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Today Wednesday Thursday High: 60 High: 60 High: 55 Low: 49 Low: 46 Low: 43 Precip: 80% Precip: 20% Precip: 50% IN BRIEF Catholic archbishop seized in Mosul BAGHDAD, Iraq — Insurgents kid napped a Catholic archbishop and tar geted security forces in a series of brazen assaults Monday that killed more than 20 people. A suicide bomber attacked U.S. Marines in Ra madi, where insurgents also beheaded two Shiite Muslims and left their bod ies on a sidewalk. The top U.S. general in Iraq predict ed violence during the Jan. 30 national election, but pledged to do “everything in our power” to ensure the safety of voters. As part of a crackdown on in surgents, U.S. troops arrested more than 100 suspects over the past three days, U.S. officials said. In Mosul, Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa of the Syrian Catholic Church was seized by gun men, and the Vatican condemned the abduction as a “terrorist act.” The 66 year-old churchman was grabbed while walking in front of his church, a priest said on condition of anonymity. A U.S. spokesman said Marines suf fered an undisclosed number of casu alties in a suicide car bombing in Ra madi. Later, U.S. command reported two Marines were killed in action in the province that includes Ramadi, but would not say whether they died in the car bombing. The Associated Press State legislature mulls over child protection system BY BRAD CAIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALEM — Spurred on by recent cases involving the death and in jury of children in state care, a leg islative panel began hearings Mon day into a child protection system that one lawmaker said suffers from “an alarming problem.” “We are going to get to the bot tom of what these problems are,” said Rep. Billy Dalto, R-Salem, who is chairman of the House Health and Human Services Committee. Meanwhile, the state’s top child protection official said the pro gram is struggling to keep up with a rising number of child abuse and neglect cases fueled in large part by Oregon’s methampheta mine epidemic. “The methamphetamine problem alone is driving our system in a way that none of us could have anticipat ed 10 years ago,” said Ramona Foley, assistant director of the Oregon De partment of Human Services. The comments came as Dalto’s committee began looking for ways to avoid a repeat of two high-pro file cases that have put a spotlight on the department’s child protection efforts. Last month, officials found a 5 year-old girl, Jordan Knapp, in a foster home near Sandy, weighing a mere 28 pounds. The girl’s fos ter parents face charges of child abuse. A week later, a 15-month-old boy, Ashton Parris, died of head injuries after the state returned him to his birth mother as part of a state-supervised plan to reunite the family. The death is under investigation. Those cases brought a call from Gov. Ted Kulongoski to review the state’s child protection system. A state team that looked into the case of the malnourished girl issued a report last week criticizing what it said were poor communications and record-keeping and a lack of coordination among caseworkers. Some of that same criticism was aired at Monday’s committee hearing. House Speaker Karen Minnis, who attended the meeting, said the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office has told her that the state department at times has been re luctant to share information with local police agencies. “There is a lot of frustration that law enforcement can’t get infor mation” on pending child abuse complaints, the Wood Village Republican said. The department also drew criti cism from one lawmaker who said state caseworkers sometimes re move the child from the home and break up a family without proper justification. YOU DON'T NEED FINANCIAL AID TO DINE AT AMBROSIA! CoflMt <ko<lt Olft •m woo J m> UU pisiot oa<J «Jiomi. V AM%[$sVa 342.4141*174 E. Broo<Jway • ambroiiareitauraAt.com I f, ntana Apply Today) The Resort at Glacier, St. Mary Lodge For information call: 1-800-368-3689 Keep Your Resolutions on Track WITH THE HEALTH CENTER Boiling Uldter 101: n cooking workshop Improue the quality of your diet by expanding your cooking abilities, learn to prepare quick, easy and nutritious meals. Workshop fee of $15 includes mixing boiuls, skillet, utility knife and other helpful kitchen tools. PLUS you get three rueeks of hands-on cooking and great meals. Come Hungry. Tuesdays 4:00-5:30 pm January 25, February 1 & 8 UO Health Center Cafeteria call Kristen Olmos at 346-2794 to register university OF OREGON http://healthcenter.uoregon.edu • appointments: 346-2770 "'"V' V 7 ? j / > ;■ HTvrrn i i * i rai ■! n irn-ri i f r 11 » i T"T" H' "I" F f T—TT rrr
