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Show 2 Monday, March 5,2007 797-1769 statesman@cc.usu.edu People Today's Issue Dedications MlheUem. '". Today is Monday, March 5, 2007Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Robert Carlisle, a senior majoring in psychology from Salt Lake City, Utah. Clarifications And Corrections^y 'V Z] 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 A APPhoto/RahmatGul Obama and Clinton pay respects to civil rights SELMA, Ala. (AP) - Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton crossed campaign paths for the first time Sunday as they paid homage to civil rights activists who they said helped give them the chance to break barriers to the White House. The two candidates and former President Clinton linked arms with activists who 42 years ago were attacked by police with billyclubs during a peaceful voting rights march. "Bloody Sunday" shocked the nation and helped bring attention to the racist voting practices that kept blacks from the polls. "I'm here because somebody marched for ourfreedom,"Obama, who would become the first black president, said from the Brown Chapel AME Church where the march began on March 7,1965. "I'm here because you all sacrificed for me. I stand on the shoulders of giants." Not to be outdone in the hunt for black votes, Hillary Clinton also spoke in Selma at a church three blocks away and brought a secret weapon - her husband. Man suspected of killing his wife is found in cold HARBOR SPRINGS, Mich. (AP) - Wearing neither coat nor shoes, a fugitive suspected of killing and dismembering his wife was found hiding under a fallen tree Sunday in a snowbound state park after a bitterly cold night on the run, authorities said. Police tracked down Stephen Grant about 225 miles north of the suburban Detroit community where body parts believed to be those of his wife were discovered. He was in stable condition and was being treated forfrostbiteand hypothermia under police guard at a hospital. Grant was wearing only slacks, a shirt and socks when he was captured nearly 10 hours after he abandoned a truck and set out on foot in Wilderness State Park near the tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, Emmet County Sheriff Pete Wallin said. He had no weapons and did not resist. "I don't think he probably could have made it much longer in those kind of conditions," Wallin said during a news conference. "I wouldn't want to be out there unless I was dressed for it." A N AFGHAN MAN CRIES as he shouts anti-American slogans after a car bomber attacked an American convoy in Barayekab in Nangarhar province, eastearn Afghanistan, Sunday, March 4. U.S. Marines fleeing a suicide bomber and militant ambush on Sunday opened fire on civilian cars and pedestrians on a busy highway in eastern Afghanistan. Up to 10 people were killed and 35 wounded in the violence, officials said. Hundreds of Afghans gathered to protest the violence, blocking the road and throwing rocks at police. U.S. troops kill civilians BARIKAW, Afghanistan (AP) - An explosives-rigged minivan crashed into a convoy of Marines that U.S. officials said also came under fire from militant gunmen Sunday. As many as 10 people were killed and 34 wounded as the convoy made a frenzied escape, and injured Afghans said the Americans fired on civilian cars and pedestrians as they sped away. U.S. officials said militant gunfire may have killed or injured civilians, but Afghanistan's Interior Ministry and wounded Afghans said most of the bullets were American. Hundreds of angry Afghans protested near the blast site, denouncing the U.S. presence here. As the Americans fled, they treated every car and person along the busy, tree-lined highway as a potential attacker, said Mohammad Khan Katawazi, the district chief of Shinwar in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. "I saw them turning and firing in this direction, then turning and firing in that direction," Ahmed Najib, a 23-year-old hit by a bullet in his right shoulder, said of the U.S. forces. "I even saw a farmer shot by the Americans." Lt. Col. David Accetta, the . top U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan, said gunmen may have fired on U.S. forces at multiple points during the escape. He said it was not yet clear how the casualties happened, though he left open the possibility that U.S. forces had shot civilians. "It's not entirely clear right now if the people killed or wounded by gunfire were killed or wounded by coalition forces gunfire or enemy attackers gunfire," he said. The accusation that U.S. forces killed or wounded so many Afghans was likely to cause an uproar in a country that has seen an untold number of civilians killed by international forces since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. A high-level delegation was appointed to investigate. .,.. Afghan President Hamid. Karzai has pleaded repeatedly for Western troops to take care not to harm civilians, and in December wept during a speech lamenting civilian deaths at the • CIVILIANS see page 9 Domenici admits he spoke to prosecutor WASHINGTON (AP) - New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici acknowledged Sunday that he called a federal prosecutor to ask about a criminal investigation several months after calling for his replacement, but insisted he never pressured nor threatened his state's U.S. attorney. The prosecutor, David Iglesias, was fired by the Justice Department in December. Iglesias says he believes he was dismissed for resisting pressure from two members of Congress before last year's election to rush indictments in a Democratic kickback investigation. Ethics experts said Domenici's conduct may have violated Senate rules, which generally bar communications between members of Congress and federal prosecutors about ongoing criminal investigations. Iglesias, a Republican, has said he would not name the lawmakers unless asked under oath. A House Judiciary subcommittee subpoenaed the prosecutor last week to appear Tuesday and testify under oath. He also was scheduled to appear before a Senate committee the same day. Domenici refused last week to say if he had contacted Iglesias, insisting in a brief interview with the Associated Press, "I have no idea what he s talking about." But in his statement Sunday, the Republican senator said he called Iglesias last year and asked "if he could tell me what was going on in that investigation and give me an idea of what time frame we were looking at. "It was a very brief conversation, which concluded when I was told that the courthouse investigation would be continuing for a lengthy period," Domenici said in the statement. "In retrospect, I regret making that call and I apologize," Domenici said. "However, at no time in that conversation or any other conversation with Mr. Iglesias did I ever tell him what course of action I thought he should take on any legal matter. I have never pressured him nor threatened him in any way." Domenici noted in his statement that he had recommended Iglesias' appointment in 2001, but subsequently became disillusioned with him and recommended to the Justice Department "several months" before the telephone call that he be replaced. • ADMITS see page 9 Brake System Inspection TIRE & AUTOMOTIVE 110 South Highway 165, Providence • 787-1844 885 North Main Street, Logan • 753-2412 Order online at www.webtires.net Hours: 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Saturday FREE MEXICO CITY (AP) - Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin said Sunday his band is working on a new album featuring what he called a quintessential song that everybody should hear "before we die." Martin and his band spoke hours before the final concert of a Latin American tour that took them COLDPLAY to Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The band said it plans to return to the studio after a two-year hiatus to record an album that will have a different sound from "X&Y," which has sold more than 2 million copies since it was released in 2005. "I think for a long time people felt like we were a band in black-andwhite, and now we feel like because we have this incredible job, now we can do whatever we like and try all kinds of new things," Martin said. He added that the record will include what could be Coldplay's best song yet.v I n order for us to get excited about a new album, we have to have one song that we feel like everybody has to hear ... before we die, otherwise well be terribly depressed," Martin said. "So luckily with this new record we're going to make, we have that one song." "I can't tell you about it, but it's basically genius," he joked. 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