| Global update |
Today Tuesday Wednesday
High: 55
Low: 50
Precip: 30%
High: 56
Low: 37
Precip: 20%
High: 57
Low: 41
Precip: 80%
IN BRIEF
Captives in Afghanistan
plead for release
KABUL, Afghanistan — Militants re
leased a video Sunday showing three
frightened foreign U.N. hostages
pleading for their release and threat
ened to kill them unless U.N. and
British troops leave Afghanistan and
Muslim prisoners are freed from U.S.
jails. In the tape, the hostages — An
netta Flanigan of Northern Ireland, Fil
ipino diplomat Angelito Nayan and
Shqipe Habibi of Kosovo — are shown
sitting hunched together against the
bare wall of a room in an undisclosed
location. The three answered ques
tions from someone who is speaking
to them in broken English from off
camera.
Unigain election results
suggest regional shift
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Left
ist candidate Tabare Vazquez de
clared victory in Uruguay’s presi
dential election Sunday after exit
polls showed him surging past two
rivals with a majority of the votes,
apparently aligning this small South
American country with a region
wide political shift leftward.
Victory for the 64-year-old Vazquez,
who would become the first leftist
president in Uruguayan history, would
add the nation to Argentina, Brazil,
and Venezuela as countries where left
ist or center-left leaders came to power
on public disenchantment with finan
cial turmoil and with U.S.-backed free
market economic policies.
— The Associated Press
[ ELECTION 2004
States to decide on gay marriage
Eleven states have proposed state constitutional amendments
prohibiting same-sex marriage on their Nov. 2 ballots. Gay marriage
is not legal in the states where the issue is on the ballot, but
amendment supporters want to guard against future court rulings.
State constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage
BHI Will vote Nov. ? L" 1 Adopted r 1 Adopted
in previous years tins year
Tee time
942-8730
No tee times
484-1927
STUDENT SPECIAL
GOLF 9 HOLES $8
SECOND 9 HOLES $4
Students Only. Must show ID. (Monday - Friday)
your
trip
now!
Some .
belong on
Honolulu
$734
>> 5 nights at Mark Suites in
Waikiki
Ccincun $625
» 7 nights at the Sobenanis
r
Subject to change and
availability. Taxes and
gther applicable fees not
included. Fares include
roundtrip airfare from
Portland. Prices are
based on quad
occupancy.
877 1/2 Ease 13th St.
(541)344.2263
Daytona Beach $632
» 7 nights at the Oceanside Inn
STA
TRAVEL
www.statravel.com
STUDENT TRAVEL & BEVQND
Chechen warlord says war
against Russia a possibility
Shamil Basayev, who admits he is responsible for past
terror attacks, seeks to 'defend freedom' through war
BY MARA D. BELLABY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW — Chechen warlord
Shamil Basayev, who claimed re
sponsibility for last month's Beslan
school hostage-taking, warned Sun
day that he was ready to fight Rus
sia for a decade and insisted civil
ians remained a fair target.
But Basayev also said the rebels
would observe “international law”
if Russia also made such a commit
ment. The Chechens have accused
the Russians of human rights viola
tions and war crimes.
“If (President Vladimir) Putin
doesn't want peace, we'll wait until
he leaves or if we can we'll send
him directly to hell,” Basayev said in
an interview published on Chechen
press.com, a Chechen Web site.
“Five years of war have gone quick
ly, another five or ten years will go
just as fast.”
Basayev has claimed responsibili
ty for some of the most audacious
terror attacks inside Russia, includ
ing the Sept. 1-3 hostage-taking in
North Ossetia, which left more than
330 people dead, half of them chil
dren. The Federal Security Service
has offered a reward of $10.3 million
for information that could help
“neutralize” him.
The interview dated from Oct. 14
featured Basayev's responses to e
mail questions posed by Toronto’s
Globe and Mail newspaper to another
Chechen Web site, the site said. There
was no way to independently confirm
the authenticity of the interview.
“Our aim isn't to kill people, espe
cially children, but to stop the geno
cide of the Chechen people and de
fend freedom and independence,”
Basayev reportedly wrote. “There
fore, we are forced to resort to ex
tremes, which we are not ourselves
happy with.”
Basayev said that “if Putin would
begin to observe international law,
then we would automatically begin
to observe it.” He added that such a
move would “even be advantageous
for us,” but stressed the rebels
wouldn’t do that “unilaterally.”
He also insisted that most
Chechen rebels fight independently
in small groups and organize their
own financing, saying that his pres
ence in Chechnya was rarely re
quired. In 2003, Basayev said he
was only in Chechnya for two
weeks “and the majority of the mu
jahadeen didn't even notice.”
Meanwhile, a car bomb exploded
Sunday outside the Chechen capi
tal's main hospital, injuring 17 peo
ple in an attack that apparently tar
geted members of a Chechen
security force bringing their wound
ed for treatment after an earlier ex
plosion, officials said.
The first explosion struck a vehi
cle carrying the Chechen security
troops on a highway in the outskirts
of the capital, Grozny, Federal Secu
rity Service spokesman Maj. Gen.
Ilya Shabalkin said on Russia's NTV
television.
Then, as the injured were being
taken into Grozny's hospital No. 9,
a second car exploded outside the
building, he said.
Tehran's atomic activities
continue with passage of bill
The government will resume uranium enrichment,
although pressure to suspend the process grows
BY ALI AKBAR DAREINI
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TEHRAN, Iran — Defiant law
makers shouting “Death to Ameri
ca” unanimously voted Sunday to
approve the outline of a bill requir
ing the government to resume ura
nium enrichment, a move likely to
deepen an international dispute
over Tehran’s atomic activities.
Nevertheless, Iran’s top nuclear
negotiator, Hossein Mousavian,
told The Associated Press in an ex
clusive interview that a compro
mise could still be reached with
European negotiators to avert the
risk of U.N. sanctions.
Britain, France and Germany have
offered Iran a trade deal and peaceful
nuclear technology — including a
light-water research reactor — in re
turn for assurances Iran would indefi
nitely stop enriching uranium. Urani
um enriched to a low level can be
used to produce nuclear fuel, but if
enriched further it can be used to
make nuclear weapons.
While lawmakers were discussing
the bill, Mousavian ruled out an in
definite suspension of enrichment
activities. But he suggested Iran
would consider halting the building
of more nuclear facilities, which it
would need to produce enough fuel
for additional power plants.
Washington has accused Iran of
trying to build atomic weapons and
has pushed for the case to be referred
to the U.N. Security Council for possi
ble sanctions if Tehran doesn’t give
up all uranium-enrichment activities
before a Nov. 25 meeting of the Inter
national Atomic Energy Agency, the
U.N.’s nuclear watchdog.
“I see the chance of a compro
mise before November as 50-50,”
Mousavian told the AP.
“We have rejected two possibilities:
IRAN, page 10A
CIP FOOTBALL RAFFLE
FOOTBALL AUTOGRAPHED BY
THE 2000 DUCKS TEAM
Raffle Tickets $1
All proceeds benefit CIP’s Building Blocks Program, which
educates 5th graders on the importance of higher education.
Tickets on sale^Tig^ Nov. Pr, 9-I lam,
tomorrow, Nov. 2nd, 11 am-I pm by the EMU ticket booth
Community
Internship
Program
020610