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Show Monday. June 9. 2008 DAILY HERALD A4 FAST FACT Morning Briefing Mount Everest was named for British surveyor Sir George Everest, though he preferred that the mountain retain its local appellation. Soura:Xime Almanac 2004 Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The Nation The World 8 : : ill , , . - I WILLIAM FERNANDO ,u V'. MARTINEZAssociated Press Drug raid of an police squad covers his face while walking in front of a burning hut during a raid to destroy a coca laboratory in Colombia's southern state of Narino, near the border with Ecuador, on Sunday. A member 4 Ill, " Himmii' llllllllli sr HARRY CABLUCK Associated Press after a fire swept through it earlier in the morning, leaving home charred and inflicting damage that state officials described as "bordering on catastrophic." The historic Texas Governor's Mansion much of the early Sunday in Austin, Texas, Ohio plane crash kills 6, was including A small FREMONT, Ohio plane crashed Sunday afte; noon in a residential area and killed all six people aboard, including a former state lawmaker who had offered to visitors after a charity joy-rid- breakfast. Former legislator Gene Sr., 86, was piloting single-engin- e the fixed-winCessna when it crashed about 1 p.m., the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. His five passengers also died in the crash in Ohio's Sandusky County. No one on the ground was injured, and no buildings were damaged, patrol Lt. Tony Brad-shasaid. It was too early to tell what caused the crash. The National Weather Service said there was no severe weather in the area at the time. The Lions Club of Fremont on Sunday held a fly in breakfast, inviting nearby pilots to fly to the airport and display their planes. After the event, Damschro-de- r offered visitors a chance to go up in planes for the cost of fuel, according to a poster at the airport. The joyrides were not related to the Lions Club event. It wasn't clear whether those on board had taken Damschro-de- r up on his offer. Also killed were Bill Anstead, 62; Allison Anstead, 23; Daniel Gerwin, 31; and Emily Gerwin, 4; and Matt Dam-schrod- a long ride on the space station's robot arm that swung him 80 feet out from the orbit- ng complex. He carried an empty nitrogen gas tank from one side of the station to the other, then returned with a full tank and plugged it in for use in the coolant system. Fire burns Texas governor's mansion Arson is AUSTIN, Texas suspected in a fire that swept through the historic Texas governor's mansion early Sunday, leaving much of the building charred and severely damaged, the state fire marshal said. No one was believed to be inside when the fire started at the home, whose roof buckled because of the flames and the massive amount of water used to put them out. Officials said there is no evidence any direct threat was intended to Gov. Rick Perry, who is out of the country with his wife, Anita. "We are heartbroken by the fire that has ravaged the Texas Governors Mansion," Perry said in a prepared statement. "It has not only been our home for the past eight years, but has stood as a symbol of Texas pride throughout its history. Though it can certainly be rebuilt, what Texas has lost today can never be replaced." All historic furnishings and heirlooms had been removed for a renovation project, but much of the wood in the Greek revival-styl- e mansion was "completely irreplaceable" ld about 10 miles from where it had taken off, he said. "This is a devastating loss," Collier said. Killed were flight nurse Jana Bishop, pilot Wayne Kirby and flight paramedic Stephanie Waters, all PHI employees. The name of the patient on board and the medical emergency involved were not immediately released. 5 Sailors survive hours in Gulf; 6th still missing GALVESTON, Texas Four college students and a safety officer floated for more than a day in choppy seas, sharing four life vests after their sailboat capsized during a regatta on the Gulf of Mexico, authorities said Sunday. The body of a second safety officer was removed from the boat later. The safety officer who survived kept the group together in the water and used a flashlight to signal Coast Guard searchers, said R. Bowen .Loftin, CEO of Texas A&M at Galveston, which three of the and hundreds of other participants in the Come Out and Play street games festival gave their grown-u- p selves permission to engage in child's play. From Friday through Sunday, the festival turned the city's streets into a game board of sorts, as people played mini golf on the sidewalks of the Lower East Side and launched a game similar to manhunt amid the crowds in a city park. Upcoming trial to focus on hard-cor- e porn LOS ANGELES - If all goes according to plan, an otherwise stately federal courtroom in downtown Los Angeles will be converted into a makeshift movie theater this week, screening a series of graphic many people would say vulgar sexual fetish videos. At issue is how a jury will define obscenity in a city that boasts its place as the capital of the porn industry and at a time when technology has made the taboo adult flicks of a generation ago available to a students attended. The survivors were at the mainstream audience. Hollywood filmmaker Ira University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and were Isaacs says the videos he sells in good condition with sunburn are works of art, protected and dehydration, Loftin said. under the Constitution. Federal The men were resting and prosecutors contend the movies are criminally obscene. visiting with their families The prosecution is the first after 26 hours floating in the in Southern California by a Gulf, said a hospital spokesU.S. Department of Justice woman. A helicopter crew from Air task force formed in 2005 after Clearman, 25. Station Houston pulled the Christian conservative groups five men from the water 23 3 dead, 1 missing in appealed to the Bush adminismiles south of Freeport, Texas, tration to crack down on smut. longleaf pine, said Robert Midwest flooding For jurors to determine Black, a Perry spokesman., Petty Officer Renee C. Aiello INDIANAPOLIS Wicked Some interior ornamentation is said Sunday. They had drifted whether Isaacs' work is obabout five miles northwest of weekend storms with tornascene, they will have to view beyond repair, he said. does and heavy rain pounded hours of hard-cor- e their capsized boat. pornography so degrading that in one film, an Medical helicopter the Midwest, where at least NYC festival reminds actress cries throughout. three people drowned and one crash in Texas kills 4 But if jurors find that any of was missing in floodwaters s how to play grown-upthe four videos at issue in the A that swallowed roads and HUNTSVILLE, Texas medical helicopter on its way NEW YORK case have any "literary, scienneighborhoods. Running tific or artistic value," then the down a busy Manhattan Rescuers in boats continued to a Houston hospital crashed in a national forest early Sunto pluck people from rising work is not legally obscene, sidewalk, drawing funny looks from passers-bwaters in Indiana, a day after as his day, killing all four people according to a 1973 Supreme more than 10 inches of rain Court ruling. teammates wearing green aboard, authorities said. Rescue crews struggled to "All they're going to do is and feather headdresses deluged much of the state. At least one person drowned, and find the wreckage in the dense brought up the rear in their turn on a DVD machine and Sam Houston National Forest. quest for more water balloons, another person was missing hope the jury is going to be David Abrams felt entirely unafter falling off an airboat in a The cause was being investiso shocked and disgusted and flooded area, state police said. like himself. offended that they're going to gated. "I feel about 12," the In Michigan, two delivery The PHI Air Medical helithrow me in prison," said Isaaworkers for The Grand Rapids copter was on its way from corporate lawyer said cs, 57, a native of the Bronx. Press drowned early Sunday a Huntsville hospital when with a laugh as the game clock He said he hopes that jurors a missed check-i- n with diswhen their car became subwill be shocked ticked down and he dashed he's a for a chance to earn his team a "shock artist," after merged in a creek that washed patchers raised concern, PHI out a road about 4 a.m. near few more points. all but also that they will see spokesman Jonathan Collier Lake Michigan in Saugatuck said. The chopper was found This weekend, Abrams the artistic value in the work. Township, the newspaper said. At least one tornado hit the Omaha, Neb., area with little to no warning as people slept Sun' day morning, damaging several dozen homes and businesses. No major injuries were reported. V. "I'd say it was a miracle no i one got killed," said Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey as he toured a heavily damaged neighborhood in the west Omaha area of Millard -- - y n rM Shuttle crew breezes through last spacewalk CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Shuttle Discovery's astronauts breezed through their third and final spacewalk Sunday, replacing an empty gas tank at the international space station and collecting a sample of dusty debris. Spacewalkers Michael Fos-suand Ronald Garan Jr. wrapped up their work so quickly that Mission Control threw in some extra chores. The highlight of the 6 12-ho- spacewalk, for Garan, Vu; Car bomb kills U.S. soldier, wounds 18 cyclone may never be identified because their bodies have decomposed so badly BAGHDAD A suicide and many ended up far from truck bomber who concealed home, an aid organization said Sunday. his explosives under tanned The task of burying an animal hides struck a U.S. patrol base Sunday in north- estimated 78,000 bodies ern Iraq, killing one U.S. sol- has been overshadowed by efforts to assist Cyclone dier and wounding 18 other Americans, U.S. and Iraqi Nargis' 2.4 million survivors, officials said. many of whom are still without adequate food, water Two Iraqi contractors and shelter, the Internationa working at the base in Committee of the Red Cross province also were said. wounded, according to a As a result, bloated bodbrief statement from the ies still litter the hard-hi- t military. Tamim has a mixed popuIrrawaddy delta more than lation of Arabs, Kurds and five weeks after the storm, while other bodies have been Turkomen, with the dumped in canals or uncity of Kirkuk as its capital. Three American soldiers marked mass graves. were killed last Wednesday "Many now are in advanced stages of decay and by gunfire in Tamim. the information we have Brig. Sarhat Qadir, a sebeen able to gather is that nior officer in the Kirkuk many of the bodies that were police department, said the effected by the tidal surges bomber targeted a U.S. pawere stripped of clothing and trol base in a mostly Sunni Arab residential area in any identifying items," said about 25 miles southCraig Strathern, a Red Cross west of Kirkuk. spokesman in Myanmar. The Red Cross has reThe suicide attacker rammed his vehicle into blast ceived reports that some walls outside the gates of the bodies ended more than four miles from their place of orismall U.S. base, located in a residential neighborhood gin, he said. of Sunni Arabs, Qadir said. He added that the explo13 people dead in 2 sives were concealed under Algerian bombings tanned animal hides. Two ALGIERS, Algeria Chavez urges FARC to bombs in quick succession rocked a train station in Allay down weapons geria on Sunday, killing 13 CARACAS, Venezuela people, including a French Venezuelan President engineer and Algerian firefighters and soldiers who Hugo Chavez urged Colombian rebels on Sunday responded to the first blast, a to lay down their weapons, security official said. The first bomb killed a unilaterally free dozens of hostages and put an end to a Frenchman working on a decades-lon- g armed struggle renovation project at the station in Beni Amrane, about against Colombia's govern60 miles east of the capital, ment. Chavez sent the uncharacthe security official said. The second bomb hit minutes teristically strong message to the leaders of the Revolater, as security officials and rescue workers arrived at the lutionary Armed Forces of scene. Both devices appeared Colombia, or FARC, saying their ongoing efforts to over- to be There was no immedithrow Colombia's democratiate claim of responsibility. cally elected government were unjustified. affiliate, Algeria's "The guerrilla war is hisin Islamic North tory," said Chavez, speaking Africa, is known to be active in the area. during his weekly television The French engineer, and radio program, "Hello President." working on a project to boost the number of rail lines "At this moment in Latin America, an armed guerrilla at the station, was killed as movement is out of place." he prepared to leave the site in a car, said the official, who Such declarations were unexpected from Chavez, spoke on condition of anoa self described socialist nymity because he was not who earlier this year called authorized to talk to media. The man's Algerian driver on world governments to remove the FARC from terwas also killed. France's rorist lists and suggested the Foreign Ministry said it was in contact with Algerian auguerrillas should be recognized as a legitimate insurthorities about the attack but gent force. provided no other details. The second bomb came Tens of thousands of about five minutes later. Eight soldiers and three firecyclone victims may fighters were killed in that never be identified explosion, the official said. Several others were woundYANGON, Myanmar Tens of thousands of ed, though the exact number was unclear. people killed in last month's Ta-mi- h Ra-sha- remote-controlle- n .fN y '' . y- "t I : i fM - Dan Gant fjeft and Chris Ho run down a downtown New York street while using a GPS device to track their location in the "Fort Amsterdam'' game, part of the Street Games Festival held Saturday in New York. K51 r mi. tat? - ih v L .'.;.v VINCENT YUAssociated Press Dragon boating Rowing enthusiasts participate in a dragon boat race in Hong Kong on Sunday as part of celebrations marking " the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival |