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Show a oT “FEBRUARY7, 2006 wwwhieraldextra.com Doilu¥Herald YOUR TOWN: YOUR NEIGHBORS * YOUR NEWSPAPER Domestic eavesdropping Senators - with some GOP - challenge Gonzales’s sree of program a Katherine Shrader THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UVSC’ library Also in Washington » President Bush unveils his ‘~The prosecutor had a suggestion budget,increasing military for the judge. spending while decreasing If the administration is so certain Medicare funding, AG about the legalityofits terrorist mionitoring program,let a court reviewit, Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter toldAtt Attorney ot ee, perhaps all of the world. General Alberto Gonzales. Gonzales, a former Texas judge,. Specter wanted the government'’s secretive Foreign Intelliay exactly bite. “We are contingence Surveillance Court to deter- oily bone ways that we can mine — once andforall — if the workwith FISA court in being moreefficient and moreeffective,” program is legal. he said. “When that court has secrets, The exchangehelped set the they keep the secrets,” said Specter, R-Pa., and formerPhiladelphia confrontational tone at a district attorney. “Candidly, unlike during which a handful of Republithe Congress. Candidly,unlike the cans joined Demooratsin raising administration. Candidly, unlike all questions about whether President LEGISLATURE 2006 0. 2 for J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/Associated Press Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, left, answers questions by the Senate Judicia Committee, including Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont, on the domestic surveillance by the National Security Agency.Bushwent too far in ordering the National Security Agency’s monitoring operations. The senators wereparticularly troubled by the administration's argumentthat a September 2001 congressionalresolution approving use of military force covered the See GONZALES, AG funding Tyler Peterson DAILY HERALD Embassies UVSCstudents are getting closer to having a better place to study on campus. Utah Valley State College's $48 million request to build a digital learning center remained the No. 2 priority of the Capital Facilities and Administrative Services Appropriations Subcommittee,afterit madeitsfinal fundingprioritizationlist Monday. The 180,000-square-foot library would be a hub on campus, with Inside | groupandindividual targeted in protests over Muhammad caricatures | study space, more computers for group D Legislators begin the difficult task of setting NasserKarimi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | educationpriorities, A2 Hundreds of angry protesters mys Senter: ay SING: 8 SEEVer ZOO TOG PAbill to establishen- | \~ ergy guidelines passes | the campus computer network. The subcommittee hurled stones and fire bombs at f# Senate committee, D3 members, made of the Danish in the Tehrag, Iran on Mondayto protest publication of caricatures of the Prop! Muhammad.Police used tear gas and surrounded the walled vil hold back the crowd. It was the second attack on a Western mission in Tehran on Monday, Earlier D House debates legitimacy of peyote, D3 both senators and rep- resentatives, scaled | back someprojects on the proposed list ofstate building requests,but left UVSC’s digital learning center untouc The only request more important to lawmakers at this pointis $50 million for continued construction on the State Capitol Building. Senate President John Valentine, R-Orem,said UVSC'shigh standing was due to a commitment madelast year, and recognition theproject couldfill a need for the wholestate. “Wefeellike the digital learning center was a veryimportantandcritical project for Utah Valley,” said Val Peterson, UVSC's vice resident of administration and externalaffairs. “They've Read more | inthe day, 200 Danes are stunned at ; reaction, A6 student demon- eres eer stones att!Em‘Austrian bassy, breaking windows andstarting small fires. The mission was targeted because Austria holds the presidency of the European Union. Thousands morepeople joined violent demonstrations across the world to protest publication of the caricatures of Muhammad,and the Bush administration appealed to Saudi Arabiato use its influence among Arabs to help ease tensions See UVSC, A2 UVSC puts on annual play with in the Middle East and Europe. Afghan troops shot andkilled four protesters, some as they tried to Storm a US.military base outside Bagram — the first time a protest overthe issue has targeted the Dnited States. A teenage boy was killed whenprotesters stampeded in Somalia. ~ -The EU issued stern reminders to i8 Arab and other Muslim countries that they are under treaty obligations eae to foreign embassies. shortenedtitle Anna Chang-Yen HASAN SARBAKHSHIAN/Associated Press ‘Lebanon apologized to Denmark —where the cartoons werefirst . Doptcser aon @ police used tear gas in front of the Danish Embassy in Tehran, Iran, on Monday.Police ear gas to disperse kundreds of angry protesters who hurled stones andfire bombs at the Danish See PROTESTS, A6 ey over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Sniper's bullet says ‘Welcome to Ramadi’ EDITOR'S NOTE — Antonio Castaneda is embedded with Marines from the 3rd Battalion, 7th Regiment. Antonio Castaneda A telephone pole 10 feet to my right bore al-inchhole — the ir. The Ma- Osbrink along with the rest of the patrol. The Marines scanned the disloud “zing” echoed across See marianate we ee ing anyone saw the gunman. the street, as if someone had swung an aluminum Pedestrians scrambled away as eeee oe era a pole,I instinctively ducked, then quickly « We were pinned down, and one knew the source of fire. pressed up against the ehh 1 had been accompanying about tite of the car nearest me. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 20 Marines from the 3rd Battalion, “flash checkpoints” — st and searcl cars in Binacanes ain western Iraq. Atleast two wanted suspects roe cernialer bythis y tl such tactics, the Marines sad Mymind flashed back to the se- curity training course I took where instructors told us high-veloc- through "t seen where the three of us took cover. ‘The commanding officer, Lt. Mauro Mujica-Parodi of Washington, D.C,, scrambled over and knelt in front of me — like a wrestler ina starting position — to shield me from the open space down the road. I felt guilty — I alwaystried to Stay out of troops’ way be a distraction. The lieutenant scanned the distance with his rifle pointed downthe road. A local production of the “Vagina Monologues” will return to UVSC on Wednesday, but the college refusesto saythe v-word. A Utah ValleyState College newsrelease refers tothe production, in its third yearthere, -Day Monologues,” and simply “Monologues.” Spokesman Derek Hall said he madethe call to omit “vagina” from the title in university communications afterlast year’s production sparked complaints to college administration. 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