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Show Friday, December 28, 2007 DAILY Frazier Park edly and just days before Christmas was, to put it Continued from A 1 mildly, a bit of a shock for residents. our plan tentatively is cer"At first I was really upset tainly to fix everything and and I was not nice to her at all," Norris said of the Red really clean it up," he said. The park and the county Cross representative who came by. certainly have a history. The health department has All the families in the park been called out to investigate were put up in the Days Inn the septic system and other until they can find a another problems, and the attorney's place to go. That's proving office has been working problematic for several reawith the Fraziers on other sons. issues. The first is that the trailers can't easily be moved. NorThey have been out of ris said hers is frozen in the compliance up there for snow and ice up the canyon, many different things on and off for quite some time," and even if they could move Barker said. it, other trailers parks don't History or not, being shut typically allow trailers as old out of their homes unexpect as hers. Bhutto The second problem is that it's tough in general to find housing in the middle of the holiday seasoa Not a single resident has been able to find an apartment or home to rent that's within their budget, said Jessica Embley, director of disaster services at the Red Cross. While Frazier Park has reputation for drug use and poor living conditions, Norris said having a place on the Provo River in a beautiful canyon was tough to beat. She'd been living there for almost a year and a half. "I love to fish and loved having the river in my backyard," she said before heading back to work Thursday. people. Musharraf blamed Islamic terrorists, pledging in a nationally televised speech that "we will not rest until we eliminate these terrorists and root them out." President Bush, who spoke briefly by phone with Musharraf, looked tense as he spoke to reporters, denouncing the "murderous extremists who are trying to undermine Pakistan's democracy." U.S. officials in Washing- ton said they were trying to determine who might have carried out the attack. Bhutto's death marked yet another grim chapter in Pakistan's bloodstained history, 28 years after her father, Zul-- f iqar Ali Bhutto, another minister, was hanged by a military dictatorship in the same northern city where she was killed. Her death left her Pakistan People's Party leaderless and plunged the Muslim nation of 160 million into violence and recriminations, with Bhutto supporters accusing Musharraf's government of failing to protect her in the wake of death threats and previous attempts on her life. As the news spread, supporters gathered at the hospital where Bhutto had been taken, smashed glass doors, stoned cars and chanted, "Killer, Killer, Musharraf." At least nine people were killed in violence across the ex-pri- AS hvv I.. Jw ... uncontrollable riots. The U.S. was struggling to reformulate its plan to stabilize the country based on a rapprochement between Bhutto and Musharraf. Bhutto had returned in October after nearly a decade in exile hoping for a power-sharindeal with Musharraf, but had become his fierce critic, accusing elements in the ruling party of backing militants to kill her. Pakistani analysts were plunged into gloom. "This assassination is the most serious setback for democracy in Pakistan," said Rasul Baksh Rais, a political scientist at Lahore's University of Management Sciences. "It shows extremists are powerful enough to disrupt T THE J- CRAIG WASHINGTON POST whose highly magnified life was marked by dizzying twists of fate family tragedies, political triumphs and defeats, accusations of corruption and autocracy that often led to comparisons with the Kennedy clan in the United States and the Gandhi-Nehrdynasty of India, Following in the footsteps of her father, Prime Minister Ali Bhutto, she was twice u Zul-fiq- chosen as Pakistan's prime : minister in the 1990s but was also twice driven from office amid charges of corruption and incompetence. This winter; af-- . ter years of exile, Bhutto was attempting to stage a high-ris- k political comeback that could have led to a third term as premier in elections next month. Instead, Bhutto's slaying, which occurred at the site where Pakistan's first prime minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, was gunned down in 1951, seemed destined to plunge her fragile homeland into political free fall, vulnerable both to the preda-tion- s of increasingly violent Islamic extremist forces and to the resulting temptations of military control. Benazir Bhutto was a woman of many contradictions. Her complex personality and tumultuous career reflected the deep social schisms and paralyzing political power struggles of the vast, impoverished country she briefly governed and long represented as a flawed but passionate advocate for change. She was born June 21, 1953, into a life of feudal privilege and wealth in a highly stratified society, then sent to boarding schools and on European vacations in sports cars while millions of her illiterate countrymen toiled in brick kilns and . wheat fields for pennies a day. Yet she went on to became a champion of popular democracy who headed her country's closest equivalent to a secular Western movement, the Pakistan People's Party. d forms other when the tax season opens in early January. But the tax packages that will start arriving in the mail beginning after New Year's Day were printed in November, before the AMT fixes were approved by Congress. The IRS has created a special section on its Web site, http-Jwww.irs.gov, with updated copies of AMT forms. The alternative minimum tax was passed in 1969 and was aimed at about 155 very wealthy families who used . deductions to avoid paying any federal income tax. The AMT disallows certain deductions and credits. It was not adjusted for inflation; as a result, over the years it has hit AMT-relate- taxpayers. More than 4 million were subject to it in the 2006 tax year. Without the congressional fix, more than 20 million families would have been faced with an extra $2,000 tax hit on average. The five forms affected by Mo.-base- . First-Tim- scheduled to start Sept. 17 SCO that would have wrapped up the remainder of a four-yelegal battle with Novell over intellectual property rights to Unix. The trial, which was stayed because of the bankruptcy filing, would have examined whether SCO had the authority to collect Unix license fees and what portion of the fees it collected from ar Continued from A 1 Unix and put it into the Linux operating system. But those claims were derailed after U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled in favor of Novell and ordered SCO to remit to Novell a portion of the fees it had collected from selling Unix licenses to Sun Microsystems and Microsoft. Novell has claimed those fees, which could potentially amount to up to $40 . million. SCO filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September on the eve of a five-da- y trial originally gin processing those forms on Feb. 1 1, and the first refunds for those people will start going out 10 to 14 days later. More than 100 million people got refunds during the last tax season. An executive at Kansas d H&R Block City, Inc., the nation's largest tax middle-incom- e the delay are: t Form 8863, Education Credits. I Form 5695, Residential Energy Credits. Form 1040A's Schedule 2, Child and Dependent Care Expenses for Form 1040A Filers. I Form 8396, Mortgage In- terest Credit and Form 8859, District of Coe lumbia Homebuyer Credit. Any taxpayer using those forms will have to wait until February to file their taxes, the agency said. The IRS will be preparer, suggested there might be ways for people to increase the speed of their v refunds. "We can help taxpayers claiming the child and dependent care credit avoid the delay by using alternative forms to file their return," said Tim Gokey, group president of H&R Block Tax Services. "Taxpayers can also file their return earlier by not claiming the credits being blocked until Feb. 11, and then filing an amended return later to claim the additional credits." trial to continue in Utah to determine how much in licensing fees Novell is entitled to recover from the bankrupt company. A new trial date has yet to be set. The outcome of the trial is critical because it could have repercussions on whether SCO can move forward with a proposed sale of the Unix business to New York-base- d investment firm York Capital Management LLC or to any other interested party. IBM and Novell had opposed the sale to York, saying SCO is trying to sell assets it s Microsoft Corp., Sun and other Linux customers should be returned to Novell. The bankruptcy filing put Novell's efforts to collect the money, and all other litigadoes not own. tion with IBM, Red Hat and SCO also plans to appeal the others on hold. But a U.S. bankruptcy judge Aug. 10 ruling, a move it can't last month allowed the federal make until the trial is held. Miero-system- Daily Herald In an autobiography, "Daughter of Destiny," Bhutto described in revealing detail her youthful visits to her father LOOK WHAT'S NE W TODAY! Call Ms Continued from A DILGER especially a spiral of ethnic and sectarian violence in Karachi, her native city. She was accused of trying to manipulate in prison, especially her memo- the courts and the press and of stooping to multiple acts of ries of his dignity and determiwhile in nation under squalid, humiliatpetty Nicknamed "Pinkie" for her ing conditions and in the face of power. She was forced from death. His own autobiography, office after two years, then rosy complexion, she was a written from prison, was titled reelected in 1993 and forced out graduate of Radcliffe College and Oxford University who "If I Am Assassinated." a second time after three more Later, Bhutto faced her own years. .. spoke cultured English and moved easily through the draw- ordeal of house arrest, prison Many of the corruption and exile, but she emerged ing rooms of Georgetown and charges involved her husband, London. Yet she also submitbusinessman Asif Ali Zardari, toughened and determined to ted to a traditional arranged who was snidely referred to as carry on her father's legacy as a secular reformer. It was a "Mr. 10 Percent." The pair were marriage and, while speaking accused of taking kickbacks up for the rights of women in goal she pursued, with deviaMuslim societies, was always tions into unsavory political for government contracts, on careful to publicly observe the intrigue and the temptations of items from imported tractors stylistic dictates of her religion. personal power, for the rest of to steel mill improvements, and Bhutto broke with family tra- her life. of hiding their gains in internadition by not covering her face "There was a kind of fataltional bank accounts and real with a veil in public. Instead, ism about Benazir. She saw estate. her white head scarf, known as herself as being on a mission, Zardari was also accused a dupatta, became her political to carry forward the message of drug trafficking and of ina symbolic bridge of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, and she volvement in the 1996 murder trademark of Bhutto's brother Murtaza, between tradition and moderwas determined to carry that mission out, come what may ," who was widely described as nity. She was often shown in photographs adjusting the scarf said Shuja Nawaz, a Pakistani creating political problems for her. In 1999, husband and wife American scholar in Washingmodestly over her hair as she delivered ringing, impassioned ton who knew her well. "People were sentenced to five years in prison; Zardari spent eight accused her of being an opporspeeches on foreign policy or economic reform. tunistic politician, but she was years behind bars, but Bhutto, She was a highly disciplined also very religious. She was who was abroad at the time, and wily politician who kept an resigned to doing what she had did not return. iron grip on her party, remainto do, and it must have taken a Bhutto consistently denied the charges and claimed they ing its lifelong president and great deal of inner strength." The high point of Bhutto's were politically motivated, but making all its decisions, even during her long exile in London career came in 1988, when she the scandals disillusioned many of her followers. Meanwhile, and Dubai. Despite her cult sta- returned to Pakistan after a tus as a democratic leader, she decade of military rule, welher lofty ideals gradually sank comed by tumultuous mobs as flirted opportunistically with to the level of a petty rivalry and atthe leader who could deliver with her political nemesis, military power-sharin- g the country from the darkness Nawaz Sharif of the Pakistan tempted rapprochement with Muslim League, who was electof the Zia years. "It is almost Afghanistan's Islamic Taliban ed prime minister twice, partly rulers when it seemed expediimpossible to exaggerate the ent. because of her failures in office. weight of expectation which her return aroused," author Ian Above all, she was her Bhutto spent much of the last Talbot wrote of her election as decade living abroad with her father's daughter, inspired three children, largely to avoid by his stories of Napoleon, prime minister that year. Yet even though she was Abraham Lincoln and Mustafa prosecution. But early this Kemal Ataturk and raised with an inspiration to Pakistan's year, she began quietly negotiforeign democratic leaders at ating to return to her troubled poor voters, Bhutto proved a the dinner table. Then in 1977, homeland, where she still hardisappointing ruler. She trava military coup plucked Pinkie bored dreams of returning to eled widely abroad and was from carefree college life. Her extremely popular in Washing- power and where some Westfather was thrown into prison, ern officials viewed a ton, and she enacted economic headed by Bhutto and tried on dubious charges of cor- policies aimed at attracting forPakistan's military president, ruption and murder conspiracy eign investment and reducing and f inally hanged in 1979 on Gen. Pervez Musharraf, as Pakistan's appalling poverty. But she failed to control a orders from Pakistan's dictator, the best option for short-terGen. Mohammed Zia series of domestic conflicts. stability. ft Supplies 1 to - Trailers in Frazier Park in Provo Canyon on Thursday. With her luminous eyes and strong features framed by a flowing white head scarf, Benazir Bhutto was the face of Paka istan's democratic hopes face that had been thrust into the limelight with the execution of her father in 1979 and that remained there, aging gracefully, until her assassination by a suicide bomber in Pakistan on Thursday. Bhutto, 54, was a charismatic but controversial political leader all the problems. The federation of Pakistan cannot remain intact in the presence of President Musharraf," he said. Next to Musharraf, Bhutto nation. was the best known political ,; Musharraf called senior figure in the country, serving staff into an emergency two terms as prime minister meeting to discuss a response between 1988 and 1996. An to the killing and whether instantly recognizable figure to postpone the election, an with graceful features under an everiresent head scarf , Interior Ministry official she bore the legacy of her said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the hanged father and was resensitivity of the talks. Mush- spected in the West for her liberal outlook and determination arraf also announced three days of mourning for Bhutto, to combat Islamic extremism. It was a theme she had with all businesses, schools often returned to in recent and banks to close. The killing appeared to campaign speeches. shut off a possible avenue Addressing more than for a credible return to de5,000 supporters Thursday in Rawalpindi, Bhutto dismissed mocracy after eight years the notion that Pakistan under Musharraf's increasneeded foreigners to help ingly unpopular rule, and left a string of unanswered quell resurgent militants questions, chiefly whether it linked to the Taliban and in the area bordering could strengthen Musharraf by eliminating a strong rival, Afghanistan. Taxes l Wit Pamela Constable the democratic process." Analyst Talat Masood, a retired general, said: "Conditions in the country have reached a point where it is too dangerous for political parties to operate." Sharif .another former premier who now leads an opposition party, demanded Musharraf resign immediately and announced his party would boycott the elections, seen as vital to restoring democracy. 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