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2 THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Tuesday. January 14, 2003 ill - f r i - r - . buys a $500,000 ticket to a y "When somebody are interested in more than just i fundraiser, they good government," JOHN MCCAIN, ARIZONA SENATOR CHRONICLE HEWS EDITOR 8HEEHA UCFARLAMO $MCfRUWCHRCNiCl.UTAHXCU ASSISTANT KEWS EDITOR AU HASNAIN AHASNAiNCHf50N!CLE.UTAH.E0U y T 1, u t ' . ' ' ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM 111' lk 111 ki-tfw- riZv i. 1 n VZCTTM r--- , if 1 - t'" J lr.W.- - I The.lDSSA Is hosting an cptn house with LDS Missionaries from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. In Union 319. ' WASHINGTON Building up for a possible war armaagainst Iraq, the Navy is deploying a seven-shi- p da with up to 7,000 Marines from California, matching a force already under way from the East Coast The new amphibious task force would mirror a seven-shi- p deployment of Marines that headed out over the weekend from bases on the Virginia coast. Navy officials said Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity. Together the task forces will present Gen. Tommy Franks, the commander who would run a war against Iraq, with the option of amphibious assaults from the northern Persian Gulf, the officials said. The Marines also could go ashore in Kuwait to be part of an Army-le- d land attack into southern Iraq. Trained to operate in austere environments, the Marines also could move by helicopter into Iraq from their ships in the Gulf or from Kuwait to establish forward bases, as they did in southern Afghanistan early in that war. The movement of naval forces is part of a broader buildup of American military might in the Gulf region. About 60,000 troops already are in the area and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in recent days has signed orders for an additional 67,000, including about 20,000 Marines. Eventually the size of the U.S. force arrayed against Iraq could reach T ships, led by the amphibious assault ship USS Tarawa, left San Diego on Jan. 6. That group, with about 2,200 Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard, is on a regularly scheduled unit led by the USS Nassau effort. A similar-size- d and carrying Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit has been off the coast of Yemen for many weeks. The Navy's other major forces within striking distance of Iraq are the carrier battle groups USS Constellation in the Persian Gulf and the USS Harry S. Truman In the Mediterranean Sea. The carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which was to return to its home port at Everett, Wash., this month, is being kept in the western Pacific currently at Perth, Australia in case it is needed back in the Persian Gulf. Similarly, the USS George Washington, which returned home to Norfolk, Va., just before Christmas, has been told that it should be prepared to head back to sea on short notice in case it also is needed. The East Coast amphibious task force that has been ordered to the Gulf region is already under way. The amphibious transport ship USS Ashland and the dock landing ship USS Portland set off from Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base in Virginia Beach, Va., on Sunday. 250,000. The White House says President Bush has not yet decided to use military force to disarm Iraq, but the rapid pace of troop developments has convinced invasion could be only weeks many that a U.S.-le- d is sending much of its battle Command Central away. staff to a command post in Qatar, where Franks would direct a war, and officials have said the post is likely to be ready for operations by the end of this month. The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee said Monday he believes war with Iraq is inevitable. I'm convinced that the president is going to go in there one way or the other," Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri said in an interview with The Associated Press. The vessels pegged for movement with Marines from the West Coast are the amphibious assault ships USS Bonhomme Richard and USS Boxer, two amphibious transport dock ships that carry troops, vehicles and cargo the Cleveland and Dubuque and three dock landing ships that carry troops and amphibious craft like troop transports the Comstock, the Anchorage and the Pearl Harbor. All seven are based at San Diego. The Marines they will transport are based at Camp Pendleton. A separate deployment of Marines aboard Navy S 1 I SALT LAKE CITY Former congressman Jim Hansen says he's forming a new lobbying and consulting firm. The retired Republican from Utah's First District has only been out of work for a few days, but he's already making plans to get back into national politics. The Deseret News reported from its Washington bureau that Hansen plans to form the consulting firm with his son and a former aide. "We're zeroing in on military and resources issues. That is what I know best," said Hansen, who until the beginning of this month was chairman of the House Resources Committee and a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee. UI11VE0GITY 4635 TUESDAY: MOSTLY Did You ICnow... CLOUDY mmnt mornihg snow THUUDIT: MOSTLY SUNNY fl!MY: PARTLY CLOUDY SATUIDAY: MOSTLY SUNNY 3629 3822 4025 4226 ur R-S.-C, has been suggested that the only way to save the Acropolis from the effects of air pollution is to erect WASHINGTON The Bush administration walked a diplomatic tightrope Monday, talking of energy assistance and other help for North Korea while insisting such tantalizing prospects wouldn't be a prize for Pyongyang's increasing bellicose behavior. The administration argued this fine point: that talking with North Korea about its willingness to back off its nuclear weapons programs is different from negotiating over what the impoverished nation would get in return. It also asserted that quick action was required from North Korea before any would be taken by the United States. "North Korea wants to take the world through its blackmail playbook, and we won't play," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said. The communist country withdrew from the landmark Nuclear Nonprolif-eratio- n Treaty last week and has threate ened to resume missile tests and to begin reprocessing spent fuel rods from its nuclear reactor to make atomic bombs. long-rang- It a vast plastic dome around it. Courtesy Todd Foisy, www.met.utah.edujim$teenams Utah chronicle The University ok Utah's Indhphndhnt Student wrnpi Voo since 1890 is an independent student newspaper published daily Monday through Friday during Fall and Spring Semesters (excluding test weeks and holidays) and weekly during Summer Term. Chronicle editors and stall are University ol Utah students and are solely responsible lor the newspaper's content. 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THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE JEREMY HARMON jtiai monOchronide utah edu SHEENA MCFARLAND smclarlandchronicleulahedu R0RY BRUNNER rbrunnerPchronicltulahedu SOMYR MCLEAN smcleanPchromcle utahedu JOHN M0RLEY jnior1ev9chronicle.utah.edu JEREMY MATHEWS jeremv9red-mag.coSARAH MORTON smorlon9chronicleulahedu JEREMY W0JCIECH0WSKI wojochronicle utah edu Production Manager Graphic Artist STEPHANIE CEERLINGS sgeerlings9chronicle utah edu Business Manager ADAM WARD awardPchromdt utah edu Accountant KAY ANDERSEN kayPchromcle utah edu Sales Support STEPHANIE BAKER sbaker9chronicle utah edu si South Asians Die Palestinians Toss In Long Cold Spell Grenades at Bus DHAKA, Bangladesh the Daily Editor in Chief News Editor Sports Editor Feature Editor Opinion Editor RED Magazine Editor Photo Editor WASHINGTON The forced resignation of the Senate's GOP leader over racially insensitive remarks and the departure of the only black Republican in Congress has black conservatives lecturing party leaders that the GOP "cannot be lily white any longer." Armstrong Williams, the conservative commentator who organized a two-homeeting Monday at Republican National Committee headquarters, stressed afterward that the party must increase its efforts to prove its commitment to blacks, both as voters and candidates. Williams, a former aide to retired Sen. Strom Thurmond, was a more conthan dozen black among servatives who met with RNC Chairman Marc Racicot and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, to discuss how the GOP can put more blacks in office and increase its standing among minorities. "The Republican Party has to realize that it cannot be lily white any longer," Williams said. A three-wee- k cold spell claimed another 133 lives in South Asia, where near freezing temperatures aggravated by chilly winds raised the total death toll to 779, officials and news reports said Saturday. The death toll from Bangladesh's coldest winter in six years reached 489 on Saturday with the reported deaths of 68 more people, the Ittefaq newspaper said. The Relief and Disaster Management Ministry in Bangladesh has not given a death toll. Temperatures in the 30s have proved deadly in South Asia, where millions of people live without heat, electricity and warm clothing, often sleeping on hard ground. Wrapped in old rags and blankets, poor people in India and Bangladesh huddled around bonfires lit at street corners to keep themselves warm. In the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said another 47 people died Friday and overnight from cold weather, raising the toll in the state to 261. The Mormon Studies Brown Bag Series will host a panel discussion, "Mormons Rtflect on tht Legacy of Mirtin Luther King." The panel will start at noon In the Union Theater. panel discussion for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration, "Df erring the A Drtim: The Insist of Palestinians threw grenades Monday at an Israeli bus in the Gaza Strip and were shot dead by Israeli troops, and an Islamic Jihad activist was killed in an explosion in the West Bank the latest incidents in escalating violence two weeks before Israel's election. In the Gaza incident, the two attackers charged the bus as it left the Jewish settlement of Netzarim, a senior army officer said. Troops opened fire, killing the assailants. A pistol and six more grenades were found on the bodies, said the officer, who gave only his first name, Yoel. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsiJERUSALEM-T- wo bility. In a valley near Nablus, Islamic Jihad fugitive Raami Abu Bakr was killed and another activist, Fuad Ahmed, was wounded in an explosion. Ahmed said they were hit by an Israeli missile, but he could not say where it came from. Anti-Diversi- ty Initiatives will In the Could noon at begin of Auditorium the Marriott Library. The Student OrgsnJutlcn for Animal Rights (SOAR) Is hosting a meeting at 4:30 p.m. in room 311 of the Union building. Refreshments will be served. part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration, a student performance titled, "Ths Reed to As Brown: An Bush Says Energy Judge Lets Deseret Hansen to Form a Blacks Say GOP News Go Mornings Consulting Firm Needs to Diversify Not Korea Reward SALT LAKE CITY--A federal judge Monday lifted a restriction prohibiting the Dcscrct News and Salt Lake Tribune owner MediaNcws Group Inc. from jointly purchasing a new printing press. The additional press, barred by a July 2002 injunction that prohibited substantial changes to Tribune assets, is seen as key to the afternoon Dcscrct News' move to morning publication. U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart also dissolved a preliminary injunction, granted in February 2001, that prevented amendments to the two newspajoint operating pers' from taking effect until the agreement current lawsuit over ownership of the Tribune is resolved. JANUARY 14 tntmctive Explcrstlcn" will start at 7 p.m. in the Union Theatre. JANUARY IS The Hinckley Institute of Politics vvili hoit ?.n , Fertln ' PcHcy: Uzs Russia Joined tha West?" at 10:45 e.m, in OSH 255. The Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration Keynote Address, given by Evelyn Ku'DsHxrt. protesscr of history end director of the ' Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity In America at Brown University will begin at noon In the Union Campus Recreation Services Spring Fitn?ss Program rtlstritlort begins at 3 p.m. at the field house. Program includes classes in aerobics, yoga, pilates, Jazz dance, belly dance, social dance, break dance and personal training program. more information and a complete schedule stop by 3 the Flsld House, call or check out www.utah.educampusrec. For 581-889- The Public Relations Student Society of America host its monthly meeting concerning entertainment and special events planning.at 6:30 p.m. in the LNCO lounge. Light refreshments will be served. wiil . JANUARY 16 The IMPACTJewish studies department and Hillel are a speech by Reuven Firestone, professor of medieval Judaism and Islam at the Hebrew Union College's Jewish Institute of Religion titled, "Divine Authority and Mass Violence: Holy War In Judaism end Islam," at 4:15 p.m. in 255 OSH. ADDITIONAL EVENTS ON WWW.DAILYUTAHCKR0NICLE.COM