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History…
1607, the English colony at Jamestown, Va., was founded; it is the first permanent English settlement in America.
1842, composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, who collaborated with Sir William Gilbert in writing 14 comic operas, was born in London.
1918: The first U.S. airmail stamps, with a picture of an airplane and costing 24 cents, are introduced.
1954, President Eisenhower signed into law the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Act.
1958, Vice President Nixon's limousine was battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela.
Born...
1950 Stevie Wonder, singer and songwriter
1857, Sir Ronald Ross, entomologist
1914, Joe Louis, American boxer. He was born Joseph Louis Barrow near Lafayette, Alabama. Louis won his first professional contest by a knockout in 1934. He won the professional heavyweight championship of the world in June 1937, defeating the American boxer James Jack Braddock by a knockout. During his professional boxing career, Louis compiled 68 victories and three defeats. His 68 victories included 54 by knockout and 14 by decision, while his three losses included two by knockout and one by decision. Louis's first loss came in 1936, to the former world champion, the German boxer Max Schmeling. The Nazis equated Schmeling's victory over Louis to a validation of Nazi superiority over democracy. The two boxers fought again in a 1938 rematch. Louis won the bout in one round, and Americans celebrated the victory of democracy. After the second Schmeling fight, Louis became a hero for the World War II war effort, gave inspirational speeches, and helped with recruiting.
Missing in Action
1968 SMITH DONALD G. AKRON PA 01/01/69 RELEASED
1969 AIKEN LARRY JAMAICA NY 07/10/69 RECOVERED FROM VC HOSPITAL DECEASED
1969 BESSOR BRUCE C. FAIRFAX VA
1969 BROOKS JOHN H. BRYANT POND ME
1969 MASUDA ROBERT S. SAN JOSE CA POSS THROWN INTO WELL
1969 MUNOZ DAVID L. LOS ANGELES CA POSS THROWN INTO WELL
1969 SCOTT MIKE J. NEWARK NJ
1970 HUBERTH ERIC J. THOUSAND OAKS CA SURVIVAL UNLIKELY-SAR
1970 TRENT ALAN R. WADSWORTH OH SURVIVAL UNLIKELY-SAR
Journalism at Risk
The Freeman - Cebu, Phillipines
Our advice to journalists: Watch your backs!
That the profession of Journalism is now considered the most dangerous in this country is no longer a joke that we used to crack; more so that this time, the 69th victim to be murdered is no longer a plain journalist or reporter, but a publisher-editor of Starline Times Recorder, Mr. Philip "Ape" Agustin of Dingalan, Aurora Province. As we've already reported in this corner, the average rate of journalists that are murdered in this country is more than one a month and climbing. The big question every journalist is asking in his mind is, who is going to be the 70th murder victim?
What is of grave concern to all of us in the media is, to date of the 69 killings of journalists, no one has been jailed as a result of any investigation by the Philippine National Police (PNP) as if the police doesn't give a hoot whether the perpetrators of these crimes are arrested and prosecuted. At this point, we can only advice our fellow journalists to watch their backs!
The Miami Herald
FLORIDA MARINE AQUARIUM SOCIETY
Tanks for the menageries
The Florida Marine Aquarium Society will hold its 49th annual show this weekend at Fort Lauderdale's War Memorial Auditorium.
BY JERRY BERRIOS
jberrios@herald.com
Miniature fish, domino damsels and a giant hermit crab are on display in Fort Lauderdale this weekend, at the Florida Marine Aquarium Society's 49th annual show.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11633932.htm
Police shooting brings outcry
The fatal shooting of an unarmed Homestead man by a Homestead police officer during a struggle raised questions from witnesses and relatives.
BY BROOKE PRESCOTT AND LUISA YANEZ
bprescott@herald.com
Miami-Dade police and prosecutors are investigating the fatal shooting of an unarmed man by a Homestead police officer who was responding to a disturbance call at a small grocery.
Some witnesses said the officer didn't have to shoot. Homestead police said the man, identified as Jason Williams, 28, refused an order to leave the front of the grocery and then resisted arrest.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11634123.htm
Send a clear signal: Torture not tolerated
OUR OPINION: HOLD PENTAGON TOP BRASS ACCOUNTABLE FOR PRISONER ABUSES
U.S. military leadership is ultimately responsible for the failures that led to abuses of wartime captives in places as far flung as Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantánamo.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said as much after the graphic Abu Ghraib photos surfaced. ''These events occurred on my watch,'' he said. ``I am responsible.''
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/11635074.htm
BROWARD FARMLAND
'Tax cows' still grazing in shade of huge exemptions
A couple of cows can buy huge savings for developers through tax breaks meant to protect farmland in western Broward County.
BY SAMUEL P. NITZE AND BETH REINHARD
snitze@herald.com
Part of Ronald Bergeron's estate on the quiet fringes of western Broward County encompasses a 3,900-square-foot home, tennis court, decorative waterfall and manicured lawn.
His 2004 tax bill on those seven acres: $3,775.99.
The wealthy builder and rancher pays less than the average Broward homeowner by claiming most of the land as cow pasture. Maybe not for long.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11635058.htm
Man breaks into bedroom, attempts assault on woman
By MARIA HERRERA
mherrera@herald.com
Miami-Dade Police detectives are investigating an attempted sexual assault on a 26-year-old woman in the area of Southwest 142nd Avenue and 96th Street around 3 a.m. Wednesday.
The victim told police she was awakened by a man who had broken into her bedroom and tried to sexually assault her before fleeing the home.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11639115.htm
Free-trade effort gets Bush support
President Bush joined the leaders of six Latin American countries and promised to aggressively push for the passage of a free-trade bill.
BY PABLO BACHELET
pbachelet@herald.com
WASHINGTON - Bringing the full weight of the presidency to bear on efforts to approve a contentious free trade bill with six small Latin American countries, President Bush Thursday promised for the first time to personally lobby in favor of the pact before Congress.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11635061.htm
HURRICANE CLAIMS
State probes storm payouts
Insurance regulators are investigating 42 cases of suspected fraud in hurricane-related damage claims filed with Florida's insurer of last resort.
BY JACK DOLAN
jdolan@herald.com
State officials are investigating 42 cases of suspected fraud in hurricane-related damage claims filed last year with Citizens Property Insurance, the state-run insurer of last resort.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11634122.htm
Florida gained jobs. Texas benefited. North Carolina doesn’t know anything about base closings. The decisions are strongly political with few exceptions. Alabama is practically closed down. Alabama is really going to suffer.
Southcom secure, Homestead gets more warplanes under base realignment plan
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
crosenberg@herald.com
Southcom remains secure, Homestead gets nine new warplanes and Eglin Air Force Base and Jacksonville naval facilities expand under Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's plan to realign military installations worldwide.
Overall, Florida gains 2,757 jobs but the Pensacola Naval Air Station stands to be the big loser -- with a training program, three-star admiral and other functions moving to other states.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11639233.htm
List of proposed military base closings
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A list of military facilities the Defense Department recommended for closure Friday:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11638919.htm
List of U.S. bases recommended for gains
Associated Press
A list of military facilities the Defense Department recommended for gains on Friday:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11639167.htm
The Jordan Times
Insurgents unleash more deadly bombings in Iraq despite US offensive
BAGHDAD (AP) — Six car bombs exploded and two senior military and police officials were gunned down Thursday in a string of attacks that killed at least 21 Iraqis and wounded 90. The violence came despite a major US offensive in western Iraq, where fierce clashes were reported with insurgents on the outskirts of the Syrian border town of Qaim.
Associated Press Television News (APTN) footage showed plumes of smoke rising from the town, about 320 kilometres northwest of Baghdad, from which families were fleeing in trucks packed with luggage.
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news1.htm
Europeans warn Iran not to resume 'sensitive' work
Agencies
France, Britain and Germany have warned Iran they will break off talks and join Washington in seeking UN Security Council action if Tehran makes good on its threats to resume atomic work, EU officials said on Thursday.
The foreign ministers of the European Union's three biggest powers sent a strongly-worded letter to Hassan Rohani, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, warning that resuming potentially arms-related nuclear work "would bring the negotiating process to an end," an EU diplomat quoted the letter as saying. "The consequences
http://www.jordantimes.com/fri/news/news2.htm
The Cheney Observer
Charles Cutter
Impeachment Level Event
By Charles Cutter (www.cuttersway.com)
May 13, 2005, 07:10
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A secret document from the British government, reported May 1 by the Times of London, tells us what we’ve known all along. George W. Bush was determined to invade Iraq long before seeking any congressional approval; he manipulated intelligence to justify his desire for war; and he was lying - to the American people, to the United Nations, to the entire world - when he proclaimed that his goal was Iraqi disarmament and that war could be avoided.
The document is the record of a meeting held on July 23, 2002 - eight months before the invasion of Iraq - involving Prime Minister Tony Blair and his key advisors. Reporting on his meeting with CIA director George Tenet, one advisor explained: "Military action was now seen as inevitable…Bush wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action…the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
http://magic-city-news.com/article_3854.shtml
Don't demand answers; demand resignation
by Jim Smith
The Daily Barometer
Tony Blair has been taking quite a beating lately in the United Kingdom. Despite having just won a third term as prime minister, his party has been dealt a severe blow, resulting in the loss of nearly 100 seats in Parliament. Responsible for this setback is the recent leak of a top-secret U.K. internal government memo, which recorded the minutes of a meeting between British Prime Minister Blair and other key figures in British intelligence and military outfits, and the very embarrassing content therein.
The text of the memo is available online, as it appeared in full in the London Times edition of May 1, and it sounds awfully exciting ... very cloak and dagger. It begins with the warning "secret and strictly personal -- U.K. eyes only."
http://barometer.orst.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/05/12/4283853a7655f
U.S., U.K. Voters Don't Care About Credibility
Times Change, So Do Values
Helen Thomas, Hearst White House columnist
POSTED: 12:03 pm EDT May 12, 2005
Funny thing about America and Great Britain. I once thought their people cared about the credibility and accountability of their leaders, especially when it comes to war and peace. But now I note with regret that the voters in both nations have other priorities.
I'm talking about the fact that the leaders of both nations chose to invade Iraq for flimsy reasons that were deliberately drummed up to convince their people that a third-world country was a threat to them. Didn't the Brits say Saddam Hussein could attack in 45 minutes?
The historic election of Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair for a third term is a stunning
http://www.channelcincinnati.com/helenthomas/4481363/detail.html
Bush nomination of Pryor advances
Carl Hulse and Neil A. Lewis, New York Times
May 13, 2005 CONG0513
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a fourth contested federal appeals court nominee Thursday as Senate leaders engaged in tense maneuvering over judicial candidates.
The panel voted 10-8 along party lines to approve William Pryor's nomination to a seat on the federal appeals court in Atlanta.
In an exchange on the Senate floor that lasted more than an hour, Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada offered to allow uncontested votes on three appellate court nominees from Michigan, raising to four the number that Democrats said this week they would not block by filibuster. "I say to my Republican colleagues, do you want to confirm judges or do you just want to provoke a fight?" he said.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5401195.html
Bush Urges Central American Trade Pact
By NEDRA PICKLER
The Associated Press
Thursday, May 12, 2005; 4:08 PM
WASHINGTON -- President Bush tried Thursday to break congressional resistance to a free-trade agreement with Central American nations by arguing that open markets will help improve security and promote freedom in the Western hemisphere.
Bush welcomed the presidents of the Dominican Republic and the five Central American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua to the White House for a private Oval Office meeting and a public show of unity in the Rose Garden.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/12/AR2005051200706.html
Crony Capitalists
by Ken Sanders
www.dissidentvoice.org
May 12, 2005
On Tuesday, May 10, 2005, and without a hint of shame, the Bush administration awarded Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) $72 million in bonuses for its "very good" and "excellent" work in Iraq.
Excuse me?
Just two months ago, the Justice Department indicted a KBR manager for "major fraud against the United States" under the same LOGCAP contract for which KBR is now being awarded bonuses. According to the indictment, former KBR manager Jeff Mazon billed the U.S. more than $5.5 million for $680,000 worth of work. In other words, Mazon inflated KBR's bill by over 700 percent.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May05/Sanders0512.htm
I TOLD YOU SO !!!
More money down the drain: War cost bleeds states, cities
Author: Susan Webb
People's Weekly World Newspaper, 05/12/05 11:15
As U.S. casualties in Iraq topped 1,600, the U.S. Congress approved another $82 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and related spending, with the bulk going to the Iraq occupation.
This additional “supplementary” funding brings total U.S. spending for the Iraq war to nearly $210 billion.
Two years after George W. Bush declared “mission accomplished,” the ever-ballooning cost of the Iraq war is hitting home for U.S. states and cities.
Recent studies by the National Priorities Project show the $210 billion war is sucking $3.2 billion in tax dollars from Tennessee, where the governor recently cut over 320,000 people from the state’s low-income health program, TennCare. John Zirker Sr., a co-founder of the Homeless Power Project in Nashville, said those cuts didn’t have to happen. The “billions and billions going to Iraq are taking away from our communities,” he told the World.
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/6996/1/269
THE DECISION STREAM
The Cheney Observer Revisited
Suit rips way colleges are run
BY MARC CAPUTO
mcaputo@herald.com
TALLAHASSEE - A group of former political heavyweights sued the state's higher education system Tuesday, saying public universities are being governed in an unconstitutional ''pork barrel'' fashion like a ``banana republic.''
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10470913.htm
Cheney hunts ducks in Lowcountry
Associated Press
WALTERBORO, S.C. - Vice President Dick Cheney made a special trip to South Carolina to hunt ducks in the ACE Basin with a group of elected officials from the state, Colleton County authorities say.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/10472769.htm
Letter: Think peace, and bring troops home from Iraq
In this spiritual time of the year, and after the religious showing in the November election, it would seem appropriate to actively seek peace in the horrible war against Iraq.
http://www.pressconnects.com/today/opinion/stories/op122204s137490.shtml
Bush Administration Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Ten Commandments Displays
Gina Holland, The Associated Press
12-10-2004
The Bush administration has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to allow religious Ten Commandments displays on government property, adding a federal view on a major church-state case that justices will deal with early next year.
The government has weighed in before in religion cases at the high court, including one earlier this year that challenged the words "under God" in the classroom recitation of the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance.
The government supported a California school district in that case. Now, it is backing two Kentucky counties that had framed copies of the Ten Commandments in their courthouses.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued McCreary and Pulaski counties, claiming the displays were an unconstitutional promotion of religion. The group won.
Justices will hear arguments, probably in February, in the counties' appeal and in a second case involving a Texas homeless man who wants a 6-foot granite monument removed from the state Capitol grounds.
The Bush administration's top Supreme Court lawyer, Paul Clement, told justices in Wednesday's filing that Ten Commandments displays are common around the nation -- and in the Court's own building, the Capitol and national monuments.
"Reproductions and representations of the Ten Commandments have been commonly employed across the country to symbolize both the rule of law itself, as well as the role of religion in the development of American law," Clement wrote.
Clement said the displays are important in educating people "about the nation's history and celebrating its heritage."
The Supreme Court banned the posting of Ten Commandments in public schools in 1980.
Clement argued that courthouses are different from schools and often have "historic symbols of law."
Douglas Kmiec, a Pepperdine University law professor and former legal counsel to President Reagan and the first President George H.W. Bush, said that the government had been expected to file arguments in the case. "It would have been politically untenable and legally timid if the government's chief court litigator had not done so," he said.
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Scalia in shul: State must back religion
The Jerusalem Post
Uriel Heilman
Nov. 23, 2004
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia used an appearance at an Orthodox synagogue in New York to assail the notion that the US government should maintain a neutral stance toward religion, saying it has always supported religion and the courts should not try to change that.
Speaking at a conference on religious freedom in America on Monday hosted by Manhattan's Congregation Shearith Israel, the oldest Jewish congregation in North America, Scalia said that the founding fathers never advocated the separation of church and state and that America has prospered because of its religiousness.
"There is something wrong with the principle of neutrality," said Scalia, considered among the court's staunchest conservatives. Neutrality as envisioned by the founding fathers, Scalia said, "is not neutrality between religiousness and nonreligiousness; it is between denominations of religion."
Scalia cited early examples of support of religion in the public sphere by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, the last of whom went so far as to argue at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 for the institution of daily prayers.
Today, Scalia noted, the government exempts houses of worship from real-estate tax, pays for chaplains in Congress, state legislatures, and the military, and sanctions the opening of every Supreme Court session with the cry, "God save the United States!"
"To say that the Constitution allows the court to sweep away that long-standing attitude toward religion seems to me just wrong," he said. "I do think we're forgetting our roots."
Scalia's speech, at a conference marking the 350th anniversary both of Jews in America and of Shearith Israel, elicited a standing ovation.
Scalia was nominated to the nine-member Supreme Court in 1986 by president Ronald Reagan to fill the seat vacated by William Rehnquist, who became the chief justice after Warren Berger retired. Now, with speculation that Rehnquist is on the verge of retirement after a recent diagnosis of thyroid cancer, Scalia may be the leading candidate to take his place.
It is widely believed that President George W. Bush will appoint a staunch conservative as chief justice if he gets the chance, and the only other Supreme Court justice considered sufficiently conservative is Clarence Thomas, appointed by president George H.W. Bush.
Originally from New York, Scalia wore a black skull cap as he addressed the congregation with his back to the ark.
"The founding fathers never used the phrase 'separation of church and state,'" he said, arguing that rigid separation of religion and state -- as in Europe, for example -- would be bad for America and bad for the Jews.
"Do you think it's going to make Jews safer? It didn't prove that way in Europe," he said.
"You will not hear the word 'God' cross the lips of a French premier or an Italian head of state," Scalia said. "But that has never been the American way."
Most establishment Jewish groups, however, are staunch supporters of church-state separation. Earlier this month, for example, the American Jewish Committee was part of a coalition that won a lawsuit to block a Florida program allowing state aid to go to parochial schools. In 2000, the Anti-Defamation League led several Jewish groups in criticizing vice presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Lieberman for talking too much about God on the campaign trail.
Scalia said expunging religion from public life would be bad for America, and that the courts, instead, should come around to most Americans' way of thinking and to the founding fathers' vision for the US. He noted that after a San Francisco court last year barred the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools because it includes the phrase "under God," Congress voted nearly unanimously to condemn the decision and uphold use of the phrase.
"I suggest that our jurisprudence should comport with our actions," he said.
If America's approach toward religion does change, it should be through democratic process, not "judicial fiat." America believes in "a personal God who takes an interest in the affairs of man," Scalia said. Quoting a line from Psalms that says the faithful will surely prosper, he added, "I think it is no accident that America has prospered."
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GOP Activist Calls for Halt To Federation Donations
By E.J. KESSLER
December 10, 2004
A Jewish GOP leader is calling on his fellow Republicans to withdraw their financial support from Jewish charitable institutions — especially federations — that express "hostility toward Republicans" or pursue "a differing political agenda."
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=kessler200412081113
Tempest Tossed
For Utah naturalist and author Terry Tempest Williams, 2004 was another year of speaking dangerously.
Few students taking literary journalism at the University of Utah missed question No. 7 on a mid-October current events quiz.
Terry Tempest Williams—one of the state’s most celebrated authors—is a beloved U alumna. When news broke that the president of Florida Gulf Coast University had led the charge to postpone a speech by Williams until after the Nov. 2 election, astute observers couldn’t resist drawing parallels to a similar incident unfolding in their own back yard.
Beehive state conservatives cried foul when student body officers at Utah Valley State College invited Fahrenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore to speak as part of his 30-day, 60-city “Slacker Uprising” tour. But the desert soil kicked up by Moore’s visit did little but add street credibility to his already questionable hygiene. Moore came, spoke and left. He threw underwear and ramen noodles at the mostly student audience, but that was it.
http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2004/feat_2004-12-23.cfm
2004 The Year In Review
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Then there was the Mary Cheney issue. After Vice President Dick Cheney suggested in a campaign stop that as the father of a lesbian he did not think a constitutional amendment was necessary. When Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry brought up Mary Cheney's name in the third Presidential Debate Republicans railed. Mary's mother, Lynn Cheney, accused Kerry of pulling a "cheap and tawdry political trick."
http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/specialcoverage/2004.htm
WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE????
Rokkasho reprocessor begins tests with depleted uranium
AOMORI (Kyodo) Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. on Tuesday began tests using depleted uranium at its nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant in Aomori Prefecture, taking a step toward introducing a key component of the nation's nuclear fuel cycle program.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20041222a1.htm
Suit rips way colleges are run
BY MARC CAPUTO
mcaputo@herald.com
TALLAHASSEE - A group of former political heavyweights sued the state's higher education system Tuesday, saying public universities are being governed in an unconstitutional ''pork barrel'' fashion like a ``banana republic.''
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10470913.htm
Bush publicly backs Rumsfeld despite mounting opposition
GOING TO BAT: The US president lauded his defense secretary as a `caring fellow' as polls showed most Americans think Rummy should go
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/12/22/2003216243
December 22nd, 2004 1:19 pm
Michigan Congressman Seeks Exit Poll Data
By Seth Sutel / Associated Press
NEW YORK - The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee has asked The Associated Press and five broadcast networks to turn over raw exit poll data collected on Election Day so that any discrepancies between the data and the certified election results can be investigated.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=677
FBI files implicate Bush in Iraqi jail abuses
From Tim Reid in Washington
VIOLENT abuse of prisoners by US forces in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay was widespread as recently as four months ago, according to documents released yesterday.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1411944,00.html
The Boston Globe
Disbarment urged for 3 in scheme
Lawyers said to conspire to discredit judge
By Jonathan Saltzman and Ralph Ranalli, Globe Staff May 13, 2005
Three well-known lawyers accused of orchestrating an elaborate scheme to discredit a former Superior Court judge ''brought shame and disrepute" to the legal community and should be disbarred, a hearing officer for the state recommended yesterday, in one of Massachusetts' most closely watched attorney discipline cases ever.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/05/13/disbarment_urged_for_3_in_scheme/
Mandela challenges selective colleges to widen opportunity for needy students
Gets honorary degree from Amherst College
By Tatsha Robertson, Globe Staff May 13, 2005
NEW YORK -- Looking fragile but dignified, Nelson Mandela, the former imprisoned nationalist who rose to become South Africa's president, yesterday challenged selective colleges in the United States to open their doors to more students of modest means.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/05/13/mandela_challenges_selective_colleges_to_widen_opportunity_for_needy_students/
Study affirms aggressive treatment for breast cancer
By Rob Stein, Washington Post May 13, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Chemotherapy and hormone treatment have dramatically reduced the death rate from early-stage breast cancer, according to a major international analysis that indicates the often-arduous regimes do cure many women.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/05/13/study_affirms_aggressive_treatment_for_breast_cancer/
Antitax activist says he got $1.5m from tribes
Set up policy talks with president
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff May 13, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Antitax activist Grover Norquist said yesterday that his organization has received nearly $1.5 million from Indian tribes in the past five years and that he arranged for tribal leaders to attend meetings to discuss tax policy with President Bush every year for the past four years.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/05/13/antitax_activist_says_he_got_15m_from_tribes/
Losing hearts and minds
By Derrick Z. Jackson May 13, 2005
WHEN THE Abu Ghraib prison scandal exploded a year ago, President Bush said it was ''an insult to the Iraqi people and an affront to the most basic standards of morality and decency." He said, ''These humiliating acts do not reflect our character." He also said, ''American soldiers and civilians on the ground have come to know and respect the citizens of Iraq."
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/05/13/losing_hearts_and_minds/
Rumsfeld reduces scope of military base closings
Sees $48.8b savings over next 20 years
By Robert Burns, Associated Press May 13, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Military base closings will be less severe than expected, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld indicated yesterday, saying that he had scaled down his recommendations because the military had less surplus space than once estimated.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/05/13/rumsfeld_reduces_scope_of_military_base_closings/
Deadly risks lurk for Marines in western offensive
Troops aid comrades after blast hits vehicle
By Solomon Moore, Los Angeles Times May 13, 2005
ABU HARDAN, Iraq -- The Marines of Kilo Company were on the fourth day of an offensive to rid western Iraq of insurgents, but they had not seen much action Wednesday until a loud boom rocked this Euphrates River village, followed by the frantic screams of young troops.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/05/13/deadly_risks_lurk_for_marines_in_western_offensive/
Bombings, other violence kill 21 in Iraq
Baghdad crowd vents fury over bloodshed
By Antonio Castaneda, Associated Press May 13, 2005
BAGHDAD -- A car bomb exploded in a crowded commercial district yesterday, turning the sky gray as shops and restaurants caught fire in the deadliest in a string of attacks that killed 21 people and included the assassinations of a general and a colonel on their way to work.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/05/13/bombings_other_violence_kill_21_in_iraq/
There has been an entire USA military unit destroyed in the last campaign by the USA military. From this link it looks like the 3rd Battalion which has at least ten recent deaths listed here. The tragedy is that many if not all these members come from one town in the USA. National Guard Units tend to be that way. It is what makes this conflict so tragic. Different form any other USA operation the deaths that take place can frequently be from one town.
There have been 1,792 coalition troop deaths, 1,613 Americans, 88 Britons, 10 Bulgarians, one Dane, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Hungarian, 21 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of May 12, 2005.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/2005.05.html
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