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Saturday, September 15, 2012 – Daily News WORLD BRIEFING Protests of anti-Islam over an anti-Islam film spread across the Muslim world Friday, with deadly clashes near Western embassies in Tunisia and Sudan, an American fast- food restaurant set ablaze in Lebanon, and interna- tional peacekeepers attacked in the Sinai despite an appeal for calm from Egypt's Islamist president. film spread CAIRO (AP) — Fury North Dakota on Friday after telephoned bomb threats prompted officials to warn students and faculty to get away as quickly as pos- sible. Both campuses even- tually were deemed safe and reopened by early after- noon, as authorities worked to determine whether the threats were related. The University of Texas conference. North Dakota State Uni- At least four people — all protesters — were killed and dozens were wounded in the demon- strations in more than 20 countries from the Middle East to Southeast Asia. Most were peaceful but they turned violent in sev- eral nations, presenting challenges for the leaders who came to power in the Arab Spring. the economy by doing something President Barack Obama and Con- gress can't and which Mitt Romney opposes: electronically creating money, mostly out of thin air. Security forces worked to rein in the anti-Ameri- can crowds but appeared to struggle in doing so. Police in Cairo prevented stone-throwing protesters from getting near the U.S. Embassy, firing tear gas and deploying armored vehicles in a fourth day of clashes in the Egyptian capital. One person died there after being shot by rubber bullets. President Barack Obama said Washington would ''stand fast'' against attacks on U.S. embassies around the world. He spoke at a somber ceremony paying tribute to four Americans — including U.S. Ambas- sador Chris Stevens — killed earlier this week when the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was stormed by militants who may have used protests of the anti-Muslim film to stage an assault on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen's capital of Saana, where local security forces shot live rounds in the air and fired tear gas at a crowd of an estimated 2,000 protesters who were kept about a block away from the U.S. Embassy, which protesters broke into the day before. Judge strikes down Wis. law that ended collective — A Wisconsin judge has struck down the state law championed by Gov. Scott Walker that effec- tively ended collective bargaining rights for most public workers. bargaining MADISON, Wis. (AP) Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas ruled Friday that the law vio- lates both the state and U.S. Constitution and is null and void. The ruling comes after a lawsuit brought by the Madison teachers union and a union for Milwaukee city employees. Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie says he is confident the decision will be overturned on appeal. It was not clear if the ruling means the law is immediately suspended. The law took away nearly all collective bargaining rights from most workers and has been in effect for more than a year. Democrats The Federal Reserve under Chairman Ben Bernanke is trying to help Fed's new effort to aid recovery praised by ''buy'' $40 billion a month in mortgage bonds until stubbornly high unemployment eases sub- stantially. The Fed's new move is on top of its $85 billion-a-month purchases of Treasury securities under an existing pro- gram. The Fed says it will — and more willing to spend. Fed's $40 billion-a-month in bond purchases to drive down interest rates and cause stock and home prices to rise, creating a ''wealth effect'' that would boost the economy. And ''if people feel that their financial situa- tion is better because their 401(k) looks better or for whatever reason — their house is worth more — they're more willing to go out and spend,'' The idea is for the It hopes to hold down long-term interest rates long enough to stimulate more private-sector bor- rowing and hiring. Democrats generally welcomed the step, although Obama's camp won't comment on Fed actions. Republicans called it further confirma- tion that Obama's policies are failing. ''The president's say- ing the economy's mak- ing progress, coming back. Bernanke's saying, 'No, it's not. I've got to print more money,''' Romney told ABC. Negotiators reach Chairman Ben Bernanke told reporters. ''That's going to provide the demand that firms need in order to be willing to hire and to invest.'' Fed have surged since the Fed announced plans to buy mortgage bonds as long as it feels necessary — a policy known as ''quanti- tative easing,'' or QE. The Dow Jones industrial average has jumped more than 500 points, or 4 per- cent, since Bernanke gave a speech Aug. 31 more or less confirming that QE3 was on the way. Sure enough, stocks Judge 'framework' to end Chicago $ teachers strike CHICAGO (AP) — The city's nearly week- long teachers strike appeared headed toward a resolution Friday after negotiators emerged from marathon talks to say they had achieved a ''frame- work'' that could end the walkout in time for stu- dents to return to class Monday. Illinois girl SYCAMORE, Ill. (AP) — A 72-year-old man was convicted Friday in the 1957 murder of a 7- year-old girl, with specta- tors letting out a deafen- ing cheer as the verdict was announced in one of the oldest unsolved crimes to eventually get to court in the U.S. convicts ex- police officer in murder of 7-year-old Both sides were careful not to describe the deal as a final agreement. They expected to spend the weekend working out details before union dele- gates are asked to vote on the package, probably sometime Sunday. David Vitale said the ''heavy lifting'' was over after long hours of talks placed ''frameworks around all the major issues.'' Chicago School Board The school district and union negotiators ''put things on the table over the last few days to help each other'' and to put schools on track to reopen next week, Vitale said. ''Our kids are going to get the time they need in this school year, and they're going to get the time they need in the school day,'' he said. ''And our teachers are going to get the respect they deserve for their hard work with our kids.'' house prices WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve wasn't just trying to drive interest rates lower when it announced a third round of bond purchases Thurs- day. Fed seeks to drive up stocks and overtook the room as the cheers and applause faded after Judge James Hallock pronounced Jack McCul- lough guilty of murder, kidnapping and abduction in Maria Ridulph's death. Family and friends of the girl fell into each other's arms; others walked up to hug and kiss prosecutors. McCullough was around 17 years old on the snowy night in December 1957 when the second-grader went miss- ing in Sycamore, about 60 miles west of Chicago. He later enlisted in the mili- tary, and ultimately set- tled in Seattle where he worked as a Washington state police officer. Maria's playmate the night she disappeared, Kathy Chapman, was a star witness in the case. She testified that McCul- lough was the young man who approached the girls as they played, asking if they liked dolls and if they wanted piggyback rides. ''A weight has been The sound of sobbing lifted off my shoulders,'' said Chapman, who is now 63, said outside on the courthouse steps. ''Maria finally has the justice he deserves.'' Bomb threats prompt It also wants to make Americans feel wealthier received a call about 8:35 a.m. from a man claiming to be with al-Qaida who said he had placed bombs all over the 50,000-student Austin campus, according to University of Texas spokeswoman Rhonda Weldon. He claimed the bombs would go off in 90 minutes and all buildings were evacuated at 9:50 a.m. as a precaution, Weldon said. versity President Dean Bresciani said 20,000 peo- ple also were evacuated from his school's main and downtown campuses in Fargo after the school received its threat. FBI spokesman Kyle Loven said a call that included a ''threat of an explosive device'' came in about 9:45 a.m., but he declined to give further details. He said the agency was trying to deter- mine if the two campus threats were related. The deadline passed without incident, and the university reopened all buildings by noon. Classes were canceled for the rest of the day, but other univer- sity activities were to resume by 5 p.m. ''We are extremely con- fident that the campus is safe,'' UT President William Powers told a news FBI: 'Bucket List Bandit,' suspected of bank heists in 9 states OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — In banks from Utah to Pennsylvania this summer, a middle-aged man with grayish, thin- ning hair, glasses and a blue polo shirt has been demanding money from frightened tellers and 5B offering the same sad story: He only had months to live. After his fourth heist, this one in Utah, he earned a nickname, the ''Bucket List Bandit,'' because the robberies were believed to be the actions of a desperate and dying man. On Friday, the FBI announced the suspect had been captured during a routine traffic stop Thursday night in the eastern Oklahoma city of Roland. Officers deter- mined Michael Eugene Brewster, 54, of Pensaco- la, Fla., was driving a stolen SUV that he bor- rowed from a friend 10 days before the first rob- bery and that it had improper Utah license plates, said Rick Rains, a spokesman for the FBI's Oklahoma City office. ''They determined the vehicle was reported stolen, and one thing led to another. Ultimately, they called us and we were able to determine who he was,'' Rains said. ''It was a little bit of luck on our part.'' Tens of thousands of people streamed off university campuses in Texas and evacuations AUSTIN, Texas (AP) —