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Former Army undersecretary Joe Reeder, announcing the legal action, said Monday that service academies and ROTC programs need affirmative action to main tain a highly diversified officer corps. “It is absolutely essential to our fighting force,” Reeder said. “You can’t get there yet without taking race into consideration.” More than two dozen officials will support the brief including Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, the commander in the first Persian Gulf War; Adm. William Crowe, Gen. Hugh Shelton and Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, all former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Gen. Anthony Zinni, former head of the U.S. Central Command. Tuesday is the deadline for briefs in the Michigan case, which will be argued before the Supreme Court on April 1. The University of Michigan expects more than 60 briefs will be filed to support its affirmative action admissions policies. So far, 15 briefs have been filed by opponents of the univer sity’s policies, which consider minority status as a factor in deciding which students to pick, President Bush said on Jan, 15 that he supports diversity in high er education, but that Michigan's program “unfairly rewards or penalizes students based solely on their race.” Applicants for Michigan’s undergraduate classes are scored by points, with minorities or some poor applicants receiving a boost of 20 points on a scale of 150. At the law school, admis sions officers use a looser formu la that tries to ensure each class has a “critical mass” of about 10 percent or 12 percent minority enrollment. The administration says the point system is skewed toward minorities, noting that a perfect SAT score is worth just 12 points, and an outstanding essay gets three points. Reeder, an attorney, said, “Nothing that the president has done or said speaks to the cohesiveness of the fighting force. Many large companies have also broken with Bush on the affirmative action case, includ ing General Motors Corp„ Microsoft, Steelcase, Procter^ Gamble, Intel and Banc One, Those companies have filed supporting briefs. More than 100 U.S. House Democrats filed a supporting brief Feb, 13, Muslim rebels set demands to resume peace talks By Jim Gomez THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA, Philippines — Muslim guerrillas said Monday will not resume formal peace talks with the Philippine government later this month and demanded the withdrawal of troops who over ran their southern strongholds. More than 2,000 government soldiers last week captured a stronghold of the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front, where the military claimed kidnappers, bombers and outlaws had refuge. The weeklong fighting left more than 160 people dead and up to 51,000 civilians displaced. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who has sought to resume peace talks with the guerrillas later this month in Malaysia, the offensive was not directed against the rebels but against crim inals, including the Pentagon gang, a notorious kidnap group ona U.S. terrorist list. The rebels, who have been waging a bloody separatist warii the south for three decades, deny they were harboring criminals, saying the military offensive was aimed at weakening themintc accepting a peace deal. They also accused the military ofviolat ing a cease-fire accord, which outlined ways of peacefully settling their problems. Rebel Vice Chairman A1 Haj Murad said in a statement the guer rillas will not return to the peace talks until they are convinced of the government’s “sincerity and commitment to the peace process.” Rebel spokesman Bid Kabalu said soldiers occupying insurgent strongholds straddling North Cotabato and Maguindanao provinces should withdraw as a sign of goodwill. “All that we want could be expressed in one word — sincerity, Kabalu said by telephone. “How would they manifest that? Pullout disengage and stop firing. Otherwise, the talks would be an exercise in futility.” Murad said the guerrillas also want a guarantee that political decisions made by Arroyo would bind the military. 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