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Show 2 U T AH ^ f S FRIDAY, MARCH 11,2005 T A T E S M A N Contact: 797-1742 statesman@cc.usu.edu Letters link man to murders Today's Issue Today is Friday, March 11, 2005. Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Subash Pandey, a junior majoring in marketing from Nepal. Suspect left suicide notes claiming he killed judge's family BY DON BABWIN Associated Press The policy of The Utah Statesman 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 797-1762 or TSC 105. Hong Kong's leader resigns after 8 years of turbulent rule HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong's leader said he tendered his resignation Thursday because of failing health and repeatedly denied speculation China pushed him out in a bid to tighten its grip on the former British colony and halt a movement toward greater democracy. After ignoring 10 days of rumors that he was quitting, Tbng Chee-hwa called a news conference and announced he wanted to step down with two years left in his term. He said his health problems began late last year. Tung said he tendered his resignation with China's leadership an hour before his announcement and that he hoped China would accept it "as soon as possible." He denied wide speculation that China pushed him out China has "repeatedly affirmed the work that I and my colleagues and the government has done. That (a forced resignation) is not the case at all," he said. Probe says commanders not to blame for prison abuses WASHINGTON (AP) - Top commanders in Iraq put intense pressure on interrogators to extract useful intelligence information from prisoners, yet that does not explain the sexual humiliation and other abuse of prisoners under U.S. control, an investigation has concluded. The report by Navy Vice Adm. Albert T. Church said the pressure was not excessive. The investigation could find no "single, overarching reason" why prisoners under U.S. control were abused at the Abu Ghraib prison complex in fall 2003 and elsewhere in Iraq and Afghanistan. Command pressure for more intelligence was to be expected in a battlefield setting, Church wrote. Church, a former Navy inspector general and now director of the Navy staff, was presenting his report to Congress on Thursday. A copy of a 21-page executive summary was obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. Church concluded that no civilian or uniformed leaders directed or encouraged abuse, and his report holds Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other top defense leaders largely blameless on the narrow question of pressuring interrogators as well as the larger matter of interrogation policies. CHICAGO — A man who filed bizarre, rambling lawsuits over his cancer treatment shot himself to death during a traffic stop outside Milwaukee and left a suicide note claiming he killed the husband and mother of a federal judge who ruled against him, police said Thursday. Bart Ross, a 57-year-old electrician from Chicago, committed suicide Wednesday in West Allis, Wis., after a police ofiicer pulled him over because of a broken taillight on his van. Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline stopped short of declaring the slayings of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow's relatives solved. But he said: "We're satisfied that there's information in the letter that would point us to Ross being in Lefkow's house." Cline also said authorities believe Ross is the same person seen by a witness near the Lefkow home on Feb. 28, the day Lefkow came home to find her 64-year-old husband and 89-year-old mother shot to death in the basement. Until now, investigators had suspected the slayings may have been the work of white supremacists angry over another of Lefkow's rulings. But Ross had no known connections to extremist groups. Last fall, the judge had dismissed a lawsuit in which Ross accused doctors of disfiguring him when they treated him for cancer in the early 1990s. Among other things, he claimed doctors committed a "terrorist act" by giving him radiation without his consent The police superintendent would not speculate on what Ross was doing in the Milwaukee area. But at least one other judge who ruled against him lived there. And a source close to the investigation told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that the suicide note, found in Ross' AP Photo/Nam Y. Hub INVESTIGATORS WEARING protective gloves and booties remove bags of evidence from the Chicago home of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow Wednesday. van, contained the names of judges. Cline said that after Ross killed himself, police and federal agents found a note in which he implicated himself in the murders of Michael Lefkow and Donna Humphrey and recounted the details. MtJROFR SUSPFCT See page 7 2 Annan says governments must define and outlaw terrorism BY ED MCCULLOUGH Associated Press MADRID, Spain - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called Thursday for a world treaty on terrorism that would outlaw attacks targeting civil- • ians and establish a framework for a collective response to the global threat. Although the United Nations and its agencies already have 12 treaties covering terrorism, a universal definition has been elusive. World leaders and officials have had deep disagreements over whether resisters to alleged oppression — for example, Palestinian suicide bombers attacking Israeli targets — are terrorists or freedom fighters; and whether states that use what they think is legitimate force might be branded terrorists. But Annan was categorical in his address Thursday to terrorism experts and world leaders from 50 countries, including Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. "The right to resist occupation ... cannot include the right to deliberately kill or maim civilians," Annan told the conference on democracy, terrorism and security. The United Nations, he said, must proclaim "loud and clear that terrorism can never be accepted or justified in any cause whatsoever." Gonzales pledged to work closely with Europe to strengthen a collective effort against terrorism. "The fight against terrorism is, in the end, a struggle over values," the attorney general said in remarks that stressed the close cooperation between Europe and the United States since the Sept. 11 attacks. "Freedom, not terror, will triumph " Gonzales said. "We will not be divided. And we, not they, will know victory." In his speech, Annan stressed that no country is exempt from attack and that the way forward is coordinated action by like-minded governments, which must reject brutal tactics. "Perhaps the thing that is most vital we deny to terrorists is access to nuclear materials," Annan said. "Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were.... "Were such an attack to occur, it would not only cause widespread death and destruction, but would stagger the world economy and thrust tens of millions of people into dire poverty," he said. Preventing that would justify the use of force. e NEW YORK (AP) - George Lucas says the newest of his "Star Wars" films may get a PG-13 rating., "I don't think I would take a 5- or a 6year-old to this. Its way too strong" Lucas says of "Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" on CBS' "60 Minutes," to air Sunday (7 p.m. EST). "My feeling is that it will probably be a PG-13, so it will be the first 'Star Wars'that's a PG-13." "Revenge of the Sith," the third prequel to the "Star Wars" trilogy, will open May 19. The movie features Anakin Skywalker's transformation to Darth Vader, a descent based on Lucas' vision of hell, a mythical planet composed entirely of erupting volcanos. "We're going to watch him make a pact with the devil," says the director. "The film is more dark... more emotional. It's much more of a tragedy/1 Despite critical pans of Episodes I and II, Lucas says in the interview: "Actually, I am very happy. I'm very pleased with the whole thing" SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - Martina Navratilova is suing the sponsor of a credit card directly marketed to gays and lesbians, saying it uses her name and likeness after her request last month to stop. Navratilova is seeking at least $75,000 in damages from Do Tell Inc., which offers the Rainbow Card. The card helps fund the nonprofit Rainbow Coalition, which promotes the health and social well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. A call seeking comment from Do Tell after hours Wednesday wasn't immediately returned Do Tell had used Navratilova to market the card since 1995 with the tennis star's permission, said the lawsuit, filed Monday. But in late 2004, Navratilova came at odds with the card's marketing, which she called "inappropriate and repugnant" Night Late-night quotes compiled from www.politiadhumor.about.com • "Tonight was Dan Rather's final night on the evening news. Rather says now that he has stepped down as anchor for the CBS 'Evening News,' he wants to spend more time with his grandchildren. Sadly, his grandchildren would rather hang out with Peter Jennings." —Conan O'Brien • "Tomorrow night is Dan Rather's last night as CBS anchorman. It seems like just yesterday he was making up his first news story." —Jay Leno • "President Clinton is going in the hospital tomorrow for surgery. Doctors said it is a low risk, somewhat routine operation. 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