6A -- Thursday, October 10, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Sen. Tom Coburn, P-Okla., is pursued by members of the mer after leaving a Republican policy luncheon. Republicans we debt limit hike t As default date looms, GOP considers extention WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republican leaders are considering a short-term increase in the U.S. debt limit as a possible way to break the gridlock that threatens, the nation with an unprecedented default in as little as a week, officials' said Wednesday night. These officials said there is far less urgency inside the leadership about ending the current nine-day partial gov- ernment shutdown, which has caused inconvenience and financial concern for many individual Americans but appears not to threaten the widespread economic damage a default might bring. The officials declined to say what conditions, if any, might be attached to legislation to raise the $16.7 trillion debt limit for an undetermined period, perhaps a few weeks or months. The GOP rank and file is expected to meet privately to discuss the issue on Thurs- day, before a delegation led by Speaker John Boehner goes to the White House to meet with President Barack Obama. The officialst developments la spoke only on co nymity, saying' authorized to d of private delibe Obama has s agree to sign increase if ct attached. Repu cated several d intended to seek to reduce defic to roll backE regulations andt nation's 3-year-s law. More recent: controlled Hour legislation to cre ber group of lav the House and S tiate over thor issues. The bi mention of an i debt limit, but t could be combin tial face-saving' impasse. The disclosu Obama met a House in late more than an ho Democrats. He t while he would tion extending t borrowing abili' next election, h sign a shorter-te Treasury Se EVAN VUCCI/AP dia as he gets on an elevator on Capitol Hill in Washington, igh short-term )efore default describing the Lew has told lawmakers they te Wednesday must raise the debt limit ndition of ano- by Oct. 17 to avoid risking a they were not default, but neither house has isclose details yet scheduled a vote. rations. In the Senate, Democrats aid he won't have proposed a no-strings- a debt limit attached $1 trillion increase tnditions are in borrowing authority that is blicans indi- designed to prevent a recur- lays ago they rence of the current confronta- spending cuts tion before the 2014 elections. its, measures A test vote is scheduled for environmental the weekend, and Republicans changes in the have yet to indicate how vigor- tld health care ously they might oppose it. In addition to House lead- ly, the GOP- ership conversations, a group se has passed of conservatives met privately ate a 20-mem- during the day for what sev- wmakers from eral officials described as a enate to nego- wide-ranging discussion on se and other the debt limit and the threat - ll makes no or lack of it - posed by default. ncrease in the No consensus was reached, :he two topics but among those who spoke ed in a poten- was Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., way out of the the 2012 GOP vice presidential candidate who is chairman of res came as the House Budget Committee t the White and a prominent deficit hawk. afternoon for In an op-ed article published ur with House during the day in The Wall told them that Street Journal, he wrote, "We prefer legisla- need to pay our bills today.and he Treasury's make sure we can pay our bills ty beyond the tomorrow. So let's negotiate se would also an agreement to make modest rm bill. reforms to entitlement pro- cretary Jack grams and the tax code." 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An ancient Jewish ritual bath was excavated on the JERUSALEM (AP) -Christian premises but it contains no water, leaders in Israel are up. in arms and an old well nearby has a nar- over what they say is a string of row opening and would be dan- relentless attacks on church prop- gerous to enter, he said. erties and religious sites - most Naoum said his staff saw reli- recently the desecration of a his- gious Jewish youths breaking into toric Protestant cemetery where the cemetery again on Tuesday vandals toppled stone crosses and Wednesday, though no dam- fromgraves andbludgeonedthem age was reported. Israeli media to pieces. have said two of the original sus- The attack in the Protestant pects were students at a nearby Cemetery of Mount Zion, one of Jewish seminary known for its Jerusalem's most important his- ultranationalist views. toric graveyards, has struck a par- Naoum said he is reporting the ticularly sensitive nerve because events to the German and British some of the damaged graves embassies, which have represen- belong to famous figures from the tatives on the cemetery admin- 19th and20thcenturies, akeyperi- istration board, as well as to the od in Jerusalem's history. Among Archbishop of Canterbury. them are a German diplomat, the The attack joins a list of high- founder of an orphanage who was profile Christian sites that have a significant contributor to mod- been vandalized within the past ernizing the city, and a relative of year. They include a Trappist the owners of a prominent hotel. monastery in Latrun, outside Though members of the clergy Jerusalem, where vandals burned say interfaith relations between a door and spray-painted "Jesus top religious leaders have never is a monkey" on the century- been stronger; and police have old building, a Baptist church in been more responsive to such Jerusalem, and other monaster- attacks in recent years, they say ies. Clergymen often speak of attacks continue unabated. Some being spat at by ultra-Orthodox activists say not enough is being religious students while walk- done to stop them. ing around Jerusalem's Old City "We are strivingsohardtopro- wearingfrocks and crosses. mote dignity and respect among Christian citizens of Israel, the living. And here we have our including Roman Catholic and dead people ... vandalized," said Orthodox streams of Christian- the Very Rev. Hosam Naoum, ity, make up less than 2 percent of caretaker of the Protestant cem- its nearly 8 million people. About etery. "No human would agree three-quarters of them are Arabs, with this." and the others arrived during a Police arrested four young wave of immigration from former Israeli settlers from the West Soviet Union countries that began Bank last week, two of them 20 years ago. Tens of thousands minors, in connection with the of Christian foreign workers and cemetery attack, said police African migrantsalsoliveinIsrael. spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. The population figures include But Rosenfeld said the four were Christians in Israel and east subsequently released without Jerusalem, the section of the city charge until further questioning. captured by Israel in 1967 and Two of the suspects had been claimed by the Palestinians. banned from entering the West Over the past three years, 17 Bankbecause of their connections Christian sites in the Holy Land to the "hilltop youth," a move- have been reported vandalized, ment of young Jewish extremists according to Search for Com- blamed for a spate of attacks in mon Ground, a nongovernmental recent years on mosques, Chris- group that monitors press reports tian sites and Israeli army prop- of attacks on religious sites. erty to protest government policy. Researcher Kevin Merkelz The four suspects claimed said a police detective in charge they had entered the cemetery to of Christian affairs told the orga- immerse themselves in a ritual nization the numbers are actu- bath there, according to media ally higher, but Christian leaders chose not to report many attacks to the press. "The Christians who are still here want to keep a low profile when attacked," said Merkelz. He said the group does not include sites in the politically sensitive Old City of Jerusalem in its sur- vey, because many sites are in dis- pute and the group does not want to be seen as taking sides. Christian leaders are often afraid to complain to police because many clergymen reside in Israel on special visas and wish to keep good relations with authori- ties, said Hana Bendcowsky of the Jerusalem Center for Jewish- Christian Relations. "There is a very strong feeling that the police are not doing enough ... and not doing work to prevent the phe- nomenon," she said. Rosenfeld, the police spokesman, said Israeli police recently set up a task force to combat "nationalistic" motivat- ed crimes, and last week arrest- ed 14 youths in connection with attacks on Arabs. He said police are carrying out more patrols around holy sites and are considering install- ing security cameras to protect them. He also claimed the num- bers of attacks against Christian. sites remains relatively low. "There is more awareness that holy areas have to be watched closer and protected better," Rosenfeld said. The Rev. Pierbattista Pizza- balla, one of the Roman Catho- lic church's top officials in the Holy Land, said such attacks "have become routine and tar- get not only Christians. They're conducted by extremists and go against the spirit of tolerance. But it's also true that they're strongly condemned by the Jewish community, by people opposed to them." Naoum, the cemetery care- taker, said a group of 15 Jewish religious figures will be paying a solidarity visit to the cemetery this week. In the oldest section of the Protestant Cemetery of Mount Zion, just outside the walls of Jerusalem's ancient Old City, the tops of large stone monuments, many written in German, were bare, and the stone crosses that used to top them lay broken into a few pieces. Graves damaged belong to a British Mandate policeman and important figureheads in the city. 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But their terse report gave no information suggesting how long the government will be without its charismatic lead- er in charge. Their three-sentence report said Cristina Fernandez's vital signs were "normal" and her spirits "very good." It said the 60-year-old leader would begin eating later Wednesday. Her spokesman, Alfredo Scoc- cimarro, appeared briefly before a crowd outside the hospital to announce the doctors' report, adding'only that the president had slept well and "sends a big kiss to all the Argentines." And that was it. The only government official authorized to release details about Fernan- dez's condition left without tak- ing questions. The lack of details frustrated Argentines such as Fernando Ballester, a 40-year-old office administrator. "She has the obligation to inform us. The president's health is a matter of state," he said. "The country can't function without Cristina," he said. "Our political system is focused on the presidency, and especially the president we have now, who makes all the decisions." Laboratory worker Silvina Caceres agreed: "It's not OK that the president of the repub- lic doesn't keep the people informed about her health. Her life is not private ... If not, all she feeds to the people is para- noia." Caceres was among many who are convinced Fernandez will keep working behind the scenes. "She keeps governing from the clinic," Caceres said. Even Vice President Amado Boudou, nominally in charge of the executive branch while Fer- nandez recuperates, suggested as much on Tuesday, the day of her surgery. He declared in a speech that "to Cristina, her country is more important than her own health!" Brain surgeons not involved in Fernandez's surgery consult- ed by The Associated Press said there was no reason to think that the surgery could have lasting complications, but they said the risks would increase if she tried to go back to work too soon. They also differed widely on how long such patients generally need to recuperate - the Argen- tines consulted said she could be out from 30 to even 90 days, while U.S. experts said she could be back to work in a week. A member of the surgical team, Dr. Pablo Rubino, sug- gested Wednesday that Argen- tines have little need to worry. "Once she's completely recov- ered, there won't be any prob- lem. She'll be able to do any sort of activity," he said. But Rubino, the chief of vas- cular surgery at the Fundacion Favaloro, where Fernandez remained in intensive therapy, stressed that confidential: ity vows prevented her doctors from saying how long she might need to recover. "We can't enter into details, but the information was abso- lutely faithful. The com- munications are absolutely accurate," Rubino said. Pressed by a government radio host to say whether Fernandez could be out for a month, he said, "Some need less, some need more." Argentina's looming chal- lenges include the Oct. 27 con- gressional elections, in which the ruling party now lacks its top campaigner. Another devas- tating loan default became more likely this week when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Argen- tina's initial appeal in its debt fight. The economy has slowed, the currency is losing value and inflation is soaring. Ruling party lawmakers were making the best of it, debating the 2014 budget Wednesday. But many had questioned Boudou's leadership because of the cor- ruption investigations he faces, and the presidency didn't make public the formal -transfer-of- power document that usually indicate how long a president would need to be replaced. "It's like we're on stand-by," Caceres said. "Nothing impor- tant is going to happen until she takes the reins again."