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History
1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor
1770, Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
1792 Denmark abolishes slave trade
1868, the Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment against him.
1905, actor Henry Fonda was born in Grand Island, Neb.
1960, a Big Four summit conference in Paris collapsed on its opening day as the Soviet Union leveled spy charges against the U.S. in the wake of the U2 incident.
1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
1977, five people were killed when a New York Airways helicopter, idling atop the Pan Am Building in midtown Manhattan, toppled over, sending a huge rotor blade flying.
Missing in Action
1968 CROSSON GERALD J. NEW YORK NY
1968 RICKEL DAVID J. FORT LAUDERDALE FL NO CHUTE OR BEEPER
1968 ROARK ANUND C. SAN DIEGO CA REMAINS RETURNED 5/31/68 ID 11/79
1968 ROMINE ALBERT W. BURLINGAME KS REMAINS RETURNED 5/31/68 ID 11/79
1970 CONNER EDWIN RAY HILLSBORO TX
1970 SKEEN RICHARD ROBERT RIVERSIDE CA
1971 CROOK ELLIOTT PHOENIX AZ
1971 FARLOW CRAIG L. CLEVELAND OH
1971 JACOBSON TIMOTHY J. OAKLAND CA
1971 NOLAN JOSEPH P. JR. OAK PARK IL
Jailed Journalists
INDONESIA: Media freedom under attack as newsmen jailed
Three RI journalists, tried as criminals, jailed for defamation
The Jakarta Post
Friday, May 6, 2005
By Oyos Saroso H.N.
Media freedom in Indonesia is on the brink of ruin, with two senior journalists in Lampung being sentenced to nine months in jail for defamation.
The verdicts on Wednesday are hurtful to democracy, moreover coming on the heels of government efforts to produce a new Criminal Code that will be detrimental to freedom of expression, a legal expert commented.
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=24027
Press Freedom At Its Lowest in Zim
May 6, 2005
Posted to the web May 6, 2005
Ray Matikinye
IF there were repressive pieces of legislation enacted after Independence in 1980 which served to shackle national progress, the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Aippa) certainly ranks among the worst.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200505060010.html
SA journos lobby for end to defamation laws
Basildon Peta
May 06 2005 at 11:20AM
Lusaka - Two veteran South African journalists have launched an ambitious campaign to persuade African governments to rid the continent of "insult and criminal defamation laws" which shield governments from public scrutiny and stifle the work of the media.
Raymond Louw, former editor of the Rand Daily Mail, and journalist-turned-media-consultant Jeanette Minnie, are hopeful that President Thabo Mbeki will help them in getting African governments to commit themselves to scrapping insult laws and criminal defamation before they can be accorded a rating of practising good political governance under the Peer Review Mechanism of the New Partnership for Africa's Development.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=84&art_id=vn20050506072353431C874161
CHINA: CPJ seeks reversal of journalist's 'state secret' conviction
May 6, 2005
TO: His Excellency Hu Jintao
President, People's Republic of China
C/o Embassy of the People's Republic of China
2300 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Via facsimile: (202) 588-0032
Your Excellency:
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the harsh 10-year prison sentence handed to journalist Shi Tao on charges of "illegally providing state secrets to foreigners" after an unfair trial last week. Shi plans to submit an appeal in advance of a May 10 deadline. We call on authorities to drop the state secrets charge against him, which your government has used with disturbing frequency to imprison journalists, and to ensure Shi's immediate and unconditional release.
http://www.cpj.org/protests/05ltrs/China06may05pl.html
Focus on Cuba at the UN Commission on Human Rights
By Tim Anderson - posted Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Amid the many monstrous human rights abuses in the world, most of them committed by imperial armies, the United Nations has recently chosen to focus on Cuba. At issue has been about 70 Cubans who were arrested and jailed in 2003.
These people (variously called “dissidents”, “independent journalists”, and even labelled “prisoners of conscience” by Amnesty USA) were charged and convicted of being paid by the US Government to help overthrow the Cuban Government. None were killed or tortured. More than a dozen have now been released. So why the United Nations focus on Cuba?
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3413
TAKE ACTION! ERITREA: SIGN A PETITION TO SUPPORT JAILED JOURNALISTS
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) is calling for the release of 10 journalists who have been detained in Eritrea since 2001, including Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaac.
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/66569/
Publisher shot dead
Posted 00:01am (Mla time) May 12, 2005
By Tonette Orejas
Inquirer News Service
Editor's Note: Published on page A1 of the May 12, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga—Philip "Apê" Agustin, publisher-editor of Starline Times Recorder, took the last bus from Cabanatuan City and arrived in his hometown, Dingalan, Aurora province, at about 8 p.m. Tuesday.
On that trip, he carried at least 500 copies of his newsweekly's special edition on the alleged missing funds, relief goods and logs in Dingalan town, which was hit by flash floods and landslides last year that left 135 people dead and 56 missing.
http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=36690
JOINT ACTION: IFEX members call on Tunisian government to stop harassing Lotfi Hajji
Français: ACTION COMMUNE : Des membres de l'IFEX appellent les autorités tunisiennes à mettre un terme au harcèlement de Lotfi Hajji
(IFEX-TMG) - The following is a joint declaration by members of the IFEX-TMG:
IFEX members call on Tunisian government to stop harassing Lotfi Hajji
Freedom of expression organisations are calling on the Tunisian authorities to halt their harassment of Lotfi Hajji, President of the small independent Tunisian Journalists' Syndicate (SJT). He was summonsed again to appear before police on 9 May 2005, once more without a given reason.
Pasted from <http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/66601/>
The Reporters Without Borders Fraud
The strong suspicions that have surrounded the dubious and partisan activities of Reporters without Boarders (RSF) were not unfounded. For many years, various critics have denounced the largely political actions of the Parisian entity, particularly with regards to Cuba and Venezuela, whose characteristics that utilizes propaganda is obvious. The positions of RSF against the governments of Havana and Caracas are found in perfect correlation with the political and media war that Washington carries out against the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutionaries.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=45&ItemID=7851
Police stop journalists, politicians from leaving Nepal
Web posted at: 5/15/2005 2:38:35
Source ::: AP
Kathmandu: Police prevented a group of prominent journalists and politicians from boarding a plane yesterday at Katmandu’s airport despite government assurances that travel restrictions had been removed with the lifting of emergency rule last month.
Bishnu Nisthuri, president of the Federation of Nepalese Journalists, his deputy, Mahendra Bista, and 14 prominent politicians were told by police that they could not leave Nepal.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Philippines+%26+South+Asia&month=May2005&file=World_News2005051523835.xml
A Free Press
After Nasser’s iron fist and Sadat’s roundup of dissendent journalists, today’s media professionals enjoy a degree of freedom unprecendented since the Revolution. Here’s how it all went down.
EGYPT HAS LIVED through 25 years of media ups and downs, from the time Sadat put a muzzle on most journalists, to the age of President Hosni Mubarak declaring himself the number-one champion of freedom of the press.
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=2255
Uzbek toll rises amid clash report
Censorship during protests
Journalist watchdog group Reporters Without Borders has expressed concern over the expulsion of journalists from Andijan.
"When the authorities keep journalists away from a conflict zone it is most often to hide abuses committed there. We are very concerned and urge President Islam Karimov to allow our colleagues to cover these events," the group said.
It reported that CNN, NTV and BBC TV were cut and Russian and Uzbek Web sites blocked Friday during the bloody confrontations, but that state TV and the national news agency continued to provide reports.
Among those expressing deep concern Saturday was Russian President Vladimir Putin, who said the situation posed a "threat to the stability of Central Asia," according to the Kremlin press office.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/15/uzbekistan.toll/
The Moscow Times
Khodorkovsky's High Stakes Gamble
By Catherine Belton
Staff Writer
Gazprom's Alexei Miller, Khodorkovsky and UES chief Anatoly Chubais at a meeting with Putin on June 15, 2003.
Editor's Note: This is the first in a three-part series on the rise and fall of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his financial empire.
Several weeks before Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested at dawn by gun-toting special forces, the oil magnate was putting the finishing touches to a deal that would have earned him up to $6 billion and, potentially, vast political power.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/16/001.html
Hundreds Dead in Uzbek Uprising
By Bagila Bukharbayeva
The Associated Press
Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters
People attending a funeral Sunday for Said Shakirov, who died during Andijan clashes that killed some 500 people.
FERGANA, Uzbekistan — About 500 bodies have been laid out in rows at a school in the eastern Uzbek city where troops fired on protesters to put down an uprising, a doctor in the town said Sunday, corroborating witness accounts of hundreds killed in the fighting.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/16/003.html
6 Suspected Militants Killed in Cherkessk
The Associated Press
ROSTOV-ON-DON -- Security forces and police killed six suspected militants, including two female suicide bombers, who had holed up in an apartment in the southern republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessia, the Federal Security Service said Sunday.
There were no casualties among the officers who conducted the special operation Saturday against the militants in Cherkessk, said Anna Lyzina, an FSB spokeswoman in Cherkessk.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/16/012.html
Tbilisi Softens Threat Over Russian Bases
The Associated Press
TBILISI, Georgia -- As a Sunday deadline approached for a deal on the withdrawal of Russia's two military bases in Georgia, Tbilisi tried to calm an increasingly bitter dispute with Moscow over the bases by suggesting it would not impose sanctions if no agreement was reached.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/16/013.html
A Day of Reckoning Will Come
Editorial
To Our Readers
Has something you've read here startled you? Are you angry, excited, puzzled or pleased? Do you have ideas to improve our coverage?
Then please write to us.
All we ask is that you include your full name, the name of the city from which you are writing and a contact telephone number in case we need to get in touch.
We look forward to hearing from you.
When Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested, most of us did not know much about him as a person. He did not stand out in our minds in any significant way from the other oligarchs who had carved a ruthless path to wealth. In 2003, he was only beginning to develop a public face.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/16/005.html
No Greed Without Power
By Yevgenia Albats
To Our Readers
Has something you've read here startled you? Are you angry, excited, puzzled or pleased? Do you have ideas to improve our coverage?
Then please write to us.
All we ask is that you include your full name, the name of the city from which you are writing and a contact telephone number in case we need to get in touch.
We look forward to hearing from you.
The other day, a journalist from a foreign newspaper, whose country has had a long history of military coups, asked me a question about the Mikhail Khodorkovsky case: What is the real motivation of those currently in the Kremlin, and of the chekists in particular, greed or power?
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/05/16/006.html
The Seattle Post Intelligencer
Signs of a smoke-free singles scene
By ATHIMA CHANSANCHAI
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
You never know how a night out in Seattle will end, but chances are that before it does, cigarette smoke will get in your eyes, hair and clothes.
Sheri Clarke blames smokers for having "to completely shower down like I have been exposed to a nuclear blast" after she goes out.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/224433_smokefreesingles16.asp
BP refinery deaths top industry in U.S.
Fatalities 10 times those of Exxon Mobil
By LISE OLSEN
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
BP leads the U.S. refining industry in deaths over the past decade, with 22 fatalities since 1995 -- more than a quarter of those killed in refineries nationwide, an analysis of industry statistics, news accounts and accident reports shows.
The company's total comprises a worker killed this month at the company's Cherry Point refinery north of Seattle, 15 contractors who died in a March explosion in Texas City, Texas, and those who died in six other fatal accidents.
Nick Karuso, a 58-year-old employee of Cascade Refinery Services, was found dead May 3 inside a refinery vessel he had been pressure washing at the Whatcom County refinery run by BP, according to a spokeswoman for the state Department of Labor and Industries.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/224394_bplede16.html
Refineries' uncounted dead: Contract workers
Their fatalities aren't considered in plant risk
By LISE OLSEN
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Long considered one of the nation's most dangerous industries, oil refining suddenly seemed one of the safest when the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported no refinery deaths in 2002 or 2003.
But at least nine people were asphyxiated, burned or fell to their deaths at our nation's aging network of refineries during those years, according to a review of media accounts, industry statistics and fatal accident reports to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/224350_refineries16.html
Police fail at missing-child reporting
Dozens of departments aren't following federal law, investigation shows
By THOMAS HARGROVE
SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE
Fifteen-year-old Bryona Williams had been missing for four days before the Detroit Police Department reported her disappearance to state and federal authorities. Her half-naked, raped, strangled and decomposing body was found two weeks later, face down on the floor of an abandoned inner-city building.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/224417_missing16.html>
Police fail at missing-child reporting
Dozens of departments aren't following federal law, investigation shows
By THOMAS HARGROVE
SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE
Fifteen-year-old Bryona Williams had been missing for four days before the Detroit Police Department reported her disappearance to state and federal authorities. Her half-naked, raped, strangled and decomposing body was found two weeks later, face down on the floor of an abandoned inner-city building.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/224417_missing16.html>
Perils of obesity extend to pay
By VICTORIA COLLIVER
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Employers may be compensating for the expected higher health costs of obese workers by giving them slimmer paychecks, according to a new study.
Previous studies have shown that severely overweight workers get paid less than other employees. But in the latest look at the issue, researchers at Stanford University have found that the pay gap exists only in workplaces with employer-paid health insurance.
Pasted from <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/224349_obesepay16.html
Riders in trucks told to pick up seat-belt use
They're less likely to buckle up, more likely to die
By KEN THOMAS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- People who ride in pickup trucks use seat belts less often than passengers in cars, and the consequences are deadlier: A higher percentage of people killed in pickup truck crashes didn't buckle up compared with those in passenger cars, the government reported today.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/224380_belt16.html
Gay former congressman marries in Mass.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON -- Former U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay member of Congress, quietly married his longtime partner last year after same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts, according to a published report.
Studds, a liberal Democrat who spent more than 20 years in Congress, married Dean Hara in Boston on May 24, the Patriot Ledger of Quincy reported Sunday.
Studds, 68, and Hara, 47, declined to comment for the Ledger's story.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1153&slug=Gay%20Marriage%20Congressman
U.S. nears 'red line' on North Korean nuke tests
For first time, administration warns of possible sanctions
By DAVID E. SANGER
THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration warned North Korea yesterday for the first time that if it conducted a nuclear test, the United States and several Pacific powers would take punitive action, but officials stopped short of saying what kind of sanctions would result.
"Action would have to be taken," Stephen Hadley, President Bush's national security adviser, said on the CNN program "Late Edition." Asked earlier on "Fox News Sunday" about recent reports that intelligence agencies had warned that North Korea could conduct its first test, Hadley added: "We've seen some evidence that says that they may be preparing for a nuclear test. We have talked to our allies about that."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/224392_nkorea16.html
Priest denies gays' supporters communion
By JOSHUA FREED
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A Roman Catholic priest denied communion to more than 100 people Sunday, saying they could not receive the sacrament because they wore rainbow-colored sashes to church to show support for gay Catholics.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Gays%20Communion
Buddhist monk ingests poison in Sri Lanka
By SHIMALI SENANAYAKE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A monk drank poison and was rushed to a hospital Monday moments after becoming the first Buddhist clergyman to be convicted of the sexual abuse of a child in Sri Lanka, court officials and police said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Sri%20Lanka%20Monk%20Abuse
Iraqi village scarred after U.S. offensive
By MOHAMMED BARAKAT
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
ROMMANA, Iraq -- For nearly a week, this dusty farming village near the Syrian border was surrounded by armored troop carriers on the ground and helicopter gunships overhead. Then, suddenly, the fighting stopped.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Iraq%20Scarred%20Village
Bloomberg spends $9.9M on NYC mayor's race
By SAM DOLNICK
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg arrives at the scene where a wall collapsed on the Henry Hudson Parkway Thursday May 12, 2005 in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent $9.9 million of his own money on his re-election campaign so far, a signal that the billionaire will spare no expense in November's mayoral race and may even exceed the $74 million he spent in his successful 2001 bid for office.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1135&slug=Bloomberg%20Campaign%20Spending
Court to review rights of disabled inmates
By GINA HOLLAND
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Monday that it will decide if states and counties can be sued for not accommodating disabled prisoners, setting up another legal showdown over the power of Congress to tell states what to do.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1154&slug=Scotus%20Disabled%20Inmates
Gunfire persists in eastern Uzbek city
By ALEXANDER MERKUSHEV
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
ANDIJAN, Uzbekistan -- Gunfire persisted Monday in the eastern city where Uzbek security forces fired on protesters last week - a clash that reportedly left several hundred dead - and new accounts emerged that violence in nearby towns killed hundreds more, further threatening the stability of the government in this key U.S. ally in Central Asia.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Uzbekistan
Hurricane forecasters relying on public
By MIKE BRANOM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
MELBOURNE, Fla. -- Until the evening of Aug. 13, the National Weather Service's forecast office in Melbourne had no need for an alarm warning central Floridians of dangerous winds. After all, it had been 44 years since a hurricane stuck the region.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1501&slug=Hurricanes%20Forecasting
Tenn. school joins race to make fuel cell
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Researchers at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga are using a $2.5 million federal grant to create a fuel cell that runs on natural gas and produces electricity and hydrogen.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1501&slug=UTC%20Fuel%20Cell
Drug's effect on cancer stuns doctors
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP MEDICAL WRITER
ORLANDO, Fla. -- No one could have been more surprised than the doctors themselves. They were just hoping to relieve the symptoms of a deadly blood disorder - and ended up treating the disease itself. In nearly half of the people who took the experimental drug, the cancer became undetectable.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1500&slug=Cancer%20Surprise
Morocco slum producing suicide bombers
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SIDI MOUMEN, Morocco -- Women lug jugs of water from a common tap as children play in the narrow and winding alleys. But it is the searing gazes of the jobless young men lounging outside corrugated-metal roof shacks that best tell the story of Carriere Thomas, a squalid shantytown in the Casablanca suburb of Sidi Moume.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=Morocco%20Breeding%20Militancy
Galapagos volcano spews ash and vapor
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
QUITO, Ecuador -- A volcano has begun to erupt on one of the Galapagos Islands, but authorities said Friday that the few unique animal species on the island were not in immediate danger.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Ecuador%20Galapagos%20Volcano
Energy Policy: Cheney's big secret
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD
An appellate court has settled the question of the letter of the law as it applies to Vice President Dick Cheney's energy policy task force disclosures. But that does not relieve the Bush administration of the obligation to respect the spirit of transparency in the way it forms public policy.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/224189_cheneyed.as
Let's get smarter about military investment
TOM KREBSBACH
GUEST COLUMNIST
The recent news from the Pentagon's Base Realignment and Closure Commission that most Washington state military facilities have been kept off the closure list has undoubtedly made a number of people happy, especially Gov. Christine Gregoire. Earlier this year the governor embarked on a very public lobbying campaign to maintain and even increase military facilities in this state.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/224190_firstperson16.html
The Daily Times
Explosion halts Iraq oil exports to Turkey
* Government extends state of emergency for 30 days
* Three killed in Iraq blast as US forces continue Operation Matador
* Zarqawi’s statement distributed outside mosque
BAGHDAD: Iraq stopped efforts to resume sustained crude oil exports through Turkey on Friday after a bomb hit the main pumping station feeding its northern pipeline, said an Iraqi oil official.
The blast at the Athana crude gathering and pumping station came as Iraq was reviving crude flows to storage tanks at Turkey’s Ceyhan port, said the official. Hours before the blast, shipping sources said that Iraq had resumed pumping crude to Turkey and was exporting almost 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) on that route.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-5-2005_pg7_1
Iranian ship helps rescue 15 fishermen
KARACHI: An Iranian cargo ship and a fishing boat saved 15 fishermen of a Pakistani boat that was reported missing in the Arabian Sea, while two crewmembers were still missing, a spokesman of the Fishermen’s Cooperative Society (FCS) said on Friday. Safina-e-Adil, which had been missing after it sailed out from Karachi harbour on May 2, sank on Wednesday off the coast of Pushkan in Balochistan, the spokesman said. The survivors would reach Karachi fish harbour on Saturday evening on a Pakistani boat, he said. The FCS spokesman said the condition of two survivors was critical and they were unconscious when fishing boat Rab Razi rescued them on Thursday. He said an unidentified Iranian cargo vessel had rescued 13 fishermen on Thursday evening and transferred them to a Pakistani boat. app
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-5-2005_pg7_2
Two councillors shot dead
KARACHI: Two councillors of Baldia Town were shot dead in Mochko police precincts on Friday night. The police said Amir, a union councillor of UC-2 of Qaimkhani Colony, Baldia Town, and Nawab Bajori, a general councillor of UC-2 of Ittehad Town, Baldia Town, were passing through Nai Abadi area on a motorcycle when a car blocked their way and unidentified assailants began shooting at them. They died instantly and the attackers escaped. When this report was made on Friday night, the police were engaged in legal procedure and a case was not registered. staff report
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-5-2005_pg7_4
Plea for Musharraf’s picture on Rs 5000 notes
LAHORE: Ishfaq Chaudhry, the Pakistan People’s Movement chairman, has moved the Lahore High Court (LHC) to direct the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to publish the picture of President General Pervez Musharraf on the Rs 5,000 currency notes.
He also asked the LHC to restrain the SBP governor from printing these notes until the court decides the petition. The petitioner said that 80 percent of the people of Pakistan supported President Pervez Musharraf’s policies. staff report
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-5-2005_pg7_15
Afghans holding Pakistan responsible for US actions
Daily Times Monitor
LAHORE: Commenting on the backlash and an attack on the Pakistani Consulate in Jalalabad in Afghanistan against the alleged desecration of the Holy Quran by US troops, Editor of the Daily Times Najam Sethi said the Afghans were holding Pakistan responsible for the US atrocities at Guantanamo Bay.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-5-2005_pg7_50
How panic gripped official Washington last week
Washington: The panic that gripped official Washington when a small civilian plane strayed into the capital’s no-fly area was nowhere more evident than on television where some announcers asked with indignation why the Air Force didn’t just shoot the plane down.
In the end, it turned out to be nothing though it drove 35,000 people on to the street, had the vice president and the First Lady whisked away to safe locations and found Congressmen and Senators rush out of their offices in disarray.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-5-2005_pg7_46
Rickshaw drivers meet district nazim
LAHORE: A delegation of rickshaw drivers’ union called on District Nazim Mian Amer Mehmood on Friday.
Talking to the rickshaw drivers’ union representatives, the nazim said, “Permission for using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) should not be taken as a licence to commit irregularities. Rickshaw drivers should purchase gas from authorised dealers. They should not get their cylinders re-filled, rather they should inform the city government about LPG cylinder re-fillers. Cylinders in rickshaws should be installed in accordance with recognised specifications.” Earlier, Mehmood met nazims from various union councils of the city and discussed their problems. staff report
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-5-2005_pg7_19
Plea for Musharraf’s picture on Rs 5000 notes
LAHORE: Ishfaq Chaudhry, the Pakistan People’s Movement chairman, has moved the Lahore High Court (LHC) to direct the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to publish the picture of President General Pervez Musharraf on the Rs 5,000 currency notes.
He also asked the LHC to restrain the SBP governor from printing these notes until the court decides the petition. The petitioner said that 80 percent of the people of Pakistan supported President Pervez Musharraf’s policies. staff report
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-5-2005_pg7_15
VIEW: They shoot horses, don’t they —Navid Shahzad
... to put the animal out of its misery? Yet that enormous body of women known as mothers is denied even that act of mercy. They continue to labour long after the sunset, while the domestic animal gets respite from its labour at the end of the day
Mother’s Day has come and gone. For the vast majority of women it was a day no different from any other. The sun rose on a day of backbreaking work that only ceased at its egg yolk setting in a dust-laden sky. The mother awoke long before the birds started their early twittering and shaking the sleepy children out of their beds set the tea water to boil. Midnight-ironed school uniforms spread themselves on the worn sofa inviting the children to slip into them.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-5-2005_pg3_4
Green Left Weekly
Troubled times for Yudhoyono
Jon Lamb
Six months after his election, the cracks are well and truly appearing in the promises and policies of Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The half-hearted support of the Indonesian masses for his presidency is rapidly evaporating as he continues to implement World Bank and International Monetary Fund austerity measures. The humanitarian crisis and heavy-handed response of the Indonesian military to the pro-independence movement in Aceh are fuelling additional political problems.
Green Left Weekly spoke to People’s Democratic Party (PRD) international affairs representative Zely Ariane, a guest speaker at the Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference held in Sydney at Easter, about these and other issues surrounding Yudhoyono’s presidency.
“The people now know that the president has lied and has lied many times”, said Ariane. “The first lie relates to Aceh. Since November 19, Yudhoyono has placed Aceh under a state of emergency. Then he continued the policy of sending more troops to Aceh.
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