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IN BRIEF
Nine children injured
in school bus crash
NEWBERG — Nine children suf
fered minor injuries Monday when
their school bus struck a telephone
pole and rolled into a ditch, authori
ties said.
The accident happened on a rural
road southwest of Dundee in Yamhill
County. The injured children attend
ed schools in the Newberg School
District, district spokeswoman Clau
dia Stewart said.
Roughly 25 students were on
board when the bus slipped about 15
feet off the road shortly after 3 p.m.
The injured were taken to a Newberg
hospital, said John Stock, the fire
chief in Dundee.
Investigators have yet to determine
why the bus left the road.
Up to 12 missing after
California mudslide
LA CONCHITA, Calif. — A mud
slide crashed down on homes in a
coastal hamlet with terrifying force
Monday, killing at least one person
and leaving up to 12 missing as a Pa
cific storm hammered Southern Cali
fornia for a fourth straight day. Ventu
ra County Fire Department Chief Bob
Roper said as many as a dozen resi
dents were missing in the mudslide
that pummeled a four-block area of
homes in La Conchita, about 70 miles
northwest of Los Angeles. Nine peo
ple were injured.
CBS fires four after Bush
Guard story review
NEW YORK — CBS issued a
damning independent review Mon
day of mistakes related to last fall’s
“60 Minutes Wednesday” report on
President Bush’s National Guard
service and fired three news execu
tives and a producer for their “my
opic zeal” in rushing it on the air. The
review said CBS compounded the
damage with a circle-the-wagons
mentality once the report came under
fire. The independent investigators
added that they found no evidence of
a political bias against Bush.
— The Associated Press
Outside accountants will
track U.N. tsunami funds
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED NATIONS — In an un
usual move, the United Nations
said Monday it will use an outside
accounting firm to help track the
billions of dollars pledged to help
the victims of the tsunami in the
Indian Ocean.
Officials denied that the move
was in response to allegations of
corruption and mismanagement in
the oil-for-food program for Iraq,
which was administered by the
United Nations.
Price-Waterhouse-Coopers has of
fered to help create a financial track
ing system for the United Nations on
a pro bono basis, said Kevin
Kennedy, a senior official in the
U.N. Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs.
He told reporters the accounting
firm would be able to investigate
credible allegations of fraud, waste
or abuse.
“In my experience of disasters it is
die first time I can recall in the past 10
years that we have used an outside
accounting firm, at least at this junc
ture,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy said that he did not
think humanitarian donors were be
ing discouraged by the oil-for-food
scandal from making contributions
to those in need. The United Na
tions received more than $2 billion
from donor states in response to ap
peals in 2004, he said.
More than 50 internal U.N. audits
of the humanitarian program pub
lished by an independent commis
sion Sunday revealed widespread
mismanagement and showed how
U.N. agencies squandered millions
of dollars through suspected over
payment to contractors, poor man
agement of purchasing and assets
and fraud by its employees.
Explaining the need for outside au
ditors, Kennedy said there is large in
terest in ensuring that money given to
the United Nations and its humanitar
ian partners “is used efficiently and
effectively and if this adds to the cred
ibility and the transparency of the ef
fort then so much the better.”
The United Nations already has
a financial tracking system but
Kennedy said the aim was to im
prove the way countries record
their pledges.
Some $4 billion has already been
pledged by governments, the World
Bank and the Asian Development
Bank for victims of the Dec. 26 earth
quake and tsunami that swept across
the Indian Ocean. That figure in
cludes not only cash for the humani
tarian relief effort but also aid and
loans for long-term development and
reconstruction.
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