2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 23, 2004 NATION/WORLD 4 Defiant Sharon says he won't resign NEWS IN BRIEF1 HEALN ES FROM~ AROiU ND3I TE ORLDi - I i i-W 4 W-_ - 171, V - Real estate developer was charged on Appel for The indict Sharon wi] Wednesday for bribing further clou Sharon with $690,000 stalled peac ShrnA Dahaf JERUSALEM (AP) - Ariel Sharon Yediot yest said yesterday he will not resign as Israelis thi prime minister, despite corruption alle- suspend hi gations and the looming possibility he should stayF could be indicted in the coming weeks. ple had a ma A real estate developer was indicted The focu Wednesday on charges of bribing called "Grc Sharon with $690,000, and Justice Appel allc Ministry officials said they would Gilad mon decide within weeks or months minister, w whether to indict the prime minister help App for accepting bribes. Such charges Greece in 1 would only be filed if prosecutors are Oppositio convinced Sharon had criminal intent. to resign, a "I am not about to resign. I empha- Likud alrea size, I am not about to resign. I am busy Sharon's with work from morning to night, and I said Sharon do not intend to make time for issues case becaus that are under investigation," Sharon tion. "I can told the Yediot Ahronot newspaper. #n indictme Sharon's aides confirmed the remarks. There is1 At a meeting of backers of his ruling cians to res Likud Party yesterday afternoon, There hav Sharon said, "I plan to keep serving as despite susp prime minister and as Likud chairman handed dow until 2007 at least," according to the despite criti Yediot website. A former Eyal Arad, a close associate of ered likely Sharon, also said that the prime minis- maintain hi ter "does not intend to resign." until the las Sharon said the burgeoning scandal ical analyst would not deflect his attention from Richard Nix what he considers to be more pressing not fight ag issues, including a hearing at the world Justice N court in The Hague, Netherlands, on condition o the legality of a barrier Israel is build- to complete ing in the West Bank. within seve An Israeli court on Wednesday and decidee indicted real-estate developer David Appel w PRIMARY Continued from Page 1 ions to be so high that a close second is seen as a loss, he added. In 1992 Bill Clinton became the Democratic presidential nominee without winning either Iowa or New Hampshire. Kerry's Monday night win shifts the locus of scrutiny from Dean's campaign to his. Most notable among Kerry's New Hampshire sup- porters are former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen and Man- chester Mayor Bob Baines. Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, who fin- ished second in Iowa, hopes to capitalize on his suc- cess with a surge in the New Hampshire polls. He has snagged endorsements from a handful of New Hampshire House representatives, including that of Minority Leader Peter Burling. Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who sat on the bench for the Iowa caucuses, was polling a distant second to allegedly bribing Sharon. Ament raises the chances ll be indicted as well and uds hopes for a renewal of ce efforts. Institute poll published in terday found 49 percent of ink Sharon should resign or imself; 38 percent said he premier. The poll of 504 peo- argin of error of 4.4 percent. us of the scandal is the so- eek Island Affair" in which egedly paid Sharon's son ey so Sharon, then foreign would use his influence to el promote a project in 999. on politicians urged Sharon nd a leadership struggle in dy was brewing. spokesman, Asaf Shariv, could not comment on the se of the pending investiga- guarantee there will not be ent," he said. precedent for Israeli politi- sign as a result of scandal. e also been cases where, picion, no indictments were ,n, and leaders have held on icism. x general, Sharon is consid- to wage a fierce battle to is leadership."He will fight t bullet," Israel Radio polit- I Hanan Crystal said. "But xon was a fighter. You can- :ainst everything." Ministry officials said on f anonymity they expected an investigation of Sharon ral months, possibly sooner, on an indictment. as indicted in the Tel Aviv I .4- PASADENA, Calf:..II.2Y NASA fears Mars rover may be lost NASA's Spirit rover stopped transmitting data from Mars for more than 24 hours, mission managers said yesterday, calling it an "extremely serious anomaly." NASA received its last significant data from Spirit early Wednesday, its 19th day on Mars. Since then, it has sent either random, meaningless radio noise or simple beeps acknowledging it has received commands from Earth, said Firouz Naderi, manager of the Mars exploration program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab- oratory. The last such beep was received yesterday morning, Naderi said. Initially, scientists believed weather problems on Earth caused the glitch. They said they now believe the rover is experiencing hardware or software problems. "This is a serious problem. This is an extremely serious anomaly," project man- ager Pete Theisinger said. Spirit is one half of a $820 million mission. Its twin, Opportunity, is scheduled to land on Mars tomorrow. NASA last heard from Spirit as it prepared to continue its work examining its first rock, just a few yards from its lander. Since then, Spirit has transmitted just a few beeps to Earth in response to attempts to communicate with it. It also has skipped several scheduled communi- cations opportunities. BAGHDAD, Iraq U.S. soldiers, Iraqi civilians killed in attacks A barrage of mortar fire struck a U.S. military encampment in central Iraq, killing two American soldiers and critically wounding a third, the military said yesterday. Gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying Iraqi women who worked in the laundry at a U.S. military base, killing four of them, and the security chief of Spanish troops was wounded during a raid south of the capital. Also yesterday, gunmen firing from a van killed two Iraqi policemen and wounded three others in an attack on a checkpoint between Fallujah and Ramadi, and the 23-year-old son of a former senior official from Saddam Hussein's Baath party was slain by an unidentified attacker in the southern city of Basra, police said. Maj. Josslyn Aberle, spokeswoman for the 4th Infantry Division, said insur- gents fired mortars and rockets at a U.S. military encampment outside the town of Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, on Wednesday evening, killing the two soldiers and critically wounding another. The three soldiers were standing outside the tactical operations center when the barrage hit, she said. The attack also damaged vehicles. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pauses as he speaks to Likud supporters in Tel Aviv yesterday. Sharon defiantly brushed off calls to resign. Magistrates Court for allegedly bribing Sharon to use his influence to push the Greek Island project and to help rezone urban land near Tel Aviv. Nei- ther project came to fruition.From 1998 to 1999, the indictment said, Appel gave "Sharon a bribe in recogni- tion of activities connected to the ful- fillment of his public positions."It said Appel sent S690,000 to Sharon's fam- ily ranch in the Negev desert. Appel also promised to support Sharon in Likud primaries, the indictment said. The indictment also charged Appel with bribing Vice Premier Ehud Olmert to promote the Greek project when Olmert was mayor of Jerusalem in the late 1990s. The indictment said Gilad Sharon, while hired as a consultant in the Greek project, served as a middleman in accepting the bribes. Dean until recently. In the latest Zogby poll, he is now a distant third. Clark may benefit from his extensive organization in the Granite State, where he has nine regional offices. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut also sat out in Iowa, and is placing much importance on Tues- day's contest. Lieberman received an endorse- ment this week from New Hampshire's largest newspaper, the Manchester Union Leader, which could play a key role in his campaign, similar to The Des Moines Register's endorsement of Edwards, which helped him to a second place finish in Iowa. The Globe poll places Edwards seven points ahead of Lieberman with 11 percent of potential New Hampshire primary voters. Although Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio finished with only 1 percent of the Iowa state delegate equiva- lence and the Rev. Al Sharpton received even fewer votes, both remain in the race. New Hampshire's demographic profile may hurt Sharpton, who finished in second place in the informal primary in. D.C., where he garnered one third of the vote among four participating candi- dates. The District of Columbia held an informal primary, which will be followed later in the year by caucuses where delegates will be handed out. Sharpton's success there has been credited to his popularity among blacks. "There are, for all intensive purposes, neither any Latinos nor blacks in either Iowa or Vermont," Hutchings said. Iowa is far less urbanized than much of America, he added. Both Sharpton and Edwards, who share success among black voters, are hoping for victories in the Feb. 3 South Carolina primary, in which blacks are expected to comprise half of the Democratic electorate. The undecided voters - 17 percent in the Zogby poll - may make the difference in New Hampshire. In Iowa, they helped to cement Kerry's lead as his support base materialized in the final days before the caucuses. Kerry hopes to pull off a similar victory in a rematch with Dean Tuesday. Former, Rep. to serve 10 days in jail FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) - Bill Jan- klow, who dominated South Dakota pol- itics for three decades as governor and then congressman, was sentenced to 100 days in jail yesterday for an auto acci- dent that killed a motorcyclist and ended Janklow's career in disgrace. After 30 days behind bars, Janklow will be allowed to leave jail during the day for up to 10 hours to perform com- munity service. After he completes his jail term, he will be on probation for three years, during which he will not be allowed to drive. The 64-year-old Republican was found guilty Dec. 8 of second-degree manslaughter, speeding and running a stop sign for a collision that killed 55- year-old motorcyclist Randy Scott at a rural intersection on Aug. 16. "If I could change places with him, I would. It's easy for me to say that, but I would," the former congressman told the judge before hearing his sentence. "All I can say, judge, is I'm sorry for what hap- pened and I wish I could change it." WASHINGTON Congress passes $373 billion spending bill Congress snuffed out Democratic opposition yesterday and approved a belated $373 billion bill financing most federal agencies and endorsing President Bush's policies on overtime pay, food labeling, media ownership and guns. Over protests by labor, some farm groups and conservatives angered by the measure's mountain of pork-barrel projects, the Senate approved the 1,182- page bill by a bipartisan 65 to 28 vote. The House passed it in December. The vote, on the first major bill that Congress has approved this election- year, completes a measure that was due last Oct. 1, when the government's budget year began. The passage ended a prolonged fight in which the White House and GOP leaders stood by their business and gun-owner allies. HOUSTON Enron scandal suspect enters innocent plea A former Enron Corp. accountant described as "a principal architect" of a scheme to mislead government regula- tors and investors turned himself in yes- terday and pleaded innocent to federal fraud charges related to the energy giant's 2001 collapse. Speaking in a soft voice, Richard Causey, 44, entered his plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge Frances Stacy. He was released on $1 million bond, secured by $500,000 in cash provided by a brother-in-law. When asked if he was employed, Causey replied: "I am not." Causey, who surrendered to the FBI before daybreak yesterday and was taken to court in handcuffs, was charged with securities fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud. WASHINGTON U.S. secretary sins oil plan forAas Interior Secretary Gale Norton signed off on a plan yesterday for man- aging 8.8 million acres of Alaska's North Slope and opening most of the acreage to oil and gas development. Some of the drilling could occur in areas important for migratory birds, whales and wildlife. The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management will use the plan to manage a northwest portion of the government's 23.5 million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Geologists believe the reserve may contain 6 billion to 13 billion barrels of oil. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. 4 WWW.MICHIGANDAILY.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. Winter term (January through April) is $110, yearlong (September through April) is $190. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscrip- tions must be prepaid. 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