Show A6 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday Q 2004 April 18 World InftMidls BAGHDAD Iraq (AP) — The US military dosed down' two major highways into Baghdad on Saturday in the latest disruption caused by intensified attacks by insurgents US and Iraqi negotiators reported progress in talks aimed at easing the while the lighting in its saw quietest besieged' city to GBagMsid ©Dosesfl vaientmo film found Kimmitt said civilians would he redirected around the closed sections "There are many ways to get into Baghdad and many ways for getting out of Baghdad” he said Attacks by gunmen at the western northern and south- -' ern entrances to the city have targeted key military supply lines forcing the repeated closure of the main Baghdad- Amman road through the violent western district of Abu anti-U- S day yet Elsewhere US Marines fought pitched battles against uhuul 150 gunmen in Quint near the Syrian border the city police chief said Six Marines and scores of insurgents were killed in the Dim in Holland AMSTERDAM Netherlands ( AP) — A copy of Rudolph Valentino’s silent film "Beyond the Rocks” has been found in the Netherlands becoming the only known existing print of the 1922 classic the Amsterdam Film Museum said Saturday The film is “basically complete and basically undam- -' aged” said Film Museum historian Jan van den Brink (iltruih On Friday militants showed Video of a soldier captured during one such attack on April 9 Army Pfc Keith M Maupin of Batavia Ohio was captured in the same raid in which lighters seized truck ' 14- - hour battle an embedded journalist Trout the St Louis i spalcli reported A I’osl-D- US military spokesman could not confirm the report Sections iif the twohigh- ways north and south of the capital were closed olT to repair damage from a mount- ' ing number of roadside bombs Commanders suggest-- ed the routes remained vulnerable to attaeks by insurgents who have been targeting US military supply lines ' ' v We’ve got to fix those roads we’ve also got to protect those roads" Army Brig Gen Mark Kimmitt told ' reporters in Baghdad The military warned that civilians found on the closed sections "may he considered forces" to he and come under US fire driver Thomas llamill of Macon Miss Meanwhile two Japanese hostages — an aid worker and a freelance journalist — were' released Saturday to the same group of Islamic clerics who negotiated the freedom of three Japanese hostages earlier ’ this week This month has seen the worst violence in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein ' forces are last year US-le- d Sunni battling insurgents in and Shiite militia in a Fallujah the south Gunfire was nearly halted in Fallujah on Friday night and the quiet continued through Saturday A nominal truce ' anti-coaliti- “Beyond the Rocks” was directed by 5am-Woothe only film in which Valenti- no starred opposite another silent era legend Gloria Swanson Van den Brink said the film was found in the estate of a film collector from the city of Haarlem The collection came into the museum's possession four years ago AP photo defense corp members and US Army soldiers background guard the center of Baghdad Iraq Saturday after at least three mortars hit a busy commercial district of Baghdad killing a Sudanese man Iraqi civil since April had been repeatedly shaken by night: time battles as both insurgents and Marines dug in Talks toward ending the standoff were to resume Monday but the top US military negotiator suggested their continuation depended on continued quiet “I can’t stress enough how to key it is for the cease-fir- e hold over the next 24 to 48 1 1 hours” said Maj Gen Joseph Weber the top US military US servicemembers have died in Iraq since the war began in March 200L That figure does not include the six Marines reported killed near the Syrian border In the south US troops ‘ negotiator The military announced urday that a US soldier was killed two days earlier when k his patrol hit an mine near Tikrit north of Baghdad His death brought to 89 the number of US’troops killed in violence since April More than 1000 Iraqis have been killed At least 686 anti-tan- "Because (the collector) was worried they would be stolen he took the different reels and hid them in different warehouses” (he historian told Dutch television “We literally had to root through 2 (XX) canisters to find out what exactly Was' in them" he said skirmished for a second day with militiamen loyal to radi-ccleric Muqtadu His aides said Iraqi-le- d mediation aimed at resolving a standoff with the Americans al dr 1 "Beyond the Rocks” was the 24th of Valentino's 32 films and no negatives or prints were known to exist until now The Italian-bor- n movie idol died in 1926 at age Americans killed in Kosovo prison shootout center took pictures and marked the bullet cartridges with numbers The body of a police officer covered with what looked like a dark blue jacket lay for hours in the yard of the prison compound One witness a woman who spoke on coiidi- lion of anonymity said she heard the shooting fan to her balcony overlooking the prison yard and saw one offi-- ’ cer shooting and another hid- - 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