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Show DAILY HEIALD Tuesday, September 14. 2004 A5 FAST FACT MOMNGlIUEMG Most fish do not sleep. They are constantly in motion, though the motion is marked by periods of reduced activity. There are, however, a few exceptions: Some fish in coral reefs sleep by leaning on rocks or standing on their tails. Souk Ihe Bodi of Amwcr Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The WORLD Japan confirms new case of mad cow disease ation. "It's not good enough and we want to know how this hapTOKYO Japan has conpened, Metropolitan Police firmed a new case of mad cow Commissioner Sir John Stevens told British Broadcasting Corp. disease, the third discovery of g illness in the the radio. Two police officers in a cherry-pcountry this year, an official crane removed the said Monday. icker The protester, Jason Hatch, from dairy cow tested positive for bovine spongithe ledge at about 7:15 pju, 5Yt form encephalopathy, or BSE, hours after he climbed up. His on Friday at a slaughterhouse in Barman mask removed and a Shisui town, in southern Ku-white helmet placed on his head, he waved and clapped as the mamoto prefecture (state) about 565 miles southwest of crane lowered him to the Tokyo, prefectural spokesman ground. official Toshinori Takano said. Hatch, 33, from Gloucester, is More precise tests at a state-ru- n a member of the Fathers 4 Jusinfectious.disease research tice group, which is campaigninstitute confirmed the finding ing for greater custody rights for divorced or separated faon Monday, Takano said. The animal's meat and organs thers and has staged a number had not gone on the market, of prominent stunts to promote and its carcass will be incinerattheir cause. No member of the royal famied, he said. Officials at the agriculture ly was at the palace Monday. and health ministries said they U.S. forces kill 22 rebels didn't know how many other in southern Afghanistan dairy cows were at the sick animal's farm. It was Japan's 12th case of mad cow. US. KABUL, Afghanistan troops and helicopter gunships killed 22 militants, including Protester dressed as three Arab fighters in southern Batman scales Afghanistan, the military said Buckingham Palace Monday, the latest bloodshed LONDON Holy intruder! A ahead of historic Afghan elections. protester dressed in a Batman costume scaled the front wall of Meanwhile, the United NaBuckingham Palace on Monday tions withdrew dozens of staff and perched for more than five . from the western dry of Herat hours on a ledge near the bala day after mobs ransacked its cony where the royal f amity ap- offices. The mob violence came after President Hamid Karzai pears on ceremonial occasions. The protester's success in fired the city's warlord goverclimbing the wall in front of the nor. His replacement later ordered a 9 p.oi curfew. queen's main residence prompted fresh questions about the The battle in the d and recently southern province of ZabuL a overhauled royal security oper hotbed of resistance to Karzai's brain-wastin- I . , - ) , ; . . ZZZZ' i )) Vft Associated Press watches Jason Hatch, 33, dressed as Batman, who is standing on a ledge at London's Buckingham Palace on Monday, near the balcony where the royal family appears on ceremonial occasions. At rear is a Buckingham Palace official. leave Lebanoa Ministers of the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries said all such international resolutions must be followed and nations should not be allowed to pick and choose. They were meeting in the port city of government, began late Sunday, the military said. Spokesman Maj. Scott Nelson said some 40 militants attacked coalition soldiers on a search operationThe troops called in two Apache helicopters, which opened fire on the f ighters. "Skirmishes continued throughout the night, and the final battle damage assessment from the incident, from our soldiers on the ground, was 22," Nelson said. Among the dead were three ArabSj the spokesman said. Another Arab was among three people arrested. No coalition forces were hurt, he said. U.S.-backe- d Jid-da- h. . The Council supports internationally legitimate resolutions, and (that includes) the last decision issued by the Security Council, calling for the withdrawal of all forces from Lebanon," said Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheik Mohammed Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah, head of the GCCs Council of Ministers. Ministers urge Syria to withdraw from Lebanon Associated j A police officer, left, Mexicans plan worldwide RIYDAH, Saudi Arabia Gulf Arab ministers urged Syria WALLV SANTANA ; Mr mi si i - 4 V much-criticize- :4 t Practice makes perfect Chiu Chun-chi78, practices the Souna, a traditional Chinese d banks of the wind instrument, on Monday on the Tamsui river in Taipei, Taiwan, after tropical storm Haima brought heavy rains to northern Taiwan throughout Sunday. The Souna is commonly used in singing and dancing, and also for weddings, funerals or other ceremonies. h, mud-soake- g MEXICO CITY Warning: or stranger sudIf a denly jumps up and starts singing Wednesday, don't be alarmed. They aren't crazy. They are just Mexicans participating in a worldwide call to song to celebrate 150 years of their national anthem An ad'campaign is calling on all Mexicans wherever they are to stop what they are doing at noon Wednesday (1 p.m. on Monday to respect a UN. Security Council resolution demanding it withdraw its troops from Lebanon, a rare public intervention in the affairs of a fellow Arab nation Momentum for a Syrian withdrawal was building among Arab nations, with Jordan's foreign minister saying his country also supported the UN. resolution demanding foreign forces Press sing-alon- EDT), the eve of Mexico's Independence Day, and sing the warned in court of future attacks if Turkey continued to rousing ode to war and country. support the United States. While the campaign is priDefendant Harun Ilhan told the court that he and two other marily aimed at celebrating the anthem, it has another motive: suspected ringleaders who remain at large Habib Akdas uniting a country increasingly divided by everything from poland Gurcan Bac were behind itics to crime. the November'bombings that left 61 people dead in Istanbul. "There is a crisis of dishon" "I accept that I am an esty, fragmentation, crime," said Erwin Salas Juarez, a warrior," said Ilhan, who spokesman for the nonprofit opened his testimony with a council organizing the cambrief prayer and at times refused to stand during the trial. paign. "We have to unite sociIlhan, a bearded man who ety." wore blue jeans and sports Organizers hope that on Wednesday, offices will grind to shoes to the hearing, also a halt in the capital, Mexicans praised the Sept. 11 attacks visiting the Eiffel Tower will against New York and Washstop taking photos, and farmers ington and said that while will look up from their fields to Osama bin Laden is mortal, "jihad (holy war) is eternal." join in the anthem's first words: "Even if Osama dies, our jihad "Mexicans, at the cry of battle will continue," he told the court. prepare your swords and bridle; a exists in all of the and let the earth tremble at its Islamic world for victory and center at the roar of the canuntil this fight is finished with non" success it will continue," he "Al-Qaid- Cell suspect warns Turkey of future attacks A susISTANBUL, Turkey pected leader of a cell accused in deadly suicide attacks in Turkey boasted Monday that he warrior" and was an "al-Qai- said. Ilhan said that if Turkey gave support to the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq and continued with friendly ties with Israel, "we will never leave the Republic of Turkey, the price will be paid." The Nation Powell, Ridge endorse creating a new national intelligence director Additional WASHINGTON Secretary of State Colin Powell and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge on Monday endorsed creating a new national intelligence director to coordinate the nation's intelligence agencies, telling senators that giving the position real power will help keep America safe. "A strong national intelligence director is essential, Powell told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee at a morning hearing. That strength is gained by giving the MD full budget authority." "In this town, it's the ultimate command and control," Ridge added. The two secretaries also said a new intelligence director will also help them do their job. President Bush last week endorsed the idea of combining most of the nation's nonmilitary intelligence agencies under a new national intelligence direc' tor, a recommendation that the committee investigating the Sept. 11 attacks pushed strongly in its final report. rigged letters sent RICHMOND, Va.-Le- tters rigged to ignite when opened and bound for the governor's offices in Virginia and West Virginia were intercepted Monday, officials said. Governor's offices in at least 15 other states got similar letters last week. . The letter that arrived in Richmond never threatened Gov. Mark R. Warner, said Bill Leighty, the governor's chief of staff. The letter, addressed to "executive chambers" in the state Capitol, was uncovered at a central postage-handlin- g facility; Leighty said. A letter to Gov. Bob Wise of West Virginia was intercepted there, ; Like the letters received last week, both bore a return address from Nevada's maximum-securitEly State Prison. ."If s a sad reminder that we five in a dangerous , world," Warner said during a break in the Southern Governors Associa- tion conference, being held in Richmond ' At least three of the 15 letters received last week caught fire, but no one was hurt. y ' " to oversee the removal of the 1.5 million tons of debris. David Worby, a lawyer for the plaintiff s, said he will seek billions of dollars in compensation for victims. The lawsuit also asks for the establishment of a system to track for the next 20 years all those who were exposed. The lawsuit alleges that many workers did not have access to protective gear, and those who did were not taught how to wear it properly. While some of the plaintiff s suffer from afflictions ranging . from tumors to heartburn, many say they show no symptoms from their work at the site, but have joined the suit because they fear they risk developing cancer in the future; - Government to require safer window switches WASHINGTON In an effort to prevent child deaths, the government is requiring automakers to install safer switches on power windows by 2008. Officials of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced the new requirement Monday in Columbus, Hundreds sue over Ohio, with Sen. Mike DeWine, who pushed for the effects of WTC cleanup change. The regulation will help NEW YORK U Hundreds of prevent a child's head or limb from being caught in a power ' people who worked on the World Trade Center cleanup window, said NHTSA Chief Dr. n . V lawsuit Jeffrey Runge, ' have filed a "Although these incidents are against the leaseholder of the '" towers and those who super-infrequent, a simple, inexpen-- sive remedy is available and vised the job, alleging they did should be standard practice," he little to protect workers from ' .. ' dust, asbestos and other toxins . said. : ' J in the air.- i The rule win outlaw toggle The lawsuit, filed in federal switches, which rock back and ' court on Friday and made pubforth, in all vehicles sold in the lic Monday, was brought I ' United States by Oct. 1,2008. -Automakers can replace them against Silverstein Properties with several different designs ' and the four construction com- class-actio- , , including switches that parties hired . . ' are flush with the armrest and require the occupant to lift up to close the window. "No technology is foolproof , and nothing can take the place of parental vigilance," Runge a. - . said. NHTSA reviewed death certificates and found that approximately two children die every three years because they hit a power window switch with their arms or legs and accidentally strangle themselves. Kids advoand Cars, a Kansas-base- d cacy group, estimates power window switches have killed at least 23 children since 1993. Four killed in small plane crash near St Louis ST. LOUIS A small plane crashed on an island in the Missouri River after circling the runaway at an airport nearby, killing all four people aboard, authorities said Monday. The crash happened Sunday night on Howell Island as a group of four adults flew from Sikeston to the Spirit of St. Louis Airport in Chesterfield, about 25 miles west of St. Louis, officials said. PDbt Mark Kaplan and his wife, Phyllis Kaplan, both 56, of Chesterfield, were killed along with passengers Ralph Supins-- -ki, 57, and his wife, Carol ; Supinski, 58, of Bradenton, Fla. ..' Witnesses reported the Cess- " i na circled the runway before. Aviagoing down, the Federal ; tion Administration said. "We dont know what hap- ' pened There's no indication of any problem," said airport di-f rector Richard Hrabko. Hrabko said the pilot re- ; ceived landing instructions and began his approach; but at some point decided not to land ?. l and turned around. . v . ; m i i m 'to. - is.. TIM DUNNAssociated Press Look but below! Othar Lawrence, left, of Salt Lake City, and Shane McConkey of Squaw Valley, Calif., leap from the top of the Reno Hilton, a 335-foleap, Monday morning in Reno, Nev:, in a legal BASE iump to promote the 41st National Championship Air Races and Air Show being held in Reno through Saturday. ot |