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Friday, November U7, 2006 - 3A

NEWS BRIEFS
WASHINGTON
Dems reject
Pelosi's pick for
majority leader
Democrats embraced Rep.
Nancy Pelosi as the first woman
House speaker in history yesterday,
then quickly snubbed her, selecting
Steny Hoyer of Maryland as major-
ity leader against her wishes.
"Let the healing begin," Pelosi
(D-Calif.) said after Hoyer had
eased past her preferred candidate,
Rep. John Murtha, a prominent
opponent of the war in Iraq. The
secret-ballot vote for Hoyer was
149-86. She was chosen by accla-
mation.
Added Hoyer, a 25-year veteran
of Congress: "The Republicans
need to know, the president needs
to know and the country needs to
know our caucus is unified today."
Hoyer, Murtha and several other
Democrats predicted there would
be no lingering effects from the
bruising leadership campaign as
the party looks ahead to taking con-
trol of the House in January after a
dozen years in the minority.
Not everyone sounded con-
vinced, though. "It created these
tensions that we now have to work
on," said Rep. Jose Serrano of New
York, a Hoyer supporter.
Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) who
backed Murtha, said somemembers
of the rank-and-file had told both
rival camps to count them as sup-
porters. "We know who they are,"
he said, although he later added
that many of them were lawmak-
ers whose victories on Nov. 7 gave
Democrats their majority.
"If they're freshmen, they get a
pass on this one," he said.
BAGHDAD
Warrant issued for
top Sunni leader
The Shiite-led Interior Ministry
issued an arrest warrant yesterday
for the top leader of the country's
Sunni minority - a move certain to
inflame already raging sectarian
violence in Iraq.
Interior Minister Jawad al-
Bolani, a Shiite, announced on state
television that Harith al-Dhari was
wanted for inciting terrorism and
violence among the Iraqi people.
Al-Dhari, head of the influen-
tial Sunni Association of Muslim
Scholars, is an extreme hard-liner
who recentlymocked agovernment
offer of reconciliation in return for
abandoning the insurgency. But
the move against him threatens to
drive many moderate Sunnis out of
the political system.
Already, moderate Sunnis have
been threatening for weeks to leave
the government and take up arms.
If that happens, it would likely lead
to a full-fledged civil war and make
it much harder for U.S. troops to
withdraw from Iraq.
FALLUJAH, Iraq
Fallujah now safe
haven for Sunnis

fleeing Baghdad
Some 30 Sunni refugees seek-
ing a safe haven from Baghdad sit
under the shade of a camouflage
net on the outskirts of Fallujah,
waiting at a makeshift U.S. facility
for city IDs.
A skinny young man with a red
and white scarf wound around his
head pulls a reporter aside and lifts
his right pant leg, exposing a shin
with marks where Shiite militiamen
hadboredintothebonewithanelec-
tric drill _ the current tool of choice
for Baghdadtorture specialists.
Security is tight and snipers
abound, but Fallujah - once an
extremely violent Sunni insurgent
bastionwherethe charred bodies of
four Blackwater security men were
hung on a bridge - has become a
refuge from the death squads and
mortar battles in Baghdad.
LINK. OF THEr DAY
WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/
WATCH?V=5G7ZJJX9U2E
For a disturbing video
of campus police at the
University of California
at Los Angeles tasering a student
who was not carrying his identifica-
tion and initially refused to leave a
library, visit the link above.
The video, which was recorded
on another student's camera phone,
shows the students screaming as
police taser him.
After the first round of shocks,
they tell him to leave, but he appears
unable to do so. The horrific scene
repeats itselfs again and again in
this seven-minute video.

UCLA cops
taser student
who wouldn't
show ID

Campus cops at
Michigan don't carry
stun guns, but A2
police do
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A UCLA
police officer shocked a student
with a stun gun at a campus library
after he refused repeated requests
to show student identification and
wouldn'tleave, police said.
The student, Mostafa Tabata-
bainejad, was shocked Tuesday at
about 11p.m. as police did a routine
check of student IDs at the Univer-
sity of California at Los Angeles
Powell Library computer lab.
"This is a long-standing library
policy to ensure the safety of stu-
dents during the late-night hours,"
said UCLA Police Department
spokeswoman Nancy Greenstein.
Campus police at the Univer-
sity of Michigan don't carry tasers.
The Ann Arbor Police Department,
though, does.
Greenstein said police tried to

escort Tabatabainejad, 23, out of
the library after he refused to pro-
vide identification.
Tabatabainejad instead encour-
aged others at the libraryto join his
resistance, andwhenacrowdbegan
to gather, police used the stun gun
on him, Greenstein said.
Tabatabainejad was arrested for
resisting and obstructing a police
officer and later released on his
own recognizance. He declined to
comment Wednesday night.
The incident was recorded on
another student's camera phone and
showed Tabatabainejad screaming
whileonthefloorofthecomputerlab.
It was the third incident in a month
in which police behavior in the city
was criticized after amateur video
surfaced. The other two involved the
L.A. Police Department.
Acting Chancellor Norman
Abrams promised an investigation.
"The safety of our campus com-
munity is of paramount importance
to me," Abrams said in a statement.
- Anne VanderMey
contributed to this report.

JEREMY CHIO/Da ly
A student lays a rose next to Fielding Yost's grave at Forest Hill Cemetery yesterday. Yost, a legendary Michigan football coach,
led the Wolverines to victory in the National Championship in 1902, 1903 and 1904.

Could dirty skies sa~

Hazy shade of
pollution sent into
space may help cool
planet, scientists say
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - If the
sun warms the Earth too danger-
ously, the time may come to draw
the shade.
The "shade" would be a layer
of pollution deliberately spewed
into the atmosphere to help cool
the planet. This over-the-top idea
comes from prominent scientists,
among them a Nobel laureate. The
reaction here at the U.N. confer-
ence on climate change is a mix of
caution, curiosity and some resig-
nation to such "massive and dras-
tic" operations, as the chief U.N.
climatologist describes them.
The Nobel Prize-winning scien-
tist who first made the proposal is
himself "not enthusiastic about it."
"It was meant to startle the pol-
icy makers," said Paul J. Crutzen,
of Germany's Max Planck Institute

for Chemistry. "If they don't take
action much more strongly than
they have in the past, then in the
end we have to do experiments like
this."
Serious people are taking Crut-
zen's idea seriously. This weekend,
NASA's Ames Research Center in
Moffett Field, Calif., hosts a closed-
door, high-level workshop on the
global haze proposal and other
"geoengineering" ideas for fending
off climate change.
In Nairobi, meanwhile, hundreds
of delegates were wrapping up a
two-week conference expected to
only slowly advance efforts to rein
in greenhouse gases blamed for
much of the 1-degree rise in global
temperatures in the past century.
The 1997Kyoto Protocol requires
modest emission cutbacks by indus-
trial countries - but not the United
States, thebiggestemitter of carbon
dioxide and other heat-trapping
gases, because it rejected the deal.
Talks on what to do after Kyoto
expires in 2012 are all but bogged
down.
When he published his proposal


e Earth?
in the journal Climatic Change in
August, Crutzen cited a "grossly
disappointing international politi-
cal response" to warming.
The Dutch climatologist, award-
ed a 1995 Nobel in chemistry for
his work uncovering the threat to
Earth's atmospheric ozone layer,
suggested that balloons bearing
heavy guns be used to carry sul-
fates high aloft and fire them into
the stratosphere.
While carbon dioxide keeps heat
from escaping Earth, substances
such as sulfur dioxide, a common
air pollutant, reflect solar radiation,
helping cool the planet.
Tom Wigley, a senior U.S. gov-
ernment climatologist, followed
Crutzen's article with a paper of
his own on Oct. 20 in the leading
U.S. journal Science. Like Crut-
zen, Wigley cited the precedent
of the huge volcanic eruption of
Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines
in 1991.
Pinatubo shot so much sulfurous
debris into the stratosphere that it
is believed it cooled the Earth by .9
degrees for about a year.


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Thunderstorms rip through South

RIEGELWOOD, N.C. (AP) - A
tornado flipped cars, shredded trees
and ripped mobile homes to pieces
in this little riverside community
early yesterday, killing at least eight
people, authorities said.
The disaster the two-day death
toll from a devastating line of thun-
derstorms that swept across the
South to 12.

Kip Godwin, chairman of the
Columbus County Commission,
said authorities had nearly conclud-
ed their search of the area where all
the deaths occurred - a cluster of
trailers and an adjacent neighbor-
hood of brick homes - and had
accounted for everyone.
Hospital officials said four chil-
dren were in critical condition.

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