4 2A - The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 1, 2002 NATION/WORLD U.S. prepares to revise proposal NEWS IN BRIEF 4 WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is The political effect would be that President Bush nr~nckr; rr + racy; ;+o r.-.,-,-AheToL it __- _ __ _ preparing to revise its proposed U.N. resolution on Iraqi weapons inspections in a move certain to delay Security Council action past the midterm elections. A senior U.S. official told The Associated Press yesterday that the changes would reflect the views of Russia and France without altering the tough approach demanded by the United States and Britain. Russia and France object to threatening Iraq with "serious consequences" if it fails to disarm. Secretary of State Colin Powell discussed the U.S. strategy by telephone yesterday with Foreign Minis- ters Igor Ivanov of Russia and Dominique de Villepin of France. Revising the resolution could take a day or two after which diplomats who have been negotiating at the United Nations for seven weeks would consult their capitals, said the official, speak- ing on condition of anonymity. That means consideration of a resolution would spill over into next week with a vote probably not until mid-week or even later. will be able to hold back on announcing whether he intends to go to war with Iraq - a potentially explo- sive issue - until after Tuesday's elections. Russia's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Gennady Gatilov, said Wednesday his government still had "quite a lot of problems" with the U.S.- British draft. On the campaign trail yesterday, Bush said it was the United Nations' job to force Iraq to disarm and if it refuses to act, "we will lead a coalition of nations and disarm Saddam Hussein." "You need to do your job," Bush said while stump- ing for Republican candidates in South Dakota. His lecture paralleled his earlier suggestions that the 191-nation world organization would risk irrele- vance if the Security Council did not take a strong stand on Iraq. "If you won't act, and if Saddam Hussein won't disarm, for the sake of peace, for the sake of a future for our children, we will lead a coalition of nations Mondale, Coleman star and disarm Saddam Hussein," Bush said. In urging the council to act, Bush said he wanted the United Nations to succeed and its resolutions carried out. In New York, however, the U.S. demand for a strong resolution that threatens Iraq with "serious consequences" if it defies weapons inspectors again continued to encounter stiff resistance. Russia, France and China, all of whom could sink a joint U.S.-British resolution with a veto, support new inspections but not threats. In response, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said "our bottom line has not changed." "There needs to be a clear statement of Iraq's fail- ure to comply, there has to be a tough inspection regime and there have to be consequences in the event of new Iraqi violations," Boucher said. Another U.S. official declined to confirm reports the United States had begun identifying sites in Iraq believed to have hidden caches of chemical and biological weapons. campaign last Senate But the GOP contended that a mas- L1 schedule, sive re-mailing of absentee ballots d off from could actually disenfranchise support- funeral for ers of other candidates, by leaving in the crash them too little tinfe to file their new ballot. Almost 4.5 percent of Min- e Supreme nesotans voting cast absentee ballots a Democ- in 1998, the last non-presidential elec- d to make tion year. led out to Mondale was seen as Democrats' o vote for best shot at keeping Wellstone's seat, o decision and more than 800 party representa- tives approved his candidacy Wednes- ney for the day with an exuberant "YEA!" There 'arty, urged were no dissenters. o rule that "I think given the circumstances, should be he's absolutely the strongest candidate rs who cast we could field," said delegate Buzz ote. Snyder, a postmaster in St. Cloud. SAN IUAN DI PUGLIA, Italy Five children killed in Italy earthquake An earthquake brought down the roof of a nursery school in Italy yesterday, trapping dozens of children as they were having a Halloween party. Firefighters said at least five children were killed, along with a woman who lived nearby. More than eight hours after the quake struck, rescue teams pulled out three, dust-covered children from the rubble, but dozens remained inside, residents said. Earlier in the day about 20 of the children and two of their teachers were pulled out, said firefighters in Rome, who were coordinating the rescue effort in San Giuliano di Puglia, a village about 50 miles northeast of Naples. RAI state television said eight of the children rescued have critical injuries. Long after nightfall, rescue workers continued to climb over the rubble of the collapsed yellow schoolhouse searching for survivors. From behind police tape, parents shouted out the names of children inside as they and other residents, some with their faces painted for Halloween, awaited information. "They were all together in the school because they were having a Hal- loween party," said Tonino Scarlatelli, an official in the Molise regional president's office. "Many buildings have collapsed throughout the village, we fear there might be other victims outside of the school," he added. Moscow Russian officials present crisis evidence Russian officials played scratchy audiotapes of intercepted telephone conversa- tions for journalists yesterday, part of a Kremlin effort to prove that Chechen sepa- ratist leader Aslan Maskhadov was behind last week's hostage crisis at a Moscow theater - and cannot be trusted as a partner for peace talks. In one of the Chechen-language calls, played with a voiced-over Russian trans- lation, a man identified as the hostage-takers' leader, Movsar Barayev, said that "Shamil," meaning Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, was present during prepara- tions for the hostage-taking raid. "Shamil was acting on Aslan's instructions," the voice said. Kremlin spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky said Maskhadov had been discredit- ed, leaving Moscow with no one to negotiate with over Chechnya. "There was other clear evidence that Mr. Maskhadov was fully aware of the developments and the people in the auditorium acted with his knowl- edge," Yastrzhembsky said, though he offered no further proof of Maskhadov's involvement in the standoff in which 119 people, not including the assailants, died. 4 -4 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - One stressing experience and the other his relative youth, former Vice President Walter Mondale and Republican Norm Coleman started up full-time cam- paigning in earnest yesterday, and their parties squared off before the state Supreme Court over the possibly cru- cial question of absentee ballots. The campaign to determine who would succeed the late Sen. Paul Well- stone - a race that could tip the bal- ance of power in the Senate - fired up yesterday, the day after Mondale for- mally accepted the nomination. Mondale told reporters he intends to serve a full six-year term, and said his background as senator, vice presi- dent and ambassador means he can RECORDS & USED CDS 617 Packard pstairs from )uWay Paying $4 to $6 for top CD's in top condition. Also buying premium P's and cassettes. walk into the Senate and immediately be a leader. "I don't apologize for my experi- ence. It's an asset," Mondale said at a news conference. Earlier in the day, Mondale remind- ed voters of the same thing. "I think I can help on the first day to attack those problems that must be dealt with," Mondale said on WCCO-AM. "Educa- tion, environment, the economy is stumbling. We've got some very severe challenges internationally." Coleman, meanwhile, was spending a second day crisscrossing the state, campaigning yesterday morning at a restaurant in Moorhead. He had halted his campaign last week after Wellstone died in a plane crash. SEE SOMETHING INCORRECT? SEND AN E-MAIL TO CORRECT1ONS@ MICIIGA. DAILY.COM FOOD FR 4%THOUGH T Senator Dang Quang Minh of the National Lib- eration Front, North Vietnam's ambassador to the Soviet Union and a member of the Politburo, described his feelings about the American pro- testors: "When a person is not good for his own country, he is useless for the universe." Page 255, A Thousand Tears Falling. GARY LILLE & ASSOC. REALTORS WWW,GARYLI LLIE,COM Three decades after his1 run, Mondale also had a ful with several hours blocke campaigning to attend a i one of the people who died i with Wellstone. Also yesterday, the stat Court heard arguments in, ratic Party lawsuit intende sure new ballots are mai give residents a chance t Wellstone's replacement. N was issued. Alan Weinblatt, an attor Democratic-Farmer Labor P the court's seven justices t existing absentee ballots considered "spoiled" if vote] them want to change their v I T C ail r Police search for ties anti-missile rockets to sniper across U.S. I I Police are taking another look at unsolved murders around the nation for any ties to the Washington, D.C.- area sniper attacks, as they explore the full breadth of the singular crime wave. Authorities have already laid charges in Alabama and linked two shooting cases in Washington state, all with bal- listics evidence. In at least three other states, police have identified specific murder cases they believe could be linked - but with little real evidence so far. The task has been daunting. The two men accused in the capital- area sniper shootings, John Muham- mad and John Lee Malvo, have lived in or drifted through many states and spent time in the Caribbean. Beyond charges in the Alabama rob- bery-murder, police have linked Muhammad to other seemingly dis- parate crimes - an apparent rage killing at a home and an attack on a synagogue, both in Washington state. The capital- area sniper demanded $10 million - a twist that further expands the range of possible criminal methods and motives. Open 7 days 663-3441 The selection is ENDLESS "It's difficult because he could rea- sonably be a suspect in just about any- thing," said Stanton Samenow, a psychologist who evaluates violent criminals for the courts and wrote "Inside the Criminal Mind." Spurred by a national advisory from the Maryland-based sniper task force, police in many states have reopened old files to check for elements com- mon with the sniper case. That three- week killing field left 10 dead and three wounded and brought charges from Virginia, Maryland and federal prosecutors. State and local police have reported checks for any related cases at least in Washington state, Ore- gon, California, Arizona, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Michigan and Connecticut. In Michigan, Lansing police were following up with the sniper task force to check on any connection to the shooting death of a woman named Bernita White at a zoo entrance in June 2001. She was shot by someone hiding behind a fence about 200 yards away. Arafat- against U.S. attack on Iraq RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat warned yesterday against any U.S. strike on Iraq, saying it would have catastrophic consequences in the Middle East and urged resolving the conflict through the United Nations. In a joint interview with Associ- ated Press Television News and an Israeli TV station, Arafat also pre- dicted the Israel-Palestinian conflict will worsen now that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon depends on far-right and religious parties to cling to power. Warning against a U.S. strike on Iraq, Arafat said, "I hope that this war will not take place because this will lead to a catastrophe in the whole area of the Middle East." "I hope that such conflicts will be resolved in the United Nations since the Iraqis have accepted (U.N. weapons) inspectors back," he said. Arafat also said he remains com- mitted to achieving peace with Israel despite two years of fighting and said he considers suicide, attacks against Israeli civilians to be immoral. "I say to the Israelis, come tomor- row and sit at the negotiation table," said the beleaguered Palestinian The Pentagon needs more anti-mis- sile rockets as it prepares for possible military action against Iraq, the head of the Missile Defense Agency said yesterday. Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish said the United States has only about 40 of its most advanced Patriot missiles to defend against short-range ballistic and cruise missiles. Experts suspect Iraq alone has several times that many Scud and other short-range missiles, which could be topped with chemical or bio- logical warheads. Kadish said he would like to have many more of the advanced Patriots to counter threats from North Korea, Iran and Libya as well as Iraq. The main contractors on the latest Patriot, known as Patriot Advanced Capability 3, can make two of the rock- ets per month, Kadish said. The Penta- gon hopes to speed up that process, but doing so will take time, he said. CAIRO, Egypt FBI takes on discreet role in terrorism war As the fighting winds down in Afghanistan, the focus of the war against terrorism is shifting from the battlefield to a shadowy world where wiretaps, informants, surveillance and forensic evi- dence have replaced bombs and bullets. With those changes, the FBI is taking a leading role in the war, bringing high- tech investigative techniques to the search for terrorists far from America's shores. The work can be tedious: sifting through the wreckage of a car bombin Karachi, screening records of Middle East students at Asian flight schools, persuading local police to follow some- one suspected of terrorist links or track- ing down leads that don't pay off. FBI agents in Jordan have also joined the hunt for the killers of American diplomat Laurence Foley, who was gunned down Monday. WASHINGTON Election may shift power in Congress Look for the Democrats to steer away from President Bush's economic poli- cies if they win the House on Tuesday. And expect the Republicans, if they retake the Senate, to move vigorously on judicial nominaticps the Democrats have bottled up. A lot more could change on Capitol Hill than who sits in the speaker's or majority leader's office. To make much difference from the current Congress - Republicans control the House by seven seats, Democrats the Senate by one - one of the parties prob- ably would have to win both chambers. That's very much up in the air as Election Day nears. History suggests the president's party will lose seats in a midterm election, but "it's an unusual time, and I don't think normal patterns apply," said Ron Faucheux, editor of Campaigns & Elec- tions, a magazine for politicians. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. I I 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. 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. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Collegiate Press. 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