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Show DAILY A4 HERALD Saturday, May if, 2008 FAST FACT RINGB RIEFING the Kentucky, word 15th state to join the union, gets its name from an Iroquoian that means "land of tomorrow. n Source: Time Almanac 2004 Compiled from Daily Herald wire serv ices The World Airplane overshoots runway in Honduras TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras A Miami-bounjetliner overshot a runway, raced onto a busy street and slammed into an embankment in the Hondu-ra- n capital Friday, killing the pilot, a passenger and a motorist on the ground. More than 75 people were injured, including Brazil's ambassador to Honduras, Brian Michael Fraser Neele. Police said he was being treated at a private hospital and his wife was missing. The nose of the Grupo Taca Airbus 320, which was landing with 124 people on board, smashed info an embankment and its fuselage buckled and broke in places, trapping the inside. pilot and Rescuers had to pry open part of the wreckage to get them out, but the pilot didn't survive, said Cesar Villalta, director of Honduras' military hospital. Passenger Harry Brautigam, a Niearaguan who headed a regional development bank, died of heart failure shortly after the crash. The body of a man trapped under the plane's wreckage was believed to be a ill d TIM -- J CA . 4.1 . eM I 1 - A. a 1 Pt?fl'mtimiiiHiMM ini 1 r ,ii irni.i co-pil- fir 4 4" i. taxi driver. 1 Brazil reveals uncontacted tribe RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few tribes still living in near-totisolation from civilization, officials said Friday. Anthropologists have known about the group for some 20 years but released the images now to call attention to development near the Indians' home in the dense jungles near Peru. "We put the photos out because if things continue the ' way they are going, these people are going to disappear," said Jose Carlos Meirelles, who coordinates government , efforts to protect four passenger jet lies in pieces after overshooting a runway and slamming onto a busy street grass-thatche- woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man's closet and arrested her for trespassing, police spokesman Hiroki Itakura from southern Kasuya town said Friday. The resident of the home installed security cameras that transmitted images to his mobile phone after becoming puzzled by food disappearing from his kitchen over the past several months. One of the cameras captured 4 7- - t ii 1" l i ; w- - y, ; A" ' I . ; ' 1 I OOUOLAS C. PIZACAssociated Press Brigham comes back home Kevin Maug guides the bronze statue of BrigUum Young buck to its place at the State Cupitol building in Salt Luke City on Friday. The statue was removed and placed in storuge during rvnovutions to the building, which were 1,500-poun- d completed at the Iwginning of the year. .mi mini in ...in.. iiini.i .mi iiii.iii n .mum, i tt pi- - x: ..':.- " f r. s $ v - tl ... r1:;'. m ' '. ': 1 GLEISON MIRANDAFunai Uncontacted natives shoot arrows at an airplane as it passes overhead to take pictures in the state of Acre, Brazil, close to the border with Peru. Photos of the tribe were released Thursday to show the threats they face. In an aid agency meetclosed in Labutta, another g town in the delta, a ing, the U.N. Children's Fund said eight camps earlier set area which took the brunt of up by the government to Cyclone Nargis nearly a month receive homeless victims in ago. the Irrawaddy delta town of nations Bogalay had emptied as the of victims was mass clear-ou- t cluster-bom- b stepped up. "The government is moving Chief neDUBLIN, Ireland people unannounced," said Teh gotiators of a landmark treaty Tai Ring, a UNICEF official, banning cluster bombs predicted Friday that the United adding that authorities were "dumping people in the approx- States will never again use the imate location of the villages, weapons, a critical component of American air and artillery basically with nothing." Camps were also being power. low-lyin- short-circu- it adopt treaty Scientists TUCSON, Ariz. for the Phoenix Mars Lander are wrestling with an intermittent short circuit on the spacecraft. The problem is in a device Crane collapse in NYC that will analyze ice and soil kills two workers dug from the planet's surface, the scientists said Friday. The NEW YORK A conshort circuit was found durstruction crane snapped and smashed into an apartment ing testing done before the mission's experiments get unbuilding with a thunderous roar der way. Friday, killing two workers in The short circuit isn't considthe city's second such tragedy ered critical, said William Boy-to- n in 2 12 months and renewing of the University of Arizofears about the safety of hunna's Lunar and Planetary Labo- dreds of cranes towering over the New York skyline. ratory. Boynton is in charge of the device that will heat and The collapse happened deanalyze samples scooped up by spite stepped-u- p inspections the lander's robotic arm. and a shake-u- p in the city He said scientists know Buildings Department after the what is triggering the problem earlier accident, which killed and what actions make it go seven people in March. away, and are working on City officials could not imsolutions. mediately say how the Phoenix was designed to crane fell apart on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where study whether the Martian north pole region could supcontractors were building a port primitive life forms and luxury condo complex. is to perform several experiMayor Michael Bloomberg ments seeking traces of orpalled the accident "unacceptable and intolerable" but added: ganic compounds. Team members in charge of "Having said that, we do not the robotic arm said new photos know at the moment what hapshow the kinder may be resting pened or why." on splotches of ice. Washington With the city going through University scientist Ray Arvid-so- n a supercharged building boom the .spacecraft's thrusters and an estimated 25() crimes in operation as of mny have uncovered the ice wlx-the robot landed latst Sun New York has seen a series of mid-Marc- Press The treaty formally adopted Friday by 111 nations, including many of America's major NATO partners, would outlaw all current designs of cluster munitions and require destruction of stockpiles within eight years. It also opens the possibility that European allies could order U.S. bases located in their countries to remove cluster bombs from their stocks. The United States and other leading cluster bomb makers Russia, China, Israel, India and Pakistan boycotted the talks, emphasized they would not sign the treaty and publicly shrugged off its value. All defended the overriding military value of cluster bombs, which carpet a battlefield with dozens to hundreds of explosions. But treaty backers who long have sought a ban because cluster bombs leave behind "duds" that later maim or kill civilians insisted they had made it too politically painful for any country to use the weapons again. Vatican says 'no' to female priests VATICAN CITY The Vatican insisted Friday that it is properly following Christian tradition by excluding females from the priesthood as it issued a new warning that women taking part in ordinations will be excommunicated. The move dashed the hopes both of women seeking to be priests and of Catholics who see that as an option for a church struggling to recruit men. A top Vatican official said the church acted after what it described as ordinations" held in various parts of the world. Monsignor Angelo Amato of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said the Vatican wanted to provide bishops with a clear response on the issue. d NATION day. Mission planners aimed the craft to the red planet's northern regions hoping to find ice just under the surface. "We're really pushing for ice but we don't know if that's the case yet," Arvidson said. 200-fo- ANTONIOAssociated Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Friday. nil The I Hi1 . in in . ' Mars lander has problem s iiiiinii.ini "M '. . o ; Jfa. Ill YANGON, Myanmar Myanmar's military government is removing cyclone victims from refugee camps and dumping them near their devastated villages with virtually no aid supplies, the United Nations said Friday. A homeless - , Myanmar junta forcing removal of cyclone victims woman who sneaked into a man's house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food """Z""! ...V 'f, ngPolice found the U.N. Japanese woman lives undetected in man's closet for a year "" mysteriously began disappeari- someone moving inside his home Thursday after he had left, and he called police believing it was a burglar. However, when they arrived they found the door locked and all windows closed. "We searched the house ... checking everywhere someone could possibly hide," Itakura said. "When we slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously curled up on her side." "uncon- tacted" tribes for Brazil's National Indian Foundation. Shot in late April and early May, the foundation's photos show about a dozen Indians, mostly naked and painted red, wielding bows and arrows outd side six huts. Meirelles told The Associated Press in a phone interview that anthropologists know next to nothing about the group, but suspect it is related to the Tano and Aruak tribes. TOKYO FERNANDO A deadly construction accidents. Nine people have died in crane accidents so far this year. None died in crane accidents last year; two were killed in 2006. Three dead in shooting in eastern Kentucky the yard of a home in Hughes. A set of dolly tracks in front of the machine led back to a liquor store less than a mile away that had reported it missing. Two men in the yard fled when authorities arrived. One was arrested on suspicion of theft, fleeing on foot and A man HAZARD, Ky. obstructing government operashot and killed an elected oftions. The other is at large. ficial and a county employee About 1,800 residents live in at an eastern Kentucky conHughes, about 30 miles southvenience store Friday, then west of Memphis, Tenn. turned the gun on himself, a deputy coroner said. Space shuttle set to Fugate, 55, shot Magistrate launch Saturday Jimmy Darrell Neace and counCAPE CANAVERAL, Ha. ty road department employee Lewallen Caudill, deputy coroWith good weather in the ner Kyle Wolfe said. offing and no bumps in the Police said the shooting hapcountdown, NASA pushed pened around 11:30 a.m. Friday ahead with Saturday's planned in the parking lot of Ben's launch of space shuttle DiscovQuick Stop near Hazard, a ery on a delivery trip to the rural town more than 100 miles international space station. southeast of Lexington. The mission has taken on Wolfe said Neace, 53, of new urgency the seven Hazard and Caudill, 60, of Jeff, shuttle astronauts will take Ky., were each shot once at up a new pump for the space close range with a shotgun. station's malfunctioning toilet. They're also ferrying a $1 Stolen soda machine's billion Japanese space lab that has been more than 20 years in tracks lead to owner the making. Police HUGHES, Ark. Dozens of Japanese journaldidn't have to look too hard ists and spate program ofto figure out t he source of a ficials jammed NASA's launch soda vending machine found site Friday, their excitement in a front yard they just folgrowing with every passing lowed the trucks. hour of the countdown. As many ns 4fX) Japanese Deputies from the St. I rancis were expected for the late SatCounty sheriff's office sX)tted a IVpsi machine on Thursday in urday aftermxm launch. |