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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.
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aid convoy forced
to turn back
because of
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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
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Muqdadiyah
Masked gunmen
assassinated
prominent Sunni
cleric Sheik Ghaiib
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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. Mortar
rounds aimed at a nearby U.S. mili
tary base injured two children.
Also Tliesday, a top aide to radical
AP
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ac
cused the government of violating
terms of the August agreement that
ended an uprising by al-Sadr’s fol
lowers in Najaf.
Ali Smeisim, al-Sadr’s top politi
cal adviser, made no explicit threats
but his remarks raised the possibili
ty of a new confrontation with al
Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia, which
fought heavy battles against the
Americans and their Iraqi allies in
April and August.
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