2A - The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 12,,2001 NATION/WORLD 4 One anthrax victim returns to work BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - One of the three supermarket tabloid employees who were exposed to anthrax returned to work yesterday while investigators awaited test results that might help them find the source of the bacteria that killed one of her co-workers. The 35-year-old woman "is back at work and taking her medication," said Gerald McKelvey, a spokesman for tabloid publisher American Media. The employee, identified by police as Stephanie Dailey, tested positive for anthrax after a nasal swab test. Police Sgt. Tom McCabe said the woman planned to speak to reporters later yesterday. "I'm sure she's freaked out," he said. The case has prompted fear in south Florida and raised concerns across the country about a biological attack using anthrax. Authorities say the contamina- tion is limited to the American Media building in Boca Raton and that there is no evidence of terrorism. Federal authorities have begun a criminal inves- tigation. Bob Stevens, a 63-year-old photo edi- tor for the Sun tabloid, died Friday of inhaled anthrax, an especially rare form of the disease. Traces of anthrax were later found in the nasal passages of mailroom employee, Ernesto Blanco, 73, and on Stevens' computer keyboard. The three-story, 66,000-square-foot American Media building has been closed for 30 days and hundreds of employees are awaiting test results to see if they've been exposed. Also waiting is the FBI. Bags of evi- dence from the building have been sent to federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory in Atlanta for tests. Dailey's neighbors said the case has made them more aware of their vulnera- bility. "Everything that's happened so far in the last month is hitting closer and clos- er to me, and now it's right across the street," said Jason Tengbergen, who lives three doors away from Dailey. NEWS IN BRIEF HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE WORLD NEW YORK... Markets recover from September losses Boosted by some healthier-than-expected earnings reports, Wall Street surged higher yesterday, carrying the Dow Jones industrials and other market indexes to levels last seen before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The Dow's close left it just 195 points below its close of Sept. 10; the blue chips have now recovered 85 percent of the 1,369 points they lost after the attacks. The Nasdaq composite and Standard & Poor's 500 indexes finished just above their closes of a month ago. Analysts again cautioned that the advance, which followed another spurt high- er Wednesday, should not be read as a fundamental market recovery or a sign that investors are no longer worried about fallout frc,.' the terrorist attacks or U.S. retaliation. "I think the market is still going to be pretty reactive to both good and bad news," said Matt, Brown, head of equity management at Wilmington Trust. "If there were further developments domestically on the terrorism front, that would be very negative for the market." The Dow closed yesterday up 169.59 at 9,410.45, extending a 188-point rally from Wednesday. The Nasdaq shot up 75.21 at 1,701.47, also making back all of 272 of the points it lost. I I Green wins New York mayoral runoff NEW YORK (AP) - Mark Green defeated Fer- nando Ferrer in the Democratic runoff for mayor yesterday, held exactly one month after the World Trade Center tragedy that transformed both the city and the campaign. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Green, the city's public advocate, had 418,824 votes, or 52 percent, to Ferrer's 389,263 votes, or 48 per- cent. Ferrer, the Bronx borough president, had been seeking to become the city's first Hispanic mayor. Green will face Republican Michael Bloomberg in next month's general election to determine who will succeed popular Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and guide the nation's largest city, which is largely Democratic, through its biggest crisis. "The final question for the verdict of voters is who's the strong independent Democrat to lead the New York comeback, to bring us together, keep jobs here and educate our kids," Green said after voting. Said Ferrer: "I'll rebuild our city and revitalize our economy, but I won't abandon our commit- ment to improving education, expanding after- school programs, strengthening police-community relations and making health care and affordable housing more accessible." Before Sept. 11, the candidates concentrated on education, affordable housing and keeping crime low. But since the attack, the top question has become who will be strong enough to lead New York through the rebuilding. The candidates suspended campaigning imme- diately after the attacks and often found them- selves-in Giuliani's shadow when the contest resumed. Yesterday was the city's third round of mayoral balloting in a month. The first primary was on Sept. 11, but was suspended after the terrorist attacks. In the rescheduled primary two weeks -later, none of the Democratic candidates received the necessary 40 percent of the vote, setting up New York's first runoff in 24 years. Turnout was light yesterday, said Naomi Bern- stein, spokeswoman for the Board of Elections. Robin Aufses, a 51-year-old school administra- tor, said she voted for Green but wasn't sure he was equipped to handle the crisis. "I hope so," she said, "but what one person could?" Giuliani, a two-term Republican who must step down after Dec. 31 because of term limits, has been lauded for his leadership after the attack. He flirted with the idea of somehow trying to stay in office and won support from Green and Bloomberg for a three-month extension. Ferrer rejected the idea and the mayor eventually backed off. Ferrer, 51, advanced to the runoff with support from Hispanics, blacks and members of the health-care and municipal employee unions. Green, 56, was the Democratic front-runner for much of the summer. He spent the last several days seeking support in the black community while trying to energize white voters, his base. The race had turned nasty recently. A Green TV advertisement questioned Ferrer's leadership skills and suggested he would "divide our city." Ferrer -who had emphasized reaching out to the "other New York" of minorities left behind by the Giu- liani administration - fired back with an ad accusing Green of breaking his pledge against negative campaigning. JERUSALEM Militant killed while planting roadside bomb A Palestinian militant from the Hamas group blew himself up while trying to plant a bomb along a road used frequently by Israelis in the West Bank, Israel said yesterday. Hamas said he died under "heroic" circumstances. Meanwhile, a top Palestinian official linked the Palestinian fight against Israel to terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden for the first time. Though casualties have been low on both sides of the Mideast conflict in recent days, Israel says the Palestinians have failed to arrest militants and meet other commitments under a truce reached three weeks ago. Israel has been "compelled to deal with Palestinian terrorism directly and use all means at its disposal in order to foil planned attacks," a government statement said. In the latest incident, the dismembered body of 22-year-old Hamas activist Hani Rawajbeh was found early yesterday near a road used by Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers. A soldier was slightly wounded Wednesday in a bomb explosion on the road. Hamas said in a statement that Rawajbeh died while carrying out a "heroic operation," but did not give details. Hamas has planted numerous roadside bombs in the past year of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. I Mass killing of 241 n Colombian village tied to paramilitary group The University of Michigan Department of Dermatology is currently offering a new investigational treatment for Psoriasis. For more information, please call: (734) 764-DERM Office visits and mediction are prtvided free of charge to el/gble participants. Ifyou are 18 years of age or older you nmay laceliijble. The Washington Post ALASKA, Colombia - What may be the largest mass killing this year in Colombia began when a squad of uni- formed troops of the right-wing paramilitary group United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia entered this one-street vil- lage just after lunchtime on Wednesday afternoon, witnesses said yesterday. The mass execution that followed wasn't as methodical as previous massacres committed by the group, known by its Spanish initials AUC. There were no lists of names or fright- ened informants pointing out supposed guerrilla collaborators. from lines of friends and neighbors. "Indiscriminant," was the word most survivors used to describe the hours-long killing spree. That would seem an accurate portrayal except for the fact that the 24 bodies were found in two carefully sorted groups by the turquoise-painted kindergarten building - young victims in one, old victims in the other. Among them were three minors and a Christian evangelist who was deaf and dumb. The AUC fights Colombia's leftist guerrillas on the same side as the army. Wednesday's killings were a typical paramili- tary strike against civilians in a key transportation corridor used by leftist guerrillas - except for the death toll, which compares to only two other AUC massacres this year that exceeded 20 victims. A half-dozen villagers remain missing. "I've lost my friends. Really when I think of it, I've lost all of them," said Mecias Rodriguez, a farmer here who had the good fortune to be working at a nearby farm during the killings. He arrived at 4:30 p.m. to find the corpses and a town in mourning. "What could I possibly do? The sight was unbe- lievable." WASHINGTON Senate OKs airport security legislation The Senate voted unanimously yes- terday to boost the security of airlines and airports and, as an important byproduct, restore the nation's confi- dence in flying. With the 100-0 vote for aviation secu- rity legislation, the Senate then moved- to an anti-terrorism bill to give law enforcement new powers to pursue ter- rorists. "I hope that Congress can and should act quickly," said Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). The security bill was seen as essen- tial to ending the current slump in air travel. "People are going to feel better about flying," said Sen. John D. Rock- efeller (D-W.Va.), head of the Senate Commerce aviation subcommittee. "It will put people back in planes." The Senate also approved by 100-0 a resolution designating Sept. I1 as a national day of remembrance. WASHINGTON Remote monitoring pacemaker approved The government has approved a pacemaker outfitted with a tiny trans- mitter that can tell your doctor how your heart is doing - the first medical implant capable of such real-time mon- itoring. The Biotronik Home Monitoring System essentially provides a house call any time of day without doctor or patient taking any special steps. It's the first in an expected wave of medical devices that will let doctors track the chronically ill day-by-day in an effort to keep their conditions from worsen- ing between office visits. "This is an exciting development," Dr. Stuart Port- noy of the Food and Drug Administra- tion said of the Biotronik device, which won FDA approval yesterday. Pacemakers contain recorders that continually track heartbeat, how often the devices zap the heart back into rhythm, and other information. 4 WASHINGTON PBS stations able to show advertisements As television makes the switch to dig- ital broadcasting, public TV stations can run commercials for the first time. The Federal Communications Com- mission, in a 3-1 vote, ruled yesterday that the stations can display advertise- ments on some of the new data or sub- scription services - more likely to be viewed on computers and special TV attachments than on the family set. Digital is a new, more efficient tech- nology that allows broadcasters to trans- mit much more programming over the same channel than is possible with tradi- tional analog technology. Examples of how some stations plan to use their extra digital capacity include fee-based ser- vices such as college courses aired in rural areas, subscriptions to televised lectures, and even textbooks. 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