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Show DAILY A4 Monday, April HERALD 21 2007 FAST FACT MORNING BRIEFING Ishtar was he great mother goddess of the Babylonians and Assyrians. Her concerns included fertility, healing, sexuality and lust Source: The Book of Answers Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The Nation Calif. House member dies of cancer LOS ANGELES -- Rep, Juanita Millender-McDonala seven-tercongresswoman from southern California, died early Sunday of cancer. She was 68. Millender-McDonaldied at her home in Carson, said her chief of staff, Bandele McQueen. The congresswoman had asked for a four- - to six week leave of absence from the House last week to deal with her illness. McQueen couldn't immediately provide details on what form of cancer McDonald had, but said she had been receiving hospice care. She represented a heavily Democratic southern California district that includes Compton, Long Beach and parts of Los Angeles. "She was a champion for the consumer and fought injustice wherever she saw it. She always valued public service and served her state and nation with grace and honor," said California Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres, who served with her in the California state Legislature. d is Millender-McDonal- d Navy pilot killed in Blue PENSACOLA. Fla. - -- I Cic 7 If l the second member of Congress to die this year of cancer. Republican Rep. Charles Norwood Jr. of Georgia died in February after battling cancer and lung disease. Angels crash Wm Inves tigators looked through wreckage Sunday to determine what caused a Navy Blue Angel jet to crash during a maneuver, while the military identified the fallen pilot as a who was performing in one of his first air shows with the team. Lt. Cmdr. Kevin J. Davis of Pittsfield, Mass. was in his second year with the Blue Angels, the team known for its highspeed, aerobatic demonstrations, Lt. Cmdr. Garrett Kasper said. At Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, the site of Saturday's crash, a somber crowd watched Sunday as six jets flew overhead in formation. Smoke streamed behind one of the jets as it peeled away from the others to complete the "missing man formation," the traditional salute for a lost military aviator. "The spirit of the pilot is in the arms of a loving God," said Rob Reider, a minister who was the announcer for the air show. The crash happened as the team was performing its final maneuver Saturday afternoon during the air show. The team's six pilots were joining from behind the crowd of thousands to form a triangle shape known as a delta, but Davis' jet did not join the formation. Moments later, his jet crashed just outside Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, hit- - 1'-- , . t. ,,-- T. V ; !""'"""-"- - - ., l . t V t I ' - ' ... MICHAEL v ; . ' . - .i SCHUMACHERAssociated Press The Morning After Utility crews work to restore power in Tulia, Texas on Sunday after what appeared to be a tornado that passed through the town on Saturday night. At least a dozen homes and as many businesses were destroyed in Tulia, about 50 miles south ofAmarillo, but there were no serious injuries, Tulia police dispatcher Ken Patton said. ting homes in a neighborhood about 35 miles northwest of Hilton Head Island, S C. Debris some of it on fire rained on homes. Eight people on the ground were injured, and some homes were damaged. The squadron's six, FA-1Hornets routinely streak low over crowds of thousands at supersonic speeds, coming within feet, sometimes inches, of each other. The pilots, among the Navy's most elite, are so thoroughly trained and their routines are so practiced that deadly crashes are rare; the last one happened in 1999. The Navy said it could be at three weeks before it announces what may have caused the crash. The squadron was scheduled to return to its home base of Pensacola Naval Air Si.ition late Sunday. city's transportation, energy, water and housing networks that in some cases already are strained beyond capacity by today's 8.2 million people. "Let's face up to the fact that our population growth is putting our city on a collision course with the environment, which itself is growing more unstable and uncertain," 8 Bloomberg said. The most controversial idea in the plan, from the mayor's Office of Long-terPlanning and Sustainability, is a proposal to charge motorists for driving into Manhattan below 86th Street on weekdays from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Trucks would be charged $21 a day and cars would be charged $8, on top of the city's already expensive parking. Driving into Officials say it would reduce traffic and pollution while generating money for other transit projects nearly $400 million in just its first year. It is similar to a system that the most congested half of Manhattan could become an expensive privilege under a city program unveiled Sunday to cope with the booming population and ease stress on the environment. . The package of proposals outlined by Mayor Michael Bloomberg focuses on the London has used since 2003, and officials there say it has significantly reduced congestion. The scheme, known as congestion pricing, is applauded by environmentalists and alternative transportation groups, but is politically tricky for New York City because it would have to be enacted by the state thinks fee on cars may reduce pollution NYC NEW YORK wide-rangin- g Jiffy " iJ-'- - I' J 2 BRIAN KAUFMANAssociated Press Ayesha Noorulla, 15 center rakes leaves towards Dominque Stanfield , 15 right during the Paradise Valley and Earth Day Observance in Detroit. The event brought in student&from different schools in the metropolitan area to clean and enhance Cass park. Legislature, and many lawmak- ers from outer boroughs and the suburbs may not support it. Alligator in Long Island HuHUNTINGTON, N.Y. mans weren't the only species basking in the Northeast's warm weekend weather, as police helped capture a small alligator sunbathing by a small pond in this Long Island town. It was a startling sight on Saturday in a community just 35 miles from Manhattan. The American alligator is native to the South and it is against New York law to own one, said Ray Gross, chief of the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Green with yellowish stripes and roughly 2 feet long, the animal appeared to be about 3 years old, Gross said. County police helped capture the alligator, which "wasn't too happy to see us," said Officer Vinny O'Shaughnessy. "We were incredulous at first, but then we knew that we had to do something about it," he said. The SPCA is looking for whoever may have released the alligator. That person could face animal cruelty charges, Gross said. The WORLD Quake causes landslide into ocean in Chile packed so tightly by an Arctic wind from the northeast that unless the wind changes, "it would be too severe even for An SANTIAGO, Chile the heavy icebreakers," said earthquake in remote southern Chile shook free a landslide of Capt. Brian Penny in St. John's, Newfoundland. "We are havrocks, sending them smashing into a narrow fjord and causing extreme difficulty getting waves that our icebreakers through this ing massive swept away 10 beachgoers. Two large ice field." bodies were recovered Sunday. The shifting ice pack Rescuers were searching the trapped nearly 100 long-lin- e cold Pacific waters for the other fishing boats, which range from about 35 to 65 feet long, missing people from the beach as the crews were engaged in after the 6.2 magnitude quake the day before, authorities said. the annual hunt for seals on ice floes this month. The Coast Oscar Catalan, the mayor of the nearby town of Puerto Guard has delivered food and fuel by helicopter and removed Aysen, saw six people at the about 55 nonessential crewmen shore pulled away byMhe curfrom the boats, Penny said. rent, according to the Chilean At least one of the fishing newspaper El Mercurio. A correspondent for televiboats is so damaged that it will sion network Chilevision, Orprobably sink when released lando Adriazola, also reported by the ice, Penny said. Another was punctured by ice Saturday seeing a man and his young daughter dragged into the wa- night, and the Coast Guard is ter by a large wave. He said he trying to get repair materials was at the beach to install an to the captain before the ice antenna for his station. loosens. Several boats have been forced out of the water Canada trying to free and are on their sides. Their 25-fo- trapped seal hunters ' SEBASTIAN SCHEINERAtsoclated Pres Young Israelis gather next to torches lit in memoriam during a Memorial Day ceremony at the military cemetery at Mount ' Hertzl In Jerusalem, on Sunday. Israel began marhing its annual memorial day to remember soldiers who died in the nation's conflicts Sunday at dusk. The Canadian TORONTO Coast Guard is sending its heaviest icebreakers and hoping for a change in wind to try to free about 450 seal hunters whose boats have been trapped by ice off northern Newfoundland, Coast Guard officials said Sunday. The ice is so thick and crews have walked across the ice to the icebreakers or other fishing vessels, he said. New vote for Nigeria The two ABUJA, Nigeria leading opposition candidates and the largest independent observer mission on Sunday denounced this weekend's presidential election, saying rigging and incompetence had so tainted the process that only a new vote could correct it. As ballots were still being tallied, election observers and journalists reported numerous stuffcases of blatant ballot-boing, intimidation and other apparent efforts to skew results in favor of the party of outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo. The Transition Monitoring Group, a coalition of Nigerian organizations with 10,000 monitors across Nigeria, said the election effectively never occurred in 13 of the country's 36 states. And residential ballots everywhere E icked serial numbers that might have prevented fraud. Polls opened late, and in many places not at all. Including state and local votes held a week earlier, the election season was the worst in Nigeria's troubled, eight -- year-old democracy, said Innocent Chukwuma, head of the observer group. He called for cancellation of the results, a new election commission and an urgent convening of the National Assembly to address the problems. babies die in Sarajevo orphanage fire 5 SARAJEVO, A fast moving fire tore through an orphanage in Bosnia's capital early Sunday, killing five babies and injuring Bosnia-Herzegovi- 17 others and a nurse, police and hospital officials said. The blaze broke out on the third floor of the Ljubica Ivezic orphanage in downtown Sarajevo around 6 a.m. and rapidly spread to three rooms where the babies were sleeping, according to the Sarajevo fire brigade. Three boys and two girls were killed, and 17 other babies were injured, two of them critically. A nurse trying to save the children was also injured, suffering burns to her hands and face, said Dubravko Champara of the Sarajevo prosecutor's office. Suicide bomber kills 6 in east Afghan city KABUL, Afghanistan A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in an east Afghan city, killing sue civilians and wounding 40 others, officials said. Acting on a tip, police tried to stop a suspicious-lookinman in the city of Khost, provincial police chief Gea Mohammad Ayub said. When the man tried to flee, police chased him and opened fire on him, at which point he detonated his g ' explosives, Ayub said. Khost public health director Gul Mohammad Mohammadi said that six civilians were killed and 40 others were wounded, most of them with minor injuries. Fifteen people were hospitalized with serious Injuries, he said. |