2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, April 12, 2002 NATION/WORLD Sharon urged to speed withdrawal NEWS IN BRIEF JERUSALEM (AP) - Secretary of State Colin fighting during the offensive, three dozen armed UNITED NATIONS Powell challenged Israeli Prime Minister Ariel men, apparently the last holdouts, surrendered to Sharon's limited withdrawal of troops from Palestin- Israeli troops.rGlobal war crimes tribunal to be established ian areas yesterday, saying President Bush "wants to see more progress." On his way to Jerusalem, Powell said the pace of the Israeli pullback from West Bank cities and vil- lages would be part of a "very long conversation" he would have with Sharon today. They spoke by tele- phone yesterday. Powell is to meet with Yasser Arafat tomorrow. A senior administration official in Washington said Powell intends to warn the Palestinian leader that the United States is prepared to sever ties with him unless he renounces terrorism. "The message is: This is it. Last chance," said the official, speaking only on condition of anonymity. The official cautioned that Powell and Bush will not sign off on the message until the meeting draws closer. During a brief stop in the Jordanian capital of Amman, Powell was asked at a news conference whether the pace of Israel's military withdrawal was an affront to Bush. "I don't see it as an affront;" he said. Still, Powell added, "I think the president has made his position clear: He wants the incursion stopped. He has noted some progress, but he wants to see more progress." In what appeared to be a gesture ahead of Pow- ell's arrival, Israeli forces withdrew from about two dozen small towns and villages on the West Bank. But troops entered the West Bank towns of Dahariyah and Bir Zeit and the Ein Beit Hilmeh refugee camp. Later, they pulled out of Bir Zeit after detaining about 300 people, mainly students in the university town. In the Jenin refugee camp, scene of the deadliest Sharon acknowledged the fighting was causing the United States difficulties, but he refused to call a halt to the incursion. Powell said King Abdullah II of Jordan had offered his country's help in easing the suffering of Palestini- ans in the West Bank once a cease-fire is in place. "People are dying, people are suffering," the king told CNN. He said he offered Powell his kingdom's support in his peace mission, which he called "a make-it or break-it trip." Abdullah urged Powell to increase pressure on Sharon to withdraw his troops and to accept Arafat as "the legitimate leadership and elected president of the Palestinian people," according to a palace state- ment issued after the two-hour meeting with Powell. The king also urged Powell to work toward a detailed peace plan, setting "specific time frames" for a Palestinian state as well as ending the violence and Israeli occupation. Previewing the difficult talks ahead, Powell said, "I go committed to carry forward the president's vision." He said he would press not only for ending the bloodshed, but for "getting a political track start- ed" that would lead to the creation of a secure Pales- tinian state. It is important, Powell said, "to show the Palestin- ian people that there is hope out there, hope for them to have their own state, living side by side in peace with Israel." In Washington, White House spokesman Ari Fleis- cher said that while Israel was withdrawing some troops neither side had yet met conditions outlined by Bush to end hostilities. The world's first permanent war crimes tribunal got the necessary international backing yesterday to come into force on July 1, a milestone hailed by human rights advocates and many nations but strongly opposed by the United States. A dream ever since the United Nations was established over five decades ago, the court became a reality when its founding treaty received the required 60 ratifications. At a brief ceremony at U.N. headquarters, over 500 supporters of the tribunal rose in a standing ovation after 10 nations deposited their ratifications, bringing the number of countries now legally bound to cooperate with the International Criminal Court to 66. "The time is at last coming when humanity no longer has to bear impo- tent witness to the worst atrocities, because those tempted to commit such crimes will know that justice awaits them," U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a video message from Rome, where the treaty was adopted in 1998. "Let.it be a deterrent to the wicked, and a ray of hope for the innocent and helpless." Those hopes were echoed by France, Sweden Denmark and the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, which represents some 1,000 organizations. "Too much of history is the story of wars won and peace lost. Today, peace has won and war has lost," said William Pace, who heads the coalition. AL ANY, N.Y Pataki hoping to win Democratic primary Republican Gov. George Pataki's campaign staff is starting to joke that he just might be able to win a Democratic primary in his bid for re-election. While it's definitely a joke - Pataki got just 27 percent of the Democratic vote in winning a second term in 1998 against weak opposition - what is happening in New York this year is no laughing matter for the Democrats. Though they hold a 2-million-voter enrollment advantage over the Republicans, New York Democrats have watched with growing alarm as Pataki puts together a string of endorsements from unions, minorities and even some liberals - the con- stituencies normally key to Democrats running for high office in New York. This from a governor who won office on a conservative platform of tax cuts and restoration of the death penalty in 1994 when he turned liberal Gov. Mario Cuomo out of office. Pataki received a big boost in popularity after the Sept. 11 attacks, and has also supported gay rights, pushed sweeping gun control measures through the Legislature and successfully lobbied the White House to approve the dredging of PCBs from the Hudson River. * __ rPHOT U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, right, embraces Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres as he arrives at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv yesterday. "The president calls on all the parties to keep working to get them done," Fleischer said. Earlier yesterday, Powell challenged the idea that strong Israeli military action on the West Bank could enhance security from terror. Mirroring an argument pressed by Arab leaders, Powell depicted the Pales- tinians as angry and frustrated. U.S. spies drugged Russian official MOSCOW (AP) - U.S. spies used drugged cook- ies and drinks to break the will of a Russian defense employee and recruit him as an agent, according to new details of Russian security service allegations published by a newspaper yesterday. The Federal Security Service, or FSB, ridiculed the alleged U.S. espionage effort in the report in the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, saying the CIA once delivered secret instructions to their agent in invisible ink that melted away when he used Russian tap water to develop them. "The Americans will never defeat us because they will never figure out that our tap water differs from that in Langley," the city in Virginia where the CIA is based, the newspaper said quoting FSB officials. The FSB, the KGB's main successor, said' Wednes- day that CIA officers posing as embassy officials in Russia and another, unidentified former Soviet republic had tried to recruit an employee at a secret Russian Defense Ministry installation. CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield and the U.S. Embassy in Moscow both declined to comment Wednesday on the allegations. In the two-page report yesterday in Komsomol- skaya Pravda, the FSB elaborated on details of the allegations. It identified the Russian expert as Viktor, 58, a worker of a defense ministry facility near Zhukovsky air base, the Russian air force's top flight test center near Moscow. According to the newspaper, in April 2001 Viktor went to the U.S. Embassy in the unidentified ex- Soviet republic to seek information about a relative that has gone missing abroad. After leaving the embassy, he was found by local police sitting on a garden bench in shock and amnesia. Viktor was brought to Moscow where the FSB con- cluded that the U.S. Embassy officers had slipped him psychotropic drugs to get information out of him. The newspaper said that David Robertson, the Embassy official who met with Viktor, treated him with drinks and cookies while asking him "in-depth" questions about his work. "Within minutes, Viktor felt weakness and light trance," an apparent reaction to drugs, the newspaper reported. Under FSB control, Viktor received instructions in invisible ink allegedly delivered by Yunju Kensinger, reportedly a third secretary in the consular department of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. On one occasion, the WE SOL DBACK ALL OUR BOOKS IN COLLEGE. AND NOW WE OWN A BOOKSTORE. * SELL BACK YOUR BOOKS * message began to melt away when Viktor tried to read it using special tablets and Russian tap water. FSB agents rushed to save it with bottled water, the newspaper said. In the first message, disguised as a juice pack, the alleged U.S. contacts sent him $10,000 in cash along with instructions to provide information about confi- dential documents received by his organization and data on Russia's latest air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles. After the FSB concocted a response, Viktor deliv- ered it to Robertson in the same city where they first met. The newspaper said Viktor later received more cash and instructions from his handlers, but the FSB decided to end the operation after getting enough "factual evidence" of U.S. espionage activities. Komsomolskaya Pravda said Kensinger had already left Moscow - the claim made Wednesday by the Interfax news agency and Russian television. The espionage accusation comes amid renewed U.S.- Russian tensions following a warm spell prompted by Russia's support of the U.S.-led anti-terror campaign. A former KGB spy in London, Mikhail Lyubimov, said the latest espionage allegations showed that the two countries remain interested in spying on each other despite better ties. ISRAEL Continued from Page 1 President Bush's pleas. "The with- drawals he called for are continuing," White House spokesman Ari Fleisch- er said. In the Jenin refugee camp, scene of the deadliest fighting during the offen- sive, three dozen armed men, apparently the last holdouts, surrendered to Israeli troops yesterday. The battle in Nablus ended before dawn Wednesday, when an estimated 100 gunmen - hungry, exhausted and nearly out of ammunition - walked out of an Old City mosque. Brig. Gen. Eyal Schlein, the Israeli army's Jenin division commander, told The Associated Press yesterday night that occasional shooting per- sists in Jenin "and sometimes more than that." "Many of the most wanted have been captured or killed, or were wounded and captured," he said. "The area is messy. There are many explosives, booby-traps. ... But overall, most of what we were looking for, we found. Reporters touring the Jenin camp, which had been off limits to journalists during eight days of combat, saw wide- spread devastation from army bulldozers that had sheared the front walls off homes. But no bodies were seen in the streets yesterday. HussamnSherkawi, director of emergency services in the West Bank, said at least 140 Palestinians have been killed during the Israeli offen- sive. But he said it was impossible to verify death toll estimates because rescue services had not been permit- ted to enter the Jenin camp. An army spokesman, Lt. Col. Olivier Rafowicz, estimated 100 Palestinians had been killed in fighting in Jenin. He denied persistent rumors the army had dug mass graves and said Israelis hadn't removed any bodies. Twenty-eight Israeli soldiers have died in the military campaign, all but five of them in Jenin. Yesterday, Israeli troops in the Jenin camp confiscated footage filmed by an Associated Press Television News cam- eraman. Video footage obtained yesterday by APTN showed Arafat during recent meetings in his Ramallah compound. 5 '0 Arafat's pistol was visible at his waist ac e hment XAednecarv w~ith aides-o WA$H INGTON Worker protections added to pension law The House voted yesterday to add more worker protections to the nation's pension laws in response to the Enron collapse that caused thou- sands of employees to lose their retire- ment savings. The bill, passed on a 255-163 vote, is modeled after President Bush's pension overhaul plan. It would let workers get investment advice from the companies managing their retirement plans, allow workers to sell employer-matched stock in their 401(k) plans after three years and require that notice be given to workers before changes are made to their accounts. Enron workers "are the victims of outdated federal pension laws," said Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), one of the bill's authors. About 42 million Americans hold 401(k) accounts, with $2 trillion in assets. WASH ING TON U.S. loses $70 billion a year to tax evaders For every convicted tax evader like Daniel Bullock, dozens more get away with cheating that costs the U.S. gov- ernment as much as $70 billion a year, the Senate was told yesterday. The testimony of Bullock and other tax evaders before the Senate Finance Committee came as the panel's, top two A white judge appointed by South Africa's apartheid government acquitted the former head of its chemical and bio- logical weapons program of 46 counts of murder, fraud and drug dealing yesterday. Prosecutors, who had accused the judge of blatantly favoring the defen- dant throughout the 2-year trial, said they would appeal, and the ruling African National Congress harshly con- demned the judgment. "It's outrageously bad, and it can't be the end of this case," ANC spokesman Smuts Ngonyama said. As the leaders of the apartheid gov- ernment's shadowy chemical warfare program, Dr. Wouter Basson, dubbed "Dr. Death" by the local media, was accused of directing the former regime's horrifying and surreal efforts to destroy its opponents. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. senators, Democrat Max Baucus and Republican Charles Grassley, intro- duced legislation intended to stem a tide of U.S. companies moving their legal headquarters to Bermuda to escape taxes. "We've got a problem," said Baucus, of Montana, who pointed out that the vast majority of individual taxpayers will do their duty by Monday's income tax filing deadline. "Everyone should help pull the wagon. ... Otherwise, we'll reach the point where honest tax- payers will feel like chumps." 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