Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday October ' 1 2003 — A7 Iraq occupation BSZ3B Is it getting better? Iraqis facing a new day of hope and fear j BAGHDAD Iraq (AP) — The black smoke of Baghdad the burning Baghdad of May has driftedaway City traffic is back crawling along mi cheap gasoline Schools FS1 tit reopen this week Iraqi couples are marrying again and painters over at the Victory Theater are freshening up the lobby for opening night — whenever that may be Night these days for the people of Baghdad is a time to hurry home — to rooms darkened by blackouts to the crackling of gunfire somewhere staying out of the way ts of criminals out of the of nervous American soldiers To a visitor returning after four months Baghdad is a different place a city of contrasts and of people of mapy minds all uncertain One day last week off Yafa d man Street a named Taha Faraj Obeid stood in dusty shoes and sweat- stained shirt at an outdoor table whine Iraqi organizers were collecting names of job- less workers Are things getting better? a reporter asked Other men crowding around in the heavy midday heat shook their heads But ’vv v gun-sigh- AP photo soldier from the US Army 101st Airborne Division keeps back a crowd as his comrades dear a mine at a street in Mosul 250 miles north of Baghdad Iraq on TuesdayfThe bomb was layed under a bridge and was succsefuly destroyed by US miners A day-and-ni- Selection of writers may delay Iraqi constitution BAGHDAD Iraq (AP) — An Iraqi committee struggling to come up with a method for choosing a constitutional convention will offer several options — including elections which one council member said Tbesday could take as long as 18 months to prepare : That could drag out the process well beyond the six months that Secretary of State Colin Powell suggested last :v week would be sufficient to ' ' completea new constitution a critical step in handing over ' 'authority to the Iraqis as' v demanded by many major powers arid Iraqis themselves Powell said the United States won’t relinquish power '' until a democratically elected ' Iraqi government is in place y Coupled with growing calls for the US-le- d coalition to quickly cede more power to the Iraqi Govern?' ing Council the constitution ? issue is likely to widen differ- -' ences between the US-ru- n Y Coalition Provisional Authori- ty and the council itselfA preparatory committee has been wrestling for weeks pver hpw to select ' delegates to a constitutional commission arid a report is due soori However several key Iraqi ' figures have said a ““ V : '' ' six-mon- th timetable is too short given the enormous stakes in preparing a document acceptable to all the country’s religious cultural and ethnic groups V Ahmad Chalabi the outgo- ing Governing Council presi- dent did not specifically say a timetable was impossible but told The Asso-- 1 dated Press in Washington that writing a constitution' will take time In Baghdad however Chal- abi’s spokesman Entifadh Qanbar told reporters: “I don't think six months will be ' gray-haire- could take up to 1 8 months because such a ballot could be held only after a census and preparation of voter registra- lion lists ' if r V Lt- - - !a 4 r - 1 m t - AP photo An Iraqi bride and groom are greeted by a US soldier as they pass through a security checkpoint outside a Baghdad hotel on their wedding day Saturday Obeid hesitated “Yes" the them They see rebuilding laborer finally going on but for them their said “because the Americans Iraq cannot he rebuilt fast are here I hope they’ll help enough Such complex feelus” Searching for words he ings don't make lire headlines in distant places paused again then added: “This is our country Our A mill up Yafa Street from homeland We’re the people of the open-a- ir “jobless center”in a fortress-lik- e American Iraq We need more jobs" As the US postwar occupacompound a US Amiy tion stretches on the people of spokesman complained to international journalists that ' Iraq are plainly tom by both hope and fear relieved at a they were focusing loo heavi- dictator’s fall humiliated and ly on negative Iraq news — “ resentful of an alien army bombings and anti-U- S guerits attacks t at rilla mutely pointing guns - - six-mon- th : sufficient” Other prominent Iraqis artalso skeptical about the six- ' - month timeframe: - Y v 7 “The fate of Iraq depends on the constitution” Data Noor Alziri a GoverningCouncil member who works with the preparatory commit- tee told AP f “It is not for one pr 10 years It’s for future genera- tions It must be carefully - - “ Y written” Noor Alziri 'a former appeals court judge once jailed by Saddam HusseirL said he preferred conventiori members to be selected from ' among legal experts' acade- - OR MESOTHELiaMA IMPORTANT: THIS NO COST PHONE 5-- : f CONSULTATION IS SMOKERSTATTENTION-$NONSMOKER- ALSO AVAILABLE TO FAMILIES OF PEOPLE 7 WHO HAVE DIED ' Paper Mills FACT: lung cancer can occur a Person first Breathes Asbestos Dust!' 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