4 -NATION/WORLD Powell asks NEWS IN BRIEF f#; , U HEADLINESF. AROUND THE WOR e larger role in Iraq WASHINGTON (AP) - The Unit- ed States is circulating a proposed res- olution to assign a larger role to the United Nations in peacemaking in Iraq and to outline a "political horizon" for the country's transition to a constitu- tional democracy, Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday. At a hastily arranged news confer- ence, Powell said peacekeeping troops, most of which are supplied by the United States, would be placed under a unified command with U.S. command- ers in charge. "Certainly the United States will continue to play a dominant role," Powell said. "But a dominant role does not mean the only role." Nonetheless, in turning to the United Nations, as demanded by many other governments and members of Con- gress, the Bush administration is modi- fying its strategy in Iraq. Powell said the United Nations "has brought great skill to nation-building." In response to a question, he said the move was not motivated by the contin- uing loss of U.S. troops in Iraq. Powell said U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte was circulating a draft res- olution yesterday and today to other U.N. ambassadors and that he planned to rally support with telephone calls to foreign ministers. He said he had already been in touch with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and foreign ministers Igor Ivanov of Russia, Joschka Fischer of Germany and Dominique de Villepin of France. "The initial reaction so far is posi- tive," he said. The postwar operation is costing the United States at least $3.9 billion a month and has strained the Ameri- can military, which has some 140,000 troops stationed there. The administra- tion has struggled to attract broader international participation, and sees the new U.N. resolution as the way to make other nations more comfortable with contributing militarily and finan- cially. Some nations, including India, "felt, like they needed additional authority from the U.N. to able to participate,"; White House spokesman Scottj McClellan said. "So we said, 'We want to listen toI your concerns, we want to work withI you and we want to look at ways to encourage broader international partic-j ipation,"' McClellan said. He made plain that the United States intends to retain political and military control in Iraq. "This is and continues to be something that is under the com- mand of the United States military, working with our coalition," he said. The U.S. civilian administrator for Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, and the U.S.-ledI Coalition Provisional Authority are, "overseeing our efforts in Iraq and they will continue to oversee our efforts in Iraq," McClellan said. "We want to encourage more countries to participate." 21 RState 3. Aiave Mr reeks Cool Clothes, Cheap Prices! at paOK to tS 70 S it I SiL.LIII STARKE, Fa. Abortion doctor's killer executed Paul Hill, a former minister who said he murdered an abortion doctor and his bodyguard to save the lives of unborn babies, was executed last night by injection. He was the first person put to death in the United States for anti-abortion violence. Hill, 49, was condemned for the July 29, 1994, shooting deaths of John Bayard Britton, a doctor, and his bodyguard, retired Air Force Lt. Col. James Herman Barrett, and the wounding of Barrett's wife outside the Ladies Center in Pensacola. As he has since the slaying, Hill showed no remorse and urged abortion foes to use whatever means to protect the unborn. "If you believe abortion is a lethal force, you should oppose the force and do what you have to do to stop it," Hill said as laid strapped to a gurney in the execu- tion chamber. "May God help you to protect the unborn as you would want to be protected." Hill was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m., Gov. Jeb Bush's office said. Death penalty opponents and others had urged Bush to halt the execution, some of them warning Hill's death would make him a martyr and unleash more vio- lence against abortion clinics. The governor said he would not be "bullied" into stopping the execution. WASHINGTON IRS centers provide faulty information IRS centers established to help people prepare their tax returns gave incorrect answers - or no answer at all - to 43 percent of the questions asked by Treasury Department investigators posing as taxpayers. The investigators concluded that half a million taxpayers may have been given wrong information between July and December 2002. Service varied widely by state, with some of the best in the Northeast and some of the worst in the Midwest and Plains. Auditors were given correct answers to 57 percent of their tax law questions during the course of the study. Less than half, or 45 percent, of the questions were answered correctly and completely. In 12 percent of the cases, the answer was correct but incomplete. Internal Revenue Service employees gave wrong answers to 28 percent of the questions. Twelve percent went unanswered, as taxpayers were told to do their own research in IRS publications. In 3 percent of the attempts to get questions answered, the auditor could not get any service at the center. The IRS disputed the results. Using the raw numbers gathered by Treasury investigators, the IRS recal- culated the error rate and ignored any instance when a taxpayer was denied serv- ice or told to do his own research. WASHINGTON Viruses disrupt power- plant PC systems Government regulators are warning nuclear plant operators about com- puter outages caused by Internet infections, confirming disruptions of two important internal systems in January at a nuclear power plant already shut down. The Nuclear Regulatory Commis- sion said safety was not compro- mised at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant along Lake Erie in Ohio, partly because the plant was shut down in February 2002 after workers found a hole in the 6-inch-thick steel cap covering the plant's reactor ves- sel. The two computer systems affected by the widespread "Slam- mer" Internet disruption in January are regularly used by plant operators for monitoring pressure and tempera- ture during accidents, but they are not formally considered safety equip- ment, NRC spokesman Matthew Chi- ramal said. WASHINGTON Court confronts death penalty issue The Supreme Court is back in the thick of the death penalty debate, coming face to face with the effects of its own recent rulings on who can be executed and who decides that sentence. The justices are confronting sev- eral capital punishment questions: whether juveniles should be execut- ed, what to do about poor perform- ances by defense lawyers and whether juries rather than judges should have sentenced scores of death row inmates. The court has dealt before with all three subjects, but not with finality. Some of the most dramatic recent rulings came last year. SALTERS, S.C. Some black leaders question prison labor Officials in struggling Williamsburg County see the new federal prison rising behind the pines along a lonely two-lane highway as the answer to the high unem- ployment level. But some black leaders wonder whether a county that is more than two-thirds black should tie its future to a system that locks up so many mem- bers of their race. The $110 million medium-security prison will hold about 1,150 inmates and is scheduled to open at year's end. 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