2A - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, April 17, 2001 NATION/WORLD Midwest reels as floods take toll MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The rising Mississippi River submerged a stretch of railroad track near here yesterday, forcing Amtrak to put passengers onto buses between Minneapolis and Chicago. The Mississippi also seeped into basements and covered parks and boat landings, sending residents of low-lying areas to higher ground. Flood warnings were in effect from the Twin Cities in Minnesota along the Minnesota-Wisconsin state line to northern Iowa. Communities along other rivers in Minnesota and North Dakota waited to see if sandbag levees would hold. Light snow fell on the Red River Valley yester- day, but the National Weather Service said it would not affect the river, which crested during the week- end and started to recede slowly. The valley is along the Minnesota-North Dakota state line. A search resumed yesterday for a 19-year-old man missing in the Minnesota River near Shakopee, Minn. His older brother was rescued Sunday. The two men had driven onto a flooded road, bypassing warning signs, and were swept away by rushing water in the area southwest of Minneapolis. "It's going to get worse," said Al Blencoe, an emergency dispatcher in La Crosse, Wis., about 150 miles southeast of Minneapolis. The river there was 4 feet above flood stage yesterday morning at 16 feet. "Unfortunately, when you live in a river town, you have to take it in stride," said Brian Larson, who lives on French Island. The river was expected to crest near La Crosse at 17 feet early Wednesday, just short of the record 17.9 feet set in 1965. AP PHOTO Inmates from the Scott County Jail fill sandbags yesterday, in Princeton, Iowa to protect the town from rising waters. I So you want to be a doctor... About to apply to medical school? Tried before? Personal, individual advising makes all the difference. Get seasoned professional advice from former medical school director of admissions Judith K. 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On the other hand, a polemical meeting would give us some indication of how they might or might not intend to procted ith the relationship," he said. The U.S. delegation will insist on prompt return of the plane and discuss wl W caused the incident and how to avoid future collisions, Boucher said. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters: "You can expect me forthright conversations about those flights and about what took place." The EP-3E aircraft was seized by Chinese authorities after it made an emer- gency landing April 1 on Hainan island in southern China. WASHINGTON Bush uses tax deadline to sell his tax cuts President Bush marked the income-tax filing deadline yesterday with a sales pitch for his proposed tax cuts, arguing that heavy taxes levied to pay for g6vetn ment spending jeopardize the U.S. economy. "Excessive federal spending threatens economic vitality," Bush told thJ.S Chamber of Commerce as he stood flanked by a pair of oversized 1040 tax forms. Bush stepped up his criticism of lawmakers who don't see it his way, castinf them as squanderers of public money. And he expressed his irritation at the Senate for approving a $1.2 trillion tax cut - smaller than the $1.6 trillion cut he seeks. He complained that the Senate has approved a plan that increases discretionar} spending by 8 percent. He is trying to keep it at 4 percent. "The Senate approved most of my tax plan but wants the government to spend fai more' Bush told a crowd of nearly 400. "Some members of the Senate areunfotz nately, proving the point I make all across the country: If you send it, they will spend it" In another half-joking slap, he said this year's tax collections will yield $2 bib- lion for every federal lawmaker. "I think they should be able to get by on that- even the senators," he said. ADVISING SERVICES I I " Unlimited Nights, Unlimited Weekends. Talk for hours without burning minutes. " Plus, Nationwide Long Distance. At no extra cost, 24/7. 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But Israel indicated it would reject the plan, and violence persisted with a Palestinian mortar attack from Gaza on an Israeli town. Israel's attack on the radar station, which killed three Syrian soldiers, was the first against such a significant Syri- an target in almost two decades. JACKSON, Miss. Mississippi to vote on Conederate flag Mississippi voters decide today whether to banish the last state flag in the nation to prominently feature the Confederate emblem. Voters will have two choices: keep the 1894 flag with the Confederate emblem of stars and bars, or adopt a new flag that replaces the Confederate symbol with 20 white stars on a blue square, denoting Mississippi's role as the 20th state. Supporters of the current flag see it as a tie to Mississippi's heritage. Opponents see it as a symbol of racism and slavery that will only hurt Mississippi's reputation with the' rest of America. The issue came to the fore when the state Supreme Court ruled las ay that the 1894 flag is not officialthe state flag because its design was not carried forward when Mississippi's laws were updated in 1906. DENVER Order would quiet McVeigh attorney Lawyers for Michigan native Terry Nichols asked a federal court yesay to enforce an order that would silence a former attorney for Timothy McVeigh. The move in U.S. District Court came after former McVeigh lawyer Stephen Jones said he believed McVeigh exag- gerated his own role in the Oklahoma City bombing, in part to protect Nichols. Nichols, 46, faces state charges in Oklahoma in connection with the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P .r- rah Federal Building, which kile 68 people. Both McVeigh and Nichols were convicted in federal court in connection with the bombing. McOVeigh was sen- tenced to death and is scheduled to' die by injection on May 16. 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