2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 2, 2004 NATION/WORLD Haitian rebels occupy police center NEWSIN BRIEF AInstide says US. oJcales preparations for the new president, for- mer Supreme Court Chief Justice BRUSSELS, elghlm forced him to leave Haiti Boniface Alexandre, to assume officeFTj i n * tn USIT PYLV t'" 01 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Rebels occupied the national police headquarters but kept away from the U.S.-guarded presidential palace after their convoy entered the capital yester- day to the cheers of thousands cele- brating the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Dozens of insurgents, packing an eclectic array of weapons dating to World War II, swaggered around a posh hotel where rebel leader Guy Philippe met with members of the political coalition that opposed Aristide. He was joined by rebel commander Louis-Jodel Chamblain, who is a for- mer army death squad leader and a convicted assassin. With U.S. military forces on the ground and more on the way, Aristide claimed they forced him to leave Haiti, according to a telephone interview with the exiled president after he was flown aboard a contracted U.S.-govern- ment plane to the impoverished Cen- tral African Republic. "Agents were telling me that if I don't leave they would start shooting and killing in a matter of time," Aristide said. U.S. officials called the allegation - repeated earlier by other U.S. critics who said they were called by Aristide - "absurd." President Bush's spokesman, Scott McClellan, said, "It's nonsense, and conspiracy theories like that do nothing to help the Haitian people real- ize the future that they aspire to.: Philippe said he planned to make as called for in the constitution. "We're just going to make sure the palace is clean for the president to come ... that there is no threat there," he said as his convoy of 70 rebels approached the capital. But a half dozen U. S. Marines guarded the National Palace at the Champs de Mars plaza, and the rebels did not approach. Philippe has said that he has no political aspirations but wants to rein- stitute the Haitian army that ousted Aristide in 1991 and that Aristide dis- banded in 1995. In the capital, there were reports of reprisal killings of militant Aristide supporters accused of terrorizing peo- ple. An AP reporter saw four bodies at Carrefour, on the outskirts of the capi- tal, three of them with hands tied behind their backs and shot in the head execution-style. The fourth body was that of a man allegedly shot by police, said witness Charlie LaPlanche. "He ran out of the (police) pickup truck and then it became a manhunt. He went into a house. They found him. And then they took him out and exe- cuted him," he said. Secretary of State Colin Powell said U.S. forces "will have a lead role" ini- tially in restoring order in Haiti follow- ing the three-week rebellion that swept Aristide from power. The U.N. Security Council late Sun- day approved the deployment of a multinational force to Haiti. The European Union yesterday started imposing millions of dollars in sanctions on American goods but said it would stop the measure immediately if the U.S. Con- gress repeals its export tax break legislation. The U.S. legislation was ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization two years ago and it authorized the EU to impose sanctions last year. "The U.S. has not brought its legislation in line with WTO rules. We are therefore left with no choice but to impose countermeasures," EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said in a statement. Although the WTO has authorized $4 billion in sanctions - the biggest amount ever - the EU is taking a graduated approach, hoping to pressure. Congress to change the Foreign Sales Corporation legislation while limiting the impact on Euro- pean companies and consumers. If the sanctions run on, they would cost U.S. industry some $300 million this year and about double that next year, the EU said. Lamy was already trying to look beyond the sanctions. "The name of the game is not retaliation but compliance: countermeasures will be lifted the day the FSC is repealed," he said. SAN FRNISC Catholic charity must provide birth control In a precedent-setting decision, the California Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a Roman Catholic charity must offer birth-control coverage to its employees even though the church considers contraception a sin. The 6 to 1 decision marked the first such ruling by a state's highest court. Experts said the ruling could affect thousands of workers at Catholic hospitals and other church-backed institutions in California and prompt other states to fashion similar laws. California is one of 20 states to require that all company-provided health plans must include contraception coverage if the plans have prescription drug benefits. The high court said that Catholic Charities is no different from other businesses in California, where "religious employers" such as churches are exempt from the requirement. Catholic Charities argued that it, too, should be exempt. But the court ruled that the charity is not a religious employer because it offers such secular services as counseling, low-income housing and immigration services to people of all faiths, without directly preaching Catholic values. A woman holds her hands up as police do a random check for weapons on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Iraqi constitution to be signed this week BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi leaders must still decide on the form of a new government to take power June 30 despite approval of an interim constitution at the end of a protracted and sometimes stormy debate, officials said yesterday. Members of the Iraqi Governing Council agreed to the interim constitution before dawn yesterday - two days after the deadline. It establishes a bill of rights and cements compromises on the structure of a future presidency and the role of Islam. The document calls for elections by Jan. 31, 2005 to create a legislature, with a goal of having women in at least a quarter of the seats. It does not say what kind of government will run the country from June 30, when the U.S.-led coalition hands over power, until Jan. 31. Council member Adnan Pachachi said the form of the new administration will be included in an annex to the interim constitution once agreement is reached. The charter also leaves open the question of Kur- dish autonomy after negotiators were unable to agree on that issue. The new constitution will be signed by top American administrator L. Paul Bremer and made public tomor- row after the Shiite Muslim religious holiday of Ashoura, a coalition official said on condition of anonymity. The charter will remain in effect until a per- manent constitution is drafted and ratified next year. With approval of the interim constitution, the last remaining step is to decide how to constitute a new government to take power from the U.S.-led occupa- tion authority on June 30. Council members and U.S. officials have been divided for weeks over a formula for putting together the government - and it appears likely the United Nations will have to intervene to help find a solution. The American blueprint called for choosing a legis- lature through regional caucuses, but the plan fell apart after Shiite clerics called that method illegitimate and demanded a national election. A U.N. mission then judged that elections before June 30 are infeasi- ble, leaving all sides looking for a new alternative. The agreement on the constitution came on the third night of marathon talks - two days after the deadline agreed to by the council and U.S. officials. When the deal was finally struck at 4:30 a.m. yesterday, dele- gates gave a standing ovation. "It was a very emotional moment," said Salem Cha- labi, a representative from the Iraqi National Con- gress, told The Associated Press. "We established a bill of rights like no other in the region. It was quite a remarkable thing" - even more so for being ham- mered out in the former Military Industry Ministry, a bulwark of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime. "Compromises were made. Not everybody got what they wanted," he said. But "everybody was happy' The charter has a 13-article bill of rights, including protections for free speech, religious expression, assembly and due process and spells out the shape of an executive branch. Under the terms of the document, Iraq will have a president with two deputies who would choose a prime minister and cabinet. Chalabi said decisions by the presidents and deputies would have to be unanimous. Council members refused to say, however, how the president and his deputies would be chosen - and it was not clear whether there had been agreement on "We established a bill of rights like no other in the region. It was quite a remarkable thing." - Salem Chalabi Representative, Iraqi National Congress that issue. Shiites have demanded that the president be a Shiite, with Kurd and Sunni vice presidents, but other council members have resisted Shiite attempts to dominate the executive. One of the toughest issues was how to enshrine Islam in the charter. U.S. officials and liberals on the council succeeded in ensuring Islam is "a source" of legislation out of many - as opposed to "the" princi- ple source as conservatives had sought. Fundamentalists backed down after a clause was included underlining that no legislation will be passed that contravenes the tenets of Islam, several council members said. Shiite council member Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq said Iraq's historic and future identity was Islamic - a fact that "must be respected." The members, however, were unable to agree on the terms and size of the Kurdish self-rule region in the north, Kurdish leaders had demanded the right to keep their militia as a distinct armed force and to control oil and other resources in their region. They also sought to add districts to the autonomous area. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Arafat adviser killed by gunmen in Gaza Gunmen shot and killed a well- known adviser to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City early today, security officials said. Khalid al-Zaben was the best-known Palestinian to be killed in what appears to be growing power struggles in Gaza City. There is concern that with the weakening of Arafat's Palestinian Authority and a planned Israeli pullout from most of the Gaza Strip, a chaotic situation might result, with Islamic mil- itant groups angling for power there. Al-Zaben, 59, was hit by 12 bullets as he left his office in the Sabra neighborhood, hospital and security officials said. In other recent internal strife, rival groups opened fire on each other after an armed man slapped the police chief. A policeman was killed in the exchange that followed. Moscow Putin nominates technocrat as PM President Vladimir Putin nominated a low-profile technocrat to the post of prime minister yesterday, signalling he wanted a politically unambitious head of government to push through sensi- tive economic reforms. The choice of Mikhail Fradkov - who also could become a scapegoat if the reforms fail - was announced six days after Putin's unexpected dismissal of Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and his cabinet in advance of this month's presidential election. "If Putin wanted to surprise people, he definitely succeeded," said analyst Masha Lipman of the Carnegie Endowment. Lipman said the move likely reflected Putin's desire to improve relations with Western Europe.. Others saw Fradkov, 53, as a man who would do Putin's bidding. PARIS Most distant galaxy in universe discovered French and Swiss astronomers say they have detected the farthest galaxy ever observed, a glimmer that dates back to when the universe was still in its infancy. 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