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Iran shifts uranium to fuel stock

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press

Staff members, enter Tehran's nuclear research reactor in Tehran, Iran, on Aug. 22, 2004. (Associated Press)

In a bid to ease international concerns over its nuclear program, Iran has converted more than a third of Tehrans most highly enriched uranium into a powder for a medical research reactor that is difficult to reprocess for weapons production, experts and U.N. monitors say. The work noted in a technical report by the U.N.s nuclear watchdog agency in late August suggests Iran is trying to display enough goodwill to restart nuclear talks with world powers, while aiming to soften demands by the U.S.

and others to halt Tehrans top-level uranium enrichment. An influential Iranian parliament member, Hossein Naqavi, said the country was taking a serious and concrete confidencebuilding measure by converting some of the 20 percent enriched stockpile into U3O8, or uranium oxide, in the form of powder. The move also appears to be part of a wider strategy to seek relief from tightening Western sanctions in exchange for step-by-step plans to scale back uranium enrichment, which Washington and its allies fear could lead to weapons-grade material. Iran insists it only has peaceful nuclear ambitions.

But it has offered no substantial concessions to cut into Irans stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium, the highest level acknowledged by the Islamic Republic. Iran already has enough to provide fuel for its Tehran research reactor for years and labs are equipped to make more material at that level, said Olli Heinonen, former directorgeneral at the U.N.s International Atomic Energy Agency who headed the organizations Iran file until 2010. So far, Irans proposals have met with resistance from the West as the economic embargos take their toll, including protests last week after Continued on 10A

Living Heidi: We can solve these problems with the Night Stalker
By NICK SMITH Bismarck Tribune

Man deals with 3 shots to the head

By KEITH SHARON For The Associated Press At least once a week for the past 27 years, an increasingly frail woman has pressed her hands together in prayer and thanked the man who shot her son three times in the head. Thank you, Richard Ramirez, she has said thousands of times, for using a small gun. Thank you, Richard Ramirez, for sparing the life of my son. Anne Carns, now 85, decided during the terrible summer of 1985 that hating the man newspapers called the Night Stalker could consume her, so she began thanking Ramirez instead. The Bible says, Love thy neighbor, she said. What does hate get you? Billy Carns, her 56-yearold son, has a different approach. On Aug. 25, 1985, Billy was asleep in his Mission Viejo home when Ramirez climbed through an open window, shot Carns with a .25-caliber handgun and raped his girlfriend part of a statewide crime rampage that still conjures terror in the minds of many California residents who lived through it. I would like to torture him with a chain saw or a belt sander, said Billy Carns, his left arm and foot paralyzed, his short-term memory sapped, his girlfriend long gone, his brain Continued on 10A

Walking in a parade and working a crowd is nothing new to Heidi Heitkamp. For the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, they provide relaxing interludes during the hustle and bustle of a hotly-contested campaign drawing national attention. Shortly before 9 a.m. on July 21 Heitkamp found herself at the McDonalds parking lot on South Broadway in Minot. The North Dakota State Fairs parade was just minutes from kicking off. Volunteers and campaign staff were racing back and forth, placing campaign signs on a black pickup. Staffers also were scrambling to set up a sound system in the bed of the pickup. Its a great way to get out there and meet a whole lot of different people, Heitkamp said. To this point, Heitkamp had already for months been locked in a tight election battle with Republican congressman Rick Berg. Heitkamp, 56, says her decades of experience in and out of government are assets that would serve her well in Washington, D.C., to tackle the fiscal issues facing the nation. Heitkamp took a few moments before the parade to explain that shes not in this for any reason other than solving problems. She said Congress has reached a point of nearparalysis due to partisanship by members of both parties. Heitkamp said too many elected to serve in Washington see issues through partisan lenses, getting bogged down in partisan bickering rather than address the peoples business. If you come up with the right ideas and you elect people willing to work across the aisle and not engage in partisanship, and if you elect people without seeing everything through blue shades or red shades, but with (a) clear vision, we can solve these

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North Dakota U.S. Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp speaks with supporters at the Bismarck AMVETS Club on Sept. 26. Standing next to Heitkamp is Alaska Sen. Mark Begich.

HEIDI HEITKAMP
Hometown: Mandan Experience: Director, Dakota Gasification Company synfuels plant, 2001-present; North Dakota Attorney General, 1993-2000; North Dakota Tax Commissioner 1986-92; attorney with tax commissioners office, 1981-86; EPA attorney, 1980-81. Family: Husband: Dr. Darwin Lange. Children: Ali, Nathan Age: 56 problems, Heitkamp said. The person we send to the United States Senate needs to represent North Dakota, not a political policy. He i t k a m p s e r v e d a s North Dakota Attorney General from 1993 to 2000. She served as tax commissioner from 1986 to 1992. Heitkamp also served as a lawyer for the tax commissioners office from 1981 to 1986. Her career began with a brief stint as a lawyer for the Environmental Protection Agency from 1980 to 1981. Her husband, Dr. Darwin Lange, is a family practitioner. The couple live in Mandan and have two grown children, Ali and Nathan. Her last run for office was in 2000, when she unsuc-

cessfully ran for governor against John Hoeven. She was defeated by a 55-45 percent margin. Despite being out of office for the past 12 years Heitkamp hasnt been sitting idle. Shes served as the director of Dakota Gasification Companys synfuels plant, located near Beulah, since 2001. As staff and volunteers continue setting up the truck before heading down the three-mile parade route, a volunteer with a petition for Smoke-Free North Dakota finds her way over to the group. The organization was collecting signatures for a proposed statewide smoking ban for the Nov. 6 general election ballot. The groups efforts were success-

The series
This is the third in a four-part series on the U.S. House and Senate races. The schedule: Sept. 23: Pam Gulleson, Democratic candidate for the House. Sept. 30: Kevin Cramer, Republican candidate for the House. Today: Heidi Heitkamp, Democratic candidate for the Senate. Oct. 14: Rick Berg, Republican candidate for the Senate. ful: signatures were approved by the secretary of states office in September. The issue is listed on the balContinued on 10A

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