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Show DAILY A4 Friday, May 30, 2008 HERALD FAST FACT Morning Briefing Andrew Johnson, the 1 7th president of the U.S., started his professional life as a tailor in Greeneviile, Tenn. He was nearly impeached in 868, as the Senate came up one vote short of the majority needed to remove a president from Office. Se: Time Almanac 2004 1 two-third- s Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The WORLD The Nation L. lift a- r - ; I si r It i - s L. l , JACQUELYN Press MARTINAssociated Agony of elimination Raymond Soriano reacts to his elimination in the fourth round of the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington on Thursday. Fourty-fiv- e spellers have made it into the semifinals today. Mich. Dem calls delegate plan flawed A top LANSING, Mich. Clinton supporter in Michigan said Thursday the state Democratic Party's plan to split the convention delegates between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama is "fatally flawed." Democratic National Committee member Joel Ferguson sent a letter Thursday to the of the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee seeking to seat all of Michigan's delegates based on the results of the disputed Jan. 15 election. Failing that, he says the pledged delegates should get a half vote each and superdel-egate- s should get a full vote, a plan Florida also is proposing. The rules committee is to meet Saturday to hear plans for seating delegates from Michigan and Florida, which was also stripped of its delegates for holding a January couple took a wrong turn on their weeklong vacation along a challenging route called the Royal Arch The trip began May 17 and was to end Friday. 45-mi- Texas Army base raises drinking age FORT BLISS, Texas This military base in the far West Texas desert stood as the last Army post in America where if you were old enough to fight and die for your country, you were old enough to drink a beer. But the party is over at Fort Bliss. Citing too many drunken-drivin- g crashes and arrests and too many fights, the new commanding general has raised the drinking age on base from 18 to 21, bringing 17,000-soldiFort Bliss into line with what has been the law in the rest of Texas since : .1986. And not only that, but all Fort Bliss soldiers are barred primary. His letter puts him at odds from slipping across the Mexican border to Ciudad Juarez, with the Michigan Demothe city of famously loose cratic Party's chairman and executive committee, which morals where young Ameri9 cans have been getting drunk support a proposed and getting into trouble split. for generations. From now n Book from on, no passes to Juarez will be Issued. FLDS bride optioned The new policy took effect for movie May 22. SALT LAKE CITY A Pfc. Walter Iverson, a book from the former teensaid babyf aced he will miss grabbing a beer age bride whose court after work: "It's like my partestimony helped send polygamous sect leader Warren ents say, I'm old enough to Jeffs to prison will be made join the Army, but I'm not old into a movie. enough to drink." Publisher HarperCollins "I don't know why they publicist Brianne Halverson changed it. I never had a says "Stolen Innocence," will problem with drinking," he be jointly produced by Sharp said. A few guys "ruined it Independent and Killer Films. for everyone." Halverson' says no production date is scheduled and Helicopter crashes on no writer, director or actors roof of Mich, hospital have been selected. The book chronicles the GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. life of Elissa Wall, now a A medical helicopter former member of crashed on the roof of a hosthe Fundamentalist Church pital Thursday, catching fire of Jesus Christ of Latter Day moments after the two people Saints. Her 2001 forced maron board escaped with minor injuries, authorities said. riage to a cousin when she was 14 led to the criminal The pilot and passenger were in stable condition after charges against Jeffs in St. George. 1 I Last year, Jeffs was convicted on two counts of first degree felony rape as an accomplice and sentenced to two terms of five years to life in prisoa 69-5- ex-tee- the crash at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital, said Richard Breon, president and CEO of Spectrum Health. No patients were aboard the chopper, which crashed around 11 a.m. on a helipad atop the hospital. It landed on its side and the two people got out before it caught fire, Fire Chief John VanSolkema said. "There's not a whole lot left, but you can tell it was a helicopter," VanSolkema said. Crash debris was found near the hospital, but there were no reports of injuries or damage on the ground. It was too soon to determine whether the building had sustained any structural damage, VanSolkema said. Massive fire hits Boston-are- a condos PEABODY, Mass. Peabody. There were no immediate reports of injuries and it was not immediately clear if the building was occupied when the blaze broke out. Broadcast reports indicated firefighters had been ordered to leave the building. Peabody fire officials had no immediate comment. White House issues climate report man-mad- gether different U.S. studies and localizes international reports into one comprehensive document required by law. e The report is notable because it is something the Bush administration has fought in the past. 271-pag- l 1 Chemical fire hampers China quake recovery A CHENGDU, China stockpile of chemicals being used to disinfect an earthquake-shattered Chinese town ignited Thursday and injured scores of soldiers doing relief work, adding to a day of problems for urgent recovery efforts. ' The chemical fire took place in the town of Leigu, in devastated Beichuan county. The official Xinhua News Agency UPPLANDS VASBY, Swe- den Iraqi officials appealed Thursday to escape nearly $100 billion in debt and war reparations owed mostly to Arab nations still reluctant to forgive Iraq's belligerence during Saddam Hussein's regime. Iraq's plea for debt relief made before nearly 500 delegates at a U.N. conference to assess Iraq's reconstruction was echoed at the highest open rebellion in his Kadima party, making it increasingly unlikely he can survive the public uproar that has gripped the country since a key witness described illicit cash payments to the luxury loving Israeli leader. Livni, one of Israel's most popular politicians, suggested a change of leadership was required to maintain the party's dignity, becoming the first senior party member to openly come out against Olmert. diplomatic levels including U.N. Secretary-Genera- l Ban and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. reported that more than 800 Myanmar blasts donors But Iraqi Prime Minister people were evacuated to for not giving more avoid a cloud of dense chlorine Nouri received no firm commitments, and two YANGON, Myanmar gas caused by the blaze. As in many destroyed key neighbors Saudi Arabia Myanmar's ruling junta lashed out Thursday at aid donors and Kuwait sent only towns, officials have been who promised millions of dolspraying disinfecting bleach on envoys to the meeting lars for cyclone relief, saying streets and rubble in an effort outside Stockholm. to prevent disease breakouts. Iraq has at least $67 billion in survivors didn't need "bars of Thousands of people are still chocolate." foreign debt most incurred State-ru- n media criticized under Saddam and owed to missing and their bodies could be buried in the rubble, while Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Unit- donors for only pledging up to $ 150 million rats and other scavengers have ed Arab Emirates and Qatar. a far cry from been reported in some places. the $11 billion the junta said it In addition, the U.N. ComState-runeeded to rebuild. television showed pensation Commission says smoke billowing over Leigu The Myanma Ahlin newspa$28 billion remains to be paid and reported that a stockpile for Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuper, a government mouthpiece, of bleach powder had ignited wait. Iraq now gives 5 percent said cyclone victims from the hardest-hi- t in a storage building. CCTV areas could get by of its oil revenue to meet the without foreign handouts. footage showed soldiers spray- compensation claims. ing down the building and "People from the Irrawaddy delta can survive on their own, Pressure increases on extinguishing the threat, and even without bars of chocolate then several soldiers who were Israeli prime minister donated by the international gasping for air being treated Prime MinJERUSALEM by medics. community," it said, adding ister Ehud Olmert suffered they can live on "fresh vegetables that grow wild in the Iran says U.S. voters another blow Thursday when fields and on protein-rica key rival for power in his fish want policy change from the rivers." political party suggested the The reference to chocolate UPPLANDS VASBY, Sweembattled leader should be den Iran thinks American replaced because of a widening bars appeared to be metaphorical. No aid agency is known to voters have had it with the corruption investigation. Bush administration's foreign be distributing them, and they With the comments from would not be practical in the policy and says the campaign Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, for the 2008 election is proof. Olmert now encounters an country's tropical heat. President Bush and his top aides may sneer and try to isolate Iran but the Islamic Republic is waiting to see how their successors approach the world, particularly the Middle East, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said JW Thursday. "What is very clear in the United States is that everybody is looking for changes. That is very important," he said on the sidelines of an international conference on Iraq. Bush accuses Iran of supporting extremists in the country. "The foreign policy of the United States will affect this presidential election in the United States and that's why PAULO DUARTEAssociated all the candidates are trying to pres say something new to public Her Grace opinion," Mottaki said. Norwtiv's Queen Sonja jumps over a puddle as she urrives for a boat trip on the Douro River in Porto, Portugal, on Iraq asks for debt Thursday. The Norwegian royal couple was on the last day of little forgiveness, gets stute visit to Portugal a three-dan h GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. A Utah couple lost in the Grand Canyon for at least five days did the right thing by staying together and finding shade during the day, a park spokeswoman said. 39, Protestors urge King Gyanendra to leave his palace and move to a private residence as a common citizen, throwing stones at police near the Narainhiti Palace in Katmandu, Nepal, oh Thursday. The king has been given 15 days to leave the palace by the newly elected Constituent Assembly as it abolished monarchy and turned Nepal into a republic on May 28. low-lev- Under WASHINGTON a court order and four years late, the White House Thursday produced what it called a science-base- d "one-sto- p shop" of specific threats to the e United States from global warming. While the report has no new science in it, it pulls to- Couple missing in Grand Canyon found Alan Humphrey, Invitation to leave and :;v' 7 OREO NEISELincoln Park loo Taking a swim male trumpeter swun at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago tukes his newly hatched offspring into the swan pond for a swim on Thursday. The cygnet just emerged from the shell on Wednesday. A DASAssociated Press Fire- fighters are battling a huge fire at a condominium complex north of Boston. Flames and thick black smoke could be seen pouring through the roof of one of the buildings in the complex in -- his wife, Iris Faraklas, 35, were found by a rescue helicopter just after 5 p.m. Wednesday in a remote and rugged area of the park . about 25 miles west of Grand Canyon Village on the South Rim, spokeswoman Maureen Oltrogge said. "They were tired, probably a little ragged, but they were in good health," Oltrogge said, adding that the Suit Lake City couple were to be interviewed Thursday about how they got lost. Hie two refused medical treatment, Oltrogge said. She said it appears the SAURABH , |