The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - 3 NEWS BRIEFS ROCHESTER, NH. Man had been drinking before taking hostages The man accused of taking hos- tages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign office had been drink- ing heavily before the standoff and talked about his problems getting medical care, according to family interviews and a court document released yesterday. Leeland Eisenberg, 46, is accused of walking into the Clinton office on Friday with what appeared to be explosives strapped to his body and holding campaign workers hostage for hours after demanding to speak to Clinton about mental health care, authorities said. During an arraignment yester- day afternoon, prosecutors asked for a judge to set a cash bond of $500,000. The prosecutor said Eisenberg had a lengthy criminal record, including a rape conviction, and had escaped while serving a 10-year sentence for that crime and committed rape again. WASHINGTON Report: Iranian nuclear program halted in 2003 A new U.S. intelligence report concludes that Iran's nuclear weap- ons development program has been halted since the fall of 2003 because of international pressure - a stark contrast to the conclusions U.S. spy agencies drew just two years ago. The finding is part of a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran that also cautions that Tehran continues to enrich uranium and still could develop a bomb between 2010 and 2015 if it decided to do so. The conclusion that Iran's weap- ons program was still frozen, through at least mid-2007, repre- sents a sharp turnaround from the previous intelligence assessment in 2005. Then, U.S. intelligence agen- cies believed Tehran was deter- mined to develop a nuclear weapons capability and was continuing its weapons development program. The new report concludes that Iran's de- cisions are rational and pragmatic, and that Tehran is more susceptible to diplomatic and financial pressure than previously thought. CARACAS, Venezuela Chavez humbled by failed unlimited re-election bid Humbled by his first electoral defeat ever, President Hugo Chavez said yesterday he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand indefinitely for re-elec- tion and endorse a huge leap to a socialist state. "I understand and accept that the proposal I made was quite profound and intense," he said after voters narrowly rejected the sweeping constitutional reforms by 51 percent to 49 percent. Opposition activists were ecstatic astheresultswere announcedshort- ly after midnight - with 88 percent of the vote counted, the trend was declared irreversible by elections council chief Tibisay Lucena. DETROIT Special Ed teachers lack certification Secondary special education teachers in Michigan likely have lost their status as being highly qualified under federal standards because the state allowed them to take elemen- tary certification tests. Those teachers have until June 30, 2009, to become highly qualified - a status they need to comply with the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The Michigan Department of Edu- cation said it's unclear how many of the state's 7,000 secondary special ed teachers used the elementary exam to become highly qualified. -Compiled from Daily wire reports 3,882 Number of American service mem- bers who have died in the war in Iraq, according to The Associated Press. The military identified the following dead service members yesterday: Army Spc. Matthew K. Reece, 24, Harrison, Ark. Army Cpl. Blair W. Emery, 24, Lee, Maine. 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I understand she's been quot- mination. ing my kindergarten teacher in candidates were in Iowa, Indonesia." He then walked out of nth before the nation's lead- the room without responding to cuses with new polls show- additional shouted questions. ama had whittled away her Elsewhere in Iowa, Edwards ad and they were virtually mocked the Clinton campaign for ong Democrats in the state. sniping at Obama about his presi- you decide which makes dential ambitions. ense: Entrust our coun- "It's like, boy, you can tell you're someone who is ready on gettingcloseto the caucuses," said e - or to put America in Edwards in Waterloo. nds of someone with little "I want to confess to all of you al or international experi- right now," Edwards said. "In who started running for third grade I wanted to be two ant the day he arrived in things: I wanted to be a cowboy . Senate," Clinton said. and I wanted to be Superman." rhetoric underscored the A new AP-Pew poll showed ss of a race in which polls Clinton essentially tied with dead heat between them Obama in Iowa, 31 percent to 26 a, with former Sen. John percent, with Edwards at 19 per- ds of North Carolina also cent and New Mexico Gov. Bill ng contention. Many Iowa Richardson at 10 percent. goers say they still haven't Clinton's campaign events yes- p their minds or could yet terday were all based encouraging them. voters to go to the Jan. 3 caucuses ton accused Obama of a - and to bring a buddy. o campaign" in not return- She held a campaign event at Nashington this fall to vote the Surf Ballroom at Clear Lake, solution naming an Iranian the same hall where three Rock y unit a terrorist organi- 'n' Roll legends performed before The Bush administration their death in a plane crash in Feb- ted the measure, as did ruary 1959. - and Obama has criti- "I am old enough to remember er for it. " Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and sidents can't dodge the the Big Bopper," Clinton told her olitical fights," she said. audience. She said she felt like ma spokesman Bill Burton hearing Valens' "La Bamba." d, "The truth is, Barack She was late for the Clear Lake doesn't need lectures in event after a campaign plane l courage from someone carrying reporters ahead of her lowed George Bush to war remained on the runway after gave him the benefit of the landing when the cabin began in Iran, supported NAFTA filling with smoke. The plane pposed ethanol until she had to be towed off the runway d to run for president." before Clinton's plane could land. or when Obama decided to The source of the smoke was not ere was a lot of back-and- immediately apparent, the pilot bout that. and campaign aides said. the weekend, the Clinton "We were circling and circling ent reporters a memo tak- and circling," Clinton said. Great Taste. 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