2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 22, 2002 NATION/WORLD Afghan warlords rival for nower NEWS IN BRIEF - v .1 WASHINGTON (AP) - Growing signs of insta- bility in Afghanistan, where rival warlords are bat- tling for power, threaten to propel the American military into a bigger role in fending off chaos. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who long has argued against a U.S. peacekeeping role in Afghanistan, said for the first time yesterday that he was unsure whether that eventually might be necessary. He said Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai, has good reason to worry about instability because rival factions still are jostling for power, al- Qaida and Taliban fighters remain on the loose and Iran is creating trouble by spiriting weapons across the border in support of factions opposed to Karzai. "It's not a pretty picture," Rumsfeld told a Penta- gon news conference. Highlighting the problem, a U.S. official said the Central Intelligence Agency is warning in a classi- fied analysis that Afghanistan could descend into civil war unless more is done soon to bring stability. The report cites tensions between ethnic Uzbeks and Tajiks in northern Afghanistan - two groups that made up much of the U.S.-supported northern alliance - and in regions where no clear leader took power, said the U.S. official, speaking on the condi- tion of anonymity. More-stable regions include the capital of Kabul, although even there Karzai earlier this week accused high-ranking members of his own adminis- tration of a personal feud that led to the mob killing of the civil aviation and tourism minister at the Kabul airport last week. Karzai's Foreign Minister Abdullah, however, publicly discounted those claims, saying the minister was killed by a crowd of would-be Islamic pilgrims angry over flight delays to Saudi Arabia. Also in Kabul, gunmen opened fire on a British patrol and the British returned fire, a peacekeepers' spokesman said yesterday. It was the second such incident in less than a week. In the north, thousands of ethnic Pashtuns are fleeing, claiming that anti-Taliban commanders have been inciting people to loot their homes and, in some cases, kill Pashtuns, a U.N. spokesman said yesterday. An additional concern for the United States is that some anti-Taliban warlords have tried to create situa- tions in which U.S. firepower is used against rival Afghan forces, making it appear the U.S. military is taking sides in civil conflict. "It's in our interests as a country to take the kinds of steps ... to assist that country in providing a more stable and secure environment," Rumsfeld said: Colombian jets heavly bomb revolutionanes HEADLINES . WORLD JERUSALEM Arafat calls for peace after bloodshed * Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat repeated a call to halt violence yesterday, and his security forces arrested three suspects in the assassination of an Israeli Cabinet minister, one of Israel's conditions for releasing Arafat from a two-month siege. Arafat's West Bank office was among the targets of Israeli air strikes yesterday, the third day of punishing Israeli reprisals for Palestinian attacks. Four Palestinian civilians, three gunmen and an Israeli Arab were killed and two Israeli soldiers were wounded in the day's bloodshed. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in a nationally televised speech and news conference that his government would set up buffer zones to separate Israel and the Palestinian ruled areas to provide security. Palestinian security took a step toward easing tensions by arresting three sus- pects in the Oct. 17 assassination of Israeli Cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi, ful- filling a key Israeli condition for removing the tanks besieging Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah. Sharon spokesman Ranaan Gissin said the three must be put on trial before the blockade would be ended. Israeli air strikes against Palestinian security buildings in the West Bank and Gaza continued until midday. BEIJING Bush fails to dissuade China of missile sales President Bush failed to persuade China yesterday to halt sales of missile technology, an issue of rising importance as the United States fights its war on terrorism. Bush was ending his six-day Asia tour today with a visit to the Great Wall and an appeal to Chinese young people to embrace human rights and reli- gious tolerance. "No nation is exempt from the demands of human dignity" Bush said in a joint news conference yesterday with Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Bush was unable to win China's agreement on halting the sale of missile and nuclear technology to Iran, Pakistan, North Korea and other nations. Iran and North Korea, along with Iraq, make up the "axis of evil" that Bush has targeted for the next phase of his drive to wipe out terrorism. The United States says China, reneging on a pledge in November 2000, helped Pakistan last year with missile expertise and provided equipment or technology to North Korea, Iran and Libya. SAN VICENTE DEL CAGUAN, Colombia (AP) - Military jets flew hundreds of sorties against a major rebel stronghold yesterday, bring- ing Colombia's 38-year civil war into a potentially bloodier phase after the peace process was abrupt- ly halted. Bombs were falling on rebel territory just hours after President Andres Pastrana - angered by a rebel hijacking of a civilian airliner - broke off peace talks and condemned the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. The government ordered 13,000 troops to advance on the rebel stronghold, and three planeloads of counterinsurgency troops landed at an airport in Flo- rencia, a three-hour drive to the west. Army officials said 85 targets were hit in more than 200 sorties against the rebel safe haven, a Switzerland-sized area that was the site of the peace negotiations. The government did not comment on casualties, but there were uncon- firmed reports that the aerial bombardment hit the tiny hamlet of Rubi, killing and injuring civilians. A woman reached by two-way radio in Rubi said a boy about 4 years old and an adult were killed and four people were wounded. The woman, who gave her name only as Adriana, pleaded for medical sup- plies. Officials in San Vicente del Caguan, the rebel zone's main town, said they would try to send an ambulance at daylight. The warplanes' targets included clandestine airstrips and rebettraining camps in the zone, which Pastrana ceded the area to the FARC in November 1998 in an effort to bring the 16,000-strong rebel army to the negotiating table. The rebel haven in southern Colombia is sparsely populated, with about 100,000 people. A top army commander predicted a bloody fight, but there were no signs that military troops had yet entered the zone. "It's dicey, and we will surely suffer casualties, but AP PHOTO Blanca Escandon lies on the road after being shot by rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, at a guerrilla roadblock. we have a moral obligation to win this war," Gen. Euclides Sanchez told Caracol Radio. Residents in San Vicente del Caguan posted white flags at their homes. "The white flags symbolize peace. We, don't want anything to happen," said homemaker Amelia de Ficaro. China's Olympic spending to beautify Beijing The Los Angeles Times To understand why San Diego-based Cubic Transportation Systems has made China a top priority, take a look at the to-do list for the 2008 Summer Olympics. It includes a $1 billion plan to add at least 60 miles of track and 60 stations to Beijing's subway system. For Cubic, which produces high-tech fare-collection systems, that job alone would be comparable to outfitting the entire Los Angeles subway system. As Salt Lake City winds up its Olympic debut, companies such as Cubic are looking ahead to the grand prize: Beijing 2008. Even in the hyped-up, world bound by the five interlocking rings of the Olympics, China is big - very, very big. China's $23-billion budget is more than seven times as large as Salt Lake City's and Sydney's in 2000, more than five times the projected spending for Athens, Greece, in 2004 and 32 times what Los Angeles spent in 1984. The differences in costs are Olympian because Beijing, unlike the other cities, has so far to go to provide the basics. To win the coveted Olympics bid, Chinese officials agreed to spend more than $20 billion just on infrastructure, building an Olympic village with an 80,000-seat sta- dium, tripling the miles of the city's expressways and cleaning up one of the world's most polluted cities. To fulfill those lofty ambitions, China has agreed to turn its capital into a giant construction zone. The $480 million Olympic village - designed by Baltimore urban design company RTKL - is one of 37 Olympic venues spread between Beijing and five other cities. China is spending billions of dollars to divert water from southern China to parched northern China, relo- cating thousands of polluting factories from Beijing to the hinterlands, adding 400 bus lines and investing $3.6 billion in high-tech gadgetry, including a digi- tal network capable of HDTV trans- mission for all Olympic venues. For months, the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee has been enter- taining a stream of foreign delegations. The best opportunities for foreign companies appear to be in project management, construction, transporta- tion and services such as financing, tourism and environmental technology. "China is making all the right moves trying to spur international competi- tion," said Steve Shewmaker, a senior vice president at Cubic. "The time to start talking with Bei- jing about the Olympics is now, not in three or four years," said Patrick Pow- ers, director of China operations for the U.S.-China Business Council, who met with Beijing Mayor Liu Qi, also head of the Olympic Committee , last fall. "They're moving forward with their plans the first half of this year, and there is already significant competition for the committee's attention from major corporations and governments." NAIROBI, Kenya Support withdrawn from Sudan civil war The United States announced yester- day it was suspending efforts to help broker an end to Sudan's nearly two decade civil war after government heli- copter gunships attacked civilians wait- ing for food at a U.N. site, killing at least 17 people. Wednesday's attack on the World Food Program depot in Bieh, in the oil-rich western Upper Nile area, was swiftly condemned by U.N. officials and the United States, which has tried unsuccess- fully in recent months to get Khartoum to halt bombardment of civilian targets. "We don't see how we can pursue (peace efforts) if these kinds of attacks are going to continue," State Depart- ment spokesman Richard Boucher said in Washington. "But we want a full explanation." The Sudanese govern- ment offered no immediate comment about the attack. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Ex-priest sentenced to nine to 10 years A former priest who has become a central figure in a sexual abuse scandal that has shaken Boston's Roman Catholic community was sentenced to the maximum of nine to 10 years yes- terday for fondling a 10-year-old boy. Former priest John Geogan "hid behind his collar" and his position in the church to prey on young boys, Judge Sandra Hamlin said in announc- ing the sentence. She detailed Geoghan's admissions of molesting other children and psycho- logical evaluations citing his lack of concern for his victims and his tenden- cy to blame them for his acts as evi- dence he was not a candidate for rehabilitation. Under the sentence, Geoghan could be eligible for parole in six years. The judge ordered strict monitoring after any later release. CLEVELAND Former Nazi guard's citizenship revoked A federal judge stripped John Dem- janjuk of his U.S. citizenship for the second time yesterday in his 25-year battle with the Justice Department, declaring that "devastating" testimony confirms the retired autoworker was a Nazi death camp guard. The ruling against the 81-year-old Demjanjuk sets in a motion a years- long process that could end in his sec- ond expulsion from the United States. "The government has proven by clear, convincing and unequivocal evidence that defendant assisted in the persecution of civilian populations during World War II," U.S. District Judge Paul Matia said. The Ukrainian immigrant has main- tained that he was a prisoner of war. 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