2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 1, 2006 NATION/WORLD Bernanke approved as next Fed chair Former Fed governor to succeed current chair Alan Greenspan WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate yesterday approved the nomination of Ben Bernanke to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, the most influential economic policy job in the world. Bernanke, 52, was cleared on a voice vote after a short debate in the chamber amid strong bipartisan support. "Ben is a man of impeccable cre- dentials, sound policy judgment and strong character, and he will make an outstanding chairman," Presi- dent Bush said in a statement. "Ben has provided wise counsel and good advice as a member of my economic team, and he will serve our nation with great distinction at the Federal Reserve." He succeeds Alan Greenspan, 79, who retired yesterday after 18 1/2 years, making him the second-longest serving chairman at the central bank. "We believe that Dr. Bernanke will serve this country well at the helm of the Federal Reserve," said Sen. Rich- ard Shelby, R-Ala., in remarks on the Senate floor before the vote. Sen. Paul Sarbanes, (D-Md.)observed: "There's no question about Dr. Bernanke's qualifications for the position.... He com- mands great respect from his peers in the profession and I think great respect from all who have come in contact with him." Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) was the only senator requesting to be recorded as voting against the nomi- nation. Bunning cited concerns that Bernanke would be too much in Greenspan's mold. "Sadly, I have not seen very much evidence of him being independent," Bunning said. A former Fed governor and Princ- eton economic professor, Bernan- ke, chairman of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers, was tapped by Bush in October for the Fed post. Bernanke must be sworn in before he takes over as the chairman of the Fed. A private swearing-in ceremony will take place this morning at the Federal Reserve, the central bank said in a statement. The Fed determines interest rate policies that affect any person or business borrowing money. Its decisions - along with utter- ances from the Fed chief - can influence financial markets around the globe. Bernanke will lead the Fed at a time when the U.S. economy faces challenges, including bloated bud- get and trade deficits, the question of whether the high-flying housing market will make a safe landing and the toll that high energy prices will have on business activity, household budgets and inflation. AP PHOTO The family of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. walk in the funeral procession of the slain civil rights leader in Atlanta on April 9, 1968. Martin LuhrKing wife passes away at 7 NEWS IN BRIEF4 TEHRAN, Iran Iran threatens to end U.N. negotiations Iran struck back yesterday at the Big Five powers' decision to put Iran's nuclear file before the U.N. Security Council, saying the move would mean the end of diplo- macy over its atomic program. Still, in what appeared to be an attempt to show it was cooperating with the West, Iran handed over documents last week to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency on cast- ing uranium into the shape of a warhead, diplomats in Vienna, Austria, said. At a London meeting that lasted into the early hours of yesterday, envoys of Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States decided they would recommend tomor- row that the International Atomic Energy Agency should report Iran to the Security Council. They also decided the Security Council should wait until the IAEA issues a report on Iran in March before tackling the issue. Under IAEA rules, a nation can be reported to the Security Council or the U.N. body can be notified of a case. Notification is less serious but the Europeans have not made clear which step they intend to take. Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, said that in either case, his country's response would be the same: a resumption of suspended nuclear activities and a halt to surprise U.N. inspections of facilities. GOLETA, Calif. Five killed in post-office shooting rampage A former postal worker who had been put on medical leave for psychological prob- lems shot five people to death at a huge mail-processing center and then killed herself in what was believed to be the nation's deadliest workplace shooting ever carried out by a woman. The attack Monday night was also the biggest bloodbath at a U.S. postal instal- lation since a massacre 20 years ago helped give rise to the term "going postal." Investigators would not release the killer's name or discuss a motive for the attack. The rampage - the nation's first deadly postal shooting in nearly eight years - sent employees running from the sprawling Southern California complex and prompted authorities to warn nearby residents to stay indoors as they searched for the killer. WASHINGTON Heart disease may go undetected in women Conventional tests won't uncover heart disease in as many as 3 million U.S. women - because instead of the usual bulky clogs in main arteries, these women have a hard-to-spot buildup in smaller blood vessels, researchers said yesterday. These are the women who come to the doctor complaining of chest pain or shortness of breath but sometimes are sent away undiagnosed, not knowing they're actually at high risk for a heart attack in the next few years. "The No. 1 message for women is, 'Pay attention to your symptoms,"' said George Sopko, a heart specialist at the National Institutes of Health, which sponsored the research. "If you don't have visible blockages, that doesn't mean you're not at risk." Heart disease is the nation's leading killer, of both men and women. In fact, slightly more women than men die from cardiovascular diseases each year - more than 480,000 of them, according to the American Heart Association. WASHINGTON Cindy Sheehan arrested at the State of Union Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq who reinvigorated the anti- war movement, was arrested and removed from the House gallery last night. The arrest occurred just before President Bush's State of the Union address, a police spokeswoman said. Sheehan, who was invited to attend the speech by Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) was charged with demonstrating in the Capitol building, said Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider. The charge was later changed to unlawful conduct, Schneider said. Both charges are misdemeanors. - Compiled from Daily wire reports Ebe 1 Iirtga uI~ 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com *I Coretta Scott King became a civil rights leader after her husband's death ATLANTA (AP) - Coretta Scott King, who worked to keep her husband's dream alive with a chin-held-high grace and serenity that made her a powerful symbol of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s creed of brotherhood and nonvio- lence, died yesterday. She was 78. The "first lady of the civil rights movement" died in her sleep during the night at an alternative medicine clinic in Mexico, her family said. Arrangements were being made to fly the body back to Atlanta. She had been recovering from a seri- ous stroke and heart attack suffered last August. Just two weeks ago, she made her first public appearance in a year on the eve of her late husband's birthday. Doctors at the clinic said King was battling advanced ovarian cancer when she arrived there last Thursday. The doc- tors said the cause of death was respira- tory failure. News of her death led to tributes to King across Atlanta, including a moment of silence in the Georgia Capitol and piles of flowers placed at the tomb of her slain husband. Flags at the King Center - the institute devoted to the civil rights leader's legacy - were lowered to half- staff. "She wore her grief with grace. She exerted her leadership with dignity "the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Con- ference with King's husband in 1957. Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, one of Martin Luther King's top aides, said Coretta Scott King's for- titude rivaled that of her husband. "She was strong if not stronger than he was," Young said. Coretta Scott King was a supportive lieutenant to her husband during the most dangerous and tumultuous days of the civil rights movement, and after his assassination in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968, she carried on his work while also raising their four children. "I'm more determined than ever that my husband's dream will become a real- ity," the young widow said soon after his slaying. She pushed and goaded politicians for more than a decade to have her husband's birthday observed as a national holiday, achieving success in 1986. In 1969 she founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta and used it to confront hunger, unemployment, voting rights and rac- ism. "The center enables us to go out and struggle against the evils in our society," she often said. She also accused movie and TV companies, video arcades, gun manu- facturers and toy makers of promoting violence. King became a symbol in her own right of her husband's struggle for peace and brotherhood, presiding with an almost regal bearing over seminars and conferences. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was with her husband when he was assassinated, said yesterday that she understood that every time her husband left home, there was the chance he might not come back. Jackson pronounced her a "freedom fighter" "Like all great champions she learned to function with pain and keep serving," he said, adding: "She kept marching. She did not flinch." In Washington, President Bush hailed her as "a remarkable and courageous woman and a great civil rights leader." After her stroke, King missed the annual King celebration in Atlanta two weeks ago but appeared with her chil- dren at an awards dinner a few days ear- lier, smiling from her wheelchair but not speaking. The crowd gave her a standing ovation. Despite her repeated calls for unity among civil rights groups, her own children have been divided over whether to sell the King Center to the National Park Service and let the fam- ily focus less on grounds maintenance and more on King's message. Two of the four children were strongly against such a move. Gov. Sonny Perdue ordered flags at all state buildings to be flown at half- staff and offered to allow King's body to lie in repose at the Georgia Capitol. There was no immediate response to the offer, the governor's office said. King died at Santa Monica Health Institute in Rosarito Beach, Mexico, south of San Diego, said her sister, Edythe Scott Bagley of Cheyney, Pa. She had gone to California to rest and be with family, according to Young. Coretta Scott was studying voice at the New England Conservatory of Music and planning on a singing career when a friend introduced her to King, a young Baptist minister studying at Bos- ton University. "She said she wanted me to meet a very promising young minister from Atlanta," King once said, adding with a laugh: "I wasn't interested in meeting a young minister at that time." She recalled that on their first date he told her: "You know, you have everything I ever wanted in a woman. We ought to get married someday." Eighteen months later, in 1953, they did. The couple moved to Montgomery, Ala., where he became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and helped lead the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott that Rosa Parks set in motion when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus. DoNN M. 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At that time, the agen- cy said only that the papers showed how to cast "enriched, natural and depleted uranium metal into hemi- spherical forms." The agency refused to make a judg- ment on what possible uses such casts would have. But diplomats familiar with the probe into Iran's nuclear pro- gram said then that the papers appar- ently were instructions on how to mold highly enriched grade uranium into the core of warheads. In the brief report obtained yester- day, though, the agency said bluntly that the 15-page document showing how to cast fissile uranium into metal was "related to the fabrication of nucle- ar weapon components." Asked about the finding, a senior diplo- mat close to the IAEA declined to elabo- rate but emphasized that the documents had no other use. The report said the document was under agency seal, meaning IAEA experts were able in theory to re-examine it, but "Iran has declined a request to provide the agen- cy with a copy." Diplomats familiar with the IAEA investigation of Iran said earlier yester- day that part of the document recently was given to the agency in an effort to deflect building international momentum to report Iran to the Security Council. But the report did not mention Tehran handing over any papers. The document was given to Iran by members of the nuclear black market net- work, the IAEA said. Iran has claimed it did not ask for the document but was given it anyway as part of other black market purchases. The same network provided Libya with drawings of a crude nuclear bomb which that country handed over to the IAEA as part of its 2003 decision to scrap its atomic weapons program. 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