2 -The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 17, 2001 NATION/WORLD stan wi The Washington Post NEW DELHI, India - Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, acknowledged yesterday that a majority of his countrymen oppose the U.S.-led mili- tary action in neighboring Afghanistan but told Secre- tary of State Colin Powell during meetings in. Islamabad that Pakistan would remain part of the war effort as long as the campaign's goals remain unmet. Faced with mounting street protests against the bombardment, Musharraf urged U.S. forces to lose no time in apprehending and punishing accused terrorist Osama bin Laden, his militant followers and their sponsors within Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement. To that end, he said, Pakistan will continue to play a critical role in the campaign by sharing intelligence with the United States, extending overflight rights and providing logistical support, such as allowing U.S. forces to use two of its airfields. "We have decided to be with the coalition in the fight against terrorism and whatever opera- llSU Ot tion is going on in Afghanistan," Musharraf said at a news conference with Powell. "To this extent, we will certainly carry onr'cooperating as long as the operation lasts. ... But one really hopes that the operation is short." Powe, said the United States did not want to unnecessarily prolong the military campaign but declined to predict when bin Laden's forces would be defeated and when the Taliban might fall from power. "It's under enormous pressure, but I cannot tell you when that pressure will force it to collapse," Powell said of the Taliban. Powell's overnight visit to the Pakistani capital was aimed largely at stiffening Musharraf's support for the campaign and promoting an initiative to establish a post-Taliban Afghan government that would be acceptable to Pakistan and other regional powers. Powell and Musharraf also took up other pressing issues, including escalating tension between Pakistan and India over Kashmir and the resumption of U.S. economic aid to Islamabad, before the secre- tary of state headed to New Delhi this afternoon for U.S. in war talks with Indian officials. U.S. officials have undertaken the unwieldy task of stitching both India and Pakistan, long- time South Asian rivals, into the anti-terrorism coalition. Powell scheduled nearly identical vis- its to the two countries to avoid showing any semblance of favoritism. But his effort to sound sympathetic to Pakistani concerns about the dis- puted territory of Kashmir provoked a furor in New Delhi just in time for his arrival. At the midday news conference in Islamabad, Powell said the Bush administration has a "desire to accommodate the aspirations of the Kashmiri peo- ple." Though American officials said Powell was only repeating long-standing U.S. policy, the com- ment incensed Indian leaders. They insist Pakistan is fueling the 12-year-old Muslim insurgency in Kash- mir, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives and raised fears of a full-scale war between the two nuclear-armed countries. Pakistan maintains that it provides only diplomatic and moral support to the Kashmiri guerrillas. NEWS IN BRIEF HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE W7RLD MADISON, Wis, ' 11 students get E. coli from pancakes40 At least I I college students and a 3-year old boy were infected with E. coli bacteria, apparently at a pancake tailgate party before a football game, university officials said yesterday. They began feeling ill after the Oct. 6 University of Wisconsin-Madison game and were diagnosed with a serious form of E. coli, university epidemiologist Craig Roberts said. Three of the students were hospitalized and two have since been released. The third was in good condition yesterday, Roberts said. At least 1,000 people attended the university-sponsored party. Health officials said the source of the E. coli was probably not the food, since only a small per- centage of the people who attended became sick. "If 10 people dropped their forks on the floor where there had been animals, it might be as simple as that, but we may never know," he said. The pavilion where the event took place is used for animal shows at the university. E. coli begins with abdominal cramps, fever, severe and bloody diarrhea and can progress to kidney failure, pancreatitis and a variety of other potentially life-threatening problems. People can be infected through tainted food, water or animals. NEW YORK Embassy bombers await court sentence * The first men convicted of carrying out Osama bin Laden's 1998 edict to kill Americans wherever they are found will be sentenced under extraordinarily tight security tomorrow in the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. The four men were found guilty last May in a trial that laid out in detail what the government knew about bin Laden and his network of terror. Their sentencing will take place at the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, just blocks from the smok- ing ruins of the World Trade Center. U.S. marshals with shotguns guard the court- house. Barricades block the adjacent street, and steel posts protect the building. The four were arrested in the near-simultaneous Aug. 7, 1998, bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans, and led to an international manhunt for top leaders of bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network. The six-month trial attracted few spectators beyond government employees and the families of the victims. But the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that have been blamed on bin Laden have spurred new interest in the trial and the evidence the Sharon says he will accept creation of Palestinian state 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 risits and medication are providedfree of charge to eligible participants. If you are 18 years ofage or older. you may be eligible. JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minis- ter Ariel Sharon said yesterday he would accept creation of a Palestinian state but would impose strict limitations on it, a less generous offer than the Palestinians turned down in January. Sharon's statement came after world leaders, starting with President Bush, endorsed the Palestinian right to a state in pronouncements over the past few days. The United States has been press- ing Israel and the Palestinians to tone down their conflict, to avoid interference with coalition-building for the wider struggle against terrorism now being fought in Afghanistan. Sharon told Likud party members near Haifa that a Palestinian state could result from negotiations, but it would have to be demilitarized. Israel would control its borders and would retain security zones in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, he said. Israel would also keep control over all of Jerusalem, including Arab neighbor- hoods and a hotly disputed site holy site known as the Temple Mount to Jews and the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims, he said. In January, the Palestinians turned down a more generous offer from then- Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Barak offered all of Gaza and more than 90 percent of the West Bank, sover- eignty in Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem and control over the key dis- puted holy site. Meanwhile, Israeli government fig- ures showed that building in Jewish set- tlements in the West Bank and Gaza is down sharply, and both settlers and peace activists said yesterday that a year of Mideast fighting, in which settlers have been repeatedly targeted, has choked off demand. Anthrax pranksters will be prosecuted WASHINGTON (AP) - Assailing recent anthrax hoaxes as "no joking matter," Attorney General John Ashcroft said yesterday those who per- petrate anthrax or other terrorist scares will be prosecuted. With the FBI chasing down thou- sands of reports of possible anthrax exposures - most turn out to be false alarms or practical jokes - Ashcroft said such scares are unlawful and "gross transgressions of the public trust." "They create illegitimate alarm in a time of legitimate, concern," said Ashcroft. The warning came as suspicious let- ters, unmarked packages and nonstop hoaxes have spread anthrax anxiety around the globe. No anthrax cases have been confirmed outside the United States. With FBI Director Robert Mueller at his side, Ashcroft said a rash of hoaxes across the country have taxed the resources of an already burdened law enforcement system. government collected. WASHINGTON Senate plans to trim stimulus package The $100 billion economic stimu- lus package assembled by House Republicans probably will be scaled back and should not include broad spending proposals made by Democ- rats, top Bush administration officials and leading Senate Republicans said yesterday. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told GOP senators in a private meeting that President Bush believes $75 bil- lion is roughly the upper limit for the package, several participants said. O'Neill and Senate Republicans agreed to focus mostly on tax cuts that clearly would stimulate the economy. They also decided to resist efforts by ' the majority Democrats to tack on more spending. "I expect there will be a number of changes from what the House pro- posed," said Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.).' WASHINGTON Committee approves Scalia for Labor post A Senate committee yesterday nar- rowly approved the controversial nomi- nation of Eugene Scalia to become the Labor Department's top lawyer, setting up a potentially bruising fight on the Senate floor. The Health, Education and Labor Committee voted 11-10 for Scalia to become the department's solic- itor, dividing equally along party lines. Sen. James M. Jeffords of Vermont, the chamber's only independent, cast the deciding vote. Democrats, led by committee chair- man Edward M. Kennedy of Massa- chusetts, with strong backing from organized labor, attacked Scalia as unfriendly to U.S. working people, cit- ing in particular his long-expressed opposition to ergonomics regulations and other protections for American workers. A Washington lawyer, Scalia, 39, is the son of Supreme Court Jus- tice Antonin Scalia. WASHINGTON Night work could raise risk of cancer Practice Meditation On-Line Today! Women who work nights may increase their breast cancer risk by up to 60 percent, according to two studies that suggest bright light in the dark hours decreases melatonin secretion and increases estrogen levels. Two independent studies, using dif- ferent methods, found increased risk of breast cancer among women who worked night shifts for many years. The studies, both appearing in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, suggested a "dose effect," meaning that the more time spent working nights, the greater the risk of breast cancer. "We are just beginning to see evi- dence emerge on the health effects of shift work," said Scott Davis, a Seattle epidemiologist and first author of one of the studies. He said more research was needed, however, before a com- pelling case could be made to change night work schedules. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 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