2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, March 28, 2005 NATION/WORLD Protesters defy parents' ~X1 ClP C NTruwro ITT iDTTuT v7v i." Minister arrested for attempting to bring Easter communion to Terri Schiavo PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) - With their hopes of a miracle fad- ing and other options exhausted, Terri Schiavo's parents and siblings appeared quietly resigned yesterday and asked protesters to spend Easter with their families as the severely brain-damaged woman spent a ninth day without food and water. Those outside the hospice where Terri Schiavo is being cared for were not as calm, with the first of what would be four morning arrests coming as min- isters attempted to bring Schiavo Easter communion. About a half-dozen people in wheelchairs later got out of them and lay in the driveway, shouting "We're not dead yet!" Police protecting the hospice were loudly heckled, prompting Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler, to come out and ask the protesters to tone down their behavior. "We are not going to solve the prob- lem today by getting arrested," he told the restless crowd of about three dozen people. "We can change laws, but we are not going to change them today.... You are not speaking for our family." A spokesman for the Schindlers denied a report from David Gibbs III, their lead lawyer, who told CBS's "Face the Nation" yesterday that Schiavo has "passed where physically she would be able to recover." That statement "was not made with the family's knowledge. In the family's opinion, that is absolutely not true," family spokesman Randall Pastor Rick Barnard of Morris, III., was arrested yesterday outside the hospice where Terri Schiavo resides. Terry told reporters. George Felos, an attorney for her husband Michael, did not return a call for comment. The two sides, who have battled for years over whether the 41-year-old wanted to live or die, have given differ- ing opinions of her status. Her parents have said she is declining rapidly and in her last hours; Felos argued Saturday that her condition is not yet that grave. Doctors have said Terri Schiavo would probably die within a week or two of the tube being removed March 18. She relied on the tube for 15 years after suffering catastrophic brain dam- age when her heart stopped beating and oxygen was cut off to her brain. Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, have maintained their daugh- ter is not in a persistent vegetative state as court-ordered doctors have deter- mined. Michael Schiavo has said his wife told him that she would not want to be kept alive artificially. The Schindlers said they would stop asking courts to intervene after the Florida Supreme Court rejected their most recent appeal Saturday. The par- ents were rebuffed repeatedly by federal courts after Congress passed an extraor- dinary law last weekend allowing the case to be heard by federal judges. About three dozen protesters stayed at the hospice yesterday after the Schindlers asked them to spend Eas- ter Sunday with their families. Bob Schindler told reporters the protesters were welcome back today. p U STUDENT AIRFARES WhthrSTUDY ABROAD Whether you're headed abroad straight from campus or from home, StudentUniverse.com has the lowest airfares to the places where students are studying abroad this summer. Visit StudentUniverse.com for Student Airfares everywhere, from anywhere in the U.S. Sample roundtrip Student Airfares from Detroit to: Vienn$5061 umiiii r ilia BISHEK, Kyrgyzstan Power struggle continues in Bishek Kyrgyzstan's political uncertainties intensified yesterday in a struggle between rival parliaments, and the head law enforcement official, appointed by one parliament unex- pectedly declared the other legislature as the legitimate lawmaking body. Although police backed by civilian volunteers solidified control of the capital after several nights of looting and gunfire, the dispute between the parliaments raised troubling questions for the impoverished country's 5 million people about whether Kyrgyzstan's interim leaders could overcome deep disputes and bring the country a measure of stability. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, of which Kyrgyzstan is a member, is sending legal experts in an attempt to unravel the conflict between the parliaments. "We think the need for them is urgent," said envoy Alojz Peterle, who assessed the dispute as "very, very sensitive." Since President Askar Akayev was ousted by demonstrators who stormed his offices on Thursday, there has been little indication that his backers aim for a comeback. About 150 people blocked a highway yesterday in support of Akayev, who has fled to Russia, but dispersed peacefully. BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraqis debate role of clergy in government Debate raged yesterday about religion's place in Iraq's much-anticipated new government as lawmakers were summoned to their second session. Supporters of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi criticized the involvement of the religious authority in politics, while Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Shiite-led United Iraqi Alliance, defended the role of the clergy. "As long as we're alive and as long as Iraq and the believers are there, we will continue to work according to the directions and the advice of the religious author- ity," al-Hakim told the U.S.-funded Alhurra TV station, according to a transcript provided by his office. "The religious authority does not want to intervene in the details. It just gives direction when it thinks it will be beneficial," he added. Secular-minded politicians have expressed concern about the influence of religion in the National Assembly in which the Shiite-led United Iraqi Alliance holds 140 of the 275 seats. In a letter to the alliance, politicians who ran under an Allawi coalition warned that allowing religion to play a greater role in Iraq's government could "lead to instability in the relations between political forces in the Iraqi arena." JERUSALEM Abbas criticizes U.S. for su port of settlements The Palestinian leader criticized Israel an, indirectly, the United States over Jewish settlements yesterday, and Israel's defense minister warned he would send troops into Gaza to seize Palestinian anti-aircraft missiles - the latest threats to efforts to expand a truce into lasting peace. Incensed over a repeat of U.S. support for Israel retaining main settlement blocs in the West Bank in a peace deal, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas did not name the United States, but his target was clear. "Any talk of settlements that is not a discussion of stopping them is unaccept- able," Abbas said. "Here I'm talking about the discussions of annexing settlement blocs. This is unacceptable because this affects final status issues." VATICAN CITY Pope greets Easter crowd but is unable to speak Pope John Paul II delivered an Easter Sunday blessing to tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square, but the ailing pontiff was unable to speak and managed only to greet the saddened crowd with a sign of the cross, bringing tears to many. Aides had readied a microphone, and the pope tried to utter a few words from his studio window overlooking the square. But after making a few sounds, he just blessed the crowd with his hand and the microphone was taken away. Vatican watchers had been anxiously awaiting John Paul's appearance for signs of how the 84-year-old pontiff was faring after Feb. 24 surgery to insert a tube in. his throat to help him breathe. 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