…One hundred elevenyears ofedtorlfreedom Summer Weekly www.michlgandally.com Monday August 5, 2002 v ._,s nev dis ch Da Par the no' the see Pal ThE en( BrE NEWS C man:Prepared for action By Maria Sprow "I am just excited at the whole process of being at such an around the state and talk about the University and really con- Daily News Editor amazing University," Coleman said. "The University of Michi- nect with people around the state, bec...…
…Summer Weekly www.michigandaily.com One hundred eleven years ofeditorialfreedom Monday August 12, 2002 NEWS Meet and greet Alum James Hackett donated $150,000 and founded the Ford School of Public Policy Lee C. Bollinger annual $7,500 scholarship for students. Pge 3=z OP/ED TONY DING/Daily Michigan football fans wait to meet their favorite The Statement players during Michigan Football Media Day at Michigan of Student Stadium Friday. INSIDE...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, January 7, 2002 NATION/WORLD *I U.S. believes Omar is in Pakistan KANDAHAR, Afghanistan . (AP) - Afghanistan's interim leader promised yesterday that fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar will be tracked down, even as reports said the one-eyed cleric may have eluded capture and fled to another province. Meanwhile, American officials said the highest- ranking Taliban official in U.S. custody - forme...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 8, 2002 NATION WORLD Musharraf rejects terrorism; Bush andI ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's presi- dent rejected all forms of terrorism yesterday and dropped customary excuses for Islamic militants bat- tling India for control of disputed Kashmir. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's statement came after meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who welcomed the declaration but sought grea...…
…2 -- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 9, 2002 Education bill signed by Bush NATION/WORLD0 H AMILTON, Ohio (A P) -- Presi- dent Bush, acting yesterday on his No. 1 domestic priority, signed into law a sweeping education bill that will require new reading and math tests, seek to close the education gap between rich and poor students and raise teacher stan- dards. "As of this hour, America's schools will be on a new path of reform and a ...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 10, 2002 NATION/WORLD 7 high-ranking Taliban set free U.S. State Department says leaders should have been turned over instead KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Seven high-ranking Taliban officials - including the ex-justice minister - sur- rendered to Afghan commanders but were set free by local officials, the Afghan government said yesterday, even though U.S. officials want Taliban lead- ers turned ...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 11, 2002 NATION/WORLD Enron sought Bush's assistance WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House revealed yesterday that Enron Corp., an energy firm closely tied to President Bush, sought the administra- tion's help shortly before collapsing with the life savings of many workers. In a separate disclosure, the company's auditors said they had destroyed many Enron documents. In the rapid swirl of events, each on...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, January 14, 2002 NATION/WORLD Bush Cabinet didn't help Enron WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Bush cabinet mem- bers said yesterday they never considered intervening in Enron's spiral toward bankruptcy, nor informed President Bush of requests for help from the fallen energy giant. "Companies come and go. It's ... part of the genius of capitalism," said Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, when asked if he was surprised a...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 15, 2002 NATION/WORLD 0 Heavy KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. warplanes pounded terrorist hide-outs in eastern Afghanistan yesterday in bombing raids aimed at striking Osama bin Laden's die-hard support- ers, and the United Nations called on donor nations to step up aid to rebuild the country. The Zawar region along the border with Pakistan, where al-Qaida and Tal- iban holdouts are believed to have t...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 16, 2002 NATION WORLD Andersen fires top Enron auditor NEWS IN BRIEF 4- WASHINGTON (AP) - Arthur Andersen LLP said yesterday it is firing a senior auditor who organized a "rushed isposal" of Enron documents last fall after federal regulators had requested information about the failing energy company. It was the first time that the account- ing firm has acknowledged that the doc- ument destructi...…
…2A -The Michigan Daily -Thursday, January 17, 2002 NATION/WORLD 0I Reid charged as al-Qaida operative WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal grand jury yesterday charged alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid with being an al-Qaida trained terrorist in an indict- ment Attorney General John Ashcroft hailed as fresh proof of the government's ability to prosecute terror- ists. Ashcroft said the charges "alert us to a clear, unmistakable threat that al-Qaida ...…
…2 -- The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 18, 2002 NATION/ WORLD Enron donations clot WASHINGTON (AP) - Enron fired accounting 1 firm Arthur Andersen yesterday as the feuding corpo- rations both came under growing scrutiny for their roles in the collapse of the world's largest energy trad- ing company., Enron cited Andersen's destruction of thousands of documents and its accounting advice. For its part, Andersen said its relationship with E...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 22, 2002 NATION/WORLD Israelis take over West Bank town TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) -- Israeli troops searched homes and trad- ed fire with Palestinians as the military took over an entire Palestinian town yes- terday, a first in 16 months of fighting and another blow to beleaguered Pales- tinian leader Yasser Arafat. Stepping up its actions, Israel sent tanks into a neighborhood in the West Bank tow...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 23, 2002 NATION/WORLD I'A Palestinian open JERUSALEM (AP) - A Palestin- west Jerusalem's busiest streets. ian gunman fired on Israelis waiting at "You can certainly expect an Israeli a Jerusalem bus stop yesterday, fatally reaction," said Israeli government wounding two people and injuiring 14 spokesman Avi Pazner. "Israel has done others. Israeli commandos hours earli- very little until now. Appa...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 24, 2002 NATION/WORLD Hamas vows retaliation for strike NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - Threatening bloody revenge, Islamic militants and supporters of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat marched side-by- side yesterday in the funeral proces- sion for Hamas members killed in an Israeli commando raid, including one of the group's top terror masterminds. Hamas said it would unleash "all- out war" in retaliati...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 25, 2002 NATION/WORLD Anderson auditor remains silent WASHINGTON (AP) - Fired Enron outside auditor David Duncan refused to testify to Congress yesterday about the shredding of the energy compa- ny's documents, invoking his Fifth Amendment pro- tection against self-incrimination. His silence came as his former colleagues, top officials of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm, sought to lay the blame ...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, January 28, 2002 NATION/WORLD Karzai addresses U.S. audience WASHINGTON (AP) - Afghanistan leader Hamid Karzai appealed to thousands of young Afghan-Americans yesterday to return to their homeland and apply their skills to rebuilding the war-ravaged country. "Without your cooperation, we're not going to make it," Karzai told an enthusiastic audience that jammed into a basketball arena at Georgetown Uni- ve...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 29, 2002 --NATION/WORLD 0 Karzai: Bin Laden is a fugitive WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States will play a leading role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan, including helping the nation build its own military, President Bush said yesterday as he stood with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai. Bush also announced $50 million in U.S. loan aid to help rebuild the war-battered nation. "The United States will c...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 30, 2002 NATION/WORLD Israeli troops raid West Bank village ARTAS, West Bank (AP) - Israeli troops backed by tanks raided this Palestinian village in the West Bank early yesterday, arresting three suspected militants. Six Palestinians were hurt in clashes, officials and witnesses said. The Israeli troops entered Artas, south of Beth- lehem, and arrested a senior figure in the militant Islamic Jiha...…
…2A -- The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 31, 2002 NATION/WORLD GAO suing for energy records -.. NEWS IN BRIEF HEADLIN S.O AONDTE O WASHINGTON (AP) - The Gen- eral Accounting Office has decided to sue the White House for access to documents from President Bush's energy task force, a congressional source told The Associated Press yes- terday. The GAO's plan to take the White House to court sets up a political battle over executive pri...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 1, 2002 WAR ON TERROR/PORN 0 Guess wha NEW YORK (AP) - Osama bin Laden, in a previously unbroadcast interview done in late October, said the United States war on terrorism was leading the American people "into an unbear- able hell and a choking life." CNN broadcast edited portions of the taped exchange Thursday night and said it obtained the interview, done by the Arabic language Al-Jazeera televisi...…
…2A -The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 4, 2002 NATION/WORLD Rival Afghan tribes agree to cease-fire GARDEZ, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan and United Nations mediators, joined by American officials, extracted a conditional cease-fire agree- ment yesterday from two rival tribal warlords in an eastern Afghan town that was rocked by two days of fighting last week. With factional fighting threatening government efforts to assert control througho...…
…2 - The M ichigan Daily - Tuesday, February 5, 2002 NATION WORLD Subpoena coming in Enron case NEWS IN BRIEF" _ . .: 4 WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional commit- tees took steps yesterday to subpoena Enron's no-show former chairman, while the Justice Department reject- ed a Democratic call for a special prosecutor to investi- gate the collapse of his energy-trading company. Former chairman Kenneth Lay was to have been the star witness at c...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 6, 2002 NATION/WORLD 6 Congress issues subpo WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress dug forcefully into the Enron debacle yesterday with a second sub- poena for Kenneth Lay, the former chairman of the energy trading firm, and a sympathetic hearing for a laid-off employee whose retirement sayings all but dis- appeared when the company failed. "This should not and cannot ever happen again in America," said D...…
…2A -The Michigan Daily -Thursday, February 7, 2002 NATION/WORLD S Stimulus proposals die in Senate WASHINGTON (AP) - Republi- cans sought to blame Senate Democrat- ic leader Tom Daschle for the collapse yesterday of the economic stimulus bill. Democrats said the true culprit was an insatiable GOP appetite for tax cuts that favor business and the wealthy. The two sides traded shots after the Senate failed to muster the 60 votes necessary t...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 8, 2002 NATION/WORLD Bush unwilling to sever ties to Arafat rS LEl" . .'1T'es NEWS IN BRIEF'',; :- s WASHINGTON (AP) - Israeli Prime Minis- ter Ariel Sharon expected a boost yesterday from President Bush in his struggle with terror attacks, but he also was due for a polite letdown on trying to isolate Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from the United States. Sharon, who has imposed virtual house a...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 11, 2002 NATION/WORLD 01 Israeli warplanes bomb Gaza City BEERSHEBA, Israel (AP) - Two Palestinian gunmen sprang from a car and sprayed automatic gunfire at Israelis outside a military base in the southern desert city of Beersheba yesterday, killing two soldiers and seriously wounding five people' before the attackers were shot dead by troops. In apparent retaliation, Israeli warplanes and heli- ...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, February 12, 2002 NATION/WORLD Thousands of Iranians rally to condemn U.S. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's reformist president appeared to blame U.S. foreign policy for the Sept. 11 attacks as hundreds of thousands of Iranians rallied yester- day to condemn President Bush's criticism of their country and cele- brate the 23rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. Angered by Bush's inclusion of Iran as a membe...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 13, 2002 NATION/WORLD FBI: More attacks are possible NEWS IN BRIEF WASHINGTON (AP) -The FBI warning about a put under orders to detain any of them immediately. Officials acknowledged they did not know JERUSALEM possible terrorist attack against the United States or against Americans in Yemen lists individuals with suspected ties to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida, U.S. officials said yesterday. Att...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 14, 2002 NATION/WORLD Israel responds to rocket fire BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip (AP) - Responding to rocket fire, Israeli troops and tanks swept through three Palestinian towns and the outskirts of a refugee camp yesterday in the biggest operation in the Gaza Strip since violence broke out nearly 17 months ago. Five Palestinians, includ- ing a civilian, were killed in exchanges of fire that began be...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 15, 2002 NATION/WORLD 0 Enron exec. says Lay was duped NEWS IN BRIEF H E ES OU- E W - WASHINGTON (AP) - Enron Corp. executive Sherron Watkins accused two top company officials yesterday of duping then-Chairman Kenneth Lay and the board of directors about improper - and possibly illegal - partnerships that concealed over $1 billion in debt. Watkins said that when she told Lay of her concerns, the ...…
… 7A - The M inhic'an hails -Mnnr n%/ Fahn inn/ 1 S2 71-100 r i m u'"6mi Lcvaly -iviulluay, CrI uai y lC, LUVL NATION/ORLD Government handles air securiNEWSBRIEF CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) - On the first day the Yesterday's deadline was the first step in a nine-N LEGa. 4 I government took responsibility for airport security, some passengers noticed extra vigilance and felt reas- sured by the change. Federal officials pledged yester- day to prote...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, February 19, 2002 NATION/WORLD Seven killed in Mideast attacks JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinian militants staged a tried to infiltrate a Jewish settlement and soldiers nearby Dir al-Balah, a Palestinian -city, Palestinians TOKYO series of attacks yesterday, leaving seven dead as Yasser opened fire on them, the military said. Palestinians said said. Four people were wounded. The military had no Arafat praised a ...…
…0 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 20, 2002 NATION/WORLD Witness cross- examined in war crimes trial NEWS UNBRIEF Eight Palestinians die in gun battles 0 THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Slobodan Milosevic cross-examined the first witness in his war crimes trial yesterday, seeking to discredit a Koso- vo Albanian politician who accused the Yugoslav government of imposing a system of apartheid in Kosovo. At times sarcastic and p...…
… 2A - The Michigan Daily -- Thursday, February 21, 2002 NATION/WORLD Israel sees bloodiest week of conflict NEWS IN BRIEFi ! JERUSALEM (AP) - After losing 13 soldiers in the past week, Israel is changing its military tactics and will focus on small-scale actions to deal with what it views as a guerrilla war, a top Israeli official said yesterday - a day during which air strikes and raids killed 18 Palestinians. The violence raged into thi...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 22, 2002 NATION/WORLD Afghan warlords rival for nower NEWS IN BRIEF - v .1 WASHINGTON (AP) - Growing signs of insta- bility in Afghanistan, where rival warlords are bat- tling for power, threaten to propel the American military into a bigger role in fending off chaos. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who long has argued against a U.S. peacekeeping role in Afghanistan, said for the first time yes...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, March 4, 2002 NATION/WORLD *I U.S. air raids try to pin renegades NEWS a BRIEFi HEDINES__FROM__AOUND____E _______ " '4 SURMAD, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. bombers pounded al-Qaida and Taliban positions in the eastern mountains of Afghanistan yesterday after yesterday's 1,500-strong coali- tion ground attack failed to dislodge the well-armed renegades. No major ground action was reported yesterday. However,...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 5, 2002 NATION/WORLD Sixteen killed in Israeli retaliation RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Israel sent warplanes and tanks against Palestinian targets yesterday, killing the wife and three children of a Hamas militant in what the military said was a mistake. In all, 16 Palestinians died in retaliatory raids. The multiple strikes in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip followed a Cabinet decision Sunday to int...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, March 6, 2002 NATION/WORLD 0 92 dead since beginning of week NEWS IN BRIEF HEDINE FOMARUD*HEWOL JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinian militants struck busy at 2 a.m. The other two attacks came during the 711, at Israeli civilians yesterday with a suicide bombing on a bus, a roadside ambush in the West Bank and a restaurant shooting in Israel's largest city, leaving five Israelis and two Palestinian assailants dea...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 7, 2002 NATION/WORLD Taliban, al-Qai Ia orces routed NEWS m- BRIEF i Prosecutors could have indicted Clinton BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S.-led coalition troops have gained the upper hand after killing at least half the al-Qaida and Taliban forces holed up in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan in the biggest joint offensive in the war, the U.S. com- mander said yesterday. Several hundr...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 8, 2002 NATION/WORLD Search for al-Qaida intensified GARDEZ, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. troops scoured caves and cleared ridges of al-Qaida diehards yesterday, but sandstorms and high winds grounded helicopters and threatened to dis- rupt the U.S.-led air and ground offensive. After some of the heaviest bombing in the six- day offensive, a number of supply flights were delayed or canceled because of the ...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, March 11, 2002 Prn-k.raip1 'crn tfrr r4 i-Yr NP17 IT TlD Trv i j v -LkJi. c4iiLL ~P#JLLLoIIi ,.t,,111t01I.A3 1INLvv0u' -t~ riots from Pale stinian sup p orte rs Sharon agrees to negotiate truce with Arafat By JennifrwMisthal Daily Staff Reporter Twice yesterday, members of Stu- dents Allied for Freedom and Equal- ity protested the Israel Under the Lens conference outside the Michi- gan League. Armed with ...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 12, 2002 NATION/WORLD 0 Soldi'oers prep for last Afghan push NEWS IN BRIEF r'ATVTTV7 Ac ,. ,... A _ - "'..y- I GARD.)E, Afghanistan (AP) - Tanks and trucks theimpact of the bombs. troops from the 10th Mountain Division and the 101st rarar nn m rwTCAfr~o++. U r~ a T --11r0--- it carrie~ti,uvu uu ore u.N.-aiut -Atgian ighters to the remote mountains of eastern Afghanistan yesterday to reinforce Amer...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, March 13, 2002 U.S. focuses on al-Qaida ockets' NATION/WORLD WASHINGTON (AP) - As the biggest ground battle of the war in Afghanistan winds down, U.S. forces are sizing up smaller "pockets" of al- Qaida resistance elsewhere in the country. Officials said yesterday that even with victory in the Shah-e-Kot Valley against die-hard al-Qaida fighters, there almost certainly will be other bloody battles. "The po...…
…A 2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 14, 2002 NATION/WORLD Cheney focuses on violence in Israel NEWS IN BRIEF4 SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) - Vice Presi- dent Dick Cheney said yesterday that Israel and the Palestinians share the burden of ending Middle East bloodshed. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met with Cheney and promised to apply pressure, too. At a news conference with Cheney at this Red Sea resort, Mubarak also addressed an...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 15, 2002 NATION/WORLD I All WASHIN A rhai ;n -Qaida leaders focus of search NEWS IN BRIEF GTON (AP) - The American military's More than five months into the war and six Bagram air base. "We did not have indications prior to empnass in Aghanilstan is shitting to the pursuit of clues to the whereabouts of the most senior al-Qaida leaders and the possibility of new combat operations against smaller pock...…
…2A,-The Michigan Daily - Monday, March 18, 2002 Nursing scool enrollment drops NEWS IN BRIEF By Soung Chang have been steadily increasing over the past three years" "This scholarship program will be very helpful to JERUSA LEM Daly taff Reporter Lindsey Balzhiser, a nursing sophomore, thinks individuals, men and women, considering a nursing .TT nursing schools are not enrolling at capacity because degree," said Hinshaw, who has been collaborati...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 19, 2002 NATION/WORLD Israeli pullout brings hope of truce JERUSALEM (AP) - Spurred on by a U.S. peace mission, Israeli troops pulled out of Bethlehem early today, edging closer to a cease-fire with the Palestini- ans in the 18-month-old Mideast conflict. The pullback came after Vice President Dick Cheney arrived to bolster the efforts of U.S. mediator Anthony Zinni, and the pair held talks yesterday ...…
…2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, March 20, 2002 NATION/WORLD Arafat, Sharon focus on cease-fire UPPER MANeGASt Philippines Muslim rebels attack Filipino troops JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that Yasser Arafat will be free to travel to an Arab summit next week if the Palestinian leader agrees to a cease-fire, but hinted Arafat may not be allowed back if the violence persists while he is gone. In another inc...…
…2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 21, 2002 NATION/WORLD 4 Palestinian bus bombing kills 8 NEWS IN BRIF mSF A.UDTEWR t JERUSALEM (AP) - An Islamic it wouldn militant blew himself up in a packed agreement bus during morning rush hour yester- "I hadt day, killing seven other passengers, attack), an including four Israeli soldiers. Israel that as lot said it wouldn't retaliate for now and tinians, wx agreed to a crucial meeting wit...…
