2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 17, 2003 r r"_r_._-_ ... .. .. .. .. . .. .. ... .. .-.. .. .. . .. ... .. .. . .. .. .. .. w- NATION/WORLD .% a Ku:. m :::.%a .................3.............. ug s.................... . .................... .... .. 3...... Michigans Biggest Party Baud .............. EE.............. * .. EE.... ..... .. . ..... ..................... *..... .. m....- .. ....r............... ........ .. ....... ....... . .. ...... ........ . Ietonates In Rn Arbor loulorrow! m ....... ....... ..... ....... ..... ... ..................... ........................ ....... ... As seen on Fox 2, As heard nationally on Mitch Albom & voted Best Cover Band by Real Detroit Readers! MEGA80s.com Si0 ngDrink, Brink and Brink to your favorite BWIsSONS Find out what Michigan State already knows! No Deadbeats please, Only Party PEOPLE! THURSDAY Sept 18th Blind PIG 208 S First Street Ann Arbor MI 734 623 9962 Clark to announce plans for candidacy LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who boasts a four-star military record but concedes he has gaps to fill on domestic policy, told political advisers yesterday he will join the presidential race as the 10th Demo- cratic candidate. The Arkansan immediately dis- played his potential to shake up the nomination fight, gathering party operatives from across the nation for a strategy session that overshad- owed Sen. John Edwards' long- standing plans to formally launch his months-old candidacy. Senior officials close to Clark said he plans to announce his intentions today in Little Rock, Ark., at a boys and girls club. He enters the race late, against long odds. Just four months before the first votes are cast, Clark has no formal organization in key states, little money and a patchwork staff culled from the political organizations of former President Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore. Clark, 58, also has no political experience - not even a student council election to his credit - and he has never been pressed to produce a domestic agenda. None of this deters Clark or his supporters, who point to his foreign policy credentials and television- tested charisma. "It's not too late to get in the race," Clark told The Associated Press, adding with a wink and smile, "if I decide to run." Asked if he was ready to start telling Americans about his position on domestic issues, Clark said, "I'll do my best, but there will be a lot of things that I don't know right away." "I want to learn," he said. "I've got a whole period of time. I've got to go around America. I want to talk to people about the issues." The Web site of Draft Clark for President 2004, one of several groups working for him for months, documents Clark's positions on a range of issues. It says he: Favors abortion rights and affir- mative action. Opposes Bush's tax cuts, and would consider suspending some of them. - Opposes drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. * Worries that civil rights were suspended after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. "Not only does he bring military experience that President Bush wishes he had, but he also brings an impres- sive knowledge of domestic issues," Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.) said. HEDLNE FROM AROUND THE.WORL Eight questioned for guerrilla attacks Six people claiming to be Americans and two who say they are British are in U.S. custody on suspicion of involvement in attacks on coalition forces, an American gen- eral said yesterday. They would be the first Westerners reported held in the insurrec- tion against the U.S.-led occupation. Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, who is in charge of coalition detention centers in Iraq, said the alleged Americans and Britons were considered security detainees, meaning they were suspected of involvement in guerrilla attacks. She did not identify the pur- ported Westerners but said they were being interrogated by military intelligence in Baghdad, where they were being held. "We actually do have six who are claiming to be Americans, two who are claiming to be from the U.K. We're continuing the inter- viewing process. The details become sketchy and their story changes," Karpinski said. She declined to give any other information. "We're not trying to withhold information from you. Some information remains classified for security reasons," Karpinski said during a tour of Abu Ghraib prison, where Saddam Hussein locked up his political opponents. Asked about the detainees at a Pentagon news conference, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said: "The truth is that the folks that we've scooped up have, on a number of occasions, multiple identifications from different countries. They're quite skilled at confusing people as to what their real nationality is or where they came from or what they're doing." WASHINGTON Senate votes to limit media ownership The Senate approved a resolution yesterday to roll back new media own- ership rules that have brought heavy criticism from a broad range of advo- cacy groups, shifting the fight to the House where Republican leaders pledged to kill the measure. A White House veto threat also looms over the resolution, which the Sen- ate approved with a 55-40 vote. The resolution seeks to undo changes to Federal Communications Commission regulations governing ownership of newspapers and television and radio stations. Critics say those changes could lead to a wave of media mergers and ulti- mately stifle diversity and local viewpoints in news and entertainment. A federal appeals court already has temporarily placed the rules on hold. "The public interest prevailed over the big corporate interests today here in the Senate," said Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) who with Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) led the effort to pass the resolution. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, (R-Texas), summed up the House prospects after the Senate vote: "It's going nowhere - dead on arrival." ,f.. .. .) JERUSALEM Israel rejects cease- fire, calls for action Israeli officials yesterday rebuffed Palestinian proposals for a comprehen- sive cease-fire, saying the military would not halt strikes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip until Palestinian security forces begin dismantling militant groups. The Palestinian offer came in an inter- view on Israel Radio by Yasser Arafat's national security adviser, Jibril Rajoub, who said that if Israel reined in its mili- tary, the Palestinian Authority would bring an end to terror attacks and work toward talks on a final peace settlement. "There must be a mutual cease-fire based on an end to violence on both sides," Rajoub said. He said the propos- al would be formally submitted to Israel once prime minister-designate Ahmed Qureia puts together his Cabinet. Rajoub wouldn't commit to dismantling the militant groups - a requirement of the U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan - and Israeli officials made clear that without this the idea was stillborn. WASHINGTON White House: Syria supporting terrorism Syria is allowing militants to cross its border into Iraq to kill U.S. soldiers and is aggressively seeking to acquire and develop chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, a senior Bush administration official said yesterday. In addition, he said Syria contin- ues to support organizations the United States lists as terrorist groups. John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control, told a House hearing the United States was trying to change Syria's behavior through diplomatic means and urged law- makers to let the effort run its course before passing trade restric- CHICAGO Bug responsible for many sinus ailments The metapneumovirus, discovered two years ago, is turning out to be an exceed- ingly common cause of human misery, responsible for garden-variety colds in grown-ups and more severe coughing and congestion in children. Researchers are beginning to piece together the scope of this ubiquitous but overlooked bug, which now appears to afflict just about everybody, probably over and over. Though the virus seems to rarely be serious, its vast presence intrigues microbiologists, and it is one of the most talked-about topics at this week's meeting in Chicago of the American Society for Microbiology. 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