2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 6, 2001 NATION/WORLD %v 'Lion's share' no longer in custody WASHINGTON (AP) - Most of the people arrested on unrelated criminal charges by investigators probing the Sept. 11 attacks have been released, the White House said yesterday. "The lion's share of the people are not still in custody," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. "The over- whelming number of the people were detained, they were questioned and then they've been released." The White House later said Fleischer was referring only to those detained on unrelated criminal charges. But neither the White House nor the Justice Depart- ment would say how many of the more than 1,000 people arrested or detained so far remain in custody. That prompted new complaints from civil liberties groups. "The secrecy surrounding them is unacceptable," said Lucas Guttentag, director of the immigrants' rights project at the American Civil Liber- ties Union. "In order for the public to have confi- dence in the fairness of the investigation and make sure individual rights are pre- served, the government needs to dis- close more,' he said. The ACLU has filed a Freedom of' Information Act request for information on those detained in connection with the investigation. Justice Department spokeswoman Mindy Tucker said grand jury secrecy rules and judges' orders prevent the department from releasing information. Records on those facing unrelated crim- inal charges are available from state and local law enforcement agencies, she said. Investigators have detained or arrest- ed 1,147 people since the suicide hijack-' ings as part of a massive dragnet to find associates of the hijackers and track down terrorists planning additional attacks. Department officials have released daily figures about the number of people in custody but in most cases have not disclosed their names, where they are being held or whether they have been released.L AP PHOTO New York city mayoral candidate Mark Green, right, listens to former President Bill Clinton during a campaign rally yesterday. New York mteayors race nation's hottest NEWS IN BRIEF1 HEAIDLINES FROMAROUND TEWORLD WASHINGTON Anthrax removed from the Pentagon Anthrax was detected inside the Pentagon and promptly removed, officials said yesterday. Cleanup in the Senate office building where an anthrax-packed letter was opened proved more complicated. Government agencies moved to test buildings around the country for the pres- ence of anthrax spores, and officials at the Mayo Clinic unveiled a more rapid test for anthrax exposure. Co-workers mourned the death of a New York hospital worker ainvestigators chased leads to the anthrax that killed her. Another victim came home from the hospital and a third came out of intensive care. "Even though we have been confronted with a deadly disease, there is hope," said Norma Wallace a postal worker in Hamilton, N.J., who was released from the hospital Monday after more than two weeks of treatment for inhalation anthrax. Public health officials looked for patterns among the 10 people infected with inhalation anthrax and prepared guidelines for doctors trying to distinguish it from the flu. A postal facility in yet another government building tested positive for expo- sure - this time inside the Pentagon. WASHINGTON Fed expected to cut interest rates again The economic landscape has turned much darker - consumer confidence is plunging, overall output is contracting and the number of Americans losing their jobs is at a21-year high. A 10th interest rate cut this year by the Federal Reserve is widely expected today. But the flood of bad economic data has raised fears the central bank's efforts to jump-start the economy could be overwhelmed, worsening a recession many analysts believe has already begun. Adding to the economic uncertainty is the threat of more terrorist attacks and ris- ing worries about anthrax contamination in the mail. "The economy could really spiral downward if terrorism gets worse," said Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at Wells Fargo in Minneapolis. "That is a scary prospect because we have never faced anything quite like this before." In normal times, the Fed's powerful medicine of lower interest rates would lift the economy out of a recession by boosting demand in interest-sensitive sectors such as housing, autos and big-ticket capital goods. " NEW YORK (AP) -- Democrats were favored to capture Republican- held governorships today in Virginia and New Jersey, while the nasty race to succeed the popular Rudolph Giu- liani as mayor of disaster-scarred New York was a virtual dead heat. Dozens of other cities - including Atlanta, Boston, Houston, Miami and Seattle - also choose mayors in the off-year elections, but no race matched New York's for big spending and big stakes. Democrat Mark Green, the city's elect- ed public advocate, and Republican Michael Bloomberg, the media mogul who spent more than $40 million of his own money, each insisted he was better qualified to lead the city's recovery from the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. Each accused the other of mudslinging and racially divisive tactics. Green held a big lead in the polls until Bloomberg finally gained Giu- liani's endorsement last week. Bloomberg saturated the New York airwaves with a commercial showing Giuliani enthusiastically endorsing him as the man to lead the city through its crisis. Bloomberg also ran an ad that quotes Green as saying he could have handled the World Trade Center tragedy as well as or better than Giu- liani. Then the commercial asks, "Really?" WASHINGTON High court reviews death penalty case Walter Mickens had many things working against him as he went to trial for raping and killing a 17-year-old boy, including substantial physical and circumstantial evidence. The Supreme Court questioned yes- terday whether Mickens also had another thing working against him - a lawyer who could not give his all because he had, until days earlier, rep- resented the victim in another case. The Virginia case is part of the high court's broadest review of the death penalty in years, and one facet of a question that has troubled at least two Supreme Court justices: Do people facing the death penalty get adequate legal help? Later this term, the court will also revisit the debate over whether it is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment to execute the mentally retarded. - TEH RAN, iran- U.N. says U.S should not have post war role The United Nations should exclude the United States and Afghanistan's neighbors from any possible post-Tal- iban peacekeeping mission or risk even more instability across central Asia, Iran's foreign minister said yes- terday. Such a position risks increasing fric- tion with Washington, which may seek some continued military oversight in Afghanistan if attacks succeed in top- pling the Taliban and uprooting Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida command. However, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi insisted in an interview with The Associated Press that any U.S. presence on a post-Taliban peace- keeping force "would have a negative impact on the whole region. "Central Asian countries are always sensitive to the presence of Americans and American soldiers," Kharrazi said. MANAGUA, Nicaragua Ortega loses bid for Nicaragua presidency Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega con- ceded defeat yesterday to the governing party presidential candidate, Enrique Bolanos, who had once been impris- oned by a past Ortega government. "We' accept'the mandate of'the 'peo'- ple and congratulate the Liberal tick- et," Ortega said. He promised to continue working for stttional recon- ciliation and a free-market economy, from within the country's National Assembly, or congress. With 5.4 percent of the vote counted, the Liberal party's Bolanos had 61,100 votes or 53 percent, while Ortega of the Sandin- ista National Liberation Front trailed with 45.3 percent or 52,297, according to Roberto Rivas, the president of the coun- try's Supreme Electoral Council. The first results, delayed because of late closing of voting places, also had the Liberal party headed for control of the national assembly. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. t 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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