OCR Text |
Show 1 Monday, Dec. 5,2005 797-1769 statesman@cc.usu.edii: Today's Issue Dedications [:l; Today is Monday, Dec. 5, 2005. Todays issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Nick Griffith, a junior majoring in business administration from West Jordan, Utah. People Chinese river spill prompts promises of better safety ynThe News' Lieberthal, a scholar of Chinese politics at the University of Michigan. "This is still an autocratic system. There are things that they just don't want the public to know about." The disaster is a collision DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Seanj "Diddy" Combs made a surprise .,= visit to Chris Evert's charity tennis tournament to meet a teenage cancer patient. For Chalon Keen, 17, of Sunrise, who has been fighting for two years a cancer that creates tumors in her muscle cells, Saturday's visit was a dream come true. Chalon, a patient at the Chris Evert Children's Hospital at Broward General Medical Center, met Combs through the Make-A-Wish "| Foundation. .[ Ava Keen, Chalon's mother, said ' her daughter cried the whole time. i The meeting lifted the teen's spirits as| she and her family prepared to travel, | to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to , undergo tests for a possible bone mar-; row transplant. j NEW YORK (AP) - Steven "] Spielberg is taking on terror. ' His latest film, "Munich," centers T on the aftermath of the killings of 11 I Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics | ! in Munich, Germany. + "I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the-ft stalemate in the Middle East today," Spielberg tells Time magazine in its , Dec. 12 issue. "But it's certainly worth, a try. , Eric Bana ("Troy") stars as a _ ( Mossad agent who leads a secret '' Israeli squad assigned to assassinate 11 Palestinians suspected of planning J the killings. j Spielberg and screenwriter Tony ' \ Kushner would not reveal the identity of the man Bana portrays, whom they* interviewed at length. • SPILL Late Night Clarifications And Corrections^^ 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. National Briefs • •• • • ^ ; •• • ^ t — • * ~ J • • A Quick Look SZ^O^SSSi Warning from former 9/11 commissioners WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. is at great risk for more terrorist attacks because Congress and the White House have failed to enact several strong security measures, members of the former Sept. 11 commission said Sunday. "It's not a priority for the government right now," said the former chairman, Thomas Kean, ahead of the group's release of a report Monday assessing how well its recommendations have been followed. "More than four years after 9/11... people are not paying attention," the former Republican governor of New Jersey said. "God help us if we have another attack." Added Lee Hamilton, the former Democratic vice chairman of the commission: "We believe that another attack will occur. It's not a question of if. We are not as well-prepared as we should be." Land purchase will help protect WWII camp SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The last unprotected land at a former Japanese internment camp in Utah's west desert' has been purchased by a Virginia-based nonprofit. The Conservation Fund and the Topaz Museum paid $150,000 for 92 acres of the former camp, which officials plan to preserve as a monument to people of Japanese descent who were forced from their homes during World War II. About 8,000 people lived in Topaz, near Delta, during the war. The Topaz Museum, which raised half the money, now owns 614 acres of the 640-acre site. The National Trust for Historic Preservation also kicked in a $10,000 grant. Dan Segura, who is leading the Conservation Fund's efforts to purchase and preserve internment camps, said Topaz is an "incredible part of American history . . . It's a tragic story, but it's also a story of courage, resilience and hope." - - : • • *: | ' • • ' ' : • . * • " • " * * * * • - • • • ' • * ' • , • * _ AP Photo RESIDENTS WALK ACROSS the frozen Songhua River in front of smoke stacks at Jiamusi, in China's northeast Heilongjiang province Sunday Dec. 4,2005. A water plant in Jiamusi, a city of about 480,000 people, was shut down Friday, as China's chief environmental regulator resigned, taking the blame for a chemical spill into the Songhua River which has forced five Chinese cities to stop water supply, and strained relations with Russia. The slick of toxic benzene is expected to arrive in Jiamusi Tuesday. JIAMUSI, China (AP) - A new disaster. An outcry that officials failed to warn China's public until it was almost too late. Another promise that next time, the government will do better. China's leaders say they will punish those responsible for a toxic spill in a major river. But there is no sign that they want to change what prompted the angriest criticism - a culture of secrecy that they consider not just a key political weapon but a legitimate way to deal with the Chinese public. "I don't think it's going to produce any fundamental change," said Kenneth see page 13 David Letterman, Dec. 2, 2005 Top Ten Signs You've Hired A Bad Department Store Santa Key al-Qaida associate killed in apparent U.S. rocket attack ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - One of al-Qaida's top five leaders, said to be responsible for planning overseas strikes, was killed by Pakistani security forces in a rocket attack near the Afghan border with U.S. help, American and Pakistani officials said Saturday. Hamza Rabia, a key associate of al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri, died Thursday in an explosion in the North Waziristan tribal area, and his remains were identified in DNA tests, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said. Two U.S. counterterrorism officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because of the information's sensitivity, confirmed Rabia's death but would not elaborate on the circumstances. CATCH Of The officials said Rabia was believed to be an Egyptian and head of al-Qaida's foreign operations, possibly as senior as the No. 3 official in the terrorist group. That would put him in a tier just below Osama bin Laden and al-Zawahri. "He was al-Qaida's No. 5 and this is what we know," Ahmed told The Associated Press. Rabia filled the vacuum created this year by the capture of the previous operations chief, Abu Faraj al-Lib(bi, the two U.S. officials said. As head of operations, Rabia would have been responsible for training, recruiting, networking and, most importantly, planning international terrorist activities outside the Afghan-Pakistan region. One of the officials said Rabia 1' ] : 10. "Fluffy white beard is heavily soiled1 with chaw stains." !' 9. "Lectures each child on the wonders 'f of Scientology." \ also may have been involved in operations inside the region. He had a wide array of jihadist contacts, the other official said, and was believed to be trying to reinvigorate al-Qaida's terrorist operations. The circumstances of Rabia's death were still not clear. NBC, citing anonymous officials, reported Saturday that the attack was launched by a U.S. drone. The Dawn newspaper, also citing sources it did not identify, reported that the attack on a mud-walled home near Miran Shah may have been launched from two pilotless planes. A senior Pakistani intelli- 8. "There's always two or three elves on defibrillator duty." 7. "Tries to snort the fake snow." ' 6. "The suit is more orange and reads 'Auburn Correctional Facility.1" 5. "Every night he walks out with a sacli fulloflpods." 4. "Instead of saying, 'ho, ho, ho,' keepsf mumbling something about 'Jihad.'" 3. "Tells every kid climbing on his lap, H 'Careful of Santa's flask.1" r •V\ 2. "Because of earlier incident, can't go 'i within 50 feet of Victoria's Secret sales-. I • AL-QAIDA 1. "Points out which kids he thinks willi be gay." see page 7 6 Fast Facts Millions work in the shadows Of the 10.3 million unauthorized migrants estimated by the Pew Hispanic Center who live in the United States, 6.8 million of them make up about 4.6 percent of the national workforce. Unauthorized migrants as percentage of total workforce • • 7.0 -10.4 ^ | 5.5-6.7 ^ B 4.1 -4.7 [ ~ H 1.9-3.31 SOURCE: Pew Hispanic Center Take the Poff. I <1.5 AP' |