2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 23, 2004 NATION/WORLD 0 Israeli leaders vow to renew talks JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli lead- ers told Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday that they will do their utmost to allow Palestinian elections to take place, including easing travel restric- tions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In a sign of improving ties after four years of Mideast fighting, Israeli offi- cials also said they are willing to renew talks with the Palestinians on some issues, including security, and to coor- dinate the aftermath of Israel's planned withdrawal from Gaza and parts of the West Bank in 2005. Israel had refused to negotiate with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Arafat's death Nov. 11 provided a "moment of opportunity that should not be lost," Powell said. He told Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom that the United States wants to seize the moment, and to make sure Pal- estinian presidential elections are held Jan. 9, as planned. Later yesterday, Powell met with Pal- estinian officials in the West Bank town of Jericho and visited a voter registra- tion office there. Palestinian officials asked Powell to ensure that Israel withdraws troops from West Bank population centers ahead of the elections. They said he did not pass along any specific Israeli commitments AP PHOTO U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (left) observes voter registration during a visit to the Central Election Comission of the West Bank town of Jericho yesterday. Elections in the Palestinian territories are scheduled for Jan. 9. Equal fHousino QppftunhIy 3611 Green1rier Blvd. * Ann Arbor, MI 48105 * TTY: (800) 989-1833 Email info@greenbrierapartments.com Pofessionall: regarding the vote. Shalom said it is in Israel's interest to see the Palestinian elections go forward. "The first priority is the Palestinian elec- tion which will hopefully bring about a Palestinian leadership with whom we can sit down and address all the issues on our agenda," he said after a meeting with Powell. "I have reassured the secretary today that Israel will do everything in its power to ensure their smooth running," he said. Shalom did not say whether Israel would pull back troops. He said the Palestinians would have "freedom of movement" in the run-up to the elections. He said Israel would coordinate the arrangements with the Palestinians but would not compromise on security. An Israeli official, speaking on condi- tion of anonymity, said Shalom also told Powell that Israel is willing to resume talks with the Palestinians on some issues, including security. Israel reoccupied West Bank towns during a 2002 military offensive aimed at halting Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel. Troops have since withdrawn from some areas, but continue to enforce travel restrictions on Palestinians. Pales- tinians say they need freedom of move- ment for the vote. Arrest made in hunter deaths BIRCH WOOD, Wis. (AP) - A deer hunter shot and killed five people and wounded three others after he was spot- ted on private land and was asked to leave, authorities said. A 36-year-old man was arrested Sun- day afternoon when he came out of the woods after the shootings during the hunt's opening weekend, sheriff's offi- cials said. Two of the wounded were in critical condition yesterday. Deputy Jake Hodgkinson identified the suspect as Chai Vang but would give no details. Vang is from St. Paul, Minn., said Paul Schnell, a spokesman for the St. Paul police department. The victims were part of a larger group hunting near a rural cabin on private land in Sawyer County in north- western Wisconsin. One hunter spotted someone in their tree stand, a raised platform in a tree used by hunters, and he and several oth- ers approached the man and asked him to leave, Sawyer County Sheriff James Meier said yesterday. The man got down from the stand and was walking away, then "for some apparent reason he turned and opened fire on them," Meier said. One hunter radioed to others in the party for help, and more people were shot as they arrived on all-ter- rain vehicles to rescue the first group, authorities said. Someone in the group wrote the suspect's hunting license number, which hunters wear on their clothing, by tracing it on a dirty vehicle, Meier said. "It's absolutely nuts. Why? Over sit- ting in a tree stand?" Chief Deputy Tim Zeigle said earlier. Zeigle said the suspect was "chas- ing after them and killing them," with an SKS 7.62 mm semiautomatic rifle. Wisconsin's statewide deer gun hunt- ing season started Saturday and lasts for nine days. About 20 shots were fired but it was unclear if any of the hunters had fired at the man or who might have shot first, Zeigle said. There was just one gun among the eight people killed or wounded, he said. The dead included a woman and a father and his 20-year-old son, Zeigle said. Some of the victims were shot more than once. All five were from the Rice Lake area, about 15 miles south- west of Birchwood in northwestern Wisconsin, he said. Authorities found two bodies near each other and the others were scattered over 100 yards. The suspect, who did not have a compass, got lost in the woods and two other hunters who didn't know about the shootings helped him find his way out, Zeigle said. The man was arrested when he emerged from the woods and a Depart- ment of Natural Resources officer rec- ognized the deer license on his back from a description given by one of the shooting victims, Zeigle said. The man was out of ammunition, he said. One of the injured hunters was in crit- ical condition yesterday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield. Another was in NEWS IN BRIEF BAGHDAD, Iraq Allawi: Few will boycottJan. election Iraq's interim prime minister said yesterday he's confident only a small number of people will boycott the Jan. 30 elections despite anger among many Sunni Muslims over the Fallujah offensive and a deadly U.S.-Iraqi raid on a Baghdad mosque. "The forces of darkness and terrorism will not benefit from this democratic experience and will fight it," Ayad Allawi told The Associated Press. "But we are determined that this experiment succeeds." Allawi spoke as violence raged in the capital and other cities, and U.S. officials said a bomb was discovered on a commercial flight inside Iraq. Gunmen in the north assassinated a prominent election opponent, and five decapitated bodies were discovered south of the capital. Insurgents ambushed a U.S. convoy in western Baghdad, but there were no reports of casualties. A U.S. soldier died yesterday of wounds suffered in an attack in Baghdad the night before. The Pentagon also announced yesterday that three Marines wounded in Fallujah have died, raising the U.S. death toll in the offensive to at least 54. At least 1,227 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an AP count. Tens of thousands of demonstrators jammed downtown Kiev yesterday night denouncing Ukraine's presidential runoff election as fraudulent and chanting the name of their reformist candidate who authorities said was trailing in the vote count. Viktor Yushchenko stood beaming on a platform with campaign aides and flashec a "V" for victory sign - even though the Central Election Commission said earliei that with nearly all the votes counted, he was losing to Kremlin-backed Prime Min- ister Viktor Yanukovych. "Yushchenko - our president!" chanted the crowd, many of whom waved orange scarves - his campaign color in Independence Square. - Compiled from Daily wire reports I CHICAGO McDonald's CEO resigns due to cancer McDonald's Corp. CEO Charlie Bell, who was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in May, resigned yesterday to focus on his battle with the disease, forcing the com- pany to make a sudden leadership switch for the second time in seven months. The fast food giant named vice chairman Jim Skinner as its new CEO, and the board elected Mike Roberts, CEO of McDonald's USA, to the position of president and chief operating officer. "Charlie is a remarkable leader and well loved by the McDonald's family, and we fully understand and respect his decision," McDonald's chairman Andrew McKenna said in a statement. Bell will remain on the company's board of directors, company spokesman Walt Riker said. Bell, 44, was diagnosed with cancer soon after succeeding Jim Cantalupo in April, when Cantalupo died of an apparent heart attack. Bell has missed significant time at work because of the cancer. TEHRAN, Iran U.N. agency: Iran nuclear enrichment ended Iran announced yesterday it has suspended uranium enrichment, and the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said he believed all Iran's enrichment activities have stopped, the central part of an agreement with Europe designed to head off possible U.N. sanctions. The suspension fulfills a pledge Iran made earlier this month and came days ahead of a key meeting of the agency's board to judge Tehran's compliance with the agency's investigation into nearly two decades of hidden nuclear activities. If the International Atomic Energy Agency rules that Iran is honoring its com- mitment to suspend enrichment, it will be a setback to U.S. hopes of referring Iran I to the U.N. Security Council, a step that could lead to sanctions. 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