2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 14, 2001 NATION/WORLD Bush, Putin to limit nuclear power WASHINGON (AP) - President Bush pledged yesterday to slash the United States' nuclear arsenal by two-thirds, to as few as 1,700 warheads, and Russian President Vladimir Putin said he might "respond in kind." Despite the AmericAn gesture, Putin renewed his opposition to U.S. missile shield plans. In private talks, a special White House tour and an East Room news conference, the leaders opened a three-day visit that will focus on the budding U.S. Russian alliance against terrorism and nagging differ- ences over the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. "Together, we're making history as we make progress," Bush said. "We're transforming our relation- ship from one of hostility and suspicion to one based on cooperation and trust." The talks move today to Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, where U.S. officials held out some hope for accord on the missile shield issue. Both leaders indi- cated their relationship had buried vestiges of the Cold War. In his fourth meeting with the U.S. president, Putin urged his own citizens to stop looking at American relations "from the old standpoint, distrust and the enmit y." On the question of allowing U.S. forces to use Central Asia as a base into Afghanistan, the Russian president said: "We have nothing to be afraid of." Earlier, Bush took Putin on an unscheduled tour of the White House, including its swimming pool and the South Lawn tree swing where Amy Carter and the Kennedy children once played. They ducked into a Cabinet Room meeting with their respective delega- tions, where Bush heaped Putin with praise. "You're the kind of guy I like to have in a foxhole with me," Bush said, according to a participant. Finding plenty of common ground, the leaders urged Afghanistan's U.S.-backed opposition fighters to use restraint while liberating the nation's capital of Kabul, and galled for a multiethnic post-Taliban government. They brushed aside reports northern alliance forces were executing prisoners of war. In a blizzard of paper, the pair formalized a series of agreements to combat bioterrorism, bolster the Russ- ian economy, battle money laundering that finances terrorism and strengthen Russia's ties to NATO - the 19-member military alliance formed to counter Moscow in the Cold War. It was the issue of weapons that underscored their greatest agreement and disagreement. Bush, who promised in the presidential campaign to significantly reduce U.S. nuclear stockpiles regardless of whether Russia reciprocated, announced his inten- tion to slash the nation's long-range nuclear arsenal to between 1,700 and 2,200 weapons over the next decade. NEWS IN BRIEF HEADLINES FROMAROUND T EWORLD WASHINGTON Bush: military would try terrorists President Bush signed an order yesterday that would allow the government to try people accused of terrorism in front of a special military commission instead of in civilian court. The order, signed by Bush before he left for Crawford, Texas, gives the admin- istration another avenue to bring the Sept. 11 terrorists to justice, White House counsel Albert Gonzales told The Associated Press. "This is a new tool to use against terrorism," Gonzales said in a telephone interview. He said there were precedents in World War II and the Civil War. The White House was to release the order late yesterday. Gonzales, a former Texas Supreme Court judge who is the president's top lawyer, said a military commission could have several advantages over a civilian court. It is easier to protect the sources and methods of investigators in military proceedings, for example, and a military trial can be held overseas. Gonzales said there may be times when prosecutors feel a trial in America would be unsafe. "There may not be a need for this and the president may make a determination that he does not want to use this tool, but he felt it appropriate that he have this tool available to him," the lawyer said. WASHINGTON Officials search for additional tainted letter I Feds 5,000 WASHINGTON (Al tors are knocking on th dle Eastern visitors in ti and looking through th students as part of a wii inquiry, sparking cot racial profiling. State and federal ages ing 5,000 male foreign Eastern and other count gators have contacted colleges and universitie mation about foreign Arab and Muslim nation Authorities say those tioning are not suspects for voluntary interview. tigators believe they m mation that will help p who planned the Sept. -others planning new atta They are being target fit the criteria of people knowledge of foreign- and not because of th according to a Justic memo. None will be for interviews; those who to investigators can ha sent. Civil rights groups s are threatening the bas of people from particula "We have seriousc what appears to be a d rather than a targeted in Lucas Guttentag, head Civil Liberties Union rights project. questioning foreigners P) - Investiga- Only those who traveled from nations e doors of Mid- that have been way stations for terrorists he United States in Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network e files of foreign were placed on the list, said Justice dening terrorism Department spokeswoman Mindy Tuck- mplaints about er, who declined to specify which coun- tries were targeted. nts are question- "We looked at the country they ers from Middle entered from. We're not looking at their ries, and investi- nationality," Tucker said. "They are not more than 200 suspects, they are simply people who we s seeking infor- want to talk to because they may have students from helpful information." ns. They will be asked whether they have sought for ques- heard anyone advocating terrorism or but are wanted violence, ,according to a Justice Depart- s because inves- ment memo. Tucker said they would not ight have infor- be questioned about their religious olice find those beliefs and practices. 11 attacks and Law enforcement sources, speaking acks. on condition of anonymity, said more ted because they than 20 countries are targeted, including who might have Middle Eastern and European countries. based terrorists The 19 hijackers and their accomplices leir nationality, are believed to have plotted the attacks ce Department in Germany and England and suspected rced to submit to ringleader Mohamed Atta traveled to choose to speak Spain and the Czech Republic. Some of Lve lawyers pre- the hijackers entered the United States from Europe and some obtained visas in say investigators Saudi Arabia. ic privacy rights Late last week, the Justice Depart- ar ethnic groups. ment began distributing names of male concerns about foreigners to federal and state anti-ter- ragnet approach rorism task forces around the country. vestigation," said Using immigration and State Depart- of the American ment records, investigators compiled 1's immigration names of males aged 18-33 who entered the country after Jan. 1.2000. Federal officials said yesterday they believe an anthrax-filled letter that has yet to be discovered sickened a State Department mail handler with the most serious form of the disease, a theory bolstered by the discovery of anthrax in eight places in the building where he worked. The State Department said it would begin hunting through three weeks' worth of unopened mail, searching for a letter that could advance the anthrax investigation. "We have to assume that, one, there is a contaminated letter of some kind in our system, and second of all, that we will eventually find it in one of these mail rooms or pouch bags" said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher. More than two weeks ago, Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said it was a virtual certainty that another letter was lurking, undiscovered. Yesterday, the State Department said it didn't begin looking sooner because the mail facility was "a crime scene" and officials wanted to test it for anthrax first. The FBI said it doubts a letter will be found even once they start looking. No new cases of anthrax infection have been reported for more than two weeks. PIKEVILLE, Ky. Wildfire outbreak burns 150,000 acres Across southern Appalachia, the air hangs heavy with the acrid smell of burning wood from the largest out- break of wildfires in at least a decade. The wafting smoke - evident near- ly 200 miles away in Louisville - has cut visibility to near zero along some mountain highways. Car headlights and streetlights are staying on, some schools have closed, and people with breathing problems have been rushing to hospitals or staying indoors. "I don't go out there unless I have to," said 84-year-old Elsie Carter, who can't see the trees outside her Pikeville home because of the thick, gray haze. "It looks dangerous, and it is danger- ous if people breathe it too long." Wildfires nearly all of them intentionally set - have burned across more than 150,000 acres of woodlands in Kentucky's Appalachian region so far this year. BERLIN Court convicts 4 in 1986 disco bombing A German court convicted four defendants yesterday in the 1986 bomb- ing of a West Berlin discotheque and blamed the Libyan secret service for planning the attack which killed two U.S. soldiers and a Turkish woman. "The La Belle attack was one of the most perfidious and dangerous crimes in German history," Judge Peter Marhofer said in announcing the verdict. In Washington, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher welcomed the verdict as "positive news." "It's a strong indication that however long it takes, whatever we have to do, we do and we will continue to bring ter- rorists to justice," he said. The April 5, 1986, explosion at the crowded La Belle disco killed Sgt. Ken- neth T. Ford, 21, Nermin Hannay, a 29- year-old Turkish woman, and 25-year-old Sgt. James E. Goins. 6 6 Goff Industry Internships I I&CoroesA e5' r Careers Available R A H CaerIntern hiQPstosD A I' GolfManaemen, ' Sae/a t olfeda ~. W W W .l800GolfJobs.com .0N< .::.i:::~ n:.:;: .N::: .>;;::>:<:i::::::...:«;:i:<." ALGIERS, Algeria Floods, mudslides kill 579 in Algeria * Rescuers sifted through caked mud yesterday seeking survivors of flooding and mudslides that killed nearly 600 people in the Algerian capital. 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