The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 20, 2001 - 7A Bush and Congres The Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - The White House and Congress, seeking to repair economic damage from last week's terrorist attacks and head off recession, are preparing an emergency package of more than $100 billion worth of tax cuts and spending increases that could match those of the early Vietnam War buildup, according to key congressional staffers and independent budget analysts. Although key proposals could be scaled backed during the usual political infighting of the legislative process, senior congressional budget staffers estimate that new tax cuts and spending programs could end up totaling from $115 billion to more than S180 billion next fis- cal year alone, and amount to almost 2 percent of the nation's gross domestic product. If lawmakers and the Bush administration prepare ultimately embrace the most expensive propos- als under discussion, the result would be to wipe out all of the $170 billion to $180 billion surplus Washington expected to collect in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, including amounts for Social Security and Medicare. While details of the rescue plans are still being formulated, the sudden emergence of new tax and spending plans this large reflects the view of many lawmakers - and econo- emergency aid bill mists - that Washington must do almost any- G. William Hoagland, Republican staff director thing it can to keep the economy from sinking. of the Senate Budget Committee and a respect- President Bush seemed to agree. "Our econ- ed budget veteran. omy has slowed way down, and this is an emer- "The objective is to restore economic growth gency'" he told reporters yesterday. "I'm going by restoring Americans' confidence, their to work with Congress to send a clear message sense of security," Hoagland said. "It's going to to America.... This government will respond to take a lot of money to do that." this emergency." Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan The estimates of the scope of the spending sought to pour cold water on Congress' most and tax-cut package taking shape came from ambitious plans yesterday. Takeoff delay allowed news to reach flight Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - A flight delay in Newark, N.J., may have helped save lives on the ground - and landmarks in the nation's capital - during last week's terrorist attacks. One of four planes hijacked by knife-wielding men - the one that crashed in the Pennsylvania countryside - took off about 40 minutes late, airline officials and aviation sources confirm. This delay is now believed to have helped passengers on United Air Lines Flight 93 to San Francisco learn - via calls from cell and air phones - of planes being crashed into the World Trade Center. Passengers, according to relatives who talked to them by phone, then rose up to prevent their jet from being flown into a target in Washington, as the hiiackers apparently had olanned Instead, the Boeing 757 went down in a desolate spot in West- AP PHOTO em Pennsylvania. No one on the ground was killed, but all 44 y. aboard perished. n. "The delay probably had a crucial effect on the outcome of that flight," said Alice Hoglan, whose son, Mark Bingham, ) n called her in Northern California from aboard the plane. Other family members have confirmed that passengers got word of the disaster at the World Trade Center. Bingham, a rugby player, is believed to have been among f the passengers who tried to take Flight 93 back from the hijackers. According to several accounts from family mem- bers, the passengers apparently rushed a hijacker who claimed etary of to have a bomb. said his According to the OAG FlightGuide, the scheduling bible effort to for the industry, Flight 93 was supposed to leave at 8 a.m. ree for- from Newark for its six-hour, 14-minute flight to San Francis- istan, a co. A chronology released by the Pentagon last Friday night shows that it took off at 8:42 a.m.. pen the "It probably made all the difference in the world to be able one or to have 42 (extra) minutes to get the news," added Hoglan, i States who lives in Saratoga, Calif. den and Joseph Tabacco, a San Francisco lawyer whose partner uspects Alan Beaven was killed on the plane, agreed. But he said there and at was something else, even more significant. The passengers aboard were daring enough to risk all by acting on the infor- a state- mation received. "You had an unusual collection of passengers Ivanov with leadership personalities on that plane," he said. for even Flight 93 was the last of the four hijacked planes'to take military flight. Four minutes after United Flight 93 took off, American Airlines Flight I1 hit the World Trade Center. PROBE Continued from Page 1A tors as they race to hunt down suspect- ed conspirators in the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center and Penta- gon, which are believed to have killed nearly 6,000 people, In other developments yesterday: Investigators now believe accom- plices of the hijackers may have attempted to confuse air traffic con- trollers by making a series of false bomb threats against airliners on the morning of Sept. 11, sources close to the case said. New information from law enforcement officials indicates that at least 44 of the people the FBI has sought for questioning in the probe are trained pilots. One of them, a man iden- tified as Ayub Ali Khan, was arrested as a material witness in the case after being detained in Texas. He was carrying box- cutter knives like those believed used in some of the four hijackings. Other suspects include a native of Yemen who investigators believe may also have been involved in the bombing of the USS Cole, and two men - both in Jordanian custody - who were arrested in connection with the millen- nium bombings plot. Both events have been linked by U.S. intelligence officials to Saudi militant Osama bin Laden. Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.), chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, again warned that "there is evidence that the Sept. I1 attack was the first phase of a multiphase series of ter- rorist assaults against the United States, all under one umbrella plan." Secretary of State Colin Powell after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov yesterday Ivanov said Russia would not object to including former Soviet republics in any military campaign Russia suggests conventic to combat acts of terr-orisi WASHINGTON (AP) - Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov suggested yesterday an international convention to counter terrorism.; "The problem of world terrorism cannot be solved by one-time actions," Ivanov said in a speech. "It cannot be solved with five warplanes, with 10 warplanes." He said terrorism is an international problem that arises in the Balkans, the Middle East, Afghanistan, Chechnya. It must be addressed on a global scale, probably through the United1 Nations, he said.i But Ivanov clearly supported the United States in1 its determination to strike back for last week's attacks in New York and Washington. "The evil will be punished. All Russia is with you," he said at a+ dinner sponsored by the Nixon Center and the1 Moscow International Petroleum Club.1 HILL Continued from Page IA P al est in the musical society and music at Michigan," Dobson said. aid "What Elizabeth Kennedy is essen- tially saying," said Fischer, "is 'I grew up in this town, I love this town, and as The Washing I'm in the twilight of my life, I want people to be able to enjoy that place ISLAM more."' nation who For the School of Music, the new suspected1 lobby will mean a place to have spe- television, cial events related to its concerts, as sition to hi well as to provide a green room for failing to c performers, said Karen Wolff, dean of "Pakist the School of Music. Musharraf "In addition, we hope we will be back a U.S able to place items from the Stearns alleged ma Collection of musical instruments in and Wash cases in the lobby," Wolff said. Musharraf Hill Auditorium is one of the only Mushar performance halls of its kind where space to 1 patrons cannot even get a cup of cof- about Afg fee, Fischer said. logistics t "She's adding some patron ameni- operations ties that'have been grossly inadequate all goodso at Hill for years," said Fisher. Afghanista "The University is just deeply grate- Thosed ful because this is a project that we nuclear-art didn't know if it would happen and this gift truly make the space possi- ble," said Mathwon Howard, associate regional director of major and planned Continued gifts and the development officer Thatcher working with the Kennedy Fund. "It's addressed+ just going to be an awesome experi- facing the ence for the patrons." Congre ing proce issues and TUITION wrsa were am Continued from Page 1A brought t back their tuition increases, he is not ways stud opposed to making the rebates avail- bers can to able solely to in-state students. comment "If that's what it takes to get it patience a through, quite frankly, I would sup- "We h port that" he said. out to Ar Glenn Stevens, executive director of and say thI the Presidents Council of the State not the p Universities of Michigan, which gath- for relie ered the executives and student body preach pa presidents of Michigan's 15 public Axelrod s universities to sign a letter asking for He add a repeal, said it is important to note sentatives that the bill permanently repeals the stituent c tax cut, meaning that colleges and and comm .sr..nri~nc .in a -oliilflna r. A m / l oanar(-e i In a meeting earlier yesterday with Secr State Cohin Powell, the Russian minister government would not object to any U.S.c seek anti-terrorism cooperation from the th mer Soviet republics that border Afghan senior State Department official said. The commitment potentially could o way for U.S. military cooperation with more of the three countries as the Unite seeks ways to,track down Osama bin La( his allies in Afghanistan. They are prime s in last week's terror attacks in New York the Pentagon. Ivanov's reported comments followed ment by Russian Defense Minister Sergei on Sunday that he did not see "any basis f the hypothetical possibility" of a NATOr presence in Central Asia. kistan divided over decision to lin attacks against Afghanistan gton Post ABAD, Pakistan - The president of Pakistan, a ose support is critical to any U.S. effort to strike at. terrorist targets in Afghanistan, went on national last night to quell increasingly vocal domestic oppo- is decision to assist the United States, saying that cooperate would turn this country into a pariah state. an is facing a very critical time," Gen. Pervez f said in a somber address. If the country does not S.-led campaign to go after Osama bin Laden, the istermind of last week's terror attacks in New York ington, Pakistan risked "very grave consequences," f said. raf has agreed to U.S. requests to open Pakistani air- U.S. military aircraft, share military intelligence hanistan and provide access to military facilities for eams and special-forces units involved in possible in Afghanistan. He also has agreed to try to prevent other than food from being shipped into landlocked an, which shares a 1,500-mile border with Pakistan. decisions have been highly controversial in this *med nation of 140 million people. Many devout Muslims in Pakistan contend that their country has an obliga- tion to defend Afghanistan, whose leaders have been harboring bin Laden, because they are fellow Muslims. Islamic groups in Pakistan have staged protests during the past few days, threat- ening to wage a holy war against Musharraf's government and the United States if targets in Afghanistan be attacked. Hours before Musharraf made his case to Pakistanis, a council of senior Islamic clerics took up the question of whether Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia should surrender bin Laden in the hope of avoiding a U.S. attack. Taliban leader Mohammed Omar called on the council to decide bin Laden's fate after he held talks with Pakistani officials on Monday, but the 1,000 clerics took two days to gather in Kandahar and, and after a day of deliberations, said no decision will be handed down until today. In his speech tonight, Musharraf insisted that his backing for anti-terrorism efforts do not violate tenets of Islam, noting that most Islamic nations already have endorsed a U.N. resolu- tion calling for bin Laden to be apprehended. Faced with choosing between possible domestic upheaval and internation- al isolation, the Pakistani leader argued that opposing efforts to target bin Laden and Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia could "endanger our very existence." EL d from Page1A discussed U.S. policy and different angles of the issues United States. ss' role in the decision-mak- ess, international security d racial and ethnic profiling nong some of the topics o the forefront, as was the dents and community mem- ake action. The panelists also ed on the need to encourage and to avoid hatred. ere in Ann Arbor can reach ab-Americans and Muslims hat we understand that they're roblem, we can raise money f, and we can continue to atience and stay informed," aid. led that senators and repre- s will be listening for con- omments and that students munity members should write to snet their ideas ass. going to be paying a lot of attention to what you say. That really does matter and I think that it stands a chance of affecting what we do," Axelrod said. He and others said it will also be important to watch civil liberties as the situation continues, because in the rush of general panic and fear that is sweeping the nation people sometimes seek control by limiting the rights of a specific group of people. "Talk with an Arab-American who has flown this week and imagine how much worse it could get if we continue ethnic profiling," Thatcher said, addressing the fact that Arab-Ameri- cans are under careful watch. "There is an alternative to heightened scrutiny of Arab-Americans - it's heightened scrutiny across the board" Anmar Mufleh drove up from Tole- do today to see what type of dialogue the University was engaging in. "I'm an Arab-American and I was interested to see what the University community was dealing with and what tves of solutions they were consider- flict against Arab-Americans," he said. "There have been attacks in Ohio and in Michigan on people that fit the racial profiles of Arab Americans, and people are in fear of their safety;' he said. "In the media and the academy I feel like they still have yet to reach the root cause of the problem. We have to look at what would make people go against the will to live." Kinesiology sophomore Mark Majewski attended the discussion as part of his sociology class and to hear the different perspectives the profes- sors had to offer. "I wanted to learn what I could to understand more of what's gong on and what's going to become of this," Majewski said. Lieberthal said that from now on how the U.S. governs itself will be a more central issue as some of what the nation has taken for granted will be challenged. "Terrorism took this image of an invulnerable U.S. and burst it in one day in a way that any army couldn't do in six months,' he said. "This burst a myth and in that sense we have a long- un