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Show A4 D A II Y Sunday. September 7, 2003 HERALD FAST IOMNG BE LfflNI FAQ, r Tropical rainforests cover only 8 percent of the planet but contain about 50 percent of all growing wood and 40 percent of all species of animals and plants. Saute Mtnpcdi of Worid Conipiled from Daily Herald wire services Ffc region. At least nine people were killed and more than 40 r wounded, police said. In the deadliest attack, a bomb exploded in a busy wholesale market on the outskirts of Srinagar, killing six people and wounding 34, said Tirath Acharya, a spokesman for the" Border Security Force. militant A Pakistan-basegroup, Hezb-u-l Mujahedeen, claimed responsibility in a telephone call to a local news agency in Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashm- ir state. i A man identifying himself as a group spokesman said the attack was aimed at Indian security forces, the Current News Service said. The claim could not be confirmed by an independent " source.- The bomb was planted in a . car parked at the Parimpora market, the main fruit traders center. It exploded as an Indian . army convoy was passing by, . wounding Brig. S.K. Chopra Thousands protest for name change in Taiwan Tens of TAIPEI, Taiwan thousands of protesters waved green flags, played disco music and beat drums in Taiwan's capital Saturday, demanding thatihe island change its name fronuheRepublic of China to Taiwan ina step toward independence. A crowd estimated by organizers at 150,000 marched to a wide boulevard in front of the Presidential Office in Taipei, where retired President Lee Teng-hu- i gave a rousing speech favoring the change. Wearing a white baseball cap in the searing afternoon sun, Lee told the crowd that the Rewhich once public of China included the mainland and Taiwan stopped existing five decades ago when the Communists took over China and renamed it the People's Republic of China. Taiwan has refused to be part of the PRC. "The Republic of China no ' longer has any land," said Lee, who governed the island for 12 years before retiring in 2000. "The Republic of China is just a A vr1 4ii Will 1 r7-.Y7- s ft4. ' d I 1 ! 4 L x i Suspected IRA dissident charged in attack BELFAST, Northern Ireland title." Lee did not The begin publicly advocating the change until after he retired. Beijing still claims Taiwan as part of its territory and threatens to use force if the island declares formal independence. China would see any name change as such a declaration. Reuters demanded the blamed "a lack of coordination" with defense officials for the delay. Defense Minister Daniel Chea said government troops would pull out of the town. "It requires scrutiny so that it is done properly Chea told The Associated Press. The deployment, now set for Monday, will establish the peacekeepers' first substantial foothold outside the capital since arriving in tfte nation to bolster security on Aug. 4. Peacekeepers for Liberia held back The MONROVIA, Liberia deployment of several hundred West African peacekeepers to Liberia's volatile interior was postponed because government troops have yet to withdraw . from the area, a top peacekeeping official said. Government troops must leave the checkpoints in and around the north-centrtown of Kakata, CoL Theophilus Tawiah, the peace force's Ghanaian chief of staff, said Saturday. 4 "We want to get between (rebel) forces and government troops," Tawiah said. He V V- - v; V v. v protesters march in front of the presidential office in Taipei on island's official title be changed to Taiwm from the Republic of China. Taiwan e An intense Russian father-and-so- n drama, The Return," won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion for V ii.. I J i... i. ' XkV f: H, i & i Jf'J h: 1 : t f T V,. J ; I j . ".'i t 1 V i. j ' t . u . u :, ( y Urn I ? 1 Associated Press lkccpter assh in dlifcmia A helicopter crashes while filming the start of the 2nd National Water Ski Racing Association Marathon race at the Long Beach Harbor on Saturday. The remaining races were canceled to investigate the crash site and will take place Sunday. V I' Feds investigating Florida test 3 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. The US. Department of Edu- cation is investigating whether Florida's statewide assessment test discriminates against dis-- - ' abled students by failing to provide special accommodations , they need to take the exam. If the department's Office for .. CM Ris&s finds the Florida ' Compreiiensive Assessment , ; vic'r.tes federal law, it can force o state to change pott cics r ' t .'rs the test or with--". ' v I k v t. W Jtt holJL.ralmor?y. . - NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Former President Bush wrote his initials in chalk on a metal plate Saturday to literally mark the first milestone in the construction of a $4 billion aircraft carrier that will bear his name. A welder then etched the initials into the plate with a torch during a ceremony at Northrop Grumman's Newport News shipyard, the nation's only air- builder of nuclear-powere- d craft carriers. "I hereby declare the keel of this ... U.S. Navy aircraft carrier true and fairly laid," Bush, a decorated World Warn Navy pilot, told the 3,000 invited " guests. ':.Bush started to write his initials, GHWB, on the plate, then wiped them off and rewrote them in larger script. He said he thought the letters in his first effort were too small for 4 the welder. "A lot of nice things happen to you when you become a former president. People are for you, you know what I mean?" Bush said. The naming of this carrier has got to be exceptionally special." . standby for Iraq duty for, some time and their deployment was not related to a review of British troop strength in Iraq that was ordered by Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon, a ministry spokeswoman said. There are about 11,000 British soldiers serving in Iraq, mostly in the southern area of Basra, the ministry said. The results of that review are expected to be announced next week, the ministry spokeswoman said. Violence escalates in Kashmir, 9 killed VioSRINAGAR, India lence surged sharply in Kashmir on Saturday with a series of separatist attacks across the Himalayan Indian-controll- electrician was A arraigned Saturday in connection with the single bloodiest attack in the history of the Northern Ireland conflict. Sean Hoey was charged with possession of explosive devices used in 13 dissident Irish Republican Army attacks, inchid-- . ing the Aug. 15, 1998, strike on the town of Omagh. The breakthrough came as David Trimble, the Protestant politician central to the survival of Northern Ireland's peace process, narrowly defeated a hard-lin- e challenge within his divided Ulster Unionist Party. Trimble, who has faced repeated Ulster Unionist revolts because of his support for the 1998 Good Friday peace accord,' vote of triumphed in a 443-359- his council. party's grass-roo- ts The victory allowed him to proceed with plans to suspend or expel three senior critics who oppose efforts to revive a joint Catholic-Protesta- nt ital 300 show for Million Youth March The Million Youth March, a flashpoint for controversy just five years ago, stepped off quietly Saturday with about 300 people joining in the trek in Brooklyn. Malik Zulu Shabazz, head of the New Black Panther Party, NEW YORK six-bloc- k said the purpose of the march was positive. "Our message to the young people is to stop the killing," said Shabazz, whose group sponsored the event. "Stop going to prison, complete school, go to work and try to rap better lyrics." The march began with the release of white doves, a symbol of peace, before the crowd began its walk. It was a stark contrast to the initial march in 1998, when city officials tried to deny organizers a permit for the event. Police scuffled with participants in Harlem, and the 1998 march's main speaker, the late Khalid Muhammad, urged attendees to "beat the hell" out of police officers. Sixteen officers and five civilians were injured. Organizers this year hoped moving the annual event from Harlem to Brooklyn would increase attendance. Shabazz had hoped the rally would draw more than the 20,000 who attended the 1998 march. Forest Service workers misused credit cards WASHINGTON A new billiard table, a $2,900 aquarium, costumes and caterers are among the many improper charges made on government credit cards by Forest Service workers, Congress' investigative agency says. The General Accounting Office said Friday that an audit found instances of credit card abuse that demonstrate a lack of oversight by Forest Service officials. Studying a sample of 230 purchases, the GAO said employees of the Agriculture Department agency made $1.6 million in improper purchases from Oct. 1, 2000, through Sept. 30, 2001. Based on that, it estimated that overall improper charges at the agency reached $2.7 million. ' TT During the time period of the audit, 14,000 of 30,000 Forest Service workers held govern- -' ment credit cards.' Disabled man spends 6 days trapped in bathtub HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. The office began its investiA disabled man who slipped and fell in his bathtub was gation after receiving about a dozen complaints saying distrapped there for six days beabled students were not being fore he was rescued by a van given the accommodations they , driver who arrived at the house needed to take the test, which for a scheduled trip. students must pass to be proBruce Ashworth, 55, who has moted to the next grade. multiple sclerosis and uses a The accanmodations sought wheelchair, fell on Aug. 29 and inchde providing visual cues to was unable to reach the safety handles on the bathtub to res-help with test directions, giving extra examples for practice, let--: ' . cue himself. His service dog, Lioby, brought a pbxw to him, ting students listen to audio-tape- d but the battery wasn't charged. directions and questions, Ashworth managed to reach and providing a computerized s ' version of the test. a cleaning spray bottle, which , he rinsed out and used to drink task A governor-appointe- d force recommended that water. '' As the days stretched on, he said he drifted in and out of consciousness, and Libby would lick his face to wake him up: Ashworth said he worried he would die. Then, on Thursday, Julie Johnson, who drives a van for elderly and disabled people, arrived to pick up the retired engineer for a scheduled trip. When no one answered the door, she asked a neighbor to call 911, then was able to reach to unlock a through a dog-dodoor into the home. She found Ashworth in the bathtub, barely coherent. Firefighters arrived and took him to a hosp- schools make certain accommodations to disabled students, but federal officials expressed concern that those measures were not made available because of "time and logistical constraints." Former President Bush initials aircraft carrier it If KK- j! - The NATION . , .'' LONDON Britain is sending 120 more soldiers to Iraq, the Ministry of Defense said Saturday, amid press reports that hundreds more British soldiers may be deployed there. The 120 soldiers are part of the 2nd Light Infantry stationed in Cyprus. Some left Friday and the rest Saturday, the ministry said. The soldiers have been on . VENICE, Italy ii Britain sending 120 more soldiers to Iraq . Russian debut wins top prize at Venice festival al ous and overbearing father reabturns after a decade-lon- g sence and imposes a harsh program to turn his boys into mea The man puts his sons through a series of grueling tasks that ultimately brings disaster. best picture Saturday, though first-timdirector Andrey Zvyagintsev remained shaken by the death of the star of the movie. Teenage actor Vladimir Girin drowned shortly after the end of shooting in the same lake where several of the picture's scenes were filmed. "You see only two actors up on the stage tonight. Those who saw the film know there were three main actors," Zvyagintsev said at the awards ceremony, clearly moved by the occasioa "The fact is that the actor who played Andrey died tragically two months ago. We would like to dedicate this award to him," Zvyagintsev's remarkable debut featui e tells the story of two adolescents whose mysteri war-shatter- Saturday. More then 50,000 protesters VVrnr rvrvr s v ' of me Kew Back Panther Party hangs a banner before the Million Youth March in fte) York on Saturday. The fifth annual event was a day of celebrating black heritage, lobbying for - ' politkxi issues and pushing or cJiar A member |