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Annan completes
Cyprus dealJurlJ
side ready to send
to referendum
FUERIGEN, Switzerland ||l
U.N. Secretary-General Wll
presented his blueprint fel
reunification of Cyprus Wed J
and set an April 24 date!
islanders to vote on the plan, I
Turkey's government J
endorsed the proposal, bit]
Greek side was more caution]
Annan's plan is a lastl
attempt to reunify the MeddenJ
island before it joins the EirJ
Union on May 1. Turkey, wliicliJ
to join the European Uni I
had hoped an agreement on cl
would help its cause.
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
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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
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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. PaulBi
said Tuesday he had appointed21 ant
ruption inspectors general to govemiis|
departments to try to prevent fraud.Ml
will be named in coming days,hesaiil
The inspectors will work with two™
newly formed, independent agentij
Together, they will “form an intern
approach intended to combat comipwl
every level of government across theca
try.” Bremer said.
In Berlin, Powell met with speciall|
envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who
w ill go to Baghdad on Thursday.
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