National
Prisoners deny Hussein had weapons before war
WASHINGTON (AP) - High-ranking Iraqi prisoners are uniformly denying Saddam Hussein's government had any weapons of mass destruction before the war, U.S. officials familiar with their interrogations said Tuesday. The officials said they believe many of the prisoners are lying to protect themselves.
Prominent fund-raiser, his partner found dead
DAVIE, Fla. (AP) - A prominent Democratic fund-raiser and his business partner were found shot to death Tuesday in a banquet hall they owned, police said.
Jerome Berlin and his business partner, Michael Pecora, were found dead in a locked office on the second floor of the Signature Grand banquet hall in Davie, police said. Police believe the deaths were a murder-suicide.
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International
13 demonstrators killed in protests, 75 wounded
FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) - U.S. paratroopers fired on anti-American protesters during a nighttime demonstration, and a hospital reported Tuesday that 13 Iraqis were killed and 75 wounded, including three young boys. Soldiers said armed men had mixed into the crowd and fired at them from nearby buildings. The deaths outside a school in Fallujah, a conservative Sunni Muslim city and Baath Party stronghold 30 miles west of the capital, highlighted the tense and precarious balance as Americans try to keep the peace in Iraq.
Suicide bomber blows himself up, 3 people die
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - A suicide bombing destroyed a restaurant near the U.S. Embassy early Wednesday, killing at least 3 people and wounding nearly three dozen, officials said. A guard apparently prevented the attacker from entered the building. "A suicide bomber blew himself up at Mike's Place restaurant on the seafront walkway," said Tel Aviv police commander Yossi Sedbon. "The attacker did not succeed in getting into the restaurant.
U.S. troops to leave base in Saudi Arabia
PRINCE SULTAN AIR BASE, Saudi Arabia (AP) - In a major shift in American focus in the Persian Gulf, the United States is all but ending its military presence in Saudi Arabia, abandoning this remote desert air base that was built in the 1990s and made the site of a high-tech air operations center in 2001. Only about 400 U.S. troops will remain in the Muslim kingdom, most of them based near Riyadh to train Saudi forces, American officials said Tuesday.
SARS death toll reaches 355; 5,300 now infected
GENEVA (AP) - The World Health Organization lifted its warning against nonessential travel to Toronto because of SARS on Tuesday, but in Asia the disease continued its spread as Hong Kong reported 12 new deaths, China nine and Singapore one. The global death toll from SARS climbed to at least 355, with more than 5,300 infections in more than 20 countries, including probable cases reported for the first time in South Korea, Mongolia and New Zealand.
Correction
The Daily Lobo incorrectly reported Tuesday the announcement of a closed meeting of the Presidential Search Committee Friday. The meeting was unannounced. The mistake was made in editing.
