A 2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, November 25, 2002 NATION/WORLD FBI examines Saudi donations WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers pressed for answers yesterday on a possible Saudi money trail in the Sept. 11 hijackings and said regardless of whether one exists, the kingdom must stop its "duplicitous" coddling of terrorists. Saudi officials spent the weekend having bankers pore over the records of Princess Haifa al-Faisal, wife of their ambassador to the United States, to see how thousands of dollars from her account might have ended up in the wrong hands, said Saudi foreign policy adviser Adel al- Jubeir. But he said it was "crazy" to suggest she had done anything intentionally to support terrorism. Lawmakers said the FBI's investigation should pull no punches, and the Bush administration should be open about the findings, despite the risk of offending an important ally with whom relations already have been strained. In a harsh turn bound to be uncomfortable for administration officials as they seek Saudi assistance in a possible war with Iraq, senators upbraided the Saudi government for what they see as years of com- plicity in anti-American radicalism. Saudis "have played a duplicitous game, and that is, they say to the terrorists, 'We'll do everything you want, just leave us alone,"' said Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York. "That game has got to stop." Sens. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), who together set up an independ- ent commission that will investigate the terror attacks, offered piercing criticism.. Public financing laws create new campaign styles NEWS IN BRIEF,..I BETHLEHEM, West Bank _ Israeli arny stays in biblical birthplace On the first Sunday since Israel reoccupied Bethlehem, troops barred Chris- tians from worshipping at the Church of the Nativity, one of Christianity's most sacred shrines. Soldiers in another part of the West Bank searched four mosques for suspected militants. There were no signs that the Israelis were near an end to the operation in the biblical town, despite a State Department call for troops to leave as soon as possi- ble, with Christmas just a month away. Christian tradition holds that Jesus was born in a grotto under the Bethlehem church. Israeli forces rolled into Bethlehem, in the West Bank just south of Jerusalem, early Friday after a Palestinian suicide bomber from Bethlehem blew himself up on a Jerusalem bus a day before, killing 11 passengers and injuring more than 40 others. The army has been conducting house-to-house searches for militants there. Soldiers arrested a local Islamic Jihad leader yesterday, the military said. Since Friday, more than 30 Palestinians have been detained, including three men believed to be connected to suicide bombing operations, army officers said. Church bells rang yesterday, but Manger Square, like the streets of Bethlehem, was empty as soldiers enforced a strict curfew, confining the town's residents to their homes. WASHINGTON U.S. troops in Mideast training for war Even without the use of Saudi Arabia's vast desert expanses to launch a ground invasion of Iraq, the U.S. military would have plenty of room to operate from tiny Kuwait and elsewhere, defense experts say. There already are more than 12,000 U.S. forces in Kuwait - mostly Army soldiers - training in desert warfare. At least another 14,000 are in other Per- sian Gulf nations, and the Navy has an aircraft carrier, the USS Lincoln, in the northern Persian Gulf with more than 5,500 sailors and dozens of warplanes aboard. If President Bush decided to go to war, thousands more forces would flow into the area. Saudi Arabia was the key to assembling the massive allied force used in the 1991 Gulf War, starting shortly after Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990. By Feb- ruary 1991, about a quarter-million combat troops were ready to push into occu- pied Kuwait and southern Iraq, and the fighting was declared over in 100 hours. Those combat troops were backed by a similar number of support forces, mostly at bases in Saudi Arabia. 0i The Associated Press G I ' On the road to winning the gover- norship in Arizona, Janet Napolitano broke with tradition. Not because she's a woman or a Democrat, but because she campaigned without taking hun- dreds of thousands of dollars from the mining industry or trial lawyers, unions or small businesses. OUR AUT HENTIC FRENCH BREAD IS BAKED FRESH IN OUWhat's more, over a third of the law- makers she will work with next year STORES THROUGHOUT E DAY. AND IF WE DN'TEEalso won office after stepping off the treadmill of fund-raising that domi- DON'T SAVE IT. T HIS R EAD IS NEVER, EVER F E.FEEEnates politics elsewhere. In Maine, an even more dramatic NO i change took place. Three-fifths of the BURN, AS YOUKO, IS N LAUGHING MAT TER. RUG BURN, 0 hneto lc.Treffh fte new state lawmakers won running pub- THE E ,'licly financed campaigns in which can- didates made do with limited government money, foregoing privately raised or personal cash. Proponents of so-called clean elec- tions are optimistic that the results in ^w>>Arizona and Maine will win converts ~: SUPER': to their cause of curbing expensive campaigns and limiting the influence of special interests. But skeptics complain about inde- pendent spending they say skirts the spirit of the law and taxpayer-financed negative campaigning. W E D E LIV E RBoth sides are watching to see if the laws work or just drive the campaign 929 E. A NN ST. ~ 913.9200 money elsewhere. They're also eyeing 600ACK ~4.the candidates to see if they show 1207 S. UNIV E RSITY ~ .greater independence than other politi- ANN Acians. "The lobbyists will have less influ- JIM M YJOHNS.COMence declared Napolitano, who spoke 2 00 2 JIMM Y JH ' S FRANCHISEINCo. often about how the system freed her Winter Commencement Sunday, December 15,12002 Crisler Arena Doors open at 1:15 p.m. Ceremony begins at 2:00 p.m. and lasts about two hours. Eligibility Summer Term 2002 and Fall Term 2002 graduates and candidates are eligible to participate in Winter Commencement. Ticket Distribution Tickets will be distributed Monday, December 9 through Thursday,1 December 12 between 8:30 a.m.and 4:30 p.m. in the Pond Room , of the Michigan Union. Graduates and candidates are eligible to receive up to six (6) tickets during this time. Additional tickets will 'F be distributed on Friday, December 13 from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the Pond Room of the Michigan Union.? Academic Attire (Cap & Gown) Michigan Book & Supply, Michigan Union Bookstore and Ulrich's ° Bookstore all carry Bachelor's attire. Both Michigan Book & Supply and the Michigan Union Bookstore carry Master's attire, while Doctoral attire is only available from the Michigan Union Bookstore. U . U . . U .. . to talk about issues rather than ask for cash. "Hopefully, we'll have more leg- islation that's based on what's good for the most people, as opposed to what's good for a particular group." Clean election laws, which vary slightly in each state, aim to allow near-total public financing of cam- paigns in return for a promise from candidates that they will forego private money after collecting some small contributions up front. Candidates in Arizona must prove they're viable by gathering hundreds of individual $5 contributions. Then they get set amounts of cash to campaign and can't raise any more private money. If they're outspent by privately funded candidates, the state will keep pace, but only up to a point. Though four states have passed clean elections laws, Maine and Ari- zona are the only states where the leg- islations have truly worked. In Vermont, courts put spending lim- its in doubt and no candidates chose public financing this year. Massachu- setts voters passed an initiative in 1998, but lawmakers refused to fund it; a judge ordered the state to auction off state property to cover the costs, but there was still only one publicly financed candidate for governor and 11 for state Legislature. In 2000, voters in Missouri and Ore- gon rejected clean election initiatives. Despite those setbacks, advocates have high hopes that Arizona and Maine will offer a model for how pub- lic financing can cure the ills of big money in politics. SHOW Continued from Page 1A were in Hindi, introductions to the dances were often done in English and the language of the region in India where the dance originated, such as Assamese, Bengali, Gujurati, Marvari, Punjabi, Urdu, Tamil, and Hindi, India's national language. The many different languages spoken and the variety of dances from different regions of India reflected the diversity of India, which encompasses a variety of cul- tures and languages. The show's focus on tradition, how- ever, did not mean that there were no elements of modern culture. "It still had lots of modern music," Ruchi Shah said, who attends the International Academy in Bloomfield Hills. "I think every year they incorporate both tradition- al and modern aspects." Chokshi said there were around 300 participants in the show. "It was our goal to make sure that the show internally was catered to our participants. We wanted people in the audience to acknowledge that this was the particpants' show, all student-run," she said. Chokshi said because of renova- tions of Hill Auditorium, where the show is usually held, both the mati- nee and evening show had to be moved to the Michigan Theater. She said they usually sell out more seats at Hill; 4,000 seats compared to the 3,000 for the two shows com- bined at Michigan Theater, but that they enjoyed the closeness and comfort of the smaller Michigan Theater. "Each show has a different per- sonality to it," Engineering sopho- more Anar Shah said. She performed in an act that featured dances to a compilation of Bolly- wood film music. "There was so much work put into this that it paid off in the end," she said. SAN FRANCISCO Dockworkers ready to sign new contract West Coast dockworkers and ship- ping companies reached tentative agreement on a contract that could end the drawn-out labor dispute that shut down the coast's major ports for 10 days and prompted the president to intervene. The six-year contract would pro- vide wage and benefit improve- ments for union members, plus technology and dispute-resolution improvements that the companies needed, said Peter Hurtgen, head of the Federal Mediation and Concilia- tion Service. He praised both sides, saying lead negotiators "demonstrated statesmen- like leadership, which made this agree- ment possible." The agreement, reached late Satur- day still must be ratified by a majori- ty of the 10,500 members of the International Longshore and Ware- house Union. TORONTO Coffin could contain Christ's brother The French scholar who discov- ered the purported burial box of Jesus' brother, James, strongly defended the artifact's identification yesterday against skeptical points raised at a convention of religion scholars. Despite the doubts, Andre Lemaire asserted that "myself, I have been very cautious. I say it is very probable." The animated panel discussion, attended by 800 people, involved main- ly crucial technical points such as grammar and the forms of handwriting in the inscription, which reads "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." The words appear on a 1st century bone box known as an "ossuary," a form of Jewish burial that ended in A.D. 70. The New Testament identifies James as Jesus' brother and the leader of Jerusalem's early Christians. QUITO, Ecuador Former coup leader wins presidency A former coup leader viewed as a crusader against corruption won Ecuador's presidential runoff yesterday, defeating a billionaire businessman who socializes with America's rich and powerful. With 97 percent of the votes count- ed, Lucio Gutierrez, a cashiered army colonel, had 54.3 percent of the votes compared with 45.7 percent for Alvaro Noboa, who heads a banana and shipping empire that includes 110 companies. The 45-year-old president-elect, who led a 2000 coup that toppled a highly unpopular president seen as corrupt, campaigned as an anti-cor- ruption crusader. That appealed strongly to voters fed up with leaders who plunder govern- ment coffers. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 0 0 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by stu- dents at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. 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