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Show ™E SUMMER UTAH CHRONICLE NEWS IN BRIEF Page 2 www.dailyutahchronicle.com Wednesday, May 18, 2005 E C AS Today Sundown @ South Physics Rooftop: Star Party Mostly Cloudy 71/56 450 p.m. - 630 p.m. @ Union: Edison Showcase Reception [.; Thursday Partly Cloudy U 5/19 7:15 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. @ Union: Edison Conference 77/58 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. @ Huntsman Cancer Institute: Skin Cancer Screening 10 a.m. @ Kingsbury Hall: Graduation Exercises for School of Medicine 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. @ 300 Wakara Way: Spring Fest _ 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. @ Aline Skaggs Biology Auditorium: Special Science Lecture "Gorillas in the Mix" No Events AH events located on campus. ",' Friday Partly Cloudy Castro leads march demanding U.S. arrest Cuban militant 5/20 £ , - ' • • • ' Saturday ; Sunday U 5/22 . Isolated T-storms 68/47 Mostly sunny 70/50 | . SUNRISE 0:08 a m SUNSET &4Q'.ji US. r - QUOTE OF THE DAY -n jr f •i /^ "Ihtirtisthemost." am wherever the -The Sermonator on his services SEE FULL STORY ON PAGE 3 Three dead in Idaho house; Amber Alert issued for two HAVANA—Fidel Castro led hundreds of thousands of Cubans past the U.S. mission Tuesday to demand the United States arrest a Cuban exile sought in the bombing of an airliner, accusing Washington of hypocrisy in its war on terror. Hours later, U.S. officials confirmed the militant was in.custody. The Department of Homeland Security said it detained Luis Posada Carriles on Tuesday, after the longtime Castro opponent granted interviews to TV stations and The Miami Herald for the first time since surfacing in the United States two months ago. Posada, a former CIA operative and Venezuelan security official, is wanted in the 1976 bombing of the Cuban airliner that killed 73 people. Cuba's Parliament speaker welcomed the news of Posada's detention, but questioned why the U.S. gov- Israelisfloodto courtrooms to oppose Gaza pullout ernment took so long. "Do you want us to applaud the fact that he has been arrested after his presence (in the United States) was burning for two months?" Ricardo Alarcon asked in an interview with The Associated Press. ' The Cuban leader's campaign for Posada's arrest has been the most intense media battle he has waged since the international custody struggle over young Cuban castaway Elian Gonzalez. The size of the crowd in the "March against Terrorism" was similar to those organized in 2000 to press for Elian's return to his father. "This is not a march against the people of the United States," said the 78-year-old Castro, differentiating between Americans and their government. "It is a march against terrorism, in favor of life and of peace." Judges lobby in D.C. on eve offilibusterbattle COEUR DALENE, Idaho—Three people were found slain in a home, and an Amber Alert was issued Tuesday for two children who live there, authorities said. The dead were a woman believed to be the missing children's mother, a teenager believed to be their older brother and an unidentified adult male, sheriffs Capt. Ben Wolfinger said Authorities have no idea who took the boy and girl, he said. The missing children, Shasta Groene, 8, and her 9-yearold brother, Dylan, live at the house with their mother, the sheriffs office said. Authorities were called about Monday evening by a neighbor who reported "suspicious circumstances" at the house on a bay of Lake Coeur d'Alene, Wolfinger said. The bodies bore obvious signs of injury, but the cause of death remained undetermined, he said. "They're treating it as an obvious homicide," Wolfinger said. The mother and father of the children are divorced, Wolfinger said Investigators have talked with the father, and he is not considered a suspect or person of interest BLM auctions 232,000 acres for oil and gas development SALT LAKE CITY—Bidding by oiland-gas players intensified 1\iesday at a government auction as a rich oil find in central Utah sent prices soaring over $1,000 an acre. Fresh off news that Wolverine Gas & Oil Corp. discovered what could be a huge oil field, the company deployed clandestine bidders to foil speculators and pad its holdings on public lands with oil and gas potential. "When I come to an auction like this, I know I'm being followed," said Wolverine's president and chief executive, Sidney J. Jansma Jr. "We are very pleased with our discovery. Who wouldn't be? Just how much oil is there is anybody's guess." Grand Rapids, Mich-based Wolverine already is pumping oil as fast as it can near Sigurd, Utah, 130 miles south of Salt Lake City, after tapping a single oil deposit believed to contain 100 million to 200 million barrels of oil. Wolverine has said it was looking at 25 deposits across an area about 90 miles long by 40 miles wide that could contain a billion barrels of oil, but Jansma downplayed that prospect Tuesday, saying those figures are speculative. Wolverine is working a region long abandoned for exploration by major oil .companies more than 100 miles from any other major oil field in Utah. WASHINGTON—Senate Republicans on Tuesday picked Texas judge Priscilk Owen to be the flashpoint of a historic battle between President Bush and Senate Democrats over shaping the federal judiciary, with afinalshowdown looming early next week. A small group of moderate senators worked furiously behind the scenes to head off a clash over whether the parliamentary tactic of the filibuster can be used to block judicial nominees. If majority Republicans opt to change the rules to disallow filibusters of judicial nominees—a move dubbed the "nuclear option"—parliamentary warfare between Democrats and Republicans could escalate and stall Iranian foreign minister holds historic talks in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq—Iran's foreign minister made a historic trip to Baghdad on Tuesday, pledging to secure his country's borders to stop militants from entering Iraq and saying the "situation would have been much worse" if Tehran were actually supporting the insurgency as the U.S. has claimed. Iranian envoy Kamal Kharrazi's trip—two days after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid a surprise visit to support the war-ravaged country's political process—was the highest-level visit by an official from any of Iraq's six neighboring countries since Saddam Hussein's ouster two years ago. Kharrazi, who held talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, President Jalal Talabani and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on a day of deepening sectarian violence, vowed that his country was committed to supporting Iraq's political and economic reconstruction and would do all it could to improve security conditions. "We believe securing the borders between the two countries means security to the Islamic Republic of Iran," Kharrazi said Woman convicted in Abu Ghraib scandal apologizes for abuse FORT HOOD, Texas—Army Spc. Sabrina Harman stood before the jury in the sentencing phase of her court-martial Tuesday and tearfully apologized for mistreating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. "As a soldier I failed in my duties and in my mission," Harman said, her voice cracking. "Not only did I let down the people in Iraq, I let down every single soldier that serves today." Harman, 27, was convicted Monday on six of the seven charges she faced for her role in the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners in 2003. She appeared in several of the most notorious photos taken at Abu Ghraib, including one of naked Iraqis piled up in a pyramid. Among other things, she was found guilty of taking part in an incident in which a hooded Iraqi was threatened with electrocution and photographed standing on a box and holding wires. The jury began deliberating over her punishment late in the afternoon. The charges carried up to five years in prison. Prosecutors asked the jury to sentence Harman to three years, while the defense requested she serve no time. Editor in Chief Steve Gehrke sgehrke@chronicle.utah.edu Asst. News Editor Tyler Peterson tpeterson@chronide.utah.edu Managing Editor Danyelle White dwhite@chronicle.utah.edu A&E Editor Eryn Green egreen@chronicle.utah.edu News Editor Tye Smith tsmith@chronicle.utah.edu Opinion Editor RuthAnnc Frost rfrost@chronicle.utah.edu Asst. Sports Editor Chris Bellamy cbellamy@chronicle.utah.edu Asst. News Editor Andrew Kirk akirk@chronicle.utah.edu Sports Editor Joe Beatty jbeatty@chronicle.utah.edu Photo Editor Lonny Danler photo@chronicle.utah.edu Bush's legislative agenda "Members on both sides don't want the explosion to occur," said Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., as Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine.nodded at his side. "There will be a judicial nomination before the Senate tomorrow, but there is some time to continue these efforts to avoid the ultimate showdown." After meeting with Owen and California judge Janice Rogers Brown—who were blocked by Democrats during Bush's first term—Republicans announced that Owen's nomination for an appeals court seat will be the vehicle for the attempt to prohibit Democrats from filibustering judicial nominations. JERUSALEM—Hundreds of young protesters flooded Israeli courtrooms on 1\iesday after blocking dozens of highways a day before, the most disruptive demonstration yet against the planned summer pullout from Gaza and part of the West Bank. The protests came as settlers themselves were signing up to move back to Israel. Extra judges were brought into courtrooms to handle hearings for more than 300 protesters, most of them in their teens and early 20s, detained while blocking highways with burning tires and their bodies Monday night. Police agreed to release about 130 of them with a ban on similar protests for 60 days. Meanwhile, in violence early Wednesday, witnesses said Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian militant at the edge of the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza. Residents said they heard an explosion, possibly a bomb planted by militants, and then an Israeli gunshot, which killed Ahmed Barhoum, a 22-year-old Hamas member. The military said it did not know of the incident. Such cases have been rare since a cease-fire was declared on Feb. 8. Supporters of the Israeli protesters, most wearing skullcaps and ritual fringes identifying them as Orthodox Jews, sang and danced outside the courtrooms on Tuesday, encouraging their friends as they were taken inside, many in handcuffs. White House officials: Newsweek story has lasting damages WASHINGTON—The White House said Tuesday the United States' image abroad had suffered irreparable damage from a now-retracted Newsweek article alleging that American interrogators of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, desecrated the Quran, the Muslim holy book The administration used the Newsweek incident to criticize other, unnamed news organizations. "One of the concerns is that some media organizations have used anonymous sources that are hiding behind that anonymity in order to generate negative attacks," said presidential spokesman Scott McClellan. But he said the administration's own use of anonymous sources was not a Crossword ACROSS 1 "Huckleberry Finn" character and others 5 Jaws 9 In short supply 14 Trial balloon, e.g. 15 Twistable treat 16 Misanthrope, e.g. 17 V.I.P. accompanier 19 Journal submission 20 Product-pitching cow 21 Weigh down 23 One of a matched pair 24 Pro-Second Amendment grp26 Put on 28 Alcohol misuser 32 Cheer in Juarez 33 Meditative seel 34 Throws high in the sky 38 Wrongdoing .41 Take air in and out 43 Like 101 courses 44 X-X-X part 45 Ambulance chaser's advice 46 Wedding figure 51 Knock the socks off 54 Olympics chant 55 Toast topper 56 Eleanor Roosevelt 58 Golfer's set 62 Monroe's successor major problem. The administration frequently conducts news briefings and insists that its briefers be identified only as administration officials rather than by name. McClellan said the administration was trying to move away from such briefings, but he rejected suggestions that they contribute to credibility problems. Newsweek at first apologized for its story and then retracted it under heavy pressure from the administration. The White House blamed the magazine's account for triggering deadly antiAmerican protests in Afghanistan last week in which police fired on demonstrators and killed about 15 people. 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