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Show Augusts Wednesday, DAILYHERALD A4 2007 FAST FACT The first ascent of the Matterhorn (1 865) led by Edward four of the Whymper, ended in tragedy. On the descent when a rape broke. deaths their to of seven plunged group . Source Haopdb of WxW lac .. Compiled from Daily Herald wire services , The WORLD The Nation T Idaho senator says he did nothing wrong, isn't gay . M Idaho Sen. BOISE, Idaho Larry Qaig says he's innocent despite pleading guilty and sorry for any embarrassment. Im not gay. Ive never been ' gay the Idaho Republican said Tuesday in his first public appearance since disclosure of his arrest in June by an undercover police officer in a Minneapolis airport mens room. Qraig, a thinkerm senator from Idaho, proclaimed his in-nocence as well as his sexuality less than an hour after Senate leaders from his own Republican Party called for an ethics committee review of his case. This is a serious matter," they said in Washington in a written statement that offered neither support nbl- - criticism of the conservative senator. Issued in the names of Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the party leader, and several others, the statement said they were examining other aspects of the case to determine if ad-- . ditional action is required. Craig, his wife, Suzanne, at his side, took no questions in a brief appearance in the capital city of the stale he has represented in Congress for more than two decades in the House and then the Senate: He had overreacted and made a poor decision when he was apprehended by an undercover police officer in a mens room at the Minneapolis airport and later pleaded guilty, t T.5 Va . ..tv-- . . 4 i X. i t: i ; :'u Pros tries to hold a hose with the help of a firefighter during a fire in the village of Thisoa, in the Pebponnese, Greece. The country's worst fires in living memory have killed at least 64 people since they began five days ago, ravaging olive groves, forest and orchards and incinerating homes, wild animals and livestock. KTHOS BUUMAHOUfRStasociaUd A villager ' l . New wildfires erupt in Greece 7 Musharraf would soon give up his role as army chief in. a tad to remain Pakistans ATHENS, Greece president. -- Dressed in Mack, the Musharraf, a coup leader old woman trudged slowly who has kept his uniform along the highway, her frail while running the country back bowed by a huge load for nearly eight years, has of freshly cut leaves to feed long resisted the idea of leavthe five goats from a herd of ing the army. But as he faces 20 that managed to survive upcoming parliamentary elections and Supreme Court the wildfire that razed her homestead. challenges that threaten to knock him out of office en- Flames that tare through Katerina tirdy.some of Musharraf s aides say he would be willing Andonopoukxis village of Platano, 2 12 miles from An- to retire from the military if cient Olympia, destroyed all it enables him to extend his vegetation and killed most of political career. Such a move is considered her goats and all her chicka prerequisite if he wants a ens, leaving their charred bodies strewn in front of the power-sharinagreement , blackened hulk of her home; with former Prime Minister We havebeen destroyed, Benazir Bhutto, a longtime rival but also a potential we have nothing left," An--. partner who could help him ' donopoulou said through win reelection. In Pakistan, tears Tuesday. Who will the parliament and provin-ri- al . help us now? i is of one assemblies eleetthe. Andonopoulou thousands made homeless ; president. in the southern Feloponnese Brazil corruption . peninsula by Greeces worst fires in the 50 years that indictments sink records have been kept. The. chief of staff former blazes have killed at least 64 RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil . people in the deadliest such ' Brazils Supreme Court on fire in living memory.. ; Anger has grown against Tuesday charged one of the the government's handling president's closest confidants of the catastrophic fires, with conspiracy in a corruption scandal that has toppled and the blazes are dominating political debate ahead of much of his inner circle. But analysts say Jose Dirceu parliamentary elections set would rather spend years in for Sept, 16. Criticism that the government failed to reprison than go down swingspond quickly enough and ing against Luiz Inacio Lula its suggestions that the fires daSilva. result ed from an organized Dirceu, a former revolucould hurt Prime . attack tionary once seen as a paten--. ; Minister Gostas Karamanlis. tial Brazilian president, now faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of corruption Chilean and conspiracy for allegedly for imprisoned a scheme to ordering 87 massacre orchestrating buy support in Congress for A Silvas policies. SANTIAGO. Chile former Army general who Dirceu, now a private lobheaded Chiles secret police byist, had been the second in the late 1980s was sent.to man in Latin ; Americas largest nation . prison for life Tuesday for ordering the executions of 12 before the scandal broke in 2005. H and Siva founded leftist guerrillas during the waning years Of the Pinochet the leftist Workers Party military dictatorship together and he was named chief of staff when Silva beRetired Gen. Hugo Salas Wenzel had argued that he came Brazil's first working-clas- s leader. had no role in the June Then his fortune unrav1987, killings known here as eled: In 2005 he was accused the Corpus Christi Massacre. The countrys Supreme of orchestrating the scheme , Court, however, unani-mously upheld a lower court bribes of as much as $13,0 conviction on the homicide per legislator. Hedenled the charges as well as the court's charges, but was stripped of his right to hold political ofsentence at life. Salas Wenzel, who had fice for eight years. headed the country's Na- - ' tkmal Intelligence Center, China's Communist became the first general to Party to hold major, receive a life sentence in in October meeting human rights prosecutions of former military leaders. BEIJING Chinas ruling The court also sentenced Communist Party will hold 14 others, including former a major meeting in October that win set the national Army Maj. Alvaro Corba-Ian, to shorter prison terms agenda for the next five for their roles in the kilt years amid the challenge of tags, staging the Olympics and renew the tenure of Presi-deLawyer Nelson Caucoto, Hu Jtatao as party representing victims relatives, said Tuesday's decision leader.. was historic because it pun-- . The meetished commanding officers ing of leaders of the world's and not just their underlings largest political party comes for the crimes of Army Gen. as China faces increased media attention ahead of the Augusta Pinochet's 1973- - . 1990 regime. Summer Games ami rising concerns over worsening According to official figures, Pinochets govern- poDulion and the safety of ment was responsible for the Chinese exports. The announcement late politically motivated killings or disappearances of 3,197 Tuesday had been expected,' people and the imprisonment but wiU set off another round and torture of tens of thou- of speculation of political sand more. changes in China. The country has seen Pakistan's president nearly double-dig- it yearly economic growth since the may give up role as last party congress in 2002. chief army Bid the party has also seen ISLAMABAD, Pakistan increased pressure on its With his popularity in leadership over stubborn rufreeman and his options narral poverty, conniption mid a widening gap between rich rowing, indications grew and poor. Tuesday that Gen. Itavez . , . . . . . J f I I: fl ; W mi . ' 9 X ' ?i n. T1! '3 If WATIER MKHOTMiami Herald from Texas to Pennsylvania was ordered held without bail " Tuesday, a day after his Cap-ture in New York. Wearing a white Coverall jumpsuit in court on New Yorks Long Island, Paul De- - . voe III, 43, was charged with being a fugitive from justice. He said he would fight ex-tradition back to Texas, where he is charged with two counts of murder fan the shooting deaths of a bartender and his ' own ex girlfriend, one of four people found dead in a home near Austin over the weekend Devoe also is a suspect in the slaying of an elderly woman, whose car was stolen in Pennsylvania. Devoe was arrested Monday after a brief standoff in New York. " He put a gun to his head1 and threatened to kill himself. After he failed to do that, we arrested him,' said U.S. Marshal laFayette Collins. Devoe's Court appointed attorney did net comment to reporters after the court ap- pearance, Investigators are looking into claims, that Devoe also shot at someone and attempted two unsuccessful carjackings in Tennessee during a crosscountry trip, Collins said Investigators think Devoe went to ex girlfriend Paula Griffith's home after shooting a bartender Friday night in nearby Marble Falls, witnesses and police said . . -- . scores dip . Commemorative march . Miami, holds a model of the Lincoln Memorial with photos of Bishop Victor T. Curry left and Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps af the Dade County Courthouse Tuesday in Miami during a march by the NAACP, labor unions and other groups to commemorate the 44th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. The march went from the Dade County courthouse to the Stephen Clark Government Center- - James Domes, from L . . Last year, after the College Board lengthened and rede- - Bob Barker: Price is rigjit signed the exam, scores took an unusually steep stumble of seven points. This years further drop could renew.ques-tion- s about whether scores on the new exam are compatible with the old one, as the College Board assured educators would be the case. Scores on the rival ACT exam, reported earlier this month, rose this year. But the College Board, the nonprofit membership group that owns the exam, insisted Tuesday that the declines were within normal historical fluctuations and not significant. . -- Combined math and reading SAT scores for the high -- 4 g A man AUSTIN. Texas suspected of killing six people in a crime spree stretching Average rT .. Suspect in Texas, Penn, killings held In NY SAT t f V'1 .. ' . . Heres the deat If the ANCHORAGE, Alaska Alaska Zoo sends Maggie the elephant to a sanctuary in host Bob Barker Northern California, retired game-shosays hell kick in S75Q.OO0 to hetptake care of her. The zoo would also get $100, (XX) from an anonymous w donor. But wait, there's more. The nonprofit that runs the sanctuary also promises to pay all of Maggie's travel and training costs.---The sanctuary belongs to the Performing Animal Welfare Society, or PAWS, and is already home to several African elephants Barker and PAWS cofounder Ed Stewart want Maggie to move there, too, and made their pitch to zoo officials and reporters Monday in Anchorage: Moving Maggie to PAWS will not cost the zoo, or the taxpayers of this city, one cent. Not a penny.- So the price is right," Barker said. Animal-right- s activists have long called for Maggie ' to move out of Alaska. The pressure mounted in May when firefighters had to hoist her to her feet because she couldn't stand up. In June, the zoo announced its directors had decided to move the 25y ear-ol- d African elephant. . . . . . ex-gene- ral : . . school class of 2007 were the lowest in eight years a trend the College Board attributed largely to the good news that a more diverse pool of students is taking the exam. Last spring's seniors scored on average 502 out of a possible 800 points on the critical . reading section of the country's most papular college entrance exam, down from 503 for the class of 200& Math scores fell three points from 518 to 515. Scores also fell three points on the writing section, which is still in an experimental stage, from 497 to 494. . Bush sells troop-surg- e - Iraq policy President RENO, Nev. Bush said Tuesday that there are unmistakable signs that his troop buildup in Iraq is working and blasted critics who say that the failure of Iraqs national government to foster political reconciliation proves that the troop increase is failing. Bush painted a stark picture of what might happen if U.S. . : . 15-1- . . . Church "Bringing Sexy Back1 k series of sermons called Signs promote Cornerstone Christian Fellowship and its Bringing Sexy Back, is seen in Chandler, Ariz. Since Senior Pastor Linn Winters introduced the series Aug: 12, weekend attendance at services has climbed past 6,500, or about 2,000 more than average. The church's counselors told Winters they were noticing a common thread in marriages pornography and infidelity as they talked to couples. six-wee- . . ; . JUUO JMENCZEast Valley Tribune most-powerf- . .. troops withdraw from Iraq, saying that would embolden and other exIran, tremists to spread instability throughout the Middle East and spur a regional nuclear-arm- s race that would endanger the world. Iran could conclude that we are weak and not stop them from gaining nuclear weapons, he told the American Legion convention here. And once Iran had nuclear weapons, it could set off an arms race in the region. ' The president's speech appeared to have two objectives: to amplify his warning to Iran that he wont tolerate its aggression, and to build public support for his surge" policy in Iraq before Congress returns from vacation next week to weigh anew what to do there. On Iran, Bush was unusually hawkish. He said Iran's regime embodied and sustained one of two strains of radicalism Shiite Muslim extremism that threatened the Middle East. The other is Sunni Muslim extremism, led by Iran's actions threaten the security of nations everywhere, he said. We will confront this danger before it is too late. The president said Iranians were supplying extremists in Iraq with money and weapons that were killing U.S. troops. I have authorized our military commanders in Iraq to confront Tehran's murderous activities, i he said. . . . . nt . twice-a-deca- ; . |