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U.S. gains support for U.N.Iraq resolution
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — The United States picked up important support from China and Pakistan for its new Iraq resolution late yesterday, and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell predicted "a successful vote."
But Russia's U.N. Ambassador Sergey Lavrov asked for voting to be postponed until today so the leaders of France, Russia and Germany could discuss the final draft and decide whether or not to support the resolution.
After closed-door consultations among the 15 Security Council members, U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte said the council would meet today to vote. No country threatened a veto.
Russia, Germany and France, which opposed the U.S.-led war on Iraq, had called on the United States to reverse itself and agree to a speedy handover of power to iqesis. On Tuesday, the United States had rejected their demand to add to the resolution a timetable for the transfer of sovereignty.
"What I want to stress is that there is real movement toward greater consensus in the council on the basis of our draft text,"
"I think our attitude has become more and more positive," said China's U.N. Ambassador, who had supported the French-Russian-German amendments. "If a vote is taken I hope that there will be more members supporting this draft."
Negroponte, the current Security Council president, said.
Several wavering council nations backed his view.
Pakistan's U.N. Ambassador Munir Akram, whose country was considered a swing vote, said he would vote for the resolution.
Powell embarked on a final round of diplomacy yesterday morning, talking by telephone to the presidents of Pakistan and Angola, the foreign ministers of China, Russia and Britain and twice to Dominique de Villepin of France.
"A great deal of progress has been made over the last 24 hours, and especially today," Powell told reporters in Washington. "I think that we will have a successful vote on the resolution."
But Washington didn't change its mind on the French-Russian-German proposal that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the Security Council be given a role in establishing a timetable for transferring power, along with the U.S.-led coalition and the
U. S.-picked Iraqi Governing Council, the diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Lavrov said because the three countries had submitted joint amendments and not all of them have been taken into account, they needed to discuss the final text.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had scheduled a teleconference for today with French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Lavroy said.
Because of this, he said, the vote could not be held yesterday.
The U.S.-backed resolution had been expected to get at least the minimum nine "yes" votes needed for adoption. With the Pakistani and Chinese support, only the votes of Russia, France, Germany and Syria appeared to be in doubt.
Whatever the vote, the council remains divided on how fast to transfer power to Iraqis and who should oversee Iraq's political transition from a dictatorship to a democracy.
The United States and Britain insist that sovereignty cannot be relinquished until Iraq drafts a new
France's de Villepin, whose country has led calls for the United States to hand over power by the end of the year, said Wednesday that sovereignty must be returned to the Iraqi people as soon as possible.
constitution and holds elections.
"Let us not underestimate the ability of the Iraqi people to take responsibility for their own destiny," he said at a lecture in London filmed for the British Broadcasting Corp. "Reform has to come from within."
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said the resolution should take into account the views of Moscow, Berlin and Paris, "so that the unity of the world community in tackling the Iraq crisis is maintained."
When the United States first talked about a new resolution six weeks ago, the primary aim was to get more countries to provide troops and money to help stabilize and rebuild Iraq.
Those aims still hold, and the resolution would authorize a multinational force under U.S. command and call for "substantial pledges" from the 191 U.N. member states at a donors conference in Madrid, Spain, on Oct.23-24.
10 killed in ferry crash
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A Staten Island ferry slammed into a pier as it was docking yesterday, killing at least 10 people, tearing off victims' limbs and sending passengers leaping into the water, officials said. At least 34 people were injured.
The 310-foot ferry, carrying about 1,500 passengers, plowed into the enormous wooden pilings on the Staten Island end of its run from Manhattan, reducing the front of the mighty boat to a mass of shattered planks, broken glass and twisted steel.
The crash happened on a windswept afternoon, with gusts over 40 mph and the water in New York Harbor very choppy.
The ship's captain fled and was tracked down by police at his Staten Island home, said a high-ranking police source, speaking on condition of anonymity. The ferry's crew will be interviewed and tested for drugs and alcohol. Mavor Michael Bloomberg said.
"Everyone just jumped for their lives," rider Bob Carroll told TV station NY1. "It was like an absolute horror. ... The whole side of the boat looked like an opener on a can."
Firefighters picked their way
through the debris aboard the ship, the Andrew J. Barberi, looking for victims, and Coast Guard divers searched the water.
At least one body was recovered from the water.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known, although Bloomberg suggested the heavy wind as a possibility. The National Transportation Safety Board convened an accident investigation team, which will look at the weather, among other possible factors.
"People who were sitting there as the ferry docked were hit by the pilings that came through the side of the boat," the mayor said. The pilings hit on the ferry's main deck, crashing into the windows that ordinarily afford a postcard view of the Statue of Liberty.
Osbourne European tour postponed for one year
LOS ANGELES—Ozzy Osbourne has postponed a European tour until next year because of the effects of medication he has been taking to treat tremors.
Osbourne said in a statement released Tuesday that his doctor advised him to delay the tour, which was to have begun Oct. 22 in Dublin. The former Black Sabbath lead singer said the tremors were "practically destroying my life along with my self-esteem."
"I was no longer comfortable being around people, which, as you can imagine, is not the best trait for a performer," the 54-year-old said.
The European tour will start in January at the earliest, the statement said.
The Associated Press
China launches into exploring space
GOBI DESERT, China Against a clear blue sky, China fired its first astronaut into orbit without any visible hitches yesterday, becoming the third nation capable of manned space-flight. The government said the mission was going smoothly and its "taikonaut" radioed back: "I feel good."
The launch capped a decade-long effort by China's secretive, military-linked space program that communist leaders hope will boost the nation's image abroad — and their own standing at home among their own people.
The rocket carrying Lt. Col.
Yang Liwei, a 38-year-old fighter pilot turned astronaut, streaked into the sky at precisely 9 a.m. local time (8 p.m. CST Tuesday)
from a Gobi Desert launch pad in China's remote northwest.
China Central Television broke into its programming to announce the liftoff, and 28 minutes later broadcast the first gripping scenes of the rocket blasting off. CCTV said the flight would last 14 orbits and 21 hours, with a landing early today in China's northern grasslands.
The capsule was "operating normally in orbit," the commander of mission control was quoted as saying.
The United States, Vietnam and other governments congratulated China on what NASA, whose Space Shuttle Columbia was lost in February, called "an important achievement in the history of human exploration."
"The Chinese people have a long and distinguished history of
exploration," said NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe. He wished China "a continued safe human space flight program."
Chinese President Hu Jintao, who was at the launch base for the liftoff, called it "the glory of our great motherland," the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
"The party and the people will never forget those who have set up the outstanding merit in the space industry for the motherland, the people and the nation," Hu said.
State television showed Hu and a group of senior officials and military officers watching the launch from outdoor bleachers, craning their necks to follow the rocket toward space. The president, wearing large sunglasses, grinned once it became clear the launch was successful.
China's leaders long ago replaced their leftist ideology with sweeping economic reform, and resort instead to flag-waving nationalistic appeals to bind their nation together — a strategy reflected in Beijing's successful campaign for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
The flight comes four decades after the former Soviet Union and the United States pioneered manned space-flight. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth in 1961. Less than one month later, the United States launched in 1962.
China kept details of its launch secret, announcing only that it would take place between yesterday and tomorrow. Yang's identity wasn't officially disclosed until one minute after liftoff, though Chinese and Hong Kong media had reported it earlier.
The University of Kansas Department of Theatre and Film and The University Theatre Present
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