2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 28, 2002 NATION/WORLD Wellstone family chooses Mondale NEWs IN BRIEF E< .. -, ---41 - -- - - v - now IREWWWMWIMF maw ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Sen. Paul Wellstone's oldest son has urged former Vice President Walter Mondale to step in as his late father's replacement on the Nov. 5 ballot, Democratic leaders said yesterday. The state party's top official said the family's wishes will be a major factor in Mondale's decision. Mike Erlandson, chairman of the state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, said David Wellstone asked Mondale to run in his father's place. He and other surviving family members weren't immediately available to comment, the late senator's campaign staff said. A group of up to 875 Minnesota Democrats will meet Wednesday to offi- cially choose the substitute candidate for Wellstone, who died Friday in a plane crash. Erlandson refused to say whether Mondale would be the nominee, although he has said the family's choice would weigh heavily in the decision. He said he believes Mondale will run if nominated. If Democrats succeed in drafting Mondale, it will give them a power- house candidate for a six-day campaign against Republican Norm Coleman, the former St. Paul mayor who entered the race at the urging of President Bush. The race had been tight between Coleman and Wellstone and was a top target of Republicans trying to regain control of the Senate. State Republican officials have said they would attempt to cast a Mondale- Coleman race as a choice between a reluctant placeholder and someone who is eager to do the work. "Walter Mondale is a good man," Coleman said yesterday, declining to comment further on his potential oppo- nent. "There will be a campaign, but now is not the time." Mondale, 74, hasn't returned calls to reporters or answered the door at his Minneapolis home. Those close to Mondale said he isn't expected to comment publicly on a potential candidacy until after tomor- row's memorial service for Wellstone, his wife, daughter and three campaign workers who died in the plane crash. Relatives of the six passengers and two pilots visited the northern Minnesota crash site yesterday. The cause of the crash, which happened in freezing rain, remained under investigation. Officials want death for sniper suspects AREL, West Bank Bomb kills three Israeli soldiers, attacker A Palestinian attacker killed three Israeli soldiers and himself yesterday when his bomb detonated in a struggle with soldiers at a gas station just outside the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel. The assailant came from the nearby city of Nablus - a city kept by Israel's military under strict curfew for months in a bid to stop Palestinian attackers from slipping out and reaching Israeli targets. In Nablus, Israeli troops shot dead two armed Palestinians several hours after the bomb attack, though the two sides disagreed on the circum- stances. The army said soldiers were attempting to make arrests when they came under fire and shot back, killing the pair. Palestinian witnesses said soldiers killed the two men, both known militants, and then fled in an unmarked van. The violence came as the Israelis and Palestinians tried to resolve their own political dramas. The Palestinian legislature, which effectively forced Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to dissolve his Cabinet on Sept. 11, is to meet Monday in the West Bank city of Ramallah and decide whether to approve the new pro- posed Cabinet. CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico Bush discusses disarmament, Iraq at forum A weekend of urgent diplomacy produced some modest gains for President Bush, although he left this sports-fishing resort yesterday with a string of disap- pointments in his bid to disarm North Korea and Iraq. The two-day Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum yielded the United States a show of unity against North Korea's nuclear weapons program, a fresh round of promises to combat terrorism and a valuable opportunity to lobby 21 Asian leaders on Iraq. But Bush's toughest challenges went unmet. Many Asian leaders still reject Bush's zero-tolerance approach to Iraq, and administration officials grimly acknowledged that a strong U.N. resolution to force Saddam Hussein to disarm may elude them this week. South Korea and Japan still oppose Bush's isolation policy for North Korea. U.S. officials still have reason to question the commitment of Muslim-dominated Pacific Rim nations to the war against terrorism. And APEC, created by the first Bush administration to liberalize trade, became a forum for Asian leaders to accuse the second Bush White House of protectionist practices. ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - A growing number of officials said yesterday that the state of Maryland should defer prosecution of the two sniper suspects to another jurisdiction where the death penalty could be more easily applied. "Wherever the case is strongest, with the stiffest penalties, that's where they need to go," said Douglas Duncan, the top elected official in Maryland's Mont- gomery County, where the rampage began Oct. 2 and where six people were slain. John Allen Muhammad, 41, and teenager John Lee Malvo were to be charged today in Virginia, where three of the killings took place. The suspects already face multiple murder charges in Maryland, and murder charges in Alabama unrelated to the sniper shootings. They also could be charged with federal extortion and murder counts that could bring the death penalty. Duncan told The Associated Press yesterday that prosecutors should present a "unified front" in bringing the case to the toughest venue. "I hope that's what they do," he said. His comments were among the first from Maryland officials suggesting the state defer prosecution to another jurisdiction. Montgomery County State's Attorney Douglas Gansler told the AP on Sunday that he still believes his state should prosecute the case first, but "we're open to discussions with all the jurisdictions." Gansler acknowledged that the toughest sen- tence Malvo could get in Maryland would be life without the possibility of parole, but argued that his state has the strongest case because it suffered the heaviest losses. The Justice Department suggested yesterday it is unlikely Maryland will be the first jurisdiction to try the sniper suspects, who remain in federal custody on federal firearms and material witness warrants issued before their capture. Maryland "comes in dead last" in terms of the strength of its law on the death penalty, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. al SchoolChoice Research 21S.Statet Resereb ETR THRADS 327-4300 Need Sib/ecls! 1 fr pays $4-$19! ('12 av - Economics studi of decrian mki, iH allow een costumes! "'wNe leb c~esa thr jackets and swea rs T his is a NSF and T&t rrrhi 'ret hoI-.C G. org'I 4" CC Hm I KNOW WHAT I KNOW. WE COME & WE GO. ITS IN THE BACK OF MY EYES. 116 hostages killed by. mysterious gas in Moscow theater MOSCOW (AP) - Doctors said yesterday they still hadn't been told exactly what was in a mysterious knockout gas that killed 116 hostages after Russian special forces stormed a' Moscow theater to free them from Chechen terrorists. The chief Moscow city doctor says more than 150 hostages remained in critical condition after the operation, which at first had been seen as a tri- umphant rescue mission. The physician in charge of the city's poison unit said troops did not tell medical authorities they had gassed the auditorium until the 750 hostages were brought out, most of them unconscious. "But we didn't know the character of the gas," said Yevgeny Luzhnikov, head of the city health service Department of Severe Poisoning. The substance was described as akin to compounds used in surgical anesthesia. Andrei Seltsovsky, the chief city physician, explained that the gas affect- ed hearts and lungs. He said he had no information when asked about reports that the compound could cause vomiting that would choke unconscious victims. "In standard situations, the com- pound ... does not act as aggressive- ly as it turned out to do," Seltsovsky said. "But it was used on people who were in a specific (extreme) situa- tion for more than 50 hours. ... All of this naturally made the situation more difficult." The approximately 800 hostages were taken Wednesday night when an estimated 50 Chechen rebels stormed the theater during a popular musical. They demanded that Russia end its war in Chechnya. The few dozen hostages who were well enough to be released yesterday could provide few clues as to the nature of the gas. "We knew something serious was going to happen" when the gas started seeping into the hot auditorium that reeked of excrement, said Mark Podlesny as he walked out of Veterans Hospital No. 1 near the theater. "I lost consciousness. Yes, there was a strange smell," said Roma Shmakov, a 12-year-old actor in "Nord-Ost," the musical in progress when the gunmen burst in at 9:10 p.m. Wednesday. The gas mystery tainted the rescue mission, overlaying it with an aura of confusion and callousness. The impression was bolstered by scenes outside hospitals where the hostages were taken for treatment. Friends and family crowded the gates in futile efforts to learn if relatives or loved ones were inside. Authorities gave out little information on hostages' identi- ties, what hospital they were in or how they had fared through the ordeal. A. , Sicily Volcano erupts in Italy, no one hurt Mount Etna, Europe's biggest and most active volcano, came to life again yesterday, spewing lava but causing no injuries. A series of small earthquakes damaged build- ings on the slopes of the mountain, officials said. The stream of lava destroyed some ski lift pylons as it headed toward Piano Provenzana, an area which sits at 7,500 feet and is used by tourists as a starting point for mountain walks. The area was evacuated and sealed by police, said civil defense officials in Catania. Later yesterday, forests near Piano Provenzana caught fire. Helicopters doused the flames.1 Sicily's main eastern airport, Catania's Fontanarossa, was closed down, with many flights rerouted to Palermo, the island's capital city. The airport was scheduled to reopen this morning. SAWSAW, Okla. Rampage leaves two dead, eight injured A teenager apparently upset by com- plaints about his driving shot four neighbors, including a 2-year-old girl, then went on a 20-mile shooting spree, apparently targeting people at random, police said. Two of the victims died. Daniel Fears, 18, was arrested after losing control of his pickup truck and crashing near a police roadblock, authorities said. As police cars sur- rounded him, he threw out a 20-gauge shotgun and surrendered, said Okla- homa State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Kym Koch. Authorities hadn't determined a motive for the Saturday rampage, but police said they believed Fears became angry when a neighbor scolded him for driving recklessly in the middle-class neighborhood. "A man got onto him for driving erratically because he said he almost hit some kids," Koch said. DETROIT Painkillers found to be in short supply Inner city pharmacists who fear that abusers will get illegal access to pain- killing medications are refusing to stock the drugs, creating a hardship for residents who really need them. The same drugs that reduce suffering of cancer patients are coveted by illicit users for their massive highs, making drug stores targets for break-ins and robberies. Some pharmacists have concluded stocking drugs isn't worth the risk. A Detroit News survey of 200 of the 700 retail pharmacies in Oakland, Macomb and Wayne counties concluded that filling prescriptions for painkillers is much easi- er in suburbs than poorer communities. Suburban stores, for instance, are four times as likely to stock OxyContin than pharmacies in poor communities, The News reported in a story yesterday. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 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