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Show _ THE SUMMER UTAH CHRONICLE — ^ NEWS IN BRIEF Monday, June 13, 2005 Wednesday Tuesday Today At the vj; Tuesday 1 6/14 Wednesday I 6/15 4 ff: Thursday 1:6/16 Partly Cloudy 83/63 : 6/17 Mostly Cloudy 84/62 i - QUOTE OF THE DAY —i \ f f \ "What is the point of leveling the playing '{ j-j -• field in such a way that the [j | disadvantaged are not helped, but the jj S gifted are dragged down?" 0 * , • Education for Democracy through Civic, Character and Service Learning 8 a.m.5 p.m. @ Officer's Club - Fort Douglas. • Biology Seminar Series 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. @ James Talmage Building Room 140. Speaker; Don CourL • Education for Democracy through Civic, Character and Service Learning 8 a.m.5 p.m. @ Officer's Club - Fort Douglas. • Star Party at Sundown @ Roof of South Physics. Four U.S. troops killed in bombings; 28 bullet-riddled bodies dumped in, near Baghdad SUNRISE 5:56 a.m. SUNSET 8:59 p.m. d i 8 16 ! -Ed Stevenson on tax law,. SEE FULL COLUMN ON PAGE 5.0 Palestinian Authority .• carries out first execution since 2002 in crackdown on crime CITY, Gaza Strip—Palestinian * iiuftiOrities carried out their first execu!tforijs since 2002 on Sunday, killing four C9nyicted murderers in a campaign meant to halt a growing wave of lawlessness but which drew swift condemnation from human rights groups. 1 " The executions reflected the tough challenge that Palestinian leader Mahmoud " Abbas faces as he tries to impose law and ' order in the Palestinian areas. Abbas has • made public order a top priority, but his Force's have been severely weakened by ' internal rivalries, a lack of resources and " years of fighting with Israel. ; Despite Abbas' efforts to revamp his se- curity forces, militant groups and armed. ' gangs continue to operate with virtual im; punity, often clashing with rival factions or police. In a fresh challenge to Abbas, two Islam; ic militant groups responsible for dozens • of suicide bombings threatened Sunday to ', pull out of a four-month-old cease-fire, ac; cusing Israel of violating the truce. Lead• ers of Hamas and Islamic Jihad said they . would make a final decision in the coming • days. : Will a virtual red-light : district help parents : curb online porn? NEW YORK—A red-light district tentatively cleared for construction on the Internet _ the ".xxx" domain—is being billed by backers as giving the $12 billion online porn industry a great opportunity to clean up its act. A distinct online sector for the salacious, one with rules aimed at forbidding trickery, will reduce the chances of Internet users accidentally stumbling on porn sites, they argue. If only it were so simple: Zoning in cyberspace has always been a daunting proposition, and participation in the porn domain will be voluntary, Critics wonder why ",xxx" got the OK at all when so many other proposals sit unaddressed, some for years. Nearly five years after rejecting a similar proposal, the Internet's key oversight body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, voted 6-3 this month to proceed with ".xxx." ICANN staff will now craft a contract with ICM Registry Inc., the Jupiter, Fla., company that made the bid. If the board and ultimately the U.S. Commerce Department approve it, ".xxx" names could appear in use by the year's end. The market unquestionably exists: Two in five Internet users visited an adult site in April, according to tracking by comScore Media Metrix. The company said 4 percent of all Web traffic and 2 percent of all surfing time involved an adult site. • Last day to reverse CR/NC for first session classes: Summer 2005 Academic Deadline Bomb blast derails train from Chechnya to Moscow, injuring 15 Al-Jaafari's spokesman Laith Kuba said many BAGHDAD, Iraq—The military announced the killing of four more U.S. soldiers on Sunday, push- militant groups were reaching out to the governing the American death toll past 1,700, and police ment. He urged them to lay down their arms. found the bullet-riddled bodies of 28 p e o p l e Some insurgents are motivated to end their resismany thought to be Sunni Arabs—buried in shal- tance, Kuba argued, by the election of an Iraqi governlow graves or dumped streetside in Baghdad. ment which put the American presence in the backThe bodies were discovered as the Shiite-led ground, although its military is still 140,000 strong. "Now is the right time for any group to lay down government pressed to open disarmament talks with insurgents responsible for relentless violence their weapons and take part in the (political) prothat has taken on ominous sectarian overtones , cess," he said. with recurring tit-for-tat killings. The offer did not include foreign extremists such as A crackdown by Iraqi security forces in Baghdad the Jordanian-born al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab and offensives carried out by U.S. forces in west- al-Zarqawi because "they only want to kill," Kuba said ern Iraq have only temporarily blunted the carnage Four American soldiers died Saturday in two in which at least 940 people have died since Prime roadside bombings west of Baghdad, increasing to Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari announced his govern- at least 1,701 the number of U.S. forces who have ment six weeks ago. died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003. MOSCOW—A bomb apparently wired to railroad tracks derailed a passenger train traveling from Chechnya to Moscow on Sunday, injuring at least t5 people on a Russian national holiday. The blast occurred just hours before President Vladimir Putin marked the Day of Russia holiday with a reception and awards ceremony in the Kremlin. Officials did not name any suspects and no group claimed responsibility. But Chechen separatist rebels frequently stage attacks on Russian holidays. Putin made no public mention of the derailment, but police stepped up security at railroad stations and on trains. The train was traveling from the Chechen capital, Grozny, when the driver saw an explosion on the railbed ahead of the engine, Federal Security Service spokeswoman Diana Shemyakina said Four of the cars jumped the tracks. NTV television said the train derailed shortly after leaving a station and was not moving fast, which may have saved lives. "This .hadn't happened before™and I never thought it would happen," a conductor on one of the cars that derailed, Aishat Iskhazhiyeva, told NTV her voice trembling. 'It was just one moment—we were powerfully shaken and I could hardly get to the emergency brake. I thought something happened under the train." Governor Huntsman won't petition federal rule SALT LAKE CITY—Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman won't petition the federal government to protect Utah's 4 million acres roadless wilderness areas. Huntsman will let the U.S. Forest Service take the lead on roadless issues through a forest management plan revision process already under way in four of the state's six national forests, state public lands policy coordinator Lynn Stevens said. In May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture lifted Clinton-era restrictions that kept about 50 million acres of the nation's roadless forest off-limits to timber sales and energy exploration. At least 9 killed, 90 injured in series of bombings in Iran TEHRAN, Iran—Bomb blasts struck Iranian government buildings in the capital of an oil-rich border province, followed within hours by two other bombs in central Tehran, killing a total of nine people days before Iran's presidential elections. Iran's security service blamed the bombings—the deadliest in Iran in more than a decade—on supporters of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. State-run television quoted hospital officials as saying at least eight people were killed and 86 injured in four bomb explosions in Ahvaz, capital of the southwestern Khuzestan province bordering Iraq. Hours later, two small bombs exploded in central Tehran, killing one person and wounding four. Police said one suspect was taken into custody. A spokesman for the Supreme National Security Council, Iran's top security decision-making body, blamed groups affiliated to Saddam's former Baathist regime in Iraq. State TV quoted spokesman Ali Agha Mohammadi as saying the perpetrators of the Ahvaz bombings had infiltrated into Iran from Basra in southern Iraq. Some Sunni leaders in Iraq have accused Shiite Iran of meddling in Iraqi affairs by backing Shiite Muslim clergy and politicians in a bid to sway Iraq's politics toward an Islamic establishment. Iran denies the allegations, but some speculate that extremists loyal to Saddam could be trying to create insecurity in Iran ahead of the presidential polls. Anti-Syrian candidates concede losses in key third round of Lebanese elections SOUK EL-GHARB, Lebanon—Anti-Syrian candidates apparently suffered major losses in a third round of elections Sunday to fill nearly half the seats in parliament, a senior opposition ieader conceded after a campaign that led to some surprising alliances. Walid Jumblatt said former army commander Michel Aoun, who broke opposition ranks and joined pro-Syrian groups on an anti-corruption slate, was winning in contested constituencies. Aoun's success could hurt the opposition's drive to gain a majority in the 128-seat legislature and leave him a key player in the fight over Syrian control. An empowered Aoun could put the brakes on the opposition's campaign to remove the pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud. Preliminary results and campaign estimates showed Aoun and his allies leading in several districts in Mount Lebanon and in the eastern Bekaa Valley. In some areas, his allies were already celebrating with fireworks. Official results were expected Monday. Jumblatt accused Aoun, who returned from 14 years' exile in May, of being brought in by Damascus to undermine the opposition. "Michel Aoun is a small (Syrian) tool," he told Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. television. "True he succeeded, I concede that." Under the Bush policy, state governors have 18 months to submit petitions to the federal government asking for the continued protection of roadless areas. "If their management plans meet the requirements of the state, we may not need to have a petition," said Stevens. "We think most of the state's needs can be met through this process." Environmental groups say Huntsman's approach is bad news for the state's forests, which comprise the sixth largest area of roadless forests in the nation. Answers to today's puzzle are on page 7. 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