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Tuesday, May 27, 2003 The Spectrum A5 FROM THE FRONT PAGE cerned the virus will hit there next Singapore asked Monday that any illegal immigrants showing SARS symptoms come forward. They would be sent home but not charged under the city-state's strict immigration laws, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said. No illegal immigrant has yet been found with SARS, Wong said. The education ministry also told students to bring thermometers to their exams next month. Separate rooms will be set aside for students with mild fevers or who have returned from SARS-affected countries, the ministry said Monday.

Visitor arrivals fell by 73 percent in the first three weeks of May, but the city-state's tourism chief predicted Monday that business will recover in June if there are no new SARS cases. In Taiwan, the Taipei health chief, Chiu Shut-ti, took the blame for last month's SARS outbreak at the capital's Hoping Hospital by resigning Sunday night The facility was the source for most of the island's SARS infections. Chiu, known as an iron lady for her dedication to work and swift action, offered to quit soon after the city-run hospital was sealed off April 24 to contain infections. But Mayor Ma Ying-jeou asked her to stay. Chiu offered to resign again, saying the timing was right because the Taipei outbreak was coming under control, and Ma accepted.

On Monday, two Japanese doctors arrived to study why SARS spread so quickly in Taiwan an economically developed society similar to Japan's. Japan has no confirmed SARS cases but is con health authorities re-imposed strict controls on Toronto-area hospitals closing those where the new cases were found to new patients, limiting access to emergency rooms in all others, with staff required to wear protective masks and gowns and take the temperature of anyone entering. The new Toronto cases showed that so-called "new normal" guidelines for dealing with potential SARS cases at hospitals, imposed after the initial outbreak, needed upgrading, officials said. "What it tells us at the moment is that there is a failure in our system of management," said Dr. Allison McGeer, head of infection control of Mount Sinai Hospital who has recovered from SARS she contracted in the early days of Toronto's initial outbreak in March.

Dr. Paul Gully, a federal health official, called the new cluster unexpected and a cause of concern, but said visitors to Toronto have little to worry about because the illness remains isolated in hospitals that are closed to new patients. "We still need to figure out how this happened," Gully said, adding that the "new normal" diagnostic guidelines for identifying possible SARS cases left room for error. "It is a difficult judgment call" to distinguish a SARS case from the preponderance of respiratory illness cases that appear, he said. The Toronto deaths, along with one in Hong Kong and three more in China, brought the worldwide death toll to 724.

More than 8,100 people have been infected since the disease emerged in November, apparently in China's southern Guangdong province. infected health care workers, other patients and visitors on the ward, officials said. A patient transferred from the orthopedic ward to St John's Rehabilitation Hospital was considered the likely source of four more cases under investigation, they said. The outbreak prompted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to issue a travel alert for Canada last week, a step short of advising against unnecessary travel there.

WHO officials stressed there were no plans to reinstate a travel advisory for Toronto. That requires specific criteria such as proven export of the illness. The agency imposed a travel advisory on Toronto on April 23 but lifted it a week later when Canada promised to upgrade monitoring of international travelers. In response to the new cases, SARS Continued from Al The new cases included two deaths, and another death of a patient sick for months raised the overall toll in the Toronto area to 27 from more than 150 cases in the biggest SARS outbreak outside of Asia. Toronto was removed from the WHO list of SARS-affected areas on May 14, after more than 20 days passed since the date of the last known case on April 19.

The new cluster is believed to come from an elderly patient whose case dates back to April 19. The 96-year-old man developed pneumonia after surgery in an orthopedic ward at North York General Hospital. He turned out to have undiagnosed SARS and Two U.S. soldiers killed, four wounded in Iraq Argentina's new president talks of plans for nation Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina Argentina's new president, Nestor Kirchner, greeted a host of Latin American leaders on Monday, outlining his plans to reshape a nation gripped by deep economic woes. Kirchner, a center-left politician, promises a more protectionist stance for South America's second-largest economy, vowing to defend jobs and industry in a country mired in five years of recession.

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Kirchner is seen by political analysts as the latest leader in Latin America whose left-of-cen-ter leanings underscore a renewed effort by regional governments to find answers to rampant poverty and troubled economies. LiU ,1,1 1 1 i ii 1 Ji-i i nr i i -a jm rj PLANS START AT rzrzrrrrrz) SALESIACCESSORYSUPERSTORE CELLULARONE cUe speciauge in customeA coac! Ami, iw CELLULARONg has new plans with FREE Roaming Lots of Local Minutes FREE Nationwide Long Distance Another soldier, who also refused to give his name, said it appeared the Humvee hit a land mine and four soldiers were wounded. Troops blocked the highway, keeping reporters from the scene and causing a traffic jam. A third soldier speaking on condition of anonymity said three soldiers suffered burn injuries. A witness who lives near the scene said a fourth soldier was injured shortly afterward when ammunition in the Humvee exploded.

The witness gave only his first name, Adel. An Associated Press reporter saw the Humvee, still burning, more than 90 minutes after the attack. It was unclear whether the mine had been placed there to directly target Americans. The road that connects Baghdad International Airport with the city is frequently used by U.S. troops, many of whom are based at the airport.

At least one other reported attack has taken place on that road in recent weeks. U.S. Central Command later issued a statement saying a U.S. soldier was killed and three injured when a Humvee ran over a land mine or unexploded ordnance at about 5 p.m. in an apparently hostile act.

Other patrols in the area came to help the soldiers. "The incident appears to be a result of hostile action, though the specific circumstances of the incident are unconfirmed," the military said in a statement. The names of all the soldiers were withheld pending notification of their families. Nation Louisiana State University graduate student who became the serial killer's fifth victim in March. The FBI also issued a fugitive warrant Monday, and police released a photo of Lee and asked the public to help locate him.

"He is to be considered armed and dangerous," said Police Chief Pat Englade, head of the task force investigating the killings. While the warrant accuses Lee only of Yoder's murder, it says the DNA evidence removed from Yoder's body matched that taken from the other four victims. she was kind of like in shock," Lawson said. "The police talked to her in a separate room, and she left with handcuffs on." The nationwide Amber Alert was activated at 4:40 a.m. Monday.

The child, who is 2-feet, 6-inch-es tall and 35 pounds, was last wearing a pink sundress with white sunflowers. She has reddish-blond hair and blue eyes. The child walks, says one-syllable words and responds to her name, said the child's mother, Casey Lodmell. Her mother had stopped taking 3 Lisa and Jeannie Hunt 175 West 900 South 1 Holiday Square (across Bluff street from K-Mart) St George 435-628-5377 Military officials also said a U.S. soldier was killed and another injured in southern Iraq when a munitions dump they were guarding exploded on Sunday morning.

The blast, which happened near the town of Diwaniyah, 95 miles south of Baghdad, was not thought to be a result of hostile action, U.S. Central Command said Monday in a statement. The injured soldier was transported to a field hospital, where he underwent surgery, the statement said. Their names were also withheld. A number of U.S.

servicemen have been killed since the end of the fighting last month, mostly in road accidents and ammunition explosions. Authorities identified the victim as Nodiana Antoine, who was hospitalized in critical condition Monday with burns over more than 64 percent of her body. The arrest warrant said Muhammad maliciously caused bodily harm by seriously disfiguring Antoine's feet, arms and torso by pouring gasoline on her and lighting her on fire Sunday morning. Pierce did not say what started the argument between the two women. Both had gasoline on their clothes.

Associated Press her parents attended a wedding rehearsal dinner. Kelley Lodmell, who had stopped by the home, and the girl disappeared as the great-grandmother briefly turned her attention away, Faulkner said. "It was like five seconds, they were gone," said Linda Lodmell, Kelley's mother and Acacia's great-grandmother. Kelley Lodmell pleaded guilty to a 1999 charge of aggravated assault of a police officer. She has also been charged with possession of marijuana and drunken driving, Faulkner said.

Meanwhile, in Baqubah, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad, U.S. soldiers shot and killed a woman who tried to approach them carrying two hand grenades. The shooting took place immediately after unknown attackers threw handheld explosives at U.S. soldiers guarding a former base of the pro-Iranian Badr Corps in the town. Central Command said.

"Squad members verbally warned her several more times, but she continued to advance towards them. When she refused, the squad shot her several times. She fell to the ground, dropping one grenade, and continued to crawl towards them," the statement said. "The squad fired again, killing her." In Brief Woman set on fire during argument at gas station MARIETTA, Ga. A woman has been charged with aggravated battery for allegedly dousing another woman with a half-gallon of gasoline and setting her on fire during an argument at a gas station.

Anjail Durriyyah Muhammad of Gadsden, was charged with aggravated battery, a felony punishable with up to 20 years in prison. She was being held Monday in the Cobb County jail. medication for her illness, she said. Last year, Kelley Lodmell took Acacia for a half-hour before relatives found them, Faulkner said. Police were not called until after the two were located, and no charges were pressed.

Kelley Lodmell had wanted the girl "for herself," Casey Lodmell said of the incident a year ago. Since that time, Acacia has spent little time with her grandmother. Acacia was being watched Sunday evening by her great-grandparents in Salt Lake County while By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq Gunmen ambushed a U.S. military convoy in northern Iraq on Monday, killing an American soldier and wounding another. Separately, another U.S.

soldier was killed and three were injured when a Humvee ran over a land mine in an apparent attack, the military said. It was one of the most violent days for U.S. troops since the war ended last month. In the north, unidentified attackers opened fire on an eight-vehicle convoy on a resupply mission to a base near the town of Hadithah, about 120 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement.

The command said the ambush happened at 6:15 a.m. and that the troops belonged to the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, which is based at Fort Carson near Colorado Springs, Colo. The assailants used machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in the attack, the latest of several on coalition forces this month. The statement said helicopters were immediately dispatched to the area to find the gunmen. In the well-off Baghdad neighborhood of Yarmouk, witnesses said they heard several explosions and a 15-minute burst of gunfire along the road to the airport, west of the capital.

A U.S. soldier near the scene said it was an ambush and that at least one Humvee was destroyed. Murder warrant issued in Louisiana serial killer case BATON ROUGE, La. After examining DNA from more than 1,000 people, police issued a murder warrant Monday for a man described as the prime suspect in the killings of five women in south Louisiana, saying his DNA linked him to one of the deaths. Derrick Todd Lee, 34, was charged in the warrant with murder and aggravated rape in the killing of Carrie Yoder, 26, a ALERT Continued from Al "She ran in here soaking wet, and said that her baby had fallen in the water," Lawson said.

"She said her baby was in the river, drowning." The operator on duty immediately shut down the plant, Lawson said, so that the river water and the child would not be sucked into the plant's turbines. "After that the operator couldn't get any more information from her MEMORIAL Continued jromAl my uniform," Rodabough said. "I can still fit in it." He said he would go fight for the nation again if he could. "If they needed me, blind, bad back, ears and hips, if they needed me, I'd go," Rodabough said. "If I could do anything, I'd be there." Rodabough and Max Dalley, veterans of World War II and the Korean War, respectively, both commented on how war has changed since their time fighting.

"In Iraq, they took out what they wanted, like surgery," Dalley said. "War isn't nice and could become a spectator sport watching the fighting from a recliner and drinking a Coke. People get killed, on both sides. For me, war was hell." Dalley said it's more precise how the military can target one building to destroy, and less innocent lives are taken. "In Germany we just fought for gains of a few yards," he said.

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