2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 10, 2003 NATION/WORLD Inspectors see 'change of heart' NEWS IN BRIEF'l __ __a After talks with Iraqi officials, U.N. inspectors ask for more time BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The U.N. chief weapons inspectors emerged from key talks with Iraq officials yesterday, saying they saw signs of a "change of heart" from Baghdad over disarmament demands and that further U.N. inspections were preferable to a quick U.S.-led military strike. In two days of meetings with Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, Iraq officials handed over doc- uments on anthrax, VX nerve gas and missile devel- opment. But Blix said there was still no immediate agreement on a key demand, using American U-2 surveillance planes to help inspections. "We are not at all at the end of the road," Blix told The Associated Press. "But nevertheless I'm bound to note, to register, nuances and this I think was a new nuance." The weekend session, ahead of Blix and ElBa- radei's report this week to the U.N. Security Coun- cil, could help decide the next steps taken by the council in the months-long standoff that has left the Middle East suspended between war and peace. There was no immediate U.S. response to the inspectors' comments. But with tens of thousands of American troops in the Persian Gulf preparing for war, President Bush reiterated Wednesday that it was time for action against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Saddam "wants the world to think that hide-and-seek is a game that we should play. And it's over," Bush told congressional Republicans at a policy conference. "It's a moment of truth for the United Nations. The United Nations gets to decide shortly whether or not it is going to be relevant in terms of keeping the peace, whether or not its words mean anything." However, the United States was faced renewed opposition in Europe to an Iraq war. Germany's defense minister said yesterday that Germany and France would present a proposal to the Secu- rity Council next week to send U.N. soldiers to disarm Iraq - a plan U.S. officials denounced as ineffective. And Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose coun- try holds veto powers on the council, reiterated his strong opposition to military action against Baghdad. "We are convinced that efforts for a peaceful reso- lution of the situation regarding Iraq should be per- *. *. .}.w 4;r "It's a moment of truth for SPACE CENTER, Houston the United Nations. NASA looks to ice, shuttle parts for clues - President Bush sistently continued," Putin told journalists after talks with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Berlin. Putin also rejected U.S. goals of a "regime change" in, Iraq. "The task of reckoning with Saddam Hussein does not stand before us," Putin said in an interview with France-3 television, part of which was aired on Russian television yesterday. "There is nothing in the U.N. Charter that would allow the U.N. Security Council to make a decision to change the political regime of one country or another - whether we like that regime or not." Blix and ElBaradei, who make their next report to the U.N. Security Council on Friday, had gone into their weekend talks in Baghdad to press for greater cooperation on a range of issues. Investigators are trying to identify an object spotted near Columbia shortly after it reached orbit as they try to determine what caused the shuttle to break apart. Retired Adm. Harold Gehman Jr., who is leading an independent board investi- gating the disaster, told reporters yesterday that the tracking data from the U.S. Space Command Center in Nebraska could potentially be water that is routinely dumped from the shuttle, which then turned to ice. "It could well have been an on-orbit piece associated with the shuttle which was supposed to have been there," Gehman said. He stressed that the report still needs to be analyzed. Meanwhile, investigators continued to study a 2-foot section of Columbia's wing and a 300-pound object that appears to be a door panel from one of the shuttle's wheel wells found in Texas. The wing includes the carbon-covered edge designed to protect Columbia's insulating tiles during re-entry and could provide hard evidence of what went wrong, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe said Saturday. Gehman would not comment yesterday on whether the wing piece was from the shuttle's left side, which could prove significant because Columbia's troubles began in the left wing. JERUSAL.EM Sharon offers limited truce to Palestinians Israel has offered the Palestinians a gradual cease-fire, a senior government official.said yesterday, while suggesting that efforts to remove Yasser Arafat as Palestinian leader will intensify after the U.S.-Iraq conflict is resolved. Also yesterday, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was awarded the task of forming a coalition, a formality that starts the clock ticking. Sharon has six weeks to form a government and - if the moderate Labor Party doesn't budge on its refusal to join with Sharon's Likud - the re-elect- ed prime minister may have to rely on extreme right-wing and religious par- ties for a majority. Such a coalition would make concessions to the Palestinians nearly impossible. Sharon offered the limited truce in secret talks last week with senior Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia. There was speculation that the meeting - the prime minister's first with a Palestinian negotiator in about a year - was aimed at per- suading Labor to join his coalition. 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For months, the organization has worked on a resolution critical of the Bush administration's policy for enemy combatants, and a vote is planned. But last-minute dissension has arisen among ABA members over when lawyers should be provided to combatants held in the United States to help them argue in court that their detentions are illegal. The government will not release the names of those held as combatants, and only a couple of examples of detentions in America are known widely. The most high profile is Jose Padilla, accused of plotting to detonate a "dirty" bomb, which would use a conventional explo- sive to spread radioactive-material. Enemy combatants, a type of wartime Dean Robert J. Dolan University of Michigan Business School invites you to attend a Dean's Speaker Series featuring prisoner, are held without charge or trial and are not allowed to see lawyers. Miami lawyer Neal Sonnett said it is un-American to deny legal rights to Americans or anyone else in the coun- try when they are apprehended. "The war against terrorism should not be fought at the expense of the very rights we are fighting to protect," Sonnett said. Supporting the government's policy is David Rivkin Jr., a lawyer from Washington, D.C., who said the admin- istration has foiled crimes with informa- tion obtained from combatants. Giving them lawyers would ruin interrogations and threaten the public, Rivkin said. Sonnett and Rivkin were debating the issue late yesterday at an event jointly sponsored by the ABA and the more conservative Federalist Society. The ABA's policy-making board will decide at the Seattle conference whether to take a stand on the treat- ment of combatants, including stan- dards for their detentions. Critics of the proposal contend the ABA should clarify that lawyers should be provided to combatants, with restrictions applied so that national security is not compromised. MARCH - Continued from Page 1A spoke on how difficult life is under the threat of war for members of her frmily still living in Iraq. She added that life in the United States is becoming more dif- ficult for Iraqi-Americans. Her brother Bilal said, "My father remembers World War IIand what happened to the Japan- ese. I don't like being afraid to live in my country." Local civil rights activist Joseph Dulin, principal at the Roberto Clemente Student Development Center, also spoke. He described peace as an overar- ching goal of humanity, both domesti- cally and in foreign affairs. "Peace is truly a brotherhood of mankind," he said. "Peace is a struggle for human dignity." The protest was part of a national movement against war with Iraq. Protests will continue this Saturday in East Lansing and across the nation. FUNDING Continued from Page 1A we can ill afford to lose any federal money at this point." MDOT Communications Director Stephanie Litaker said that while the money received from the federal govern- ment will not seriously affect the state's budget, the lack of funds would have an impact on improving highway safety. "In terms of the bigger picture, $10 million is not a whole lot of money, but in terms of safety improvements it can go a long way," Litaker said. "Knowing that improving safety for families and for motorists is one of Governor Granholm's top priorities, we're in need of money for safety. And given the budget right now, we can't afford to turn away any money." The passing of the law may have little effect on how law enforcement agencies act with regard to drunk driving. Currently, driving with a BAC of .07 is illegal in Michigan, but the legal definition of intoxica- tion stands at .10. Officials from the Michigan State Police said the law will most likely not affect how the police department operates. But according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the measure could be significant in reducing the number of intoxicated drivers and in saving lives. States that have already instituted a .08 BAC law have reduced highway fatali- ties by 4 to 15 percent on average, mATT Min u rnn va-n.:v Tlirrfr WASH INGTON N. Korea nuclear concerns develop The official Bush administration view of North Korea's nuclear breakout is that, while troubling, it does not amount to a crisis. Yet that is exactly the word that comes to mind when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talks about its dangers. To Rumsfeld, it's not simply a matter of North Korea becoming a nuclear weapons state. The CIA estimates that the communist-ruled country has had one or two nuclear weapons for a decade. In his view the bigger danger is that, by cranking up a nuclear weapons pro- duction complex that had been idled under U.N. seal since 1994, a cash- starved North Korea could produce enough nuclear materials to sell to ter- rorist states or terror networks who might make America a target. "It's pretty plear that if they restart the reprocessing plant, they could have nuclear materials sufficient to make an additional six or eight weapons," Rums- feld said. MUNICH, Germany Face, Germany: disarm Iraq with force France and Germany intend to pres- ent a proposal to the U.N. Security Council next week to send U.N. soldiers to disarm Iraq, the German defense minister said yesterday. The plan, according to a German newsmagazine, involves reconnais- sance missions, the deployment of thousands of U.N. peacekeepers and tripling the number of U.N. weapons inspectors. In Paris, the French government yesterday denied the existence of a "secret plan" with Germany, saying France had previously proposed increasing the number of arms inspectors. That denial - plus Defense Minister Peter Struck's inability to offer concrete details of the reported plan - created an appearance of disarray in the Fran- co-German alliance against Wash- ington's hard-line stance on Iraq. CAMP VIRGINIA, Kuwait British, U.S. 6iltar dispatched to Kuwait The key launch pad for a future war on Iraq bustles with tens-of thousands of U.S. and British soldiers. Military convoys clog highways, and the entire northern half of Kuwait is sealed off as a military operations zone. "Every day this thing grows by leaps and bounds," Lt. Col. Jeffrey Helmick said. "We're bursting at the seams," said Helmick, commander of the U.S. Army's 6th Transportation Battalion, which helps truck tons of supplies from ports of entry to desert camps near the Iraqi border. Officials will say little about the total number of U.S. troops being dispatched to Kuwait before a possible war. Wash- ington says war is likely to begin soon because Iraq has failed to rid Iraq of all biological, chemical and nuclear weapons - weapons Iraq denies it has. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. *1 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. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily's office for $2. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $105. Winter term (January through April) is $110, yearlong (September through April) is $190. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscrip- tions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Collegiate Press. 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