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Show 2 Thursday, August 28,2008 BULLETIN AH stories and photos from The Associated Press Dems choose Obama in historic nod DENVER—Obama stepped triumphantly into history Wednesday night, the first black American to win a major party presidential nomination, as thousands of Democrats transformed their convention hall into a joyful, shouting celebration. Former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton asked delegates to the party convention to make thenverdict unanimous "in the spirit of unity, with the goal of victory." And they did, with a roar. Competing chants of "Obama" and "Yes we can" surged up from the convention floor as the outcome of a carefully scripted roll call of the states was announced. The son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya whom he barely knew, Obama was across town in his hotel suite as the party punched his ticket into the general election campaign against Republican Sen. John McCain. He was expected to briefly visit the Pepsi Center later in the evening to thank the delegates. The polls showed a close race ahead, and Obama was hoping the party would leave its convention united despite the hard feelings remaining from a bruising primary campaign that stretched 2 8 Thursday 86/58 Sunny •2008 Farmers Market: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ©Webster's Lawn, Just east of . Pioneer Memorial Theatre ••} • First Week Panic-Free—Food, musk and other activities: all day @T .3 Union Free Speech Area • Monet to Pfcasso from the Cleveland Museum of Art: all day @ UMFA 29 89/63 Sunny • Utah Volleyball vs. Utah Valley: 7 p.m. @ Utah Crimson Court (HPER East) •Real Salt Lake vs. Colorado Rapids: 7 p.m. @ Rice-Eccles Stadium •Utah Women's Soccer vs. Arizona: 7:30 p.m. @ Ute Field • Monet to Picasso from the Cleveland Museum of Art: all day @ UMFA Delegates celebrate the nomination of Democratic presidential candidate. Sen. Barack Obama, D-IIL, at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Wednesday. over 18 months. Former President Bill Clinton did his part, delivering a strong pitch for the man who outmaneuvered his wife for the nomination. "Everything I've learned in eight years as president and the work I've done since, in America and across the globe, has convinced me that Barack Obama is the man for this job," he said, to loud cheers. Michelle Obama, watching from her seat in the balcony, stood and applauded as the former president praised her man. The convention ends Thursday with Obama's acceptance speech, an event expected to draw a crowd of 75,000 at a nearby football stadium where an elaborate backdrop was under construction. Obama's nomination was the main event of an evening that also included the installation of his choice of Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden as vice presidential running mate. He isn't the first black man to seek the White House, but is the first with a chance to win it. Others, including Jesse Jackson in 1984 and 1988, tailored their appeals largely to blacks or lower-income voters of all races. Obama's reach for po- litical power and history was different, aimed at the broad American political middle. And his nomination, delivered so jubilantly, represents a gamble of sorts by the Democratic Party that a country founded by slave-owners and desegregated only in recent decades—and even then sometimes violently—is ready to place a black man in the Oval Office. Sen. John Kerry, the party's 2004 nominee, said Obama's victory shouldn't be a close call. In some of the strongest anti-McCain rhetoric of the convention week, he said his longtime friend is merely masquer- Bill Clinton forcefully endorses Obama DENVER—Former President Clinton gave a full-throated endorsement to Barack Obama's bid for the White House on Wednesday, telling delegates ;to the Democratic convention that Obama is "ready to lead America and restore American leadership in the world." Clinton pushed back against attacks—initiated by himself and his wife during the bitter primary campaign, and later taken up by Republican John McCain—that Obama is ill-prepared for the White House, especially on matters of national defense. But he also suggested that on such weighty issues, Obama would be leaning on his seasoned vice president, six-term Sen. Joe Biden. "With Joe- Biden's experience and wisdom, supporting Barack Obama's proven understanding, insight and good instincts, America will have the national security leadership we need," Clinton said. Clinton campaigned feverishly for his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her long-fought primary battle against Obama, and took her loss hard. He had not spoken out strongly in support of Obama since he clinched the nomination in June. But Wednesday, he was unambiguous in passing the torch of Democratic leadership to Obama. Jabbing a- finger at thousands of cheering delegates, he declared: "I want all of you who supported her to vote for Barack Obama in November." Running just over 20 minutes, Clinton's speech whipped thousands of delegates into a frenzy. Where a night before they had hoisted "Hillary" banners, on this night they waved American flags, symbols of the unity the fractious party seeks Western nations warn Russia to 'change course' TBILISI, GeorgiaWestern leaders warned the Kremlin on Wednesday to "change course," hoping to keep the conflict from growing into a new Cold War after tensions broadened to imperil a key .nuclear pact and threaten U.S. meat and poultry trade with Russia. Moscow said it was NATO expansion and Western support for Georgia that was causing the new East-West divisions, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lashed out at the United States for using military ships to deliver humanitarian aid to Georgia. Meanwhile, Georgia slashed its embassy staff in Moscow to protest Russia's recognition of the two separatist enclaves that were the flashpoint for the five-day war between the two nations earlier this month. The tensions have spread to the Black Sea, which Russia shares unhappily withthree nations that belong to NATO and two others that desperately want to, Ukraine and Georgia. Some Ukrainians fear Moscow might set its sights on their nation next. In moves evocative of Cold War cat-and-mouse games, a U.S. military ship carrying humanitarian aid docked at a southern Georgian port, and Russia sent a missile cruiser and two other ships to a port farther north in a show of www.dailyutahchronicle.com force. The maneuvering came a day after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had said his nation was "not afraid of anything, including the prospect of a Cold War." For the two superpowers of the first Cold War, the United States and Russia, repercussions from this new conflict could be widespread. Russia's agriculture minister said Moscow could cut poultry and pork import quotas by hundreds of thousands of tons, hitting American producers hard and thereby raising prides for American shoppers. Russians sometimes refer to American poultry imports as "Bush's legs," a reference to the frozen chicken shipped to Russia amid economic troubles following the 1991 Soviet collapse, during George H.W. Bush's presidency. And a key civil nuclear agreement between Moscow and Washington appears likely to be shelved until next year at the earliest. On the diplomatic front, the West's denunciations-of Russia grew louder. Britain's top diplomat equated Moscow's offensive in Georgia with the Soviet tanks that invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague .Spring democratic reforms in 1968, and demanded Russia "change course." "The sight of Russian tanks in a neighboring country on the 40th anniversary of the crushing of the Prague Spring has shown that the temptations of power politics remain," Foreign Secretary David Miliband said. Western leaders have accused Russia of using inappropriate force when it sent tanks and troops into Georgia earlier this month. The Russian move followed a Georgian crackdown on the proRussian South Ossetia. Many of the Russian forces that drove deep into Georgia afterfightingbroke out Aug. 7 have pulled back, but hundreds are estimated to still be manning checkpoints that Russia calls "security zones" inside Georgia proper. German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a phone call to immediately fulfill the EU-brokered cease-fire by pulling all troops out of Georgia. The Kremlin rejected Western criticism, and Tuesday even suggested the conflict could spread. It starkly warned another former Soviet republic, tiny Moldova, that aggression against a breakaway region there could provoke a military response. French President Nicolas Sarkozy accused Russia of trying to redraw the borders of Georgia. His foreign minister went further, suggesting Russia had engaged in "ethnic cleansing" in South Ossetia. ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE •z Z 1MA• B w A Y 1 T A R IR E N E l l G 0 U R MU N D S IR S 0 L 0 IS T 1 N]C Z E S T A E10 B 0 T S|H 0 R AN AHH • A P 1S B Y. 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Gustav killed 15 people on Haiti's deforested southern peninsula, where it dumped 12 inches (30 centimeters) or more of rain. A landslide buried eight people, including a mother and six of her children, in the neighboring Dominican Republic. Gustav weakened to a tropical storm over Haiti, but was expected to become a hurricane again as early as Thursday over the warm Caribbean waters between Cuba and Jamaica. Its expected track pointed directly at the Cayman Islands, an offshore banking center where residents boarded up homes and stocked up on emergency supplies. UTAH Audit criticizes lack of prisoner oversight Failure by the Utah Department of Corrections to adequately monitor its inmates in county jails has put the public at risk and contributed to a recent rash of escaped inmates, a state audit says. About 20 percent of the state's prison inmates are housed in county jails because there is not enough room for them in state prisons. A legislative audit released Wednesday skewers the corrections department for failing to ensure those jails have the proper security procedures in place for its inmates. In September 2007, a pair of convicted killers escaped from the Daggett County Jail and were on the run for six days before being caught in Wyoming. A month later another state inmate convicted of rape and kidnapping escaped from a jail in Beaver County. He was caught aboutfivehours later. Corrections J , _ . 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. Clarification: In the Aug. 27 story "Humanities building now open for classes" by Lana Groves, it was incorrectly implied that the department of philosophy is not pleased with moving their offices to the new building. 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