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NEWS BRIEFS
NAIROBI, Kenya
Peace Corps halts
Kenya operations
because of violence
The U.S. Peace Corps said yes-
terday it had temporarily sus-
pended its operations in Kenya
following weeks of violence over a
disputed election.
WhilenoPeaceCorpsvolunteers
have been targeted in the violence
that has engulfed Kenya since the
Dec.27 elections, the Washington-
based group has decided to pull
out its remaining 58 volunteers,
said spokeswoman Amanda Beck.
Another 144 volunteers were sent
home in January after the violence
first erupted, she said.
BAGHDAD
At least 3 Iraqis
killed in U.S. raid
north of Baghdad
At least three Iraqis were killed
and one child was injured after
American soldiers stormed a tiny
one-room house north of Baghdad
and opened fire, U.S. and Iraqi of-
ficials said yesterday.
Iraqi police, relatives and
neighbors said a couple and their
19-year-old son were shot to death
in their beds late Monday. But the
U.S. military said soldiers came
under fire and killed two sus-
pected members of a terrorist cell
in self-defense. It said it did not
know who shot the woman or the
child.
The U.S. military reported only
three dead, but Iraqi police said
two young girls were wounded and
one died Tuesday at a hospital.
It was the second time in as
many days that the U.S. military
conceded involvementin the death
of Iraqi civilians.
WASHINGTON
Senate members
blast Bush's $3.1
trillion budget plan
Democrats on two Senate pan-
els tossed brickbats at President
Bush's budget on yesterday, blast-
ing it for loading debt onto the fis-
cal ledger and making clear that
theywould ignore his proposals to
cut Medicare and Medicaid spend-
ing.
Senate Budget Committee
Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.)
and White House budget chief
Jim Nussle kicked off the hearing
with a combative exchange over
the administration's fiscal perfor-
mance and its failure to realisti-
cally budget for the war in Iraq.
"The debt has done nothing
under this president's watch but
skyrocket," Conrad said.
WASHINGTON
Intelligence chief
says al-Qaida's
reach is expanding
Al-Qaida, increasingly shut down
in Iraq, is establishing cells in other
countries as Osama bin Laden's orga-
nization uses a "safe haven" in Paki-
stan's tribal region to train for attacks
in Afghanistan, the Middle East,
Africa and the United States, the U.S.
intelligence chief said yesterday.
"Al-Qaida remains the pre-emi-
nent threat against the United
States," Mike McConnell told a Sen-
ate hearing more than six years after
the 9/11 attacks.
He said that fewer than 100 al-
Qaida terrorists have moved from
Iraq to establish cells in other coun-
tries as the U.S. military clamps
down on their activities, and "they
may deploy resources to mount
attacks outside the country."
McConnell said while the level of
violence in Iraq has dropped sharply
since last year, it is going to be years
before Iraq is stable.
"It is not going to be over in a year.
It's going to be a long time to bring it
to closure," he said.
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports
3,947
Number ofAmerican service mem-
bers who have died in the war in
Iraq, according to The Associated
Press. There were no dead service
members identified yesterday.
Judge rules text messages must
be made public in Kilpatrick case
SNOW WHITE, LANDLORD
City of Detroit to
appeal ruling about
documents leading
to mayoral scandal
DETROIT (AP) - Documents
related to a whistle-blower law-
suit that led to a text-messaging
sex scandal involving the mayor
must be released to the public, a
judge ruled yesterday.
The city said it would appeal
the ruling by Friday, the dead-
line set by Wayne County Circuit
Judge Robert Colombo Jr.
The Detroit Free Press and The
Detroit News are suing the city to
determine whether there was a
secret settlement in the whistle-
blower lawsuit, in which a jury
ruled against the city. The case
eventually cost the city more than
$8.5 million.
Colombo yesterday indicated
that indeed there was a secret set-
tlement, pointing to certain docu-
ments that he said wouldn't have
been negotiated if there hadn't
been a settlement.
PRIMARY
From Page 1A
egates to Obama's 409 in incom-
plete results. A total of 1,681
delegates were at stake in 22 states
and American Samoa.
Overall, that gave Clinton 706
delegates, to 611 for Obama, with
2,025 delegates required to claim
the nomination in Denver at this
summer's convention.
Neither Clinton nor Obama pro-
claimed overall victory on a Super
Tuesday that sprawled from coast-
to-coast, and with good reason.
"I look forward to continu-
ing our campaign and our debate
about how to leave this country
better off for the next genera-
tion," said Clinton, looking ahead
to the primaries and caucuses yet
to come.
Obama was in Chicago, where
he told a noisy election night rally,
"Our time has come. Our move-
ment is real. And change is coming
to America."
LSA sophomore Kelly Bernero,
chair of the University's chapter
of Students for Hillary, and LSA
sophomore Tom Duvall, chair of
the University's chapter of Stu-
dents for Obama agreed that nei-
ther candidate achieved a clear
victory.
"Because our field is so strong,
and Obama and Clinton are such
strongcandidates, that we will not
know who the nominee is untilthe
very end," Bernero said.
A few weeks ago, though, Clin-
ton was the clear frontrunner,
leadingObama in national polls by
about 20 points.
Duvall said Obama's grassroots
campaign efforts and appeal to
college students helped him close
in on Clinton's lead.
"His numbers are skyrocketing
across the country," Duvall said.
"The fact that Barack Obama was
able to close the gap to where it
is shows that the more voters see
of him, the more they recognize
what an impressive nominee he
would be."
McCain, the early Republican
front-runner whose campaign
nearly unraveled six months ago,
won in New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut, Missouri, Delaware
and his home state of Arizona
to gain all 309 delegates at stake
there - well over a quarter of the
"The public should be very
happy with what happened
today," Detroit News attorney
James Stewart said after yester-
day's hearing. "This information
is going to come out. I think the
notion the public hasn't found
this out before will dismay peo-
ple."
"They're all smoking guns,"
Free Press attorney Herschel Fink
said of the documents.
The whistle-blower lawsuit
was filed by two police officers
who alleged they were fired for
investigating claims that Mayor
Kwame Kilpatrick used his secu-
rity unit to cover up extramarital
affairs.
After a jury awarded damages
to the officers in September, Kil-
patrick promised to appeal but
never did.
A month later, the city made
the multimillion-dollar payout.
The mayor's top legal adviser,
Sharon McPhail, said Colombo's
order went too far.
"The documents in question
were never introduced into evi-
dence during the lawsuit or trial,
were never part of the evidence
total needed for the nomination.
He also put Illinois and Oklahoma
in his column.
Kinesiology senior Allison Sch-
neider, chair of the University's
chapter of Students for McCain,
said McCain's frontrunner status
is because of his promise to be
honest and straightforward about
his positions.
"He's appealing because he's
genuine," Schneider said. "He
doesn't always give the answers
they want to hear, but he gives the
answers he believes to be true."
Huckabee, the former gover-
nor of Arkansas, won a series of
Bible Belt victories, in Alabama,
Georgia and Tennessee as well as
his own home state. He told The
Associated Press in an interview
he would campaign on. "The one
way you can't win a race is to quit
it, and until somebody beats me,
I'm going to answer the bell for
every round of this fight," he said.
LSA senior Amy Drumm, chair
of the University's chapter of Stu-
dents for Romney, said Huckabee's
persistence in the race is hurting
Romney's campaign.
"It looks like Huckabee is only
staying in it to take votes from
Romney," Drumm said. "Huck-
abee's supporters are social con-
servatives. If he wasn't in the race,
more of his supporters would
swingto Romney,"
Romney, the former governor
of Massachusetts, won a home
state victory. He also took Utah,
where fellow Mormons support-
ed his candidacy. His superior
organization produced victories
in North Dakota, Montana and
Minnesota, andhe, too,breathed
defiance.
While many believe McCain
has the support and momentum
to secure the Republican nomi-
nation, Drumm said Romney is
still the candidate of choice for
social conservatives. She said
McCain's support is largely from
independents and Democrats
who voted for McCain in open
Republican primaries.
"Romney is supported in most
conservative circles," Drumm
said. "His support comes from
real Republicans and true con-
servatives, not the indepen-
dents."
Democrats played out a his-
toric struggle between Clin-
ton, seeking to become the first
the jury considered during the
trial and many of the documents
have never been in the city's pos-
session," McPhail said in a state-
ment.
Colombo stayed his order to
release the documents pending
the outcome of the city's appeal.
In a related action, the City
Council voted yesterday to autho-
rize an audit of Kilpatrick's office
and agencies including the law
department, which handled the
city's defense of the whistle-blow-
er lawsuit.
"We're basically looking at
legal expenses, settlement judg-
ments, as well as other financial
transactions, so it's wide-rang-
ing," said Councilman Kwame
Kenyatta.
Councilwoman Sheila Cock-
rel cast the lone 'no' vote on the
resolution to authorize the audit,
saying she believed it exceeded
the council's authority.
During testimony in the trial,
Kilpatrick and his chief of staff,
Christine Beatty, denied having
an affair during 2002-03 and
conspiring to have one of the offi-
cers fired.
female president and Obama, hop-
ing to become the first black per-
son to win the White House.
Democratic students said
they would be excited to support
Obama or Clinton regardless of
which candidate receives the par-
ty's nomination.
"So far, the Democratic sup-
porters have embraced the sig-
nificance of both having a woman
president or our first black presi-
dent," Bernero said. "Those are
factors which have helped them
both out equally."
Clinton won at home in New
York as well as in Massachusetts,
New Jersey, Missouri, Oklahoma,
Tennessee, Arizona and Arkansas,
where she was first lady for more
than a decade. She also won the
caucuses in American Samoa.
Obama won Connecticut, Geor-
gia, Alabama, Delaware, Utah and
his home state of Illinois. He pre-
vailed in caucuses in North Dako-
ta, Minnesota, Kansas and Idaho,
all caucus states.
After an early series of low-del-
egate, single-state contests, Super
Tuesday was anything but small
- its primaries and caucuses were
spread across nearlyhalfthe coun-
try in the most wide-open presi-
dential campaign in memory.
The result was a double-bar-
reled set of races, Obama and Clin-
ton fighting for delegates as well
as bragging rights in individual
states, the Republicans doing the
same.
Polling place interviews with
voters suggested subtle shifts in
the political landscape, potential-
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Union last night.
ly significant as the races push on
through the campaign calendar.
For the first time this year,
McCain ran first in a few states
amongself-identifiedRepublicans.
As usual, he was running strongly
among independents. Romney
was getting the votes of about four
in 10 people who described them-
selves as conservative. McCain
was wining about one-third of
that group, and Huckabee about
one in five.
Overall, Clinton was winning
only a slight edge among women
and white voters, groups that she
had won handily in earlier con-
tests, according to preliminary
results from interviews with vot-
ers in 16 states leaving polling
places.
Obama was collecting the over-
whelming majority of votes cast
by blacks.
Clinton was gaining the votes
of roughly six in10 Hispanics, and
she hoped the edge would serve
her well as the race turned west
to Arizona, New Mexico and Cali-
fornia, the biggest prize with 370
delegates.
The allocation of delegates
lagged the vote count by hours.
That was particularly true for the
Democrats, who divided theirs
roughly in proportion to the pop-
ular vote.
Nine of the Republican contests
were winner take all, and that was
where McCain piled up his lead.
-Suzy Vuljevic, Julie Rowe
and The Associated Press
contributed to this report
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