I 2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, November 1, 2001 4 -I Sharon still resists U.S. call to withdraw Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM - Israeli forces yes- terday assassinated an Arab militant, killed three Palestinians they said had fired on them and raided a West Bank village where they arrested six people, including a man they called a would- be suicide bomber. The moves came as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon continued to defy American requests that Israel withdraw from Palestinian areas and halt assassinations. The latest violence and Palestinian casualties undercut the Bush adminis- tration's intensified diplomatic efforts to achieve some semblance of calm in the region as Washington tries to maintain Arab support for the U.S.-led war on terrorism. American officials, including Presi- dent Bush, have repeatedly urged Israel to pull its troops out of Palestin- ian areas they occupied after the assas- sination of a right-wing Israeli cabinet minister by Palestinian militants two weeks ago. But in a telephone conver- sation today with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, Sharon again insisted he would not order his army to withdraw until Yasser Arafat's Pales- tinian Authority cracked down on mil- itant groups operating from Palestinian territory. "We have no intention of staying and we'd like to leave as soon as possi- ble but (the Palestinians) are not com- plying," said Raanan Gissin, spokesman for Sharon. Israeli officials say the army's raids and what it calls "targeted killings" are in response to intelligence warnings of a wave of planned terrorist attacks. Israel has no choice but to pre-empt and intecept militants before they can put their plans into effect, say officials. Palestinians say the latest Israeli military operations, especially the assassination of Palestinian militants, will only deepen the bitterness that has fueled 13 months of violence. Eight hundred and fifty people have died, about 80 percent of them Palestinians. Palestinians contend that they are only fighting back against Israeli provocations. As a subtext to the ongoing vio- lence, Sharon is involved in a sharpen- ing political dispute with his foreign nhister, Shimon Peres; overhow to deal with the Palestinians. Peres says he is open to meeting with Arafat at a conference they are both scheduled to attend this weekend on the Spanish island of Majorca. He is also reported to have prepared a peace plan that includes shutting down Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, home to more than 6,000 Israelis, as a "good-will gesture" to the Palestini- ans. Sharon's aides have made no secret of the prime minister's adamant oppo- sition to Peres meeting Arafat this weekend or to any such gestures-espe- cially ones that involve territorial con- cessions-before the Palestinians halt all violence and crack down on mili-. tant groups. The Israeli army confirmed yester- day that it used helicopter gunships to assassinate a man it called a key mili- tant in the radical Islamic group Hamas, firing anti-tank missiles at the house where he was staying in the West Bank town of Hebron. The army said the man, Jamil Jadallah, 25, a sus- pect in a number of terrorist attacks against Israelis, was on the verge of carrying out another such operation inside the Jewish state. Israeli troops shot and killed two other Palestinian gunmen, who it said were members of Palestinian security forces, who had earlier opened fire on an Israeli vehicle in the northern West Bank, the army said. NEWS IN BRIEF (7FI ,H A L NSWASHINGTON U.S. economy declined in third quarter 4 The U.S. economy, weak from a yearlong slowdown and battered by the terrorist attacks, declined in the July-September quarter in the strongest sig- nal yet the country has slipped into a recession. The Bush administration insisted that quick congressional passage of a stimulus package could avoid a full-blown downturn. Private economists said the real worry now is whether a mild recession will become something much worse as a result of more threats of terrorist attacks. "I think the economy is going to continue to struggle until a sense of personal safety has been re-established," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com. "Right now the economic clouds are thick and growing darker." The Commerce Department report yesterday showed that the gross domes- tic product - the country's total output of goods and services - declined at an annual rate of 0.4 percent in the third quarter. Wall Street ended a choppy session with the Dow Jones industrial average falling 46.84 points to close at 9,075.14. It had been up more than 100 points earlier in the day on relief that the GDP decline was less than had been feared. WASHINGTON Pentagon to call more reserves than expected I The Pentagon expects to call up more reservists than the 50,000 originally believed needed for the war on terrorism, officials said yesterday. Most will be reporting for homefront duty. The increase reflects heightened concern about potential terrorist attacks on federal installations as well as an expanding war effort in Afghanistan, where U.S. planes bombed military targets for a 25th day. Reviewing progress in the bombing campaign, Rear Adm. John Stufllebeem told a Pentagon news conference that attacks have so severely damaged the Tal- iban's military communications system that commanders in the field are having trouble summoning new supplies and troop reinforcements. "We believe that puts a terrific amount of stress on their military capability," he said. Victoria Clarke, spokeswoman for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. said he had notified the White House that the reserve call-up would exceed 50,000, q but she offered no new projected total. "We're not benchmarking it," she said. WASHINGTON Bush and Putin find common ground A boost in relations from unprece- dented cooperation in the war against terrorism could lead Presi- dent Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin to find common ground next month on trimming nuclear arsenals and defending against missile attack. Diplomatic caution keeps Ameri- can officials from predicting success in the Bush quest for leeway to pro- ceed with a limited defense against missile attack and Putin's hope for substantial reductions in long-range nuclear arsenals. "We will reach agreements with the. Russians on what we can reach agree- ments on," Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton told military and diplo- matic reporters over scrambled eggs yesterday. "It would be premature to be opti- mistic or pessimistic," he said. NEW YORK 3 major networks sue over recording system The three major television networks yesterday sued the maker of the first Internet-ready personal digital video recorder, saying the ReplayTV 4000 allows people to make and distribute illegal copies of television programs. The lawsuit, filed by NBC, ABC and CBS in federal court in Los Angeles, claims SONICblue Inc.'s ReplayTV 4000 would violate their copyrights by allowing users to distribute copies of programs over the Internet. The networks also complained that technology in the personal video recorder can automatically strip out commercials. In a joint statement, the networks said the device "deprives the copyright owners of the means by which they are paid for their creative content and thus reduces the incentive to create pro- gramming and make it available to the public." WASHINGTON High court questions aflinnative action Supreme Court justices seemed exasperated yesterday at the turn of events in what was supposed to be a blockbuster affirmative action ruling this tefffi4 ". The two sides now cannot agree what they are fighting about, or whether there is even acase at all1 The small, white-owned con- struction company at the heart of the case has switched the focus of its opposition to a government pro- gram barely mentioned in earlier legal filings. The government claims the program that was supposed to be at issue is no longer used in Colorado, where the company is based. The government also says the company has lost its right to appeal. "What are we supposed to do now, please?" Justice Sandra Day O'Connor asked the government's lawyer. - Compiledfrom Daily wire reports. Undergraduates. Are you reading this in lecture? Bored? Think that you know a better way to run class? Prove It. As a Project Community Coordinator! 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