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Show DAILY HERALD Monday, September 20, 2004 FAST FACT In 1 942, the theoretical morning Briefing , physicist John V. Atanasoff and his assistant Clifford Berry built the first computer that successfully used vacuum tubes to do mathematical calculations. Sowk Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The Book of Answen The WORLD The Nation Pop star Madonna addresses 'Kabbalah' conference 4 0 PAUL KITAGAKI JR. Associated Press Surprise snow for Sacramento 1 1, right, dodges hail thrown by his friends Austin Owensby, 13, center, and Joseph Wong, it, as they play inapile of hail at WiMam Land Elementary that was dropped after a freak haU storm moved through Sacramento, Calif, on Sunday. Andy Zhu, Hurricane Karl staying in Atlantic for now MIAMI Hurricane Karl maintained Category 3 strength Sunday but remained on a course tnat wiu Keep it in the Atlantic, a threat only to shipping, forecasters said. Karl, the seventh hurricane this season, had top sustained winds near 1 15 mph and was expected to fluctuate in strength for the next day or so, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. At 5 a.m. EDT, Karl was centered about 1,210 miles west of the CaDe Verde is lands closer to Africa than the Caribbean and was near moving west-northwe- st 12 mph. Berry said in a statement. He said several hosts on the station "have criticized and continue to criticize Rather and CBS with no interference from management." Berry initially declined to comment, saying the issue was a personnel matter. Maloney, whose weekly show aired for three years on KIROAM Radio, said he was fired Friday after telling listeners on Sept. 12 that "Rather should either retire or be forced out" over the memo controversy. Marvin Mitchelson, divorce attorney to the stars, dies at 76 . Karl comes on the heels of Tropical Storm Jeanne, which early Sunday was near the southeastern Bahamas and was moving away from the islands toward open seas, where it could gain strength. Karl is the 1 1th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. north-northwe- st allies won't help in Iraq until after election, official says U.S. WASHINGTON The White House isn't counting on getting military help in Iraq from antagonistic allies until after the U.S. elections, if at all, a U.S. official told the New York Daily News. Underscoring Democrat John Kerry's claim last spring that some world leaders said they'd prefer that President Bush be turned out of office, powers like Russia, China, France and Germany won't offer to send troops to protect U.N. officials working to hold elections in Iraq in January. "There is no way anybody is going to step up before the (American) election. It's personal enmity toward the president. They can't stand him," said the official, who asked not to be named. "Somebody should step up ' and protect the UN. election officials as they try to promote democratic elections in a sovereign nation that had been run by a despot. ... It's a shame, regardless of how we got there," the official added. To help fill the void, the United States will turn to countries trying to build alliances with the West, such as Uzbekistan, to provide some troops to help protect the UN. staffers. affiliate says it didn't fire talk show host over comments CBS . A radio station Sunday denied a talk show host's claim that he was fired because he criticized CBS newsman Dan Rather's handling of challenges to the authenticity of memos about President Bush's National Guard service. SEATTLE filiate here, canceled "The Brian Maloney Show" because of scheduling conflicts, the sta- tion's general manager said Sunday. "The primary reason Brian Maloney's show was canceled is because KIRCs broadcasts of the Seattle Seahawks foot- Dan games sigruncanuy re- j iam. i:uueup duces our ounuay and we feh the remaining time slots would be better , filled by other hosts," Ken LOS ANGELES Divorce lawyer Marvin M. Mitchelson, who worked on marital disputes involving scores of Hollywood stars, has died. He was 76. Mitchelson died Saturday after battling cancer at the Rehabilitation Center of Beverly Hills, his longtime publicist Sy Presten said Sunday. "He was practicing (law) up until thetime he got sick a couple of months ago," Presten said. "He was a workaholic, he worked around the clock." After beginning his law practice in 1957, Mitchelson worked on cases involving famous names such as Quincy Jones, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hugh Hefner, Robert De Niro, Bob Dylan, Sylvester Stallone, Mick Jagger, Mike Tyson and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. Most of the cases involved divorces. In his first celebrity divorce case, representing actor James Mason's wife, Pamela, in the 1960s, Mitchelson won a high-profil- e, big-mon- $ 1 million settlement. While representing Marlon Brando's actress Anna Kashfi, in a custody case, Mitchelson settled by negotiating with Brando directly in the actor's home. He also successfully defended actress Joan Collins in a case involving a prenuptial agreement with Peter Holm e, First Enron trial to shine a light on Wall Street practices HOUSTON A criminal trial scheduled to start Monday involving former Enron Corp. executives may shine a rare and potentially harsh spotlight on the inner workings of the investment banking business on Wall Street. . The trial's focus is a single alleged sham transaction involving Merrill Lynch & Co. that closed almost two years e before the energy giant collapsed into bankruptcy. "It's significant because this calls into question Wall Street practices in dealing with corporate America," said Philip Hilder, a former federal prosecutor who represents several Enron-relateclients in Houston. "The ramifications of this are broader than Enron, certainly." The six defendants four former Merrill Lynch execu-- , tives and two former midlevel Enron executives are charged with conspiracy and fraud, They are accused of helping push through a sale of several floating power plants to the brokerage in late December 1999 that allowed Enron to book about $12 million in pretax earnings. one-tim- d . TEL AVIV, Israel Pop star Madonna called for world peace Sunday at a conference on Jewish mysticism, a highlight of her five-da- y pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Israel hopes the star the biggest pop celebrity to visit in years will revive tourism battered by four years of Mideast violence, and government officials were on hand at a Tel Aviv hotel to share the spotlight, the glory and the photographs. Madonna, wearing a low-cdress with a black and white leopard pattern, said she was hesitant to come to Israel "after seeing so many news reports about terror attacks." "I realize now that it is no more dangerous to be here than it is to be in New York," she told the gathering. Madonna was raised a Roman Catholic, but she has become an avid devotee of Jewish mysticism in recent years. She has adopted the Hebrew name Esther, wears a red thread on her wrist to ward off the evil eye and reportedly refuses to perform on the Jewish Sabbath. Tourism officials hope the visit to singer's Israel will calm fears that have kept many potential tourists away from the Holy Land, de- -' spite its religious and other attractions. , Sharon: Israel will retaliate against rocket attacks by Palestinians JERUSALEM Prime Minis- ter Ariel Sharon warned Sun- day that Israel will retaliate against Palestinan rockets even if they are fired from civilian areas, and an arms manufacturer said Israel had installed a radar system in a border town to give warning of rocket attacks. Sharon's remarks and the reported radar defense were apparently aimed at hardline critics who say Sharon's planned withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 would expose Israel to intense rocket attacks. Numerous Israeli military forays into north-eGaza have failed to still the rocket fire. In the four years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, Palestinian militants have fired dozens of rockinaccurate, ets at Israeli border towns and Jewish settlements in Gaza. The missiles caused deaths for the first time in June, when two Israelis, including a boy, were killed. Many mis- siles have failed into fields, while others have damaged homes and cars. The town of Sderot, a mile from Gaza, has been hit hardg est. An system was recently installed in Sderot to allow residents enough time to get into bomb shelters before the rockets land, said Giora Shalgi, the director of Rafael, an Israeli arms manufacturer. ARIEL SCHAUT Associated Press a sign against the construction of Israel's separation barrier as a group of Israelis and foreigners demonstrate in front of a Tel Aviv hotel where U.S. singer Madonna is reportedly staying Sunday. Madonna, who has taken an interest in Kabbalah, or Political activist Angela Godfrey holds Jewish mysticism in recent years, is visiting Israel for the Jewish New Year. m early-warnin- Iran denounces ban on its uranium enrichment program as Illegal' Iran on TEHRAN, Iran Sunday denounced as "illegal" demands from the UN. atomic watchdog agency that it freeze all work on uranium enrichment a technology that can be used for nuclear weapons and threatened to limit cooperation with the agency if it moves top nuclear negotiator, stopped short of outright rejection of the International Atomic Energy Agency's demands and held out the possibility of negotiations On the issue. "We are committed to the suspension of actual enrichment, but we have no decision to expand the suspension," Rowhani said at a news conference a day after the IAEA governing board issued its demand to freeze all enrichment-relate- d work and said it would judge Tehran's compliance in two months. "This demand is illegal," he said. "The IAEA board of governors has no right to make such a suspension obligatory for any country." "Actual enrichment" refers to the injection of uranium gas into centrifuges. Rowhani indicated Iran's other activities, such as production, assembly and testing of centrifuges, were likely to continue. Reformer and in runoff for Belgrade mayor or on Sunday, preliminary results showed. The returns also indicated a close battle between the two rival groups elsewhere in Serbia in key local elections. Democrat Nenad Bogdanovic received 33 percent of the vote in Belgrade, while ultranation-alis- t Aleksandar Vucic garnered 29 percent, according to the Center for Independent Elections and Democracy. The two will face each other in a runoff vote in two weeks, the independent monitors' group said. The Belgrade mayoral race has been a focus of Serbia's municipal ballot, after recent legal changes made the capital city's leader the third most important political position in the republic after Serbia's president and the prime minister. Israeli missile destroys car in Gaza City, killing senior Hamas leader . membered body were pulled from the wreckage. Hospital officials said six were wounded, two seriously, all bystanders returning from a mosque. Witness Omar Arf a, 52, who owns a fast food stand nearby, said the street was full of cars. "A spark came from the sky, then there was a huge explosion in part of street," he said. The Israeli military had no official comment. But military sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said an Israeli attack helicopter carried out the attack. Hamas identified the dead man as Khaled Abu Shamiyeh, 30, from the Shati refugee camp next to Gaza City. Hamas did not say what role he played in the violent Islamic group, which has claimed responsibility for dozens of suicide bombings in Israel. Polls predict newcomer will unseat Indonesia's GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip . incumbent president An Israeli helicopter fired a Inmissile at a car in Gaza City late JAKARTA, Indoesia for voters a residents donesian said, killing hungry Sunday, senior Hamas militant leader, BELGRADE, change are expected on Monrethe latest Israeli attack in the A day to do something that was nationalunthinkable during the counformist and a hard-lin- e territory it plans to leave next ist loyal to Slobodan Milosevic toward sanctions. year. try's three decades of authoritoss out an incumWitnesses said parts of a dis- - tarian rule led the race for Belgrade may But Hasan Rowhani, Iran's bent president and vote in a political newcomer who has promised to crack down on corruption and revive the battered economy. Polls show Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono with more than a 25 percentage point lead over ii President Megawati Sukarnoputri. Most analysts expect the former general will win the election in a landslide. Police said they have deployed nearly 140,000 officers across the vast archipelago to guard polling stations. There were fears of a terrorist attack after an explosion outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta on Sept. 9 that killed nine. The blast has been blamed on the terror group Islamiyah. Since the bombing, police 1 ! scud they have received 10 to 15 I O bogus mobile phone text messages each day warning of ter8RDJAN KJCAssociated Press ror attacks including one Democratic Party and a top contender for Belgrade mayor Nenad Bogdanovic of tht Friday that said three trucks laden with bombs were heading shares a laugh with his wife Dragana Bogdanovic after they voted on Sunday in Belgrade, during for Jakarta with plans to attack local elections in Serbia. 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