Show A2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday September Q 6 2002 1 1 Nation In brief chief says rights curbs may last years ACLU Handshaking for history: New Mexico candidate breaks Roosevelt’s record ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill Richardson put his right hand on ice Saturday night after eclipsing a handshake record set in 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt Richardson's new mark of 13392 for an eight-hoperiod with a Guinness World Records official standing by went well beyond the Roosevelt record of 85 13 handshakes set at the White House Richardson divided his handshaking between the New Mexico State Fair and a tailgate party outside University Stadium where the University of New Mexico Lobos hosted the Baylor Bears in a football game ' “The reason I did this was to show we have a grassroots campaign and that politics can be fun Politics is people" he said As it happens Richardson only broke the record for politician Guiness reprehandshakes The overall record for sentative Stuart Qoxton said is held by Yogesh S harms of India who set a record of 3 11 18 handshakes in January 1996 at ur INDIANAPOLIS (AP)— ' Restrictions on civil liberties adopted after Sept 11 could persist for many years the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union said Saturday “This is really about deciding what type of country we want to live in” said Anthony Romero executive director of die ACLU “This is about nothing less than core American values” Romero who spoke at an annual dinner of die Indiana Civil Liberties Union Saturday said much of the public is unaware that some rules enacted after the terrorist attacks set glad-handi- atrade fair More holes found in university dorms' BOULDER Colo (AP) — University of Colorado students in three dormitories are on edge after peepholes were discovered in several bathroom walls over a period The most recent cases involved three peepholes that were drilled through housekeeping closet walls next to men’s and women's bathrooms in Cheyenne Arapaho and Baker halls "The school is handling it well and I’m personally not scared” said Baker resident Summer Moore 18 “But other students are really worried Some ate scared to shower" University officials have stepped up security by requiring weekly drum inspections identification cards to get into utility closets and picture IDs for all visitors The first peepholes were found last spring drilled through four utility closets next to a women’s bathroom at Farrand Hall Campus police arrested contract construction worker Michael D Hall 29 who told investigators he looked through the holes and watched women shower He pleaded innocent to burglary and sexual assault charges and is set for trial Nov 9 six-mon- th : Florida replay feared in Georgia MESA Ariz (AP) — Hundreds of people attended a memorial vigil Saturday night for a gas station owner fatally shot just days after the Sept 11 2001 terrorist attacks memorial took place at a park about a mile The two-hofrom where Balbir Singh Sodhi was slain and featured state- ments from President Bush United Nations SecretaryKofi Annan and Arizona Gov Jane Hull An estimated 800 people attended Americans were still reeling from the attacks in New York and Washington when shots rang out on a Mesa street corner Sept IS 2001 killing Sodhi an immigrant from India Authorities said Sodhi was shot because he wore a turban as part of his Sikh faith Prosecutors have accused Frank Roique of lulling Sodhi as part of a rampage during which he also alleged- clerk at another gas station and ly shot at a Lebanese-Americinto the home of a family of Afghani descent ur en : -- -- an Boston church l placesQfficiatoneaveu BOSTON (AP) — The Archdiocese of Boston has again - -placed its top canon lawyer on administrative leave after receiving new allegations from an accuser whose charges had collapsed amid questions about his credibility A lawsuit by a former altar boy has accused Monsignor Michael Smith Foster of sex abuse but the lawsuit was dis- missed Sept 3 after doubts were raised about the allegation The archdiocese reinstated Foster last week after its own investigation But on Thursday Foster's accuser gave the archdiocese new information about his allegations against the church official according to a statement from tire archdiocese The archdiocese reopened the investigation Columnist resigns over sex with teen CHICAGO (AP) — Nationally syndicated Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene resigned after acknowledging he engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with a teenage girl the newspaper said Sunday In a note on the paper’s front page editor Ann Marie Lipinski said Greene acknowledged the sexual conduct with a girl in her ' late teens whom he met in connection with his column Greene S3 told The Associated Press in an email Sunday there have been “indiscretions irimy life that I am not proud of" He did hot address the conduct that led to his resignation Greene has written extensively on social issues and American life in columns that appeared in the Tribune four times a week ' and were syndicated for newspapers around the country £1 w T : 82-ye- ar last-minu- : ©ggyCBBEfigl FREE ache frr a-- ? 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“What I want most is for the haul its election system after It will be a smooth elecFor starten those other American public and elected Florida’s disastrous 2000 tion Democratic said state counties trained their poll representatives to have a robust Sen Jack Hill who served presidential election Now workers up to three times debate on issues” he said I another that Florida election on the commission that longer than Miami-Dad- e “That debate has largely not ise theswitch Some made sure volunteer in the first year and I Wa happened have could read the Englishins to happen now" the only beginning forgetting job tions Most had their machines fo 2001 the ACLU experi- hdvel" done and Florida doesn't" thatjOeorgiinlay wotfy Miami-Dad- e than did' longer enced the largest jump in mem- Hill said and they didn’t experience the r moved toofartoofast bership in its history he te same cascade of ' said Miami-Dadetechnical glitches that faced ’s This time it’s came away from training Legal experts are divided touch-scree- n die state’s most populous terminals without knowing exactly howover Sept ll’s effect on civil coun ty and overwhelmed poll workto close out the machines at liberties “We kept modifying proceers day’s end She said she didn’t Richard Garnett an associate Elections Retiree Jack Wile said he dures” Miami-Dad- e ask questions because she was law t professor at the University trained with some 40 others Supervisor David Leahy said supposed to have a helper who ' Notre Dame of said governworkers as iVotronic on new the continued did know Sunday ment leaders have shown machines for about four hours The helper didn’t show up going through machines to restraint retrieve uncounted votes “We He has a computer and underr Tuesday had to train and retrain But stood the instructions but says going into die election we only about four people in the 50 lb Boxes class who seemed to grasp the thought we had it covered" Results of Florida’s Democnuances of the system use only ratic gubernatorial race are on “The rest of the people who 14 cup per load hold until final totals can be were in the class were in p tabulated Tuesday fog” said Wile an assistant In the 2000 presidential precinct clerk “Some of them LAUNDRY election it was Palm Beach's couldn’t even figure out whore Commercial and DETERGENT to sign the sheet to show that confusing butterfly ballot that Residential drew ridicule Other counties they took the class” ' Delivery had punch card ballots Precinct clerk Dorothy Walton who has been working HMM!CAL7S plagued by hanging and dim-polls since 1973 said she 953 W'700 N Suite 112 Poor tanmiinig guidelines cittedi in elecfioini fiasco Hundreds remember slain Sikh ! 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