2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, January 23, 2006 NATION/WORLD Leftist Evo Morales sworn in as NEWS IN BRIEF I Bolivia's first Indian president Farmer's son has promised to alleviate country's poverty, resist free-market economic policies LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indian president, took office yesterday with a promise to lift his nation's struggling indigenous majority out of centuries of poverty and discrimination. Morales, a former leader of Bolivia's coca growers and a fierce critic of U.S. policies, raised a fist in a left- ist salute as he swore to uphold the constitution. "I wish to tell you, my Indian brothers, that the 500- year indigenous and popular campaign of resistance has not been in vain," Morales said. The 46-year-old son of a peasant farmer, Morales vowed that his socialist governmen t would reshape Bolivia. He criticized free-market economic prescrip- tions supported by the U.S. and international donors, saying they had failed to end chronic poverty. "The neoliberal economic model has run out," said Morales, an Aymara Indian. Thousands of Aymara and Quechua and other Indi- ans attended, many wearing the varied styles of hats imposed on them when Bolivia was a Spanish colony hundreds of years ago. They stood alongside miners, students and leftist sympathizers waving Cuban and Venezuelan flags on the cobblestone plaza outside the colonial-era Congress building. "Power is in the hands of the Bolivian people for the first time," said Walter Villarro, among 2,000 miners who turned out dressed in their trademark hel- DUBAI, United Arab Emirates U.S. Navy seizes pirates near Somalia U.S. sailors boarded a suspected pirate ship in the Indian Ocean and detained 26 men for questioning, the Navy said yesterday. The 16 Indians and 10 Somali men were aboard a traditional dhow that was chased and seized Saturday by the U.S. guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill, said Lt. Leslie Hull-Ryde of U.S. Naval Forces Cen- tral Command in Bahrain. The dhow stopped 54 miles off the coast of Somalia after the Churchill fired warning shots, the Navy said. U.S. sailors boarded the ship and seized a cache of small arms. Sailors aboard the dhow told Navy investigators that pirates hijacked their ves- sel six days ago near Mogadishu and used it to stage attacks on merchant ships. The crew and passengers were questioned aboard the Churchill yesterday to determine which were pirates and which were legitimate crew members, Hull-Ryde said. WASHINGTON Troops exposed to polluted water in Iraq An indigenous woman throws confetti as Bolivia's new president Evo Morales passes by In La Paz Sunday, Jan 22, 2006. Morales, a former leader of Bolivia's cocoa growers, was sworn in yesterda mets and black leather jackets. Morales compared decades of discrimination against Indians to apartheid, saying "Bolivia seems like South Africa" as he recounted how, decades ago, Indians were barred from entering the plaza. He said he planned to bring Bolivia's v ural gas reserves under more state cont call a constitutional assembly to answer demands for a greater share of power at a of society, he said. Troops and civilians at a U.S. military base in Iraq were exposed to contami- nated water last year and employees for the responsible contractor, Halliburton, couldn't get their company to inform camp residents, according to interviews and internal company documents. Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, disputes the allegations about water problems at Camp Junction City, in AP PHOTO Ramadi, even though they were made by its own employees and documented in company e-mails. ay. "We exposed a base camp population (military and civilian) to a water source that was not treated," said a July 15, 2005, memo written by William Granger, vast nat- the official for Halliburton's KBR subsidiary who was in charge of water quality rol, and in Iraq and Kuwait. Indian "The level of contamination was roughly 2x the normal contamination of ll levels untreated water from the Euphrates River'" Granger wrote in one of several docu- ments. The Associated Press obtained the documents from Senate Democrats who are holding a public inquiry into the allegations today. ~ DAMADOLA, Pakistan n, Al-Qaida sympathy surges in mountai town Sympathy for al-Qaida has surged after a U.S. airstrike devastated this remote mountain hamlet in a region sometimes as hostile toward the Pakistani government as nd Ellery it is to the United States. Saturday, A week after the attack, villagers in the region insist no members of the terror net- aught fire work were anywhere near the border village when it was hit. But thousands of protest- ern West ers flooded a nearby town chanting, "Long live Osama bin Laden!" st weeks Pakistan's army, in charge of hunting militants, was nowhere to be seen. hat led to The rally was the latest in a series of demonstrations across Pakistan against the Jan. xposed to 13 attack, which apparently targeted but missed al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri. o Mine in qu Calls for mine safety gain stean SW. Va. lawmakers seek to pass laws to make mines safer for workers CHARLESTON, WVa. (AP) - In death, 14 West Virginia coal miners have achieved something that just a month ago seemed an unlikely goal: Labor, industry and lawmakers are united in demanding that a dangerous subterranean occupation be made safer. Hours after the bodies of two miss- ing miners were found Saturday in Aracoma Coal's Alma No. 1 mine at Melville, Gov. Joe Manchin and West Virginia's congressional delegation called for a major overhaul of state and federal mine safety laws. Both the National Mining Associa- tion and the United Mine Workers of America said yesterday that they, too, will press for change. "This is a time for all of us who share responsibility for mining safety to come together and look for ways to make mining safer;' said Carol Raulston, spokeswoman for the National Mining Association in Washington. "We have made dramatic improvements over the last 15 years, but there's more to be done" The bodies of Don Bragg, 33, a "Elvis" Hatfield, 47, were foundI two days after a conveyor belt ca inside the Alma mine in south Virginia. Their deaths came ju after a Jan. 2 mine explosion th the deaths of 12 other miners ex carbon monoxide inside the Sag the northern part of the state. 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