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Show v .). : X.OV YOUR TOWN YOUR NEIGHBORS LIFE " & YOUR NEWSPAPER STYLE SPORTS Exerciseis SE CALL child's play .'.1 BYU falls short against No. 4 USC tun 0 as resigns Sen. Clinton says she'll Week Leavitt atestiman prime quits in power struggle mthYasser Arafat jfiter' from EPA '' i '. .si 'C ErinMcClam ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER ' NEW YORK : ; ;fffV Lara Sukhtian ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER RAMALLAH, West Bank A disillusioned luaiuituuu nuuaj icsigucu aa (Mime uwuaici h Saturday after power struggle with Yasser Arafat, leaving Israel and the Unit- ed States without a negotiating partner and to prompting calls by some top t expelArafat. . - Just hours later, an Israeli warplane dropped a on a Gaza City apartment in a batched attempt to kill several top Hamas leadt' ers, Including the Islamic militant group's Ahmed Sheik who founder, Yassin, escaped with a minor injury. Saturday's dramatic events dealt the most severe blow in months to U.S.4ed peace efforts: wrangling over an Abbas successor could, freeze the troubled "road map" peace plan for weeks or months, and the attack on Yassin could provoke more Hamas suicide bombings and Israeli reprisals. ' Israel declared a state of high alert Saturday evening, bracing for more attacks. - Yassin was the highest-rankin- g Palestinian leader ever targeted by Israel, and top fugitives, including Mohammed Deif, No. 1 on Israel's wanted list, were also in the room, security officials told The Associated Press on condition of i four-mont- r , Israeli-Official- s - See HILLARY, A2 Islamic militiamen patrolling in Iraq with U.S. approval See ABBAS, A3 I What now? Palestinians will find difficulty replacing Abbas, and his resignation may call ' for Arafat's exile. Page A3 l.. v "', Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, right speaks with Palestinian lawmaker Ibrahim Abu &Naja on Saturday. Arafat accepted the resignation of Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas. 5; Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday she planned to block President Bush's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency over an internal report saying the EPA misled New Yorkers about health risks after the World Trade Center attack. In a telephone interview, Clinton told The Associated Sen. Hillary Clinton Press she would place a hold on the nomination of Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, a procedural move that would prevent the full Senate from voting on his confirmation, I though it does not stop committee hearings. "This is an effort to get the administration that he wants to join to take responsibility," she said. Clinton said she would lift the hold only if the White House answered her conUtah Gov. Mike Leavitt cerns about the EPA report. She said she held no personal grudge against Leavitt but hopes the hold will force the administration to answer questions. "This is a very big issue," she said. "It not only has Photo by AMMAR AWAOReutera Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas leaves his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday. Abbas submitted his resignation in a power struggle with Yasser Arafat Tarek ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER pties protesting Census Bureau estimates . Militiamen carrying assault rifles NAJAF, Iraq d Islamic and wearing arm bands of a group patrolled in the holy city of Najaf on Saturday, a week after a key Shiite cleric was killed in a bombing followers blamed on the failure of U.S. security efforts. if temporary In a major policy shift, the top US. civilian administrator in Iraq, L Paul Bremer, said the armed Iraqis have the blessing of the American occupation force. "The militias ... on the streets of Najaf were there with the full authority of the Coalition Provisional Authority and in full cooperation with the coalition forces. That is to say, they were licensed in accordance with our existing programs," Bremer said once-outlawe- Amie Rose THE DAH.Y HERALD Eagle Mountain is protesting its US. d population numbers for 2002 because it doesn't want to miss out on coveted sales tax dollars. Pleasant Grove plans to do the same; The two are among several Utah County communities that think Census Bureau population estimates fall short of actual numbers, and they want to do something about the discrepancy. Shawn Eliot, Mountainland Association of Governments transportation planner, told a group of Utah County mayors Thursday how to protest the 2002 population figures. ' Getting corrected figures is impor- tant to cities because almost all state and federal funding is based, in part, on population. "Every little bit helps, Eliot said. The census conducts an official head count every 10 years and then esti mates population numbers lor the years between. If those estimated numbers are below a city's actual Census-estimate- 0 v in .it 'se el ' INSIDE REGION r ' -- v.. See CENSUS, A2 Partly. B6 LOCAL B1 WEATHER C8 . MEESEThe Da.iy Herald . ; . ; ; V 'l Ccrery works en the lawn at his sister Eagle Mountain home Friday morning. Eagle Mountain,' . Wiacn aoesn t want to miss out on potential saves tax aouars, aisagrees mm population numbers Si t..!ry See IRAQ, A2 . OBITUARIES B7 LIFE&STYIE PI OPINIONS A7 SPORTS a BUSINESS El sunny HIGH 87 LOW 55 V VOLUME 81 issue 38 lill Hli61055 001501 |