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Cyprus has been split iiJ Greek Cypriot-controlled soufi] the occupied north since iJ invaded in 1974 in the m short-lived coup by supportti union with Greece. The teal state in the north is recogi only by Turkey, which maio] 40,000 troops there. California seeks! overhaul workers compensation Sophomore agricultural engineering major Gary Nolan and junior agricultural engineering major Mark Macek load a trebuchet for a test Tuesday afternoon. They Evan O'Connell • THE BATTALION designed and built the trebuchet for a project in their biological systems engineering class and will analyze the data once they have concluded the test. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Af California's 91-year-old wa compensation system haste! bled for the better part of decade, but now, with prai r | doubling and tripling, the ecw stagnant and businesses tea to leave the state, fixing II become a priority for lawmaker Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Unlike many states, Caid covers all industries and alii ers, making it the moslta workers' compensation inmj system in America. Fallujah Continued from page 1A Abdul Aziz Mohammed said. Some of the corpses were dismembered, he said. Beneath the bodies, a man held a print ed sign with a skull and crossbones and the phrase “Fallujah is the cemetery for Americans.’* APTN showed the charred remains of three slain men. Some were wearing flak jackets, said resident Safa Mohammedi. One resident displayed what appeared to be dog tags taken from one body. Residents also said there were weapons in the targeted cars. APTN showed one American passport near a body and a U.S. Department of Defense identification card belonging to another man. Witnesses said the two vehicles were attacked with small arms fire and rocket propelled grenades. At a donors conference in Berlin, Secretary of State Colin Powell, when asked about the attacks in Iraq, said terror ists and remnants of the old regime were still loose in Iraq. He said “the Iraqi people will be free. They will have a democracy.” The burst of killings Wednesday assured that Marclv's death toll for U.S. troops will be the second-highest for any month since Bush declared the end of major combat. The only month with more deaths was November, with 82. Prior to the deaths Wednesday of five soldiers from the I st Infantry Division, at least 43 troops had been killed in March. With the additional five, the month’s total more than doubles February’s total of 21 and compares with 46 in January and 40 in December. On Tuesday in Ramadi.-one U.S. soldier was killed and another wounded in a roadside bombing, said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt. Northeast of Baghdad, in the city of Baqouba on Wednesday, a suicide bomber blew up explosives in his car when he was near a convoy of government vehicles, wounding 14 Iraqis and killing himself, officials said. On Tuesday, a suicide bombing outside the house of a police chief in Hillah. about 60 miles south of Baghdad, killeup attacker and wounded seven others. A bomb exploded late Tuesdayti movie theater that had closed fcrthed Two bystanders vyere wounded by (1)1 glass, said its owner, Ghani Mohamme(| The latest violence came two days Carina Perelli. the head of a U.N.eleci team, said better security is vital wants to hold elections by a Jan. 31 line. The polls are scheduled to foW June 30 transfer of sovereignty loan government. s Top U.S. administrator L. 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