U.N. Chief calls for tighter
nudear materials controls
ElBaradei urges Iran to suspend uranium enrichment,
North Korea to dismantle nuclear weapons program
BY EDITH M. LEDERER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED NATIONS — The chief
of the United Nations nuclear
agency urged Iran and North Korea
on Monday to prove their nuclear
programs are peaceful and called for
tighter controls to halt the globe’s
"illicit market” in nuclear materials.
In his annual report to the U.N.
General Assembly, Mohamed ElBa
radei said Iran should suspend its
uranium enrichment program “as a
confidence building measure” and
North Korea should dismantle its
nuclear weapons program or allow
inspections to ensure it is peaceful.
ElBaradei, who heads the Interna
tional Atomic Energy Agency, also
stressed the importance of resuming
U.N. nuclear inspections in Iraq “as
soon as the security situation per
mits” to ensure that items with both
civilian and military applications are
not being misused.
He told the General Assembly
that “the most disturbing lesson”
from the revelation of nuclear pro
grams in Iran and Libya was “the
existence of an extensive illicit mar
ket for the supply of nuclear items.”
“The relative ease with which a
multinational illicit network could
be set up and operated demon
strates clearly the inadequacy of the
present export system,” he said.
ElBaradei noted that current con
trols on exports of nuclear materials
aren’t binding, don’t include many
countries with growing industrial
activities and don’t require sharing
information with his agency.
“It is very serious,” he said after
ward. “We’re talking about 25 to 30
companies involved with this in at
least 20 to 30 countries — not with
the knowledge of their governments
— but it shows that there is a lot of
cracks in this export control regime
which we need to fix quite soon. ”
For now, the most pressing issue
before the nuclear agency is what to
do about Iran’s moves to enrich ura
nium. The agency’s board of gover
nors will decide on the next steps
when it meets Nov. 25 at its head
quarters in Vienna, Austria, to con
sider a report ElBaradei is writing.
Britain, Germany and France
have warned that most European
countries would back the United
States’ call to refer Iran to the U.N.
Security Council if the Iranian gov
ernment does not abandon all en
richment activities by Nov. 25.
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Colin Elliott, a senior history major, has spent every Monday morning for the last four
weeks participating as an undecided voter on a segment of MSNBC LIVE.
Undecided: University
student says farewell to blog
Continued from page 1
page as the campaigns cascaded to
ward today’s election.
Voters in swing states may hold
the key to victory in this highly con
tentious election, which is a main
reason the network asked Elliott to
participate. But, Elliott said swing
voters — especially college students
— were rare to begin with and are
quickly dwindling.
“I’ve found that being undecided,
it’s a pretty hot commodity, I
guess,” Elliott said.
And the numbers seem to back
him up. According to results of a
CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll re
leased Monday, out of likely voters
only 3 percent reported they were
completely undecided about who to
vote for.
Elliott also said he was chosen for
the shows because he brought a
new viewpoint to the table. “That’s
not any kind of skill set I have, but
it’s more the viewpoint that I
brought because I brought a third
party viewpoint, and in this election
it’s all been Bush, Kerry, Bush, Ker
ry, Bush, Kerry, Bush, Kerry, Bush,
Kerry,” he said. On Monday, Elliott
announced on his blog that he’ll
soon be leaving the ranks of unde
cided voters, however, by voting for
Libertarian presidential candidate
Michael Badnarik.
“1 haven’t drawn the line in yet,
but 1 will. I’ve made my decision.”
Elliott said. “One of the reasons 1
stayed undecided was because I’d
have to sift through the garbage
that’s been flung back and forth on
both sides, and that’s like trying to
find an uneaten sandwich in
a Dumpster.”
Elliott said he had trouble decid
ing who to vote for because this
year’s election involved more glori
fying and criticizing of candidates
than the 2000 election. What he and
other college students look for is de
bate about the issues, he said,
adding that what they got this year
was a race based on the candidates’
popularity, something seen in a
monarchy or dictatorship, but not in
a democracy.
“Issues are the blood that runs
through democracy,” Elliott said.
Today’s election means Monday’s
airing of “The Undecided Voter”
was the last foreseeable time Elliott
will stand in the spotlight in the
Knight Library’s basement, broad
casting live around the nation. It
also means his blog on The Oregon
ian Web site will be coming to
an end.
“I have spent the last nine
months of this blog asking ques
tions. Some were answered by read
ers, others by the ebb and flow of
current events, but others were an
swered by myself,” Elliott wrote in
Monday’s entry. “Ultimately, decid
ing how to use one’s vote is a soul
searching quest, especially if one
believes in voting out of pure selfish
interest — as the democratic
process is intended ...
“Thanks to my readers and the
many people that sent in e-mails,
from typos to essays, from anger to
support. Thanks to the other blog
gers for emphasizing a sense of
community and friendship between
us all. It’s been a wild ride this elec
tion, and I’m happy to see it come
to an end — I probably won’t be
happy with the outcome but at least
both you, and I, now know where
I stand.”
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