen reportedly were spotted inside. The renewed fighting came a day after Israeli combat helicopters rockd the headquarters, training camp and arms depot of Arafat's presidential guard. M UM School of Music Department of Theatre and Drama a , , ; Y! V' Mondays 7pm Michigan Union April 2- Pond Room April 9, 16- Anderson AB. Room WASHINGTON Senate repares to pass reform bill Legislation to cleanse the nation's scandal-scarred campaign finance system moved to the brink of Senate passage yesterday after Sen. John McCain and his allies prevailed in a showdown to ease the impact of the Supreme Court's inevitable constitu- tional. review. "I believe that we've gone over the last hurdle but I just don't know," McCain (R-Ariz.) said after the 57-43 vote that indicated the high court should make its ruling section by section rather than upholding or rejecting the three main elements as a package. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the measure's most outspoken oppo- nent, said, "This bill is going to pass ... and if I were a betting man I'd bet it's going to be signed into law." KRIVENIK, Yugoslavia TWO civilians killed in Kosovo bombing Mortar shells struck a village just inside Kosovo yesterday, killing at least two civilians including an Asso- ciated Press Television News journal- ist, as fighting intensified between Macedonian forces and ethnic Alban- ian militants. NATO-led international peacekeep- ers set up a field hospital to treat at least 16 wounded, and American sol- diers searched for other possible vic- tims in Krivenik, just three-quarters of a mile inside Kosovo's border with Macedonia. The attack on the village came as Macedonia's government said a suc- cessful army offensive had driven back the rebels, who maintain they are fighting for greater rights d recognition for ethnic Albania nn the Slav-dominated country. But the rebels suggested they were merely regrouping in the rugged and largely inaccessible hills. SAN FRANCISCO Court: Laws do not protect homosexuals An appeals court ruled Thur*y that federal civil rights laws do not protect homosexual workers harassed because of their sexual orientation. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding a similar decision in 1979, said the law protects workers against discrimination only on the basis of race, color, religion, gender or national origin. The U.S. Supreme Court has wr decided whethera worker discr t- ed against because of sexual orienta- tion can sue under federal civil rights laws. Still, 12 states allow such suits under their own anti-discrimination rules. They are California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 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