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President says U.S. forces
can now fly unchallenged over
Afghanistan after third strike
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States
hit Afghanistan with a third day of airstrikes,
crushing Taliban air defenses, radars and airports
to the extent that American warplanes can fly
virtually unchallenged night and day, the Penta-
gon said yesterday. "The skies are now free,"
President Bush said.
The administration pushed for the surrender of
Americans
feel less
safe after
attacks
By Maria Sprow
Daily Staff Reporter

Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and the
ouster of the Taliban regime that shelters him.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld urged
Afghan dissidents to "heave the Al-Qaida and
the Taliban leadership ... out of the country."
This morning, jets dropped three bombs near
the airport in the southern city of Kandahar in
the second straight morning of daylight raids,
Taliban sources said.
In a home-front scolding, Bush accused Con-
gress of leaking information about the global
investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in
New York and Washington.

"You have a responsibility, and some members
did not accept that responsibility," Bush said. He
warned lawmakers not to talk about troop
deployments, either.
In the skies over Afghanistan, U.S. bombs
streaked day and night toward sites connected
with the ruling Taliban. Sources inside the Tal-
iban said bombs struck around Kandahar, the
militia's headquarters, and the northwest city of
Herat. Anti-aircraft fire and the roar of jets rattled
the capital, Kabul.
Four security workers for a United Nations-
affiliated mine-clearing operation were killed

during Monday night's strikes. Rumsfeld said it
wasn't clear whether U.S. bombs or Taliban anti-
aircraft fire killed the men.
In an appeal to the United States, U.N. spokes-
woman Stephanie Bunker said: "People need to
distinguish between combatants and those inno-
cent civilians who do not bear arms."
Bush was unapologetic: "There is one way to
shorten the campaign in Afghanistan and that is
for Osama bin Laden and his leadership to be
turned over so he can be brought to justice."
Four weeks after terrorist attacks killed more
than 5,000 and staggered the U.S. economy,

free
Americans were still on edge.
The FBI pressed its anthrax investigation in
Florida, convinced that foul play rather than
environmental sources infected one man and
exposed a co-worker. Bush called the death an
isolated incident. "We're on high alert on the
governmental level, but the American people
should go about their business," he said.
Rumsfeld declined to identify the targets of
yesterday's assaults, but said meager Taliban
defenses were in shambles. Bush called the mis-.
sion a success so far. "We believe we are now
See ATTACKS, Page 7

Al- Qaida
promises
'storm of
airplanes'
Los Angeles Times

Nearly half of all Americans feel
more insecure and unsafe after last
month's attacks on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon and the
country's declaration of war on terror-
ism, according to a University survey
released yesterday.
Results from "How America
Responds," a study conducted by the
University's Institute for Social
Research, show that 51 percent of
Americans said their sense of person-
al safety was shaken only a little or
not at all following the attacks.
The 49 percent of Americans who
said they felt their personal safety had
been threatened were also more pes-
simistic about the future economy, the
study discovered, and have less favor-
able buying attitudes. However, overall,
almost half of Americans said that now
is a good time to invest in the stock mar-
ket, and only 9 percent said it would be
a good idea to withdraw investments.
Communications Prof. Michael
Traugott, an expert on polling, said
the split divisions between how peo-
ple are feeling about the attacks
should be expected.
"There are a lot of factors that go
into this, one of which has to be prox-
imity and place of reference," Trau-
gott said. "I believe that there is both
a generalized concern and a situation-
al concern."
The survey showed that one cause
of con ern is the unemployment rate;
the 668 people surveyed predicted the
rate would rise to about 6 percent in
the next year.
University economist Richard
Curtin, who directs ISR's consumer
surveys, said consumers are usually
accurate when predicting future
unemployment rates.
"On average, consumers have
anticipated changes in the unemploy-
ment rate three quarters in advance of
the actual change," Curtin said.
According to the survey, other side
See SURVEY, Page 7
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WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida organi-
zation pledged defiantly yesterday that a "storm of air-
planes" will continue to attack American targets until the
United States ends its "crusade" against Afghanistan and
,r Islam.
In a menacing video message addressed to the entire
Islamic world, al-Qaida spokesman Sleiman abu Gheith
called on Muslims in more than 50 nations to "uphold their
religion" by attacking U.S. interests worldwide.
"The Americans must know that the storm of airplanes
will not stop and there are thous'ands of young people who
look forward to death, like the Americans look forward to
°living," he said in the taped message aired on Al Jazeera,
r , the Arab world's version of CNN, broadcast from Qatar.
"America must know that the battle will not leave its land
~ "~ "'~'until America leaves our land, until it stops supporting
P P TnIsrael, until it stops the blockage against Iraq," abu Gheith
Ammunition for a F-14 is seen next to the plane on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in the northern Indian Ocean yesterday. said.
The USS Enterprise is one of the many ships involved in the attacks on Afghanistan. See AL-QAIDA, Page 7
Presidential search likely to be less public

By Elizabeth Kassab
Daily Staff Reporter
The University Board of Regents will attempt to
tread a fine line as it seeks a replacement for
departing University President Lee Bollinger:
keep candidates out of the public spotlight as long
as possible while complying with state guidelines.
Columbia University's status as a private institu-
tion allowed it to keep its presidential search confi-
dential, but public institutions in the state of
Michigan have had to make their searches accessi-
ble to the public in the recent past. Some say this.
condition marginalized the search process and
compromised the position of the University's
Board of Regents in the last two presidential
searches.
But a 1999 Michigan Supreme Court ruling and
subsequent amendments to the Open Meetings

Act have changed the picture, and the search for
the University's 13th president will not have to be
conducted publicly until the regents are close to
making the final selection.
"It essentially allows university presidential
searches to be private," said Sen. John Schwarz
(R-Battle Creek),
The degree to which it will be open is yet to be
determined.
"That's for the regents to decide," said Phil
Power, who was on the Board of Regents during
the-last presidential search. "It should make it a lot
easier for them to get the job done."
Regent S. Martin Taylor (D-Grosse Pointe
Farms) said the eight-member board has not
reached a decision on how the search will be con-
ducted.
"We will certainly consult with attorneys and
structure a process that is consistent with the law,

Taylor said..
The regents have not yet selected an interim
president andhave made no decision regarding
when an interim president might take over the
presidency from Bollinger. Ideally, Taylor said, the
interim president and Bollinger would come to a
mutually agreeable date, with the regents playing a
mediating role.
"Our first look will be clearly within the Univer-
sity community because certainly one of your
desired characteristics of an interim is that they
could walk into the office and take off running,"
Taylor said. The University's top academic tiers -
deans and executive officers - are already
acquainted with the University's affairs and could
fill the position.
Bollinger, who was selected last week as
Columbia's next president, will take over for retir-
ing chief executive George Rupp on July 1.

Former Regent Deane Baker of Ann Arbor
would not speculate on how the current board may
choose to structure the new search process.
"The process varies with the times," Baker said.
"I know that the search process will be markedly
different from the last time."
The last presidential search differed from previ-
ous searches because the University was under
court order to make the process more accessible to
the public.
Lawsuits by The Detroit News, the Detroit Free
Press and The Ann Arbor News' parent company
Booth Newspapers challenged the legality of the
mostly confidential 1988 presidential search, and
the University was ordered to conduct a more pub-
lic search.
Consequently, in 1996 the regents were forbid-
den to speak to each other confidentially about the
See SEARCH, Page 7

Up in the air

Ballot to ask for student fee hike

MSA also takes stand in support of
US. actions, despite someo01pposition

By Kara Wenzel
Daily Staff Reporter

The Michigan Student Assembly last
night passed resolutions to add a question
to its November election ballot asking for
a $1 increase in mandatory student fees
and to affirm the assembly's support of the
U.S. government's response to the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks on New York and Wash-
ington.
The fee increase would go toward
increased student group funding. The
MSA student fee is currently $5.69, and it
is charged as a part of every student's
tuition.
"Student group applications for funding
have tripled this year, but our budget has
remained the same," said MSA Treasurer
Josh Samek.

The MSA Code reserves at least 57 per-
cent of that $1 for two student group fund-
ing committees. The rest of the money is
also meant to fund student activities and
groups, but it could be appropriated to stu-
dents however representatives find neces-
sary. +
The resolution in support of the U.S.
government's military action in.
Afghanistan passed, 16-6 with 3 absten-
tions, even though some representatives
vehemently opposed considering the reso-
lution so quickly.
"I feel we did a disservice to our con-
stituents. All we wanted was time to ask
people what they think," Public Health
Rep. Ken Stewart said.
A resolution is usually presented for the
first time in an MSA agenda as new busi-
ness, and is debated and voted on the fol-

posed government support resolution
immediately.
"It makes me physically ill to hear peo-
ple say they think everyone at Michigan is
against this war," said MSA Vice President
Jessica Cash. "What we are doing is
important."
Many representatives were unaware of
the resolution until a half hour before the
meeting because the steering committee,
which normally accepts business for the
assembly on Sundays, did not meet until
less than two hours before last night's
meeting of the full assembly.
"The sponsors of the resolution kept it
under the table until half an hour before
the meeting," said Rackham Rep. Jessica
Curtin.
"The Defend Affirmative Action Party
representatives voted against this resolu-
tion. DAAP is against the war."
Cash said the steering committee did not
produce an agenda until last night because
there was not a quorum present during
previous attempts.
"I e-mailed the entire assembly today

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