The Rooster
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
August 16, 2005. Hatred in Crawford. I am just not sure whom this man hated. The USA? The soldiers? Cindy Sheehan? The fact she was a woman out of line? Or. The Peace Movement? Call me crazy but I always thought this country was always about peace and defense of our country. But, never did I ever think such a hate filled action against our own freedom of expression would be a reality. Ms. Sheehan and Casey must be very powerful people to evoke this type of crime.
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History
1913, Menachem Begin, Israeli prime minister
1923, Shimon Peres, Israeli prime minister
1945, Suzanne Farrell, ballet dancer
1947, Carol Moseley Braun, Democratic member of the United States Senate from Illinois (1993-1999). Moseley Braun was the first black woman elected to the Senate. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, and attended neighborhood schools on Chicago’s South Side. She graduated from the University of Illinois-Chicago and then earned a law degree from the University of Chicago in 1972.
1958, Madonna, pop star and mother
1777, American forces won the Revolutionary War battle of Bennington, Vt.
1816, Peter Salem, a Revolutionary War veteran of Bunker Hill Battle, who will stand against the British at Concord dies. At the battle Peter Salem shoots and kills Major Pitcairon, the British commander who had given the order to fire on the Minutemen.
1819, In what becomes known as the Peterloo Massacre, 11 people die when government calvary troops attack a large crowd demonstrating for economic and political reform in Manchester, England.
1829, the original "Siamese twins," Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston to be exhibited to the Western world.
1861, President Lincoln prohibited the states of the Union from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy.
1900, The New York Times reports that the four-hour riot was a scene of the wildest disorder in New York City that was witnessed in years. September.
1922, Author Louis E. Lomax, who will become an author and columnist, is born
1948, baseball legend Babe Ruth died in New York at age 53.
1960, Britain granted independence to the crown colony of Cyprus, led by its newly elected president, Archbishop Makarios, declares its independence from Britain.
1963, Graphic Artist Georg Olden becomes the first Black to design a U.S. postal stamp to commemorate the 100th year of the Emancipation Proclamation.
1981, American swimmer Mary T. Meagher sets a world record of 57.93 sec for the 100-meter butterfly, three days after setting the world 200-meter butterfly mark.
1987, 156 people were killed when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while trying to take off from Detroit.
Missing in Action
August 16
1968 BLEVINS LURAL LEE III PHILADELPHIA PA 06/69 REMAINS RECOVERED REMAINS ID 751103
1968 ELBERT FRED BRENTWOOD NY 03/16/73 RELEASED BY PRG AKA JOHN PETER JOHNSON - PEACE COMMITTEE
1968 GRANIELA JOSE A. JR. BRENTWOOD NY
1968 MC ELHANON MICHAEL O. FORT WORTH TX
1968 OVERLOCK JOHN F. SPRINGFIELD MA
1971 KENNEDY JOHN W. ARLINGTON VA REMAINS RETURNED 1992/1993 ID'D 06/25/96 1975 SIMMONS WILLIE E. RELEASED 10/01/75
August 15
1968 HICKS TERRIN D. SILVER SPRINGS MD DEAD
1968 SHANAHAN JOSEPH F. CLINTON IA 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1970 BECKER JAMES C. PALESTINE TX
1970 SCHMIDT PETER A. MILWAUKEE WI
August 14
1966 BRODAK JOHN W. JENNINGS MO 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 1998
1966 EATON CURTIS ABBOT WAKEFIELD RI 09/09/76 VN REPORTS KILLED
1966 FRANKLIN CHARLES E. YOUNGSTOWN OH REMAINS RETURNED 10/88
August 13
1965 GOLLAHON GENE R. CINCINNATI OH EXPLODE CRASH NO PARA BEEP
1965 MELLOR FREDRIC M. CRANSTON RI VOICE COMM INJURED
1965 THOMAS HARRY E. TAFT CA HVY AA CRASH REMAINS RETURNED 94-95-96 REMAINS IDENTIFIED 10/30/96
1966 DEVERS DAVID RONALD SR. PAULDING OH 12/27/69 REMAINS RECOVERED
1966 O'NEIL JOHN JOSEPH JR PROVIDENCE RI 12/27/69 REMAINS RECOVERED
1967 GOODERMOTE WAYNE K. TROY NY 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 HYATT LEO G. SALEM NH 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1969 HANSEN LESTER A. PUEBLO CO
1972 GAUNTT WILLIAM A. MT PLEASANT TX 03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG
1972 TOWNSEND FRANCIS W. RUSK TX
August 12
1965 BROWN DONALD H. JR. BERKELEY CA PROB SAM HIT NO PARA BEEP REMAINS RETURNED 08/14/85
1966 ALLINSON DAVID J. HELENA MT GOOD CHUTE NO RADIO CONTACT
1966 NEUENS MARTIN J. AURORA WI "03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV (IRON MOUNTAIN, MI)" ALIVE AND WELL 98
1966 WRYE BLAIR C. AUBURNDALE MA ACFT LOST NO CONTACT REMAINS RETURNED 09/90
1967 ATTERBERRY EDWIN L. DALLAS TX 03/74 DRV RETURNED REMAINS / DIC 05/18/69
1967 NORRIS THOMAS E. GODFREY IL 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 1998
1967 PARROTT THOMAS V. DALTON GA 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV DECEASED OCTOBER 1998
1968 TULLIER LONNIE JOSEPH EAST BATON ROUGE LA 08/68 REMAINS RECOVERED
1969 SEXTON JOHN C. DETROIT MI 10/08/71 RELEASED
1970 BROWN JAMES A. HUMBOLDT TN
1972 THOMPSON DAVID M. PITTSBURGH PA
The Japan Times
M6.8 quake jolts northeastern Japan, injuries reported
Compiled from wire reports
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 jolted northeastern Japan on Tuesday and a tsunami warning was issued for the coastal region of Miyagi Prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
The 11:46 a.m. quake registered lower 6 on the seven-point Japanese seismic intensity scale in southern Miyagi Prefecture, about 300 km northeast of Tokyo.
Many in the city of Sendai, the capital of Miyagi, were reported injured, according to the local fire department. Japan's Kyodo News reported that a roof fell in at a sports center in the city, injuring many.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050816h1.htm
Koizumi repeats apology
Decides to skip anniversary visit to Yasukuni
By KANAKO TAKAHARA
Staff writer
Marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi expressed regret Monday for Japan's past deeds against its Asian neighbors and vowed to make sure they never happen again.
An elderly woman climbs the stairs at the entrance of Nippon Budokan hall Monday to attend a ceremony marking the end of World War II.
"Our country caused damage and pain to many countries, especially the people of Asia, during the war," Koizumi said in a speech at the annual ceremony held at Nippon Budokan hall in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo. "I profoundly pray for the souls of the war dead and the victims of war both at home and abroad."
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050816a1.htm
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Happy 'TV Nation' Day!
Letters to the Editor: Traverse City Film Festival
Traverse City Record-Eagle
A positive experience
I was a volunteer at the Open Space for all four nights of the film festival, and I would like to say it was great to see all who came out, locals and visitors alike.
Moviegoers were kind to each other and very cooperative when we had to ask them to please move back from the ropes, etc.
Also, kudos to all of my fellow volunteers. I'm looking forward to next year's festival.
Karl A. Bielman
Traverse City
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3604
Traverse City still giddy over Film Festival
Organizers want to keep it 'grass roots'
By Marta Hepler Drahos / Traverse City Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY - There may have been other ways to spend her advertising dollars in July, but none appealed to Laurie Wildman as much as the Traverse City Film Festival.
Wildman, owner of the downtown Traverse City woman's boutique Le Fétiche, donated $2,500 to sponsor the festival's closing film.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3605
Farmers for Cindy
Crawford Update
Yesterday, we at Camp Casey had some unexpected yet much-appreciated guests. Wayne, Buddy and Larry, three farmers from Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, respectively, wandered into the Crawford Peace House around 3 p.m. and my first thought was, "uh oh, these might be Bush supporters." But to our great relief, Wayne announced in his charming Okie accent, "Hello! We're here to see Cindy and tell her that we support her and her cause 100%." Goes to show it doesn't pay to stereotype, and even more importantly, that Cindy supporters and pro-peace people come from all different backgrounds.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3725
Protest campsite moving closer to Bush ranch
Relative of man who fired shotgun offers space to antiwar demonstrators
Reuters
CRAWFORD, Texas - Antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, is moving her camp closer to President Bush’s Texas ranch.
The piece of private property was offered by a relative of a man who had fired a shotgun in frustration over the protests, a source in the Sheehan camp said. The property owner is also a veteran.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3724
The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 10); Misses and Miracles
-- a message from Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX
We still have so many great things happening at Camp Casey. In spite of all the smears and lies, people are still coming.
The most amazing thing today was learning that Camp Caseys are opening and spreading all over the country. They have been set up in Boston, Portland, Seattle, and elsewhere. If you can't make it to Camp Casey, set up your own version. Camp Caseys are amazing places full of love and hope. I am so gratified that the movement is spreading.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
I need to know why
Mother of soldier killed in Iraq explains her vigil outside President Bush's ranch
By Celeste Zappala / New York Daily News
A week after my son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, arrived in Baghdad last year, President Bush held court for journalists at the 60th annual Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington. Part of the show that night was to pretend to look for WMD under the lectern. There were staged pictures of Mr. Bush looking for them under the rug in the Oval Office. Everyone present got a great laugh.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3720
Rude Awakening
By Japhet Els and Emily Sharpe / Crawford Update
posted by Japhet @ 23:57
About an hour ago, wegot a phone call from our friends up at Camp Casey saying that the line of gravemarkers along the road (Arlington West) had been run over. People there said that as they were talking to a few members of the press, a pick-up truck came down the road and stopped at the fork by the edge of the tents. The driver then jumped out and attached a pipe to the undercarriage with a chain and began to "swerve into the line of crosses," said Tammara Rosenleaf from Montana. "Then we heard the pipe being dragged over the gravemarkers and the pick-up's wheels crushing them."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3711
Bush invited to join Gold Star families at interfaith prayer service Friday outside his ranch
National Council of Churches
New York, August 16, 2005 – The General Secretary of the National Council of Churches is urging President Bush to join with Gold Star families and religious leaders in an interfaith prayer service outside the Bush ranch at noon (CDT) Friday.
The prayer service has been called by Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan “as an opportunity for Americans and others across the world to pray for our soldiers in Iraq, their families and in particular the mothers of our fallen.”
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3717
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The Boston Globe
Catholic watchdog group urges purging of 'pro-death' professors
By Glen Johnson, AP Political Writer August 16, 2005
BOSTON --A conservative Catholic watchdog group wants 18 academics, including three professors at Boston College, purged from campus for perpetuating "a culture of death" by supporting abortion rights or siding against Terry Schiavo's parents in their efforts to keep her feeding tube.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/08/16/catholic_watchdog_group_urges_purging_of_pro_death_professors/
Anti-war protester Sheehan to move campsite
By Caren Bohan August 16, 2005
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, said on Tuesday she is moving her camp closer to President George W. Bush's Texas ranch after being offered the use of a piece of land by a supporter.
The private property was offered by a military veteran who is a distant relative of a man who had fired a shotgun in frustration over her vigil, which has been a growing source of tension in the community.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/16/crosses_vandalized_at_antiwar_moms_texas_camp_site/
US bid to keep tabs on tuition irks colleges
Schools object to proposal to rank their cost increases
By Kaitlin Bell, Globe Correspondent August 16, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Colleges are accustomed to being ranked on the basis of everything from the quality of their libraries to the vibrancy of campus party scenes. But a proposal to have the federal government compare schools by how much they increase tuition has administrators and higher-education groups objecting.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/08/16/us_bid_to_keep_tabs_on_tuition_irks_colleges/
Roberts papers hint at his views on church-state issue
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff August 16, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court nominee Judge John G. Roberts Jr. denounced as ''indefensible" a 1985 Supreme Court ruling striking down a moment of silence in public schools, according to memos released yesterday from his years as a legal aide in the Reagan administration.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/08/16/roberts_papers_hint_at_his_views_on_church_state_issue/
New Mexico fugitive businessman arrested in Boston
By Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press Writer August 16, 2005
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. --A fugitive New Mexico businessman wanted on charges ranging from tax evasion to embezzlement was captured Tuesday in Boston.
Michael Robert Soutar, 46, was arrested by Massachusetts State Police as he left a yacht docked at a marina in Boston's North End.
Soutar was indicted in December in connection with dealings involving his defunct business. He has been wanted since escaping from a work detail at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/08/16/new_mexico_fugitive_businessman_arrested_in_boston_1124236153/
Edwards says poverty a key Democrat issue
By Curt Woodward, Associated Press Writer August 16, 2005
SEATTLE --Democrats can build the party's national strength by pushing their policies in statehouses around the country, 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards told a group of legislators Tuesday.
Edwards, speaking at a luncheon for a new liberal policy group, said voters will reward lawmakers who advocate a cornerstone of Democratic ideology: fighting poverty and standing up for the poor.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/16/edwards_says_poverty_a_key_democrat_issue/
A look at U.S. military deaths in Iraq
By The Associated Press August 16, 2005
As of Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2005, at least 1,857 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,441 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.
The AP count is two higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated at 10 a.m. EDT Tuesday.
The British military has reported 93 deaths; Italy, 26; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 17; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Slovakia, three; El Salvador, Estonia, Thailand and the Netherlands, two each; and Denmark, Hungary, Kazakhstan and Latvia one death each.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/16/a_look_at_us_military_deaths_in_iraq/
Israel says crisis defused with U.S. on arms exports
By Dan Williams August 16, 2005
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel and the United States have signed an accord defusing a long-running dispute over Israeli arms exports to China that had soured relations with the Jewish state's chief ally, the Israeli Defense Ministry said.
Washington, which provides Israel with $2 billion in annual defense aid and is expected to help finance its Gaza withdrawal, had complained that the sale of Harpy attack drones and other advanced technology to China could threaten Taiwan.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/16/israel_says_ends_crisis_with_us_on_arms_exports/
Pope lawyer seek immunity in Texas case
By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press Writer August 16, 2005
VATICAN CITY --Lawyers for Pope Benedict XVI have asked President Bush to declare the pontiff immune from liability in a lawsuit that accuses him of conspiring to cover up the molestation of three boys by a seminarian in Texas, court records show.
The Vatican's embassy in Washington sent a diplomatic memo to the State Department on May 20 requesting the U.S. government grant the pope immunity because he is a head of state, according to a May 26 motion submitted by the pope's lawyers in U.S. District Court for the Southern Division of Texas in Houston.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/08/16/pope_lawyer_seek_immunity_in_texas_case/
Haaretz
Resistance crumbling; Neveh Dekalim evacuation begins
By Nir Hasson, Amos Harel and Meron Rapaport, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service
As the Israel Defense Forces flooded Neveh Dekalim with thousands of troops after the midnight deadline for voluntary evacuations expired, hundreds of opponents of the disengagement on Tuesday night barricaded themselves in the key settlement's central synagogue.
Most of the barricaded activists are teenagers who entered the Gush Katif settlement bloc illegally in recent weeks in a bid to thwart the evacuation.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/612980.html
U.S. Jewish leadership declares support for disengagement
By Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz Correspondent
On the eve of the forced evacuation of settlers from the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the West Bank, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Tuesday issued a statement supporting the disengagement.
The statement comes amid a long and sometimes heated debate between Jewish organizations in America regarding taking a stance on Israeli government policy. The Conference of Presidents, which represents 52 American Jewish organizations, has heretofore refrained from taking a public position on the issue.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/613454.html
PA and Hamas prepare for struggle over Gush Katif
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent
U.S. Middle East security coordinator Lieutenant General William Ward met Tuesday with the heads of the Palestinian Authority security forces deployed near settlements.
PA Interior Ministry spokesman Tawfiq Abu Husa told Haaretz yesterday that at the meeting, which took place at the Gaza Strip's Karni crossing, Ward looked at "the deployment of the forces and their capabilities, down to the smallest details," and their readiness.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/613399.html
Road map sponsors to meet in mid-Sept., Annan says
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK - The sponsors of the road map - the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia - will meet in mid-September to assess Israel's disengagement from Gaza and the northern West Bank, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's spokesman said yesterday.
Annan said the disengagement offers "a moment of promise and hope," and the four parties will assess the prospects for revitalizing the peace process as the handover to the Palestinians proceeds, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/612935.html
FIGURES: Gaza - How many have left their homes, how many remain?
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent
The following are figures released by the Disengagement Administration close to the midnight Tuesday expiration deadline for voluntary evacuation from Gaza Strip settlements.
Some of the figures may be approximations due to the difficulty of collecting data and the fast-changing reality:
Atzmona: 1 of 83 families evacuated. 82 families remain.
Bedolah: EVACUATED - All 35 families.
Elei Sinai: 59 of 74 families evacuated. 15 families remain.
Dugit: EVACUATED - All 19 families.
Gadid: 58 of 63 families evacuated. 5 families remain.
Gan Or: 36 of 57 families evacuated. 21 families remain.
Katif: 7 of 61 families evacuated. 54 families remain.
Kerem Atzmona: 1 of 12 families evacuated. 11 families remain.
Kfar Darom: 2 of 73 families evacuated. 71 families remain.
Kfar Yam: 2 of 4 families evacuated. 2 families remain.
Morag: 25 of 34 families evacuated. 11 families remain.
Netzarim: 1 of 64 families evacuated. 63 families remain.
Netzer Hazani: 43 of 80 families evacuated. 37 families remain.
Neveh Dekalim: 209 of 467 families evacuated. 258 families remain.
Nissanit: EVACUATED - All 240 families.
Pe'at Sadeh: EVACUATED - All 19 families.
Rafiah Yam: 26 of 27 families evacuated. 1 family remains.
Shirat Hayam: 1 of 11 families evacuated.
Slav: 3 of 5 families evacuated. 2 families remain.
Tel Katifa: 3 of 16 families evacuated. 13 families remain.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/613455.html
Most families in northern Gaza settlements agree to leave
By Jonathan Lis, Nir Hasson, Amos Harel and Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Staff and Agencies
The distribution of evacuation orders in the northern Gaza settlements was on Monday evening completed with almost all of the families in the settlement of Elei Sinai agreeing to leave their homes peacefully by midnight on Tuesday, when the forceful evacuation of settlements is slated to start.
Fifty-six of the 59 families in Elei Sinai agreed to leave, while in the nearby settlement of Nissanit, seen as a more ideological community, only nine of the 40 families said they would leave by the expiration of the deadline. Only one family remained in the third northern settlement of Dugit, with the six others already gone.
Residents of Nissanit on Monday evening started dismantling the settlement's synagogue and held a ceremony for the removal of the Torah together with Israel Defense Forces who are based in the settlement.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/612451.html
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Pulling out of Gaza
Settlers are ordered out; those who remain face forced eviction tomorrow.
By Michael Matza, Dion Nissenbaum and Martin Merzer
Inquirer Foreign Staff
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip - A day of angry shouts, tearful lamentations and burning tires ended yesterday with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon attempting to soothe Israel as it moved toward the climax of its withdrawal from Gaza: forced evictions by soldiers.
"I understand the feelings, the pain and the cries of those who object," Sharon said in a nationally televised address. "However, we are one nation even when fighting and arguing."
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12392090.htm
Felonies restored in pier collapse
By Jacqueline Soteropoulos
Inquirer Staff Writer
The owner and operator of Pier 34 South along the Delaware River must face felony charges in the fatal collapse that killed three young women at a nightclub five years ago, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
The justices, who reinstated a felony charge of risking a catastrophe and a companion felony charge of conspiracy, ordered that Michael Asbell, 63, the pier's owner, and Eli Karetny, 64, the operator of Heat nightclub, face a jury in Common Pleas Court.
The charges - which could carry a maximum prison term of 14 years - were dismissed in 2002 by a Philadelphia judge.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12392092.htm
Corzine, Forrester release tax returns
Both candidates reported annual incomes of about $12 million.
By Angela Delli Santi
Associated Press
WEST WINDSOR, N.J. - The two candidates for New Jersey governor provided a glimpse into their vast wealth yesterday by releasing tax returns showing annual incomes of around $12 million each.
Republican Douglas Forrester paid federal tax of $3.7 million on adjusted gross income of $12 million in 2003 and $4.7 million on adjusted gross income of $12.6 million in 2002. U.S. Sen. Jon S. Corzine paid federal tax of $1.3 million on adjusted gross income of $11.8 million in 2004, according to returns he released in Newark.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12393428.htm
Editorial A hopeful first step
The equation for peace between Palestinians and Israelis changes this week - for better or worse.
Much depends on what happens when Israeli soldiers start forcibly removing Israelis who have not yet moved from 21 settlements on the Gaza Strip and four on the West Bank.
When the settlers are gone, probably by early September, that territory will be turned over to the Palestinian Authority.
By pursuing unilateral disengagement from all of Gaza and part of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has done what diplomats on both sides of this conflict have been unable to do for years: jolt the peace process.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12392112.htm
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History
1913, Menachem Begin, Israeli prime minister
1923, Shimon Peres, Israeli prime minister
1945, Suzanne Farrell, ballet dancer
1947, Carol Moseley Braun, Democratic member of the United States Senate from Illinois (1993-1999). Moseley Braun was the first black woman elected to the Senate. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, and attended neighborhood schools on Chicago’s South Side. She graduated from the University of Illinois-Chicago and then earned a law degree from the University of Chicago in 1972.
1958, Madonna, pop star and mother
1777, American forces won the Revolutionary War battle of Bennington, Vt.
1816, Peter Salem, a Revolutionary War veteran of Bunker Hill Battle, who will stand against the British at Concord dies. At the battle Peter Salem shoots and kills Major Pitcairon, the British commander who had given the order to fire on the Minutemen.
1819, In what becomes known as the Peterloo Massacre, 11 people die when government calvary troops attack a large crowd demonstrating for economic and political reform in Manchester, England.
1829, the original "Siamese twins," Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston to be exhibited to the Western world.
1861, President Lincoln prohibited the states of the Union from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy.
1900, The New York Times reports that the four-hour riot was a scene of the wildest disorder in New York City that was witnessed in years. September.
1922, Author Louis E. Lomax, who will become an author and columnist, is born
1948, baseball legend Babe Ruth died in New York at age 53.
1960, Britain granted independence to the crown colony of Cyprus, led by its newly elected president, Archbishop Makarios, declares its independence from Britain.
1963, Graphic Artist Georg Olden becomes the first Black to design a U.S. postal stamp to commemorate the 100th year of the Emancipation Proclamation.
1981, American swimmer Mary T. Meagher sets a world record of 57.93 sec for the 100-meter butterfly, three days after setting the world 200-meter butterfly mark.
1987, 156 people were killed when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while trying to take off from Detroit.
Missing in Action
August 16
1968 BLEVINS LURAL LEE III PHILADELPHIA PA 06/69 REMAINS RECOVERED REMAINS ID 751103
1968 ELBERT FRED BRENTWOOD NY 03/16/73 RELEASED BY PRG AKA JOHN PETER JOHNSON - PEACE COMMITTEE
1968 GRANIELA JOSE A. JR. BRENTWOOD NY
1968 MC ELHANON MICHAEL O. FORT WORTH TX
1968 OVERLOCK JOHN F. SPRINGFIELD MA
1971 KENNEDY JOHN W. ARLINGTON VA REMAINS RETURNED 1992/1993 ID'D 06/25/96 1975 SIMMONS WILLIE E. RELEASED 10/01/75
August 15
1968 HICKS TERRIN D. SILVER SPRINGS MD DEAD
1968 SHANAHAN JOSEPH F. CLINTON IA 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1970 BECKER JAMES C. PALESTINE TX
1970 SCHMIDT PETER A. MILWAUKEE WI
August 14
1966 BRODAK JOHN W. JENNINGS MO 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 1998
1966 EATON CURTIS ABBOT WAKEFIELD RI 09/09/76 VN REPORTS KILLED
1966 FRANKLIN CHARLES E. YOUNGSTOWN OH REMAINS RETURNED 10/88
August 13
1965 GOLLAHON GENE R. CINCINNATI OH EXPLODE CRASH NO PARA BEEP
1965 MELLOR FREDRIC M. CRANSTON RI VOICE COMM INJURED
1965 THOMAS HARRY E. TAFT CA HVY AA CRASH REMAINS RETURNED 94-95-96 REMAINS IDENTIFIED 10/30/96
1966 DEVERS DAVID RONALD SR. PAULDING OH 12/27/69 REMAINS RECOVERED
1966 O'NEIL JOHN JOSEPH JR PROVIDENCE RI 12/27/69 REMAINS RECOVERED
1967 GOODERMOTE WAYNE K. TROY NY 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 HYATT LEO G. SALEM NH 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1969 HANSEN LESTER A. PUEBLO CO
1972 GAUNTT WILLIAM A. MT PLEASANT TX 03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG
1972 TOWNSEND FRANCIS W. RUSK TX
August 12
1965 BROWN DONALD H. JR. BERKELEY CA PROB SAM HIT NO PARA BEEP REMAINS RETURNED 08/14/85
1966 ALLINSON DAVID J. HELENA MT GOOD CHUTE NO RADIO CONTACT
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The Japan Times
M6.8 quake jolts northeastern Japan, injuries reported
Compiled from wire reports
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 jolted northeastern Japan on Tuesday and a tsunami warning was issued for the coastal region of Miyagi Prefecture, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
The 11:46 a.m. quake registered lower 6 on the seven-point Japanese seismic intensity scale in southern Miyagi Prefecture, about 300 km northeast of Tokyo.
Many in the city of Sendai, the capital of Miyagi, were reported injured, according to the local fire department. Japan's Kyodo News reported that a roof fell in at a sports center in the city, injuring many.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050816h1.htm
Koizumi repeats apology
Decides to skip anniversary visit to Yasukuni
By KANAKO TAKAHARA
Staff writer
Marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi expressed regret Monday for Japan's past deeds against its Asian neighbors and vowed to make sure they never happen again.
An elderly woman climbs the stairs at the entrance of Nippon Budokan hall Monday to attend a ceremony marking the end of World War II.
"Our country caused damage and pain to many countries, especially the people of Asia, during the war," Koizumi said in a speech at the annual ceremony held at Nippon Budokan hall in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo. "I profoundly pray for the souls of the war dead and the victims of war both at home and abroad."
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050816a1.htm
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Happy 'TV Nation' Day!
Letters to the Editor: Traverse City Film Festival
Traverse City Record-Eagle
A positive experience
I was a volunteer at the Open Space for all four nights of the film festival, and I would like to say it was great to see all who came out, locals and visitors alike.
Moviegoers were kind to each other and very cooperative when we had to ask them to please move back from the ropes, etc.
Also, kudos to all of my fellow volunteers. I'm looking forward to next year's festival.
Karl A. Bielman
Traverse City
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3604
Traverse City still giddy over Film Festival
Organizers want to keep it 'grass roots'
By Marta Hepler Drahos / Traverse City Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY - There may have been other ways to spend her advertising dollars in July, but none appealed to Laurie Wildman as much as the Traverse City Film Festival.
Wildman, owner of the downtown Traverse City woman's boutique Le Fétiche, donated $2,500 to sponsor the festival's closing film.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3605
Farmers for Cindy
Crawford Update
Yesterday, we at Camp Casey had some unexpected yet much-appreciated guests. Wayne, Buddy and Larry, three farmers from Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, respectively, wandered into the Crawford Peace House around 3 p.m. and my first thought was, "uh oh, these might be Bush supporters." But to our great relief, Wayne announced in his charming Okie accent, "Hello! We're here to see Cindy and tell her that we support her and her cause 100%." Goes to show it doesn't pay to stereotype, and even more importantly, that Cindy supporters and pro-peace people come from all different backgrounds.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3725
Protest campsite moving closer to Bush ranch
Relative of man who fired shotgun offers space to antiwar demonstrators
Reuters
CRAWFORD, Texas - Antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, is moving her camp closer to President Bush’s Texas ranch.
The piece of private property was offered by a relative of a man who had fired a shotgun in frustration over the protests, a source in the Sheehan camp said. The property owner is also a veteran.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3724
The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 10); Misses and Miracles
-- a message from Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX
We still have so many great things happening at Camp Casey. In spite of all the smears and lies, people are still coming.
The most amazing thing today was learning that Camp Caseys are opening and spreading all over the country. They have been set up in Boston, Portland, Seattle, and elsewhere. If you can't make it to Camp Casey, set up your own version. Camp Caseys are amazing places full of love and hope. I am so gratified that the movement is spreading.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
I need to know why
Mother of soldier killed in Iraq explains her vigil outside President Bush's ranch
By Celeste Zappala / New York Daily News
A week after my son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, arrived in Baghdad last year, President Bush held court for journalists at the 60th annual Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington. Part of the show that night was to pretend to look for WMD under the lectern. There were staged pictures of Mr. Bush looking for them under the rug in the Oval Office. Everyone present got a great laugh.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3720
Rude Awakening
By Japhet Els and Emily Sharpe / Crawford Update
posted by Japhet @ 23:57
About an hour ago, wegot a phone call from our friends up at Camp Casey saying that the line of gravemarkers along the road (Arlington West) had been run over. People there said that as they were talking to a few members of the press, a pick-up truck came down the road and stopped at the fork by the edge of the tents. The driver then jumped out and attached a pipe to the undercarriage with a chain and began to "swerve into the line of crosses," said Tammara Rosenleaf from Montana. "Then we heard the pipe being dragged over the gravemarkers and the pick-up's wheels crushing them."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3711
Bush invited to join Gold Star families at interfaith prayer service Friday outside his ranch
National Council of Churches
New York, August 16, 2005 – The General Secretary of the National Council of Churches is urging President Bush to join with Gold Star families and religious leaders in an interfaith prayer service outside the Bush ranch at noon (CDT) Friday.
The prayer service has been called by Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan “as an opportunity for Americans and others across the world to pray for our soldiers in Iraq, their families and in particular the mothers of our fallen.”
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3717
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The Boston Globe
Catholic watchdog group urges purging of 'pro-death' professors
By Glen Johnson, AP Political Writer August 16, 2005
BOSTON --A conservative Catholic watchdog group wants 18 academics, including three professors at Boston College, purged from campus for perpetuating "a culture of death" by supporting abortion rights or siding against Terry Schiavo's parents in their efforts to keep her feeding tube.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/08/16/catholic_watchdog_group_urges_purging_of_pro_death_professors/
Anti-war protester Sheehan to move campsite
By Caren Bohan August 16, 2005
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, said on Tuesday she is moving her camp closer to President George W. Bush's Texas ranch after being offered the use of a piece of land by a supporter.
The private property was offered by a military veteran who is a distant relative of a man who had fired a shotgun in frustration over her vigil, which has been a growing source of tension in the community.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/16/crosses_vandalized_at_antiwar_moms_texas_camp_site/
US bid to keep tabs on tuition irks colleges
Schools object to proposal to rank their cost increases
By Kaitlin Bell, Globe Correspondent August 16, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Colleges are accustomed to being ranked on the basis of everything from the quality of their libraries to the vibrancy of campus party scenes. But a proposal to have the federal government compare schools by how much they increase tuition has administrators and higher-education groups objecting.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/08/16/us_bid_to_keep_tabs_on_tuition_irks_colleges/
Roberts papers hint at his views on church-state issue
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff August 16, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court nominee Judge John G. Roberts Jr. denounced as ''indefensible" a 1985 Supreme Court ruling striking down a moment of silence in public schools, according to memos released yesterday from his years as a legal aide in the Reagan administration.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/08/16/roberts_papers_hint_at_his_views_on_church_state_issue/
New Mexico fugitive businessman arrested in Boston
By Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press Writer August 16, 2005
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. --A fugitive New Mexico businessman wanted on charges ranging from tax evasion to embezzlement was captured Tuesday in Boston.
Michael Robert Soutar, 46, was arrested by Massachusetts State Police as he left a yacht docked at a marina in Boston's North End.
Soutar was indicted in December in connection with dealings involving his defunct business. He has been wanted since escaping from a work detail at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/08/16/new_mexico_fugitive_businessman_arrested_in_boston_1124236153/
Edwards says poverty a key Democrat issue
By Curt Woodward, Associated Press Writer August 16, 2005
SEATTLE --Democrats can build the party's national strength by pushing their policies in statehouses around the country, 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards told a group of legislators Tuesday.
Edwards, speaking at a luncheon for a new liberal policy group, said voters will reward lawmakers who advocate a cornerstone of Democratic ideology: fighting poverty and standing up for the poor.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/16/edwards_says_poverty_a_key_democrat_issue/
A look at U.S. military deaths in Iraq
By The Associated Press August 16, 2005
As of Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2005, at least 1,857 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,441 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.
The AP count is two higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated at 10 a.m. EDT Tuesday.
The British military has reported 93 deaths; Italy, 26; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 17; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Slovakia, three; El Salvador, Estonia, Thailand and the Netherlands, two each; and Denmark, Hungary, Kazakhstan and Latvia one death each.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/16/a_look_at_us_military_deaths_in_iraq/
Israel says crisis defused with U.S. on arms exports
By Dan Williams August 16, 2005
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel and the United States have signed an accord defusing a long-running dispute over Israeli arms exports to China that had soured relations with the Jewish state's chief ally, the Israeli Defense Ministry said.
Washington, which provides Israel with $2 billion in annual defense aid and is expected to help finance its Gaza withdrawal, had complained that the sale of Harpy attack drones and other advanced technology to China could threaten Taiwan.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/16/israel_says_ends_crisis_with_us_on_arms_exports/
Pope lawyer seek immunity in Texas case
By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press Writer August 16, 2005
VATICAN CITY --Lawyers for Pope Benedict XVI have asked President Bush to declare the pontiff immune from liability in a lawsuit that accuses him of conspiring to cover up the molestation of three boys by a seminarian in Texas, court records show.
The Vatican's embassy in Washington sent a diplomatic memo to the State Department on May 20 requesting the U.S. government grant the pope immunity because he is a head of state, according to a May 26 motion submitted by the pope's lawyers in U.S. District Court for the Southern Division of Texas in Houston.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/08/16/pope_lawyer_seek_immunity_in_texas_case/
Haaretz
Resistance crumbling; Neveh Dekalim evacuation begins
By Nir Hasson, Amos Harel and Meron Rapaport, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service
As the Israel Defense Forces flooded Neveh Dekalim with thousands of troops after the midnight deadline for voluntary evacuations expired, hundreds of opponents of the disengagement on Tuesday night barricaded themselves in the key settlement's central synagogue.
Most of the barricaded activists are teenagers who entered the Gush Katif settlement bloc illegally in recent weeks in a bid to thwart the evacuation.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/612980.html
U.S. Jewish leadership declares support for disengagement
By Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz Correspondent
On the eve of the forced evacuation of settlers from the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the West Bank, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Tuesday issued a statement supporting the disengagement.
The statement comes amid a long and sometimes heated debate between Jewish organizations in America regarding taking a stance on Israeli government policy. The Conference of Presidents, which represents 52 American Jewish organizations, has heretofore refrained from taking a public position on the issue.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/613454.html
PA and Hamas prepare for struggle over Gush Katif
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent
U.S. Middle East security coordinator Lieutenant General William Ward met Tuesday with the heads of the Palestinian Authority security forces deployed near settlements.
PA Interior Ministry spokesman Tawfiq Abu Husa told Haaretz yesterday that at the meeting, which took place at the Gaza Strip's Karni crossing, Ward looked at "the deployment of the forces and their capabilities, down to the smallest details," and their readiness.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/613399.html
Road map sponsors to meet in mid-Sept., Annan says
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK - The sponsors of the road map - the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia - will meet in mid-September to assess Israel's disengagement from Gaza and the northern West Bank, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's spokesman said yesterday.
Annan said the disengagement offers "a moment of promise and hope," and the four parties will assess the prospects for revitalizing the peace process as the handover to the Palestinians proceeds, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/612935.html
FIGURES: Gaza - How many have left their homes, how many remain?
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent
The following are figures released by the Disengagement Administration close to the midnight Tuesday expiration deadline for voluntary evacuation from Gaza Strip settlements.
Some of the figures may be approximations due to the difficulty of collecting data and the fast-changing reality:
Atzmona: 1 of 83 families evacuated. 82 families remain.
Bedolah: EVACUATED - All 35 families.
Elei Sinai: 59 of 74 families evacuated. 15 families remain.
Dugit: EVACUATED - All 19 families.
Gadid: 58 of 63 families evacuated. 5 families remain.
Gan Or: 36 of 57 families evacuated. 21 families remain.
Katif: 7 of 61 families evacuated. 54 families remain.
Kerem Atzmona: 1 of 12 families evacuated. 11 families remain.
Kfar Darom: 2 of 73 families evacuated. 71 families remain.
Kfar Yam: 2 of 4 families evacuated. 2 families remain.
Morag: 25 of 34 families evacuated. 11 families remain.
Netzarim: 1 of 64 families evacuated. 63 families remain.
Netzer Hazani: 43 of 80 families evacuated. 37 families remain.
Neveh Dekalim: 209 of 467 families evacuated. 258 families remain.
Nissanit: EVACUATED - All 240 families.
Pe'at Sadeh: EVACUATED - All 19 families.
Rafiah Yam: 26 of 27 families evacuated. 1 family remains.
Shirat Hayam: 1 of 11 families evacuated.
Slav: 3 of 5 families evacuated. 2 families remain.
Tel Katifa: 3 of 16 families evacuated. 13 families remain.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/613455.html
Most families in northern Gaza settlements agree to leave
By Jonathan Lis, Nir Hasson, Amos Harel and Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Staff and Agencies
The distribution of evacuation orders in the northern Gaza settlements was on Monday evening completed with almost all of the families in the settlement of Elei Sinai agreeing to leave their homes peacefully by midnight on Tuesday, when the forceful evacuation of settlements is slated to start.
Fifty-six of the 59 families in Elei Sinai agreed to leave, while in the nearby settlement of Nissanit, seen as a more ideological community, only nine of the 40 families said they would leave by the expiration of the deadline. Only one family remained in the third northern settlement of Dugit, with the six others already gone.
Residents of Nissanit on Monday evening started dismantling the settlement's synagogue and held a ceremony for the removal of the Torah together with Israel Defense Forces who are based in the settlement.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/612451.html
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Pulling out of Gaza
Settlers are ordered out; those who remain face forced eviction tomorrow.
By Michael Matza, Dion Nissenbaum and Martin Merzer
Inquirer Foreign Staff
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip - A day of angry shouts, tearful lamentations and burning tires ended yesterday with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon attempting to soothe Israel as it moved toward the climax of its withdrawal from Gaza: forced evictions by soldiers.
"I understand the feelings, the pain and the cries of those who object," Sharon said in a nationally televised address. "However, we are one nation even when fighting and arguing."
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12392090.htm
Felonies restored in pier collapse
By Jacqueline Soteropoulos
Inquirer Staff Writer
The owner and operator of Pier 34 South along the Delaware River must face felony charges in the fatal collapse that killed three young women at a nightclub five years ago, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
The justices, who reinstated a felony charge of risking a catastrophe and a companion felony charge of conspiracy, ordered that Michael Asbell, 63, the pier's owner, and Eli Karetny, 64, the operator of Heat nightclub, face a jury in Common Pleas Court.
The charges - which could carry a maximum prison term of 14 years - were dismissed in 2002 by a Philadelphia judge.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12392092.htm
Corzine, Forrester release tax returns
Both candidates reported annual incomes of about $12 million.
By Angela Delli Santi
Associated Press
WEST WINDSOR, N.J. - The two candidates for New Jersey governor provided a glimpse into their vast wealth yesterday by releasing tax returns showing annual incomes of around $12 million each.
Republican Douglas Forrester paid federal tax of $3.7 million on adjusted gross income of $12 million in 2003 and $4.7 million on adjusted gross income of $12.6 million in 2002. U.S. Sen. Jon S. Corzine paid federal tax of $1.3 million on adjusted gross income of $11.8 million in 2004, according to returns he released in Newark.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12393428.htm
Editorial A hopeful first step
The equation for peace between Palestinians and Israelis changes this week - for better or worse.
Much depends on what happens when Israeli soldiers start forcibly removing Israelis who have not yet moved from 21 settlements on the Gaza Strip and four on the West Bank.
When the settlers are gone, probably by early September, that territory will be turned over to the Palestinian Authority.
By pursuing unilateral disengagement from all of Gaza and part of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has done what diplomats on both sides of this conflict have been unable to do for years: jolt the peace process.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12392112.htm
continued ...
August 16, 2005. Emotions run high at Gaza. One might note 'the lady' is the only one screaming and getting attention while surrounded by the Israeli Defense Force. I am sure it's a media circus as well. The setters are passionate people about their beliefs. They wouldn't be in settlements as pioneers for any other reason. One has to remember these families are leaving behind the place where children were killed by Palestinian extremists. The settlements have a history of violence. The settlers suffered substantial hardship. This time the hardship to many seem more devastating than anything else they have had to face. Eventually, Israel will have to supplement the settlers losses regardless of their resistance. This is Neve Dekalim, the hub of resistance at this time. It's a well established town actually.
Morning Papers - continued ...
RAI Novosti
Kyoto protocol member states to define carbon dioxide emission quotas in fall
MOSCOW, August 16 (RIA Novosti) - The Kyoto protocol member states are to define quotas on carbon dioxide emissions in Montreal, Canada this fall, Economic Development Ministry representative Vsevolod Gavrilov said Tuesday.
"The method of defining carbon dioxide emission quotas has yet to be established... I know of at least six possibilities," Gavrilov said. He added that the emission level might be "pegged to the basic period, or perhaps to the size of each country's GDP like now."
Gavrilov said it would be unfortunate if the participants failed to reach an agreement. "The results of these agreements will call for Kyoto protocol amendments anyway, so members will again decide whether or not to ratify it," the official said.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050816/41166781.html
Russian space shuttle's launch set for 2011
MOSCOW, August 16 (RIA Novosti) - The first unmanned flight of Russia's Clipper space shuttle has been set for 2011, and the first manned flight has been scheduled for 2012, a senior official from Russia's leading space company told the Delovoy Vtornik (Business Tuesday) weekly.
Nikolai Bryukhanov, the deputy designer general of the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation, said that the Clipper would replace the Soyuz and the Buran spacecraft to become Russia's main craft for the coming decades.
The Clipper has several advantages because it is a shuttle craft with improved aerodynamics, which allows the craft to cut regular G-forces by two to two and a half times, and irregular G-forces by five times.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050816/41162935.html
UPDATE: Russian president flies on board bomber to exercise
CHKALOVSKY AIRFIELD (the Moscow region), August 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin took a flight on board a Tu-160 strategic bomber, the Pavel Taran, to visit the site of joint military exercises conducted by long-range strategic Air Force units and the Northern Fleet.
The Tu-160 Blackjack is a multi-purpose strategic bomber designed to destroy land- and sea-based targets using strategic cruise missiles, short-range guided missiles, nuclear and conventional bombs while flying at subsonic speeds at low and medium altitudes and at speeds over Mach 1 at high altitudes. The aircraft has variable geometry wings (from 20 degrees up to 65 degrees) that allow high maneuverability at supersonic and subsonic speeds.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050816/41166148.html
Russia meets obligations on military pullout from Georgia
MOSCOW, August 16 (RIA Novosti, Andrei Malyshkin) -- Russia has honored all of its 2005 obligations on withdrawing its military bases from Georgia, a senior officer said Tuesday.
Colonel Vladimir Kuparadze, the deputy commander of Russia's troops in the South Caucasus, said: "We have pulled out what we were supposed to withdraw in 2005. Yesterday, the fifth column ... crossed the Russian-Georgian border. It was the last column to be withdrawn this year."
The HQ of Russia's group of forces in the South Caucasus said 53 vehicles, 42 trailers, and tons of military hardware had been withdrawn from Georgia. Moreover, he said materiel from Russia's former 12th military base in Batumi, Georgia, had arrived in Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiisk and been unloaded.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050816/41166573.html
Gaza pullout a step toward peaceful coexistence - Margelov
MOSCOW, August 16 (RIA Novosti) - A senior member of Russia's upper chamber of parliament said Tuesday that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza was a major step toward the peaceful coexistence of Israelis and Palestinians. "This should not be seen as the success of terrorist organizations like Hezbollah, even though they are claiming this," said Mikhail Margelov, the chairman of the Federation Council's international affairs committee. "In my opinion, the withdrawal is the result of the Israeli and Palestinian leaders' political will."
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050816/41166455.html
Nuclear storage site in Murmansk to be commissioned two months late
MOSCOW, August 16 (RIA Novosti) - The first stage of a storage facility in the Murmansk Region (European Russia's north) for reactor blocks from dismantled Russian nuclear submarines will be commissioned in November 2005, deputy head of the Federal Nuclear Power Agency Sergei Antipov said Tuesday.
The joint Russian-German construction management committee made the decision to commission the first stage, Antipov said. Originally, he added, commissioning was scheduled for September.
He said the site chosen for this facility had turned out to be more geographically complicated than planned, so the project had become more expensive and the timeframe for its implementation had been extended.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050816/41167260.html
URGENT: all four cruise missiles launched from TU-160 bombers hit targets - Defense Minister
OLENEGORSK (Murmansk region), August 16 (RIA Novosti) - All four cruise missiles launched from TU-160 bombers have hit their targets at the Pemboi target range near Vorkuta (European Russia's northwest) during a military training exercise, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Tuesday.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050816/41167049.html
Russians Want Change
Moscow. (RIA Novosti political commentator Vasily Kononenko) --
Polls recently conducted by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) have revealed a rapid increase in the number of people favoring radical political and economic reforms in Russia. There are almost as many advocates of radical reform as there are supporters of stability, which has been the main achievement of Vladimir Putin's presidency. What is it that has given rise to such unpopular and even risky attitudes?
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050816/41164321.html
The New York Times
Israeli Forces Take Control of Largest Settlement in Gaza Strip
By STEVEN ERLANGER
and DINA KRAFT
Published: August 16, 2005
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza, Aug. 16 - Israeli settlers and sympathizers threw stones and eggs at soldiers and police officers at the largest settlement in Gaza today in an emotionally searing confrontation, as Israelis of the same generation confronted one another over the government's order to vacate the coastal territory captured by Israel 38 years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/16/international/middleeast/16cnd-gaza.html?hp&ex=1124251200&en=5d3c8d04e217ac82&ei=5094&partner=homepage
In the Hospital, a Degrading Shift From Person to Patient
By BENEDICT CAREY
Published: August 16, 2005
Mary Duffy was lying in bed half-asleep on the morning after her breast cancer surgery in February when a group of white-coated strangers filed into her hospital room.
Without a word, one of them - a man - leaned over Ms. Duffy, pulled back her blanket, and stripped her nightgown from her shoulders.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/16/health/16dignity.html?incamp=article_popular_1
Memorial to Troops Killed in Iraq Is Vandalized in Texas
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: August 16, 2005
CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 16 - Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, who has set up a vigil near President Bush's ranch here, said today that she was "very disturbed" that hundreds of small crosses bearing the names of dead American troops had been knocked down, and that her now 10-day protest was "only the beginning" of national movement to bring all American forces home from the war.
In reaction to the growing anger of many local residents over the crowds and disruptions, Ms. Sheehan's supporters said it was likely that she would move "Camp Casey," her roadside encampment named after her son, to a 300-acre piece of property closer to the president's ranch. Ms. Sheehan's supporters said that the owner of the property was sympathetic to their cause, but his identity could not be confirmed and it was unclear if the deal was complete.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/16/national/16cnd-sheehan.html?hp&ex=1124251200&en=af8e94f8f933baa4&ei=5094&partner=homepage
For the Fun of It, Remember?
Kevin Bentley, caught midwalk at the corner of Castro and 18th Streets, a hub of gay life in San Francisco.
By GUY TREBAY
Published: August 14, 2005
San Francisco
PEOPLE could hardly have been expected to have safe sex before the concept existed, as Edmund White once pointed out, and this thought is worth keeping in mind when you pick up "Let's Shut Out the World." Its author, Kevin Bentley, 49, an editor and a writer with a small but devoted Bay Area following, happens to be one of the rare men of his generation who reveled in the libertinism for which 1970's San Francisco was infamous and survived to tell the tale.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/fashion/sundaystyles/14bentley.html
Dubya-Dubya-Dubya.Follies.com
By ROB KENDT
Published: August 16, 2005
One measure of a successful parody is that its targets don't get it; they embrace or reject it at face value. By that standard the joke Web site whitehouse.org (not to be confused with the real deal, whitehouse.gov), inaugurated in 2001 just a few months after its central bête noire, President Bush, has been a minor triumph of counterprogramming.
The administration has not taken the bait (apart from a threatening letter from Vice President Dick Cheney, later gleefully posted and pilloried on the site). But on the evidence of "Dear Dubya: Patriotic Love Letters to Whitehouse.org," now in an extended run at the Brick Theater, some of the administration's more credulous supporters - along with the usual mixed nuts - have been taken in by the ruse.
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/08/16/theater/reviews/16duby.html
http://whitehouse.org/
The Moscow Times
U.S. and Russia Take Helsinki by Storm
Isinbayeva set another world record.
HELSINKI -- Lauryn Williams won her second gold medal at the World Athletics Championships by anchoring the U.S. women's 400-meter relay team to a world-leading time and Dwight Phillips won his second successive long-jump title on his first leap Saturday.
Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva set a new world record in the women's pole vault, which had been postponed from Wednesday to Friday because of bad weather.
But another botched relay performance and confusion surrounding Allyson Felix's absence from the U.S. 400-meter squad marred Saturday's otherwise distinguished array of fine performances.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/08/15/091.html
Russia's Economic Maneuvers
By Alexander Golts
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Thirteen years ago, when Moscow and Beijing agreed that Russia would start shipping arms to China, the announcement made waves around the world. Military analysts began talking about the possibility of a new alliance between Moscow and Beijing that would take an anti-American tack.
Now these predictions appear to be coming true. On Thursday, Russia and China will commence their first joint military exercises, in which around 10,000 soldiers and officers will participate.
The Russian military's top brass insists that this is nothing unusual. They point out that Russia regularly conducts exercises with troops from other nations along the Pacific rim, such as the United States and Japan. This year, for example, the military also plans to hold joint maneuvers with India.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/08/15/006.html
At the Edge of the Middle Kingdom
By Andrei Piontkovsky
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The Holy Alliance formed in 1815 by the emperors of Russia and Austria and the king of Prussia was an attempt to protect the existing social order in Europe from the "orange" plague of the day, bourgeois revolution.
Though Alexander I instigated the alliance, it was his brother, Nicholas I, who put its principles into practice. Intoxicated with his role as the gendarme of Europe, Nicholas regularly sent his armies of serfs dressed up in soldiers' overcoats to crush uprisings on the fringes of his empire.
It all ended badly, however. Intent on playing its imperial games, Russia slept right through the Industrial Revolution. Following its humiliating defeat in the Crimean War, the country fell into decline as a world power.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/08/15/007.html
Putin Breaks Sound Barrier
Putin preparing to board a Tu-160 strategic bomber at the Chkalovsky airfield on Tuesday en route to a war game.
President Vladimir Putin, sitting in the pilot's seat, broke the sound barrier Tuesday as he flew in a long-range bomber to a Northern Fleet outpost to attend a war game similar to one that embarrassed the armed forces last year.
After opening the MAKS 2005 air show at the Zhukovsky airfield, Putin was whisked to the Chkalovsky Air Force Base northeast of Moscow to board a waiting Tu-160 supersonic jet.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/08/17/001.html
Chicago Tribune
Battered by drought, elms falling to disease
Area towns losing hundreds at a time
By Erika Slife, Tribune staff reporter. Tribune staff reporter Grace Aduroja contributed to this report
Published August 16, 2005
Once he's spotted the curling leaves on the outstretched branches of a stately American elm tree, Scott DeRoss' heart sinks. A forester for the village of Brookfield, he knows that just behind the tree's armor of gray bark, the Dutch elm disease fungus has begun to spread.
And this year has been heartbreaking--the village has lost 12 elms so far, compared with one or two in a typical year.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0508160184aug16,1,15820.story?coll=chi-news-hed
'Ugliest' Dog Is a Thing of Beauty to His Owner
Some people won't even touch Susie Lockheed's pooch, a champion of hideousness. But she's dedicated to him despite the world's opinion.
By Wendy Lee
Times Staff Writer
Published August 15, 2005
SANTA BARBARA — Some may call it a tale of beauty and the beast. But Sam, a 14-year-old pedigreed Chinese crested, and a three-time champ in the World's Ugliest Dog Contest, is the dog of Susie Lockheed's dreams.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-me-uglydog15aug15,1,1572018.story?coll=chi-newsopinionperspective-hed
Braun has had "discussions" about mayoral bid
The Associated Press
Published August 16, 2005, 2:56 PM CDT
Former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun says she has talked with people about running for mayor but has no plans to become a candidate in 2007.
Braun, who became the nation's first black female senator in 1992 and served one term, works as an attorney at a Chicago real estate development firm.
"I'm a businesswoman now and I have no current intention of running for any political office," she told the Chicago Sun-Times for its Tuesday editions.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050815braun,1,6140759.story?coll=chi-news-hed
I find the BEHAVIOR of Bush's neighbors appalling. To imagine these people who obviously feel privileged firing off guns and with the fear they might use them. Then to realize mowing down crosses by the roadside was an idea that even crossed the mind of a hate filled Crawford resident. Well. Excuse us for living ! Bush's neighbors are very violent people. Could they be Neocons? Who do they socialize with. PLEASE keep them out of New York City. Who knows what they will do there !
Some Seek Restrictions Near Bush Ranch
By ANGELA K. BROWN
Associated Press Writer
Published August 16, 2005, 11:43 AM CDT
WACO, Texas -- Some of President Bush's neighbors asked county leaders Tuesday to prevent large gatherings near the Crawford ranch like the ongoing anti-war protest led by a mother of a soldier who died in Iraq.
Several residents have complained of blocked roads and traffic jams in the last week since dozens of people joined Cindy Sheehan's protest by pitching tents off the winding, two-lane road leading to Bush's ranch.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-peace-mom,1,5183416.story?coll=chi-news-hed
How to handle those CTA panhandlers
By Kyra Kyles
RedEye
Published August 16, 2005
I use newspapers or books as a shield to avoid eye contact.
I fake a cell phone conversation, pretending to be so engrossed in the words of the unseen "caller" that I don't hear the constant pitches.
I stare out the window, even if I'm in the tunnel and the view is nothing more than blackness.
But despite all my tricks, sometimes I just can't dodge the panhandlers and vendors aboard the "L." And, frankly, I shouldn't have to.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/redeye/chi-050816public,1,1310884.story?coll=chi-news-hed
How do you deal with panhandlers? This message board is now closed, but please enjoy the comments already posted.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-050816panhandlers-board,1,7041059.graffitiboard?coll=chi-news-hed
Atlanta OKs panhandling crackdown
By Dahleen Glanton
Tribune national correspondent
Published August 16, 2005
ATLANTA -- After listening to hours of heated opposition from homeless people and their advocates, the City Council on Monday passed a tough anti-panhandling ordinance that forbids anyone from begging for money in most of downtown.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0508160180aug16,1,6508707.story?coll=chi-news-hed
What steps Chicago takes
Chicago Tribune
Published August 16, 2005
Chicago passed an anti-panhandling law in 2004 banning people from soliciting money throughout the city within 10 feet of a bus shelter or bus stop, a public transportation vehicle or facility, any vehicle parked on a public street or alley, a sidewalk cafe or restaurant, a gas station or within 10 feet in any direction of an ATM machine, bank or currency exchange.
The fine for the first and second offenses within a 12-month period is $50. The fine for a third offense within a 12-month period is $100. There is no jail time required. Police said most of the violations have involved aggressive panhandlers.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0508160178aug16,1,1129935.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Moscow News
Russian Media Tycoon’s Wife to Sue British Paper for Pornography Libel
Olga Rodionova, the wife of a Russian banker and media tycoon, is going to sue Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper for libel, the Trud daily reports. The paper wrote recently that Rodionova intended to star in softcore porn and the woman, whose naked photos appeared in such editions as Playboy and Penthouse, claims that the report was false.
The beautiful, buxom woman has stunned Moscow high society by posing naked for dozens of men’s magazines, while her husband not only did not mind her doing this but also encouraged her. She posed naked stroking a stuffed bear and lying on a Soviet era propaganda banner surrounded by Russian police officers and appeared wearing only a pair of dark glasses under a portrait of Leonid Brezhnev, the former Communist Party Secretary General, in the arms of a soldier who caresses her as several other servicemen wait their turn.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/10/rodionova.shtml
Open Season Declared on "Yeltsin's Family" Faction
By Nelli Monastyrskaya The Moscow News
Following ex-PM Kasyanov, CIS Executive Secretary Vladimir Rushailo could end up in the crosshairs of Russia's law enforcement agencies
State Duma deputy Aleksandr Khinshtein has issued yet another query - this time against Vladimir Rushailo.
The principal charges against him center on the possible abuse of office (when he was interior minister) in building a villa located in a government-controlled gated community in the settlement of Arkhangelskoye (Moscow Region). Khinshtein has already sent a formal query to the RF Registration Chamber. In particular, he has doubts about the provenance of funds that were used to build the villa. Furthermore, the Duma deputy says that Vladimir Rushailo's performance as CIS executive secretary has been extremely unsatisfactory. "In the course of the recent elections in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, Rushailo not only failed to uphold Russia's interests, but even tried to play his own games, in particular carrying out orders from the capital of the world's freemasonry - London," Khinshtein explained to this reporter. The statement concerning Rushailo's "subversive activities" has already been sent to the Russian president with copies to the CIS heads of state.
http://english.mn.ru/english/issue.php?2005-30-2
German Pope's Alter Ego
By Aleksandr Soldatov The Moscow News
The first 100 days of Benedict XVI's pontificate dispelled old fears but brought up new problems
The new pope was widely expected to show German toughness and pedantry. The clergy of the Roman Catholic Church was in suspense, fearing that the easy-going era of John Paul II would be followed by the tightening of screws and the enforcement of order. But now the first 100 days of Benedict XVI's pontificate have passed and the fears have been dispelled. Having become the pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger replaced his image as an austere dogmatic and "Cerberus" of church canon, befitting the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, with that of a "benevolent pastor" - a soft and even somewhat shy person. People who know the pope well, however, say that this is not at all an image swapping trick. It is simply that the new office - the highest in the Christian world - has revealed to this world Joseph Ratzinger's latent, second ego. This is why many of the forecasts, based on an erroneous, or rather an incomplete perception of the new pontiff, have not been fulfilled.
http://english.mn.ru/english/issue.php?2005-30-17
Bird Flu Spreads Westward in Russia
Denis Bulanichev, Alina Chernoivanov
Bird flu in Russia has reached the Chelyabinsk region from southern Siberia. This is the sixth region in the country where the AH5N1 strain of the virus has been discovered in domestic birds. And while it is potentially deadly for humans, no human cases have been registered yet.
On Monday, the Chelyabinsk region in the southern Urals became the sixth to join the contaminated zone. Veterinarians registered the outbreak in the settlement of Oktyabrskoye, where 60 birds died over the weekend, the region’s vice governor, Andrei Kosilov, announced on Monday. And experts have already identified the cause — testing the dead birds revealed the deadly strain. To avoid spread, local authorities decided to cull 400 domestic birds, including 270 chickens, 60 ducks, and 70 geese.
http://www.mosnews.com/feature/2005/08/15/birdflu.shtml
North Korea Has Right for Peaceful Nuclear Program — Russian Official
The People’s Democratic Republic of Korea has the right to develop its civilian nuclear capacity and can expect cooperation with other countries if it returns to the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alexeyev said Monday in an interview.
“Russia has always insisted that as a sovereign state, the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea, can develop its peaceful nuclear program in keeping with international law,” Alexeyev was quoted by Xinhuanet as saying in an interview with South Korea’s Joong Ang Ilbo daily newspaper.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/15/koreatreaty.shtml
Cow Parade Arrives in Moscow
The first of an anticipated 500 fiber-glass cows has made its appearance last in Moscow’s Central Mall off the Red Square. In fact, between August and October, cows will literally dot the metropolis — in various shapes, sizes, colors, and even sounds.
The “Cow Parade” originated in Switzerland, in 1998, but as it comes to Moscow, dozens of artists and famous people are trying their hand at decorating the fiber-glass animals. And while a jury is still deliberating who some of the other artists will be, just about anyone can try decorating a cow here.
http://www.mosnews.com/images/g/s109.shtml
Racist Sentiments Grow in Russia — Survey
The number of people with racist views in Russia has increased by more than 20 million, a respected daily reported Monday citing the results of a survey carried out by the All-Russian Public Opinion Center (VTsIOM).
The survey revealed that the number of people with these views had gone up from 11% to 16% within a year, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported. The Levada Analytical Center said its research showed that 58% of Russians supported the idea of a “Russia for Russians.”
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/15/sentiments.shtml
Russia needs a UN Resolution regarding Chechnya. At this point one has to wonder why the world hasn't helped to stop the terrorists in Chechya. It's been a long time. There is too much investment by both sides of this to have them settle it alone.
Total Death Toll of Post-Soviet Chechnya Conflicts Stands at 160,000 — Official
Chechnya, the Head of the State Council of the republic Taus Dzhabrailov was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying.
The number includes also the death toll among Russian servicemen, policemen and the rebels. 30,000-40,000 of those killed were ethnic Chechens, Dzhabrailov said. The official stressed that the majority of the dead were ethnic Russian civilians, who had no place to hide and had to stay in war-torn cities, while ethnic Chechens stayed with their relatives in villages.
As MosNews reported last week, Russian Defense Ministry announced that more than 3,450 Russian troops have been killed in Chechnya since federal forces re-entered the southern Russian region six years ago.
According to the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, 3,826 troops were killed and 17,892 were wounded during the first Chechen campaign, which started in 1994 and ended in 1996. 1,906 are missing in action. Based on data from human rights organizations, anywhere from 60,000 to 100,000 civilians were killed during the conflict.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/15/chechnyatoll.shtml
Five Servicemen Killed in Militant Attack in Chechnya
The military commandant of Chechnya’s Urus-Martan district and four other officers were killed in a militant attack near the village of Roshnichu early Sunday, Russian news agencies reported.
All the victims were in an investigative group, dispatched to the scene of an attack on the home of head of the village administration Shamkhan Beksultanov and led by Military Commandant Alexander Kayak, Interfax reports.
After Beksultanov’s house attack and arson was reported to the police, a military unit set off for help and in a clash that followed five officers, including the commandant, were killed, and two more wounded, RIA Novosti adds.
It was earlier reported that four officers died, and two servicemen were wounded when their motor vehicle hit a mine in the village of Roshnichu.
No losses have been reported on the militants’ side, although there are numerous blood stains where the clash took place, Gazeta.ru adds.
An investigation is in progress.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/14/chechnyasoldiers.shtml
12-Year-Boy Killed by Car Bomb Blast in Chechnya Capital
Chechen capital of Grozny on Monday. Eleven people were injured, Interfax news agency reported.
The car blew up near a big store, a gas station and a cafe. A police car parked nearby was also damaged.
The blast interrupted the government meeting in Grozny. Chechen president Alu Alkhanov ordered to make all possible measures to find and detained involved in the incident.
The Echo Moskvy radio station said that according to unconfirmed reports the blast claimed three lives.
15.08.2005 15:04 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Total Death Toll of Post-Soviet Chechnya Conflicts Stands at 160,000 — Official
14.08.2005 12:12 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Five Servicemen Killed in Militant Attack in Chechnya
12.08.2005 12:49 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Sister of Chechen Rebel Warlord Abducted in Russia’s Chechnya
11.08.2005 11:15 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
3,459 Troops Killed in Chechnya in 6 Years — Russian Defense Ministry
09.08.2005 15:00 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Every Chechen Town to Have a Street Named After Slain President Kadyrov
09.08.2005 13:47 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Russian Republic of Ingushetia Bans Gambling Following Chechnya’s Lead
04.08.2005 19:58 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Chechen Top Religious Authorities Declare Jihad on Wahhabism and Terrorism
03.08.2005 11:25 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Pro-Russian Leader Bans Gambling Business in Chechnya
02.08.2005 13:03 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Red Cross Stops Work in Chechnya to Mark Employee’s Kidnapping
24.07.2005 10:50 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Dagestan Train Blast Kills One, Wounds Four
20.07.2005 20:08 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Suspects in Chechnya Police Car Blast Detained, Death Toll Rises to 15
20.07.2005 11:59 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Chechnya Mourns Terrorist Attack Victims, Expects More Bombs
19.07.2005 16:46 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Death Toll in Car Blast Rises to 14, Chechen Leader Blames Basayev
19.07.2005 14:53 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
10 Killed in Police Car Blast in Chechnya
18.07.2005 11:42 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Chechen Victims of 1944 Stalinist Deportation Say Compensation “Insulting”
17.07.2005 17:39 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Tax Officials Held in Chechnya on Extortion Charges
16.07.2005 14:40 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
8 Killed in Helicopter Crash in Chechnya
15.07.2005 15:43 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Pro-Moscow Leader Opposes “Chechen Terrorists” Label
15.07.2005 15:26 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
UK Ready to Hand Over Chechen Rebel Envoy Zakayev if Russia Proves Guilt — Ambassador
14.07.2005 18:08 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Czech Aid Agency Says Russia Forces Closure of Chechnya Office
07.07.2005 15:19 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Russia’s Defense Minister Says Conscripts Will No Longer Serve in Chechnya
07.07.2005 13:32 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
51 Soldiers Killed in Chechnya Over Past 6 Months — Defense Ministry
06.07.2005 13:26 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Police Raid in Volatile South Russia Region Ends in Bloodshed
06.07.2005 11:16 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Chechen Warlord Basayev Says He Would Target Moscow Olympics
05.07.2005 17:32 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Explosion Hits Police Post in Troubled Dagestan, 2 Killed
05.07.2005 12:21 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Politician Killed in Latest Attack in Russia’s Dagestan
04.07.2005 16:01 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Top Police Officials Fired for Failure to Stop Terrorists in South Russia
04.07.2005 12:39 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Suspects in Chechnya Train Blast Had Extremist Literature — Investigators
04.07.2005 12:20 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Chechen Government Says Rock Festival Cancelled Amid Security Fears
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/15/groznyblast.shtml
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Kyoto protocol member states to define carbon dioxide emission quotas in fall
MOSCOW, August 16 (RIA Novosti) - The Kyoto protocol member states are to define quotas on carbon dioxide emissions in Montreal, Canada this fall, Economic Development Ministry representative Vsevolod Gavrilov said Tuesday.
"The method of defining carbon dioxide emission quotas has yet to be established... I know of at least six possibilities," Gavrilov said. He added that the emission level might be "pegged to the basic period, or perhaps to the size of each country's GDP like now."
Gavrilov said it would be unfortunate if the participants failed to reach an agreement. "The results of these agreements will call for Kyoto protocol amendments anyway, so members will again decide whether or not to ratify it," the official said.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050816/41166781.html
Russian space shuttle's launch set for 2011
MOSCOW, August 16 (RIA Novosti) - The first unmanned flight of Russia's Clipper space shuttle has been set for 2011, and the first manned flight has been scheduled for 2012, a senior official from Russia's leading space company told the Delovoy Vtornik (Business Tuesday) weekly.
Nikolai Bryukhanov, the deputy designer general of the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation, said that the Clipper would replace the Soyuz and the Buran spacecraft to become Russia's main craft for the coming decades.
The Clipper has several advantages because it is a shuttle craft with improved aerodynamics, which allows the craft to cut regular G-forces by two to two and a half times, and irregular G-forces by five times.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050816/41162935.html
UPDATE: Russian president flies on board bomber to exercise
CHKALOVSKY AIRFIELD (the Moscow region), August 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Vladimir Putin took a flight on board a Tu-160 strategic bomber, the Pavel Taran, to visit the site of joint military exercises conducted by long-range strategic Air Force units and the Northern Fleet.
The Tu-160 Blackjack is a multi-purpose strategic bomber designed to destroy land- and sea-based targets using strategic cruise missiles, short-range guided missiles, nuclear and conventional bombs while flying at subsonic speeds at low and medium altitudes and at speeds over Mach 1 at high altitudes. The aircraft has variable geometry wings (from 20 degrees up to 65 degrees) that allow high maneuverability at supersonic and subsonic speeds.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050816/41166148.html
Russia meets obligations on military pullout from Georgia
MOSCOW, August 16 (RIA Novosti, Andrei Malyshkin) -- Russia has honored all of its 2005 obligations on withdrawing its military bases from Georgia, a senior officer said Tuesday.
Colonel Vladimir Kuparadze, the deputy commander of Russia's troops in the South Caucasus, said: "We have pulled out what we were supposed to withdraw in 2005. Yesterday, the fifth column ... crossed the Russian-Georgian border. It was the last column to be withdrawn this year."
The HQ of Russia's group of forces in the South Caucasus said 53 vehicles, 42 trailers, and tons of military hardware had been withdrawn from Georgia. Moreover, he said materiel from Russia's former 12th military base in Batumi, Georgia, had arrived in Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiisk and been unloaded.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050816/41166573.html
Gaza pullout a step toward peaceful coexistence - Margelov
MOSCOW, August 16 (RIA Novosti) - A senior member of Russia's upper chamber of parliament said Tuesday that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza was a major step toward the peaceful coexistence of Israelis and Palestinians. "This should not be seen as the success of terrorist organizations like Hezbollah, even though they are claiming this," said Mikhail Margelov, the chairman of the Federation Council's international affairs committee. "In my opinion, the withdrawal is the result of the Israeli and Palestinian leaders' political will."
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050816/41166455.html
Nuclear storage site in Murmansk to be commissioned two months late
MOSCOW, August 16 (RIA Novosti) - The first stage of a storage facility in the Murmansk Region (European Russia's north) for reactor blocks from dismantled Russian nuclear submarines will be commissioned in November 2005, deputy head of the Federal Nuclear Power Agency Sergei Antipov said Tuesday.
The joint Russian-German construction management committee made the decision to commission the first stage, Antipov said. Originally, he added, commissioning was scheduled for September.
He said the site chosen for this facility had turned out to be more geographically complicated than planned, so the project had become more expensive and the timeframe for its implementation had been extended.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050816/41167260.html
URGENT: all four cruise missiles launched from TU-160 bombers hit targets - Defense Minister
OLENEGORSK (Murmansk region), August 16 (RIA Novosti) - All four cruise missiles launched from TU-160 bombers have hit their targets at the Pemboi target range near Vorkuta (European Russia's northwest) during a military training exercise, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Tuesday.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20050816/41167049.html
Russians Want Change
Moscow. (RIA Novosti political commentator Vasily Kononenko) --
Polls recently conducted by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) have revealed a rapid increase in the number of people favoring radical political and economic reforms in Russia. There are almost as many advocates of radical reform as there are supporters of stability, which has been the main achievement of Vladimir Putin's presidency. What is it that has given rise to such unpopular and even risky attitudes?
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20050816/41164321.html
The New York Times
Israeli Forces Take Control of Largest Settlement in Gaza Strip
By STEVEN ERLANGER
and DINA KRAFT
Published: August 16, 2005
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza, Aug. 16 - Israeli settlers and sympathizers threw stones and eggs at soldiers and police officers at the largest settlement in Gaza today in an emotionally searing confrontation, as Israelis of the same generation confronted one another over the government's order to vacate the coastal territory captured by Israel 38 years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/16/international/middleeast/16cnd-gaza.html?hp&ex=1124251200&en=5d3c8d04e217ac82&ei=5094&partner=homepage
In the Hospital, a Degrading Shift From Person to Patient
By BENEDICT CAREY
Published: August 16, 2005
Mary Duffy was lying in bed half-asleep on the morning after her breast cancer surgery in February when a group of white-coated strangers filed into her hospital room.
Without a word, one of them - a man - leaned over Ms. Duffy, pulled back her blanket, and stripped her nightgown from her shoulders.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/16/health/16dignity.html?incamp=article_popular_1
Memorial to Troops Killed in Iraq Is Vandalized in Texas
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: August 16, 2005
CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 16 - Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, who has set up a vigil near President Bush's ranch here, said today that she was "very disturbed" that hundreds of small crosses bearing the names of dead American troops had been knocked down, and that her now 10-day protest was "only the beginning" of national movement to bring all American forces home from the war.
In reaction to the growing anger of many local residents over the crowds and disruptions, Ms. Sheehan's supporters said it was likely that she would move "Camp Casey," her roadside encampment named after her son, to a 300-acre piece of property closer to the president's ranch. Ms. Sheehan's supporters said that the owner of the property was sympathetic to their cause, but his identity could not be confirmed and it was unclear if the deal was complete.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/16/national/16cnd-sheehan.html?hp&ex=1124251200&en=af8e94f8f933baa4&ei=5094&partner=homepage
For the Fun of It, Remember?
Kevin Bentley, caught midwalk at the corner of Castro and 18th Streets, a hub of gay life in San Francisco.
By GUY TREBAY
Published: August 14, 2005
San Francisco
PEOPLE could hardly have been expected to have safe sex before the concept existed, as Edmund White once pointed out, and this thought is worth keeping in mind when you pick up "Let's Shut Out the World." Its author, Kevin Bentley, 49, an editor and a writer with a small but devoted Bay Area following, happens to be one of the rare men of his generation who reveled in the libertinism for which 1970's San Francisco was infamous and survived to tell the tale.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/fashion/sundaystyles/14bentley.html
Dubya-Dubya-Dubya.Follies.com
By ROB KENDT
Published: August 16, 2005
One measure of a successful parody is that its targets don't get it; they embrace or reject it at face value. By that standard the joke Web site whitehouse.org (not to be confused with the real deal, whitehouse.gov), inaugurated in 2001 just a few months after its central bête noire, President Bush, has been a minor triumph of counterprogramming.
The administration has not taken the bait (apart from a threatening letter from Vice President Dick Cheney, later gleefully posted and pilloried on the site). But on the evidence of "Dear Dubya: Patriotic Love Letters to Whitehouse.org," now in an extended run at the Brick Theater, some of the administration's more credulous supporters - along with the usual mixed nuts - have been taken in by the ruse.
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/08/16/theater/reviews/16duby.html
http://whitehouse.org/
The Moscow Times
U.S. and Russia Take Helsinki by Storm
Isinbayeva set another world record.
HELSINKI -- Lauryn Williams won her second gold medal at the World Athletics Championships by anchoring the U.S. women's 400-meter relay team to a world-leading time and Dwight Phillips won his second successive long-jump title on his first leap Saturday.
Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva set a new world record in the women's pole vault, which had been postponed from Wednesday to Friday because of bad weather.
But another botched relay performance and confusion surrounding Allyson Felix's absence from the U.S. 400-meter squad marred Saturday's otherwise distinguished array of fine performances.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/08/15/091.html
Russia's Economic Maneuvers
By Alexander Golts
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Thirteen years ago, when Moscow and Beijing agreed that Russia would start shipping arms to China, the announcement made waves around the world. Military analysts began talking about the possibility of a new alliance between Moscow and Beijing that would take an anti-American tack.
Now these predictions appear to be coming true. On Thursday, Russia and China will commence their first joint military exercises, in which around 10,000 soldiers and officers will participate.
The Russian military's top brass insists that this is nothing unusual. They point out that Russia regularly conducts exercises with troops from other nations along the Pacific rim, such as the United States and Japan. This year, for example, the military also plans to hold joint maneuvers with India.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/08/15/006.html
At the Edge of the Middle Kingdom
By Andrei Piontkovsky
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The Holy Alliance formed in 1815 by the emperors of Russia and Austria and the king of Prussia was an attempt to protect the existing social order in Europe from the "orange" plague of the day, bourgeois revolution.
Though Alexander I instigated the alliance, it was his brother, Nicholas I, who put its principles into practice. Intoxicated with his role as the gendarme of Europe, Nicholas regularly sent his armies of serfs dressed up in soldiers' overcoats to crush uprisings on the fringes of his empire.
It all ended badly, however. Intent on playing its imperial games, Russia slept right through the Industrial Revolution. Following its humiliating defeat in the Crimean War, the country fell into decline as a world power.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/08/15/007.html
Putin Breaks Sound Barrier
Putin preparing to board a Tu-160 strategic bomber at the Chkalovsky airfield on Tuesday en route to a war game.
President Vladimir Putin, sitting in the pilot's seat, broke the sound barrier Tuesday as he flew in a long-range bomber to a Northern Fleet outpost to attend a war game similar to one that embarrassed the armed forces last year.
After opening the MAKS 2005 air show at the Zhukovsky airfield, Putin was whisked to the Chkalovsky Air Force Base northeast of Moscow to board a waiting Tu-160 supersonic jet.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/08/17/001.html
Chicago Tribune
Battered by drought, elms falling to disease
Area towns losing hundreds at a time
By Erika Slife, Tribune staff reporter. Tribune staff reporter Grace Aduroja contributed to this report
Published August 16, 2005
Once he's spotted the curling leaves on the outstretched branches of a stately American elm tree, Scott DeRoss' heart sinks. A forester for the village of Brookfield, he knows that just behind the tree's armor of gray bark, the Dutch elm disease fungus has begun to spread.
And this year has been heartbreaking--the village has lost 12 elms so far, compared with one or two in a typical year.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0508160184aug16,1,15820.story?coll=chi-news-hed
'Ugliest' Dog Is a Thing of Beauty to His Owner
Some people won't even touch Susie Lockheed's pooch, a champion of hideousness. But she's dedicated to him despite the world's opinion.
By Wendy Lee
Times Staff Writer
Published August 15, 2005
SANTA BARBARA — Some may call it a tale of beauty and the beast. But Sam, a 14-year-old pedigreed Chinese crested, and a three-time champ in the World's Ugliest Dog Contest, is the dog of Susie Lockheed's dreams.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-me-uglydog15aug15,1,1572018.story?coll=chi-newsopinionperspective-hed
Braun has had "discussions" about mayoral bid
The Associated Press
Published August 16, 2005, 2:56 PM CDT
Former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun says she has talked with people about running for mayor but has no plans to become a candidate in 2007.
Braun, who became the nation's first black female senator in 1992 and served one term, works as an attorney at a Chicago real estate development firm.
"I'm a businesswoman now and I have no current intention of running for any political office," she told the Chicago Sun-Times for its Tuesday editions.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050815braun,1,6140759.story?coll=chi-news-hed
I find the BEHAVIOR of Bush's neighbors appalling. To imagine these people who obviously feel privileged firing off guns and with the fear they might use them. Then to realize mowing down crosses by the roadside was an idea that even crossed the mind of a hate filled Crawford resident. Well. Excuse us for living ! Bush's neighbors are very violent people. Could they be Neocons? Who do they socialize with. PLEASE keep them out of New York City. Who knows what they will do there !
Some Seek Restrictions Near Bush Ranch
By ANGELA K. BROWN
Associated Press Writer
Published August 16, 2005, 11:43 AM CDT
WACO, Texas -- Some of President Bush's neighbors asked county leaders Tuesday to prevent large gatherings near the Crawford ranch like the ongoing anti-war protest led by a mother of a soldier who died in Iraq.
Several residents have complained of blocked roads and traffic jams in the last week since dozens of people joined Cindy Sheehan's protest by pitching tents off the winding, two-lane road leading to Bush's ranch.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-peace-mom,1,5183416.story?coll=chi-news-hed
How to handle those CTA panhandlers
By Kyra Kyles
RedEye
Published August 16, 2005
I use newspapers or books as a shield to avoid eye contact.
I fake a cell phone conversation, pretending to be so engrossed in the words of the unseen "caller" that I don't hear the constant pitches.
I stare out the window, even if I'm in the tunnel and the view is nothing more than blackness.
But despite all my tricks, sometimes I just can't dodge the panhandlers and vendors aboard the "L." And, frankly, I shouldn't have to.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/redeye/chi-050816public,1,1310884.story?coll=chi-news-hed
How do you deal with panhandlers? This message board is now closed, but please enjoy the comments already posted.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-050816panhandlers-board,1,7041059.graffitiboard?coll=chi-news-hed
Atlanta OKs panhandling crackdown
By Dahleen Glanton
Tribune national correspondent
Published August 16, 2005
ATLANTA -- After listening to hours of heated opposition from homeless people and their advocates, the City Council on Monday passed a tough anti-panhandling ordinance that forbids anyone from begging for money in most of downtown.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0508160180aug16,1,6508707.story?coll=chi-news-hed
What steps Chicago takes
Chicago Tribune
Published August 16, 2005
Chicago passed an anti-panhandling law in 2004 banning people from soliciting money throughout the city within 10 feet of a bus shelter or bus stop, a public transportation vehicle or facility, any vehicle parked on a public street or alley, a sidewalk cafe or restaurant, a gas station or within 10 feet in any direction of an ATM machine, bank or currency exchange.
The fine for the first and second offenses within a 12-month period is $50. The fine for a third offense within a 12-month period is $100. There is no jail time required. Police said most of the violations have involved aggressive panhandlers.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0508160178aug16,1,1129935.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Moscow News
Russian Media Tycoon’s Wife to Sue British Paper for Pornography Libel
Olga Rodionova, the wife of a Russian banker and media tycoon, is going to sue Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper for libel, the Trud daily reports. The paper wrote recently that Rodionova intended to star in softcore porn and the woman, whose naked photos appeared in such editions as Playboy and Penthouse, claims that the report was false.
The beautiful, buxom woman has stunned Moscow high society by posing naked for dozens of men’s magazines, while her husband not only did not mind her doing this but also encouraged her. She posed naked stroking a stuffed bear and lying on a Soviet era propaganda banner surrounded by Russian police officers and appeared wearing only a pair of dark glasses under a portrait of Leonid Brezhnev, the former Communist Party Secretary General, in the arms of a soldier who caresses her as several other servicemen wait their turn.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/10/rodionova.shtml
Open Season Declared on "Yeltsin's Family" Faction
By Nelli Monastyrskaya The Moscow News
Following ex-PM Kasyanov, CIS Executive Secretary Vladimir Rushailo could end up in the crosshairs of Russia's law enforcement agencies
State Duma deputy Aleksandr Khinshtein has issued yet another query - this time against Vladimir Rushailo.
The principal charges against him center on the possible abuse of office (when he was interior minister) in building a villa located in a government-controlled gated community in the settlement of Arkhangelskoye (Moscow Region). Khinshtein has already sent a formal query to the RF Registration Chamber. In particular, he has doubts about the provenance of funds that were used to build the villa. Furthermore, the Duma deputy says that Vladimir Rushailo's performance as CIS executive secretary has been extremely unsatisfactory. "In the course of the recent elections in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, Rushailo not only failed to uphold Russia's interests, but even tried to play his own games, in particular carrying out orders from the capital of the world's freemasonry - London," Khinshtein explained to this reporter. The statement concerning Rushailo's "subversive activities" has already been sent to the Russian president with copies to the CIS heads of state.
http://english.mn.ru/english/issue.php?2005-30-2
German Pope's Alter Ego
By Aleksandr Soldatov The Moscow News
The first 100 days of Benedict XVI's pontificate dispelled old fears but brought up new problems
The new pope was widely expected to show German toughness and pedantry. The clergy of the Roman Catholic Church was in suspense, fearing that the easy-going era of John Paul II would be followed by the tightening of screws and the enforcement of order. But now the first 100 days of Benedict XVI's pontificate have passed and the fears have been dispelled. Having become the pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger replaced his image as an austere dogmatic and "Cerberus" of church canon, befitting the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, with that of a "benevolent pastor" - a soft and even somewhat shy person. People who know the pope well, however, say that this is not at all an image swapping trick. It is simply that the new office - the highest in the Christian world - has revealed to this world Joseph Ratzinger's latent, second ego. This is why many of the forecasts, based on an erroneous, or rather an incomplete perception of the new pontiff, have not been fulfilled.
http://english.mn.ru/english/issue.php?2005-30-17
Bird Flu Spreads Westward in Russia
Denis Bulanichev, Alina Chernoivanov
Bird flu in Russia has reached the Chelyabinsk region from southern Siberia. This is the sixth region in the country where the AH5N1 strain of the virus has been discovered in domestic birds. And while it is potentially deadly for humans, no human cases have been registered yet.
On Monday, the Chelyabinsk region in the southern Urals became the sixth to join the contaminated zone. Veterinarians registered the outbreak in the settlement of Oktyabrskoye, where 60 birds died over the weekend, the region’s vice governor, Andrei Kosilov, announced on Monday. And experts have already identified the cause — testing the dead birds revealed the deadly strain. To avoid spread, local authorities decided to cull 400 domestic birds, including 270 chickens, 60 ducks, and 70 geese.
http://www.mosnews.com/feature/2005/08/15/birdflu.shtml
North Korea Has Right for Peaceful Nuclear Program — Russian Official
The People’s Democratic Republic of Korea has the right to develop its civilian nuclear capacity and can expect cooperation with other countries if it returns to the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alexeyev said Monday in an interview.
“Russia has always insisted that as a sovereign state, the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea, can develop its peaceful nuclear program in keeping with international law,” Alexeyev was quoted by Xinhuanet as saying in an interview with South Korea’s Joong Ang Ilbo daily newspaper.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/15/koreatreaty.shtml
Cow Parade Arrives in Moscow
The first of an anticipated 500 fiber-glass cows has made its appearance last in Moscow’s Central Mall off the Red Square. In fact, between August and October, cows will literally dot the metropolis — in various shapes, sizes, colors, and even sounds.
The “Cow Parade” originated in Switzerland, in 1998, but as it comes to Moscow, dozens of artists and famous people are trying their hand at decorating the fiber-glass animals. And while a jury is still deliberating who some of the other artists will be, just about anyone can try decorating a cow here.
http://www.mosnews.com/images/g/s109.shtml
Racist Sentiments Grow in Russia — Survey
The number of people with racist views in Russia has increased by more than 20 million, a respected daily reported Monday citing the results of a survey carried out by the All-Russian Public Opinion Center (VTsIOM).
The survey revealed that the number of people with these views had gone up from 11% to 16% within a year, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported. The Levada Analytical Center said its research showed that 58% of Russians supported the idea of a “Russia for Russians.”
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/15/sentiments.shtml
Russia needs a UN Resolution regarding Chechnya. At this point one has to wonder why the world hasn't helped to stop the terrorists in Chechya. It's been a long time. There is too much investment by both sides of this to have them settle it alone.
Total Death Toll of Post-Soviet Chechnya Conflicts Stands at 160,000 — Official
Chechnya, the Head of the State Council of the republic Taus Dzhabrailov was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying.
The number includes also the death toll among Russian servicemen, policemen and the rebels. 30,000-40,000 of those killed were ethnic Chechens, Dzhabrailov said. The official stressed that the majority of the dead were ethnic Russian civilians, who had no place to hide and had to stay in war-torn cities, while ethnic Chechens stayed with their relatives in villages.
As MosNews reported last week, Russian Defense Ministry announced that more than 3,450 Russian troops have been killed in Chechnya since federal forces re-entered the southern Russian region six years ago.
According to the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, 3,826 troops were killed and 17,892 were wounded during the first Chechen campaign, which started in 1994 and ended in 1996. 1,906 are missing in action. Based on data from human rights organizations, anywhere from 60,000 to 100,000 civilians were killed during the conflict.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/15/chechnyatoll.shtml
Five Servicemen Killed in Militant Attack in Chechnya
The military commandant of Chechnya’s Urus-Martan district and four other officers were killed in a militant attack near the village of Roshnichu early Sunday, Russian news agencies reported.
All the victims were in an investigative group, dispatched to the scene of an attack on the home of head of the village administration Shamkhan Beksultanov and led by Military Commandant Alexander Kayak, Interfax reports.
After Beksultanov’s house attack and arson was reported to the police, a military unit set off for help and in a clash that followed five officers, including the commandant, were killed, and two more wounded, RIA Novosti adds.
It was earlier reported that four officers died, and two servicemen were wounded when their motor vehicle hit a mine in the village of Roshnichu.
No losses have been reported on the militants’ side, although there are numerous blood stains where the clash took place, Gazeta.ru adds.
An investigation is in progress.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/14/chechnyasoldiers.shtml
12-Year-Boy Killed by Car Bomb Blast in Chechnya Capital
Chechen capital of Grozny on Monday. Eleven people were injured, Interfax news agency reported.
The car blew up near a big store, a gas station and a cafe. A police car parked nearby was also damaged.
The blast interrupted the government meeting in Grozny. Chechen president Alu Alkhanov ordered to make all possible measures to find and detained involved in the incident.
The Echo Moskvy radio station said that according to unconfirmed reports the blast claimed three lives.
15.08.2005 15:04 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Total Death Toll of Post-Soviet Chechnya Conflicts Stands at 160,000 — Official
14.08.2005 12:12 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Five Servicemen Killed in Militant Attack in Chechnya
12.08.2005 12:49 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Sister of Chechen Rebel Warlord Abducted in Russia’s Chechnya
11.08.2005 11:15 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
3,459 Troops Killed in Chechnya in 6 Years — Russian Defense Ministry
09.08.2005 15:00 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Every Chechen Town to Have a Street Named After Slain President Kadyrov
09.08.2005 13:47 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Russian Republic of Ingushetia Bans Gambling Following Chechnya’s Lead
04.08.2005 19:58 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Chechen Top Religious Authorities Declare Jihad on Wahhabism and Terrorism
03.08.2005 11:25 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Pro-Russian Leader Bans Gambling Business in Chechnya
02.08.2005 13:03 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Red Cross Stops Work in Chechnya to Mark Employee’s Kidnapping
24.07.2005 10:50 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Dagestan Train Blast Kills One, Wounds Four
20.07.2005 20:08 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Suspects in Chechnya Police Car Blast Detained, Death Toll Rises to 15
20.07.2005 11:59 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Chechnya Mourns Terrorist Attack Victims, Expects More Bombs
19.07.2005 16:46 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Death Toll in Car Blast Rises to 14, Chechen Leader Blames Basayev
19.07.2005 14:53 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
10 Killed in Police Car Blast in Chechnya
18.07.2005 11:42 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Chechen Victims of 1944 Stalinist Deportation Say Compensation “Insulting”
17.07.2005 17:39 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Tax Officials Held in Chechnya on Extortion Charges
16.07.2005 14:40 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
8 Killed in Helicopter Crash in Chechnya
15.07.2005 15:43 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Pro-Moscow Leader Opposes “Chechen Terrorists” Label
15.07.2005 15:26 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
UK Ready to Hand Over Chechen Rebel Envoy Zakayev if Russia Proves Guilt — Ambassador
14.07.2005 18:08 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Czech Aid Agency Says Russia Forces Closure of Chechnya Office
07.07.2005 15:19 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Russia’s Defense Minister Says Conscripts Will No Longer Serve in Chechnya
07.07.2005 13:32 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
51 Soldiers Killed in Chechnya Over Past 6 Months — Defense Ministry
06.07.2005 13:26 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Police Raid in Volatile South Russia Region Ends in Bloodshed
06.07.2005 11:16 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Chechen Warlord Basayev Says He Would Target Moscow Olympics
05.07.2005 17:32 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Explosion Hits Police Post in Troubled Dagestan, 2 Killed
05.07.2005 12:21 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Politician Killed in Latest Attack in Russia’s Dagestan
04.07.2005 16:01 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Top Police Officials Fired for Failure to Stop Terrorists in South Russia
04.07.2005 12:39 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Suspects in Chechnya Train Blast Had Extremist Literature — Investigators
04.07.2005 12:20 MSK, MOSNEWS.COM
Chechen Government Says Rock Festival Cancelled Amid Security Fears
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/15/groznyblast.shtml
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