The newspaper section today will be abbreviated. Crunched for time.
Rooster "Crowing"
"Okeydoke"
History…
Born…
1898, Golda Meir, premier of Israel
1919, Pete Seeger, folk singer
1921, Sugar Ray Robinson, boxer
1928, James Brown, gospel-soul singer, songwriter, and bandleader
1841, New Zealand is proclaimed a British colony.
1802, Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city.
1916, Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.
1921, West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.
1933, Nellie T. Ross became the first female director of the U.S. Mint.
1934, Famous Funnies, the first comic book to go on sale in the United States, hits newsstand.
1937, American author Margaret Mitchell is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Gone With the Wind, her epic novel about life in the south during the Civil War.
1945, during World War II, Japanese forces on Okinawa launched their only major counter-offensive, but failed to break the American lines.
1948, the Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.
1971, anti-war protesters began four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., aimed at shutting down the nation's capital.
1979, Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher was chosen to become Britain's first female prime minister as the Tories ousted the incumbent Labor government in parliamentary elections.
1986, in NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff, forcing safety officers to destroy it by remote control.
Missing in Action
April 30…
1967 ABBOTT JOSEPH S. ALLOWAY NJ 02/18/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1967 ABBOTT ROBERT A. DECKERVILLE MI 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1967 BROTZ DANNY R. DETROIT MI 05/67 REMAINS RECOVERED
1967 JOHNSON HAROLD E. BLAKESBURG IA 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 MC PHEE RANDY NEAL LONG BEACH CA
1967 PRESCOTT MILTON E JR BLUE ISLAND IL REMAINS RETURNED UNKNOWN DATE REMOVED FROM LISTS AFTER 01/70
1967 THORSNESS LEO K. STORDEN MN 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1968 GUILLERMIN LOUIS F. WESTCHESTER PA
1968 PIETSCH ROBERT E. CLEVELAND OH
1968 STAEHLI BRUCE W. CROW POINT LAKE IN
1972 SEAGRAVES MELVIN DOUGLAS LUBBOCK TX
1974 MC COMBS PHILLIP A. 05/74 RELEASED
1974 SPRAGENS JOHN 05/74 RELEASED
1975 GAY ARLO N. 09/76 LEFT SAIGON
May 1 ...
1967 BAILEY JOHN HOWARD DOCENA AL
1967 CORFIELD STAN L. GALLUP NM
1967 GAUGHAN ROGER CONRAD BELCHERTOWN MA
1967 GUAJARDO HILARIO H. SAN ANTONIO TX
1967 SMITH CARL ARTHUR ATTICA NY
1967 SOULIER DUWAYNE MILWAUKEE WI
1968 GERVAIS DONALD P. CLARKSVILLE TN
1968 MARTIN RICHARD D. HONOLULU HI
1968 WHITMIRE WARREN T. JR. FAIRFAX VA
May 3…
MOORE RALPH E. INDIANAPOLIS IN
1968 AVERY ROBERT DOUGLAS MORGANTOWN NC DID NOT RETURN FROM MISSION
1968 CLEM THOMAS D. NEW PARIS IN
1968 CHANEY ARTHUR F. VIENNA VA
1968 CLARK STEPHEN W. PLYMOUTH CA
1968 MC KAIN BOBBY L. GARDEN CITY KS
1968 TERRY ORAL R. MASCOUTAH IL
1970 CHURCHILL CARL R. BETHEL ME
1970 CONAWAY LAWRENCE Y. COLUMBUS OH
1972 AYRES TIMOTHY R. HOUSTON TX 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1972 BRACY LESTER JR. 08/17/72 REMAINS RECOVERED ID 06/12/74 NOT ON WALL SP BRACEY
1972 HOPPER JOSEPH CLIFFORD MEMPHIS TN 08/72 REMAINS RECOVERED
1972 MC DONALD JOSEPH W. WAPPINGER FALLS NY POSSIBLY CAPTURED
1972 MC IVER ALEXANDER SANTA MONICA CA 08/72 REMAINS RECOVERED
1972 SIENICKI THEODORE S. IRVINGTON NJ 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1972 SLATER FREDDIE LEON BALTIMORE MD 08/72 REMAINS RECOVERED
1972 UNGER DON LEE LAKE WORTH FL 08/72 REMAINS RECOVERED
1972 WILLIAMS DAVID B. LAFAYETTE LA REMAINS RETURNED 10/26/89
1972 WIDERQUIST THOMAS CARL MORTON GROVE IL 08/72 REMAINS RECOVERED
1973 MOREAU RON 05/73 RELEASED
NPR
Fed Expected to Push Interest Rates Higher
Morning Edition, May 3, 2005 · Federal Reserve governors meet Tuesday, and they're likely to raise interest rates again. Renee Montagne looks at how local economies in Arizona, Louisiana and Oregon are doing in the meantime. And David Wessel of the Wall Street Journal tells Steve Inskeep the Fed faces a delicate balance: jump-starting a sluggish economy without causing inflation.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4628426
Two American Warplanes Disappear in Iraq
by Philip Reeves
Morning Edition, May 3, 2005 · Two U.S. Marine fighter jets have disappeared while flying in Iraq. The body of one pilot has been found. The U.S. military says there is no immediate evidence that hostile fire contributed. Meanwhile, violence broke out near the Syrian border, and Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's struggles continue as he tries to complete a cabinet.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4628420
Al Jazeera
Western officials secretly met with Arab opposition
U.S. and European officials held secret meetings with opposition groups from eastern Arab countries in Morocco, official sources said.
The meetings started on April 17 and ended on April 21, the sources said, adding that the media was banned from covering the talks.
The sources, who demanded anonymity, refused to identify the U.S. or the European officials who participated in the talks, but said that they are influential figures, including researchers, politicians and reporters.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8132
Lebanese PM: Syrian army still has some soldiers on Lebanese soil
In an interview the Lebanese Prime Minister Nagib Migati said the Syrian army still has soldiers "within Lebanese territory”.
"Deir al-Aashaer is on the border between the two countries, but we are certain that the Syrian position falls within Lebanese territory," Miqati told the French newspaper Le Monde, referring to a site in the eastern Bekaa valley.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8198
Israeli minister Shransky resigns over Gaza withdrawal
Israeli cabinet minister Natan Sharansky, who President Bush cites as an inspiration, resigned on Monday in protest over the planned Gaza withdrawal, saying the pullout is a "tragic mistake" that will encourage Palestinian resistance and deepen the rift in Israeli society.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8149
U.S. to withdraw troops from Iraq in December - Report
According to The Daily Telegraph, a classified report is being circulated amongst senior officers in which the American military has set December as a target for handing over responsibility for security to the Iraqi army and police units.
It is the first time that a date has been put forward for the phasing back of U.S. involvement in the country since more than two years.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8172
Israel to be sued by slain British film makers family
It emerged today that the family of the award-winning British film maker shot dead in Gaza by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) is taking civil action against the Israeli government.
James Miller was making a documentary about Palestinian children in the Rafah refugee camp when he was murdered by an Israeli soldier in May 2003.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8189
Two U.S. Marine jets and crew reported missing in Iraq
Two U.S. Marine jets from the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier were reported missing while flying in support of operations in Iraq, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
But the body of one American pilot was found by the U.S. military while searching Tuesday for two the Marine fighter jets that disappeared.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=8244
Finding new places to save
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Pasadena Star News
Global warming getting harder to ignore
By Derrick Z. Jackson
FOR more' than four years, President Bush has told us he needs to see the 'sound science' on global warming before joining the rest of the world in combating it. In June 2001, he brushed off criticism of his pullout from the Kyoto Protocol, saying: 'It was not based upon science. The stated mandates in the Kyoto treaty would affect our economy in a negative way.'
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1413,206~11851~2846304,00.html
Reorganization plan promises prison reform
THE immense troubles plaguing California's prison systems can almost all be attributed to a lack of independent, quality leadership. If anything is going to change in state prisons, it will require tough leadership from the top down.
We're cautiously optimistic, then, that the state laid some of the necessary groundwork for that this week in its approval of the prison-system reorganization plan. The Legislature gave final approval Monday to the plan backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1413,206%257E11851%257E2846301,00.html
GOP has issued an Orwellian diktat over 'nuclear option'
By Molly Ivins
I was all set to write a column about the nuclear option the proposal to change the rules of the Senate in order to get President Bush's most questionable judicial appointments through when, lo, word came that there is no nuclear option anymore. It is now called "the constitutional option.'
Who changed it? Why, the Republican Party, of course. Having found that "nuclear option' does not poll well, the Republicans simply decreed the rules change can no longer be described by that name. Further, the Republican Party sent media operatives around to major news organizations to inform them that anyone who fails to obey the new diktat on usage will be demonstrating the dread "liberal bias.'
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1413,206%257E11851%257E2846303,00.html
The New York Times
Pentagon Says Iraq Effort Limits Ability to Fight Other Conflicts
By THOM SHANKER
Published: May 3, 2005
WASHINGTON, May 2 - The concentration of American troops and weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan limits the Pentagon's ability to deal with other potential armed conflicts, the military's highest ranking officer reported to Congress on Monday.
The officer, Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, informed Congress in a classified report that major combat operations elsewhere in the world, should they be necessary, would probably be more protracted and produce higher American and foreign civilian casualties because of the commitment of Pentagon resources in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/politics/03military.html?hp&ex=1115179200&en=8e61d2b8d4bd2e4b&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Cache Explodes in Afghanistan, Killing 34
By CARLOTTA GALL
Published: May 3, 2005
HERAT, Afghanistan, May 2 - A cache of explosives stored at a former commander's house exploded Monday in a village in northern Afghanistan, destroying much of the village, killing 34 people and injuring 16, most of them women and children, local officials said.
A medical team sent to the scene reported seeing 26 bodies prepared for burial before sunset, and 7 more bodies that had been pulled from the rubble, the director of the Civilian Hospital of Pul-i-Khumri, Dr. Muhammad Yusuf Fayez, said in a telephone interview. Another man with serious head injuries died in the hospital in the evening, he said, bringing the total dead to 34.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/international/asia/03afghan.html
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