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Wallet stolen at Suitcase of
Medical Library books stolen
Armenian
a a s w vim. a v s a.sw~
WHERE: Taubman Medical
Library
WHEN: Wednesday at about
5:30 p.m.
WHAT: A staff member's wal-
let was stolen after it was left
unattended for several hours,
University Police reported. The
wallet contained $40 in cash
and several debit and credit
cards.
WHERE: Haven Hall
WHEN: Wednesday at about
4:20 p.m.
WHAT: A student reported a
black wheeled suitcase of Uni-
versity library books missing
from a Haven Hall office, Uni-
versity Police reported. There
were no signs of forced entry.
Police have no suspects.
charity dance
and full buffet
WHAT: An Armenian dance
featuring live band and a full
dinner buffet.
WHO: Armenian Students
Cultural Association
WHEN: Tonight at 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Polo Fields Coun-
try Club, 5200 Polo Fields
Drive
Marijuana,
Wallets stolen, MCaiTuhaaf
paraphernalia Ca ec pro
found in Weill eized talks about how
seizedla
Hall galaxies form
Lunch on life
post-graduation
WHAT: A luncheon discuss-
ing strategies for transition
to life after college.
WHO: Office of Multi-Eth-
nic Student Affairs (MESA)
WHEN: Today at 11:30 p.m.
WHERE: MSA Chambers,
3rd Floor of Michigan Union
CORRECTIONS
* An article in yesterday's
edition of the Daily (Magee's
journey comesfull circle) mis-
identified where Ken Magee
worked in Colombia. He
worked in the city of Batgota
and its surrounding jungles.
. An article in Wednesday's
edition of the Daily (Obama
sworn in as 44th president0
misidentified Andrea James,
president of the University's
chapter of the NAACP.
* Please report any error
in the Daily to correc-
tions@michigandaily.com.
Homeless people in Atlan-
ta attend the Church of
the Common Ground to
receive pedicures, not bless-
ings, The Associated Press
reported. Rev. Bob Book and
his wife, Holly, have trans-
formed their church into a spa
for the homeless.
Geothermal heating is 25
to 75 percent more effi-
cient than traditional
heating and cooling systems.
>>FOR MORE, SEE OPINION, PAGE 4
3Former First Daughters
Jenna and Barbara Bush
wrote a letter offering
advice for Sasha and Malta
Obama, printed in the Wall
Street Journal. "He is our
father, not the sketch in the
paper or part of a skit on TV,".
they wrote of former President
George W. Bush. "So here is
our most important piece of
advice: remember who your
dad really is."
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WHERE: Weill Hall
WHEN: Wednesday around
11:00 a.m.
WHAT: Two students reported
their wallets stolen from a study
lab, University Police reported.
They were later found in a hall-
way mailbox by maintenance
staff.
WHERE: Alice Lloyd Hall
WHEN: Wednesday at about
8:30 p.m.
WHAT: The smell of mari-
juana was reported to Hous-
ing Security. University
Police investigated and found
a small bag of marijuana and
two pieces of paraphernalia.
The items were seized.
WHAT: Charles C. Steidel of
California Institute of Tech-
nology will talk on the forma-
tions of galaxies.
WHO: Universe Theme
Semester
WHEN: Tonight at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Room 1800,
Chemistry Building
UN vows to raise funds for
emergency repairs in Gaza Strip
ReconstructionAn
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efforts could cost up
to $2 billion
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -
The United Nations will quickly
raise money for emergeincy repairs
in the Gaza Strip, the world body's
humanitarian chief promised
Thursday after witnessing what he
called shocking destruction from
the three-week war between Israel
and Hamas.
But U.N. aid chief John Holmes
and another senior U.N. official
acknowledged they have no fallback
plan if reconstruction is snagged by
the power struggle between Gaza's
militant Hamas rulers and their
moderate Palestinian rivals in the
West Bank.
Hamas, which seized power in
Gaza by force in June 2007, insist-
ed Thursday that it will not share
control over reconstruction proj-
ects that initial estimates have said
could cost up to $2 billion.
The international community,
however, is reluctant to funnel
huge sums to Hamas, calling for
the group for the group to form a
joint government with Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas. Pros-
pects for such a deal remain slim.
Israel has said one of the key
objectives of its offensive against
Hamas was to halt weapons smug-
gling. Hamas has fired thousands
of rockets at southern Israel over
the past eight years, and Israel says
most of the weapons and explosives
came in through smugglers' tun-
nels from Egypt.
Any cease-fire deal will be dura-
ble only if the basic demands of
both sides are met. Israel insists on
anti-smuggling guarantees, while
Hamas wants open Gaza borders to
ensure delivery of vital supplies.
President Barack Obama
addressed both stands Thursday,
saying his administration support-
ed implementation of a "credible"
system for stopping smuggling
and calling for Gaza's borders to
be opened for aid shipments, with
"appropriate monitoring." He said
Hamas must stop attacking Israel.
Hamas criticized Obama's
comments, saying his approach
will bring the U.S. failure in the
region.
"Obama is still on the same path
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Palestinians search through the rubble of their home east of Jebalya refugee camp in northern Gaza yesterday. UN humanitarian
chief John Holmes, on the first day of a five-day trip to the region, called the steep Palestinian casualty toll "extremely shocking"
and suggested the United Nations might ask Israel to compensate it for wartime damage to UN compounds in Gaza.
as previous leaders and also will
make the same mistakes as Bush
that ignited the region instead of
bringing stability," Osama Ham-
dan, the Hamas spokesman in
Beirut, Lebanon, told Al-Jazeera
television.
Holmes and Robert Serry,
the U.N. envoy for the Middle
East peace process, toured some
of Gaza's most damaged areas
Thursday, including a small indus-
trial zone in the Jebaliya refugee
camp.
"What I saw was actually more
shocking than I expected, both in
its extent and its nature," Holmes
said, speaking at a U.N. compound
that was damaged on the second
day of Israel's offensive when an
airstrike hit an adjacent guest
house of the Palestinian govern-
ment. The strike damaged the roof
of Holmes' local office and four
U.N. jeeps.
Holmes said he was asked by the
U.N. secretary-general, who visited
Gaza this week, to assess Gaza's
initial needs, including emergency
repairs of the water, sewage and
electricity systems.
The U.N. would start raising
funds in about 10 days, he said, but
added that reconstruction will be
possible only if the Palestinians
form a unity government.
Asked what would happen if a
unity deal is not reached, Holmes
said: "I cannot answer that ques-
tion in a sensible way."
In the West Bank, Abbas' prime
minister, Salam Fayyad, said repre-
sentatives of donor countries would
meet in Egypt in mid-February to
discuss Gaza reconstruction and
he urged Hamas to consider a joint
government.
"The world would like to help us,
but everyone says that we should
have a national unity government,"
Fayyad said.
Hamas officials in Gaza were
cool to the idea of reconciliation
talks with Abbas' Fatah movement.
And while eight Syria-based rad-
ical Palestinian factions, including
Hamas, called for talks, they also
said they would insist on "conti-
nuity of resistance" to Israel. That
condition appeared to preclude any
agreement with Abbas, who seeks a
peace deal with the Jewish state.
Hamas has gone out of its way to
demonstrate control in Gaza since
a tentative truce took hold Monday
after Israel's three-week offensive.
Hamas put on victory rallies with
demolished buildings as back-
drops, and its ministers of health,
construction and education held
news conferences to present plans
for emergency relief.
StartingSunday, the Hamasgov-
ernment will distribute $52 million
to the needy, spokesman Taher
Nunu said, adding that the money
was coming from the movement's
supporters.
Despite a border blockade
enforced by Israel and Egypt since
Hamas seized power, the group has
brought cash and weapons, along
with commercial goods, through
smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-
Egypt border.
Israel dropped hundreds of tons
of bombs on the tunnels during the
fighting, saying it destroyed 60 per-
cent to 70 percent of them.
Smugglers said Thursday only
about a tenth of the tunnels were
intact. Yet they were back at work,
starting repairs and lugging sacks
of goods like potato chips, clothes
and cigarettes.
One tunnel collapsed Thursday,
badly injuring a Palestinian, Egyp-
tian security officials said.
Israeli media, meanwhile, said
some Cabinet ministers were indi-
cating a new willingness to hand
over dangerous Palestinian prison-
ers in exchange for the return of
an Israeli soldier captured in 2006,
Sgt. Gilad Schalit.