2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, April 1, 2005 NATION/WORLD Brain-damaged woman dies. Terri Schiavo dies after weeks of legal wrangling and public feuding among her family PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) - With her husband and parents feuding to the bitter end and beyond, Terri Schiavo died yesterday, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed in a wrenching right- to-die dispute that engulfed the courts, Capitol Hill and the White House and divided the country. Cradled by her husband, Schiavo, 41, died a "calm, peaceful and gentle death" at about 9 a.m., a stuffed animal under her arm, flowers arranged around her hospice room, said George Felos, Michael Schiavo's attorney. No one from her side of the family was with her at the moment of her death. Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, were not at the hospice, Felos said. And her brother had been expelled from the room at Michael Schiavo's request moments before the end came. The death of the severely brain-dam- aged woman brought to a close what was easily the longest, most bitter - and most heavily litigated - right-to-die dis- pute in U.S. history. "Mr. Schiavo's overriding concern here was to provide for Terri a peaceful death with dignity," said Felos, who was also present at the death. But the Rev. Frank Pavone, one of the Schindlers' spiritual advisers, called her death "a killing," adding: "And for that we not only grieve that Terri has passed but we grieve that our nation has allowed such an atrocity as this and we pray that extraordinary attempts at intervention by Florida lawmakers, Gov. Jeb Bush, Con- gress and President Bush on behalf of her parents. Supporters of her parents, many of them anti-abortion activists and politi- cal conservatives, harshly criticized the courts. Many religious groups, includ- ing the Roman Catholic Church, said the removal of sustenance violated funda- mental religious tenets. About 40 judges in six courts were involved in the case at one point or another. Six times, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene. As Schia- vo's life ebbed away, Congress rushed through a bill to allow the federal courts to take up the case, and President Bush signed it March 21. But the federal courts refused to step in. The case prompted many people to ponder what they would want if they, too, were in such a desperate medical situation, and many rushed to draw up living wills. The case also led to a furi- ous debate over the proper role of gov- ernment in life-and-death decisions, and whether the Republicans in Congress violated their party's principles of lim- AP PHOTO ited government and deference to the ie day. states by getting involved. In Washington on yesterday, the presi- disputed dent was careful to extend condolences miracle to Schiavo's "families" - meaning both aid still Michael Schiavo and the Schindlers - to talk. even though he backed efforts to recon- George nect her feeding tube. and and "I urge all those who honor Terri feeding Schiavo to continue to work to build a discon- culture of life where all Americans are welcomed and valued and protected, tle, fed- especially those who live at the mercy of rejected others," the president said. Demonstrators hold up signs in the glare of television lights yesterday nea Woodside Hospice in Florida, where Terri Schiavo passed away earlier in th it will never happen again." Schiavo suffered brain damage in 1990 and fell into what court-appointed doc- tors called a persistent vegetative state, with no real consciousness or chance of recovery, after a chemical imbalance caused her heart to stop. She had left no written instructions in the event she became disabled. Her husband argued that she told him long ago that she would not want to kept alive artificially. Her parents d that, and held out hope for ar recovery for a daughter they sa laughed with them and struggled Pinellas County Circuit Judge W. Greer sided with her husba authorized the removal of thei tube keeping her alive. It was nected March 18. During the seven-year legal bat eral and state courts repeatedlyr NEWS IN BRIEF f UNITED NATIONS Sudanese crime suspects to be punished The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution yesterday to prosecute Suda- nese war crimes suspects before the International Criminal Court, after the United States reversed policy and agreed not to veto the document. The United States, which abstained with three other countries, won significant concessions, including ironclad guarantees it sought that Americans working in Sudan would not be handed over to either the ICC or any other nation's courts if they commit crimes in Sudan. With Secretary-General Kofi Annan looking on, the council voted 11-0. Algeria, Brazil and China also abstained. Acting U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson said the United States still 'fundamen- tally objects' to the court but was determined to get something done on Sudan. 'It is important that the international community speak with one voice in order to help promote effective accountability,' Patterson said. Even with the legal concessions, the U.S. decision not to veto was a major shift. Ever since he took office, President Bush had actively opposed the court, and American diplomats had repeatedly said they opposed any variation that referred the Sudan cases to it. NEW YORK ABC's Koppel will leave Nightline' Ted Koppel, who has provided a late-night alternative to laughs as anchor of ABC News' "Nightline" since it began 25 years ago, said yesterday he will leave the network when his contract expires in December. Koppel, 65, said he's not retiring. His departure casts doubt on the future of "Nightline," although Koppel and ABC News President David Westin expressed confidence that it will continue. The broadcast's longtime executive producer, Tom Bettag, will leave ABC News with Koppel. Westin had made it clear that he wanted to expand "Nightline" to an hour and air live each weeknight (Sometimes it is taped.). Koppel was offered the chance to continue, or perhaps switch jobs with Sunday morning's "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos, but told Westin upon returning from a vacation this week that he wanted to leave. WASHINGTON World Bank approves Wolfowitz The World Bank approved Paul Wolfowitz as its new president yesterday, affirming the administration's choice of a Bush loyalist to take the helm of the 184-nation development bank. Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary who helped plan the Iraq war, will begin his five-year term on June 1. "Nothing is more gratifying than being able to help people in need and developing opportunities for all the people of the world to achieve their full potential," Wolfowitz said after winning unanimous approval from the World Bank's 24-member board. The bank's stated mission is to fight poverty and improve the living stan- dards of people in developing countries. It lends around $20 billion a year to developing countries for various projects, including roads, schools and fighting AIDS. The installation of Wolfowitz enables the Bush administration to put its imprint on the bank, which employs some 10,000 people worldwide. BAGHDAD Car bomb expoldes near shrine, kills three A suicide car bomber blew himself up near an Islamic shrine, killing five Iraqis in the latest attack on Shiite Muslim pilgrims marking a major religious holiday. The blast in Tuz Khormato, 55 miles south of Kirkuk, killed three civilians, includ- ing a child, and two soldiers helping guard the shrine, police reported. Sixteen people were wounded, hospital officials said. Fighters from the Sunni Muslim-led insurgency staged a string of attacks on Shiite pilgrims in the days leading up to the festival, which marks-the end of a 40-day mourn- ing period for Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and one of Shiites' most important saints. al A 0 0 Commission: U.S. intelligence 'dead wrong' Report says agencies uninformed about nuclear, biological threats WASHINGTON (AP) - A damn- ing report by a presidential commis- sion concluded yesterday that the United States knows "disturbingly little" about nuclear and biological threats from dangerous adversaries, years after the Sept. 11 attacks and the nation's intelligence missteps on Iraqi weapons. . Urging dramatic changes in the U.S. spy agencies, the commission called cfucial intelligence judg- ments on Iraq "dead wrong" and said the flaws it found "are still all too common:" Though he initially opposed the panel's creation, President Bush promised immediate action at a news conference with retired Judge Laurence Silberman, a Republican, and former Democratic Sen. Charles Robb of Virginia, the commission's co-chairmen. "To win the war on terror, we will correct what needs to be fixed," Bush 'said. The commission offered 74 rec- ommendations aimed at changing the structure and culture of the nation's 15 spy agencies. It called for more clarity in the powers of the newly created national intelligence direc- tor, an overhaul of national security efforts in the Jus- tice Department and dozens of changes in intel- ligence collection and analysis. "There is no Urging dra changes in spy agencie more important COmmiSSic intelligence mis- sion than under- Crucial int standing the worst weapons that our judgement enemies possess, "dead wro and how they intend to use them the flaws i against us," the 1 commission said. Still all too "These are their deepest secrets, and unlocking them must be our highest priority." The report, approved unanimously by the bipartisan nine-member panel, followed the failure of U.S. inspec- tors in Iraq to turn up any weapons of mass destruction. The existence e t of weapons stockpiles - detailed in dozens of intelligence reports before the March 2003 invasion - was the administration's leading argument for toppling Saddam Hussein. Numerous blue-ribbon panels since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, matiC have investigat- the U.S. ed intelligence shortfalls. This es, the commission - in the bluntest n called of terms - pro- vided the most lligence comprehensive Ira look so far. s On Iraq The report ag" and said painted a picture of a clumsy intel- found "are ligence appara- tus struggling to common." penetrate Iraqi operations and wrongly conclud- ing that Saddam had weapons capable of causing catastrophic damage. Com- missioners found intelligence collectors didn't provide enough information or were deceived by discredited sources and ana- lysts relied on old assumptions about Saddam's intentions and overstated their conclusions. "On a matter of this importance, we simply cannot afford failures of this magnitude," said the report, which exceeded 600 pages. Robb and Silberman said they found no evidence that senior Bush administration officials sought to change the prewar intelligence in Iraq. The report was silent on wheth- er the administration manipulated the data for political purposes, as Demo- crats have contended, with commis- sion members saying they were not empowered to examine that. Underscoring the political divide, Democrats - including Bush's 2004 opponent, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry - used -the findings to demand faster changesand to point fingers. "The investigation will not be com- plete unless we know how the Bush administration may have used or mis- used intelligence to pursue its own agenda," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. The commission warned John Negro- ponte, whom Bush nominated to coordi- nate the spy community, of the intelligence agencies' "almost perfect record of resist- ing external recommendations." It said the CIA and the Defense Depart- ment 's intelligence agencies "are some of the government's most headstrong agen- cies. Sooner or later, they will try to run around - or over" the new director. The commission found the spy commu- nity ill-prepared to penetrate adversarial nations and terror groups. It said agencies must do a better job of preventing attacks with biological agents and learning about the spread of nuclear weapons. "Across the board, the intelligence community knows disturbingly little about the nuclear programs of many of the world's most dangerous actors," the report said. "In some cases, it knows less now than it did five or ten years ago." The commission saved for a classi- fied report details about U.S. knowl- edge of weapons programs in Iran, North Korea, China and Russia. But in the unclassified section, the report said, "We found that we have only limited access to critical infor- mation about several of these high- priority intelligence targets." At home, the commission said, the FBI has not done enough to beef up intelligence operations. It warned of potentially ominous con- sequences from lack of cooperation between the CIA and FBI on terror- ism cases that shift from overseas to American soil. 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. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $110. Winter term (January through April) is $115, yearlong (September through April) is $195. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Collegiate Press. ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109- 1327. E-mail letters to the editor to tothedaily@michigandaily.com. 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