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Show Sunday Utah Valley MAY 13, 2007 Edition www.heraldextra.conj $1.50 YOUR NEIGHBORS ' YOUR NEWSPAPER YOUR TOWN umw. mm (iao(aigai55 i iHIEGHIllIB Li The final event of Utah's Prehistory Week IV.VIV IN OUR TOWNS is on for ambushed soldiers Sudarsan Raghavan and Joshua Partlow THE WASHINGTON POST A massive BAGHDAD, Iraq aerial and ground manhunt involving hundreds of American and Iraqi troops was underway Saturday for as many as three U.S. soldiers miss ing after an organized assault on a military patrol south of Baghdad. The convoy was carrying seven U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi army interpreter, and five of them were killed. The predawn attack occurred 12 miles west of Mahmudiyah, a volatile city nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers within a rural region dubbed "the Triangle of Death." It is known to be infiltrated by fighters and other Sunni insurgent groups. As of early Sunday, no group had asserted responsibility for the attack, U.S. military officials said. In the hours after the assault, and stretching into the night, American combat helicopters, unmanned sur- -' veillance drones and planes scoured surrounding areas, U.S. military officials said. Troops secured a wide perimeter, conducting searches and erecting checkpoints to seal off roads and streets to prevent the missing soldiers from being transported out of the area. U.S. military, officials also have enlisted local lead door-to-do- Orphanage fundraiser ers in the search "Make no mistake," Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, the military's top spokesman, said in a statement, "We will never stop looking for our soldiers until their status is definitively determined, and we continue to pray See SOLDIERS, A8 Children play a part in campaign r ' f Beth Fouhy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First impressions sometimes create lasting images, and so it is with Chelsea Clinton. For many, Bill and Hillary Rodham d Clinton's daughter is still a with braces and a shy smile the first "first kid" since Amy Carter to spend her formative years in the White House. sinChelsea Clinton is now a gle woman working in the financial sector g in New York City. With her mother's quest to win the presidency in 2008, .the natiorfcould see Chelsea Clinton return to the White House in a very different role, as an occasional visitor or perhaps even a bride at a White House wedding.;,.;.: (Chelsea Clinton has kept a low prof ile since her mother joined the presidential field in January. She has yet to speak publicly about the prospect of becoming "first kid" again. . But those who know her describe an exceptionally bright and grounded young woman who will de cide for herself what role to play curly-haire- fa trail-blazin- '4 AT" . fs MARIO Herald RUIZDaily baby clothes with her friend Emily Ashcraft at a yard sale fundraiser in American Fork on Saturday. AUred's mother, Anne Marie Sun Joo Allred, was adopted in 1966 from a Korean orphanage, and she is raising money for the orphanage. Alyse Allred right of Highland folds i S - : campaign. "She's not a child Irving in the White KIDS, Hoim( See A8 woman looks to past to help future Hawaii and her new home. Schmidt remembers driving to the orphan. age and being ushered into a room, where for the orphanages will be donations Cash he was told to wait. Eventually the girl Was : before thejend of his three-yea- r until May 30. To donate, call 492- out and he left with her without fanChurch mission to South Korea in accepted brought 4178 or naniloatechmarketing.org. fare. On the plane trip home, Schmidt and Elder Byron Schmidt got an un-- . his companion, Dee Bangerter, tried to comcall from his mission president. fort the girl, who "cried and cried until the American couple living in Hathe adoptive parents or a member of the clergy stewardess took her up front and laid down waii had been approved to adopt a South Korean girl, but could not afford to fry pick up the child, and the parents had asked if See ORPHANAGE, A8 to Korea to pick her up; The law required that returning missionaries could escort the child to Caleb Warnock , ' DAILY HERALD Just w i I FZX0T03 F03 SALB available online at heraldextra.comgallery. i 4 are Daily Herald photos now ; " .V! ' . Insmini e ' . INSIDE UFEaSTYlf C1 BUSINESS CIO SPORTS. PI BRIEFING M EDITORIALS At OBITUARIES 5,M SCOREBOARD P7 WEATHER OS ! . Chelsea J. Carter ' - Partly ' 82 " ; v : v ' ' V '' . ' ; ., 50... VOLUME M ISSUE 286 ' ' ' She carried it with her for years. "I dont know why I did that. I just did," she said i later. "It rust made me feel better. Sometimes you have io do things that make you feel better." ucille Strohlein closed her eyes, recalling ; K v h. And there it was my grandmother's advice the storyjs v;. fA She sat near the hospital bed, whispering, about heartbreaK, couched in her story of love ana to her husband. They were private words words loss. She was telling me, in the way only she can, to do something that made me feel better. of love, or faith, of f arewelL She talked to him tor At 94, my grandmother has a lifetime of stories hours, recalling their life together. and many are like this one, plain and direct Then, after 65 years of marriage, he was gone. but ending with a message that you stpre away. Sometime after, she isn't really sure when, she ' put his worn leather wallet in her purse. There : She'll surety have more stories when I call her for and few in ; wasn't anything it, really. 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