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Iran says it has halted
Uranium enrichment
VIENNA, Austria — Iran said Mon
day it has frozen all uranium enrich
ment programs, weakening a U.S. ef
fort to refer Tehran’s suspect nuclear
activities to the U.N. Security Council.
President Bush said he hoped the
statement is true but “there must be
verification.” Europe welcomed Iran’s
claim and the International Atomic En
ergy Agency, the U.N. atomic watch
dog agency, cautiously endorsed it. But
even if the IAEA verifies the claim,
such a freeze falls short of European
and U.S. hopes of an Iranian commit
ment to scrap enrichment ambitions.
Powell makes new push
for Mideast peace
JERUSALEM — Secretary of State
Colin Powell made a new push for
Mideast peace Monday, promising
Palestinians full American support for
elections to replace Yasser Arafat and
receiving Israeli assurances of a smooth
path to the ballot box, including eased
travel restrictions and letting Palestini
ans in east Jerusalem vote by absentee
ballot. In one of his last overseas trips
as the top U.S. diplomat, Powell sat
down with both Israeli and Palestinian
leaders, seeking to capitalize on new re
alities created by Arafat’s death.
Thousands protest
Ukraine runoff election
KIEV, Ukraine — Tens of thou
sands of demonstrators jammed
downtown Kiev in freezing tempera
tures Monday night, denouncing
Ukraine’s presidential runoff election
as fraudulent and chanting the name
of their reformist candidate who au
thorities said was trailing in the vote
count. Viktor Yushchenko stood
beaming on a platform with cam
paign aides and flashed a “V” for vic
tory sign — even though the Central
Election Commission said earlier that
with nearly all the votes counted, he
was losing to Kremlin-backed Prime
Minister Viktor Yanukovych.
Bush under heavy security
in drug-infested Colombia
CARTAGENA, Colombia — Under
a security web of warplanes, battle
ships and 15,000 troops, President
Bush praised Colombia’s war
against drugs and Marxist guerrillas
Monday and pledged to continue
U.S. aid so “this courageous
nation can win its war against
narcoterrorists.”
In a country that is the world’s
largest producer of cocaine and a
major supplier of heroin, Bush said
President Alvaro Uribe is achieving
results with a massive aerial fumi
gation program against coca — the
main ingredient in cocaine — and
an aggressive military buildup
against insurgents, who fund them
selves through drug trafficking, kid
napping and extortion.
“The number of acres under culti
vation are down significantly,” Bush
said, standing with Uribe in shirt
sleeves at seaside lecterns. “The
number of arrests are up. The num
ber of murders is down. In other
words, this man’s plan is working.”
Uribe said Colombia is winning
the fight, but has not yet won. “We
have made progress but the serpent
is still alive,” Uribe said.
Bush’s pledge reaffirms U.S. com
mitments to a $3.3 billion, five-year
military aid program known as
Plan Colombia.
Trump casino business
files for bankruptcy
NEWARK, N.J. — Donald Trump,
who has made prime-time entertain
ment out of firing people, proved that
the real business world can be ruth
less: He sought Chapter 11 bankrupt
cy for his casino empire because of a
crushing $1.8 billion in debt.
Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts
and related operations filed for bank
ruptcy Sunday after months of nego
tiations with bondholders. Chapter 11
enables a business to hold off its
creditors and continue operating as it
tries to put its finances in order.
“I don’t think it’s a failure; it’s a
success,” Trump said in a telephone
interview Monday. “In this case, it
was just something that worked bet
ter than other alternatives. It’s really
just a technical thing.”
It is the second time TYump casinos
filed for bankruptcy.
— The Associated Press
Three dead after Bush Sr.'s
private plane goes down
Two pilots and one flight attendant were killed when
the jet's wing collided with a light pole in thick fog
BY JUAN A. LOZANO
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — A private jet that
was en route to Houston to pick up
former President Bush clipped a
light pole and crashed Monday as it
approached Hobby Airport in thick
fog, killing all three people aboard.
The Gulfstream G-1159A jet, com
ing into Houston, went down at
about 6:15 a.m. in an undeveloped
area one and a half miles south of
the airport, officials said. The
former president had been sched
uled to travel to Ecuador for
a conference.
“I was deeply saddened to learn
of the plane crash this morning,”
Bush said through spokesman Tom
Frechette. “I’d flown with this group
before and know them well. I join in
sending heartfelt condolences
to each and every member of
their families.”
The names of the three crew
members were not immediately
released.
The National Transportation Safe
ty Board said the “black box” flight
data recorder and the cockpit voice
recorder had been recovered, and
appeared to be in good enough
shape to read the data.
Mark Rosenker, the NTSB’s vice
chairman, said the agency would
examine a number of factors, in
cluding the aircraft’s condition,
what the pilots were doing and the
weather.
He said standard toxicology tests
would be performed on the bodies
and FBI agents joined the investiga
tion at the NTSB’s request, as
is routine.
“We are treating this at this mo
ment as a transportation accident.
We have no reason to believe it
is anything other than that,”
Rosenker said.
Bush, who lives in Houston, was
going to give a lecture for the
Guayaquil, Ecuador, Chamber of
Commerce, Frechette said, adding,
“It’s very sad.” He said he was to
have accompanied Bush, along with
a Secret Service agent.
Earlier, Jack Williams, a district
chief with the Houston Fire
Department, confirmed three peo
ple had died.
The jet, en route from Love Field
in Dallas, was approaching the run
way when it clipped the light pole,
losing part of a wing, authorities
said. Wreckage extended about 100
yards from there, Williams said.
The crash site is a field near the
Beltway 8 tollway. No one on the
ground was injured, but one car
was hit with debris and another was
hit with jet fuel, Williams said.
Roger Smith, a spokesman for the
Houston Airport System, said the pi
lot didn’t indicate any problem, and
the landing was routine until com
munications abruptly stopped.
Dense fog blanketed most of
the area.
Robert Randall, operations man
ager with the plane’s owner, Jet
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two male pilots and a female flight
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Flight operations at Hobby Air
port were not affected by the crash,
officials said, but a portion of the
heavily traveled toll way was closed.
Eduardo Maruri, president of the
Guayaquil Chamber of Commerce,
said that Bush postponed his visit
until next month.
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