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Show DAILY HERALD Thursday. August 30, 2007 AS FAST FACT Yosemite Falls, In California, is the highest waterfall in North American with a total drop of 2,425 feet Source The loot of 1,001 Trim Quotas Compiled from Daily Herald wire services The World The Nation Palestinian children killed in Gaza Strip 3 Israel moves . JERUSALEM Three Palestinian children were killed Wednesday in the forces from .. . northern Gaza Strip when the Israeli army fired at rocket launchers in the area, the military and Palestinians, Syrian border JERUSALEM said. It was the second such incident in Gaza in which children were killed in the . pastninedays. Palestinian residents said the bodies of two boys were found after an explosion, apparently caused by an Israeli missile or shell, in an area where militants had placed .., launchers to fire rockets to' ward Israel. ..; The dead were identified as Mahmoud Abu Ghazal, 10, ; and his cousin, Yahya Abu Ghazal, 12. Their cousin. Sara Abu Ghazal, ' was taken to a hospital in critical condition and later died of her wounds. Resir dents said the three were in field near the launchers. cross-borde- . . ;:. . ; : .. . Mandela salutes into Ketchum, Idaho. War ballistic missile submarine .. that has been converted to a museum in the Providence Riv- er, in order to train its salvage ' arid dive teams in how to get a submarine afloat. It's an invaluable training scenario for us. Its something that doesn't happen very of- ten." said Navy Warrant Of- , ficer Peter Sharpe, who heads the contingent of Navy divers to Providence. But the military's help extends only to raising the submarine the sub is filled with water, and the internal damage may be extensive. There's no guarantee that it can be re-- ; stored as a museum. half brothers PENNHILLS, Pa. Police on Wednesday arrested an 18-accused ol stabbing year-ol- d his twin half broth- ers, killing one of them and critically injuring the other. The toys grandfather, Lovett Williams, said he heard Tyrei Hill call out, Pappy, Im dead. Im dying," when he went to the familys suburban Pittsburgh home to check on them Tuesday. Williams went to the attic, where he found ' Tyrel, wrapped in a blood- soaked blanket, and the body of his twin, Tyron., "There was blood every- where," Williams said. "Ev- erywhere. Blood all over the house. Downstairs, up the ; ., steps." The surviving twin identified his older Troy Lavalle Hill, as the attacker, police and Williams said. "I said, Who did this? He said, Troy,' " Williams said. ,.' Mice and dogs searching the woods near the familys Penn Hills home had been unable to find Troy Hill, but he was arrested Wednesday after he emerged from woods beyond the area authorities had searched. Allegheny County ' - Police Assistant Superintend he said Morton dent James did not know how far Hill had been from the tome. I know its not where we were looking for him last night," Morton said Wednes- day afternoon. He just continued farther into the woods than we thought he did. Hill was to be arraigned Wednesday on charges of criminal homicide and attempted homicide. An enormous wildfire threaten- , ingtheSun Valley ski resort was nearly half contained Wednesday, but authorities said they didnt know when thousands of evacuees could return to the area. Fire managers said the wind from thunderstorms ex- - .. pected to hit the area later this week could increase fire activity, so fire crews were struggling to build and rein-- , force fire lines. The blaze in central Idaho had blackened about 69 square miles. No buildings have been damaged, but on Tuesday gusty wind pushed flames close to the borders of the Sun Valley Resort ski area. About 2,000 tomes have been evacuated. ."The good news is fire crews are successfully holding their own at the top, Ketchum Mayor Randy Hall said ' Tuesday as he urged a few holdouts m the Warm Springs neighborhood to obey an evacuation order. Those people who refuse to leave their homes are jeopardizing their own safety, as well as the firefighters. The fire was started by lightning on Aug. 17. About 1,640 firefighters were battling the blaze, using 15 helicopters,- seven bulldozers and 102 engines. So far, no structures have been damaged by the fire. Sun Valley Resort was not evacuated. The Accommodations were roughly 90 percent full, although some guests had canceled because of the fire, said Jack Sibbach, a spokesman for the Sun Valley Co. KETCHUM, Idaho . . : half-brothe- r, . . ; . . Santiago, Quiepo- - Lugovoi says Berezovsky behind Litvinenko murder lice used tear gas, water. ' 510-roo- m . . i .. . . . . - . " . . . . . . . - tionwide protests Wednes-govo- i, day over government social and economic policies. V.. Authorities said 87 people had been detained, but as the protests passed the mark by state television and other lo--. ;. cal news media quoted police sources as saying that rests had passed 300. Journalists saw several demonstrators bleeding or overcome by tear gas after clashes with police, .. Among the injured was Sen. Alejandro Navarro, of . President Michelle Bachelet's Socialist Party, who bled from the back of his head after being clubbed by a lice officer. Deputy Interior Minister Felipe Harboe said ... the incident would be inves- ' tigated. .' Navarro, who went to a nearby hospital for cal attention, supported the protest called by country's largest union federation to econorv oppose ics and the governments social policies. . six-ho- . n, re . : ' - . . medi-becau- . free-mark- et . .V ' ' . , Rove's wrapped car White House Deputy Chief of Staff Kari Rove fleftj points to Al Hubbard, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy os he walks to his car, wrapped in plastic and adorned with stuffed toy eagles and stickers on Wednesday in Washington. The car was parked on the White Two spe-dalNEW YORK House grounds and the prank is a goodbye gift of sorts fir Rove, who Is retiring in two days. trained Labrador retriev- on pirated DVDs f 1 I . :. Andrei Lu- the U.K.'s key suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, said Wednesday .the Crown Prosecution Ser- -' vice has no proof of his guilt and that fugitive oligarch Bo- ris Berezovsky played a role in the crime. There is no evidence, is no proof. Everything that the Crown Prosecution Service says is a lie, inspired. by the British top leadership together with the special ser- vices, Lugovoi told British journalists via a video link with Moscow. He said there is not even any proof that Litvinenko in fact died of radioactive pok adding that the cause of death is still unknown, Lugovoi said he will not go to Britain aS the situation has become too politicized. I am not going anywhere this (murder) case involves big politics, Lugo- voi said. ,I propose that if British authorities have any proerf, they should send it here, to Russia." The former MOSCOW . ly . . . . Dog duo cracks down .. Clashes mark national day of protest in Chile 'NEW - anti-pirac- KGB officer added he was sure that British intelligence was involved in the murder of Litvinenko last November in London. Lugovoi said that fugitive ' oligarch Baris Berezovsky was involved in the crime, as well as in the murder of Rus-- . sian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, . Leona Helmsley dog gets $12 million YORK Leona Helmsleys dog will continue to live an opulent life, and then be buried alongside her in a mau- soieum. But two of Helmsleys grandchildren got nothing ' from the late luxury hotelier ' and real estate billionaires estate, Helmsley left her beloved white Maltese, named Trouble, a S12 million trust fund, ac- - .... cording to her will, which was made public Tuesday in surro' gate court. She also left millions for her brother, Alvin Rosenthal, who ers named Lucky and Fk have tion of America. was named to care for Trouble been instrumental in recent ; Brown and his stqff cooperated with the MPAA in the lat- in her absence, as well as two months in sniffing out nearly of four grandchildren from 2 million counterfeit DVDs in'. est Queens crackdown, r her late son Jay Panzlrer so At a news conference with Southeast Asia. , the dogs and MPAA officials, Those efforts of the canine long as they visit their fathers Brown said the DVDs sold for grave site once each calendar duo also led to the arrest in ' Querns on Tuesday of three. up to $10 and were of inferior year. Otherwise, she wrote, neimen accused of criminal trade- quality to legitimate copies tint ther will get a penny of the 55 retail for about 520. mark violations and other million she left for each. seizure as as the well charges, of 5,200 pirated CDs and DVDs Military to use sunken Helmsley left nothing to two r of Jay Panzirers other children including new movies such as sub to train divers " The Simpsons Movie and, .. Qraig and Meegan Panzirer To - for reasons that are known PROVIDENCE, R.I. coincidentally, Underdog." the staff of the Russian Sub tothem, she wrote. , "Mans best friend has beLegless man steered But no one made out better of their DVD come counterfeiter's the a Museum, sinking truck drunk, buddy submarine in Provi- than Trouble, who once apworst nightmare," said Queens Soviet-er- a worked the pedals District Attorney Richard dence Harbor following an peared in ads for the Helmsley crushHotels, and lived up to her a was Poin statenortheaster Wis. Brown a ABBOTSFORD, April prepared name by biting a housekeeper.' lice cited a legless man and his ment. ing catastrophe. I direct that when my dog. . To the divers of the Army friend with drunken driving Lucky and Flo, both 3, were Trouble, dies, her remains back in Queens on Wednesday and Navy, it was a dream the third and second such shall be buried next to my come true. after six months in Malaysia arrests for the men, respecremains in the Helmsley mau. The military has announced as part of Operation Double' tively saying the disabled soleum Helmsley wrote in y effort . that it intends to raise the Trouble, an . man was at the wheel while his Cold herwilL the Juliett Associa sunken Motion of the Picture 484, the friend worked pedals. Harvey J. Miller, 43, was steering the 1985 Chevrolet truck and Edwin H. Mansi' ske, 55, was operating the ped-- : als when they were pulled over , v'" " V Aug. 18, according to a police reportMiller, who was sitting in ' ' ! ,T-( the drivers seat told officers he had too much to drink, hut . argued he wasn't really driving since Marzinske was on the brake and the accelerator, police said. Marzinske was arrested on the same charge. Miller received a citation : for a third drunken driving offense, and Marzinske his second. Both also were cited for driving after their licenses had been revoked. The two do not have listed phone numbers, and police and court officials could not immediately say Wednesday whether they had attorneys. A third man in the truck, also drunk, walked himself tome after the traffic stop, MANUEL BALCt CENCTAAmocmM Pm policesaid. . . - id . . said Syria's military : has now reduced its : war readiness, but offered no details because the exact steps taken by the Syrians are classified The officials spoke on con-- . dition of anonymity : because they were not authorized to divulge the information to the press. . . . hostilities. The Israeli officials . LONDON It was 1962 and Nelson Mandela was on the run, Hunted by. South African authorities and gearing up for armed struggle against his coun-- , trys apartheid government, Mandela visited London seeking money, training and support. '.;;. it was then that he and Oliver Tambo, his partner in the struggle, ... walked through Parliament Square surveying the statu-- . ary tributes to the British ' Empire's great and good. The figure of South African statesman Jan Smuts caught their eye. When we saw the statue of Gen. Smuts near Westminster Abbey, Oliver and I joked that perhaps someday there would be a statue of us '' in its stead, Mandela wrote in his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. are posted along the highway headed Teen charged with stabbing his twin . apartheid resistance JOHN HHUCRAsiocMod Press ' Mannequins in swim wear with signs supporting firefighters battling the. Castle Rock Fire, . The Israeli army has decided that war with Syria is unlikely and is rotating farces out of the contested Golan Heights after months ' r ten-,- . of officials sion, security say. The decision by Israel's military followed months of growing tensions C along the frontier and concerns that the escalation could result in war. Over the sum-- : mer, media reports of impending war alternated with announcements by Syrian and Israeli leaders that they had no interest in of the government of President MicheUe Bachelet, during a protest in Santiago, Chile. |