2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 11, 2001 NATION/WORLD 4 3rd anthrax case detected in Fla. BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - A third person who worked at a Florida company has tested positive for anthrax and the case has become the subject of a fed- eral criminal investigation, authorities said yesterday. The 35-year-old woman, whose name wasn't dis- closed, was hospitalized after a swab of her nasal passages found traces of anthrax. She is being treat- ed with antibiotics and her condition was not imme- diately known. FBI agent Hector Pesquera said the anthrax conta- mination is limited to the Boca Raton headquarters of supermarket tabloid publisher American }Media. Anthrax killed a tabloid employee last week and found its way into the nose of mailroom co-worker. U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis said the investigation would focus on how the anthrax got into the building - and why. Public health officials stressed that there is no pub- lic health threat from the anthrax, but the case has heightened fears of a biological attack. The state- ment from Lewis was the most declarative from fed- eral authorities so far that the anthrax was the result of a criminal act. Pesquera said authorities had no evidence the anthrax was created by a terrorist group and cau- tioned that "this is not a time for premature conclu- sions and inaccurate reporting" Sun tabloid photo editor Robert Stevens died Fri- day of-inhaled anthrax, a rare and particularly lethal form of the disease. Co-worker Emesto Blanco has been in a Miami hospital since Monday after anthrax spores were found in his nose. He was in good con- dition. Health investigators shut down the American Media building after finding traces of anthrax on the computer keyboard used by Stevens. Pesquera said the, latest victim worked in the general area of the other victims. Florida health officials have said the bacteria in Stevens' blood responded to antibiotics, suggesting it was a naturally occurring strain rather than a labo- ratory-altered one.. A law enforcement official said on condition of anonymity that preliminary work on the anthrax that killed Stevens has found a possible match to a labo- ratory strain first isolated in Iowa. However, further tests are being done. Authorities said the latest victim was one of more than 1,000 people who have been tested by health officials for the presence of anthrax. Most have recently been inside the AMI building and most are still waiting for test results. Many were given sup- plies of antibiotics and told to come back for more tests later. U I O Can a bookworm sav the football game an win the heart of the team captain? OD NEWS!? The 1920s hitfootball musical Music and Lyrics by DeSylva, Brown and Henderson d featuring "Button Up Your Overcoat" and "The Varsity Drag" Directed by Mark Madama Choreography by Linda Goodrich Musical Direction by Valerie Gebert Oct. 11-13 at 8pm'- Oct. 14 at 2pm Mendelssohn Theatre 0 Tickets $20 & $15 - Students $7 w/ID League Ticket Office - 734-764-2538 UM School of Music Musical Theatre Dept.v M This Week in Michigan Athletics Presented by: / K.2Ameritech Men's and Women's Cross Country Sunday, October 14 Wolverine Interregional University of Michigan Golf Course Women's 5,000m race 10:30 a.m. Men's 8,000m race 11:15 a.m. Meet The Team Autograph Session Don't miss your chance to meet U-M's men's and women's cross country teams following the awards ceremony! Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for children and senior citizens. U-M students admitted for FREE. Men's Soccer Thursday, October 11 U-M vs. Bowling Green 7:30 p.m. Plymouth-Salem High School Don't miss your chance to win FREE t-shirts courtesy of Soccer Mania! Admission is FREE! Plymouth-Salem High School is located at the corner of Joy Road and Canton Center Road in Canton. U.S. able to use Pakistani, airbases The Washington Post Pakistan has significantly deepened1 its involvement in the U.S.-led air, campaign in neighboring Afghanistan by allowing American forces to begin1 using a pair of airfields, and a senior1 Pakistani military official said yester- day hundreds of troops have already moved in. As U.S. warplanes increasingly turned their fury on the Taliban leader- ship, American and Pakistani defense officials said President Pervez Mushar- raf had given permission for U.S. forces to begin operating from a com- merical airport in Baluchistan province and a small military airfield in Sindh province. These forces, the first American troops in Pakistan, will bolster an air campaign that yesterday waged the most concentrated attack so far on the Afghan capital Kabul. In the fourth day of air strikes, American aircraft also pounded the seat 6f Taliban leadership in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, in particular targeting underground bunkers that U.S. commanders hoped to demolish with 5,000-pound laser-guided bombs first used in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. "You use it when you want the earth to shake, when you want to have a real effect," a defense official said. The air assault also targeted troop garrisons and troop concentrations near Kabul and Kandahar. Military vehicles and maintenance shops were also attacked. Bush administration officials, mean- time, launched another front in their drive against terrorism, unveiling a list of the 22 Most Wanted Terrorists, including Saudi exile ,Osama bin Laden, accused in last month's terror- ist attacks, and other militants accused of involvement in previous assaults on U.S. embassies and military personnel. For the first time since Sept. 11, law enforcement officials publicly extend- ed their effort to include suspected ter- rorists beyond those implicated in the attacks on New York and Washington. Defense Department officials said that U.S. airplanes continued to drop food into Aghanistan but the adminis- tration acknowledged yesterday that the airdrops would do little to save about 1.5 million Afghans who are at risk of starvation by the end of winter. A Defense official also said the first American death during the rlitary campaign occurred Tuesday wh n a ser- viceman in Qatar, home to a base used by the U.S. Air Force, was killed in a forklift accident. A spokesman for U.S. Central Command confimed a casualty but declined to comment further. During the last month, the United States has pressed Pakistan to sever its longstanding ties with the Taliban militia that rules most of Afghanistan and provide support for a military campaign, for instance by offering intelligence and overlight rights. The Pakistani government, however, has resisted becoming too closely inter- twined in the military operations, fear- ing a backlash among influential officers in the security forces and Tal- iban sympathizers in the public. But Pakistani officials acknowl- edged yesterday they had crossed a threshold by allowing the United States to use the pair of air bases. More than 200 Americans had already arrived at each of the airfields, accord- ing to the senior Pakistani official. Officials in Pakistan said U.S. troops at the two airbases would be involved in providing emergency support and res- cue capabilities for other forces inside Afghanistan, though an American Defense Department official signaled that much more extensive operations CORDELL, Okla. Clean-up begins after tornadoes hit Emergency crews and residents began cleaning up yesterday after a oeries of tornadoes tore across the Plains, severely damaging more than 100 homes and leaving tons of debris. Five people, including an infant, were treated for injuries from flying glass and debris. Most of the damaged homes were in Cordell, a town of 3,000 in western Oklahoma, where a twister leveled houses, toppled power lines and tossed cars, like toys in its three-mile path through town Tuesday evening. Six tornadoes also caused damage in cen- tral Nebraska. About 300 houses - about a third of Cordell -- were still without power yesterday, as people returned home, ,Mayor Phil Kliewer said. Public schools were closed and residents were told to boil drinking waterin case sup- plies were contaminated. STOCKHOLM, Sweden Economics Nob els go to 3' Americans . Three Americans won the Nobel prize for economics yesterday for research into how the control of infor- mation influences everything from used car sales to the recent boom-and col- lapse in high-tech stocks. George Akerlof of the University of California at Berkeley, A. Michael Spence of Stanford University, and Joseph Stiglitz, of Columbia University NEWS IN BRIEF HEADLINES FROM4 AROUND THE WORLD SH REVEPORT, La. Flight diverted after possible terrorist threat A Delta airliner bound for California was diverted to Shreveport with an escort of two military planes yesterday after a passenger passed a threatening note to a flight attendant, the FBI said. Flight 357, with 148 people aboard from Atlanta to Los Angeles, land- ed safely after what the airline described as a "passenger incident." Edward A. Stephenson, of Venice, Calif., was arrested and charged with interfering with a flight crew member and attendants, FBI spokeswoman Sheila Thorne said. The passenger's note was in response to an announcement by the pilot that they would be taking a different flight path L.cause of bad weather, U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan said. "The passenger handed a note to the flight attendant that contained lan- guage that the pilot should not divert from the original flight path, and some other language which seemed bizarre," Flanagan said. "It didn't make a lot of sense, but at the same time it was alarming." The man did not make any physical threats, Flanagan said. The Boeing 757 reported a problem at 2:43 p.m. and landed 26 minutes later. WASHINGTON Democrats pick woman as minority whip California Rep. Nancy Pelosi won the race yesterday for the No. 2 House Demo- cratic leader and will become the top-ranking woman ever in Congress. Her elec- tion sparked debate over whether she will help or hinder her party. Pelosi, a liberal eight-term veteran from San Francisco, outpolled rival Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland by 118-95 in a closed-door, secret ballot vote. She will take the post of Democratic whip on Jan. 15 when Rep. David Bonior steps down from that job and concentrates on running for governor of Michigan. Both candidates claimed to be best positioned to lead their party back to the House majority it last held in 1994. Pelosi said she sought no votes on the basis of her gender, but clearly many of her colleagues felt it was time for a woman to enter the leadership circle. "This is difficult turf to win on for anyone, but for a woman breaking ground here it was a tough battle," Pelosi said after the vote. "We made history. Now we have to make progress." Pelosi's triumph brought praise from groups that traditionally support Democ- rats. will share the $943,000 award. So far, eight Americans have won Nobel prizes this year, one more than last year. The laureates laid the foun- dation in the 1970s for a general theo- ry about how players with differing amounts of information affect a wide range of markets. Research into "asymmetric informa- tion" gave economists a way to mea- sure the risks, for example, faced by a lender who lacked information about a borrower's creditworthiness. JUNEAU, Alaska Alaskans awarded cash from state Merchants braced for an annual shopping spree to rival Christmas as about 400,000 Alaskans awoke yesterday flush with cash. The Alaska Permanent Fund distrib- uted dividends from the state's oil rev- enue savings, account into the bank accounts of eligible Alaskans - 406,682 people got $1,850.28 each - injecting more than $752 million into consumer accounts in a single day. Dividends are paid to every man, woman or child who has lived in the state for at least a year. Other eligible residents will begin receiving checks after next week: This year, the fund will disburse $1.09 billion to an estimated 590,423 Alaskans. The dividends - equaling about 11 percent of Alaskans' annual wages - have become an impor- tant ingredient in the state's econo- my. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. For more info. on Michigan Athletics visit MGoBlue.com. A I The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $105. Winter term (January through April) is $110, yearlong (September through April) is $190. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. 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