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Show 2 BULLETIN Friday, January 25,2008 u At the 25 • U.S.-European Union Relations; 10:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. @ Hinckley Caucus Room, O5H 255 • ASUU Banquet for Cancer: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. @ La Caille Restaurant, 9565 Wasatch Blvd., Sandy, Utah, cost is $125 per ticket *• Saturday - - • - • : T. 26 • The 4th Annual Conference on Social Awareness (COSA 2008): 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. @ Union Building •Men's Basketball vs.TCU: 12 p.m. @ Huntsman Center Sunday •America's Wildest Places: Our National Wildlife Refuges: All day @ Utah Museum of Natural History •Suitcase Paintings: Small Scale Work by Abstract Expressionists: All day @ Utah, Museum of Fine Arts - "5-DAY WEATHER OUTLOOK 29/24 Few Snow Showers Saturday . 39/31 Mostly Sunny Sunday 40/30 Rain/Snow WWW.WEATHER.COM Corrections and Clarifications The policy of The Daily Utah Chronicle is to correct any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like clarified or find unfair, please contact the editor at 801581-8317. Economy pact could mean tax rebate checks by May 57 Cook first, as pie crust 59 Cardiff Giant or Piltdown man 60 Went through 61 Away 62 University with campuses in New York and Rome 63 Zealots have them House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, smiles toward Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, right, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 24, where they discussed a bipartisan economic stimulus package. House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio is at left ually for individuals whose adjusted gross income exceeds $75,000 and for couples with incomes above $150,000. Contributions to IRA and 401GO retirement accounts and health savings accounts would not count toward the income limit. "This package will lead to higher consumer spending and m increased business investment," Bush said in hailing the agreement. The bill will go straight to the House floor next week and on to the Senate, where some Democrats hope to add elements such as extending unemployment benefits for workers whose benefits have run out. Indeed, many Democrats, such as Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., and Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, the liberal lion of the Senate, were deeply unhappy that Pelosi agreed to jettison that proposal in late-stage talks, as well as plans to increase food stamp payments. US would send troops to Pakistan, Pentagon says tional assistance in the weeks since al-Qaida and affiliated extremists have intensified their fighting inside Pakistan. And he stressed that the United States' would respect the Pakistanis' judgment on the utility of American military assistance. "We're not aware of any proposals that the Pakistanis have made to us at this point," he said. "This is clearly an evolving issue. And what we have tried to communicate to the Pakistanis and essentially what we are saying here is we are prepared to look at a range WASHINGTON—The Bush administration is willing to send a small number of U.S. combat troops to Pakistan to help fight the insurgency there if Pakistani authorities ask for such help, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday. "We remain ready, willing and able to assist the Pakistanis and to partner with them to provide additional training, to conduct joint operations, should, they desire to.dp. so," Gates told a news conference. 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Gates made his remarks not as an announcement but in response to questions from reporters at a regularly scheduled news conference in which he also declined to say whether U.S. combat troops have previously crossed the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan to conduct combat operations. Administration paid $5M to Moussaoui tipster WASHINGTON—The Bush administration paid a $5 million reward to a former Minnesota flight instructor who provided authorities with information that led to the arrest and conviction of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. Two colleagues questioned why he got the money. The recipient, Clarence Prevost, was honored Thursday at a closed-door ceremony at the State Department, although the payout was secretly authorized last fall by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the Justice Department, US. officials told The Associated Press. The reward from the State Department's "Rewards for Justice" program is the first and only one to date to a U.S. citizen related to the Sept. n, 2001, terrorist attacks, the officials said. It is also unusual because Moussaoui, who was imprisoned at the time of the attacks, was never named as a wanted suspect by the program. The program mainly seeks information about perpetrators or planners of terrorist acts against U.S. interests and citizens abroad. The State Department would not identify the recipient, citing privacy and security concerns. Two administration officials, however, said the reward went to Prevost, a key witness at Moussaoui's trial who has previously spoken out about his involvement in the case. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. \ Prevost, 69, is a former Navy pilot who later flew for Northwest Airlines and goes by his nickname "Clancy." He was Moussaoui*s flight instructor at the Pan Am International Flight Academy outside Minneapolis. He was one of several people who worked at the flight school that Moussaoui attended in August 2001 and who alerted the FBI to his suspicious desire to pilot jumbo jets. News of the reward came as a surprise to two other Pan Am flight instructors, Tun Nelson and Hugh Sims, who also have been credited with tipping the FBI. BEAUFORT, S.C.—Democrat • Barack Obama suggested Thurs- • day that Hillary Rodham Clinton cannot be trusted to make good judgments on national security and military matters, citing her , Iraq war vote. •' Obama, accusing the New York senator of trying "to rewrite history," said Clinton still contends that her 2002 vote authorizing military intervention in Iraq was "not really a vote for war." "She cast her vote after failing to read the national intelligence : estimates on Iraq," which raised doubts in some lawmakers' minds about the justification of ousting Saddam Hussein, Obama said during a discussion with armed service members. Obama, who was in the Illinois Senate at the time, publicly opposed the invasion. Zac Wright, a Clinton campaign spokesman in South CaroUna, said it was "tough to take his comments too seriously." "There hasn't been much action to match Senator Obama's talk," Wright said. Text messages reveal Detroit mayor's affair with top aide DETROIT—Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick bristled in the witness chair last year when asked whether he had an affair with a top aide. No, the mayor confidently told jurors, the two were never romantically involved. But a trove of 14,000 text messages that emerged this week tell a different story: The mayor. and his chief of staff carried on a. flirty, sometimes sexually explicit dialogue about where to" meet andhow to conceal their numerous trysts. Now the mayor's indiscretion has landed him in a Clintonstyle scandal that could cost him his job, his law license, and even bring perjury charges. _'. "I think the mayor needs to take; responsibility for the situation,"; City Councilwoman Sheila Cocfcrel said Thursday. In politics, she said, "you operate in afishbowL"_ The Detroit Free Press did not; explain exactly how it obtained: the messages, which were sent or received in 2002-2003 from Chief of Staff Christine Beatty's cityissued pager. The newspaper said it cross-referenced the messages with the mayor's private calendar and credit card records to verify events in some of the notes. ^- Egyptians steer border traffic • RAFAH, Gaza Strip—Egyptian -•;* border guards wielding clubs and T-t electric prods directed throngs of.c ) Palestinians as they crossed into '• i Egypt for a second day Thursday, »i but made little attempt to block \* the flow from Gaza. ^ Still, Egyptian officials warned ~* the Gazans' brief bliss of freedom, y$ shopping and visiting relatives '•'* will soon come to an end with the j resealing of the border. "J For the second day in a row, j ^ scenes of frenzy, chaos and joy ^ played out at the Gaza-Egypt bor- «g der. Guards channeled crowds £* through a handful of openings, >-? where Palestinians pushed, ^ shputed, and jostled their way Jp in$o Egypt, braving a gauntlet of *£ cows, camels, fertilizer, food truckloads of cement * Sudoku™ I www.sudoku.com 8 9 3 2 5 2 9 •3 5 6 6 9 4 6 • W. ; '• -THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE —7 CONTACT INFORMATION 5 7 1 8 6 4 8 9 1 6 7 2, :. 3 7 5 i Obama resurrects Clinton's Iraq war vote, judgment WASHINGTON—With unprecedented speed and cooperation, Congress and the White House forged a deal Thursday to begin rushing tax rebates of $600 to $1,200 to most tax filers by spring, hoping they will spend the money just as quickly and jolt the ailing economy to life. Rebates would be even higher for families with children. The one-time tax rebates are at the center of a hard-won agreement to pump about $150 billion into the economy this year and perhaps stave off the first recession since 2001. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Republican leader John Boehner and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson worked out the details in negotiations that stretched into Wednesday night at the CapitoL About two-thirds of the tax relief would go out in rebate checks to 117 million families beginning in May. Businesses would get $50 billion in incentives to invest in new plants and equipment. Individual taxpayers would get up to $600 in rebates, working couples $1,200 and those with children an additional $300 per child under the agreement. In a key concession to Democrats, 35 million families who make at least $3,000 but don't pay taxes would get $300 rebates. 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