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Show 2 Wednesday, August 27,2008 BULLETIN www.dailyutahchronicle.com All stories and photos from The Associated Press Clinton salutes Obama at convention DENVTER—Hillary Rodham Clinton summoned the millions of voters who supported her in the primaries to send Barack Obama to the White House Tuesday night, and drew thunderous applause at the Democratic National Convention when she declared her one-time rival is "my candidate and he must be our president." "We don't have a moment to lose or a vote to spare," said the former first lady, writing the final chapter in a quest for the White House every bit as pioneering as Obama's own. The packed convention floor became a sea of white "Hillary" signs as the New York senator—Obama's fiercest rival across 56 primaries and caucusesstrode to the podium for her prime-time speech. The signs were soon replaced with others that read simply, "Unity." While her remarks included a full-throated endorsement of Obama, Clinton did not say whether she would have her name placed in nomination or seek a formal roll call of the states when the party's top prize is awarded by delegates on Wednesday night. Clinton had been the prohibitive favorite for the nomination after she launched her campaign last 85/58 partly Cloudy • Student Job & Volunteer Fair: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. @ Olpin Union Ballroom • Undergraduate Seminar: What's the Difference Between a Meteorologist and an Atmospheric Scientist? 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. @ 1101NSCC ^t • First Week Panic-Free—Food, musk and other activities: all day &•• Union Free Speech AreaMuseum of Fjne Arts 1 fi 2 8 Thursday Sunny 87/60 • 2008 Farmer's Market: 10 a.m.tq 2 p.m. ©Webster's Lawn, just east of 7 Pioneer Memorial Theatre **• • First Week Panic-Free—Food, musk and other activities: all day @ Union Free Speech Area • Monet to Picasso from the Cleveland Museum of Art: all day @ UMFA Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., acknowledges the crowd as she prepares to address the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Tuesday. Calling herself a "proud year, seeking to become class and cozy with big oil. "If he's the answer, then supporter of Obama," Clinthe first female president. But she fell behind Obama the question must be ridicu- ton dismissed Republican after the leadoff Iowa cau- lous," New York Gov. David John McCain with a few cuses in January, and he Paterson said of the GOP choice words. "No way. No how. No now is poised to become presidential candidate. the first black nominee of a Said Ohio Gov. TedMcCain," she said as the major party. Strickland, "It's time to hall erupted in cheers. "We don't need four Obama turned the fea- bring our jobs back and more years...of the last tured speaking slot of the bring our troops home." convention's second night "Call the roll!" urged Ted eight years," she added. Like other failed candiover to Clinton, hoping Sorensen, a party elder she could nudge her disen- eager to propel Obama to- dates at conventions past, Clinton recalled her own chanted supporters toward ward the White House. quest for the White House. his candidacy. Not yet. "You taught me so much, Obama's formal nominaHe called her after her speech to express his ap- tion was set for Wednesday you made me laugh and... you even made me cry," night. First came Clinton. preciation, aides said. The convention hall was she said to supporters in She followed others to the podium who ripped packed for her appearance, the Pepsi Center and milinto Republican McCain as so much so that officials lions more watching on nationwide television. indifferent to the working sealed the entrances. Russia notes independence of Georgian regions . MOSCOW—Russia stunned the West on Tuesday by recognizing the independence claims of two Georgian breakaway regions, and U.S. warships plied the waters off ofTCeorgia in a gambit the.Kremlin safe as gunboat diplomacy. The announcement by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ignored the strong opposition of Europe and the United States, and signaled the Kremlin's determination to shape its neighbors' destinies even at the risk of closing its doors to the West. "We are not afraid of anything, including the prospect of a Cold War," President Dmitry Medvedev said hours after announcing the Kremlin's decision and one day after Parliament had supported the recognition. While the,risk of a military clash with the West seemed remote, the lack of high-level public diplomacy between the White House and the Kremlin added to an uneasy sense here at least of an escalating crisis. Medvedev also promised a Russian military response to a U.S. missile defense system in Europe. Washington says the system would counter threats from Iran and North Korea, but Russia says it is aimed at blunting its nuclear capability. The Kremlin's recognition of the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia suggested it was willing to risk nearly two decades of economic, political and diplomatic bonds with its Cold War antagonists. Medvedev's grim announcement, carried on national television, inspired jubilation on the streets of the rebel capitals. In the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali, a parade of cars bearing the South Ossetian and Russian flags blared their horns, women cried for joy and gunmen fired their weapons in the air. ICE: Nearly 600 detained in Mississippi plant raid LAUREL, Miss.—The largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history has caused panic among Hispanic families in this small southern Mississippi town, where federal agents rounded up nearly 600 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally. One worker caught in Monday's sweep at the Howard Industries transformer plant said fellow workers applauded as immigrants were taken into custody. Federal officials said a tip from a union member prompted them to start investigating several years ago. Fabiola Pena, 21, cradled her 2-year-old daughter as she described a chaotic scene at the plant as the raid began, followed by clapping. "I was crying the whole time. I didn't know what to do," Pena said. "We didn't know what was happening because everyone started running. Some people thought it was a bomb but then we figured out it was immigration." About 100 of the 595 detained workers were released for humanitarian reasons, many of them mothers who were fitted with electronic monitoring bracelets and allowed to go home to their children, officials said. About 475 other workers were transferred to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Jena, La, Nine 2 7 Wednesday who were under 18 were transferred to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. John Foxworth, an attorney representing some of the immigrants, said eight appeared in federal court in Hattiesburg on Tuesday because they face criminal charges for allegedly using false Social Security and residency identification. He said the raid was traumatic for the families. "There was no communication, an immediate loss of any kind of news and a lack of understanding of what's happening to their loved ones," he said. "A complete and utter feeling of helplessness." The superintendent of the county school district said about half of approximately 160 Hispanic students were absent Tuesday. Roberto Velez, pastor at Iglesia Cristiana Peniel, where an estimated 30 to 40 percent of the 200 parishioners were caught up in the raid, said parents were afraid immigration officials would take them. "They didn't send their kids to school today," he said. "How scared is thatr Those detained were from Brazil, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, and Peru, said Barbara Gonzalez, an ICE spokeswoman. Elizabeth Alegria, 26, a Mexican immigrant, was working at the plant Monday when ICE agents stormed in. When they found out she has two sons, ages 4 and 9, she was fitted with a bracelet and told to appear in federal court next month- Her husband, Andres, was not so lucky. "I'm very traumatized because I don't know if they are going to let my husband go and when I will see him," Elizabeth Alegria said through a translator Tuesday as she returned to the Howard Industries parking lot to retrieve her sport utility vehicle. "We have kids without dads and pregnant mothers who got their husbands taken away," said Velez's son, Robert, youth pastor at the church. "It was like a horror story. They got handled like they were criminals." Howard Industries is in Mississippi's Pine Belt region, known for commercial timber growth and chicken processing plants. The tech company produces dozens of products ranging from electrical transformers to medical supplies, according to its Web site. Gonzalez said agents had executed search warrants at both the plant and the company headquarters in nearby Ellisville. She said no company executives had been detained, but this is an "ongoing investigation and yesterday's action was just the first part." [c" H A s N T 0 S L I A T 0 R Y \z_ t? L [I L I1 B A 0 W W E 1 11 1 N T T 1 C R E L Y E 1 R S N 1 L 0 C E N A T Z T E Y S N A S RE I 1 111 i P L 1 A B L E • I I 1 T H E DA D U N E 5 S N A CK M OS R 0 S E V 1 L 1 s D|E D E L IN N E AT L 0 A U R K ME C 1 T S| A T E R| s E D S IT 1 1 1 I1 l •7 • S C A L P E D 1R U S H E E I Hurricane Gustav hits Haiti, drives up oil prices PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Hurricane Gustav dumped torrential rains across southern Haiti on Tuesday, killing at least one man and threatening crops amid protests over high food prices. Oil prices rose on fears the storm could batter oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Trees toppled as the storm lingered for hours over Haiti's poor, deforested southern peninsula, and water levels were rising in banana, bean and vegetable fields. One man was killed in a landslide in the mountain town of Benet, civil protection director Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste told Radio Metropole. "If the rain continues, we'll be flooded," UN. food consultant Jean Gardy said from the southeastern town of Marigot. Hundreds of people in coastal Les Cayes ignored government warnings to seek shelter, instead throwing rocks to protest the high cost of living in the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. - U.S. Number of uninsured drops; poverty holds steady WASHIl^^bN—The number of people without health insurance fell by more than 1 million in 2007, the first annual decline since the Bush administration topko£ficej^he: Census .Bureau reported ^esday. Inc the middle class while* poverty held steady. The numbers represent a scorecard on President Bush's stewardship of the economy at the kitchen-table level. But they only went as far as the end of last year, before the current economic downturn started gathering force. Although there were some bright spots, it was a mixed picture. While the overall poverty rate held steady at 12.5 percent, poverty did rise among some groups. Latinos, children and the foreign-born—demographic categories that overlap considerably—exerienced significant increases. And while the number of uninsured dropped to 45.7 million, down from 47 million in 2006, it was largely because more people were covered through government programs. Corrections 3 , _ . 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 801-581-8317. The article "U researchers prove new facts about chaos theory*' (August 26) misquoted German physicist Boris Fine regarding the impact of a U researcher's' work showing that the behavior of particles in quantum systems can be predicted. Fine said the experiment supports the prediction that quantum mechanics is related to chaos theory. 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