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A3 The Daily Briefing Northwestern Wire Services 1 0 Oshkosh Northwestern Thursday, May 30, 2002 i i 3 ri 2l vv 1 i Ai. Nation State Court throws out restitution for stop sticks Madison A court cannot order a man to pay $123 in restitution to the police to replace the stop sticks they used to arrest him for drunk driving, an appeals court ruled Wednesday. James Storlie was con I'll i 1 tunuMirmmr Survey: Piracy of software on the Internet is common Associated Press Giving thanks John Misha, of Westwood, N.J., who performed countless hours zero working alongside firefighters, takes a moment while World Trade Center before the remember the' lives lost at the thanksgiving Wednesday, May volunteers who have ministered 29, 2002, in New York, honoring to them for the past eight months. Germans look at suspected militants World Berlin German authorities have opened an investigation into a group of suspected Islamic militants in Berlin, a spokesman for federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The investigation was started in recent weeks but is still in its early stages, spokesman Hartmut Schneider said.

He declined to discuss the 1 number of suspects involved but said the investigation is focusing on whether they are members of a terrorist organization. The group now under investigation is believed to have had contacts with a Frankfurt-based cell linked to the Nonaligned Mujahideen that was broken up in 2000 and charged with plotting to blow up the Christmas market in Strasbourg, Schneider said. It is not known whether the two groups worked together, he said. European Union meets key Moscow demand Moscow Russian President Vladimir Putin, taking a tougher approach than he had in meetings with President Bush and NATO leaders, won a major victory Wednesday as the European Union agreed to recognize Russia as a market economy. Relations between Russia and due to worldwide piracy in 2000, down slightly from $12.2 billion in 1999, according to the software group.

Most piracy in the past was the result of criminals selling fake versions of Microsoft Windows or other popular programs or workers sharing office software with family and friends. But an increasing amount of piracy is taking place online, thanks to so-called "peer-to-peer" software that lets computer users share software, music, video and, photographic files with others over the Internet. The survey, conducted by the Ipsos-Reid polling firm based in Vancouver, British Columbia, was the first time the group asked consumers how they felt about software theft on the Internet. Ipsos-Reid surveyed 1,026 Internet users from April 23 to May 12. free admission on holidays after teen-agers hurled garbage at bears, knocked tropical birds from branches and set a grass fire near the lion and tiger exhibit on Memorial Day.

"Free days in general bring people who don't always appreci ate what they re given, 4 zoo president Donna Fernandes said. "Maybe if they had to pay asmall charge, theyd be more thankful for the chance to see the zoo." More than 15,000 people showed up at the zoo Monday. Officials said teens left a mess and someone pounded so hard on the windows in the reptile building that a lamp used to warm a boa constrictor shattered. None of the animals was hurt. Governor calls off plan to furlough state workers Jefferson City, Mo.

Gov. Bob Holden called off plans Wednesday for 6,000 state employees to go without pay for two days to help cover a budget shortfall. Holden said the Department of Social Services was notified last week that $1.5 million in federal Medicaid reimbursements would be released to the state. He also said state agencies met his request by finding more 5 than $29 million in savings, through reduced spending and federal reimbursements, for the fiscal year that ends June 30. The two-day furloughs that were expected to begin in June would have saved $1.7 million.

The furloughs would have affected mainly upper and middle management employees, including workers in the governor's office. "I am pleased that we have been able to avoid these furloughs. State employees have worked the past year without salary increases and will do so next year," Holden said. its biggest trading partner, however, remained tense with the Kremlin fearing EU expansion into Central Europe could further isolate Kaliningrad, Russia's Baltic enclave, separated from the rest of the country by Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus. The EU also wants Russia to use its geographic location straddling Europe and Asia to crack down on illegal immigration.

British begin operation near Pakistan Bagram, Afghanistan Hundreds of British troops have begun patrolling near the Pakistani border to stop al-Qaida and Taliban fighters from slipping back into Afghanistan, perhaps to conduct suicide bombings or disrupt attempts to form a new Afghan government, U.S. and of search and recovery at ground wearing a firefighter helmet, to start of a public service of the recovery workers and the Misha is not a firefighter. British officials said Wednesday. The fighters may seek a "symbolic victory" against U.S.-led torces, including shooting down a helicopter or capturing a soldier and executing him, a senior 3 British military official said. U.S.

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