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Feds search Utah home in poison case
EASTMAN
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me," Eastman said. "I'm moving
on. It's over, it's done."
Had he been found guilty,
Eastman could have faced three
years of probation, a $1,000 fine
and been forced to submit a DNA
sample.
Eastman denied the charges
leading up to the trial, and said
he planned to keep his post as
president of RHA, which acts as
the student government of Uni-
versity residence halls.
After his arrest last month,
five of the eight RHA executive
board members other than East-
man stepped down.
Some board members cited
Eastman's arrest and refusal to
step down as reasons for leav-
ing.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - FBI
agents on Sunday searched a Utah
house and two storage units linked
to a man whose hospitalization led
to the discovery of deadly ricin in a
motel room he had occupied on the
Las Vegas Strip.
The search of the home and units
at a self-storage facility outside Salt
Lake City was expected to be along,
tedious process as agents operated
carefully at sites where they could
find the dangerous substance, FBI
spokesman Juan Becerra said.
No results of the ongoing search-
eswereannouncedatapressconfer-
ence late Sunday morning, but FBI
Special Agent Timothy Fuhrman
said "There is no indication of any
terrorist act or activity."
RogerVonBergendorff,the focus
of the investigation, had lived in the
Rivertonhouse formore than ayear
before moving to Las Vegas about a
year ago, said Tammy Ewell, who
lives across the street.
"He justbarely gotby in life. He'd
just barely make it," Ewell said Sat-
urday of the 57-year-old Von Ber-
gendorff.
He lived there with his cousin
Thomas Tholen and his wife, said
Ewell, who described the couple as
close friends.
Officials secured Tholen's home,
but did not immediately search it
because they were awaiting court
approval for awarrant, FBI spokes-
man Juan Becerra said later Satur-
day.
In a brief telephone interview,
Thomas Tholen told The Associat-
ed Press that Von Bergerdorff was
"holding his own" in the hospital.
Clinton, Obama say'green collar'jobs
key to lifting sputtering Ohio economy
ECONOMY From Page 1A
Fully aware that tomorrow's
nominating contests - which
include Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas
and Vermont - could determine
who wins the Democratic nomina-
tion, Sens. HillaryClinton(D-N.Y.)
and Barack Obama (D-Ill) have
focused much of their attention on
the delegate-rich state of Ohio.
The Michigan legislature
moved the state's primary before
Feb. 5 to emphasize the state's suf-
fering economy, defying the rules
of the Democratic Party. As pun-
ishment, the Democratic National
Committee stripped Michigan of
its delegates and prevented candi-
dates from campaigning in Michi-
gan.
Both Michigan and Ohio suf-
fered economically as manufac-
turing jobs were sent overseas,
and now both have unemployment
rates significantly greater than
the national average of 5 percent.
Ohio is ranked 44th in the nation,
with 5.8 percent of workers cur-
rently jobless, according to the U.S.
Department of Labor. Michigan's
unemployment rate - 7.6 percent
- is the highest in the country.
Since Nov. 2001, Michigan has
lost 20 percent of its manufactur-
ing jobs, according to the Econom-
ic Policy Institute. Ohio has lost 15
percent of its manufacturing jobs
over the same span.
As a result, residents of both
states have moved elsewhere look-
ing for work. Accordingto the U. S.
Census Bureau, the national popu-
lation has grown by 7.2 percent
while Ohio and Michigan's popula-
tions have grown by just 1 percent
over the same amount of time.
In an address to students and
teachers at Lakewood High School
on Saturday, former president Bill
Clinton promised his wife would
revitalize Ohio's economy.
"I believe you will have more
prosperity, more jobs more fairly
shared in the next term than you
had in the 1990s when I was presi-
dent," he said. "She will be better
for you, better for the economy,
better for middle class Ameri-
cans."
At a rally here last night, Mrs.
Clinton said she was "absolutely
optimistic" about her plans to
achieve economic recovery - plans
that are very similar to Obama's.
Both candidates have criticized
the North American Free Trade
Agreement, saying it took a toll on
Ohio's middle class workers.
Both have said the manufac-
turing jobs outsourced or elimi-
nated in recent years won't be
returning to the state. Both have
promised to create "green collar"
jobs - occupations that will move
toward finding alternative energy
sources - and education programs
to former manufacturing workers
who are now unemployed. Clin-
ton called jobs in the renewable
energy industry the "jobs of the
future."
Republican candidates, who
campaigned in Michigan because
the Republican National Commit-
tee only stripped the party of half
its delegates, discussed the creation
of green collar jobs to stimulate the
hurting Michigan economy.
At a town hall meeting in Parma
Heights, Ohio, Obama promised
to eliminate tax breaks for com-
panies who outsource jobs. He
said he would provide tax incen-
tives for the creation of jobs in new
research and development fields in
the United States.
Obama's economic plan calls
for a $150 billion investment for
the creation of more green collar
jobs over the next 10 years to move
toward finding alternative energy
sources and creating more jobs in
those fields.
"Our economy is strongest when
the middle class grows," Obama
told The Associated Press last
week.
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