2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 22, 2002 NATION/WORLD Police ask sniper caller for contact NEWS IN BRIEF HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE WORLDl ttY'I"i ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - In a tan- came from Montgomery County may have come from the sniper and have received. We are preparing our WASHINGTON talizing turn in the hunt for the Wash- Police Chief Charles Moose, who is in that the caller was the same person response at this time."I aqci c,1ew still po egtrip nd cn gfforces ington-area sniper, investigators said charge of the investigation, who left a note and phone number Sat- Moose said he could not discuss the A1~tI.aq.S S~ii3 P1OSe threatl.. to U.S. orces yesterday the killer apparently tried to Moose d contact them in a phone call that was that a call too garbled to understand. They plead- someone o ed with the person to call back. tors - but1 The announcement came hours "The pe after Virginia authorities surrounded a hear every white van in Richmond, Va., and was unclear seized two men. Police later said the Call us ba men had nothing to do with the case understand, and would be deported for immigra- He did n tion violations. call, wheni The most intriguing development But inve 16 illed as KARKUR JUNCTION, Israel (AP) - A car packed with explosives pulled up to a bus in northern Israel during rush hour yesterday, igniting a massive fireball that trapped passengers in the blazing bus and killed at least 16 people, including two suicide attackers. About 45 people were wounded in the blast at Karkur Junction, several miles inland from the coastli town of Hadera. The army said 15 of the wounded were soldiers. The body of at least one sol- dier was seen lying next to the bus. 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The flurry of activity raised hope there had been a break in the search for the sniper who has killed nine people and critically wounded three others in Virginia, Maryland and Washington since Oct. 2. The latest attack came Saturday night in a steakhouse parking lot in Ashland, just north of Richmond. The victim, a 37-year-old man, was felled by a single shot to the stomach. huge plumes of smoke into the sky and initially pre- vented police and rescue workers from approaching the bus. When the fire was extinguished an hour later, the bus and the car were reduced to blackened skeletons. "The explosion was so strong that I fell to the floor," Michael Itzhaki, a passenger who was sitting behind the bus driver, told Army Radio. "I looked back and quickly got off the bus, then it burst into flames." "We succeeded in getting one soldier off the bus," Itzhaki said. 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Stewart likely to face fraud charges NEW YORK (AP) -- Securities and Exchange Commission investigators have notified Martha Stewart that they plan to recommend civil securities fraud charges against her in connection with her sale of ImClone Systems Inc. shares, according to media reports yesterday. The Securities and Exchange Com- mission gave Stewart what is called a Wells Notice, The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times reported on their websites, citing people familiar with the matter. That offers her a chance to explain her actions before the full com- mission makes its final decision. In most cases, such a notice leads to filing of charges. Stewart's attorneys referred calls to Allyn Magrino, Stewart's spokeswoman, who declined to comment. Martha Stew- art Living Omnimedia Inc., where Stew- art is chief executive and chairman, also declined to comment, as did an SEC spokesman. The news is the latest in a spate of set- backs for Stewart. She is already under investigation by the Justice Department, which is probing whether she lied to lawmakers about her December sale of ImClone shares. She resigned earlier this month from the board of the New York Stock Exchange. Stewart sold her almost 4,000 shares of ImClone on Dec. 27 -one day before the Food and Drug Administra- tion announced it had denied the biotech company's application for Erbitux, its promising cancer drug. ImClone's stock subsequently plummeted. The home decorating entrepreneur has maintained that she had a standing order to sell the shares if the stock dropped below $60. Indictment ties U.S. men to al- BUFFALO, N.Y (AP) - Six men were indicted yesterday on charges of upporting terrorism by training at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden declared that there is going to be a fight against Ame- cans,"authorities said. A federal grand jury handed up a two-count indictment of six Americans of Yemeni descent from the Buffalo suburb of Lackawanna with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. An arraignment was scheduled for today. Arrested and charged just days after the Sept. 11 anniversary, the men could get up to 15 years in prison if convicted under a 1996 law that prohibits giving money, weapons or other tangible support to foreign groups deemed terrorist organiza- tions by the government. Only Sahim Alwan, 29, was granted SEOUL, South Korea North Korea ready to discuss nuclear arms North Korea said yesterday it was ready for talks on its nuclear weapons program even as South Korea warned the issue could escalate into a security crisis on their divided peninsula. The pledge by North Korea's cere- monial head of state, Kim Yong Nam, to resolve the problem through dialogue was at odds with U.S. demands for an immediate suspension of the nuclear activity, which violates international agreements. Moreover, it carried a condition: Kim told South Korean delegates who trav- eled to Pyongyang that talks were con- tingent on Washington's willingness to withdraw its "hostile policy" toward the North. The remark alluded to long-standing North Korean accusations that Wash- ington is plotting to undermine its com- munist system and even use U.S. troops stationed in South Korea as the van- guardof an invasion. WASH INGTON Burial artifact may be connected to Jesus An inscription on a burial artifact recently discovered in Israel is "the first appearance of Jesus in the archaeologi- cal record," magazine editor Hershel Shanks announced yesterday. Writing in the new issue of Shanks' Biblical Archaeology Review, Andre Lemaire, a specialist in ancient inscriptions at France's Practical School of Higher Studies, says it is "very probable" the find is an authen- tic reference to Jesus of Nazareth and he dates it to A.D. 63 - just three decades after the crucifixion. Kyle McCarter, a Johns Hopkins University archaeologist, told a news conference that the identification is probable but he has "a bit of doubt" "We may never be absolutely certain. In the work I do we're rarely absolutely certain about anything," he said. That Jesus existed is not doubted by scholars. WASHINGTON Pig sperm engineered to carry human genes In a step toward creating herds of pigs that could provide organs for transplant- ing into humans, Italian researchers manipulated swine sperm to make an animal strain that carries human genes in the heart, liver and kidneys. Researchers at the University of Milan mixed swine sperm with the DNA of a human gene called decay accelerating factor, or DAF, and then used the modified sperm to fertilize pig eggs. The eggs were implanted into sows to produce litters of pigs that car- ried the human gene. "What we obtain at high efficiency and low cost is genetically modified pigs expressing the human protein," said Dr. Marialuisa Lavitrano, a Uni- versity of Milan researcher and first author of the study appearing today in the Proceedings of the National Acad- emy of Sciences. - Compiledfrom Daily wire reports. 0l Iraq's missiles remain a threat to U.S. forces and allies in the Persian Gulf, despite nearly a dozen years of American advances in anti-missile technology. The few dozen longer-range Scud missiles Iraq may have wobble so much in flight that they make a difficult target for America's most advanced Patriot anti- missile systems. But Iraq has developed shorter-range missiles that can fly under or overwhelm U.S. missile defenses. And the United States has fewer than 40 of its most advanced Patriots ready for use. That means missiles could be among Saddam Hussein's most threatening weapons if the United States decides to wage war against Iraq. One of Iraq's tar- gets could be Kuwait, which the United States wrested away from Saddam in 1991 and where U.S. troops are massing for a possible invasion. "Part of what the Iraqis would want to do is cause massive casualties in Kuwait with a chemical attack," said military analyst John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org. "It could create some real dilemmas for the American commander if the Iraqis are firing missiles faster than the Patriot can shoot them down." Iraq's main missile threat during the Gulf war was the Scud, a missile Iraq bought wholesale from the former Soviet Union and later modified to extend its range. WASH INGTON Court refuses to review execution of minors A bitterly divided Supreme Court refused yesterday to consider ending the exe- cution of killers who were under 18 when they committed their crimes. Four justices said the court should continue a reexamination of the death penal- ty begun in earnest last year. The court recently abolished executions for the men- tally retarded. The court passed up a chance to reopen the question of whether executing very young killers violates the Constitution's ban on "cruel and unusual punishment." Currently, states that allow the death penalty may impose it on killers who were 16 or 17 at the time of their crimes. "The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsis- tent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society," wrote Justice John Paul Stevens, joined by Justices David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. "We should put an end to this shameful practice." Breyer also wrote separately to say the court should consider a second death penalty case that asks whether it was unconstitutional to leave inmates for decades on death row. 01 B <0 A. < >, , / / A A / 4'> A 0 ,' A A '7