Show A2 —The Herald'Joumal Logan Utah Wednesday July 23 2003 Nation E In brief Boy 5 takes car wrecks — ST' CLEVELAND (AP) With his family asleep a 5- cur-ul- d boy look the keys to his grandmother's car and drove about 700 feet before he crashed and later died Joey Parsons walked a half- mile through a thunderstorm climbed into the green 1992 Ford Taurus and put it in gear pulling out into a residential street Police spokesParsons woman Sgt Donna Bell said ' The cur immediately swerved to the right hitting a parked car It then veered left jumped the curb und hit a tree ln estimators have not determined how fast the car was going Bell said Joe was found slumped near the gas pedal He died a few hours after the crash which was around 6:30 am Monday White House V'- ’ ' f allies in Congress in an effort to counter criticism of Prcsi- dent Bush’s Iraq policy and his use of discredited intelligence to advance the case for AP photo Pfc Jessica Lynch wipes her eyes after making brief remarks Tuesday Mum® Fla ELIZABETH WVa (AP) — Former POW Jessica Lynch returned home to a hem’s welcome Tuesday saying ‘it’s great to he home’’ in her first public words since being rescued “I’d like to say thank you to everyone who helped and prayed for my return” said Lynch who was brought to the podium in a wheelchair wearing a beret and green Army' dress uniform Lynch received a standing ovation as she entered a media tent and made her brief remarks against the backdrop of a large American flag Outside friends and family waved flags and “Welcome Home Jessica” signs while a marching band wanned up for a parade trumpeting Lynch's return home former The POW siiid she did not realize for “a long time” that her ordeal had capfured the hearts of millions around the globe “But I'm beginning to understand because J’ve read thousands of cards and letters lies authorities say were Idled w ith nothing more than c halts and water Others contained diluted drugs Nearly all were mislabeled A Florida grand jury investigating pharmaceutical wholesalers indicted 19 people oii charges of peddling bogus dr w alered-tlon medications 'alien prescribed for cancer 'and AIDS patients authorities said Monday Investigators said the defendants made tens of millions of dollars from the scheme and he drugs were sold to distrib- utors that supplied retail drug stores including nationwide Iraqi city of Nasiriyah in an attack that killed 1 1 soldiers US forces rescued Lynch at a Nasiriyah hospital April 1 while five other captured 507th soldiers held apart from Lynch were released April 13 Lynch’s rescue quickly made an American hero out of the petite blonde who joined the Army to get an education and become a kindergarten teacher “I’m proud to be a soldier in the Army I’m proud to have served with the 507th flag-wavi- w I ‘ I department of Law Enforcement said any tainted drugs w ere immediately seized once they were discovered and that in ne had been uncovered at retail chains WTC disaster called 2 attacks NEW YORK ( AP) — The holder or tht World Trade ' Center lease tried to convince a fcilcril appeals court Tuesday that the destruction of the' iwiii towers represented two attacks not One entitling him l a payout of about $7 billion instead’ of $35 billion ' The trade center’s insurers led hv Swiss Reinsurance Co and Travelers argued instead that Sept II should be considered a single occurrence under Elizabeth WVa in sweet Ih)©Btra Pfc Lynch returns to West Virginia A Pi — Some medicine hol- I’m happy that some soldiers I AP photo Pfc Jessica Lynch is joined by brother Spc Greg Lynch Jr right and boyfriend SQL Ruben Contreras lower right on Tuesday — many of them from children — that offer messages of served with made it home alive It hurts that some of my company didn’t” Lynch said Lynch also said she was “thankful to several Iraqi citizens who helped save my life while I was in their hospital4’ Lynch said she missed Pfc Lori Piestewa 23 who was hopejaad faitk” shsjaidL her roommate best friend and Lynch said she had read a member of the 507th " “thousands of sfartes"'1' iPiestewa died of injuries suf--' feted in the ambush recounting that when she-warescued she told US Special “She fought beside me and Forces that she was an Ameri- - it was an honor to have served ' can soldier with her" Lynch said “Those stories were right -Suffering from multiple broThose were my words I’m an' ken bones and other injuries American soldier too” she she had arrived at Walter Reed said in the nation’s capital on April 12 Lynch is able to walk with Lynch’s 507th Maintenance the aid of a walker but still has Company convoy was ambushed March 23 near the trouble standing: s toppling Saddam Hussein With Bush’s job approval ratings slipping and US casualties in Iraq continuing to climb the White House is in mode tryfull damage-contr- ol ing to reframe the debate over the Iraq war away from the flap over Bush’s assertion in his State of the Union address that Iraq was trying to buy uranium in Africa On Monday White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett went to Capitol Hill to urge Republicans to emphasize positive aspects of the broader war against terrorism administration and congressional officials said Bartlett met with top GOP House and Senate aides to essentially provide “talking points” for countering Democratic attacks and to share recently declassified intelli- - i The appeals court decision lor months ' officials said The administration wariLs its GOP allies in Congress to do more to emphasize some of the upside to deposing Saddam including humanitarian gestures and the freeing of the Iraqi people Other aggressive efforts are expected by the administration in the days ahead to try to regain control of the message including a possible speech on the issue by Vice President Dick Cheney administration and congressional GOP aides said Hispanic leader rips Bush By The Associated Press teleconference with reporters ' “Since then it seems as the ultra has though right wing taken over He hasn't respected burvote’ Yzaguirre said there is a gap between “the enormous amount of money spent by President Bush to get our vole to do some very sophisticated ads to do the photo ops” and actual policies he has enacted that are meaningfulto Hispan- ' ics The head of a major Hispanic advocacy group criticized the Bush administration Tuesday saying it has neglected issues important to the nation’s largest minority - 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