2A -The Michigan Daily -Thursday, February 7, 2002 NATION/WORLD S Stimulus proposals die in Senate WASHINGTON (AP) - Republi- cans sought to blame Senate Democrat- ic leader Tom Daschle for the collapse yesterday of the economic stimulus bill. Democrats said the true culprit was an insatiable GOP appetite for tax cuts that favor business and the wealthy. The two sides traded shots after the Senate failed to muster the 60 votes necessary to end debate on competing GOP and Democratic proposals. That guaranteed gridlock and led Daschle to remove the issue from consideration. The Senate approved a straightfor- ward 13-week extension of benefits for the unemployed, a measure that now goes to the House. Despite bipartisan cooperation that followed the Sept. 11 terror attacks, pro- posals to boost the economy were mired in politics from the beginning as the two sides could not agree on the right mix of tax cuts and government spending. Daschle, the nation's highest-rank- ing elected Democrat, was portrayed by Republican leaders as unwilling to compromise even after the House twice passed GOP-written stimulus packages and President Bush has pushed for one for months as a tonic to the recession. "Tom Daschle decided to thwart the will of the Senate majority and kill further consideration of an economic stimulus bill that would have actually helped millions of Americans," said House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill). "I think that is a real shame." It was Daschle's legislation pro- viding $69 billion in stimulus this year that got 56 votes yesterday, which represented a Senate majori- ty but fell short of the 60-vote pro- cedural threshold. Suspect named in Pearl kidnapping KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - A British-born Islamic militant freed by India in a hijacking two years ago has emerged as a key suspect in the kid- napping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, Pakistani police said yesterday. Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, 27, also known as Sheik Omar Saeed, is believed by police to have provided pictures of Pearl in captivity. They were sent to news organizations five days after the 38- year-old reporter disappeared in Karachi. Police said three people had been arrested in Karachi for sending the e-mails, and one of them claimed he received the pictures from Saeed. Police also raided houses in the eastern city of Lahore and detained some of Saeed's relatives - a common police tactic here to pressure criminal suspects to surrender. Pearl, the Journal's South Asian bureau chief, has not been seen since he left for an appointment Jan. 23 with a Muslim contact at a popular Karachi restaurant. Employees of the restaurant did not recall seeing Pearl thai night.. Several people have been identified as suspects in the kidnapping, but police said they believe Saeed is the key figure. He was jailed in India for kidnapping foreign tourists in Kashmir. However, he and others were freed by India on Dec. 31, 1999, in exchange for passengers aboard an Indian Airlines jet that was hijacked to Kanda- har, Afghanistan. Police now believe they are making significant progress in solving the case, which has been deeply embarrassing to President Pervez Mushar- raf's government. Musharraf is expected to meet President Bush at the White House next week. "All I can tell you is that we are making, we have made, significant progress, and we hope to recover him soon," Karachi Police Chief Sayed Kamal Shah told Associated Press Television News. "We are doing our best. We are working day and night, around the clock. When I say around the clock I really mean it. We hope to (resolve) the case soon, Inshallah (God willing)," Shah said. NEWS INBRIEF WASHINGTON Senators urge special panel for Enron Immediately after he was hired, an Enron attorney became so concerned about obscure partnerships the company was uwing to conceal debt that he raised a string of objections in an attempt to rein them in. The uneasiness of ex-Enron lawyer Jordan Mintz is detailed in five memos released on the eve of a House committee hearing where the other star witness will be former Enron chief executive Jeff Skilling, who let the partnerships proceed. In the Senate, Democratic Sen. Ernest Hollings and Republican Ted Stevens urged their leaders to set up a single select committee for the chamber's investiga- tion because so many panels are investigating Enron. "'The issues range from consumer fraud, artificial energy price spikes, the loss of the Enron employees' pension fund' to 'SEC regulation and compliance,"' stated the letter to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Minority Leader Trent Lott. Four Enron executives with knowledge of the partnerships were to be witnesses today at the House hearing, but will invoke their Fifth Amendment right not to tes- tify, said Ken Johnson, spokesman for the House Energy and Commerce Commit- tee. The four, who will all be present, include Andrew Fastow, who is at the center of off-the-books deals involving the partnerships, said Johnson. ALEXANDRIA, Va. Walker Lindh denied bail by federal judge A federal judge ordered John Walker Lindh held in custody pending trial yesterday as prosecutors revealed e-mails they said showed the U.S.- born Taliban felt clear "hostility toward his country." Magistrate Judge W. Curtis Sewell denied bail after concluding that the 20-year- old Lindh "has every incentive to flee" and posed a danger to society. Ruling from the bench rather than taking time to deliberate, Sewell rejected Lindh's request to be released in the custody of his parents - who had pleaded in vain for their son to return home from overseas. The government and defense used the hearing in federal court here to present widely divergent portrayals of the young Californian who left home and turned his life to Islam. "He is not a dangerous person," lead defense lawyer James Brosnahan said of his client. "He never had anything to do with terrorist activities." Brosnahan said Lindh fought with Afghanistan's ruling Taliban against the oppo- sition northern alliance, not knowing that would eventually put him against fellow Americans. 6 0N 101.9 Fd presents Not Actual Size ®J & C Ferrara Co., Inc. Give Her a Kiss for Valentine's Day This beautiful Kiss is crafted from sterling silver, solid 14 karat gold or a combination of the two. Available in several sizes with or without diamonds. 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The large number of vehicles trapped in the avalanche raised fears that an aid convoy had been buried, but U.N. and Red Cross officials said there was no immediate indication their vehicles were involved. WASHINGTON Al-Qaia remains a threat at Olympics The director of the CIA said yester- day that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist group remains a serious threat, interested in striking "high-profile" American targets including the Olympics that open tomorrow in Salt Lake City. George Tenet, facing tough questions about Sept. 11, also acknowledged that the CIA never will be able to foresee all attacks. "We know they will continue to plan, we know they will hurt us again," Tenet said. "We have to minimize their ability to do so because there is no perfection in this business." In his first testimony to Congress since the attacks'on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Tenet outlined a wide range of threats against the United States and said al-Qaida remains the most immedi- ate. PIPER, Kan. Teacher protests lax ruling on plagiarism High school teacher Christine Pelton wasted no time after discovering that nearly a fifth of her biology students had plagiarized their semester projects from the Internet. She had received her rural Kansas district's backing before when she accused students of cheating, and she expected it. again this tim aer filing the 28 sophomores. Her principal and superintendent agreed: It was plagiarism and the stu- dents should get a zero for the assign- ment. After parents complained, the Piper School Board ordered her to go easier on the guilty. Pelton resigned in protest in an episode that some say reflects a national decline in integrity. "This kind of thing is happening every day around the country," she said. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 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