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. 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