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NATION/WORLD
Oil pnces increase
following export cuts
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LONDON (AP) - Oil prices surged yesterday
in a fresh wave of anxiety after Iraq cut off crude
exports to demonstrate support for the Palestini-
ans in their struggle with Israel.
At the same time, labor strife in Venezuela
squeezed that country's oil shipments to a trickle.
The combined effect of the supply interruptions
added to existing concerns stoked by tensions in
the Middle East, home to two-thirds of the
world's proven oil reserves.
Crude futures prices spiked as much as $1.44 a
barrel, or six percent, in London, and $1.02 in
New York.
Some energy analysts played down the risk
that major, long-term supply disruptions
might result. Analysts suggested other mem-
bers of the Organization of Petroleum Export-
ing countries, which pump a third of all
crude, would intervene to offset a major
shortfall in supplies.
Leaders of the oil producers' group
expressed alarm at the latest developments.
"After the announcement of Iraq to suspend
exports and the effect of Venezuela's exports,
we could go directly to an oil crisis," OPEC
Secretary-General Ali Rodriguez told
Venezuela's Radio Caracas Radio in an inter-
view from Qatar.
Iraq and Venezuela jointly export about 4.5 mil-
lion barrels a day, or about six percent of global
supplies. President Saddam Hussein announced
that Iraq would suspend oil exports starting yester-
day for 30 days or until Israel withdraws from
Palestinian territories. His unilateral cutoff could
put more pressure on other Arab leaders to move
against Israel in retaliation for its offensive.
KBUL, Afghanistan
Attack on interim government kills four
A bomb tore through a crowd lining a road to welcome Afghanistan's defense
minister yesterday, killing at least four people and injuring 18 in what officials
said was another attempt to destabilize the interim government.
Defense Minister Mohammed Fahim was not hurt in the bombing in the east-
ern city of Jalalabad, which an aide called an assassination attempt.
Elsewhere in eastern Afghanistan, at least one person was killed and four
were wounded yesterday when poppy farmers fired on government offi-
cials beginning an ambitious campaign to eradicate the opium-producing
flowers.
Meanwhile, international peacekeepers said Kabul police discovered four more
Chinese-made rockets aimed toward a camp housing German and Danish troops
at the site used to launch two missiles over the weekend.
No one was injured in the weekend attack, but peacekeepers said they believed
it was part of a campaign to damage the interim Afghan administration of Hamid
Karzai ahead of the loya jirga, a national grand council that meets in June to
select a new government.
Fahim had traveled to Jalalabad yesterday to meet with local commanders and
tribal leaders and discuss, among other issues, poppy eradication.
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Traders buy and sell Light Sweet Crude Oil at the trading pits
of the New York Mercantile Exchange yesterday, after oil
prices surged when Iraq cut off crude exports.
Arab leaders put pressure on Powell sCHICAGO
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CASABLANCA, Morocco - Arab
leaders pressured Secretary of State
Colin Powell yesterday to do more to
halt Israel's military sweep in the West
Bank despite President Bush's fresh
call for a swift pullback. "I meant what
I said," the president declared in the
United States.
"It's a start," White House press sec-
retary Ari Fleischer said.
"I hope this is not a little bit of this
and a little bit of that, but a pullback,"
Powell said, referring to Israel's mixed
signals. Still, he called it an encourag-
ing sign. "I hope it's the beginning of
further withdrawals," he added.
Powell rejected any suggestion that
the Bush administration was giving
Sharon more time. "He's not been get-
ting a free ride," he said.
The secretary of state's comments
came after he held a critical 2-hour
meeting with Crown Prince Abdullah
of Saudi Arabia, whose land-for-peace
proposal to Israel has been overshad-
owed by Israel's thrust into the West
Bank and by the heated Arab response.
Abdullah is scheduled to see Bush at
the end of the month at the president's
Texas ranch.
Earlier, after meeting the king of
Morocco, Powell said he had spoken to
Bush and "he is expecting efforts on
the part of the Israeli authorities to
start bringing this operation to some
conclusion."
He said he also had asked the king
to counsel Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat to halt violence against Israelis.
The secretary said he hopes to see
Arafat later in the week.
Mohammed, the first leader to meet
with Powell as the secretary began a
trip aimed at halting the violence
between Israelis and Palestinians,
assured Powell that Morocco will be
ready to act on Abdullah's proposal
"without any prior conditions" as soon
as Israeli troops withdraw from the
West Bank and free Arafat from con-
finement in Ramallah.
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In Knoxville, Tenn., Bush said
Mideast peace will require leadership
by both sides, as Powell was urging
Arabs to help him get a cease-fire and
start Israel and the Palestinians toward
peacemaking.
"The United States is firmly com-
mitted to achieving peace," Bush said.
"I meant what I said about withdrawal
without delay, and I mean what I say
when I call upon the Arab world to
strongly condemn against terrorist
activities."
Also yesterday, special envoy Antho-
ny Zinni met with Sharon and restated
demands for an immediate withdrawal
from the Palestinian territories.
ISRAEL
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holed up inside, and the violence
threatened the delicate ties between
the Vatican and the Jewish state.
In the West Bank's largest city,
Nablus, dozens of gunmen surren-
dered to Israeli troops while scores
more lay wounded on blankets on a
mosque floor.
Some of the men were dying, and
doctors lacking even the most basic
supplies operated on others without
anesthetics.
Israeli helicopters also pounded
the Jenin refugee camp with mis-
siles, and bulldozers flattened
homes as gunmen retreated. Israeli
officials estimated more than 100
Palestinians have been killed in the
camp in recent days.
Israeli Brig. Gen. Eyal Shline
said the armed men "seem to have
decided to fight to the last, to make
the battle as bloody as possible."
He added that several blew them-
selves up in suicide attacks on sol-
diers.
Addressing Parliament, Sharon said
Israel's assault was a response to a "mur-
derous insanity which has taken hold of
our Palestinian neighbors."
He accused Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat of heading a "regime
of terror" and said Israel would
press on "until it has dismantled
Arafat's terror infrastructure and the
murderers hiding in different places
have been arrested."
WASHINGTON
Cuts to lower income
tax for middle class
Another way the rich are different:
They pay the lion's share of the nation's
income tax bill. The wealthiest five per-
cent pay more than half the taxes, while
people in the bottom half pay just four
percent.
The annual federal tax deadline for
most of America is next Monday.
Two-income households are increas-
ing, putting more families in the top
slice of taxpayers. Millions of small
businesses and partnerships are up
there, too, paying personal instead of
corporate income taxes. Many other
people were boosted by the 1990s stock
market boom.
President Bush's big tax cut will pre-
vent the wealthy from paying an even
greater share in coming years. But key
provisions, such as the gradual dou-
bling of the child tax credit, will reduce
or eliminate income taxes for many
middle-income people, while the rich
won't qualify.
BOSTON
Priest romoted sex
with chdren in 1979
The Archdiocese of Boston knew
that one of its priests, now accused
of rape, spoke in favor of sex
between men and boys at a 1979
meeting that apparently led to the
founding of a national group advo-
cating the practice, according to
court documents released yesterday.
Staggered by a rapid loss of business following the Enron scandal, Arthur
Andersen LLP announced yesterday it is laying off about 7,000 employees, or
more than a quarter of its U.S. work force.
The layoffs, which Andersen had warned last month were inevitable, come with
the firm's reputation in tatters, its overseas network disintegrating and dozens of
U.S. companies replacing it as their auditor.
In a statement, Andersen said its audit practice and administrative services will
bear the brunt of the cuts, which amount to a little more than a quarter of its U.S.
work force of 26,000.
The 89-year-old firm employs about 5,300 people at its headquarters in down-
town Chicago, where heavy layoffs are expected.
"No one can believe this is happening," said Mimosa Unno, 22, who works in
the audit division in Chicago.
The company said no breakout of planned cuts was yet available. Employees in
Chicago were told in an e-mail to check their voice mail yesterday night to learn if
they should report to work today.
The documents also show archdio-
cese officials knew of sexual mis-
conduct allegations against the
priest, the Rev. Paul Shanley, since
at least 1967, but continued to allow
him access to children in different
parishes for three decades.
The documents also show that
archdiocese officials had been told
as early as 1977 about Shanley's
teachings on sex between men and
boys.
He continued to serve as a parish
priest for several years.
NEW YORK
Times takes record
number of Pulitzers
The New York Times won a record
seven Pulitzer Prizes yesterday, includ-
ing the public service award for "A
Nation Challenged," a daily stand-alone
section.onrthe-aftermath ofthe ept 11
terrorist attacks and the war in
Afghanistan.
The Washington Post and the Los
Angeles Times each won two of
American journalism's most presti-
gious awards in a year when eight of
the 14 prizes went to coverage of the
attacks and their aftermath.
The most Pulitzers won by one
publication in any previous year was
three, a feat accomplished by several
newspapers, said Seymour Topping,
the prizes' administrator. No other
single news event had such wide-
spread representation in the 85-year
history of the awards, he said.
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