News brief
CODAC sponsors
diversity war workshop
Members of the University commu
nity have held a wide sampling of
events relating to the war in Iraq, but
tonight, the University Center on Di
versity and Community hopes to offer
a fresh way of looking at the broader
context of how the war impacts peo
ple’s lives and society as a whole.
CODAC is sponsoring “Local Faces,
Global Fates,” a workshop dealing with
diversity and the war on terrorism, to
day at 7 p.m. in the Gerlinger Lounge.
Session topics will include media
representation of Arabic people, dif
ferent impacts of war on American
people of color, recreating places of
community and the case of Marine
Lance Gpl. Stephen Funk — a mul
ti-ethnic gay man who is the first
known objector to the war.
Session speakers include journalism
Associate Professor Debra Merskin, law
Associate Professor Steve Bender and
ethnic studies Professor Nerissa Balce.
The event is free. For information,
call 346-3212.
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Campus buzz
i nursaay
"Surviving Greatness: Elizabeth Tudor
and Granuaile O'Malley" (Learning in
Retirement Premier Presentation: Thel
ma Greenfield, English emerita), 1:30
3:30 p.m., Alaska/Mexico/Canada Room,
Baker Downtown Center, 975 High St.,
free, 346-0697.
John Cooper (guest speaker, sponsored
by English Department), 3:30-5 p.m.,
Gerlinger Lounge.
Scandinavian folk dance (Norwegian
Instructor Linda Gunn coordinates a
one-hour workshop followed by a one
hour mixer), 7-9 p.m., Sons of Norway
Lodge, 1836 Alder St., free, 346-4053.
"Body, Space and Cinema" (lecture with
visiting artist Scott Snibbe), 7 p.m., 240A
McKenzie, 346-3610.
Movie Night (Japanese Student Organi
zation), 7-10 p.m., 123 Pacific.
David Bradley (author reading), 8 p.m.,
Knight Library Browsing Room, free,
346-0509.
Crime watch
Theft and
recoveries
The Department of Public Safe
ty received five bike theft reports
from Hamilton Complex, Ger
linger Annex, the Student Recre
ation Center, Walton Complex
and PIC. DPS also received five
found-property reports and two
reports of burglary.
Wednesday* April 16, 9:35
DPS received a report of a
stolen statue from the front of
Lawrence Hall.
Monday* April 21, 8:06
a.m.: DPS received a report of
stolen computer monitor from
the EMU.
Disorderly
conduct
DPS received four graffiti re
ports, two suspicious vehicle re
ports, two graffiti reports and
one stunt skating report.
Friday, April 18,8:07 a.m.:
DPS received a report of cut
cords on the vending machines
on the first floor of Pacific Halt.
Alcohol and
drugs
DPS received six reports of
drug law violations and two re
ports of liquor-law violations.
Sunday, April 20, 5:05
p.m.: DPS received a report of a
confiscated marijuana pipe
at Hamilton.
Miscellaneous
DPS received nine towing- or
traffic-related reports and one
injury report at the Student
Recreation Center.
Thursday, April 17, 5:03
p.m»: DPS received a report of a
power outage on campus.
Thursday, April 17, 5:05
p.m.: DPS received a report of a
female staff member stuck in an
elevator at Straub Hall.
Eric Seals Detroit Free Press
The main control room at the Baghdad power plant is busy Tuesday. Residents are
frustrated with the slow process of the whole city coming back online.
Sanctions
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transactions with Iraq.
The French envoy said weapons
sanctions would remain in effect un
til Iraqi disarmament could be veri
fied. Those sanctions limit Iraq’s ac
quisition of biological and chemical
weapons and other systems, such as
medium-range missiles.
The issue of whether U.N.
weapons inspectors should return
to Iraq remains crucial. Under Se
curity Council resolutions imposed
after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990,
U.N. sanctions cannot be suspend
ed until U.N. inspectors say that
Iraqi chemical and biological
weapons, and missiles to deliver
them, have been destroyed.
U.S. troops have scoured Iraq for
the weapons of mass destruction
that President Bush repeatedly de
clared were stockpiled there, to no
avail so far.
The chief U.N. weapons inspec
tor, Hans Blix, leveled withering
criticism at the Bush administra
tion Tuesday, suggesting that Wash
ington and London built their case
to attack Iraq last month on
“shaky” evidence.
“Of course, it is conspicuous that
so far they (coalition forces) have not
stumbled upon anything,” Blix said,
adding that a renewed role for U.N.
inspectors would give an “imprint of
... independence” to the hunt.
But several Bush administration
spokesmen said the Security
Council could vote to lift sanctions
on Iraq without deploying weapons
inspectors.
“The Security Council has the au
thority to decide what to do,” said
State Department spokesman
Richard Boucher, who added that
Iraq remains too perilous to allow
roving U.N. teams.
A spokesman for U.S. Ambassador
to the United Nations John Negro
ponte, Richard Grennell, said, “We
see no immediate role for Dr. Blix
and the (U.N. inspections) team.”
The Pentagon has recruited cur
rent and former American, British
and Australian U.N. inspectors to
form a unit that would verify any
weapons found.
The Security Council is likely to
decide in the next several weeks on
an on-the-ground authority in Iraq
that would be responsible for the re
sumption of oil pumping and then
for oil sales.
The United Nations’ oil-for-food
program, which oversees the pump
ing and sale of Iraqi oil, was suspend
ed before the war, and U.N. Secre
tary-General Kofi Annan was given
temporary authority to spend for hu
manitarian needs some #10 billion
in oil proceeds that had been held in
escrow from previous sales.
© 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services. Knight Ridder
Newspapers correspondent Jessica
Guynn contributed to this report