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Show 1 Wednesday, April 18,2007 797-1769 statesman@cc.usu.edu Egypt accuses employee of agency of spying for Israel Today's Issue Today is Wednesday, April 18, 2007Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Greg Allen, an Undeclared Freshman from Layton, Utah. Clarifications AndCorrections .;;;..."; 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 Quick Look " """" ] Group wins cases over commandments DENVER (AP) - A religious group seeking to place monuments of its beliefs in two Utah city parks alongside similar ones to the Ten Commandments won court victories Tuesday, including a ruling that allows it to place its Seven Aphorisms alongside the Christian monument in Pleasant Grove. A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the city's claim that it would be inundated with requests from other individuals and that the park would be flooded with monuments. The panel sent the case back to a lower court, granting the groups request for an injunction against the city 30 miles south of Salt Lake City. "The city's speculative harm cannot outweigh a First Amendment injury, especially because Summum has established a substantial likelihood of success on the merits," the panel wrote. Summum claims it follows the teachings of Gnostic Christianity and practices the rites of "modern mummification and transference." It was incorporated in Utah in 1975, according to the group's Web site. Kennedy's cousin seeks new murder trial STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took center stage Tuesday as his convicted cousin sought a new trial for a 1975 murder, describing how he did his own sleuthing when he learned of an account implicating two other men. Michael Skakel, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy, is serving 20 years to life in prison after he was convicted of fatally beating neighbor Martha Moxley with a golf club when they were both 15. His hair is gray and he appeared thinner Tuesday than at his 2002 trial. Kennedy testified that although he and Skakel have not always been close, he felt obligated to get involved in the case because he believes Skakel is innocent. When pressed, Kennedy acknowledged he couldn't find others who saw the men in the neighborhood that fateful night. After the hearing, Kennedy's mother, Ethel Kennedy, also offered her support for her nephew. "I hope justice will be done and Michael will be released soonest," Ethel Kennedy told The Associated Press. "I love him. I feel heartbroken for the Moxley family." CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An engineer from the Egypt's nuclear agency stole documents and gave them to the Israel's Mossad intelligence service in exchange for $17,000, a prosecutor said TXiesday, announcing the man's arrest on espionage charges. The engineer's family denied the accusations. State security prosecutor Hisham Badawi announced that two foreigners, one Japanese and one Irish, were also wanted in the case. Badawi identified the Egyptian engineer as Mohammed Sayed Saber. He said Saber was arrested Feb. 18 after he returned to Egypt from Hong Kong, but authorities withheld news of his detention during the investigation. Saber, 35, stole "important documents" from the Atomic Energy Agency and gave them to Mossad agents in December in Hong Kong in return for $17,000, Badawi said. Saber first met the two foreigners in Hong Kong between 2004- and 2006, Badawi added. Saber's family, however, said the engineer was the one to report to authorities that the people he worked with in Hong Kong were suspicious. The family did not know more specific details. "We leave it to God to take revenge on his behalf. Is this what he gets for informing about them and trying to defend the security of his country? He did nothing wrong," Saber's wife said from her home in Giza, Cairo's twin city. She declined to give her name because of the sensitivity of the issue. • SPYING see page 14 Japanese mayor dies after being shot by organized crime figure TOKYO (AP) - The mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki was shot to death in a brazen attack Tuesday by an organized crime chief apparently enraged that the city refused to compensate him after his car was damaged at a public works construction site, police said. The shooting was rare in a country where handguns are strictly banned and only five politicians are known to have been killed since World War II. Mayor Iccho Ito, 61, was shot twice in the back at point-blank range outside a train station Tuesday evening, Nagasaki police official Rumi Tsujimoto said. One of the bullets struck the mayor's heart and he went into cardiac arrest, according to Nagasaki University Hospital spokesman Kenzo Kusano. Ito died after emergency surgery, said Nagasaki prefectural police official Hirofumi Ito. Tetsuya Shiroo, a senior member of Yamaguchigu'mi, Japan's largest organized crime syndicate, was wrestled to the ground by officers after the attack and arrested, police said. He later admitted to shooting Ito with a handgun with the intent to kill, Nagasaki chief inves- tigator Kazuki Umebayashi said at a news conference. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for a "rigorous investigation." "This murder, which took place in the middle of an election campaign, is a threat to democracy," Abe said early Wednesday. "We must eradicate violence firmly." It was the second attack in the last 20 years against a mayor of Nagasaki, which was destroyed by a U.S. atomic bomb in the closing days of World War II in 1945 and whose leaders have actively campaigned against militarism. In 1990, Mayor Hitoshi Motoshima was shot and seriously wounded after saying that Japans emperor, beloved by rightists, bore some responsibility for World War II. Tuesday's attack appeared to involve a more trivial matter, however. Shiroo reportedly clashed with Nagasaki city > MAYOR DIES see page 14 People MEXICO CITY (AP) - Miss Mexico is toning down her Miss Universe pageant dress — not because it's too slinky or low-cut, but because its bullet-studded belt and | images of hangings from a 1920s uprising have outraged Mexicans. The floor-length ftJEDA dress is accented " with crosses, scapulars and a sketch of a man facing a firing squad. Designers who helped select the dress from among 30 entries argued it represented the nation's culture and history, especially since Mexico City is hosting the pageant in May. Cut from a traditional natural cotton called manta, the dress depicts scenes from the 1926-1929 Cristero war, an uprising by Roman Catholic rebels against Mexico's secular government, which was imposing fiercely anti-clerical laws. Tens of thousands of people died. NEW YORK (AP) - Federal prosecutors have alleged that a low-level career bandit may hold the key to one of the more high-profile mysteries of the hip-hop world: Who killed rap pioneer Jam Master Jay? In court papers, the prosecutors identify Ronald "Tenad" Washington as the armed accomplice of a second unidentified gunman who shot Jay, whose real name was Jason Mizell, inside his New York recording studio in 2002. They say Washington also is a suspect in the 1995 fatal shooting of Randy Walker, a close associate of the late rapper Tbpac Shakur. The papers were filed earlier this month in the federal trial of Washington, who was convicted in a string of armed robberies that occurred just after Jay was killed. Prosecutors declined on Tuesday to discuss the unsolved slayings. Late Night To infinity and beyond David Letterman, April 16 2007 Top TenAitswers To The Question, "How Rainy Is It?" 10. It s so rainy, people are going to Knicks game just to stay dry. 9- It's so rainy, Rosie O'Donnell was feuding with the National Weather Service. 8. It's so rainy, I had to apply an extra coat of Scotchgard to my hairpiece. 7- It's so rainy, Regis' guest host today was the Gorton's Fisherman. 6. Its so rainy, JetBlue delayed all their flights through Labor Day. 5. It's so rainy, Al Gore is planning a documentary on global wetness. 4. Its so rainy, Tom Cruise is lecturing Matt Lauer on precipitation. 3. It's so rainy, Donald TVump has been seen using Miss USA as a flotation device. AP Photo/John Raoux A WORKER ON A PLATFORM performs tasks on an International Space Station Japanese Experiment Module at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The module will serve as an on orbit storage area for materials, tools and supplies. It will be launched with Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-123 scheduled to launch in Feb. 2008. 2. It's so rainy, President Bush is talking about sending FEMA to New York in 2010. 1. It's so rainy, you're stuck inside watching this lame Top Ten List. 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