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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.
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SOURCE: NASA
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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.
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