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The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Collegiate Press. Debris falls from an apartment building on New York's Upper East Side after a small plane with New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle aboard crashed into it yesterday. Yankees' Lidle presumed dead in plane crash Yankees pitcher one of at least two killed in collision; crash doesn't seem to be a terrorist attack NEW YORK (AP) - A small plane carrying New York Yankee Cory Lidle slammed into a 50-story sky- scraper yesterday, apparently killing the pitcher and a second person in a crash that rained flaming debris onto the sidewalks and briefly raised fears of another terrorist attack. A law enforcement official in Washington said Lidle - an avid pilot who got his license during last yearts offseason - was aboard the single-engine air- craft when it plowed into the 30th and 31st floors of the high-rise on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said both people aboard were killed. Lidle's passport was found on the street, according to a federal official, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. It was not immediately clear who was at the controls and who was the second person aboard. Federal Aviation Administration records showed the plane was registered to Lidle, who had repeatedly assured reporters in recent weeks that flying was safe and that the Yankees - who were traumatized in 1979 when catcher Thurman Munson was killed in the crash of a plane he was piloting - had no reason to worry. "The flying?" the 34-year-old Lidle, who had a home near Los Angeles, told The Philadelphia Inquir- er this summer. "I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane." The crash came just four days after the Yan- kees embarrassingly quick elimination from the playoffs, during which Lidle had been relegated to the bullpen. In recent days, Lidle had taken abuse from fans on sports talk radio for saying the team was unprepared. NEWS IN BRIEF UNITED NATIONS Bush defends stance on North Korea President Bush unapologetically defended his approach to North Korea's nuclear weapons program yesterday, pledging he would not change course despite contentions that Pyongyang's apparent atomic test proved the failure of his nearly six years of effort. Bush rejected the idea of direct U.S.-North Korea talks, saying the Koreans were more likely to listen if confronted with the combined protest of many nations. The president said he was not backing down from his assertion three years ago that "we will not tolerate nuclear weapons in North Korea." He said the United States "reserves all options to defend our friends and our interests in the region against the threats from North Korea, a stance he said includes increased defense cooperation, especially on missile defense, with Japan and South Korea. But he added: "I believe the commander in chief must try all diplomatic mea- sures before we commit our military." WASHINGTON Army: Troops to stay in Iraq until 2010 The U.S. Army has plans to keep the current level of soldiers in Iraq through 2010, the top Army officer said yesterday, a later date than Bush administration or Pentagon officials have mentioned thus far. The Army chief of staff, Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, cautioned against reading too much into the planning, saying troops levels could be adjusted to actual con- ditions in Iraq. He said it is easier to hold back forces scheduled to go there than to prepare and deploy units at the last minute. "This is not a prediction that things are going poorly or better," Schoomaker told reporters. "It's just that I have to have enough ammo in the magazine that I can continue to shoot as long as they want us to shoot." His comments were the latest acknowledgment by Pentagon officials that a signifi- cant withdrawal of troops from Iraq is not likely in the immediate future.a little bit of difference in the testimony or what he said." WASHINGTON Page scandal: Ethics panel questions officials House officials who directly supervise teenage congressional pages were questioned yesterday by ethics committee investigators probing the handling of former Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate messages to pages. The internal investigators spoke privately with Peggy Sampson, who super- vises House pages sponsored by Republican lawmakers, and her Democratic counterpart, Wren Ivester. The high schoolers attend classes at Congress' page school and perform errands for lawmakers. WASHINGTON Reid got $1 million for Las Vegas land Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn't personally owned the property for three years, property deeds show. In the process, Reid did not disclose to Congress an earlier sale in which he transferred his land to a company created by a friend and took a financial stake in that company, according to records and interviews. The Nevada Democrat's deal was engineered by Jay Brown, a longtime-friend and former casino lawyer whose name surfaced in a major political bribery trial this summer and in other prior organized crime investigations. - Compiledfrom Daily wire reports CORRECIONS Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michigandaily.com. 4 4 E I I 'Azzam the American' indicted AI-Qaida video propaganda videos for al-Qaida. Adam Yehiye Gadahn,;28 ciuld" personality charged be sentenced to death if convicted with treason of the charge, which has been used only a few dozen times in U.S. his- LOS ANGELES (AP) - The tory and not at all since the World charge of treason was used for the War II era. He also was indicted on first time in the United States' war a charge of providing material sup- on terrorismyesterday,filed against port to terrorists. a California man who appeared in Gadahn "knowingly adhered to an enemy of the United States, namely, al-Qaida, and gave al- Qaida aid and comfort ... with intent to betray the United States," according to the indictment, hand- ed up by an Orange County grand jury. The suspected al-Qaida opera- tive has been sought by the FBI since 2004. Stock scandals cost CEOs jobs 0 While stock option regulators and prosecutors do it Santa Clara-based McAfee, for them. a leading maker of eimputer shenanigans are cleared Yesterday, the scandal's fall- anti-virus software, also fired its up, executives ousted out widened when the chief president, Kevin Weiss. executives of both McAfee The abrupt departures of SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Inc. and CNet Networks Inc. McAfee CEO George Samenuk - Companies sullied by stock stepped aside to atone for stock and CNet CEO Shelby Bonnie option chicanery seem intent option shenanigans that will follow last week's resignation on cleaning out their executive erase some of the companies' of Apple Computer Inc. board suites and boardrooms before past profits. member Fred Anderson. I I I Editors in Chains: Secrets, Security and the Press Monday, October 16,2006,4:00 p.m. Honigman Auditorium, Law School University of Michigan Bill Keller p Executive Editor -- The New York Times Potrio .ounesy oi sew Y orKl inc Bill Keller joined The New York Times in 1984 where he has held the positions of domestic correspondent in the Washington, D.C. bureau (1984 - 1986), reporter in the Moscow bureau (1986 - 1988), bureau chief in the Moscow bureau (1988 - 1991), bureau chief in the Johannesburg bureau (1992 -1995), foreign editor in the New York City bureau (1995 - 1997), managing editor in the New York City bureau (1997 - 2001), op-ed columnist and senior writer in the New York City bureau (2001 - 2003) and Executive Editor in the New York City bureau from July 2003 to the present. In 1989 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the breakup of the former Soviet Union. Bill Keller stirred up controversy this past June when The New York Times published an article revealing that the U.S. Administration had kept tabs on suspected terrorists by tapping into bank records which track global transactions. President Bush and Vice-President Cheney called the newspaper a disgrace, and several congressmen suggested that it was guilty of treason and demanded the prosecution of its Executive Editor. For additional information: Web site: www.umich.edu/~aflf Telephone: 734-764-0303 The 2006 Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom is sponsored by the Academic Freedom Lecture Fund, American Association of University Professors University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Chapter, and the University of Michigan's Office of the President, Office of the Vice President for Communications, Law School, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Board for Student Publications, and Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs. This lecture is free and open to the public. I '