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Show 1 Monday, March 6,2006 797-1769;; statesman@cc.usu.edu" Iran gives U.N. warning about nuclear program Today's Issue Today is Monday, March 6, 2006. Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Kyle Liljenquist, a junior majoring in construction management from West Jordan, Utah. Clarifications Andf 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 AT&T agrees to buy Bellsouth for $67 billion ATLANTA (AP) - AT&T Inc. is buying BellSouth Corp. for $67 billion in stock in a bid that further consolidates the telecommunications industry and would give AT&T total control of their growing joint venture, Cingular Wireless LLC. The proposed purchase, announced Sunday, also goes a long way toward resurrecting the old Ma Bell telephone system, which was broken apart in 1984. The merged company would have 70 million local-line phone customers, 54.1 million wireless subscribers and nearly 10 million broadband subscribers in the 22 states where they now operate. The deal appears to be the largest yet among U.S. telecom players. In 1999, MCI WorldCom Inc. agreed to buy Sprint Corp. for an even larger sum, $115 billion, but that deal was blocked by federal regulators. Internationally, Britain)? . Vodafone Airtouch PLC paid $180 billion in stock for. Mannesmann ,AQ of, Germany in 2000. The sale, which is subject to regulator)' and shareholder approvals, would give San Antonio-based AT&T total control over Atlanta-based BellSouth's nine-state network and its share of Cingular. AT&T currently owns a 60 percent share of the nation's No. 1 cell phone provider, while BellSouth has 40 percent. The deal would substantially expand the reach of AT&T, already the country's largest telecommunications company by the number of customers served. After spending millions of dollars to rebrand AT&T Wireless Sendees Inc. stores as Cingular stores and hundreds of millions of dollars more on marketing the new Cingular after its $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless in October 2004, Cingular will now become AT&T if the merger with BellSouth is completed. VIENNA, Austria (AP) — A defiant Iran warned the 35 nations on the International Atomic Energy Agency's board Sunday that it will press ahead with full-scale uranium enrichment if they push for United Nations action over suspicions that Tehran is seeking nuclear arms. The comment came as the board prepared to meet Monday to discuss referring Iran to the U.N. Security Council, but delegates said whatever step the council might take would stop far short of sanctions. John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Sunday there was an urgent need to confront Iran's "clear and unrelenting drive" for nuclear weapons. Iran "must be made aware that if it continues down the path of international isolation, there will be tangible and painful consequences," Bolton told the conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, an an influential pro-Israel lobbying group. But Iran's government cautioned that putting the issue before the Security Council would hurt efforts to resolve the dispute diplomatically. "If Iran's nuclear dossier is referred to the U.N. Security Council, (large-scale) uranium AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian IRAN'S TOP NUCLEAR negotiator Ali Larijani listens to a question from the media during a news conference in Tehran, on Sunday March 5,2006. Iran warned Sunday that it will start large-scale uranium enrichment if it is referred to the U.N. Security Council. enrichment will be resumed," Iran's top negotiator, Ali Larijani, told reporters in Tehran. "If they want to use force, we will pursue our own path." Larijani said Iran will not abandon nuclear research, or back down from pursuing an atomic program that Tehran insists has the sole purpose of generating electricity with nuclear reactors. IAEA delegates suggested the U.N. agency's board will not push for confrontation with Iran and said any initial decisions by the Security Council based on the outcome of the meeting will be mild. They said the most likely action from the council would be a statement urging Iran to resume its freeze on uranium enrichment — an activity that >IRAN See page 7 6 Guantanamo detainees despair of ever leaving military prison - • r , — • N*J'l .m fi TfiHWB i Ira* • * 1 < V t !H j | 1 1 1 1 1 1 i i i i i ! I •"• 1 t t - ' • * \ 4 Vi,.<: ! (%r*'4 • » • »« ' I i i 1 • v < fe'V •- ; *^--- M W Jessica Alexander/jatexandert&xcusu.edu IN THIS WEDNESDAY, July 6,2005 file photo, a detainee spends time outside his cell at Camp Delta Four in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba. GUANTANAMO BAY . . NAVAL BASE, Cuba.(AP) Ahamed Abdul Aziz has been in the Guantanamo Bay prison for more than three years and, by his account, has been interrogated 50 times without being charged with any crime. He waits with anguish for freedom but fears it will never come. "We are in a grave here," he told his lawyers, echoing the despair felt by many of the roughly 490 prisoners held as suspected terrorists at the U.S. naval base in eastern Cuba. Charges have been filed against only 10 of them. Transcripts of hearings, which the Pentagon released Friday after a successful Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by The Associated Press, show the frustration among prisoners waiting for the military to decide wheth- er to charge them, transfer them or release them. "I don't want to spend any more time here. Not one more minute," Afghan prisoner Mohammed Gul said at a combat status review tribunal. Another unidentified Afghan man told his tribunal: "I was not a Taliban. I was not against the Americans. I want to go home." An Afghan man, identified only as Abdul in one of the transcripts, urged U.S. military officers overseeing his tribunal to free him so he could feed his family. "I don't know what they have to eat," he said. The United States has released or transferred to authorities in their home countries • GUANTANAMO See page 7 6 People NEW YORK (AP) - Macaulay Culkin wonders where he fits into Hollywood these days. "I don't know what people want from me," the grown-up child star of the "Home Alone" movies told Time magazine. "I'm the most out-of-work actor I know," said Culkin, who has a semiautobiographical, stream-of-consciousness novel, "Junior," due out this month. / "In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living." He said he had considered a career in sports management, ; instead of acting, Time reports in its ' edition hitting newsstands Monday. "Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see,M he told Time. Culkin, 25, said he has talked by i phone once with his friend Michael • -' Jackson since the singer left the United States and described him as "doing OK." DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - Bob Geldof, the singer who has won international acclaim for humanitaiv . ian efforts, received the "freedom of •! the city" Sunday from his hometown — an honor that permits him the rarely exercised right to graze sheep " in the city's central park. "It is raining and it's cold, but it is a beautiful day," Geldof said outside the official residence of Dublin's lord mayor, Catherine Byrne, where he accepted a Waterford crystal globe in recognition of his two decades of . fundraising for the poor. Geldof, a frequent campaigner alongside fellow Irish rocker Bono, organized the landmark Live Aid concert in aid of famine relief in Ethiopia in 1985 and repeated the feat with the Live 8 concert last year in Scotland. He was joined Sunday by his 91- " year-old father, Bob Geldof Sr., and •; •three oi his daughters. • " • • - ••-.-•-wr Late Night David'Letterman, March. 3, 2006 Top Ten Signs Your Cat Is Too Fat 10. Gets winded purring. 9. Instead of trying to run from dogs, sits on them. 8. The Maury people call every damn hour. 7. Ears perk up whenever you mention Wendy's Free Fixin's Bar. 6. He used 8 lives on heart attacks. 5. Cat carrier is a Ford Escort. 4. Richard Simmons' cat staged intervention. 3. Can only wear cute sweaters from the Big and Tall Kitty Shop. 2. Litter box so huge, it has nude bathing section. 1. Instead of "meow" he says, "mayo."" ' " ' '• '> ' ' • •' FastFacts [ s You NeecTtoKnoW:.;;:,1 CATCH dlarlisburg • B r a i * jBtonelep Largest forest land sell-off in decades The Bush administration is proposing to sell more than 300,000 acres of forests and other public land to help pay for rural schools. 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