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IN THE NEWS
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THE BAITOWN SUN
Wednesday, March 1.2006
mortar fire a day after curfew lifted
mosque inlhe Hurriyah neighborhood
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a huge blast near the National Theater downtown — rocked the capital late
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Supreme Court wowed by playmates case
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cameras as 'she arrives at the U.S. Supreme
her given name, Vickie Lynn.
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Bush still
supporting
ports deal
NEWS IN BRIEF
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Tuesday morning, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, police said.
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ter.
Chief Justice John Roberts said the case
involved “a substantial amount of assets,”
referring to the fortune of Smith’s husband of only a few words: “I just want some money
14 months. The estate was estimated at as
much as $1.6 billion.
■’ The court’s other new member, Samuel
Alito, remained silent as did Justice Clarence
Thomas. ■ ■
Otherwise, however, it was a lively debate
that included many references to Smith and
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from this guy.”
Her late husband, a widower with a pen-
chant for strippers, showered Smith with gifts
including two homes, jewelry and clothes.
In addition, she contends that he promised
her half his estate.
G. Eric Brunstad Jr., the lawyer for the son,
At least 68 killed in Iraq bombings,
Fighting resumes at Afghan
prison after negotiations fail
KABUL, Afghanistan — A spasm of violence
broke a fragile truce at Kabul’s main prison
Tuesday as rioting inmates tried to push down a
gate and police fired on them, killing one and
wounding three, officials said.
At least five inmates have been killed and 41
BYUZSIDOTI
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON —President
Bush said Tuesday he remains
supportive of a United Arab
Emirates-based company’s
takeover of some U.S. port oper-
, ations, even though a new, more
intensive investigation of the
deal’s potential security risks has
yettobegih. .
Bush is the final arbiter of that
second review. Yet, he said after
an Oval Office meeting with
Italian Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi that “my position has-
n’t changed” on support for
.transferring control'of manage-
ment of some major U.S. port
facilities from a British company
to Dubai-owned DP World.
The administration’s approval
of the deal has caused an uproar
from Republicans and
Democrats in Congress that it
could open the country to terror-
ist dangers. Lawmakers criticized
the deal anew Tuesday, despite
Republican leaders' hopes that
’ the furor had diminished.
Hoping to quell the bipartisan
rebellion and prevent a potential-
ly embarrassing clash over legis-
lation, the Bush administration
agreed Sunday to DP World’s
request for a 45-day investigation
of deal’s potential security risks,
a second review that was not
done before the administration’s
Jan. 17 approval,
The investigation will result in
a report submitted to the presi-
dent, who will have 15 days to
decide whether to approve it. '
Bush suggested there was no
reason to think the second inves-
tigation would produce any dif-
ferent outcome than the first.
“1 look forward to a good, con-
sistent review” he said as he and
Berlusconi alternated in taking
questions from reporters in the
Oval Office.
He urged Congress to “please,
look at the facts.” ,i
“What kind of signal does it
send throughout the y/orld if its
OK for a British company to
manage the ports but not a Com-
pany that has been secured - that
has been cleared for security pur- : j
poses from the Arab world?” he
• said. After his remarks on port
security, Bush told the translator
not to translate his answer into
Italian, unlike his other respons-
es.
On Capitol Hill, where law-
makers returned after a weeklong
break, Republicans joined
Democrats in criticizing the deal,
claiming that the government’s
initial approval of it was flawed.
They offered as proof
Monday’s disclosure that the ’
U.S. Coast Guard had raised
concerns weeks ago that,
because of U.S. intelligence
gaps; it could not determine
whether the UAE company, DP
World, might support terrorist
operations.
Bush administration officials
say those concerns were
addressed and resolved.
But House Homeland
Security Committee chairman
Peter King, R-N. Y, called the
Coast Guard assessment “just
another example of many unan-
swered questions.”..
BY GINA HOLLAND
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court
appeared ready Tuesday to bless Playboy
Playmate Anna Nicole Smith’s pursuit of a
piece of her late husband’s oil fortune.
The court waded into an 11-year family
feud over the estate of J. Howard Marshall II,
who died at age 90 after a brief marriage to
Smith. The case is dominated by themes of
sex. greed and deception.
♦‘It’s quite a. story,” Justice Stephen Breyer
marveled.
Marshall’s youngest son, E. Pierce
Marshall, claims that he is the sole heir and
that Smith’s legal fight is dead, because she
lost in a Texas probate court.
Justices appeared unwilling to buy that.
. Smith, a former stripper known for her
flashy, cleavage-revealing outfits, watched
Texas gubernatorial candidate
testifies in death penalty case
HOUSTON — Independent gubernatorial can-
didate Kinky Friedman testified Tuesday on behalf
of a man convicted of killing three people during
a robbery at a Houston bowling alley. '
Friedman testified during the punishment phase
of Max Soffar’s trial that the defendant should not
be executed and questioned the evidence used to»
convict him.
“I’ve seen the problems with the lawyers.
Everybody’s dead,” he said.
Cronkite honored by NASA
for space coverage
AUSTIN — Veteran newsman Walter Cronkite
was honored Tuesday with a moon rock from
NASA in recognmoh of his decades covering the
space program.
Cronkite, who anchored the CBS Evening News
from 1962 until his retirement in 1981, is the first
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receive the Ambassador of Exploration Award.
High court rules in favor
of abortion protesters
WASHINGTON -A 20-year-old legal fight
over protests outside abortion clinics ended
Tuesday with the Supreme Court ruling that feder-
al extortion and racketeering laws cannot be used
i against demonstrators.
The 8-0 decision was a setback for abortion
clinics that were buoyed when the 7th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals kept their case alive two years
ago.
BY STEVEN R. HURST
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Sunnis and
Shiites traded bombings and mortar
fire against mainly religious targets in
Baghdad well into the night Tuesday,
killing at least 68 people a day after
authorities lifted a curfew that had
briefly calmed a series of sectarian
reprisal attacks. ’ •
At least six of Tuesday’s attacks hit
clearly religious targets, concluding
with a car bombing after sundown at
the Shiite Abdel' Hadi Chalabi mosque
in the Hurriyah neighborhood that
killed 23 and wounded 55. A separate
suicide bombing killed 23 people at an HH
east Baghdad gas station, where people '
had lined up to buy kerdsine. »
In addition to those known to have
been killed Tuesday, police found nine
more I
■ Sunni Muslim tribal sheik, off a road
southeast of Baghdad. It was unclear
when they died.
The surge of violence deepened the
trauma of residents already shaken by
. fears the country was teetering on the
talks among Iraqi politicians struggling ting the region’s Sunni and Shiite pow- on the Shiite Abdel Hadi Chalabi
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
her plight, although justices referred to her by said that a Texas court investigated her claims Anna NiCOle Smith, tries to shield herself from
her given name, Vickie Lynn. during a five-month trial and rejected them. cqmora' ac 'ho arnvnc at the 11 <?
Breyer said there was evidence that the .will He said that Smith had no grounds to bring a Court with her attorney Howard K. Stern, left,
was forged and that the son hired private separate claim in federal court in California, Tuesday in Washington.
ers against one another.
Defense Intelligence Agency chief
Lt. Gen. Michael Maples said the sec-
tarian violence stems from a core of -
Sunni Arab insurgents who can exploit and wounding 10.
“social, economic, historical and reli- ’----
gibus grievances”
“Networks based on these relation-
ships remain the greatest threat to long-
term stability in Iraq.” Maples said.
said that for Iraqis “the choice is chaos Baghdad hardest because the popula- in the family’s ancestral hometown,
nr nnitv” tion in the canital is ahtfait evenlv divid- ■ Tikrit. The Irani Islamic Partv renorted
The Mardi Gras crowd is smaller
than usual in New Orleans I
NEW ORLEANS — The crowds were small I
and the costumes wickedly satirical as Mardi Gras
reached its boozy climax Tuesday in this hurri-
cane-buckled city that could use a few laughs.
The culmination of the eight-day pre-Lenten
bash fell nearly six months to the day after the
Aug. 29 storm that smashed thousands of homes
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ity.of them in New Orleans.
4 j mosque in inc nurnydn ncignoomooo
at 8 a.m. Tuesday, killing three and
,, wounding 11. Gunmen in two speeding
cars opened fire on the Sunni al-Salam
mosque in the western Baghdad's
Mansour district, killing a guard.
Late Tuesday police reported finding
the body of Shiite cleric Hani Hadi
^handcuffed, blindfolded and shot in the ,
Tfead near a Sunni mosque in ’
Baghdad’s notorious Dbra neighbor-
hood. t
One of the day’s bloodiest attacks
came when a suicide bomber detonated ;
an explosives vest packed with ball
bearings among people lined up to buy ,,
t kerosine at a crowded filling station in
| east Baghdad. The blast killed 23 peo-
---------------■----■-----------------------■--------------- pie and wounded 51, leaving behind
AP Photo/Mohammed Hato the charred and twisted remains of
An Iraqi woman wails .at the site of a car bomb blast in Baghdad on Tuesday. Four wheeled carts that customers had used
A car bombing in the same neigh-
borhood targeted a police patrol and
killed five people and wounded 17- all
civilians.
so than in any other region of the coun- Another car bomb hit a small market
fry. opposite the Shiite Tirnimi mosque in
At about the same time as the attack the mostly Shiite Karradah neighbor-
wounded since the uprising began late Saturday.
Police blame some 350 Taliban and al-Qaida
detainees for inciting the riot.
Prosecutors show execution
order signed by Saddam
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Prosecutors presented
documents Tuesday they said show Saddam
Hussein approved executions of more than 140
Shiites in the 1980s, the most direct evidence yet
against the former Iraqi leader in his four-month ____________
and killed more than 1,300 people, the vast major- trial. Among those sentenced to hang was an 11- ■ non-astronaut and only non-NASA individual to
from near the back of the court, dressed in detectives to keep Smith away from her elder-
black. Her lawyers said she was in tears dur- ly husband’s sick bed. She was a 26-year-old
ing part of the argument when justices dis- topless dancer, divorced with a'son, when she
cussed her late husband. ( and .Marshall were married. One of her hus-
Justices tread delicately on the subject mat- band’juiurses testified that Smith bared her
breasts to the bedridden man as part of her
effort to get an inheritance.
Justice David Souter distilled her claims in
Intelligence Director John Negroponte
said a civil war in Iraq cduld lead to a
brink of sectarian civil war, threatened broader conflict in the Middle East, pit-
to form a government and raised ques-
tions about US. plans to begin.drawing
down troop strength this summer.
Iraq began to tilt seriously toward
outright civil war after the Feb. 22 ’ ----------o—— —r.... —,----
limbing of the important Shiite “social, economic, historical and reli- Those attacks appeared to have been
Askariya Shrine in the mainly Sunni gious grievance^.” in retaliation for assaults on Sunni
• city of Samarra. 60 miles north of “Networks based on these relation- places of worship earlier in the day.
Baghdad. ships remain the greatest threat to long- North of Baghdad, a blast badly
President Bush decried the latest term stability in Iraq,” Maples said. damaged a Sunni mosque where the
surge in sectarian violence Tuesday anik The sectarian violence has hit ■ father of Saddam Hussein was buried Cabinet statement, however, said “what
said that for Iraqis “the choice is chaos Baghdad hardest because the popula- in the family’s ancestral hometown, • was reported in a foreign newspaper,
orunity.” tion in the capital is ahf.ut evenly divid- Tikrit. The Iraqi Islamic Party reported were inaccurate and exaggerated num-
In congressional testimony, National ed between Shiites and Sunnis, more a bomb hit the Sunni Thou Nitaqain bers of victims,”
during a five-month trial and rejected them.
separate claim in federal court in California. Tuesday in Washington.
hood, killing six people and wounding
mosque, a mortar round landed near 16.
the Shiite Imam Kadhim shrine in the Separately and in an unusual move,
Kazimiyah neighborhood on the pppo- the government issued a statement
site side of the Tigris River, killing one declaring that 379 people had been
io killed and 458 wounded as of 4 p.m.
Tuesday in the sectarian violence tied
to the Askariya bombing.
The Washington Post reported
Tuesday that more than 1,300 people
were killed in the reprisal attacks. The
was reported in a foreign newspaper.
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