FRIDAY,APRIL 18,2003 NEWS THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 9A Coalition captures Saddam's half brother in Iraq The Associated Press American forces seized a half brother of Saddam Hussein in a commando raid yesterday, eager to interrogate him about secrets of the old Iraqi regime. The FBI joined the hunt for irreplaceable antiquities stolen from the National Museum in Baghdad. In northern Iraq, there were glimh aims about life—and death — under Saddam. Kurds brought American officials to what they said was a large area of unmarked graves around Kirkuk, a region where thousands of Kurdish men disappeared in the 1980s. With the fighting all but over, Americans struggled through another day of trying to restore security as well as vital services for civilians. Soldiers thwarted a Baghdad bank robbery over the protests of Iraqis eager to share in the loot. Marines sought to calm tensions in Mosul after shooting 17 Iraqis to death in clashes over the past two days. "The war is not over," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned an audience at the Pentagon. But the State Department awarded Bechtel Restoration of San Francisco a contract worth $34 million immediately and as much as $680 million over 18 months to evaluate and repair Iraq's power, electrical, water and sewage systems. And the USS Constellation steamed from the Persian Gulf for its home port of San Diego, carrying dozens of warplanes that helped bomb Iraqi forces into submission. It was the second aircraft carrier ordered home in recent days. Hussein Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks announced the capture of Barzan Ibrahim Hasan, a half brother of the former Iraqi leader, who is on the five of clubs in the Pentagon's deck of most-wanted Iraqis. Barzan Hasan was an adviser to Saddam "with extensive knowledge of the regime's inner workings," the general said. He also was responsible for managing Saddam's wealth, according to the Coalition for International Justice, a nonprofit organization based in The Hague, Netherlands and Washington. A U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Barzan Hasan had been a presidential adviser to Saddam's regime since 1998 but had a shaky relationship with his half brother and was not part of the regime's inner circle. the regime he was a representative to the United Nations in Geneva from 1899 to 1998. Earlier, from 1979 to 1983, he headed Iraq's Mukhabarat, or intelligence service, a period when the organization arranged executions of regime opponents in Iraq and overseas, the official said. Brooks provided scant details of the operation that netted Barzan Hasan, saying that he was taken inside Baghdad and that U.S. special forces were aided by Marines. He said there were no casualties. Another of Saddam's three half brothers, Watban Ibrahim Hasan, was captured earlier by U.S. forces. The third has not been found. The search for weapons of mass destruction continued in Iraq, but Rumsfeld said he doubted any would be found until Iraqis lead American forces to them. "I think what will happen is we'll discover people who will tell us where to go find it. It is not like a treasure hunt where you just run around looking everywhere, hoping you find something," he said. FBI Director Robert Mueller disclosed that agents were in Baghdad with orders to assist in the recovery of items taken from the antiquities museum and other cultural facilities looted in recent days. They will aid international efforts to recover stolen items "on both the open and black markets," he said. "We are firmly committed to doing whatever we can to secure these treasures to the people of Iraq," he added. Atkins diet creator dies from head injury The Associated Press NEW YORK — Dr. Robert C. Atkins, whose best-selling low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet was dismissed as nutritional folly for years but was recently validated in some research, died yesterday, his spokesman said. He was 72. Atkins died at New York Weill-Cornell Medical Center, surrounded by his wife and close friends, said Richard Rothstein. Atkins his spokesman. Atkins had suffered a severe head injury April 8 after falling on an icy sidewalk while walking to work. Atkins first advocated his unorthodox weight-loss plan, which emphasizes meat, eggs and cheese and discourages bread, rice and fruit, in his 1972 book, "Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution." Its publication came at a time when the medical establishment was encouraging a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet. The following year, the American Medical Association dismissed Atkins' diet as nutritional folly and Congress summoned him to Capitol Hill to defend the plan. Labeling it "potentially dangerous," the AMA said the diet's scientific underpinning was "naive" and "biochemi- cally incorrect." It scolded the book's publishers for promoting "bizarre concepts of nutrition and dieting." Despite this, his books sold 15 million copies, and millions of people tried the diet. Atkins' philosophy enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s with "Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution," which sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and spent five years on The New York Times best-seller list. Criticism of the diet lingered, with many arguing that it could affect kidney function, raise cholesterol levels and deprive the dieter of important nutrients. Atkins said no study showed that people with normal kidney function developed problems because of a high-protein diet, and he never gave in to his detractors. Defending his plan at the American Dietetic Association's convention in 2000, Atkins quipped, "I'm very happy to be here. Not as happy as Daniel in the lion's den." This year, his approach was vindicated in part by the very medical community that scorned him. In February, some halfdozen studies showed that people on the Atkins diet lost weight without compromising their health. The studies showed that Atkins dieters' cardiovascular risk factors and overall cholesterol profiles changed for the better. Pope reiterates Mass, divorce guideline The Associated Press VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II issued a stern reminder yesterday that only priests can celebrate Mass and divorced Catholics who remarry cannot take communion, expressing alarm over what he called unacceptable practices in his flock. John Paul also warned Catholics against receiving communion in non-Catholic churches, an admonition that is likely to stir up protests in the United States and other countries where interfaith services are a fundamental part of efforts to bring Christians closer together. Some Protestant officials immediately criticized the warnings as a step backward in efforts to achieve Christian unity. The pope's denunciations of practices clashing with Vatican teaching were contained in an encyclical issued on Holy Thursday, a commemoration of Jesus' Last Supper with his apostles. Encyclicals are a special kind of letter dealing with matters of extreme importance to the Church. "It is my hope that the present encyclical letter will effectively help to banish the dark clouds of unacceptable doctrine and practice," the pope wrote. The 78-page document is aimed at combatting abuses related to the Eucharist, commonly called communion, a sacrament central to the life of the Church. nce; the popover "In various parts of the Church abuses have occurred, leading to confusion with regard to sound faith and Catholic doctrine concerning this wonderful sacrament." In parts of Western Europe, as well as in the United States, many divorced Catholics who have remarried have been clamoring for the Church to allow them to receive communion. John Paul cited centuries-old Pope John Paul II issued a stern reminder that only priests can celebrate Mass and divorced Catholics who remarry cannot take communion. The pope also warned Catholics against receiving communion in non-Catholic churches. teaching that all faithful must confess grave sins before taking communion. "The judgment of one's state of grace obviously belongs only to the person involved, since it is a question of examining one's conscience," the pope said. "However, in cases of outward conduct, which is seriously, clearly and steadfastly contrary to the moral norm, the Church, in her pastoral concern for the good order of the community and out of respect for the sacrament, cannot fail to feel directly involved," wrote John Paul. He reiterated Church law that those who "obstinately persist in manifest grave sin" be denied communion. While the pope didn't name any sins, his reference to divorce was unmistakable since the Church considers remarried Catholics living in a state of continued sin, and experts said his intent was clear. "That is what the Vatican is saying for years about the non-admission of public sinners to the Eucharist whether they be divorced or Mafia or people who are notorious criminals," said the Rev. Thomas Reese, editor of America, a Jesuit magazine. The Vatican does not permit divorce and teaches that those who remarry after divorce are living in sin unless couples refrain from sex. The pontiff is "articulating a general principle of not admitting public sinners to the Eucharist, while not necessarily getting into the details of each person's life." said Reese, based in New York. CNN sorry about premature obituaries The Associated Press NEW YORK — CNN blamed human error yesterday for exposing obituary mock-ups that its Web site's designers had prepared for Ronald Reagan, Bob Hope and other prominent figures. The mock-ups had been on a development site meant for internal review. But the public briefly had access to them after the password protection was disabled. discovered and fixed Wednesday. CNN spokeswoman Edna Johnson said technicians were trying to determine how long the mock- CNN was investigating the cause of the error, which was Reagan ups had been exposed on CNN.com. Although the prepared obituaries were no longer accessible to the public, the search engine Google still had a reference yesterday to Reagan's mock-up. Ford titled "Ronald Reagan Remembered." Another Web site, The Smoking Gun, also had copies of mock-ups for Reagan, Hope, Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul II, Nelson Mandela, Gerald Ford and Dick Cheney. News organizations, including The Associated Press, routinely prepare obituaries on prominent figures so stories can be run quickly when they die In 1998, miscoding caused one such article, for Hope, to be inadvertently displayed on the AP's Web site, prompting a congressman to erroneously announce his death on the floor of the House of Representatives. The story did not say Hope had died, but the headline did. The CNN mock-ups do not actually say that the subject had died, although they had a placeholder for the year of death, as in "1941-2001" for Cheney. The write-ups also referred to subjects in the past tense. earth day celebration Saturday, April 19th 11AM - Parade begins at 11th & Massachusetts St 8PM - "The Paving of America" lecture and book signing Kansas Room of Kansas Union Children's Activities SPM: "Development In Lawrence" discussion Lawrence Public Library 11:30 AM-4 PM-Celebration at South Park on the west side of Mass. 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