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. THU DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE NEWS IN BRIEF www.d8ilyulahchronlcle.com Friday, S e p t e m b e r 30, 2005 Today u At the /%L Saturday u " 10/2 fCr Monday " ; 10/3 o ! Tuesday IfcT 10/4 • Divorce and Family Law Clinic @ 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. • Branko Kolarevic presents "Digital Praxis: From Digital to Material." @ 530 p.m. to 7 p.m. ' Operation Giving Hope: A Musical Offering - Music Students and Kingsbury Hall: 6 p.m. All events located on campus. Palestinians enforce ban on weapons displays 73/55 Isolated T-Storms 65/46 Scattered T-Storms 56/37 \\ SUNRISE 7:24a.m. SUNSET 7:11p.m. r" QUOTE OF THE DAY « » /"Get your pancakes, remote and [' scriptures, and pull up a recliner— \ this biannual Utah classic makes '•' the Super Bowl seem...well, if not I smaller, at least more secular." 5 p f| Student Confcrcncce @ 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. • Utah vs. North Carolina @ 11:35 a.m. Sunny u • S \ . Pioneer T h e f e r " • Learning to Lead Company presents "Metamorposes." • Predental admissions speech: South Biology 306 @ 1p.m. to 2 p.m. . • Denistry lecture: Dr. Yvonne Chalklcy @ l p.m. to 2 p..m 10/1 '*•} S u n d a y " Tuesday Monday Sunday Saturday -Eric Vogeler on General Conference Weekend SEE FULL COLUMN PAGE 6. jj String of car bombs kills at least 60 north of Baghdad BAGHDAD, Iraq—Three suicide attackers exploded near-simultaneous car bombs in the heart of a bustling, mainly Shiite town Thursday, killing at least 6o people and wounding 70 amid a new surge of violence before an Oct. 15 referendum on Iraq's constitution. Apparently aimed at killing a large number of Shiite civilians, the string of bombings started just before sunset when the first blast ripped through an open-air market crowded with Iraqis buying vegetables. The next bomb exploded at a bank just yards away, followed by a third on a nearby street of clothing shops. Sunni insurgents have vowed to wreck the referendum, whose passage is crucial to prospects for starting a withdrawal of American troops. Al-Qaida in Iraq has declared "all-out war" on the Shiite majority that dominates Iraq's government, and moderate Sunni Arab leaders called on their community to reject the constitution, saying it will fragment Iraq and leave them weak compared to Shiites and Kurds. The US. ambassador has been struggling to negotiate changes to the charter in hopes of winning Sunni Arab support. Frustrating his efforts, Sunnis said U.S. troops raided the homes of two Sunni leaders on Thursday, fueling their sense of alienation in the political process. Ownership battle over Salt Lake Tribune back in court SALT LAKE CITY—The battle for ownership of Utah's largest newspaper returned Thursday to federal court, opening a new chapter after four years of litigation. The McCartney family, former owners of The Salt Lake Tribune, contends it had a contractual option to buy back the paper five years after selling it in a 1997 stock swap to cable-television giant Telecommunications Inc. McCartney family members contend that when AT&T acquired TCI in 1999, it promised to honor the option, but instead sold it to Denver-based MediaNews Group Inc. MediaNews and AT&T said the purchase was vetoed by the owner of the Deseret Morning News, the Tribune's competitor and its partner in a joint operating agreement in which they share business operations. On Thursday, MediaNews Group asked a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by the McCartney family's publishing company. U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell peppered both sides with questions for more than two hours before reserving a decision on MediaNews' motion to dismiss the case. Privately held MediaNews, headed by Dean Singleton, owns 40 other daily newspapers including The Denver Post JERUSALEM—Palestinian authorities began Gaza there is no longer a reason for anyone othenforcing a ban on public displays of weapons er than security officers to carry weapons. "The role of resistance weapons has ended Thursday, arresting three people and confiscating the guns of off-duty police officers in a key in the streets. They should go back into storage step toward imposing order in the chaotic Gaza and they should not show up in the streets," he told a news conference. Strip. "Any weapon now in the street is a criminal The crackdown came as dozens of Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank held weapon." He said there were no plans to seize municipal elections. The powerful Hamas stored weapons. Interior Ministry spokesman Tawfiq Abu movement was expected to make strong gains, despite a continuing Israeli offensive against Is- Khoussa said authorities arrested three men carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles Thursday lamic militants. Pressing forward with its military campaign, and confiscated their weapons. Several security Israeli soldiers killed five Palestinian gunmen officers also were arrested for carrying guns in raids Thursday and Friday in the West Bank. while off duty, he said. Abbas said the weapons ban was a first step Israel launched the wave of airstrikes and arrest raids last weekend in response to Gaza mili- to imposing law and order on Gaza, but the new tants' rocket attacks on southern Israeli towns. Israeli offensive undermined those efforts. "This escalation is putting the entire peace The offensive raised pressure on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to act against militant process in real jeopardy," he said Thursday. "We groups and armed gangs, which operate openly call on Israel to stop these acts, especially since in Gaza. Israel says there can be no peace talks all our factions have committed themselves to the cease-fire and to ban all military parades until the groups are disarmed. Mourners carry the body of Samer Saadi, a militant In a move to bring order to Gaza, Palestin- and public displays of weapons." of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, one of three slain The ban went into effect days after an exploian officials on Thursday announced a ban on public displays of weapons, and Hamas said it sion at a Hamas parade killed 21 people. Hamas Palestinian gunmen during their funeral In the West blamed Israel, but Palestinian investigators said Bank town of Jenin Thursday. Israeli soldiers killed would honor it. The Palestinian police chief, Ala Husni, said the blast was set off when militants mishandled three Palestinian gunmen in arrest raids in the West Bank early Thursday. that in the wake of Israel's recent pullout from explosives. Roberts sworn in as 17th chief justice WASHINGTON—John G. Roberts Jr., a conservative protege of the late William R Rehnquist, succeeded him Thursday and became the nation's youngest chief justice in two centuries, winning support from more than three-fourths of the Senate after promising he would be no ideologue. Roberts, at 50, becomes the 17th chief justice, presiding over a Supreme Court that seems as divided as the nation over abortion and other tumultuous social issues. The court opens a new term on Monday. "The Senate has confirmed a man with an astute mind and kind heart," President Bush said just before Roberts was sworn in by acting Chief Justice John Paul Stevens. "All Americans can be confident that the 17th chief justice of the United States will be prudent in exercising judicial power, firm in defending judicial independence and above all a faithful guardian of the Constitution." Bush is expected to make his second Supreme Court nomination within days, one that conservatives hope will move the court to the right Replacing Rehnquist with Roberts keeps the court's current balance, but replacing the moderate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor with a conservative could tilt it rightward. Roberts called the Senate's 78-22 bipartisan vote for him "confirmation of what is for me a bedrock principle, that judging is different from politics." All of the Senate's 55 Republicans, independent James Jeffords of Vermont and half of the 44 Democrats supported him. Sen. Clinton cancels trip after FBI killing of Puerto Rican nationalist Answers to today's puzzle are on page 9. 5£ij£ J^tu J3ork ©rtiicp Crossword 1 "Do you want me to?" 7 "Rrauar 15 Add insult to injury 16 Rake over the coals, sa y 17 One seen in Haagen18 On the run 19 Whoop it up 21 Some cats Edited by Will Shortz 1 rin 64 65 66 67 Dazs Miller agrees to testify in leak investigation for 15 years. Protests immediately erupted in the streets of the capital San Juan during which demonstrators burned American flags and scrawled graffiti on two McDonald's restaurants. Federal agents said they shot Ojeda Rios after he fired on them, but his widow, who escaped the farmhouse unharmed, said the FBI fired first. Puerto Ricans also criticized the FBI for waiting almost 24 hours to enter the farmhouse where the fugitive lay wounded. The FBI has ordered an independent probe into the shooting but that has done little to abate the anger. On Tuesday thousands of people turned out for his funeral, many waving Puerto Rican flags and singing revolutionary ballads. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Puerto Rican police tightened security at federal buildings and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton canceled a visit to the island amid fears the killing of a Puerto Rican nationalist in an FBI shootout could lead to a resurgence of pro-independence violence. Police chief Pedro Toledo acknowledged the potential for unrest, saying the death of Filiberto Ojeda Rios had generated "rancor and rage." Ojeda Rios, 72, was shot to death Friday by FBI agents who came to arrest him at his farmhouse in southwestern Puerto Rico for the 1983 armed robbery of a Wells Fargo depot in Connecticut. He was the leader of the militant independence movement known as the Macheteros, or Cane Cutters, and had been on the run 68 9s? Bayed fan WASHINGTON—After nearly three months behind bars, New York Times reporter Judith Miller 25 Popular sandwich, informally was released Thursday after agreeing to testify about 1 the Bush administration's disclosure of a covert CIA 29 Images on some officer's identity. Christmas wrapping Miller left the federal detention center in Alexan- 32 Summer vacation spot, with "the" dria, Va., after reaching an agreement with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. She will appear Friday 33 Gray, in a way 36 Team that last won a morning before a grand jury investigating the case. World Series in 1954 "My source has now voluntarily and personally re38 Superstar leased me from my promise of confidentiality regard- 39 Military rule ing our conversations/' Miller said in a statement. 42 Guv Her source was Vice President Dick Cheney's ., y • 4 3 AII chief of staff, I. 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