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Show DAILY A2 Customer Service -- Newsroom Toll free U.S. envoy: Toll from cyclone may top 100,000 A Lee Established in 1873 Newspaper 375-510- THE 3 801344-254- 0 FAX wwwiieraldextra.com 1555 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo, UT Send maQ to; P.O. Box 717, Provo, UT 846TO0717 News editors Metro Editor AmieRose City Editor Angie Parkinson Sports Editor Darnell Business Editor Grace Leong Style Editor Life & Elyssa Editorial Page Editor Jim rwrighthefaldextra.com 3 aroseneraldextra.com 344-25- aparkinsonehefaldextracom ddicksonheraldextra.com Didcson gleongheraldextra.com eandrusheraldextra.com 0 Andrus jtynenheraldextra.com Tynen Senior Managers President & Publisher Stephen Kersey 2 skelseyheraldextra.com Advertising Director George Gretser 7 ggretserheraldextracom The U.S. and other countries rushed supplies to the region, but most of it was being held outside Myanmar while await- nunta s permission to At other times, NEWS TIPS: On nights and weekends, call 344-255contact an editor above. CORRECTIONS: The Herald corrects errors of fact appearing in its news and opinion columns. If you have a correction, 344-253- CLASSIFIED Delivery by 6 a.m. Mon-F- ri 7 a.m. Sat-Su- n For missing papers, call by 9:30 a.m. Sat, Sun & Holidays Only . t FAX 356-301- The Daily Herald (ISSN 0891-2777- , USPS 143-060- ) is published mornings, Sunday through Saturday, by Lee Publications, a division of Lee Enterprises, Inc., 1555 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo, Utah 84604. Periodicals postage paid at Provo, Utah. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Daily Herald, P.O. Box 717, Provo, Utah 84603-0717- . Sunday Thursday 344-294- 6 ADVERTISING SUBSCRIPTION PROGRAMS Fri, 373-645- 0 RETAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS New subscriptions, restarts, delivery or 3 weekbilling Information, call days from 6 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. & Entire villages in the delta were still submerged from Saturday's storm, and bloated corpses could be seen stuck in the mangroves. Some survivors stripped clothes off the dead. People wailed as they described the horror of the torrent swept ashore by the Advertising 3 Daily Thw, deliver it. ; HOME DELIVERY 375-510- Sunday Onty Thur, Sun 4 Holidays cyclone. "I don't know what happened to my wife and young children," said Phan Mating, Craig Timberg contents Copyright JOHANNESBURG, S. post-electio- n I A story in the May 7 edition of the Daily Herald incorrectly stated Utah taxpayers' potential liability on the UTOPIA project. The amount is $504 million. The Daily Herald wants its news reports to be fair and accurate. We do our best to identify and correct all errors. If you find an error, please report it to us by calling the appropriate editor listed on this page. mm Af- rica Gangs of ruling party youths beat to death 11 opposition activists in a single remote Zimbabwean town Monday, setting a gruesome new standard for the violence surging through that nation, according to opposition party officials. Two large truckloads of youths, led by two senior members of President Robert Mugabe's party, marauded through Chiweshe, a rural area about 90 miles north of Correction tt POST 2008, Dally Herald. Any reproduction or other use is strictly prohibited without written permission. 1 WASHINGTON THE All - m fr n mi??- - " t r. . 55, who held onto a coconut tree until the water level dropped. By then his family was gone A spokesman for the U.N. Children's Fund said its staff in Myanmar reported seeing many people huddled in rude shelters and children who had lost their parents. "There's widespread devastation. Buildings and health centers are flattened and bloated dead animals are floating around, which is an alarm for spreading disease. These are massive and horrific scenes," Patrick McCormick said at UNICEF offices in New York. Bangkok, TahquoTtngtns-agency'- workers the area. "Fistfights are breaking in out," he said. A Yangon resident who returned to the city from the delta area said people were drinking coconut water because there was no safe drinking water. He said many people were on boats using blankets as sails. Local aid groups distributed rice porridge, which people collected in dirty plastic shopping bags, he said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared getting into trouble with authorities for talking to a foreign news agency. UN. officials estimated some 1 million people had been left homeless in Myanmar, which also is known as Burma. Some jiid workers said heave ily flooded areas wereacces-siblonly by boat, with helicopters unable to find dry spots for landing relief supplies. "Basically the entire lower delta region is under water," said Richard Horsey, the Thailan- - Myanmar's state media said Cyclone Nargis killed at least 22,980 people and left 42,1 19 missjng. American diplomat Shari Villarosa, who heads the U.S. Embassy in Yangon, said the number of dead could eventually exceed 100,000 because safe food and water were scarce and unsanitary condid-based tions widespread. spokesman for the The situation is "increasingly U.N. Office for the Coordinahorrendous," she said in a tele- tion of Humanitarian Aid. "Teams are talking about phone call to reporters. "There bodies floating around in the is a very real risk of disease outbreaks." water," he said. This is "a maA few shops reopened in jor, major disaster we're dealthe Irrawaddy delta, but they ing with." Opposition members beaten to death in Zimbabwe MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS 'Holiday delivery includes delivery the weeks of Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Pioneer Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. v.. iron-fiste- Circulation Director call vpr said Paul by desperate people, Risley, a spokesman for the UN. World Food Program in control. cdennisheraldextra.com Craig Dennis were quickly overwhelmed PRESS delta Wednesday as a top U.S. diplomat warned that, the death toll from a devastating cyclone could top 100,000. The minutes of a U.N. aid meeting obtained by The Associated Press, meanwhile, revealed the military junta's visa restrictions were hampering international relief efforts. Only a handful of U.N. aid workers had been let into the impoverished Southeast Asian Associated Press country, which the government has kept isolated for five A house is seen after it was destroyed by Cyclone Nargis in d decades to maintain its Labutta town, 105 miles southwest of Yangon on Saturday. Street address: Randy Wright ASSOCIATED YANGON, Myanmar Hungry people swarmed the few open shops and fistfights broke out over food and water in Myanmar's swamped 800380-807- 5 Executive Editor Thursday, May 8, 2008 HERALD p f j ... jp, f m Harare, the capital, and beat prominent members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change with branches, gun butts, bicycle chains and whips, party off icials said. Four of the victims were teachers, and at least two were elderly. The deaths brought to at least 32 the number of opposition activists killed in the past two weeks, said party spokesman Nelson Chamisa. Thousands of others have been beaten, tortured, arrested, kidnapped or chased from their homes since the March 29 election, opposition officials say. "They converged and they attacked," said Shepherd Mushonga, a lawyer and newly elected opposition member of parliament who visited Chiweshe on Wednesday. He spoke extensively with witnesses, including several rela rai got 70 votes compared with tives of the victims, and provided a list of all 11 of the dead. 15 for Mugabe. "They want to instill as much Mushonga said that two were fear as possible so either you relatives of his. run away and don't vote, or He said the violence was intended to weaken opposition you succumb and vote for the resolve ahead of a possible run- ruling party," Mushonga said. His account was backed off election. Opposition leader by a close relative of one of Morgan Tsvangirai won the election but failed to reach the the victims, who spoke on the d condition of anonymity out of majority necessary for a fear that he could be assaulted. victory, according to He said he received a text mesofficial results. A second vote has not yet sage on his cell phone Monday been scheduled, but violence night saying that the relative had been "murdered by ZANU-P- F has been focused in areas that supported the opposition. youth." When he arrived in ChiThe attacks have been espeweshe on Tuesday, he found cially vicious in areas, such his relative's body severely as Chiweshe, that once were battered and bloodied. Funerstrongholds of Mugabe's Zimals are scheduled to begin babwe African National Front but supported Thursday. "When people do that to peoTsvangirai in the election. In the neighborhood where ple, it's not even human," the the 11 people were killed Mon- man said. "I don't know what day, Mushonga said, Tsvangi- - will happen tomorrow." first-roun- Union-Patriot- N : V h rs A : . - V? tt'n J V. I i ""feJaT , 1 (iiiiinii; Mstar's Remote SOS is your convenient solution! This new service from problems. Your 5 Mstar Is a valuable and prov en way to easily solve most of your computer first PC Care session will remove all virsuses i L ' OXO and dangerous spyware which cause 80 percent of all computer downtime and problems. 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