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6A THURSDAY JANUARY 23 2003 THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER I www charlotte com QUOTE a phenomenal find We have anything that resembles this in the whole dinosaur and bird paleontologist luis chiappe on a fossil that appears to show a FOUR WINGED DINOSAUR THAT APPARENTLY GLIDED FROM TREE TO TREE STORY 1A FROM AROUND TIIF NATION AND THE WORLD NUCLEAR PROGRAM In Brief Virginia grand juiy indicts 17-year-old sniper suspect FAIRFAX Va A grand jury indicted 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo on murder charges that could bring the death penalty for his alleged role in the sniper attacks that terrorized the Washington area The indictment issued Tuesday and made public Wednesday stems from the Oct 14 slaying of FBI analyst Linda Franklin outside a Home Depot Last week a juvenile court judge ruled that Malvo could be tried in adult court meaning he could face the death penalty Prosecutor Robert Horan Jr had sought capital-murder charges but has not yet said whether he will ask for the death penalty Malvo has previously been identified as John Lee Malvo but his defense attorneys have established that Lee Boyd Malvo is his legal name and that is how he is identified in court proceedings ASSOCIATED PRESS Pyongyang breach of accord is described as irreparable Bolton said the clandestine program to enrich uranium had been going for at least five years and that he doubted the US Congress would ever allocate more money to continue the North Korean construction project deception involving its uranium enrichment program means that I would think it is nearly impossible to believe we can trust he said The only way for North Korea to prevent international action Bolton said is for it to take and irreversible to end its nuclear program Bolton said he was confident North nuclear violations would be presented to the Security Council by the end of the week after consultations by the board of governors of the IAEA in Vienna Austria think that a question of if it goes to the Security Bolton said after meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister Choi Song-hong a matter of South Korea to build nuclear reactors for impoverished Pyongyang that produce bomb-making materials was no longer viable Bolton spoke after meeting with South Korean officials who have advised the United States to hold off asking the United Nations to impose sanctions on the North The Seoul government appeared to acquiesce after Bolton said the issue would first be considered by the International Atomic Energy Agency before referral to the Security Council The uranium enrichment program such a fundamental and material breach that you put Humpty Dumpty back together Bolton said of the 1994 agreement called the Under that deal the United States South Korea and Japan agreed to construct two nuclear reactors to generate electricity if North Korea froze its nuclear weapons program and dismantled its old reactor which was capable of producing plutonium for bombs By Michael Zielenziger Knight Kidder SEOUL South Korea The senior US arms-control diplomat Wednesday said UN Security Council action to counter North nuclear-weapons program was unavoidable John Bolton undersecretary of state for arms control also said he doubted that Pyongyang could ever again be trusted with nuclear materials Bolton said discovery of North program to develop enriched uranium a stake through the of a 1994 agreement with Washington in which Pyongyang promised not to develop nuclear weapons He said a promise by the United States Japan and REMEMBER THE DOGFACES? Nation Bush changes course on hospital ER costs WASHINGTON Reversing course the Bush administration said Wednesday that it will maintain patient protections in Medicaid that require easy access to emergency rooms The administration told state Medicaid directors last month they could put limits on emergency room visits for patients enrolled in health maintenance organizations and other managed care programs That reversed rules in place since 1997 that required states to pay for emergency room visits as long as a would have considered the situation a medical emergency associated press WVa explosion 900 feet down kills 3 miners CAMERON WVa A methane gas explosion in a coal mine air shaft Wednesday killed three workers and injured three others who had to be rescued from more than 900 feet below the surface The workers were digging a new shaft when the explosion occurred officials said About an hour later two sheriffs deputies descended 940 feet into the earth to retrieve the survivors after local emergency workers declined saying they were not trained for such a rescue ASSOCIATED PRESS Calif fraternity brawl ends in fatal stabbing SAN JOSE Calif An early morning brawl involving fraternity members armed with sticks and knives left one man dead and several others injured Wednesday The large group from San Jose State Pi Alpha Phi and Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternities gathered about midnight at a suburban park Pi Alpha Phi members from the University of California Santa Cruz also participated police said Four people were stabbed including a 23-year-old man who later died at a hospitaL ASSOCIATED PRESS ROE WADE Vanishing of abortion access seen as unlikely Experts expect chipping away by GOP but not full reversal iiumim niiii wrinimiwr araSu-- yTiiii tM Ck' I ij 'V FILE PHOTO Pvt Robert Bowman of Hogansville Ga poses for Stars and Sgt Bill Mauldin on the Anzio beachhead in Italy during World War II in May 1944 Mauldin became famous for his drawings and won two Pulitzer prizes He died Wednesday in California Legendaiy artist Bill Mauldin dies FERNANDO LLANO ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO More turmoil in Venezuela He created GIs Willie and Joe then went on to win 2 Pulitzers Student protesters stand back from a wall of tear gas that was fired by police during clashes in Caracas Venezuela on Wednesday Student supporters of President Hugo Chavez attacked a police station they claimed is anti-Chavez In a setback for opposition efforts to oust Chavez the Supreme Court on Wednesday indefinitely postponed a nationwide referendum that would have asked Venezuelans whether the president should quit Coming just 11 days before the scheduled vote the decision stunned the opposition that delivered 2 million signatures in November to demand the referendum ASSOCIATED PRESS ByJodiEnda and Stephen Henderson Observer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Despite Republican control of the White House and Congress there is little chance that legal access to abortion granted by the Supreme Court 30 years ago will be overturned anytime soon experts say However as activists on both sides of the abortion debate marked the anniversary Wednesday they said they expect Republicans to chip away at the 1973 Roe Wade ruling Full reversal is unlikely according to members of Congress political analysts and scholars because most Americans support at least some abortion rights and President Bush could doom his re-election by trying to end them The landmark Roe Wade ruling not in any foreseeable said David arrow a legal historian at Epiory University and author of and Sexuality The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe If Bush who opposes abortion nominated an overtly anti-abortion justice to the US Supreme Court he would risk angering a public majority but would not change the makeup significantly Bush would need to replace two current justices who uphold abortion rights with two who would strike them down And there is no realistic chance he could prevail in confirming them in a Senate where the Republican majority is only 51-48-1 including at least three Republicans who support abortion rights Yet while anti-abortion advocates might not be able to overturn Roe Wade at least in the short term they hope Republicans will use their new dominance to weaken it At least five bills are expected to be reintroduced in the new Congress that passed the GOP-controlled House of Representatives in the last session but died in what then was a Democratic-majority Senate The legislation most notably a bill that would ban some late-term abortions would give Republican lawmakers and Bush a chance to mollify their conservative base without seriously angering the broad cross section of Americans who favor abortion rights Thousands of opponents and supporters of abortion rights rallied at symbols of freedom Wednesday Abortion opponents said they see their best chance in years to erode Roe just seems like more optimistic this year after the November said Dennis Voglesong 50 of Hagerstown Md Kim Gandy president of the National Organization for Women said will not be the generation that both won and lost reproductive rights in our The overall abortion rate fell from 1994 to 2000 from 24 abortions for every 1000 women of childbearing age to 21 according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute a reproductive rights group CHICAGO SUN TIMES Mauldin created this drawing showing a grieving Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial and it was published by the Chicago Sun-Times on Nov 23 1963 the day after John assassination Associated Press NEWPORT BEACH Calif Pulitzer Prizewinning cartoonist Bill Mauldin who as a young Army rifleman during World War gave newspaper readers back home a sardonic foxhole-level view of the front with his drawings of weary dogface GIs Willie and Joe died here Wednesday at 8L Mauldin died at a nursing home of complications from disease including pneumonia said Andy Mauldin one of his seven sons With Willie and Joe Mauldin became the voice of the World War II infantryman The laconic pair of unshaven slumpshouldered soldiers slogged their way through battle-scarred Europe surviving the enemy and the elements while sarcastically mocking everything from their orders to their equipment and even their allies In one drawing soldiers are marching bone-weary Says Willie: Joe needs a rest talking in his The cartoons published in Stars and Stripes and other military journals delighted his fellow soldiers and endeared Mauldin to Americans at home In his book Mauldin said the expressions on Joe and Willie are of infantry soldiers who have been in the war for a couple of he is looking very weary and resigned to the fact that he is probably going to die before it is over and if he has a deep almost hopeless desire to go home and forget it all if he looks with dull uncomprehending eyes at the fresh-faced kid who is talking about all the joys of battle and killing Germans then he comes from the same infantry as Joe and Mauldin wrote World Chinese business tycoon killed in his office BEIJING One of richest private businessmen was shot to death in his office Wednesday by a gunman who then killed himself police said Li Haichang 47 was shot to death at 11:40 am at the Haixin Group a steelmaking company in the northern city of Yuncheng said an official of the Yuncheng police press office The motive was still under investigation said the officiaL He said he had no details on the identity of the killer Li was ranked by the business magazine Forbes last year as 27th-richest individual with an estimated net worth of $195 million ASSOCIATED PRESS Lord Robertson to relinquish helm BRUSSELS Belgium NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson unexpectedly announced Wednesday he will step down in December declining offers to stay on for another year As the alliance's top civilian official Robertson has been praised for pushing through reforms overseeing decision in November to invite in seven new members and securing commitments from European allies to boost their military capabilities Under his guidance NATO also negotiated a new partnership with Russia maintained its peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Kosovo and helped negotiate an end to a crisis in Macedonia -ASSOCIATED PRESS Mauldin called himself independent as a hog on and his nonconformist approach brought him a face-to-face upbraiding from Gere George Pattoa Mauldin continued to draw what he wanted Mauldin also won two Pulitzer Prizes for his editorial cartoons It was at the Chicago Sun-Times where Mauldin drew one of his most famous cartoons published after President assassinatioa It showed a grieving Abraham Lincoln his hands covering his face at the Lincoln MemoriaL The other Pulitzer came in 1959 while he was at the St Louis Post-Dispatch for depicting Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak saying to another gulag prisoner won the Nobel Prize for literature What was your Funeral arrangements were incomplete but burial is planned in Arlington National Cemetery.