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I I' Recyti-Joumal Merideq Ctm Saiuday February IS 2003 The World Today 3 He Nation World fao: Blast In Colombia kills 16rl plot to kill president probld Ridge to nation: Be vigilant but start sealing doors 8xUurs Aspdatadl i WASP friends a luMlI hj BOOH no privacy i ppsrerto Yean resent to alqprote ShkV wi out path riot for WASHINGTON Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge sought to calm jinny Americans on Fri- Jay uying they should be vigilant but there was no need 1o ktait sealing the doors or windows" against terrorist threats After many people spent a week stocking up on duct tape and watched anti-aircraft missile launchers set up around their national capital Ridge said preparation not panic is in order He also said officials have any conclusive intelligence where when or how the terrorists could strike Earlier this week federal officials recommended Americans put together emergency supply kits as precaution for terrorist attack or disaster Two items suggested for that kit were duct tape and plastic sheeting enough to seal a house or rooms from any hazardous materials terrorists could put in the air A week after increasing the terrorist alert level from yellow to orange President Bush said that decision had been a "stark reminder of the era that we're in that at war and the war goes NEIV A Colombia A massive explosion ripptf through a house Friday as it was being searched by-A police investigatim a (dot to kill Presidcpt Alvaro Uribe killing 16 people and scattering debris for blocks in this southern Colombian city nvrt The pre-dgwe explosion destroyed diree other houses in the westing-class neighboshood adjoining the aiiport Authorities said among those killed wenq nine police officers an investigtfor with the attorney general's office and three children i Ifthere were any doubts that four- am decade-old war had moved into this South American cities they were erased in the devastating bUI that gouged a 15-foot-deep crater in the ground and turned a quiet neighborhood into a scene of devastation Security officials said die rebels of die Revolution ary Aimed Foites of Colombia known as the FARC planned to kill the president on Saturday as be floy to Neivaacity of some 250JXX) residents about 25ft tfe miles south of Bogota The rebels allegedly planned to kill Uribe by deto nating the bomb as his plane flew low overhead the house was in the flight path or by firing mjg rounds authorities said on Dolty the sheep makes an appearance for the metfia at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh in this Jan 4 2002 file photo The world's first mammal cloned from an adult was euthanized after being diagnosed with progressive lung disease her creators said Friday Supremo Court lifts nl death penalty on professor Dolly first cloned Bush also unveiled plans to unify counterterrorism efforts locating FBI and CIA work at a single centre though the lines of authority would remain distinct Ridge said there were no plans to increase or lower the alert level although he added the government is constantly evaluating threat information Officials speaking privately acknowledged that polygraphs suggested terrorist suspects had fabricated some of the information that led to the latest increase Other officials said the intelligence that led to the increase came from a far larger base of reliable sources you not ycd anyto mammal dead at age of 6 By Gina Kolata Now York Time Nows Ssrvico "Preppie murderer released from prison but is silent mjgact on roirtindy ffiadition enmes car TEHRAN Inn Supreme Court has liftef die death sentence otdered in toe case of a univertfty1- professor whose sentencing provoked nationwide? -demonstrations one of the judges who heard his peal said Friday Hashem Aghajari a history professor at Tehran Teachers Trailing University had been condemnT to death far insulting Tln and questioning clerical rule during a speech in June 11 Aujari who is in prison also was sentenced WIU 74 lashes banned from teaching for 10 yean an(fla banished to three remote cities for eight years courts issue multiple sentences in cases where th''13 want to make an example of the accused Hard-line clerics wuned this month that they would execute Hashem Aujari toemselves if ftci court overturned the death sentence It was not cliaf-Friday what (hey intended to do A reformist legislator Naser Qavami'praised ffaXa -Supreme Court dedsioa Friday us blow to cons8t vatives who accuse liberals of andenmning Islam sentencing last November provokedgthe biggest student protests in Inn in three years and vn highlighted the power struggle between the countiyiq libeialsandhard-Iinen v' The parliament denounced the verdict as "disgnsM and President Mohammad Khatami said it Bus BDsvM Dolly lived her entire life at the Roslin Institute where she was ban on July 5 1996 at 5 pm weighing 145 pounds Because of a patent application her birth was kept secret for months Then an Feb 27 1997 a paper appeared in the British journal Nature called Viable Off- spring Derived from Fetal and Adult Mammalian Cells and Drily became a celebrity Until Drily many had thought such a feat was biologically impossible birth shook up the biological said Dr George Seidel a cloning expert at Colorado State University While most sheep are shy around humans and huddle at the back of their pen when visitors arrive Drily loved human attention -She rushed to the front of har stall when she saw people coming by bleating loudly Visitors always warned to feed bar but the Roslih scientists urged diem not to expUining that she had an obesity problem Dolly finally got her weight under control Wilmut said "a lot more easily than most people been a friendly face cl Wilmut said was a very friendly animal that was part of a rig scientific breakthrough" Dolly is survived by six offspring produced the customary way with a male NajgYoikT Drily the first clone from a mammal and the most fimous sheep in history is dead at age 6 She died on Friday after a brief illness a lung infection Veterinarians who had bees treating her derided tint the infection was progressing and that she was suffering They concluded that it would be more merciful to put her to death than to continue treatment said Dr Ian Wilmut a srientist at the Roalin Institute in Edinburgh Scotland Wilmut who led die team that created Drily said that her illness and death probably had nothing to do with the fact that she was a clone The lifespans of sheep have not been well studied Most sheep Wilmut said are eaten as Iambi months and then we eat he said lidded that while it is possible far free-living sheep to jive far or 12 yens those who live indoors as Drily had are prone to develop htng infections Drily was kept inside for security reasons She was created in a petri dish by cloning the stored and frozen udder cells of a sheep that had been dead far yean Aa a clone she ia the identical twin of that long-dead unknown and unnamed sheep faWASHE a try fcmaini pboible Bush said bfltie agaii tential too Hussein ar never hsve been iuuedM Atial AUBURN NY Reporters began gathering Thursday night in from of the Auburn Correctional Facility here staking out their turf like fans waiting for a glimpse of a rock star or a guru By dawn Friday there wete several dozen journalists waiting for Robert Chambers who was released after serving IS years in prison for the killing of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in Central Park in 1986 The crime known in the media as the drew many news-paper headlines in the ike 1980s and the reporters seemed eager for a comment from Chambers But when he walked out of the massive stone- framed gates at 7:25 am he said nothing Wearing a red sweater and green pants his face a pale and xpressionless mask Chambers ignored tim dense swarm of shouting reporten and photographers that surrounded him He got into a navy blue Suite De partment of Correctional Services van A few reporters -jumped into can and gave chase as it headed toward Syracuse but most gave up quickly Chambers was on his way to a television interview said his lawyer Brian who would not name the network Chambers does not plan to travel to or live in New York City where he grew up arid where his parents still live his lawyer said Chambers 36 would have been released more than six years ago prison officials said had he not violated prison rules 27 times including incidenra in which he was found with drugs and a weapon Four former radicals got six to eight years in robbery Arafat agrees to name PM meeting key Joint demand iv'- r1 to S--vivi1 s- 1 lift itaJ Connecticut 1 fhuL- sinvj Thousands from around state expected at NYC peace rally 5 '-lisV Paul Pinto admitted he acquired! $900j)00prop-ertyby creating a trust just weeks after authorities searched his home and he staited cooperating wife the government 4' V-' defense portnysPiiito as a relentless schemer who quickly began (dotting against Ganim to get a lighter sentence far himself and escape with -hia iU-gotten gains attorney cit conversation with another defendant which Pinto secretly taped fx tiie government in Which Pinto referred to Ganiin as he that authorities wanted The defenseis trying to show jurors in Ganim' federal corruption trial diat spending ia evi- dence that he wunot so-called bag man w- RAMALLAH West Bank Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat announced Priday that he had agreed to a US and Israeli demand that he share power with a prime minister but did not say how nmch control he -was prepared to hand over For months the United States and Israel have ben demanding that Arafat give up some of his day-to-day control of the Pales-tinian Authority They say he has been discredited by his fail-: unto stop Palestinian attacks against Israelis and argue peace ia not possible until he is re- placed Arafat the Palestinian leader far more than three decades has also come under pressure from his own people to re farm a government viewed inefficient and riddled 'Withcamiptioii He did not say was how mach power he plans to shire but gsw no he was prepared to accept a largely syninlic role Palestinian Cabinet minister SadbEickat the new jxime minister would report to ArafaL The government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon whidi is seeking ouster declined to comment However Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert said that in Israeli eyes the rationale far such a poet that Arafat will be removed and die prime minister will take over So I think that it is too early to determine the significance of wU sad hell Man convicted In slaying of Shelton woman sentenced sneif- NEW HAVEN Rev Dennis Calhoun Sr says he believes Saddam Hussein is dangerous But Calhoun active in the anti-war movement since the 1960s said he does not believe there is evi-dence that justifies pre-emptive strike against Iraq and said the peace movement has never had more pbpular support Calhoun minister of Middlebuiy Congregational Church planned to be among thousands of people traveling by train and bus from Connecticut to New -YorkGty to protest the impending war with Iraq New Haven Mayor John DeStefano and US Rep RoM DcLauro were scheduled tosend the demonstrators off The demonstration in New York expected to draw hundreds of thousands fallows anti-war rallies in Tokyo Melbourne Australia and the Philippine capital Manila Others are planned the world Saturday in such cities as London Rome and Berlin ActivisU from Connecticut headed to New York will pay about $20 for a roundtrip ticket and board chartered Metro-North "peace around 9:45 nu --r btsr -iai SACRAMENTO Calif With the face of their dead victim looming large in a courtroom photo- graph four aging former members of the Symbioneac Liberation Army were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six to eight years Friday far a murder- ous 1975 bank robbery The members of the radical group that kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Meant admitted their roles in the shooting of Myma Opsahl who bled to death on the floor of a suburban bank The sentences were largely spelled out in a plea bargain reached by the former radicals in November Before-sentencing three of the four apologized to the family of Opsahl a bank customer who was killed by a shotgun blast during the holdup in suburban Sacramento 27 yean ago while depositing her church collection Montague's ex-husband William Harris 58 ad-dressed son saying: thought about your mother a lot Your mother was never an abstraction to me It's absolutely unacceptable that this Montague was sentenced to right years in prison Harris to seven years and Michael Bortin 54 and Sarah Jane Olson 55 to six years each Olson who was known as Kathleen Sriiah during her SLA days was the only one who did not address the court but apologized in A letter included in her probation report The man convicted cf killing a Shelton mother and part-time escort was sentenced to 60 years in prison the Hartford Couranl reported on its Web site ctnowxom Gregory McArthur 42 formerly of Hartford maintained that he kill Annmarie Cusano in 1998 during the sentencing Friday in Hartford Superior Court He faced up to 100 years in prison A jury in December convicted McArthur of nwulmglUiw and felnny muwtef hnt acquittBd him of cajntal murder That charge carries the death pehalty but prosecutors did not seek it in his case It took the jury seven days to reach the verdict During tiie five-week trial prosecutors said McArthur killed Ctisano in January 1998 in hia room at a Hartford boarding house He was her last date before she disappeared He was arrested in September 2000 and police said Iw led them to body He pleaded innocent 1 in the trial 1 Police played a tape of police iqter-view far the jury Record-Journal Eighteen chartered buses are set to leave from Hartford Litchfield Middletown and Wiltimantic ns U8PS1BMOO PUbfched (My MMpt CMWnw at 1 1 Cwn At HsMa CT OM80L Snoopyprire 50 esnUMondwtoOiMiAKlISO Sundw-MmmA has aaaiMi ISmOUmSm waiui ClMaliba Dy Cnl INfMI II MM0ML lUMBOA (MNilUM In UMIV toUtopewwk 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to die way it looked when Lennon lived there in toe 1950s and eaily 1960s Starting March 29 thie Trust will run touts of the house in connection with the McCartney home at 20 Forthlin Road in Allerton district place in an ait gallery and Rowley said her shim- mery skirts and dresses with bow-tied waists were inspired by the women who work in the hip downtown art world just said Midler whose pad was filling up with both portraits of the crowd and still-life pictures of the stage She even offered re- 1 porter tips on creating cartoon characters beginning withavoy roundhead and exaggerated and prcssi ve eyes The 57-year-old singer-actress said she became a fan of flirty styles while her daughter So-phie von Hasselberg interned with the designer last die board "First he spent most of Friday at the dub He Stayed there bntil mnWim pit mwlniglit hinging out with everybody and with no fanfare at alL Then he comes to die dinner Saturday with $1 million far fn Sponsors stare hoping to raise about $200000 from the black-tie $150-a-plate event -which also featured Omic Davis Jermaine Jackson and several public officials Washington 48 won a best-supporting Oscar for 19898 and a best actor Oscar i i summer i The Divine Miss turns tables by sketching editors Denzel Washington repays a debt to Boys Girls Club The house where John Lennon spent his child hood and wrote fame ofihe Beatles' first hits will open to the public nett month National Trust said Friday Mcndips the suburban home Lennon shared with his Aunt Mimi was bought last year by the Beitie's widow Yoko Ono who donated it to tiie heritage organization "When house came up far sale I wanted to preserve it for the people of Liverpool and John Lennon and Beatles fans all over the Ono said "The house resonates with a special atmosphere It was after all where many of John's songs that we now hold so dear were Lennon lived at 251 Mcnlove Ave in the Liver- pool suburb of Woolton from age 5 when his parents separated and he went to live with his Aunt Mimi until he was 23 He taught himself to play far "Training A thought for today "A definition is no proof" Bette Midler turned the tables on the press at the Cynthia Rowley fashioa show: Instead of posing for the cameras quietly sketching the fashion editors Dressed in a turtleneck and sunglasses Midler said she was just making use of the sketch pad and pencil that Rowley left on each seal Thursday night's fashion show previewing fall 2003 took Denzel Washington brought a $1 million check with him to a recent dinner celebrating tiie 90th anniversary of the Mount Vernon NY Boy Girls Club a city councilman says Washington who grew up in Mount Vernon truly a great person ind very dedicated to the said Councilman Lyndon Williams a member of it- William Pinkney American diplomat (1764-1822) Compiled from R-J wire urvket i laisnw.