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OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Thursday,April 3, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 26 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Saving Private Lynch: Bhatt & Babbar Sehwag named Dramatic rescue by on Operation Sourav’s deputy Marine commandos Iraq Relief for Dhaka event Page 11 Page 5 Page 15 WIN WITH THE TIMES Reuters THE BATTLEFRONT Closing in ● US forces advance Established 1838 DAYDAY 1414 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. towards Baghdad on Flu storms into China two fronts against We had a great day. We Republican Guards Reuters killed a lot of people. ● 12 more deaths; — US Sgt. Schrumpf quoted US forces 30 km from in NYT from southern Iraq south edge of Baghdad ● Air raid hits Baghdad tourists warned NEWS DIGEST maternity hospital, trade Beijing: Twelve more Chinese fair and motorists Hizb leader shot: Chief com- deaths from the pneumonia epi- mander of the Hizbul Mujahideen ● Saddam chairs meeting demic were reported Wednesday as Saif-ul-Islam, who had replaced Ab- of top officials; no the World Health Organisation dul Majid Dar in 2001, was shot (WHO) urged travellers to avoid dead by the security forces in an en- footage shown the country’s particularly hard-hit counter at Puru on the outskirts of ● B-52s drop cluster south. Srinagar Wednesday night. P7 bombs on Iraqi tank Suspected cases of Severe Acute Bail for i-Flex CEO: After spend- column guarding city Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) ing a week in Brixton prison in were also reported across the na- south-west London on alleged visa ● Euphrates dam seized tion in areas previously believed violations, Senthil Kumar, CEO of the unaffected, from Shanghai in the Dutch subsidiary of the software firm east to Sichuan in the southwest. i-Flex, was on Wednesday released Toll As the number of infected Chi- on bail but was asked to surrender COALITION nese shot up, the WHO said the epi- his passport by a local court. P13 80 demic would also worsen interna- TROOPS tionally but appeared to have BJP in poll gear: The BJP is meeting next month in Indore to de- peaked in the southern province of IRAQI Guangdong. cide whether it should issue a sepa- Cry ‘Freedom’: An Iraqi woman beside her bombed-out CIVILIANS 677 rate manifesto for the general elec- home near Baghdad. “I don’t think the problem has tions next year to hardsell its Hindut- peaked internationally,” said Dr va agenda. P7 Robert Breiman, team leader of the WHO experts. “I think the in- Toxic vegetables: Various stud- terest in China is because in ies have shown that a large percent- Guangdong perhaps it has peaked age of the vegetables grown and Allies at Baghdad gate and if this is true, and we think it sold in the country are contaminated is, then there is a lot we can learn with insecticides, pesticide residues Near Karbala: Closing to cast Wednesday on Iraqi causing vibrations. from there about how to deal with and heavy metals absorbed by the within 30 km of Baghdad, US satellite television. A sepa- In an attack launched at plants from soil, water and air. P7 the outbreak elsewhere.” forces seized a bridge over rate decree, also attributed to midnight, US 3rd Infantry Late Wednesday, China’s health Osama hunt: According to the US the Tigris River and swept Saddam, offered cash re- units surged past the strate- minister Zhang Wenkang moved to defence department, a total of 175 past battered Republican wards to anyone who helped gic city of Karbala, targeting ease fears over the crisis, saying Fleeing the flu: A Filipino family arrives at Manila airport from Hong Kong. special operations forces have been Guard units Wednesday. One uncover spies assisting the an estimated 2,000 paramili- the daily rate of new cases had fall- lost, killed or wounded since the be- of the key Guard divisions, US-led coalition. tary fighters. Karbala, which en steadily. “The number of cases China ginning of a concerted post-Sep- defending the city of Kut, Saddam did not appear in sits on the main approach to SARS cases worldwide is falling,” Zhang said on the state- 1 death 1,190 tember 11 counter-terrorism drive ‘‘has been destroyed,’’ a US person, and there was no way Baghdad from the southwest, run CCTV television network. “In Germany 07 Ireland 02 aimed at the Al-Qaida network. P9 general said. to verify if any of the state- was encircled and hit by Guangdong at the height of the epi- Canada 129 Britain 03 Sweden 01 Hong Kong 708 Farther south, US com- ments actually came from night-long bombardment demic there were 60 or 70 new cas- France 03 Belgium 01 manders said that Iraqi sol- the Iraqi leader. US officials from US artillery and es every day.Today there were few- US 72 Malaysia 19 diers were shooting from in- say they are not sure whether warplanes. Panama 01 Romania 03 Italy 03 er than 10,” the minister added. Philippines 23 side a revered mosque in Na- is he alive and well, wounded To the east, US Marines Zhang said of 1,190 confirmed Switzerland 03 jaf and that American sol- from an air strike on one of moved to within 56 km of cases in China, 934 patients had Thailand 06 Vietnam diers withheld return fire. his bunkers, or dead. Baghdad after capturing an made a full recovery,911 of them in 58 Australia The US Army’s 3rd In- important bridge over the Taiwan 14 Page 11 the southern province of Guang- 01 fantry Division and the US Tigris River near Kut. US dong where the outbreak originat- Singapore 95 1st Marine Expeditionary • Iraqis hold on to battleplan Brig Gen Vincent Brooks ed. Zhang said the rate of recovery Source: WHO Force launched a two- • US claims war tide turning said the Baghdad Division, of infected patients was between pronged attack toward defending Kut, was “79 to 80 percent” and that there Sick passenger causes a scare Baghdad, and both reported Information Minister destroyed. were “fewer and fewer deaths.” breakthroughs as units Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf One of the Marine units — The WHO said the total toll in By Byas Anand morning flight from Mumbai to entered the so-called ‘‘red described reports of a 1st Battlion, 5th Marines — China now stood at 46, making it TIMES NEWS NETWORK Delhi. ‘‘The passenger went to the zone’’ within range of the breakthrough by US forces battled for control of a bridge the top victim of the outbreak toilet and was feeling uneasy. guns and missiles defending on the front near Baghdad as over a canal late Tuesday, which erupted in Guangdong in New Delhi: The killer virus scare While he was coming back, he just the capital. ‘‘illusions.’’ killing an estimated 100 November and has now killed 78 touched a high in the country fell on the flight steward and be- US officials say Iraqi re- As for the report of cross- Iraqis dug into trenches and people in more than 20 countries. when a passenger aboard a Jet Air- came unconscious. All of us were sistance will be the most ing the Tigris River, he bunkers, then resumed its The number of reported deaths ways flight collapsed and fell un- totally frightened,’’ says Radhika, tenacious in this zone and replied: ‘‘We welcome them, advance Wednesday, passing in Guangdong was raised to 40 conscious mid-air. While the flight a fellow passenger. YOU SAID IT by Laxman have warned of the possible but this is not true.’’ an abandoned military com- from 31 Wednesday, while the attendants rushed to the person’s Though the flight attendants use of chemical weapons. Al-Sahhaf also told re- plex with high-rise barracks province had a total of 1,153 cases, help and tried to revive him, co- were quick to ask for a doctor-on- Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein porters Wednesday that while bombs thudded in the according to a WHO statement. passengers were unnerved, think- board and even tried to revive the issued a new statement de- Americans were bent on distance near Baghdad. AP The WHO also reported three ing the virulent fever had finally passenger and keep him from los- claring that ‘‘victory is at destroying Shiite shrines See Edit: Freedom Fail previously unannounced deaths in struck India. ing consciousness again, the inci- hand’’ and urging Iraqis to in the south-central cities Also see Edit Page article: ‘A the southern region of Guangxi, The incident happened last Fri- dent unnerved fellow passengers. fight on and defend their of Najaf and Karbala by Change in Script’ and Sacred which had recorded 11 cases. AFP day on the Jet Airways 9W-334 Hospitals geared up, says Govt: Page 7 towns, according to a broad- flying low over them, Space: ‘Peace Thoughts’ How much cash to get CAS? By N Vidyasagar the free-to-air TV channels. There TIMES NEWS NETWORK Cable buys are indications that these channels will be priced in the region of Rs 45 New Delhi: Your cable TV bill will • Monthly cable bill not likely to plus taxes. not cross Rs 250 per month for all be more than Rs 250 Cable federations have threat- channels — set-top box extra. Sir, all the fifty thousand copies • Zee announces post-CAS ened to go on strike if this hap- There are just about 100 days to go have to be destroyed! It is wrongly rate of Rs 55/ month for 14 pens. That’s because they get to printed terrorism department, before the implementation of the channels conditional access system (CAS) keep earnings from free-to-air terrorist resort, terrorist spot, • Free-to-air channels may be channels.