2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 7, 2004 NATION/WORLD AP rOO "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. NEWS IN BRIEF .. 3 ; .^7 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. r ~s. 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. - Compiledfrom Daily wire reports. I O Mhigan Book & Supply / Urc h'sBookstore TstimornG Mfghan bicycle i ~NEW YORK Jury selection process m Stewart case begins kills 13 I Lawyers picking through jury ques- tionnaires for the Martha Stewart trial face the tricky task of predicting how "You actually do "I was confused have a choice." on where to buy my books." 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. 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