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| Global update | Today Thursday Friday High: 59 High: 55 High: 58 Low: 42 Low: 46 Low: 46 Precip: 10% Precip: 30% Precip: 60% IN BRIEF Bar won't investigate David Wu displine action PORTLAND — The Oregon State Bar won’t investigate whether U.S. Rep. David Wu, D-Ore., lied about be ing disciplined in college on his 1985 application to become an attorney. Bar officials said a complaint re questing such an investigation did not provide enough evidence to jus tify a review of confidential admis sions applications. The complaint was filed by Jeff Smith, the Republican Party’s 1st Congressional District chairman, who had questioned whether Wu truthfully answered a question about whether he had ever been, “dropped, suspended, disciplined or subjected to a disciplinary inquiry or proceed ing by any college or law school.” Smith’s complaint came after a re port published in The Oregonian that said Wu had been questioned by Stan ford University police in 1976 after an ex-girlfriend allegedly accused him of trying to sexually assault her. After pub lication of the article, Wu said he had been disciplined by Stanford and apolo gized for his “inexcusable behavior.” Smith can appeal the bar’s deci sion to take no further action. Republicans flag illegal double voters SALEM — Oregon State Republi can party chairman Kevin Mannix said a GOP computer search of state voter rolls has so far found six Orego nians who have voted twice. Elections officials have long known that double voting is possible if someone registers in more than one county. But systems are in place to flag such cases, election authorities told Oregon Public Broadcasting. And State Elections Director John Lindback said even if a double vote does slip through, the voter will be prosecuted. Lindback said after the 2000 elec tion, the Republican Party raised sim ilar concerns about voters who regis tered more than once. But after an exhaustive review, none of the people who received two ballots in 2000 cast two votes, Lindback said. Pilot error blamed for Flight 587 crash WASHINGTON, D.C. — The co-pi lot of American Airlines Flight 587 caused the November 2001 crash that claimed the lives of 265 people, the staff of the nation’s airline safety agency reported Tliesday. The safety board itself was expected to rule later TUesday on the staff’s findings. Investi gator Robert Benzon of the National Transportation Safety Board staff said the copilot’s response to turbulence, just seconds after the Airbus A300-600 plane took off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, was “unnecessary and aggressive.” Bush, Kerry trade national security barbs ONALASKA, Wis. — President Bush and Sen. John Kerry accused each oth er of lacking the hard-nosed resolve of Cold War presidents _ from Democrat TTuman to Republican Reagan _ reach ing across party lines a week before Election Day to try to break their cam paign deadlock. With tensions rising in both camps TUesday, Bush said Kerry favors “the position of weakness and inaction” contrary to “the great tradi tion of the Democratic Party.” Koizumi surveys quake-damaged Japan NAGAOKA, Japan — Prime Minis ter Junichiro Koizumi walked along crumbled mountain roads TUesday to inspect collapsed homes and speak to survivors TUesday as he surveyed the damage inflicted by Japan’s dead liest earthquake in nearly a decade. The death toll rose to 31 as elderly victims died from the effects of the weekend quake. Aftershocks rumbled across large ly rural Niigata prefecture, about 160 miles northwest of Tokyo, where a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Sat urday evening, buckling roads and unleashing landslides. Another 5,000 residents entered public shelters amid fears the after shocks would trigger more land slides, raising the total of evacuated people to more than 103,000. Thou sands more camped out in tents and cars, too afraid to return home. In Ojiya, one of the most severely hit towns, Koizumi stopped to look at a wooden home the quake had re duced to a pile of debris as an official explained the building was once two stories tall. The Associated Press 020553 Eclipsed moon seen around the world During a total eclipse of the moon, the Earth blocks sunlight and the moon appears red as it glides through the planet’s shadow. The two day lunar eclipse begins Wednesday and will be seen on all continents except Australia. S— SOURCE: NASA STUDENT DISCOUNT AHaircut Save$]00 Express on haircut Men & Women's regular: $ 1200 18th & Willamette across from Texaco next to Big Town Hero 78 Muslim detainees dead after Thailand riot arrests Muslim leaders say police overreacted by stuffing 1,300 detainees into trucks in Southern Thailand BY ALISA TANG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PATTANI, Thailand — At least 78 Muslim detainees suffocated or were crushed to death after police rounded up 1,300 people and packed them into trucks following a riot in southern Thailand. Islamic leaders accused troops Tuesday of overreacting and warned the deaths could worsen sectarian violence. The arrests followed a melee out side a police station, where protest ers had demanded the release of six Muslim men accused of giving weapons to Islamic separatists. Six people were shot to death during the riot Monday, apparently by se curity forces. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawa tra, speaking to reporters as rumors of the suffocations circulated but be fore the 78 deaths were officially an nounced, tried to blame the casual ties on dawn-to-dusk fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. “There are some who died be cause they were fasting, and they were crammed in tight,” Thaksin said. “It’s a matter of their bodies becoming weak. Nobody did any thing to them.” But the death toll shocked mod erate Muslim leaders who accused security forces of overreacting — a charge they have repeatedly made as the government has failed to halt the violence that has claimed more than 400 lives this year in the Muslim-dominated south. “I am in shock,” Abdulraman Ab dulsamad, chairman of the Islamic Council of Narathiwat, the province where the unrest occurred, told The Associated Press. “I cannot say what is going to happen, but I be lieve that hell will break out. ” Violent crush At least 78 people were suffocated or crushed to death in police trucks following a riot; six others were shot to death. Violence has troubled over whelmingly Buddhist Thailand’s three Muslim-majority southern provinces for decades, but it has worsened this year. Residents claim they are discriminated against by the central government. As news of the tragedy spread, six people were shot and seriously wounded in separate attacks Tues day. The victims included an assis tant village chief and her husband. The army earlier declared a cur few in Narathiwat, with Thaksin calling the situation “volatile.” The dead were among 1,300 peo ple arrested after six hours of skir mishing with authorities. Witnesses saw the prisoners stripped to the waist with their hands tied behind their backs and herded onto trucks to be driven to army camps. Military and Justice Ministry offi cials said TUesday that 78 of those transported on the trucks died en route, most suffocated by the crush of people piled atop one another. Some were kept in the trucks for as long as six hours. Dr. Pornthip Rojanasunan, a Jus tice Ministry forensics expert, said most perished from suffocation and some from dehydration. Maj. Gen. Sinchai Nujsathit, deputy com mander of the 4th Army region, said suffocations occurred “because we had more than 1,300 people packed into the six-wheel trucks.” Lt. Gen. Pisarn Wattana wongkhiri, Sinchai's commander, said 25 army trucks and others hired from private contractors were used to transport the detainees. Manit Suthaporn, a Justice Min istry official, blamed fasting for con tributing to the deaths. “This, com bined with the heat — they were in the trucks for five to six hours, and it was crowded,” Manit said. <faJLy "Ww4 • Earn UO credit ("in residence") for your overseas courses • Use your UO financial aid funds toward the full program costs • Enjoy numerous educational excursions to places of cultural, historical and natural significance Many programs still have openings! 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