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Show fige AS THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HatTheHerild.coBi), Provo, Utah, Moodiy, Marck 17, 2003 Nation Osscisllfl fe'afilMsisir'. soils (U fcrs cf viclsnt MYC Ggnptey revMr NEW YORK (AP) T bullets seemed to be flying everywhere: In a string of store clerk slayings in Queens and Brooklyn, at a melee in a crowded Times Square arcade, during a police sting on the streets of the city's most sedate borough, Staten Island. Those shootings alone killed six people Ihis month, including two undercover detectives, revmngmeradng images of the Big Apple as an urban battleground. "Sometimes we have a couple of fights, but nothing like this," said Omar Leger, a security guard for the Times Square arcade's nightclub, where eight people were shot a, week ago. The violence has been a startling departure from the city's long, steady decline in crime. The latest crime statistics show 43 people were shot in the city in the first week ofMarch, compared with 25 in the same period last yean By IBRAHIM BARZAK Associated Tim Writer GAZA CTTX Gaza Strip An American college student in Gaza to protest Israel operations was killed Sunday when she was run over by a buBdeser while faying to block troops from demolishing a Palestinian home. At least one Palestinian . ;.- Documents taken ten and Palestinians wrangled USL-backe- establish a Palestinian state. Rachel Corrie, 23, of Olympia, Wash., had been with U.S. and British demonstrators in the Rafah refugee camp trying to stop demolition She died m the hospitel said Dc M Moussa, a hospital administrator. This is a regrettable accident," said Capt Jacob Dallal, an, army spokesman. "We are dealing with a group of protesters who were acting very irresponsibly, putting everyone in danger." The army said soldiers were looking for explosives and tunnels used to smuggle it weapons. The United States "deeply regrets this tragic death of an American citizen," State Department spokesman Lou Fintorsaid. r's He. expressed condolences to Carrie's family and said the United States wants an 'Immediate and full investigation" into her death. "We again call on the Israeli defense forces to undertake all possible measures to 's avoid harm to civilians," statement said. Greg Schnabel, 28, of Chicago, said four Americans and four Britons were trying World Venezuela rationing water due to drcugfct After coping with food and luel shortages during a recent stoike, Venezuelans are now dealing with scardty of another essential two-mon- th water. '. This South American country is facing a droughtthatis severe evenfor its dry season, which runs from November to May. The government imposed water rationing in Caracas, whose 5 milhonreadente are without water two to fo days a week. : Things are especially tough for residents of the red-brishantytowns that cling to the mountains ringing the city. The shortage is forcing slum dwellers to rely on water delivered by truck. I' "Before we received water almost every day," said Freddy 'Fuentes, an unemployed father of four. "It comes about once ;every two weeks now." I Fin-tor- ck -t- Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the "International Solidarity Movement" uses a loudspeaker as she stands between an Israeli bulldozer and a Palestinian physician's house in Gaza Strip before being run over by the bulldozer. She later died from sustained injuries. to stop Israeli troops from destroying a building belonging to Dn Samir Masri. Israel for months has been tearing down houses of Palestinians it suspects in Islamic militant activity, saying such operations deter attacks on Israel such as suicide bomb- ered at the site, and troops opened fire, killing one Pales-- , tinian, witnesses said. The army had no comment on that report Corrie was the first member of the Palestinian-backe-d "International Solidarity Movement to be killed in a conflict that has claimed more than2,200 Palestinian lives about three times the toll on ings. "Rachel was alone in front ofthe house as we were to get them to stop," Schnal said. "She waved for the bulldozer to stop. She fell down and the bulldozer kept going. It had completely run over her year, Schnabel said. dozer hit her. Several Palestinians gath message to President Bush, who is "providing Israel with tanks and bulldozers, and now they killed one of his own people "said Mansour Abed Allah, 1 the Israeli side. A student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Corrie would have graduated this and then it reversed and ran back over her." She was wearing a brightly colored jacket when the bull- Her killing 'should be a 29, a Palestinian human rights worker who witnessed Corrie'8 death. Several other U.S. citizens have been killed in Palestinian-Israeli violence. On March 14, was killed Litle, 5, Abigail in a Palestinian suicide bombing attack on a bus in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Last July, five Americans died in a bombing at the Hebrew. University in Jerusalem. IVILIEY FORD Asian outbreak may be new strain of flu or exotic virus j. Kcrea says US. pushing nuclear crisis ..... -l Tkc Auociale4 Pre . s SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea cannot "remain "a passive onlooker while the United States conducts military exercises in the region, the North said Sun-daclaiming that Washington is pushing a nuclear crisis ;toward a second Korean War. T While vowing to counter any muitary attacks, Pyongyang also said Sunday it wants to avoid war gbd reiterated its demand for direct talks with Washington. TheDPRK cannot remam a passive onlooker to the US. ; intensified military moves as they are a dangerous military racket to ignite the second Korean War," North Korea's offi-pal Rodong Sinmun said Sunday. DPRK stands for Democ- 'Tatic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea's official :" . name. The US mOitary said the annual Foal Eagle exercises, i . d over the terms of a plan to end the violence and Malvo's cc3 Keck ed CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) f v'f vv -- also was killed. The killing ofthe student by the Israelis the first of a foreign activist in 29 months of came as Israelis fighting FAIRFAX Va. (AP) Writings and drawings were taken secretly by officials from a cell block where sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo was held and incorrectly made public, said attorneys for Malvo and his The twopages of notes and pictures scribbled on the back of Fairfax County jail forms were photocopied and provided to investigators on the task force preparing for the trials of Malvo, 18, and John Men Muhammad, 42. They were pub-hshSunday by The Washington Post Michael Arif, one ofMalvo's lawyers, declined to discuss the documents. "We cant comment on whether the drawings are from him or not," Arif told the Post Muhammad's lawyer, Peter Greenspun, also questioned the validity of the writings and said they should not have been published. "It shows the media is looking for any reason to print ything in this case, whether has merit or not," Green--, spun said. "This type of reporting makes it more difficult to Ifeet a fair and neutral jury." - ,l'r.!"VLv'Uf!1 . FOR ALL YOUR co.v.r-znciA- Business gr ar TRUCK Netwo lzeds! 'Mi,-- -- y, By EMMA ROSS . flu-li- . MyhichendApril2,aredefendveandnctrelaWtothe poutical situation on the Korean Peninsula. r.issing Ccrlln Well touches eff dispute Berlin, the young Trekking south aci overseas tourist never even noticed what used to be the --world's most famous border crossing, r the BeiWalirsDebcKnott,a22-year-ol- ' f&ZZr jffVX iU;! in ke AVAOABU mm flu-lik- E BERLIN (AP) "Where's , COMPUTE SELECTION OF COMMERCIAL If . - i other possibilities remain, said. Heymann AP Medical Writer Those include "a new strain influenza" or such exotic disA deadly, mysterious respi- - eases as the closely related ; ' ratory illness spread largely Hendra and Nipah viruses among health care workers in both newly recognized, causAsia could be a new strain of symptoms and flu or even an exotic virus ing capable of being spread from from to animals people, ; animals to people. passed a health official said Sunday. it really is the flu, it Probably the most feared could be we have a new organby health experts, however, ism that could cause a panwould be a new and deadly demic," said Dr. R. Bradley strain of flu. Sack, director of Johns HopThe illness, which carries kins' international travel cline symptoms, has killed ic. "People immediately start seven in Asia nine people of 1917," the year a and two in North America. Its thinking worldwide flu epidemic killed rapid spread in southeast Asia at least 20 million people. in recent weeks caused a rare Experts discounted the posworldwide health alert to be sibility that terrorism is the issued on Saturday. source and believe it almost Health officials say it may is a contagious infeccertainly be several more days before tion that spreads most easily they are able to identify the from victims to their doctors, disease. However, they said nurses and families through several of its features suggest coughing, sneezing and other it is caused by a virus, which contact with nasal fluids. can often be difficult to "Nothing about that patquickly using standard tern suggests bioterrorism," lab testa said Dr. Julie Gerberding, "Certainly influenza is on head of the U.S. Centers for the minds of many people," Disease Control and Prevensaid Dr. David Heymann, comtion in Atlanta L d student from Melbourne, Australia, lifting her sunglass-Je-s for a better look at the vacant, sandy plot where the Cold ;War frontier post of Checkpoint Charlie once stood, v "Itfs a bit disappointing. We thought there'd be a bit of the IwaH that you could touch," she said. That dismay goes to the heart of a new struggle at the : jbrmer checkpoint where U.S. and Soviet tanks faced off at tension. Now, a property developer jhe height of east-wejand a local museum are in a growing dispute over how to gkeep its history alive. I Pieces of the wall still stand at several points in the city, Snchiding at a somber memorial to the victims of commu-!nirepression. A l,40tVyard section along the Spree River has been preserved for the colorful graffiti sprayed by artists from around the world after the Wall fell in 1989. v But Berlin's 6 million annual visitors are often left Bcratching their heads when they took ftff the gray concrete ibarrier that once snaked 23 mfles through residential streets, across a bombed-ou- t no man's land and past the ;BrandenburgGate. i st pin-pai- nt N st 000-360-56- C6 WILLEY municable diseases chief for the World Health Organiza- -- O - STACY MILLER AT 1400 SOUTH SANDHILL ROAD, OREM tion. Lab tests have. ruled out some varieties of flu as well as same viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever. However, many Check screening dates below for a U5V It's time for a New Careen 7 Si Pharmacy location near you! We Can ! 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