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Bremer hands over second Ministry

BAGHDAD, APRIL 3. The U.S. administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, turned over control of Iraq's Education Ministry to interim Iraqi leaders today as part of plans by the U.S.-led coalition to restore national sovereignty by June 30.

The Ministry became the second Government department to gain its independence from the Coalition Provisional Authority. On March 28, Mr. Bremer gave the interim Health Minister, Khidr Abbas, the key to his Ministry, one of the 25 that will make up the transitional Iraqi Government set to take power in less than three months.

Meanwhile, gunmen fired on a vehicle carrying a town's police chief south of Baghdad today, killing both him and his driver, police said. A separate attack on the police nearby left another two people dead. The shooting occurred as Col. Wisam Hussein, police chief of Mahmoudiya town, 30 km south of Baghdad, was returning home from a trip to the capital. Later in the day, six unidentified assailants attacked a police patrol in the town, killing one officer and wounding three others, one seriously.

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