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Show DAILY M HERALD Monday, April 17, 2006 T FAST FACT 2 Jesus's resurrection. The date changes each year according to a calculation connected with the full moon. Source: Micropedia of World Facts Compiled from Daily Herald wireservices The NATION Suspect in girl'skilling described as quiet PURCELL, Okla. — The man accused ofkilling a 10-year-old neighborgirl for an elaborate plan to eat human flesh joked about cannibalism onhis online diary, discussed the effects of not takinghis anti-depression medication and mentioned “dangerously weird”fantasies. All he wanted in life, Kevin RayUnderwood wrotein his blog, was “to be abletolive like a normal person.” People who knew Under- wood described him Sunday as a quiet, “boring” and seemingly trustworthy young man.His mother wholived across town called him a “wonderful boy.” “This is somethingthat I don't know whereit came from,” Connie Underwood said of her son throughtears in a brief telephone interview with The Associated Press. “I would liketo be ableto tell her family how sorryweare. just feel so terrible.” Non-Hispanic immigrants wonder what reform meansfor them LOS ANGELES — Asa Pakistani, Hamid Khan stood out among the Hispanics he marched alongsideat a recent immigration lawprotest. When he told one demonstrator yas from, the man ‘hen what are you Khan was surprised. “I said ‘Look, there are non- Latino groups who arealsosuf- fering under these laws,”said Khan, 49, a commercial pilot and director of an advocacy group called the South Asian Network. Hispanics, the nation’s larg- MARY ALTAFFER/AssociatedPress Easter bonnet Dakota, a St. Bernard, takes a nap on NewYork's Fifth Avenue alongside Emma Bargende, 3, of Natick, Mass., during the Easter Parade, on Sunday. The annual event attractsparticipants yom aroundthe world dressed in outfits ranging from elegant to outrageous. est immigrantgroup, are lead- ing the movement to demand a pathtocitizenship for illegal immigrants and defeat legislation that would criminalize them. Khan's experience provides a glimpse into the ambiguous role non-Hispanic immigrants play in a public debatethat has yet to fully include them. While someAsian. European and Middle Eastern immigrants are supporting calls for sweeping immigration reform, many who arehereillegally have shied from the public debateei- ther because they feel Congress has overlooked needsspecific to their communities or simply because they're afraid to come forward. President Bush is expected to approve a national response plan in the next week or two. laying out howagencies should respondif it were transmitted to humans. The plan assumesa worst_case scenario that as many as 90 million peoplein the U.S. would becomesick and 2 million would die during a worldwide.flu pandemic. It envisions people may need to avoid human contact and stay home from work, school and otherlarge gathering places, accordingtoofficials familiar with draft. Somedetails of the draft, first in Sunday's WashingtonPost,-were con- firmed byofficials at the White House who spoke anonymously Bush preparin: approve bird fluae becausethe plan has not been finalized. WASHINGTON— In the Even lawmakers don’t wantto do tax returns eventof a bird flu outbreak, U.S. moneycould be produced overseas and Americans checked in drive-through medical exams forsigns ofinfection, according to governmentplans being finalized. Federalofficials say the first caseofbird flu could show upin the United States in the coming weeks or months as birds migrate from overseas. Three of the four top lawmakerson the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees, which are in charge of writing tax laws, pay a professional to file their annu- al tax returns with the Internal RevenueService. The exception is the Ways and Meanschairman,Rep.Bill Thomas, R-Calif. The former college professor said he has prepared his own return “for- ever” and that he waits until closeto the deadlinetofile. Mondayis thefiling deadline for mostpeople. “There's no reason for me to pay Uncle Sam — pay, you heard that — until I have to,” hesaid. According to IRSstatistics, that makes these members of Congress muchlike the public. Morethan 60percent of taxpayersturn to a paid profes- sionalto preparetheir returns. The numbertypically increases a little each year. 4 NYPDflips on cameras to fight crime and terror WASHINGTON — Whenit comesto their own tax returns, many membersof Congress whospecialize in writing tax laws turntoprofessional preparers rather than completing NEWYORK — Along a the paperwork themselves + gritty stretchofstreet in “It’s onerous and everybody Brooklyn,police this month knowsit,” said Rep. Richard quietly launched an ambitious Neal. D-Mass. plan to combatstreet crime and terrorism. Butinstead of cops on the beat, wireless video cameras peer down from lampposts ae 30 feet-abovethe sidewey werethe first installmentof a program toplace 500 cameras throughoutthecity at a costof $9 million. Huns of additional cameras could follow if the city receives $81.5 millionin federal grantsit has requested to safeguard Lower Manhattan andparts of midtown witha surveillance “ring ofsteel” modeled after security measuresin London'sfinancial district. Officials of the New York Police Department — which considersitself at the forefront of counterterrorism since the Sept.11, 2001, attacks — claim the money would be well-spent, especiallysince the revelations that al-Qaida members once cased the New York Stock Exchangeandotherfinancial institutions. “Wehaveevery reason to believe New York remains in the cross-hairs, so we have to do whatit takes to protect thecity,” Police Commissioner RaymondKelly said last week at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. MARY ALTAFFER/Assoriated Press New York City Police Department wireless video recorders are attachedto a lamp poston the corner of Knickerbocker Avenue andStarr St., Thursday in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The cameras along a stretch of Knickerbocker Avenue are the first installmentof a high-tech surveillance program to place 500. cameras throughoutthecity at a cost of $9 million. The. WORLD Canada confirms new i case of mad cow disease TORONTO — Canadaconfirmed a case of mad cow ee anew setback Sunday as Iraqi leaders postponed a parliamentsessionafter failing to agree on a primeminister. Bombstargeted Shiites near a _rising tensions that have weakened the new Islamic leadership and widened the rift with President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Party. approachpolice to give information about the explosion, but that the crowd ricncerstiod and mistook him for a suspect. " British Columbia — the country’s fifth case since May 2003, whenthe United States closed its border to Canadian beef. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Thursdayit had a suspected case of ‘bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. In humans,meat products nationwidekilled at least 35 _people. Four more Marines were reportedkilled in fighting west of Baghdad as the U.S. death toll for this month rose to 47 — compared with 31 forall of March. US.officials believe the best way to stem theviolence is for tions by Israel and the West havedried up the Palestinian treasury,andsalaries for 140,000 public sector workers are more than two weeks overdue, triggering demonstrations.Iran pledged $50 million to the Palestinian government Sunday,but if was not known when those funds wouldarrive, H Snununition and tear gas ALEXANDRIA,Egypt — Police fired live ammunition into the air and lobbedteargas into rioting crowds of Christians and Muslims on Sunday ina third day of sectarian violence in Egypt's second-largest city. One Muslim man reportedly contaminated with BSE has the Iraqis to establish a gov- and much moreis needed. been linked to more than 150 deaths, mostly in ct from ernmentcomprising Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, paving the ohn losion in Istanbul wayfor the United States to start withdrawingits 133,000 inj <a myures about 30 beenarrested over the weekend. ISTANBUL,Turkey — An explosion near a sidewalk cafe in an Istanbul suburb injured The riots were touched off Friday by knife attacksat three Coptic Christian churches, about 30 people Sunday, most whichkilled one man and disease “ Sunday at afarmin variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a rare and fatal nerve isease. The 6-year-old cow was identified on a Fraser Valley farm through the national BSE surveillance program.It is fifth case in Canada since May 2003, when the U.S. border was closed to Canadian beefafter the sick cows were detectedin * Canada. In written statement, the il ‘ion agency said the case would have no bearing on the safety of Canadian beef, be- cause nopart of the animal entered the human food or animal feed systems. f Feudal feuds DMITRY LOVETSKY/Associated Press Iraqi leaders cancel parliament session * Actors dressed as warriors fight during a knightfestivalin ‘St.Petersburg, Russia, on Sunday, ? BAGHDAD,Iraq— Efforts to form a unity government mosque eta abusasattacks troops. But progresshasstalled over Sunni and Kurdish opposition to the Shiite choice The situationis critical. Sanc- Riots erupt in E : Live died Sunday of his wounds. Police said 40 people had been wounded in clashes and 80 had of Prime Minister Ibrahim by shattered glass sentflying _al-Jaafari to head the new by the blast,police said. government. With al-Jaafari _ Police said they suspected refusing to step aside, actthe blast was caused by a ing speaker Adnan Pachachi percussion grenade,a type of called a parliament session for _ explosive that usually makes Monday, hoping thefull legaloud oe but causes limited _islature could agree on a new wounded up to 16 other people. A mentallyill man is being held in the stabi Some 2,000 police fought back Sunday against 200 Coptic Christians who fled into St. Maximus Church in Alexandria, after the mob began hur!- leadership after the politicians failed. ing stones andbottles. Other demonstrators tossed Molotov Hamas calls for unity iin face of financialcrisis GAZA CITY,Gaza Strip — The Hamas-led government renewed its call fora “national unity” coalition Sundayin a bid to stave off Twodof the wounded were seae injured and hospitalized, Celalettin Cerrah , AngMoreof the injuries were caused by flying glass, he said. Police fired into the air to keep members of a crowd from attacking a man they thought hadset off the explosion, Cer- rah told AP Television News. Hesaid the man had tried to oe from the balconies of S, police were seen beating a young Coptic boy, who was among the crowd that fled, —_Later, a huge mob of what apPeared to be Muslim protesters charged the police cordon from the other side |