University of Utah Student Newspapers | 2007-02-09 | Page 2

Page Two Friday, February 9, 2007 All stories and photos from The Associated Press 5 Today -DAY WEATHER OUTLOOK 46/38 Cloudy Saturday Mostly Cloudy 47/38 Sunday Showers 45/36 Monday Partly Cloudy 44/29 Tuesday Cloudy . 44/30 u WWW.WEATiiER.COM • Confuted Conference: 905 a,m, . • to 1 p.m. @ LNCO Rooms 1945,1100 and 2110 • Confutati Conference Keynote Address: Dr. Vincent Cheng: 3 p.m to 4:30 p.m.® LNCO, Room 1110 . ' v • Guild of Book Workers 100th Anniversary Exhibition Keynote Lecture: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts • Performing Dance Company Spring Concert; 730 p.m. @ Marriott Center for Dance (Union, Room 293) • "Experiments in Ink VUI": 730 p.m. @ Studio 115 Theatre • "PHobolus": 730 p.m. @ Jeanne Wagner Theatre • School of Music Annual Scholarship Concert Mahler Symphony #2 "Resurrection": 730 p.m. @ Libby Gardner Hall: . Saturday • Confutati Conference: 1030 a.m. to 3 p.m. @ LNCO, Rooms 1945 and 2110 • Women's basketball vs. Colorado State: 3 p.m @ Huntsman Center • An Evening with Character Dance Ensemble: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. @ Marriott Center for Dance ••Performing Dance Company Spring Concert 730 p.m. @ Marriott Center for Dance '-'• "Experiments in Ink VIII": 730 p.m. @ Studio 115 • School of Music Annual Scholarship Concert Mahler Symphony #2 "Resurrection": 7:30 p.m. @ Libby Gardner Hall Sunday § 11 11 J : |- •"Experiments in Ink Vffl": 2 p.m.® jj: Studio 115 Theater Monday • IPIA Lecture: Policy at the Podium: Noon to 1:30 p.m. @ OSH, Room 208 • Love Your Body Week Panel Discussion: Noon to 130 p.m. @ Union Panorama East Room • Research Seminar. Frederick Gerard Moeiler, M.D.: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium Palestinians reach deal on power-sharing Pentagon says pre-war intel not illegal WASHINGTON—Some of the Pentagon's prewar intelligence work, including a contention that the CIA underplayed the likelihood of al-Qaida connections to Saddam Hussein, was inappropriate but not illegal, a Defense Department investigation has concluded. In a report to be presented to Congress on Friday, the department's inspector general said former Pentagon policy chief Douglas J. Feith had not engaged in illegal activities through the creation of special offices to review intelligence. Some Democrats also have contended that Feith misled Congress about the basis of the administration's assertions on the threat posed by Iraq, but the Pentagon investigation did not support that. Two people familiar with the findings discussed the main points and some details Thursday on condition they not be identified. The Senate Armed Services Committee has scheduled a hearing Friday to receive the findings by Thomas F. Gimble, the Pentagon's acting inspector general. The committee's chairman, Carl Levin, DMich., has been a leading critic of Feith's role in prewar intelligence activities. MECCA, Saudi Arabia—Rival Palestinian factions signed a power-sharing accord aimed at ending months of bloodshed Thursday, agreeing that the Islamic militant group Hamas would head a new coalition government that would "respect" past peace agreements with Israel. However, Israel and the U.S. have demanded the new government explicitly renounce violence, recognize Israel and agree to uphold past peace accords. The vague promise to respect past deals—a compromise reached after Hamas rejected pressure for more binding language—did not appear to go far enough. U.S. and Israeli acceptance is crucial to the deal's success. Unless they are. convinced Hamas has sufficiently moderated, the West is unlikely to lift a crippling financial blockade of the Palestinian government, and it will be difficult to advance the peace process. In Washington, the State Department issued a cautious statement late Thursday that avoided judgment on reports of a deal, saying officials had not yet seen details, of either the composition or the political program for the new government. "In terms of what the outcome of those discussions look like and N. Korea talks resume on positive note smooth negotiations," South Korea's Chun Yung-woo told reporters Friday ahead of the second day of talks in geijing. He declined to give any details of what the draft contained. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill gave no details on the draft, but said Friday he was anxious for progress in the slow-moving negotiations. "We haven't discussed it yet but that is what we will be doing first thing this morning...In these processes you often start discussing things and you move to the written form and that is always a challenge," he told reporters. The Chinese presented the draft after the first day of meetings Thursday, during which the North agreed in principle to take initial steps toward its eventual nuclear disarmament. BEIJING—South Korea's nuclear envoy said Friday th^t a Chinese draft agreement—with North Korea accepting B.in..principle^he initial steps^ for its disarmament—offered a good start for ' discussion. But the main U.S. envoy said there was still much work to do. Envoys from-six nations are trying to agree on steps to implement a September 2005 deal in which North Korea pledged to disarm in exchange for aid and security guarantees. The 2005 deal—the only one to emerge since negotiations began in 2003—was a broad statement of principles that did not outline any concrete steps for dismantling North Korea's nuclear program. "It's good as a basis for negotiations, but I don't want to predict whether there will be ernment led by the militant group "would be reviewed by donors against that government's commitment to renounce violence" and recognize Israel and other agreements. Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisin would not say whether Israel believes the guidelines of the new government fulfill those demands. Anna Nicole Smith dies in Florida at 39 HOLLYWOOD, Fla.—Anna Nicole Smith, the curvaceous blonde whose life played out as an extraordinary tabloid tale—Playboy centerfold, jeans model, bride of an octogenarian oil tycoon, reality-show subject, tragic mother—died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39. She was stricken while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and was rushed to a hospital. >. 7. Edwina Johnson, chief investigator for the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office, said the cause of death was under investiga- tion and an autopsy would be done on Friday. Just five months ago, Smith's 20-year-old son, Daniel, died suddenly in the Bahamas in what was believed to be a drug-related death. Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said a private nurse called 911 after finding Smith unresponsive in her sixth-floor room at the hotel,.which is on an Indian reservation. He said Smith's bodyguard, administered CPR, but she was declared dead at a hospital. 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Shortly after Hamas won elections in January 2006, the so-called Quartet of Middle East peace mediators—the U.S., the U.N., the European Union and Russia—said future aid to a new Palestinian gov- 28 Runner in T h e Sun Also 6 1 All events located on campus. Hamas leader Khafed Mashaal, left, shakes hands in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on Thursday. 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