2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 5, 2002 NATION/WORLD Sixteen killed in Israeli retaliation RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Israel sent warplanes and tanks against Palestinian targets yesterday, killing the wife and three children of a Hamas militant in what the military said was a mistake. In all, 16 Palestinians died in retaliatory raids. The multiple strikes in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip followed a Cabinet decision Sunday to intensify military action after Israel was left reeling from Palestinian bombing and shooting attacks that killed 22 Israelis over the weekend. After nightfall, Israeli F-16 war- planes bombed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's headquarters com- pound in Bethlehem, Palestinian officials said. Four Palestinians passing by the compound were wounded, doctors said. The building had been evacuated for days in expectation of an Israeli attack. Witnesses said the warplanes set two security buildings on fire. Palestinian security official Ahmed Abdel Rah- man condemned the attack, calling it "dangerous escalation." The Israeli military said the attacks were a "response to murderous attacks of the past few days." "We are in a war over our home and the war is horrible," Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told parlia- ment, vowing Israel will not suc- cumb to what he has described as a relentless campaign of Palestinian terror. Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian as they check his identity following an exchange of fire between troops in the West Bank yesterday. "I am sure in the end that we will win and peace will come to this home,' he said. Sharon said the Palestinians must absorb punishment to learn that terror- ism does not pay. In Washington, Secretary of State Colin Powell praised a proposal by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to host a summit meeting between Sharon and Arafat. Mubarak, who is in Wash- ington, said he hoped such a meeting might "change the atmosphere." It's an interesting idea," said Powell. But he said a decision ultimately was up to Sharon and Arafat. NEWS IN BRIEF~ 'HEALIN S " AROUND t..- Jusicesdeny free access to power grids The Supreme Court yesterday upheld federal rules intended to give people choices for electricity service, but rejected arguments by Enron Corp., for even freer access to the nation's power grids. The justices, in a case involving states' rights and federal authority over electricity markets, also turned back an argument by nine states that the gov- ernment had overstepped its authority when it directed utilities to open power lines to competitors. Enron, which before its bankruptcy was one of the nation's top electricity traders, had maintained that federal regulators had not given power marketers the same access to electricity grids as held by traditional, state-regulated utilities. The states in presentations before the court Oct. 3, before the severity of Enron's troubles was publicly known, said the Federal Energy Regulatory Com- mission had usurped the states' traditional authority to regulate retail prices when it opened the wholesale power grids to competition in 1996. But the Justice Department, speaking on behalf of the commission, had argued that the commission pursued a balanced approach that allowed competitors access to power lines, but left retail market issues to states. LaFAYETTE, Ga. Lake in Georgia drained in hunt for bodies * Authorities began draining a three-acre lake yesterday in their search for bodies near a crematory where more than 300 corpses have already been discovered. Pipes drew enough water out to drop the lake level by 6 inches, authorities said. They estimate the lake outside Tri-State Crematory is 8 feet deep at its deepest point. Authorities said they will probably spend more than a week dredging the dry lake bed for human remains. A skull and a torso were discovered in the lake last month. So far, 339 rotting corpses have been discovered dumped in pits, left in sheds and stacked in vaults at the facility. Crematory operator Ray Brent Marsh is in jail on 118 charges of theft by decep- tion for allegedly taking payment to cremate the dead and instead passing-off cement powder and dirt as ashes. Investigators have said Marsh told them the incinerator was broken. But yesterday, authorities disclosed for the first time that the incinerator is working properly. State emergency agency spokeswoman Lisp Ray said the machine's manufacturer successfully tested it last week. Leave a Lasting HEY MICHIGAN WOLVERINES, MAKE YOUR CLIMB TO THE TOP AWHOLE LOT SHORTER. START YOUR CAREER OFF AT A HIGHER LEVEL. P ISTINA, Yugos'av'a Kosovo lawmakers approve president Amid thunderous applause, moderate ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova became Kosovo's first president yester- day, claiming the right to govern beside the United Nations and NATO and promising to push for independence. In one round of open balloting, the province's lawmakers overwhelming- ly approved a power-sharingsdeal that sealed the election of president and government in the southern Yugoslav province after a months- long deadlock. Clutching a bouquet after the vote, Rugova joined hands with the newly elected prime minister, Bajram Rexhepi, a senior official of a rival party whose chief led the ethnic Albanian rebel group that fought Serb forces in the late 1990s. "We will jointly work for a free, democratic, peaceful, prosperous and independent Kosovo," Rugova said. ZW, Afghanlstan Mghan earthquake leaves hundreds dead A powerful earthquake sent a cliff tumbling onto a village in northern Afghanistan, crushing houses and killing at least 100 people, officials said yesterday. The 7.2-magnitude quake struck Sun- day afternoon, rattling buildings across six countries of Central and South Asia. Dozens were injured in Afghanistan and. Pakistan but early reports had put the death toll at only one - in Kabul. However, communications in northern Afghanistan are primitive and it can take days for reports to emerge. Survivors in this remote community in the Hindu Kush mountains north of Kabul pointed to the sheered-off cliff that had roared down on their valley minutes after the earth stopped rocking. The landslide buried some 100 homes and blocked a river. NEW YORK Author drops out of Pulitzer judging post Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who recently admitted copying pas- sages from other works in one of her best-selling books, has withdrawn from judging the Pulitzer Prizes next month. Pulitzer board administrator Sey- mour Topping said yesterday that Goodwin "decided not to participate" when the board meets April 4 and 5 to choose the 21 prizes for arts and jour- nalism work done last year. In a March 3 letter to board chairman John Carroll, the historian said "because I am so distracted by the media focus on my work, I do not feel capable of giving the considerable time needed to make the proper judgments." The Pulitzers, journalism's highest honor, are awarded by Columbia Uni- versity on the recommendation of the 18-member board, which considers nominations from Pulitzer juries. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 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