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TUESDAY,APRIL 16,2002
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Kick off earth week with author & activist Derrick Jensen
Tuesday April 16 @ the ECM- 6:30 p.m lecture & speakers on environmental and indigenous justice, rice & beans served
Wednesday April 17@ the Kansas Union
10:30-11:45 Workshop on interspecies communication in Regionalist Room, 5th floor
1:00-2:00 & 2:15-3:15 Workshop on nature writing, both lectures in Regionalist Room
7:00-9:00 Lecture on environmental and social change in Kansas Room
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Program, Dept. of Environmental
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Valley Greens, Lawrence Coalition for
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Powell calls for conference of world leaders for peace
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday embraced the idea of an international conference aimed at stopping Middle East violence and restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.
"It's a way to get the parties together and talking." Powell said on the ninth day of a peace mission that has made little progress.
Pressing on, Powell will meet today with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for a third time and is making arrangements to visit Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for a second time tomorrow in his ruined Ramallah headquarters, said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher.
Sharon suggested the international conference to Powell at their meeting in Tel Aviv on Sunday, though Sharon objected to including Arafat.
Powell said the United States would not necessarily be host for such a conference and that Arafat could send high-level Palestinian officials to represent him if talks were held at the foreign minister level.
"We've got to move quickly to a political track and there are many ways to do that and one way is with a regional or international conference," Powell said.
Sharon "gave some endorsement to that kind of idea" when they talked on Sunday, "and Chairman Arafat did as well," Powell said.
But Hassan Abdel Rahman, the top Palestinian official in the United States, said Sharon should first stop his incursion into the West Bank. "Nothing can happen before that," he said in an interview from Washington.
Sharon, in a CNN interview, said Israeli forces would be withdrawn within a week from all
towns and villages except Ramallah, where they surround Arafat's headquarters, and Bethlehem.
He said they would stay in Ramallah indefinitely but quit Bothelem if terrorists surrender for trial or exile.
Powell said he did not broach the idea of who would attend a conference except that representatives of both sides would be there. He said of Arafat, "It doesn't necessarily require his presence to get started."
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the administration was looking at a number of "constructive ideas to help the parties enter into the political process and to create a cease-fire."
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi endorsed a conference, saying such a gathering must include the United States, the European Union and the Arab League as well as Israel and the Palestinians.
Venezuelan leader regains power
The Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela — After surviving a botched coup attempt, President Hugo Chavez won a precarious second honeymoon yesterday from Venezuela's business elite and upper classes that rose up to overthrow him last week.
But opposition leaders expressed reservations about Chavez's willingness to bring about reform, despite fresh assurances from his government.
"The entire government is ready to make changes," Defense Minister Jose Vicente Rangel said at the Miraflores Presidential Palace.
Addressing fears the government would embark on a witch hunt for its opponents, he said the Cabinet named by Pedro Carmona had been freed.
Carmona, who took over the presidency during Chavez's two-day ouster, remained in the custody of secret police, along with over 100 military personnel also arrested in the revolt.
Rangel did not indicate whether the government plans to try them for conspiracy, saying only that Carmona's family, friends and attorneys were allowed to visit him.
Chavez was deposed and arrested early Friday by his military high command after gunmen opened fire on at least 150,000 people marching on the palace, demanding his resignation.
He returned to power just two days later after other members of the military brass refused to go along with the revolt and tens of thousands of Venezuelans took to
the streets demanding his return.
Carmona's decision to dissolve all branches of government received immediate condemnation abroad and upset many Venezuelans, even those who had wanted Chavez out.
El Universal newspaper, a staunch Chavez critic, ran one word on its banner headline yesterday: "Conciliation." On its front page, it emphasized Chavez's announcement that the state-owned oil monopoly's board of directors, appointed by Chavez but opposed by the group's executives, had resigned.
The Bush administration, which showed no remorse over Chavez's ouster, advised him to make good use of his second chance "by correcting its course and governing in a fully democratic manner."
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