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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"When the bold branches Bid farewell to rainbow leaves — Welcome wool sweaters."
B. Cybrill
FACT OF THE DAY
In the autumn, red, yellow, orange and brown become visible on leaves when the green chlorophyll weakens before the leaf falls off the tree.
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INTERNATIONAL
1. Zimbabwe renounces officials in torture case
HARARE, Zimbabwe — A Zimbabwean official says several top officials and cronies of President Robert Mugabe being sued for torture have been renounced by the state and will not receive legal assistance.
Deputy Attorney General Prince Machaya said Sunday that the state will not represent officials being sued by prominent human rights activist Jestina Mukoko and eight others.
The activists are seeking US$500 million for wrongful arrest, torture and abduction after their terror charges were dropped.
2. Venezuelan president questions Nobel choice
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says President Barack Obama does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
Chavez said he thought Obama didn't make any
notable accomplishments to merit winning the prize, saying that rather than promote peace the U.S. president is continuing the warlike policies of predecessor George W. Bush.
Chavez and Obama had a cordial first encounter at a summit in April, but the Venezuelan leader has become increasingly critical of Obama.
3. Bodies of plane crash victims will be returned
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A U.N. spokesman says the bodies of six Uruguayan and five Jordanian peacekeepers recovered from a plane crash in Haiti will be flown to their home countries.
Mission spokesman David Wimhurst says the bodies are at a U.N. facility in Port-au-Prince.
Everyone aboard the CASA C-212 twin-engine turboprop died when it crashed into a mountain Friday during a surveillance flight.
A memorial is planned before the soldiers' departure on Tuesday.
NATIONAL 4. Shootout in Ohio bar sends patrons running
The fight apparently began when a bar employee asked a man who was trying to sell marijuana to leave, Deputy Police Chief Don Kenney told the Toledo Blade.
TOLEDO, Ohio — A wild shootout involving at least five gunmen sent patrons fleeing from a northwestern Ohio bar near the University of Toledo campus. No injuries were reported.
The gunfire inside and outside the Route 66 Kitchen in Toledo lasted for several minutes Thursday night and was captured on a video surveillance system.
Police were still looking for suspects Sunday and no arrests have been made.
MIAMI — Forecasters say a tropical depression has formed in the Pacific off Mexico's western coast, and it could become a tropical storm in the next day.
5. Tropical depression could be start of storm
On Sunday afternoon, the depression was centered about 400 miles (640 kilometers) south southeast of the southern tip of Baia California.
The five-day forecast track shows the system could clip the southern part of Baja California later in the week.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders are trying to work out a water deal as a midnight deadline nears for the governor to act on more than 700 bills.
6. Calif. legislators search for deal with governor
Schwarzenegger is delaying signing or vetoing bills from this summer's legislative session to pressure lawmakers to improve California's deteriorating and inadequate water system.
Schwarzenegger is pushing for more reservoirs and a controversial canal to improve a water storage and conveyance system mostly built in the 1960s.
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National Coming Out Day will begin at 10 a.m. on Wescoe Beach.
"Macbeth" will begin at 1 p.m. in Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
The "Lessons from the Demise of Communism and the Crisis of Capitalism" lecture will begin at 5 p.m. in the Lecture Hall in Hall Center.
The School of Music Visiting Artist Series will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
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DUBLIN — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday the Taliban siege of Pakistan's army headquarters showed extremists are a growing threat in the nuclear-armed American ally, but she contended they don't pose a risk to the country's atomic arsenal.
Clinton discusses nuclear weapons
Clinton, in London on the second leg of a five-day tour of Europe and Russia, also joined British Foreign Secretary David Miliband in warning Iran that they would not wait long for the Islamic republic to convince the world that its nuclear intentions are peaceful.
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Clinton said extremists were "increasingly threatening the authority of the state, but we see no evidence that they are going to take over the state. We have confidence in the Pakistani government and military's control over nuclear weapons."
Clinton said there was nothing to suggest that Pakistan's nuclear weapons could fall into terrorist hands despite Saturday's audacious Taliban attack on the army headquarters in Rawalpindi that highlighted security weaknesses.
Miliband told reporters at a joint news conference with Clinton that although Pakistan faced a "mortal threat" from extremists, there was no danger of its nuclear weapons being compromised.
The Taliban have launched a series of increasingly bold attacks on military and political targets in Pakistan in recent months. The latest came Saturday, when militants dressed in military fatigues attacked the army headquarters, taking dozens of hostages. The 22-hour siege ended Sunday when commandos stormed the building. At least 19 people died in the standoff, including three captives and eight of the militants.
He scolded those who might raise the suggestion. "I think it's very important that alarmist talk is not allowed to gather pace," he said.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown greets United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at Chequers, the prime minister's official country residence, Sunday. Clinton is undertaking a five-day tour of Europe and Russia.