2- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 25, 2002 N ATION/W ORLD ine Palestinians klled in strike NEWS IN BRIEF e in st 'oH k ~~e ADwId101.111LNS FROM"ARUND1THE WORL RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Israel its operations, "including the destruction of defied a U.N. Security Council demand yester- Palestinian civilian and security infrastructure." day to end its six-day siege of Yasser Arafat's The resolution also called on the Palestinian devastated West Bank head uarters a nin A thit t m "h i uvaauvvb[amuaqua 1,n all ne 1 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike against alleged munitions factories and other tar- gets in Gaza City. Israel's siege drew criticism from President Bush and many Israelis who questioned the wis- dom of a military operation that may have boost- ed the Palestinian leader's popularity at a time when voices had begun to be heard urging him to share power. Sporadic pro-Arafat demonstrations persisted yesterday despite curfews imposed in the West Bank in an effort to halt suicide attacks. With the United States abstaining, the Security Council demanded early yesterday that Israel end £iuiuortty Lto ensure L1LUe 1ponsble for terror- ist acts are brought to justice." In Washington, Bush said: "We've got to end the suffering. I thought the actions the Israelis took were not helpful in terms of the establish- ment and development of the institutions 'neces- sary for a Palestinian state to emerge." Unmoved, Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said that "no resolution, and no per- son, can take from us our exclusive right to defend our homes, our people." Cabinet Secretary Gideon Saar said the siege would continue until some 200 people inside the compound give up, asserting many are terrorists who must be put on trial. Apparently hinting at McKennyUnion and Campus Life o and E Convocation Center preseni Live in concert Friday, September 27 8 .m.DF ;$3 x EMU Convocation Center S Tickets availa ble throug h Ticketmaster and EM U Convocation Center 734.487.2282 E AST ERN MIC HIGAN UN IVE RS ITY. possible use of force, he added: "I'm not con- vinced it will end in them being given up but it must end with their capture." Palestinians took heart from the U.N. resolu- tion. Arafat released a statement praising it, and Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat said it should be enforced, "because Israel is the champion of nations undermining Security Council resolutions and not implementing" them. Telephone lines to Arafat's building were cut yesterday, Palestinians said, leaving Arafat and his aides with only cellular phones to communi- cate with the outside world. Israel's army denied any knowledge of the cut lines. Israeli soldiers, tightly ringing Arafat's building with tanks, didn't allow visitors inside, but the military eased restrictions for reporters in the rest of Ramallah, letting them enter and leave town. RANKING t Continued from Pagei the real college experts." "We think that is most valuable perspective for students," she added. University Provost Paul Courant said while student opinion is very valuable, the survey's results should not be taken too seriously and were not a cause for alarm. "It's a funny thing. When we look at (other) surveys, we find that our students find us to be very strong academically, they make wide use of the academic breadth of our Univer- sity and find diversity to be a very important quality that contributes to our academic life," he said. "It's interesting to me that this portrait of us is quite different than the U.S. News and World Report portrait. "I would hate to be in a college where the students study just as much as I would hate to be in a col- lege where the students just party. Neither of those would be a good thing for the University," Courant added. "I don't believe that we are both. I don't believe that we are either." Several students agreed with Courant's statements, saying they do not believe the rankings accu- rately reflect life at the social level of the University. "Comparing it to other universi- ties, there is a bigger social life here. There are a lot of people who do a lot of stuff and there are a lot of parties, but I think that is healthy," Engineering junior Maria Pobre said. She said she believes most stu- dents give academics a higher prior- ity than partying and that professors here are widely-respected and avail- able to students. "I think this is a great school," Pobre said. "But it just shows that a successful student doesn't have to be cooped up in a library all day. It shows you can be successful in both areas." The University ranked high in other areas, mostly dealing with the number of activities available on campus, including Most Politically Active (2), Great/Most Read Col- lege Newspaper (5), Everyone Plays Intramural Sports (9) and Great College Town (20). It won the Jock School and Stu- dents Pack into Stadiums cate- gories. However, it did not make any of the lists in the Demographics or Quality of Life divisions, which include Stu- dents From Different Backgrounds Interact, Diverse Student Population, Students Pray on a Regular Basis, Gay Community Accepted, Happy Students, Great Food, Dorms Like Palaces, Beautiful Campus and The Best Quality of Life. And although many students believe the University is a liberal campus, it did not make the Top 20 in the Students Most Nostalgic For Bill Clinton category. Courant said although the rank- ings are fun, students and potential students should not use it or other publications to judge whether to enroll in a university. "There is no right way to do this because students have their own interests, their own skills, their own needs. Those things vary widely," he said. "I think students should learn about the colleges of their interest from many sources. They should visit, they should talk, they should read and they should make their own decisions about what university , meets their own needs." In a two-page profile, the Prince- ton Review highlights the Universi- ty's academic strengths. While the rankings are compiled from student responses to the questions, there is also a section based on students' indi- vidual comments, Magrey said. The profile for the University published in the article states "the school's a national powerhouse in nearly every aspect: academics WASHINGTON Moussaoui linked by FBI to possible attack An FBI supervisor, sounding a prophetic pre-Sept. 11 alarm, warned FBI headquarters that stu- dent pilot Zacarias Moussaoui was so dangerous he might "take control of a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center," a congressional investigator said in a report yester- day. The supervisor said he had no rea- son to believe such an attack was planned but made the argument Aug. 27, 2001 - 15 days before the attacks -to convince higher-ups of the need for a search warrant for Moussaoui's computer. Moussaoui has since been charged with conspiring in the Sept. 11 attacks. His effort failed. The Moussaoui case was one of two glaring examples of FBI agents recogniz- ing the dangers of terrorists striking from the skies in the weeks before the attacks, only to be stifled by legal restrictions. WASH INGTON U.S. poverty rises while income falls Income declined while poverty lev- els rose last year, the Census Bureau reported yesterday, a double dose of bad economic news that coincided with the first recession in a decade. After nearly a decade of decline, the U.S. poverty rate stood at 11.7 percent last year, up from 11.3 per- cent the previous year, which was the lowest level since 1974. More than 32.9 million people lived in poverty last year, 1.3 million more than in 2000. The median household income declined 2.2 percent to $42,228 after remaining flat the previous year. It was the first statistically significant decline in a decade. Median income refers to the point at which half of households earn more and half earn less. Income levels fell for every group except the very richest and very poorest. All racial groups experi- enced a decline, although Asians and blacks experienced the most substantial drops. WASHINGTON West Nile vaccine could come soon A vaccine to protect the elderly from West Nile virus could be avail- able in as little as three years, and a way to test the blood supply against the infection might be in place next summer, federal scientists told Con- gress yesterday. The mosquito-borne virus has infected 2,000 people in 32 states so far this year and killed 98. Particularly worrisome are recent discoveries that West Nile apparently can be spread through blood transfusions if someone donates blood shortly after becoming infected, and that it occasionally caus- es a polio-like paralysis. Still, public health specialists are expressing cautious optimism. While West Nile virus is here to stay, they expect infections to be dramatically lower in coming years - possibly as early as next year - as more people become immune and communities act quickly each spring to destroy mos- quito eggs and breeding grounds. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast Violence continues in Ivory Coast U.S. troops headed to West Africa yesterday to safeguard 100 American school children holed up in a rebel-held city after the bloodiest-ever uprising in the Ivory Coast. Frightened residents reported heavy artillery and gunfire. French troops moved closer to the central city of Bouake as well, ready to res- cue their nationals and other Westerners if Ivory Coast's government makes good on a pledge to root out forces behind a bloody coup attempt Thursday. "A very welcome development," said a relieved James Forlines, director of Free Will Baptist Foreign Missions, a Nashville, Tenn.-based church group that had sent calls for help overnight for the mission school in the cut-off city after rebels breached the school's walls, firing from its grounds. "It has been a very trying day. It has been a very trying five days," mission offi- cial Neil Gilliland said, speaking by telephone from the United States. The scrambling to safeguard Westerners in the Ivory Coast came amid clashes and growing tensions after the failed coup. At least 270 people have died so far. An American expeditionary force and British troops already were on the ground in Ivory Coast, Ghanaian and French military and government officials said. "The U.S. European Command is moving forces to be in a closer position to provide for the safety of American citizens," a statement from the command said. GANHNAGAR, India Gunmen storm Hindu temple in India Attackers sprayed gunfire through a temple crowded with Hindu wor- shippers yesterday, killing at least 30 people and fueling fears of new riot- ing in western India, where vicious religious clashes between Muslims and Hindus killed 1,000 people earlier this year. Hours after the attack, the gunmen remained in control of part of the Swami- narayan temple complex - and some worshippers were still inside, officials said. Bloody bodies were carried away on stretchers and many wounded limped out, their clothes stained with blood. About 45 people were wounded. Hundreds of commandos swarmed into the sprawling temple complex after the attackers stormed in, setting up positions around the main temple, said R.B. Brahmabhatt, the city's acting police chief. A senior police official inside the complex, speaking on his mobile phone, said between 40 and 50 people had been taken hostage. There were two attackers inside, and security forces were "waiting until they exhaust their ammunition," to launch their offensive, said G.M. Sing- hal, another official involved in the operation. 0 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. 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. 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