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Show A4 Sunday, April 6, 2008 DAILY HERALD FAST FACT lOMNGBMEFie Compiled from Daily Herald wire services '. "Vv , ' According to legend, there was a Mother Goose. She was Elizabeth Goose, a New England widow who married Isaac Goose, adopted a family of 1 0 and later bore. 6 children. In 1 71 9, was said to have been "Mother Goose's Melodies for Children her book of rhymes found. been book has ever No the of her copy published by son-in-la- SourceiTheBookof Answers ' The World The Nation Official: Abbas, Olmert J (7t i ' mm I r k 1 to resume meetings OMI U Li' Israeli and JERUSALEM Palestinian leaders will resume their regular meetings on Monday to review progress in U.S.4acked efforts to work out a peace deal by year's end, a Palestinian negotiator said Saturday. d Palestinian President Abbas had called off his meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the beginning of March in response to an Israeli raid on the Gaza Strip that killed 120 people, dozens of them civilians. The leaders had committed to meet every two weeks, lut they last met I II H i ! Mah-mou- .A i " mi 1 anti-rock- et Associated Press Women wait in a queue to buy food in Bulawayo, on Saturday. Feb. 19. Abbas and Olmert will talk in the meeting about how much each side has done to meet its peace obligations, negotiator Saeb Erekat said. f. Olympic boycott would ,. be 'serious error i V HtmffJ 'hi A . W j 5 h3 j if J' Is. BEIJING The head of an organization that oversees 205 national Olympic committees said politicians who encourage a boycott or partial boycott of the Beijing Games are making "a serious error." ; Mario Vazquez Rana, the president the Association of National Olympic Committees, and the International Olympic Committee are holding meet- - . ; China's capitaL f I fan." f GEORGE NIKITINAssociated Press Olympic torch relay, protest in San Francisco Former Olympic sprinter, John Carlos left passes the torch to fellow Olympian Lynn Vidali Gautschi near the start of the San Francisco leg of the Human Rights Torch Relay, onSaturday, in San Francisco. In this city where protests are as much a part of the landscape as the Golden Gate Bridge, the impending arrival of the Olympic torch is drawing out thousands of activists critical of Beijing, even as many residents celebrate San Francisco's cultural ties to China Wis. kills house fire students MEfMONIE, Wis. A shbky house fire near a University of Wisconsin campus killed three students . who never made it out of the rooms where they were sleeping early Saturday, even though neighbors said they heard alarms. Rescuers found two women and a man in three second-floo- r bedrooms near the University of Wisconsin-Stou- t. All three were pronounced dead at a hospital, authorities said. The smoke detectors were working, and neighbors called police when they heard the alarms, said Meno-moni- e Police Chief Dennis Beety. Police don't know why the three victims didn't wake up and leave, and it was unclear whether alcohol was a factor. "There was a bottle of alcohol and the top was off of it," Beety said. "But that's no indication they were drinking at the time." The cause of the fire was still being investigated Saturday. The university identified the victims as April C. 21, of West St. Paul, Minn.; Amanda Jean Rief, 20, of Chaska, Minn.; and Scott A. Hams, 23, of Hayward. All three appeared to have died of smoke inhalation, said Menomonie police Lt. Wendy Stelter. There were no obvious signs of foul play. d, Bus carrying school band crashes; 1 dead, dozens injured MINNEAPOLIS One student died and dozens more were injured, one critically, in a charter bus crash early Saturday morning on Interstate 94, officials said. Lt. Mark Peterson of the State Patrol said the single-vehicl- e crash happened about 5:45 a.m. as two busloads of band members and chaper-one- s from Pelican Rapids High School were heading , home from a trip to Chicago. The bus left Chicago at 10 p.m. Friday. Peterson said it wasnt clear what caused one bus to flip on its side and slide onto the grassy shoulder. The other bus wasn't At about 2:15 p.m.CDT, there were only six crash victims still in four hospitals. NYC introduces high The person in critical condischool cricket league tion is expected to survive, an official said. NEW YORK With a loud crack, the ball soared toward the fence and fielders Purdue University ran to get their hands on it. makes winning On the sidelines, the batter's hamburger device teammates whooped with WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. excitement as four runs were A team of Purdue Uniadded to their tally. This however is not baseversity students concocted a p ball it's a high school recipe to prepare a hamburger to win Saturday's cricket game. Schools in New York City, annual national Rube Goldhome of the Yankees and berg Machine Contest. This year's task was to asthe Mets, have launched a semble a burger consisting of cricket league, apparently the first school system in the no less than one precooked meat patty, two vegetables country to offer the sport. The response has been overand two condiments, sandwiched between two bun whelming, a reflection of the halves. city's growing number of imThe victory by the migrants from the Caribbean Purdue Society of Proand South Asia, where cricket is the most popular sport. fessional Engineers was the team's third such win in the The season opened past four years in the contest, Wednesday with squads ffom named for the late cartoonist Richmond Hill and Aviation known for his drawings of high schools facing off in a complicated devices perform- city park. ing simple tasks. Texas A&M University Severe storms batter placed second; the University Southern states at Buffalo in New York was third. JACKSON, Miss. Strong After winning the regional thunderstorms toppled trees, contest in February, Purdue's knocked out power and damteam added 55 more steps to aged homes Friday across the perfect its machine, said cap- South, while flooding in Kentain Drew Wischer. tucky forced evacuations and left a girl dead. In Mississippi, Microsoft sets storms unleashed possible tordeadline for Yahoo nadoes, heavy rain and some SEATTLE Microsoft set hail Power failures were the clock ticking for Yahoo to reported in several communities, including near downtown accept its $41 billion buyout offer in a letter to the InterVicksburg and in Jacksoa net pioneer's board Saturday, Tate Moudy of Brandon warning that if a deal wasn't had just walked into the Southern States Utility Trailer reached by April 26 the softSales office on U.S. Highway ware maker would launch a hostile takeover at a less at49 in Richland after showing a trailer to a customer when tractive price. "If we have not concluded "there was a big bang from a transformer being knocked an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be out and debris started flying compelled to take our case through the front door." The powerful storm overdirectly to your shareholdturned trailers, ers, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an ripped away part of the roof of the sales office and twisted alternative slate of directors beams in the building, Moudy for the Yahoo board," wrote said. Employees and others Microsoft Chief Executive had to remain inside because Steve Ballmer. "If we are forced to take an power lines had fallen across . vehicles parked in the lot. offer directly to your share"It was scary, I can tell you holders, that action will have an undesirable impact on the that," he said. The American Medical value of your company from our perspective which will be Response ambulance service, which serves a number of reflected in the terms of our counties in the Jackson area, proposal," he wrote. A Yahoo spokeswoman de- handled at least 20 storm-relate- d clined to comment Saturday. injuries, company spokesman Jim Pollard said. 156-ste- fast-movi- "Any politician who is pushing for a boycott is committing a serious error," Vazquez said Saturday. "For me a total boycott, a partial boycott, is totally out of the question." French President Nicolas Sarkozy has not ruled out the possibility he might boycott the opening ceremony if China continues its crackdown in Tibet. In Saturday editions of Le Monde, one of his Cabinet ministers outlined changes needed for Sarkozy to take part in the Aug. 8 ceremony, . but later denied using the word "conditions." Le Monde had quoted Hu- man Rights Minister Rama Yade as saying, "Three conditions are essential for him to attend: an end to violence against the population and the liberation of political prisoners; light shed on the events in Tibet; and the opening of a dialogue with the Dalai Lama." Cuba giving land to private farmers GUIRA DE MELENA, Cuba In a country where almost HARARE, Zimbabwe Opposition leader Morgan on Saturday accused Zimbabwe's authorities of preparing a "war against the people" to intimidate opposition voters in a presidential runoff. . The accusation came as a document purporting to represent the opposition's "transition" plans circulated here in the capital prominently featuring a "hit list" of bureaucrats and security officials who would be purged. A spokesman for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change scoffed at the authenticity of the document, say- ing it was merely another sortie in the regime's battle to prevent Tsvangirai from taking power by frightening the higher echelons of the bureaucracy and security services about an MDC administratioa "Our documents would not be circulating around Ha- rare, unless it's a CIO means to try to cause panic," the spokesman, Nelson Chamisa, said, referring to the intel' ligence agency. As Tsvangirai attempts the delicate maneuver M reassuring military and intelligence chiefsjhat they would not be targeted should he become president, the document sent out precisely the opposite message, undermining v i his efforts to peel the generals who have long supported Mugabe away from the president. The election saw the ruling ZANU-Pparty lose its majority for the first time in its 28 years of power. The opposition has kept intense pressure on Mugabe to leave i office, but the ruling party decided to fight a runoff in the presidential campaign if final results gave no candidate an outright majority. It also demanded a recount in 16 parliamentary seats. When opposition lawyers tried to go to court for an order compelling the release of the final election results Saturday, they were blocked. Tsvangirai, who claims to have won the presidential vote outright with no need for a runoff , said Saturday that the regime was preparing to mobilize armed militias to intimidate voters. ; ings over the next few days in 1 Mugabe document called a 'hit list' everyone works for the communist state, dairy farmer Jesus Diaz is his own boss. He likes it that way and so does the government. Living on a plot of land just big enough to graze four dairy cows, Diaz produces enough milk to sell about four quarts a day to the state. This is independent production on a tiny scale, but it has proved so efficient that Cuba has decided on a major expansion of its program to distribute underused and fallow farmland to private farmers and cooperatives. "It's a way for the land to end up in the hands of those who want to produce. I see it as a very good thing," said Diaz, 45. He received his land and cows from the state in 1996, and now hopes to get access to more property. The government is preparing for a "massive distribution of land," Orlando Lugo, president of Cuba's national farming association, said last week. Private farmers have begun re- - ; , " F ceiving land for the cash crops of coffee and tobacco, and wiU be able to lease state land, for other crops. The idea is to revolution ize farming', one tiny plot at a time. m Assyrian Orthodox murdered near Kriest in Baghdad An Assyrian Orthodox priest was shot to death Saturday by gunmen using silencers as the Christian cleric and his wife returned home after a trip to the market in Baghdad. The latest attack against Iraq's Christian minority drew a new plea from Pope Benedict XVI for Iraqis to "find the way of peace to build a just and tolerant society." Father Youssef Adel, 47, had tried to escape the sectarian violence, fleeing the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Dora at a time when insurgents were burning down churches and uprooting Christians from their homes on threat of death. He moved with his wife, Lamia, to a relatively safe area in the mostly Shiite central district of Karradah and presided over services at the nearby St. Peter and Paul church, accord- BAGHDAD 1 ing toan assistant who spoke on condition of anonymity cause of security concerns, ut in a tragic example of the dangers that continue to face Iraqis despite a sharp drop in violence, Adel was shot to death by gunmen near the gate of Ms house, another priest in the same church said, alsoTle-- " dining to be identified for fear of becoming a target himself. The gunmen used silencers, and his wife who was with him did not realize what happened until she saw her husband collapse, the priest said. be-so- Rat causes central ' Sweden power outage STOCKHOLM, Sweden : ... YASINAssociated Press Kashmir strike protester kicks an exploded tear gas shell during a protest in Srinagar, India, d on Saturday. Protesters threw rocks in Kashmir and. shops, schools and y roads were Saturday after political parties called a strike to protest alleged mistreatment of political prisoners in Indian fails. A Kashmiri Indian-controlle- .'. The electrocution of a fat rat in an electric station Saturday caused a three-hou- r power outage in Stockholm's central train station, halting elevators and escalators. The early morning outage led to some delays in train traffic, said Jesper Ekenlund, a spokesman for power company For- turn Nearby hotels and shops also were affected, he said v "The rat had sneaked into a secondary substation and came into contact with some parts that caused it to short circuit," he said. DAR near-empt- 1 |