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Show i DAILY HERALD --MORNIN\( BRIEFIN FAST FACT Elizabeth Il, born in 1926, has seen the British Empire transformed into a Commonwealth of independent nations. She is respected for her grasp of foreign affairs and international politics. Source: Micropedia of World Facts Compted Cc from Dai ih Elizabeth is Britain's Queen of Hearts WINDSOR, England — The huge woodendoors of Windsor Castle swung openFriday, and Queen Elizabeth II emerged to adoring applause. Thousands of people jammed the sidewalks as the monarch in theiridescent pink dress and matching hat walked past on her 80th-birthday stroll. They called out to her, snapped photos for those who couldn't be there and hoisted signs reading, “We Love You Ma'am.” In a nationthat delights in bashingits royal family, Elizabeth's enduring appeal is remarkable after 54 years on the throne. Britons poke merciless funat the eccentric musingsof Prince Charles and thelate-night shenanigansof his sons. Princes William and Harry — who werein the STEPHEN HASS Matton Journal Ge Just flying low Matthew Kornoely, of Grand Rapids, Mich., demonstrates the VR Skydive simulatorto students waitingin line during the Spring Fling event on the campusoj EasternIllinois Universityin Charleston, Ill. on Friday. The simulator is powered bya fan that produces winds of 125 mph. papers againFridayafter yet another boozy, rowdyouting on the eve of Granny's 80th. Critics call the monarchy an embarrassmentanda classist anachronismthat has noplace in a modernand multicultural democracy Army suicideshit highestlevel since 1993 WASHINGTON — The number of U.S. Army soldiers who tools their ownlives increased last vearto the highesttotal since 1993. despite a growing effort by the Army todetect and prevent suicides. In 2005, 83 soldiers commit- ted suicide, which is 16 more than in 2004, and seven more than in 2003 — theyear the U.S. invadedIraq. Four other deaths in 2005 are being investigated as possiblesuicides but have not vet beenconfirmed. The totals include active duty Army soldiers and deployed National Guard andReservestroops. “Although we are not * alarmed by theslight increase, wedo take suicide prevention ery seriously,” said Army , kesmanCol. Joseph Curtin. e have increased the number of combat stress teams. increasedsuicide prevention and training, and we are working very aggressively to change thecultureso thatsoldiers feel comfortable coming forward withtheir personal problems in aculture where historically admitting mental health issues was frowned upon,” Curtin said CIA fires employee for leak, contact with media WASHINGTON — Ina highly unusual move. the CIA has fited anemployeefor leak- ing classified information to the new’s media. including details about secret CIAprisonsin EasternEuropethat resulted in a Pultizer Prize-winning story, officials said Friday A federal criminal investigationhas also been opened. CIA Director Porter Goss announcedthefiring in a short messageto agency employees circulated Thursday. It is the first time sincehetook over in August 2004, vowing to clamp down on leaks. that he has dis- missedan intelligence officer for speaking withreporters. Agency spokesman Paul Gimigliano confirmed anofficer had beenfired for having But almost nobody dumps Theaides spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to pre-empta formal announcement Judge OKsCalifornia's stem cell institute SAN FRANCISCO — California’s novel, $3 billion stem cell researchinstituteis a legitimate state agencyand twolawsuits challengingits constitutionality have no merit, a state judge ruled Friday. Theruling came a month after a four-daytrial in which lawyerswith connectionsto anti-abortion groupsclaimed the country’s most ambitious “That is aviolation of the se- crecy agreement that everyone signs as a condition of employment with the CIA.” Frist will try anew for immigrationbill WASHINGTON — Majority LeaderBill Frist intends to seek Senate passage of immigration legislation by Memorial Day. hopingto revive a bill that tightensbordersecurity while giving millions ofillegal immigrants a chanceatcitizenship, Republican leadership aides said Friday. ' Ina gestureto conservative critics of the measure, Frist and other Republicans also intend to seek roughly $2billion in immediate additional spending for border protection. The aides said the money wouldallow fortraining of Border Patrol agents, construc- tion of detentionfacilities for immigrants caught entering the couritry illegally, the purchase of helicopters and surveillance aircraft and construction of a fencein high-traffic areas. NEWHAVEN,Conn. — China will makeits own decisions on political freedom and human rights and not simply copy the modelof Western countries, President Hu Jintaosaid Friday as he woundup his US. tour. With protesters against his Communistrule kept several blocks away, Hu told students 18-month-old grandson onto Prodi prepares for power ROME — Italy's incoming icine an unambiguous victory, to showthe voter-approved law noplansto simply import other countries’ policies writingthat the lawsuits failed that created the agency in 2004 “is clearly, positively and unmistakably unconstitutional.” Lewman’s ruling becomes official in 10 days unless the losing attorneys comeup with newand dramatically different arguments. FBI says 2 Atlanta-area menplotted attacks ATLANTA — A 21-year-old Georgia Tech student and an- other mantraveled to Canada to meet with Islamic extremists to discuss“strategic locations in the United States suitable for terrorist strike,” according to an affidavit made public Friday. Syed Haris Ahmed and EhsanulIslam Sadequee, both U.S. citizens who grew up in the Atlanta area, met withatleast three other targets of ongoing “On one hand, we are ready andwilling to drawontheuseful experienceof foreign coun- tries intopolitical involvement,” he said. “On the other hand, we will not simply copythepoliti- cal models of other countries.” The question wasone of a couple that Hu answered from amongthose.submitted in ad- vancein writing. Furor growsoverFlorida boot camp death TALLAHASSEE.Fla. — Gov Jeb Bushis facing a rapidly growingfuroroverthe death of a 14-year-old boyat a juve- nile boot camp, with about1,500 demonstrators accusing author- ities Fridayof a cover-up, and Florida's chief law enforcement officer resigning underfire. The studentprotesters, led by FBI terrorism investigations duringa trip to Canada in the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, demanded answers fidavit said. Theaffidavit said the men of Martin Lee Anderson, who waspunched and kicked by March 2005, an FBIagent's afdiscussed attacks ical oil re- regarding the death in January guards in a videotaped scuffle “Youcan't beat a 14-year-old kid to death andexpecttojust ignoreit, expect people to not take notice,”said student Mike kills 5 music Mathers. “Ignoring one injus- tice is ignoring everyinjustice.” Theprotesters assembled on the Capitol steps, chanting “Jus- Hamas, which ousted Abbas's Fatah Party from power in January parliamentary elections, had spokenin the past too far for Abbas, who favorstalks with Israel andis trying to keep the West from shunning the Palestinians over Hamas'sviolently anti-Israel ideology. The newforce,to be based in chaotic Gaza,is to have about 4,000 members,or nearly one-fourth the size of the 18,000-member armed security contingentin the coastal strip. prime minister, still waiting for his opponentto concedé, took acall of congratulations onFridayfromPresident Bush Romano Prodi, a center-left former premier, was preparing for his return to power unrest and hinderits economic growth,he said China was committed to democracybut had GAZA CITY,Gaza Strip — President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday vetoed Hamas's plan to set up a security force of 4,000 militants, but Hamas insisted it would go ahead, deepening the bitterest clash yet between the Islamic group and the moderate Palestinian leader. the No.2 fugitive on Israel's wanted list appeared to go like to have someoneto look up to, don't they?” country’s restrictions on political expression would cause Institute for Regenerative Med- security force plans faceis on everyBritish coin But Alameda CountySuperior Court Judge Bonnie Lewman Sabraw handed the California Abbas bars Hamas his shoulders forararelive his squabblingcoalition to their shared desire for peace. But whenasked whetherhi: afterit was taken downfrom thecross, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on the Orthodox Good Friday glimpse of the woman whose and bank note. "People always overcomeby cooperation and its managers had a hostof conflicts of interest. the Anointing Stone where, according to tradition, the bodyof Jesus was washed of incorporating militants into the Fatah-dominated Palestinian security forces. But the concept of a shadowsecurity force headed by wasn't a true state agencyand — more than10 days after the disputedelectionthat brought power while trying to hold together the potentially unwieldy coalition. His defeated opponent, Silvio Berlusconi, has refused to explicitly concede, but on Fridayalluded to a future Prodi government — if onlyto say it was doomed — and referred to his own“resignation.” “I think theirs will be a parenthesis, an interruption in our path towarda future of development, progress and freedom,” the conservative leadertold supportersin the northeasterncityof Trieste. Haitians vote for new parliamentin runoff PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitians traveled by pickup truck, mule and on foot Friday to vote ina legislative election billed as thefinal stepin the often-delayed processto bring back democracyto the pcorest nationin the Americas. Voter turnoutin the runoff to pick a parliament two years after an armedrevolt ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aris- tide fell well below the massive participation of February's presidential race. Therace for 127 parliamentaryseats — 97 deputies and 30 senators — will determine thelevel oflegislative support for President-elect Rene Pre- val, who has vowed to work to bring peace and jobs to the traumatized nation. Preval takes powernext month. “I don’t havea job and can't feed my kids or send them to deaths and minimal damage, officials said. TheU.S. Geological Survey and Japan's Meteorological Agency estimated the temblor school, so hopefully this gov- on Kamchatka Peninsula to be 7.7 magnitude.It hit around old Espira St. Fleur. Koryak region,nearly 4,000 miles east of Moscow and 625 miles north ofthe largest city ernmentwill give us a chance fora betterlife,” said 56-year- 12:30 p.m. localtimein the Newspaper:Blair's wife spent thousands onhair in the area, PetropavlovskLONDON — Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party spent$13,700 on hairstyling bills for his wife, Cherie, duringlast year’s monthlong general election campaign, a newspaperreported Friday. The party would not com- ment on the report's accuracy, but suggested there was nothing wrong with such expenditures. “So what?” a Labour spokeswoman said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Mrs. Blair worked fantastically. hard duringthe election.... She is enormously popular with the party and, don’t forget, we wonthe election.” The Times newspapersaid the party hadlisted the styling jills as an election expense — $490-a-day for a monthof campaigning — in its mandatory declarationto the Electoral Commission. Majorearthquakehits distant Russian region MOSCOW — A majorearthquake shooka sparsely populated region of Russia’s Far East on Friday, injuring more than 30 people but causing no Kamchatsky, said Oleg Kotosanov,a duty officer with the regional Emergency Situations Ministry. Cardinal: Condoms are ‘lesserevil’ in AIDS fight VATICAN CITY — senior cardinal who was considered for the papacy last year said in comments published Friday that the Roman Catholic Church shouldsoftenits ban on condoms becauseof the scourge of AIDS. “We mustdoeverything to fight AIDS,”said Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini,theretired archbishop ofMilan,in Italy's ~ L'Espresso newsweekly. “Certainly, the use of condoms can constitute in certain situations a lesserevil.” While thereis nospecific, authoritative Vatican policy on using condoms to protect against AIDS,the Vatican opposes condoms because they are a form of whatthe church calls artificial contraception. Pope Benedict XVI repeated the Vatican's position last June, whenhetold African bishops abstinence was the nly “fail-safe” way to prevent the spread of HIV. tice delayed is justice denied” with the media and the unau- thorizedsharingofclassified information,” Gimiglianosaid Chinese President Hu caps tourwithYale visit SouthAfrica, ashelifted his stem cell research agency violated California lawbecauseit media and disclosing classi- “The officer has acknowledged unauthorizeddiscussions get militarytraining at a terrorist camp, which authorities said Ahmed thentried to do. onthe queen. “She's a mother figure,” said Mike Smyth, 52, a fish importer originally from and faculty at Yale University that differences between China and the United States can be unauthorized contacts with the tied informationto reporters. including details aboutintelligence operations fineries and military s and plannedto travel to Pakistan to EMILIO MORENATTI /Associated Press Orthodoxx pilgrims pray over in Indiana and “If you don't act, we will comeback.” They demanded the arrest of the guards and the releaseof theresults of a second autopsy. BLOOMINGTON,Ind. — A small plane crashed FEMAwants $4.7 million in benefits repaid from Indiana University’s sands of Gulf Coast residents while tryingto land in the fog;killing five students schoolof music, a univer- sity spokeswoman said Friday. “This would be a tragedy for the school,” spokeswoman Susan Wil- liams said. “It's an important school. Some of the best music studentsin the world comehere.” Thesingle-engine Cessna disappeared from the radar shortly before midnight Thursdayas it headed to Bloomington’s JACKSON, Miss. — Thou- have been told they must repay millions ofdollarsin federal Hurricane Katrina benefits that were excessiveor, in some cases, fraudulent. In Mississippialone, the Federal Emergency Management Agency saidit is seeking $4.7 million from 2,044 people,telling them in a formletter that they have four months to repay or set up a paymentplan. ' fromLafayette, about 90 miles to the northwest. The pilot activated the airport lights from the cockpit but never landed Somestorm victims got duplicate or extra benefits because of FEMAerrors, FEMA spokesman Eugene Brezany said, and others might have received benefits for expenses thatlater were reimbursed by insurancesettlements. Someothersbenefited “by there, State Police Sgt. intentional misrepresentation” Monroe County Airport Joe Wattssaid. or the mistakenbelief that secondary residences qualified for payments,he said. KRISTY WIGGLESWORTH/Associated Press All hail the Queen Britain's Queen ElizabethII laughs as she meets the public during a walkabout to celebrate her80th birthday in Windsor, England, on Friday. The Queen was born on April, 21, 1926 and became Queenin February 1952. |