2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 24, 2002 NATION/WORLD Hamas vows retaliation for strike NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Threatening bloody revenge, Islamic militants and supporters of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat marched side-by- side yesterday in the funeral proces- sion for Hamas members killed in an Israeli commando raid, including one of the group's top terror masterminds. Hamas said it would unleash "all- out war" in retaliation for the killing of four members of its military wing, Izzedine al Qassam. Israel, in turn, said it would respond to a shooting spree by a Palestinian gunman who killed two women and wounded 14 bystanders in downtown Jerusalem on Tuesday. Israel's new military intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Aharon Zeevi- Farkash, told legislators that Israel must brace for a wave of Palestinian attacks, "worse than what we have experienced so far in Israeli cities," the Yediot Ahronot daily said. In a phone call yesterday, Arafat asked Secretary of State Colin Powell to send U.S. envoy Anthony ZinniZin- ni back to the region. However, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said there are no such plans. Palestinian officials said it was the first such phone call in 15 days. The four Hamas members were killed before dawn Tuesday in an Israeli commando raid on their hideout and explosives lab in the West Bank town of Nablus. When the Hamas men realized they were surrounded by Israeli forces, they detonated a bomb that inadvertently blew open the door to the apartment, military sources said. The commandos killed the four with handguns equipped with silencers, according to Yediot. Three men were killed in the sleep- ing quarters and one in the bath- room. Enron hean'ngs start as CEOresigns WASHINGTON (AP) - Enron's lead outside auditor will refuse to testify before Congress yester- day about his role in the destruction of financial doc- uments, his lawyer said. With a House panel nonetheless compelling the Arthur Andersen auditor, David Duncan, to show up at its hearing, Congress' public inquiry into the shredding of documents headed for a dramatic open- ing. The drama intensified at Enron's Houston head- quarters, meanwhile, with the surprise announce- ment that embattled Chairman Kenneth Lay, one of President Bush's biggest campaign donors, was resigning. FBI agents have been in the building investigating Enron's own alleged shredding of financial documents. Duncan warned Enron's chief accounting officer last October that the wording of the company's draft press release announcing huge third-quarter losses could be misleading for investors, according to a memo Duncan wrote for the files on Oct. 15 that was obtained by investigators. It says his advice - made after consulting with Andersen attorneys - was ignored. One of the attorneys was Nancy Temple, who also was subpoenaed to testify at today's hearing. According to another document, Temple asked Dun- can to delete her name and any reference to having consulted with the Andersen attorneys from his memo. "If my name is mentioned it increases the chances that I might be a witness, which I prefer to avoid," Temple wrote. The House Energy and Commerce Committee served a subpoena on Duncan yesterday. But one of Duncan's attorneys, Robert Giuffra, told the commit- tee in a letter that "he will rely on his constitutional right not to testify" unless the panel grants him immunity. Congress can compel witnesses to show up but cannot force them to answer potentially incriminat- ing questions without granting them immunity from criminal prosecution. Duncan already has talked to committee investiga- tors. NEWS IN BRIEF . WASHINGTON Bush asks for increased war spending President Bush called yesterday for nearly $50 billion in additional military spending for the war on terrorism, the largest increase for the Pentagon in two decades. Privately, he assured Republican and Democratic leaders that he has "no ambition whatsoever" to exploit the war on terrorism for political gain in this election year. With his chief political strategist, Karl Rove, seated behind him in the Cabinet Room, Bush gave House and Senate leaders an update on the fight against ter- rorists and added: "I have no ambition whatsoever to use this as a political issue. There is no daylight between the executive and the legislative branches." No one in the room for the closed-door morning meeting responded, accord- ing to congressional and White House sources who related the scene to The Associated Press. Rove had caused a stir among Democrats last week when he told a GOP con- ference that Republicans would do well to talk up the popular war in this year's midterm elections. In an afternoon address to the Reserve Officers Association, Bush gave the first details of the $2 trillion budget that he submits to Congress on Feb. 4. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan U.S. forces seize Afghan warlord's weapons U.S. special forces and their Afghan allies confiscated thousands of weapons from a local warlord yesterday, officials said, as troops pressed the search for Tal- iban and al-Qaida renegades in southern Afghanistan. At the U.S. military base outside Kandahar, the FBI director said mem- bers of Osama bin Laden's terror network detained here have provided valuable information that has prevented new attacks against U.S. targets worldwide. In the southern province of Helmand, anti-Taliban fighters and U.S. special forces searched house-to-house in four villages looking for al-Qaida and Taliban renegades, including the deposed Islamic militia's supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar; according to Afghan sources. The search turned up no trace of Omar, who refused to turn over bin Laden for his role in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. However, special forces and their Afghan allies confiscated about 2,000 weapons ranging from small arms to heavy artillery, according to Khalid Pash- 0 r 2002 Spring/Summer Financial Aid Applicants: al [ 3I Arm YOU read for Summes eo"*N University of Michigan Office of Financial Aid (OFA) 2011 SAB & 1212 Pierpont Commons (734) 763-6600 financial.aid@umich.edu www.finaid.umich.edu To be considered for all eligible aid programs, be the Office of Financial Aid receives all your sure Spring/Summer application materials/information by: Thursday, January 31,2002 tun, an aide to Kandahar Gov. Gul Agha. WASHINGTON Congress forcasts 2-year deficit Projected federal surpluses over the next decade have plunged 71 percent from last year's estimates and annual deficits are back for the next two years, says a new congressional fore- cast that heralds a budget squeeze sure to color this fall's elections. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated yesterday a 10-year surplus of $1.6 trillion, a staggering $4 trillion less than the $5.6 trillion the office estimated only a year ago. Both projections by CBO, Congress' official budget analyst, are for 2002 through 2011, and assume no changes in current tax or spending programs. Further dramatizing the worsen- ing fiscal pressures faced by Presi- dent Bush and Congress, CBO is now projecting one-year deficits' of $21 billion this year and $14 billion in fiscal 2003, which starts Oct. 1. GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba Prison will decrease number of entrants The Pentagon said yesterday it was holding off sending more of the al- Qaida and Taliban figures to Cuba for security reasons. A defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the makeshift prison is reaching capacity, and it could be easier for the captives to create problems if they were doubled up in cells while more are being built. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said President Bush is "perfectly satisfied" conditions at Guantanamo are humane and fair. Bush also believes that the detainees are linked to al-Qaida, "and if they were free they would engage in murder once again." The detainees are settling into a mundane routine of eating and praying in this tropical prison, bro- ken by occasional showers and bouts of despair. WASHINGTON Identity theft tops FTC complaints Identity theft was the leading con- sumer fraud complaint reported last year, far exceeding gripes about Inter- net auctions and services.~- " , Of the 204,000 complaints com- piled by the Federal Trade Commis- sion; 42 percent involved identity theft, the agency said yesterday. The figures come from a government database that collects complaints from more than 50 law enforcement and consumer groups. Other top consumer fraud com- plaints were problems with Internet auctions (10 percent), involving goods that were delivered late or not at all and items less valuable than advertised; deceptive trial offers and charges from Internet and computer services (7 percent); and shop-at- home and catalog offers that failed to deliver or honor guarantees (6 per- cent). - Compiled from Daily wire reports. Spring/Summer aid application and instructions are on the Web: btp:/www.finaid.unmich.du/ssrffO2 ---------- i 0 0 The Michigan Daily (ISS 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. Subscrip- tions must be prepaid. 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