* The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com T y 1 Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 3 NEWS BRIEFS WASHINGTON FBI raids home in China espionage investigation The FBI was raiding a home in New Orleans yesterday in con- nection with a spy investigation of U.S. military secrets being ille- gally given to China. A Defense Department ana- lyst with security clearances was among the three or four peo- ple being charged in what law enforcement officials described as separate cases in Virginia and California. Itwasnotimmediatelyclearhow the Louisiana raid was related, but FBI spokeswoman Sheila Thorne said the case would be discussed at a news conference addressing the espionage cases that was planned for 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time today at the Justice Department in Washington. DILl, East Timor Following near coup, East Timor declares state of emergency East Timor declared a state of emergency today after attacks on the country's top leaders in a failed coup left the president in "extremely serious" condition with gunshot wounds. The assassination attempt Mon- day against President Jose Ramos- Horta and the failed attack on Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao - East Timor's the independence icons - thrust the desperately poor country into a fresh crisis amid fears of more unrest and po- litical turmoil. Surgeons operated on Ramos- Horta for three hours overnight to remove bullet fragments and re- pair his chest wounds, Dr. Len No- taros, the general manager of the Royal Darwin Hospital, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. Clinton attacks Obama for Rezko ties WANT TO JOIN THE DAILY'S NEWS STAFF? E-mail herring@michigandaily.com Illinois senator had challenged former First Lady's tax returns WASHINGTON (AP) - Resist- ing calls from Barack Obama to release her income tax returns, Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday she would only do so if she secures the Democratic presidential nomination and con- tended her rival had been less than candid about his relation- ship with major campaign con- tributors. In a televised interview Mon- day with Politico.com and local television station WJLA, Sen. Clinton said her financial hold- ings had been disclosed in her Senate ethics filings and that she had liquidated all her assets when she became a presidential candi- date so her investments would not present a conflict of interest. After the former first lady acknowledged she had lent her campaign $5 million in personal funds, Sen. Obama suggested she release her tax records as he has done to give voters a better accounting of where her money comes from. The Clintons have become wealthy since leaving the White House in 2001, largely through Bill Clinton's consulting and speaking fees and the couple's lucrative book deals. The New York senator shot back at Obama's suggestion, say- ing such transparency should apply to other aspects of his life. "Senator Obama has some questions to answer about his dealings with one of his biggest contributors, Exelon - appar- ently he cut some deals behind closed doors to prevent them from full disclosure," Clinton said. "We still don't have answers about Senator Obama and his dealings with Mr. Rezko." Obama has faced questions about his relationship with Chi- cago businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko, who raised money for past Obama political campaigns and played a role in the purchase of the Illinois senator's home. Obamahas not been accused of any wrong- doing in connection with felony fraud charges against Rezko. Clinton and Obama tangled over Rezko at a televised debate in South Carolina, where she referred to Rezko as a "slum landlord." Executives and employees of Exelon Corp., a Chicago-based energy giant and nuclegr plant operator, have contributed more than $200,000 to Obama's cam- paigns since 2004. This month, The New York Times examined whether Obama, at the behest of Exelon lobbyists, had watered down legislation aimed at tight- ening regulations on the nuclear industry. ZURICH, Switzerland Trio of thieves nabs $163 million worth of paintings Three gunmen in ski masks and dark clothes burst into a museum just before closing time. After a quick run through the building, they hustled out the door and sped off with paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet valued at $163.2 million. Authorities appealed yesterday for any witnesses to help recon- struct the robbers' getaway from the E.G. Buehrle Collection, a private museum of Impressionist works whose founder had his own troubled history with stolen art. "This is an entirely new dimen- sion in criminal culture," police spokesman Marco Cortesi said, calling it the largest art robbery in Switzerland's history and one of the biggest ever in Europe." WASHINGTON Again, Huckabee vows to stay in the GOP race Against overwhelming odds, Mike Huckabee keeps brushing off calls to drop his presidential bid for the good of the Republican Party The former Arkansas governor and ordained Baptist minister is follow- ing in the footsteps of past spoilers such as Republican Ronald Reagan in 1976 and Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in 1980, who both pressed uphill primary challenges to the lim- TC its. Some GOP sages suggest it's hard to quit while you're still winning races, as Huckabee is doing, despite the mathematical reality of the del- egate count. 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