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Show Monday, April 7, 2008 DAILY HER AID A4 MORNING RK H FAST FACT FIG Semiotics is the study Semantics is the study of meaning. communication. in human of signs of signs and the use S Source: The Book of Answers Compiled pom Daily Herald wire services The NATION Bodies of 2 missing boaters found Authorities TAMPA, Fla. have found the bodies of two missing boaters in Tampa Bay a day after fielding a distress call about a boat on fire. Authorities say one of the bodies retrieved Sunday is that of Alton Earl Jones. A female victim has yet to be identified. Coast Guard officials say there may have been a third boater. The search for the boaters began Saturday at 8:30 p.m. when the Coast Guard received a call from a Spanish-speakin- g person reporting the blaze. About half an hour later, officials came across a unoccupied boat near MacDill Air Force Base. Ga. man's suicide same as his heart donor's K HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S C. A man who received a heart transplant 12 years ago and later married the donor's widow died the same way the donor did, authorities said: of a gunshot wound. No foul play was suspected in Sonny Graham's death at his Vidalia, Ga., home, investigators said. He was found Tuesday in a utility building in his backyard with a single shotgun wound to the throat, said Greg Harvey, a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Graham, who was director of the Heritage golf tournament at Sea Pines from 1979 to 1983, was on the verge of congestive heart failure in 1995 when he got a call that a heart was available in Charleston. That heart was from Terry Cottle, 33, who had shot himself, Berkeley County Coroner Glenn Rhoad said. Grateful for his new heart, Graham began writing letters to the donor's family to thank them. In January 1997, Graham met his donor's widow, Cheryl Cottle, then 28, in Charlestoa "I felt like I had known her for years," Graham told The (Hilton Head) Island Pad for a story in 2006. "I coi keep my eyes off her. I j stared. In 2001, Graham bought a home for Cottle and her four children in Vidalia. Three years later, they were married after Graham retired from his job as a plant manager for Hargray Communications in Hilton Head. -- 1 vp 11) self-inflict- KEVIN Massive party ends in arrests W. FOWLERAssociated Press Thousands of party-goer- s gather at Cedar Village in East Lansing early Sunday, in East Lansing, Mich. Police said in a statement that 3,000 to 4,000 people ' had gathered for the Cedar Fest party near the Michigan Sate campus, late Saturday. They said 52 people were arrested and 48 others were ticketed for ' various offenses. An official at the Clarke County Jail said Robinson remained in custody Sunday but did not know whether he had an attorney. t' iv IT-- Clinton campaign senior strategist steps down Lr ALBUQUERQUE. N.M. Mark Perm, the pollster and senior strategist for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid, left the campaign Sunday after it was disclosed he met with representatives of the Colombian government to help lilt tm promote a free trade agreement Clinton opposes. A pair of bald eagles search for food along the Ohio River between Ripley, Ohio and Dover, Ky. on "After the events of the Sunday. President Bush said the bald eagle's resurgence after a last few days, Mark Penn has fight was a sign conservation efforts were working. He credited the nationwide resurgence to cooperation asked to give up his role as chief strategist of the Clinton Killer escaped from Pa. between private landowners and federal and state governments. Campaign," campaign manjail, caught in California ager Maggie Williams said in A killer who tip. He was in a park and he a statement released Sunday. GIRARD, Pa. Armed robber left his Pantry store to empty of cusstarted bragging," Trooper tomers. and Penn, Schoen and "Mark, escaped from a Pennsylvania name on job application Authorities Donald Claypoole of the Girard Berland Associates, Inc. will it was Robprison in a trash can was capsay ' barracks said. continue to provide polling and tured in California after boastinson, who then produced a ATHENS, Ga. Police say knife and held up the store last advice to the campaign." ing of an appearance on Fox's Kysor was carried out in a they got a major clue to the "America's Most Wanted," truck hauling garbage from week. Communications director identity of a suspect in the state police said Sunday! the medium-securit- y State Cor- armed robbery of a conveHoward Wolfson and pollster The job application gave Malcolm Kysor, 54, was nience store his job applicaGeoff Garin will direct the rectional Institution at Albion, Robinson's name and an arrested Saturday in a Bakers-fieltion. near Girard in northwestern uncle's phone number, but a campaign's message and straCalif., park after somePennsylvania. He had been Investigators in Athens, Ga., phony address. tegic efforts for the campaign one notified police about the Pohce arrested the serving a life sentence since say Demetrius Robinson filled going forward, Williams said. 1988 for an early 1980s slaying out the application to kill time The Wall Street Journal reman Saturday on armed claim, police said. while waiting for the Golden in Erie County. "Basically, it's a citizen's robbery charges. ported Friday that Penn, who ' TERRY PRATHERAssociated Press ld ; d, serves as chief executive of r, public relations giant met with Colombian officials March 31 to help ' craft strategy to move the Colombian Free Trade agreement through Congress. Penn later issued a statement apologizing for the meeting, calling it an "error in judgment." Burson-Marstelle- Obama emphasizes western issues in pitch to Montana voters BUTTE, Mont. Hunting for votes out West, Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday rejected the idea that the region's sparsely populated states aren't important in the presidential race and renewed his promise to appoint a high-levadviser on Indian issues if elected. Obama also cast his usual message in more Western-friendl- y terms, talking about technology as a way of protecting Montana's beautiful mountains and civil liberties as part of the state's tradition of independence. An Obama supporter had scolded all the presidential candidates earlier for not addressing Western issues. clean-co- The World Egypt's workers battle police amid rising economic discontent M AHALIA Egypt Thousands of demonstrators angry about rising prices and stagnant salaries torched buildings, looted shops and hurled bricks at police who responded with tear gas ' Sunday in a northern industrial town as Egyptians staged a nationwide strike. About 150 people were arrested and 80 were wounded in the gritty Nile Delta town of Mahalla where riots broke out among residents and disgruntled workers at the largest textile factory in Egypt. Protesters stormed city hall, burned tires in the streets, smashed chairs through shop windows and ran off with computers. At least two schools were set ablaze and facades of banks were vandalized, police X u ' ' ' LEFTERIS PITARAKISAssoclated Olympic Pres protest British police officers jump to apprehend an demonstrator as he tried to interrupt the Olympic torch parade over Tower Bridge in central London, Sunday April 6, 2008. Police repeatedly scuffled with protesters as Olympians and dignitaries carried the Olympic torch during a chaotic relay through snowy London on Sunday. anti-Chin- a, pro-Tib- et Protesters almost snuff Olympic flame LONDON Demonstrators grabbed at the Olympic torch, blocked its path and tried to snuff out its flame Sunday in Broadcasting Corp. television. "I do feel for the cause," she said. "I think that China have got a despicable human rights record." Another demonstrator tried to snuff the flame with a spray of white powder from a fire extinguisher, police said. Still others threw themselves in the torch's path. They were tackled or dragged off by police. Authorities said 37 people were arrested. London's Metropolitan police said some 2,600 officers, on foot, motorcycles, bikes, and on horseback tried to keep the procession under control raucous protests of China's human rights record that forced a string of changes to a chaotic relay through London. The biggest protests since g in last month's Greece tarnished China's hope for a harmonious prelude to a Summer Games celebrating its rise as a global power. Instead, the flame's 85,000-mil- e journey from Greece to Beijing has become a stage for activists Suicide attack at start decrying China's recent crack- of Sri Lanka marathon down on Tibetans and support for Sudan despite civilian COLOMBO, Sri Lanka A suicide bomber killed 14 people deaths in Darfur. at an opening ceremony for a Demonstrators attempted to board the bus trailing the marathon Sunday, including a e torch shortly after British .government minister who was said. gold medal rower Steve nearing the starting line with ; a flag and a former Olympian. Nearly 100 others were arRedgrave started the relay at More than 90 others were rested elsewhere across Egypt, Wembley Stadium. officials said, as thousands Less than an hour later, ' wounded in the attack. Officials blamed the bomba protester slipped through skipped work and school and' a tight police cordon and hundreds protestdd over the ing on the Tamil Tigers, rebels who have fought since 1983 rising cost of food and deterio- gripped the torch before he was thrown to the ground and for an independent homeland rating working conditions. A call for a nationwide arrested. for the ethnic minority Tamils, "Before I knew what was strike Sunday was the first marginalized for decades by happening this guy had lurched successive governments run major attempt by opposition by majority ethnic Sinhalese. groups to turn the past year's toward me and was grabbing The rebel group routinely labor unrest into a wider the torch out of my hand and I was determinedly clinging on," denies attacks on civilians, and political protest against the their spokesman could not be government of President Hosni former children's television reached for comment. host Konnie Huq told British Mubarak. last-seco- torch-lightin- five-tim- V i Mugabe may fight to stay in power N For HARARE, Zimbabwe a few brief moments, under the authoritarian rule of Robert Mugabe allowed themselves a rare burst of optimism after their longtime president suf-- 1 fered what appeared to be a devastating electoral loss. But ruling party stalwarts and security chiefs worried about their own fates in a era quickly dug in their heels, and Mugabe now appears poised to do everything he can to extend his post-Muga- 28-ye- ar rule. "There's a political hardening by the political elite of the ruling party," said Eldred a political analyst at the University of Zimbabwe. "They're in a panic mode." Earlier, news of the opposition victory sent supporters into the streets, dancing, singing and waving the open hand that is the Movement for Democratic Change's symbol. The symbol of Mugabe's ZANU-Pis a clenched fist, and it didn't . take long for it to show. Though opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has promised Mugabe a peaceful retirement, fears of violence against government opponents have grown as security forces and ruling party thugs took to the streets in the days after the March 29 election. F |