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Show SUMMER UTAH CHRONICLE NEWS IN BRIEF www.dailyutahchronicle.com Monday, June 20, 2005 J>Vednesdaif Tuesday Sunny/Windy 88/68 22 21 u No Events Partly Cloudy 60/51 Tuesday Partly Cloudy 89/69 ' Wednesday fe^-6/22 All events located on campus. Iranian boomerang: Bush criticism of vote flies back at Washington Partly Cloudy 85/64 [\t Thursday $'.6/23 Mostly Sunny 84/63 ^Friday 6/24 SUNRISE 5:56 a J I L • Last day to withdraw from term length classes. • Second session classes begin; Summer 2005 Academic deadline No Events No Events Friday Thursday SUNSET 9:02 pan. QUOTE OF THE DAYI'd like to see Sean Penn go undercover and become a political informant. All he needs is a clever euphemism for oral copulation and he'll be all set. -Chris Bellamy SEE COLUMN ON PAGE 4. -^Suicide attacker hits j popular kebab -restaurant in Baghdad, ;; killing 23 r * "'BAGHDAD, Iraq—A suicide bombing ripped through a popular Baghdad kebab 'restaurant at lunchtime, killing at least 23 -"people and wounding 36 Sunday as insur-gents stepped up attacks nationwide, defying.two major U.S.-led offensives aimed at routing foreign fighters. The US. military also announced that a Marine died Saturday during Operation Spear—the first American death reported "iirme twin offensives. — T h e bomber detonated a vest laden with ',' explosives at about 245 p.m. in the Ibn Za;• nbour restaurant, just 400 yards from the ,'main gate of the heavily fortified Green ;! Zone and is especially popular with Iraqi '', police and soldiers. ;| The explosion killed seven police of.jficers, while the injured included 16 po»| lice officers and the bodyguards of Iraqi •! Finance minister Ali Abdel-Amir AUawi, '\ police Lt Col. Talal Jumaa said The min•; ister was not in the restaurant ]\ Iraq's most feared terror group claimed *| responsibility for the attack but said it was [' targeting a different restaurant •! Elsewhere, militants staged attacks that [! killed at least 12 people, despite two joint •! US.-Iraqi offensives—operations Spear \ and Dagger—that began earlier this week •| with about 1,000 U.S. forces and Iraqi sol> diers each. I Terror } spirited away •I MILAN, Italy—U.S. allies have begun [!to resist Washington's secretive role in •[spiriting away terror suspects: Italy is [[investigating the disappearance of one •[accused militant as a kidnapping, Swei'den wrote rules to assert its authority 1 over outside agents and Canada is holdling hearings after one of its citizens was [sent to Syria. I At least two of the cases bear the hall| marks of the CIA's "extraordinary rendiition" program—stepped up after Sept. .ii—in which the Bush administration jhas transferred dozens of suspects to •[ third countries without court approval, [subjecting them to possible torture. [ In Italy, an Egyptian-born imam identified as Abu Omar had already drawn ! the attention of Italian anti-terrorism of!ficialswhen he vanished off the streets I of Milan two years ago, reportedly bun| died into a van and flown back to Egypt 1 from a joint U.S.-Italian air base. 1 "The prosecution is certain it was I a kidnapping," prosecutor Armando [Spataro told The Associated Press last [ week. He would not say who is suspect[ cd, citing judicial secrecy as the investi1 gation is still under way. .1 Italian news reports say the CIA was -I believed to have played a role in the dis,J appearance, and opposition politicians •Jhave demanded explanations from the !{government of Premier Silvio Berlus' coni, a close ally of President Bush. Utah governor has high voter approval SALT LAKE CITY—Halfway through his first year in office, Gov. Jon Huntsman has won the approval of more than two-thirds of Utahns, according to a new poll. The Salt Lake Tribune's poll of 400 adults, showed 73 percent give Huntsman the thumb's up. A little more than three percent disapprove of the governor's performance so far. About 16 percent of respondents said they couldn't judge the governor's performance. "I don't feel like he's been in office long enough for me to get angry or happy with him," Salt Lake City resident Maggie Taylor says. "Nothing dramatic sticks out in my mind, pro or con." The poll was conducted June 8-10 by Valley Research Inc. and has a margin or error of plus or minus 5 percent.Huntsman puts little stock in poll numbers. "Momentarily, of course, I am gratified," he told the newspaper. "But it's a snapshot in time. It's to be taken as a snapshot. Politics is a moving target." The first six months in office can be tough. Huntsman has faced off with state legislators, deflected complaints about the openness of his office and weathered furor over his remodeling of state government. TEHRAN, Iran—Iran's spy chief used just two closest election since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. words to respond to White House ridicule of last And they highlighted again the United States' often crossed-wire efforts to isolate Iran. week's presidential election: "Thank you." Bush described the election as an exercise in His sarcasm was barely hidden. The backfire on futility because Iran's real power rests with the Washington was more evident. The sharp barbs from President Bush were wide- non-elected Islamic clerics, who can override the ly seen in Iran as damaging to pro-reform groups president and parliament. Many agree with that debecause the comments appeared to have boosted scription of a regime that allowed just eight presiturnout among hard-liners in Friday's election with dential candidates from more than i.ooo hopefuls. the result being that an ultraconservative now is in On Sunday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a two-way showdown for the presidency. said the election shows that the country is out of "I say to Bush: 'Thank you,'" quipped Intelli- step with democratic reforms in the Middle East. "I just don't see the Iranian elections as being gence Minister Ali Yunesi. "He motivated people to vote in retaliation." Bush's comments—blasting a serious attempt to move Iran closer to a demothe ruling clerics for blocking "basic requirements cratic future," she said in an interview on ABC's of democracy"—became a lively sideshow in Iran's "This Week." Hollywood slump drags on despite $46.9 million 'Batman' debut LOS ANGELES—Batman was powerful enough to rule the box office, but the superhero was unable to pull Hollywood out of its worst slump in 20 years. "Batman Begins" debuted as the top movie with $46.9 million, while overall movie revenues skidded for the i7th-straight weekend, tying a slide in 1985 that had been the longest box-office decline since analysts began keeping detailed records on movie grosses. The top 12 movies took in $128.5 million, down 1.6 percent from the same weekend in 2004, ac- Teenager shoots father after pleading for his mother's life SELLERSVILLE, Pa.—A man who had recently left a mental health facility killed his wife after an argument and was shot to death by one of the couple's two sons, police said. "I really can't put into words the tragedy this is for the boys that are involved in this," Pennridge Regional Police Chief David Mettin said. The teens were awakened Saturday by their parents arguing at their home in Bucks County, north of Philadelphia, said Mettin and prosecutor Diane E. Gibbons. "They came out of their respective bedrooms, they saw that their father had a knife to the throat of their mother," Gibbons said. The youths got two unloaded shotguns from the house and confronted their father, Andrew Detwiler, "told the father to leave, to get out, to leave Mom alone," Mettin said. However, Detwiler grabbed one of the shotguns, went to the garage to load it and returned to the house, where he fired through a window and hit his wife, Suzanne Detwiler, on a deck outside, they said. The 15-year-old, who had loaded his shotgun, then shot his father as he was bending over his wife and raising his gun again, the authorities said. The boy, who ran to a neighbor's house in tears, won't be charged, Gibbons said. String of 1-80 accidents kills at least three SALT LAKE CITY—At least three people are dead after a wrong-way Interstate driver caused a collision—setting off a string of at least five accidents within an hour Friday just outside of town. Rescue helicopters landed on Interstate 80 to help transport several victims to area hospitals. Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Wade Breur said the first accident happened just after 5 p.m., when a driver investigators believe may have been intoxicated went the wrong way on I-80 and glanced another car. Three people suffered serious injuries and were airlifted, though no information on thenconditions was immediately available. The second accident, which Breur said police believe was caused by traffic snags from the first, happened after a semi failed to slow. Three people were killed in that nine-vehicle crash at 5:50 p.m. Friday. In between the first and second accidents, there were at least three others on the same stretch of road, but Breur said they were all less serious. Road conditions were clear, leaving investigators to speculate the accidents were related. cording to studio estimates Sunday. The slump may be a sign that more people are seeing movies at home. An Associated Press-AOL poll last week found that 73 percent of adults prefer watching movies on DVD, videotape or pay-per-view rather than going to the theater. Studio executives blame the downturn on a comparatively weak lineup of movies this year and say it will take more time to determine if DVDs and other home-entertainment options are eroding theater business. Scientists finding earliest signs of Alzheimer's as they seek to prevent the disease WASHINGTON—A subtle change in a memory-making brain region seems to predict who will get Alzheimer's disease nine years before symptoms appear, scientists reported Sunday. The finding is part of a wave of research aimed at early detection of the deadly dementia—and one day perhaps even preventing it. Researchers scanned the brains of middleaged and older people while they were still healthy. They discovered that lower energy usage in a part of the brain called the hippocampus correctly signaled who would get Alzheimer's or a related memory impairment 85 percent of the time. "We found the earliest predictor," said the lead researcher, Lisa Mosconi of New York University School of Medicine. "The hippocampus seems to be the very first region to be affected." But it is too soon to offer Alzheimer's-predicting PET scans. The discovery must be confirmed. Also, there are serious ethical questions about how soon people should know that Alzheimer's is approaching when nothing yet can be done to forestall the disease. Still, the discovery may provide leads to scientists searching for therapies to at least delay the onset of the degenerative brain disease. It already affects 4.5 million people in the U.S. and is predicted to strike 14 million by 2050 as the population ages. Answers 0 today's puzzle are on page 7. 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