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Nation & world briefing U.S. backs off demand for U.N. war resolution j Diego Ibarguen and Warren P. Strobel Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) WASHINGTON — In an effort to win U.N. Security Council support, the United States is backing down from its demands that a new U.N. resolution must authorize military force against Iraq if Baghdad does not abide by new weapons inspections rules. The new U.S. approach could de lay, possibly significantly, the Penta gon’s timetable for war, both because of the time it would take for inspec tors to do their work, and for the diplomatic process should the in spection effort fail. The U.S. retreat suggests that the Bush administration is anxious to preserve a multilateral approach to Iraq, as Secretary of State Colin Pow ell lias advocated, rather than risk g< > ing it alone, the course favored by Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald II. Rumsfeld. Under compromise language put forward by the United States, Iraq would face unspecified serious con sequences if it failed to comply with stiff requirements for the new U.N. inspections regime. But, in a major change of approach demanded by France, Iraqi noncom pliance would not automatically give the United States a green light to launch an invasion and oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, several Western diplomats said. Instead, the U.N. Security Council would hold additional meetings and perhaps pass a new resolution au thorizing the use of force. It remains unclear whether Bush could or would launch military action while U.N. diplomats are debating. One U.S. official said the proposal would not limit the United States from acting on its own, noting that the wording of the resolution would make it “quite clear that the Council h#thdo nothing more.” But a European diplomat in New York called it unlikely. “I don’t see them going (to war) by themselves in the middle of these two steps. That d< Hasn't make sense,” said the diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymi ty. France’s initial reaction to the U.S. concession was positive suggesting agreement on the new approach to Iraq could come soon. Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov welcomed the new proposal and said Powell told him it would be formally submitted soon. “We believe that there are favorable conditions now to pre serve the unity of the global communi ty and ensure the return of internation al inspectors and their efficient work in Iraq,” Ivanov said in Moscow. Ambassadors from the five perma nent members of the U.N. Security Council — the United States, China, Russia, Britain and France—were to meet Friday in New York to hammer out a final deal, before sharing the document with the council’s 10 non permanent members. “Everything should go quickly now,” the European diplomat said. U.S. officials portrayed the out come as a victory for their demand that Iraq submit to unfettered in to eliminate its nuclear, weapons or mi Information Services. Scientists find new incur David Perlman San Francisco Chronicle Kill4 Charles Townes, the University of Califomia-Berkeley Nobel Prize physi cist, was flying at 41,000 feet aboard a NASA plane 20 years ago, on the hunt for evidence that a monstrously pow erful black hole was lurking in the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. With him on those flights was his German postdoctoral student, Rein hard Genzel, and a team of other sci entists trying to discover whether the invisible object was gulping entire stars and cosmic gases under the tug of its own irresistible gravity. If that “supermassive” black hole did exist, Townes and Genzel knew, it would provide an extraordinary op portunity to study the dynamics of gravitational forces and the behavior of matter under those immense pres sures, and could also help clarify many aspects of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Thursday, Genzel, together with more than 20 other astronomers and physicists, are reporting they have finally found the strongest evi dence yet that indeed a dense black hole, more than 3 million times as massive as our sun, does exist at the center of the Milky Way. After tracking the paths of several stars in the vicinity of the presumed black hole for the past 10 years, Gen zel’s team discovered last spring that at least one bright star is clearly hurtling in an orbit that could ulti mately end in the star’s violent death within the black hole. “It was one of those ‘wow’ experi ences you rarely have as a scientist, but which makes being a researcher so rewarding,” said Genzel, now a profes sor at the Max Planck Institute for Ex traterrestrial Physics in Germany, but who spends a quarter of each year as a physics professor at Berkeley. His group’s discovery is being reported in - Lecture 5eries - ^)\xty Years of Asian Studies at the (Jniversittj of Oregon: 19+2—2002 “~phe (Jnited States in Kprea, 19+^~2002: An jnejuiry into f"i (story and Memory” Bruce Cumings, Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History, University of Chicago Friday, October 18, 2002, 4:00 p.m. (Reception to follow) Willamette Hall, Room 110 This lecture series is cosponsored by the Asian Studies Program and the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. Generous funding has been provided by Admiral David E. Jeremiah and Mrs. Connie Jeremiah. For more information, call (541) 346-1521 or visit our website at www.uoregon.edu/~caps. o UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature. The star appears to be speeding around the black hole at more than 3,000 miles a second at a dis tance roughly equal to the diame ter of Earth’s solar system, he said. It will take about 15.2 years to complete its current orbit. The mystery object at the very center of the Milky Way, surrounded by bursts of radio noise, is known as SgA because it appears to lie in the southern hemisphere constellation Sagittarius (“The Archer”). Although such black holes have long been suspected in the centers of many other far-off galaxies, the exis tence of a “supermassive” black hole in our own Milky Way has been high ly controversial. But this new evi dence from Genzel’s group “makes it very difficult for anyone to say it’s not a black hole, and the doubters will now have to give up their doubts,” Townes said. 015075 ENVIRONMENT PROZANSKI SUPPORTS: Democrat for State Representative' DISTRICT 8 • Clean land, air, and water •Hold polluters accountable • Stop urban sprawl. 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