0 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 14, 2003 NATION WORLD Bush pressures U.N. to take on Iraq NEWS IN BRIEF 14 . 13 U A VI TAT77C TTTlIIA / A "t-NITATTri T TT7_ TTTiITIT T 'It WASHINGTON (AP) - On the eve of a show- down over Iraq, President Bush said yesterday the United Nations must help him confront Saddam Hus- sein or "fade into history as an ineffective, irrelevant, debating society." As Bush issued his call for unity, the administra- tion said Americans should be prepared for "a fairly long-term commitment" in Iraq if the United States goes to war. Secretary of State Colin Powell told the House Budget Committee he had no estimate of the cost of war with Iraq. But he did say he thought Iraq should be able to adjust quickly afterward - in contrast to the slow pace of recovery in Afghanistan. "I would hope that it would be a short conflict and that it would be directed at the leadership, not the society," he said. Iraq has an effective bureaucracy, rich oil resources and a developed middle class, the secretary of state said. The flurry of events laid the groundwork for today, when U.N. weapons inspectors are to report to the Security Council on whether Iraq is complying with orders to disarm. Bush is expected to quickly follow up with a request for a U.N. resolution authorizing force. However, the top U.N. nuclear weapons inspector said yesterday that inspections should continue. "We're still in midcourse, but we are moving for- ward, and I see no reason for us to bring the inspec- tion process to a halt," Mohamed ElBaradei said in an interview with The Associated Press as he drafted his report on a flight from Vienna, Austria, to New York. U.N. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Hans Blix, who heads the hunt for Baghdad's biological and chemical weapons, would address a French proposal to triple the number of inspectors. During a visit to Mayport Naval Station in Florida, Bush told cheering sailors, "I'm optimistic that free nations will show backbone and courage in the face of true threats to peace and freedom." "I believe when it's all said and done, free nations will not allow the United Nations to fade into history as an ineffective, irrelevant, debating society," he said. On Capitol Hill, Democratic lawmakers questioned whether Bush's focus on Iraq could hurt the broader war against terrorists, particularly Osama bin Laden's network suspected in the Sept. 11 attacks. "The clear and present danger that we face in our country is from terrorism and from al-Qaida," said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California as lawmakers heard testimony from Powell, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 5 le inU.S. Plane crash BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A U.S. government plane carrying four Americans and a Colombian crashed yesterday in southern Colombia, and officials feared the survivors were captured by leftist rebels. Two bod- ies were spotted at the site, Colom- bian officials said. Investigators with the state prose- cutor's office saw the two bodies amid the wreckage of the plane, said the government office, which is responsible in Colombia for investi- gating deaths. U.S. Emba.ssy offi- cials said they had no comment on the report. U.S. officials scrambled rescue teams to the sweltering plains of the region after the crash, but at least one report said rebels had captured the survivors and announced, "We have them! We have them!" in an intercepted radio transmission. There was no statement from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, Colombia's main leftist rebel group. A Colom- bian military official reported the transmission and said FARC rebels had apparently found the plane. Earlier, the Colombian Armed Forces' high command had said res- cuers had found only the burned plane and no people. It was impossi- ble to immediately reconcile the report with the statement from the state prosecutor's office. GRANHOLM Continued from Page 1. "I've met with the presidents of the universities to discuss this issue. They've got to do the job in terms of leveraging their relationships with businesses in the community," Granholm said. "(The universities) have got to be an economic develop- ment arm within the community." University of Michigan officials said they were long aware of the impending cuts and are prepared to meet the challenge. "When we were passing our budget last July, we were aware that the state was facing these kinds of problems," University spokeswoman Julie Peter- son said. "It's very unfortunate, but we're prepared to adjust." Peterson added that while the budget situation at the University is serious, there will be no mid-term tuition increases, which has been the case at other universities. Among the higher education pro- grams most affected by the budget cuts is the Life Sciences Corridor - a part- nership between state universities to promote the life sciences - which will lose $12.5 million this year. "The state is really on a path towards growth in the life sciences sector. Ear- lier they had been prepared to cut the Life Sciences Corridor by $25 million. They did the best they could to shelter these funds," Peterson said. The forum was the first of several meetings Granholm plans to hold between now and the announcement of her budget proposal in March. The governor also asked those in atten- dance for feedback about how the depletion of state funding should be handled and how communities can form creative solutions to deal with the budget problem. "When you are in a crisis it forces you to look at things in a different way. You cannot act according to the way that you've acted in the past," Granholm said. Community leaders in attendance were generally in support of C~rnnrn 'c nrnnneni bhnt Adffnreo WASHINGTON Shuttle crash linked to breach in craft skin I ne space snutue uoumnia almost certainty sutterea a aevastatmg breach o its skin, allowing superheated air inside the left wing and possibly the wheel com- partment during its fiery descent, investigators said yesterday. In its first significant determination, the accident investigation board announced that heat damage from a missing tile would not be sufficient to cause the unusual temperature increases detected inside Columbia minutes before it dis- integrated. Sensors noticed an unusual heat buildup of about 30 degrees inside the wheel well before the accident. Instead, the board determined those increases were caused by the presence inside Columbia of plasma, or superheated air with temperatures of roughly 2,000 degrees. It said investigators were studying where a breach might have occurred to allow plasma to seep inside the wheel compartment or elsewhere in Columbia's left wing. The board did not specify whether such a breach could be the result of a structural tear in Columbia's aluminum frame or a hole from debris striking the spacecraft. The board also did not indicate when the breach occurred during the shuttle's 16-day mission. Officials have previously focused on an unusually large chunk of foam that broke off Columbia's external fuel tank on liftoff. LA PAZ, Bolivia Police quell riots that leave 22 dead in 2 days Striking police officers returned to work yesterday after two days of vio- lent street protests that left 22 people dead and a trail of burned and looted buildings throughout the capital of South America's poorest nation. People lined the streets of La Paz to cheer police officers as they began to restore order after demonstrators set fire to government buildings and looted stores in a wave of violence that began as a protest against a new income tax that the government suspended to calm the unrest. Over the two days, 22 people were killed, including at least nine police officers, and 102 were injured, according to Eduardo Chavez, director of La Paz's General Hospital, where most of the casualties were treated. Earlier yesterday, sirens wailed and bands of looters ran through chaotic central La Paz, where tanks and 400 heavily armed soldiers were deployed near the presidential palace, which was besieged by protesters a day earlier. Several thousand protesters marched through downtown, shouting slogans against President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. "Resign or die, those are your options," they chanted. The march, organized by labor groups, ended without violence. 4i WASHINGTON U.S. declines talks with North Korea North Korea wants talks with the United States alone to discuss that coun- try's nuclear weapons program and has snubbed efforts to include China, Russia and South Korea, Secretary of State Colin Powell told Congress yesterday. One-on-one talks are unacceptable, because many nations are in danger if the largely closed, communist nation continues to pursue nuclear weapons, Powell said. "We have to have a regional settle- ment," Powell said. "It can't be just be the U.S. and the DPRK (Democratic Republic of Korea)." North Korea's response to the sug- gestion of regional talks - delivered through diplomatic channels and in low-level contacts with the Bush administration - was "no, no, no," Powell said. "We have to find a way to broaden the dialogue," Powell told the House Budget Committee. WASHINGTON Facing terror, U.S. steps up security Police carrying semiautomatic rifles patrolled the grounds of the Capitol yes- terday, and the government warned key industries and utilities to beware of employees who might have been planted by al-Qaida or other terrorist groups. The security measures were the latest to emerge since the nation went on high alert for possible terrorist attacks last week. The orange level is the second-highest in a five-point, color-coded scale that would be topped only by a red alert that meant an attack was imminent or under way. There are no plans to raise the threat level, Justice Department officials said. U.S. counterterrorism officials said they are continuing to gather intelli- gence but have no specific information as to targets or methods for a terrorist strike. Authorities have said they are worried about attacks timed to coincide with the hajj, a Muslim holy period that ended yes- terday, or the beginning of a war with Iraq. VATICAN CITY Vatican archives may. reveal anti-Semitism For years the Vatican has struggled to defend its wartime pope, Pius XII, against claims he was anti-Semitic and didn't do enough to save Jews from the Holocaust. Now the Vatican is taking the.extraor- dinary step of opening part of its secret archives ahead of schedule, in a bid to silence attacks against a man it is consid- ering for sainthood. Starting tomorrow, millions of Vatican documents from the years leading up to World War II will be available to scholars. The Vatican's chief archivist says he doesn't expect any "shocking revela- tions" to emerge from the documents - and it will no doubt be months if not years before any findings are published. But Roman Catholic and Jewish scholars say the papers may answer some ques- tions about the policies that shaped Pius' papacy and what the Vatican knew about anti-Semitism in Europe before the war and responsive to the needs of scholars. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 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