2A.- The Michigan Daily - Thursday, April 12, 2001
NATION/WORLD
Israeli forces raid Palestinian camp
I he Washington Post
JERUSALEM - In an escalation of
military tactics, Israel sent tanks and
bulldozers into a refugee camp in the
Gaza Strip yesterday, flattening homes
in the first sustained ground assault in
the nearly seven-month-old Palestinian
uprising.
Palestinian gunmen rushed into the
streets of the Khan Younis camp to
mount a harried defense against the
thrust, the first into territory ceded to
Palestinian control under the 1993 Oslo
accords. One Palestinian policeman and
one civilian were killed.
Israeli officials said Palestinian rifle-
men were using the camp's buildings
and natural features as cover to fire on
nearby Jewish settlements and an army
position.
The Israeli attack began just after
midnight, when two tanks accompanied
by a pair of bulldozers moved about 400
yards into the ramshackle camp in the
southern half of the Gaza Strip. The
bulldozers cleared large sand benris and
an olive grove while the tanks took posi-
tions at. two ends of a street to protect
them. Moving down the streets, the
tanks fired machine guns to clear the
area of defenders while the bulldozers
razed 28 houses.
Three helicopters also fired rockets
into Khan Younis, knocking out electri-
cal transformers and "plunging the
neighborhood into darkness, said Khalil
Abu Shammil, a resident. The operation
lasted 3 1/2 hours, he said.
Loudspeaker-s from a mosque blared
a call to arms, and hundreds of Pales-
tinians responded with gunfire. At sun-
set, Palestinians fired a pair of mortars
onto Nisanit, a Jewish settlement at the
north entrance to the Gaza Strip. No
inj uries were reported.
"There was no warning of the raid on
Khan Younis; many of the houses were
empty because of previous exchanges of
fire. Forty Palestinians were wounded
by bullets, shrapnel and collapsing con-
crete. No Israeli troops were injured.
Tornadoes batter Plains,
snow paralyzes Rockies
NEWS 14BRIEF;~.,iy fii\r
JOANESBURG, South Afria }..,...r:
43 krilled in stampede at soccer game,..
Fans stampeded at a soccer stadium last night, killing 43 people, including two,.
children, and injuring more than 150 others.
The stampede occurred during a game between two popular teams at Ellis P,
Stadium. Witnesses said the stadium was vastly overcrowded and erupted in P
chaos after the Orlando Pirates scored a goal against Kaizer Chiefs, a Premier,
League rival.
"That's when everything happened," stadium security guard Louis Shipaina
said. "The stadium was full. There was no place to stand. The people were push-
ing toward the fence (around the field), and the fence collapsed and the people in
the back stepped on those in front."'
Emergency officials said some of the victims died at the fence surrounding the
field and others at a fence at the entrance to the stadium. Bodies lay strewn inside
and outside the stadium after the stampede.
The stadium, which seats 62,000, was so full, organizers had to shut the gates
with thousands of fans still waiting outside, Robin Petersen, a Premier Lea*a
official, said at the scene. Those fans shoved through the fence, breaking it in Mor,
pl aces, he said. He said security was insufficient to handle the crowd.
A total of 43 people were killed, 29 inside the stadium and 14 outside.
LOS ANGELES
Democrats to face runoff in L.A. mayor race
Two Democrats squeezed a Republican out of the race to lead the nation's-sec-
ond-largest city and will meet in a runoff in June that could give Los Angeles its
first Hispanic mayor since 1872.
Former state Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa and City Attorney Jar
Hahn were the top two vote-getters in Tuesday's nonpartisan election. Republi-
can real estate broker Steve Soboroff, who was endorsed by outgoing Mayo
Richard Riordan, finished third.
With 99 percent of precincts counted yesterday, Villaraigosa had 30 percen~t,
Hahn 25 percent and Soboroff 21 percent.
The strong vote for Villaraigosa signaled the growing power of Hispanics and
organized labor. The outcome was also seen as a sign that voters are more opti-
mistic now than when they elected Riordan, a Republican businessman who was
prevented from running again by term limits.
Any candidate receiving more than 50 percent of the vote would have been
2lected outright.
Because no one got a majority, a runoff will be held June 5.
DENVER (AP) - A powerful storm battered the
Plains with tornadoes yesterday, killing at least two
people, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming were
paralyzed by blowing snow that closed hundreds of
miles of highways and the region's biggest airport.
A tornado tore through a community food pantry
in Iowa, killing one and burying the body in rubble.
A tornado also killed a man in Oklahoma.
Up to 18 inches of snow fell along the eastern
side of the Rocky Mountains and winds gusted to
70 mph, heaping the snow into deep drifts. Parts of
Wyoming got up to a foot.
"I don't think we've had this much snow forever.
This is ridiculous," Sarah Mischke said after walk-
ing to work in Cheyenne, Wyo., where schools and
government offices were shut down.
All Denver public schools were closed for the
first time in more than six years.
Nearly 50,000 customers lost power in Colorado.
"We're treating this like a military operation," Ncel
Energy spokesman Steve Roalstad said.
Denver International Airport was shut down for
seven hours to avoid the chaos that struck during a
1997 blizzard when thousands of passengers were
stranded overnight, spokesman Chuck Cannon said.
The blowing snow closed hundreds of miles of
Interstate 25 in Colorado, 1-70 across eastern Col-
orado, and -80 from Wyoming into the Nebraska
Panhandle.
Hundreds of people werec stranded in cars near
Colorado Springs, where the airport also was
closed.
AP PHOTO
A snowplow clears a path through huge drifts of snow that
closed the road to Shriever Air Force Base yesterday in
Colorado Springs, Coo.
F 'U
" Unlimited Nights, Unlimited Weekends. Talk for hours
without burning minutes.
" Plus, Nationwide Long Distance. At no extra cost, 24/7..
Hnme _Plin_
1$29 99
$399
$49997
t
Offer available to
new and existing
customers.
250
Anytime
Minutes
Unlimited
Nights
Unlimited
Weekends
"
Nationwide
Long Distance
400
Anytime
Minutes
"
Unlimited
Nights
Unlimited
Weekends
Nationwide
Long Distance
b00
Anytime
Minutes
"
Unlimited
Nights
"
Unlimited
Weekends
Nationwide
Long Distance
BELGRADE. Ygslavia
Milosevic rushed to
hospital from prison
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic was rushed to the hospital
late yesterday after suffering chest
pains in his prison ccll, his lawyer said.
"There were heart problems that
necessitated his transferal to the mili-
tary hospital in Belgrade," said Milose-
vie's lawyer, Toma Fila. "It was nothing
,oo dramatic."
Fila said he expected the Belgrade
district court to make an announcement
about Milosevic's condition today. He
is known to have high blood pressure.
The state-run Tanjug news agency
said Milosevic was admitted and was
undergoing tests. The independent Beta
news agency, citing unidentified
sourcecs, reported that he was in a "state
prior to a heart attack." The transfer
came only hours after Milosevic's
Socialist Party issued a statement
claiming that the former leader's health
was jeopardizcd by his imprisonment.
I IN ,4M. Ali.
Tape of Klansman
can be used in trial
A tape secretly recorded in the
apartment of a former Ku Klux Klans-
men can be used as evidence at his
murder trial in a 1 963 church bomb-
no that killed four black girls, a judge
ruled yesterday.
Circuit Judge James Garrett issued
a ruling allowing prosecutors to play
the tape, which was recorded in 1964
usmng an FBI bug hidden under the
kitchen sink of Thomas Blanton jlr-.
Court documents give no indication of
the tape's contents.
Blanton goes on trial Monday, on
murder charges in the Sept. 15, 1963,
dynamite bombing of the Sixteenth,~
Street Baptist Church in downtown
Birmingham. Prosecutors contQ~
Blanton was one of a handful of K W,
members who planted the bomb to
intimidate blacks seeking an end to
desegregation laws. The church had
been a rallying site for protest marches.
TOSCO'
Russia to send U.S
millionaire in space
Russian space officials, defying c-
plaints fi-om the United States' Natio!!
Aeronautics and Space Administration,
yesterday formally approved a 60-year.-
old Los Angeles millionaire to serve 'as
the third member of its next mission to
the International Space Station. They set
the launch date for April 28.
Dennis Tito will fork over about 520
million for the flight.
"I do not regard the flight as comma-,
cial tourism," Tito told a news cone
ence at the Russian cosmonaut training
center outside Moscow, according to thet
Interfax news agency. "I would like 'to"
show that this can be done. More arid
more people should follow. If thley dd,
the price will come down"
NASA officials have complained it-t
terly about Tito's flight, fearing that his
presence will at best disrupt work abo-ard
the station and at worst put the lives;-of
other crew members in danger.
- Compiled from Da ily ui'ue I'w
Ericsson A1228di
F REE
ERICSSON 0
Suddenly, "I'll call you tonight"
makes good economic sense.
The ichganDaily OISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter t~ersy
teUiestofMcia.SbcitosfrfltemstrigiSetmevaUSm$100. Winter term (January through April) is $105. yearlong (September through April) is $180. On-campus
subscriptions for fall term are $35' Subscriptions must be prepaid.
The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Collegiate Press.
ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily. 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor. Michigan 48109-1327.
PHONE NUMBERS (All area code 734): News 76-DAILY: Arts 763-0379: Sports 647-3336: Opinion 764-05W +
Circulation 764-0558: Classified advertising 764-0557: Display advertising 764-0554: Billing 764-0550.
E-mail letters to the editor to dailyletters@umichedu. World Wide Web: wwwrmichigandailycoin.
1.1 (. J -I -I 11 ~e~ rl~N&?T~IY7TU ~ti 7DI~.4 tr 3
'iii
I
GVl I VRlML %7 iMfr Wcva I Ivy "4msgvvn? 16%Av Lv on vovoc I
i
Cellular Services
is now a part of Cingular Wireless.
9-866-CINGUJLAR
wwwcingularcom
Scingular SM
WRE LESS
What do you have to say?°
NEWS Nick Bunkley, Managing Editor
EDITORS: David Enders, Lisa Koivu, Caitlin Nish, Jememy W. Peters
STAFF: Kristen Beaumont. Kay Bhagat. Ted Borden. Anna Clark. Courtney Crimrnins. Whitney Elliott. Jon lFish. Sanmantha Ganey. Jewel
Gopwanr. Ahmed Hamid. Lisa Hoffman. Elizabeth Kassab. Jane Krull, Tovin Lapan. Hanna LoPatin. Susan Luth. Louie Meaizsh. Jacquelyn
Nxon. Shannon Peciyprece. John Polley. James Restivo. Stephanie Scnonlz. Nika Schulte. Karen Schwartz. Maria Sprow. Carre Thorsen.
Kelly Traan. Kara Wenzeli. Jainie Winlier.
CALENDAR: Lindsey Alpeti
GRAPHICS: Amaunda Christianson. Scott Gordon.
EDITORIAL Michael Grass, Nicholas Woomer, Editors
1ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Peter Cunniffe, Manish Raiji, Josh Wickertiam
1 STAFF. Ryan Bay. Sumon Dantek. Jessica Guern. Rachei Fisner. Justin Hamilton. Joranna Hanink. Aubrey H-enretty. Henry Hy att. Shaoria
Khatr. Fads KiDern'. Ar Paui. Rahui Sairsena. Mattnew Sch~wartz. Jim Secreto. Lauren Strayer. Wal Syc-d. Ben Whetser.
CARTOONISTS: Dune Barnes. Aaron Brink. Chip Cullen. Thomas Kulgurgis.
COLIUMIMSTS: Emily Acnenbaum. Gina Hamadey. David Horn. Chris Kula. Dustin Se-bert. Mike Spuhn. Amu-r2ahr.
SPORTS Jon Schwartz, Managing Editor
SENIOR EDITORS: Raphael Goodstein, Michael item, Joe Smith, Dan Williams
NIGH-T EDITORS Kristen Fdbh. Arun Gobal. Steve Jackson. Jeff Phillips. Ryan C. Moloney. Benfamin Singer.
STAFF. Ronia Bhav'e. Michael Bloom. Cris Burke. Kaec-m Coptland. David Den Herder. Chrs Ouprey. Brian Druchniak. Mark Francescutoi. Rhonda
Gimer. Rchard Haddad. Davrd Horn. Adam Kaplan. Shawn Kemnp. Aibert Kinm. Seth Kiempner. Courtney Lewis. J. Brady McCofiough. Adam
McQueen. Nathan Linsley. Peter Lund. James Mercer. Stephanre Offen. Swapnil Patel. David Roth. Naweed Sikora. Jet Singer. Jim Weber
ARTS Ben Goldstein, Managing Editor
EDITORS: Jennifer Fogel, Robyn Melamed
WEEKEND, ETC. EDITORS: Jenni Glenn, Elizabeth Pensler
S~i6EDITORS Lisa Ra~t -huols-. Lyleie nretty iFii. Jim Schiff i~ine.'Performing AtSi. Luke Smith ikusc. Jeff DikeiuonTi'Nei Meda,..
STAFF: Charty Atchison. Gauil.' Bakis. Matthew Barret. Mare Bernard. Ryan Blay. Leslie Boner. Rob Brodec Aut.amn Brown, Christopner Cousi.'
no Laurar Oeneeu. Kian Onvvela. Gabe FaJun. MeruSsolobO. Matt Grandstaff. Joshua Gross. Christian Hoard. Erik Johnson. MNterdtn Keiei, Chns
Kulai. lenny Jites. W lnr.lma Maurrtz. Sheila McClea.,VW. Jocarl Melton. Rosemary Me.tz. Shannon 0OSullivan. Ben Oxenourg. Oarren Rngi.'
Jamrie. &hr-. Dustin Seibeet. Crirstian Smith. Jacquelene Smith. Andy TaylorFabe. Rohith Thimati. Johnn hl.W
PHOTO tomis Brown, Jessica Johnson, Editors
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: David Katz, Marjorie Marshall
ARTS EO)-TOR: Abby Rosenbaum
SIAFi~ Rachel Feiviman. Toro Feldiamp. Sanm Hoirenshy-ad. Jeff Hurvitz. Joyce Lee. Tomi Lin. Danny Molostruk. Brett Mountain. 6rE-ndan 0"Donel.
Brad Quinn Biandon Scdif. iKhang Iran. Elie White. Alyssa Wood.
ONLINE Kiran Dlvvela, Paul Wong, Managing Editors
STAFF: Rache: Berger. Lisa Cencula. Dana M. Goldberg. Sammly Ko. Mark McKinstry Vince Sust.
CONSUJLTANS: Tovin IrIinmusuru. Mike Bibaik. Satadro Pramanik
* - . , ,1
Available At
Cingula.- wieess Stores
Busness Sales Office. (248 737-6620
ANN ARBOR ;734')6698079
BIRMINGHAM ;248) 258.3106"
CLARKSTON (2481 620-6870
DEARBORN (313) 277-4111-
EASTPOMNTE i810) 777.(00~7
FLINT, 8107336061"
LATHRUP VILLAGE (248)1557-6855'
NOVI ;2433 449-1779'
PLYMOUTH (744510720'
SHELBY TWP. (810) 5668950
SOUTHGATE 734) 285-8066'
TROY (248; 5886780'^
WESTLANO (34) 427.5760
Also avaiable a.thtese SEARS sor-es
BRIGHTON Henderson Glas, (810229-5506
MB Signal. i810) 220-8500
BROWNSTOWN
Cellular Advantage, tnc.. ;734) 362-7200
BURTON Mikes Pager. (810) 743-4647
CANTON lenders.,, Glass, (734) 4596440
Piqlee.. (734, 455-510;
O4ESTERFELOD
Oi~nond Ccorrmunications, Inc (810 946-0035
CAINTON TWP. MecjaCel, ($10128633
Pae rOne. (810790-0000
Rapid Page, ;810) 4160000
SpyTech Cellular & Pagiirj, 110792-8400
US Wireless. (810) 263-5700
DEARBORN Fox Pagers,.(313)5$81-1100
Metro Cell, (3131624-8336
Page-Corn. (313; 582-0040
FENTON Pager One. Int., i610) 710-3333
FLINT Joegs Pagemnaster, (810) 743-3151
Mero Cell. (810767-7900
FORT GRATIOT Cellular Woald OBA Beeper &
Cellular Cutlei, (810385-1400
Metro Cell. ;8101385-6913
GARDEN CITY Pageiec,.(734421-M'00'
GROSSE POINTE Metro Cell. 313( 417-2520
Pointer Communications. (131417-90003
HAZEL. PARK
Rapi Page & Cellular, Inc.. (2483 542-3333
HOLLY A-1 Wreless, 2486344100
MnAY CITY CustorirControls.Inc, (810 724-5800
LAKE ORION
A & P Cor mrka~aticns. 248) 814-1122
Discount Video and Electronics. (248) 693-4543
LAPEER Joe's Pagernierter. (810 245-1500
PONTIAC
A & P Corr-munictions. 1248) 332.0116
A & P Comnmunicatons. 248) 373-8583
In Touchjeliieess. (2481 745-15D0
Select Comunicitiorrs, (248)1745-8800
PORT HURON -Henderson Glass. (8101 987-6500
TC Main Street. (8101985-7220
REDFORD Fhone-Tec, Inc.. (313387-9600
RICHMOND
Alt-Tme CorrnLanicat'rom ( 810)i 727.684
ROCHlESTER Sound Advantage. (248;)656-1611
Telecom US-A (248) 601-1818
ROSE VILLE
Advanced Communications. (8101 498-9700
Advanced Commumnications, (8101774-5200
Pagecell Cownmuricatxens, (810) 447-8292
Telecom LSA. (8107770300
ROlYAL OAAme rrican Tlecommunications
TAYLOR
Advanced Communications. 1734)1374-1000
Cell Tech Wireles, (313) 389-3500
Elite-Cell, Inc., (734) 374-10J20
Page One, 313295-4000
Pager One, Inc. (7341 374-2337
TROY Cellular Advantage. (248) 435A98001
General Cellular. (248) 5243232
Platinum Ccrmrunicelions, Inc.,.-'248 879-0000
Prime Page. (248) 740-3900)
WARREN Aitrme Cellular, EEC. 8101 751-0900
Cell Tou ch Inc. (810) 75-3777"
Im{,eria; Plus Communirmion, ;8101759-4600
Merl.aCel. (810) 756-0000
Wreless Word Comm., Inc, (810) 558-9999
WASHINGTON TWP.
Gold Lunea Communications, (8101677-465S
WATERFORD
I
p
I q
I
_ a