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Show Page Two 5 Tuesday, March 13,2007 All stories and photos from The Associated Press -DAY WEATHER OUTLOOK Today Wednesday Mostly Cloudy 59/41 Thursday Mostly Sunny 57/41 WASHINGTON—Army Surgeon General Kevin C. Kiley abruptly stepped down under pressure from military superiors, the third top Army official forced out in the fallout from revelations of shabby treatment of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The Army said Monday that Lt. Gen. Kiley had submitted a request to retire over the weekend. Acting Army Secretary Pete Geren had asked Kiley for his retirement said a senior defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about the events. Kiley's removal underscored how the controversy, which began with reports of dilapidated outpatient housing and a nightmarish bureaucracy at the Army's flagship hospital, has snowballed into a far broader problem for the Bush administration. Congressional committees and a slew of investigative boards are scrutinizing the treatment of wounded troops and veterans by the military's entire medical system, as well as by the Department of Veterans Affairs, headed by Jim Nicholson. Friday Partly Cloudy 64/44 Saturday 67/45 Sunny WWW.WEATHER.COM At the u Today • Women's Week 2007 Panel Discussion: On The Clock: Noon @ Union Ballroom • School of Medicine Seminar Series: "Origins of HTV: Expect the Unexpected!": 4 p m to 5 p.m. @ Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium • Art of the Depression: Utah Opera and the UMFA: 7 p.m @ Utah Museum of • Fine Arts •Jazz Guitar Ensembles: 730 p m @ Libby Gardner Hall Wednesday |;|4 |i • Meet the Candidates for Salt Lake City Mayor 11 a.m. to noon @ Hinckley Caucus Room (OSH, Room 255) • Women's Week 2007 Keynote Lecture: Unfinished Business: The 10 Most Important Issues Women Face Today: Noon @ Union Saltair Room • Middle East Film Series: "The Syrian Bride": 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts WASHINGTON—Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush's authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over the Iraq war. Officials said Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the leadership had decided to strip from a major military spending bill a requirement for Bush to gain approval from Congress before moving against Iran. Conservative Democrats as well as lawmakers concerned about the possible impact on Israel had argued for the change in strategy. The developments occurred as Democrats pointed toward an initial test vote in the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday on the overall bill, which would require the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by Sept. i, 2008, if not earlier. The measure provides nearly $ioo billion to pay for fighting in two wars, and includes more money than the president requested for operations in Afghanistan and what Democrats • called training and equipment shortages. The White House has issued a veto threat against the bill, and Vice President Dick Cheney at- A soldier of the 6-9 squadron, 3rd brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, searches a suspect just outside Muqdadiyah, Iraq, 60 miles north of Baghdad on Monday. * Panama: Social Challenges, Political Responsibilities: 10:45 am. to 11:35 am. @ Hinckley Caucus Room (OSH, Room 255) Women's Week 2007 Keynote Lecture: Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood & How It Has Undermined Women: 7 p.m. @ Union Saltair Room Modern Dance Senior Concert 730 p.m. @ Hayes Christensen Theatre, Marriott Center for Dance ..; : • - Friday • Saturday Service Project on a Friday!!!: 230 p.m. to 6 p.m. @ Union, Room 101 • Modern Dance Senior Concert: 7:30 p.m. @ Hayes Christensen Theatre, Marriott Center for Dance • "Lost In Yonkers": 8:30 p.m. @ Pioneer Memorial Theatre S 77 Sj • UMFA Third Saturday Activity: Painted Canvas: 2 p.m to 4 p.m. @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts • Modern Dance Senior Concert: 730 p.m. @ Marriott Center for Dance • "Lost In Yonkers": 8 p.m. @ Pioneer Memorial Theatre trade and the difficult immigration issue. It came after Bush and Berger spent the morning visiting villages in the mountains that ring the Guatemalan capital, as Bush sought to emphasize U.S. largesse. They toured an American military center that provides basic medical care and physician training. He and Laura Bush handed out hygiene kits at an elementary school. And the president helped to load lettuce headed for the global market onto a truck at a farmers' cooperative. That, he said later, was "one of the great experiences of my presidency." Bush pleased Guatemalans by promising to push hard—and quickly—for changes that would include a temporary-worker program for illegal workers in the United States. GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala—President Bush's message of goodwill in Latin America ran into a wall in Guatemala on Monday, as he defended his efforts to establish a temporary worker program but gave no ground on the deportation of illegal workers. "The United States will enforce our law," Bush said during a news conference with Guatemalan President Oscar Berger. "It's against the law to hire somebody who's in our country illegally." Deportation is a sore issue in Guatemala, and Bush's host bluntly told him, "The Guatemalan people would have preferred a more clear and positive response—no more deportations." Bush's meetings here with Berger, a conservative leader who has become a strong U.S. ally, were dominated by ers homosexuality to be immoral and the military should not condone it by allowing gay personnel to serve openly, the Chicago Tribune reported. Marine Gen. Peter Pace likened homosexuality to adultery, which he said was also immoral, the newspaper reported on its Web site. 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