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Show Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 Page 2 WorldeiNatiOn Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.utahstatesman.com ClarifyCorrect The policy of The Utah Statesman is to correct any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like clarified or find unfair, please contact the editor at 797-1762 or TSC 105. Nat '/Briefs Boston women throws infant out window Chilean officials prepare rescue SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP) — Chilean officials prepared to lower two rescuers almost a half-mile into a collapsed mine Tuesday, the precursor to fresh air and freedom for 33 men trapped for 69 days. No one in history has been trapped underground so long and survived. "We made a promise to never surrender, and we kept it," President Sebastian Pinera said as he waited to greet the miners, whose endurance and unity captivated the world as Chile meticulously prepared their rescue. Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said a paramedic will begin descending to start the rescue of 33 trapped miners by about 10 p.m. local time (9 p.m. EDT) — two hours later than what President Sebastian Pinera had previously announced. Goldborne said that's because more testing is needed once cables and equipment are attached to the custom-built capsule that will carry the men. A mine rescue expert will be lowered in the capsule and raised again to test it, and then that rescuer and a Navy special forces paramedic will be lowered to the men to prepare them for the trip. Only then can the first miner be pulled to safety. It is expected to take as many as 36 hours for the last miner to be rescued. Chile has taken extensive precautions to ensure the miners' privacy, using a screen to block the top of the shaft from more than 1,000 journalists at the scene. The miners will be ushered through an inflatable tunnel, like those used in sports stadiums, to an ambulance for a trip of several hundred yards (meters) to a triage station for an immediate medi- cal check. They will gather with a few family members, in an area also closed to the media, before being transported by helicopter to a hospital. Each ride up the shaft is expected to take about 20 minutes, and authorities expect they will be able to haul up roughly one miner per hour. When the last man surfaces, it promises to end a national crisis that began when 700,000 tons of rock collapsed on Aug. 5, sealing the miners into the lower reaches of the gold and copper mine. The only media allowed to record them coming out of the shaft will be a government photographer and Chile's state television channel, whose live broadcast will be delayed by 30 seconds or more to prevent the release of anything unexpected. The worst technical problem that could happen, rescue coordinator Andre Sougarett told The Associated Press, is that "a rock could fall," potentially jamming the capsule partway up the shaft. But test rides suggest the ride up will be smooth. Panic attacks are the rescuers' biggest concern. The miners will not be sedated — they need to be alert in case something goes wrong. If a miner must get out more quickly, rescuers will accelerate the capsule to a maximum 3 meters per second, Health Minister Jaime Manalich said. The rescue attempt is risky simply because no one else has ever tried to extract miners from such depths, Davitt McAteer, who directed the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration during the Clinton administration. A miner could get claustrophobic and do something that damages the capsule. Or a rock could fall and wedge it in the shaft. Or the cable could get hung up. Or the rig that pulls the cable could overheat. "You can be good and you can be lucky. And they've been good and lucky," McAteer told the AP. "Knock on wood that this luck holds out for the next 33 hours." Golborne, whose management of the crisis has made him a media star in Chile, said authorities had already thought of everything. BOSTON (AP) — A teenage mother tossed her naked, newborn son out a second-floor bathroom window into a trash-strewn alley, where a neighbor heard the infant's cries and called for help, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Eva Flores, 18, pleaded not guilty in East Boston District Court to charges of assault and battery on a child under 14 and reckless endangerment of a child. A judge set bail at $1,500. Assistant District Attorney Leora Joseph said a police investigation determined that Flores gave birth in a bathtub on Sept. 20 and then threw the baby out the window. She said police found a portion of the umbilical cord in the bathtub drain. The infant fell about 17 feet into the narrow alley between two homes in the city's East Boston neighborhood, Joseph said. A neighbor heard the baby's cries and called police, who found the infant and took him to a hospital. The child was originally described as being found in good condition, but Joseph said Tuesday that the baby suffered hypothermia and serious injuries including abrasions, hemorrhaging and seizures. "It's a very sad, and very strange, CHILEAN PRESIDENT SEBASTIEN PINERA, center, walks at the site of the mining accident. AP case," Joseph said after the hearing. photo Flores visited the baby in the hospital and named him Angel, prosecutors said. He has been placed in the custody of the state Department of Families and Children. NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused Prosecutor Michael Farbiarz said he "never dreamed that one day he Police investigator of helping to build a truck bomb the government had said it had no would face all these witnesses ... here used in a 1998 terror attack on a proof Ghailani had formally pledged in an American courtroom," Lewin killed in Texas U.S. embassy was a member of an alan oath to al-Qaida. U.S. District said during a 40-minute opening. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Mexican Qaida cell that was determined to kill Judge Lewis A. Kaplan denied the Defense attorney Steve Zissou, police commander investigating the Americans, a federal prosecutor told mistrial request. however, described Ghailani as an disappearance of an American tourist jurors Tuesday, but a defense lawyer Lewin told jurors unwitting on a border lake plagued by pirates said the Tanzanian man was duped. they would hear "dupe" for was killed, U.S. and Mexican officials Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas testimony from a al-Qaida. His said Tuesday. Lewin said in his opening stateformer al-Qaida client, he said, Rolando Flores, the commander of ment Tuesday that Ahmed Khalfan "insider" who has ran errands" state investigators in Ciudad Miguel Ghailani — the first Guantanamo pleaded guilty. Some for longtime Aleman who was part of a group Bay detainee to face a civilian trial of the bombings' surfriends he investigating the reported shooting of — bought the truck and gas tanks vivors also will take believed were David Hartley, was slain, said Ruben that were used in the bombing in the witness stand, he legitimate Rios, spokesman for the Tamaulipas Tanzania, one of two simultaneous said. businessmen state prosecutor's office. embassy bombings in Africa that He said other evi— not terrorRios said authorities "don't know killed 224 people, including a dozen dence would include ists. how or why he was killed. We don't Americans. a bomb detonator Unlike have any details on how he died." "This man, Ahmed Ghailani, found in a locked others U.S. officials have said threats was a vital member of that cell," cabinet in Ghailani's involved in the from drug gangs who control the area Lewin said as he pointed at Ghailani, apartment, a twisted plot, Ghailani around Falcon Lake have hampered who stared straight ahead in the and charred piece "did not go the search for Hartley. Manhattan courtroom. of the bomb truck to training Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesday "The defendant did all of this Ghailani helped purcamps. He did that backing off when confronted by ... because he was committed to chase and proof that not get indocGILLIANI threats like the slaying of the police al-Qaida's overriding goal: killing Ghailani's clothing trinated," the commander is "the worst thing we Americans," he said. was covered in explolawyer said. can do." The repeated mention of al-Qaida sives residue. "It is not his hatred. He is neither a "I think their attempt is to intimiduring the government's opening Prosecutors also said they would member of al-Qaida nor does he share date law enforcement, no matter who statement prompted defense lawyer show that Ghailani left Africa a day their goals." they are or where they are," Perry told Peter Quijano to demand a mistrial, before the explosions on the same Later, he added: "He was with The Associated Press. Their message saying prosecutors had promised they flight to Pakistan as two al-Qaida them, but he was not one of them." is to "stay out of their territory." would not claim that Ghailani was a operatives. Prosecutors have accused Ghailani "The worst thing we can do is let member or associate of al-Qaida. After Ghailani fled to Pakistan, of being a bomb-maker, document the terrorists dictate the terms of how we're going to live." Perry said the threat should be handled by upping "the numbers of law enforcement and military." Guantanamo detainee oes on trial " forger and aide to bin Laden. He has denied knowing that the materials he delivered would be used to make a bomb. Ghailani, 36, faces a life sentence in prison if he is convicted of conspiring with others, including Osama bin Laden, to blow up embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in August 1998. In Tanzania, there was "a low rumbling noise" followed by a blast that blew out windows and knocked computers off desks inside the embassy, said former diplomat John E. Lange, the first witness. He described pulling rubble off a colleague who was trapped in her office. Outside, he came across a badly burned man. The man "was in the last gasps of life," he said. Ghailani was arrested in Pakistan in 2004 before being held in Guantanamo. Prosecutors were going forward without their top witness after Kaplan ruled last week that the government couldn't use him. The judge found that the man's testimony that he sold explosives to Ghailani must be excluded from the trial because the government only learned about him after Ghailani was interrogated at a secret overseas CIA camp. `Don't ask, don't tell' not enforced LateNiteHumor Top 10 Brett Favre Excuses October 11, 2010 10. "Part of my audition for 'Jackass 3D.'" 9. "Uhhh, I was dehydrated?" 8. "An autograph seemed so impersonal." 7. "Too many concussions." 6. "Meant to send it to Commissioner Goodell." 5. "No habla Ingles." 4 "Offensive line let me down." 3. "Don't blame me, I voted for Kucinich." 2. "If I can't text inappropriate photos, then the terrorists have won." 1. "Thought the cell phone was gum." SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge ordered the military Tuesday to immediately stop enforcing its ban on openly gay troops, bringing the 17-year "don't ask, don't tell" policy closer than it has ever been to being abolished. Justice Department attorneys have 60 days to appeal the injunction but did not say what their next step would be. President Barack Obama has backed a Democratic effort in Congress to repeal the law, rather than in an executive order or in court. But U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips' injunction leaves the administration with a choice: Continue defending a law it opposes with an appeal, or do nothing, let the policy be overturned, and add an explosive issue to a midterm election with Republicans poised to make major gains. Department of Justice and Pentagon officials were reviewing the judge's decision and said they had no immediate comment. "The whole thing has become a giant game of hot potato," said Diane H. Mazur, a legal expert at the Palm Center, a think tank at the University of California at Santa Barbara that supports a repeal. "There isn't anyone who wants to be responsible, it seems, for actually ending this policy. "The potato has been passed around so many times that I think the grown-up in the room is going to be the federal courts." A federal judge in Tacoma, Wash., ruled in a different case last month that a decorated flight nurse discharged from the Air Force for being gay should be given her job back. Phillips, based in Riverside, Calif., issued a landmark ruling on Sept. 9, declaring the policy unconstitutional and asked both sides to give her input about an injunction. The judge said the policy violates due process rights, freedom of speech and the right to petition the government for redress of grievances guaranteed by the First Amendment. Gay rights groups hailed Phillips' latest move, crediting her with what the administration and Washington have not been able to do. "For a single federal judge to tell the government to stop enforcing this policy worldwide, this afternoon, with no time to think about it or plan for it, is almost unprecedented," said Richard Socarides, a former Clinton White House adviser on gay rights. "This judge was sure. There was nothing in her mind that could justify this even for one more day, one more hour." Gay rights advocates, however, tempered their celebrations, warning service members to avoid revealing their sexuality for fear that the injunction could be tossed out during an appeal and they would be left open to being discharged. If the government does not appeal, the injunction cannot be reversed and would remain in effect. If it does, it can seek a temporary freeze, or stay, of her ruling. An appeal would go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Either side could then take it to the U.S. Supreme Court. |