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IN BRIEF Wyden sponsored bill approved in Senate WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Sen ate on Wednesday approved a plan aimed at imposing new restrictions on visitors to U.S. allies such as France and Germany. The legislation, proposed by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., would re quire the State Department to certify that 27 close U.S. allies are taking steps to fingerprint and photograph foreign visitors to their countries. The nations all participate in a visa waiver pro gram, which allows their citizens to enter the United States without a visa. The amendment was included in a massive bill to reorganize the U.S. in telligence community to address the Sept. 11 Commission’s complaints that the nation’s spy agencies don’t work together properly to deter ter rorist attacks. The bill, approved 96-2, would cre ate a national counterterrorism center and also a position of national intelli gence director. That director would co ordinate most of the nation’s nonmili tary intelligence agencies. The bill also includes four amend ments pushed by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., to reform the intelligence classification system; improve over sight on data-mining of Americans’ personal information in federal agen cies; and increase consumer protec tion measures related to airline safety and passenger rights. Wyden, a member of the Senate In telligence Committee, said the amend ments strike a balance between pursu ing terrorists aggressively and protecting the safety and privacy rights of American citizens. “The Senate’s overhaul of America’s intelligence system now includes some critical provisions showing that you can preserve national security while safeguarding individuals’ civil liber ties,” he said. Cantwell said her amendment would close a loophole in border secu rity that nearly allowed convicted ter rorist Ahmed Ressam to enter the Unit ed States with falsified documents. Ressam is the Algerian national who tried to enter the United States in De cember 1999 from Canada with explo sives intended for a terrorist attack on Los Angeles International Airport. “This legislation is an important tool in strengthening our border secu rity by setting the same high security standards we have in the United States for our friends and allies abroad,” Cantwell said. “Think of this as a way to create a secure buffer zone that will help prevent terrorists from ever reaching the U.S. border, which is the best way to prevent ter rorism in the United States. ” As originally proposed, Cantwell’s amendment would have required that U.S. allies develop within two years a system to fingerprint and pho tograph foreign visitors who need visas to enter those countries. The language was weakened during Sen ate debate to require merely that the State Department report to Congress by late 2006 on steps the 27 nations are taking to require such “biomet ric” information from visitors. American student studying abroad assualted JALAPA, Mexico — An American student doing research in eastern Mex ico was hospitalized in serious but sta ble condition Wednesday after he was stabbed seven times at his apartment in this central Mexico city. Mark Delrimple, a Colorado native and geography student at the Center for Earth Sciences at the University of Veracruz, was stabbed by an intruder late Tuesday in his apartment near the university during an apparent robbery. The attack damaged the victim's internal organs, according to Dr. Mar tin Bendimez, assistant director of the Zone 11 General Hospital in Jala pa, the capital of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. After the stabbing, Delrimple walked to the home of a neighbor who called the police and paramedics. Para medics applied first aid and took him to the hospital. Bendimez said Delrimple had been upgraded from critical to seri ous condition after he improved sig nificantly and was able to breathe without assistance. A spokesperson for the Jalapa prose cutors' office said authorities are have identified a suspect, but that no arrests had been made. A knife believed to have been used in the stabbing was left at the scene of the crime, the spokesperson said, and items were taken from a neighbor's apartment in the same building. Health concerns force king to step down PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cam bodia’s King Norodom Sihanouk abdi cated Thursday because of poor health and asked the people of Cambodia to begin a search for a successor, the head of the National Assembly said. The king made the announcement in a letter from Beijing. The note was read to the National Assembly early Thursday by his son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who is also head of the assembly. The news “was shocking and very regretful,” the prince said. The king asked the country to form a throne council — a nine-member panel — to consider choosing the next monarch, the statement said. Although Cambodia’s monarch is not selected according to heredity, the candidate must have a royal bloodline. Ranariddh has been considered a candidate for the throne in the past, but has said he is not interested in be coming the country’s next monarch. In a letter read on state television late Wednesday, the king asked that he be allowed to “retire” because of his fragile health, saying that doctors have detected a “new and serious ailment” in his stomach. The letter did not elab orate. Transfer Module might ease transfers to OUS universities The possible one-year program would give students the chance to earn credits they can later transfer MORIAH BALINGIT NEWS REPORTER The Oregon University System’s Interinstitutional Faculty Senate joined representatives from state community colleges Wednesday to discuss a proposal that would make it easier for transfer students from community colleges to fulfill their general education requirements at universities and colleges statewide. 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