Morning Papers - continued...

• The Sydney Morning Herald
  
  No longer a joke as Charles does it his way
  By Annabel Crabb, Windsor
  April 10, 2005
  The Sun-Herald
  
  Hen-pecked, dreamy, accident-prone and awkward he may be, but the 56-year-old heir to the British throne finally got his way yesterday.
  His insistence on marrying Camilla Parker Bowles, with all the messiness and public difficulty that a civil ceremony entailed, is the firmest indicator to date that Prince Charles, as king, would be a stubborn and determined monarch.
  
  http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/No-longer-a-joke-as-Charles-does-it-his-way/2005/04/09/1112997230116.html
  
  National parks will burn, say volunteers
  By Angela Cuming
  April 10, 2005
  The Sun-Herald
  
  Volunteer firefighters have warned that their resources are so stretched they could be forced to let fires burn in the state's national parks.
  The breakaway Volunteer Firefighters Association (VFFA) said its members had struggled to manage fires in the existing 330 parks and would be unable to deal with any blazes that broke out in parks the State Government may choose to open in the future.
  
  http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/National-parks-will-burn-say-volunteers/2005/04/09/1112997223570.html
  
  Party of Apartheid takes its final bow
  April 10, 2005 - 6:49AM
  
  The party linked to decades of white racist rule in South Africa formally left the political stage, with its leader apologising for "a system grounded in injustice".
  
  http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Party-of-Apartheid-takes-its-final-bow/2005/04/10/1113071838297.html
  
  Migration explosion dismissed as a myth
  By Tim Dick, Urban Affairs Reporter
  April 11, 2005
  Victorians are staying home, an increasing number of Sydneysiders are doing the same and even New Zealanders have stopped coming, says a study that explains why Sydney's population growth has slowed markedly.
  
  http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Migration-explosion-dismissed-as-a-myth/2005/04/10/1113071854930.html?oneclick=true
  
  Haaretz
  
  IDF kills three Gaza youths; mortar attack on Gush Katif
  
  By Arnon Regular and Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondents and Associated Press
  
  Israel Defense Forces soldiers shot dead three Palestinian youths in the Gaza Strip Saturday.
  
  The three casualties were identified as Ashraf Mussa, Khaled Ghanam and Ahmad al-Jazzar, all aged 14. Al-Jazzar was initially seriously wounded in the incident, near Rafah's Tel a-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah. He underwent surgery at a Rafah hospital and later died of his wounds.
  
  Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas condemned the shooting. His office issued a statement saying he was "shocked."
  
  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/562862.html
  
  High alert on the Temple Mount
  By Haaretz Editorial
  The decision by the security establishment to close the Temple Mount to Jews on Sunday again invokes the bitter memory left by Ariel Sharon's visit to the holy site on September 28, 2000. That visit, which Ehud Barak's government agonized over whether or not to permit, ignited the second intifada.
  
  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=562567&contrassID=1&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
  
  Hezbollah should not be in Shebaa Farms and neither should Israel. Shebaa Farms belongs to Syria.
  
  Tiberias dig unearths very rare marble floor
  By Eli Ashkenazi
  A marble floor dating from the first century CE was unearthed during this season's excavations of ancient Tiberias.
  According to archaeologist Professor Yizhar Hirschfeld, director of the three-week dig that ended yesterday, the floor is apparently a remnant of a pavement in the palace of Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, who ruled the Galilee from 4 BCE to 38 CE.
  
  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=562531&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0
  
  Avital to call for more financial aid for Holocaust survivors
  By Ruth Sinai
  The chairperson of the Knesset's Immigration and Absorption Committee, Labor MK Colette Avital, plans to meet next week with the heads of the Claims Conference in New York to demand they increase assistance to needy Holocaust survivors.
  
  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=562529&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0
  
  Holocaust Survivors' Welfare Fund threatened with closure
  By Ruth Sinai
  Not long ago a Holocaust survivor entered the office of chairman of the Holocaust Survivors' Welfare Fund, Ze'ev Factor, and tossed his dentures onto the desk. The dentures were broken, and the man wanted money to fix them. Factor had to turn him down. Some 12,000 such requests have piled up in the fund's offices, and none of its employees knows how to soothe applicants who show up or telephone to ask when they will receive aid.
  
  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=561989&contrassID=1&subContrassID=9&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
  
  Even in leisure, religious and secular teens diverge
  By Eli Ashkenazi
  When Rabbi Shlomo Haddad of Safed prepares bar mitzvah boys from nonreligious families to read their haftarah (the reading from the Prophets read in synagogues on Shabbat after the reading of the Torah portion), he has to compete for attention with each boy's cell phone - sometimes a boy will even carry two cell phones. The subjects of the conversations that are engrossing them are the clubs where they will meet that night or at the weekend, television programs, or new Internet sites.
  
  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=561986&contrassID=1&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
  
  Family shows by day, porno by night
  By Shahar Smooha
  Just after midnight this past Saturday night, "Sexy23" finally gave in to the pleas of the hundreds of surfers who were watching her on the Web. A few minutes earlier she had been dancing clad in underwear and a camisole in front of her home computer in attempt to convince the anonymous viewers to award her points that would win her a vacation in Paris at the expense of the Tapuz portal and the Ego Channel. But the viewers were unenthused.
  
  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=561517&contrassID=1&subContrassID=11&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
  
  The Los Angeles Times
  
  China's Strategy Gives It the Edge in the Battle of Two Sock Capitals
  This Appalachian town declared itself the Sock Capital of the World for good reason.
  It began making stockings in 1907 and once boasted of producing 1 of every 8 pairs worn on the planet. The cushion-sole sock was invented here. Local sock makers are models of U.S. manufacturing, working hard, sharing resources, shaving expenses, investing in technology.
  
  http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-socks10apr10,0,4497784.story?coll=la-home-headlines
  
  Millions Said Going to Waste in Iraq Utilities
  A coalition memo says water, sewage and power facilities rebuilt with U.S. funds are falling into disrepair. Iraqis say they need more money.
  By T. Christian Miller, Times Staff Writer
  BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials have crippled scores of water, sewage and electrical plants refurbished with U.S. funds by failing to maintain and operate them properly, wasting millions of American taxpayer dollars in the process, according to interviews and documents.
  
  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/la-fg-waste10apr10,0,3572459.story?coll=la-home-headlines
  
  15 Iraqi Soldiers Killed by Guerrillas
  The Islamic Army in Iraq takes responsibility for the attack. A U.S. soldier is reported killed by a roadside bomb in a separate incident.
  BAGHDAD — Guerrillas killed 15 Iraqi soldiers south of Baghdad, Iraqi police said Saturday.
  The attack occurred Friday as the soldiers were traveling in a truck near the town of Latifiya, about 30 miles from the Iraqi capital, the police said.
  
  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-soldiers10apr10,1,5467406.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true>
  
  Elected officials under the Bush Ego Administration are finding out they really have to govern and not just blow smoke.
  
  Gov. Making a Quiet Retreat
  Schwarzenegger is publicly upbeat about his agenda, but political realities have tripped up his bold proposals for revamping government.
  By Peter Nicholas and Robert Salladay, Times Staff Writers
  SACRAMENTO — The broad policy changes that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled with a flourish in his State of the State speech in January have foundered amid a series of missteps, compromises and clashes with a well-organized opposition.
  
  http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-arnold10apr10,0,6750152.story?coll=la-home-headlines
  
  Plight of the Wild Ones
  Exotic and abandoned animals find refuge at remote sanctuaries. State's oversight of the centers draws scrutiny after series of mishaps.
  By Amanda Covarrubias, Times Staff Writer
  A 6-year-old black leopard with a long face and thinning coat yawned lazily in the desert sun, stretching its bony legs to expose where its toes had been chopped off for use in voodoo rituals.
  Nearby, a 5-year-old mountain lion rescued from a fur farm in Nebraska paced in its wire enclosure, warily eyeing a passing groundskeeper.
  
  http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sanctuary10apr10,0,6828489.story?coll=la-home-local
  
  Army Says Maoist Toll After Clash Rises to 97
  Nepalese soldiers recovered 47 more bodies of Maoists killed in a raid on an army base two days ago, taking the toll of rebels to 97 in the country's deadliest clash in five months, an army official said.
  The army said Friday that it had killed at least 50 Maoists in the clash after the rebels, armed with rocket launchers and mortars, attacked their base in Khara, 250 miles west of Katmandu.
  
  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-briefs10.4apr10,1,3481664.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=2&cset=true
  
  SYRIA needs to send their tanks to Sheba Farms to set up their own sovereignty and send Hezbollah packing back to Lebanon.
  
  Syrian Tanks Leave; New Government to Debut
  Dozens of Syrian tanks and military vehicles left Lebanon as Damascus accelerated its military pullout.
  Witnesses said at least 75 tanks had vacated positions in the southern end of the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon and were being driven on military transporters across the border.
  
  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-briefs10.1apr10,1,2302013.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=3&cset=true
  
  Soldiers, U.N. Troops Arrest Militia Leader
  Government soldiers and U.N. troops in Congo arrested a militia leader in a crackdown on armed groups that have terrorized the lawless Ituri district and killed more than 60,000 people since 1999.
  The arrested leader, Kahwa Mandro, heads one of half a dozen ethnic-based groups allegedly protecting their communities in Ituri that are often said to be fighting over natural resources and tax revenue.
  
  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-briefs10.7apr10,1,4661315.story?coll=la-headlines-world
  
  At Least 38 Students Killed in Truck Crash
  A truck packed with high school students skidded off a mountain road in northern Zambia, killing at least 38 and seriously injuring 50, police said.
  Friday's accident happened near Kawambwa, about 400 miles north of the capital, Lusaka, a police official said.
  The toll was likely to increase because of the number of serious injuries, a local official said.
  
  Amid Scandal, Premier Says He Will Resign
  Czech Prime Minister Stanislav Gross said he would resign and make way for a new coalition government because of a scandal surrounding the financing of his luxury apartment.
  Gross did not specify a date for his resignation, but said the Czech ambassador to the European Union, Jan Kohout, was his Social Democrat Party's candidate to replace him.
  
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