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Show Wednesday, February 7, DAILY 2007 HERALD AS FAST FACT Morning Briefing Ancient Rome boys were given a general education that included the study of literature, linguistics, astronomy, geometry, music, logic, history and philosophy; girls received only an elementary education. In Soura: Mnopedu of Worid Facts Compiled from Dairy Herald wire services The Nation The WORLD Suspected attacker killed at airport, 3 police wounded .V;3v . 'a fit I V fv . ANDY HOLZMANLos Angeles Daily News Ronald Reagan's birthday Members of the U.S. Marine Funeral Team position a wreath at the resting place of Ronald Reagan during the 96th Anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's Birthday event on Tuesday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Police to recommend pery roads and the bone-chi- molestation charge for man who posed as boy OKLAHOMA CITY vestigators said Tuesday they will recommend felony molesIn- ll ing cold. Defendant in marketing House fire kills 6 was. 4 adults in Kent u&y stunt videotaped police AuBARDSTOWN, Ky. thorities spent Tuesday afternoon recovering bodies from the remains of a house fire BOSTON One of the men criminally charged after called the deadliest Kentucky placing blinking cartoon advertisements around the city fire in decades. videotaped a police bomb squad removing one of the elecOklahoma boy. tronic devices, but did not tell the officers the object was Autopsies were expected to be performed on the 10 adults harmless. Police identified Neil H. and children who died in an Peter Berdo-vsk- y Surveillance cameras caught II, 29, in the video by g Bardstown fire, marks on his body, El Reno videotaping officers removing what they thought authorities said at a late afterwas a possible bomb. Police Lt. Van Gillock said. noon press conference. His lawyer, Walter Prince, said Tuesday: "Mr. Berdo-vskRodreick was arrested Nine of the victims were didn't do anything inappropriate." last month when officials at found dead inside the house, Prince said Berdovsky had received a call that morning a charter school in Arizona some on beds, others near from a friend who told him there was a bomb threat at questioned the authenticity of the Sullivan Square transit station in Boston. He said Berhis birth certificate and other doorways. Another victim was enrollment documents. pronounced dead at Flaget dovsky grabbed his camera and headed out to the scene, He had enrolled in four unaware it involved one of the electronic devices that he Hospital, Fire Chief Anthony and Sean Stevens, 28, had hung as part of a guerrilla adcharter schools posing as a Mattingly said. A neighbor's records show. attempts to help rescue the vertising campaign for Turner Broadcasting, a division of Time Warner Inc. children, some of whom were Authorities said he shaved and "That's what he does. He videotapes things. He's a wore pancake makeup to help screaming, were unsuccessful. him appear younger, convincMattingly said it's too early videotape freelance artist. He got a call that there was a to determine where the fire bomb threat near his house and he went to tape it," Prince ing teachers, students and adstarted or its cause. There was said. "When he got there, he realized what was going on, ministrators that he was a boy no evidence of space heaters and he went back to his apartment and called his employnamed Casey. in use. Police believe that Rodreick er, and they told him they would take care of it. That's It also was unclear how long not an inappropriate response." also pretended to be a the fire had burned before when he lived in El Reno the fire department was sumfrom 2003 to 2005, Gillock said. moned at 3:51 a.m. Fire trucks closed arrived at 3:57 a.m. where they because cultivation Industrial becomes early ington hemp Videographer witnessed flames shooting of snow. is legal in Canada and other longest-jaile- d journalist countries but is banned in the "1 knew we'd have to pay through the roof. The state fire marshal's office, Bardstown A free- United States. Law enforceSAN FRANCISCO up somewhere down the line ment officials worry that for all that nice weather," said police and representatives lance videographer jailed for from the U.S. Bureau of AlChris Sachel, who owns a industrial hemp can shield refusing to turn over footage drive-i- n restaurant outside Ful- cohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the growing of marijuana, of a violent demonstration to which offered its services, ton, northwest of Syracuse. federal investigators became although hemp supporters say Cold air from the Arctic are investigating the state's that fear is unfounded. the longest incarcerated jour deadliest structure fire since stretched from the northern nalist in U.S. history Tuesday. the 1977 Beverly Hills Supper Plains through New England, Former Border Patrol Josh Wolf, 24, has spent Club fire in Northern Kentucky 169 days in a federal prison temperatures were below agent beaten in prison and that killed 165 people, said Rob zero as far south as the mounafter declining a federal subEL PASO, Texas A former tains of West Virginia. At least Goodwin, senior deputy state poena for unaired videotape fire marshal. nine deaths are blamed on slip he shot of the chaotic July 2005 Border Patrol agent who was convicted of shooting a drug San Francisco street protest smuggling suspect and then lyagainst the 8 summit in Scotland. Anarchists allegedly ing about it has been beaten by vandalized a San Francisco po- fellow inmates in prison. Prison officials on Tuesday lice car during the melee, and an officer suffered a fractured confirmed assertions by a conskull after being struck. gressman and relatives of Ramos. He was attacked "Josh is fighting a brave an battle that Saturday night after his case chillingly was described on the TV show increasing number of journalists in the U.S. are facing," said "America's Most Wanted," the officials said. National Press Club president Ramos suffered minor cuts Jerry Zremski in a statement. and bruises, U.S. Bureau of Vanessa Leggett, a Houston-Prisons spokeswoman Trad based freelancer, served 168 days in 2001 and 2002 for Billingsley said in a statement. Ramos has been moved to declining to reveal unpublished the special housing unit at material about a murder case. tation charges against a sex offender who passed himself off as a schoolboy, saying they have a videotape of the man having sex with an Ro-drei- early-mornin- y 12-- C-- the N.Dakota issues hemp production licenses BISMARCK. N.D. North Dakota issued the nation's first licenses to grow industrial hemp Tuesday to two farmers who still must meet federal requirements before they can medium- - and y federal prison in Yazoo City, Miss., where he is serving time, Billingsley said. Wave of Arctic cold in Midwest Northeast SYRACUSE, N.Y.-A- fter an unusually warm December Januand a mostly snow-fre- e plant the crop. The farmers must get apary, winter returned with a proval from the Drug Enforce- vengeance Tuesday to the Upment Administration, which per Midwest and Northeast, dumping heavy snow on parts treats hemp much the way it of New York and keeping temdoes marijuana and has not allowed commercial hemp pro- peratures well below zero in many cities. duction but has said It would g The bitter cold and consider applications to grow winds forced dozens it. In New York, WisHemp is a cousin of marijua- of schools na that contains trace amounts consin and Michigan to close for a second day, including of the chemical that causes a districts in Buffalo, Rochester marijuana high, though hemp and Milwaukee, In West Virdoes not product the same effibrous ginia, classes were called off plant The fects. sturdy, or delayed in all 55 counties, Is used to make an assortment and Kentucky school districts of products including paper, including Louisville and Lex rope, clothing and cosmetics. bone-chillin- EN ORATXumal Constitution Super speeders Actors John TravoHa (left and Tim Allen arrivt at a newt conference for Wild Hogs Motorcycle Safety Awareness Day on Tuesday at the Capitol building in Atlanta The event coincides with the release of the motorcycling road-tricomedy filmWild Hogs," starring the actors. p group. They also had planned to present authorities this week with a list of more than 40 prisoners without legal RAWALPINDI, Pakistan representation whom they intended to defend. Police thwarted a sus"The terrorist allegation pected suicide attacker at the is a coverup," Faleh said. "It airport serving Pakistan's was used against me as well capital late Tuesday after a shootout and blast that killed when I was arrested. ... This is an attempt to abort the the attacker and wounded civic rights work they were three security officials, officials said. planning." The attacker opened fire with a pistol on police Missing lawman may who challenged him as he be convicted terrorist walked in the airport's main U.S. BAGHDAD, Iraq entrance, said Moravet Ali officials said Tuesday they Shah, deputy-inspectgeneral of police in Rawalpindi were working with the Iraqi where the airport is located. government to determine if a After an exchange of fire, member of parliament was a the attacker pulled out a gre- convicted terrorist who had nade that fell at his feet and been sentenced to death in Kuwait for bombing the U.S. exploded, killing him, Shah and French embassies there said, adding that they susin 1983. pected he had been a suicide The legislator, Jamal Jaaf-a- r attacker and were examinMohammed, was elected ing whether his body was rigged with more explosives. in December 2005 to represent Babil, a province south Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said it was a of Baghdad. Sheikh Dhiaud-di- n suicide attack, but had no Fayadh, another legislafurther details. tor, said Mohammed was not aligned with a political party and had not been seen since Nations pledge not late December. to use child soldiers Iraqi officials refused to discuss the case, but U.S. ofPARIS African, Asian and South American nations ficials in Baghdad and Washwhere child fighters have ington acknowledged there been used in war endorsed a were suspicions surrounding new international agreement Mohammed and that they Tuesday that commits them were working with Iraq to to stopping the practice and determine if he was the same man convicted in Kuwait. punishing those who recruit The Kuwait bombings hit youngsters as combatants. the U.S. and French embasSome nations hailed the text, which carries moral but sies, along with several other targets, leaving at least no legal weight, as a breakseven people dead. An Iraqi through. But others said it Shiite Muslim by the name may be no more than empty prSmises and that more than of Jamal Jaafar Mohammed words are needed to rehabili- was among those convicted and sentenced to death in tate children mentally and absentia. He had fled before physically scarred by war. his trial. "We've lost a whole generation of children," said Liberia's deputy minister of Lebanon decries U.S. education, Hawa for Israel support "It's scary." BadSierra Leone, Liberia, BEIRUT, Lebanon Congo, Sri Lanka, Colombia, gered by Hezbollah and Sudan and Somalia jeered as a puppet of the just U.S. government, Lebanon's some of the nations where children have been recruited embattled prime minister on as fighters were among Tuesday blamed U.S. support of Israel for an increasingly nearly 60 countries that apviolent political crisis that Paris proved the has shredded this country's Commitments, although it was not formally signed. All stability. His voice rising in frustra27 nations of the European Union also endorsed the text. tion during an interview with the Los Angeles Times, The U.S. government did Fouad Siniora said the not participate in the confertroubles in his country would ence. The State Department subside if U.S. official were said the administration obto press Israel to withdraw its jected to some of the wordsoldiers from Shebaa Farms, ing of the documents, but added that the U.S. remained a small patch of disputed turf that the United Nations has committed to its treaty obligations to prevent the use of said was part of Syria. With Shiite Muslim children in combat. Hezbollah and its allies Accused confides in mounting a hard push for a bigger share of power in undercover agent Lebanon, many people here believe that the international NEW WESTMINSTER, A pig British Columbia community should force farmer accused in the deaths Hezbollah's hand by deprivof women from a gritty ing the party of any excuse for keeping an armed militia. Vancouver neighborhood told an undercover police of The lingering occupation of ficer he wanted to kill 75 but the land has long been cited planned to take a break after by Hezbollah as a justificaone more slaying made it "an tion for its armed guerrilla even 50," according to a jail fighters on Israel's border. But the U.S. has ignored cell video shown at his trial his pleas, Siniora said. Tuesday. who cannot The officer Attackers kill 7 in be identified under a court order told the Acapulco, Mexico jury that he posed as a man who was facing attempted ACAPULCO, Mexico More than a dozen armed murder charges and gained assailants staged and videothe trust of Robert Pickton during their incarceration in taped simultaneous attacks against two offices of the February 2002. state attorney general in Pickton, 56, is charged with 26 counts of murder. Acapulco on Tuesday, killHe denies guilt. ing at least seven people in this Pacific resort plagued by Prosecutors said when the trial opened three weeks drug violence. The attacks took place in ago that Pickton had told the undercover officer he killed two neighborhoods about nine miles north of the tour49 women and was caught ist zone before 11 a.m., said before he could reach his Enrique Gil Mercado, special goal of 50. prosecutor for the attorney Saudis held for general's office in the state of Guerrero, which includes as described terrorism Acapulco. activists democracy The gunmen were dressed in military uniforms and JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia Saudi police have arrested pretended to be conducting 10 men and accused them a weapons check, said Erit of collecting donations to Montufar, director-genera- l of the attorney general's fund terrorist acts outside the kingdom, the Interior investigative police offices in Guerrero. Ministry said. But a lawyer Montufar said an assailand a prominent dissident said that at least seven of the ant in one office asked 'Are men were Saudi democracy you the only ones here?" At activists whose arrest was a the other office, a gunmen government attempt to abort asked: "Are these all the their civic rights work. weapons you have?" who Matrouk The officers answered was jailed in 2004 for call"yes" to both questions and handed over their weapons. ing for more democracy in the kingdom, said the seven The gunmen then opened fire while videotaping both men, most of them lawyers and professors, had been shootings, Montufar said, citing witness accourft of the waiting for government approval to set up a civic rights attacks. i. |