8 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, December 3, 2002 A blanket of white LOCAL eadline approaches for Iraq WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said yesterday "the signs are not encouraging" that Saddam Hussein will cooperate with weapons inspectors and avoid a war threatened by the United States. As a Sunday deadline neared, the president said he won't tolerate "any act of delay, decep- tion or defiance." Even as U.N. investigators reported progress in their first week of work, Bush said war may prove necessary. "The temporary peace of denial and looking away from danger would only be a prelude to broader war and greater horror," he said. "America will confront gathering dangers early before our options become limited and desperate." Weapons inspectors are carrying out a United Nations resolution ordering Saddam to rid Iraq of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons or face the prospect of war. The resolution gives Iraq until Sunday to dis- close its weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammed Al-Douri, said the declaration could be ready as early as tomorrow. "There will be nothing surprising," Al-Douri said. "We have repeated our position several times that we have nothing hidden." The White House disputed that contention again yesterday. Senior officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. intelligence has evidence of Saddam's weapons programs and is willing to share it with U.N. inspectors to help rebut the Iraqi declaration. The U.S. is flying Predator unmanned surveillance aircraft to look for signs of Iraq's noncompliance with the inspections, said a defense official, also speaking on the condition of anonymity. The U.N. inspectors completed their first week of work yesterday by visiting alcoholic beverage plants and a factory that once made parts for now-banned missiles. While inspectors said some equipment of interest was missing at the Karama ballistic design plant, they have reported no prob- lems gaining access to suspect sites nor have they made public any findings of deadly weapons. The lack of a confrontation has raised con- cerns in the White House that Saddam is win- ning the early public relations battle by creating an impression that he is complying with inspec- tors. Aides said those fears prompted the presi- dent and Vice President Dick Cheney to deliver separate speeches Monday to cast doubt on Sad- dam's intentions. "So far, the signs are not encouraging," Bush said as he signed a bill giving the U.S. military its largest spending increase since the Reagan administration. "A regime that fires upon American and British pilots is not taking the path of compli- ance. A regime that sends letters filled with protests and falsehoods is not taking the path of compliance," Bush said. He was referring to Iraqi letters to the U.N. protesting terms of the resolution. In Denver, Cheney spoke ominously about the Sunday deadline. "This time deception will not be tolerated," he told 1,500 Air National Guard leaders. "The demands of the world will be met, or action will be unavoidable." Answering critics of Bush's Iraq policy, Cheney also said confronting Saddam is not a distraction from the broader war on terrorism. - PATRICK JONES/Daily With temperatures in the teens and several inches of snow, students trudge across campus during the season's first major snowfall yesterday afternoon. Campaign aims to stop male violence against women By Karen Schwartz Daily Staff Reporter LSA sophomore Aaron Pressel spent two hours yesterday afternoon standing on the snow-covered Diag handing out white ribbons and talking to other men about the need to take an active role in ending violence against women. Around 5,000 ribbons, assembled by Alpha Epsilon Pi fra- ternity members, will be handed out this week as part of the Fourth Annual Ann ArborWhite Ribbon Campaign. "I'm freezing - my hands and feet have been numb for about an hour, but it's a good cause. Helping end violence against women is important to me," Pressel said. Some men walked by, pretending not to notice the table or the man with the pile of white ribbons rubbing his hands together to keep warm, choosing instead to watch a snowplow as it rumbled past. But Dustin Liron, an LSA junior, was one of the many men who stopped to ask questions and take a ribbon. "Still today there's not enough awareness about the prob- lem. People are still naive to the fact that violence against women does occur. They think it isn't a problem anymore but it still is," Liron said. While he said he probably will not wear the ribbon, he feels the visible presence of the men with the white ribbons on the Diag is raising awareness and will impact the rest of his day as well as conversations he has with others. "I think talking about it would be more conducive to resolving the problem than just wearing the ribbon. People don't really know what the white ribbon means yet," he said. "I'm more likely to talk about it after getting the ribbon.... Because of the ribbon I'll think about it today, talk about it today, whereas if they hadn't been handing out ribbons it wouldn't really have crossed my mind." Violence against women is an issue that gets taken too light- ly by most men, LSA sophomore Nick Speyer said. Speyer, who is also a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, said he feels it is an issue people joke about, "which is not OK." He added that violence against women is an issue that often goes unaddressed out of ignorance. "Most people don't know. They feel like it's an issue that's distant from them when it's really not - when it strikes closer to home than they might think," he said. Every man has a role to play in putting a stop to violence against women and it's every man's responsibility to take action, Gary Brouhard, a Rackham student and White Ribbon Campaign organizer, said. Brouhard has been involved in the campaign for the past few years and said he has known many women who are sur- vivors of such violence. He said he also takes part in the cam- paign out of a sense of responsibility. "It's out of a general sense of moral responsibility and moral outrage for being a man, seeing what other men are doing and feeling that as a man it's my responsibility to tell those men to stop," he added. Men's outward receptiveness to the ribbons and the mes- sage are often influenced by their surroundings, he said. In his time working on the campaign, Brouhard said he has noticed that men are more likely to make snide comments and respond negatively if they are in a group, and that if he approaches a man walking alone, the man is more likely to take a ribbon and be positive about the campaign. At the heart of the interaction, he said, are peer culture and how men view women and their responsibilities toward women. "I think what it's saying is that men's peer culture discour- ages us from standing out as advocates for women," he said. The idea- of giving women honor and respect he feels they are due is also being called into question in modern times, and 'a new definition is necessary with regard to how men should treat women, Brouhard said. "I don't think there are many men in the group who are too KELLY'LIN/Daily LSA sophomore Michael Landau hands out ribbons on the Diag yesterday for the Men Against Violence Against Women White Ribbon Campaign that will be going on all week. excited about the 19th century notions of the gentleman, but ty that the gentlemen had at that time," he said at least at that point men thought of themselves as owing Brouhard hopes some of the ribbons will reach men that women something. An important part of being a gentleman are violent, even if they choose not to wear the ribbons and was that you respected women. I think a lot of us would like a that the message will get across. "At the very least they'll modern notion of that idea which kept the respect for women have been confronted by another man who hands them the but subtracted the condescension and pretension of superiori- ribbon and tells them that their behavior should stop," he said. END THE SEMESTER ON A GOOD NOT. COME WRITE FORTHEDAILY YOU WON'T REGRET IT. Al- aida claims i' was ehind attacks CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A statement attributed to al-Qaida claimed responsi- bility yesterday for last week's car- bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya and the attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner the same day. The statement, posted on an Islamic website, called the Thursday's attacks a Ramadan greeting to the Palestinian people and referred to the al-Qaida attacks against U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which killed 231 people - including 12 Americans - and wounded more than 5,000. "At the same place where the 'Jewish Crusader coalition' was hit four years ago ... here the fighters ... came back once again to strike heavily against that evil coalition," the statement said. "But this time, it was against Jews." In Washington, U.S. counterter- rorism officials said they consid- ered the claim credible and part of growing evidence that al-Qaida was involved in the Kenya attacks. Three suicide bombers attacked the Paradise Hotel, killing 10 Kenyans, three Israelis and the three bombers. Just minutes before the hotel bombing, two Strela mis- siles narrowly missed an Israeli charter plane departing from Mom- basa's airport, in what was the first phase of the dual attack on Israelis in Kenya. The five-page claim was made in the name of "The Political Office of al- Qaida Jihad Organization." Unlike four years ago, when the United States was the target in Kenya, the statement said this time the message was for Jews. "We send them a message: Your prac- tices in corrupting earth, occupying sacred places, criminal acts against our families in Palestine ... all your prac- tices will not pass peacefully without fir- ing back," it said. "Your children for ours, your women for ours, your elders for ours, and we will follow you wherev- er you are because you made us live in terror and fear." 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