'1 2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, January 6, 2003 NATION WORLD Bombings kill at least 23 in Israel NEwS IN xiEF 'iEDI 0'RM RUDTH OL .. . ... / ATTACK Continued from Page 1A In Washington, President Bush called the attack "a despicable act of murder" and said Secretary of State Colin Powell had called Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to express America's condolences. "Today terrorists struck again in Israel, murdering and injuring scores of civilians in Tel Aviv," Bush said in a prepared statement last night. "I con- demn this attack in the strongest possi- ble terms." It was the first suicide attack inside Israel since Nov. 21, when a bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing 11 passengers. In the past, such bombings have triggered large-scale Israeli incur- sions in the West Bank, and hard-liners in Israel's Cabinet have called for expelling Arafat, but circumstances weighed against such a response. Sharon was quick to blame Arafat, though without mentioning his name. "All attempts to reach a cease-fire, even today, are failing due to the Pales- tinian leadership that continues to sup- port, fund and initiate terror," Sharon told a public gathering in Jerusalem. The Palestinian Authority issued a statement, saying it "strongly condemns and fully rejects all crimes against civil- ians and the idea of revenge." The state- ment called for - international intervention to help restore calm. Anticipating Israel's reaction, Pales- tinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat said, "We cannot accept the Israeli assigning blame on President Arafat or the Palestinian Authority. This is a bro- ken record." In the past, waves of Palestinian terrorism have helped hard-line par- ties in Israeli elections. With voting set for Jan. 28, Sharon's Likud Party, hit hard by a corruption scandal, stood to gain. However, the proximity of the election also worked against a tough response, which would be seen by opponents as electioneering. Also, Israel was picking up clear indications from the United States to keep the Mideast conflict on a low burn while the U.S. prepares for a pos- sible attack on Iraq. That factor was also working against expulsion of Arafat from the West Bank, though a significant number of key Israeli Cabinet ministers, including Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, are pressing for deportation. Sharon, who has had a decades-long feud with Arafat and has effectively con- fined him to his West Bank headquarters for a year, has resisted the pressure for political reasons, not because he oppos- es deporting Arafat in principle. The twin attack was also likely to harm Egyptian efforts to secure a dec- laration from Fatah and the militant Islamic groups for an end to suicide bombings as a step toward a truce in 27 months of violence. Egyptian offi- cials had said another meeting was due this week; that was now in doubt. Two bombers set off explosives strapped to their bodies around 6:30 p.m. yesterday in a pedestrian area filled with working class shops and PALMACHIM, Israel. Israel tests new missile defense system Sending a message to both Saddam Hussein and its own people, Israel con- ducted an ambitious test of its anti-missile system yesterday with the simulated firing of several interceptor missiles at once at incoming rockets. Israelis have shown growing concern that Saddam would retaliate against them if the United States attacks Iraq as he did during the 1991 Gulf War, and a suc- cessful test of the Arrow system might help allay those fears. The Iraqi capability of hitting Israel is limited, but Israel must be "prepared for surprises, things we didn't think about," air force Maj. Gen. Dan Halutz told Army Radio before the test. During the test, a single missile contrail rose from the Palmachim air base, south of Tel Aviv, over the Mediterranean Sea. Israel TV's military correspondent said only one actual Arrow missile was launched, and then three dummy missiles were fired to test their launchers. Israel Radio reported that the test was success- ful, but Army Radio said the test results were still being evaluated. Israel believes Iraq may try to attack the Jewish state with Scud missiles in response to an anticipated U.S. military campaign against Saddam. During the Gulf War, Iraq fired 39 Scud missiles with conventional explosive warheads at Israel, causing damage but few casualties. WASHINGTON Oil prices hinge on control of Iraqi oil fields If the United States invades Iraq, there could be oil shortages and gas lines - or an oil glut and falling prices. Much depends on whether American troops can secure Iraqi oil fields and whether other producers continue the flow of oil uninterrupted. In the growing drumbeat over war with Iraq, the Bush administration rarely mentions oil, even though Iraq has one-tenth of the world's oil reserves. But a mil- itary campaign almost certainly will have a major impact on world markets. In the event of a war, Secretary of State Colin Powell said recently, "We would want to protect those fields and make sure that they're ... not destroyed or dam- aged by a failing regime on the way out the door." The growing prospect of war, combined with the monthlong political strife in Venezuela that is hamstinging that country's oil production, has already caused unease among energy traders. Last week, prices for crude oil to be delivered in February jumped to more than $33 a barrel, 65 percent higher than a year ago. The average price of gasoline has risen steadily to more than $1.40 a gallon. 4 Israeli paramedics rush a wounded man to an ambulance after a double suicide bomber attack in Tel Aviv. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the first such attack in an Israeli city since November. restaurants near Tel Aviv's old, defunct central bus station. The neighborhood is inhabited largely by foreign workers from Romania, Thailand, China, Ghana and other places. One of the bombers blew himself up near a fast food restaurant called "McChina." The explosion ripped through the outdoor restaurant, overturn- ing wooden picnic tables and showering glass on the sidewalk. The other bomber hit a commercial area nearby. A witness who only gave his first name, Tomer, told TV's Channel Two ad North that he ran to help the wounded. "I saw a man without a leg. I saw horrible things, people without legs, without arms. I saw fingers," he said. Rescue workers said identification of the victims was still incomplete, but said most of the dead were foreigners. Hours later, Israeli attack helicopters fired at least four missiles at metal workshops in Gaza City, witnesses said. Eight people were lightly injured. The Israeli military said the workshops were used for making weapons, includ- ing mortars and rockets. Russia plans to le Korea away from standoff SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea won a prom- ise from Russia yesterday to press North Korea over its nuclear program, as Seoul prepared to unveil to the United States new proposals aimed at defusing the crisis with its communist neighbor. As the South launched a diplomatic blitz, the North opened the door to possible mediation - though it said it would heighten its combat readiness and denounced the United States. In Moscow - one of the isolated North's few allies - South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Hang-kyung met with his Russian counterpart, Alexander Losyukov. Losyukov said after the talks that Moscow and Seoul "agreed to make joint efforts to ease the crisis" and per- suade the parties to sit down for talks, though he stopped short of promising Russian mediation. """th'l slide to unacceptaie actions must be stopped," Losyukov was quoted as saying by the Russian news agency Interfax. "Obviously, our contacts with North Korean col- leagues will be intensified." A separate team of South Korean diplomats also was expected to present a compromise solution to the United States and Japan today or tomorrow, when the three allies meet in Washington to chart a joint strategy on North Korea. Seoul said it will send a top presidential envoy to the United States for more talks later this week. No details have been disclosed on the South's proposals, but it is expected to involve North Korean concessions on nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. The current standoff began when North Korea announced last month that it was reviving its main nuclear complex, frozen since a 1994 deal with the United States, and forced out international inspectors at the site. Experts believe the complex can be used to produce several nuclear weapons within months. The International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board of governors planned to hold an emergency session today to review the nuclear crisis. A senior nuclear agency official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that the IAEA almost cer- k- tainly would refer the dispute to the U.N. Security Council later today - a move that could lead to punitive sanctions Danhel Pearl is s or other actions against the reclusive nation's regime. held to his head North Korea's top military brass vowed in a meeting in bln aeai the capital, Pyongyang, on Saturday to increase the commu- nist army's combat readiness. A separate statement from the violence against official Korean Central News Agency accused the United States of trying to disarm the North and called the United States the "main obstacle' of Korean reunification.u But North Korea left open the possibility of other coun- tries mediating the dispute - an apparent nod to Seoul's 'en d diplomatic attempts. '" "If there are countries which are concerned for the settle- ment of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, they, pro- W if ceeding from a fair stand, should force the U.S. to remain true to the international agreement so that it may discontin- wh ue its unilateral behavior," KCNA reported. Japan and the United States have agreed to pursue a diplomatic end, Japan's Foreign Ministry said after tele- in at phone talks between Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and Secretary of State Colin Powell late Saturday. After his closed-door meeting with the Korean diplomat, ISLAMABAD,F Losyukov said it was important to get all sides to the negoti- was one of the mc ating table. He said both Moscow and Seoul opposed put- of 2002 - a pho ting the issue before the Security Council "before other Pearl, a gun point possibilities for negotiating have been used up." days after he was Before the talks, Kim said Moscow's ties with Pyongyang streets of Pakistan could provide an "efficient channel for dialogue." Russian of Karachi. President Vladimir Putin has moved to reinvigorate The January abc Moscow's strong Soviet-era ties with North Korea. ing of the Wall St hown with a gun . His abduction was the first f unprecedented t foreigners. itan- FRANKFURT, Germany Man steals airplane, threatens downtown A man stole a small aircraft at gun- point yesterday and flew it over down- town Frankfurt, circling skyscrapers and threatening to crash into the Euro- pean Central Bank. He landed safely after about two hours and was arrested. The man told a television station he wanted to call attention to Judith Resnik, a U.S. astronaut killed in the 1986 post-launch explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Military jets chased the stolen, two- seat motorized glider as the man began circling slowly above Frankfurt's bank- ing district. Thousands of people were evacuated from the main railway station, two opera houses and several skyscrapers - the latter mostly empty on a Sunday afternoon atthe end of the Christmas season. Police identified the man as a 31- year-old German from Darmstadt, a city some 25 miles south of Frankfurt. less than a mile off course Saturday morning, said Allen Kenitzer, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration. He said the plane flew over land when its normal course to Honolulu Interna- tional Airport would have kept it over the ocean, but would not speculate why. There was no immediate response to calls seeking comment from the airline's office at the airport. A recording said Flight 18 from Taiwan and Tokyo lands at the airport at 7:05 a.m. Saturdays. BEIJING China's unmanned space capsule returns An unmanned Chinese space capsule returned safely to Earth yesterday, state media said, laying the groundwork for China to attempt later this year to send an anto space. A successful manned flight would make China only the third country, after Russia and the United States, able to send its own astronauts into space. The Shenzhou IV capsule landed as planned just after 7:00 p.m. on China's northern grasslands in the Inner Mongolia region, the official Xinhua News Agency and state tele- vision said. "Experts in charge of China's manned space program said the return of the spaceship represents a complete success of the fourth test flight of the program," Xinhua said. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. year rise tacks HONOLULU S -Ofdcourse plane flies near Hawaiian homes Pakistan (AP) - it ost enduring images tograph of Daniel ed at his head, just kidnapped off the 's southern port city duction and behead- reet Journal reporter Federal aviation officials said a jumbo jet was slightly off-course when it approached Honolulu's airport but not enough to substantiate claims by high-rise residents that it flew danger- ously close to their building. The China Airlines Boeing 747 was START THE WINTER TERM WITH YOUR NAME IN THE DAILY. COME BY 420 MAYNARD ST., OR CALL 76- DAILY TO COME IN AND PICK UP A STORY. was the first blow in a year of unprece- dented violence against foreigners and Pakistani Christians, and many fear.a further backlash if the United States goes ahead with an attack on Iraq. Religious hard-liners staged loud but peaceful demonstrations Friday, chanti- ng "Down with America," and "Long Live Saddam Hussein." Crowds ranged in number from 7,000 in Peshawar, a stronghold of pro-Afghan sentiment, to 400 in Islamabad, the capital. Retired Gen. Talat Masood, a securi- ty analyst, says he expects reaction to an attack on Iraq to be much worse than during the 1991 Gulf War. "Polarization is much greater and anti-Americanism is much more crys- talized," he said. "The general impres- sion here is that this is part of an attempt to dominate the Muslim world. Iraq may be first, but Iran and then Pakistan may be next." Masood said an Iraq war could lead to more violence against foreigners here. "One can't rule that out," he said. Others note that the Gulf War protests were not particularly broad- based, and demonstrations called in 2001 against the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan did not draw large crowds. Still, while Pakistan has always been rife with sectarian violence and for- eigners have been targeted before, the level of attacks in 2002 was unprece- dented, and analysts say radicals could become even more emboldened if Iraq is attacked. "I think that should be a cause of concern for the government," said Gen. Rashid Quereshi, a spokesman for Gen. President Pervez Musharraf. Pakistan's defining moment - and 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. 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