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Show THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1997 U.S. DIGEST NATION OF ISLAM LEADER TO VISIT IRAQ DURING WORLDWIDE TOUR: Saddam Hussein is more popular in his country than President Clinton is in America, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said yesterday as he prepared to depart on a world tour including a visit to Iraq. Farrakhan will leave today on a 52-nation tour Louis..______.. including stops in Iran, Iraq, China and Cuba. Farrakhan The Muslim leader, interviewed on "Fox - - - - - News Sunday," charged that it was U.S.backed U.N. sanctions and not the actions of Saddam that have caused widespread hardships among the Iraqi people. NASA WEIGHS PROS AND CONS OF SATELLITE RE-RELEASE: While shuttle astronauts did experiments yesterday, NASA was deciding whether it should redeploy a wayward satellite. Mission managers are scheduled to meet today to make a final decision on the satellite that had to be captured by two spacewalking astronauts last week. The central issue is whether Columbia will have enough fuel for another retrieval. REPUBLICANS DECRY RENO APPROACH TO INDEPENDENT COUNSEL: In an advance attack, Republican leaders predicted yesterday that Attorney General Janet Reno would recommend against naming an independent counsel to investigate President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, and charged that she would use a legal technicality to justify that fan et Reno decision. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch said Reno could " hide" behind definitions of the law, but would not obscure the need to investigate alleged fund raising violations. THE NATION n33 The U.N. hints at food-for-oil increase in Iraq WASHINGTON (AP) - Top U.S. and U.N. officials toned down their angry rhetoric against Baghdad yesterday, speaking not of air strikes or Iraqi "human shields" but of using diplomacy to resolve a dispute with Saddam Hussein over weapons inspections and of easing hunger in Iraq. As Iraqi demonstrators accused the West of starving Iraq's children, Ambassador Bill Richardson, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan both voiced a willingness to improve the flow of food and medicine to Baghdad as soon as this week. The powerful U.S. force on patrol in the Gulf will remain as long as President Clinton considers it necessary, Richardson said. But he also made it clear that the U.S. priority is keeping the dispute on a diplomatic level, even if it means putting up with temporary Iraqi obstructionism. "We're not going to put any artificial deadlines," Richardson said on NBC's "Meet the Press, " when asked how long the United States would tolerate Saddam's refusal to fully comply with U.N. resolutions. "Our policy has been steady, it's been measured ... we want diplomacy to work." In an appearance on CNN's "Late Edition" Richardson said that with U.N. weapons inspectors to Iraq, "The situation has eased." Two U.N. weapons inspectors load equipment into a car yesterday as they begin to drive to an lraqui site to be inspected. Richardson said that the Clinton administration is willing to consider boosting the food and medicine flowing to Iraq through a program that allows the Baghdad government to sell oil for humanitarian supplies. And he said that decision would have nothing to do with Saddam 's opposition to allowing a U.N. weapons team to inspect scores of presidential palaces for evidence of Iraqi chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs. Annan, however, said the U.N., not Iraq, controls the food aid. I THE WORLD I WORLD DIGEST TOP EXPERT SAYS U.S. PLAN INADEQUATE, AS 'WARMEST' YEAR NEARS END: The chief scientist responsible for alerting the world to global warming, Bert Bolin, said yesterday in Kyoto, Japan that the Clinton administration's intentions may be good but its ideas for dealing with the threat fall short of what's needed. The Swedish Bert Bolin climate scientist, in an interview on the eve of - - - - - final negotiations to combat global warming, ~1so noted that 1997 will end up as the planet's warmest year m more than a century of record-keeping. DEEPENING POLITICAL CRISIS PARALYZES PAKISTAN: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif made a defiant television address to the nation yesterday, accusing both the chief justice and president of conspiring to bring down his embattled 10-month-old government. It was the latest angry charge in an escalating political feud that has pit~ed the prime minister against the chief justice, divided the legislature and supreme court, drawn in the president and put the army chief in the unlikely and unsuccessful role of peacemaker. ISRAELI COURT EXTENDS DETENTION OF U .S. TEEN WANTED FOR MURDER: An Israeli court yesterday ordered a Maryland teen ager accused in a brutal killing in the United States to be held for 15 more days while officials decide whether to extradite him . Israel's Justice Ministry must decide whether to meet a U.S. request to send 17-year-old Samuel Sheinbein Samuel back to the United States for prosecution . Sheinbein Sheinbein is accused of killing Alfred Tello, 19, in Maryland in September, then fleeing to Israel. Cabinet votes to approve withdrawal But Hanan Ashrawi, a minister in Arafat's JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's Cabinet voted Cabinet, rejected Israel setting any conditions yesterday to go forward with a promised troop for a withdrawal promised in agreements withdrawal from the West Bank - but set no already signed by Netanyahu's government. date and made the pullout conditional on "We are not willing to accept unilateral Israeli Palestinians doing more to fight terrorism. measures," she told CNN. Sixteen Cabinet ministers approved the move, A statement issued by the Israeli Cabinet and two abstained. The ministers made no indicated it decision about would carry out the extent of the just one withdrawal. redeployment Critics have - rather than said that adding the three conditions gives promised in the Islamic militants existing Israel a chance to Palestinian scuttle the agreements. pullout by The staging attacks statement also in Israel - as ~ said Israel they have done ~would continue in the past, §" strengthening" prompting Prime ~its settlements Minister ~in the West Benjamin ~ Bank, despite Netanyahu to ~ condemnations halt peace talks by both the temporarily. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens a cabinet Palestinians and "It's meeting yesterday to discuss Israeli withdrawal of troops. the United encouraging to States. finally see the Cabinet Secretary Danny Naveh said Israeli government decide to abide by the agreements that we spent a long time with them Netanyahu, Foreign Minister David Levy, to reach," said Marwan Kanafani, a spokesman Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai and Infrastructure Minister Ariel Sharon would for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to The meet soon to come up with an exact plan for the Associated Press. withdrawal and for beginning talks with the Kanafani said the Palestinians would have to Palestinian government on a final and effective "wait and see" what kind of conditions Israel peace settlement. attached to the withdrawal. |