The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Monday, April 9, 2012 - 3A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Monday, April 9, 2012 - 3A NEWS BRIEFS DETROIT 25-year old opens private bus line in downtown Detroit A young entrepreneur from the suburbs is planning to start a private bus line in downtown Detroit. The Detroit News reported hndy Didorosi is set to open the Detroit Bus Co., a private com- pany with three full-size school buses. The 25-year-old Ferndale resi- dent says he's invested $10,000, Ind insurance will cost another $10,000 per bus per year. Didorosi's first bus will launch the last week of April, and the other two will follow. JUNEAU, Alaska 7-year-old boy confesses to multiple arsons A fire marshal in Alaska's capital city says a 7-year-old boy has admitted setting five arson fires over a little more than four months. Juneau fire marshal Dan Jager tells the Juneau Empire that the boy caused about $1,000 in dam- ages by setting fires in restrooms yt Harborview Elementary School and the Terry Miller Leg- islative Building, plus a down- town grass fire and two fires at a red Meyer store. Jager says the boy told him he used a lighter. Fire Chief Richard Etheridge says the arson case will be for- Warded to probation officers at Juneau's juvenile detention cen- ter. LONDON Banned Islamic activist gets across British borders An Islamic activist in Israel who entered Britain despite being banned has won an appeal against his deportation. Islamic Movement in Israel leader Sheikh Raed Salah flew to Britain in June, despite an brder from Home Secretary Theresa May banning him over his political activities. He was detained, held for three weeks And released on bail. The Palestine Solidarity Cam- paign said yesterday that Salah received a letter from Britain's Upper Immigration Tribu- oal saying his detention was "entirely unnecessary" and that his appeal has succeeded "on all grounds." Britain's Home Office said that it was "disappointed" with the tribunals decision. "We are considering the detailed judg- ment and if we can appeal, we will," it said in a statement. Salah's legal team claimed he had not been aware of the ban, had entered the country with a passport issued in his name, and had made "no attempt" to con- ceal his identity. BEIJING Famous (hinese dissident dies at 76 Fang Lizhi, one of China's best-known dissidents whose speeches inspired student. pro- testers throughout the 1980s, has died in the United States, where he fled after China's 1989 military crackdown on the pro- democracy movement. He was 76. Once China's leading astro- physicist, Fang and his wife hid in the U.S. Embassy for 13 months after the crackdown. In exile, he was a physics professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Fang's wife, Li Shuxian, con- firmed to The Associated Press in Beijing that Fang died Friday )morning in Tucson. Fang inspired a generation, said his friend and fellow U.S.- based exiled dissident Wang Dan, who announced the death on Facebook and Twitter. -Compiled from Daily wire reports A6 Three shot to death in Oklahoma, race a suspected factor AN HYOUNG-JOON/AP South Korean activists rally against North Korea's proposed satellite launch to honor late President Kim II Sung's birth. North Korea readies long-range rocket despite international ban Officials claim reasons for pending launch are peaceful TONGCHANG-RI, North Korea (AP) - North Korean space officials have moved all three stages of a long-range rocket into position for a con- troversial launch, vowing yes- terday to push ahead with their plan in defiance of international warnings against violating a ban on missile activity. North Korea announced plans last month to launch an observation satellite using a three-stage rocket during mid- April celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the birth of North Korean founder Kim II Sung. The U.S., Japan, Britain and other nations have urged North Korea to cancel the launch, warning that firing the long-range rocket would vio- late U.N. resolutions and North Korea's promise to refrain from engaging in nuclear and missile activity. North Korea maintains that the launch is a scien- tific achievement intended to improve the nation's faltering economy by providing detailed surveys of the countryside. "Our country has the right and also the obligation to devel- op satellites and launchingvehi- cles," Jang Myong Jin, general manager of the launch facility, said during a tour, citing the U.N. space treaty. "No matter what others say, we are doing this for peaceful purposes." Experts say the Unha-3 rocket slated for liftoff between April 12 and 16 could also test long-range missile technology that might be used to strike the U.S. and other targets. North Korea has tested two atomic devices, but is not believed to have mastered the technology needed to mount a warhead on a long-range mis- sile. Yesterday, reporters were taken by train past desolate fields and sleepy farming ham- lets to North Korea's new launch pad in Tongchang-ri in North Phyongan province, about 35 miles south of the border town of Sinuiju along North Korea's west coast. All three stages of the 91-ton rocket, emblazoned with the North Korean flag and "Unha- 3," were visibly in position at the towering launch pad, and fueling will begin soon, Jang said. He said preparations were well on track for liftoff and that international space, aviation and maritime authorities had been advised of the plan, but did not provide exact details on the timing of the fueling or the mounting of the satellite. Authorities say revenge may have motivated the shootings TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Two men were arrested yesterday in a shooting rampage that left three people dead and terrorized Tulsa's black community, and police said one suspect may have been trying to avenge his father's shootingtwoyears agobyablack man. Police identified both suspects as white, while all five victims in the rampage early Friday were black. Police and the FBI said it is too soon to say whether the attacks in Tulsa's predominantly black north side were racially moti- vated. Police spokesman Jason Willingham said that investi- gators are considering many possible motives but based on Facebook postings, revenge appeared to be a factor. In a Thursday update on Facebook that appeared to have been written by 19-year-old Jake England, he angrily blamed his father's death on a black man and used a racial slur. He said Thursday was the second anni- versary of his father's death. "It's hard not to go off," given the anniversary and the death of his fiancee earlier this year, the posting said. "It's apparent from the post- ing on the Facebook page that he had an ax to grind, and that was possibly part of the motive," Willingham said. "If you read the Facebook post and see what he's accused of doing, you can see there's link between the two of them." The Facebook page had been taken down by yesterday after- noon. A family friend, Susan Seven-. star, told The Associated Press that England was "a good kid" and "a good, hard worker," who "was not in his right mind" after losing his father and the Janu- ary suicide of his fiancee, with whom he'd recently had a baby. "If anybody is trying to say this is a racial situation, they've got things confused," said Sev- enstar, who described England as Cherokee Indian. "He didn't care what your color was. It wasn't a racist thing." The Tulsa World reported that England's father, Carl, was shot in the chest during a scuf- fle with a man who had tried to break into his daughter's apart- ment. England later died. The man chargedintheshoot- ing is serving a six-year sentence on a weapons charge, according to Department of Corrections records. Acting on an anonymous tip and backed by a helicopter, police arrested Jake England and Alvin Watts, 32, about 2 a.m. yesterday at a home in Turley, just north of Tulsa. The two men were roommates, and officers went to their home, then followed them several blocks to another home, where they were arrested without incident, police said. Authorities said they planned to charge them with murder and other offenses. Task force com- mander Maj. Walter Evans said that investigators recovered a weapon but that it was not clear who fired the shots. They also found a truck that had been burned. Police previously said they were looking for aman in a white truck. The Rev. Warren Blakney Sr., president of the Tulsa NAACP, said the arrests came as a big relief. Black community leaders had met Friday night amid fear over the shootings and concerns about possible vigilantism in retaliation. "The community once again can go about its business with- out fear of there being a shooter on the streets on today, on Easter morning," Blakney said. It was not immediately known if the suspects had lawyers. Police Chief Chuck Jordan said the gunmen appeared to have chosen their victims at random. Police identified those killed as Dannaer Fields, 49, Bobby Clark, 54, and William Allen, 31. Two men were wound- ed but were released from the hospital, Jordan said. The shootings come at a fraught moment for black Americans. In late February, an -unarmed black teen, Trayvon Martin, was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Florida, raising questions about racial profiling and touching off protests across the nation. While Tulsa police were reluctant to describe the shoot- ings there as racially motivated, City Councilman Jack Hender- son was not. "Being an NAACP president for seven years, I think that somebody that committed these crimes were very upset with black people," Henderson said. "That person happened to be a white person, the people they happened to kill and shoot are black people. That fits the bill for me." After controversial-poem, Israel bars German author Guenter Grass Nobel-winner was drafted by Nazis in World War II JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel yesterday declared Guenter Grass persona non grata, deep- ening a spat with the Nobel- winning author over a poem that deeply criticized the Jew- ish state and suggested it was as much a danger as Iran. The dispute with Grass, who only late in life admitted to a Nazi past, has drawn new atten- tion to strains in Germany's complicated relationship with the Jewish state - and also was drafted into the Waffen-SS focused unwelcome light on Nazi paramilitary organization Israel's own secretive nuclear at age 17 in the final months of program. World War II. In a poem called "What Must Grass' subsequent clarifi- Be Said" published last Wednes- cation that his criticism was day, Grass, 84, criticized what he directed at Israeli Prime Minis- described as Western hypocrisy ter Benjamin Netanyahu, not the over Israel's nuclear program country as a whole, did little to and labeled the country a threat calm the outcry. to "already fragile world peace" Yesterday, Israel's interior over its belligerent stance on minister, Eli Yishai, announced Iran. that Grass would be barred from The poem has touched a raw Israel, citing an Israeli law that nerve in Israel, where officials allows him to prevent entry to have rejected any moral equiva- ex-Nazis. But Yishai made clear lence with Iran and been quick the decision was related more to note that Grass admitted only to the recent poem than Grass' in a 2006 autobiography that he actions nearly 70 years ago. 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