| Global update |
Today
'v ^
\
Friday
Saturday
n
■ * >j *
High: 72
Low: 54
Precip: 0%
High: 63
Low: 48
Precip: 80%
High: 63
Low: 44
Precip: 30%
Inspector says there is no
evidence of WMDs in Iraq
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Contra
dicting the main argument for a war
that has cost more than 1,000 Ameri
can lives, the top U.S. arms inspector
said Wednesday he found no evi
dence that Iraq produced weapons of
mass destruction after 1991. He also
concluded that Saddam Hussein’s
ability to develop such weapons had
dimmed — not grown — during a
dozen years of sanctions before last
year’s U.S.-led invasion. Contrary to
prewar statements by President
Bush, Saddam did not have chemical
and biological stockpiles when the
war began and his nuclear capabili
ties were deteriorating, not advanc
ing, said Charles Duelfer, head of the
Iraq Survey Group.
Violent explosion in
Pakistan kills 34
MULTAN, Pakistan — A car bomb
exploded at a gathering of Islamic
radicals in the central Pakistan city of
Multan early Thursday, killing at
least 34 people and injuring dozens,
city police chief Skindar Hayyat said.
The attack came as hundreds of peo
ple had gathered in a residential area
in the city to mark the anniversary of
the death of Maulana Azam Tariq,
the leader of outlawed Sipah-e-Saha
ba group who was killed last year.
Dozens of injured were taken to a
government hospital, an officer in the
police control room in Multan said.
Iran says it has processed
tons of uranium
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said Wednes
day it has processed several tons of
raw “yellowcake” uranium to prepare
it for enrichment — a key step in de
veloping atomic weapons — in defi
ance of the U.N. nuclear watchdog
agency. Converting raw uranium into
hexafluoride gas does not violate any
agreements Iran has made regarding
its nuclear program and was done
with the full knowledge of the Interna
tional Atomic Energy Agency. Howev
er, it draws Iran and the United States
— which quickly voiced its disap
proval — closer to a showdown before
the U.N. Security Council.
Car bomb kills 16 Iraqis
near Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A suicide car
bomber plowed into an Iraqi military
checkpoint northwest of Baghdad on
Wednesday, killing 16 Iraqis and
wounding about 30, as U.S. and Iraqi
forces sealed off roads south of the
capital in a campaign to curb the in
surgency before January’s elections.
There were hopeful signs, meanwhile,
that talks may produce a cease-fire
agreement with a Shiite militia head
ed by radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr
— although residents of his strong
hold Sadr City reported explosions in
the area late Wednesday. A negotiator
also claimed progress in talks to end
the military standoff in Fallujah — the
country’s toughest insurgent strong
hold and suspected base of Iraq’s
most feared terrorist group.
— The Associated Press
Canadian sailor
dies in airlift after
submarine fire
The electrical fire occurred in a vessel that Britain had
recently donated to the Canadian naval fleet
BY JILL LAWLESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — A sailor injured in a
fire that disabled a Canadian subma
rine died Wednesday while being air
lifted to a British hospital. The diesel
powered submarine drifted in the
Atlantic as British ships battled
through rough weather to reach the re
maining 54 crew members on board.
Officials had initially described the
Tuesday electrical fire aboard the
HMCS Chicoutimi as small. But Com
modore Tyrone Pile, commander of
the Canadian Atlantic Fleet, said
Wednesday it was “a major fire.”
Britain’s military airlifted Lt. Chris
Saunders and two other injured sailors
from the vessel earlier Wednesday.
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin
said Saunders had died during the air
lift but provided no further details.
“He gave his life serving his country,
and we owe his family our deepest
condolences,” Martin told Canada’s
House of Commons in Ottawa. Res
cuers had intended to take the three in
jured men to a hospital in Londonder
ry, Northern Ireland, but had to
quickly change course to Sligo, in the
Republic of Ireland, because Saunders’
condition deteriorated and he needed
immediate treatment.
Lawmakers in Ottawa observed a
moment of silence in honor of Saun
ders, a father of two.
There was no immediate word on
the condition of the two other crew
members brought to Sligo for treat
ment, but the hospital said they were
able to walk. Canadian officials said
a total of nine people had suffered
smoke inhalation from the blaze.
The six others did not require hos
pitalization and remained aboard the
submarine, adrift about 115 miles
northwest of Ireland. No injuries
were reported among the remaining
members of a crew that originally
numbered 57.
Three British naval vessels and
two tug boats planned to tow the sub
to a Scottish naval base, but a Cana
dian naval officer said rough seas
might delay any attempt to get a tow
line to the vessel until Friday.
The lead rescue ship, frigate HMS
Montrose, reached the Chicoutimi at
about 1 p.m. on Wednesday and
pulled alongside to drop off medical
staff and supplies and assess the
damage, the Ministry of Defense
said in London.
“They’ve got emergency lighting
on board. It is probably going to get a
little bit cold, but they have sufficient
blankets and other means to keep
warm onboard the submarine,” Pile
said. “It’s going to be uncomfortable
with the movement of the sea.”
The Chicoutimi, a diesel-powered
patrolling submarine formerly called
HMS Upholder, was only turned over
to the Canadian navy on Saturday
and had been on its way from Britain
to the Canadian port of Halifax.
The incident has highlighted con
cerns about four secondhand subs
Canada recently purchased from
Britain.
Two Israelis, one American
share Nobel science prize
The trio receives $1.3 million for research
on cells' ability to destroy possibly harmful proteins
BY MATT MOORE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — T\vo Is
raelis and an American won the No
bel Prize in chemistry Wednesday
for showing how cells can give a
“kiss of death” to destroy unwanted
proteins, a finding that could help
scientists find new medicines for
cancer and other diseases. The
award marks the first time an Israeli
has won a Nobel science prize.
Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and
Avram Hershko, and American Ir
win Rose were cited for revealing a
process that gives doomed proteins
a chemical label and then chops
them up.
That process in turn governs such
key tasks as cell division, DNA re
pair and quality control of newly
produced proteins, the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences said
in awarding the prize. If it goes
wrong, diseases like cervical cancer
can result, the academy said.
Ciechanover, 56, is the director of
the Rappaport Family Institute for
Research in the Medical Sciences at
the Technion, ip Haifa, Israel, while
Hershko, 70, originally from Hun
gary, is a professor there. The 78
year-old Rose is a professor emeritus
at the University of California,Irvine.
All three will share the $1.3-mil
lion cash prize for their work, done
in the 1980s.
At a news conference in Hershko’s
apartment in the Israeli port city of
Haifa, the two Israelis said they hope
their work will lead to new advances
in the treatment of cancer.
One such drug, Velcade, is on the
United States market, Ciechanover
noted, and “there are many more in
the pipeline.”
Added Hershko: “It does not
mean that a miracle drug to beat
cancer is on the way. But I do be
lieve there will be advances in the
treatment of cancer based on our
work. This I truly believe in.”
The protein-destroying process
the scientists discovered was com
pletely unexpected because scien
tists had thought such destruction
was not regulated, said Lars The
lander, a member of the Nobel Com
mittee for Chemistry.
Thelander said researchers now
hope they will be able to manipulate
the protein degradation system in two
different ways — either to prevent it
from destroying proteins that boost
the immune system, or to get rid of
proteins that help cause diseases.
“And we hope also that by
knowing this system in detail we
will be able to make new medi
cines,” he said.
The chemistry prize is the first No
bel science prize to be awarded to an
Israeli — but not the first Nobel Prize.
In 1978, Prime Minister Men
achem Begin of Israel shared the
Nobel Peace Prize with Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat. In 1994, Is
raeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres
and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin shared the peace prize with
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
In 1966, Shmuel Yosef Agnon of Is
rael shared the 1966 literature prize
with Swedish writer Nelly Sachs.
Hershko and Ciechanover said
they were proud to be the first Israelis
to win Nobel prizes for science.
“We’re a small country ... so we
don’t have all the infrastructure that
big laboratories have in the U.S. or
in other places,” said Hershko.
The prize is “identified 100 percent
with Israeli scientists that ... have
worked and lived in the country and
will continue to live and to work in
this country,” added Ciechanover.
This year’s award announcements
began Monday with the Nobel Prize
in medicine going to Americans
Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck.
Axel and Buck were selected by a
committee at Stockholm’s Karolins
ka Institutet for their work on the
sense of smell. On Tliesday, Ameri
cans David J. Gross, H. David
Politzer and Frank Wilczek won the
physics prize for their explanation of
the force that binds particles inside
the atomic nucleus.
020220
Happy
Birthday
Donald!
October
Birthday Events
Celebrate Donald’s 75th
Birthday during October
with great events brought to
you by: Cultural Forum, ASUO,
Greek Life, U0 Alumni Association,
U0 Presidents Office & Knight
Library
Oct 1st - 29th
Adell McMillan Gallery
Donald Duck exhibition
located in the EMU, 2nd
Floor next to the Ballroom.
Disney reproductions & original
sketches mixed with historical
University photographs
Oct 13th @4pm
Adell McMillan Gallery
Child Care Development
Center Birthday Party
Oct 16th
Adell McMillan Gallery
Parents Weekend Brunch
9:30 am to 11 am
Oct 19th
EMU Ampitheater
Donald Duck Birthday Party
Everyone welcome. Music,
Prizes and Cake
1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Cultural Forum
EMU, Suite 2
346-4373
DtSOZO
TRIANGLE I
G R A P H I C S J
SCRHHN PRINTING I
EMBROIDERY
344-7288
521 Market St, Eugene
tiianglc(a SutKi^fBRAiNS .com
__J
by special arrangement with HBO Films
Iron Jawed Angels
A film about the fierce fight
for women's right to vote
Two showings: 6:00 and 8:30 pm
Columbia Hall, Room 150 • University of Oregon
FREE and open to the public
This event is wheelchair accessible. If any other
accommodations are needed due to disability, contact
the Women’s Center at 346-4095 by October 1, 2004
Sponsored by: ASUO Women's Center, Center for Study of Women in Society,
Oregon Humanities Center, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Political
Science, and History