0 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 7, 2003 NATION WORLD Nations argue over U.N.- resolution NEWS'BRIEF UNITED NATIONS (AP) - As opposition hardened against a war with Iraq, Britain offered yesterday to com- promise on a U.S.-backed resolution by giving Saddam Hussein a short deadline to prove he has eliminated all banned weapons or face an attack. With some 300,000 U.S. troops massing for battle, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw made clear that any compromise must still include an authorization for military action. But Straw's demand, made a day before a crucial Securi- ty Council meeting, was unlikely to be acceptable to key council powers that favor more weapons inspections to dis- arm Iraq peacefully. President Bush, in a rare prime-time news conference yesterday, said the United States will call for a Security Council vote even if it appears certain that the resolu- tion will be defeated but he added that he isn't afraid to go to war if the council rejects the resolution. "We're days away from resolving this issue in the Secu- rity Council," Bush said. "No matter what the whip count is, we're calling for a vote. ... It's time for people to show their cards and let people know where they stand in rela- tion to Saddam." "As far as ultimatums, we'll wait and see," Bush also said. The resolution, co-sponsored by the United States, Britain and Spain, says Iraq missed its "final opportunity" to disarm peacefully and paves the way for war. The United States faces an uphill struggle to get nine "yes" votes and avoid a veto by one of the permanent members opposed to war soon. Yesterday, China threw its support behind France, Ger- many and Russia, which have vowed to prevent the resolu- tion's passage. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed to council members to discuss the crisis calmly, noting there were several proposals on the table. "The positions are very hard now," he said. "I am encouraging people to strive for a compromise to seek common ground," adding, "to make concessions, you get concessions." Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in New York yes- terday to try to win support for the resolution from unde- cided council members. JA ALIYA REFUGEE CAM, Gaza Strip Israeli incursion injures 140, kills 11 In the most intense battle in Gaza in months, an Israeli army raid left 11 Pales- tinians dead yesterday, including eight who witnesses said were hit by an Israeli tank shell fired at a crowd. Israel insisted it targeted only armed men. More than 140 Palestinians were hurt, 35 of them seriously, doctors said. The crackdown at the Jabaliya refugee camp - the largest and most heavily armed Palestinian shantytown - came a day after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 14 Israelis and an American teenager on a bus in the Israeli port city of Haifa. Also yesterday, Israeli troops in the West Bank killed three Palestinians: a gunman, a 16-year-old boy and a 55-year-old mother of eight cutting grass for her sheep. After nightfall yesterday, witnesses said about 100 Israeli tanks and other mili- tary vehicles moved toward the Jabaliya camp again, signaling the second large- scale incursion in the area in as many days. The Israeli military would say only that an operation was in progress. In raiding Jabaliya, troops met fierce resistance from hundreds of Palestinian gunmen who fired assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades at Israeli tanks and helicopters raking the streets with machine-gun fire. In anticipation of an incur- sion, militants had also planted explosives in the streets, detonating them by remote control as armored vehicles drove by. French Foreign Minister Dominque de Villepin shakes hands with Colin Powell. ALGIERS, Algeria Pakistan forces aid in bin Laden search Algerian plane crash leaves one survivor U.S. and Pakistan troops continue joint effort in hunting for Osama bin Laden, other AI-Qaida ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani and American forces intensified the search for Osama bin Laden along a southwestern stretch of the border with Afghanistan and carried out raids this week based on information from a newly cap- tured al-Qaida deputy, Pakistani intelligence and military officials said yesterday. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, thought to be the No. 3 figure in the terror network, told interroga- tors he met bin Laden just weeks ago in a ren- dezvous set up through a network of phone calls and intermediaries, an intelligence official said. At least two raids have been carried out in Pak- istan's southwestern Baluchistan region based on information from Mohammed since his capture last weekend, another Pakistani intelligence offi- cial said, also speaking on condition of anonymi- ty. There were no major arrests from the raids, the official said. Telephone numbers taken from Mohammed's mobile phone are being tracked. The phone con- tained numbers inside and outside Pakistan, said a government official. "The people he contacted in Pakistan have nat- urally been put under surveillance and we suspect the American agencies are doing the same," the official said. Since Mohammed's arrest, joint Pakistani and U.S. forces have both been searching for bin Laden and his son, Saad, along the 350-mile stretch of border from the Baluchistan town of Chaman to the Iranian border, a Pakistan mili- tary source said. Villagers contacted in Dal Bandin, 170 miles south of the Baluchistan capital of Quetta, said two military aircraft landed at their small airstrip and American forces got off. There was no con- firmation from the U.S. or Pakistani military. The activity apparently generated rumors that bin Laden had been captured, but officials in Washington and in Pakistan said it was not true. Since the weekend, residents in Chaman said U.S. aircraft swarmed overhead, dropping Pashtu- language leaflets on both sides of the border reminding them of the $25 million reward for bin Laden. U.S. special forces and Pakistani soldiers are also farther north along the border, trying to flush out Taliban and al-Qaida fugitives in South Waziristan, in the North West Frontier province. Mohammed's meeting with bin Laden took place somewhere in Baluchistan or farther north along the border, a Pakistani intelligence official told The Associated Press. The official was one of a team of Pakistani and CIA agents who interrogated Mohammed for hours after he was nabbed in a pre-dawn raid in Rawalpindi on Saturday. The intelligence official quoted Mohammed as saying of bin Laden, "The sheik is a hero of Islam and I am his tiny servant. Life, family, money, everything can be sacrificed for the sheik." The official did not reveal what Mohammed and bin Laden discussed. Mohammed told his interrogators he didn't know bin Laden's exact whereabouts, but that he was in the remote border region. An Air Algerie passenger jet, one of its engines ablaze, crashed shortly after takeoff deep in the Sahara Desert yesterday, and 102 people were killed, officials said. A young soldier survived. The Boeing 737, flight 6289, crashed after taking off from Tamanrasset bound for the Algerian capital, Algiers, 1,000 miles to the north. Terrorism was not suspected, said an airline spokesman, Hamid Hamdi. "There was a mechanical problem on takeoff," he said. "There is no element that leads us to think there was a terrorist attack." Witnesses at the Tamanrasset airport and airline officials said one of the plane's two jet engines caught fire as it was taking off. APS, Algeria's official state-run news agency, and airline officials at the scene said 102 had been killed. But an official at the airline's office in Algiers told The Associated Press that he couldn't immediately confirm the number of deaths. "Unfortunately, we know only of one survivor," said Hamdi, identifying him as a young Algerian soldier who was in a critical but stable condition in a Tamanras- set hospital. CANCER Continued from Page 1. events can really see that their money is helping to promote such amazing research," Penisten said. Events planned for CAW include a bar night to raise funds and an art exhibit featuring works from Art School students and children USAC has worked with. Much of the artwork deals with "say no to cigarettes" and other cancer-awareness themes. English majors will also contribute poetry and short essays on cancer-related topics. The annual bone marrow drive will focus on targeting minorities due to the lack of minorities on the bone marrow registry compared to FOOD FOR THOUGHT Vietnam/Iraq Comparisons The Vietnam War protestors said that the U.S. supported a repressive government, but they refused to research the side that they supported. Are today's Iraq protestors making the same mistakes? Go to: http://www.vietquoc.com/history/ htm Gary Lillie & Assoc., Realtors www.garylillie.com non-minorities, Penisten said. Julie Maltzman, co-chair for CAW and School of Education jun- ior, said she was inspired by the death of her brother's friend who had bone cancer, and her mother's breast cancer, to become involved with USAC and CAW. "I was inspired by the battle she fought and her eagerness to always be helping others," Maltzman said, referring her brother's friend. "My mom, too, showed a ton of courage during her fight with can- cer. It has been just about two years since she finished her last chemotherapy treatment and she is free and clear of cancer." Additional events include a can- dle light vigil, a fashion show and a CCRB night. LOWEST PRICES! HIGHEST QUALITY! FASTEST SERVICE! * 1002 PONTIAC TR. U 994-1367 BUDGET Continued from Page 1 aid budget is about 2.4 percent less. Most state departments are cut by anywhere from 1 percent to more than 30 percent. "You simply can't spend more than you make, month after month, year after year, without digging yourself into a deep hole," Granholm said, in a poke at her predecessor, Republican Gov. John Engler, who left office Jan. 1 after 12 years. "The days of spending beyond our means are over. As long as I am your governor, this state will live within its means," she said. The governor did not proposal any overall tax hikes, although she wants lawmakers to raise the diesel fuel tax from 15 cents to 19 cents, the same amount drivers pay on gasoline. That money would be used for road repairs. She proposed two new lottery games to raise $50 million for schools and about $100 million in fee increases, including higher costs for driving licenses. Under her proposal, the cost of a driver's license would go from $13 to $25. The cost of chauffeur and com- mercial licenses also would.rise. The higher license fees would be used to run a state police trooper recruit school to add 100 officers to the ranks, keeping trooper strength at about 1,100 officers. Granholm also proposes raising fees through new water pollution discharge permits, increasing fees for the groundwater and storm water discharge permits and expanding fees for solid waste dis- posal. Much of the money would be used to expand environmental pro- tection. About 1.1 million children, sen- iors and disabled people whose health costs are covered by Medic- aid would not see any reduction in services. But healthy adults would lose their access to dental, chiropractic and podiatry services, except for "You simply can't spend more than you make ... without digging yourself into a hole." - Gov. Jennifer Granholm dental emergencies. The number of days they could be hospitalized also would be limited. Granholm defended the reduced services for 130,000 recipients, say- ing the reductions allowed her to give more people at least limited coverage and to return coverage to 40,000 adult caregivers who don't qualify for Medicaid services them- selves but care for children who do. She also has applied for enough federal funds to triple the number of seniors who will qualify for pre- scription drug coverage, and recom- mended increasing mental health funding by 2 percent. Her budget proposal was received favorably by most lawmakers, who said they recognize tough cuts are necessary. A few worried that the governor's assumptions on how much more money new fees and other charges would raise could be too optimistic. But most said they plan to work with Granholm to pass her proposal. "For the most part, we collective- ly have the problem. We collectively have to solve it," said Senate, Appropriations Committee Chair- woman Shirley Johnson (R-Royal Oak). "This situation cannot afford the luxury of getting carried away with partisanship." Economist Tom Clay of the nonpar- tisan Citizens Research Council, based in Livonia, said the budget pro- posal contained less pain than many who rely on state funding feared. "I expected the budget to be far worse in terms of very difficult rec- ommendations that would create real problems for people," he said. "It didn't turn out to be." HOUSTON NASA safety causing recurring problems A former NASA official who led a study three years ago that faulted the way the agency dealt with safety risks told the Columbia investigation board yesterday that the same problem appears to have played a role in the shuttle disaster. Henry McDonald, an engineering pro- fessor, appeared as a witness as the board held its first public hearing on what caused the shuttle to break up over Texas on Feb. 1, killing all seven astronauts. McDonald said he was disappoint- ed the space agency did not adopt more of his team's recommendations. He noted that the same type of com- munication breakdown he warned about seems to have hindered engi- neers who evaluated damage to Columbia's left wing by launch debris and concluded the shuttle and its astronauts were safe. "It's a replay," McDonald told reporters after addressing the board. NEW YORK New York collectors dodge art sales taxes It is one of the worst-kept secrets of New York's fine art galleries: Ultra-rich art collectors who drop millions of dol- lars on paintings are illegally arranging with dealers to duck the sales tax. Now, state and federal prosecutors are going after buyers and dealers with zeal. This week, District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced that 34 families had coughed up $6 million over the past year in back taxes on art purchases. And in federal court, Samuel Waksal, the ImClone Systems founder and friend of Martha Stewart, pleaded guilty to conspiring with a dealer to dodge $1.2 million in sales tax on nine paintings that cost him a total of $15 million. Morgenthau and his federal counter- parts said their investigations are far from over. MIAMI BEACH, Fba Health foods lower high cholesterol People with high cholesterol may lower their levels by a surprising one- third with a vegetarian diet that combines a variety of trendy heart-healthy foods, including plenty of soy and soluble fiber, a study found. Although a healthy diet is a mainstay of cholesterol control, people typically can reduce their cholesterol only about 10 percent by changing what they eat. As a result, doctors routinely prescribe cho- lesterol-lowering drugs called statins. A variety of studies suggest certain plant foods are especially good at lower- ing cholesterol. So a Canadian team put together a diet combining several of these to see what would happen. "The reductions are surprising," said Cyril Kendall of the University of Toron- to. "Most dietitians would not expect that sort of reduction through dietary means." - Compiled from Daily wire reports. i.uqjaiL r V! 1 I A film about the way the world is. The first feature length film about the global AIDS pandemic. First showing in Ann Arbor! DATE: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 TIME: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM LOCATION: Lorch Hall Auditorium H oalt Council Sponsored by: MSA Community Service Commission No tickets necessary. Admission is free. For more information, please contact akleine@umich.edu CONFERENCE Continued from Page 1 "I think the most effective way to counter the vastly pro-Israeli mes- sage of this conference is just to attend and make sure our voice is heard through the question and answer session," he said. Engineering sophomore Maher Iskandar, a member of SAFE, the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee, and the Muslim Students Association, said he is attending the conference to see what is said about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to make sure the message it presents is fair and accurate. But, he said he is skeptical that the conference will present a balanced of the conference is to present topics unrelated to the Israeli-Palestinian debate. "Israel as a democracy is a vibrant and flourishing country where there's a lot more going on besides conflict," he said. Berger said some of the sessions of the conference will focus on Israeli cultural, societal and environmental issues. Topics that will be explored include "Environmental Manage- ment as a Bridge to Peace and Cooperation in the Middle East," "The Psychological Effects of the Terror of the Second Intifada on Israeli Civilians," "Rogue Regime Change and Democratic Peace," "Israel's Cultural Roots," "US- 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. 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