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Show I Monday, March 27,2006 797-1769 statesman@cc.usu.edu Rice says U.S. pressing Iraqis for government Today's Issue Dedications Today is Monday, March 27, 2006. Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Meagan Duffy, a senior majoring in elementary education from Layton, Utah. Clarifications •*l 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 KQuickLook '• Immigration debate is heating up in the Senate WASHINGTON (AP) -Founded by immigrants and praised as a haven for the oppressed, the United States now is struggling to decide the fate of as many as 12 million people living in the country illegally. The Senate takes up the emotional debate on the heels of weekend rallies that drew hundreds of thousands of people protesting attempts to toughen laws against immigrants. Among the ideas that President Bush and members of Congress are considering: — Erecting a fence on the Mexico border to deter illegal immigration. — Treating people who sneak across the border as felons to be deported. — Allowing foreigners to stay in the country legally as custodians, dish washers, construction workers and other low-paid employees. — Allowing those working in the U.S. a path to'citizenship. ' — "" — Requiring them to get in line " behind everyone else back in their home countries who want to become Americans. On Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee takes up the issue and Bush headlines a naturalization ceremony for 30 new citizens at Constitution Hall. Demonstrations are planned near the Capitol, including a prayer service with immigration advocates and clergy who plan to wear handcuffs to demonstrate the criminalization of immigration violations. Bush is going to Mexico this week for a meeting with the leaders of Mexico and Canada. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday it's important that Mexico "recognize the importance of defense of the borders and of American laws." Protests raged across the country over the weekend, led by more than 500,000 people who marched through downtown Los Angeles on Saturday in one of the largest demonstrations for any cause in recent U.S. history. Marchers also took to the streets in Phoenix, Milwaukee, Dallas and Columbus, Ohio. The president, working hand-inhand with the business community that relies on cheap labor, is pressuring Congress to allow immigrants to stay in the country legally if they take a job that Americans are unwilling to do. . Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., also supports the idea and has vowed that his committee will advance a bill to the full Senate on Monday, even if they have to work "very, very late into the night." "If they're prepared to work to become American citizens in the long line traditionally of immigrants who have helped make this country, we can have both a nation of laws and a welcoming nation of workers who do some very, very important jobs for our economy," Specter said Sunday on ABC's "This Week." Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has said that whether or not a bill gets out of the Judiciary Committee, he is opening two weeks of debate on the issue Tbesday. He has offered a plan that would tighten borders, add Border Patrol agents and punish employers who hire illegal immigrants because he says the most important concern is improving national security in an age of terrorism. His bill sidesteps the question of temporary work permits, but he has said he's open to the idea. Democrats have said they will do everything they can to block Frists bill Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said Sunday that legislation creating tougher enforcement does not do enough. WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. is pushing Iraqi leaders to step up the pace in forming a unity government, hoping insurgents do not take advantage of the political uncertainty, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday. Echoing military commanders, Rice also said that if Iraqis assume greater control of their country's security, then the U.S. could significantly draw down troops this year. The senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee criticized Rice's "excuses" for the lack of progress and urged President Bush to make clear to Iraqis that U.S. troops will stay only if Iraqis achieve a political compromise. "They're doing it... more slowly than we would hope," Rice said. "And we've pressed that they need to expedite because of the potential for a political vacuum." Negotiations to form a government in Baghdad are now in the third month. Iraqi leaders have predicted a government will be offered to parliament for approval within two months. "I think they're doing a remarkable job," Rice told "Late Edition" on CNN. "The only reason that people are pressing them to get it done more quickly is that there is a violent insurgency that might try to take advantage of the period of time in which there isn't a government." Rice said Iraqi leaders are dealing with "some of the most sensitive and existential issues for the new Iraq," including rules for the government and appointments for specific posts. "This is the first time that Shia, Sunnis and Kurds have really had a chance to sit down and talk to each other about these very difficult issues," she NEW YORK (AP) - Teenage golfer Michelle Wie couldn't believe she played golf with one of her role models, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "I was like, 'Oh my God, it's the secretary of state. They put me in charge of driving her around" in a golf cart, Wie told Time magazine for its issue on newsstands ! Monday. "I was like, if I crash, the secretary of state goes down with me," the 16-year-old Hawaiian high school junior said. When asked what she thought of radio host Rush Limbaugh calling her a "triumph of marketing," Wie, the No. 2 ranked woman golfer, said, "Huh? Who's that?" ; When told he hosts a radio talk show, she said, "I don't listen to the radio much." NEW YORK - Olympic gold medal skier Jonny Moseley is no longer eligible for People magazine's top bachelors list. Moseley married his longtime girlfriend and business manager Malia Rich on Saturday in front of 130 guests in Telluride, Colo., the magazine reported on its Web site Saturday. It was followed by a reception at a private mountaintop resort. Moseley, 30, met Rich, 29, in . high school, and the couple started'-*, dating five years ago and got M; engaged in April 2003, the maga- •_., zine reported. It's their first marriage. .\. A two-time World Cup champ jK who won gold in freestyle skiing in «the 1998 Olympics, Moseley was ••-.-. listed on People's list of Top 50 bachelors in 2002. NEW YORK - For actress LilyTomlin, the 9-to-5 workday -z < • sounds quaint these days. ,/•>.- ..., t The star of the 1980 film "Nine is: to Five" — about three women wha^ turn the tables on their oppressive As male boss —Tomlin said the world ,? now "is just so pressured." "Look at the generation we're v creating, with Survivor and all that stuff," she told Time maga- ,r: zine for its issue on newsstands Monday. .<-. "You're supposed to outwit \| everybody and double-deal," she -d said. "Nine to Five was trying to bring a female sensibility to the , • corporate world, which can really - :.' grind you down to nothing." The 25th anniversary edition of y, the movie is set to be released on .-« DVD this spring. •-, The festival, which includes 24-6 >.. feature and mid-length films and > 126 shorts, will run Sept. 23 to o Oct. 8. '.': NEW YORK (AP) - If you thought Chaka Khan sounded a •/ bit on-key during her performance- y with rapper Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards, you were right. ~ The R&B diva is blam•3 ing strained vocal chords for her screeching performance at Sunday's awards show in Miami. -*3 A statement released Tuesday by her publicist, Brit Reece of PMK/ J HBH, said Khan had to cancel a performance in Park City, Utah, Friday night because her voice was 3 strained and she was under doctors' orders not to perform. i-.j AP Photo/Manuel Bake Ceneta SECRETARY OF STATE Condoleezza Rice, greets the press as she arrives at the NBC studio in northwest Washington, Sunday, March 26,2006. said. Sen; Carl Levin, D-Mich., • ••• who met with Iraqi leaders last week in his role as top Democratic on the Armed Services Committee, said Bush should make it clear to the Iraqis that troops are going to continue to be there only if they work out a political compromise. - That is a message, Levin said, that Iraqi leaders have not yet received. "Instead, they get the kind of >RlCE See page 8 Exit polls give pro-Russian party the most votes in latest Ukranian election KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - A pro-Russia party won the largest chunk of votes in Ukraine's parliamentary elections Sunday, nationwide exit polls indicated, dealing a stinging rebuke to President Viktor Yushchenko's West-leaning administration. Polling stations shut after 15 hours, but voters who had waited in long lines and managed to get inside before the official closing time were allowed to cast ballots, choosing from more than 45 parties that sought seats in the 450-member parliament. Viktor Yanukovych, a proMoscow opposition leader who lost to Yushchenko in the 2004 presidential election forced by the Orange Revolution street protests, declared his party the winner on Sunday. "The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory," Yanukovych said after three exit polls put his party in a comfortable first place. "We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us." The polls gave Yanukovych's party anywhere from 27-5 percent to 33 percent, followed by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenkos bloc with about 23 percent, and Yushchenko's Our Ukraine bloc with between 14 percent and 16 percent. Yushchenko's job was not at stake, but the vote was the first since constitutional reforms trimmed presidential powers and gave broader authority to parliament, including the right to name the prime minister and much of the Cabinet. The victory by Yanukovych's party could potentially give him say over those choices, although he would not have the majority needed to act without parliamentary allies. There were also indications People AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov MEMBERS OF ELECTION COMMISSION sort out ballots at a polling station in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, March 27,2006. The Central Election Commission said the count came from precincts abroad and put Our Ukraine ahead with 36.6 percent, followed by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc with 22.72 percent and pro-Russian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych's party with 14,2 percent. Yushchenko and Tymoshenko, the flamboyant heroine of the Orange Revolution's protests, might be willing to try to patch over their differences so they could form a governing coalition. But many analysts were skeptical that would happen. Yushchenko also seemed to hint he might even consider working with Yanukovych. The president's party has suffered from disillusionment over a sharp economic slowdown and the infighting among former Orange revolution allies. But Yushchenko insisted before voting ended that no matter how his party did, the election was still a victory because it was the most democratic election ever held in Ukraine. "I feel great. It's the kind of feeling you have before a victory," said Yushchenko, who wore an orange tie and stood beside his Chicago-born wife, Kathy, as he voted at Kiev's Independence Square. "Democratic elections always mean victory." Yushchenko, who as president retains the right to set Ukraine's foreign policy and appoint the foreign and defense ministers, pledged the nation would continue on its Westward path. "The vote results will have no impact whatsoever on Ukraine's foreign policy course," he told reporters. Yanukovych, who enjoys broad support in Ukraine's Russian-speaking industrialized east and has ties to its powerful tycoons, advocates improved ties with Moscow and a halt to Ukraine's efforts to join NATO. Once the votes are counted, the political parties face tough negotiations on forming a governing coalition. Yushchenko's and Tymoshenko's parties could • UKRAINE See page 16 Late Night David Letterman, March 22,2006+ Top Ten Signs You're On A Lame • Spring Break ' t-» 10. Your hotel room offers a '\ breathtaking view of the Persian / Gulf. "'* 9. The package is 5 days, 2 nights. 8. Closest thing you get to a sun- ^ burn is a rash from the hotel linens. 7- Instead of a wet T-shirt contest, • there's a less satisfying "wet hat" {j contest. ,.-; 6. Limbo stick looks an awful lot } like a human femur. 5. Difference between the presidential suite and a regular room? ' ' Free Q-Tips. 4. Ask where to take a swim, the concierge suggests mall fountain. ^ 3. The bed in your room is not a 'J water bed but it s awfully damp. ;s 2. Conga line ends at Scientology;-} Center. q 1. Most action you got was when '•} mom kissed you goodbye. « , |