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Show r 2 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE 2002 7TT 5) Pa Ji)(f)) Li J L,il.-'"'- 3 Li ) M J LJ t I feel really bad that the students feel bettayed by me. I thought the students and the Regents were working together.- j EDIE MITKO, USA ADVISER CHRONICLE Nw EDITOR JAR tD WHITLEY JWMlTLVCHfCNiCLE.UUH.EDU CmROMCLE WI&E EDITOR MIKEL CAJKOWSKI MCAJKOSKICHRON!CIE.UTAH EDU w iiiifiii V. R Allied Afghan cumfresh sent ciders in. troops Tuesday to bolster n U.S. led coalition forces battling al Qaeda and I'ro-U.continAlh.'ins reported fighters. ued exchanges, although less intense than in re. cut days during which ciht Americans were (JAUlJl.Z, Afghanistan Tal-.ba- killed. As co.ilition bombers blasted al Qacda's mountain strongholds, minesweepers led the way on the ground for allied troops to press on toward where hundreds of militant soldiers and their families are believed hunkered down, said fighter Nawab, who was at the front Tuesday Sliah-e-Ko- t, morning. -- block the escape of any renegades. I'hc iciiiums of seven American soldiers killed Monday when al Qaeda and Taliban fighters fired on U.S. helicopters were brought Tuesday to a base in Ramstein, Germany, heading for the United States, U.S. Army chaplains read psalms over the coffins. Another American was in a killed ground attack Saturday, the first U.S. casualty of the campaign. Army Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of U.S. d Bag Lecture Series is hosting the lecture "Future of Ifl-- , w L- Fighters returning from the front said clashes continued Tuesday although to a lesser degree than the fierce firefights of recent days. Nawab said about 50 U.S. Special Forces were fighting alongside Afghan soldiers about 2 12 miles from U.S.-issu- AC-13- s. The initial plan for the operation was for U.S. troops to take up blocking positions to prevent Taliban and al Qaeda from escaping, with Afghan forces leading the fighting, a U.S. defense official said Tuesday. He said he did not know how much the actual combat has strayed from the planning, but confirmed that Americans were blocking escape routes. Afghan and U.S. officials said the Taliban and al Qaeda fighters were likely armed with shoulder-fire- d half-doze- ot cer, Saif Rahman. Other Afghan civilians said as many as 2,000 Arabs, Chechens, Pakistanis and Afghan Taliban moved into the area after the fall of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar on Dec. 7. missiles such as Russian SA-7- S and possibly American Stingers as well as mortars, grenades and canons. surface-to-ai- r ft- - UTAH ed ot F-- 15 A-i- Ss 1 the Wasatch Front: Sustainable Growth or Suburban Sprawl" focusing on economics and the market at noon in Room 107 of the law school. Shah-e-Ko- t. About 60 Afghan fighters outfitted in parkas, their heads wrapped in turbans, on Tuesday from Jaji, were heading to Shah-e-Knortheast of the provincial capital, Gardez. Bright orange strips were affixed to the top of the transport trucks to identify them to the allied bombers and helicopters roaring overhead. Franks said units oiithe 10th Mountain Division and the 101st Airborne Division had been sent into n the battle area. Allied forces from a other countries were also taking part, bringing the coalition numbers up to about 2,ooo. Roseuddin, an Afghan civilian who was in the shortly before the attacks village of Shah-e-Kbegan, estimated the al Qaeda and Taliban force at about 600, commanded by a former Taliban offi- included o ground attack planes, fighter 0 bombers, gunships, as jets, B- and well as some French jets Mirage 2000s and 2 6 The Stegner Center Green and Chechen and Uzbek fighters. An Afghan commander on the ground at Gardez put the number of detainees at Co, all of them Chechens. Franks said the offensive had as its objective a area south of Gardez. Air support -i J MARCH Central Command, estimated Monday that too to 200 enemy fighters had been killed in the operation and a small number taken prisoner. He said they included al Qaeda fighters, Taliban militia Supcr-Etcndard- Hundreds of U.S. backed Afghan troops ringed the range in eastern Afghanistan's l'aktia mountains and the labyrinth of caves there to try to flag-drape- n " ON LEAKING TUITION CAP PLANS TO THE REGENTS CAMP EVEN m Monson Deposed Bronze Medal Brit Woman Overboard Bush Planning Steel Tariff In Newspaper Case Flunks Drug Test Discovered by Ship MARCH 7 The Opening Ceremony of the Paralymplc Games is Staditonight in um. Campus will close at noon to avoid excessive traffic problems. Rice-Eccl- es The Hinckley Institute of Politics will present a "Legislative Wrap Up" with state House and Senate leaders Mike Dmltrich, Steven Poul-toRalph Becker and Marty Stephens In OSH Room 255 at 10:35 a.m. n, MARCH O International Women's Day The Department of Philosophy will feature a colloquium titled "Removing All Doubt: Virtue In a Taoist View" with speaker Robert Firmage In OSH Room 334 at 3:00 p.m. 3-Y- ear I.AKh CITY A federal magistrate has ruled that attorneys in Salt hake's newspaper battle may SALT question Mormon church leader Thomas S. Monson, but may not depose the other two members of the church's First Presidency its highest body. Tribune's management has wanted to question the group Latter-daSaint church leaders about what role, if any, they had in A'lAT Coip.'s sale of The Tribune to Denver-baseMediaNews Group The y d Inc. The judge also said selected documents detailing meetings between the First Presidency and Descret News Publishing Co. will have to be turned over. LONDON Alain Baxter, the first Briton to win an Olympic skiing medal, flunked a doping test after his surprise third-plac- e finish in the slalom at the Salt Lake City Games. Officials say he could be stripped of his bronze medal. The British Olympic Association said the Scottish "The Highlander" tested positive for mcthamphefa-min- e after the Feb. 23 race. The stimulant is commonly known as speed. Methamphetaminc falls into the most serious category of doping substances. The International Olympic Committee said it would hold a hearing on the case early next week. skier-nickn- amed UNIVERSITY WEATHER 5334 WEDNESDAY: Did You Know... 3 MOSTLY CLOUDY THURSDAY: SCATTERED SHOWERS 5238 FRIDAY: SNOW SATURDAY: SUNNY 3619 4124 SUKDAY: MOSUY 5029 SUNNY Courtesy Dwe Myrick and Matt Masarik, The Priority Deadline for FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) is March 15, so get busy! Applications are available in the Student Services Building, or apply online at htrp:www.usa.ed.gov. www.mct.utah.edujimsteenams - iUtah chronicle pi student newspaper published daily Monday tmouqn rmlav uunnq fall and Sprmq semesters leuludinq test weeks and holidays) and weekly summer Term Chronicle editors and stall are University ol Utah students and are solely respondur-in- sible tor trie newspaper's content Fundmq comes Irom advertising revenues and a dedicated student lee administered Dy the f'utiiu alions Coun( il Subscriptions must be prepaid. 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White House officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the plan is a three-yea- r deal that can be amended by Bush if the steel industry's financial crises worsens or improves. The move, while short of the 40 percent tariffs sought by the industry, was generally applauded by industry and drew opposition from America's allies. The decision was described by advisers and lawmakers as a compromise approach, one designed to protect the U.S. industry while minimizing backlash from overseas and from U.S. manufacturers that rely on cheap steel. The plan exempts several trading partners, including Canada and The Romanian woman was in stable condition and will remain on the Miami-base- d Norway cruise liner under the care of a ship's doctor until it makes its next cruise call in the U.S. Virgin Islands, officials said. There was no word on how the woman, who was not identified, fell from the thousand-foot-lon- g vessel. "She was believed to go overboard around 12:30 a.m.," said Coast Guard Petty Officer Anstasia Burns. "She was treading water when the cruise ship found her." The ship was about 135 miles of northeast Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas when she fell. Coast Guard aircraft responded, but the woman was found by the Norway. She was rescued by a small boat and taken back aboard. - WASHINGTON-Presid- ent tariff-and-quo- ta Mexico. Architecture Lecture Series will host "Cut and Fill: Digital Fabrication and the Hunt for Lines of Site" by Beth Blostein In the Utah Museum of Fine Arts Auditorium at 5:30 p.m. The Hinckley Institute of Politics will feature an address titled "U,S. Hege-.mbn- y end Agricultural: ;ir Blotechndogy" with speaker Christopher Chase-Dun- n In OSH Room 255 at 2 p.m. MARCH 10 The Utah Museum of Fine Arts will feature a gallery talk on the "Athletes of Antiquity" exhibit from the Getty Museum with history professor Lindsey Adams at 2 p.m. MARCH 11 The Organization of Spanish Speakers will meet at 2 p.m. in Room 319 of the Union. W Man Charged with Egypt's President Nazi Collaboration Plans Peace Talks The attorney representing Dailide, 81, of St. Petersburg, argued Monday that the documents on which prosecutors base their case Algi-mant- THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE is dii independent Editor in Chief News Editor Sports Editor Feature Editor Opinion Editor Magazine Editor Photo Editor Bush will impose tariffs of 8 percent to 30 percent on several types of imported steel under a three-yea- r plan to aid A BRADENTON, Fla.- -A Lithuanian man accused of collaborating with the Nazis during World War II lied on immigration forms to gain entry into the United States, government lawyers said as his deportation trial opened. THE, The Graduate School of cruise ship crew fell member who overboard early Tuesday was rescued after spending about 10 hours in the Atlantic MIAMI as may be fakes and that a group Dailide admits working for wasn't under the control of the Nazis. From 1941 to 1944, government lawyers say, Dailide turned Jews over to occupying Nazi forces to be killed. In 1950. they said, Dailide lied on immigration forms to enter the United States, saying he was a forester and denying he served on police forces during the war. In interviews, Dailide has said his job was to arrest communist sympathizers after the Nazis gained control of Lithuania from Russix MARCH WASHINGTON-Presid- ent Bush welcomed a peace proposal by Saudi Arabia and planned to take it up with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the White House on Tuesday. There was no indication, meanwhile, that Bush intends to step up U.S. mediation between Israel and the Palestinians. Also on the agenda for the meeting was the Egyptian president's offer to play host at a summit between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Mubarak proposed the summit Monday to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Mubarak is also counseling the United States not to attack Iraq in its war on terror. Mubarak's has sent mixed messages to President Bush on terrorism, supporting the U.S.-le- d campaign, but warning that any attack on Iraq would harm the United States' already shaky standing among many Arabs. Bush-Mubar- ak J2;v. part of its Mormon Studies Brown Bag Series, the As College of Humanities is hosting "The World Watched: Olympic Media Coverage of Mormonlsm" with multiple speakers from various media groups at noon in LNCO Room 2110. The Winter Olympics: An International Lecture Series presents international scholar Gudrun to speak on "The Winter Paralymplc- s- Past, Present, and Future" in the Marriott Doll-Tepp- er Library's Gould Auditorium at 5 p.m. A Frontiers of Science Lec- ture titled, "Protein Interactions In Htalth and Disease: Amyloids and Prions" will be hosted in ASB Room 220 at 7:30 p.m. ADDITIONAL IVLNTS OH WW.DUIYUTAHCH5?CN:CIC.C0M |