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Show Monday, Oct. I, 200: Page 2 >l > . • . ' • ClarifyCorrect 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. Nflf/Briefs Wall Street nervous over housing slump NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street is on surer footing than it was a month ago, but it enters the fourth quarter with many questions still unanswered about the health of the nation's economy and corporations. The Dow Jones industrial average is Dnly about 100 points below its record, and investors appear to be more confident the Federal Reserve mil do what it can to keep the economy from slipping into recession. The third quarter, after all the tumult in the housing and credit markets this summer, ended with the Dow up 3.6 percent after the Federal Reserve lowered key interest rates. However, not everything that keeps the stock market afloat is under the Fed's control. The housing market is the weakest it's been in years, and some homebuilders have said recently that they see conditions deteriorating through next year. The financial markets remain unsure how problems with spiking mortgage defaults and excessively leveraged debt will shake out. • -• - - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson had the winning game plan at the box office. Disney's "The Game Plan," starring Johnson as a football quarterback whose bachelor lifestyle is disrupted by the arrival of a daughter he never knew he had, opened as the top weekend flick with $22.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The weekend had looked like it would be a show- JOHNSON A N D down between SEDGWICK "The Game Plan" and Universal's Middle East thriller "The Kingdom," which stars Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner as members of a U.S. team investigating a terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia. But "The Kingdom" fell short, debuting at No. 2 with a solid $17.7 million. The previous weekend's top movie, Sony's action tale "Resident Evil: Extinction," fell a steep 66 percent from its opening-weekend gross, finishing in third place with $8 million and raising its total to $36.8 million. Johnson was the latest action hero aiming to broaden his audience with a family film. With a PG rating, "The Game Plan" took advantage of a long dry spell for kid-friendly movies, as parents with children made up two-thirds of the audience. "There was definitely pent-up demand for people who don't necessarily want to go to the heavy R-rated films," said Chuck Viane, head of distribution for Disney. "The entire general audience has been underserved lately." "The Kingdom" faced heavy competition from other violent R-rated films. Though not an overtly political film, "The Kingdom" also had to test audience interest for action tales set against the war on terrorism. "If you're going to tell stories like this, you're going to tell stories of what's actually going on in our world." said Nikki Rocco, head of distribution. Today is N4onday, Oct. 1, 2007. Today's issue of The Utah Statesman is published especially for Kristi Colledge, a sophomore majoring in piano performance from Bountiful, Utah. LAS VEGAS (AP) - A man accused of holding and showing off a tape depicting the sexual assault of a 3-year-old girl was taken into custody Sunday, authorities said. Darrin Tuck, 26, arranged to surrender after evading arrest since Friday, said Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo. Prosecutors are set to charge Tuck with possession of child pornography and possibly promoting child pornography on Monday, DeMeo said. Tuck has told authorities he found the tape in the desert, but authorities said he possessed it for as long as five months before turning it in. The girl in the tape was located after authorities on Friday released information they would not normally disclose in order to get tips from the public, including a picture, DeMeo said. The widespread media attention led someone to call the girl's mother, who contacted police but did not know about the assault, authorities said. Tuck's defense lawyer, Harry Kuehn of Gibson & Kuehn in Pahrump, said he was unaware his client had surrendered, but noted it was "a good thing." He also denied that his client had showed the video to others. i i Celebs&Peopte Torfgy'slssue Nevada man accused of showing sex tape J —%.— P H I L A D E L P H I A D I S T R I C T A T T O R N E Y L Y N N A B R A H A M , left, flanked by Keith R. Sadler, second left, and Patricia Giorgio-Fox, and Ed McCann, makes remarks during a news conference in Philadelphia,Tuesday, Sept. 4. AP Photo Scandals old and new plague Chicago's police department CHICAGO (AP) - Videotapes of angry officers savagely beating civilians and charges that a murder plot was hatched within an elite special operations unit have Chicago's troubled police department reeling again. Adding to the department's woes is word from federal prosecutors that they are investigating claims that homicide detectives tortured suspects into confessing to murders that landed them on death row in the 1980s. Not since club-swinging cops in baby-blue helmets chased demonstrators through clouds of pepper gas at the 1968 Democratic National Convention have Chicago police been so awash in trouble. The biggest shock came Wednesday when federal prosecutors charged special operations officer Jerome Finnigan with planning the murder of another member of the unit to keep him from talking to the government. "This kind of stuff on Page One is just horrible," and reinforces a misleading stereotype of police, said Roosevelt University political scientist Paul Green, who taught at the police academy for four years. "The overwhelming 99.9 percent do their job professionally," he said. But evidence of deep-rooted problems is piling up. Finnigan, 44, also is one of six members of the special operations unit, created to crack down on gangs and drugs, who are charged with operating a shakedown operation aimed at civilians. Prosecutors say they have him on tape weighing the possibility of having someone kill a fellow special operations officer to keep him from becoming a witness against him. Finnigan and his attorney, Michael Ficaro, declined to comment. In July, three off-duty officers pleaded not guilty to charges that they beat four businessmen in a bar in a videotaped confrontation. In another videotaped confrontation, off-duty officer Anthony Abbate was seen apparently beating a 115pound female bartender because she would not serve him another drink. Abbate has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of aggravated battery. The quagmire is deepened by five federal lawsuits accusing police and city officials of covering up the torture of murder suspects at the Area 2 detective headquarters under violent crimes Lt. Jon Burge in the 1980s. Burge was fired in 1993 after a suspect in the murder of two officers allegedly was abused while in his custody. A four-year study by two special prosecutors appointed by a Cook County judge, released in July 2006, found that Chicago police beat, kicked and shocked scores of black suspects in the 1970s and 1980s to get confessions. The report said it was impossible to file charges because the incidents were so old that the statute of limitations had long since run out. LateNiteHumor Top Ten Questions To Ask Yourself Before Buying A $14,500 Dessert, from Sept. 28,2007. UN members respond 'overwhelmingly' on gun treaty, as lobbyists gird for showdown 10- "Does my kid really need a college education?" 9 - "Do I get to keep the plate?" HANLEYUNITED NATIONS (AP) - Britain, Japan, Australia and others are pushing for an unprecedented treaty regulating the arms trade worldwide, in a campaign sure to last years and to pit them against a determined American foe, the National Rifle Association. In what U.N. officials say is an "overwhelming" response, almost 100 governments have submitted ideas for such a treaty, to be reviewed over the next year. There's an "extremely urgent" need for controls on the international gun trade, says Kenya, echoing the sentiment in much of guns-besieged Africa. But in the U.S., the NRA says it sees a creeping attempt to limit civilian gun ownership within nations — even though the focus now is on setting standards for arms exports and imports. The international issues "necessarily will come to involve at some point domestic laws and policies regarding firearms," said former congressman Bob Barr, a leading NRA voice on the subject. "That's not what we're looking at here," countered Greg Puley, of the Control Arms coalition of pro-treaty advocacy groups. "The point is to control trade in weapons that contribute to conflict and atrocities." The NRA and other U.S. gun lobbyists have helped blunt earlier efforts at the United Nations to rein in the weapons trade. Last December, the U.S. delegation cast the lone negative vote when 153 nations approved a General Assembly resolution initiat- ing this new treaty process. Now, alone among the world's top 10 arms suppliers, the United States - by far the biggest, with almost $13 billion in arms export agreements in 2005 - has not filed a requested report to the United Nations with its views on a treaty. "The United States has not yet decided whether it will or will not participate in (the review), and thus we will have no submission at this time," Richard Kidd, a deputy assistant secretary of state, told The Associated Press. The treaty campaign may encounter resistance beyond Washington as well. 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