2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 9, 2004 NATION/WORLD Aristide supporters rally in capital NEWS IN BRIEF PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - charge that he was forced to step L ANGELES Haiti's interim president took the reins down. But the 15-nation CaribbeanUatd of his country's shattered government Community has called for an interna- .UCLA officials ad it to selling cadavers yesterday as supporterso Jean- tiona investigation. D - - - - .3 A - - ----- C- . .1- - :--: r ._ X> Bertrand Aristide demanded the oust- ed leader's return. U.S. Marines acknowledged they killed one of seven people gunned down in weekend violence - the first armed action of their week-old mis- sion here. Military helicopters circled over- head and U.S. Marines in armored cars patrolled the streets yesterday outside the National Palace as Boniface "e a Alexandre was for- e are mally installed. brothers "Aristide or death!" Aristide sup- Sisters.,. porters yelled at the all in the gates of the palac eL aa during thetceremony, bOat, an their shouts carrying Sinks, it into the room where' Alexandre urged his W id l countrymen to remain calm. - Bo "We are all broth- Interim P ers and sisters," said . .L e d ni Pre In Washington, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said, "If Mr. Aristide really wants to serve his country, he really has to, we think, let his nation get on with the future and not try to stir up the past again." Aristide was a wildly popular slum priest, elected on promises to champi- on the poor who make up the vast majority of Haiti's 8 million people. But he has lost sup- port, with Haitians saying he failed to and improve their lives, condoned corruption We are and used police and same armed supporters to Sif It attack his political ii itopponents. jpJg U.S. Marines and ,," French Legion- naires have been in Haiti since Aris- fice Alexandre tide's departure Feb. esident of Haiti 29, the vanguard of a U.N. force to restore peace to the country, where a monthlong rebellion left more than 130 dead. Yesterday, there were about 1,600 Marines, 800 French soldiers and police and 130 Chilean troops in Haiti. A United Nations team was on its way to Haiti to plan for a multination- al force that will deploy there within the next three months, a U.N. spokesman said yesterday. Yesterday, hundreds of people ran- sacked Port-au-Prince's industrial park, carrying away wood paneling, toilets, even a plastic Mickey Mouse. One looter wore the top part of a horse costume on his head as he made off with a mirror. The looting took place less than half a mile from the international airport where U.S. Marines have set up base. Alexandre urged people "to keep Officials at the University of California, Los Angeles, acknowledged yesterday that parts of bodies donated for medical research there had instead been sold, and apologized for a failure in oversight. Donors' families, meanwhile, filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming the director of the university's Willed Body Program had been selling body parts ille- gally for years with the knowledge of other UCLA officials. UCLA has denied knowing about the sales. The director, Henry Reid, was arrested along with another man accused of helping to sell the body parts. UCLA officials admitted yesterday that some body parts were sold to companies, but said they were only used for medical research. They promised to revamp the cadaver program. "These alleged crimes violate the trust of our donors, their families and UCLA," said Dr. Gerald Levey, dean of UCLA's medical school. "We are investi- gating how our policies failed to detect these employees' illegal activities." About 175 people donate their bodies each year to the university for use in anatomy classes, officials said. WASHINGTON High court refuses to hear Boy Scout appeal The Supreme Court refused yesterday to hear an appeal from the Boy Scouts over what the organization says is discrimination because of its policy against hir- ing gays. The case revisited the gay rights fight surrounding the high court's ruling four years ago that the Boy Scouts have the right to ban openly homosexual scout lead- ers. This time, the question was whether states may treat the Scouts differently from other organizations because of that policy. The Scouts asked the justices to hear a case from Connecticut, where officials moved to drop the group from a list of charities that receive donations through a state employee payroll deduction plan. That's unconstitutional discrimination, the Boy Scouts argued. "To exclude the Boy Scouts from a forum based on the values they hold and the conduct they require of their members is to exclude Boy Scouts based on view- point and identity," lawyers for the Scouts argued in their Supreme Court appeal. A U.S. Marine orders a man to go back to the other side of the street Port au Prince, Haiti, yesterday. Alexandre, who has served as presi- dent for a week and was officially sworn in Feb. 29. "We are all in the same boat, and if it sinks, it sinks with all of us." Earlier, Aristide declared from his African exile that he was still presi- dent of Haiti and urged "peaceful resistance" in his homeland. "I am the democratically elected president and I remain so. I plead for the restoration of democracy," Aris- tide said from Bangui, Central African Republic, in his first public appearance since he fled Haiti Feb. 29 aboard a plane chartered by the U.S. government. Aristide said his departure was a "political kidnapping (that) unfortu- nately opened the road to an occu- pation." The United States denies Aristide's calm. No one has the right to do jus- tice by themselves." Yesterday's pro-Aristide demonstra- tion was mostly peaceful, a sharp con- trast to the massive anti-Aristide protest Sunday in which seven people were killed, including a foreign jour- nalist. U.S. Marines acknowledged yester- day they killed one gunman at Sun- day's demonstration. "He had a gun and he was shooting at Marines," Col. Charles Gurganus told reporters yes- terday. Gurganus said they did not know who the man was, did not know where his body is, and did not have his weapon, which he said was snatched by someone. The violence, the worst bloodshed since Aristide fled, led both opponents and supporters of Aristide to threaten armed action, damaging efforts to reach a frail peace. Chief rebel leader Guy Philippe said Sunday's attack never would have happened if his men had not been asked to lay down their arms. He warned yesterday that "I will reunite my men and take up arms" if the peacekeepers did not disarm Aris- tide loyalists blamed for Sunday's attack. Later, Philippe met with opposition leader Evans Paul, with whom he has wanted to discuss reconstituting Haiti's disgraced army, whose brutali- ty and corruption is blamed for keep- ing Haiti in misery. Ignoring Aristide's claims to Haiti's leadership, a recently appointed seven-member Council of Sages was interviewing three top candidates for prime minister yes- terday, to replace Aristide appointee Yvon Neptune. Iraq constitution draws mixed reactions BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - For an hour anyway, Iraqi leaders put aside their disagreements during the signing of a landmark interim constitution yes- terday, heaping praise on the U.S.- backed document amid patriotic songs and Quranic verses urging unity. But sectarian differences resurfaced as soon as the event ended. The Shiites' most influential cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al- Sistaniissued a religious edict saying he had reservations about the interim constitution and that it will gain legit- imacy only when adopted by an elect- ed assembly. His supporters on Iraq's Governing Council pledged to try to amend parts of the charter, saying they effectively give minority Kurds and Sunni Mus- lims a veto over a permanent constitu- tion due to be drafted and put to a referendum next year. "This law places obstacles in the path of reaching a permanent constitution for the country that maintains its unity, the rights of its sons of all sects and ethnic backgrounds," al-Sistani said. President Bush praised the 22-page huge building inside the "Green Zone" complex housing the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition, kicked off with a recital of carefully chosen Quranic verses that urged Muslims to set aside their differences. Later, children dressed in Arab, Assyrian and Kurdish costumes per- formed patriotic songs. "The Executioner is gone, festivities will begin, we will wear colorful clothes now that sadness is behind us," went one song that alluded to Sad- dam's rule. The performance drew warm applause from the roughly 200 guests, including L. Paul Bremer, chief U.S. administrator in Iraq. Of the council's 25 members, 21 were present. Those absent were repre- sented by deputies. Led by current council president Mohammed Bahr al- Ulloum, the members were called for- ward one at a time to sign the document, which sat on an antique wooden desk used by Iraq's first monarch, King Faisal I. They signed the document, and the 25 later posed for photographers stand- ing in three rows on a podium. WASHINGTON Attorneys ask court to hear alcohol ban In a case that's getting more complex than an aged cabernet, attorneys are asking the Supreme Court to consider whether states can continue to ban direct shipments of alcohol from out- of-state vineyards. Yesterday, the Washington-based Institute for Justice asked the Supreme Court to consider overturning a ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which recently upheld New York's ban on direct shipments of alco- hol to individual consumers. The insti- tute is representing a small Virginia winery that wants to sell wine to out-of- state buyers. The request came days after 36 state attorneys general filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to over- turn a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that declared Michi- gan's ban on direct shipments uncon- stitutional. NEW ORLEANS High drug doses may prevent heart ailments How low should cholesterol levels go? For victims of recent heart attacks, the answer appears to be rock bottom. A major study released yesterday found that especially aggressive treat- ment with statin drugs, intended to drive cholesterol far below current stan- dards, prevents new heart problems and saves lives. These drugs are already a corner- stone of cardiac care, routinely pre- scribed for heart attack victims. However, the new results suggest doc- tors should opt for high doses of the most powerful brands to give recently discharged heart patients the best chance of survival. WASHINGTON DNA database helps crack 11,000 cases The FBI's DNA database, filled with genetic samples from prison inmates nationwide, has helped local authorities identify suspects in more than 11,000 cases in what is becoming the 21st cen- tury equivalent of fingerprinting. The database, known as the Combined DNA Indexing System or CODIS, has helped solve two "cold" murder cases in Kansas, identify the two-decade old remains of a missing California child and capture a sexual predator who*terrorized young boys in Houston. Just as important, police and lawyers say, it has freed prisoners wrongly con- victed of crimes and helped detectives quickly eliminate wrong suspects, sav- ing manpower chasing false leads. - Compiled from Daily wire reports 4 document, saying in a statement that its adoption was a "historic milestone in the Iraqi people's long journey from tyranny and violence to liberty and peace." Still, al-Sistani's edict and the Shiite Muslim council members' comments somewhat devalued the historic signif- icance of the signing of a charter that promises to compensate Iraqis for years of oppression under Saddam Hussein, safeguard the freedoms and human rights of their ethnic and reli- gious groups and lay down the founda- tions for a genuine democracy. Senior Shiite clerics like al-Sistani are exploiting the void left by Sad- dam's departure to exercise enormous influence on the U.S.-backed political process in a political arena once domi- nated by Sunnis but now controlled by a Shiite majority and a large Kurdish community. Yesterday's ceremony, held in the marble-and-glass Convention Center, a 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. 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