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Saddam will get 'zero
tolerance’ from U.S.
WASHINGTON — The United
States will have “zero tolerance” for
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if he
fails to cooperate with tough new
weapons inspections scheduled to
start next week, Bush administra
tion officials said Sunday.
Saddam has until Friday to accept
the U.N. Security Council’s resolution
on Iraq’s disarmament and until Dee.
8 to give a full account of Iraq’s nu
clear, chemical and biological
weapons and missile programs. The
Security Council plans to meet again
to decide what action to take if Iraq
fails to comply with the resolution.
The resolution passed by the 15
member Security Council on Friday
gives Saddam one last opportunity to
comply with U.N. demands that he
submit to renewed inspections. The
resolution declared that Saddam has
been in “material breach” of previ
ous international demands to disarm
since the end of the 1991 Gulf War.
Secretary of State Colin Powell re
peated the Bush administration’s as
sertion that the United States can
take action on its own.
“I can assure you that if he does
n’t comply this time, we’ll ask the
U.N. to give authorization for all nec
essary means, and if the U.N. is not
willing to do that, the United States,
with like-minded nations, will go and
disarm him forcefully,” Powell said,
speaking on CNN’s “Late Edition.”
— Drew Brown, Knight
Bidder Newspapers (KRT)
Vietnam vets memorial
observes 20th birthday
WASHINGTON — The Vietnam
Veterans Memorial, a sober tribute of
black granite tucked neatly into the
landscape of Washington’s National
Mall, turns 20 years old Monday.
The V-shaped wall, inscribed with
the names of 58,229 veterans who died
or went missing between 1959 and
1975 in one of the nation’s most con
troversial military engagements, has
long been a site of remembrance and
healing for veterans and their families.
In a four-day ceremony that began
Thursday, all of the names were read
aloud by a series of volunteers, con
cluding Sunday, the day before Veter
ans Day. It was only the third time all
of the names have been read aloud
since the monument’s creation.
— Shira Kantor, Chicago
Tribune (KRT)
High court to consider
scope of ‘Megan’s Laws’
WASHINGTON — In the eight
years since 7-year-old Megan Kanka
was raped and murdered by a paroled
pedophile who lived across the street,
all 50 states have adopted laws de
signed to let neighbors know when sex
offenders live in their midst.
Megan’s Law has long been con
troversial. It has been attacked by
civil liberties groups and ex-convicts,
who say it stigmatizes offenders long
after they’ve served their prison
time. Law enforcement officials ar
gue that sex offenders are more like
ly than other criminals to strike
again, and that public safety must
take precedence.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court
will hear arguments in cases that chal
lenge different elements of the law.
The high court’s rulings will help
states wrestling with how far they can
go to protect children from sexual
predators. A Connecticut case asks
whether that state violates the Consti
tution by placing all sex offenders on
an Internet registry without first pro
viding a hearing to determine whether
they still pose a danger. An Alaska
case questions if those who complet
ed their prison sentences before the
state passed its version of Megan’s Law
must be registered.
— Shannon McCaffrey, Knight
Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
Church mulls revisions
to sex abuse policy
WASHINGTON — Greeted by a
chorus of protesters charging that
the Catholic church is turning its
back on thousands of children sexu
ally abused by priests, Detroit Cardi
nal Adam Maida and many of his col
leagues tried to assure Catholics that
they will not relax their efforts to
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“The safety of our children is para
mount, and I will not in any way risk
their safety or their health,” Maida
said as he arrived Sunday for the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Last month, the Vatican rejected
the American bishops’ zero-toler
anee policy to combat the abuse of
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