2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, April 4, 2005 NATION/WORLD PAYING RESPECT P01,JOH.N -PAUL 1 1920-2005 NEWS IN BRIEF BAGHDAD, Iraq Parliament chooses Sunni speaker 4 AP PHOTO Susan Conner, of Salt Lake City, Utah, visits a make- shift memorial to Pope John Paul 11 (below a statue of his likeness) outside St. Mary's Basil- Ica yesterday %.In Phoenix. World gets glimpse of late pope's bod Church Lawmakers broke days of rancorous stalemate yesterday and reached out to Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority for their parliament speaker, cutting through ethnic and sec- tarian barriers that have held up selection of a new government for more than two months since the country's first free elections in 50 years. Industry Minister Hajim al-Hassani was chosen for the position. Deputies still face, however, difficult choices for Cabinet posts and failed again to name a new president - broadly expected to be Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani. That choice and those of two vice presidents were put off until a Wednesday ses- sion that could mark a major milestone as Iraq tries to build a democratic govern- ment and civil society. Once the president and his deputies are selected, they have 14 days to choose a prime minister, the most powerful position in Iraq's envisioned government hier- archy. That job was widely believed reserved for Ibrahim al-Jaafari, of the Shiite Muslim majority. Pressure is building on parliamentarians, with some growing frustrated with the slow pace of forming a government, because they have an Aug. 15 deadline to write a perma- nent constitution - a task that cannot be undertaken until a government is in place. NEW YORK Schiavo case may spur statehouse debate The arguments surrounding Terri Schiavo will live on in statehouse debate and new laws if an emerging coalition of disability rights activists and right-to-lifers succeed in turning the national agony over her case into a re-examination of when and how our lives come to an end. So far, only a few legislators in a handful of states have sought signifi- cant changes to their laws, which define the fundamental elements at stake - how a person can set limits on their medical care, who gets to decide what their wishes are, what evidence is needed to prove it. None have yet become law and the chances for most, if not all, are slim this year, with some legislatures finished and many far along in their work for this session. But both Republicans and Democrats say the arguments aren't going away. BAGHDAD, Iraq Abu Ghraib attack injures 12 Americans Insurgents attacked the Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad, injuring 20 U.S. forces and 12 prisoners on Saturday while six people were killed else- where in Iraq following a period of declining attacks that had raised hopes the insurgency might be weakening. At least 40 militants fired rocket-propelled grenades and set off two car bombs at the infamous prison as darkness fell, 1st Lt. Adam Rondeau said. Soldiers and Marines stationed at the detention facility responded, and the resulting clash and gunfight lasted about 40 minutes. "This was obviously a very well-organized attack and a very big attack," Rondeau said. Officials have said overall attacks have been declining in Iraq, but they also have noted that insurgents seem to be focusing their efforts on bigger, better organized operations. WASHINGTON Chinese textile imports threaten U.S. jobs Shirts, pants, underwear and a lot of other clothes made abroad have arrived in the United States by the bulging boatload since Jan. 1, when more than three decades of quotas on Chinese textile imports ended. While consumers face lower prices, the domestic textile and apparel industry is com- plaining about the loss of thousands of jobs from what it contends is unfair competition. It wants the Bush administration to move quickly to limit the soaring number of ship- ments from China. "Time is so critical. The amount of goods that China is flooding into this market is so large that only the government can move quickly enough to prevent a lot of textile jobs from being lost," said Cass Johnson, president of the National Council of Textile Organizations. S problems persist (AP) - Pope John Paul II inspired American Catholics with his globe-trot- ting, charismatic leadership and deep spir- ituality in the face of debilitating illness. But his tight grip on church leadership and unwillingness to change some unpop- ular teachings clashed with the more democratic approach that many of the 65 million U.S. Catholics favor. At the end of his pontificate, John Paul leaves behind an American church uplift- ed by his personal piety yet struggling with several of the same problems that preceded him: a dramatically shrinking U.S. priesthood, disagreement over the .proper role for lay leaders and a growing conservative-liberal divide over sexual- ity, women's ordination and celibacy for clergy. "He was seen as an extraordinarily prayerful pope. There was a kindness to him that seemed to come through," said James Davidson, a Purdue University sociologist who specializes in Catholi- cism. "But there were moments at which the pope and American lay people seemed to be on different pages on how decision- making in the church takes place. He AP PHOTO A woman dips her fingers in holy water before praying following the death of Pope John Paul 11 on Saturday. tended to be more top down and they tend to be more bottom up." The cry for greater lay influence grew loudest after the clergy sex abuse cri- sis erupted in 2002 with revelations that many American bishops had moved pred- atory clergy among parishes without noti- fying the public or police. Some Catholics responded by demanding the Vatican give them a greater say in choosing church leaders. Officials in Rome, not surpris- ingly, did not budge. Many of the troubles buffeting the U.S. church began before John Paul was elected in 1978 - though the pontiff ulti- mately was unable to arrest them. Vatican begins preparations for funeral and conclave VATICAN CITY (AP) - Finally at rest after years of debilitating dis- ease, Pope John Paul II's body lay in state yesterday, his hands clutching a rosary, his pastoral staff under his arm. Millions prayed and wept at services across the globe as the Vatican pre- pared for the funeral and conclave that will choose a successor. Television images gave the public its first view of the pope since his death: lying in the Vatican's frescoed Apostolic Pal- ace, dressed in crimson vestments and a white bishop's miter. A Swiss Guard stood on either side as diplomats, politicians and clergy paid their respects at his feet. An estimated 100,000 people turned out at St. Peter's Square for a morning Mass and thousands more - tourists, Romans, young and old - kept coming throughout the day, filling the broad boulevard leading to St. Peter's Basilica. They clutched rosaries and newspaper photos of the late pontiff as they stood shoulder-to- shoulder to pray for the soul of "our beloved John Paul." "Even if we fear we've lost a point of reference, I feel like everybody in this square is united with him in a hug," said Luca Ghizzardi, a 38-year-old nurse. Early yesterday, a text message had circulated on cell phones in Rome asking people to display lit candles in windows. "May they light up the road to God for him, the way he did for us," the message said. Around the world, bells tolled and worshippers prayed in remembrance of the man who reigied for longer than all but two of his predecessors and was credited with helping bring down com- munism in Europe and spreading a mes- sage of peace during his frequent trips around the world. John Paul, who was 58 when the car- dinals elected him the first non-Italian pope in 455 years, left a legacy of con- servatism. He opposed divorce, birth control and abortion, the ordination of women andthe lifting ofte celibacy requirement for priests. The mourning stretched from the pope's native Poland, where 100,000 people filled a Warsaw square at the spot where he celebrated a landmark Mass 26 years ago, to the earthquake-devastated Indonesian island of Nias, where a priest led special prayers. - Compiled from Daily wire reports 411 ( r The University of Michigan Initiative in Disability Studies Presents Disablity Today A Conference Inaugurating Disability S zes at Michigan April 8 2005 Meanings of Change" 4:00 pm Keynote: Rosemarie Garland- Thomson, Women's Studies, Emory Vandenberg Room, Michigan League Catherine Kudlick, History, University of University, "Can Disability be Chic? 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