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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
Pakistani airstrike
on alleged terror
camp kills 80
Missiles fired by Pakistani heli-
copters destroyed a religious school
on the Afghan border yesterday
that the military said was a front
for an al-Qaida training camp, kill-
ing 80 people and prompting strong
protests against the country's pres-
ident and the United States.
Islamic leaders and al-Qaida-
linked militants called for nation-
wide demonstrations today to
condemn what they claimed was an
American assault on Pakistani soil.
The army said those who died were
militants, but furious villagers and
religious leaders said the pre-dawn
missile barrage killed innocent stu-
dents and teachers at the school,
known as a madrassa.
U.S. and Pakistani military offi-
cials denied American involvement
and rejected claims that children
and women died in the strike that
flattened the building in the remote
northwestern village of Chingai,
two miles from the Afghan border.
WASHINGTON
Supreme court
considers cases
from state inmates
The Supreme Court appeared to
cast doubt yesterday on the conten-
tions of three Michigan inmates
who questioned the process by
which they can file civil rights law-
suits over conditions of their con-
finement.
The inmates sought the Supreme
Court review after their lawsuits
were dismissed because they failed
to complete an administrative
grievance process or did not name
every prison official whom they
later attempted to sue.
Jean-Claude Andre, a Los
Angeles attorney representing the
inmates, said the federal courts had
not followed the statute in dismiss-
ing the inmates' claims and applied
additional rules to reject their com-
plaints.
SAN DIEGO
Civilian death
investigation claims
another Marine
Another Marine charged with
kidnapping and murdering an Iraqi
man has agreed to plead guilty to
lesser charges, his attorney said yes-
terday. I
Thomas Watt, attorney for Lance
Cpl. Tyler A. Jackson, declined to
discuss details of the agreement
but confirmed that a deal has been
reached and that his client is due in
court next week to plead guilty to
some charges.
Jackson, 23, of Tracy, Mich., is
the third service member to have
made a plea deal in the case, in
which seven Camp Pendleton-based
Marines and a Navy corpsman were
charged with murdering 52-year-
old Hashim Ibrahim Awad.
Last week, another Marine, Pfc.
John Jodka III, pleaded guilty to
assault and conspiracy to obstruct
justice. The first to make a deal was
Petty Officer 3rd Class Melson J.
Bacos, the Navy corpsman on patrol
with the Marines. He pleaded guilty
to kidnapping and conspiracy.
ABUJA, Nigeria
Pilot said to have
ignored advice in
fatal crash
A plane crash that killed 96
people in Nigeria might have been
averted if the pilot had heeded
advice from air traffic controllers
to wait for a lightning storm to clear
before taking off, the aviation min-
ister said yesterday.
Citing the decision as a possible
cause of the third fatal passenger jet
crash in this West African nation in
a year, Aviation Minister Babalola
Borishade said the government was
preparing guidelines to stop such
"reckless abuse of crew discretion-
ary power."
Borishade did not directly blame
pilot error for Sunday's crash, and
authorities were still investigating
what brought down the Boeing 737.
The government ordered all
of the privately owned airline's
planes grounded indefinitely and
suspended its flying license, Bori-
shade said.
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win or lose current and former congressional
aides, GOP lobbyists and strate-
gists reveal surprisingly wide-
HINGTON (AP) - House spread discontent with Hastert,
Dennis Hastert is suggesting a demoralizing elec-
d by many Republicans to tion could cement calls within
de as the GOP's leader if GOP ranks for new leadership.
ats win big in next week's "He's in jeopardy whether we
. He may be on his way win or lose," said GOP lobbyist
if the GOP emerges with Jim Dyer, a former staff chief for
w majority. the House Appropriations Com-
No. 2 House Republican, mittee. "If we lose, I think the
y Leader John Boehner of party will want somebody young-
looking very much like a er and more articulate to carry
te to fill Hastert's shoes its message as minority leader
ough some Republicans and I'm guessing that'll be John
to be agitating for fresh Boehner."
around, win or lose. While Boehner isn't making any
e's lots of grumbling overt moves on Hastert, he's clear-
Republican insiders over ly positioning himself to move up
d imagined leadership when and if Hastert moves on. He
Not the least of those is has stepped into an election-sea-
Hastert's office handled son leadership vacuum, staffing a
andled, some critics say pre-election war room called the
ark Foley page scandal. "Majority Project" and has raised
er episodes, including his media profile.
g House rules two years Hastert, meanwhile, has had
to assume a lower stance this
campaign season amid questions
about how his office handled
complaints about Ex-Rep. Foley's
behavior regarding male former
House pages.
Foley resigned abruptly on
Sept. 29 after being confronted
with sexually explicit computer
messages to former pages.
Republicans already showed
signs of restiveness earlier this
year in elevating Boehner to
majority leader over Whip Roy
Blunt, (R-Mo.) who represented
the established leadership team.
"If they keep the majority by
one or two seats, there's going to
be some hard and fast discussions
with some members about Den-
ny's future," said a Republican
lobbyist with close ties to House
GOP leaders. "I don't think he
can stand for speaker, not the way
things are going."
The GOP lobbyist demanded
anonymity given the sensitivity of
talking about the powerful Hast-
ert, as did a variety of GOP insid-
ers pondering the possibility of a
leadership shuffle.
BENJI DELL/Dail
Engineering Juniors Shahid Ali and Rahul Nevatia, both RAs, play a game of non-
alcoholic flip cup in Mary Markley Residence Hall yesterday. The event, titled
"Sexy Halloween," included sex trivia and other informational games.
British report: Global warming
could devastate economy
Report warns that unchecked
pollution could trigger another
Great Depression
LONDON (AP) - Raising the stakes in the global
warming dispute with the United States and China,
Britain issued a sweeping report yesterday warning
that the Earth faces a calamity on the scale of the
world wars and the Great Depression unless urgent
action is taken.
The British government also said Vice President Al
Gore has agreed to provide advice on climate change
- a clear indication of Prime Minister Tony Blair's
growing dissatisfaction with U.S. environmental pol-
icy. Gore has emerged as a powerful environmental
spokesman since losingthe 2000 presidential election.
The 700-page report argues that environmental-
ism and economic growth can go hand in hand in the
battle against global warming. But it also says that
if no action is taken, rising sea levels, heavier floods
and more intense droughts could displace 200 mil-
lion people by the middle of the century.
The report said unabated climate change would
eventually cost the equivalent of between 5 percent
and 20 percentof global gross domestic product each
year. The report by Sir Nicholas Stern, a senior gov-
ernment economist, represents a huge contrast to
the U.S. government's wait-and-see policies.
Blair called for "bold and decisive action" to cut
carbon emissions and stem the worst of the tempera-
ture rise.
Stern said acting now to cut greenhouse gas emis-
sions would cost about 1 percent of global GDP each
year. "The benefits of strong, early action consider-
ably outweigh the costs," he said. "We can grow and
be green."
Blair, Stern and Treasury chief Gordon Brown,
who commissioned the report, emphasized that the
battle against global warming can only succeed with
the cooperation of major countries such as the Unit-
ed States and China.
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KFC says it will drop
trans fiats from menu
NEW YORK (AP) - After two
years of secret taste tests, KFC
said yesterday it would stop frying
chicken in artery-clogging trans
fats, but New York City restau-
rants being urged to do the same
say it's not so easy.
KFC's announcement, which
won praise from consumer advo-
cates, came an hour ahead of a pub-
lic hearing on a proposalthatwould
make New York the first U.S. city to
ban the unhealthy artificial fats.
Industry leaders dished up a
plateful of reasons why such a
plan shouldn't be adopted in the
nation's restaurant capital.
The move would be a "recipe
for disaster that could be devastat-
ing to New York City's restaurant
industry," said E. Charles Hunt,
executive vice president of the
New York State Restaurant Asso-
ciation.
The shift by KFC and a handful
of other fast food chains - and the
effort by New York health officials
- mark an aggressive crackdown
on an ingredient that is consumed
in large doses around the country.
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Marijuana may not
be as bad as your moth-
er says it is.
Smoke from marijuana
is known to contain cancer-
causing agents, but a recent Uni-
versity study found no clear link
between pot-smoking and cancer.
Researchers say that while they .--
can't rule out the possibility that
smoking marijuana may lead to an
increased risk of cancer, the con-
nection between the drug and the
disease is not very strong.