UN. inspections impasse drags on Iraq, faced with the prospect of U.N. force, is pleading to Arabs for support in the crisis with weapons inspectors. By EILEEN ALT POWELL Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraq is reaching out for Arab support in its dispute with U.N. weapons inspec tors in hopes of leaving the United States isolated in its campaign to rally backing for the use of force against the Iraqis. Iraq's foreign minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, chose an Arab television station Qatar's Al-Jazeera for his first interview on the dispute. The crisis began Oct. 31 when Iraq halted cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors. Al-Sahhaf warned that "any use of military force against Iraq would lead to destabilizing the region." Hours later in Washington, D.C., Season's first snowstorm snarls across Plains Jeremy Heidecker clears snow from an alley in Dickinean,e. N.D., Monday after the first snowstorm of the season came to the Plains over the weekend. Synagogue near Auschwitz rededicated By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press Writer OSWIECIM, Poland For the first time since the Holocaust, Jewish prayers echoed in a run down synagogue in this Polish town the only remaining Jew ish temple near the Auschwitz death camp. The Lomdei Mishnayot Syna gogue, the only synagogue out of a dozen in Oswiecim that was not destroyed by the Nazis, was re dedicated yesterday. "Our goal is to recreate a per manent structure symbolizing Jewish life in a place which for too many years has only repre sented Jewish death," said Fred Schwartz, founder of the New York-based Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, which is spon soring the restoration. The synagogue, built at the turn of the century, was used President Clinton met with senior Pentagon officials yesterday to explore options for a possible mili tary attack on Iraq. Defense Secre tary William Cohen stepped up the movement of U.S. ships into the region. "The military option is still on the table," Cohen said. The United States and Britain have threatened military action to force Iraq to resume cooperate with the weapons inspectors. The monitors must certify that Baghdad is rid of weapons of mass destruction before the sanctions can be lifted. Sanctions were imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Nizar Hamdoon, Iraq's ambas sador to the United Nations, said yesterday that "we have to prepare ourself for a strike obviously this does not mean that we don't encourage diplomacy." He said Iraq has kept channels open through U.N. Secretary-Gen eral Kofi Annan's special represen tative in Baghdad, Prakash Shah, but that "nothing really has moved today." AP Photo/Richard Volesky "Thanks to this place, Jews will not feel like strangers in a strange city." until 1939, when Nazi troops work to take up to two years and entered Poland. After World War cost about $lO million. 11, it was seized by the commu- Before the war, 7,000 Jews nists. worshipped at a dozen syna- In March, Polish authorities gogues in Oswiecim, a town of returned the property to the Jew- 11,000 people in southern Poland ish community, making it the where the Nazis built the first building to be returned Auschwitz-Birkenau concentra under a 1997 government restitution camp during World War 11. tion program for former Jewish Today, only one Jewish resi religious properties. dent lives there, an elderly man. The foundation is collecting A former resident, retired real funds to renovate the synagogue, estate broker Hirsch Kornreich, which until recently was used as returned for yesterday's ceremo a carpet warehouse, and set up an ny from his home in New York. adjacent museum. "It breaks my heart to come to Schwartz expects restoration this place," said Kornreich, the By ROGER PETTERSON Associated Press Writer The first big snowstorm of the season shut down hundreds of miles of highway yesterday and knocked out heat and lights for tens of thousands of people across the Plains and the Midwest. More than 10 inches of snow had fallen by late morning in Minnesota, and blizzard condi tions in the Dakotas cut visibility to zero. One regional airport shut down and schools closed early or never opened. "It's the very first one and I hope it's the last one," declared Amby Burianek of Grafton, N.D. But he held out little hope of that "not in North Dakota." South Dakota Gov. Bill Janklow ordered the closing of all 250 miles of Interstate 29 from the Nebraska state line to North Dakota. He and Minnesota authorities also shut down 400 miles of 1-90 from Ellsworth Air Force Base in west ern South Dakota to Jackson, Minn. "We literally have dozens, if not hundreds, of stranded vehicles," Janklow said. Wind chills fell below zero including 20 below zero at Alliance, Neb. but that wasn't the problem for travelers. "It's not that they will freeze to death, but they are going to get killed playing bumper cars," Janklow said. !,- At least two storm-related deaths were reported, one in a traffic accident in Minnesota In mobilizing support for Iraq, the country's trade minister, Mohammed Mehdi Saleh, said yes terday America "will lose from any strike that takes place, and Iraq will gain." Asked how, Saleh said "political ly." It reflected Iraq's thinking that sympathy for the Iraqis espe cially on the Arab streets would leave the United States isolated in its campaign against the Baghdad regime. Saleh made his comments at the closing ceremony of a 10-day trade fair in Baghdad that drew delega tions from 30 countries, 17 of them Arab or predominantly Muslim. The tactic of appealing to the Arabs is one indication of how dif ferently the current dispute is unfolding compared to one that ended earlier this year. When Iraq refused U.N. inspec tors access to President Saddam Hussein's palaces, Russia, France and Turkey rushed envoys to Iraq to try to head off a military strike by the United States. The dispute was resolved on Feb. 23 when Annan traveled to Bagh- Konstanty Gebert journalist, Jewish leader GET 2-ixos COPRENE FOR lik YNI) rk)l NA L.L 1 M 3( E 013111 K ConWO Cup a a rivoloroO hatkonan; ol Paper Colo Inc 019311 Two EMI Cap Taco Bel Corp rs an plroal NCAAND Corporate Partner dad and reached a last-minute agreement with Saddam to open the palace compounds. This time, Iraq's defiance is not over a technical issue such as whether palaces were subject to inspection but over the premise of whether there should be an inspection program. Iraq has said it will not resume cooperation with the U.N. Special Commission until the Security Council begins to move toward ending the sanctions. There already are hints Iraq is prepared to go further in spite of the U.S. and British threats. Al-Thawra, a newspaper pub lished by Saddam's ruling Baath Party, said in an editorial Monday that "the language of threats will make it legitimate for Iraq to review everything concerning its relations with UNSCOM and the Security Council." Western diplomats said this implied that Iraq could reject long term U.N. monitoring of its weaponry or payments of war reparations, as required under U.N. resolutions. and one person who was killed by a falling tree in Louisville, Ky., where wind gusted to 49 mph. A body was found in a car along 1-90 in South Dakota, but the cause of death wasn't immedi ately known. Michael Ostopovich, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, was one of several truckers stranded at the Cenex convenience store in Hillsboro, N.D. "It's pretty treacherous out there," he said. "There were no tracks on the road. You just try to keep it in between the mailboxes." The storm was shaped like a huge comma, with a blob of snow over the Dakotas and Min nesota and a line of thunderstorms and rain that curved from the Great Lakes across the Ohio and Mississippi valleys all the way to Texas. Brian Casey, 21, a senior at South Dakota State University in Brookings, trudged three blocks to class yesterday morning through snow-covered sidewalks, only to find they had been cancelled for the day. "I don't think we've had school cancelled this early in the season," he said. The wind blew a school bus off a slippery road near Albert Lea, Minn., and two children were hospitalized with broken bones. Four truck drivers were injured when their vehicles were blown off roads in Illinois, and twelve train cars were derailed near El Paso, 111. On the upper Great Lakes, wind gusted to 85 mph on Michigan's Mackinac Island, and the National Weather Service warned that waves of 18 to 20 feet were possible on Lake Superior. only survivor from a 144-member family that perished in Auschwitz. "I used to pray here as a child. My father used to pray here, my grandfather used to pray here and my great grandfather did," he said in a mixture of English and Polish. "I'm a bridge between what it was like and the future." Kornreich used to live in an adjoining building, which is to become a museum and cultural center for the study of Jewish history in Poland. A Jewish leader in Warsaw, journalist Konstanty Gebert, wel comed the re-dedication. "Thanks to this place, Jews will not feel like strangers in a strange city," he said. More than 1.5 million people, 90 percent of them Jewish, perished in gas chambbrs or died of star vation and diseases at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. 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