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Show Saturday, April 22, 2006 DAILY Benefits Continued from Al Continued from Al between our legs,” Eleanor Iron The budget also would in- crease funding for clinics on Indian reservations by about 4 percent during the 2006 fiscal year, said Scott Milburn, a spokesman for the Office of Management and Budget. Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky. Andersonsaid those programs would do little to serve American Indians in urban areas, wherethe clinics double as service networks and'eultural centers. Andersonlikened the proposed cut to the government's “shameful”history of violating tribal treaties. “What is happening nowis just part of that pattern of betrayal of Native Americans,” he sai Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said he also opposed the Cut. “This health care delivery system has taken decades to create, andif it wereto disappear it would increasethe health care disparities and barriers to care for American Indians from that of the general population,” Hatchsaid in a statement Halfof the country’s 4 urban Indian clinics may have to closeif Bush’s proposal stands, Ned said. The remainingclinics would haveto cutservices, chargeclients or raise money throughprivate donations to ‘Stay open,she said. HERALD lraq “If these are cut off, then we'll have to go back to the reservation with our tails Lightning told the crowd. A member of the enne River purging former Baath Party officials from the military and government. Sunni Arabs, “| think if al-Maliki worked hard to get rid of his Baath party complexes, he will succeed.” who made up the backbone of Saddam's ousted party, deeply resent the commission. Sioux Tribe from Eagle Butte, S.D., she said she's used the clinic since she moved to Utah in June 2002. Community health centers aren't designed to meet the needs of urban Indians, according to the National Association for Community Centers. The centers are for people without health insurance. administration is hopeful that the latest political develop- mentsin Iraq will lead to significant progress in forming a permanent government. “We hope to see good ‘Prog- ress in the coming days,” McClellan told reporterstraveling with President Bush to Califor- nia, “We'll be watching.” In Utah, Community Health Violence continued Friday with at least 21 people killed, CentersInc. has a $200,000 contract to provide medical care for the Indian Walk-in Center, But that’s just a fraction of the clinic's $1.5 million annual operating budget, Ned said. If the center weretolose its $1.1 million in federal contracts,it including six in a car bombing in Tal Afar andsix off-duty Iraqisoldiersslain in Beiji, police said. The U.S. military announced that a Marine was fatally injured in combat Thursday in Anbar province. An Australian soldier was shot andkilled in what the nation's armychief called a “trag- would also lose grant funding, effectively cutting about 90 percentofits budget. The center provides diabetes education, immunizations, substance abuse treatment, mental health counseling,holistic care, ic accident”inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone. Al-Maliki has a reputation as a hardline, outspoken defender of the Shiite stance — raising questions over whetherhe will be able to negotiate the delicate HIV testing and youth programs. It also operates a food panty for the United Way that sectarian balancingact. From exile in Syriain the handed out some5,200 boxesof food to Indians, and non-Indians last year. Nationally, some 60 per- 1980s and 1990s,he directed Dawaguerrillas fighting Sad- cent of American Indians and dam Hussein's regime. Since returning homeafter Saddam's fall, he has been a prominent memberof the commission Alaska nativeslive in urban areas, according to the Census Bureau. Al-Maliki was also a tough negotiator in drawn-out deliberations over a new constitution that was passed last year despite Sunni Arab objections. Heresisted U.S. efforts to put Saleh al-Mutl. leading Sunnipolitican forts to water down provisions giving Shiites and Kurds the pone to form semiautonomini-states in the north and south. Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the main Sunni Arab coalition in ated Press. Saleh al-Mutlaq, a leading Sunni politician who was also partyin the seven-member Shiite alliance — the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq — initially pushed for the nomination of another Hewill receive our support,” parliament, told The Associ- In talks Friday, the largest in the constitutional drafting committee, said al-Maliki is “firmer and a much morein- sistent" person than al-Jaafari. Dawa party leader, Ali al-AdButhe said that despite his eeb, seen as more moderate toughness,al-Maliki was “pracand lesslikely to alienate Suntical” and moreflexible. nis. “I thinkif al-Maliki worked But Dawainsisted on al-Mahardto get rid of his Baath parliki, whois closerto al-Jaafari. sty complexes, he will succeed,” Al-Adeeb,whospentpart of his al-Mutlaq said. Sunnis and-Kurds had 20-yearexile in Iran, was said to have frequentconflicts with blamed the rise of sectarian tensions on al-Jaafarifor failal-Jaafari. SCIRI backed off as Sunnis ingto rein in Shiite militias'and Interior Ministry commandos, and Kurds said they could acaccused by the Sunnis of har- + ceptal-Maliki, apparently out of eagernessto endthepolitical boring death squads. Those parties refused to join any govdeadlock as long as al-Jaafari ernment headed byal-Jaafari. was outof the picture. Al-Jaafari, who has served “If anyoneis nominated except al-Jaafari, we won't putanyobstacles in his way stalwartly rejected pressure Marenpeerat.—_ begs most powerful Grand eee a ‘Aliny sent wordthat he should go. On Thursday, al-Jaafari gave more Sunnis on the drafting committee as well as Sunni ef- sibonos fox & second teem in as primeminister since April 2005, was nominated bythe the alliance the go-ahead to pick a new nominee. With the deal on al-Maliki, Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish parties wereset to fill the other top posts of governmentin a parliament vote expected Saturday, said Humam Ham- moudi, the spokesman for the Shiite alliance. Shiite lawmaker Ridha Jawad Taqi said all sides were agreed on a packagedeal for the top spots: Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, would remain as presidentfor a second term,with Sunni Arab Tariq al-Hashimi and Shiite Adil Abdul-Mahdi holding the twovice-president spots. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, a Sunni, would becomeparliament speaker with two depu- ties — Khalid al-Attiyah, a Shiite, and Aref Tayfour, a Kurd. The new primeminister nominee will now face the task of putting togethera national unity government, meaning divvying upthe ministries amongShiite, Sunni and Kurdish parties. 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