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For any questions, please call 764.0662 for more information Alito nears Senate vote Nominee narrowly wins recommendation from Judiciary Committee WASHINGTON (AP) - The Judi- ciary Committee favorably recommended Samuel Alito's Supreme Court nomina- tion to the full Senate on a party-line vote yesterday, moving the conservative jurist one step closer to joining the high court. All 10 Republicans voted for Alito, while all eightDemocrats voted against him. The partisan vote was almost pre- ordained, with 15 of the 18 senators announcing their votes even before the committee's session began. The full Senate expects to take a final vote on Alito's nomination before the end of the week. That vote is also expected to follow along party lines, with only one Democrat - Ben Nelson of Nebraska - coming out so far in support of Alito. Republicans hold the balance of power in the Senate 55-44, with one independent. Senate Republicans say Alito is a good choice for the nation's highest court. "Like America's founders, Judge Alito clearly believes in self-government, that the people and not judges should make law, and that judges have an important role but must know and stay in their prop- er place,"'said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Ut.). But Democrats are fretting that the 55- year-old jurist and former lawyer for the Reagan administration will swing the court to the right and help overturn prec- edent-setting decisions like Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's abortion rights case, although he refused to talk about that decision at his confirmation hearing. "He still believes that the Consti- tution does not protect a right to an abortion, but does not want to tell the American people because he knows how unpopular that view is," said Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY.). In a statement after the vote, the White House said: "The negative tone, relent- less attacks and distortion of Judge Alito's career confirmed what we already knew from the hearings: Judge Alito had an open mind but the Democrats, beholden to their interest groups, did not" "Democrats have repeatedly twisted and distorted Judge Alito's positions to the point where they are unrecogniz- able," said spokesman Stephen Schmidt. "Democrats' relentless politicization of a process that has traditionally been above partisan politics is disappointing." Even with the party line vote, Demo- crats are not expected to filibuster Alito's nomination. The Senate will begin final debate today, and Republicans hope to get a final vote by Friday. Private plane crashes, kills 4 Jet misses runway, collides with warehouse in California airport CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) - A pri- vate jet overshot a runway and crashed in flames yesterday, killing all four people aboard, authorities said. The Cessna 560 came in for a land- ing at Southern California McClel- lan-Palomar Airport on a flight from Hailey, Idaho, but went about 150 yards beyond the runway, smashing through scaffolding and slamming into a commercial storage facility, said Bill Polick, spokesman for the San Diego County Department of Public Works. It was not clear if the plane ever touched down on the runway, he said. The cause of the crash was not immediately known. Polick said the weather was clear and sunny with only light wind. Norman Boyd said he saw the plane as he drove near the airport on his way to work. "Its landing gear was up and it was going down really fast," Boyd, who worked on aircraft in the Navy, said in a telephone interview. "It was heading toward the runway and the approaching speed was way beyond what it should be." Th Matnnl Tron nr'.rtn tinn n 0f-hty, WASHINGTON Gonzales: Spying program necessary Attorney General Alberto Gonzales defended the Bush administration's domestic spying program yesterday and suggested that some critics and news reports have mis- led Americans about the breadth of the National Security Agency's surveillance. Gonzales said the warrantless surveillance is critical to prevent another terror- ist attack within the United States and falls within President Bush's constitutional authority and the powers granted by Congress immediately following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. At a Georgetown Law School Forum, Gonzales said the nation needs "to remem- ber that ... it's imperative for national security reasons that we can detect reliably, immediately and without delay" any Al-Qaida related communication entering or leaving the United States. As he spoke, more than a dozen students stood silently with their backs turned to the attorney general. Outside the classroom where Gonzales was to speak, a pair of protesters held up a sheet that said, "Don't torture the Constitution." Gonzales cautioned his listeners about critics and journalists who have mischar- acterized details about the program. "Unfortunately, they have caused concern over the potential breadth of what the President has actually authorized," he said. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Palestine's first parliament elections today Thousands of police guarded ballot boxes yesterday and rival militants pledged not to disrupt voting on the eve of the first Palestinian parliament election in a decade - a cliffhanger vote on whether to pursue peace or confrontation with Israel. The battle between the ruling Fatah Party and its Islamic Hamas rival was sure to tilt the balance of a Middle East torn between reform and traditionalism. But concerns over lawlessness, corruption and unemployment also weighed on voters' minds. Some undecided voters said they want to punish Fatah for years of mismanage- ment, but fear Hamas will usher in an Islamic theocracy. "We hope to see change in the Palestinian Authority, that those who were stealing money will be replaced ... and to have peace with Israel," said Jaber Saadeh, a 50-year- old unemployed construction worker who since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in 2000 has been living on a $150-a-month handout from a U.N. aid agency. NEW YORK UPN and WB to fold, make way for CW Two small, long-struggling television networks - UPN and The WB - will shut down this fall and programming from both will be used to launch a new network aimed mainly at young and minority viewers. The new network will be called The CW - "C" for CBS Corp. and "W" for Warner Bros. - each of which will own half of the new entity and con- tribute programs, assets and executives to the venture. The new network will draw on programming from both UPN, whose shows include "Everybody Hates Chris" and "Veronica Mars," as well as from the slate of The WB, which includes "Supernatural," "Smallville" and "Everwood." KUWAIT CITY Kuwait's pliament names new prime minister It was a painful and public struggle as Kuwait's parliament and Cabinet stepped in yesterday to end an unprecedented leadership dispute in a country where tribal honor and ruling family prerogative run deep. Shortly after parliament voted unanimously to oust the ailing emir, who had ascended the throne just nine days earlier, the Cabinet named Prime Minister Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah to take power in the oil-rich U.S. ally. 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