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LAWMAKERS BEGIN
PUSH TO GIVE BUSH
AUTHORITY ON IRAQ
New Role for U.S. in Colombia:
Protecting a Vital Oil Pipeline
By JUAN FORERO
SARAVENA, Colombia, Sept.
27 - Casting a wary eye for rebel the next two years, 10 American
snipers, Lt. Felipe Zuniga and his helicopters will bolster the Co-
counterinsurgency troops slog lombian counterinsurgency ef-
through the wet fields and patch- forts, and some 4,000 more troops
es of jungle here. Their mission
has nothing to do with drugs -
until now, the defining issue in
Colombia for American policy and American military officials
makers - but instead with pro- said in interviews in recent days.
tecting a pipeline that carries
crude to an oil-hungry America.
The 500-mile pipeline, which
snakes through eastern Colom-
bia, transporting 100,000 barrels
of oil a day for Occidental Petro-
leum of Los Angeles, is emerging Middle Eastern oil. That new ap-
as a new front in the terror war. proach, outlined in the adminis-
Potentially one of Colombia's
most valuable assets, the pipeline
has long been vulnerable to bomb-
ings by Colombia's guerrilla Gulf oil supplies from the looming
groups, which along with the
country's paramilitary outfits are
included on the Bush administra-
arts of counterinsurgency. Over
SOME DEMOCRATS OBJECT
will receive American training,
which will begin in earnest in
January, Bush administration
House Panel Backs Measure
- Senate Likely to Weigh
The policy shift dovetails with
the Bush adnministration's new,
global emphasis on expanding
and diversifying the sources of
America's oil imports, with an
eye to reducing dependence on
Alternative Resolutions
By ALISON MITCHELL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3- Congress
began its push today toward grant-
ing President Bush the authority to
use force against Iraq. An outnum-
bered but determined group of Dem-
ocrats and some Republicans tried to
buck the bipartisan sentiment to give
Mr. Bush broad discretion to initiate
tration's energy report issued last
year, is gaining ever more impor-
tance with the threat to Persian
war with Iraq
The $94 million counterinsur-
military operations against Saddam
Hussein.
A day after President Bush and
House leaders of both parties
reached agreement on an Iraq reso-
lution, a subdued Senate late today
agreed to open debate on Iraq, which
is expected to begin in earnest on
Friday.
"It is up to us today to send a
message to the world and to Ameri-
ca's friends," said the minority lead-
er, Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi.
"that we are committed to stand
with them to eliminate the threat
that this rogue regime poses to the
peace of the world."
Across Capitol Hill, the House In-
ternational Relations Committee
beat back a dozen attempts by a
handful of Democrats to change the
resolution supported by the White
House. The committee voted 31 to 11
to send Mr. Bush's preferred version
to the House. Democrats on the com-
mittee split 10 to 9 in favor of the
gency program is also an impor-
tant element in the offensive by
Colombia's new government
against two rebel groups and a
paramilitary force that dominate
much of the country.
Pipeline bombings by the guer-
rillas cost the government nearly
tion's liet of
tion's list of terrorist organiza-
tions.
Sometime in the next month, in
a significant shift in American
policy, United States Special
Forces will arrive in Colombia to
Larado RomerorThe New York Times
Columbia President Takes Helm
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, left, and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, right, attended the
inauguration of Lee C. Bollinger as president of Columbia University yesterday. Page B4.
begin training Lieutenant Zuniga
and his 35-man squad in the finer $500 million last year - a blow in
a country where oil accounts for
25 percent of revenues. The two
main rebel groups, which view
Occidental as a symbol of Ameri-
can imperialism, have bombed
the pipeline 948 times since the
1980's, while extorting oil royalty
payments from local government
officials.
The Colombian military has in-
creased security recently, deploy-
ing five of the six battalions in the
6,000-man 18th Brigade to pipe-
line protection, up from just two
battalions last year. As a result,
the number of bombings has fall-
en to 30 this year, from 170 the
year before, Colombian military
officials say. But the goal is to
eliminate the bombings altogeth-
er, they say, and to accomplish
that they need help.
"We have been fighting here,
TRIALS ARE HALTED
ON A GENE THERAPY
Mies
200
Echoes of Bush v. Gore
Carbbean Soa
PANAMA
Coveñas
G.O.P. Asks Justices to Cast Deciding Vote
In Battle Over New Jersey's Senate Ballot
VENEZUELA
Ol pipeline
Child in Experiment Falls III–
ARAUCA
Bogota
Saravena
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
New Setback for Research
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3- Again?
Is it conceivable that not even two
years after the United States Su-
legal one: persuading any justices
who might be inclined to intervene in
this state election law dispute that
preme Court brought the presiden- there is a plausible basis for the
COLOMBIA
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3- Officials
in the United States and France said
today that they had suspended four
gene therapy experiments because
the treatment, which cured a 3-year-
old boy of a fatal immune deficiency,
may have given him an illness simi-
lar to leukemia.
Scientists conducting the research
said it was not clear whether the boy,
who was treated as an infant in
France, was made sick by the ther-
apy. Hut officials at the Food and
BRAZIL
tial election to a close with its 5-to-4 Supreme Court to assert its jurisdic- resolution. Two Republicans, James
ECUADOR
tion. And on that score, given what
the justices would put they had to work with, the lawyers
themselves on the line probably did as good a job as anyone
A. Leach of lowa and Ron Paul of
Texas, opposed it.
"The train is now on its way," said
Representative Tom Lantos of Cali-
decision in Bush v. Gore,
News
PERU
Analysis
again in a state election
case that this time cou ld
determine control of the Senate?
That chance presented itself today
could.
The Supreme Court has jurisdic- fornia, the ranking Democrat on the
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committee who backed the resolu-
tion only over questions arising un-
der the federal Constitution and fed-
in the form of an "application fer eral statutes. The Republican peti-
emergency relief" filed at the court tion offered the justices a bit from
both categories, including nods to
constitutional due process and to a
The oil pipeline snakes its way
from Saravena to the coast,
tion.
The major dividing line in Con-
gress is not whether to give Mr. Bush
the authority to go to war against
Iraq, but how much authority to give
Continued on Page A6
by the New Jersey Republican Par
ty. The Republicans asked for a stay
of the New Jersey Supreme Court's
teelnton.on Wednesdey to nermi for-
Texas Home Insurance Crisis
federal statute on absentee voting. him. Both the House and Senate are
Mostereativelv.the Renub
Republicans
expected to take finnl votes an.the
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