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Show Friday, March 28, 2003, THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HarkTheHerald.com), Provo, Utah LATEST DEVELOPMENTS I US. and British warplanes ifohee .arrest '215 . bombed Iraqi targets north and south and hit Republican Guard units trying to blunt the advance on Baghdad. After a large dust storm finally lilted, more than 600 bombing missions were carried out over Iraq during the day. isiftoWi Gitjf I Iraq's defense minister declared that the Iraqi military will prolong street fighting in Baghdad to make coalition fighters pay a price when they enter the capital. I U.S. Central Command said coalition strikes overnight took out communications and command and control facilities in the capital. I Defense called for civil disobedience throughout the tity. The symbolic "die-in-" at Rockefeller Center was designed to show support for Iraqi war victims. Later, members ofthe same coalition staged a mock funeral on Fifth Avenue while a dozen people tried to block . I Eleven Marines from the 2nd Expeditionary Force were listed as missing within the past 24 hours and 14 as wounded in action, Camp Lejeune, N.C., officials said. The troops had most recently, been fighting near the main entrance to Tiffany's several blocks north of the larger demonstration. Five protesters were An Nasiriyah. I Blair spoke arrested during a brief scuffle outside the offices of CNN in Manhattan. Police were well prepared for the Fifth Avenue protest during which activists lay down on the avenue, blocking traffic including several buses crowded with people n trying to get to work in defended airing the photos, saying it had a duty to show the world casualties on all sides in the Iraq war. o, Bush's war has to go," some of the demonstrators shouted. ' Police had set up barricades in an effort to contain the demonstrators on the I President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged to keep their forces in Iraq however long it takes to overthrow Saddam Hussein. They said the U.N. could help rebuild postwar Iraq, but left uncertain who would create and run a new government. ' Los Angeles Times Antiwar protesters chanting "Peace Now!" blocked Fifth Avenue in front of Rockefeller Center during Thursday morning's rush hour and by evening police had arrested 215 demonstrators in that and other incidents. Organizers of an ad hoc coalition labeling itself M27 Sec- I,,.;,.....,; By JOHN J.GOLDMAN of "the depravity of Saddam's regime" in reference to TV pictures of two British soldiers he said were executed. mid-tow- offices. hc-h- "Hey-he- y, fWnWf:r t ' - ill antra prists NEW YORK retary Donald H. Rumsfeld suggested that U.S. forces might lay siege to Baghdad in hopes citizens will rise up against the Donald H. RumsMd government before American troops have to invade the city of 5 million. ii Page A7 - cv" ' 1 sidewalk, and a police heli-copter circled overhead to help coordinate arrests. Some of the protesters sprawled on towels and mats they unfolded to cushion the hardness of the street Occasionally, the demon- strators were heckled by a handful of people supporting the war. A man held up a sign reading 'Traitors, have you forgotten Sept 11?" and m k !! tP J S ill ' . there were brief arguments about the propriety of U.S. action in Iraq. But police had little difficulty in keeping people with , ,f 1 f1 , opposing views apart In calling for the demon- stration patterned after much larger antiwar actions in San Francisco organizers said they selected Fifth Avenue in front of Rockefeller Center because it is the home of media outlets and large corporations, some of which could profit from rebuilding Iraq. Sixteen people who blocked a Fifth Avenue intersection were arrested Wednesday. Like the larger group seized Thursday, they were charged with disorderly conduct Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly sought to draw the line between peaceful demonstrations and actions such as stopping traffic. "This is more than protest, more than free speech," Kelly said. "We're talking about vio- lating the law." ft ' 3SX ROBERT M ECC AThe Associated Press Hundreds of chanting antiwar protesters clog New York's Fifth Avenue on Thursday morning at the beginning of a series of civil disobedience actions planned throughout the day. I Iraqi state television reported that Saddam chaired a meeting of the ruling Baath Partyhis top aides and his son, Qusai. Silent video was shown of another Saddam Hussein meeting of Saddam, Qusai and other party officials; al I A reporter for The Christian Science Monitor was ordered -- - kf:- - I British officials postponed a seaborne relief operation after discovering Iraqi mines in the chan- nel leading to the port of Umm Qasr. Supplies were not expected to reach land until today. I Iraq's health minister said 36 civilians were killed and 215 wounded in U.S. airstrikes on Baghdad a day earlier, and he d forces of deliberaccused ately targeting civilians to break the people's will. U.S.-le- I Marine Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Iraqi troops had executed some American prisoners of it wari An Iraqi government " accused U.S. forces of tak- tag civilians as POWs and mocked coalition leaders over expectations for a swift end to the war. State-mer- ' jmr 4 V 1 --.V PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAISThe Associated Press President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair smile as they face the media following their overnight war summit at Camp David. Blair said the war cannot be run on a time schedule, and, like his American ally, cited military progress made throughout Iraq in eight days. "Coalition forces are within 50 miles of Baghdad," Blair said. "The southern oil fields are secured, the west is protected from external aggression, weVe got forces going into the north." Blair, who weathered heavy political fire at home for his support of the war, said the deliberate pace is partly due to the coalition military strategy He said the coaUtion acted to secure Iraqi oil fields so that future proceeds can be used to rebuild the country, and designed bombing runs to avoid residential areas. The prime minister also indicted Iraq for releasing pictures of "executed British soldiers," saying that, "if anyone heeded any further evidence of the depravity of Saddam's regime, this atrocity provides it" Bush, said some Iraqi troops are subjedto war:crimes tJia dting , , reports that they are murdering zens so they can blame the coalition and are considering the use of cal weapons. Bush said one Iraqi dissident had his tongue cut out and bled to death after being tied to a stake in the town square, adding, "that's how Saddam Hussein retains power." s V of Baghdad. interview. ', - As antiwar sentiment rises in other countries, US. colleges are warning their students studying abroad to avoid demonstrations, street corner debates on U.S. foreign policy and clothes that identify them as Americans. But just to be on the safe side, some are passing themselves off as Canadian. In interviews over the past week, students and faculty overseas said the sentiment they've encountered has been directed at the Bush administration not atUS citizens. "As far as being an American in Italy, I don't in any way feel unsafe," said Christopher Bottom, a junior at Pennsylanti-Americ- an mili-tar- out of Iraq after the Pentagon said he revealed the location of a Marine unit during a television K ' . and Palestinians. But the close allies, taking questions together after talks stretched over two days at the Camp David presidential retreat, said future plans should wait for victory in Iraq. Asked repeatedly whether that could take months, Bush testily replied: "However long it takes to achieve our objective. And thaf s important for you to know, the can people to know, our allies to know, and the Iraqi people to know." Questions about the duration of the war have become louder in recent days, shaped in part by televised y images of increasing civilian and brutal desert and deaths, fighting, the prospect of a long and bloody siege 14h The Associated Press . war. The two leaders also tried to work out differences over how much influence the United Nations should have in Iraq after Saddam Hussein is defeated, officials said. And they worked on a new plan for what some call the real threat to Middle East peace, the conflict between the Israelis Negroponte, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, walked out of a debate on. the Iraqi war after Iraq's, ambassador accused Washington of planning the military assault for years. Representatives of the 15 John Negroponte council mem bers managed to agree on a draft resolution allowing U.N. Secretary-GenerKofi Annan to take control of some aspects of the humanitarian program for 45 (lays. GIEGERICH AP Education Writer - I John advised to keep By STEVE WASHINGTON President Bush, with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at his side, said Thursday that troops would stay in Iraq "however long it takes," even as the allies sought to mend global relations torn by the U.S.-le- demonstrators lined Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and dozens lay down in the street to begin a day of planned civil disobedience actions. About 150 people were arrested. a low profile The Dallas Morning News Infantry Divout from its of chanting antiwar Tony Blair visits By DAVID JACKSON and Texas, to lead a task force of 30,000 troops that will d bolster forces in Iraq. I Hundreds Students abroad Camp David, JIG The first large coalition ground force in northern Iraq, 1,000 Army troops, dug in at an airbase 30 miles south of the Turkish border, where they parachuted in the night before, and prepared for an eventual assault to seize the region's oilfields. I The powerful 4th ision began moving bases in Colorado heading for Kuwait Bush: Troops will stay 'however long it tabes' citi- ' "If he uses weapons of mass "statistics, Fm afraid, never have the destruction, it will just prove our case," same emotional appeal as pictures," he Bush said. "And we will deal with it said that in the last five years, 400,000 We've got one objective in mind. That's Iraqi children younger than 5 have died of preventable disease and malvictory, and well achieve victory." The longer that takes, the more nutrition. While both Bush and Blair face pressure there will be on the American-British alliance already taking political disaster if the war goes poorly, heat from France, Russia, China and the British leader is especially vulnerable because a higher percentage of large segments of their own populations. A long war also risks increasing his constituents currently oppose the war. anger among neighboring Arab Some members of Blair's Labor nations, especially if Israel is somehow drawn into the conflict Party want to make sure the United Both Bush and Blair disputed the Nations, not the United States, is in notion they are alone in the world charge of Iraq. The Unitwhen it comes to confronting Saddam. ed States, meanwhile, is developing its coalition own transitional plan, and both counBush said his is larger than the one that fought the tries must also negotiate the role to be GulfWar in 1991, though he did not played by the Iraqi people and exiles who will want to return. point out that in this case, the United States and Britain are supplying the The United States and Britain are vast bulk of the troops and money. also negotiating with the United Blak admowledged divisions in Nations to use funds from the world opinion, adding: "At the end of Iraqi "oil for food" program to this whole process; we need to go back provide humanitarian aid. White over it and ask why this has hapHouse officials said some UN. members, including France and Russia, pened." He also said objections were have objected to the release of funds understandable because "war is a brubecause of lingering opposition to the tal and a bloody business." But Saddam, he said, defied a dozen war itself Blair has also been more aggressive years of UN. demands to disarm and now represents "fiie dominant security in pushing for a "road map" to revive threat of our time, which is the combinegotiations between the Israelis and nation of weapons of mass destruction Palestinians; the dispute that many m the hands of unstable, repressive analysts say holds the key to a more states and terrorist groups." peaceful Middle East Bush said the allies would soon release a specific Later, he added: 5f we'd backed down and taken no action against Sadplan leading to the creation of a Pales' tinian state. dam, thiiik ofthe sigiid that would j have sent right across the world to more of our coali"History requires tion than the defeat of a terrible danevery brutal dictator, to every terrorist group." ger," Bush said. "I see an opportunity, Blair said the war's constant presas does Prime Minister Blair, to bring ence on television makes it seem renewed hope and progress to the entire Middle East." longer than it has been. Noting that . post-Husse- in anti-Sadda- m long-runni- . vania's Villanova University who is studying in Milan, Back home in New Jersey, Bottom's father, Lou, is a bit more apprehensive. "Am I worried?" he said. "There's no question about it." Like many parents with a child overseas, Bottoni stays -- in touch with his son via cell phone. That technology, along with helps to alleviate the fears of many parents with children overseas, said Carta Slawson, vice president of the Chicago-base- d Institute for International Education of Students a consortium that customizes foreign stud- ies programs for more than 125 top colleges and universities, including Villanova Since the start of the war, the institute has received 43 calls from the parents of the 1,200 students it now has studying abroad. Slawson said the parents asked primarily about the institute's evacuation plans. Foreign students studying in the United States note that parental concern is not limited to American parents. Alp Erdilek's mother called the Arizona State University sophomore from the family home in Turkey like, 50 times a day" last week to check on his safety during a spring break trip. Despite a terrorist alert that has resulted in tightened dormitory security at ASU, who is Turkish and Greek believes he's better off in the United States than Erdilek - in a nation bordering Iraq, t "I think this is the safest place to be right now," he said. Td much rather be here than in Turkey." . , . |
