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History …
1646, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, philosopher and mathematician
1893, Walter White, civil rights activist
1899, Charles Laughton, actor and director
1929, Gerald Edelman, biochemist and neuroscientist
1961, Diana, Princess of Wales, British princess
1961, Carl Lewis, track-and-field athlete
1823: The former Spanish colonies of Guatemala, San Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica form the Confederation of the United Provinces of Central America.
1863, the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg began takes heavy losses on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, considered the pivotal battle in the American Civil War.
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1867, The British North America Act, passed by the British Parliament, goes into effect, joining four North American colonies in the Dominion of Canada. Canada Day, celebrating the formation of the Dominion of Canada on this date in 1867. This site relates stories of individuals, families, and ethnic groups who immigrated to Canada and helped build the nation; available in English and French.
http://www.whitepinepictures.com/seeds/
1898, Theodore Roosevelt leads a group of volunteers known as the Rough Riders in their charge on San Juan Hill in Cuba at the beginning of the Spanish-American War.
1946, the United States exploded a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1948, New York International Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild was officially opened.
1961, Diana, the princess of Wales, was born near Sandringham, England. (She died in a 1997 car crash in Paris at age 36.)
1968, the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
1980, "O Canada" was proclaimed the national anthem of Canada.
1987, Stock-broker guilty of corruption
One of the City's top investment bankers has received the first conviction for insider dealing since it became illegal in 1980.
Geoffrey Collier, former head of securities at Morgan Grenfell, was given a 12-month suspended sentence and was fined £25,000 with £7,000 costs at the High Court in London.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/1/newsid_2489000/2489179.stm
1994, Yasser Arafat ends 27-year exile
The chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, Yasser Arafat, has returned to the Gaza Strip after 27 years in exile.
Fear of reprisals by Israeli and Palestinian hardliners has meant that Israel has mounted its largest security operation since President Sadat of Egypt visited Jerusalem during the 1979 Camp David Agreements.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/1/newsid_2489000/2489631.stm
1997, At the end of its 99-year lease on the territory, Britain returns Hong Kong to Chinese control.
1997, Hong Kong handed over to Chinese control
Hong Kong has been handed back to the Chinese authorities - ending more than 50 years of British control.
The British flag was lowered over Government house - home to the last Governor Chris Patten for the past five years - at midnight last night.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/1/newsid_2656000/2656973.stm
2000, Vermont's civil unions law, which granted gay couples most of the rights, benefits and responsibilities of marriage, went into effect. . . . the Confederate flag was removed from atop South Carolina's Statehouse. . . . Actor Walter Matthau died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 79.
2000, Ex-Blair ally attacks prime minister
Millionaire novelist Ken Follett has made the most scathing personal criticism of Prime Minister Tony Blair since New Labour came to power.
Writing in The Observer newspaper Mr Follett, 51, questioned the prime minister's morals and described spin doctors as "the rent boys of politics".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/1/newsid_2489000/2489433.stm
2004, Cassini captures Saturn's rings
The international mission to Saturn, known as Cassini-Huygens, has successfully gone into orbit around the planet.
The $3.3bn probe fired its main engine for 95 minutes to slow it sufficiently to be captured by gravity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/1/newsid_4640000/4640793.stm
Missing in Action
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1966 PETERS CHARLES HENRY WEST POINT NE REMAINS RETURNED 10/88
1966 WILLIAMS ROBERT C. MC LEANSBORO IL 05/95 REMAINS RETURNED
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1972 ROBINSON PAUL K. GALION OH 03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
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1967 HOUSE JOHN A. II PELHAM NY
1967 HOWARD LUTHER H. HAMLET NC
1967 JUDD MICHAEL B. CLEVELAND OH
1967 KILLEN JOHN D. III DES MOINES IA
1967 MC GRATH JOHN MICHAEL DENVER CO 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 RUNNELS GLYN L. JR. BIRMINGHAM AL
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1966 JONES MURPHY N. BATON ROUGE LA 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
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1968 OWEN TIMOTHY S. ROCHESTER NY
1970 ALDERN DONALD D. SIOUX FALLS SD
Geldof in Africa
Bob Geldof presents a six-part series on BBC One from 20 June
Discuss the series on the BBC Message Board
BBC One: Schedule information
Full Episode Guide
Leaving Live8 and politics to one side, Bob Geldof makes a personal journey through Africa to understand ordinary Africans and, through their experiences, understand the forces that make the continent tick.
Travelling through West Africa (Ghana, Benin and Mali), Central Africa (DR Congo and Uganda) and East Africa (Ethiopia, Tanzania and Somalia), Geldof explores the continent that the rest of the world seems to be leaving behind.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/africalives/features/geldof.shtml
The Philadelphia Inquirer
MBNA to be sold to Bank of America
By Joseph N. DiStefano
Inquirer Staff Writer
MBNA Corp. has ended its increasingly difficult struggle to get Americans to borrow more using its credit cards. With its growth faltering, the Wilmington company said yesterday that it had agreed to be acquired by Bank of America Corp. for $29 billion in stock and $5 billion in cash, pending approval from shareholders and regulators.
MBNA, which issues Visa, MasterCard and American Express cards for the NFL, Pennsylvania State University, PNC Financial, and 500 other partners, transformed the Delaware landscape and the national consumer-loan business with its rapid growth in the 1980s and 1990s.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12028534.htm
How Italian police took on the CIA
The U.S. abduction of a terror suspect exposed a global rift in antiterror strategies - and further strained relations with a key ally.
By Ken Dilanian
Inquirer Staff Writer
MILAN, Italy - It's a plot straight out of a spy novel.
Italian antiterrorism authorities were quietly gathering evidence against a militant Egyptian cleric in early 2003 when - on Feb. 17 - he disappeared.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12028536.htm
Editorial Electing City Judges Selection plan has merit
One speaker at a recent City Hall news conference on cleaning up Philadelphia's unsavory process for selecting judges said his government watchdog group "fully endorses the idea of judicial reform."
Well, yes, but what about translating "the idea" into a plan of action?
That has eluded many an advocate of judicial reform - which is why the task requires the temperament of a long-distance runner.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12028572.htm
N.J. Senate backs sex-offender tracking bill
By Robert Moran
Inquirer Trenton Bureau
TRENTON - Hoping to deter sex attacks on children, the state Senate approved legislation yesterday to require satellite tracking of up to 250 of New Jersey's highest-risk sex offenders.
"Considering the nature of these crimes, we must use every available tool to keep our children safe," said acting Gov. Richard J. Codey, who voted for the bill in his role as Senate president.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/12001987.htm
Live 8: The Performers
Inquirer writers Dan DeLuca, David Hiltbrand and Daniel Rubin give you the lowdown on Live 8's lineup (as of June 30), a diverse crew of pop acts, indie rockers, hip-hop moguls, and R&B stars. Hear audio clips at http://go.philly.com/live8acts
Before Overbrook's own guaranteed megaplex gold, he was a child-friendly rapper named the Fresh Prince, who made five albums with DJ Jazzy Jeff. The duo reunited for Lost and Found in March. Look for the nice-guy A-lister to carry the day - emceeing, rapping, ribbing, riffing, and platforming PG-rated Philly-style 'tude to the world. - D.R.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12027618.htm
Troubled Continent
The public is invited to an open forum, led by a panel of experts and Inquirer journalists, on Africa's problems and some possible solutions. The event will be at 6 p.m. Friday at the National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St., Philadelphia. Admission is free, but reservations are required. 215-409-6700. In conjunction with the forum, the center is hosting "Twenty Years of Philadelphia Inquirer Photography from Live Aid to Live 8," which highlights images from some of Africa's most persistently troubled areas.
Images of Africa
View a multimedia presentation of the work that Inquirer photographers have done in Africa during the last 20 years. To view the presentation, you will need to have the Macromedia Flash player, version 7, installed on your computer. If you don't have it, click here for the free download.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/
Women in the saddle
Horse fanciers are overwhelmingly female in this country. Some say there's a special chemistry.
By Melissa Dribben
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Think of famous relationships between horses and humans and who comes to mind? The Lone Ranger waving his hat while Silver rears up. Red Pollard hunkered down on Seabiscuit, flying around the Santa Anita track. Wilbur conversing with Mr. Ed.
Horses, it seems, have always been a guy thing.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/living/people/women/11736168.htm
Lilly, loves horses.
http://www.realcities.com//multimedia/philly/inquirer/KRT_packages/archive/slideshow/horse/lilly.html
Emmy likes eventing and has a great horse that is just a baby.
http://www.realcities.com//multimedia/philly/inquirer/KRT_packages/archive/slideshow/horse/emmy.html
Carmella loved horses as a child and never stopped. She likes dressage in her mid-forties.
http://www.realcities.com//multimedia/philly/inquirer/KRT_packages/archive/slideshow/horse/carmella.html
Heather loves to read books about horses but does not like competition. She likes horses and doesn't mind wrecking her manicure to feed the horses.
http://www.realcities.com//multimedia/philly/inquirer/KRT_packages/archive/slideshow/horse/heather.html
I always loved horses as a kid.
Officials warn humans, horses to guard against mosquitos
Published Monday, June 27, 2005 1:00 am
by By Sean Salai
Health officials are warning local residents to guard themselves and their horses against mosquito-borne infections in the wake of recent heavy rainfalls.
Although this year’s mosquito population has been average to date, Palm Beach County officials said this weekend that Boca Raton-area residents should drain all puddles and empty all bird baths, plant saucers, old tires and kiddie pools where mosquitoes might breed in their yards.
http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src=news&category=Local%20News&prid=11936
Soft fence saves horses life
Jockey Adrian Garraway hits the ground after being thrown from Topzoff at Moonee Valley.
AUSTRALIAN jumper of the year Topzoff escaped serious injury when he crashed heavily at the third last fence in Saturdays $75,000 Ian Macdonald Steeplechase (3200m) at Moonee Valley.
The eight-year-old had raced to the lead and was full of running when he ditched his jockey Adrian Garraway, shattering punters who had backed him at even money.
Garraway said Topzoff, carrying 69kg, was lucky not to die and that new-style jumps saved his life.
“He changed his mind halfway (over the jump),” Garraway said.
http://www.bordermail.com.au/newsflow/pageitem?page_id=991540
Camp gives free rein to a love of horses
Fund allows Annie Fraser, 11, to spend summer days learning to ride, groom.
Story and Photo by AMANDA STRINDBERG
The Orange County Register
HUNTINGTON BEACH – Annie Fraser knows the pain of a throbbing headache.
She knows what it's like to want to stay in bed because of a backache or to be extremely fatigued after a walk.
http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/06/26/sections/local/local/article_575037.php
Hough's horses run away with stakes wins
Published in the Asbury Park Press 06/26/05
Stanley Hough trained the winners of both Monmouth Park Stakes, saddling Travelator to win the $65,000 West Long Branch Stakes and taking the $55,000 Gilded Time Stakes with Concorde's Edge.
Travelator survived a long battle with 3-2 favorite Fortress Hill through the final furlong, sticking her head in front at the wire for a nose victory at the end of six furlongs in a quick 1:09 3/5.
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050626/SPORTS07/506260432/1115/SPORTS
Evangeline Downs reopening draws lots of entries, interest
Ninety-two horses have been entered for Wednesday’s reopening at Evangeline Downs, which was forced to suspend live racing because of safety issues.
Live racing was last held at the Opelousas, Louisiana, track on May 12. Since then, the one-mile dirt track was completely overhauled. Modifications to the drainage system also were completed.
http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/todaysnews/newsview.asp?recno=55634&subsec=1
Poor children horse around
Michael Clancy
The Arizona Republic
Jun. 26, 2005 12:00 AM
A local riding club is reaching out to underprivileged youths, teaching them to ride and care for horses.
Dr. Jan Watson, an obstetrician/gynecologist at Maricopa Medical Center, said the program began in November as a service project of the Arizona Western Riding Club.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0626b2localpeople26.html
Horse sense triggers boom for tracks, businesses
Those in equine industry say number and quality of Iowa animals helps economy ride high
By ANNE FITZGERALD
REGISTER AGRIBUSINESS WRITER
June 26, 2005
As Suzanne Evans walks down the aisle of a horse barn at Prairie Meadows, she pats a mare on the nose, rearranges another horse's bundle of hay and teases a third horse, a spunky 3-year-old named Smokin Mokin.
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050626/BUSINESS01/506260313/1029/BUSINESS
Young jockey has racing in his blood
Ryan Fogelsonger hopes to continue his quick rise in thoroughbred racing by winning today's Colonial Turf Cup at Colonial Downs.
BY NORM WOOD
247-4642
Published June 25, 2005
NEW KENT -- As Ryan Fogelsonger surveyed the landscape six years ago atop a pony at Laurel Park Race Course in Maryland, one thought crossed his mind.
"What am I doing?"
http://www.dailypress.com/sports/dp-40296sy0jun25,0,832087.story?coll=dp-sports-local
Hernando: Equestrian clinic teaches teens to care for their pets
Posted by: will on Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 01:02 AM
HERNANDO — Some kids are happy with a puppy or a pet turtle. Some kids, however, prefer something a bit bigger, say a 1,000 pound horse.
But owning a horse brings with it much responsibility.
Enter Sue Robinson an equine lecturer and coach for the collegiate equestrian team at Murray State University in Murray, Ky. She travels and teaches at various horse camps and clinics throughout Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi.
“I love the kids here at the horse clinic in DeSoto County,” Robinson said. “They are polite, they listen, they pay attention, they have manners, they try hard and they are all good with their horses.”
http://www.godesoto.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7578&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Brother meeting brother a rarity
One Corona and Two Corona Special square off in the Ed Burke Memorial Million Futurity.
By LARRY BORTSTEIN
Special to the Register
CYPRESS – Regardless of how they finish in tonight's $1,145,000 Ed Burke Memorial Million Futurity at Los Alamitos, One Corona and Two Corona Special will make history simply by entering the starting gate for the 350-yard race for 2-year-old quarter horses. Post time is 10:39p.m.
http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/06/25/sections/sports/other/article_574650.php
100th start for 'Fred'
Tissington races at Emerald today
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER NEWS SERVICES
AUBURN -- Tissington makes his 100th career start today in the third race at Emerald Downs.
The horse, affectionately known as "Fred," is expected to face six others in the one-mile race. It's a distance he's won at eight times in 58 attempts, with 11 seconds and 12 thirds.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/othersports/229986_hoss25.html
George Stubbs couldn't paint a galloping horse but he's still brilliant, says Clare Balding, Britain's leading racing pundit
Sunday June 26, 2005
The Observer
Some people think all horses look the same. I have a friend who insists they are all brown, perhaps in different shades, but essentially all brown, with the occasional white one thrown in for fun.
Those who have spent time with horses know that, in fact, they are as different from each other as human beings are. Some racehorse trainers can identify 200 different horses from a distance by their markings, their behaviour and the way in which they move.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1514536,00.html
No swimming pool? How about a rodeo?
June 25, 2005, 1:30 PM
GRAND RAPID, Mich. (AP) -- When Kevin Rigg heard that half the city's swimming pools wouldn't open this summer, he came up with a plan: set up a rodeo arena on a vacant city lot and teach kids to ride horses.
Rigg is calling the project on what was once a litter-strewn piece of earth "Inner City Christian Cowboys and Cowgirls." He'll teach the kids three days a week to groom the horses, pick their hooves, saddle them, ride them -- and clean up after them. All for free.
http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw117603_20050625.htm
Guest opinion: Stop slaughtering horses for export
By WAYNE PACELLE and DAVE PAULI
Americans don't eat horses, and that's one good reason why the U.S. House of Representatives was right in voting recently to ban the slaughter of American horses.
That vote concerned an amendment, offered on June 8 by Rep. John Sweeney, R-NY, and Rep. John Spratt, D-SC, to end the yearly slaughter of tens of thousands of American horses for export for human consumption. Now the U.S. Senate confronts the same moral question answered so decisively by the House: Should American horses be mercilessly killed to satisfy the demand for horse meat in other countries?
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/25/build/opinion/30-guest-op.inc
The Arab News
Kingdom Issues New List of Terrorists
Raid Qusti & Samir Al-Saadi, Arab News
RIYADH/JEDDAH, 29 June 2005 — Saudi Arabia yesterday issued a new list of 36 suspects believed to be linked to a series of terror attacks across the country, reflecting the government’s resolve to go ahead with its anti-terror campaign.
In the latest response to a two-year campaign of bombings and killings by supporters of the Al-Qaeda terror network, the Interior Ministry broadcast pictures of the suspects on state television and offered hefty rewards for their capture. “Security authorities managed to uncover plans by the deviant group who used themselves as a tool to distort Islam and harm the security of the country,” the ministry said in a statement.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=66089&d=29&m=6&y=2005
Hundreds Protest Khamenei’s Caricature in Bahraini Daily
Mazen Mahdi, Arab News
MANAMA, 29 June 2005 — Hundreds of Bahraini Shiites took to the streets yesterday afternoon to protest the publication of a caricature of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei in a local newspaper.
The cartoon in Monday’s Al-Ayyam daily showed Khamenei on a graph of the results of the recent presidential election, which was won by the populist Tehran Mayor Ahmadinejad. It showed Khamenei’s long beard growing on the graph in an upward zigzag, apparently referring to his decisive role in Ahmadinejad’s victory.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=66096&d=29&m=6&y=2005
Riyadh to Host Global Forum on Economics of Health Care
Javid Hassan, Arab News
RIYADH, 29 June 2005 — The role of the private sector in health care economics will be the subject of a three-day conference to be held in Riyadh in September. Titled the International Conference on Health Care Economics & Endowments, it will be opened by Riyadh Governor Prince Salman.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=66097&d=29&m=6&y=2005
Female Staff in MOH Hospitals Complain About New Work Shifts
Razan Baker, Arab News
JEDDAH, 29 June 2005 — The Health Ministry has decided to implement new hours for hospital and health center staff. The change is applicable to both male and female employees but it has made more of a problem for females, many of whom strongly opposed the decision.
Research conducted outside the cities indicate that most employees prefer the old shifts. The new hours have created problems for Saudi women nurses because they have to spend most of the day at work which leaves little or no time to take care of their homes.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=66095&d=29&m=6&y=2005
Time for US to Leave Iraq?
Fawaz Turki, disinherited@yahoo.com
Patrick O’Donnel, a well-known photojournalist whose work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Reuters, Associated Press and a host of other outlets, is a friend of 20 years.
Patrick cut his teeth shooting pictures of the anti-Soviet guerrilla war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. He currently runs Angles, an Irish saloon in Adams Morgan in Washington patronized predominantly by writers, reporters and commentators who had been around the block a few times.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=66104&d=29&m=6&y=2005
This Is Not a Saudi Soap Oprah
Lubna Hussain, lubna@arabnews.com
Admittedly, I hardly watch television. Neither do I have the time, nor the inclination. Even when I do have a spare moment, the struggle to vanquish the likes of The Power Puff Girls or Scooby Doo from the screen always proves too insurmountable an endeavor. A good book is more often than not my solace. As very few of my friends and family share this literary passion, I am quite often a silent spectator when it comes to discussions involving the box.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=9§ion=0&article=66215&d=1&m=7&y=2005
Are Two Shadowy Characters Holding US Hostage in Iraq?
Sarah Whalen, sawhalen@xula.com.edu
US Vice President Dick Cheney claims Iraq’s insurgency’s in its “last throes.” But Tuesday night, Cheney’s boss, President George W. Bush, all but said that a mere two insurgent leaders were stronger than ever, and all but running the whole Middle East show. US troops must stay in Iraq, declared Bush, or else “abandon the Iraqi people to men like Zarqawi, and....yield the future of the Middle East to men like Bin Laden.”
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=66232&d=1&m=7&y=2005
Editorial: Striking Change
1 July 2005
At last the political paralysis in the face of internal rebellion and immense external pressures seems to be coming to an end in Sudan. President Omar Bashir’s government has announced an end to the six-year state of emergency and the release of all political prisoners, the most prominent being his former ally and now most outspoken critic, Hassan Al-Turabi, who has been detained several times since two men fell out in 1999.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=66229&d=1&m=7&y=2005
The Chicago Tribune
Heat-busting front threatens major severe weather outbreak
Published June 29, 2005
An ominous series of meteorological conditions come together to Chicago's west later Wednesday threatening a potent severe weather outbreak, including tornadoes. At greatest risk are sections of Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Atmospheric energy forecasts from computer models--useful in determining whether shifting winds and temperature declines with height combined with high humidities and daytime heating are likely to brew especially strong storms --are nearly off the scale. With surface winds converging along a cold front and strong jet stream winds aloft, the need for severe weather watches over the western Midwest appears high later today and tonight. Several active thunderstorms threaten to erupt ahead of the main squall line here Wednesday afternoon. But the most substantive risk of severe weather could reach Chicago early Thursday if the Iowa storms hold together.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0506290287jun29,1,7486950.column?coll=chi-news-hed
Bush Criticized for Linking 9/11 and Iraq
By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer
Published June 29, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Congressional critics of President Bush's stay-the-course commitment to the war in Iraq argued Wednesday that the administration lacks sufficient troops on the ground to mount a successful counterinsurgency.
Democrats in particular criticized Bush for again raising the Sept. 11 attacks as a justification for the protracted fight in Iraq after the president proclaimed anew that he plans to keep U.S. forces there as long as necessary to ensure peace.
Urging patience on an American public showing doubts about his Iraq policy, Bush mentioned the deadly 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington five times during a 28-minute address Tuesday night at Fort Bragg, N.C.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-bush,1,507244.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Team of U.S. GIs Missing in Afghanistan
By DANIEL COONEY
Associated Press Writer
Published July 1, 2005, 9:14 AM CDT
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A small team of U.S. soldiers was missing Friday in the same mountains in eastern Afghanistan where a special forces helicopter was shot down earlier this week, and U.S. forces are using "every available asset" to find them, a U.S. military spokesman said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-afghan-us-helicopter-crash,1,3954514.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Navy SEAL was on mission to find bin Laden
By Shia Kapos
Special to the Tribune
Published July 1, 2005
Petty Officer 1st Class Brian J. Ouellette's helmet is chipped, dented and battered from years of wear during his service in the Navy SEALs.
"When I look at it, I see Brian. It exemplifies what he was. He was a fighter. He never quit," said Ouellette's brother, Michael. "We were just a year apart and we were very competitive. We'd fight and I'd wail him, but he'd just keep going."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0507010112jul01,1,2773151.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Michael Moore Today
Thursday, June 30th, 2005
SPECIFIC STRATEGERIES
Yesterday we noted that George's speech had been hyped as "a very specific" look at the "way forward" in Iraq. The speech left us wanting for specifics so we opened it up to the readers: Who could pinpoint the much-touted specifics of the Bush speech?
Here is a selection of the most specific responses from the thousands of emails:
Gary-- "Lie, kill, 9/11, steal, platitudes, stay in iraq thru 2006 election or longer, chaos, kill some more."
Hayley-- "I think Bush's plan is quite straightforward: Wait 4 more years and leave it to the next guy in charge to fix!"
Rob-- "Very specific strategy for success: Work. Hard work. Very very difficult and tough work."
Steve-- "Stay the course. Don't send the wrong messages to Iraq, the troops or the terrorists. It's hard work. Nucular."
Jym-- "Duh! It's the same as when you have a huge book report due or you have to tell your parents that you got kicked out of school. You just wait and wait until the last minute and you just pray that your teacher or parents don't notice."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
AMERICAN MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ:
1744
AMERICAN MILITARY WOUNDED IN IRAQ:
13074
Printable Representations: Deaths Wounded
source: antiwar.com
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/
IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS (MINIMUM):
22774
source: iraqbodycount.net
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
100,000 Civilian Deaths Estimated in Iraq
By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 29, 2004; Page A16
One of the first attempts to independently estimate the loss of civilian life from the Iraqi war has concluded that at least 100,000 Iraqi civilians may have died because of the U.S. invasion.
The analysis, an extrapolation based on a relatively small number of documented deaths, indicated that many of the excess deaths have occurred due to aerial attacks by coalition forces, with women and children being frequent victims, wrote the international team of public health researchers making the calculations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7967-2004Oct28.html
The Boston Globe
For Putin, it's a gem of a cultural exchange
Kraft hands over Super Bowl ring
By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff June 29, 2005
It could be an international incident of sorts, a misunderstanding of Super Bowl proportions. Or it could be a very, very generous gift.
Whatever the case, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is out one championship ring, and President Vladimir Putin of Russia has scooped up some very flashy bling.
At a meeting of American business executives and Putin on Saturday in Russia, according to Russian news reports, Kraft showed his 4.94-carat, diamond-encrusted 2005 Super Bowl ring to the Russian president, who, after trying it on, put it in his pocket and left.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/06/29/for_putin_its_a_gem_of_a_cultural_exchange/
Local officials to press fight against terminal
Nancy Holleran Medeiros signed a petition on the back of Lillian Correia, president of Fall River's North End Associated, during a protest yesterday against a proposed LNG terminal. (Globe Staff Photo / Evan Richman)
By Charlie Savage and David Abel, Globe Staff July 1, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday approved the construction of a liquefied natural gas terminal in Fall River, clearing a major hurdle for plans to store and deliver huge quantities of flammable gas in the midst of a populated area despite fears of terrorism and environmental damage.
The 3-to-1 vote by the commission was widely anticipated, but a coalition of federal, state, and local officials representing the area were quick to denounce it as ''irresponsible" because applications are pending for alternative LNG sites in less-populated areas in the region. Fall River Mayor Edward Lambert said the city and state will keep fighting the measure.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/07/01/us_allows_building_of_fall_river_lng_facility/
Why is Massachusetts allowing this indulgence by Romney. Bechtel should be sued for all the issues manifested from their incompetence. No citizen of Massachusetts should be paying taxes for this level of government incompetence either. The people of Massachusetts should be receiving a tax rebate for all the damages Bechtel should be paying. Heelllloooooo….
Romney officials hold up $1.2m for Big Dig work
By Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff July 1, 2005
In a new clash over the $14.6 billion Big Dig, the Romney administration is holding up state funds for the project, as the governor's aides question whether the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority has improperly agreed to pick up costs that should be borne by project contractors.
Though the money totals only $1.2 million, the dispute could further delay completion of the project, which has already been pushed back four months to January.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/07/01/romney_officials_hold_up_12m_for_big_dig_work/
Massachusetts needs these faith-based groups for all the praying they have to do with an incompetent like Romney in the governor's seat.
Romney creates office for faith-based groups
By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff June 29, 2005
Governor Mitt Romney said yesterday he has created a special office to help faith-based groups in Massachusetts land more federal money, and he appointed his wife, Ann, to lead it.
Romney, flanked by his wife and Jim Towey, head of the White House office of faith-based initiatives, endorsed faith-based programs yesterday as a means to provide social services and said he wanted to step up the state's efforts to help religious groups and charities attract federal help.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/06/29/romney_creates_office_for_faith_based_groups/
Israelis raid Gaza hotel, remove settlers
By Charles A. Radin,and Alon Tuval, Globe Staff, Globe Correspondent July 1, 2005
NEVEH DEKALIM, Gaza -- Israeli forces yesterday declared the main Jewish settlement block in the Gaza Strip a closed military area and moved in force against a beachfront hotel there that had become a center of radical religious Zionists, some of whom had threatened to use violence to block the upcoming Israeli disengagement from the area.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/07/01/israelis_raid_gaza_hotel_remove_settlers/
Israeli army reopens Gaza settlements to Israelis
July 1, 2005
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli army reopened the Gaza Strip's Jewish settlements area on Friday, a day after it declared it a closed military zone, the army said.
A spokeswoman said the closure had been lifted allowing Israelis free access to the area. The closure was imposed on Thursday following clashes with ultra-radical Jews resisting the planned pullout from the territory, the army said.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/07/01/israeli_opinion_moves_against_gaza_pullout_foes/
Here is a challenge of compassion for Lawrence Summers. He doesn't believe in women scholars and neither does Islam.
Iraqis seek help here for their battered academia
By Marcella Bombardieri, Globe Staff July 1, 2005
CAMBRIDGE -- Iraq's deputy minister of higher education moved slowly through the Harvard Museum of Natural History, transfixed by the gemstones and mineral formations on display. Beriwan M. Khailany said the exhibits reminded her of the bygone riches of Iraqi education.
''When I graduated in the mid-'70s we had these in our labs," said Khailany, a geologist by training, as she pointed to a dazzling green chunk of malachite. ''But now, with the looting, our students will never have a chance to see them."
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/07/01/iraqis_seek_help_here_for_their_battered_academia/
Gunmen kill aide to Iraq Shi'ite cleric Sistani
July 1, 2005
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a prominent Baghdad cleric linked to Iraq's top Shi'ite spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, shooting him and two of his aides as he went to Friday prayers at his mosque in central Baghdad.
Police and officials in Sistani's organization said Kamal al-Din al-Ghoureify was a representative for Sistani in the capital. The gunmen made off.
Sistani, based in the holy city of Najaf, is widely recognized as spiritual leader by much of Iraq's Shi'ite majority, which is now enjoying power after decades of oppression under Saddam Hussein.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/07/01/gunmen_kill_aide_to_iraq_shiite_cleric_sistani/
Taser says it sues USA Today for libel
July 1, 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stun gun maker Taser International Inc.
The Scottsdale, Arizona-based company said the lawsuit, filed in an Arizona state court, targets a USA Today article on June 3 which it said misrepresented the electrical output of Taser weapons and compared them in photographs with electric chairs, lightning and electric train tracks.
Calif. ban on tobacco in prison begins
Randel Davis, an inmate at California stae Prison, Sacramento, enjoys a hand-rolled cigarette in the prison's minimum security yard, in Repressa, Calif., Wednesday, June 29, 2005. A new law to take effect July 1, will ban all tobacco products inside California's correctional institutions. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
By Don Thompson, Associated Press Writer July 1, 2005
FOLSOM, Calif. --Randel Davis fidgeted in his prison blues, savoring one of his final hand-rolled cigarettes for some time before a ban on tobacco in California prisons kicked in Friday.
"I don't know what I'm going to do," said Davis, 44, who is serving the last six months of a five-year stretch for a drug conviction. "I'm going to start eating grass."
Many state prison agencies around the country have full or partial bans on inmate tobacco use, but officials with corrections, health and legislative organizations say California is one of only a few to pass a near prohibition into law.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/07/01/calif_ban_on_tobacco_in_prison_begins/
India flood death toll rises to 94
July 1, 2005
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Nearly a hundred people have been killed and around 200,000 displaced by severe flooding in western India in the past week, officials said on Friday.
Hundreds of people waited for help on rooftops and atop a train as authorities in Gujarat state pressed the army into service to help move people to higher ground.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/07/01/india_flood_death_toll_rises_to_94/
Bomb kills 10 soldiers in southern Russia
July 1, 2005
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - At least 10 Russian soldiers were killed by a bomb on Friday as they paid a weekly visit to a steam bathhouse in a town near Russia's rebel Chechnya, justice officials and doctors said.
The bomb exploded as a unit of interior ministry troops filed into the washhouses in the town of Makhachkala, regional capital of Muslim Dagestan that borders Chechnya.
"A military truck with soldiers from the 102nd interior troop brigade blew up on Akayev Street at 2.20 p.m. Ten people, some of them servicemen and some passers-by, have died," Zaur Isayev, Dagestan's deputy prosecutor, said.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/01/bomb_explodes_in_south_russia_some_dead_feared/
U.N. holds crisis talks to seek homes for Uzbeks
July 1, 2005
GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee agency held crisis talks with Western countries on Friday to try to find new homes urgently for 450 Uzbek asylum seekers in Kyrgyzstan.
"Resettlement of the asylum seekers could be organized in a matter of days once agreement has been reached with governments," Ron Redmond, chief spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugeees (UNHCR), told journalists.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/01/un_holds_crisis_talks_to_seek_homes_for_uzbeks/
Muted protest as Hong Kong marks China handover
By Tan Ee Lyn July 1, 2005
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people on Friday marked the anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China by marching to demand full voting rights, but the crowds were far smaller than in the last two years.
Holding banners and placards which read "Return power to the people," the protesters also called for an end to what they said were cozy government relations with big business.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/07/01/muted_protest_as_hong_kong_marks_china_handover/
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