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A2 NATION WORLD Sunday, may 25, 2003 decatur, Illinois NAI WORLD 11 ix 1 till III D-Day relatives see victory over doubt i Ji amMM Group helps answer questions about troops 'fates granite and bronze was dedicated on June 6, 2001, in Bedford, a town that lost 19 soldiers on D-Day, proportionally one of the largest D-Day losses of any U.S. community. On Memorial Day, the foundation will dedicate the first of what it hopes will be a series of bronze plaques engraved with names of men who died that day. So far, foundation researcher Carol Tuckwiller counts 4,142 servicemen killed. She estimates that 300 more will be added to her list a total far lower than the 5,600 to 12,000 typically cited.

The project has not been without its troubles. The foundation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year after plunging into debt as it scrambled to complete the monument in time for aging veterans to see it. Federal prosecutors plan to pursue fraud charges against former foundation president Richard B. Burrow, accused of lying in an attempt to obtain loans for the project. A trial in December ended with a hung jury.

But the project's mission remains clear, and for relatives of the dead, invaluable. "It's wonderful people are doing this," Mi lt A I 1 i 1 ft' BEDFORD, Va. (AP) The American flag the government sent home after World War II is still folded in a wooden footlocker that Henry Aubin keeps in his cellar. The Purple Heart is down there somewhere, too. But the story of Raymond J.

Aubin, the uncle who died in the war, was buried deeper with each passing decade as family members were left guessing about how he died. Then the National D-Day Memorial Foundation began compiling the first known list of every American and Allied serviceman killed during the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion 3 ill National D-Day Memorial Foundation: www.dday.org of France. Among the names that surfaced was that of the 23-year-old Navy cook. "I knew he was killed by shrapnel on a ship, but I had no idea it was on D-Day," said Aubin, 54, of Mansfield, when told about the foundation's research. The foundation's $25 million National D-Day Memorial monument of polished Times has new trouble concerning reporters NEW YORK (AP) Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Rick Bragg was reportedly suspended by The New York Times for two weeks as the newspaper published an editors' note about his handling of a feature story about Florida oys-termen.

Bragg, a Times national correspondent, declined comment when reached at his New Orleans home Saturday. The newspaper also has refused comment on the suspension, reported Friday on the Columbia Journalism Review's Web site. The report comes in the wake of the scandal surrounding former Times reporter Jayson Blair, who was found by the paper to have "committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud." He resigned May 1. An investigation conducted by the Times found fraud, plagiarism and errors in 36 of 73 articles written by Blair between October and April. The violations included stealing material from other newspapers, inventing quotes and lying about his whereabouts.

Blair is already floating a book proposal about the scandal, according to The Washington Post. The proposed book is entitled "Burning Down My Master's House," an angry rant at the paper that he called "my tormentor, my other drug, my slavemaster," the Post said. The proposal portrays Blair as a black man "who rose from the fields and got a place in the master's house and then burned it down the only way he knew how," according to the Post. Lffl A cardboard Bush Bush often cast him him as diplomatic expertise. In his But leaders war in in Analysts Bush's and may a different His U.N.

of Iraq on In have through news service reports ALGERIA Quake recovery pace sparks angry outburst BOUMERDES Furious crowds hurled debris and insults at Algeria's president Saturday when he visited a town devastated by an earthquake, blaming the government for a death toll that rose to more than 2,000 and shortages of food and water. The anger came as Japanese rescue workers said they pulled a survivor a 21-year-old waiter from the rubble of a hotel on the Mediterranean coast at midnight Friday, more than two days after the quake hit. The Interior Ministry said least 2,047 people were killed and 8,626 injured in the quake, the official APS news agency reported today. President Abdelaziz Boute-flika tried to tour the quake-ravaged town of Boumerdes on Saturday, but angry crowds harangued him with shouts of "pouvoir assassin!" a common slogan roughly translated as "the authorities killers." SOUTH AFRICA Iraqi lion refugees headed to new home JOHANNESBURG Six lion cubs born in the cramped zoo owned by Saddam Hussein's son Odai will find freedom in the African bush. The nonprofit SanWild Wildlife Sanctuary has secured the release of the six cubs, their mother and two other lions.

American troops rescued the lions in April, along with two cheetahs and a blind bear from a private zoo set up by Odai in one of Baghdad's presidential palaces, and moved them to the Baghdad municipal zoo. There was so little food to feed the lions that they had to snack on military rations U.S. soldiers tossed inside their cages. ITALY About 2,000 attend Latin Mass ROME A traditional Latin rite Mass celebrated in a Rome basilica Saturday drew 2,000 people, including several Vatican cardinals. Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos celebrated the traditional Latin rite Mass in an attempt to draw back into the fold followers of an ultraconser-vative archbishop who never accepted the Church's liberalizing reforms in the 1960s.

The pope has given permission for the Mass to be used for those who want it, although it was replaced in the 1960s by Mass said in modern languages. In the modern Mass, the priest faces the congregation, which takes a direct role in the service. GREAT BRITAIN BBC to air film of dead soldiers LONDON The British Broadcasting Corp. said Saturday it planned to briefly show graphic footage of two British soldiers killed in Iraq, despite protest from their families and the Ministry of Defense The BBC plans to show images of the bodies of Sgt. Simon Cullingworth and Sapper Luke Allsopp as part of a June 1 documentary comparing western broadcasters' coverage of the war with that of the Arab station Al-Jazeera.

"The (Ministry of Defense) has made it very clear to the BBC that it finds it unacceptable for this footage to be broadcast and has requested their cooperation on behalf of the families," the ministry said. "We are extremely disappointed at the BBC's decision to go ahead and hope that they will reconsider." The soldiers disappeared March 23 after they were ambushed in Iraq, and Al-Jazeera showed film of their bloodied bodies lying by a road, outraging many Britons. Associated Press cutout of President Bush is displayed Saturday in a store in Crawford, Texas, where owns a ranch. President Bush often has drawn low appraisals, especially with Democrats. news service reports NEBRASKA Section of busiest highway closed In western Nebraska, a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 80 remained closed Saturday after a tractor-trailer slammed into an overpass support Friday night, sending the bridge crashing down onto the truck and killing the driver, 47-year-old Douglas W.

Lohmeyer of Blue Springs, Neb. Gov. Mike Johanns said crews would work around-the-clock to remove the wreckage. Crews began removing the overpass Saturday, and authorities estimate the interstate will reopen Monday, Johanns said. Interstate 80 runs from coast to coast and is the nation's busiest highway.

UTAH Experiments survive shuttle disaster SALT LAKE CITY A group of students have learned that their science experiment aboard the space shuttle Columbia was found in a Texas parking lot and still could produce useful data. The aluminum box of salt crystals, an experiment by students from Moab, was recovered in Nacogdoches, Texas, a day after the Feb. 1 tragedy that killed seven astronauts. The salt crystal box had been placed in a temperature-controlled container in the cargo bay of the shuttle, which disintegrated on its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Investigators are focusing on a damaged wing that may have led to the shuttle's breakup.

Four tiny crystals survived that could allow the students to complete their experiment. They cultivated their own crystals to compare against those sent aboard the Columbia, and hoped to learn how the lack of gravity affected crystal growth. CALIFORNIA Destruction of trees brings conviction VENTURA A man who bulldozed more than 300 oak trees on his property could face more than three years in jail after he was convicted on criminal charges. William Kaddis, 58, could also face fines of nearly $100,000. He also was convicted Friday of illegally keeping 62 dogs on his property in the town of Ojai, altering a stream without permission and filing a false police report.

The oak trees, protected under a 1992 Ventura County law, were destroyed sometime before October 2001. VIRGINIA Sailor dies after falling overboard NORFOLK A sailor whose ship was returning home from deployment in the Persian Gulf died after he fell overboard in the Atlantic Ocean about 900 miles off the Virginia coast, military officials said Saturday. Petty Officer 3rd Class Dwayne Williams, 23, of Philadelphia, was killed Friday after falling from the USS Nassau, an amphibious assault ship based in Norfolk. Commander Ernest Duplessis, a spokesman for the Navy's Second Fleet, said Williams' fall appeared to be accidental but would not offer details. The ship's captain said Williams was chasing a football when he tripped and fell overboard.

Capt. Russell Tjepkema said Williams was wearing coveralls and boots, which would have weighed him down, and did not have a lifejacket. LOTTERY Here are the winning numbers selected Saturday in the Illinois State Lottery: Pick Three-Midday 2- 5-6 Pick Three-Evening 3- 2-6 Pick Four-Midday 4-1-6-1 Pick Four-Evening 3-4-0-7 Lotto 02-08-20-25-47-50 Lotto jackpot $4.5 million Mega Millions jackpot $50 million losioDiidJfgirditDDiaiteta successes show opponents may take him too lightly Associated Press Ray Aubin, right, of North Attleboro, and his brother, Henry Aubin, of Mansfield, try to pick out their uncle, Raymond Aubin, who died on D-Day from a group photo taken before Aubin left for duty in Europe. said Ray Aubin, 52, of North Attlebor-ough, who was named after his World War II uncle. "That history isn't lost forever." More than 130,000 troops were involved in the D-Day invasion along 50 miles of French coastline, and accounting for every fatality has been a monumental task, Tuckwiller said.

redefining terms of victory. "Bush has been underestimated his entire career, said Republican strategist Scott Reed. Bush's public approval ratings remain high. Last week, he helped the GOP raise $22 million for its fight to maintain control of Congress. Even Democrats acknowledged it was an impressive few days.

Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University, said Bush has an uncanny ability to "turn a qualified defeat into a great triumph. Politically, it's a very great talent to have." Bush heads this week for Europe first to Poland, then to Russia, then to France for the annual economic summit of the Group of Eight industrial democracies. Afterward he will visit U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf and may meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas. The trip comes as Bush works hard to show that his full attention is on the faltering U.S.

economy. usually made by small producers who are very dependent on them." But American producers are also dependent on the names, says the Grocery Manufacturers Association of America, which is working to defeat the proposal. "It costs billions to make, market and brand a product," said Sarah Thorn, the association's director of international relations. "For our companies, the trademark is the most significant thing about a product." Consider cheesa Many of the cheeses sold in the United States came from Europe decades ago, said Greg Fra-zier, senior vice president for international affairs at the International Dairy Foods Association. "These names are generic," said Everson of Grande Cheese.

"The standard of identities for cheese were written in the 1940s." Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush has drawn low appraisals. Democrats as a verbally challenged intellectual lightweight. European officials have seen a roughhewn Texas cowboy with little finesse and less foreign-policy own words, he's been "misunderesti-mated." as he prepares to sit down with world for the first time since the U.S.-led Iraq, Bush can claim critical victories Congress and at the United Nations. suggest the successes strengthen hand, internationally and at home, compel those leaders to see him in light. ability both to win a 14-0 vote in the Security Council on the reconstruction and his victory in a tax cut compromise Capitol Hill came against what appeared to be difficult odds just a week earlier.

both cases, the president's critics may misjudged his ability to prevail, partly sheer stubbornness and shrewdly Food name game: That cheese isn't gouda i TrT ii. oil tat.fflW,c rTrm miMrtmit -'-fa--g'--- Europeans fight to limit use of locator terms WASHINGTON (AP) The way Europeans see it, the eggplant parmesan sandwich on the typical American menu is a fraud because that cheese can only come from the Italian city of Parma. It is more than just a food fight over words because the European Union is proposing a "global registry of protected names." Hundreds of products, from feta cheese to kalamata olives, would have to come from their respective regions of origin in order to carry their distinct and recognizable names. If the Europeans succeed, what would the Grande Cheese Co. of Lomira, Wis.

founded in 1927 by an Italian immigrant rename its A man puts feta cheese in a display window in Athens in this April 1999 file photo. Under the Europeans' proposed 'global registry of protected hundreds of other food products also would have to come from their respective regions of origins. Postmaster: Send address changes to: Herald Review, RQ Box 11 Decatur, IL 6252W311. Eight-week subscription rates are: Carrier home-delivered, motor route, $32; mail in-trade, $38; mail out-trade, $41 (USPS 150-800). The Herald Review is published daily at 601 E.

William St by Lee Publications, a subsidiary of Lee parmesan cheese? "We'd have to go with 'hard-grating says the company's vice president of technology, Tom Everson. The products on the European Union's list "are usually high quality, made region ally, and are very important for rural development," said Gerry Kiely, agriculture counselor for the EU delegation in Washington. "We don't want them to be usurped by multinationals or whatever. These products are.