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Show Friday, April 16, 2010 Page 2 World&NatiOn Utah State University • Logan, Utah • www.aggietownsquare.com Clarify Correct 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 7971762 or TSC 105. Celebs&People LOS ANGELES (AP) — Larry King filed for divorce on Wednesday shortly before his seventh wife also sought to end the couple's nearly 13year-old marriage. SHAUN AND LARRY KING The 76-year-old host of CNN's "Larry King Live" filed hours before Shawn King filed her own petition. Both cited "irreconcilable differences." The couple were married in a hospital room in 1997, three days before Larry King underwent surgery to clear a clogged blood vessel. Nat f/Briefs Immigration agents raid AZ van shuttle Icelandic volcanic ash affects airplanes NEW YORK (AP) — In 1989, all four engines of a Boeing 747 over Alaska conked out after it flew into a cloud of volcanic ash. The crew was able to restart them, but incidents like that dramatize why hundreds of flights every year are diverted around such gritty debris. A volcano can blow immense amounts of material into the sky, making the weather cooler and producing spectacular red and orange sunsets. But Thursday's disruption of air travel underlines what airborne ash can mean for jetliners. Such a huge effect on airline schedules is unusual, because ash plumes usually appear well away from the most crowded airspaces. This week's eruption in Iceland blew debris over Northern Europe, threatening most routes from the East Coast to Europe. Volcanic ash can stay aloft for days and travel far. Of the more than 20 aircraft damaged by ash from the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, most were flying more than 600 miles from the volcano. The tiny particles are invisible to the weather radar on airplanes and cannot be seen at night. So volcano monitoring is serious business in the United States. "Once we detect an eruption, our SMOKE AND STEAM hangs over the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, Wednesday April 14, which has erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters. AP photo first call goes to the FAA," said Tom Murray, director of the U.S. Geological Survey's Volcano Science Center, which oversees five volcano observatories nationwide. USGS scientists work closely with Federal Aviation Administration and the National Weather Service to track ash plumes. The abrasive ash can sandblast a jet's windshield, block fuel nozzles, contaminate the oil system and electronics and plug the tubes that sense airspeed. But the most immediate dan- ger is to the engines. "Jet engines are like giant vacuum cleaners. If they're in a volcanic ash cloud, they're just sucking in all that ash and that damages the engines," Murray said. The most immediate hazard occurs after ash melts or vaporizes in the extreme heat of the engine's combustion chamber, said Michael Fabian of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University's campus in Prescott, Ariz. The melted ash can then congeal on the blades of the engine's turbine "like spray paint," he said. The deposits can block the normal flow of air through the engine, causing engines to lose thrust or shut down. What's more, he said, the deposits can coat the fuel system's temperature sensors, fooling them into thinking the engine is running cooler than it is. So the system pours in more fuel, raising the heat and damaging the turbine, which can also make the engine shut down. The effects can be harrowing. In the 1989 incident, the 747 dropped more than two miles in five minutes as the crew struggled to restart the engines. The 231 passengers could smell the volcanic sulfur of ash that had come from the Redoubt volcano, 150 miles away. Eventually, all the engines were restarted and the plane landed safely at Anchorage. All four engines had to be replaced. Ash from the Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines drifted more than 5,000 miles to the east coast of Africa. The eruption shot a column of ash and smoke more than 19 miles high, containing enough matter to qualify as perhaps the biggest eruption of the 20th century. The heavy fall of ash left about 100,000 people homeless and forced thousands more to flee. Utah AG joins false testimony probe in Jeffs case PHOENIX (AP) — Federal agents arrested nearly 50 shuttle operators and smugglers Thursday accused of using vans to transport thousands of illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to Phoenix in what was billed as one of the government's largest-ever human smuggling busts. Investigators said the operators of four shuttle services in Tucson and a fifth in Phoenix created their businesses solely to help immigrant smugglers move their customers to Phoenix under a veil of legitimacy. The shuttle operators are accused of giving illegal immigrants fraudulent receipts to make the trips look legitimate and coaching them on what to say if the vans were pulled over by police. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah attorney general's office is responding to an investigation of allegations that false testimony may have been provided during the 2007 criminal trial of polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs. On Thursday, the office said it learned two days ago that papers used by Canadian midwife Jane Blackmore to document her medical care of Elissa Wall following a miscarriage in 2002 may have been re-created records — not originals as represented during the trial. Wall's 2001 spiritual marriage — at age 14 — to her 19-year-old cousin was the basis for Jeffs' criminal conviction on two counts of rape as an accomplice. Wall claimed she had been forced into the marriage and that her sexual relationship with her husband was forced. The Associated Press does not generally identify those who claim to have been sexually assaulted. But following the trial, Wall spoke publicly about her experiences and recounted them in a book, "Stolen Innocence." LateNiteHumor Okla. lawmaker disavows tea party 'militia' David Letterman, May 1, 2009 Top 10 Signs You're at a Bad Zoo OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A darling of the tea party movement who has supported the idea of a 10. All animals are stuffed and volunteer militia said Thursday he expects to win mounted. the Oklahoma governor's race despite criticism 9. It's nothing but photos of other of his warning that citizens may need to protect zoos. themselves against a federal affront on state sover8. Lost and found has a number of eignty. human limbs. State Sen. Randy Brogdon, R-Owasso, said in 7. Monkeys are forced to work as an interview with The Associated Press that his unpaid janitors. message resonates with voters who will select a 6. Every visitor gets free parasites. replacement for term-limited Gov. Brad Henry, a 5. The animals are smoking. 4. Ronny and the Goon never get Democrat, in November. "I stand on constitutional principles," Brogdon around to taking the 12th caller said. "That is right dead center of the thoughts (sorry, that's a sign you're at a bad and the values and the ideas of Oklahomans. I'm morning zoo). 3. For an extra fee, you can pet the not out of the mainstream. I am standing on solid ground, and my platform is the Constitution of zookeepers. the United States, the protection of the rule of 2. You ask where you can find a law." panda and they send you to the Brogdon, who is seeking the Republican nomisnack bar. nation for governor, said in an AP story Monday 1. Instead of octopus, they've got that a citizen militia is authorized by state law an octomom. and the U.S. Constitution and that the Second Jeffs, 53, the spiritual leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is serving two prison terms of five years to life. The conviction is on appeal to the Utah Supreme Court. In papers filed Thursday, the Utah attorney general's office said it would not object to a stay of the appeal if Jeffs' defense attorneys want a judge to hear the allegations. Washington County Attorney Brock Belnap quietly launched an investigation of the allegations in February after he was told by a third party that Wall may have "lied" about her medical records. A telephone message seeking comment from Blackmore was not immediately returned Thursday. Jeffs defense attorney Wally Bugden on Thursday said he is still deciding how to proceed but looks "forward to a process by which (the defense) can examine witnesses and determine whether people gave false testimony in Mr. Jeffs trials." Bugden said it appears there may have been Amendment "deals directly with the right of an individual to keep and bear arms to protect themselves from an overreaching federal government." At the time, Brogdon and some local tea party leaders indicated a militia could be used to stop federal encroachment into state's rights. Brogdon has since said he spoke only of a new National Guard-type unit to aid the state during civil emergencies. In a number of media appearances this week he said he never used the term "militia" in his AP interview. Brogdon used it five times. "Is a state militia a good idea? It probably is. Because it, again, it would just reinforce the, the attitude and the belief that you and I have the right to keep and bear arms and to provide and protect our families from an overreaching federal government. I think it's a great idea," Brogdon said in the interview conducted last week. Separately Thursday, a state House member who said he expected the Oklahoma Legislature to see a militia-related bill during next year's session said he was not sure a bill would be prepared. attempts by some involved with the case to obstruct justice and he hopes that anyone who may have been hesitant to come forward in the past will do so now. Information about the allegations and Belnap's investigation first became public in March in Arizona court papers filed by attorneys representing Jeffs in a pair of pending criminal cases. Wall's marriage is also the basis for one of those cases. According to those documents, Belnap was told that Wall's "medical records had all been created in one day to make it look like she had seen a caretaker on several different occasions. Belnap was out of town Thursday and unavailable. The status of the investigation into the records is unclear. "We don't believe there was any false testimony, but we want to investigate to be sure," said Utah Assistant Attorney General Laura DuPaix. "If there's any question at all, Jeffs should have a fair and full opportunity to explore this. We want the process to be fair." TEA PARTY SUPPORTER Barbara Ann Nowak cheers during a tea party rally at the Daley Plaza Thursday, April 15, in Chicago. AP photo Balancing Work & Family FCHD 1010 Meets BSS Gen. 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