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Show Page Two Friday, March 30, 2007 AH stories and photos from The Associated Press C^-DAY WEATHER OUTLOOK O ^ ^L 51/37 Today J^M Rain/Snow Saturday Partly Cloudy 60/45 Sunday Mostly Sunny 61/45 Monday Partly Cloudy 60/37 Tuesday ^ 62/42 Sunny WWW.WEATHER.COM At the Today > •Be a Friend, Reach Out and Help * Depression End: 10 a.m to 1 p.m. @ Union • Den & Center, Room 1A and IB • • Annual U Student Chess Championship; 10:45 to 615 p.m. @ Union •'•pen ' y • University Neighborhood Partnership '.,. Brown Bag for Civic Engagement Week: •; Noon to 6:30 p m @ Union, Room'411 ; • Pregnancy Riskhne Seminar Schedule v "Overview of MS in Pregnancy": 2 p.m. I to 3 p.m. @ 44 N. Medical Drive, First - Floor Conference Room • "The War on Terror and Universal : Human Rights": Jack Donnelly: Hinckley i Caucus Room (OSH, Room 255) • U Tanner Dance Program Children's tf ance Theatre's "The Dream Stealer": 730 p.m. @ Capitol Theatre V -SAC Show: "The Underpants": 7:30 p.m. ; ©Studious : * "Lost in Yonkers": 8 pjn. @ Pioneer Memorial Theatre Saturday • Film screening and discussion: "Secrets of Mary Magdalene": 4 p.m. to 630 p.m @ Social Work Auditorium • U Tanner Dance Program Children's Dance Theatre's "The Dream Stealer": 2 p.m. @ Capitol Theatre • Lunafest: Films By, For and About Women: 630 p.m. to 9 p.m. @ Social Work Auditorium • Interplay: Nel Tempo di Sogno: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. @ INSCC Auditorium • SAC Show: "The Underpants": 730 p.m. @ Studio 115 • "Lost in Yonkers": 8 p.m. @ Pioneer Memorial Theatre • Live Acoustic Guitar Concert 830 p.m. to 11 p m @ Fine Arts Auditorium • SAC Show: "The Underpants": 2 p.m. @ Studio 115 • InterPIay: Nel Tempo di Sogno: 7 p.m. to 830 p.m. @ INSCC Auditorium • SAC Show; *?The Underpants"; 730 p j a ©Studio 115 . ' ;• . . Monday • Developmental Dynamics: Seminar by Dr. Jeffrey Innis: 11:45 a.m. to 130 p.m. @ Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium • Early Music Ensemble: 730 p.m. @ Thompson Chamber Music Hall at least 122 BAGHDAD—Five suicide bombers struck Shiite marketplaces in northeast Baghdad and a town north of the capital at nightfall Thursday, killing at least 122 people and wounding more than 150 in one of Iraq's deadliest days in years. The savage attacks came as a new American ambassador began his first day on the job, and Senate Democrats ignored a veto threat and approved a bill to require President Bush to start withdrawing troops. At least 178 people were killed or found dead Thursday, which marked the end of the seventh week of the latest U.S.Iraqi military drive to curtail violence in Baghdad and surrounding regions. The suicide bombers hit markets in the Shiite town of Khalis and the Shaab neighborhood in Baghdad during the busiest time of the day, timing that has become a trademark of what are believed to be Sunni insurgent or al-Qaida suicide attackers. Three suicide vehicle bombs, including an explosives-packed ambulance, detonated in a market in Khalis, 50 miles north of the capital, which was especially crowded because government flour rations had just arrived for the first time in six months. WASHINGTON— Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was briefed regularly over two years on the firings of federal prosecutors, his - former top aide said Thursday, disputing Gonzales' claims he was not closely involved with the dis-. missals. The testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee by Kyle Sampson, the attorney general's former chief of staff, newly undercut Gonzales' already shaky credibility. Gonzales and former White House counsel Harriet Miers made the final decision on whether to fire the U.S. attorneys last year, Sampson said. "I don't think the attorney general's statement that he was not involved in any discussions of U.S. attorney removals was accurate," Sampson told two were in fair condition Thursday at a Colorado Springs hospital. As residents sifted through their scattered belongings, the streets were littered with utility poles, power lines, tree limbs and other debris. One woman whose house was destroyed wept as she searched for a wedding ring. "Homes were there and now they're gone," Prowers County Administrator Linda Fairbairn said. eas. Five buildings were destroyed and more than 50 were damaged, said Chris Sorenson, a spokesman for the emergency response team. Victoria Rosales said her sister and the woman's husband, Gustavo Puga, were in the kitchen and their 3-year-old daughter, Noelia, was sleeping in a front room when the tornado hit. Puga was holding onto the little girl when rescuers found them, said his brother, Oscar Puga. The the committee as it inquired into whether the dismissals were politically motivated. "I remember discussing with him this process of asking certain U.S. attorneys to resign," Sampson said. Sampson's testimony for the first time put Gonzales at the heart of the firings amid ever-changing Justice Department accounts of how they were planned. Gonzales has said repeatedly that he was not closely involved in the firings and largely depended on Sampson to orchestrate them. The Justice Department maintains Gonzales was not involved in selecting which prosecutors would be asked to resign. Sampson resigned March 12. A day later, Gonzales said he "never saw documents." WASHINGTON—A defiant, Democratic-controlled Senate approved legislation Thursday calling for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq within a year, propelling Congress closer to an epic, wartime veto confrontation with President Bush. The 51-47 vote was largely along party lines, and like House passage of a separate, more sweeping challenge to the administration's war policies a week ago, fell far short of the two-thirds margin needed to overturn the president's threatened veto. It came not long after Bush and House Republicans Crossword ACROSS 1 Brisily 7 Sports anchor's offering y ^ 12 Henry Clays estate in , .'. ' Lexington, Ky. 3 ' 14 1997 Michael Douglas dim 16 Unexplained phenomena < n rt • -iv* *.• 18 Qua! d Orsay setting 5 1 5 1 4 7 8| 2 6 8 1 6 i? 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A tornado touches down in a rural area south of Silverton, Texas, on Wednesday. The storm swept through the Texas panhandle from the Rockies, killing at least four people in three states, authorities said Thursday. 26 It doesn't stay in (or long 7 Corrections , „ HOLLY, Colo.—A massive spring storm spawned dozens of tornadoes from the Rockies to the Plains, killing at least four people in three states, including a woman who was flung into a tree by a twister as wide as two football fields. Sixty-five tornadoes were reported late Wednesday in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska, the National Weather Service said. The storms continued Thursday afternoon, with a tornado injuring at least five people in Oklahoma City. In Colorado, Rosemary Rosales, 28, died after being found critically injured in the tree after the huge tornado destroyed several homes and damaged dozens of others in Holly, a town of 1,000 people about 235 miles southeast of Denver near the Kansas line. "All they heard was this big ugly noise, and they didn't have no time to run," said Victoria Rosales, the victim's sister. In Oklahoma, a twister Wednesday killed a couple as it blew their home to pieces. In Texas, a man was found dead in the tangled debris of his trailer. At least one person was killed and seven were hurt when a tornado skipped for a mile and a half through Holly and surrounding ar- Ex-aide contradicts Dems edge closer to showdown over Iraq Gonzales on firings 9 All events located on campus. Tornado swarm kills four i n three states across Plains News 801 581.NEWS Fax 801 581.FAXX * Editor in Chief ^ Danyelle White ;. d.white@chronicle.utah.edu Asst. News Editor Dustin Gardiner d.gardiner@chronide.utah.edu Asst. 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