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Show DAILY Saturday, February 18,2006 HERALD * MORNING BRIEFING “a FACT BO a eocsarbon anidlibra Geertruida spy of World War |. her name to Mata Hari. She laterhecame the rele weet Se ey she was shot rngsquad onO4. 15 ofthat year. As the squad raised its rifles, she is said to have smiled and a Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The WORLD The NATION Two Marine helicopte crash off Djibouti Russian 2 TwoUS. Marine Corpshel newspaper closed over licopters crashed off the ofner Diet Fay and rescuers were searching. for 10 missing crew members Friday night, according to US. aniitasy ccs ine cartoon Horn of Tea eeik wero kokiig intothe cause of the crash, officials MOSCOW — A city- owned newspaper in Volgograd has been ordered closed after publishing a cartoon depicting the leaders of the world’s four major religions accot an article intended as an Siyyan. A spoke the military's task force in the Horn ofAfrica said it was unfurther details of the crash or weather conditions at the time. appeal against racism, Iranianforeign minister demands withdrawal of troops from Iraq BEIRUT,Lebanon — Iran's foreign minister demanded the immediate withdrawal of British forces in Basra, saying Friday they had destabilized JIM DAVIS/Lee Newspapers A biglistening ear Ironwood ElementarySchoolfirst-grader Clayton Harrison readsto Bailey, a sheltie, at the school in Marana, Ariz., during a PAWStoread program where students readto the dogs, which builds up their confidence. Crew: NASAtaking right steps on foam problem The commanderofthe next spaceshuttle said Friday that NASAhas takenthe right steps to reduce the amountof potentiallylethal foam thatfalls off during launch. “Wewill lose foam on this flight, just like every other,” said commanderSteven Lindsey, who could lead a crew into spaceas early as May. “The keyis to makesure that the foam wedoloseis a small enoughsizesoit can’t hurt us if it hits the vehicle.” NASAhadredesigned the externalfuel tank after a large pieceofinsulating foam hit the wingofthe shuttle Columbia in 2003, Sparking the disaster that killed seven astronauts. Despite the redesign, foam unexpectedlyfell off Discovery’s fuel tank last July during thefirst shuttle flight since the Columbiadisaster. In response, NASAremoved a troublesome section of foam that had pro- “Childmolesterggetsfirst et | life sentence under law A convicted child molester appearingin a Baltimore courtroom Friday becamethefirst personin the country to receive a mandatory life prison sentence under a new federal sex offenderlaw, according to federal, prosecutors. The severe sentencepoints to an aggressive approach adopted by federal law enforcement agents targeting traffickers of underage pornographyon the Internet, an effort expected to expandinternationally. “T believeit sends a clear messageto these sexual predators thatif they target children, we will target them,” said John Fox,acting special agent in chargeofthe Baltimore office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement,a federal agency involved in child pornographycases because of the transnational natureof the Internet. Fridayin U.S.District Court in Baltimore, Judge Marvin J. Garbis ordered James A.Reigle, 46, of Harrisburg,Pa., to spendtherest ofhis life behind bars for sexually exploiting young boysinto posing for photographs and thenposting thoseillicit images on the Internet. An FBI agent working in Maryland discovered someofthe online imagesafter a tip from related case. tected cables running along the fueltank. Bush: Don'tlet Iraq setbacks be discouraging TAMPA,Fla, — Appealing for patience, President Bush said Friday that Americans should not be discouraged by setbacksin Iraq and mustrealize the nationis at war Thepresident said:a “tendencyoffolksis to say this really isn't a war. People kind of want to slip to the comfortable.” But hesaid thenationstill faces a ruthless enemy in Iraq ties has no regard for human ewe shouldn't be discouraged about setbacks,shortterm setbacks, or the enemy's capacity to take innocentlife, because we've seen democracy changethe world in thepast,” Bushsaid. Thelpresidentalso called for doubling the number of peacekeeping troops in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region and said NATO'sinvolvement would probably be required. Bushdiscussed.the peacekeeping effort with U.N, Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday. Windsrake Northeast; 2 killed byfalling trees thatPadilla was recruited by the cell while living in south Florida andthat he trained at an al-Qaida campin Afghanistan. Man sentenced in shooting; apologizes to victim's fai CLEVELAND — A maniets wenton a shooting spree at Case Western Reserve University was sentenced to life in prison without parole Friday andhesitantly apologized to the family of the graduate student who died. For 30 minutesin court, Biswanath Halder blamed the university he onceattended for forcing him toresort to violence andsaid the victims were innocent bystanders. Judge Peggy Foley Jones then prodded him to apologize, noting that the family of victim Norman Wallace was in the courtroom. His attorney, John Luskin, physically helped turn him towardthe audience and Halder said to Wallace's siblings,“It’s a terrible tragedy andI’m exceptionally sorry.” aa sn asybotore tooth ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A. fierce storm swept across the Midwest andinto the Northeast on Friday, causing temperatures to plummet and generating winds up to 77 mph. Two people werekilled by falling PANAMACITY,Fla. — Guards at a juvenile detention boot camp struck and restrained a teenagerfor a halfhour on the day beforehe died, avigetape released Friday trees. ‘The boy’s parentssaid the security tape raises questions about an et thatfound The storm sent temperatures in someparts of western New York plunging from 60 degrees to below freezing within a few hours. High winds knocked out powerto more than 200,000 homesandoffices and closed schools. A falling tree crushed a ing car in suburban Rochester, killing a 52-year-old woman. AtSaratoga Spa State Park, 40 miles north of Albany, a State Departmentof Transportation worker was killed when a tree crashed onto his pickup truck. that 1¢year Anderson died ftom internal bleeding caused'by a genetic blood disorder, and not from any injuries suffered in the Jan. 5 altercation. *Martin didn’t deserve is the southernIraqicity near the Iranian border. Wrapping upa three-day visit to Lebanon, Iranian Foror Minister Manushehr Moti said Iran supported the “current political process in terrorism” targeting Iraqi civilians and to push for an immediatepullout of U.S.4ed multinational forces. Tests find bird flu in Egypt, France CAIRO, Egypt — Tests confirmed the deadly strain ofbird flu in Egypt, as France reported a probablefirst case Friday and the United Nations expressed growing concern about the virus’ spread through West Africa. reported Friday that * 18-20 deadbirds hadtested positive for bird flu. A U.N. Official said tests confirmed an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain that has swept out of The Frenchagriculture min- istry said Fridaythatit found the nation’s “probable”first case of H5NIbirdflu virus in a dead wild duck. The ministry said tests confirmed that the duck found in the southeast Ain region had H5bird flu andthat it was believed to be the deadly N1strain. Furthertests were being conducted, the ministry said. : Chinese official calls for morebirth control in Muslim west SHANGHAI,China — A Chinese official has called for tougher birth control in the western region home to a Muslim ethnic group, saying population growthis hindering the area's economic development. ‘The proposal byNur Bakri, Commi Party iticized by activist who said it could lead to further human rights viola- right here — at all,” the mother, Gina Jones, said = viewing the tape Friday at her Beet's office in Tallahassee.“I couldn't even watch the whole tape. Me as a mom, I knew my baby was in pain and Be in pain just watching his Bonddenied for accused al-Qaida operative MIAMI —A federal j refused to set bond Frit for accused al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla, cling th the former . Broward County,Fla. resident a flight risk and a danger to the community. Public defender Michael Ca- LUISA POWELL/Dayton Daily News England's rose This diamond,silver and goldtiara is seen on display at “Diana, A Celebration” at The Dayton ArtInstitute in Dayton, Ohio, on Friday. The exhibit commemoratesthelife and work of Diana, Princess of Wales. The show includesher royal weddit gown andtrain, home movies from her childhood and jewels m the Spencerfamilycollection. The exhibit runs through June 11. cused of plotting to detonate a radioactive bomb on U.S.soil, should be released from prison and placed under house arrest at his mother's Plantation, Fla., condominium until his trial date in September. While Caruso's eee bs not juade the j hey offer di a previ fe how new will attack the ernment’s case against who is one of the nation’s most high-profile terror suspects. Padilla, 34,is charged with participating in a North Ameriae terror cell that supiolent acts overseas, and aanane Source: TheBook ofAnswers BATON ROUGE, La. — Lawmakers voted Friday to merge the levee boards of southeast hoping t cerns in Congress that the state lackseffective oversight of its flood-control system. pe ppheceyeeelnner to accept tl wi would mergethe five levee boards into two regional agencies, one for each side of the Mississippi River, that would report to the state. “It’s been a great day for “We've met all the requirementsfor the federal government.” The House approved the bill Thursday.It goes next to Gov. Kathleen who the plan.If voters ina stat election September,the reforms would take effect next year. Bharat Bimal Yadhav, detainedsa the | | authorities saidPricey Facing complaints from the pro-Kremlin United Russia Party and Islamic organizations overthe depiction of the prop!het Muhammadin the drawing,the city administration ordered the closure of Gorodskiye Vesti and the municipal corporation that publishes ti itin ordet to prevent r “hostilities” and to “stop the abuse of freedom of mass information.” The cartoon was not part of the series,first published by a Danish newspaperlast fall and since widely reprinted, thathas led to violent protests across the Muslim world. The Russian drawing portrays Muhammad,along with Jesus Christ, Moses and Buddha,clustered around television screenthatdisplays two groups going into battle. “We nevertaught them to dothat,” the caption says. Bakri said ina h this week that population control efforts focused on Uighur+ majority farming ani i areas wouldredouble over the next five years. Nepalcourt orders Pe to release 7 political detainees Nepal's Supreme Court ordered the royal government Friday to release 37 politcal detainees who king’srule, while apie insurgents freed two abducted officials amid a major army offensive in the southwest. ‘The freed politicians called the court’s ruling “a victory for democracy” andpledged tointensify their campaign against King Gyanendra, who ae powerin February Judges ruled they did not find any reason for the detentions and ordered the governmentto immediately free the prisoners. The detainees freed Friday included senior members of the seven political parties that have formed an alliance to press for democracy in this Himalayan nation. |