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Show HERALD D A I L Y Even GOPs worry about June 30 deadline Bush ads anger some to hit," Pauline Jelinek families of rqi1 THE WASHINGTON - - d - Rita Lasar brother, Abe Zelmanowitz, died in the North Tower on Sept. 1 1 boom gone bust," the message changes to read, Then...a day of tragedy." This is quickly followed by glimpses of a destroyed World Trade Center tower, firefighters carrying a d body, a man raising an American flag and Bush speaking at a podium. In the other spot making the called "Testconnection to ed," a narrator says, "The last few years have tested America in many ways. Some challenges we've seen before. And some were like no others." The last sentence is accompanied by the same shot of the charred World Trade Center as the first ad. The ads so angered the 265,000-membInternational Association of Fire Fighters that the group approved a resolution Thursday calling on the Bush campaign to withdraw them and apologize to victims' families. The union was the first to endorse Kerry, but its president, Harold Schaitberger, said the reaction would have been the same had the Kerry campaign done something similar. A spokeswoman for Kerry, who did not campaign Thursday, said the campaign would have no comment on the ads. But she pointed a reporter to the firefighters' resolution. Officials in both the Bush administration and his campaign stood by the ads. "Sept. 11 changed the equation in our public policy," White House spokesman Scott McQel-la- n said. "The president's steady leadership is vital to how we wage war on terrorism" In an appearance on CBS's The Early Show" Thursday, Bush strategist Karen Hughes said, "With all due respect, I just completely disagree (with the families), and I believe the vast majority of the American people will as welL" clinc.a in et Steve's Owner does Au. Work! Whole A 1 Bath, 1 WASHINGTON A growing number of lawmakers are worrying out loud about the Bush administration's ironclad deadline for handing over political control to Iraq this summer, with even Republicans questioning who will rule and whether the Iraqis will be up to v & :.. The worst day of carnage so far Tuesday's coordinated bombings at Shiite Muslim shrines has heightened fears over sticking to the June 30 handover even as Iraqis make little progress toward deciding who will be in their new government. "The issue of whom sovereignty is to be transferred to is not just a thorny intellectual issue," said Michigan's Sen. Carl Levin, ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee. "If the people of Iraq don't support their sovereign government, even greater chaos could result." "It seems like a tough target post-invasi- . the country once the sovereignty handover was complete, that could hurt Bush politically. Iraqi domestic politics is no small factor in the timetable. The Iraqi Governing Caincil, now serving has been dismissed by some as a tool of the American-le-d occupation coalition. And it is taking months to settle a dispute over how to select the future government amid maneuvering by the Shiite majority, the Kurds and the Sunnis minority that fell from power along with Sad-daHussein. Council member Mahmoud Othman, an independent Kurd, said no serious talks have start-ed yet on who will take over from Americans on June 30. One option, he said, is expanding the council to include representation from more political parties and more regions. Though some Iraqis have said they would accept a delay, Iraqis in general have made no secret that they want to get out from under foreign occupation US-appoint- long-repress- m soon. "The Governing Council and the (occupation authorities) promised the Iraqi people sovereignty on a date certain, and we will give it to them," the U.S. administrator in Iraq, L Paul Bremer, said recently. 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The three Bush ads began e Thursdav on national cable networks and in 17 states that are expected to be closely contested between the president and his likely challenger, Sen. joiui rverry, "The idea that President Bush would rally support around his campaign by using our loved ones in a way that is so shameful is hard for me to believe," said Rita Lasar, a New York resident whose brother, Abe Zelmanowitz, died in the North Tower on Sept. 11. "It's so hard for us to believe that it's not obvious to everyone that Ground Zero shouldn't be used as a backdrop for a political campaign. We are incensed and hurt by what he is doing." of Kelly Campbell, a nonpartisan group called Sept. 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, acknowledged that some v ict ims' relatives found the ads appropriate. "There's no consensus around this, but for the most part 1 families are very sensitive to someone using images of our loved one's death for their own ends," she said. 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