2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, December 10, 2003 NATION/WORLD Twin bombings hit Iraq, council approves tribunal AP PHOTO Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean, right, speaks during a rally after former Vice President Al Gore, left, endorsed him yesterday. Gore's endorsement d raws ire of ems DURHAM, N.H. (AP) - Eight Democratic presidential contenders yesterday strongly disputed that Howard Dean was the party's best chance for beating President Bush, or that former Vice President Al Gore's endorsement of the front-runner would seal the nomination. . "This race is not over," declared Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts as the can- didates gathered in this first-in-the- nation primary state for the year's eighth and final debate. The first votes will be cast in Iowa's Jan. 19 caucuses and New Hampshire's Jan. 27 primary. . One after another, the field ganged up on Dean, who holds a double-digit lead in New Hampshire polls, and Gore in an effort to take the luster off the newly minted endorsement. They appealed to the independent streak of voters here, and suggested the endorsement smacked of old-style party machine politics. Joe Lieberman, Gore's spurned 2000 running mate, asserted that "my chances have actually increased today." The Con- necticut senator said people had stopped him in the airport to express outrage over Gore's backing of Dean. , For his part, Dean told the others: "Attack me. Don't attack Al Gore. I don't think he deserves to be attacked by anybody up here." - Clearly Gore's endorsement overshad- owed the debate. In 2000, Gore won the popular vote by half a million votes but conceded to Republican Bush after a tumultuous 36-day recount in Florida and a 5-4 Supreme Court vote against him. The endorsement of Bill Clinton's No. 2 was a coveted prize for the Demo- cratic hopefuls. The response to Gore's stunning deci- sion was precipitated when one of the debate's moderators, ABC's Ted Koppel, opened the debate by inviting the field of nine candidates to "raise your hand if you believe that Gov. Dean can beat George Bush." Only one, Dean, raised his hand. In endorsing Dean earlier in the day at campaign stops in New York and Iowa, Gore urged Democrats to unite behind the front-runner and said, "We don't have the luxury of fighting among ourselves" That touched off an avalanche of criti- cism from Dean's rivals. Al Sharpton said Gore's tactics smacked of "bossism," and added, "We're not going to have any big name come in now and tell us the field should be limited. ... No Democrat should shut us up today." Said Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina: "We're not going to have a coronation." And Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri declared, "I'm sure all of us think we have the best chance to beat George Bush." But, he said, he stood a better chance than the others in the battle- ground states of the Midwest that would likely decide the election. Democratic strategists said Gore's ,endorsement had an immediate impact, if only by giving Dean's rivals some- thing to complain about other than Dean's policies and campaign miscues. "It was not the pile-on that Dean expected. Dean came with his best teflon suit, but he didn't need it," said Donna Brazile, a former Gore adviser who is not tied to any of the candidates. The nine candidates stood at wooden podiums arranged in a semicircle on the stage of a theater on the University of New Hampshire campus. Some Democ- rats have suggested that the debates have been unwieldy and should be limited to the major candidates. Bombings wound 61 U.S. soldiers, test defenses TALAFAR, Iraq (AP) - Suicide bombers, one in a car and another on foot, blew themselves up at the gates of two U.S. military bases yesterday, wounding 61 American soldiers but failing to inflict deadly casualties on the scale of recent attacks in Iraq. Most of the soldiers were slightly hurt by debris and flying glass, indicat- ing that massive defenses - sand bar- riers, high cement walls and numerous roadblocks leading to the entrances of bases - have paid off for American troops occupying Iraq. At the same time, the decision of the suicide bombers to test U.S. defenses reflected the tenacity of an enemy that seeks to undermine American resolve by inflicting mass casualties with a sin- gle strike. The image of U.S. soldiers increas- ingly hunkered down in fortified bases could also undermine their efforts to befriend Iraqis as a U.S.-led coalition tries to rebuild Iraq and introduce democracy while fighting a persistent insurgency in some parts of the country. Yesterday, a U.S. Army observation helicopter took fire and made an emer- gency landing west of Baghdad, and the two crew members walked away with "minimal injuries," the U.S. mili- tary said. Residents said the helicopter was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. The OH-58 Kiowa observation heli- copter landed near Fallujah, a focus of resistance to the U.S. occupation. The town sits in the heart of the dangerous Sunni Triangle where the majority of attacks on American forces have occurred since the ouster of Saddam Hussein in a U.S.-led invasion. Meanwhile, Iraq's interim govern- ment voted yesterday to establish a war crimes tribunal to prosecute top mem- bers of Saddam's regime, two people who attended the meeting said. The tri- bunal will be formally established today, when the U.S. administrator for Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, temporarily cedes legislative authority to the Iraqi Governing Council so that it can create the court. Also yesterday, diplomats said U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to name Ross Mountain, a veteran U.N. humanitarian relief official from New Zealand, as his interim envoy to Iraq. He will temporarily replace Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was killed in the Aug. 19 bombing of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. In the larger of the two suicide bombings yesterday, a man drove up to the gate of a base of the 101st Airborne Division in Talafar, 235 miles north- west of Baghdad, at 4:45 a.m. yester- day, the military said. Guards at the gate and in a watch- tower opened fire and the vehicle blew up, leaving a large crater at the gate's entryway. NEWS I RE SEOUL, South Korea Bush rejects N. Korea's nuclear proposal North Korea announced yesterday it would freeze its nuclear weapons projects in return for the United States providing energy aid and removing Pyongyang from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism. President Bush rejected the offer. The North's terms amounted to a response to a plan offered a day earlier by the United States, Japan and South Korea for ending the standoff over the communist state's nuclear weapons program. Bush's statement, and similar remarks by White House and State Department spokesmen, appeared part of jockeying for position in advance of another round of talks with North Korea. The impoverished North has often tried to use the nuclear confrontation as a means to win economic aid and diplomatic recognition. While Washington and its allies have sought the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear programs, yesterday's proposal from Pyongyang offered only to "freeze" them as a first step. The North added, however, that the long-term goal is to "de- nuclearize the Korean peninsula." "The goal of the United States is not for a freeze of the nuclear program," Bush said. "The goal is to dismantle a nuclear weapons program in a verifiable and irre- versible way." "That," he said, "is the clear message we are sending to the North Koreans." WASHINGTON Pop-up Internet ads face regulatory lawsuit Those flashy pop-up ads that annoy millions of Internet users each day are getting a legal test, thanks to a pair of 20-year-old college students who are challenging the government's effort to regulate the advertisements. The Federal Trade Commission accuses the students' small California company of committing "high-tech extortion" by using a feature inside popular Windows soft- ware to generate pop-up ads as frequently as every 10 minutes. Ironically - and a key factor in the government's case - the students' pop-ups tout software designed to block such ads. The company, D-Squared Solutions LLC of San Diego, has countered that the gov- ernment's allegations go too far and that its ads are "no more harmful than roadway speedbumps or television commercials." Federal regulators brought the enforcement lawsuit in hopes it would quickly dampen one of the most irritating practices of Internet advertisers. Instead, the com- pany's founders have mounted a spirited defense over whether such pop-ads are pro- tected free speech. "It's very unusual for a company to aggressively fight an FTC enforcement action," said Mark Rasch, an expert on technology law. LCD Continued from Page 1 "Though we don't have specific evidence, we are working on the premise that these crimes may have been committed by the same person or group of people, as the crimes are so similar." The last big wave of projector theft, which happened in 2002, resulted in the arrest of an Ann Arbor man. An LCD projector is used to dis- play images from a small screen, such as a laptop computer, onto a larger screen. DPS spokeswoman Diane Brown said Microsoft Power Point presen- tations used in class are generally displayed using LCD projectors. She said projectors can also be used for video displays. Brown said she doesn't know where the recently stolen projectors are winding up but can say from past experience that most stolen projectors end up on the black mar- ket or are kept for personal use to view movies and television. She said none of the recently stolen projectors had been recov- ered. Brown said projectors have been stolen from all over campus. "The medical campus buildings are high on the list," she said. She said the large ones bolted to the ceiling in auditoriums and lec- ture halls are stolen more often than small ones, which are usually kept in locked cabinets. A number of new security measures have been implemented to protect the projec- tors, Brown said. She said special locks and securi- ty cables are being used and that a special effort is being made to lock auditorium closets where projectors are stored. But Art and Design senior Brian Wallin said safety measures have not been implemented for LCD pro- jectors in classrooms on the ground floor of Mason Hall, so there is no deterrent for anyone who would want to steal one. "Anyone can walk by here. The light is on and the doors are wide open," he said. "It's 20 feet away from an exit. "Someone can just wheel (the projector) out." Brian Cheesman, custodian at the Chemistry Building, said although the LCD projectors are not individ- ually locked at the end of the day, he does not believe their theft is a problem. "We just lock up the classroom and labs and stuff but we don't secure (the projectors). "I've been here four months and they haven't been stolen," Cheesman said. SibRINGFRELD, Ill. Former senator, res. hopeful Simon ies Paul Simon, the bow-tie-wearing mis- sionary's son who rose from crusading newspaper owner to two-term U.S. sena- tor and presidential aspirant, died yester- day, a day after undergoing heart surgery. He was 75. Simon was surrounded by family members at St. John's Hospital in Springfield when he died, according to a statement from Southern Illinois University, where Simon started a public policy institute after his retirement. Simon had a single bypass and heart valve surgery at the hospital's Prairie Heart Institute on Monday. Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar said that although he was a Republican and Simon a Democrat, "he's just somebody I've had the utmost respect for." "He was just always out doing things, continuing to be extremely effective," Edgar said. "He had more energy than all of us put together." BOSTON New Hampshire to buy Canadan drugs The city of Boston and the state of New Hampshire announced yesterday they will begin buying prescription drugs from Canada, jumping to the forefront of the growing but illegal movement to take advantage of lower prices across the border. New Hampshire would become the first state to turn to Canada for drugs, and Boston would become only the sec- ond U.S. city - after Springfield, about 90 miles west. "It's illegal, but it's about time we forced the issue," said Mayor Thomas Menino, a Democrat. "Why is the con- sumer the only one to pay full price for prescription drugs?" WA$HINGTON Gov't refuses to put warning on tuna The government is resisting calls to advise pregnant women to limit tuna consumption, even though its own advis- ers say eating very large amounts could expose unborn babies to possibly harm- ful mercury levels. Drafts of new consumer advice being planned by the Food and Drug Adminis- tration drew an outcry from consumer advocates yesterday. They pointed to new testing by FDA showing more expensive white, or albacore, canned tuna contains almost three times as much mercury than cheaper "light" canned tuna - and won- der why the new advice won't tell preg- nant women to limit the albacore. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. veio Cell Phones & Accessories Satellite TV & HDTV d X I-sR AWWireless High Speed Internet Talking Electronic Diction 'comcaSt aries v -~ I ~- WWWMICHIGANDAILY.COM 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. 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