2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, April 14, 2005 NATION/WORLD UN approves new NEWS IN BRIEF 01 nuclear resolution ATLA UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The these offenses." 1996 Olympic bomber pleads guilty U.N. General Assembly approved a Russia launched the campaign for Right-wing extremist Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty yesterday to carrying out the global treaty yesterday aimed at pre- a treaty to combat nuclear terror- deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks across the venting nuclear terrorism by making it ism more than seven years ago, when South, admitting to one of the crimes with a hint of pride in his voice and a wink wmw ow! 1 a crime for would-be terrorists to pos- sess or threaten to use nuclear weap- ons or radioactive material. A resolution adopted by the 191- member world body by consensus calls on all countries to sign and ratify the "International Convention for the Sup- pression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism." The treaty will be opened for signa- tures on Sept. 14 and must be ratified by 22 countries to come into force. "By its action today, the Gen- eral Assembly has shown that it can, when it has the political will, play an important role in the global fight again terrorism," U.S. deputy ambas- sador Stuart Hol- liday told delegates4"The n c after the vote. "The T e UC< nuclear terrorism terrorism convention, when it enters into force, conventio will strengthen the international legal it enters it framework to com- bat terrorism." will Streng Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador the intern Alexander Konuzin, legal whose country spon- e sored the resolution, combat to hailed its approval. "It's the first time that an anti-terrorist- convention has been U.S. deputy t developed on the basis of preventing - that is not after the fact but before the terrorist acts which are criminal- ized by this convention," he said. The treaty makes it a crime fdr any person to possess radioactive mate- rial or a radioactive device with the intent to cause death or injury, or damage property or the environment. It would also be a crime to damage a nuclear facility. Threatening to use radioactive mate- rial or devices or unlawfully demanding nuclear material or other radioactive sub- stances would also be a crime. Accom- plices and organizers would also be covered by the convention. Countries that are parties to the treaty would be required to make these acts criminal offenses under their national laws, "punishable by appropriate penalties which take into account the grave nature of Boris Yeltsin was president. It was stymied for years because countries believed the draft convention was try- ing to define terrorism. Diplomats said the roadblock was broken after the drafting committee's last formal meeting in November, when the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference decided the new treaty could focus on criminaliz- ing specific actions related to nuclear terrorism as other anti-terrorism trea- ties have done. The drafting committee then quickly agreed on a text on April 1, leaving the difficult issue of defin- )n, when rnto force, gthen rational aework to °wrorism. " - Stuart Holliday U.N. ambassador ing terrorism to a new overall con- vention on ter- rorism still under debate. The Gen- eral Assembly has tried for years to define terror- ism, so far unsuc- cessfully because of the argument that one nation's terrorist can be another's free- dom fighter. The conven- tion requires all states that sign the treaty to adopt measures to make clear at prosecutors. Rudolph, 38, entered his pleas during back-to-back court appearances -- first in Birmingham, Ala., in the morning, then in Atlanta in the afternoon - after work- ing out a plea bargain that will spare him from the death penalty. He will get four consecutive life sentences without parole. The four blasts killed two people and wounded more than 120 others. When asked in Atlanta whether he was guilty of all the bombings, Rudolph politely and calmly responded, "I am." He offered no apology or explanation in either court appearance, but his lawyers said he would eventually release a written statement explaining how and why he committed the crimes. The bomb that exploded at the Olympics was hidden in a knapsack and sent nails and screws ripping through a crowd at Centennial Olympic Park during a concert. BAGHDAD, Iraq U.S. CEO abducted; captors release video An Indiana man, scared and clutching his passport to his chest, was shown at gunpoint on a videotape aired by Al-Jazeera television yester- day, two days after he was kidnapped from a water treatment plant near Baghdad. The station said he pleaded for his life and urged U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq. In LaPorte, Ind., a yellow ribbon was tied around a tree outside Jeffrey Ake's one-story brick house, and an American flag fluttered on a pole from the home. The U.S. Embassy said the man on the video appeared to be Ake, a contract worker who was kidnapped around noon Monday. The video came on a day of bloody attacks, as insurgents blew up a fuel tanker in Baghdad, killed 12 policemen in Kirkuk, and drove a car carrying a bomb into a U.S. convoy, killing five Iraqis and wounding four U.S. contract workers on the capital's infamous airport road. Ake - the 47-year-old president and CEO of Equipment Express, a company that manufacturers bottled water equipment - is the latest of more than 200 for- eigners seized in Iraq in the past year. WASHINGTON Silicone breast implants may return to market that acts designed to provoke terror in the general public or in specific groups cannot be justified under any circumstances "by considerations of a political, philosophical, ideologi- cal, racial, ethnic, religious or other similar nature." In recent speeches and in the U.N. reform plan he announced last month, Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for swift adoption of a global treaty against nuclear terrorism. The new convention will be the 13th U.N. treaty to fight terrorism, and U.N. Undersecretary-General for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel said this means "that now most of the pos- sible terrorism acts are covered by the existing legal instruments." The convention calls for stronger coop- eration between states on sharing intelli- gence and on mutual legal assistance. In a surprising turnaround, federal health advisers yesterday recommended allow- ing silicone-gel breast implants to return to the U.S. market after a 13-year ban on most uses of the devices - but only under strict conditions that will limit how easily women can get them. Mentor Corp. persuaded advisers to the Food and Drug Administration that its newer silicone implants are reasonably safe and more durable than older versions. The 7-2 vote came just one day after a rival manufacturer, Inamed Corp., failed to satisfy lingering concerns about how often the implants break apart and leak inside women's bodies. FDA's advisers said yesterday that Mentor had performed more convincing research that the implants only rarely break shortly after they're inserted - about 1.4 percent over three years - and showed some evidence that they may last as long as 10 years. *1 THE STORAGE CHEST KABUL, Afghanistan Military may stay in Afghanistan permanantly President Hamid Karzai said yesterday he is preparing a formal request to President Bush for a long-term security partnership that could include a permanent U.S. military presence. At a joint news conference with U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rums- feld, Karzai said he had consulted many of his country's citizens in recent weeks about "a strategic security relationship," with the United States that could help Afghanistan avoid foreign interference and military conflicts: "The conclusion we have drawn is that the Afghan people want a long- term relationship with the United States," Karzai said. - Compiled from Daily wire reports 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. 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