By The
Associated Press
Edited by Jennifer Mlratsky
News Digest
Iraq fails to meet
disarmament goals
UNITED NATIONS — In a
blow to Iraq’s campaign to ease
crippling economic sanctions, the
top U.N. weapons inspector is re
porting that Baghdad seems to be
pursuing a germ warfare capabil
ity.
The report by Rolf Ekeus was
distributed to members of the Se
curity Council on Monday. The
council was scheduled to discuss it
Wednesday.
Russia and France have pressed
the council to ease sanctions on
Iraq. But first, U.N. inspectors have
to report that Iraq has helped de
stroy its long-range missiles and
other weapons of mass destruc
tion.
That’s one of the conditions in
the Security Council’s resolution
ending the 1991 Gulf War. Eco
nomic sanctions, including a ban
on oil sales that has wrecked Iraq’s
economy, were imposed after its
1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Ekeus already has said Iraq
failed to accounted for 17 tons of
material that can be used to breed
bacteria.
In Iraq last month, officials told
Ekeus the material was for medi
cal use.
According to a diplomat who
read the document, Ekeus’ report
said his inspection team “has come
to the conclusion that Iraq has not
provided the full and comprehen
sive disclosure of its past military
biological program nor accounted
for items and materials acquired
for this program.”
“With Iraq’s failure to account
for the use of these items and ma
terials for legitimate purposes, the
only conclusion that can be drawn
is that there is a high risk that they
have been purchased and used for
a proscribed purpose — acquisi
tion of biological warfare agents,”
the report said.
Magazine cover upsets
some Christian groups
NEW YORK — A New Yorker
cover depicting a business-suited
Easter Bunny crucified on a tax form
has upset some Christians.
William Donohue, president of the
Catholic League for Religious and
Civil Rights, said Monday that the
illustration is insulting to Christians
and “particularly outrageous” during
the week leading up to Easter Sun
day.
The illustration, by cartoonist Art
Spiegelman, shows a white rabbit in
a suit and tie. He is in a crucifixion
pose — arms extended, head sag
ging, legs together. His pockets are
pulled inside out to signify his penury.
The image is superimposed on one of
Form 1040A. The title: “Theology of
the Tax Cut.”
In a statement, Spiegelman said
his drawing was inspired by the fact
that April 15 falls this year on Holy
Saturday, the day before Easter.
“As a citizen, I don’t actually be
lieve we are too highly taxed (al
though I believe our taxes are not
being well used). Nor, as a grownup,
do I believe in the Easter Bunny,”
Spiegelman said. “But, as a cartoon
ist, I believe in the power of images
to provoke thought.”
Two years ago, Spiegelman’s
Valentine’s Day cover of a Hasidic
"... (A)s a cartoonist, I
believe in the power of
images to provoke
thought. ”
■
ART SPIEGELMAN
cover illustrator
Jew kissing a black woman provoked
anger among members of both groups.
“The New Yorker could have en
gaged in legitimate criticism of those
pundits who treat tax cuts reveren
tially without simultaneously offend
ing Christians,” Donohue said in a
statement. “That it chose not to do so
shows not merely poor taste, it shows
flat disregard for the sensibilities of
Christians.”
Officials of several other Chris
tian groups either had not seen the
cover or had no immediate comment
on it.
In a statement, the weekly maga
zine described the drawing as “a
pointed allegory about faith, fantasy
and the politics of the moment.”
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Arafat takes tough stance,
arrests Islamic militants
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — In a
move that could push Palestinians
closer to civil war, Yasser Arafat
cracked down on Islamic militants
Monday after suicide bombings killed
seven Israelis and an American col
lege student.
Arafat’s security forces arrested
112 followers of Hamas and the
smaller Islamic Jihad group after
Sunday’s deadly back-to-back bomb
ings near two Jewish settlements in
the PLO-ruled Gaza Strip.
Washington applauded Arafat’s
tough stance.
“We expect the Palestinian au
thority to take this type of concrete
action against those within its juris
diction who seek to destroy the peace
process through acts of violence and
terror,’’ said State Department spokes
woman Christine Shelly.
But angry Islamic militant leaders
raised the specter of civil war, appar
ently trying to force Arafat to back
down.
“If he (Arafat) practices this be
havior, we will defend ourselves by
all means,” warned Mahmoud Zahar,
a leader of Hamas, the most powerful
group opposing the faltering Israel
PLO accord.
Despite the tensions and anger,
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
told negotiators to resume talks with
the Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion. The peace talks concern arrang
ing Palestinian elections and an Is
raeli troop pullback to ullow Pales
tinian self-rule in the West Bank.
The bombings wounded more than
40 people. The dead included Alisa
M. Flatow, a 20-year-old junior at
Brandeis University on vacation for
Passover. She was wounded in the
head while traveling to a beach resort
at a Jewish settlement in the Gaza
Strip.
After doctors declared her brain
dead, Alisa’s father Steve authorized
an operation to remove organs for
donation. In a statement, he said his
daughter loved Israel and “her last
ing contribution to the people of Is
rael is that her organs were donated
for the saving of lives in need.”
The mood in Israel was somber
with funerals held for the vctims.
“Stop killing the soldiers,” wailed
Pnina Regev as the body of her son,
Staff Sgt. Yuval Regev, was carried
on a jeep to a cemetery south of Tel
Aviv for burial.
Arafat’s police chief, Maj. Gen.
Nasr Yousef, said more militants
would be rounded up and some would
be put on trial.
A military court convened in a
hastily arranged all-night session
Monday. The three-judge panel im
posed a 15-year sentence on an Is
lamic Jihad activist for recruiting
suicide bombers.
It was the first time a militant had
been sentenced to jail, and Palestin
ian sources said Islamic Jihad leader
Sheik Abdallah Shami would be next
to stand trial.' J '
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Georgia Democrat switches parties
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Rep. Nathan Deal, a conservative Demo
crat who often voted with the Republicans, switched to the GOP on
Monday, just three months after pledging to resign if he changed
parties midterm.
Deal becomes the third Democrat in Congress to switch since the
Republicans seized control of both chambers in the Nov. 8 election.
The others were Sens. Richard Shelby of Alabama and Ben Nighthorse
Campbell of Colorado.
“During the last 100 days, I have observed my party at the national
level simply not be willing to admit that they are out of touch with
mainstream America,” said Deal, a former state senator elected to a
second House term in November.
Deal, 52, represents a northern Georgia district that is 95 percent
white and heavily Republican. It also abuts the district of House
Speaker Newt Gingrich, architect of the Republican takeover.
“There’s no question we strongly endorse him and are delighted...”
Gingrich said at a luncheon in Atlanta on Monday.
The switch came three months after Deal told WSB radio, “If I
choose to switch during the term, I think the honest thing to do is to
resign and have a special election.”
Deal did not immediately return a call seeking comment on that
statement.
Deal’s move increases the Republicans’ House majority to 231-203,
with one independent.
“I hope this is the last of the Newtniks in the party,” said Rep.
Cynthia McKinney, one of Georgia’s three Democratic representa
tives.
It was not immediately clear, how
ever, whether the sweep was win
dow-dressing or whether Arafat meant
business this time. The arrests tar
geted prayer leaders, intellectuals and
political activists while the under
ground gunmen remained at large.
Islamic militants were defiant
Monday.
“(Arafat) will face a popular up
rising against his behavior toward the
holy fighters,” Zahar added.
Zahar said all contacts between
the Palestinian authority and the Is
lamic groups broke Off last Week:
U.S. produces
the most waste
WASHINGTON — This country
probably produces more waste than
any other in history, a private group
says.
A study of the environment in nine
ofthe world’s leading industrial coun
tries found the situation worse in all
of them over the past two decades —
most of all in France, and least in
Denmark.
“The United States is arguably the
most wasteful — that is, waste-gen
erating — society in human history.”
said the report made public Monday
by the National Center for Economic
Alternatives, a private group funded
by American foundations.
This is due to the huge size of the
U.S. economy. For example, Ameri
can families and small business pro
duce 180 million metric tons of city
waste a year, more than all the coun
tries of western Europe together.
The report took official statistics
from the nine countries on 21 differ
ent causes of change in the environ
ment, including emissions from au
tos and factories and the use of chemi
cal fertilizers by farmers. It com
bined the figures to produce a single
“Index of Environmental Trends.”
“Overall, environmental trends in
the United States, although not as
sharply negative as in France and
Canada, have been negative and
somewhat worse than in western Eu
rope and Japan,” the report said.
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