2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 20, 2004 NATION WORLD City sues Cali. over law on gay mnarriages SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - After sanctioning more than 2,800 gay mar- riages in the past week, the city said yesterday it is suing the state of Cali- fornia, challenging its ban on same-sex marriages on constitutional grounds. City Attorney Dennis Herrera said he planned to file the suit by late after- noon."The city and county of San Francisco is going on the offensive today to protect the mayor's action" allowing gay marriage, Herrera said. Two judges already are considering challenges from conservative groups seeking to halt the marriage spree that began last Thursday. The city's lawsuit asks that those cases be consolidated into one. Mayor Gavin Newsom said he doesn't regret giving out marriage licenses before the city filed a legal challenge to the state's marriage laws, but added that he's glad the question is now in the courts. "I think what we have done is affirm marriage here in San Francisco," New- som said. "We affirmed it because we are celebrating people coming together in their unions. I feel affirmed as a married man by what's happened here in San Francisco." A lawyer for a group trying to halt the gay marriages described the city's move as a delaying tactic. "This is as much a maneuver to keep this in court and keep the issue alive as it is anything else," said Benjamin Bull, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund. The city is asking Superior Court Judge James Warren to declare uncon- stitutional three sections of the Cali- fornia Family Code that define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. City officials want the judge to determine if barring same-sex couples from marrying violates the equal pro- tection and due process clauses of the state constitution. NEWS IN BRIEF HEADLINES FROM AROUND THE WORLD HOUSTON Former Enron CEO Skilling indicted Former Enron Corp. chief executive Jeffrey Skilling was brought to court in handcuffs yesterday, charged with fraud, insider trading and other crimes in the highest-reaching indictment yet stemming from the energy trader's colos- sal collapse. Skilling is accused of participating in widespread schemes to mislead govern- ment regulators and investors about the company's earnings. He pleaded not guilty to all 35 federal counts against him, and posted his $5 million bond with a cashier's check. Skilling's indictment leaves former chairman Kenneth Lay as the only major Enron executive not charged. It's unclear whether the latest charges make an indictment against Lay more likely; many close to the Enron case doubt Skilling would agree to cooperate with an investigation into Lay or anyone else in exchange for leniency. "Skilling's been a pretty cool customer. I don't think so," said James Finberg, an attorney who represents former Enron shareholders. The indictment was handed up Wednesday and unsealed yesterday. Portraits of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah All Khamenei, left, and the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini gaze down onto central Tehran, Iran, yesterday. Only conservative Iranians are expected to go to the polls for today's national parliamentary elections. . " Hard-liners likely to take orncontrol o rnlegislature BAG HDAD U.S. still plans for June 30 Iraq turnover date The top U.S. administrator in Iraq insisted yesterday there are many ways to choose a new Iraqi government, but a June 30 deadline for handing over power remains firm. Hours later, the United Nations backed Washington's claims that a direct vote before then is impossible. The U.N. judgment on elections throws open the debate over how to transfer sovereignty and end the U.S. occupation - though not the U.S. military pres- ence - among Americans, Iraq's Governing Council and powerful Shiite Mus- lim clerics, who derailed U.S. plans by demanding an early direct vote. Iraqi leaders have largely turned against the original American plan to use regional caucuses as the basis for the new government. The Bush administration hopes that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will now endorse an alternative that would expand the Governing Council and hand it power to rule until elec- tions, a U.S. official told The Associated Press. Support is growing within the U.S.-appointed council for expanding the body, several members said yesterday. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Hard-liners appear almost certain to retake control of Iran's legislature in parliamentary elec- tions today after hundreds of reformist candidates were dis- qualified. In the latest sign of the conservatives' boldness, they padlocked shut the capital's last major pro-reform newspapers. The silencing of the two dailies - Yas-e-nou and Sharq - yesterday was part of relentless pressure on media criti- cal of the Islamic establishment. But it carried an added blow just before the elections, which most reformist politi- cians and supporters plan to boycott. Judiciary agents also searched and closed an election monitoring office of the main reformist party, the Islamic Participation Front, said a member of the group, speaking on condition of anonymity. The group's headquarters contin- ued to operate. Many liberals saw the closures as a show of force and confidence by conservatives despite widespread accusations they have hijacked the vote. The ruling theocracy has barred more than 2,400 candi- dates who sought greater political and social openness - effectively sending the 290-seat parliament back under the wing of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the powerful clerical ranks he commands. All the parliament seats are up for election, but the only real drama is how many people will vote. Liberals have called for a mass no-show to embarrass the Islamic leadership and weaken the credibility of the new parliament. They have also broken a major political taboo and directly criticized Khamenei, whose backers believe is answerable only to God. The powerful judiciary - controlled by Khamenei - closed the two newspapers after they published portions of a statement from pro-reform lawmakers that attacked the supreme leader and said freedom was being "trampled in the name of Islam." But some reformers saw the crackdown in broader terms: a possible pre-emptive strike in anticipation of a low voter turnout and a hint of strong-arm tactics to come. "Banning papers is essential for those who plan to com- mit a parliamentary coup," said Hamidreza Jalaeipour, a columnist for Yas-e-nou and editor of three other newspa- pers that were banned earlier. The Paris-based group Reporters Without Borders demand- ed the immediate reopening of the papers and condemned the "censorship measures" to "silence the reformist press." WASHINGTON Israeli man accused of nuclear marketing An Israeli businessman accused of being a middleman in the nuclear black market worked to supply not only Pak- istan but also its archrival India, court records indicate. South Africa-based Asher Karni faces felony charges of exporting nuclear bomb triggers to Pakistan. But court files in the case also include e-mail exchanges between Karni and an Indian businessman who was trying secretly to buy material for two Indian rocket factories. "Be careful to avoid any reference to the customer name," warned one message from Karni's Indian contact, Raghavendra "Ragu" Rao of Foretek Marketing (Pvt.) Ltd. The messages offer a rare glimpse into such dealings. Federal prosecutors filed them in court as part of their attempts to persuade a judge to keep Karni behind bars before his trial. WASHINGTON Poll: Most people favor do-not-call list The government's do-not-call reg- istry is a resounding success, according to an Associated Press poll that found three-quarters of the people who signed up reported fewer telemarketing calls. The news was not so good for the government's efforts to reduce unwanted e-mail. The poll found few people noticed any difference in the six weeks since a law against "spam" took effect. More than 57 million phone num- bers have been placed on the do-not- call list since it was established in October, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Because many of the numbers may be cell phones or multiple phones within the same household, the FTC does not claim to know what percentage of the popula- tion has registered. WASHINGTON Opt imsm may help people feel better Just thinking a medicine will make you feel better actually may - even if it's fake, according to new research examining the placebo effect. One region of the brain is activated by the expectation of pain relief, researchers said. This, in turn, leads to a reduction of activity in the portion of the brain that senses pain. In a second study, researchers showed that some of the brain regions involved in feeling physical pain become activated when someone empathizes with another's pain. Botl studies were published in today's edition of the journal Science. 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