2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 23, 2004 NATION/WORLD CONFLICT IN MIDEAST Palestinians vow Masses of civilians, UN condemn Israel's killing of Hamas founder GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Hundreds of thousands of Palestini- ans chanting "revenge, revenge" flooded Gaza's streets yesterday to bury assassinated Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, as militants pledged unprecedented retaliation - including threats against the United States. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and many world leaders con- demned yesterday's killing of Yassin, the most prominent Pales- tinian targeted by Israel in 3 1/2 years of fighting. The Bush administration said it was "deeply troubled" by the attack and that it had no advance warning. "We will get revenge for every drop of blood that spilled," said Salman Bdeiri, a Hamas supporter crying near the mosque where Yassin prayed shortly before being killed by an Israeli airstrike. Israel sealed off the West Bank and Gaza, banning Palestinians from revenge ie H anoun. Israeli security officials &* said the purpose of the operation was to prevent further rocket fire. The Yassin assassination was part of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's effort to crush Hamas ahead of a possible Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. However, the killing was seen as a major gamble that could galva- nize the Palestinians behind Hamas. Rival Palestinian militant groups immediately pledged solidarity with Hamas. The missile strike dealt what could be the final blow to the stalled U.S.- led "road map" peace plan. It also angered Egypt and Jordan, moderate Arab states whose tacit support Sharon needs for any uni- lateral withdrawal from Gaza. APPHOTO Since Yassin founded Hamas in ik Ahmed 1987, the group has killed hundreds of Israelis in scores of attacks. Hamas said it wants to destroy the srael's border Jewish state and replace it with an ael responded Islamic one. artillery fire. For the first time yesterday, orted. Hamas threatened the United States o the rocket and suggested it might seek outside ks into north- help in carrying out revenge own of Beit attacks. NEWS IN BRIEF,- HEDLNE :FOM AROUND THE WORLD_: WANA, Pakistan Al-Qaida may have used tunnels in Pakistan Top al-Qaida terrorists may have escaped a siege by thousands of Pakistani sol- diers through several secret tunnels leading from mud fortresses to a dry moun- tain stream near the border with Afghanistan, a security chief said yesterday. The longest tunnel found so far was more than a mile long and led from the homes of two local men - Nek Mohammed and Sharif Khan - to a stream near the frontier, said Brig. Mahmood Shah, head of security for Pakistan's tribal regions. "There is a possibility that the tunnel may have been used at the start of the operation," Shah told journalists in Peshawar, the provincial capital. He said the tunnels began at the homes in the village of Kaloosha and led in the direction of a mountain range that straddles the border. Three senior officials have told AP that they believe al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al- Zawahri may have been at the site, though the government has repeatedly said it does not know who is inside. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Thursday that a "high-value" target was likely involved The militants may have used the tunnel to escape during the disastrous first day of the operation on Mar. 16, when at least 15 soldiers were killed in fierce fighting. WASHINGTON High court hears case on right to anonymity Do you have to tell the police your name? Depending on how the Supreme Court rules, the answer could be the difference between arrest and freedom. The justices heard arguments yesterday in a first-of-its kind case that asks whether people can be punished for refusing to identify themselves. The court took up the appeal of a Nevada cattle rancher who was arrested after he told a deputy that he had done nothing wrong and didn't have to reveal his name or show an ID during an encounter on a rural highway four years ago. Larry "Dudley" Hiibel, 59, was prosecuted, based on his silence, and finds himself at the center of a major privacy rights battle. "I would do it all over again," Hiibel, dressed in cowboy hat, boots and a bolo tie, said outside the court. "That's one of our fundamental rights as American citizens, to remain silent." The case will clarify police powers in the post-Sept. 11 era, determining if officials can demand to see identification whenever they deem it necessary. 0 Palestinian mourners carry the coffin of Hamas spiritual leader Shei Yassin yesterday. Yassin was killed Sunday by Israeli helicopters. Israel, and placed its security forces on high alert. Later yesterday, Pales- tinian militants fired several home- made rockets and mortar shells at Israeli targets in and near Gaza. To the north, Hezbollah guerril- las fired an anti-tank missile at Israeli troops along I with Lebanon, and Isr with an airstrike and No casualties were rep Israel responded t attack by sending tank ern Gaza near the t Parents' rivalry may bring down pledge case SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The historic challenge to the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance might never have reached the Supreme Court if not for a collision of faith between two parents - one an atheist, the other a born-again Christian. Normally, the personal sagas of the parties in a Supreme Court case are just a footnote to the constitutional principles. But the clash between the parents threatens to derail the entire case, which will be heard by the high court tomorrow. The case was brought by Michael Newdow, an atheist who does not want his 9-year-old daughter exposed to the phrase "under God," which Congress inserted in 1954 in a Cold War expression of abhorrence of god- less communism. The girl's mother, Sandra Banning, is a born-again Christian locked in a bitter custody dispute with Newdow, whom she never married. Backed by former Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr, she has told the justices that her daugh- ter has no objection to reciting "under God" in school each day. Should the justices wish to side- step the church-and-state issues, the custody quarrel between the former lovers presents them with an easy out. They may just decide that New- dow, because he did not have custody at the time, could not sue without the mother's consent, and dismiss the case outright. "This custody issue could be a 'I vi. presents a lecture by T H R E EOA K E3 Rt 0 1U P qS Larry Pintak 2003-2004 Howard R. 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"It's clear the law gives Newdow a right as a parent to instruct his daugh- ter in what he believes about the world, but what the law doesn't give a parent is the right to unilaterally veto what the other parent believes about the world." In an explosive ruling in June 2002, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation's most liberal appellate court, declared that reciting the pledge in public schools in uncon- stitutional because the words "under God" amount to an endorse- ment of religion. The ruling spun heads from Cali- fornia to Washington. If upheld, the ruling would overturn 50 years of common practice in America's schools. Last October, the Supreme Court justices announced that they wanted to hear more about whether Newdow had legal standing. "How weird it is, that standing on a- case may ultimately determine the pledge case, that it depends on quirky domestic relations," said Vikram Amar, a Hastings College of the Law scholar. The acrimony between Banning and Newdow is intense. They could not even agree whether the fourth- grader in the Elk Grove school district near Sacramento could attend the Supreme Court arguments. WASH INGTON Bush to ease controls on mercury cleanup Concluding that technology to signifi- cantly cut mercury pollution isn't avail- able, the Bush administration is leaning toward stretching out a cleanup until 2018 and letting some power plants buy their way out of reducing their emissions. High doses of mercury can cause neu- rological damage, prompting the govern- ment to warn last week that some fish in which the toxic chemical accumulates can pose a hazard to children and to women who are pregnant or nursing. Three months ago the Environmental Protection Agency offered two options for reducing the 48 annual tons of mer- cury emitted from 1,100 coal-burning power plants, the largest pollution source. One favored reliance on short-term tech- nology; the other on long-term market forces through which companies could buy rights to continue polluting from companies doing more than required. WASHINGTON Antidepressants may increase suicide risk Doctors who prescribe some popular antidepressants should monitor their patients closely for warning signs of suicide, especially when they first start the pills or change a dose, the govern- ment warned yesterday. The Food and Drug Administration asked makers of 10 drugs to add or strengthen suicide-related warnings on their labels. The agency insists it's not yet clear whether the drugs actually spur suicide on occasion, or whether the underlying mental illness is to blame. But FDA bowed to pressure from anguished fam- ilies who, at an emotional meeting last month, blamed the pills for their loved ones' suicides and pleaded for better warnings. cALESTER, Okla. Prosecutor: Nichols hated government Terry Nichols went on trial for his life yesterday in the Oklahoma City bombing and was alternately portrayed as an eager participant in the attack and a fall guy in a conspiracy wider than the government has acknowledged. Nichols hated the U.S. government and worked hand-in-hand with Timothy McVeigh in assembling and detonating the "huge, monstrous bomb;" prosecu- tor Lou Keel said during opening state- ments in the state murder trial, recalling the explosion that killed 168 civilians - including many children - in the spring of 1995. McVeigh was executed in 2001. 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