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A wounded Iraqi boy looks on following a bomb explosion yesterday near a U.S.-Australian military convoy in central Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least three people and injuring several, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. The bomb was targeting the U.S. convoy when it detonated in the Karrada neighborhood of Baghdad.
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VIENNA, Austria - The U.N. nuclear agency warned yesterday that insurgents in Iraq may have obtained nearly 400 tons of missing explosives that can be used in the kind of car bomb attacks that have targeted U.S.-led coalition forces for months.
Diplomats questioned why the United States didn't do more to secure the former Iraqi military installation that had housed the explosives, which they say posed a well-known threat of being looted. Others criticized the United States for not allowing full international inspections to resume after the March 2003 invasion.
The White House played down the significance of the missing weapons, but Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry accused President Bush of "incredible incompetence" and his campaign said the administration "must answer for what may be the most grave and catastrophic mistake in a tragic series of blunders in Iraq."
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei reported the disappearance to the U.N. Security Council yesterday, two weeks after he said Iraq told the nuclear agency that 377 tons of explosives had vanished from the Al-Qaqaaf facility south of Baghdad as a result of "theft and looting ... due to lack of security."
Al-Qaqsa is near Youssifiyah,
an area rife with ambush attacks.
"The most immediate concern here is that these explosives could have fallen into the wrong
Melissa Fleming IAEA spokeswoman
An Associated Press Television News crew that drove past the compound yesterday saw no visible security at the gates of the site, a jumble of low-slung, yellow-colored storage buildings that appeared deserted.
"The most immediate concern here is that these explosives could have fallen into the wrong hands," IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said.
The agency first placed a seal over Al-Qaqaa storage bunkers holding the explosives in 1991 as part of U.N. sanctions that ordered the dismantlement of Iraq's nuclear program after the Gulf War.
IAEA inspectors last saw the explosives in January 2003 when they took an inventory and placed fresh seals on the bunkers. Fleming said.
Nuclear agency experts pulled out of Iraq just before the U.S.-led invasion later that month, and have not yet been able to return for general inspections despite ElBaradei's repeated urging that they be allowed to finish their work. Although IAEA
inspectors have made two trips to Iraq since the war at U.S. requests, Russia and other Security Council have pressed for their full-time return — so far unsuccessfully.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said U.S.-led forces searched the Al-Qaqa facility after the invasion.
"Coalition forces were present in the vicinity at various times during and after major combat operations," he said. "The forces searched 32 bunkers and 87 other buildings at the facility, but found no indicators of WMD. While some explosive material was discovered, none of it carried IAEA seals."
IAEA analysts since have viewed satellite photographs of Al-Qaqaa, and only two storage bunkers showed damage that may have occurred in bombing during the war, an agency official said. The other bunkers were intact, and the photos showed no evidence of a crater that would have been created if bombing runs had caused the explosives to blow up, the official said.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the administration's first concern was whether the disappearance constituted a nuclear proliferation threat. He said it did not.
But diplomats and analysts questioned why the U.S.-led coalition, which administered Iraq until June, and the U.S.-led multinational force, which is still in charge of security, did not do more to secure Al-Qaqaa.
World
NAGAOKA, Japan Emergency workers struggled to rush food and blankets to crowded evacuation centers as strong aftershocks jolted an earthquake-shattered swath of northern Japan yesterday. The weekend quakes killed 25 people and drove some 100,000 from their homes.
Earthquakes continue to rock Northern Japan
hit just after dawn yesterday, swaying buildings and deepening fears that the area's already shaky infrastructure would suffer more damage. Several other smaller aftershocks were felt through the night, and Japan's Meteorological Agency warned of more quakes in the region.
A 5.6-magnitude aftershock
Officials said some 98,000 people had sought refuge at local gymnasiums and public buildings following Saturday evening's 6.8-magnitude tremor, which knocked down houses, ripped through roads and
Much of the region remained without water, electricity or gas yesterday morning. Officials struggled over ruined roadways to fill a shortfall in food supplies in the area and bring blankets, needed to brave near-freezing nighttime temperatures.
bridges and derailed a high speed train in rural Niigata prefecture, northwest of Tokyo.
In Nagaoka, homeless residents pitched tents in a neighborhood park and lined up for a water truck yesterday.
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FRIEND: Local memorial service tomorrow
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Justin had an innate way of responding to people, Griffinger said. She said Kenny Goodell, Justin's roommate and Wichita freshman, told her he and Justin often talked late into the evening.
Jones and other residents of the third floor of Elsworth Hall are
how appreciated her son was in the residence hall. Residents gave Justin's parents a card with more than 20 messages in it.
planning a memorial service for tomorrow night. It is scheduled to be held in the lobby of the third floor in Ellsworth. Jones said a time hadn't been decided yet.
Justin's viewing will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday night at Yurs-Wittendert Funeral Home in Geneva, Ill. There will be a memorial service at the funeral home at 11 a.m. Friday.
The family has decided to have Justin cremated. Griffinger said no official plans have been
made yet.
Donations can be made in Justin's name to the Pulmonary Hypertension Association at phassociation.org.
Griffinger described her son as brave and courageous with a fabulous sense of humor.
"Jim would say no matter what hardships you may have, to put them behind you." Griffinger said. "That's how he lived."
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ELECTION: Peak voting times morning, lunch
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would be indicated on the card received in the mail. Some voters who registered late may not have the card yet, she said, but could check the status of their registration by doing a registered voter search at www.douglascounty.com.
Peak times for voting is early in the morning, lunch time and after work, she said, with breaks in mid-morning and mid-afternoon.
"Students can usually plan around those times if they have a more flexible schedule," she said.
She also said that first-time voters in Douglas County would need to bring a form of identification with them when they voted if they did not show it when they registered.
Katie Wolff, Lenexa senior and chairwoman of the Student Legislative Awareness Board. said that if students were registered outside of Douglas County,
they could contact their county clerk or the secretary of state's office in their state to see how to get an advance ballot.
Wolff said time was running short, so it would be best to do that as soon as possible.
She also encouraged voting in advance.
"I definitely think that not too many students know about advance voting," she said. "It's really a nice option."
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RED LYON: Owner wants to appeal to smokers
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It was clear that the proposal for additional changes to the Red Lyon did not meet guidelines, said Virgil Dean, historian and member of the Historic Resources Commission. Not that all changes are bad, but the Resources Commission and the City of Lawrence have traditionally tried to protect and preserve a uniformed store look in Downtown Lawrence, he said.
According to one of the design guidelines, "Storefronts may be recessed or extended slightly (typically, 3 inches to 9 inches) to emphasize the feeling of containment and provide architectural variety."
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The actual storefront, not the patio, for the Red Lyon would be recessed, or moved back into the building. 10 feet.
Neverve said he thought there was a compromise or alternative that could be worked out between the bar and the commission. One alternative, he said, was for the commission to grant the Red Lyon a sidewalk dining license so the bar could have a sidewalk patio. The ordinance currently requires all businesses that have a license to have 70 percent revenue in food sales.
bar would be reduced.
Neverve will be appealing the Resource Commission's decision at tonight's city commission meeting at City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St.
start taking these elements away, the look of downtown greatly changes, Zollner said. Even if five or six businesses changed their store fronts, the environment on Massachusetts Street would be very different, she said.
The Red Lyon is located in Lawrence's Downtown Historic District, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. However, the Red Lyon, is not listed as a contributing structure in the district. Even though the building is not a historic structure, officials said the changes to the storefront would change the Downtown environment.
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The design guidelines hold that, "Storefronts shall be pedestrian oriented and consist primarily of transparent glass. Most storefronts in Downtown Lawrence contain 65 percent to 80 percent glass."
The majority of stores and businesses in Downtown Lawrence have two key elements: glazing and closeness of the storefront to the sidewalk or street, said Lynne Braddock Zollner, Historic Resources administrator. When owners
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