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History
February 16th by the way was Abraham Lincoln's Birthday
February 17...
1801, Thomas Jefferson narrowly defeats Aaron Burr and is elected the third president of the United States.
1817, Baltimore, Maryland, becomes the first city in the United States to have city streets lit by gas lamps.
1864, The Union steam sloop USS Housatonic, anchored off Charleston, South Carolina, is sunk by the Confederate Huntley submarine.
1897, the forerunner of the National PTA, the National Congress of Mothers, was founded in Washington.
1904, Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly" was poorly received at its world premiere at La Scala in Milan, Italy.
1933, Newsweek was first published.
1947, the Voice of America began broadcasting to the Soviet Union.
1964, the Supreme Court ruled that congressional districts within each state had to be roughly equal in population.
1969, Golda Meir is sworn in as Israel's first female prime minister. Born Goldie Mobovitz, she immigrated to America with her family at age seven, then immigrated back to Palestine 16 years later.
1972, President Nixon departed on his historic trip to China.
1985, Murray P. Haydon became the third person to receive a permanent artificial heart as doctors at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, Ky., implanted the device. (Haydon lived 488 days with the heart.)
1992, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison (however, he was beaten to death in prison in November 1994).
Missing in Action
1967 SOOTER DAVID W. VALLEJO CA 03/05/73 RELEASED BY DRV DECEASED
1968 ASHBY CLAYBORN W. JR. LOUISVILLE KY "CRASH NO PARA,BEEP NO CREW FOUND" REMAINS RETURNED 1993
1968 COONS CHESTER L. BISMARK ND "CRASH NO PARA,BEEP NO CREW FOUND" REMAINS RETURNED 1993
1968 DAWSON FRANK A. FAIRFIELD CA "CRASH NO PARA,BEEP NO CREW FOUND" REMAINS RETURNED 1993
1968 DONATO PAUL N. BOSTON MA "CRASH NO PARA,BEEP NO CREW FOUND" REMAINS RETURNED 1993
1968 HAYDEN GLENN M. LONG BEACH CA "CRASH NO PARA,BEEP NO CREW FOUND" REMAINS IDENTIFIED 01 DEC 93
1968 KRAVITZ JAMES S. RIVERSIDE CA "CRASH NO PARA,BEEP NO CREW FOUND" REMAINS IDENTIFIED 01 DEC 93
1968 MARTIN JAMES E. SALT LAKE CITY UT "CRASH NO PARA,BEEP NO CREW FOUND" REMAINS RETURNED 1993
1968 THURMAN CURTIS F. ST JAMES MO "CRASH NO PARA,BEEP NO CREW FOUND" REMAINS RETURNED 1993
1968 WONN JAMES C. PITTSBURGH PA "CRASH NO PARA,BEEP NO CREW FOUND" REMAINS RETURNED 1993
1972 CUTTER JAMES D. FORT KNOX KY 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 96
1972 FRASER KENNETH J. BROOKLYN NY 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1972 HAWLEY EDWIN A. JR. BIRMINGHAM AL 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV INJURED
1972 IRWIN ROBERT H. PEEKSKILL NY "DEAD, CREWMAN SAID IN HANOI" " REMAINS RETURNED 7/
February 18…
1564, artist Michelangelo died in Rome.
1795, George Peabody, born business leader.
1848, Louis Comfort Tiffany, painter and designer.
1865, After five months under siege, Charleston, South Carolina, surrenders control of the city to Union forces.
1885, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, helping to make Twain a popular American author.
1930, The planet Pluto is discovered to be the ninth planet of the solar system, proving earlier predictions by Percival Lowell to be correct.
1931, Toni Morrison, American writer, whose works deal with the black experience and celebrate the black community. Morrison’s work features mythic elements, sharp observation, compassion, and poetic language and is often concerned with the relationship between the individual and society. In 1993 she won the Nobel Prize in literature.
1933, born Yoko Ono, conceptual artist.
1960, the eighth Winter Olympic Games were formally opened in Squaw Valley, Calif., by Vice President Richard Nixon.
1970, The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiracy stemming from anti-war protests during the 1968 Democratic Convention.
1972, the California Supreme Court struck down the state's death penalty.
1977, the space shuttle Enterprise, sitting atop a Boeing 747, went on its maiden "flight" above the Mojave Desert.
1988, Anthony M. Kennedy was sworn in as the 104th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
2001, auto racing star Dale Earnhardt Sr. died from injuries suffered in a crash at the Daytona 500; he was 49.
Missing in Action
1966 MURRAY JOSEPH VAUGHN CHILLICOTHE MO
1966 RUFFIN JAMES T. DEATSVILLE AL EJECTED PARA OBSERVED POS KIA REMAINS RETURNED 06/03/83
1966 SPENCER LARRY H. EARLHAM IA 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1966 SCHROEFFEL THOMAS ANTHONY PITTSBURGH PA
1967 DUART DAVID H. CANTON PA 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 JENSEN JAY R. SANDY UT 02/18/73 RELEASED BY DRV " DECEASED MAY 29, 1998"
1969 BRUCHER JOHN M. CLATSKANIE OR "VOICE CONTACT, INJURED IN TREE"
1969 CHAPMAN RODNEY M. ALPENA MI
1969 JEROME STANLEY M. DETROIT MI
1969 SCHIMMELS EDDIE R. LOS ANGELES CA
1970 DAFFRON THOMAS C. PINCKNEYVILLE IL REMAINS IDENTIFIED 08/05/99
1970 GILLEN THOMAS E. KINGMAN KS
1970 MORLEY CHARLES F. WARRENSBURG MO REMAINS IDENTIFIED 08/05/99
1971 BERG GEORGE P. BELFORD NJ "KIA CRASH, REMAINS TAGGED, NO RECOV"
1971 CRANDALL GREGORY S. TACOMA WA "CRASH BURN, NO SURV OBS" REMAINS RET 1991 ID'D 06/18/93
1971 DEMSEY WALTER E. JR. GLENDORA NJ "KIA CRASH, REMAINS TAGGED, NO RECOV"
1971 ENGEN ROBERT J. STOCKTON CA "CRASH BURN, NO SURV OBS" REMAINS ID 30 OCT 91
1971 JOHNSON GARY L. MALIBU CA "KIA CRASH, REMAINS TAGGED, NO RECOV"
1971 LEWELLEN WALTER E. NEW ALBANY IN "CRASH BURN, NO SURV OBS" REMAINS IDENTIFIED 30 OCT 91
1971 LLOYD ALLEN R. ST CHARLES MN "KIA CRASH, REMAINS TAGGED, NO RECOV"
1971 WATSON RONALD L. EL PASO TX "KIA CRASH, REMAINS TAGGED, NO RECOV"
1971 WOODS GERALD E. SALEM OR "KIA CRASH, REMAINS TAGGED, NO RECOV"
The Gulf News
This is a much better tone. It is a tone the region seems interested in to resolve issues that kill helpful and loyal citizens.
The issue here again is not a sovereign nation. The issue is the terrorist network within that nation. As in Palestine, the networks are illegal because of human rights issues in the way they assert control. In the case of Syria, Hezbollah lives within it's citizenry, but, does not participate in elections for leadership so much as undermines the government through acts of violence. The network in Syria is extensive extending into Lebanon. It could be said that Hezbollah is controlling much of the region and allows the governments to exist.
That is not the case.
The issue is the 'influence' this terrorist network has within the populous and the ability to know and flush out the network without killing innocent people. The structure of government in Lebanon and Syria is somewhat delicate in my opinion, no so much sovereignty is in the balance but more how many people will die if sovereignty is to be challenged to the extent an internal struggle for control breaks out. We do not want other destabilizing events leading to death of citizens especially valuable citizens. When it comes to the government of Lebanon it seems the authority there is moving more toward a monocratic authority rather than moving toward a democracy.
I find the death of Rafik Hariri similar to the poisoning of Yushchenko in the Ukraine. The death of Hariri cannot go without a realization there is a direct threat to the authority of Lebanon. The authority in Lebanon that is threatened is the one out of step with the power structure of Hezbollah. Of course, there is a question regarding who conspired to commit this act. But, to point a finger at Syria is no different than saying Russia was involved with the act against Yushchenko. There are no facts pointing to that and is more than likely not at all true. Regardless, the approach of reigning war on a city or country because of this issue is NOT the answer. That type of aggression only serves to kill vast amounts of innocent people. In my opinion, the willingness to 'attack' and 'invade' by the West, specifically the USA with Cheney/Bush as Commander and Chief is bigotry as the approach here is different than the approach in other areas of the world with similar trouble. To always approach Middle East violence with an answer of invasion serves a purpose outside the best interest of the people of that region and one that is outside the interests of the American people. More one that serves opportunists of American business and backers of a Neocon agenda that serves that end. It is completely unacceptable and outside the defined and traditional values of the USA. Any decision is a regime decision and not one of the USA government.
It is obvious an entire party that Mr. Haziri represented and represented well is under threat. That has to stop. Getting to the root cause and solving the mystery regarding conspiracy is paramount, however, that is only the beginning to understand the power structure that lives within the populous that seeks to control 'order' in the streets of Lebanon. Jordan has an intelligence network that is successful. There was a 'cell' captured when they were getting ready to deploy chemical weapons within the last year or so. That is the type of military that works. Intelligence is the only way to root out the problem. Killing large numbers of people in attacks and destroying cities/infrastructure in HOPES of destroying the terrorist networks is not only ineffective as seen in attack after attack of cities as in Iraq with the rebels there, as with Fallujah, but serves as a form of ethnic cleansing when large amounts of innocent people of an ethnicity die. Moving military against a Mid-East country is wrong. Building trust and understanding to common goals is what allies of any country can do. In the case of all these countries it is best to let them solve their own problems. Countries outside the region are best to stand in support or opposition moving within global structures to bring pressure for change.
At this point with Lebanon, there is obviously a street power, Hezbollah, that either acts alone to maintain control or acts with the permission and at the request of the government. That is a huge issue. I personally believe Hezbollah seeks it's own sovereign state as demonstrated by it's occupation of Shaba Farms as well. Syria needs to break off any influence with the Lebanon government to allow Lebanon to solve it's own problems as soon as is realistic realizing the stability of these two countries rely on entanglements. Steps need to be taken to realize where the entanglement serve the governments. If one looks at the concentration of cities near the Syrian waterfront with the Mediterranean Sea on has to realize the influence of the people there doesn't stop at the Syrian southern border by extends all the way through Lebanon to the border with Israel where 'reality of a different nature' comes to light. The Golan Heights is the place where the three nations share tensions. The tensions are caused by Hezbollah. There are actually four authorities here. Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Hezbollah. Turkey also plays into the picture as a democratic government seen as a threat to Hezbollah as well.
This situation is workable. It takes diligence and cooperation. Syria has to see it's role as a protector of it's populous while bringing Hezbollah to the political platform as Hamas did in Palestine. That same type of process needs to take place in Lebanon. The Lebanese party of Mr. Hariri needs reassurance it will have a place in Lebanese government as well. Defined borders, structured political parties and intelligence to root out troublemakers, calling in models that have worked to date with the Abbas directive with Palestine's extremists and Jordan's intelligence model that maintain stability more often than not. I know the region wants peace and prosperity. It is possible and they can solve their own problems. World opinion is vital. Invasion into any of these countries is wrong. Israel stands as a great asset to the region and an equalizer to democracy. Israel is not a silent partner in this. The 'spy plane' was not wrong it was however extending it's reach too far into a sovereign country. Hezbollah is the issue, not Lebanon or Syria. It is Hezbollah that needs to participate in elections and stop the killing and disruption. Israel needs to guard it's borders as well as be intolerant of exported hatred in the form of killing from Lebanon and Syria of Hezbollah.
Bush: Syria out of step with Mideast nations
AP/Reuters
Washington: George W. Bush yesterday said Syria is "out of step" with other nations in the Middle East.
The US President also said that Washington will work with other countries to pressure Damascus to remove its troops from Lebanon.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=152493
Gaddafi meets Mubarak after surprise Cairo trip
AP
Cairo: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi made a surprise visit to Egypt yesterday and discussed several crucial issues in the Arab world with President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's semiofficial Middle East News Agency said.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=152517
Shiite coalition gets slim majority in Iraq assembly
Reuters
Baghdad: Iraq's Shiite alliance won a slim majority of seats in the country's new National Assembly, the Iraqi Electoral Commission said yesterday.
The win secures the coalition power after decades of domination by the Sunni minority.
Based on final results from last month's historic election, the United Iraqi Alliance, a coalition of mainly Shiite parties, was allocated 140 seats in the 275-seat National Assembly, the Electoral Commission said.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=152491
Fallujah residents feel isolated in new political landscape
Reuters
Fallujah: Few people from Fallujah voted in landmark elections but residents of the former rebel stronghold say they do not want to be left out in the cold in Iraq's new political landscape.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=152520
Jordan plans anti-money laundering law
AP
Amman: Jordan is drafting anti-money laundering legislation, Finance Minister Mohammad Abu Hammore said on Wednesday, earning praise from a visiting US Treasury Department official.
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Kuwait sees 6.6% risein national workforce
By Nirmala Janssen, Correspondent
Kuwait City: The number of working Kuwaitis increased by 17,800 during 2004, a 6.6 per cent rise from the previous year, according to statistics provided by the Public Authority for Civil Information.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=152523
Abdullah offers UAE's condolences to Hariri family
WAM
Beirut: Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Information and Culture, led a high-level UAE delegation to Beirut to pay condolences to the family Rafik Hariri.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=152595
Syria unlikely to be the plotter behind Hariri's killing
By Marwan Al Kabalan, Special to Gulf News
The assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri instigated a wave of anger and shock throughout the Arab world and the world at large.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=152507
Iraq's worsening situation may be good for Palestine
By Luc Debieuvre, Special to Gulf News
Two years back, the United States had already decided to go to war against Iraq. And yet, it was making a show of diplomacy at the United Nations.
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=152506
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