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Today Thursday Friday High: 55 High: 52 High: 47 Low: 48 Low: 38 Low: 37 Precip: 50% Precip: 80% Precip: 30% IN BRIEF Tight budget has room for special projects WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite soaring deficits, the government spending plan awaiting President Bush’s signature is chock-full of spe cial items for industries and commu nities. Consider $443,000 to develop salmon-fortified baby food, or $350,000 for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Lawmakers from both par ties who approved the $388 billion package last weekend set aside plen ty of money for projects certain to sow good will in their home districts. Ukrainian president calls for negotiations KIEV, Ukraine — Outgoing Presi dent Leonid Kuchma called for nego tiations in Ukraine’s spiraling politi cal crisis Tliesday, hours after the leader of the opposition declared himself the winner of a disputed presidential election to the approval of tens of thousands of protesters. Another top opposition figure ac cepted Kuchma’s proposal even though she had declared earlier on the third day of high tensions that ne gotiations were unthinkable. “We now have decided to give the possibility to Kuchma to form pro posals for talks,” Yuliya Tymoshenko said, according to the Interfax news agency. It was not immediately clear when talks might take place. The proposal for negotiations be tween the candidates — Kuchma supported Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and the Western-leaning reformer Viktor Yushchenko — was out of character for the president, who is not known for compromising. But neither side held a clear advan tage, and both had much to lose if vi olence should break out. UN implores women to join fight against AIDS LONDON — The women’s rights movement and the AIDS movement must come together if the world is to ultimately win the fight against HIV, the United Nations said in a report re leased Tuesday. Women and girls in the developing world are increasingly becoming its main victims, but current safe-sex prevention strategies are of little use to the millions who don’t have the power to say no to sex or to insist on condom use. The inequality women face, from poverty and stunted education to rape and denial of women’s inheri tance and property rights, is a major obstacle to victory over the virus, ac cording to the latest global HIV status report published by UNAIDS. The core of HIV prevention is ad vice to abstain from sex until mar riage, be faithful and use condoms. “The prevention strategies now in place are missing the point when it comes to women and girls,” Dr. Kath leen Cravero, deputy chief of UN AIDS said. “We are finding in most regions of the world, they simply do not have the economic and social power or choices, or control over their lives to put that information into practice.” AIDS prevention strategies need to address the factors that will give women control over their lives, the report said. “Moving to a situation where every woman gets to keep her house, her land and her furniture when her part ner dies is not beyond the realm of possibility,” Cravero said. “It doesn’t even require turning society on its head. It requires getting the right laws there and making them enforce able for women.” AIDS has to be the catalyst for women’s rights in the developing world, UNAIDS chief Dr. Peter Piot said. “There was reason enough before AIDS, but now the link between the whole gender inequality and death has never been so direct as with AIDS,” Piot said. “If AIDS is not enough to shift the agenda for women, then what is enough? “It’s time now for the women’s movement and the AIDS movement to find each other, and that hasn’t happened yet,” Piot said. “Ultimate ly, without putting women at the heart of the response to AIDS, I don’t think we will be able to control this epidemic.” Dan Rather to step down from 'CBS Evening News' NEW YORK — Dan Rather, the hard-charging embodiment of CBS News who saw his reputation dam aged by an ill-fated report on Presi dent Bush’s National Guard service, said Tliesday he will step down as “CBS Evening News” anchor in March after nearly a quarter-century in the job. — The Associated Press Third large-scale offensive launched in Iraq Tuesday Guerillas leaving Fallujah led to more car bombings, ambushes and attach BYTINITRAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD, Iraq — Some 5,000 U.S. Marines, British troops and Iraqi forces launched a new offen sive Tuesday aimed at clearing a swath of insurgent hotbeds across a cluster of dusty, small towns south of Baghdad. The series of raids and house searches was the third large-scale military operation this month aimed at suppressing Iraq’s Sunni Muslim insurgency ahead of crucial elec tions set for Jan. 30. The assault aims to stem an in crease of violence in an area that has been notorious for months as a danger zone. Car bombings, rocket attacks and ambushes have surged in recent weeks, likely in part due to guerrillas who slipped out of the militant stronghold of Fallujah, ac cording to commanders. Despite the series of offensives, violence continued unabated. Masked gunmen shot to death a Sunni cleric Thesday in the second such attack against a member of the influential Association of Muslim Scholars, which has called for a boycott of the national elections. The cleric, Sheik Ghalib Ali al Zuhairi, was killed as he left a mosque after dawn prayers in the town of Muqdadiyah, 60 miles north of Baghdad, police said. His assassination occurred a day after another prominent Sunni cleric was killed in the northern city of Offensive launched south of Baghdad Some 5,000 U.S. Marines, British troops and Iraqi commandos launched raids and arrested suspected insurgents Tuesday in a new offensive aimed at clearing a swath of insurgent hotbeds south of Baghdad. Faliujah First independent aid convoy forced to turn back because of security concerns SYRIA JOR. 0 50 mi Babii province ^ 0 Raids in Jabella (not shown), Iskandariyah and Latifiyah (not shown) netted at least 77 suspected insurgents Mahaweel Gunbattle between police and rebels left one fighter dead Kurdish contractor who worked with U.S. forces was kidnapped from his home by gunmen Insurgents hit a U.S. convoy with a roadside bomb prompting the Americans to | open fire, killing ' an Iraqi Muqdadiyah Masked gunmen assassinated prominent Sunni cleric Sheik Ghaiib Ali al-Zuhairi IRAN SAUDI ARABIA KUVf® SOURCE: ESRI Mosul — Sheik Faidh Mohamed Amin al-Faidhi, who was the broth er of the association’s spokesman. It was unclear whether the two at tacks were related. Insurgents hit a U.S. convoy with a roadside bomb near the central Iraq city of Samarra, prompting the Americans to open fire, killing an Iraqi, hospital officials said. 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