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Show Page Two Friday, March 2, 2007 All stories and photos from The Associated Press g -DAY WEATHER OUTLOOK Today 31A7 Morning Snow after failures Alabama, killing at least 7 Saturday Mostly Sunny '39/25 Sunday Partly Cloudy 47/34 Monday Mostly Cloudy 50/36 Tuesday • Partly Cloudy 51/34 WWW, WEATttER.COM At the ITS. • Today * Last day to withdraw from classes • 12th Annual Stegaer Symposium: The [ ^Colorado River: 730 a.m. to 5 p.m. @ S.J. ' ^Quinney College of Law * Violence in Identity-. Noon @ Libby Gardner Hall • Ballet Ensemble: 730 p.m. @ Marriott Center for Dance . < "OUiello": 8 p.m. @ Pioneer Memorial Theatre " • "Accidental Death of an Anarchist": 730 p.m. @ Studio 115 Saturday ™i&ed Tornadoes rip through jj 3 J • Latino Science Power Day: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ Health Science Education Building, Room 1700 • Ballet Ensemble: 7:30 p.m. @ Marriott Center for Dance • "Othello": 8 p.m. @ Pioneer Memorial Theatre • "Accidental Death of an Anarchist": 730 p.m. @ Studio 115 • University Choirs: 730 p.m. @ Libby Gardner Hall • Women's Basketball vs. Wyoming: 3 p.m. @ Huntsman Center WASHINGTON—The Army on Thursday fired the general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, saying he was the wrong person to fix embarrassing failures in the treatment of war-injured soldiers that have soiled the institution's reputation as a first-class hospital. Less than a week after Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited Walter Reed and said those responsible would be "held accountable," the Army announced it had relieved Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman of command. He is a physician who had headed the hospital for only six rfibnths. In a brief announcement, the Army said service leaders had "lost trust and confidence" in Weightman's leadership abilities "to address needed solutions for soldier outpatient care." It said the decision to fire him was made by Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey. The Army and the Defense Department began investigations after The Washington Post published stories last week that documented problems in soldiers' housing and in the medical bureaucracy at Walter Reed, which has been called the Army's premier caregiver for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. ENTERPRISE, Ala.—Tornadoes ripped through Alabama and killed at least seven people Thursday, including five at a high school where students became pinned under debris when a roof collapsed, state officials said. Crews dug through piles of rubble beneath portable lights at Enterprise High School well into the night, looking for other victims. In , the chaotic hours after the storm, reports of the death toll varied wildly, at one point reaching as high as 18 dead. With the search continuing, "the exact number is honestly not known," said John Pallas, the Coffee County emergency management director in Enterprise. The,burst of tornadoes was part of a larger line of thunderstorms and snowstorms that stretched from Minnesota to the Gulf Coast. Authorities blamed a tornado for the death of a 7-year-old girl in Missouri, and twisters were reported in Kansas. A tornado damaged the Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus in southwest Georgia, hospital spokesman Ed Farr said. The state emergency management agency reported injuries and two deaths there, but Farr said he could not confirm that because the hospital was busy moving patients. The storm struck the Alabama A U.S. Military helicopter evacuates a patient from Enterprise High School after a tornado did severe damage to the school on Thursday In Enterprise, Ala. After the storm passed, she found the hallway she was in was spared, but a roof and wall collapsed on students in another hallway. "People didn't know where to go. They were trying to lead us out of the building. I kept seeing people with blood on their faces," Garcia said. More than 50 people were hospitalized as the violent storm front crossed the state. One person died elsewhere in Enterprise and one in rural Millers Ferry, where a separate storm wrecked mobile homes, Richardson said. high school around 1:15 p.m., and state emergency management spokeswoman Yasamie Richardson said some students were still trapped three hours later. Erin Garcia, a 17-year-old senior, said students had gathered in hallways around 11 a.m. as a precaution. School officials wanted to send them home around 1 p.m., she said, but the weather turned bad and sirens wailed. Then, she said, the lights went out. "I was just sitting there praying the whole time," she said. Democrats want troops out if goals unmet Bombing in Iraq targets Shiite cleric The relative lull in violence offered authorities a rare breather after periods of almost hour-by-hour bombings and mortar strikes by suspected Sunni insurgents. But the calm was broken after nightfall. The rumbling of artillery fire was heard throughout Baghdad. In recent days, U.S. gunners have pummeled areas of south Baghdad used as suspected staging ground for car bombings and other attacks. There was no immediate word from the military on the latest apparent barrage. Residents said the shelling was concentrated on the mostly Sunni area of Dora. The barrage highlighted the enormous security challenges of a planned international conference on ways to rebuild and stabilize war-weary Iraq. BAGHDAD, Iraq—A roadside bomb exploded Thursday alongSunday side the convoy of a prominent Shiite cleric • "Accidental Deatli of an Anarchist": whose high-level polit,2 p.m. @ Studio U5 ical ties have made him • Sunday Afternoon Books & Authors ; the target of past assasSeries:: "France Davis: An American ; \ sination attempts. The Story Told": 3 p.m to 5 p.m. @ ynion „,,. ] imam was not injured, ; Theatre ' ':' : i"-' : •;. but several bodyguards • Sundays at Seven—Faculty Chamber , were wounded. Players: 7 p m @ Libb> Gai dner Hall a The attack against * Jalal Eddin al-Sagheer, who is also a prominent member of Iraq's Monday tot parliament, came on one of Baghdad's qui• "The Transformed U. S. Economy": etest days in months— Lecture by Dr. Edward P. Lazean 9:40 with one reported car am. to 1030 a.m. @ UMFA Dumke bombing and one fatalAuditorium ity. U.S. and Iraqi forces • ASUU presidential debate: I p.m. to also neared agreement 2 p.m @ Hinckley Caucus Room (OSH, to expand the Baghdad Room 255) security sweep into the • Giving Your All and Getting Back Shiite stronghold of More: The Transformative Power of Service: 3 p.m. to 430 p.m. @ Alumni Sadr City. Such a move House would test the willing• Investigating Sensorineural Hearing ness of the powerful Loss: 4 p.m to 530 p.m @ Eecles Institute Mahdi Army militia of Human Genetics Auditorium to grant its American • Architecture Lecture: William Rees: foes access to all parts 430 p.m. to 6 p.m. @ AAC, Room 127 of Baghdad under its • Wind Ensemble: 7:30 p.m. @ Libby control. Gardner Hall WASHINGTON—House Democratic leaders have coalesced around legislation that would require troops to come home from Iraq within six months if that country's leaders fail to meet promises to help reduce violence there, party officials said Thursday. The plan would retain a Democratic proposal prohibiting the deployment to Iraq of troops with insufficient rest or training or who already have served there for more than a year. Under the plan, such troops could only be sent to Iraq if President Bush waives those standards and reports to Congress each S£be iNcHr Work SJimes 54 TiTomas o! the The proposal is the latest attempt by Democrats to resolve deep divisions within the party on how far to go to scale back U.S. involvement in Iraq. Rep. James Moran said the latest version has the support of party leadership and said he believes it is final and has the best chance at attracting broad support. "We're going to report out" a war spending bill "that's responsive to the will of the voters last November and brings our troops home as soon and safely as possible," Moran, D-Va., said in an interview Thursday. • Edited by Will Crossword ACROSS time. 4 3 5 i 6 56 16 Modern site of an ancient Egyptian captlal M Earty Jcsuit ' Corrections and Clarifications 8 7 9 3 to correct any error made as soon as possible. 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