2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 13, 2001 NATION/WORLD U.S. to put aircraft in Tajikistan WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration cheered signs that the Taliban were deserting the Afghan capital as defense officials said yester- day they planned to base U.S. aircraft in the bordering country of Tajikistan. Taliban fighters could be seen streaming out of Kabul after dawn today. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said large numbers of Taliban were leaving, but the ruling militia's evacuation from Kabul was "far from complete." "I think it is great news. It means the initial phase of the campaign is going well," Army Secretary Thomas White said. Northern alliance forces began mov- ing into the capital in pickup trucks loaded with soldiers armed with rifles and rocket launchers. There was no shooting as the opposition forces took over a military barracks that only hours before had been in Taliban hands. White said on CNN's "Larry King Live" that he thought "a combination of well-targeted air power along with movement on the ground by northern alliance forces" prompted the Taliban to flee Kabul. A senior administration official said pleasure among White House officials with "the major Taliban defeat" was tempered by concern that large num- bers of northern alliance troops would stream into Kabul and destabilize the city and its delicate balance of com- peting tribes. The official said it would take sever- al hours and the help of coalition forces personally reviewing the situa- tion on the ground to determine the impact of the Taliban retreat. The decision on the Tajik base fol- lows an onsite assessment by U.S. mili- tary advisers of the feasibility of using as many as three airfields in the former Soviet republic. The Tajik government had offered the bases for U.S. use against Afghanistan, and the decision to go ahead could mean more Air Force fighter-bombers will besent there soon. The U.S. defense official, who dis- cussed the matter on condition of anonymity, said it was not yet clear how much local improvement would be need- ed before the airfield could be put to use. The official was not certain which air- field was chosen out of three offered: Kulyab, Khojand and Kurgan-Tyube. The U.S. military already is using one airfield in Uzbekistan, where at least 1,000 soldiers of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division are based. It also has made use of military facilities in Pakistan, although nearly all combat missions have been flown from aircraft carriers in the Arabian Sea and from a British base in the Indian Ocean. Some missions have been flown from Persian Gulfnations. The significance of using one or more airfields in Tajikistan is twofold: It offers a chance to fly shorter attack missions in support of anti-Taliban forces, possibly' offering some relief to Navy pilots who have been flying long missions from car- riers, and, secondly, it offers an opportu- nity to expand the delivery of humanitarian relief to Afghans. Victoria Clarke, chief spokeswoman for Defense Secretary Donald Rums- feld, said yesterday that the U.S. govern- ment is focusing hard on an expanded humanitarian relief effort, now that Tal- iban forces have lost control of the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif and are on the run elsewhere in the country. NEIwsNRIEF TALLAHASSEE. Fla. Lieberman: Review changes nothing A media-sponsored review of disputed ballots from the 2000 presidential elec- tion in Florida was "fascinating" but it doesn't change anything, Sen. Joseph Lieberman said yesterday as he reaffirmed his support for President Bush. Al Gore and Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, lost Florida - and the presidency - to Bush and Dick Cheney by a scant 537 votes last year. The new examination of 175,000 Florida ballots which didn't make it into state-certified totals indicated the partial recounts Gore pursued in Florida would still have left Bush clinging to the narrow lead he had after Election Day. However, if Gore had pursued a full statewide recount he might have picked up enough votes to surpass Bush by an even slimmer margin. The 2000 election was a time of deep division between the major parties, but Americans have rallied behind Bush since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. And on a day when a jet crash in New York gave the nation a fresh round of jitters, Lieberman stressed the legitimacy of the election. Bush is "not only our president, but our commander in chief," Lieberman said while speaking to the National Jewish Democratic Council in-Hollywood, Fla. "The election of last year seems a world away. These recounts are fascinating. They don't change anything." PIKEVILLE, Ky. Wildfires ravage Kentucky mountains Heavy smoke shrouded eastern Kentucky's mountains yesterday as the southern Appalachian region's worst fire outbreak in a decade threatened to get worse, with no rain was in sight for at least a week. Kentucky's blazes have burned 146,500 acres so far this year, the worst in a Southern wildfire season that also has burned parts of Maryland, the Virginias, the Carolinas and Tennessee. A man was killed yesterday morning in a chain-reaction car accident south of Pikeville. State troopers said smoke from the fires, coupled with fog, contributed to the crash. One firefighter was killed in Tennessee during the weekend when he was overrun by flames. Many fires in the region are arson. Although fires in the mostly hardwood forests of the Appalachians generally aren't as big or destructive as blazes in the West, some 96,600 acres of forest have burned in Kentucky in the last two weeks alone. The biggest fire, which was only 70 percent contained Monday, had blackened nearly 31,000 acres in a region surround- ing Hazard, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho. Bush to lay out own Mideast settlement NEW YORK (AP) - Now that the Bush administration has lined up with Arab and most European nations in calling for establishment of a Palestinian state, it soon will reveal what else it would like to see in a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians. With uncommon swiftness, the administration shifted this past weekend from a relatively detached approach to peacemaking and an almost exclusive focus on trying to end the fighting to supporting a Palestinian state on land held by Israel and signaling Yasser Arafat that President Bush was ready to meet with him. Bush's declaration at the United Nations on Saturday that there ought to be a Palestinian state alongside Israel, splitting the small piece of land they both claim, was "a powerful signal," Secre- tary of State Colin Powell said. Such views have prompted wariness among Israelis, including Gilead Sher, who headed then- Prime Minister Ehud Barak's office. "Israel is a real friend, unconditionally," to the United States, and "solidarity is our agenda," Sher told a standing-room-only meeting of American Jewish groups at a Washington hotel yesterday. "But what kind of solidarity do we get?" he asked. "Travel advisories" warning of potential dangers in Israel, which is coping with recession and a dying tourism industry. "Did the adminis- tration issue a travel advisory to New York after the horrors of Sept. 11?" Aaron Miller, a veteran State Department mediator, rejected the "dangerous perception brewing that somehow the United States, in an effort to appease or satisfy the interests of its coalition partners, will somehow find a way to sacrifice Israel's interests on the altar of coalition building." That idea circulated during the Gulf War, he told the meeting: "That perception was wrong then, and that perception is wrong now.." AP PHOTO Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat salutes Palestinian police officers as he arrives from Jordan to the Palestinian goverment headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah yesterday. Israel. kills 1, arrests 16 others in raid TEL, West Bank (AP) - In a 10- hour raid yesterday on a Palestinian vil- lage, Israeli troops killed an Islamic militant and arrested 45 residents, including 16 on Israel's wanted list. Israel also continued to hold parts of two Palestinian towns in the northern part of the West Bank. Troops moved into six towns after the Oct. 17 assassi- nation of an Israeli Cabinet minister. Officials said they were delaying a pullback from the last two because of intelligence reports of attempts by Palestinian militants to mount attacks in Israel. The U.S. State Department has repeatedly criticized the Israeli incur- sions into Palestinian areas and called on Israel to withdraw and stay out. In the latest Israeli incursion, sol- diers moved into the West Bank vil- lage of Tel, next to the city of Nablus, around 2 a.m. Sealing off the village, they went from house to house, arrest- ing suspected militants. At one house, soldiers shot and killed Muhamrned Reihan, 25, a senior mem- ber of the Islamic militant group Hamas. Reihan had been on Israel's wanted list since 1998 for the killing of two residents of the nearby Jewish set- tlement of Yitzhar. Reihan's father, Yussef said Israeli soldiers surrounded his house and opened fire, and Muhammed went out- side with a rifle, where he was killed. Then, he said, soldiers allowed the women to go to a nearby house and strip-searched the men. The Israeli military said troops came under fire during the raid and returned fire, killing one of the gunmen. The army said soldiers detained 45 residents of Tel. In a statement, the mili- tary said 16 were on wanted lists for a long time and belonged to the militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as well as the Tanzim militia, affiliated with Palestin- ian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah group. The statement said the detainees were turned over to Israeli security services for questioning. WASHINGTON Red Cross will give refunds if asked The American Red Cross, under fire for its use of money raised since the terrorist attacks, said it will return donations to any contributor who requests a refund. The emergency relief group, which has collected about $500 million since Sept. 11, touched off a controversy last month by announcing that not all of the funds would go to victims of the attacks. More than $200 million will be held in reserve in case it is needed for other ter- rorist attacks, the group said yesterday. "This has not been a big issue for us," said Devorah Goldburg, a spokes- woman for the Red Cross. "If people have a question about how donations, are used, we talk with them and go through the whole process. If they still have a problem, then we honor a request for the donation to be returned:' WASHINGTON Inhaled anthrax not deadly if treated Inhaled anthrax is- a treatable infection and not a sure death sentence if doctors recognize the disease early and treat it aggressively, experts say in the Journal of the American Medical Association. . An analysis in JAMA of the 10 recent cases shows that if doctors speedily give patients a constellation of antibiotics, along with aggressively treating symptoms such as the accumu- lation of fluid in the chest, there is a high rate of survival. "The fact that six of these patients have survived gives hope that the pub- lished mortality rates of 86 to 97 percent for inhalational anthrax may not be accu- rate in the year 2001," Anthony Fauci and H. Clifford Lane, both of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dis- ease, said in the JAMA editorial. The rate of survival - 60 percent for the recent inhalational cases - could well improve for future infections. MENLO PARK, Calif. Survey shows gays feel more accepted About three-fourths of homosexuals and bisexuals feel more accepted by society today than a few years ago, but about the same percentage say they have experienced discrimination, according to a survey released today. The finding -by the nopprpft Kaise Family Foundation were based on tele- phone interviews with 405 randomly selected self-identified lesbians, gays and bisexuals in 15 major U.S. cities last November. Seventy-six percent of lesbians, gays and bisexuals surveyed reported they feel more accepted. However, 74 percent reported encountering verbal abuse, .while 32 percent said they experienced physical abuse or damage to their proper- ty because of their sexual orientation. Eighty-five percent of lesbians, 76 percent of gay men and 60 percent of bisexuals said they had experienced dis- crimination, according to the survey. - Compiledfrom Daily wire reports. Bush and Putin meet today Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- Russian President Vladimir Putin is arriving in Washington; D.C., for his first official visit to the United States and summit talks with President Bush as the leaders of the world's major nuclear powers pursue a post-Cold War relationship. Putin and Bush are scheduled to meet today at the White House, then resume their talks on terrorism, strategic nuclear arms and other issues tomorrow and Thursday at Bush's ranch near Crawford, Texas. Putin left Moscow yesterday afternoon for the long flight to Washington shortly after an Ameri- can Airlines A300 Airbus crashed after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Although the crash raised concerns that the United States again had been targeted by terror- ists, Putin ruled out postponing his visit. U.S. officials said initial evidence indicated that the crash probably was not the result of terrorism. In addition to his talks with Bush, Putin is to deliver speeches in Washington, Houston and at the United Nations in New York. But the Russian gov- ernment did not issue an official schedule for rea- sons of security. AP Pn Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses Russian army commanders at the Defense Ministry in Moscow yesterday. You pick up a lot of important survival tools in ROTC. Starting with a tuition check. I 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. 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