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U.S. won’t let N. Korea force
standoff over missile launch
UGA TODAY
Thursday, July 6
> Final exams for sum
mer short session I.
> Late registration for
summer short session II.
>- CPR Healthcare
Provider Class. Sponsored
by the University Health
Center. This course is
designed to provide certifica
tion in CPR for those in the
medical field. Class size is
limited. Cost: $45. Contact
706-542-8695.
Friday, July 7
>- Midpoint withdrawal
deadline for summer thru
term.
>- First day of classes for
summer short session II.
>- Drop/add for summer
short session II. Drop/add
closes at noon, Wednesday,
July 12.
Saturday, July 8
>- Family Canoe Trip.
9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Oconee River.
Sponsored by the Georgia
Outdoor Recreation Program.
The paddle will be about three
miles. Contact: 706-542-5060,
dwaters@uga.edu. Web site:
www.recsports.uga.edu/out-
door.
Sunday, July 9
>- Latino Youth Leadership
Program. Through
Wednesday, July 12. Georgia
Center for Continuing
Education. Contact: 706-542-
9549.
Monday, July 10
>- MindTeazers Improv.
8:30 - 9:15 p.m. Flicker
Theatre, downtown Athens.
Sponsored by Ron Pulliam,
University professor.
Contact: 706-548-9394.
Tuesday, July 11
>- CPR Heartsaver Class.
Sponsored by the University
Health Center. This course is
designed to teach CPR to
members of the general pub
lic. Advance registration
required. Cost: $25 for the
two-hour portion teaching
CPR on adults, $40 for the full
four-hour course including
child and infant CPR.
Contact: 706-542-8695.
>- Sunflower Music
Series. 7 p.m. International
Garden. Sponsored by the
Friends of the Garden. Cost:
Members $10, non-members
$15, children ages 6 - 12 $5.
Contact: 706-542-6014,
sbgevent@uga.edu.
> Swing Dancing. 10 p.m.
The Ritz, downtown Athens.
Sponsored by the UGA Swing
Club. Web site:
www.uga.edu/ugaswingclub.
Wednesday, July 12
>- Middle Eastern Film
Series. 7 p.m. Georgia
Museum of Art. Sponsored by
the Georgia Museum of Art.
Persian with English subtitles.
(89 minutes). Contact: 706-
542-4662. Web site:
www.uga.edu/gamuseum.
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WASHINGTON — The
Bush administration de
clared July 5 it won’t allow
North Korea’s test-firing of
missiles to become a
Washington-Pyongyang
standoff, saying global
expressions of revulsion
dramatize concern over its
nuclear intentions.
Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice, talking
with reporters at the State
Department as she met with
Turkey’s minister of foreign
affairs, Abdullah Gul, said
that expressions of outrage
demonstrate “it is now not a
matter of the United States
and North Korea.”
The United States still
believes six-party talks with
North Korea offer the best
opportunity for resolving the
nuclear impasse, she said,
adding that “the internation-
MEXICO CITY — Mexico
began a review of vote tallies
July 5 to determine whether
conservative candidate
Felipe Calderon won the
presidential race, while his
leftist challenger insisted he
was victorious and
denounced what he called
widespread irregularities.
A preliminary count
showed Calderon, ahead by
1 percentage point.
Charismatic leftist Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador
demanded a recount of every
ballot, saying Wednesday:
“The political stability of the
country hangs in the bal
ance.”
Lopez Obrador could
mobilize millions if he does
n’t get his way.
In a news conference
Wednesday, Calderon raised
the possibility that he would
do the same.
Federal Electoral
Institute President Luis
Carlos Ugalde said late
Tuesday that 2.6 million
votes were not included in
the preliminary count
because of “inconsistencies,”
such as poor handwriting or
extraneous marks on the
al community does have at
its disposal a number of tools
to make it more difficult for
the North Koreans to engage
in this kind of brinkman
ship.”
“I can’t really judge
the motivations of the
North Korean regime,
I wouldn’t begin to
try,” Rice added. But
she did suggest that
the North Koreans
may have miscalculat
ed how the tests
would be seen, saying
“they have gotten a
very strong reaction
from the international com
munity.”
“If it was the desire of Kim
Jong II to turn this into a
two-party negotiation or
standoff between the United
States and North Korea, he
blew it,” said White House
tally sheets attached outside
each ballot box.
Lopez Obrador initially
said those 2.6 million were
“missing.”
If a review of the uncount
ed votes inside prove the
numbers on these tally
sheets are valid, Calderon
would still lead, but by just
0.64 percent — about 250,000
of the 41 million votes cast,
Ugalde said.
Electoral officials across
Mexico began to review all
the tally sheets Wednesday, a
process that by law must
continue around the clock
until the final, official result
is determined.
The electoral court is to
certify the winner Sept. 6.
Enron’s founder
dies, heart attack
HOUSTON — Enron Corp.
founder Kenneth Lay, who
was convicted of helping per
petuate one of the most
sprawling business frauds in
U.S. history, died Wednesday
of a heart attack in Colorado.
He was 64.
press secretary Tony Snow
said. “Instead, what has hap
pened is that the United
States continues to work
with its allies in the region.”
The test-firings of
seven missiles —
including a long-
range missile
designed to reach
U.S. soil — began as
America celebrated
the Fourth of July. It
raised the stakes in a
nuclear crisis and
pressured the U.S.
and its partners to
penalize Pyongyang.
North Korea fired a seventh
missile early Wednesday,
after the initial round of
world reaction.
Rice said Assistant
Secretary of State
Christopher Hill, who over
sees the stalled negotiations
The Pitkin, Colo., Sheriff’s
Department said officers
were called to Lay’s house in
Old Snowmass, Colo., short
ly after 1 a.m. Mountain
time.
He was taken to Aspen
Valley Hospital, where he
was pronounced dead at 3:11
a.m. Lay, who lived in
Houston, frequently vaca
tioned in Colorado.
Family spokeswoman
Kelly L. Kimberly issued a
statement saying, “Ken Lay
passed away early this morn
ing in Aspen.
The Lays have a very large
family with whom they need
to communicate. And out of
respect for the family, we will
release further details at a
later time.”
Pastor Steve Wende of
First United Methodist
Church of Houston, said in a
statement that church mem
ber Lay died unexpectedly of
a “massive coronary.”
Wende said Lay and his
wife, Linda, were in Colorado
for the week “and his death
was unexpected.”
Lay was scheduled to be
sentenced Oct. 23. He faced
decades in prison.
with North Korea, was in
touch with the other coun
tries at the six-party table.
They are China, Japan,
South Korea and Russia.
Rice added that she
believes “it would still be
incumbent on the North
Koreans to use that kind of
infrastructure to address
these issues.”
The White House earlier
had said the missile tests
were a rebuff of international
demands to stop its nuclear
program and did not set up a
standoff between
Washington and Pyongyang.
Hill, said he would leave
Wednesday night for Beijing
and continue on for talks
with officials in other coun
tries involved in the negotia
tions, South Korea, Japan
and Russia.
—Associated Press
Georgia man gets
top attorney post
ATLANTA — Georgia
Attorney General Thurbert
Baker has been elected pres
ident of the National
Association of Attorneys
General, the first black to
hold the top post in the near
ly 100- year-old legal institu
tion.
Baker was elected by his
colleagues from other states
for 2006-2007.
The announcement was
made at the annual meeting
of the states’ top lawyers
held this year in Coeur
d’Alene, Idaho.
Baker, a Democrat, was
appointed Georgia’s attor
ney general in 1997 by then-
Gov. Zell Miller.
He has twice been elected
to four-year terms and is
seeking his third.
Baker has been honored
for his work on open govern
ment. Recently, he made an
appearance in the Georgia
Supreme Court, sitting next
to a top aide who defended
the state’s constitutional
ban on gay marriage.
Bed found
to contain
skeleton
CLEVELAND — Officers
who went to a home to serve a
search warrant found a skele
ton in the bed where an 80-
year-old woman said her
mother was sleeping.
Police believe the decom
posed body is that of the
woman’s 98-year-old mother,
who hadn’t been seen in at
least three years.
The resident told the offi
cers who went to the home
Wednesday, June 28 to serve a
search warrant for building,
housing and health code vio
lations that they couldn’t
enter because her mother was
sleeping. After persuading the
woman to let them in the
house, the officials pulled
back the blanket on the bed
and found the skeleton.
The resident, whose name
was withheld until her family
was notified, was taken to St.
Vincent Charity Hospital.
Cuyahoga County Coroner
Elizabeth K. Balraj said
Thursday she would need
more information to identify
the body, which showed no
signs of injury.
Police Lt. Thomas Stacho
said no charges were likely in
the case.
Smoke in drive-thru
gives pair away
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A pair of
accused pot smokers appar
ently picked the wrong day to
use the drive-thru window at
a KFC restaurant.
Two men pulled up to the
restaurant’s window and
asked for the “Wednesday
special,” while a couple of nar
cotics detectives were inside
ordering their food as a cloud
of marijuana smoke wafted
into the restaurant, police
said.
The detectives then spot
ted the men smoking what
one of the cops called “the
biggest marijuana cigar you
ever saw.”
The detectives went out
side and arrested 23-year-old
Charles Morris and 26-year-
old Gregory Quick, both of
Buffalo. They were charged
with possession of marijuana
and smoking it in public.
One of the detectives said
he got the cashier to refund
the pot smokers’ money for
the Wednesday special.
Limbaugh faces no
charges for Viagra
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.
— Rush Limbaugh will not
face charges in Palm Beach
County for the bottle of
Viagra found in his luggage
that was prescribed in his
doctor’s name, prosecutors
said Wednesday, July 5.
Charges could have nulli
fied the conservative radio
host’s plea agreement in a
"doctor shopping" case.
Limbaugh, 55, was
detained for more than three
hours at Palm Beach
International Airport on June
26 after he returned on his
private plane from a vacation
in the Dominican Republic.
The state attorney’s office
said Dr. Steve Strumwasser’s
name was on the Viagra bot
tle, not Limbaugh’s.
Strumwasser, who is
Limbaugh’s psychiatrist, told
authorities he "agreed to have
his name on the label in an
effort to avoid potentially
embarrassing publicity for the
suspect," according to a filing.
"Thus, the medication con
tained in the subject pill bot
tle was legitimately pre
scribed to the suspect by his
physician," the filing said.
—Associated Press
SUBWAY CRASH
RAFA GIL | Associated Press
▲ An injured passenger is carried away on a stretcher after a subway train overturned in Valencia, Spain, July 3,
killing more than 30 passengers.
Mexico begins review of election counts
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