2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, November 21, 2002 NATION/WORLD U.S. tries to rally allies at summit NEWS IN BRIEF PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) "The world needs the nations of this force were to arise, I believe NATO Robertson added. - President Bush warned European allies yesterday that NATO coun- tries face threats from terrorism in this century as dangerous as those from German armies in the past, imploring member nations to stand together against Iraq's Saddam Hus- sein. Resistant nations such as Germany will have to make their own decisions as to "how, if, and when they want to participate," Bush said. continent to be active in the defense of freedom; not inward-looking or isolat- ed by indifference," he said. On the eve of a NATO gathering guarded by American warplanes overhead and overshadowed by the Iraq crisis, summit host Vaclav Havel, the Czech president, said his people prefer that Saddam Hussein peacefully surrender his weapons of mass destruction. "If, however, the need to use should give honest and speedy con- sideration to its engagement as an alliance," he said. NATO Secretary-General George Robertson, previewing a gathering to expand and modernize the alliance, predicted there will also be "total unity of the heads of state and gov- ernments on support for the U.N. Security Council resolution" on Iraq. But it's too early to say what that support would mean for NATO, "Even in this beautiful city, I don't think it is wise to cross bridges before you come to them," .he said. On the cobblestones of picturesque Old Town square, several hundred demonstrators - thousands fewer than were threatened -protested the sum- mit that convenes today. Among them were about three dozen leftists whose banners read, "No war in the name of democracy" and "Don't drop bombs! Drop Bush!" Homeland Security begins work WASHINGTON (AP) - The biggest government reorganization in half a century is starting with the mundane - like finding office space and deciding who gets new digs - in an effort the White House says will take a year to complete. Nearly two-dozen agencies with tasks as diverse as protecting America's borders and gathering intelligence will be merged into the new Homeland Security Department. A few weeks after President Bush signs the legisla- tion, the administration will disclose to Congress the timing for each agency to enter the new department, said Gordon Johndroe, the spokesman for Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge. The doors open officially 60 days after Bush signs the bill. Dealing with all the early problems is the transition planning office under Ridge and personnel director Clay Johnson. "One goal is getting everyone on the same e-mail system during the transition period of 60 to 90 days," Johndroe said. "We've been working with all these people on how to transition in and integrate it while allowing absolute- ly no gaps in security." In Washington, where proximity is power, one question is where the new department will be headquartered. "I've heard Crystal City, Pentagon City, across the river, over hill, over dale, but if I were secretary I'd urge that the department be downtown," said Paul Light, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. "It sounds mundane but all of the little things that give you an identity in this town are important: sta- tionery, a flag, a logo and they'd better have a Web site open pretty soon," Light said. PWeaons CAION, Spain Spain works to clean up oil off its coast Winds reaching 60 mph and high waves hindered shoreline cleanup and seafood farmers scrambled to salvage the cockle, mussel and clam harvest yesterday, a day after the tanker Prestige and its cargo of fuel oil sank off Spain. Yet the high winds, which pushed waves to 26 feet, helped break up a large oil slick off Portugal as Spanish authorities worried the storm was shoving a second fuel oil slick closer to the coast. Seeking to ease fears of an Exxon Valdez-style catastrophe, Spain's Interior Min- istry said no fuel had spilled since the single-hulled vessel broke apart and sank about 150 miles off the Spanish coast Tuesday, six days after it ruptured in a storm. Officials said they hoped the oil would solidify two miles down in frigid water, limit- ing damage in the short-term. The Prestige has spilled about 1.6 million of its 20-million gallon load of heavy fuel oil, a total twice the size of the Exxon Valdez crude-oil spill off Alaska in 1989. Spain said yesterday it had spotted four oil slicks, including one 10 miles long and 3 miles wide, near the wreckage about 150 miles off the Galician coast. Two smaller slicks are about 40 miles west of Cape Finisterre, and a third is just off the coast at the Muros inlet, Spanish officials said. Portugal said a large slick it was monitoring Tuesday apparently dispersed in rough seas. NEW YORK Plans for 7 World Trade Center unveiled A 750-foot glass-and-steel office tower - with better fireproofing and wider stairs for quick evacuation - will be built on the site of one of the smaller buildings to collapse at the World Trade Center complex. The plans, unveiled yesterday, repre- sent the first major rebuilding project at the World Trade Center to be announced. The 52-story building at 7 World Trade Center - across the street from the main trade center site - will be sleeker and five stories taller than its predecessor, which collapsed in a raging fire several hours after the twin 110-story towers were destroyed in the Sept. 11 attack. "The fact that this building is going up now and going up here, right on the site of the old No. 7, says that we will not be intimidated by the terrorists," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. Architects are still laboring to create designs for the larger trade center site. Although those plans will not be made final until next year, developer Larry Silver- stein and his architect, David Childs of Skidmore Owings & Merrill, said their design for 7 World Trade would serve as a model. The utim~e WvrgrnueAl 20 menu items priced under $4 every day. Unlimited, FEE fresh-baked Breadsticks and Soft Drink refills with every dine-in order.* *Ask about our delivery options exit 172 Jackson 1K Liberty a a ANN ARBOP: 2245 West Stadium Blvd. (between Liberty and Jackson) Phone:734-623-8202 inspection team sets tone, rules BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - "Busi- ness-like" talks with Iraqi officials have set the stage for a decisive new round of weapons inspections starting next week, including possible unan- nounced drop-ins on President Sad- dam Hussein's palaces, the chief U.N. inspectors said yesterday. "The world and the Security Coun- cil want assurances that Iraq has no more weapons of mass destruction," the chief of the U.N. inspection team, Hans Blix, said on a stopover in Cyprus after wrapping up two days of talks in Baghdad. An Iraqi vice president said the Baghdad government will cooperate fully with the inspectors, but he warned the Americans against insert- ing spies into the inspection teams. In the Czech Republic, where he was attending a NATO summit, Presi- dent Bush also struck a combative note on Iraq, playing down the impor- tance of the inspectors' return to Baghdad, and again threatening mili- tary action if inspections don't work. "People tend to focus on the inspec- tors as if the inspectors are the end," Bush told reporters. What's important, he said, is eliminating any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. "He's going to disarm," he said of Saddam, "one way or the other." British and Australian officials said they were engaged in contingency planning with the Americans for a possible eventual attack on Iraq. In the southern no-fly zone, mean- while, U.S. warplanes bombed three air defense sites yesterday after the Iraqis fired missiles and anti-aircraft guns at U.S. and British planes, the U.S. military said. An unidentified Iraqi officer said the strikes were against "civilian installations," the Iraq News Agency reported. It was the sixth such encounter in the past seven days. The U.N. teams are returning to Baghdad under a new U.N. Security Council resolution describing the inspections as a "final opportunity" for Iraq to meet its post-Gulf War obligations to give up any chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. As the chief inspectors left, 20 U.N. staff members got down to basics: Floors were washed and telephone lines connected as they readied the inspectors' former offices for their return after a four-year absence. A "hotline" phone link to key Iraqi offi- cials was in the works. "Everything's being done in a rush," U.N. spokesman Hiro Ueki said. The staff doubled with the arrival yesterday of more technical support crew. The first main contingent of weapons inspectors arrives Monday, and the first field inspections are expected two days later. A dispute over Saddam's "presiden- tial sites" contributed to the break- down in the U.N. inspections regime in December 1998. The Iraqis had obstructed visits to a few compounds they designated sensitive, until a com- promise arrangement allowed inspec- tions with notification and a WASHINGTON White House to celebrate past pets At the White House, Christmas this year will go to the dogs. And cats. Even an alligator. First lady Laura Bush announced yesterday that holiday decorations at the White House will celebrate the pets who have lived in the executive man- sion over the years. Workers in the White House resi- dence have toiled since July on 25 replicas of various first family pets that will adorn the State Floor during the upcoming holidays. "Our pets have been such a source of comfort and entertain- ment to us," Mrs. Bush said in a written statement released while she was in Europe with the president. "This holiday season I thought it would be fun and interesting to learn about the animals that belonged to other presidents over the years, and there are some very interesting ones." GERMANY Trials determine new cancer drug effective A new drug designed to stop cancer by cutting off its blood supply has sur- prised experts by showing a tumor shrinkage rate unprecedented for a drug so early in its development. In the first human trials, involving 23 people with terminal cancer, the tumors of one-quarter of the patients shrank by half or more. Similar drugs have proved disappoint- ing - prompting no dramatic tumor shrinkage in early tests. Scientists say the latest results, presented yesterday at a meeting in Frankfurt, will likely revive flagging enthusiasm for the approach. "Any activity in this situation is very promising since everything else has failed. But we did not expect to see such a high number of responses in a range of cancers," said the study's leader, Eric Raymond, head of the early drug testing unit at the Gustave-Roussy Institute in Villejuif, France. GAITHERSBURG, Md. Wheelchair that can climb stairs endorsed Stairs soon may no longer be insur- mountable obstacles for some of the nation's'2million wheelchair users: The first wheelchair that can climb stairs - plus shift into four-wheel drive to scoot up a grassy hill and even elevate its occupant for eye-level conversation - took a major step toward the market yesterday, as advisers to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously rec- ommended it be allowed to sell. But the panel backed a few limitations on the Independence iBOT 3000 Mobili- ty System - which uses sensors and gyroscopes to balance on two wheels and navigate stairs - including that it sell only with a doctor's prescription. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 0 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. 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