2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 18, 2001 NATION/WORLD 4 Bush visits mosque, urges tolerance WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush visited a mosque and bought coffee for a cafeteria full of aides yes- terday as he appealed to Americans to get back to everyday business and not turn against their Muslim neighbors. In his socks, as is Muslim practice, Bush padded through the ornate mosque on Washington's Embassy Row and heard stories from his hosts about Muslim-American women afraid to leave their homes for fear of prejudiced backlash after last week's terrorist strikes. "Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens to take out their anger don't represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior," Bush said, his back to the brilliantly tiled prayer alcove facing Mecca. He quoted from the Quran and fer- vently defended the Islam faith: "Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace, they represent evil and war." The Federal Bureau of Investigation has, since last Tuesday's suicide bombings, opened 40 hate crime investigations into reported attacks on Arab-Americans, including two killings possibly motivated by anti- Arab sentiment, said FBI Director Robert Mueller. Bush's hourlong visit to the gated Islamic Center of Washington was but one stop on a crowded day when the president juggled war planning with an attempt to guide stricken Ameri- cans back into their daily routines. The White House, meanwhile, announced an extraordinary lineup of foreign leaders coming to Washington to meet with Bush as he builds an international coalition for war. French President Jacques Chirac will be at the White House today, Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri tomorrow, British Prime Minister 'Tony Blair on Thursday, and Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al- Thani of Qatar on Oct. 4. Huddling with his top domestic pol- icy and economic advisers, Bush ordered up "a comprehensive pack- age" to aid the airlines, said spokes- woman Claire Buchan. She declined to comment on the industry's request for a S20 billion federal bailout. Air- lines are laying off thousands of work- ers, having lost SI billion already in the wake of last week's tragedy. Bush began his day at a White House cafeteria, where he announced the coffee was his treat and then ordered a cup for himself with milk and sugar-free sweetener. "We're set- ting a good example. We're showing we will not be intimidated," he told the government workers. Across the Potomac River, Pentagon officials briefed Bush on call-up ordersdfor35,000 reservists. At least four dozen of them - men and women being mobilized against an enemy yet uncertain -- lined the Eisenhower corridor and applauded their commander in chief. While Vice President Dick Cheney made an impromptu walk outside to the charred ruins of the Pentagon's southwest face, Bush headed down- stairs to the Pentagon cafeteria looking as if he wanted to shake every hand he could reach. A woman began softly singing "God Bless America" and soon, everyone in the crowd, including the president, joined their voices to hers. At the end of one corridor, a preg- nant woman held a photo of her hus- band, one of the 188 people killed on the Pentagon's west side. Bush paused to speak with her, rubbed her back a little and gave her a peck on the cheek. NEWS IN BRIEF, NEDLwE FOMARUND THE VR GENEVA Agreement made to let China into WTO Negotiators agreed yesterday to terms allowing China to join the World Trade Organization, hailing the agreement as a signal of confidence in a global econo- my battered by terrorism in the United States and fears of recession. Concluding 15 years of often acrimonious talks, Chinese negotiator Long Yongtu said Chinese accession to the powerful trade club would be an "all-win situation" unleashing the huge purchasing power of 1.2 billion Chinese and lead- ing to a vast open market. U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick also praised the agreement. "Today's decision ... will strengthen the global economy," he said in a state- ment issued in Washington. "China has made a firm commitment to the rest of the world to open its mar- kets and adhere to international, market-based rules, which will help American workers, consumers, farmers and exporters," he said. A deal was reached in the early hours of Saturday at an "informal" meeting of the 142-nation body. The agreement was rubber-stamped yesterday afternoon at a formal session of the team handling China at WTO's headquarters in Geneva. It is due to be adopted at a meeting of trade ministers scheduled for Qatar in November. WASHINGTON Bush EPA nominee withdraws name President Bush's nominee to head enforcement at the Environment Protection Agency withdrew his name yesterday after encountering Senate opposition over his roles in opposing some air cleanup measures as Ohio's top environmental officer. "It is clear to me ... that my nomination will not be considered by the U.S. Sen- ate in a timely manner," Donald Schregardus said in a letter yesterday to Bush. Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee, had promised to spend months scrutinizing Schregardus' record as head of Ohio's EPA before allowing a Senate vote on the nomination. Schregardus said in his letter to Bush that he remains proud of his record, which included 17 years with the federal EPA and eight years as director of the Ohio's EPA. White House spokeswoman Anne Womack said yesterday that Schregardus had not been asked by the administration to withdraw his name. "We continue to believe that Donald Schregardus would have made an excel- lent enforcement chief at EPA," Womack said. IMF cancels Washington meeting The Washington Post WASHINGTON - The World Bank and the Inter- national Monetary Fund (IMF) canceled their upcoming annual meetings in downtown Washington yesterday in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. . In a joint statement issued yesterday, World Bank President James Wolfensohn and IMF Managing Director Horst Kohler said the decision to not hold the meetings Sept. 29-30 came after consultation with federal officials and the governments that make up their members. "This decision was taken out of deepest respect and sympathy for the families of all those touched by the horrific events of last Tuesday, and in order to dedicate law enforcement personnel fully to the extraordinary and immediate priorities at hand," the statement read. No alternative arrangements have been made about when and how to conduct the business of the meetings. City and police officials had taken extraordinary security precautions to ready Washington for the expected large-scale demonstrations. A S29 million plan, part of which was to have been paid for by the federal government, had been prepared as tens of thousands of demonstrators were anticipated to fill the streets to protest World Bank and IMF policies in conjunction with the sessions. Demonstrators with the anti-globalization move- ment had also been gearing up for the meetings, with close to two dozen activist groups organizing marches, rallies and other events for the last week of September. Most groups have announced that they will not be holding street protests in light of the attacks, though some of the educational teach-ins will go on. The Mobilization for Global Justice, one of the main Washington-based activist coalitions, announced Sunday that they were canceling their demonstration plans, joining the AFL-CIO and other groups that have pulled out. The International Action Center, which had issued a call for thousands to surround the White House on Sept. 29, changed its plans and is now organizing an anti-war rally instead. BELFAST, Northern Ireland Hume surrenders post in N. Ireland John Hume, Nobel Peace Prize win- ner and the intellectual architect of the pe.ace process in Northern Ireland, announced his resignation yesterday as leader of the major moderate Catholic party after 22 years in charge. Hume said he would surrender the helm of the Social. Democratic and Labor Party - which holds the most Catholic posts in Northern Ireland's foundering unity government - at the party conference in November. He cited ill health as the only reason why he was leaving with key parts of the 3-year-old Good Friday peace accord still in doubt. But analysts pointed to his party's growing challenge from Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army-linked party Hume worked hard to involve in peace-z making efforts. In June elections, Sinn Fein outpolled the moderate SDLP among Catholic voters for the first time. NAZRAN, Russia Violence in Chechnya is worst in months Rebels in breakaway Chechnya shot down a Russian helicopter yesterday, killing two generals and eight colonels, and attacked the republic's second- biggest city in the largest rebel assault in months. The officers were members of a gen- eral staff team on an inspection trip to the rebel region, the Russian military commander in Chechnya, Col. Gen. Valery Baranov, said on Russia's state RTR television. Rebels fired a portable surface-to-air missile at the Mi-8 helicopter after it took off from the Chechen capital Grozny, killing the 10 officers and three crew members, Baranov said. Also yesterday, rebels attacked Russian outposts on the outskirts of Gudermes,.Chechnya's second-largest city, where many officials in the region's Kremlin-appointed adminis- tration are based. TAIPEI, Taiwan 23 die in mudslides from tropical storm Tropical storm Nari tore through northern Taiwan yesterday, killing 23 people in mudslides and flash floods that swallowed up homes and main streets in the capital. On some Taipei streets, only the tops of cars could be seen in what looked like streams of chocolate milk. Rivers of rainfall came roaring down mountains, swamping many homes in the suburbs. Several people drowned in their sleep. In eastern Taipei, truck driver Chen Wen-lin was trying to deliver food to his two brothers who were trapped on the second floor of thefamily's deliv- ery company. 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