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Show ,j TTiosday, W!t ;..--- -- v tj rftrtt rwsmrKeBm& DAILY HERALD Octafcer M, 2004 -. ..- A5 FAST FACT Morning Briefing When he received his doctorate in 1 895, W.E.B. DuBois became the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard. . Sara Th Book of 1.001 TrM Quetkra Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The World The Nation Iflt "",IHHI. "4 r.t i ff LW, I W; Wit MmA 7 q I ,vj ha"" MIKHAIL . Press METZEL Assotiatcrt Russian cosmonauts Salizhan Sharipov, center, and Yuri Shurgin, left, and U.S. ustronaut Leroy Chiuo wave during a news conference at the liuikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. The crew of a Soyur rocke! is set for blast off for the International Space S tut ion (odtiv crew prepares for launch Russian-U.- S. BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -Smiling and confident, two Russians and an American prepared for their first mission in a Russian Soyuz space- craft breaking the nearly tradition of having at least one crewman with previous experience in piloting the capsule. Russians Salizhan ShariMv and Yuri Shargin and American Leroy Chiao were set to roar into space at 7:(K a.m. Moscow time today atop' a Soyuz booster rocket and dock with the international space station two days later. Chiao and Sharipov both have flown U.S. space shuttles, while Shargin is a rookie. "I have flown shuttles three times ... and I would very much like to fly a Soyuz, which would be a new adventure for me." Chiao told reporters Wednesday. "Both ships are very good, very reli30-ye- CHITOSE SUZUKIAssociated Press Tasty lunch Elephants from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus eat their lunch at the North End neighborhood in Boston on Wednesday. Ten elephants walked down the street to the North End from the FleetCenter, where their show is on through Sunday, ' for a festive lunch. , Court denies rehearing in Moussaouj case WASHINGTON Terrori- sm suspect Zacarias Mous-saou- i lost a bid Wednesday to have the full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals review two issues witness access and the death penalty that have delayed a trial. Moussaoui lawyers, Frank Dunham Jr. and Edward MacMahon Jr., said they have not decided whether to ask the Supreme Court to grant Moussaoui direct access to three prisoners and bar the government from seeking the death penalty. Before the ruling, the lawyers notified the trial judge in the case.that they would fUe such an appeal if a rehearing was denied. A petition to the high court could cause additional delay in a case that has lasted for almost three years. NRA endorses Bush The National Rifle Association endorsed President Bush for on Wednesday, promising millions of dollars for ads, phone banks and other efforts. "The Supreme Court is going to be crucial to the future of the Second Amendment, and President Bush will appoint justices that respect the Bill of Rights," NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre told The Associated Press in a phone interview before announcing the endorsement at a news conference in Duluth, Minn. Bush also supports legislation to protect the firearms industry from Associated Press lawsuits and opposes centralizing files on gun owners, LaPierre said, Wayne LaPierre, NRA calling the difference between Bush chief executive, and Democrat John Kerry on guns endorsed President Bush because he will "day and night." the appoint justices that group's political action committee has already spent respect the Bill of roughly $1 million on TV and other Rights. . . advertising opposing Kerry. the NRA plans to spend about $20 million in all, focused on 10 to 15 targeted states, with efforts including radio, television and' newspaper ads, phone voter contacts, up to 10 million pieces of banks, direct mail and election messages in magazines that go to the group's four million members. WASHINGTON ' . The Richmond, appellate court said none of the judges requested a rehearing of those issues, which a three-judg- e panel already had ruled on. If there is no further appeal, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, in Alexandria, Va., could resolve those issues and set a trial date for the only U.S. defendant accused of particiconspirapating in the cy of Sept. 11,2001. Va.-base- d Victims of water taxi gun-righ- ts door-to-do- had it been inspected, investiga- tors said Wednesday. The National Transportation Safety Board said it found preAll 23 lawBALTIMORE existing cracks on frame rails suits filed against the operator that held up the motor in the of a water taxi that capsized in rear of the bus. The agency did not link the the Baltimore harbor during a sudden storm, killing five, have cracks to the crash, saying the cause remained under investibeen settled, attorneys said gation. Authorities were still Wednesday. Terms of the joint settlement looking at whether the driver, Herbert Walters, fell asleep at were kept confidential. ' the wheel and planned to subThe Lady D was ferrypoena his medical records. ing 23 tourists between historic The cracks should have been Fort McHenry and Fells Point discovered during an annual inon March 6 when it capsized in spection and resulted in an , winds exceeding 50 mph. "This was a tragedy of unbeorder, which would have required the comlievable proportions," said atpany to fix the problem before torney Paul Bekman, a partner the bus was allowed back on in the firm that represented 12 the road, said Gary Van Etten, families. "But now it's over and the NTSB's lead investigator. finished and the families can - Authorities do not know move on." James P. Bond president of when the bus was last inspected. Living Classrooms Foundation, Harvard researchers issued a the vessel's owner statement that acknowledged seek permission to the settlement "on mutually acproduce cloned embryos ceptable terms." He declined HarCAMBRIDGE, Mass. further comment "out of revard University scientists have spect for the families and be- asked the university's ethical cause of the confidentiality review board for permission to agreement." In May, some families filed a produce cloned human em$17 million lawsuit against the bryos for disease research, potentially becoming the first refoundation, alleging the operasearchers in the nation to wade tor failed to obtain readily availinto a divisive area of study able weather information about that'has become a presidential the approaching storm. Other campaign issue. passengers or their survivors "We want to find new ways filed similar lawsuits later. to study and hopefully cure disSettlement negotiations beeases," said Harvard biologist gan before a federal magistrate Oct. 6 and ended the next day. Douglas Melton, a senior re- searcher who, along with a col"It was a real marathon sesleague, has applied for permission," Bekman said. sion to do the work. Embryonic stem cells are Investigators say bus cells that can form into master not should that crashed any tissue of the body. Many have been on the road scientists believe harnessing A them might one day allow tisWEST MEMPHIS, Ark. sue regeneration to treat nutour bus that crashed along an merous diseases. Arkaasas highway, killing 14, Harvesting stem cells from was in such poor condition be--, embryos kills the embryo, and ' fore the wreck that it would some argue that it is tanta- have been pulled out of service accident reach settlement mount to taking a life. President Bush has signed an executive order limiting federal help to all but existing stem cell lines. Democratic challenger John Kerry supports widespread stem cell research. The research group asking for a green light to advance its work is one of two teams affiliated with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, a facility set up earlier this year to fund such research. Judge holds second able." reporter in contempt in CIA leak probe A second WASHINGTON reporter was held in contempt Wednesday by a federal judge for refusing to reveal confidential sources before a grand jury investigating the leak of an undercover CIA officer's identity. U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan ordered Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper jailed for up to 18 months and the magazine fined $1,000 a day for refusing to comply with a grand jury subpoena seeking the testimony. Hogan suspended the jail time and fine pending the outcome of an appeal. The ruling was nearly identical to one issued last week by Hogan in the case of Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times who is also refusing to name her sources. Miller and Cooper, both represented by lawyer Floyd Abrams, are expected to join together in appealing their cases on First Amendment grounds. "No reporter in the United States should have to go to jail for simply doing their job," said Cooper, who is Time's White House correspondent. , Workers threaten to dose Nigerian oil industry ABUJA, Nigeria levels. The president of Nigeria's largest oil workers union, said Tuesday its members were still working at key positions for the time being but vowed to shut down production if the government used heavy-handetactics to end the protest. "If nothing serious happens, we will maintain this position,". Peter Akpatason told The Associated Press. "But if there are arrests, we will change our strategy ... We can move to stop operations 100 percent." d LONDON Prime Minister Tony Blair weathered yet another storm over the Iraq conflict on Wednesday, vigorously denying he misled Britain over Iraqi weaxns and refusing to apologize for the war. Eighteen months after the U.S.-leinvasion, Iraq continues to dog the prime minister, but political opponents seem unable to land a lethal blow. In a noisy House of Commons session dominated by the war, Blair parried attacks over his handling of intelli-- . gence and won cheers of supd VICTOR CALZADAEI Paso Times Swinging construction George Cantore, right, Danny Sullivan, bottom left, and Eric Gorham of the Coronado High Scfiool future Farmers of America maneuver a portion of a swing into position dt the new community-built playground at White Spur Park in El Paso. Texas. The park was designed with input from 9(H) schoolchildren and will be built from polywood recycled plastic by nearly 1,0(X) volunteers over a which began Wednesday. port from his'own lawmakers. "I take full responsibility and apologize for any information given in good faith that has subsequently turned out to be wrong," said Blair, who has already acknowledged that British intelligence was flawed. "What I do not in any way accept is that there was any deception of anyone. I will not apologize for removing Saddam Hussein. I will not apologize for the conflict. I believe it was right then, is right now and essential for the wider security of that region and world." Egypt investigating link to militants, d anonymity. , Libya's Interior Ministry announced the arrests Sunday, three days after car Ixinihs blew up at the Taba Hilton and two bungalow campgrounds an hour's drive south. killing Egyptians, Israelis, Italians and Russians. The ministry did not elatxrate on the arrests or the suspects, except to say they were frorg the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia. Also, a fourth separate claim of responsibility for the attacks was posted on the Internet Wednesday by a group identifying itself as "Muhammed's Army The Military Wing of the Palestinian Resistance." None of the-fo- ur claims have apeared particularly credible. Nige- ria's main oil workers union threatened to shut down the country's oil industry as a nationwide general strike entered its third day Wednes-- . day, increasing concerns about supply from Africa's biggest crude producer. A general strike in protest against high local fuel prices began Monday, following a series of price hikes triggered by last year's deregulation of the fuel market. The strike has not so far affected oil supply from Nigeria, but such fears have helped send world oil prices to record Blair rejects demands to apologize over Iraq 36-fo- members arrested while illegally entering Iibya are connected to last week's cixrdi-natebombings at Sinai tourist resorts that killed 34 eole. an Egyptian official said Wednesday Egypt has asked the Libyan government whether the suspected militants were arrested after the (XI. 7 attacks, the official said on condition of Sinai blast CAIRO, Egypt Egyptian authorities are investigating whether 17 suspected Israel to limit access to holy site - Israel JERUSALEM said Wednesday it would severely limit the access of Muslim worshippers to Jerusalem's holiest site during the holy month of Ramadan, claiming it could collapse. Angry Muslim clerics dismissed Israel's claims,' saying Arab engineers assured them the Al Aqsa Mosque compound was stable. They accused Israel of exaggerating the danger in hopes of increasing its control over the site, which is administered by the Islamic Trust. Israeli police and archaeologists warned that because of a recent earthquake, part of the compound, Islam's third holiest shrine, might collapse under large crowds of believers during Ramadan, which begins this weekend.' The sacred hilltop, revered by Jews as the site of their biblical temples, is one of the most sensitive spots in the conflict, and riots tliere in 2000 escalated into the current round of fighting. Israeli attempts, to restrict the number of worshippers could lead to more Pales' tinian protests. Israel's police minister, (iideoii Ezra, said he wants the Islamic Trust, or Waqf. to declare the southeastern corner of the holy site comxund If the Waqf doesmot agree, "we will view this as a real and immediate threat and we can't let this happen ... we will , have to limit the number of worshippers to 50,000 or 60,000," Ezra told Israel Army Radio. The compound holds about 250,(KK) pe)ple and is often filled to capacity dur-- ' ing the main Ramadan prayers. -' , ' ... |
