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A2 SATURDAY. APRIL 1 2. 2003 News MARSttflELD riEttVHtRALD New TV show designed for Hmong airs Sunday By Am Kumrs Far Vr-rwc Mti-nerU WAUSAU Area community leaders want to make it easier for Southeast Asian to understand what's going on in their neighborhoods, the state and the world. Starting Sunday, 'Hmong News will broadcast information that targets the community's largest minority group. It will be the first and only TV news show for llmong in the area.

The half-hour program complete with advertising in Hmong will run weekly on WJFW-TV, channel 12 on area cable systems and channel 27 on the Mosinee Hill relay station. "Hmong News" was created primarily to empower non-English-speaking Hnwng elders. It's very important to reach out to the elderly because they are the mother of two who also is the Hmong Women's Circle coordinator at the Hmong association. "That lets me know they're interested in knowing what's going on. But the language tamer makes it difficult for them to keep up." Yang thinks the television program might help the Hmong feel more welcome in their communities and get them out of their homes.

Right now; the elderly are more isolated," said Yang, 38, of Rothschild, a married father of seven who also is a youth coordinator at Hmong Association. They don't get out of the house. They don't understand the English language," The program, which will have limited English in its segments, also is a good opportunity for non-Hmong people to learn more about the Hmong community, Yang said. It V. know firsthand the need for the minority television program.

"A lot of Hmong elders, who dont know much English, listen to the radio show every Sunday," said Moua, 24, of Wausau, a married Roe OrcuBfOf MarsMd Nes-Heniel Blong Yang and f.tai Kao Moua I be the co-anchors of a new Hmong televsion news snow that Mil begin airing Sunday on WJFW-TV 12. Car fire spreads to house Univ. of Minn, student contracts meiiingitis-type bacterial infection ones most confused about the happenings of community, said Elung Yang, who will aanchor the hhow with Mai Kao Moua. About 5,000 Southeast Asians live in the Wausau area. The program will feature local, regional and national news, a community calendar and an educational segment It is produced by the city of Wausau's Minority Affairs Office, Wausau Area Hmong Mutual Association, Cable Access of Wausau and WJFW-TV, the NBC affiliate in Rhinelander Wausau.

The network affiliate and cable access partnership on a minority-language program might be the first of its kind in the United States. "We called around the country to see if there was another marriage with cable and network, but we couldn't find any," said Ron bacteria that infected both students had the same genetic fingerprint "The people who had contact with the first patient and the people who had contact with the second patient overlapped to some degree," said Buddy Ferguson, a state Health Department spokesman. The male student has been diagnosed with an infection that can cause meningitis but he hasn't developed the more serious illness itself Meningitis is an infection that affects the lining around the brain and spinal cord. Symptoms can include headaches, fever, vomiting, confusion, irritability, lack of appetite and seizures. Kristin Marx of Madison died two days after being hospitalized in late March.

Marx, a sophomore in the university's Carlson School of Management, became ill at the sorority house where she lived. i I ,1 7 J- A Marshfield firefighter checks out the burned remains of a vehicle at the David Meyer Friday morning after the car caught on fire. The fire spread to the house. A worker from Department (left) makes sure the utilities are turned off at the house. continues to expand presence Montezon, general manager of WJFW-TV 12.

Yang and Moua, ho also are anchors on "Hmong Radio," hich airs every Sunday from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 on WXCO-AM (1230), Boynton Health Service, the student health service on the Twin Cities campus, has provided preventive antibiotics to about 100 people ho had close contact with either student They intend to treat at least 20 more. "We are taking this very seriously," said Dr. Ed Ehlinger, director of the university health service. Dr.

Harry Hull, the state epidemiologist, said the disease does not spread easily usually only through the exchange of bodily fluid such as by kissing or sharing drinking glasses or smoking materials. "We take this illness very seriously," Hull said. "However, at this point, there is no reason to believe that anyone is at increased risk on or off the university campus beyond those individuals who are being contacted by (the school health service). running like hell. That is the regime inside Iraq." Gen.

Tommy Franks, coalition commander commander of special forces in the area, announced an overnight curfew and said U.S. forces would tolerate no looting or reprisals. "However, I cannot do this with just American forces. I need your help," he told local tribal and clan leaders. Mosul was the second northern city to fall in as many days.

U.S. troops and Kurdish fighters entered Kirkuk, gateway to the northern oil fields on Thursday. The Kurds said they were prepared to leave, in deference to Turkish concerns, when Americans arrived in numbers. Top commanders of the 1st Marine Division held the first of what is expected to be a series of daily meetings with representatives of humanitarian organizations and local officials. The session was part of an effort to restore the city's utilities, services and infrastructure, damaged by war and the subsequent lawlessness.

i 1 fill fi 1 tu Much of hat is reported on "1 Imong New ill be tran-latkms of Internet news, as well as information from other news agencies, Moua said. But the show also will have footage of hat's going on in the I Imong community and on topics important to the Hmong but not covered by main-train) media. That's exactly hat Montezon Ikes about the program. As a Federal Communications Commission license holder, "we have to prove that we are sen-king the communities broadcast to," and that includes minorities, Montezon said. "This program absolutely fits that mode." Channel 12 also is interested in developing a Hmong internship program and working with on-air talent, as well as behind-the-scenes staff, to encourage Hmong to enter the broadcast field, Montezon said.

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HI 54449 "We know they need water. Obviously they need power. They need police," said Col. Steve Hummer, commanding officer of the Marine division. we are not a police force," he added, a declaration second-' ed by Brooks at the U.S.

Central Command. Franks, the four-star general in charge of the military campaign, spoke pungently on a visit to Afghanistan, where U.S. troops have been stationed since the military routed the Taliban government last year. Asked about the fate of Saddam and his sons, he replied, "They're either dead or they're running like hell. That is the case with the leadership of the regime inside Iraq." In one Baghdad landmark, the Al-Rashid Hotel, soldiers swapped insult for insult.

Wielding hammers and chisels, they dug up a tile mosaic of former President George Bush that had been used for years as a state-sponsored insult. Installed after the first Gulf War, during which Bush was commander in chief, it allowed visitors to walk over his face, a particularly insulting act in the Arab world. In place of the mosaic, the troops left a portrait of Saddam. 1 i 'I1-: Second student at school to be afflicted The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS Two weeks after a University of Minnesota student from Wisconsin died, a second student has been hospitalized with a bacterial infection that can cause meningitis, the Health Department reported Friday. The patient, who has only been identified as a male graduate student, was hospitalized April 6.

He is expected to recover. A female student died March 27 of meningitis caused by the same type of bacteria. Officials said there was some overlap in the social circles of the two students, but citing privacy concerns they would not say if the students knew each other. Laboratory tests showed the War: U.S. Continued from A1 surrender.

And so, I think that's going to be worked out today, tomorrow," he said. Looting swiftly erupted in Mosul hospital ambulances were taken at gunpoint and lawlessness continued to plague Baghdad and Kirkuk, cities that fell in the past few days. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld described the lawlessness as "untidiness," but pledged the troops' help to stop it. "Where they see looting, they are stopping it," he said.

Across Iraq, there were scenes of personal anguish, mixed with moments of hope. Men, women and children lay in hospitals without adequate medical supplies, and Baghdad residents worked frantically to find missing relatives in a rumored subterranean prison. But thousands of former Iraqi soldiers walked from northern cities toward Baghdad down sun-baked highways after abandoning their military positions, eager to return home after being forced by the dead regime to take up arms. Bush, visiting troops wounded in battle, told reporters the war would end when Gen. Tommy Franks, the commanding general, told him the objectives had been achieved.

U.S. intelligence has monitored some communications in which Iraqis affiliated with Saddam's regime claim he is dead, a U.S. official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. But he said the conversations could be speculation or deception. There were no signs of weapons of mass destruction, or of missing American prisoners of war.

Officials said the search for both would intensify. Despite a string of unchecked battlefield gains, and an announcement that some British naval and air forces were being sent home, the White House and military commanders said the war wasn't over. "There's still plenty of fighting to be done," said Lt. Gen. William S.

Wallace. In Baghdad, he said, the problem lies with the "knuckleheads operating and fighting on the last orders they were given. They either don't know what is going on or are feeling obligated to keep fighting on." U.S. warplanes fired six satellite-guided bombs at an intelligence building in Ramadi, 60 miles west of Baghdad, in a predawn attack. Officials said they believed Brazan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam's half brother and close adviser, was inside.

To the west, U.S. special operations forces maintained road- UW: Open Continued from A1 she receives in class. "They do have time for you," Berg said. "The whole idea of having a couple hundred students in a class is a little intimidating for me. My professors are more than willing to give extra help to the students." The preview is geared toward juniors in high school, but everyone is welcome.

Students will have the chance to attend classes during the preview. People can learn about a variety of topics, including microbiology, campus athletics, film violence and computers. Current students and alumni also will hold discussion forms for potential students and family members. Jeff Bubolz, 19, of Stratford will give student tours and serve on a student panel at the preview. Bubolz, a freshman at UW-Marshfield, came to the event as a senior in high school.

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military checkpoints when vehicles refused to stop. Two children died in Nasiriyah and three adults were killed in a separate incident in Baghdad. In another incident in Baghdad, a tank crew opened fire on a bus that failed to heed warning shots. The driver was killed, and the crew said it found Iraqi military uniforms inside the vehicle. There was no accurate count of the number of troops in the Iraqi Army's 5th Corps in Mosul, the third largest city with a large Arab population as well as Kurds and ethnic Turks.

Lawlessness quickly broke out as the army vanished, and U.S. special forces and hundreds of Kurdish fighters entered a city in anarchy. "Why are you late?" some residents shouted as the convoy rolled into town. Residents plundered the central bank, making off with wads of Iraqi dinars and throwing bills into the air. The government printing office was set ablaze, as were several Baath Party offices.

Mosul -University's library, repository of rare manuscripts, also was ransacked despite appeals broadcast from mosque minarets pleading for an end to the anarchy. "There is absolutely no security. The medical staff is scared for their safety. The city has fallen into anarchy," said Dr. Darfar Ibrahim Hasan, a physician at Saddam Generai Hospital.

Lt. Col. Robert Waltemeyer, Th6 Associstsd Press Shiite Muslim worshippers celebrate the end of Ashura by pounding their hands on their chest at the Kademiya Shrine on the outskirts of Baghdad on Friday. This is the first time since Saddam Hussein took power in Iraq that they can participate openly in such celebrations. Join Us! The Marshfield Area Chamber of Commerce Industry-extends this invitation to family members of those currently serving in the armed forces, and to those who have served our country in previous wars, to participate in the 2003 Dairyfest parade, Saturday, June 7, at 1 1:00 a.m.

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