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www.pantagraph.com MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2005 50 Cents Bears bear down on division Larger portions pari of reason more Americans are larger, loo I Health lead against Detroit sports iv PA IRAQ 3 Buwatt Reid: Rove should resign By Nedra Plckler ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, D.C. The Senate Democratic leader said Sunday that presidential adviser Karl Rove should resign because of his role in exposing an tioned in Kuwait instead of Iraq. Banaszak, a single mother of a teenage son, at one time worked as a police officer in Sullivan. She also was a sheriff's deputy in St. Charles, Mo.

"I just cannot picture her being gone," said John Love, assistant chief for the Sullivan Police Department. SEE KUWAIT BACK PAGE Army Public Affairs office were not answered Sunday night. Banaszak's uncle, Phil Palermo of Bloomington, said the woman was a career police and Army officer. Her unit, the Army National Guard's 1034th Maintenance is based at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Moultrie County Circuit Clerk Cindy Braden remembered Banaszak's farewell party this spring in Bloomington, hosted by her family.

"She took a lot of pictures," Braden said. "She wanted to take pictures of everyone with her when she left. "I just gotan e-mail from her last week. I thought she was in a safe place," Braden added, referring to Banaszak being sta By M.K. Guetersloh mkgueterslohpantagraph.com BLOOMINGTON An Army National Guard officer who lived in Bloomington at one time died Friday in Kuwait.

On Sunday, the Department of Defense announced that 1st Lt. Debra Banaszak died at Camp Victory, Kuwait, from noncombat related injuries The brother of the Iraqi vice president killed Page A8 and listed Bloomington as her home address. How Banaszak, 35, died remains under investigation by military officials. Calls to the OUR KIDS Educators try to pass on love of reading Service planned forlSU student "rr if V. lEf, WMt i aa 4 a.

tmm Karl Rove -1 wmts, undercover CIA officer, and a veteran Republican senator said President Bush needs "new blood" in his White House. Rove has not been charged, but he continues to be investigated in the CIA leaks case that brought the indictment and resignation Friday of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, an adviser to Bush and the top aide to Vice Presi By Laura Rineer newsroompantagraph.com NORMAL A memorial service for Olamide Adeyooye will be held Wednesday afternoon at i da Harry Reid Illinois State University The service will be at 3 p.m. in the Center for Performing Arts Concert Hall and is for facultystaff and students only It may be viewed via streaming dent Dick Cheney. Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has not made a decision on whether Rove gave false testimony during his four grand jury appearances.

Rove is Bush's most trusted adviser. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said he is disappointed that Bush and Cheney Olamide Adeyooye responded to i the indictment by lauding Libby and suggested they should apologize for the leak that revealed the identity of I Valerie Plame takes desk job, devotes life to her twins Page A8 The Pantagraph STEPHANIE OBERLANDER Susie Freeman, left, and Dixie Fauber, both teachers from Olympia school district, look through "The Kissing Hand," a book by Audrey Penn, at the Educator Appreciation Breakfast held recently at Barnes and Noble in Bloomington. Freeman said the book is a great book for kindergarteners and first-graders who have separation anxiety. Tteachers recall best books video at www.IllinoisState.edu memorial. Speakers will include ISU president, Al Bowman; Black Student Union president, Shemi-ka Perkins; Bob Ryder of Campus Ministries; Nancy Evans, a student friend; and Abiodun Adeyooye, Olamide's father.

Cards may be left in baskets at the entrance of the concert hall or sent to the family in care of the President's Office, Campus Box 1000, Normal IL 61790. Memorials may be made to the Olamide Adeyooye Fund. The 21-year-old ISU senior from Berkeley last was seen at a Bloomington video store Oct. 13. Her body was found Oct.

21 in a burned-down chicken house east of Jackson, Miss. The cause and time of death are unknown. Normal Police may question Maurice Lashon Wallace, 27, of Normal in her death. Wallace is awaiting extradition to McLean County from an Atlanta, jail to face charges on identity theft. covert CIA officer Valerie Plame.

"First of the vice president issues this very terse statement praising Libby for all the great things he's done," Reid said. SEE ROVE BACK PAGE Could," which chugged up a very tall hill saying, "I think I can, I think I can." She discovered her other favorite while working on a university degree. "Leading Minds" by Howard Gardner is "about leaders and what makes them leaders." Each had someone who made a significant impact, she said, and "often it was a teacher." SEE BOOKS BACK PAGE "Remember what you always taught us." So the LeRoy Elementary School principal went into her new job following her own advice: "I think I can." Like Drillinger, most local teachers say they have been inspired by at least one book. Cindy Helmers, principal at Bloomington High School, has two favorite books including "The Little Engine That By Phyllis Coulter pcoulterpantagraph.com BLOOMINGTON Beverly Drillinger's favorite book traveled full circle, from her to her students and back again. She liked the message of Watty Piper's "The Little Engine That Could" and read it to elementary school students.

When she was promoted, a second-grader said, INSIDE ABBY D2 CLASSIFIED C4 COMICS D6 CROSSWORD C5 HOROSCOPE D5 MOVIES D5 OBITUARIES D4 OPINION A6 SCOREBOARD B4 SUDOKU C5 Parks honored on Capitol Hill 1 VH Av Wit v-3 By Ken Thomas ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, D.C. Bush, members of Congress and ordinary Americans Tribute schedule Tributes to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks will continue through Wednesday. Below is a schedule (all times EST): Weather Ate 's In Detroit: 1 9 p.m. today to 5 a.m. Wednesday: Viewing, Charles H.

Wright Museum of African American History. 1 11 a.m. Wednesday: Funeral, Greater Grace Temple. In Washington, D.C: 7-10 a.m. today: Viewing, Capitol Rotunda.

H-2 p.m. today: Public memorial service, Historical Metropolitan AME Church. President Bush, right, first lady Laura Bush, center, and Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, left, pay their respects as the casket of civil rights pioneer Rosa Park lies in honor Sunday at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington.

Parks is the first woman and second African-American to have this honor. She made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, an act of defiance that some say jump-started the U.S. civil rights movement in the and 1960s. TODAY'S FORECAST Chance of showers. High 60 Low 43 For complete weather information, see Today's Weather on the back page.

Copyrjght 2005 The Pantograph paid tribute to Rosa Parks under the soaring dome of the Capitol Rotunda on Sunday, honoring the woman whose defiant act on a city bus challenged segregation in the ft 1 Rosa Parks LEE ENTERPRISES lJlr A LEE NEWSPAPER Secretary of State Condoleez-za Rice paid tribute during a service in Montgomery, earlier Sunday Rice said she and others who grew up in Alabama during the height of Parks' activism might not have realized her impact on their lives, "but I can honestly say that without Mrs. Parks, I probably would not be standing here today as secretary of state." SEE PARKS BACK PAGE casket, while members of a university choir greeted her with "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Rep. John Conyers, in whose Detroit congressional office Parks worked, said the ceremony and public viewing showed "the legacy of Rosa Parks is more than just a success for the civil rights movement or for African-Americans. It means it's a national honor." South and inspired the civil rights movement. Parks, a former seamstress, became the first woman to lie in honor in the Rotunda, sharing an honor bestowed upon Abraham Lincoln, John F.

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