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Show 2 Monday, April 9,2007 797-1769! statesman@cc.usu.edu Today's Issue Dedications ~ Today is Monday, April 9, 2007. Todays issue of The Utah Statesman is published, especially for Ashley Newsom, a freshman majoring in Dental Hygene from Pocatello, Idaho. 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 A QuickiJDok^^vW^ Insider: Mistakes soured Iraqis on U.S. occupation NEW YORK (AP) - In a rueful reflection on what might have been, an Iraqi government insider details in 500 pages the U.S. occupations "shocking" mismanagement of his country - a performance so bad, he writes, that by 2007 Iraqis had "turned their backs on their would-be liberators." "The corroded and corrupt state of Saddam was replaced by the corroded, inefficient, incompetent and corrupt state of the new order," Ali A. Allawi concludes in "The Occupation of Iraq," newly published by Yale University Press. Allawi writes with authority as a member of that "new order," having served as Iraq's trade, defense and finance minister at various times since 2003. Allawi cites the "monumental ignorance" of those in Washington pushing for war in 2002 without "the faintest idea" of Iraq's realities. Seized British sailors can sell stories to media LONDON (AP) - The 15 British sailors and marines held by Iran for nearly two weeks have permission to sell their stories to the media, the Ministry of Defense said Sunday, citing "exceptional" interest. The decision drew complaints from some opposition politicians who said it could tarnish the image of Britain's armed forces. Seven NATO soldiers die in separate bombings KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan on Sunday left seven NATO soldiers dead, the alliance said, as its forces continued an anti-Taliban offensive in the worlds most fertile opium-producing region. It appeared to be the biggest combat loss for foreign troops in Afghanistan since 2005. Six troops died and one was injured when one of the bombs struck their vehicle, the alliance said in a statement. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirmed they were Canadian troops, Canadian Press reported. A separate roadside bomb killed one NATO soldier and wounded two, NATO said. People Al Sadr urges Iraqi security forces to join him in fight against America BAGHDAD (AP) - The powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his militiamen on Sunday to redouble their battle to oust American forces and argued that Iraq's army and police should join him in defeating "your archenemy." The U.S. military announced the weekend deaths of 10 American soldiers, including six killed on Sunday. Security remained so tenuous in the capital on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the U.S. capture of Baghdad that Iraq's military declared a 24-hour ban on all vehicles in the capital from 5 a.m. Monday. The government quickly reinstated Monday as a holiday, just a day after it had decreed that April 9 no longer would be a day off. Among the 10 U.S. deaths announced Sunday were three soldiers killed by a roadside bomb while patrolling south of Baghdad; one killed in an attack south of the capital; and two who died of combat wounds sustained north of the capital, in Diyala and Salahuddin provinces. On Saturday, the military said, four U.S. soldiers were killed in an explosion near their vehicle in Diyala. At least 3,280 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. South of Baghdad, a truck bomb exploded near the Mahmoudiya General Hospital, killing at least 18 people and wounding 23. The pi ckup truck loaded with artillery shells blew apart several buildings in a warren of auto repair shops. Violence in Iraq remained as relentless as the deepening debate in the United States about the way forward in the war four years after Marines and the Army's 3rd Infantry Division swept into the Iraqi capital 20 days into the American invasion. At least 47 people were killed or found dead in violence Sunday, including 17 execution victims dumped in the capital. Al-Sadr commands an enormous following among Iraq's majority Shiites and has close allies in the Shiite-dominated government. The statement Sunday carried his seal and was distributed in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, where the cleric called for an enormous demonstration to mark the fourth anniversary of Baghdad's fall. U.S. officials have said al-Sadr left Iraq for AP Photo/Hadi Mizban SUPPORTERS OF RADICAL A N T I - U . S . CLERIC Muqtada al-Sadr arrive to the holy city of Kufa, Iraq, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Sunday, April 8. al-Sadr called on his supporters to come to the holy cities of Kufa and Najaf to mark the fourth year of the US-led invasion on Monday. neighboring Iran after the start of a U.S. and Iraqi security crackdown. His followers say he is in Iraq. "You, the Iraqi army and police forces, don't walk alongside the occupiers, because they are your archenemy," the al-Sadr statement said. He urged his followers not to attack fellow Iraqis but to turn all their efforts on American forces. "God has ordered you to be patient in front of your enemy, and unify your efforts against them - not against the sons of Iraq," the statement said. Al-Sadr apparently issued the statement in response to three days of clashes between his Mahdi Army militiamen and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops in Diwaniyah, south of Baghdad. In Washington, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent of Connecticut, said al-Sadr's words showed the American troop surge was working. "He is not calling for a resurgence of sectarian conflict. He's striking a nationalist chord. We're going to have to watch him closely. He's not our friend.... He's acknowledging that the surge is working," the senator, a strong backer of the war, said on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer." In Najaf, police spokesman Col. Ali Jiryo said cars were banned from entering the city for 24 hours starting 8 p.m. Sunday. Buses were to be at all entrances of the city to transport arriving demonstrators or other visitors to the city center. Najaf residents would be allowed to drive, he said. Hours after the Mahmoudiya bombing, five charred bodies littered a courtyard. Most of the • IRAQ DEATH Late Night seepage 14 Black colleges not welcoming gays HAMPTON, Va. (AP) - So lured was April Maxwell by the promise of the black college experience, with its distinct traditions and tight-knit campus life, that she enrolled at Hampton University in 2001 without even visiting the campus. A lesbian who is open about her sexual orientation, she arrived eager to join the extended Hampton family. Instead, "I felt like I was the only gay person on campus - it seemed like nobody was really out," said the now 24-year-old Maxwell. She channeled her isolation into organizing a gay support group, but a panel of students and faculty denied it a charter. The panel recently denied a second attempt at chartering Students Promoting Equal Action and Knowledge, or SPEAK. It's a tug-of-war that's emerging at other black schools, where students say outdated rules and homophobia block them from forming the gay campus voice common at majority white institutions. At Hampton, where rules govern everything from overnight guests to student dress, officials insist they don't discriminate against gays. They say they're simply enforcing the regulations on student groups, and there isn't space for another. But some students here see more than a conservative approach to the regulations. They, and many others at the nation's more than 100 historically black colleges and universities, say that a broader suspicion of homosexuality keeps gays in the shadows at these traditionheavy schools. "You've got to recognize the history of HBCUs," said Larry Curtis, vice president for student affairs at Norfolk State University. "Most of them were founded by religious organizations." Church leaders are often cited Brake System Inspection TIRE & AUTOMOTIVE 110 South Highway 105, 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 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose award-winning HB.C." comic strip appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, has died. He was 76. Hart died Saturday while working at his home in Endicott. HART "He had a stroke," his wife, Bobby, said Sunday. "He died at his storyboard." "B.C.," populated by prehistoric cavemen and dinosaurs, was ! launched in 1958 and eventually appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers with an audience of 100 million, according to Creators Syndicate Inc., which distributes it. "He was generally regarded as one of the best cartoonists we've ever had," Hart's friend Mell Lazarus, creator of the "Momma" and "Miss Peach" comic strips, said from his California home. "He was totally original. 'B.C broke ground and led the way for a number of imitators, none of which ever came close." After he graduated from UnionEndicott High School, Hart met Brant Parker, a young cartoonist who became a prime influence and co-creator with Hart of the "Wizard of Id" comic strip. Hart enlisted in the Air Force and began producing cartoons for Pacific Stars and Stripes. He sold his first freelance cartoon to the Saturday Evening Post after his discharge from the military in 1954. He won numerous awards for his work, including the National Cartoonist Society's prestigious Reuben Award twice for Cartoonist of the Year. Later in his career, some of Harts cartoons had religious themes, a reflection of his own Christian faith. That sometimes led to controversy. A strip published on Easter in as setting the tone regarding homosexuality across the black community. Nationwide, black pastors have opposed gay marriage and shot down comparisons between the struggles for civil rights and gay rights; others have attacked "down low" bisexual men for contributing to the rising AIDS rates among black women. On historically black campuses, those tensions make life uncomfortable for gay students. "It's kind of hard to be out on campus and still be successful," said Vincent Allen Jr., head of Safe Space at Atlanta's Morehouse College. "As an out gay man, if I wanted to pledge, that door is pretty much shut to me." Gay students can rightfully request campus inclusion but so too can black administrators can deny it, argued the Rev. William Owens, an HBCU graduate and head of the Coalition of AfricanAmerican Pastors in Memphis, Tenn. EulfureComments'_"_ "1".1~_"J David Letterman Top Tenfor April 9,2007 Top Ten Things You Don't Want to Hear in the Huddle. 10. "Let's get fired up with a tune from 'Dreamgirls.'" 9. "Hey, who's your wife kissing on the Jumbotron?" 8. "Is it bad the defense is flipping through our playbook?" 7. "I think I put my cup on backwards." 6. "That's hilarious! Some guy in the crowd is holding up a 'D' and a 'Fence.'" 5. "Let's run a play that's shaped like a kitty!" 4. "Anybody TiVo last week's 'Ugly Betty?"1 3. "I swallowed my mouth piece." 2. 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