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Show SEE aK _ DAILY Saturday, March 25, 2006 HERALD New protest promisediin Belarus Established 1873 LeeNe Newsroom 801-344-2540 MINSK, Belarus — The opposition promised to go ahead Toll free 800-880-8075 FAX 801-373-489 www.heraldextra.com Street address: 1555 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo, UT Send mail'to: P.O. 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The U.S. and EUsaid its member nations and a pos- they will impose sanctions on NEws EDITORS Executive Editor Metro Editor City Editor an immediate end to the crack- Yuras Karmanau CustomerService 375-5103 ADVERTISING CLASSIFIED = 373.6450 RETAIL 344-2046 ADVERTISING FAX 3563012 The Daily: Herald (ISSN 0891-2777, USPS 143-060)is published mom: ings, Sunday through Saturday, by Lee Publications,a division of Lee Enterprises.Inc., 1555 N Freedom Bivd., Provo, Utah 84604. Periodicals postage paid at Provo, Utah. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Daily Heraid, P.0, Box 717, Provo, Utah 84603-0717, MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS and New Year's Day. All contents Copyright © 2006, Daily Herald. Any reproduction or otheruseis strictly prohibited with outwritten permission. Utah County News Helmeted riot police broke up the camp on Minsk’s main square before dawnFriday, with the EU on such measures. But those measures seemed unlikely to influence Lukashen- arresting hundreds-of demonstrators who had been part of unprecedented round-the- ko, who despises the West and clock protestsin this tightly ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/Associated Press officer pushes a man holding a candle out from the controlled former Soviet state. Protesters were loaded on to trucks and takento jail; some whoescaped or were freed said they were beatenby police. Opposition supporters hold- police seized some of them, pushed therest of the small is pushing for a closer union of Belarus and Russia. In Moscow, Russia's foreign Oktyabrskaya Square in Minsk, Belarus on Saturday. Belarusians minister took issue with media come to commemoratea protest tent-camp that was broken before dawnby police whoarrested hundreds of people. ing flowersreturned to the squareat twilight Friday, but throughthe square. The European Union and the United States called Friday for crowd down the street and pre- vented pedestrians on their way home from work from walking description of police storming the tent camp. “I would not call the scenes I saw on TV today the use of force,” Sergey Lavrov was quoted as saying by the Inter- fax news agency. Broken promises FEMA abandons reopening no-bid Katrina contracts HopeYen In sherk hasbrokenits promiseto reopen four multimillion-dollar no-bid contracts for Hurricane Katrina work, including three Big firms get lion's share of contracts > BROKEN PROMISE: WASHINGTON — FEMA FEMAwill not reopen four | » FAVORITISM? Some critics suggested the Officials said they awarded the four contracts last October 32.15% or $1.7 billion to small business to small business acting FEMADirector R. David Paulison pledged to rebid them. connected firms. Acting FEMADirector R. » SQUANDERED FUNDS: David Paulisonpledgedlast fall amongthosefederal auditors say wastedsighifi-. cant money. chael Widomski, a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. 57.9% or 1,990 contracts firms, and in October ics, however, suggested they were rewardsforpolitically rebid after all. In fact, they have been extended,in part because But a greater proportion of the money awarded goes to larger companies. for politically connected competitive bidding. Somecrit- said the contracts wouldn't be businesses contracts were a reward to speed recovery efforts that might havebeenslowed by Inc., Bechtel Corp., CH2M Hill Inc. and Fluor Corp. Later, the agency acknowledged the rebidding wouldn't happenuntil February. This week, FEMA More contracts go to small ricane Katrina work. significant amounts of money. to rebid the contracts, which were awarded to Shaw Group Lawmakers complain contracts for Katrina recovery work isn't going to small companies. Of the 3,435 contracts worth $5.2 billion: | |) of its multimillion-dollar, | no-bid contracts for Hur- that federal auditors say Wasted of good performance,said Mi- www.heraldextra.com sible freeze of Belarusian assets President Alexander Lukashenko. 42.1% or 1,445 contracts to large business | Three contracts were | | SOURCE: Departmentof Homeland Security looking at whatbest fits the “They are continuing the work,” Widomskisaid, and the agency is now focused on competitive bids for disasterrelief contracts for the next hurricane seasonbeginning June1. “Welooked at the lessons learned from Katrina,” Widomskisaid. “We're painstakingly needs ofdisaster victims.” An additional $1.5billion in workpromised to small businesses also has yet to be awarded. A review by the Government Accountability Office of 13 major contractssaid last week the government had wasted millions ofdollars, due mostly to poor planning by FEMA. 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