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Show DAILY A4 HERALD Monday, May FAST FACT Morning briefing The world's smallest fish is the goby, which grows only as long as one centimeter. It swims in coral reefs in the western Pacific Sunt: The Book of 1.001 Tnvu Questions Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The WORLD The Nation Hundreds of Florida wildfire evacuees still waiting to go home r Gun-righ- ts AuLAKE CITY, Fla. thorities briefly reopened group to two highways crossing north Florida into Georgia on Sunday before dense wildfire smoke forced them to again haft traffic, while hundreds of Florida residents waited to return to their threatened homes. Officials said Sunday that the wildfire that had raced through the Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia and inta Florida had charred more than 233,700 acres or about 365 square miles since it was started by lightning a week ago. Officials warned that storms in the forecast Sund day could bring either rain or lightning. Authorities reopened 90 miles of Interstates 75 and 10 for a couple of hours Sunday morning after wind helped push the heavy smoke away from the highways. But they were later forced to close 35 miles of from the orgia state line to Lake City, Fla., as well as a in Florida, stretch of from Live Oak to Sanderson. giveaway guns in Va. RICHMOND, Va. A organization is planning to hold a "gun giveaway" this week inside a Fairfax County, Va., government building to protest New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's efforts to crack down on illegal gun sales in Virginia. On Thursday at the Mason District Government Center in Annandale, the Virginia Citizens Defense League will hold a drawing for a semiautomatic pistol, a hunting rifle and ammunition to raise money for two gun shops that Bloomberg has filed suit against. And because it's Virginia, many people at the "Bloomberg Gun Giveaway" will probably be armed. League members routinely lobby the Virginia General Assembly with guns on their hips. gun-right- s much-neede- Florida-Ge- Midwest states to limit sturgeons CHAMPAIGN, 111. - Ev- ery spring, fishermen wait for a peculiar-lookin- g fish to swim up the Wabash River between southern Illinois and Indiana. The shovelnose sturgeon, a prehistoric survivor covered with bony plates and wearing a strip of barbs down its back, is plentiful in the river and live up to 60 years. But scientists worry that the decline of another type of sturgeon half a world away could mean trouble for the shovelnose, North America's smallest sturgeon. The shovelnose and its eggs have become increasingly popular in the caviar trade because the beluga sturgeon, a much bigger cousin that produces the king of caviar, has declined due to overfishing in the Black and Caspian seas. That prompted the U.S. and other countries to restrict or ban the import of beluga caviar. As a result of the increase in demand for the shovelnose, states are beginning to look for ways to protect H 2007 Hirsch, a prominent Miami defense lawyer not involved in the Padilla case. "If we expect people to understand days if not weeks of evidence, some of it obscure, we had better give them a conceptual basis in opening statements for doing so." winners in NASA's moon-di- rt contest No SANTA MARIAi Calif. Four teams and some strange machines competed for a quarter-of-a-millio- dollars from NASA, but all walked away empty-hande- NASA's Regolith Exca- vation Challenge invited teams to build machines for digging mock moon dirt, or regolith, in a competition held in a one-to- n sandbox on Saturday. the fish. But all the teams fell well short of the winning requirePadilla trial to begin ment of 330 pounds of regolith deposited in a container MIAMI After months of in 30 minutes, and no one claimed the $250,000 purse. investigation, legal maneuverAn excavator built by ing and jury selection, federal prosecutors and attorneys Technology Ranch of Pismo for alleged Beach did the best, collectoperative Jose Padilla finally get to ing just over 143 pounds in half an hour. All the other present their cases in a trial machines broke down while expected to last into August. Opening statements are digging. scheduled Monday in the The other three teams terrorism support trial of Pa- were from Berkley, Michidilla, a U.S. citizen, and two gan; Rolla, Missouri; and Rancho Palos Verdes. "It is the single most imThe prize rolls over to next portant part of the trial in year's competition, which federal court," said Milton will be worth $750,000. & 1 9 X' ' - A A. J. GREGORY BULLAssociated Press Mothers remember Members of the Cuban group "Ladies in White" walk down Fifth Avenue in Havana on Mother's Day. Dressed all in white to signify peace, they are wives and other women relatives of Cuban political prisoners. Fate of historical Nazi papers to be decided MQM leaders blamed the opposition for provoking the fight. But opposition leaders said the AMSTERDAM, Netherlands MQM had carried out premediAs the Third Reich headed tated attacks on demonstrators to defeat in World War II, the and allowed security forces to stand by and watch while Germans burned millions of bands of gunmen fired into the records to cover up history's crowds. worst genocide. But the fracThe government deployed tion that survived was enough additional paramilitary rangers to make up the largest Nazi to the city Sunday, with orders archive in existence. This week, efforts to lift the to shoot any rioters on sight. blanket of secrecy Opposition leaders said such action would only inflame from this historical treasure tensions. "We condemn this. are likely to take a big step It is taking us toward civil forward. The commission war," said Farhatullah Babar, a spokesman for the Pakistan governing the International Tracing Service, an arm of the People's Party, a leading oppoInternational Committee of the sition group. Red Cross, meets in Amsterdam on Monday and Tuesday Iran confirms arrest to decide when and how to of Iranian-America- n make electronic copies of its files available to researchers. Iran CAIRO, Egypt So far, the archive of 30 confirmed Sunday that it has n million to 50 million pages in detained a prominent Bad Arolsen, Germany, has academic, and a been used only to help reunite hardline newspaper accused families and verify restitution her of spying for the United claims. The files were closed in States and Israel and trying to 1955 because it was feared that start a revolution inside Iran. Haleh Esfandiari's arrest, unfettered access could violate the privacy of Holocaust vicpart of a recent spate of crackdowns against Iranian activtims, both living and dead. But survivors have been ists, appears to reflect President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pressing for direct access, unsatisfied with the formalistic government's growing fear that the United States is using and partial answers to questions about the persecution advocates to they suffered. So a year ago, promote regime change, anathe commission decided to lysts say. unlock the vast storehouse for Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the research. As the survivor generation Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington, went dwindles, the decision to digito Iran on a personal visit to see tally scan the documents and her ailing mother last year. She make them available will shift the archive's primary function had been prohibited from leavfrom a humanitarian service to ing for four months, then was sent Tuesday to Iran's notoria historical resource. ous Evin prison after arriving at the Intelligence Ministry for Pakistan death toll questioning, the institute said. rises in clashes Iran's Foreign Ministry confirmed her arrest for the first ISLAMABAD, Pakistan time Sunday, saying it was Clashes between government supporters and opposition activists flared for a second day Sunday in the country's largest city, bringing the death toll for the weekend to about 40. The clashes in the southern city of Karachi were prompted by a judicial crisis that has gripped the country since March 9, when the president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, suspended Pakistan's chief justice for alleged abuses of office. Since then, protesters have frequently taken to the streets to rally against what they see as an attempt by Musharraf tf snuff out fledgling democratic institutions and ease his way to another term in office. I - f On Saturday, the judge, Mohammed Chaudhry, who denies the charges against him, was scheduled to speak at a rally in Karachi. But he was prevented even from leaving the airport. The protests soon turned violent as members of the Muttahida Qami Movement,' a coalition partner of ' Musharraf's known as MQM, . Iranian-America- "based on law" and that the Esfandiari would be treated like other Iranian nationals. It gave no reason for elan President Hugo Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales, who've been accused of ruling autocratically. the arrest. The day before, however, Bird migration patterns the hardline Iranian newspaper shifting around world Kayhan accused Esfandiari of DisoriBONN, Germany spying for the U.S. and Israel and of attempting to launch a ented by erratic weather, birds revolution inside Iran. are changing migration habits and routes to adjust to warmer winters, disappearing feeding Pope warns against grounds and shrinking wet'authoritarian forms lands, a migration expert says. of government' Failure to adapt risks exAPARECIDA, Brazil Pope tinction. Birds face starvation Benedict XVI concluded his when they arrive too early or visit to the world's biggest Rotoo late to find their normal man Catholic country Sunday diet of insects, plankton or fish. In the north, some birds have by warning against "authoritarian forms of government" stopped migrating altogether, and calling on Catholics to leaving them at risk when the the church. next cold winter strikes. Speaking in Spanish to more "Species that adapted to than 160 Latin American and changes over millennia are Caribbean bishops, the now being asked to make those adaptations extremely pontiff denounced both Marxism and capitalism and quickly because of the swift defended the Roman Catholic rise in temperatures," said y camRobert Hepworth, executive Church's secretary of the Convention paign to Christianize indigenous people. on Migratory Species, a treaty His hour-lon- g under the auspices of the U.N. speech conEnvironment Program. tained the lengthiest and most "We don't know how many pointed remarks of the pope's five-da- y visit, and it was meant will survive. We will lose speas a guide to the region's bishcies," he said in an interview conops as they begin a Saturday on the sidelines of an ference on the church's future international climate change in the region. conference in Bonn, Germany. This weekend, bird watchers At the top of their agenda will be halting the exodus of and conservationists in dozens millions of Catholics from of countries marked World the church over the past two Migratory Bird Day with decades, a challenge the pope concerts, films and children's referred to while urging the drawing contests to attract attention to the rising threat of bishops to fight "secularism, hedonism, indifferentism and global warming. The Intergovernmental Panproselytism by numerous el on Climate Change sects." Catholic leaders often a body refer to Latin America's boom- of some 2,500 scientists has warned in a series of reports ing Pentecostal congregations this year that high emissions as "secta" of greenhouse gases are likely Benedict's most political remarks appeared to be aimed at to raise the Earth's average the region's new generation of temperatures by at least 3.6 leftist leaders, such as Venezu degrees. rein-vigora- often-blood- 19-d- .,!.'. O 9 HL ERIK DAILYLa Cross Tubune Missing boaters Friends and family keep watch as rescue boats search the Mississippi near Dresbach, Minn, on Sunday for a family of four. Cha Kong Yang, 34, Cee Her, 34 and Her's children, Joshua Xiong, lOandAmianda Xionjg, 8, are missing after their boat cupsized on the Mississippi River near Dresbach, Minn., on Saturday. exchanged fire with demonstrators. Although the fighting Sunday was less intense than it had been on Saturday, as many as six more people were killed. Each side sought to portray the other as the instigator. V w UWE LEINAssociated Press Dachau liberation anniversary Charlotte Knobloch, chairwoman of the Central Council of the Jews in Germany, stands in front of the international memorial during a wreath laying ceremony at the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, southern Germany, on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of the liberation of the KZ Dachau, on Sunday. |