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Page 3 Train derails, killing one ■ Amtrak train wrecks in rural Iowa, injures dozens others by Greg Smith Associated Press NODAWAY, Iowa — An Amtrak train carrying 210 people from Chicago to California derailed in rural Iowa early Sunday, killing one passenger, injuring about 90 others and leaving a zigzagging trail of silver cars along a muddy embankment. At least seven of the injured passengers were hospitalized, and dozens of others were treated and released from area hospitals after suffering minor injuries. Some crew members sustained minor injuries, an Amtrak spokeswoman said. The cause of the crash, which was about 70 miles southwest of Des Moines, was unknown. Terry Williams, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, said investigators were gathering details on the scene. The California Zephyr’s two locomotives and 15 cars were carrying 195 passengers and 15 crew members, Amtrak spokeswoman Debra Hare said. Amtrak officials didn’t immediately release a list of passengers. Charlie Romstad of Colorado Springs, Colo., said in a telephone call to The Associated Press that die passeiiger killed was his mother, Stella Riehl, 69, also of Colorado Springs. Romstad, 46, said his mother came to Des Moines this past week because her brother, who was living in a Des Moines nursing home, had died. “Wfe picked up the ashes on Saturday. She was taking them back to Colorado Springs when the accident happened,” Romstad said. Amtrak spokeswoman Cheryle Jackson said at an Omaha, Neb., news conference that the victim was a passenger but she couldn’t immediately confirm the person’s identity. * The scene of the wreckage stretched about one-fourth of a mile. Workers began picking up debris near the tipped-over cars, some of which fomied a V-shape along the tracks. Number of traded songs dwindles as Napster implements screening by Ron Harris Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO —The number of songs being traded through Napster Inc. has dropped sharply since the company began policing its system for unauthorized songs, a research firm reported Thursday. Napster users were downloading 50 percent fewer files as the company beefed up its screening technology Wednesday, according to Webnoize, a firm that’s followed Napster usage closely. Before upgrading its system to block access to infringing content, the average number of files shared per Napster user was 172. After the upgrade, the average number of files shared per user dropped to 71, Webnoize reported. Napster officials continue to disagree with the recording industry about the burdens the company must bear in . — . policing its system for unauthorized content. Napster told U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in a document filed Monday that “critical disputes” have arisen with the recording industry. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company said the record labels are wrong in thinking the March 5 order meant Napster must search for infringing content even prior to proper notification form copyright holders. More specifically, Napster said many of the submissions of copyrighted works from the recording industry have no associated file names for the company to block. “Where a file name is connected to the work in the notice, Napster will exclude them. Where no file name is connected to the work, Napster will not,” the company’s compliance report to the court read. The recording industry has said Napster’s hagglipg over particulars is an attempt to buy more time. Napster said the recording industry is failing to share the workload and provide required information. Part of the problem, according to Napster, is that the growing costs of implementing the new screening technology has interrupted other business plans. Napster claims it has spent $150,000 and more than 2,700 employe^ hours to develop and implement a screening technology to block access to unauthorized content. On Tuesday, Napster announced it had signed a deal with Gracenote, a Berkeley-based company that maintains a database of more than 12 million musical works cataloged by artist and title, including spelling variations that might have slipped through Napster’s system in the past. _ Why is TIAA-CREF the #1 choice nationwide? The TIAA-CREF a • , 3 free ■ Advantage. Year in and year out, employees at education and research institutions have turned to TIAA-CREF. 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Macedonian gunners unleashed sustained artillery and mortar strikes Sunday for the fifth straight day, targeting the wooded foothills where the rebels have been hiding and returning fire on Tetovo. Government forces fired large caliber mortars, sending 120-mm rounds looping behind a mountain ridge in an attempt to reach insurgent positions farther back. In an address to the nation Sunday, Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski announced new measures to crack down on the rebels’ fight for greater rights and recognition, including a curfew and restrictions on movement in the Tetovo region. He rebuked the United States and Germany, whose troops patrol the neighboring Yugoslav province of Kosovo as part of NATO’s contingent there, of not doing enough to stop the rebels. Meanwhile, he said, “Macedonia is rapidly arming itself.” “You cannot convince us that the chieftains of these gangs are unknown to your governments, nor can you persuade us that they cannot be stopped,” Geoigievski said. While stepping up border patrols inside Kosovo to interdict fighters and supplies to the zone and to Macedonia, the NATO alliance refuses to be drawn directly into fighting that could lead to casualties. . Despite the ferocity of the Slav-led government’s assault, there was evidence that the insurgents were winning over some ethnic Albanians. Though ethnic relations in Macedonia have been relatively trouble-free, substantial numbers of the minority feel they’re being treated as second-class citizens. European, Russian leaders criticize Macedonian violence by William Kole Associated Press VIENNA, Austria — Fearful of a new Balkans bloodbath, European and Russian leaders on Sunday stepped up their criticism of the ethnic Albanian insurgency in Macedonia and set in motion a whirlwind of diplomatic efforts aimed at defusing the crisis. ' But even as Moscow’s foreign minister arrived in the troubled region, and his counterparts in the European Union prepared for talks Monday in Brussels, Macedonia’s premier delivered a stem reprimand to . the international community: Talk isn’t enough. With his country’s second-largest city besieged by fighting, Prime Minister Ljubco Geoigievski rebuked the umieu 3iaie* anu Gennany for not ordering their peacekeepers in the region to intervene and stop ethnic Albanian rebels battling for greater rights. “You cannot convince us that the chieftains of these gangs are unknown to your governments, nor can you persuade us that they cannot be stopped,” he said Sunday. Desperate to avert all-out war in the former Yugoslav republic, EU foreign ministers were to meet today with Macedonian Foreign Minister Srdjan Kerim on tightening border controls and other ways to ease tensions. The EU’s security affairs chief, Javier Solana, also planned to visit the Macedonian capital, Skopje. The EU has made it clear to the rebels that violence as a means to achieve their objectives — self-determination, if not outright independence, and an end to what they consider second-class status — is unacceptable. “Stop the attacks immediately, before the situation gets out of hand,” . ■ j o_ j . . v r* saia Sweden s roreign minister, Anna Lindh. “Any claims these groups might have must be put forward in a peaceful manner, and according to democratic principles.” Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov — worried that the conflict could provoke a laige-scale regional conflict—arrived Sunday in Belgrade for weeklong talks in Macedonia and Yugoslavia. “We are deeply convinced that the international community now needs to unite efforts to establish stability and stop the terrorism,” he said. French President Jacques Chirac condemned the rebels’ “terrorist acts.” In a phone call to Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski, Chirac reassured him that France and the EU were committed to “a multi ethnic Macedonia in its internationally recognized borders.” But the ethnic Albanian leader whose party is a partner in Macedonia’s government warned that the conflict will escalate. “There could very soon be vicious bloodshed with many dead,” Arben Xhaferr of the Democratic Albanian Party told Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper. “NATO must intervene quickly, or else the Macedonian army and police will create a bloodbath.” ‘NATO must intervene quickly, or else the Macedonian army and police will create a bloodbath.’ Arfoen Xhaferi Democratic Albanian Party World Briefs ■ FBI finds possible: bin Laden-Cole link NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI has „ uncovered a possible link between the main suspect in the Cole bombing and the No. 1 U.S. terrorism suspect, Osama bin Laden, according to a re- * port appearing in this week’s Newsweek. FBI documents show a link be ‘ tween Jamal al-Badawi, the key Yemeni suspect in custody, and a top security adviser to bin Laden, Tawfiq al-Atash, Newsweek said in editions appearing on newsstands today. The suicide bombing killed 17 American sailors during a refueling stop in the port of Aden on Oct. 12. Al-Badawi allegedly helped buy the boat used by the two suicide bombers. He has reportedly told inves tigators that he was led to believe — but never directly told — that bin Laden was giving the orders. Newsweek said the FBI papers show that two emissaries claiming to work for al-Atash — code-named “Khaled” —approached al-Badawi asking for his help in buying the boat. Bin Laden, a Saudi-bom million aire, allegedly directs a global terror ism network. ■ OPEC cartel cuts oil production VIENNA, Austria (AP) — By cutting crude production for the sec ond time this year, OPEC hopes to halt the recent slide in oil prices that of fered hope of cheaper fuel for con sumers in the United States and other importing nations. The Oiganization of Petroleum Exporting Countries decided Saturday to curtail its official output by 4 percent, or 1 million barrels of oil a day, in an effort to avoid supplying markets with too much crude at a time of economic turmoil and weak seasonal demand. In Washington, the Bush administration called the decision “disappointing” in light of a struggling world economy.' ■ Ashcroft promises diversity during term WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General John Ashcroft took his oath of office for the first time in public at a J ceremony Sunday and said the Justice Department would be dedicated to di versity under his tenure. The program included a black I gospel chorus, black speakers and a ; black pastor singing a song Ashcroft ; wrote. A group of friends and supporters - administered the oath, each person in turn reading a line of the official lan guage. The group consisted mostly of minorities. “I have asked a variety of people to administer the oath to symbolize that we serve a variety of people in the United States of America,” Ashcroft said. Ashcroft became attorney general after surviving a bruising Senate con firmation process in which his posi tions on civil rights were attacked by Democrats. <4k ^ REMINPERI! JC-fhM The Peadline to apply for Cultural Celebrations of Excellence Awards The AViCCie L. ECarriford Outstanding Service Award Ralph E. Johnson ExempCary Leadership Award Dequincy Newman Award Changing the face ofV.SC Diversity Award Is Tuesday, March 20 Please return all applications to The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs Russell House University Union, Suite 033 _Questions? 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