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2 Monday, December 7, 2009 BULLETIN 7 Monday Evening snow www.dailyutahchronicle.com 8 Tuesday 28/22 Chance of snow • Garrison Keillor: Stories from Lake Wobegon: 7:30 p.m. @ Kingsbury Hall • New Music Ensemble: Stravinsky in Exile and Recent Developments: 7:30 p.m. @ Dumke Recital Hall, Gardner Hall • Film Screening of "No Impact Man" by High Road for Human Rights: 6 p.m. @ Social Work Building 9 Wednesday 24/17 • Holiday Art Sale: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. @ Gittins Gallery • Graduate String Quartet: 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. @ Dumke Recital Hall, Gardner Hall •A Christmas Story: 8 p.m. @ Pioneer Theatre •TRAILS Indoor Handcycle Spinning classes: 5:30 p.m. @ Rehabilitation Center ATHENS, Greece— Masked youths hurled firebombs and chunks of marble at police during a march in Athens on Sunday to mark the first anniversary of the police shooting of a teenager whose death sparked massive riots. Police fired volleys of tear gas to disperse the youths in running street battles in the center of the capital as several thousand demonstrators commemorated the death of i5-yearold Alexandros Grigoro- A riot policeman's clothing catches fire after demonstrators threw petrol bombs at them, as violence erupted during a poulos. The teenager's march to mark the first anniversary of the police shooting of a teenager, whose death sparked massive riots in Athens death sent youths rampag- on Sunday. Clashes also broke out in Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki. ing through cities for two weeks last December. with protesters in the torbike struck and injured into the building, and he On Sunday, the riot- southern city of Patras a female pedestrian, who was hospitalized in an iners smashed bank win- and the northwestern city was tended to by demon- tensive care unit. dows, overturned trash of Ioannina. strators until an ambuAs night fell, about bins and set them alight At least five protesters lance arrived to transport 200 masked demonstraas they hurled rocks and and 16 police were injured her to a hospital. tors were holed up in the fire crackers at riot po- in the violence, police said. At Athens University, neoclassical university lice. Authorities said 177 Police on motorcy- masked protesters broke building, smashing marble people were detained for cles chased rioters amid into the building and chunks off the university public order offenses in scenes of chaos at Athens' pulled down a Greek flag, steps and ripping up pavAthens and another 103 in main Syntagma Square, replacing it with a black- ing stones from the courtthe northern city of Thes- with youths punching and and-red anarchist banner. yard to use as missiles saloniki, where a similar kicking officers pushed off Authorities said the uni- against the police, before demonstration turned vi- their bikes. One policeman versity's dean was injured eventually leaving the olent. Police also clashed who lost control of his mo- when the youths broke building. White House still lacks Intel on bin Laden Laden had been sheltered in Afghanistan by Taliban allies while plotting the Sept. 11 attacks. When U.S. forces ousted the Taliban in late 2001, bin Laden fled into Pakistan from his mountain redoubt. Asked on CNN's "State of the Union" whether the administration has reliable intelligence on bin Laden's whereabouts, Jones replied, "The best estimate is that he is somewhere in North Waziristan, sometimes on the Pakistani side of the border, sometimes on the Afghan side of the border." He did not comment on the intelligence behind that estimate, nor did he cite a time period or describe more specifically bin Laden's apparent border crossings. Mitchell's writings to be subject of hearings A psychiatrist is expected in federal court Monday to discuss the religious writings of Elizabeth Smart's alleged abductor, a self-proclaimed prophet who is said to have claimed in his work that she went with him willingly as a young girl and with the permission of her parents. Brian David Mitchell drafted the "Book of Immanuel David Isaiah II" after his arrest and interrogations by police in March 2003, according to Dr. Michael Welner, of New York. In the work, Mitchell addresses the charges levied against him and writes that no weapons or violence were used when Smart was taken from her home in June 2002. "He clothes his defense in a religious document," Welner said Friday in U.S. District Court. "But it's advocacy, he's making his best argument." Welner has been paid $5oo,000 to evaluate Mitchell for federal prosecutors. A io-day hearing is being held in Salt Lake City to determine whether Mitchell, 56, is competent to stand trial. The competency hearing enters its second week Monday. Welner said the "Book of Immanuel David Isaiah II" is an addendum to a 27-page manifesto written a few months before Smart's abduction. That tome, the "Book of Immanuel David Isaiah," outlines Mitch- ell's beliefs, drawing heavily from the Bible and the Book of Mormon, and also including ideas from a New Age spiritualist, a lymphologist and other writers. Mitchell, who claimed in his first book that God had made him head of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was indicted in March 2008 by a federal grand jury on charges of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor across state lines. If ever convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in a federal prison. The competency decision rests with U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball. UN climate science head hopes for more US action COPENHAGEN—By executive action, the Obama administration can boost the U.S. target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions beyond levels envisioned in legislation working its way through Congress, the head of the U.N. climate science network said Sunday. "There is scope for going above what is going to be legislated," Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told The Associated Press on the eve of the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen. Senate and House bills capping carbon dioxide emissions would reduce them by 17 to 20 percent by 2020, compared with 2005 levels. Compared with 1990 levels, the standard U.N. benchmark, that's only a 3-4 percent reduction, experts calculate, a contri- bution far short of what scientists said is needed among industrial countries to avoid dangerous climate change. Environmentalists have long urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to act on its own, without Congress, to rein in carbon dioxide, the most important greenhouse gas blamed for global warming. Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court held that greenhouse gases were pollutants under the Clean Air Act, enabling the EPA to take action, but the administration of President George W. Bush opposed using the act to address climate change. Last April, under President Barack Obama, the EPA said for the first time it was ready to use the Clean Air Act to curtail release of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, and other climate-changing pollu- • Star Party: Half an hour after sundown @ Roof of the South Physics Building • COP15 COPENHAGEN: UN Climate Change Panel: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. @ Social Work Building Community Room •A Christmas Story: 8 p.m. @ Pioneer Theatre Weather from the department of atmospheric sciences: http://forecastutah.edu — Anniversary of Greek teen's death sparks new violence gon chief, Robert Gates, said the U.S. has lacked good intelligence on bin Laden for a long time—"I think it has been years"—and did not confirm that he'd slipped into Afghanistan. The failed hunt for bin Laden has been one of the signature frustrations of the global war on terrorism that former President George W. Bush launched after the Sept. 11 attacks. The main explanation given by both the Bush and Obama administrations for not getting bin Laden is that they simply don't know where he is. "If we did, we'd go get him," Gates said. Jones, a retired Marine general, stressed the urgency of targeting bin Laden, and spoke of a renewed campaign to capture or kill him. Bin 29/19 L All stories and photos from The Associated Press WASHINGTON—Osama bin Laden might be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the United States might not have a clue, more than eight years after the alQaida leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America. Given a chance Sunday to clear away some of the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of the world's most wanted terrorist, Obama administration officials seemed to add to it with what appeared to be conflicting assessments. President Barack Obama's national security adviser, James Jones, said bin Laden, believed to be hiding mainly in a rugged area of western Pakistan, might be periodically slipping back into Afghanistan. But Obama's Penta- Snow flurries tion. It did so by declaring that CO2 and five other greenhouse gases are a major hazard to Americans' health. In October, it proposed rules to require emissions reductions by power plants, factories and refineries. Any further U.S. steps to finalize the EPA action could be a major boost to reaching broad agreement here on emissions cuts. In the interview on the outskirts of Copenhagen, Pachauri told AP that U.S. executive action would also be taken to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and to provide incentives to invest in clean-energy public transport. "I think this is a beginning and we can still go several miles beyond this," he said, but "I think the first challenge for the United States is to get this legislation through the Senate." BYU professor killed in crash OREM—A renowned BYU religion professor known for his missionary work in Africa has died after being hit while crossing the street. E. Dale LeBaron, 75, and his wife were in a crosswalk when they were struck by a small truck. Police said the driver was making a left turn with the sun in his eyes and some frost on the windshield and never saw the couple. The accident happened Thursday. LeBaron was a retired professor of church history at BYU. Colleagues said he was the authority on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' missionary work in Africa. Southern Utah University protects gays from discrimination CEDAR CITY—Gay, lesbian and transgender students will now be protected from discrimination at Southern Utah University. The school's board of trustees unanimously voted Friday to amend its anti-discrimination policy to include protection for those with an alternative sexual orientation. 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