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Show I Friday, Feb. 24,2006 797-1769 statesman@cc.usu.edu Moscow market roof collapses under snow Today's Issue Today is Friday, Feb. 24, 2006. Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Florence Carroll, a freshman majoring in social work from ' Mapleton, Oregon. People At least 56 people killed despite rescue efforts Clarifications Andrew Blackwell's final sentence in his letter to the editor in-Wednesday's paper should have read:" "So let's quit being weaklings and stand up to these hypocritical, unjustified Ishmaelites.11 We apologize for the misprint. Also, Chase Whitaker was recently listed as an ASUSU elections candidate. He is no longer running. National Briefs Bush campaigns for Republicans MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) - President Bush tried to give a lift to two loyal Republicans in re-election fights Thursday, and the White House said GOP candidates elsewhere were clamoring for his help despite his low poll ratings. On a day when Bush faced open rebellion from leading Republicans as well as Democrats for his administration's approval of a United Arab Emirates company's takeover of significant U.S. port operations, the president flew here to raise over $600,000 for Rep. Chris Chocola, RInd. While not in serious jeopardy for re-election in this fall's congressional elections, Chocola is considered by analysts to be more vulnerable than two years ago. Later, Bush went to Cincinnati to help scoop up more Republican campaign cash, an expected $1 million or more on behalf of Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, who is in a toss-up re-election race with Democratic Rep. Sherrod Brown. Chocola, who flew with Bush on Air Force One from Washington to Indiana, was clearly glad to collect a picture coveted by many candidates - a photo of him pausing at the top of the majestic plane's jetway alongside the president. Later, at the lunch attended by about 600 people at Bethel College Indiana, an evangelical Christian school, the president was repeatedly applauded. The affection was mutual. "He is an honest, decent, downto-earth, practical man who deserves to be re-elected to the United States Congress," the president said of Chocola. "Chris is a rising star." MOSCOW (AP) - Rescuers paused repeatedly in hopes of hearing survivors trapped under concrete and metal beams Thursday after a snowladen roof collapsed on one of Moscow's biggest markets, killing at least 56 people. Investigators blamed the disaster on a buildup of snow after a harsh winter, design flaws or poor maintenance. Workers used metal cutters, hydraulic lifters and pick axes to clear the rubble from the Basmanny market and knelt down to shout into the wreckage in search of survivors. Dogs helped with the search and bright searchlights illuminated the area after dark. One man, a 52-year-old herb seller from Azerbaijan, said he left the market just before the concave roof gave way around 5 a.m. "I heard a loud noise and I fell to the ground and lost consciousness. When I came to, I was lying by the entrance," Ukhtai Salmanov said, his clothes covered in dust. "There was smoke and people were screaming." Fighting back tears, he said he was unable to save his three AP Photo/Misha Japaridze THE WRECKAGE OF THE COLLAPSED market in Moscow, Thursday, Feb. 23,2006. The concave, snow-covered roof of a three-decade-old Moscow market collapsed early Thursday, killing at least 27 people and injuring 24, a spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry said. sisters, who also worked in the huge circular building. At least 56 people were killed and 32 injured, Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Natalya Lukash said. Emergency officials said it was impossible to say how many people had been in the market at the time of the collapse, but survivors and witnesses said there could have been more than 100. The market, where produce, meat and dairy products are sold along with household goods, was closed for retail sales, but wholesalers were getting an early start. Some market workers also were reportedly sleeping in the building. Officials expressed relief the Late Night [QMure Comments;:•__..1113 David Letterman, Top Ten Things About Having The Same Name As A President 10. Andrew Jackson: "When I withdraw money from the bank, instead of asking for twenties, I ask for 'Me's'." >ROOF see page 7 0 9. James Garfield: "Every morning as I walk into Radio Shack, my coworkers have to play 'Hail To The Chief." White House report finds widespread failures during Hurricane Katrina WASHINGTON (AP) - Flawed government planning for major disasters led to rampant confusion during the slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina, the White House concluded Thursday in a report focusing more on fixing shortfalls before the next storm season than on assigning blame. The review described poor communications systems, delays in delivering supplies and overall tumult within the Bush administration, but revealed little new about the plodding federal effort in the days just before and after the storm socked the Gulf Coast last Aug. 29The 228-page document, including 125 recommendations for improvement, adopted a far softer tone than a scathing NEW YORK (AP) - Robert Redford says his Sundance Film Festival, which last month wrapped its 25th season, is "almost to a breaking point." "It's gotten to the point now almost to a breaking point - where there's a fever that has taken over the festival that creates an enormous amount of chaos and excitement and tension," the 68-year-old actor said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. "It's gotten a little bit harder on me." Though the festival has become a larger spectacle over the years, Redford has long refrained from criticism about the changed nature of Sundance. He created the independent film festival in 1981 to bring attention to small-budget films and new talent. Redford named the festival, held annually in the snowy mountains of Utah, after his breakthrough role in 1969 s "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." "The festival that we do is the same one as we did the first year," he said. "We program it exactly the same every year, which is for new voices and more experimental films." 8. George Washington: "I get the History Channel for free." 7. William Henry Harrison: "I don't just say 'no' when my wife wants to redo the kitchen-I veto it." House report issued last week images of suffering and despair and offered scant criticism of from Hurricane Katrina are President Bush, Homeland forever seared into the hearts Security Secretary Michael and memories of all Americans. Chertoff and then-FEMA Those painful images must be Director Michael Brown. the catalyst for change." That House review, written Katrina, one of the worst by a Republican-led committee, natural disasters in U.S. history, blamed all levels of government left more than 1,300 people for the lackluster response that in Louisiana, Mississippi and it said contributed to the deaths Alabama dead, hundreds of and suffering of thousands of thousands homeless and tens of the region's residents. billions of dollars worth of dam"The magnitude of Hurricane age in its wake. Katrina does not excuse our Days after the storm, Bush inadequate preparedness and accepted responsibility for the response, but rather it must faulty federal response and serve as a catalyst for far-reach- ordered White House homeland ing reform and transformation," security adviser Frances Fragos the White House report conTownsend to conduct the intercluded. It added: "Similar to the • KATRINA images of grief and destrucsee page 10 tion on September 11, 2001, the 6. William McKinley: Surefire pickup line: "Want to 'Mount McKinley'?" 5. Richard Nixon: "Nothing." 4. Bill Clinton: "I always get V.I.P. treatment at strip clubs." 3. Zachary Taylor: "I'm named after the guy who ... actually, I'd never heard of him until today." 2. Thomas Jefferson: "When I show up at Colonial Williamsburg, I get more tail than Frank Sinatra." 1. George W. Bush: "It's fun to buy rounds for everyone and send the tab to the White House." 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