2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, March 29, 2004 NATION WORLD Official calls for Sharon indictment NEWS IN BRIEF HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE WORLD a e w.- n JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's state In Gaza, the new Hamas leader brand- A resignation could trigger early ment a few months ao - to concur " attorney recommended yesterday that ed Bush "the enemy of God, the enemy elections. But Sharon's most likely Police have been investigating Sharon Prime Minister Ariel Sharon be indict- ed for bribe-taking, officials said, in what is seen as a major - but not final - step toward his possible resignation. Such an unprecedented indictment of an Israeli prime minister could derail Sharon's proposal to withdraw from much of the Gaza Strip - or entice him to move more quickly on the "disengagement" plan, which has broad support in Israel. Sharon is meeting with President Bush in two weeks to try to win U.S. backing for a Gaza withdrawal. of Islam,' but stopped short of threaten- ing to attack U.S. targets in retaliation for last week's assassination by Israel of the Islamic militant group's founder. Israeli opposition leaders demanded that Sharon step aside while under the cloud of indictment - but the prime minister's aides said he planned to con- duct business as usual. In the event of an indictment, there would be consid- erable pressure on Sharon to suspend himself or resign. The prime minister has been plagued by corruption allega- tions since he was elected in 2001. successor, former premier Benjamin Netanyahu, is not considered a sup- porter of Sharon's proposals to pull out of Gaza and parts of the West Bank - areas captured in the 1967 war. Yesterday's recommendation by State Attorney Edna Arbel to indict Sharon is not the last word on the mat- ter. The final decision is up to Attorney General Meni Mazuz, who is expected to make a ruling within a month. How- ever, Arbel's opinion carries consider- able weight and puts pressure on Mazuz - appointed by the govern- on suspicion he accepted $690,000 in bribes from Israeli businessman David Appel to help promote a tourism project in Greece and rezone urban land in Tel Aviv. Sharon allegedly received bribes as foreign minister in 1999, and after he was elected prime minister. Appel was indicted in January for allegedly bribing Sharon, but investiga- tors still have to prove that Sharon knew he was being bribed. Sharon's son, Gilad, allegedly was paid large sums of money so that his father would use his influence to push the project forward. Security adviser refuses BAGHDAD, Iraq inister survives assasination attempt Gunmen opened fire yesterday on a convoy carrying Iraq's minister of public works, killing a driver and a bodyguard and injuring two others, the U.S.-led coalition said. The minister, Nisreen Berwari, was unharmed. In another attack in the same city, Mosul, gunmen killed a Briton and a Canadi- an who were working as security guards for foreign electrical engineers at a power station. The ambush appeared to be part of a campaign to undermine U.S.- led reconstruction efforts in Iraq. The attacks highlighted the tenuous security situation in Iraq's third-largest city, once a prime recruiting ground for the officer corps of Saddam Hussein's military. Berwari was returning to Mosul from a meeting in the city of Dohuk when her convoy was attacked, said Kristi Clemens, a coalition spokeswoman in Baghdad. Saro Qader, an official with the Kurdistan Democratic Party, described the attack as an "assassination attempt." Berwari is a member of the Kurdish party. Iraqi police said the attack occurred around 11 a.m. in the al-Karama neighbor- hood of Mosul. They said the two men who were killed were both bodyguards, and that Berwari was in another car that was not hit by gunfire. DENVER Accused rapist allowed to stay in Air Force An Air Force Academy cadet who had been accused of rape and threatened to crash a glider into a dining hall was allowed to remain at the school for several more months, during which he was arrested for sodomizing a woman in a wheelchair and accused of raping another cadet, according to files obtained by The Associated Press. Even after his arrest in Los Angeles for sodomy, the Air Force got cadet Don- costa Seawell released from custody and took him back to the academy, according to the files. He was accused of rape by a fellow cadet three months later. "This is outrageous that this guy fell through the cracks of the military justice system, and went on to do such harm to other victims," said Cynthia Stone of the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Seawell's alleged victims have been among the women who have accused the academy of failing to prosecute sex offenders - claims that helped lead to sweep- ing changes at the academy and Defense Department investigations of sexual assault cases. An investigation determined that there had been 142 reports of sexu- al assault at the academy in the past decade. to testifl " to estfy publicly CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - White House administration off allies and Republicans investigating the Sept. 11 rebut fresh attack attacks pressed yesterday to hear open testimony has handled the th from national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Sharpening his with one commissioner calling her refusal a ism chief Richard "political blunder of the first order." was more aggress Rice said in a TV interview that she wants to front al-Qaida, Os testify publicly, but is constitutionally barred "He did somet from doing so, a senior administration official nothing prior to said yesterday afternoon, before the program NBC's "Meet the1 aired. Rice also said in the "60 Minutes" inter- "I think they d view that she wants to meet with family members they did before" of the Sept. 11 victims, to hear their concerns, the Bush's administra official said. doing anything." President Bush, spending a long weekend on Clarke said a sv his Texas ranch, gave no ground, and several uments would pro aides said he will not change his mind on letting neglected the th Rice testify. But Bush sent her and other top months leading up on 9-1: 1 ficials out for TV interviews to s on the way his administration reat of terrorism. criticism, former counterterror- d Clarke said President Clinton sive than Bush in trying to con- ama bin Laden's organization. thing, and President Bush did September 11," Clarke told Press." eserve a failing grade for what Sept. 11, Clarke said of the tion. "They never got around to weeping declassification of doc- ive that the Bush administration reat of terrorism in the nine to the attacks. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice listens to President Bush yesterday as he answers reporters' questions at the end of a Cabinet meeting at the White House. POW WOW Continued from Page 1A "I've taught my kids and then they'll teach their kids,"he added. Gaskin said this Pow Wow also serves a larger purpose of bringing the Ann Arbor community "to see what the beauty and the variety of our own Native American culture has to offer. "(The pow wow), it's a social event, but it's also spiritual. For Native Amer- icans, our spirituality goes through everything. To be social is to be spiri- tual," he said. Wearing a breastplate fashioned out of hollowed bones, with a ring of eagle feathers strapped around his waist, Gaskin and others swayed their bodies to the banging of the drums throughout the afternoon's first dances, rhythmi- cally tapping Crisler Arena's floor with their feet. Other dances featured during the Pow Wow ranged from traditional dancing based on the movements of animals to more contemporary routines called fancy dancing, Gaskin said. Young boys and girls also participated in the dances. Over the years, the Pow Wow has become increasingly popular to the Uni- versity and the Native American com- munity, said George Martin, who attended the first Pow Wow 32 years ago. Martin was invited to be the Pow Wow's head veteran, who is the tradi- tional leader of the opening ceremony. "We had one dancer 32 years ago. Now we have over 150. We used to have one drummer, but now we have so many" he said. Still, even with its growing size, some think there needs to be more acknowledgment of Michigan's Native American community. Education senior Erin Crain said of the event, "I enjoy watching the dances. It's something different." But she added that more students should have come to the Pow Wow. "I would say that not many people know this is going on. There doesn't seem to be a large awareness of the Native American community." That' why it's so important to hold cultural events like the weekend's Pow Wow, Martin said. "(We want to show everyone) that we're here, that there are Native Amer- icans here," he said. CUTS Continued from Page 1A competing in the Pow Wow. Organizers noted a stark difference between this year's event and last year's. Students said they had to con- duct "dozens of hours" of fundraising this year, with a goal of raising about $10,000. Many said although fundrais- ing has largely been successful, budget cuts have necessitated numerous com- promises this year, including cuts in prizes and the number of drums. "I feel that the upper administration has not taken student services like Pow Wow, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center and the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs seri- ously and hasn't given them priority. They boast about diversity and boast about supporting diversity, but these budget cuts don't reflect that," said LSA senior Nickole Fox, who is a co- chair of NASA. Many other students are "frustrated and angry," as Fox said, and cuts and changes to student services have led to the formation of the group Student Voices in Action, which lobbies the administration for change. The budget cuts directly result from a decrease in state appropriations and an increase in campus-wide costs. Although University President Mary Sue Coleman said she plans to accept Gov. Jennifer Granholm's tuition plan - saving the University roughly $20 million annually - state funding will still decrease by 2 percent this year. If Coleman accepts the plan, the net costs across campus will rise by $20 million over this year's costs. Administration officials say budget cuts are an unfortunate result of the foundering state economy and some of these cuts must fall on student affairs. Vice President for Student Affairs E. Royster Harper is eager to meet with students and start planning for the future, University spokeswoman Julie Peterson said. When students rallied outside the Fleming Administration Building on Thursday, Harper and Dean of Students Ed Willis spoke with. SVA, acknowledged a lack of student input in administrative decisions and tentatively scheduled a meeting for today at the William Monroe Trotter House at noon. PARIS France's ruling party suffers election blow French voters delivered a stinging defeat to President Jacques Chirac's government and its program of painful economic reforms in regional elections yesterday, according to exit polls. The heavy losses in many regions will increase pressure on Chirac to reshuffle his conservative government, and perhaps even ditch his prime minis- ter, the unpopular Jean-Pierre Raffarin. Polls of voters as they left voting sta- tions showed the opposition left getting nearly half of the votes, compared with about 37 percent for the right. One of at least eight regions that the government appeared to have lost was Poitou-Charentes in western France, once Raffarin's fiefdom. The midterm bruising, Chirac's first national test since he and his party swept elections in 2002, could also make it difficult for the government to pursue promised but unpopular economic reforms. ORLANDO, Fla. Vitamin E may lower bladder cancer risk Getting plenty of vitamin E by eating foods like nuts and olive oil appears to cut in half people's risk of bladder can- cer, the fourth leading cancer killer The research, released at a cancer conference yesterday, is the latest blip in the ups and downs of perceptions about this nutrient's powers to ward off disease. Experts once had high hopes that vita- min E would prove to be an important safeguard against heart attacks. But that idea eventually faded as repeated studies failed to show any protective effect. Whether vitamin E does anything to stop cancer is still far from proven, but some think the vitamin may be helpful, perhaps by warding off the damaging effects of oxygen. KABUL, Afghanistan Afghan leader delays elections until fall Afghanistan's landmark national elec- tions will be delayed until September to give the United Nations more time to register voters and organize the balloting, President Hamid Karzai said yesterday. Officials had warned repeatedly that the country's first post-Taliban elec- tions, originally scheduled for June, would be delayed because of logistical problems and security fears. "We are ready to manage both elec- tions, for the parliament and presiden- cy, in September," Karzai told reporters at his palace in the Afghan capital. 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