One hundred ten years ofeditorialfreedom *ri NEWS: 76-DAILY CLASSIFIED: 764-0557 wwv. michigandail y. com Thursday September 13, 2001 [Vo, °> ,No.1434 n Ars r,' i*Naft0201 Te Mchian ail ... for survivors NEW-YORK (AP) - As the smol- dering ashes of the World Trade Center slowly yielded unimaginable carnage, rescuers scoured the area that has become known as "Ground Zero" for anyone trapped under the rubble who may have survived the collapse of the twin towers. In one indication of the potential death toll, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was asked about a report that the city has requested 6,000 body bags from federal officials. "Yes, I believe that's correct," said the mayor. In another, 2,500 people visited a grief counseling center handling ques- tions about missing family members yesterday. The last few floors that remainedof the trade center's south tower collapsed yesterday afternoon in yet another cloud of thick smoke. No injuries were report- ed, but rescuers were evacuated from part of the area where the 1,350-foot titans stood. Police and fire officials said there were problems with other "mini-col- lapses" among some badly damaged buildings nearby, and when the towers were destroyed, the Marriott World Trade Center hotel fell with them. The search and rescue mission con- tinued despite the problems. The devastation turned the concrete canyons of lower Manhattan into a dust- covered ruin of girders and boulders of broken concrete. A Brooks Brothers clothing store became a morgue, where workers brought any body parts they could find. The workers' grim task was interrupt- ed by brief epiphanies of life, when a fortunate victim was pulled alive from -tewreckage of the steel-and-glass buildings. In all, five victims, three of them police officers, have been pulled from the wreckage alive. In Washington, the Bush administra- tion disclosed that the White House and Air Force One may have been among See SURVIVORS, Page 7A. ... for answers WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal authorities have identified more than a dozen hijackers of Middle Eastern descent in Tuesday's bombings and gathered evidence linking them to Osama bin Laden and other terrorist networks, law enforcement officials said. The massive investigation stretched from the Canadian border, where offi- cials suspect some of the hijackers entered the country, to Florida, where some of the participants are believed to have learned how to fly commercial jet- liners before the attacks. Locations in, Massachusetts and Florida were searched for evidence. The names of two men being sought by authorities emerged in Florida. There, the FBI interviewed a family that gave them temporary shelter a year ago. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that multiple cells of terrorist groups participated and that hijackers had possible ties to countries that included Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The identities of more than a dozen of the men who hijacked four planes with knives and threats of bombs has been ascertained, the officials said. Sev- eral hijackers had pilot's licenses. At least one hijacker on each of the four planes was trained at a U.S. flight school, said Justice Department spokes- woman Mindy Tucker. The flight schools were in Florida and at least one other state. The hijackers used both cash and credit cards to purchase their plane tickets and hotel rooms.. Authorities detained at least a half dozen people in Massachusetts and Florida on unrelated local warrants and immigration charges and were ques- tioning them about their possible ties to the hijackers. No charges related to the attacks had been filed. Search warrants were executed in Florida, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Sealed warrants went out in several See ANSWERS, Page 7A ABOVE: Firemen are deployed *yesterday near the site where the 110-story World Trade Center used to stand in lower Manhattan, known as Ground Zero. RIGHT: Smoke continues to billow from the site in this satellite image taken from space yesterday. , AP PHOTOS Students overseas look home By Yhel Kohen Daily Staff Reporter AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France - After filling bars to watch repeated footage of Tues- day's terrorist attacks, Americans students studying abroad remained stunned yesterday from reports that seemed more like an action movie than actual events. Meanwhile, French government heightened security around American institutions. "I'm so far removed from it but yet it still feels like this innate anger, I mean, it's my home," said LSA junior Ian Burkow, who is studying abroad for a semester with Northern Illinois University. News of the massive relief efforts and blood donations left students here feeling far away and unable to help. Part of the difficulty for the students abroad is that they feel helpless during this profound- ly difficult time, said Laird Boswell, the Uni- versity's Aix-en-Provence study abroad pro- gram director. The attack that has so profoundly shocked Americans has stunned France as well. Throughout the day, French citizens approached random Americans to express their sympathy and hope that that their fami- lies were not harmed. But the French peoples' condolences have hardly been enough to console the students who wish they were home with their families. Because of telephone service interruptions, Kerry Leisher, a junior at Gettysburg College, was unable to call the United States while she worried about her father, who was scheduled to fly into New York the day of the attack "I just want to be with my family," she said, adding that her father fortunately not been harmed. Burkow said that he feels emotionally alienated in a foreign country. "I was so irritable yesterday being around French people; I just wanted to be around Americans," he said. Aix-en-Provence, a college town that has between 500 and 600 Americans studying here each year, has opened up crisis centers offering phone services for U.S. students, tourists, and residents with ties to New York and Washington. Psychologists are also avail- able to make phone calls to the United States. Aix-en-Provence has the largest population of Americans in southern France, said Yves Lerouge, public relations director for the mayor. About 100 people have used the facilities since the crisis center opened Tuesday, Ler- ouge said. The center also has a television where Americans can come listen to the latest updates. Flags hanging at the Hotel de Ville, or City Hall, were tied with black ribbon to symbol- ize the city and country's support and com- See ABROAD, Page 7A 'U' aids victims with money, blood By Maria Sprow Daily Staff Reporter A day after waking up to find the nation under attack by terrorists, members of the University community yesterday were no less stead- fast in their solidarity and support for a nation bruised but not broken. As a response to the Red Cross' plea for blood donors, a five-hour long drive at the Veteran Affairs Hospital on North Campus collected more than 180 units of blood, twice the average intake for a blood drive, organizers said. VA Hospital Associate Director Paul Scheel said that while the drive was a big success, donors are still needed. "We had folks from the University who came over, we had folks from the community who came over, we had people who had called the Red Cross who had rare blood types that were desperately needed so they referred them to us," Scheel said. "This was probably one of +h 1,-t hl-nnA Aidna uivs that thev've had across the nation since blood that some were even turned away. The University's chapter of Zeta Beta Tau lent its support by taking to the Diag with buckets, asking passers-by to donate whatever they could. "We drove out to the American Red Cross (to donate blood) and they gave us buckets and told us the one thing they needed more than blood was money," said ZBT President Ben Pomerantz. "There are a lot of guys in our house from New York, and everyone in our house has been affected." By mid-afternoon, ZBT members said they had collected nearly $1,500 in donations, and by evening, that figure had risen to $4,000. In English Prof. Ralph Williams' class, Williams said students' decisions to unite in the face of tragedy was apparent by the response to an e-mail he read aloud. The letter, sent to Williams by a former student, who is of Arab nationality, urged others to promote peace. "The class is to me. a wonderful group of students and fellow 1:' . ai , ..s,. Via.,.:: ..... , ... z tr : ... .._ ; ...,-.-.. , , .. . ; a' '";:,:.