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Investigators awaited results of a test on evidence from the home where Couey was staying, and officials have informed the girl's family about the details surrounding Jessica's death.Another opposition member, Anvar Artykov, told the crowd that "Power in Osh has been taken over by people! ... I congratulate you on our victory and urge you to maintain order."A federal court in Tampa, Florida, has scheduled a 3 p.m. hearing in Terri Schiavo's case after her parents petitioned to have the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube reinserted. Hours earlier, President Bush signed into law a bill authorizing the federal courts to review the case.Couey may have held her captive for a day or two, investigators said.Akayev has led this mainly Muslim nation for 15 years.Protesters dumped stones on the runway at Jalal-Abad airport, making it difficult for security forces to rush in reinforcements to quell the protests, which some analysts have compared to peaceful revolutions that swept two other former Soviet republics -- Georgia and Ukraine -- in the past two years.The unrest began early this month to protest alleged election breaches in the Feb. 27 parliamentary polls. It intensified after the subsequent March 13 run-offs that the opposition, European countries and the United States said were seriously flawed, a charge denied by the government.Akayev has led this mainly Muslim nation for 15 years.Akayev has led this mainly Muslim nation for 15 years.Monday's biggest demonstration drew about 15,000 people to the southern city of Jalal-Abad, a local government spokesman said. There were no reports of violence a day after demonstrators burned down much of the police headquarters, freed 70 detained protesters and occupied the governor's office.But he has recently shown increasing signs of cracking down. In 2002, his reputation was tarnished after police killed six people protesting the arrest of an opposition lawmaker.But another opposition leader, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, said talks would be possible if Akayev attended.The opposition has charged that Akayev, who is prohibited from seeking another term, planned to manipulate the parliamentary vote to gain a compliant legislature that would amend the constitution to allow a third term. The 60-year-old leader has denied wanting another term.Akayev ordered the commission and court "to pay particular attention to those districts where election results provoked extreme public reaction ... and tell people openly who is right and who is wrong," his office said.He said he is spearheading an effort to change the law to keep repeat sexual offenders incarcerated. "There should be a law for Jesse," Lunsford said.Another opposition member, Anvar Artykov, told the crowd that "Power in Osh has been taken over by people! ... I congratulate you on our victory and urge you to maintain order."Couey may have held her captive for a day or two, investigators said.Couey allegedly confessed to abducting, killing and burying Jessica.nothankyou