2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 15, 2002 NATION/WORLD 0 Heavy KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. warplanes pounded terrorist hide-outs in eastern Afghanistan yesterday in bombing raids aimed at striking Osama bin Laden's die-hard support- ers, and the United Nations called on donor nations to step up aid to rebuild the country. The Zawar region along the border with Pakistan, where al-Qaida and Tal- iban holdouts are believed to have taken refuge in a complex of mountain caves, has been under air assault for nearly two weeks. The attacks are the heaviest since the campaign against the Tora Bora cave complex ended last month. The tempo of the bombing in Zawar picked up with daylight raids Sunday and continued yesterday. The bombing was so intense that it rattled windows in Khost, a town about 20 miles away. Civilians living near the bombing zone were fleeing and said that many people had been killed and wounded by bombs. At the Pentagon, spokesman Rear Adm. John Stufflebeem said bombing in recent days had destroyed about 60 buildings and closed off 50 caves at Zawar. He said military planners were ending their focus on the area in the ombing' hunt for intelligence on al-Qaida and bin Laden, chief suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks. "It's now time to go look elsewhere," he said. In the capital, Kabul, where fighting ended in November after the Taliban militia fled, the spokesman for U.N. Afghanistan envoy Lakhdar Brahimi beseeched nations who have pledged aid money to Afghanistan to come through "immediately, not next year." "It is time for the international com- munity to stop talking and start deliv- ering help," Ahmed Fawzi said. "This country needs millions of dollars tomorrow. Otherwise, there will be no country when the billions are ready." He said donor nations have agreed to contribute $20 million, but as of Dec. 31 only $2 million had been handed over. Some 210,000 civil ser- vants and 25,000 police officers have not been paid in months, he said. Pakistan yesterday pledged to con- tribute $100 million to the reconstruc- tion of its war-ruined neighbor and reopened its embassy in Kabul, moves praised by the United Nations. "The role of Pakistan is an extreme- ly important one in the future of this region," Fawzi said. "Pakistan and Afghanistan have had a turbulent his- seals off 50 caves NEWS IN BRIEF TULKAREM, West Bank Bomb kills Palestinian militia leader@" A Palestinian militia leader who boasted of shooting Israelis was killed when a bomb exploded as he emerged from his West Bank hide-out and walked along a quiet street yesterday. Hours later and close by, Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli and wounded another in a roadside ambush, security sources said. No one claimed responsibility for either attack, which pointed to a renewed cycle of retaliatory violence that has marked the conflict in and around Tulkarem since the Palestinian uprising began nearly 16 months ago. Yesterday's violence further undermined U.S. truce efforts, and it was not clear whether U.S. mediator Anthony Zinni would return to the region this week as planned. Palestinians accused Israel of planting the bomb that went off exactly as mili- tia leader, Raed Karmi, 27, strode past on a residential street that bordered a cemetery. The bomb sprayed Karmi with shrapnel, leaving a cavity on the road- side and a pool of blood on the blacktop where Karmi died. Without confirming or denying involvement, Israel issued a statement short- ly after the explosion saying Karmi was responsible for the shooting deaths of nine Israelis. WASHINGTON Doctors pronounce Bush in good conditionf "' rPvOT Talib Khan, an anti-Taliban soldier, stands as smoke from a U.S. bomb rises nearby to caves in Zawar, Afghanistan. tory in the recent past. They are com- ing to terms with that history today." In other developments: The bodies of six Marines have been returned to the United States as the search continues for the seventh lost in last week's air crash in Pakistan, U.S. Defense Department spokes- woman Victoria Clarke said. The U.S. military is considering stopping around-the-clock anti-terror- ism patrols that fighter jets have been flying over American cities since the Sept. 11 attacks, defense officials said. There have been more than 13,000 flights costing more than $324 million. Fugitive captured at Mexican resort President Bush's fainting - blamed by the White House on a pretzel - should have no long-term consequences for his health, doctors say. The medical experts say his good physical condition may have contributed to the incident. Bush's physician, Dr. Richard Tubb, said the president began coughing while eating a pretzel on Sunday, stimulating a nerve that slowed his heart rate and caused him to lose consciousness briefly. Following his physical last August, Bush was pronounced in outstanding health. He exercises vigorously and regularly, and some experts say his type of faint may be more likely in people in good shape because their heart rates and blood pressure already are low. A sudden drop in blood pressure can cause fainting by reducing blood flow to the brain. The president was feeling better and back at work yesterday, beginning a two-day trip to the Midwest and Louisiana. "My mother always said, 'When you're eating pretzels, chew before you swallow,"' Bush said. "Always listen to your mother." For Bush, 55, the main consequences appear to be a scrape on his left cheek the size of a half dollar and a bruise on his lower lip from falling off a couch. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A man on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for allegedly killing his wife and three children and dumping their bodies into the Pacific was captured at a beach resort in Mexico, where he was living in a grass hut, the FBI said yes- terday. Authorities tracked down former Ypsilanti Town- ship President Christian Longo on a tip from a vaca- tioner who met him in Mexico and then recognized his picture on the FBI's website after she returned home to Canada, said Charles Mathews, FBI agent in charge for Oregon. Longo, 27, surrendered peacefully to about 20 FBI agents and Mexican police Sunday night in Tulum, about 60 miles from Cancun, the FBI said. Longo, who has a history of petty crime and debt, had been on the run since the bodies of his wife and children were found in shallow areas of the Oregon coast in December. He had been put on the Most Wanted list on Friday. Investigators have not said how the victims died and have not given a motive for the slayings. Longo agreed to return voluntarily to the United States, and was flown by the FBI to Houston, where he was jailed while he awaits his return to Oregon to face aggravated murder charges. By volunteering to return to the United States, Longo apparently avoided the sometimes sticky issue of extradition from Mexico and the death penalty. Mexico has no death penalty and does not extra- dite fugitives who might face a death sentence. Lincoln County District Attorney Bernice Barnett would not say yesterday whether she will seek the death penalty. Longo is accused in the December slayings of MaryJane Longo, 35, and their children: Zachary, 4, Sadie Ann, 3, and Madison, 2. Their bodies were found in Alsea Bay near Waldport and at a marina at Yaquina Bay at Newport. MaryJane Longo's father, Jim Baker of Traverse City, said he breathed a sigh of relief when he learned of Longo's capture. Baker said the delay in catching Longo had been difficult for his other children. "I was so busy taking care of things about my daughter that I'd pretty much blocked out thinking "I knew they'd get him eventualy." - Jim Baker Victim's father about him, but my kids wanted him caught. They wanted him to pay for what he did to our family," Baker said. "I knew they'd get him eventually. I feel very good about it." Longo was arrested at a place described by Math- ews as "a beach camp of very modest resources" in Tulum, a spot famed for its Mayan ruins. Longo's fate was sealed on Dec. 27, when he met a woman from the Montreal area in Cancun, accord- ing to the FBI. Longo identified himself as Brad but later said his name was Mike, Mathews said. The Canadian woman, whose name was not released, later saw his picture on the Internet and called the FBI. 41 U U Traveling together has 'neverbeen better ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Anf-India. m*.n arrested in Pakistan Pakistani police arrested hundreds more Islamic militants and sealed dozens of their offices yesterday in a crackdown on anti-India extremists as India refused to pull back troops from their tense border until militant opera- tions are stopped. Pakistan also said it would keep hun- dreds of thousands of troops along the frontier, prolonging a monthlong stand- off between the two nuclear powers. More than 1,500 extremists have been arrested since Saturday, when President Gen. Pervez Musharraf banned five militant organizations - including two accused of terrorism in Indian-controlled Kashmir, said an inte- rior ministry official speaking on condi- tion of anonymity. About 800 activists were arrested, with other arrests occurring in Sindh and the North West Frontier provinces, the official said yesterday. SAN VICENTE DEL CAGUAN, Colombia Columbian rebels begin peace talks Colombia's government and main leftist rebel group agreed yesterday to resume peace talks, diplomats and a U.N. envoy said, overcoming an impasse that threatened to plunge the country into a new round of fighting. France's Ambassador to Colombia, Daniel Parfait, read a statement saying that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, had dropped its objections to returning to peace talks that were paralyzed since October. He said President Andres Pastrana had signed off on the agreement, reached with the help of a U.N. envoy, Catholic Church delegates, and ambas- sadors from 10 countries. The government had earlier set a deadline of 9:30 p.m. (EST) deadline for rebels to agree to a resume the peace process or troops would move to retake their safe haven in southern Colombia. CHICAGO Head injuries linked to risk of depression Concussions and other head injuries in early adulthood may significantly raise the risk of depression decades later, a study of World War II veterans found. The study has disturbing implica- tions for football and hockey players, motorcyclists and others who have taken blows to the head. Other research has shown that head trauma patients may be prone to depression shortly after suffering their injuries. But the new.findings suggest that the risk persists even 50 years later. The study involved 1,718 veterans hospitalized for various ailments dur- ing the war and questioned 50 years later. 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