a The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 3 . The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 3 NEWS BRIEFS DETROIT Protesters stage another Detroit City Hall sit-in A few dozen protesters staged an hour-long sit-in on Monday outside the offices of Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and state- appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr to oppose Michigan's law that allowed Orr to take over the city's finances. For the second time in less than a week, the group demand- ed - and failed - to meet with Bing and Orr. But this time they did make it the 11th floor of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Building, the Detroit Free Press and WXYZ-TV reported. On Thursday, they got as far as the first-floor lobby before leaving after about an hour. HARRISBURG, Pa. Pa. Sen. Casey. publicizes his support of gay marriage O Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey announced Monday that he favors gay marriage, the latest of several lawmakers to change positions on the issue now before the U.S. Supreme Court. Casey said he made the shift after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil rights questions involved and letters from Penn- sylvania families. "If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in the way?" Casey said. "At a time when many Ameri- cans lament a lack of commit- ment in our society between married men and women, why would we want less commitment and fewer strong marriages?" SAN O95E, Calif * Police suspect drug use in Calif. Wal-mart crash Police said Monday they sus- pect a man was on drugs when he rammed his car through the front of a Wal-Mart in California and began assaulting customers, injur- ing four people. HaamidAde Zaid, 33,of Seaside was being held without bail at the Santa Clara County Jail for inves- tigation of assault with a deadly weapon, hit and run, being under the influence of drugs, and resist- ing arrest, San Jose police Officer Albert Morales said. "In my 18-year career I have never seen anything like this," Morales told the San Jose Mercu- ry News. "After looking at some of the pictures, it's amazinghe didn't hit anybody with the vehicle." CAIRO, Egypt U.S. blasts arrest warrant against Egypt satirist The U.S. State Department said Monday that arrest warrants and the investigation of a popular Egyptian satirist and other crit- ics of Egypt's Islamist president highlight a "disturbing trend" of growing restrictions on freedom of expression in the country. The strongly worded statement by U.S. State Department spokes- woman Victoria Nuland Monday came a day after Bassem Youssef, who criticizes President Moham- med Morsi and hard-line clerics on his Jon Stewart-style show, was released on bail following an interrogation into accusations he insulted Morsi and Islam. Youssef is the most prominent critic of Morsi to be called in for questioning in recent weeks, in what the opposition says is a campaign to intimidate critics amid wave after wave of politi- cal unrest in the deeply polar- ized country. Prosecutors deny launching a political crackdown, saying they are only implement- ing the law. -Compiled from Daily wire reports. UN to vote Tuesday on treaty regulating arms trade agreement Petros Karadjias/AP Volunteers help collect canned goods and other food items from people arriving for a music concert in the capital Nicosia, Monday, April1,2013. Cyprus gains more time to acheeeconomic surplus D( 4- NI Cypr extra achie plus bailo natio ment Tb prepz deep slowc coun shrin indus Ur ment party Mon rescu 2016 plus cuts Bu earliq omy- 3.5 p prods A( who; nymi rized nego is no some Fo spoki said 1u1ULIL Ll"~ u aaei are now hoping to extend the Greece an extra deadline to achieve a 4 percent budget surplus even further, to year to reach 2018. Cyprus agreed last week -percent surplus to make bank depositors with accounts over 100,000 euros ICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - ($129,000) contribute to the us has been granted an financial rescue in order to year - until 2017 - to secure 10 billion euros ($12.9 ve a targeted budget sur- billion) in loans. Cyprus need- of 4 percent as part of ed to raise 6 billion euros ($7.4 ut negotiations with inter- billion) on its own in order to nal lenders, the govern- clinch the larger package, and spokesman said Monday. banks remained shut for nearly te change is designed to two weeks until politicians are for what could be a hammered out a deal. er than expected economic To prevent mass withdraw- down as the Mediterranean als when the banks reopened on try is forced to drastically March 28, Cypriot authorities k its banking and financial imposed a raft of restrictions, stry. including daily withdrawal nder a preliminary agree- limits of 300 euros ($384) for with Cyprus' euro area individuals and 5,000 euros ners and the International ($6,426) for businesses. That etary Fund for billions in amounted to the first so-called ue money, Cyprus had until capital controls that any coun- to generate the budget sur- try has applied in the eurozone's target through spending 14-year history. and tax hikes. Under the terms of the bail- t that deal was based on an out deal, the country' second yr forecast that the econ- largest bank, Laiki, isto be split would shrink this year by up, with its nonperforming ercent of gross domestic loans and toxic assets going into uct. a "bad bank." The healthy side Cyprus government official will be absorbed into the Bank spoke on condition of ano- of Cyprus. ty because he's not autho- Big Laiki depositors could 1 to discuss details of the lose as much as 80 percent of tiations said the economy their money. w projected to contract by Bank of Cyprus savers will 9 percent of GDP. lose 37.5 percent and possibly r that reason, government 22.5 percent more, depend- esman Christos Stylianides ing on what experts determine Monday that negotiators over the next 90 days is needed to prop up that bank's reserves. The remaining 40 percent of big deposits at the Bank of Cyprus will be "temporarily frozen for liquidity reasons," but continue to accrue existinglevelsofinter- est plus another 10 percent. Cyprus has long attracted many large Russian depositors, but a senior Cabinet member in Moscow said Monday that his government won't protect indi- vidual Russian victims of the Cypriot economic crisis. Regarding businesses, Styli- anides said Monday that his government's negotiators will seek to soon give them access to the frozen 40 percent of their deposits in the Bank of Cyprus in order to get the country's moribund economy going again as soon as possible. "What we're striving and hoping for is that as of tomor- row morning that 40 percent is freed up so that we can return to some semblance of normal busi- ness activity," Stylianides told reporters. He said the details have to be hammered out by Thursday when the eurogroup officials meet to discuss the Cyprus deal. Cypriot banks also will sell their foreign operations under the agreement. For instance, the Bank of Cyprus in Romania said Mon- day it is immediately suspend- ing operations at its 10 branches for a week until it's sold. Bank spokeswoman Liana Voinescu She said ATM machines will remain open. First international arms agreement is heavily supported UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. General Assembly is expected to vote Tuesday on what would be the first U.N. trea- ty regulating the multibillion- dollar international arms trade after Iran, North Koreaand Syria blocked its adoption by consen- sus. Assembly spokesman Nikola Jovanovic told The Associated Press on Monday that the resolu- tion to adopt the treaty requires support from a majority of the 193 U.N. member states. Since the treaty had strong support when it was brought before U.N. mem- bers last Thursday, its approval is virtually certain - unless there are attempts to amend it before the vote. Many countries, including the United States, control arms exports. But there has never been an international treaty regulat- ing the estimated $60 billion global arms trade. For more than a decade, activists and some gov- ernments have been pushing for international rules to try to keep illicit weapons out of the hands of terrorists, insurgent fighters and organized crime. Hopes of reaching agreement at a U.N. negotiating conference were dashed in July when the U.S. said it needed more time to consider the proposed accord - a move quickly backed by Rus- sia and China. In December, the U.N. General Assembly decided to holda final negotiating confer- ence to agree on a treaty and set last Thursday as the deadline. After two weeks of intensive negotiations, there was grow- ing optimism as the deadline approached that all 193 member states would approve the final draft treaty by consensus - a requirement set by the United States. This time, the U.S. was prepared to support the final draft treaty. But Iran, North Korea and Syria objected. Iran said the treaty had many "loopholes," is "hugely suscep- tible to politicization and dis- crimination," and ignores the "legitimate demand" to prohibit the transfer of arms to those who commit aggression. Syria cited seven objections, including the treaty's failure to include an embargo on delivering weapons "to terrorist armed groups and to non-state actors." And North Korea said the treaty favors arms exporters who can restrict arms to importers that have a right to legitimate self-defense and the arms trade. Both Iran and North Korea are under U.N. arms embargoes over their nuclear programs, while Syria is in the third year of a con- flict that has escalated to civil war and is under U.S. and Euro- pean Union sanctions. Amnesty International said all three coun- tries "have abysmal human rights records - having even used arms against their own citizens." The General Assembly had left open the possibility of a vote on the treaty if it failed to achieve consensus. Jovanovic said the assem- bly will meet at 10 a.m. EDT on Tuesday when the first order of business will be a report from the chair of the negotiations, Austra- lian Ambassador Peter Woolcott. That will be followed bythe vote. The draft resolution, obtained by AP, would adopt the Arms Trade Treaty that was put to members last Thursday. If approved, the resolution asks Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon, as depositary of the treaty, to open it for signature by mem- ber states on June 3. It calls on all nations to consider signing and then ratifying the treaty "at the earliest possible date." In a letter to the secretary- general dated Friday, Britain's U.N. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant asked the U.N. chief to circulate the draft resolution to all U.N. members on behalf of Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica, Finland, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, the United States and the United Kingdom. By the time the draft resolu- tionwas circulated Mondaytrea- ty supporters collected a total of 64 cosponsors and they were try- ing to add more countries before Tuesday'spot vote. The draft treaty would not control the domestic use of weapons in any country, but it would require all countries to establish national regulations to control the transfer of con- ventional arms, parts and com- ponents and to regulate arms brokers. It would prohibit states that ratify the treaty from trans- ferring conventional weapons if they violate arms embargoes or if they promote acts of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes. The final draft made the human rights provision even stronger, adding that the export of conventional arms should be prohibited if they could be used in attacks on civilians or civil- ian buildings such as schools and hospitals. In considering whether to authorize the export of arms, the draft says a country must evalu- ate whether the weapon would be used to violate international human rights or humanitar- ian laws or be used by terrorists or organized crime. The final draft would allow countries to determine whether the weapons transfer would contribute to or undermine peace and security. Conn. reaches deal on tough gun laws after Newtown shooting Creates dangerous offenders list, state certificate HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut lawmakers announced a deal Monday on what they called some of the toughest gun laws in the coun- try that were proposed after the December mass shooting in the state, including a ban on new high-capacity ammuni- tion magazines like the one in the massacre that left 20 chil- dren and six educators dead. The proposal also called for background checks for private gun sales and a new registry for existing magazines that carry 10 or more bullets, some- thing of a compromise for par- ents of Newtown victims who had wanted an outright ban on them, while legislators had proposed grandfathering them into the law. The package also creates what lawmakers said is the nation's first statewide danger- ous weapon offender registry, immediate universal back- ground checks for all firearms sales and expansion of Con- necticut's assault weapons ban. A new state-issued eligibil- ity certificate would be needed to purchase any rifle, shotgun or ammunition under the leg- islation. To get the certificate, a buyer would need to be fin- gerprinted, take a firearms training course and undergo a national criminal background check and involuntary com- mitment or voluntary admis- sion check. The deal is "the most comprehensive package in the country because of its breadth," said Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, a Fair- field Republican whose district includes Newtown. McKinney said people tend to focus on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, but he said "there's a lot here underneath the surface" addressing mental health and other issues. The proposal was revealed to rank-and-file lawmakers Monday after weeks of nego- tiations amonglegislative lead- ers. A vote was expected later this week in the Legislature, where Democrats control both chambers, making passage all but assured. The bill would then be sent to Gov. Dan- nel P. Malloy, who has helped lead efforts to strengthen the state's gun laws. Both Democratic and Republican leaders were expected to support the pro- posal. Connecticut is sending a message to Washington and the rest of the country "this is the way to get this job done," said House Speaker Brendan Sharkey, a Democrat from Hamden. Legislative leaders have been negotiating since early March, reviewing recommen- dations on guns, mental health care and school security in the wake of the shooting. Six relatives of Newtown victims visited the Capitol on Monday, asking lawmak- ers to include a ban on exist- ing high-capacity magazines. Some handed out cards with photographs of their slain children. They delivered a let- ter signed by 24 relatives that demanded that legislators include existing large-capac- ity ammunition magazines in an expected ban on the sale of magazines that carry 10 or more bullets. Allowing such large-capaci- ty magazines to remain in the hands of gun owners would leave a gaping loophole in the law, said Mark Barden, whose 7-year-old son, Daniel, was killed in the shooting. "It doesn't prevent someone from going out of the state to purchase them and then bring them back. There's no way to track when they were pur- chased, so they can say, 'I had this before,"' Barden said. "So it's a big loophole." The gunman in the New- town shooting blasted his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and fired off 154 shots with a Bushmaster .223-cali- ber rifle within five minutes. He went through six 30-round magazines, though half were not completely empty, and police said he had three other 30-round magazines in addi- tion to one in the rifle. He gunned down 26 people, then shot himself to death with a handgun. for more information call 734/615-6449 The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts presents a public lecture and reception L SA Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Rackham Amphitheater 4:10pm __ _.