THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Iran to allow nuclear checks By Ed Johnson ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER TEHRAN, Iran Iran agreed yester day to suspend uranium enrichment and give inspectors unrestricted access to its nuclear facilities as demanded by the U.N. watchdog agency, a step that could ease the standoff over fears Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons. The announcement came after weeks of pressure on Iran to meet an Oct. 31 deadline to come clean on its nuclear program, which Washington, D.C., believes aims to build a nuclear arsenal. The United States which has led the charge for the U.N. Security Council to take action against Tehran gave a cautious welcome. If Iran follows through with its prom ises, it “would be a positive step in the right direction,” White House press sec retary Scott McClellan said. “Flail com pliance by Iran will now be essential.” Iran, which says its nuclear programs aims only for electricity production, made the commitments after three European foreign ministers came to Iran to press the demands by the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (lAFIA). Tehran did not say when it would take the steps, though a British official said it would likely be before the deadline. Iran also agreed to hand over other information long sought by the lAEA, said diplomats in Vienna, Austria, where the lAEA is based. Most importantly, Senate Majority Leader BUI Frist speaks before the Senate votes on a bill to ban ‘partial birth’ abortions. olio Cafe • Mon-Fri 7:3oam-3pm Coffee Shop> Mon-Thu 7:3oam-spm • Fri 7:3oam-4pm ON CAMPUS S KERN BLDG, ACROSS FROM REC HALL ''W- S tl ' ~'.. v • P OS. 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Iran says the contamination was on equip ment it imported for peaceful nuclear purposes, but it resisted lAEA requests that it name the country of origin. Once the agency knows where the equipment comes from, it can test the truth of Iran’s claims. The direct intervention by the foreign ministers of Britain, Germany and France who flew to Tehran for talks yesterday, after which Iranian officials announced their promises highlight ed the differing strategies Europe and Washington have toward Iran’s Islamic government. The United States characterized Iran as part of an “axis of evil” alongside Iraq, whose regime U.S. troops later ousted. Washington has pushed fellow members of the lAEA board to declare Tehran in breach of the Nuclear Non proliferation TVeaty That would likely prompt the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran. The head of Israel’s military intelli gence warned yesterday that if Iran completes its program for enriching Senate approves ‘partial birth’ abortion ban By Jim Abrams ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON, D.C. The Senate voted yesterday to ban the practice that critics call partial birth abortion, send ing President Bush a measure that sup porters and foes alike said could alter the future of U.S. abortion rights. A court challenge is certain. Years in the making, the bill imposes the most far-reaching limits on abortion since the Supreme Court in 1973 con firmed a woman’s right to end a preg nancy. “This is an enormous day. It’s been a long seven-year fight about the issue of partial birth abortion,” said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan. He was a leader of the drive to end abortions, generally carried out in the second or third Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice?” Dr. Philip Jenkins NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL uranium, it would be able to produce its own nuclear weapons without outside help by the summer of 2004. The Europeans have tried to engage the Tehran government. Yesterday, the three ministers promised that if Iran does meet its commitments, their coun tries will help it get peaceful nuclear technology. The intervention to help resolve the nuclear dispute with Iran also gave the three European powers the chance to show unity after the divisions of the Iraq war, in which France and Germany opposed military action, while Britain sided with Washington. “The Europeans are united on Tran,” said Volker Perthes, a German foreign policy analyst. “Naturally, they are eager to demonstrate that unity.” Europe, he said, wanted to show it “can wield influence in a different way than the Americans did in Iraq. ... It was a signal: We also don’t want Iran to develop their nuclear program ... but we have something else on offer cooperation, stronger economic integra tion.” Iran has been keen to avoid the Secu rity Council sanctions that could result from missing the deadline. Iran has allowed lAEA inspectors to view some sites, including at least one military facility, but for weeks has hesitated at making a full commitment to the lAEA demands. The secretary of Iran’s powerful Supreme National Security Council, trimester, in which a fetus is partially delivered before being killed. “This is indeed a historic day,” said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., lead oppo nent of the legislation, “because for the first time in history Congress is banning a medical procedure that is considered medically necessary by physicians.” The 64-34 vote came three weeks after the House passed the same meas ure by 281-142. Bush had urged Congress to pass the ban, which Republicans had pursued since the GOP captured the House in 1995, and the president had said he would sign it into law. But opponents said the first federal ban on abortion since the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision was unconstitutional and, like similar state laws, would be struck down. What are you looking for in a Graduate School? Chances are we have it! 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Hasan Rowhani, told reporters after his meeting with the three Europeans yes terday that Iran would sign an addition al protocol to the Nuclear Nonprolifera tion TVeaty allowing inspectors to enter any site they deem fit without notice. “The protocol should not threaten our national security, national interests and national pride,” he told reporters. In a statement, Iran said it would abide by the protocol even before it is ratified by parliament, as is required. Rowhani said that for an “interim period,” Iran will suspend nuclear enrichment though he did not say for how long to “create a new atmos phere of trust and confidence.” A joint Iranian-British-French-Ger man statement included a reiteration of The president, said Sen. Frank Laut enberg, D-N.J. “will become the first United States president to criminalize a safe medical procedure.” Doctors who violate the ban would be subject to prison terms of up to two years. The two sides differed on the frequen cy and definition of partial birth abor tion, which is not a formal medical term. The bill defines partial birth abortion as delivery of a fetus “until, in the case of a headfirst presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of the breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother for the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows will kill the partially delivered living fetus.” Opponents of the legislation said that, as defined in the bill, it could apply to PENNSTATE Get Paid to Research voluateers are needed for a study on ftfamen's Health to follow a supervised eating plan and exercise program. 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Fischer told reporters that signing and ratifying the additional protocol and stopping enrichment is “very important, and that based on this, we can move for ward in a serious and honest dialogue.” several safe and common procedures, and that the real goal of the legislation was to erode overall abortion rights. “I see what this is about ... this is about politics,” said Boxer, an opponent of the legislation. “I never dreamed I’d be down here with senators who think they know more than doctors.” But Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., chief sponsor of the bill, said the procedure was both inhumane and unnecessary. “We can’t allow this kind of brutality to corrupt us. It makes a much more bru tal and harsher country if we stand here and say, yes, for whatever reason, we are going to allow this to occur.” Several groups, including the Nation al Abortion Federation and the Center for Reproductive Rights, plan to chal lenge the measure in court as soon as it is signed into law.
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