The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 3A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 3A NEWS BRIEFS DETROIT Wayne State researcher accused of abusing dogs A researcher at Wayne State University in Detroit is accused of putting dogs through severe pain and distress during cardiovascu- lar experiments. A Washington-based group called the Physicians Commit- tee for Responsible Medicine asked federal regulators yester- day to investigate the lab of Donal O'Leary. In an 11-page petition, the group says dogs have suffered through multiple surgeries and repeated turns on the treadmill. The group based much of its com- plaint on public documents. O'Leary referred requests for comment to a Wayne State spokesman, who says the petition is being reviewed. The petition highlights the case of Queenie, a Dalmatian mix that was formerly a stray dog in Gratiot County. TRAVERSE CITY, Mich Scientists: Climate won't cause severe Great Lakes loss Climate change probably won't reduce Great Lakes water levels as much as experts have predict- ed and might even cause them to rise slightly, federal scientists said yesterday. For two decades, studies have said a warming climate could send water levels sharply lower by boosting evaporation and reduc- ing rain and snowfall in the Lake Superior basin, which feeds the other lakes. But a revised com- puter modeling system suggests those predictions were overstat- ed, said Brent Lofgren, a scientist at the NOAA Great Lakes Envi- ronmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor. "While there are still many unknowns about how climate change will unfold in the Great Lakes region, our results indi- cate less loss of water than earlier studies," Lofgren said. WASHINGTON * 25 killed, 123 fall ill from cantaloupe outbreak in U.S. Twenty-five deaths in 12 states are now linked to listensa in can- taloupe, the deadliest known out- break of foodborne illness in the U.S. in more than 25 years. The Centers for Disease Con- trol and Prevention said Tuesday that 123 people have been sick- ened, including those who died. The tainted Colorado canta- loupes should be off store shelves by now. But the number of illness- es may continue to grow, as the symptoms of listeria can take up to two months to appear. The CDC on Tuesday con- firmed a sixth death in Colorado and a second in New York. Indi- ana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming have also reported deaths. WASHINGTON Cain plans to raise taxes on 84 percent of households Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan would raise taxes on 84 percent of U.S. households, according to an independent analysis released Tuesday, contradicting claims by the Republican presidential candidate that most Americans would see a tax cut. The Tax Policy Center, a Wash- ington think tank, says low- and middle-income families would be hithardest, withhouseholds mak- ing between $10,000 and $20,000 seeing their taxes increase by nearly 950 percent. "You're talking a $2,700 tax increase for people with incomes between $10,000 and $20,000," said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center. "That's huge." -Compiled from Daily wire reports Libyan PM says Gadhafi trying to recruit fighters President of Mali Amadou Toure speaks in the U.N. General Assembly during high-level meetings on HIV/AIDS on Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Global Fund ends$28 HIV AIDS grant in Mali Government aid cut after alleged misuse of funding BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said yesterday it will stop a $28 mil- lion HIV/AIDS grant to Mali's government after investigators found evidence money is being misused. The Global Fund said in a statement that it will suspend funding all but essential servic- es under the grant until a new structure can be found to man- age the money. Dr. Youssouf Diallo from Mali's High Council for the Fight Against AIDS called the decision premature and said the Council had not been shown any of the evidence against it. "This decision is not the right way to work together as part- ners." Diallo said. Mali, a poor, landlocked West African nation relies on interna- tional donors to fund its health system. The High Council for the Fight Against AIDS is attached directly to the Malian presi- dent's office and the move against the body is not the first preventative measure the Glob- al Fund has taken in Mali. Earlier this, year the Fund suspended another HIV/AIDS grant to Mali worth $13.91 mil- lion. That decision followed the announcement in December 2010 of the suspension of fund- ing of two malaria grants and the termination of a third grant for tuberculosis. The Global Fund's inves- tigative office has also found evidence of fraud in a number of other countries around the world. In December 2010, the Global Fund announced that Mali and four other countries - Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Mauritania and Papua New Guinea - would be subject to special measures and closer scrutiny of their grant activities. Last month, a high-powered panel assembled to address the problem said the Fund itself would have to take some of the responsibility for losses in countries where it stopped funding because of fraud. The panel concluded that the con- trols put in place by the Fund to be sure the money is properly disseminated "have not worked as well as intended." The Board of the Global Fund adopted the panel's recommen- dations shortly after the report came out. "We are determined to carry out these changes quickly to ensure that donors and imple- menting countries maintain absolute confidence that the Global Fund is an efficient and effective funding channel that delivers value for money," said Simon Bland, the Global Fund's Chair, in September. Sweden said on Tuesday that its donations to the Global Fund were on condition that the body undertakes major reform. Leader: Gadhafi has 12,000 people to 'enter Libya and start the fight' TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Libya's acting prime minister said yester- day that ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi is believed to be recruit- ing fighters from other African countries and preparing for a pos- sible insurgency, hoping to desta- bilize Libya's new regime. The comments by Mahmoud Jibril reflected fears that Gadhafi will be able to use friendly rela- tions with neighboring countries cultivated during his more than four decades in power to help him launch a bid to return to power. "Reports have shown that 68 vehicles with at least eightfighters each crossed the Libyan borders to Mali and Gadhafi is hiding in the southern desert," Jibril told reporters. He said Gadhafi had made a deal with the Hamada tribe, which roams the borders between Chad, Sudan and Libya, to provide 12,000 fighters "to enter Libya and start the fight." Suggesting that the U.S. also was concerned about the possi- bility, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said during a visit to Tripoli Tuesday that she hoped Gadhafi would be captured or killed. Gadhafi loyalists already have put up fierce resistance in sev- eral areas, preventing Libya's new leaders from declaring full victory nearly two months after revolutionary forces seized Trip- oli and have seized many other parts of the oil-rich North Afri- can nation. Revolutionary fighters gained control of one stronghold, Bani Walid, this week. In the other loyalist bastion of Sirte, anti- Gadhafi commanders said they have squeezed Gadhafi's forces into a residential area of about 700 square meters but were still coming under heavy fire from surrounding buildings. Deputy defense minister Fawzi Abu Katif told The Associated Press that authorities still believe Gadhafi's son Muatassim is among the ex- regime figures holed up in the diminishing area. It took the anti-Gadhafi fight- ers, who also faced disorganiza- tion in their own ranks, two days to capture a single residential building. It is unclear whether Gadhafi loyalists who have escaped might continue the fight and attempt to organize an insurgency using the vast amount of weapons Gadhafi was believed to have stored in hideouts in the remote southern desert. Unlike Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Gadhafi had no well-organized political party that could form the basis of an insurgent leadership. However, regional and ethnic dif- ferences have already appeared among the ranks of the revolution- aries, possibly laying the founda- tion for civil strife. Gadhafi has issued several audio recordings trying to rally supporters. Jibril and other Liby- an officials have said they believe he's hiding somewhere in the vast southwestern desert near the bor- ders with Niger and Algeria. Jibril also addressed concerns about a rise in revenge attacks and lawlessness as thousands of young men with weapons have found themselves unemployed after waging months of brutal fighting. He said authorities were con- sidering plans to give them the option of joining private security companies that will be given pri- ority for securing the borders, oil fields and public institutions, or the national army. He also reiterated that he plans to resign after liberation is declared and turn over the reins of the country to a new interim gov- ernment that can guide the nation to elections. The transitional lead- ership has said a vote would be held within eight months of lib- eration. White House to talk nuclear arms with North Korea U.S. making demands with ally South Korea WASHINGTON (AP) - Raising hopes for a new era of rapprochement with nuclear- armed North Korea, the Obama administration said yesterday it would sit down with the reclu- sive regime for a fresh round of atomic weapons talks and appoint a full-time envoy with the task of persuading Pyong- yang to abandon its nuclear pro- gram. Disarmament efforts are saddled with a history of deceit and mistrust, but the meet- ings on Monday and Tuesday in Geneva represent another step forward after lastyear's military attacks on South Korea that led to threats of war. They are the second setofnuclear discussions between the United States and North Korea since July, after a three-year freeze in diplomacy. "We're looking for more progress," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in Washington. "We're not seeking to reward North Korea in any way by holding these talks. And we certainly don't want to have talks just for the sake of talking. We want to see a seriousness of purpose and a commitment to moving this process forward to taking the steps that they've already committed to take." As Washington intensifies its engagement of Pyongyang, it is turning to seasoned diplomat Glyn Davies to lead the efforts. Davies, the U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Ener- y Agency, will replace Stephen Bosworth, though both will be meeting next week with the North Korean delegation led by Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan. The U.S. and its ally South Korea are pressing familiar demands. Toner said the U.S. wants North Korea to adhere to a 2005 agreement it later reneged on, which required the North's verifiable denucleariza- tion in exchange better relations with its Asian neighbors, energy assistance and a pledge from Washington that it wouldn't attack the isolated country. The U.S. and North Korea are still formally at war, having only signed an armistice ending their 1950-1953 conflict. To demonstrate its serious- ness, American officials want Pyongyang to take concrete steps such as freezing its ura- nium and plutonium programs and allowing IAEA inspectors back into the country. They are also looking for the North to show that it won't launch any new military actions against South Korea, or further nuclear or missile tests. In its latest nuclear-related infraction, North Korea unveiled a uranium enrichment program in 2010 in defiance of U.N. Secu- rity Council resolutions. Ten- sions also spiked last year after South Korea was attacked twice militarily, including the sinking of a submarine that was blamed on the North and killed 46 sail- ors. 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