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Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 3A
The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 3A
NEWS BRIEFS
DETROIT
City council holds
off on financial
package from state
The Detroit City Council has
deferred a vote on a consent
agreement between Detroit and
Gov. Rick Snyder.
Council's decision yester-
day means members could still
return today to vote on whether
to authorize a revamped finan-
cial stabilization agreement that
could stave off state receivership.
The agreement would have
to be authorized by a financial
review team that's been ordered
by an Ingham County judge not
to meet. State officials filed a
challenge yesterday to that order
with the Michigan Court of
Appeals..
But time may be running out
for Detroit's elected leaders to
retain any control over the city's
finances. Snyder has until Thurs-
day to decide if Detroit will get
an emergency manager.
DALLAS
Tornadoes tear
through Texas
Several reported tornadoes
tore through the Dallas area yes-
terday, tossing semis in the air
and leaving crumpled tractor
trailers strewn along highways
and in truck stop parking lots.
The National Weather Service
reported at least two separate
"large and extremely dangerous"
tornadoes south of Dallas and
Fort Worth. Dallas Police spokes-
woman Sherri Jeffrey said an
apparent twister touched down
and caused damage within the
city's southern limits.
Officials had no immediate
information about injuries.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
Cholera a concern
in Haiti as rainy
season begins
Haiti is seeing a jump in the
number of cholera cases as the
Caribbean nation heads into the
annual rainy season, a United
Nations humanitarian agency
said yesterday.
The U.N.'s Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs said in a monthly bulletin
that the new cholera cases were
found in the western and north-
ern parts of the country and that
Haitian health officials recorded
77 new cases a day for the whole
country in early March, when
the rains began.
Medical teams have been
deployed to stem the spread of
cholera but their effectiveness
has been hampered in part by lit-
tle coordination and an absence
of salaries paid to people work-
ing in cholera treatment centers
run by Haitian authorities, the
U.N. bulletin said.
0 PARIS
Islamist group
planned to kidnap
French judge
Preliminary charges are
being filed against 13 Islamist
radicals in France, a prosecu-
tor announced yesterday, saying
some had been calling for Mus-
lim Shariah law in the country,
stashing weapons and hatching
plots, one to kidnap a judge.
Prosecutor Francois Molins
told a news conference that
members of the Forsane Alizza
group received physical train-
ing in parks and forests around
Paris and religious indoctrina-
tion "in order to take part in a
jihad," or holy war. The group
preached hate and violence
on their Internet site which
"called for an Islamic caliphate
in France, the application of the
Shariah and incited Muslims to
unite to prepare for civil war,"
Molins said.
The site, which also showed
clips of late al-Qaida leader
Osama bin Laden, was shut down
after authorities banned Forsane
Alizza in March.
-Compiled from
Daily wire reports
STEVEN SENNE/AP
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ILWAUKEE (AP) - Mitt declared.
ney tightened his grip on Romney won at least 74 del-
Republican presidential egates in the three races, with 21
nation yesterday, sweeping yet tobe allocated.
aries in Wisconsin, Mary- That pushed his total to 646
and Washington D.C., with of the 1,144 needed to clinch the
left over to swap charges nomination. Santorum has 272
President Barack Obama. delegates, Gingrich 135 and Paul
our more years?" Romney 51.
I sarcastically of the presi- Interviews with voters leav-
as supporters cheered him ing Republican polling places
lwaukee. in Maryland and Wisconsin
said Obama was "a little showed an electorate more con-
of touch" after spending cerned with a candidate's ability
years surrounded by the to ability to defeat Obama than
ings of power and had pre- with the strength of his conser-
over near-record job losses vatism, his moral character or
ell as increases in poverty, his stand on the issues. Similar
foreclosures, government soundings in earlier states have
and gasoline prices.. consistently worked to Rom-
e victories enabled Rom- ney's advantage.
o pad his already-wide del- Voters in both states were less
lead over Republican rival apt to be born again or evan-
Santorum, who flashed gelical Christians than in most
nce in the face of pressure previous contests - 34 percent
andon his own candidacy in in Wisconsin and 32 percent
ame of partyunity. in Maryland. Based on earlier
isconsin was the marquee contests, that, too, suggested an
st of the night, the only advantage for Romney.
of the three on the ballot Increasingly, Romney and
e Santorum mounted a sig- many senior figures in his party
nt effort. have begun behaving as if the
turns from 15 percent of primaries are an afterthought,
state's precincts showed hoping to pivot to the fall cam-
ney with 43 percent of the paign and criticism of Obama.
o 38 percent for Santorum, "He gets full credit or blame
rcent for Ron Paul and 6 for what's happened in this
nt for Newt Gingrich. economy and what's happened
turns from 25 percent of to gasoline prices under his
'land's precincts showed watch and what's happened
ney with 48 percent of the to our schools and what's hap-.
o 30 percent for Santorum, pened to our military forces,"
rcent for Gingrich and 9 Romney said of the president
while campaigning in Wauke-
sha, Wis.
Obama said things could be
worse - and predicted they
would be if Romney and Repub-
licans got their way.
In a speech to the annual
meeting of The Associated
Press, he said a House-passed
budget written by Republicans
was "antithetical to our entire
history as a land of opportunity
and upward mobility for every-
body who's willing to work for it
Itis aprescription for decline."
When he wasn't focusing his
rhetoric on Obama, Romney
prodded Santorum to quit the
race, suggesting a refusal to do
so could cost the party the elec-
tion in November.
"The rightnthing for us, I think,
is to get a nominee as soon as
we can and be able to focus on
Barack Obama," Romney said
in an interview with Fox News.
"You have to remember that it
was Ross Perot that allowed Bill
Clinton to win"in 1992, he added,
a reference to the Texan who ran
as an independent that year.
Santorum, in his home state
of Pennsylvania, took note of the
calls for him to exit the race.
"Ladies and gentleman, Penn-
sylvania and half the other peo-
ple in this country have yet tobe
heard, and we're going to go out
and campaign here and across
this nation to make sure that
their voices are heard in the next
few months."
For Romney, the end of the
contested primary campaign
could hardly come soon enough.
Obama has gained in the polls
in recent months, particularly
among women, as Republicans
vie among themselves for sup-
port from a conservative party
electorate.
Shooter at school
in California was
student at college
One L. Goh kills he approached her, she said,
"I'm shot" and showed him her
seven, injures three arm.
"She had a piece of her arm
in rampage hanging out," Richards said,
noting that she was wounded
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A near the elbow.
43-year-old former student of As police arrived, Richards
a small Christian university in said he heard 10 gunshots com-
California opened fire at the ing from inside the building.
school Monday, killing at least The female victim told him that
seven people and setting off she saw the gunman shoot one
an intense, chaotic manhunt person point-blank in the chest
that ended with his capture at a and one in the head.
nearby shoppingcenter, author- Tashi Wangchuk, whose wife
ities said. attended the school and wit-
Police Chief Howard Jordan nessed the shooting, said he was
said One L. Goh surrendered told by police that the gunman
about an hour after the shoot- first shot a woman at the front
ing at Oikos University. Jordan desk, then continued shooting
initially reported that authori- randomly in classrooms.
ties recovered the weapon Wangchuk said his wife,
used during the rampage, but Dechen Wangzom, was in
later clarified that police only her vocational nursing class
recovered enough ballistics when she heard gunshots. She
evidence to determine that a locked the door and turned off
handgun was used in the ram- the lights, Wangchuk said he
page. was told by his wife, who was
"It's going to take us a few still being questioned by police
days to put the pieces together," Monday afternoon.
Jordan said. "We do not have a The gunman "banged on the
motive." door several times and started
Police first received a 911 shooting outside and left," he
call at 10:33 a.m. reporting a said. Wangchuk said no one
woman on the ground bleed- was hurt inside his wife's class-
ing. As more calls came in from room, but that the gunman shot
the school, the first arriving out the glass in the door. He
officer found a victim suffering said she did not know the man.
from a life-threatening gunshot "She's a hero," he said.
wound, he said. Television footage showed
It was an "extremely chaotic bloodied victims on stretchers
scen," Jordan said. being loaded into ambulanc-
More officers arrived and es. Several bodies covered in
formed a perimeter around the sheets were laid out on a patch
school on the belief that the of grass at the school. One body
suspect was still inside, he said. could be seen being loaded into
"Potential victims remained a van.
inside the building either Myung Soon Ma, the school's
trapped by a locked door which secretary, said she could not
officers were unable to open," provide any details about what
Jordan said. Others were happened at the private school,
unable to flee because they which serves the Korean com-
were injured, he said. munity with courses from the-
Jordan said there were about ology to Asian medicine.
S people xocnear the build- "I feel reallysad, so I cannot
ing when gunfire broke out. Of talk right now," she said, speak-
the seven fatalities, five died ing from her home.
at the scene and another two Those connected to the
at the hospital. The wounded school, including the founder
victims are in stable condition, and several students, described
and at least one person has been the gunman as a former nursing
released from the hospital. student. The chief said Goh is a
"This unprecedented tragedy South Korean national who's a
was shocking and senseless," former student of the university.
Jordan said. A call to the Korean consul-
Soon after the shooting, heav- ate in San Francisco went unan-
ily armed officers swarmed the swered Monday.
school in a large industrial park The suspect's brother was
near the Oakland airport and, killed in a car accident last year
for at least an hour, believed the in Virginia while on active duty
gunman could still be inside. in the U.S. Army, according
Art Richards said he was to Stars and Stripes newspa-
driving by the university on his per. The suspect attended the
way to pick up a friend when he funeral of Sgt. Su Wan Ko in
spotted a woman hiding in the Centreville, Va. after the March
bushes and pulled over. When 8,2011, accident.
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care proceedings angers judge
Texas jurist
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HOUSTON (AP) - A federal
appeals court judge yesterday
seemed to take offense to com-
ments President Barack Obama
made earlier this week in which
he warned that if the Supreme
Court overturned his signature
health care overhaul it would
amount to overreach by an
"unelected" court.
The Supreme Court is set to
issue a ruling later this year on
whether to strike down some or
all of the historic health care law.
During oral arguments in
Houston in a separate challenge
to another aspect of the federal
health care law, U.S. 5th Circuit
Court of Appeals Judge Jerry
Smith said Obama's comments
troubled a number of people who
have read them as a challenge to
the authority of federal courts.
"I'm referring to statements
by the president in the past
few days to the effect, I'm sure
you've heard about them, that
it is somehow inappropriate
for what he termed unelected
judges to strike acts of Congress
that have enjoyed, he was refer-
ring of course to Obamacare, to
what he termed a broad consen-
sus and majorities in both houses
of Congress," Smith told Dana
Kaersvang, an attorney with the
Justice Department in Washing-
ton, D.C.
On Monday, Obama issued a
direct challenge to the Supreme
Court, saying he didn't believe
the high court would take the
"unprecedented" step of over-
turning a law passed by a strong
majority of Congress.
"I want to be sure that you
are telling us that the Attorney
General and the Department of
Justice do recognize the author-
ity of the federal courts through
unelected judges to strike acts of
Congress or portions thereof in
appropriate cases," Smith said.
A somewhat surprised Kaers-
vang told Smith the Justice
Department does recognize this
power by the courts and made
reference to a landmark 1803
case that formed the basis for
judicial review.
However, Smith ordered
Kaersvang to submit a letter to
the appeals court by tomorrow
stating the position of U.S. Attor-
ney General Eric Holder and the
Justice Department on the con-
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The case before the appealsai
court was brought in part by a
spine and joint hospital in East
Texas that is challenging the
constitutionality of a portion of
the health care law that restricts
physician-owned hospitals from 7 9 3
expanding or building new facil-
ities. 3 6 5
The. Justice Department did
not immediately return a tele-
phone call late yesterday seeking
comment.
White House officials had no 5 7
comment on Smith's statements,
instead referring to comments
Obama made earlier yesterday at
the annual meeting of The Asso-
ciated Press in Washington.
At the meeting, Obama said
the Supreme Court "is the final 9
say on our Constitution and our
laws,andallofushavetorespect 6 1 8 2
it. ... I have enormous confi-
dence that in looking at this law, 3 5
not only is it constitutional, but 8 5
that the Court is going to exer-
cise its jurisprudence carefully
because of the profound power
that our Supreme Court has."
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