2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 22, 2003 NATION WORLD Bush pushes allies for war support WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush yester- day scolded world leaders who are demanding more time to search Iraq for illegal arms, and a top U.S. diplomat warned that war is fast approaching as America's only option. "This business about more time - how much time do we need to see clearly that he's not disarm- ing?" Bush said, acknowledging frustration with both Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and reluctant U.S. allies like France and Germany. "Surely our friends have learned lessons from the past. Surely, we have learned how this man deceives and delays," Bush said. "This looks like a rerun of a bad movie, and I'm not interested in watching it." The chiding was part of an administration-wide effort to counter rising opposition to war that could jeopardize Bush's fragile anti-Saddam coalition. With tens of thousands of US. troops massed near Iraq, the president is expected to decide in a matter of weeks whether to end diplomatic efforts and wage war. "Our other options are just about exhausted at this point," said Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage in a Washington speech cleared by the White House. "This regime has very little time left to undo the legacy of 12 years. There is no sign, there is not one sign that the regime has any intent to comply fully" with the United Nations. France complicated Bush's task by telling the United Nations Security Council there is no reason yet for military action, hinting it may veto any reso- lution authorizing an attack. Other nations - including Russia, Germany, China and Chile - have backed the French contention that U.N. inspections are starting to work and Iraq can be dis- armed peacefully. "I think the sense of the council is that the major- ity is against military action," Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador, Gennady Gatilov, told The Associated Press. Britain, America's closest ally, is the only major military power committed to joining the United States. Other countries with smaller armies, such as Australia, Canada and Bulgaria, could play sup- porting roles in a "coalition of the willing" that Bush has pledged to lead if the United Nations won't join him. Turning up the heat on allies, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer warned anew that the United Nations' very relevancy is dependent on its ability to disarm Iraq. The Bush administration says Iraq is hiding weapons of mass destruction beneath the desert and in mobile facilities. Though no proof has been made public, Armitage said the 16 empty chemical warheads discovered recently in Iraq are the tip of the iceberg. "Where are the other 29,984? Because that's how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. Special Commission estimated he had, and he's never accounted for," Armitage said. KUWAIT CITY American civilians in Kuwait shot A gunman ambushed two Americans driving near a U.S. military base yester- day in Kuwait, killing one and wounding another in what U.S. officials branded a terror attack. The shooting was the first assault on U.S. civilians in Kuwait and the third on Americans since October in the oil-rich emirate, where pro-American sentiment is usually strong and where thousands of US. troops are assembling for a possible war on Iraq. The victims - civilian contractors working for the U.S. military - were trav- eling in a four-wheel-drive Toyota when they came under a hail of bullets. The U.S. Embassy identified the man killed as Michael Rene Pouliot, 46, of San Diego, an employee of a software development company, Tapestry Solutions. Tapestry identified the injured man as another employee, David Caraway, a senior software engineer. He was in stable condition in a Kuwait hospital after surgery to remove bullets, including two from his chest. He also had arm and thigh wounds, a hospital offi- cial said. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. US. and Kuwaiti officials said they believed a single gunman fired a Kalashnikov assault rifle at the vehicle. The attacker then fled. ' WASHINGTON Labs falsifying test results, Justice Dept. says Private laboratories are increasingly being caught falsifying test results for water supplies, petroleum products, underground tanks and soil, ham- pering the government's ability to ensure Americans are protected by envi- ronmental laws, investigators say. The fraud has caused millions of people to fill their cars with substan- dard gasoline that may have violated clean air standards, or to drink water not properly tested for safety, the officials told The Associated Press. In addition, officials making decisions at hazardous waste cleanup sites have relied on companies that fraudulently tested air, water and soil sam- ples. "In recent years, what has come to our attention is that outside (non-gov- ernment) labs are oftentimes in bed with the people who hired them, and conspired to commit environmental crime," said David Uhlmann, chief of the Justice Department's environmental crimes section. The EPA's watchdog against fraud, Inspector General Nikki Tinsley, has called the rise of lab fraud a disturbing trend. Iraqis pass a giant poster of President Saddam Hussein holding a rifle in Baghdad's Alawi district. The Bush administration is turning up the heat on allies to support a war in Iraq. Spanish in Latin America Buenos Aires, Argentina * Santiago, Chile Spanish Courses Year-round start dates, all Spanish levels. Academic Credit Chile Summer and Semester Argentina Programs, all levels. [nternships Work in an Argentine Volunteer or Chilean company. 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The data are part of the bureau's first statistics on race and ethnicity since results from the 2000 census were released nearly two years ago. "This undoubtedly is a benchmark with powerful symbolic value," said Roberto Suro, director of the Pew His- panic Center, a research group. "But it doesn't automatically translate into any tangible benefits for Latinos." Due to high birth and immigration rates, the Hispanic population more than doubled during the 1990s, the 2000 census found. Many new arrivals were drawn by the booming U.S. economy and settled in areas in the South and Midwest that previous- ly attracted few Latinos. Democrats and Republicans, aware of the surge, have placed increased empha- sis on attracting Hispanic voters. Last year, the two top Democratic candidates for governor of Texas debated in Spanish. Also last year, the Republican National Committee began sending representatives to citi- zenship ceremonies to register His- panic immigrants. Cecilia Munoz, vice president at the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group, said politicians must do more than ask for support. "The question is what they intend to do with that' she said. "Are they just going to offer platitudes in Spanish, or offer real public policy suggestions?" Whites remain the largest single pop- ulation group, numbering 199.3 million in July 2001, or nearly 70 percent of all U.S. residents, according to the Census Bureau. Hispanics comprise 13 percent of the U.S. population, which grew to 284.8 million in July 2001. That's up from 35.3 million, or 12.5 percent of the country's 281.4 million residents in April2000. MEXICO CITY Civilians deployed to aid war effort A powerful earthquake shook Mexico- City and the country's Pacific coast late yesterday, sending panicked residents spilling into capital streets and knocking out power to large swaths of the city. The national seismological service said the 7.6-magnitude quake struck at 8:07 p.m. on the coast of Colima, a small state which includes the port city of Manzanillo, about 300 miles west of Mexico City. The US. Geological Survey calculated the strength of the quake at magnitude 7.3. "There are general reports of damage from the states of Colima, Michoacan and Jalisco," Survey spokesman Butch Kinerney said. "Because of the size of the earthquake and its shallow depth, USGA is expecting substantial damage." Mexico's national Qiyil 4efense chigf Carmen Segura told local news media that there were no early reports of dam- age from Colima or the neighboring state of Jalisco. NEW YORK War concerns blamed for market plummet Wall Street looked askance at earnings reports yesterday, with investors bidding stocks sharply lower despite healthy prof- its at such companies as 3M and Ford. The Dow Jones industrials slid more than 143 points, giving the blue chips a drop of nearly 400 points over four straight losing sessions. Analysts said a spate of disappointing corporate outlooks last week along with ongoing fears of war with Iraq made investors skeptical of better-than-expect- ed earnings. "The reference that the economy might not have had a demonstrable turn yet is really setting people off," said Ned Riley, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors. Concerns about war increased after news that a gunman in Kuwait opened fire on a vehicle carrying American civil- ians, killing one and wounding another. CARACAs, Venezuela Peace plan proposed by Jimmy Carter -Nobel Peace Prize -laureate-Jimmy Carter proposed a plan yesterday to lead Venezuela to elections and end a 51-day-old strike against President Hugo Chavez, which has dramatically cut production in the No. 5 oil-export- ing country. Carter's ideas were the first con- crete proposals to emerge from more than two months of talks between the government and Venezuela's opposition, which called the strike to demand early elections or Chavez's resignation. Both Chavez and opposition lead- ers reapted cautiously, saying they merited study. Carter said the first plan would amend Venezuela's con- stitution to shorten presidential and legislative terms of office and stage early general elections. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. HEALTHY, MEDICATION-FREE VOLUNTEERS. AGESl8-45, ARE NEEDED FOR A RESEARCH STUDY INVOLVING VISITS TO THE HOSPITAL AND BLOOD DRAWS. COMPENSATION MAY BE UP TO $200. FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL AMY AT 647-8354. 62 Palestinian shops demolished in raid mmuma Israeli court relaxes ban on using Palestinians as "human shields" NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Israeli forces staged the biggest demolition in the West Bank in years yesterday, destroying 62 shops in a Palestinian village. Also yesterday, Israel's Supreme Court relaxed a ban on soldiers using Palestinians as "human shields" or ordering Palestinians to knock on doors of Islamic mili- tants' houses. Human rights advo- cates denounced the decision. In the village of Nazlat Issa, next to the West Bank border with Israel, seven bulldozers guarded by 300 soldiers destroyed shops and market stalls. Dozens of protesters threw stones at troops, who fired tear gas and rubber-coated steel pellets. Other demonstrators chanted "Down with the occupation." Israel says the shops were built illegally. The mayor of the village accused Israel of waging war on the Palestinian economy. The 170-shop market in Nazlat Issa drew many Israeli customers before the outbreak of fighting in September 2000. The market is a main source of income for the village's 2,500 residents, said the mayor, Ziad Salem, adding that Israeli officials informed shop owners the mar- ket would be bulldozed. Israeli troops have demolished hun- dreds of Palestinian homes, many in the Gaza Strip, in the past 28 months of fighting. In Gaza alone, more than 5,700 Pales- tinians have been made homeless, according to Palestinian officials. Many tant deterrent.. In August, human rights groups had praised a Supreme Court injunction against Israeli soldiers using Palestinians as protection in raids on suspected Islamic mili- tants. The court yesterday amended the ruling to say soldiers could use Palestinians if the Palestinians agree. There have been numerous Pales- tinian complaints about Israeli prac- tices that endanger them, and while the military denies using Palestini- ans as human shields, journalists have documented the practice. Marwan Dalal, a lawyer for the human rights group Adalah, which argued for continuing the ban, con- demned the decision. "International law prohibits the use of civilians by an occupying power," he said, "and no Palestinian would want to help an occupying power." He also said the judgment of Israeli commanders was not to be trusted. Meanwhile, two Palestinian photogra- phers were beaten up yesterday by Israeli border police in the West Bank city of Nablus when they tried to photo- graph an Israeli jeep with two Palestin- ian teens clinging to the hood. One of the photographers, Nasser Ish- tayeh of The Associated Press, who was not seriously hurt, said it appeared the youths were being used as human shields against rock-throwing youths. The AP complained to the military about the beating. The military said it would check. In other developments, Israeli police discovered a car carrying a large amount of explosives in the Israeli Arab city of Um el-Fahm, near the line with the West Bank. *It+ The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. 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