The Boston Globe
Pair digs up buried hoard in Methuen
By David Abel, Globe Staff April 26, 2005
It's everyone's fantasy, a dream we always wake up from, tormented that the images of our sleep are just illusions.
That is, finding buried treasure.
One morning three weeks ago, such a fairy tale suddenly came true for Barry Villcliff and Tim Crebase, two friends trying to dig up a small tree in Crebase's yard in Methuen, they said.
Using a spade to get at the roots, Crebase heard a thud, and about a foot down, he saw he had hit a piece of wood. The 23-year-old roofer then realized the wood was part a 2-foot-wide box.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/04/26/pair_digs_up_buried_hoard_in_methuen/
Afghan charged in $50m heroin smuggling
US case alleges ties to Taliban
By Tatsha Robertson, Globe Staff April 26, 2005
NEW YORK -- An Afghan the United States lists as one of the most-wanted drug kingpins in the world and alleges has close ties to the Taliban has been arrested and indicted on charges of conspiring to smuggle millions of dollars of heroin into the United States, federal investigators announced yesterday.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/04/26/afghan_charged_in_50m_heroin_smuggling/
Unready for combat
After deaths of 13 trained for support roles in Iraq, others say they lack the skills to protect themselves
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff April 26, 2005
WASHINGTON -- When Dustin W. Peters, an Air Force supply technician, arrived in Kuwait in January 2004, all he and his fellow airmen knew was that they would be supporting US troops in Iraq. But when their unit received its assignment, they recalled, they were stunned: They would be protecting supply convoys traveling along Iraq's violent roadways.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/04/26/unready_for_combat/
Some fear law would create national ID card
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff April 26, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Congress is poised to pass a law that would make sweeping changes to the nation's system for issuing driver's licenses by imposing stringent requirements on states to verify the authenticity of birth certificates, Social Security cards, legal residency visas, and bank and utility records used to obtain a license.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/04/26/some_fear_law_would_crate_national_id_card/
In Haiti, hope for democracy, future wanes
Poverty and violence still plague nation
By Susan Milligan, Globe Staff April 26, 2005
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- If there was any hope among Haitians that the departure of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide would lead to a better life, it has largely vanished during a year marked by violence, unrelenting extreme poverty, and crumbling health and educational services.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/04/26/in_haiti_hope_for_democracy_future_wanes/
Man who used billboards to get liver dies
April 26, 2005
HOUSTON -- A man who got a new liver by advertising on billboards has died eight months after a transplant.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/04/26/man_who_used_billboards_to_get_liver_dies/
Violence in the USA is escalating. Hopelessness, religious passion leading to and justifying crime.
Teacher, husband dead in apparent murder-suicide
By Associated Press April 26, 2005
WOBURN -- Two people are dead in what Woburn police are calling an apparent murder-suicide
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/04/26/two_dead_in_apparent_murder_suicide/
Bodies of two toddlers found in Ga. pond
By Errin Haines, Associated Press Writer April 26, 2005
WARRENTON, Ga. -- For two days, dozens of law enforcement officers combed the east Georgia woods searching for two toddlers who disappeared from their lakeside house. In the end, Jonah Payne, 3, and his 2-year-old sister, Nicole, were found a few hundred yards away -- in a sanitation pond that was in the area of the initial search in rural Warren County.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/04/26/bodies_of_two_toddlers_found_in_ga_pond_1114516842/
Man, woman found shot dead in a Woburn apartment complex
April 26, 2005
WOBURN, Mass. -- Police called to the Hillcrest Arms complex in Woburn found the bodies of a man and woman in one of the apartments, an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/04/26/man_woman_found_shot_dead_in_a_woburn_apartment_complex/
NYC fire kills 3 boys from same family
By Sam Dolnick, Associated Press Writer April 26, 2005
NEW YORK -- Two teenage brothers and their 7-year-old nephew were killed in an apartment fire that authorities believe may have been sparked by a stove left on for three days -- a custom observed during Passover in some Orthodox Jewish communities.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/04/26/nyc_fire_kills_3_boys_from_same_family/
India Court Finds Seven Guilty in U.S Center Attack
April 26, 2005
CALCUTTA, India (Reuters) - An Indian court convicted seven men Tuesday for killing five policemen who were guarding U.S. government offices in the eastern city of Calcutta more than three years ago, an official said.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/04/26/india_court_finds_seven_guilty_in_us_center_attack/
Texas House OKs amendment on gay marriage
By Brandi Grissom, Associated Press Writer April 26, 2005
AUSTIN, Texas -- House members who approved a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage got a cool reception from one constituent -- 10-year-old Kimberly Norman.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/04/26/texas_house_oks_amendment_on_gay_marriage/
Accused terror leader denies bin Laden tie
By Daniel Woolls, Associated Press Writer April 26, 2005
MADRID, Spain -- Al-Qaida's suspected leader in Spain denied that he was a follower of Osama bin Laden in a second day of testimony Tuesday at his trial on charges he helped organize the Sept. 11 attacks.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/04/26/accused_terror_leader_denies_bin_laden_tie/
EU Pledges to Protect Rights in Anti-Terror Fight
By Marie-Louise Moller April 26, 2005
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will put protecting human rights at the heart of its fight against terrorism, the EU's top justice official pledged on Tuesday as watchdogs highlighted abuses inside the 25-nation bloc.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/04/26/eu_pledges_to_protect_rights_in_anti_terror_fight/
Michael Moore Today
(I don't know who designed this website or maintains it but there is never a problem with it and it downloads easily with dial-up. Great webpage Mike !)
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Four marines were killed in this Humvee with jury-rigged armor when it was struck by a car bomb in Ramadi last May.
Bloodied Marines Sound Off About Want of Armor and Men;
Bloodied Marines Sound Off About Want of Armor and Men
By Michael Moss / New York Times
On May 29, 2004, a station wagon that Iraqi insurgents had packed with C-4 explosives blew up on a highway in Ramadi, killing four American marines who died for lack of a few inches of steel.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2371
"We complained about it every day, to anybody we could. They told us they were listening, but we didn't see it."
Saga of Echo Company
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2005/04/25/international/20050425_MARINES_FEATURE.html
Terrified US soldiers are still killing civilians with impunity, while the dead go uncounted
By Patrick Cockburn / The Independent
An American patrol roared past us with the soldiers gesturing furiously with their guns for traffic to keep back on an overpass in central Baghdad. A black car with three young men in it did not stop in time and a soldier fired several shots from his machine gun into its engine.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2375
Ethics Rules on Travel for House Members
New York Times
Following are excerpts from the House of Representatives' ethics rules on travel:
A member, officer or employee may accept necessary expenses from a private source for travel in connection with official duties - including, for example, to give a speech or engage in fact-finding - subject to the following restrictions.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2378
In Show of Support, Bush to Give DeLay AF1 Flight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a show of support, President Bush will give embattled House of Representatives Republican leader Tom DeLay an Air Force One ride to Washington from Texas on Tuesday, a White House spokesman said.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2379
Dispatch: One Man's Lone Stand
There is a man in Albuquerque who stands every day for a better America.
By Stewart Nusbaumer
This is the second in a three-part series of dispatches from New Mexico. The first dispatch: Is The House of Bush Collapsing?
Albuquerque, New Mexico -- I would see him every afternoon standing by the road near the entrance to the University of New Mexico. He would be holding a sign, the number would change almost daily, but the words remained the same. Today the sign reads: 1,737 How Many’s Too Many? There is another sign, this one resting on the sidewalk and taped to a light pole: Honk For Peace. I did, every time that I passed. Today, however, I decided to stop.
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1060
Hybrid car sales double.
By DEE-ANN DURBIN
The Associated Press
DETROIT Apr 25, 2005 — Hybrid vehicle sales nearly doubled in the United States last year as gas prices soared and a wider variety of models attracted consumers.
New hybrid vehicle registrations totaled 83,153 in 2004, an 81 percent increase over the year before, according to data released Monday by R.L. Polk & Co., which collects and interprets automotive data.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=699701&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
Bolton's British Problem; Fresh complaints of bullying dog an embattled nominee.
By Michael Hirsh / Newsweek
May 2 issue - Colin Powell plainly didn't like what he was hearing. At a meeting in London in November 2003, his counterpart, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, was complaining to Powell about John Bolton, according to a former Bush administration official who was there. Straw told the then Secretary of State that Bolton, Powell's under secretary for arms control, was making it impossible to reach allied agreement on Iran's nuclear program. Powell turned to an aide and said, "Get a different view on [the Iranian problem]. Bolton is being too tough."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2376
Records: Writer at White House 196 Times
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A conservative writer who quit his job covering President Bush amid criticism for his pointedly political questions visited the White House 196 times in two years, the Secret Service has disclosed.
James D. Guckert, who wrote under the name Jeff Gannon, was Washington bureau chief for Talon News, a conservative online news outlet associated with another Web site, GOPUSA. Guckert posed questions with conservative overtones, attracting scrutiny from liberal bloggers who linked Guckert with online domain addresses suggestive of gay pornography. Guckert resigned in February.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2381
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Any Kerry Supporters On The Line?
The Bush Administration punishes some Democrat backers
By Viveca Novak and John Dickerson / Time
The Inter-American Telecommunication Commission meets three times a year in various cities across the Americas to discuss such dry but important issues as telecommunications standards and spectrum regulations. But for this week's meeting in Guatemala City, politics has barged onto the agenda. At least four of the two dozen or so U.S. delegates selected for the meeting, sources tell TIME, have been bumped by the White House because they supported John Kerry's 2004 campaign.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2367
Reports: Italy, U.S. Differ on Agent Death
By Frances D'Emilio / Associated Press
ROME -- Italy and the United States disagree over the findings of an investigation into the accidental shooting death by U.S. soldiers of an Italian intelligence agent in Baghdad, news reports said Monday.
One report said Italians on the panel were refusing to sign off on the U.S. conclusions.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2373
Democrats Hit Bush on Gas Prices, Energy Plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush should not be forced to ask for favors from Saudi Arabia to help lower near-record prices at American gas pumps, a senior Democratic congressman said on Saturday.
U.S. Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts blamed the Bush administration's "failed energy policy" for the high cost of oil and called for a plan that focused on renewable technologies, energy efficiency and conservation rather than an expansion of oil and gas drilling in the United States.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2349
Dems: Energy Bill Would Raise Gas Prices
By Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The energy bill that passed the House on Thursday will raise gasoline prices and subsidize oil companies but fail to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil, Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., said Saturday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2350
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