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"Reflecting Absence: A Memorial at the World Trade Center Site" by Michael Arad, is
shown in this architectural illustration released in New York, Nov. 19, 2003.
ianel selects 'Reflecting
Absence' - 11 memorina
NEW YORK (AP) - A design consisting
of two reflecting pools and a paved stone
field was chosen yesterday for the World
Trade Center memorial after an eight-month
competition that drew more than 5,000
entries from around the world.
The "Reflecting Absence" memorial, creat-
ed by city designer Michael Arad, was chosen
by a 13-member jury of artists, architects and
civic and cultural leaders. The winning
memorial was announced by the Lower Man-
hattan Development Corp., the agency over-
seeing the rebuilding of the site.
The memorial drew an icy reception from
victims' families, who accused the jury of
ignoring their input during a hasty delibera-
tion and said the design failed to convey the
horror of the attack.
Anthony Gardner, who lost his brother in
the Sept. 11 attack and is a member of a
coalition for family groups, said the design is
"unacceptable."
"This is minimalism, and you can't mini-
malize the impact and the enormity of Sept.
11," Gardner said. "You can't minimalize the
deaths. You can't minimalize the response of
New Yorkers."
The memorial will remember all of the vic-
tims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack, including
those killed at the Pentagon, in Pennsylvania
and aboard the hijacked airliners. It also will
honor the six people killed in the 1993 World
Trade Center bombing.
The memorial will be one of two focal
points at the trade center site, along with the
1,776-foot glass skyscraper known as the
Freedom Tower.
Four other buildings are planned where the
trade center once stood.
The jury reviewed 5,201 submissions from
around the world beginning last summer, nar-
rowing the field to eight in November. By the
time the jury convened on Monday, it had
chosen three finalists: "Garden of Lights,"
"Passages of Light: the Memorial Cloud" and
"Reflecting Absence."
The reflecting pools that are the center-
piece of the winning memorial mark the foot-
prints of the World Trade Center towers. Pine
trees and the stone field lead to the pools.
A jubilant Arad said he was surrounded by
well-wishers after learning his plan was cho-
sen. "I just have so many people in the room
right now," he said by telephone.
The jury's decision came after a lengthy
meeting Monday at Gracie Mansion, the offi-
cial mayoral residence. The jury toasted its
decision with champagne.
"The most important thing is we come up
with the right memorial and this process had
thousands of people who had suggestions,"
said Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who noted
that the number of submissions was unprece-
dented for such a contest. "They whittled it
down from thousands to one. You're not going
to please everybody."
"Garden of Lights" featured a public area
filled with lights, one for each victim. The
three-level memorial had a garden on the top
and a private area for families of the victims
at the twin towers' footprints, connected by a
path and a stream of water.
"Passages of Light," by three New York
designers, included an open-air structure with
cathedral-like vaults and a glass walkway and
would have an altar for each victim.
India, Pakistan
vow to discuss
Kashmir, peace
After years of conflict, leaders agree
to hold talks next month
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Two years after nuclear-
armed India and Pakistan nearly went to war, their leaders
agreed yesterday to hold landmark peace talks next month
on all topics, including the hot-button issue of Kashmir that
lies at the heart of their half-century of mutual hatred and
mistrust.
"I think the victory is for the world," declared Pak-
istan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, though
observers cautioned a lasting peace is far from assured.
Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee agreed to the talks in tightly guarded meet-
ings in the Pakistani capital under the cover of a major
regional summit.
In a joint declaration read separately by the Indian
and Pakistani foreign ministers, Musharraf pledged not
to permit his country to be used as a haven for terror-
ism, and Vajpayee promised to seek a solution to the
Kashmir dispute.
Gone were the usual Pakistani denials that it had sup-
ported Islamic militants fighting Indian rule in the dis-
puted Himalayan territory, and gone were Indian
demands that cross-border infiltration stop before a
dialogue could begin.
More than 65,000 people have died since 1989 in the con-
flict over Kashmir, a picturesque Muslim-majority region
divided between India and Pakistan and claimed in entirety by
both. Islamic rebels have been fighting for independence for
the part of Kashmir controlled by predominantly Hindu India,
or for its merger with mostly Muslim Pakistan.
There have been other attempts to end the feuding between
Pakistan and India, most recently in talks in July 2001 between
Vajpayee and Musharraf in the Indian city of Agra. An attack
by Islamic militants on India's Parliament in December 2001
scuttled any hopes and brought the two nations to the brink of
a devastating fourth full-scale war - this one with nuclear
weapons in play.
In February 1999, hopes were raised briefly after a meet-
ing between Vajpayee and then-Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharifof Pakistan.
A Pakistani incursion that summer into India's portion of
Kashmir doomed those talks, and months later Sharif was
overthrown by Musharraf, the military leader who had
ordered the incursion.
But observers on both sides said the atmosphere is very
different today.
Musharraf has become a staunch U.S. ally since the
Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. His government has
banned more than a dozen militant organizations and
arrested over 500 al-Qaida suspects, turning most over
to American authorities.
Musharraf has survived three assassination attempts, the
latest two in December.
The last attack, a Christmas Day suicide bombing that
killed 16 people, was believed carried out by Jaish-e-
Mohammed, a Kashmiri militant group.
Kashmiri rebels denounced the news of talks as a sellout,
an ominous indication of the challenges ahead.
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JERUSALEM
Critics: Dismantling 28 outposts not enough
Israel has slated 28 unauthorized West Bank outposts to be torn down under the
U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan, security sources said yesterday. But critics argue
the plan requires Israel to dismantle more than twice that number.
The list was disclosed a day after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told a convention of
his hawkish party that even some of the larger veteran settlements would have to be
removed - either under the road map or under his own proposed unilateral plan to
disengage from the Palestinians. The shift in the thinking of Sharon, the settlers'
patron for decades, underscored the mounting pressure on Israel for a resolution to
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict following more than three years of Mideast violence.
The road map requires Israel to remove all outposts erected since March 2001.
The Peace Now watchdog group says there are at least 60 of them. Several dozen
others established before March 2001 are not addressed by the road map.
The 28 outposts identified by the Israeli Defense Ministry include 18 inhabited
communities housing about 400 settlers, security sources said yesterday. The largest
is Migron, home to 43 families, the sources said on condition of anonymity.
Raanan Gissin, a Sharon spokesman, said the premier has given approval "in gen-
eral" for dismantling outposts, often just a trailer or water tower on a hilltop.
"I don't know about these 28. He has agreed to speed up and expedite the disman-
tling of outposts," Gissin said.
WASHINGTON
U.S. weighs interrogation options for Saddam
CIA interrogators taking on Saddam Hussein must contend with the likelihood that
some of their questioning could become public during his eventual trial. That means
decisions now on how to conduct the questioning and record the conversations, U.S.
officials say. On the one hand, any admissions Saddam might make of human rights
violations or responsibility for massacres would be useful material for prosecutors in
a trial. But any such statement by Saddam also would probably have to meet some
kind of standard for use in a court case, much like an affidavit in the U.S. court sys-
tem. That could mean officials might want the informal give-and-take of a typical
interrogation to give way to a ritualized question-and-answer session.
That makes Saddam's interrogation different in fundamental ways from the ques-
tioning by U.S. officials of senior members of the al-Qaida terrorist organization. It is
unclear whether those al-Qaida members, captured and hustled off to secret overseas
locations for interrogation, will ever see daylight again, even if they are afforded
some kind of military or other trial.
But if Saddam's trial is to have any kind of legitimacy, he must be given a chance
to speak and defend himself publicly, experts say.
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WASHINGTON
Tests trace mad cow
outbreak to Canada
Genetic testing confirms that the cow
diagnosed with the first U.S. case of
mad cow disease was born in Canada,
agriculture officials said yesterday.
The finding puts new emphasis above
the border in the investigation of the
North American outbreak of the brain-
wasting disease. The Holstein, slaugh-
tered in Washington state on Dec. 9, is
the second cow born in western Canada
diagnosed with mad cow disease since
May. The test results mean investigators
will intensify their search for the source
of infection, most likely from contami-
nated feed, in Alberta, where the Hol-
stein was born in 1997.
The DNA tests on the cow, on one of
its offspring and on the semen from the
cow's sire, as well as records that show
the cow came from a dairy farm in
Alberta, make "us confident in the accu-
racy of this traceback," said Ron
DeHaven, the Agriculture Department's
chief veterinarian.
potential panelists might lean based on
answers to queries that could be as simple
as what their favorite TV show is.
The process falls somewhere between
psychological analysis and mind-reading,
legal experts say. The stakes are huge:
The 12 people ultimately selected will
decide whether Stewart lands in prison or
goes free. While the questionnaire filled
out yesterday by hundreds of potential
jurors is being kept secret, legal experts
said Stewart's defense team likely used it
to look .for jurors who are financially
sophisticated and hold high-paying jobs.
NEW YORK
McDonald's displays
fast food nutrition info
With Americans fattening up and fast
food on the defense, McDonald's this
week began telling dieters in the New
York area how much fat and carbs are in
some of its meals.
'New posters and brochures, prominent-
ly displayed in restaurants in New York,
New Jersey and parts of Connecticut, tell
customers how to modify McDonald's
existing menu to reduce their intake of fat,
carbohydrates and calories. "We are try-
ing to educate our customers that the
foods they love at McDonald's can fit into
the diet they're on," said Cristina Vilella,
marketing director for the company's New
York metro region office in Roseland, N.J.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -
A bomb strapped to a bicycle killed 13
people yesterday in this southern
Afghan city, most of them children
who halted a soccer game and rushed
to the site after an initial explosion.
The treacherous double blast,
blamed on Taliban militants, may have
been intended to lure U.S. troops or hit
the provincial governor. But it was
innocents who died - another bloody
reminder of the violence sweeping
Afghanistan two years after the Tal-
iban's fall.
The death toll put a brutal end to cel-
ebrations of a new constitution feted as
a bulwark against terrorism, and high-
lighted the task facing American forces
gearing up for a new offensive in time
for summer elections.
Curiosity got the better of the chil-
dren after the first blast tossed bicycles
parked on the roadside. The second
bomb, a few minutes later at the same
spot, was devastating.
Wrecked bikes, blood and shattered
glass from a passing truck lay strewn
across the road, which was quickly
sealed off by shouting Afghan and U. S.
soldiers.
The city's deputy police chief, Salim
Khan, said the truck driver and a male
passer-by were also killed by the sec-
ond bomb, which he said was attached
to one of the bicycles.
"I was playing soccer when I heard
the first bomb, and a lot of us rushed to
see what happened. Then the second
one went off," said Saami Khan, 15,
lying in a hospital bed, his face gashed
and his chest heavily bandaged where
he was cut by shrapnel.
Gul Mohammed, a shopkeeper
wounded in the chest and left leg, said
he too crossed the street for a closer
look. "The next thing I knew I was in
the hospital."
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