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Show _ ™fe SUMMER UTAH CHRONICLE — ^ NEWS IN BRIEF Today .PST^SE" www.dailyutahchronicl acorn Wednesday, July 27, 2005 Friday Sunday Saturday 29 •Biology Seminar Series 4 p.m.-5 p.m. 31 •Last day to reverse CR/NC for term and second session classes No Events •Red Butte Gardens's Outdoor Concert series with Bruce Hornsby 7 p.m. No Events •Sorority Recruitment open house at Alumni House 5 p.m. -7 p.m. Partly Cloudy 88/68 S>' Friduy 17/29 |1 Saturday 17/30 Sunday 7/31 Hundreds of children in Niger cling to life, await foreign aid Isolated T-Storms 89/69 Scattered T-Storms 90/67 -SUNRISE 0:19 ajn. SUNSET 8:48 p.m.. - QUOTE OF THE DAY "It means at least one more year of the repeated sight of Ostertag getting an "open pass under the basket, pump-faking 17 times for no reason whatsoever instead of scoring an easy layup1,finallygetting fouled, only to air-ball both foul shots as 19,000 boos rain down on his flat, buzzed head." -Chris Bellamy on Greg'Ostertag. SEE FULL COLUMN PAGE 6. New round of six-party nuclear talks begins BEIJING—Negotiators on Wednesday began a second day of talks aimed at persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions after the United States and China both expressed determination to make long-awaited headway toward a settlement. In negotiations Tuesday, Washington also assured North Korea it has no intention of attacking, and Pyongyang promised to work toward a denuclearized Korean Peninsula, opening moves that also indicated a shared goal of progress. The latest round of talks resumed in Beijing, the closest ally of the isolated, communist North, after a 13-month boycott by North Korea, which had cited "hostile" U.S. policies. Delegates struck an amiable note before the meeting Tuesday, smiling and clasping hands for a group photo. The other participants are South Korea, Japan and Russia. No details of the session on Wednesday morning were immediately released. Demos sift through first Roberts documents, criticize White House WASHINGTON—Frustrated Senate Democrats struggled to unearth Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' elusive views on abortion, civil rights and other controversial issues Tuesday, digging through newly released government documents while criticizing the White House for refusing access to thousands more. "It's more than what they need," President Bush's spokesman said of the material being turned over. The disagreement over access to decades-old government records flared as Attorney General Alberto Gonzales suggested that, if confirmed, Roberts would not be bound by an earlier statement that the landmark 1973 ruling that established a woman's right to an abortion was settled law. Gonzales told The Associated Press in an interview that "a Supreme Court justice is not obliged to follow precedent if you believe it's wrong." One week after Bush nominated Roberts to succeed Sandra Day O'Connor on the high court, the 50-year-old appeals court judge seemed to float above the fray as he continued courtesy calls on senators. At the same time, Senate Republicans and the White House worked to try to assure a confirmation vote before the court begins a new term. "Our duty is to have a justice seated by the first Monday in October, which is October 3rd," said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Judiciary Committee. MARADI, Niger—Nasseiba Ali is the face of hunger in Niger. The 20-month-old girl weighs just 12 pounds, and her eyes are clouded at night, one of the symptoms of her chronic malnourishment. Nasseiba may survive because her grandmother was able to get her to a feeding center. But aid groups despair that so many other children are dying because the world was slow to respond. "I thought we would not make it safely," Nasseiba's grandmother, Haoua Adamou, said in Hausa through an interpreter after walking several hours with the baby on her back to the emergency feeding center at Maradi, some 400 miles east of the capital, Niamey. She sat Saturday fanning flies from Nasseiba's face. The aid agency Oxfam warned last week that about 3.6 million people, about a third of them children, face starvation in this West African nation devastated by locusts and drought. The U.N.'s humanitarian agency estimates some 800,000 children under 5 are suffering from hunger, including 150,000 faced with severe malnutrition. The warnings have been coming for months. The United Nations first appealed for assistance in November and got almost no response. Another appeal for $16 million in March generated about si million. The latest appeal on May 25 for S30 million has received about $10 million. Donations jumped dramatically in the last week because of increased media attention and TV images of starving children, U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland said Friday. Egeland estimated that thousands of children are dying in Niger. Nasseiba dozed fitfully in the intensive care tent of the emergency center erected by Doctors Without Borders in Maradi, where 55 other chronically malnourished children were receiving care. Her mother, who is three months pregnant, and her father stayed behind to work their farm to coax something from the dry soil come the October harvest. Nasseiba tried several times to pull out the tiny feeding tube securely taped to her forehead and running down into her nose. She found sleep after several meager mouthfuls of enriched formula and what looked like a long, cold stare, sign of her troubled vision that leaves her blind at night. Just a few steps from the critically sick, another ward sheltered children who have almost recovered. Two-year-old Tsclaha weighed just 13 pounds and will need days to reach her target weight of 16 pounds before being declared cured. Tsclaha, barely able to stand on wobbly legs, happily munched a ready-to-eat, highly nutritious peanut butter mixture. Tsclaha wore a red bracelet, signaling doctors had decided to admit her. Nearby, 40 women carrying children waited for them to be weighed and for doctors to decide which ones would get red bracelets and which ones would get orange or yellow bracelets signifying that they, while malnourished, were well enough to be sent home with supplies of flour and cooking oil. Outside the center, new tents are being set up Man accused in Smart's kidnapping found incompetent for trial SALT LAKE CITY—The man charged in the kidnapping of Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial Tuesday. The decision by Judge Judith Atherton will send Brian David Mitchell to a state hospital until he is deemed capable of standing trial. The judge issued her decision after six days of hearings over the past seven months. Mitchell repeatedly shouted Biblical admonitions and sang hymns during the hearings, prompting him to be removed from court several times. Last year the judge ruled Mitchell's wife, Wanda Barzee, was not competent to stand trial either. In her decision the judge noted that testimony showed Mitchell's family had a history of mental disorder. Mitchell was the third of six children and a "loner" in a "highly dysfunctional" family, the judge wrote. Prosecutors argued that Mitchell was simply a narcissist with an extreme set of religious beliefs. Elizabeth's father, Ed Smart, said he was resigned to the judge's decision about the family's one-time handyman. "My satisfaction will be seeing him behind bars, not back out on the street to hurt anyone again," Ed Smart said. "If he wants to be the way he is, so be it, and let him waste away in a mental hospital." Blair vows not to yield to terror LONDON—Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed Tuesday not to "give one inch" on British policies in Iraq or the Middle East, and said his government is determined to toughen laws against terrorists and their supporters in the wake of attacks on London's transit system. Police investigating last week's failed bombings seized a car in north London and said they were examining suspicious material from an apartment linked to two suspects—an Eritrean-born Briton and a Somali who both have lived in Britain since childhood Opposition politicians backed the government on fighting terrorism, but warned that civil liber- • ties could be eroded by one of the anti-terrorism powers sought by police: the right to hold suspects for three months without charge. In his monthly news conference, Blair lashed out at critics who say Britain's participation in the U.S.-led war in Iraq has made the country more of a target. Polls suggest a majority of Britons share that view, overwhelmingly so among Muslim residents. All events located on campus. A boy suffering from malnutrition cries while being measured in a makeshift hospital In the town of Agule, 43 miles from Maradi, Niger on Tuesday. Save the Children's first shipment of oil and flour for Niger Is expected on Wednesday. to ease the burden on the already stretched facility, where nurses work round the clock to diagnose the 300 hungry children who come daily from surrounding villages. A 16-ton shipment of oil, sugar, and nutritional paste arrived in Maradi from France on Thursday, and several more shipments were scheduled, the U.N. 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