AN 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 8, 2002 NATION/WORLD U.S., France agree on Iraq draft NEWS I BRIEF H~~~EADIESFOMAONDTE OL 0 ! E .,., ,., .. _ " y. z UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States French diplomat, on condition of anonymity. and France reached agreement yesterday on a new Russia, like France, also appeared to be softening Security Council resolution on Iraq, removing a key its position in favor of the American draft. hurdle toward passage of the U.S.-drafted plan for The latest American text, a product of eight weeks tough new weapons inspections. of intense lobbying by the Bush administration, sig- French diplomats said the compromise was naled significant progress and included major con- reached through negotiations at the United Nations cessions to Security Council members concerned and in telephone calls between President Bush and about setting off another war in Iraq. French President Jacques Chirac over the last day. Bush said he wanted a vote today although Syria According to French diplomats, the United States wanted it postponed because of an Arab League agreed to change wording in a key provision that meeting this weekend in Egypt. would declare Iraq in "material breach" of its U.N. The president also spoke by telephone with Russ- obligations. ian President Vladimir Putin yesterday as lobbying The change addresses French and Russian con- intensified a day before Washington planned to push cerns that the original wording would have let the for a vote on the resolution. United States determine on its own whether Iraq had "He's a real threat," Bush said of Saddam, "and committed an infraction. Such a determination, it's now time for the world to come together and France and Russia feared, would have triggered an disarm him." attack on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Security Council members were expecting U.S. "The Security Council will now be the ones to and British diplomats to circulate a revised text decide whether Iraq is in material breach," said a later yesterday with the new wording agreed upon /E'A".TON 1 Sniper complair F ,MADTH aERS_ fP earlier in the day. Russian Ambassador Sergey Lavrov told The Associated Press a vote was possible today if the United States and Britain come up with a few more concessions. U.S. and British diplomats said a new version could be ready by the end of the day yesterday. The U.S. draft resolution includes a greater role for the Security Council but still frees the United States to take military action against Iraq if inspectors say it isn't complying. In Iraq, the government-controlled media called the draft resolution a pretext for war and urged the Security Council not to bow to American demands. "America wants to use this resolution as a pretext and a cover for its aggression on Iraq and the whole Arab nation," the ruling Baath Party newspaper Al- Thawra said yesterday. "The Security Council should not give (the Americans) a pretext and a cover for the coming aggression." it dismissed JER USA LEM-;;V;; Sharon, Netanyahu disagree on proposal Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his new foreign minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had their first dispute, arguing over a U.S.-backed peace proposal on the eve of the arrival of an American envoy. In a speech to business leaders yesterday, Sharon alluded to the issue when he stressed he would do nothing to endanger "the deep strategic understandings with the United States and the special relationship that has been woven with the Amer- ican government." Netanyahu has suggested he considered the so-called "roadmap" to peace irrel- evant as long as U.S. military action in Iraq is pending. Aides said the two met Wednesday night to resolve their differences on policy and the timing of Likud Party primaries, and the Yediot Ahronot daily and radio stations said Sharon complained about Netanyahu's dismissal of a U.S.-backed plan for a provisional Palestinian state by next year and full independence by 2005. Sharon himself has expressed serious reservations about the plan, but has been more diplomatic than Netanyahu, saying Israel would study it carefully and pres- ent its response at the appropriate time. Netanyahu, who will battle Sharon for the Likud leadership in primaries to be held within the next few weeks, was formally sworn in as foreign minister on Wednesday JAKARTA, Indonesia Bali nightclub bombing suspect in custody In the first major break in the inquiry into the Bali nightclub bombings, Indonesia's police chief said yesterday that a suspect in custody has admitted to taking part in the attack that killed nearly 200 people. Police said they were looking into possible con- nections between the suspect and a regional terror group with links to al-Qaida. The announcement came as President Megawati Sukarnoputri submitted a draft bill to parliament intended to replace an emergency anti-terrorist decree issued immediately after the Oct. 12 attack. In another sign that her administration - criticized for its lenient treatment of Islamic militants - is getting tough with extremists, a notorious gang of religious vigilantes unexpectedly announced yesterday that it would disband. The developments appeared to signal that the investigation was gaining momentum and offered hope the world's largest Muslim nation is making head- way in its fight against terrorism. Gen. Da'i Bachtiar, the national police commander, said the suspect, an Indone- sian man identified only as Amrozi, owned the L300 Mitsubishi minivan laden with at least 110 pounds of explosives that blew up outside a packed nightclub on Bali. e FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - With another set of state indictments returned against the sniper suspects, officials dismissed a federal criminal complaint yesterday against John Muhammad. A statement by federal prosecutors in Greenbelt, Md., didn't make clear why they took the action, including whether that means they were defer- ring to state prosecutors. Dismissal of the charges does not mean the federal government believes it has a weak case. A Justice Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the move clears the way for a possible federal indictment to supersede the criminal complaint or the possible transfer of Muhammad and John Lee Malvo to state authorities for trial on murder charges. The official would not confirm whether either possibility was immi- nent but said an announcement on the developments was expected later yesterday. BLOOD Continued from Page 1 "We need as much as possible," Gupta said, adding it only takes two teaspoons of blood to see if someone is a possible match. "It's all blood related. That's a huge reason why it is part of the blood drive," she said. USAC hopes to get at least 500 stu- dents registered during the event, encouraging all students to come out and save a life, Gupta said. USAC President Janice Liao said all University students are invited to help save a life. Minority students are espe- cially encouraged to donate because their marrow reserves are often low, she added. Members of the American Red Cross and the local Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity are responsible for the Blood Battle in 24 campus donation locations over 11 days. This year, the University hopes to claim victory with more than 2,000 collected pints of blood, APO President and Engineering senior Sean Meyers said. Meyers said he hopes results are better than last year's, when the University defeated Ohio State with 1,679 donated pints of blood - beating Ohio State by 271 pints. APO publicized the two-week event with postings on the Diag and storefront windows, bus signs and banners, he said. "APO members do everything - vol- unteering at the drives ... and booking residence hall rooms are probably the largest acts,"Meyers said. With everyone donating blood and showing support, Meyer said it would be nice to beat Ohio State again and take home the "Blood Drop Trophy." T- SHIRT PRINTIGNG N LOWEST PRICES! HIGHEST QUALITY! FASTEST SER VICE! * * 1002 PONTIAC TR. U 994-1367 Ann Arbor Campus Chapel 1236 Washtenaw Ct. Academic Ministries Sunday November 10, 2002 11:30 a.m. Service of Worship Rev. Dr. Rolf Bouma, peaching Pastor for Academic Ministries Dr. Stephen J. Rush, music Associate Professor U-M School of Music Light Lunch following 2:00 p.m. Lecture Creation & Gospel at the University ofMichigan: Science, Ethics, & Praxis Dr. Calvin B. DeWitt Directo,AuSable Institute Professor of Env. Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison BEIJING China's communist party modifies ideas Preparing for a landmark congress that is expected to install a new genera- tion of leaders, China's communist party pledged yesterday to modernize its ide- ology to keep pace with a fast-changing, increasingly capitalist society. "China has entered into a new phase of development, in which we are to build a well-to-do society," said Ji Bingxuan, spokesman for the party's 16th National Congress, which opens today in Bei- jing's Great Hall of the People. In keeping with the secrecy surround- ing the event, Ji gave no details of the personnel changes planned at the con- gress, where President Jiang Zemin, 76, is expected to hand over the title of party leader to his 59-year-old vice president, Hu Jintao. But Ji indicated that a key theme would be Jiang's personal cam- paign - known awkwardly as the "Three Represents" - to bring entrepre- neurs into the party and to amend its constitution to give them a formal role. WASHINGTON Bush makes security Republican priority" President Bush, charting an agenda for the new Republican Congress, said yes- terday that homeland security comes first and an economic-recovery plan with new tax cuts will wait until next year. "There's going to be a huge laundry list of things people want to get done and my job is to set priorities and get them done," the president said in a jovial 45-minute news conference, his first appearance after Tuesday's elec- tion, when his GOP captured control of both the House and Senate. Bush's insistence that the Senate deliver him a Department of Homeland Security in its postelection session put him awkwardly at odds with newly empowered Senate Republican leader Trent Lott, who said Wednesday he doesn't intend to resolve the homeland security fight in the "lame- duck" session convening next week. WASHINGTON Catholics name top FBI official to office The U.S. Roman Catholic bishops yesterday named the FBI's No. 3 offi- cial to monitor the church's new policy on clerical sex abuse and help prevent future scandals. Kathleen McChesney will be the first executive director of the church's Office for Child and Youth Protec- tion, a critical post as the bishops seek to re-establish their credibility after a year in which at least 300 of the 46,000 American priests have been removed because of allegations of molestation. "Even one case of child abuse is intolerable. Our churches need to be safe havens for everyone," McChes- ney told a news conference at the bishops' headquarters, where she begins work Dec. 2. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. '4 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. 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