2 - The Michigan Daily -Tuesday, October 1, 2002 NATION/WORLD U.N. inspectors, Iraq open talks IN BRIEF VIENNA, Austria (AP) - U.N. weapons inspec- Iraqi compliance. Vienna meetings have addressed those topics, a deci- tors demanded the right to roam freely around Sad- dam Hussein's palaces and other suspect sites when they opened talks with the Iraqis yesterday on the logistics of a possible return to Baghdad. Chief inspector Hans Blix, leading the closed-door meetings with an Iraqi delegation, said the inspectors were operating under the assumption they would be able to go anywhere, anytime if they return to Iraq for a fresh assessment of the country's nuclear, bio- logical and chemical programs. The dispute came to a head after the Bush administration repeatedly accused Iraq of blatant- ly violating U.N. resolutions requiring Baghdad to disarm. Washington threatened to unilaterally remove Saddam from power because more than a decade of international pressure had failed to win When President Bush made an impassioned plea for tougher U.N. action at the General Assembly last month, Saddam switched course and pledged unconditional access to sites across Iraq. But in recent days Baghdad has rejected any new U.N. resolutions to broaden and toughen the inspection regime. Iraqi resistance has thrown into question whether the eight sprawling presi- dential palaces - up to now off-limits to surprise visits - would be open to renewed inspections. "We're telling the Iraqis we don't want any limita- tions on our access," a senior diplomat close to the talks said on condition of anonymity. The issue of palace inspections and some other contentious matters would require amending the most recent U.N.-Iraq agreement on inspections. While the sion on changing the sanctions regime would have to be made by the U.N. Security Council once Blix reports back on Thursday. Under a deal U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan cut with Baghdad in early 1998, the inspectors' access to eight so-called presidential sites encompassing a total of 12 square miles was restricted. The deal prevented inspectors from carrying out surprise visits to the sites, which include Saddam's palaces. The deal also created a team of international diplomats to accompany inspectors when they did enter. The United States and the rest of the Security Council endorsed that plan, which remains in effect. However, the Bush administration is pushing for a resolution that would nullify the Annan deal. DON'T LIKE THE GRAY SMUDGES.YOU GET ON.YOUR FINGERTIPSWHEN.YOU READ A NEWSPAPER? REA.DTHEMICHIGAN DAILY.ON.uNE WWW.MICHIGANDAILY CO... ANN ARBOR REALTY LOCATION - LOCATION - LOCATION Central Campus Efficiencies, 1, 2 & 3 bedroom apts. Starting at $575/mo. Includes some utilities. 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Israeli soldiers enforcing a curfew in the city and a neighboring refugee camp clashed first with stone-throwing youths, then with Palestinian gunmen, witnesses said.I Sharon was in Moscow yesterdayc as the criticism swirled over the decision the day before to pull1 troops out of Palestinian leader Arafat's compound in the West Bankt town of Ramallah. Some said Sharon and his government hadi underestimated Washington's deter-' mination to keep the Israeli-Pales-t tinian conflict from undermining the campaign against Iraqi leader Sad-I dam Hussein. "Sharon is leaving behind a colossal failure, the most notable failure sincee the beginning of his term in office,"c commentator Hemi Shalev wrote in thej newspaper Maariv. A new threat to his coalitioni emerged at a convention of his senior partner, the moderate Labor Party, overI a domestic issue - the state budget. Sharon has said that if the budget is not7 passed by the end of October, he will call an election. Labor members of the Cabinet had already decided to support the budget - and thus stay in the government - partly because the possibility of a U.S.t war with Iraq makes it an awkward! time to display political divisions. However, party delegates yesterdayf voted to force their ministers to con- vene another convention to report onI the budget negotiations before the votei in parliament, challenging the authority of the party leader, Binyamin Ben-I Eliezer. Outbursts of violence continued in Palestinian areas. Gunfire broke out yesterday in down- town Nablus on the West Bank. Wit- nesses said Palestinian gunmen apparently fired on soldiers and the Israelis fired back. Black smoke rose from one building. Helicopters and mil- itary ambulances arrived at the scene. Earlier, an 11-year-old Palestinian boy was killed in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus when soldiers enforcing a curfew fired from tanks at children who threw stones while on their way to school, doctors said. The military said soldiers had fired at a youth who was about to throw a firebomb. CHAN Continued from Page 1 talking about "Shanghai Nights 3," Chan said of his upcoming features. "One just comes after another. I just want to retire someday, but they just keep on coming." Chan almost always chooses films that will appeal to the mass audience, especially children. "When I choreo- graph all my action scenes it's very difficult," he explains. "Action with- out violence, very difficult. The chil- dren have to laugh." The international star is critical of many Hollywood action films, in particular those with excessive bloodshed. "So many American action movies are about the big machine gun. I think how to get rid of the gun." DAKAR, Senegal Death toll up for Senegal ferry disaster Screaming for help and gasping for air, countless victims of one of Africa's deadliest ferry disasters survived for hours in the overturned MS Joola, res- cue divers said yesterday - describing scenes of horror in air pockets that had kept the vessel afloat. With nearly 1,000 presumed dead, it appeared yesterday the true toll could be even hundreds higher - with ticket- ing authorities saying all children under 5 would have gone unticketed, and thus apparently uncounted. "Children were found clutching their mothers," said Haidar el Ali, a diver who visited the doomed vessel. President Abdoulaye Wade acknowl- edged the state-run MS Joola was over- crowded when it capsized in the Atlantic just before midnight Thursday, tumbling under the waves in a heavy gale. Ger- many's Hamburger Abendblatt daily reported Monday that a German shipyard built the ship 12 years ago. WASHINGTON Sterile blood given to transfusion patients Several hundred transfusion recipi- ents around the country - adults under- going heart surgery and children with certain inherited anemias - are being enrolled in a bold experiment: They'll receive donated blood that has essential- ly been sterilized. Today's blood supply is very safe because it undergoes numerous tests to ensure that donated pints containing infections like the AIDS virus are thrown out. Testing isn't perfect, however, and a TRENTON, NJ. -; Sen. Torricelli withdraws re-election bid Democratic Sen. Robert Torricelli abruptly dropped his re-election bid yester- day - just five weeks before Election Day - after a bruising year marked by ethics questions and an admonishment by his colleagues. Noting that Democratic control of the Senate is at stake in the Nov. 5 election, Torricelli said: "I could not stand the pain if any failing on my part will do dam- age to the things and the people that I have fought for all of my life." Torricelli, who was seeking a second term, spent all day talking with party leaders about possible replacements and researching the legal issues involved in getting a new candidate on the ballot. Party officials were considering a list of possible candidates including former Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Bill Bradley and current House members Bob Menendez, Frank Pallone and Rob Andrews, according to sources in Washington and New Jersey. An associate said it was unlikely Bradley would accept. A source close to Laut- enberg said he would run if asked by Gov. James McGreevey, a fellow Democrat. Under New Jersey law, a political party can replace a statewide nominee on the ballot if the person drops out at least 48 days before the election. But only 36 days remain until the election, meaning Democrats would have to seek approval from the state attorney general, a Democrat. YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast Government soldiers inflict losses on rebels Government soldiers claimed yesterday they had inflicted heavy losses on rebel troops in Ivory Coast, while French troops in jeeps with mounted guns scoured the countryside in search of isolated Westerners who might need rescue in case of all-out war. With rebels and loyalists still facing off ahead of a promised government attack, questions were growing yesterday over how well loyalist forces could make good on their threat. Many were armed with outdated equipment, including guns held together with tape. Trying to avert a bloody showdown, West African foreign ministers flew into the commercial capital Abidjan yesterday to talk with the rebels and try to per- suade them to agree to a cease-fire. Mediators included foreign ministers from Nigeria, Ghana and Togo. The dele- gation planned to meet with the shadowy rebels, Foreign Minister Hackman Owusu-Agyeman said, confirming that the envoys had managed to identify those they believe are leading the insurgency. He refused to give details. Launching their insurgency with a bloody coup attempt Sept. 19, rebels took and held control of the central city of Bouake, and northern Korhogo. e few tainted pints slip by. Last month's discovery that West Nile virus apparent- ly can be spread through transfusions highlights another problem: Blood banks can't prevent what they can't test for, and there's no test yet for West Nile in donat- ed blood. A technology called "pathogen inactivation" is being promoted as the solution. A chemical added to a donated bag of blood is supposed to break up the genetic material of any viruses or bacteria lurk- ing inside so they can't infect, essentially offering the first way to sterilize blood. DALLAS McDonald's, Frito Lay will decrease fat use Dr. Sarah Blumenschein sees a pattern in the overweight children who come to her clinic: They snack more often and they eat out more often - especially at fast-food restaurants. "The kids don't realize the high calorie and fat levels in fast food," said Blumen- schein, a pediatric cardiologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Med- ical Center at Dallas. "The marketing of fast food has been very clever." She applauds the recent announce- ments by McDonald's Corp. and Frito- Lay Inc. that they will reduce a particular form of fat in making french fries and chips. But she and other medical experts said the move was overdue, and they plan to keep pressing the U.S. food industry to do more to reduce fat, not just substitute one for another. "Trans fat is a no-brainer. They should have done this a long time ago. We've known about trans fat for 30 years," New York University Nutrition Prof. Marion Nestle said. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. -i School of International & Public Affairs Columbia University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Princeton University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Tufts University 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. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscrip- tions must be prepaid. 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