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Show THE WORLD DIGEST MIXED FEELINGS AFTER PLEABARGAIN IN CHILD-ABUSE CASE: Feelings in T renton , Utah, were mixed after Chris and Becky Tucker admitted tO starving and heglecting their 6-year-old daughter . C hris Tucker pleaded guilty to second-degree felony child abuse Wednesday an d his wife pleaded guilty to a t hird-degree child abuse B 1 Tu k e charge in a case that shook th~community. ec <J' c r The T uckers were accused of locking their adop ted daughter in a concrete basem en t with only a tub of murky water and bare bedsprings. The Tuckers' friends an d neighbors, however, remain mostly supportive. CANNON URGES STRONG CONGRESSIONAL MESSAGE: DON'T DRAIN LAKE POWELL: Alarmed by calls from some en vironmentalists to drain Lake Powell, Rep. Chris C annon led more than two dozen members of Congress yesterday in a move to protect the popular m anmade reservoir. C annon, R-Utah, and 25 cosponsors introduced a "Sense of Congress" resolution stating that no change was jus tified or necessary in the water level of the 252-square-mile lake along the UtahArizona border. "The preservation of Lake Powell is in the best in terests of the people, the wildlife and the environment of the West," Cannon said. Last November, directors of the 600,000-member Sierra Club called for draining the lake, which took years to fill more than 30 years ago. FRED W. FRIENDLY DIES AT AGE 82: Fred W. Friendly, t he former CBS News president and producer who teamed up with Edward R. M urrow on some of television 's most groundbreaking documentaries, died T uesday after a series of strokes. He was 82. Friendly was a major inilueoce in the development of television documentaries, wipning 10 Peabody Awards. Friendly was executive producer of "CBS Reports" from 1959 until 1964, when he became president of CBS News. He is survived by his wife, Ruth W . Mark, and three children by a previou s marriage. He was a Convocation guest at SUU in 1983. CLINTON DENOUNCES LEAK OF DEPOSITION: President Cl inton yesterday angrily denounced a leak of details of his account of the Monica Lewinsky controversy. Clinton said it "is illegal to leak and discuss" his sworn deposition in the Paula Jones suit. Two individuals familiar with Clinton's Jan. 17 deposition in that civil suit confirmed a report that the Bill Clinton president acknowledged under oath that he and close friend Jordan had discussed efforts to £ind Ms. Lewinsky a job. But Clinton testified that the job-seeking effort on behalf of the former intern was initiated by his personal secretary. SCOTT RITTER, BRANDED U.S. SPY, ARRIVES IN IRAQ FOR ARMS SEARCH: A SO-member team of U.N. weapons inspectors returned to Iraq yesterday, led by an American whose presence helped touch off the Gulf crisis. - a standoff they hope to verify is over. Scott Ritter and his team arrived from Bahrain at the Habaniya military airport outside Baghdad and were driven to the United Nations headquarters in a van and a bus. Ritter's team will "carry out inspecti ons, including surprise.inspections, to some of the sen sitive sites," the official Iraqi News Agency said. BOMB BLAST IN SRI LANKAN CAPITAL KILLS 30, INCLUDING SCHOOLCHILDREN: A bus laden with shrapnel-packed bombs raced into the capital's crowded business dis trict yesterday and exploded, killing at least 32 people and wounding more than 300, authorities said. Suspicion fell on guerrillas of the nation's Tamil m inority. The bus, empty of all but the driver, blew apart outside a train station, ripping the fronts off buildings and shredding dozens of veh icles. The dead included at leas t three children from schools in the area and two police officers, police and defense ministry spoksemen said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility Chung charged with violating campaign laws LOS ANGELES !AP) - Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung was charged yesterday with funneling money to the Clint on-Gore re election campaign by asking others to make contributions, then reimbursing them. Chung was charged with tax evasion, bank fraud and conspiracy to violate federal election campaign laws. Court papers also allege Chung, a California businessman, plotted to launder m oney to th e re-election campaign of Sen. John Kerry, 0-Mass. ~ Before the charges were announced, .Chung and ~ h.is attorney had been engaged in plea bargaining o with prosecutors. ~ A federal official who spoke 0 11 condition of 8 anonymity today said Chung had agreed to plea ~ guilty to the charges on Monday. The official -~ said the plea agreement had been filed under seal. Federal prosecutor Eugene illovsky reads over Chung has alleged that in 1995 he was bis notes before speaking to the media regarding solici ted for m oney by a White House staffer, the arrest of Toge.sh Ghandi yesterday. delivered a $50,000 check to Hillary Rodham and vote on an indictment, and often mean s the Clinton's office and then was allowed to bring a defendant has reached an agreement with the group of Chinese businessman to the White House to watch President C linton deliver his government. Earlier yesterday, T og~sh Gandhi, s uspected of weekly radio address. The charges against Chung were contain ed in a illegally funneling $325,000 to the Democratic party, appeared in federal court on unrelated criminal information filed in U.S. District Court fraud charges after being arrested as he prepared in Los Angeles. A criminal .information is u sed to -fly home to India. Gandhi appeared before a to file charges when a defendant has waived the U .S. magistrate yesterday on a mail fraud charge. right to have a grand jury evaluate the evidence ~-m-~ Serb police kill 20 ethnic Albanians Ninet y percent of Kosovo's 2 million people PRISTINA, Yugoslavia IAPl - Cracking down are ethnic Albanians. Most favor secession from on militant separatists in southern Yugoslavia's Serbia, which has established a massi ve police Kosovo province, police killed 20 ethnic and military presence in the province. Albanians yesterday, state-run television Milosevic refused to budge from his position reported. The Albanians said houses were on that Kosovo is Yugoslavia's domestic business. £ire and residents were fleeing. " l did not feel encouraged today that there is Police armed with assault rifles set up recognition in roadblocks and Belgrade that turned back there will have to reporters, making be significant it impossible to further steps of verify what was increased happening. autonomy for Months of rising Kosovo if we are tensions and to find an clashes erupted acceptable into violence last political solution weekend in the la to this issue," a region, which is g: grim-faced Cook part of Serbia, ~ told reporters at Yugoslavia's :s Belgrade airport. largest republic. 8 In Washington, Ethnic Albanian ~ State officials claim ~ D epartment there have spokesman James " massacres" by Ri ding on a tractor trailor, ethnic Albanian women and Foley denounced Serb police. Serb children leave the Drenica area yesterday. "the excessive authorities den y use of force" by this, saying the sweep of several villages was a justified hunt for Serbian police and announced the United States was reversing its decision to permit Yugoslavia terrorists. Since last week, the crackdown has to open a consulate, to allow its national airline claimed 51 lives - 45 Albanians and six Serb to land in the United States and to expand the police. Yugoslavian diplomatic mission to the United British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook delivered a harsh message yesterday to Yugoslav Nations. The unrest - the worst since 1989 -flared President Slobodan Milosevic on behalf of the last weekend. At least 25 ethnic Albanians were European Union, demanding that he halt the killed then in a Serb attack in the Drenica violence. He reiterated the EU's demand that region, 18 miles west of the regional capital of Milosevic restore the province's autonomy, Pristina, human rights groups said. which he abolished in 1989. |