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Show 2 BULLETIN Thursday, June 14,2007 u At the tomorrow All stories and photos from The Associated Press Atlantis' return to Earth delayed due to glitch ^15 - Last day to reverse CR/NC option for first session classes: Summer 2007 academic deadline • Binding Structure & Story: 9 a.m.to 5 p.m.@The Book Arts Program at the Marriott Library > Graduate Dissertation: 10 a.m.to noon @ Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium *.-•*..; <; ^>• Honk! Jr (Youth Theatre at the U): 7 p.m.@ Babcock theatre Saturday www.dailyutahchronicle.com HOUSTON—The failure of Russian computers which control the international space station's positioning have NASA managers considering another extension of space shuttle Atlantis' visit to the orbiting outpost, officials said Wednesday. Since the computers failed earlier this week, thrusters on the docked space shuttle have been fired periodically to help maintain the space station*s positioning. NASA managers hoped to have the computers back up before Atlantis and its seven crew members undock from the space station next Tuesday. But if the computers aren't functioning, NASA may look into extending the space shuttle's stay a day or two. Atlantis' mission, originally scheduled for II days, was extended by two days already so that astronauts can go on a spacewalk to repair a thermal blanket covering an engine pod that peeled up during launch. Space station program manager Mike Suffredini said he expected the problem to be fixed in the next couple of days. In a worst-case scenario, if at least one of the computers wasn't operating after the shuttle left, the space station's three crew members could return to Earth, he said. "We always have an option to depart," Suffredini said. On Wednesday, two astronauts went on a spacewalk to complete 316 • Revisiting Utah's Past: All day @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts • Binding Structure & Story: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. @ The Book Arts Program at the Marriott Library •"LesMIserablesn:2p.m. and8p.m.@ Pioneer Memorial Theatre - Honk! Jr (Youth Theatre at the U): 7 p.m. @ Babcock Theatre Sunday • Revisiting Utah's Past: AH day @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts ..^ • Head Trip: Around the World in Forty Hats: All day @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts ' • Toadally Frogs!: All day @ Utah Museum of Natural History ; '•'•"' V . • • *i ' -DAY WEATHER OUTLOOK In this photo provided by NASA, space shuttle Atlantis astronauts Steven Swan son, foreground, Jim Reilly, left and International space station astronaut Sunita L. Williams, work the controls of the space station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) or Canadarm2, in the Destiny laboratory of the International space station while Atlantis was docked with the station, Tuesday, June 12. two tasks. They helped fold up a solar wing and tried to bring to life a rotating joint that,will allow a new pair of solar arrays to track the sun. The spacewalk began at 2:28 p.m. EDT as the astronauts were 206 miles above eastern Europe and ended more than seven hours later. Space shuttle Atlantis astronauts Patrick Forrester and Steve Swanson spent the first two hours helping to put the 115-foot solar wing away in its storage box. The astronauts finished the space- walk before the joint was ready to rotate because it wasn't properly responding to remote commands from Mission Control. Astronauts will have to finish the task on another spacewalk. A few hours before the walk started, astronauts began retracting the solar wing's 311/2 sections by computer command. NASA hopes to finish folding up the solar wing Thursday. The wing's retraction appeared to go fairly smoothly on Wednesday. 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Fatah's forces were crumbling fast, with some fighters seen fleeing their security posts and hundreds of others surrendering, hands raised, to masked Hamas gunmen. A Hamas military victory in Gaza could split Palestinians into a Hamas-controlled Gaza and a Fatah-run West Bank, and push the prospect of statehood even further away. It could also set the stage for a bloody confrontation with Israel, which might intervene to ; prevent attacks from Gaza. In the southern town of Khan Younis, Hamas militants surrounded a security headquarters and warned everyone inside to leave or they would blow it up, witnesses said. The building was then destroyed by a bomb planted in a tunnel underneath it, said Ali Qaisi, a presidential guard spokesman. An Associated Press reporter saw defeated Fatah fighters streaming out of the building after turning over their weapons to Hamas militants. Hamas took weapons, clothes and vehicles and flew a green Islamic flag over the building, then celebrated by firing in the air and passing out candy. Security forces later said they had lost control of the town. "Khan Younis is finished,*7 said Ziad Sarafandi, a senior •security official. At least 20 people were killed in fighting Wednesday. A Hamas militant was killed in a clash early Thursday in the southern town of Rafah, hospital officials said, bringing the total in four days of infighting to over 60. As governor, Romney opposed pardons 59 E-mailed, e.g. 15 Little extra action 1 Seung-Hui Cho, who in April killed 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech before taking his own life, had been ordered to undergo outpatient mental health treatment and should have been barred from buying the two guns he used in the rampage. But the state of Virginia never forwarded this information to the national background check system. Edited by Will Shortz 56 Lab that's nol ACROSS the hands of those barred from buying them, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. The measure would require states to automate their -lists of convicted criminals and the mentally ill who are prohibited under a 1968 law from buying firearms, and report those lists to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS. Hamas close to controlling Gaza Strip 5 1 #1 1 1 • 1 'WWW dfillVUtflnrhrntltrlP mitt M l w w v t vv vv ^ . " " » 7 " " " • * « - - • M / I 1» .•>i.-^/,- -,. ----y--v,-.-. -, *. •- ... CONTACT INFORMATION BOSTON—Decorated Iraq war veteran Anthony Circosta seemed like an ideal candidate for a pardon from then-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for his boyhood conviction for a BB gun shooting. Romney said no—twice— despite the recommendation of the state's Board of Pardons. At age 13, Circosta was convicted of assault for shooting another boy in the arm with a BB gun, a shot that didn't break the skin. Circosta worked his way through college, joined the Army National Guard and led a platoon of 20 soldiers in Iraq's deadly Sunni triangle. • In 2005, as he was serving in Iraq, he sought a pardon to fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer, "I've done everything I can to give back to my state and my community and my country and to get brushed aside is very frustrating," said Circosta, 29, of Agawam, Mass. "I'm not some shlub off the street." Advertising 801 581.7041 EDITOR IN CHIEF Matthew Piper Editorial MANAGING EDITOR Becca Krahenbuhl DIRECTOR OF PRESENTATION Editor in Chief* m.piper@chronicle.utah.edu Eric Geerllngs Press contact • press@chronicle.utah.edu PRODUCTION MANAGER Editorial letters • ietters@chronide.utah.edu ArianaTorrey ONLINE EDITOR Andy T h o m p s o n Business NEWS EDITOR * Dustin Gardiner ASST. NEWS EDITOR • General Manager- j.sorensen@chronide.utah.edu Ana Breton Director of Advertising • tMurtado@chivnicle.utah.edu In his presidential bid, Romney often proudly points out that he was thefirstgovernor in modem Massachusetts history to deny every request for a pardon or commutation during his four years in office. He says he refused pardons because he didn't want to overturn a jury. But critics argue that the blanket policy is an abdication of a key power given governors and the president—the ability to recognize how someone convicted of a past crime has turned their life around. During the four years Romney was in office, 100 requests for commutations and 172 requests for pardons were filed in the state. All were denied. "Governor Romney's view is tha{ it would take a compelling set of circumstances to set aside the punishment and guilt resulting from a criminal trial," said Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom, who added he was not familiar with Circosta's case. "The power to pardon should only be used in extraordinary circumstances." While he refused all requests for pardons as governor, Romney has said that could change if he's elected president. Asked in last week's debate if he would consider pardoning Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was convicted of lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation, Romney said: "It's worth looking at that. I will study it very closely if I'm lucky enough to be president. And I'd keep that option open." * For Circosta, who works as a project manager for disaster restoration company, Romney's refusal is an ongoing source of frustration. "I understand the political side, but I don't see in any way how it could hurt the campaign," Circosta said. "I'm decorated. I have a Bronze Star. I guess he just didn't want to sign it. It's obviously politically motivated and I don't know why." News 801 581.NEWS ASST. 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