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Japan finds bodies of 2 workers at reactorBY KEN BELSON AND HIROKO TABUCHINew York Times Service

TOKYO — The operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station said Sunday that two workers at the plant who had been missing since the day the earth-quake and tsunami hit Japan last month had been confi rmed dead.

They are the fi rst two workers at the plant and the fi rst employees of the operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, to have died in the aftermath of the March 11 quake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis. Five employees of subsidiary companies have died at other To-kyo Electric facilities.

Tokyo Electric said the workers at the Daiichi plant were found in the basement of the turbine build-ing connected to the No. 4 reactor. The company found them Wednes-day, but did not release details until their families had been notifi ed.

The company said the workers, Kazuhiro Kokubo, 24, and Yoshiki Terashima, 21, died on March 11 around 4 p.m., after the tsunami hit the Daiichi plant. The company said the workers lost great amounts of blood and went into shock, and linked their deaths to the tsunami.

“It pains me that these two young workers were trying to protect the power plant while being hit by the earthquake and tsunami,” Tokyo Electric’s chairman, Tsunehisa Kat-sumata, said in a statement.

Of the other fi ve deaths of pow-er plant workers connected to the earthquake and tsunami, one man died when he was struck by a top-pled crane at the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant, six miles from the Dai-ichi plant. Four other workers died at Tokyo Electric’s Hitachinaka ther-mal power plant when they fell from the chimneys they were working on.

The confi rmation of the deaths at the Daiichi plant came a day after Japanese offi cials announced that highly radioactive water was leaking directly into the sea from a damaged pit near one of the plant’s crippled reactors. The leak was the latest set-back in the increasingly diffi cult bid to regain control of the plant.

Although higher than normal lev-els of radiation have been detected in the ocean water near the plant in recent days, this was the fi rst time the source of any leaks was found.

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BY RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press

KABUL — Afghan protests against the burning of a Koran in Florida entered a third day with a demonstrations in the east on Sunday, while the Taliban called on people to rise up, blaming gov-ernment forces for any violence.

The desecration at a small U.S. church has outraged Mus-lims worldwide, and in Afghani-stan many of the demonstra-tions have turned into deadly riots. Protests in the north and

south in recent days have killed 20 people.

The protest in Afghanistan’s Jalalabad city was peaceful, with hundreds of people blocking a main highway for three hours, shouting for U.S. troops to leave and burning an effi gy of U.S. President Barack Obama before dispersing.

A similar protest in eastern Parwan province blocked a main highway with burning tires for about an hour, with more than 1,000 people protesting, said pro-

vincial police chief Sher Ahmad Maladani. He said there was no violence.

The Taliban said in an e-mail statement that the United States and other Western countries have wrongly excused the burning a Koran by the pastor of a Florida church on March 20 as freedom of speech and that Afghans “can-not accept this un-Islamic act”.

On Saturday, Obama extended his condolences to the families of those killed by the protesters and said desecration of the Koran “is

an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry”. But he said that does not justify attacking and killing innocent people, calling it “out-rageous and an affront to human decency and dignity”.

Eleven were killed Friday when demonstrators stormed a U.N. compound, including seven foreign U.N. employees. A riot Saturday in southern Kandahar city resulted in nine deaths and more than 80 injured.

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RAHMAT GUL/AP

A protester beats a burning effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a rally in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Sunday.

AFGHANS CONTINUE TO RAGE AGAINST KORAN BURNING

Koran-burning pastor unrepentant despite furorBY LIZETTE ALVAREZ New York Times Service

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — His church’s membership is down to just a few of the faithful. He is ba-sically broke. Some of his neigh-bors wish him ill. And his head, he said, carries a bounty.

Yet Terry Jones, the pastor who organized a mock trial that ended with the burning of a Ko-ran and led to violence in Af-ghanistan, remained unrepentant on Saturday. He said that he was “saddened” and “moved” by the deaths, but that given the chance, he would do it all over again.

“It was intended to stir the pot; if you don’t shake the boat, ev-eryone will stay in their compla-cency,” Jones said in an interview at his offi ce in the Dove World Outreach Center. “Emotionally, it’s not all that easy. People have tried to make us responsible for

the people who are killed. It’s un-fair and somewhat damaging.”

He said the victims had been deliberately murdered rather than killed by an out-of-control mob.

“Did our action provoke them?” the pastor asked. “Of course. Is it a provocation that can be justifi ed? Is it a provocation that should lead to death? When lawyers provoke me, when banks provoke me, when reporters provoke me, I can’t kill them. That would not fl y.”

Jones, 59, with his white wal-rus moustache, craggy face and basso profundo voice, seems like a man from a different time. Sit-ting at his desk in his mostly un-adorned offi ce, he keeps a Bible in a worn brown leather cover by his side and a “Braveheart” post-er within sight. Both, he said, provide spiritual sustenance for the mission at hand: Spreading the word that Islam and the Ko-

ran are instruments of “violence, death and terrorism.”

In recent weeks, Jones said, he had received 300 death threats, mostly via e-mail and telephone, and had been told by the FBI that there was a $2.4 million contract on his life.

For protection, his followers — the 20 to 30 who are left — openly carry guns (they have licenses, he said) and have become more rigorous about checking their cars and the bags of visitors. The church is locked. Police protec-tion is sometimes required when the members travel, Jones said.

Jones’ rustic church sits on 20 acres of land, up a long drive-way that is dotted with Austra-lian pines. There is a small above-ground pool, and three police cars idled nearby on Saturday.

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JOHN RAOUX/AP FILE

Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center.

Even if he doesn’t run, Trump builds brandBY JEREMY W. PETERS AND BRIAN STELTER New York Times Service

Something predictable hap-pens to the ratings of Donald

Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice on NBC when he hints at running for president: They rise.

And when he talks about U.S. President Barack Obama’s birth certifi cate, they really rise.

Proving cause and effect is im-possible, of course. But the coin-cidence is not lost on Trump, a man who has erected a real estate and media empire on immodesty and indiscretion.

“Did you get the info I sent you?” Trump asked in a phone interview with The New York Times late last week. “I told the girls to send you the ratings.” He was referring to a 10-page packet of press

releases with headlines like “Donald Trump Is Ratings

Gold” and news a r t i c l e s

f r o m

Politico and CNN that described his strength in recent polls. A day later, he resent the clips.

Depending on your perspec-tive, Trump’s growing visibility on television and in political news stories over the last few weeks represents the opening phase of a political campaign or the metas-tasis of a media spectacle. Trump, who says he is absolutely serious about a run for president, has ap-peared regularly on Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, ABC and in a wide variety of political blogs. Media outlets that had expected the Re-publican presidential ticket to take on a fuller shape by now have found themselves with a news void, and in the absence of other news-making characters, many of them are fi lling it with Trump.

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Gadhafi’s son proposes peace plan, diplomat saysBY DAVID D. KIRKPATRICKNew York Times Service

TRIPOLI, Libya — Col. Moam-mar Gadhafi ’s son Seif el Islam is proposing a resolution to the Libyan confl ict that would entail his father relinquishing power for a transition to constitutional democracy under his son’s direction, a diplomat with close ties to the Libyan government said Sunday, citing “eminent peo-ple” in Tripoli.

But neither Gadhafi nor the reb-els seeking his ouster appear ready to accept such a proposal, the dip-lomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Despite the evidence of deep in-ternal discontent, Gadhafi appears to believe that rebellion against him is a foreign conspiracy of Islamist radi-

cals and oil-hungry Western powers attempting to take over Libya, the diplomat said. And the rebels, who have set up their own provisional government, continue to insist on the exit from power of Gadhafi and his sons. “This is the beginning posi-tion of the opposition, and this is the beginning position of the Libyan gov-ernment,” this diplomat said. “But the bargaining has yet to commence.”

The diplomat’s account could not be confi rmed and Libyan offi cials have declined to comment on any talks. Speculation has swirled about a possible proposal from the Gadd-afi camp since Seif al Islam Gadhafi ’s top aide, Mohamed Ismail, traveled to London for undisclosed talks

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