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Show J?fK SUMMER UTAH CHRONICLE NEWS IN BRIEF Page 2 www.dailyutahchronicle.com Wednesday, June l, 2005 E C A Today Isolated T-Stonns 67/51 •Sundown @ Roof of South Physics: Star Party T-Storms 61/46 •5 p.m. to 6 p.m. @ Richard A. Harrison Conference Room, Bldg. 500, Room 152: Lecture Series on Stem Cells and Myocardial Regeneration. •6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. @ S.J. Quinney College of Law, Room 107: Divorce and Family Law Q&A. •Tuition Due •Last day to withdraw from first session summer classes. No Events No Events All events located on campus. l<Yiday T-Storms 6/3 Former FBI official Mark Felt was 'Deep Throat,' Washington Post says 61 46 ' Saturday Mostly Sunny n J> 67/5 6/4 ° WASHINGTON—Breaking a silence of 30 years, former FBI official W. Mark Felt stepped forward T-Storms Tuesday as Deep Throat, the secret Washington Post 72/54 source that helped bring down President Nixon during the Watergate scandal. SUNRISE 5:58 am SUNSET 8:33 pm Within hours, the paper confirmed his claim. "It's the last secret" of the story, said Ben Bradlee, QUOTE OF THE DAY —j the paper's top editor at the time the riveting political drama played out three decades ago. jv "Instead of tugging at R It tumbled out in stages during the day—first when heartstrings, this superficial !j a lawyer quoted Felt in a magazine article as having subplot triggers the gag said he was the source; then when the former FBI reflex." >,-y jj man's family issued a statement hailing him as a "great American hero." Within hours, the newspaper confirmed Felfs claim, ending one of the most enduring -Ben Zalkind on "Sisterhood of the ji mysteries in American politics and journalism. Traveling Pants." (j The scandal that brought Nixon's resignation began SEE FULL STORY ON PAGE 4 { Sunday Si '< I I H I B I Hill »H • ! Ill II I ' I I ' " 'Super Dell' charged with brandishing gun SALT LAKE CITY—The owner of the 'Totally Awesome" computer retail chain was charged Tuesday with reckless driving in his black Jaguar and brandishing a gun at neighbors who stopped him. Dell Buck Schanze was carrying a IOmm Glock handgun seized by police but denied having waved it at residents in the confrontation on May 21. Police said Schanze aimed the gun at one neighbor who grabbed a rock and threatened to break a taillight on his car. Schanze was stopped by residents who said he was driving 50-100 mph on Steep Mountain Drive in Draper. "OK, so these road ragers—crazy dudes—come chasing at me. They block off my vehicle. One guy picks up a huge rock. Absolutely I'm going to defend myself," the 35-year-old Schanze told Salt Lake television station KUTV. "They come at me threatening and yelling, like steam coming out of their ears," said Schanze, whose 8-year-old daughter was in the car. The three men retreated and called police, who found Schanze still in the neighborhood arguing with other residents when they arrived, Draper police Sgt. Gerry Allred said Tuesday. The Salt Lake County district attorney's office filed charges Tuesday against Schanze of making a threat with a dangerous weapon, a class A misdemeanor, Utah unveils new touch screen voting machines SALT LAKE CITY—Asking first for a drum roll, Lt. Governor Gary Herbert on Tuesday lifted a red, white and blue blanket to unveil Utah's new high-tech touchscreen voting machine. The announcement comes after two years of study and a mock vote by more than 500 average citizens in March. The machines are made by Diebold Election Systems of Texas, one of two companies that vied for Utah's business. The company already provides voting machines to California, Georgia, and Maryland The state is upgrading to the computerized machines, which provide both a paper and electronic voting record, as part of the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002. Congress passed the law requiring states to upgrade voting systems after the 2000 presidential election threw the accuracy of voting in Florida into question. A committee of state elections office staff, county clerks and technology experts evaluated the two companies and recommended Diebold because they felt the company had the best combination of technology, experience and support, Herbert said Gloves are off as EU plans counter case at WTO over Boeing with a burglary and attempted tapping of phones in Democratic offices at the Watergate office building during his 1972 re-election campaign. It went on to include disclosures of covert Nixon administration spying on and retaliating against a host of perceived enemies. But the most devastating disclosure was Nixon's own role in trying to cover-up his administration's involvement T m the guy they used to call Deep Throat," Felt, the former No. 2 man at the FBI, was quoted as saying in Vanity Fair. He kept his secret even from his family for almost three decades before his declaration. Felt, now 91, lives in Santa Rosa, Calif., and is said to be in poor mental and physical health because of a stroke. His family did not immediately make him available for comment, asking the news media to respect his privacy "in view of his age and health." BRUSSELS, Belgium—Digging in for a new trade war with Washington, the European Union filed a counter complaint Tuesday at the World Trade Organization claiming that US.-based Boeing Co. receives illegal government aid. EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said he had little choice but to retaliate because the United States decided to close the door on reaching an amicable solution to the standoff between Boeing and Francebased Airbus. "The path of negotiations has been closed," Mandelson said, laying the blame for the new trade war at the feet of the Americans after the Bush administration decided late Monday to abandon negotiations that began in January and take the EU to a legal panel at the WTO. The WTO confirmed TAiesday that it had received complaints from both the United States and EU. Mandelson said the WTO action could only rupture fragile EU-U.S. ties, adding that taking the talks to the WTO would accomplish nothing. "America's decision will, I fear, spark the biggest, most difficult and costly legal dispute in the WTO's (10-year) history," he said, adding that it would be ''manifestly expensive and (involve) quite destructive litigatioa" Richfield homeowners caught by surprisefloodwaters RICHFIELD, Utah—Some Richfield residents more than a half mile from the banks of the Sevier River got a wet surprise Tuesday morning as flood waters spread across pasture land and lapped at their doors. Water "got into one home early this morning, but we were able to stop it and we had to sandbag about eight other homes," Sevier County Sheriff Phil Barney said. "It's a low spot of the river and there had been a number of homes previously sandbagged, but this water came around the back and kind of caught us by surprise." Barney said the water was deeper than expected, Kidnapped Iraqi governor found dead; Shiites makes political overture to Sunnis BAGHDAD, Iraq—U.S. and Iraqi troops battled foreign fighters near the Syrian border and found the body of Anbar province's missing governor, the highest-ranking Iraqi official kidnapped since the fall of Saddam Hussein, authorities said Tuesday. The announcement came as the Shiite-dominated parliament reached out to Iraq's disgrunded Sunni Arab minority by offering a role on the committee drafting a new constitutioa But in a development that could affect efforts to get Shiites and Sunnis working together, President Jalal Talabani said Saddam, a Sunni, could be put on trial in the next two months. The former dictator's lawyers said they knew nothing about that. Foreign extremists are thought to be a small portion of the Sunni-dominated insurgency, although they are blamed for some of the worst bombings and other bloodshed that have killed 765 Iraqis in the month since the new government took power. Officials said the body of Anbar Gov. Raja Nawaf Farhan al-Mahalawi was found Sunday after troops engaged in afiercefirefightwith foreigners holed up in a house in Rawah, a desert village 175 miles northwest of Baghdad The battle killed two Syrians, an Algerian and a Jordanian and wounded two Saudis and a Moroccan, a U.S. military spokesman, Maj. Wes Hayes, said. High court overturns Arthur Andersen conviction involving Enron documents WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court threw out the conviction of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm for destroying Enron Corp.-related documents, ruling unanimously Tuesday that the jury instructions were too broad. The decision was a defeat for the Bush administration, which had declared prosecution of whitecollar criminals a high priority following accounting scandals at major corporations. But it offered only symbolic relief for Andersen, the company whose 2002 conviction put 28,000 employees out of work and left it virtually defunct. "We pursued an appeal of this case not because we believed Arthur Andersen could be restored to its previous position, but because we had an obligation to set the record straight," Andersen spokesman Patrick Dorton said. "We are very pleased with the Supreme Court's decision." The Justice Department said it was disappointed and was reviewing its options, including retrying the case. and believes the pasture may once have been a wetlands area or slough. Only one home had any water inside, and that was limited to between 1 or 2 inches, covering just the floors and not causing any major damages, Barney said. The homes are about 3 miles east of Richfield on State Route 119, known by locals as Glenwood Road Also 1\tesday there were reports of some minor road flooding in the Richfield area. Flood warnings issued by the National Weather Service remained in effect for the Sevier River on Tuesday. Pakistan to deport senior al-Qaida suspect to United States ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Pakistan's president said Tuesday he will hand over senior al-Qaida terrorist suspect Abu Farraj al-Libbi to the United States for prosecutioa even though the man is believed behind two assassination attempts against him and could have received the death penalty here. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said al-Ubbi was cooperating but had not provided any useful information on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, and that Pakistan has no interest in keeping him. "We deport al-Qaida suspects to the United States," Musharraf told a CNN conference in Atlanta, speaking via video hookup from Islamabad. Al-Iibbi was arrested May 2 after a Shootout in northwestern Pakistan. At the time, a senior intelligence officer told The Associated Press he had been in frequent contact with bin Laden in recent months and that Pakistani interrogators were grilling him on the terrorist chiefs whereabouts. It was not clear when al-Libbi would be turned over, or where he is being held. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the U.S. government has been discussing al-Libbi with Pakistan but there has been no decision on his extradition. "As far as where ultimately he ends up for trial or custody remains a question, I don't have an answer at this point," Boucher said in Washington. Answers to today's puzzle arc on page 7. Crossword ACROSS 1 Lab containers 6 Stay away from 10 Rapscallions 14 Fool 15 Flying prefix 16 A two-piece? 17 Publisher Zuckerman's book about weapons negotiations? 19 "Beetle Bailey" pooch 20 It usually pops up 21 Purification aid 23 "So there!" 26 With not much vermouth 27 After-game meeting place 28 Lead 29 Language of the Koran 31 Harmless 33 Put on again 34 Actress Derek's book about port facilities? 37 Zone {bar and restaurant chain) 38 Street-smart 39 Pronoun in a Hemingway title 40 First baseman Vaughn's book about bad pitching? 42 Night sound 43 Egyptian underworld god 44 Put to rest, in a way 45 Normandy negative 47 QB Dawson 48 Spongy ground Erie Canal mule Swallow up On the way out Pope with an appropriatesounding name 55 Singer Charles's book about healthy eating? 60 Teen worry 61 The shady bunch? 62 Drink garnish 63 Reduced by 64 All-star game side 65 Brought down to earth? 10 Asst. News Editor Andrew Kirk akirk@chronicle.utah.edu Asst. 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