Rooster "Crowing"
"Okeydoke"
History . . .
1838, Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, aircraft designer
1867, Käthe Kollwitz, graphic artist and sculptor
1906, Philip Johnson, architect
1931, Roone Arledge, television executive
1939, John D. Rockefeller, industrialist
1663, King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island.
1776, Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.
MADE IN AMERICA
1835, The Liberty Bell cracks in Philadelphia while tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall, who died July 6.
1871, The first in a series of articles in the New York Times appears exposing the systematic graft practiced in New York City by the Tweed Ring, led by politician William Marcy “Boss” Tweed.
1889, The Wall Street Journal was first published.
1907, Florenz Ziegfeld's musical review Follies was first performed on this night.
1947, demolition work began in New York City to make way for the new permanent headquarters of the United Nations.
1951, The city of Paris, France, celebrates the 2,000th anniversary of its founding.
1965: Ronald Biggs escapes from jail
Ronald Biggs - a member of the gang who carried out the Great Train Robbery in 1963 - has escaped from Wandsworth prison.
Biggs, 35, escaped by scaling a 30ft wall with three other prisoners at 1505 BST today.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/8/newsid_2706000/2706659.stm
1971: British troops shoot Londonderry rioters
Two men have been killed by the British army in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Some of the worst violence in the town for three years flared up this afternoon when a crowd of 200 gathered in Lecky Street at the news of an army shooting earlier in the day.
Welder and former boxer Seamus Cusack, 28, died in Letterkenny District Hospital of a gunshot wound.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/8/newsid_2496000/2496479.stm
1993, a jury in Boise, Idaho, acquitted white separatist Randy Weaver and a co-defendant of slaying a federal marshal in a shootout at a remote mountain cabin.
1994, Kim Il Sung, North Korea's communist leader since 1948, died at age 82.
1996: Seven slashed in school machete attack
Three young children and four adults have been attacked by a man with a machete at an infant school in Wolverhampton.
They were enjoying a teddy bears' picnic at St Luke's Church of England school in the Blackenhall area.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/8/newsid_2496000/2496685.stm
2000: New Harry Potter most magical yet
The latest story about boy wizard Harry Potter has broken all publishing records.
The fourth instalment of JK Rowling's series has been released simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic with an initial print-run of 5.3m - 1.5m in the UK and 3.8m in the US.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/8/newsid_2496000/2496367.stm
Missing in Action
1965 BRAM RICHARD C. CLEVES OH SEARCH NEG
1965 DINGWALL JOHN F. TROY NY SEARCH NEG
1966 BROWNING RALPH T. ORLANDO FL 02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV/LISTED KIA ALIVE IN 1998
1966 LONGANECKER RONALD LEE PORTLAND OR
1969 ANDRE HOWARD V. JR. MEMPHIS TN
1969 SIZEMORE JAMES E. SAN DIEGO CA
July 7 ...
1860, Gustav Mahler, composer and conductor
1887, Marc Chagall, painter
1893, Vladimir Mayakovsky, poet
1899, George Cukor, motion-picture director
1902, Vittorio De Sica, motion-picture director
1906 Satchel Paige, American baseball player, noted for the length of his career and the speed and variety of his pitches, such as the hesitation ball, which involved stopping his pitching motion momentarily during a pitch. He was born Leroy Robert Paige in Mobile, Alabama. He acquired the nickname Satchel in his youth while working as a baggage handler in a Mobile train depot.
1907, Robert Heinlein, science-fiction writer
1865, four people were hanged in Washington, D.C., for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Lincoln.
1898, the United States annexed Hawaii.
1930, construction began on Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam).
1952, London's trams trundle into history
After nearly a century of service the tram has made its final appearance in London.
The very last tram to rumble along the capital's streets arrived at south east London's New Cross depot in the early hours of this morning.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/7/newsid_2963000/2963092.stm
1958, President Eisenhower signed the Alaska statehood bill.
1969, Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure making the French language equal to English throughout the national government.
1976, British grandmother missing in Uganda
The Ugandan authorities have denied knowledge of the whereabouts of British-Israeli citizen Dora Bloch.
The 74-year-old grandmother disappeared three days ago, shortly after Israeli commandos rescued hostages detained by Palestinian hijackers at Uganda's Entebbe airport.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/7/newsid_2496000/2496095.stm
1981, President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1983, 11-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov.
1985, Boris Becker wins Wimbledon at 17
A West German teenager has become the youngest ever player to win the Wimbledon tennis tournament. Boris Becker, a 17-year-old unseeded outsider before the tournament began, raised the coveted silver trophy above his head to rapturous applause on centre court.
1998, Chief's death sparks turmoil in Nigeria
At least 19 people have been killed in riots in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, following the death of the opposition leader.
Thousands have taken to the streets after hearing about the sudden death of the popular politician, Chief Moshood Abiola, at 1400 GMT.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/7/newsid_2496000/2496305.stm
2001, Two stabbed in Bradford race riots
Two people have been stabbed and many more injured in running battles between white and Asian gangs in Bradford.
Violence broke out in the city centre at 1630 BST after crowds at an Anti-Nazi League rally discovered that National Front sympathisers were gathering in a nearby pub.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/7/newsid_2496000/2496003.stm
Missing in Action
1965 WILLIAMSON DON I. LOUISVILLE KY POSS DEAD / HANOI PRESS AND PHOTOS REMAINS RETURNED 7/25/89
1966 PHARRIS WILLIAM V. LAKE CHARLES LA
1967 AVOLESE PAUL A. EAST MEADOW NY "MID AIR COLL,7 RESCUED, NOT SUBJECT"
1967 BITTENBENDER DAVID F. NIAGARA FALLS NY MID AIR COLL
1967 BLANKENSHIP CHARLES H. SUITLAND MD MID AIR COLL REMAINS RETURNED 05/02/97
1967 CRUMM WILLIAM J. SCARSDALE NY MID AIR COLL
1967 JONES GEORGE E. ABERDEEN MS MID AIR COLL REMAINS RETURNED O5/02/97
1967 MC LAUGHLIN OLEN B. TAMPA FL MID AIR COLL REMAINS RETURNED 04/30/97
1967 TRITT JAMES FRANCIS MONACA PA LOST OVERBOARD
1970 BEALS CHARLES E. FRENCH LICK IN
1970 HOWARD LEWIS J. MACON GA
1972 KROBOTH ALAN J. ANTHONY KS 03/27/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1972 ROBERTSON LEONARD NORTH PORT NY VC TOLD KROBOTH ROBERTSON DEAD
Times - London
Queen joins London in defiance of rush-hour bombers
By Philippe Naughton, Times Online
The Queen joined millions of Londoners in giving a message of defiance to the terrorists who bombed the London Underground yesterday, telling staff at a hospital treating victims of the blasts: "They will not change our way of life."
As London commuters returned to work in their millions, descending back into the Tube with trepidation and emerging with relief, police said that there were now 48 confirmed fatalities from the string of bombings on three trains and a double-decker bus.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1686223,00.html
Prayers for all faiths tomorrow
By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent
Prayers for those killed and injured in the attacks are being said in mosques, synagogues, churches and temples throughout the country tomorrow.
Special services in London will take place on Sunday at St Paul’s cathedral and at St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square. Two London churches published special prayers for those suffering in the aftermath.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, led prayers for all those affected by the attacks at the General Synod of the Church of England, which opened in York this evening.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1686316,00.html
The missing: 'It's very difficult, I just want to find her'
By Sam Knight, Times Online, Alexandra Frean and Michael Horsnell
Missing person hotline 0870 1566 344
Laura Webb, who is missing after saying goodbye to her boyfriend on Thursday morning (Edmond Terakopian/PA)
As Londoners tentatively returned to their jobs today and the slightly injured were discharged from hospitals across the city, the search for the missing began.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1686346,00.html
The Chicago Tribune
London Police Press on With Investigation
By PAISLEY DODDS
Associated Press Writer
Published July 8, 2005, 1:07 PM CDT
LONDON -- As jittery commuters braved the Underground Friday, police continued with investigation and recovery efforts, stressing they were still in the early stages of what promises to be an arduous investigation.
The police press office said the overall death toll from Thursday's four terrorist bombings was 49 but said they have not accounted for all the dead on one subway train deep underground. About 100 wounded were hospitalized overnight.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-britain-bombings,1,4719131.story?coll=chi-news-hed
THE REASSURANCE OF 'HOMELAND SECURITY' - They were wrongly named 'Terror Alerts' when they are actually Security Measures.
LONDON TERROR ATTACKS: IN CHICAGO
Police, dogs to ride trains
By Gary Washburn and Jon Hilkevitch, Tribune staff reporters. Tribune reporters David Heinzmann, Sam Singer, Stevenson Swanson, Dahleen Glanton and Vincent Schodolski contributed to this report.
Published July 8, 2005
Commuters in Chicago and around the country can expect to ride to work with police and bomb-sniffing dogs Friday as transit systems bulk up security following terror bombings in London.
Within hours of Thursday's rush-hour attacks on British subway trains and a double-decker bus, U.S. homeland security officials raised the alert level to orange--or high, the second-highest of five alert levels--for mass transit systems here.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0507080204jul08,1,605652.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Keeper has bear scare at Brookfield Zoo
By Jon Yates
Tribune staff reporter
Published July 8, 2005
In another close call at a local zoo, a polar bear wandered through an unlocked door and came within 10 feet of a Brookfield Zoo employee last month, officials said Thursday.
The bear passed by without harming the zookeeper, who was cleaning up toys before the June 24 incident and thought the 1-year-old polar bear named Payton was safely locked away.
Brookfield spokeswoman Sondra Katzen said zoo patrons were never in danger, and the zookeeper was rescued from the exhibit within minutes.
Katzen said the polar bear should have been locked in the den when the zookeeper went into the exhibit, but the animal was not.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0507080288jul08,1,5848544.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Ottowa Citizen - All Canada wants to do is talk about the bombings in London.
London death toll rises above 50
Associated Press
Friday, July 08, 2005
CREDIT: (AP Photo , PA)
The scene following an explosion on a bus, at Tavistock Square in London, Thursday July 7, 2005 in this mobile phone camera image. At least 50 people have been killed in explosions in London, officials said.
LONDON -- Commuters in London reluctantly descended into the Underground Friday morning, but buses and subways carried fewer riders than normal in the aftermath of four rush-hour blasts. Police raised the death toll to more than 50 and said each of the bombs contained less than 10 pounds of explosives.
Investigators said they would look for evidence in the debris from Thursday's attacks and in the video footage from some 1,800 cameras in London's train stations.
http://www.canada.com/national/features/london/story.html?id=e6255c4b-1bed-4086-8b52-67328d85fade
It could happen here, too
Al-Qaeda's still a threat, and Canada should learn from yesterday's bombings
Wesley Wark
Citizen Special
July 8, 2005
London is close to Ottawa. Canadians know the city, have visited it, done business there, rode the tube and the famous double-decker buses. The post-9/11 terror that struck London yesterday, killing at least 38 people and injuring more than 700, carries a special horror for Canadians. It also forces us to ask about the implications for Canada and our own security policy.
The London attack confounded expectations that terrorism was back in its Middle East box, or that al-Qaeda was a largely spent force. Canadian policy has not been immune from these expectations, compounded by a reasonable calculus that Canada, while sometimes featuring on al-Qaeda lists, was not a top-tier target.
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=1b11f9e7-c454-4c2d-b6b3-c79b4f26382e
'It was like being in hell'
Citizen columnist Peter Zimonjic lives in London and was on a train travelling into Edgware Road station yesterday morning when the terrorists hit. As he told his story to Paula McCooey, he was in obvious shock.
Peter Zimonjic
The Ottawa Citizen
Friday, July 08, 2005
CREDIT: The Associated Press, SKY TV
In an image captured by a cellphone video camera and aired by Britain's Sky TV, passengers are seen leaving a train in London's underground yesterday.
The train I was on was the Circle line. I got on the train, and we left Paddington station at 8:46 a.m. I was on the train for a few minutes. We were cruising along in the underground tunnel when another train passed us and exploded, exactly opposite us.
Our train car filled up with smoke. Having done some first aid training, I said "look everybody relax, it's going to be OK."
A few minutes later someone came through the car, asking us if we had any first aid training because people (on the opposite train) were in trouble.
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=4ab7241d-84b4-4657-b0e9-5e747c4e2d87
Convicted killer out on bail after 15 years
Conditions tight as Trudel awaits new trial in '90 Cumberland killings
Jake Rupert
The Ottawa Citizen
Friday, July 08, 2005
A man convicted of first-degree murder before winning a new trial on appeal was ordered released on bail yesterday after 15 years in custody.
Richard Trudel, 38, one of four defendants in the alleged 1990 executions of a man and woman in a Cumberland house, is scheduled to walk out of custody this morning after Ontario Superior Court Justice Roydon Kealey granted bail pending the new trial.
Mr. Trudel's bail conditions will be extremely tight pending his retrial, which could come as early as February. The detailed conditions meant that after his ruling, the judge gave Crown and defence lawyers a day to get the necessary documentation completed.
After being granted freedom, Mr. Trudel was taken back to jail for at least one more day. But it was of little consequence for the accused and his lawyers.
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=0f4c170c-b077-4dbe-801e-c651637d0cbb
The Boston Globe
Londoners desperately seek missing loved ones
By Jeremy Lovell and Tim Castle July 8, 2005
LONDON (Reuters) - Yvonne Nash just wants to know what has happened to her partner Jamie Gordon, missing since four deadly bomb blasts brought London to a standstill.
Nash has issued an urgent appeal for information about Gordon, who was in the Euston area of London on Thursday at the same time as the last of the four bombs tore the roof off a bus.
"We're doing all we can in terms of contacting hospitals and the casualty (information line) but we've had no luck in tracking him down. The not knowing is so painful. We just want to know what happened," she said.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/08/londoners_desperately_seek_missing_loved_ones/
Hunt for survivors, bodies after London blasts
By Katherine Baldwin and Kate Holton July 8, 2005
LONDON (Reuters) - Desperate Londoners hunted for missing relatives on Friday after suspected al Qaeda bombers killed more than 50 people in rush-hour blasts, while rescue workers struggled to retrieve bodies trapped deep underground.
Fears of more attacks and false alarms kept commuters and financial markets jittery, while authorities worldwide went on alert following threats from Islamic militants to strike other countries which, like Britain, have troops in Iraq.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/08/hunt_for_survivors_bodies_after_london_blasts/
Thousands flee Fla. Keys ahead of Dennis
A line of cars travel out of the Florida Keys Thursday, July 7, 2005, in advance of Hurricane Dennis. A hurricane warning was issued for the lower Keys, including Key West; all residents of the lower Keys were ordered to evacuate late Thursday afternoon. A hurricane watch was in effect for the middle and upper Keys, including Key Largo. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
By Coralie Carlson, Associated Press Writer July 8, 2005
KEY WEST, Fla. --The first rain from Hurricane Dennis started falling Friday on the Florida Keys as the storm barreled toward the Gulf of Mexico, and forecasters warned that it might score a direct hit on the island chain.
Dennis was packing 145 mph wind at early afternoon, making it a strong Category 4 storm. Even if the eye passes to the west of the Keys, forecasters warned, hurricane-force winds extended up to 50 miles from the center, and tropical storm-force winds stretched up to 160 miles out.
Key West's streets were calmer than usual Friday, the result of an evacuation order issued a day earlier. The storm could batter the islands by evening, forecasters said. Morning breezes were expected to grow into stronger winds, joined by up to 8 inches of rain and storm surges of up to 6 feet.
http://www.boston.com/news/weather/articles/2005/07/08/thousands_flee_fla_keys_ahead_of_dennis/
Lawsuit asserts right to get drunk on private property
By Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff July 8, 2005
Eric Laverriere was celebrating last New Year's Eve at a friend's house in Waltham when police broke up the party. They took him into protective custody and kept him locked in a cell for nine hours until the effects of a night of beer drinking wore off.
This week, in what legal experts believe to be a first-of-its-kind legal challenge, Laverriere filed suit against the Waltham Police Department in US District Court in Boston, contending that he has a constitutional right to get drunk on private property ''so long as he causes no public disturbance."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/07/08/lawsuit_asserts_right_to_get_drunk_on_private_property/
Two years into CIA leak probe, no charges
Time Magazine journalist Matt Cooper talks to the press outside Federal Court after his proceeding Washington, Wednesday, July 6, 2005. Cooper agreed to cooperate with a federal prosecutor's investigation into the leak of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. He said he would do so now because his source gave him specific authority to do so. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
By Pete Yost, Associated Press Writer July 8, 2005
WASHINGTON --A prosecutor's hunt for Bush administration leakers of classified information has produced no indictments after almost two years, and legal experts say it's very possible the only person jailed will be a reporter who never wrote a story.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/07/08/two_years_into_cia_leak_probe_no_charges/
4 Americans reported injured in London
British police officers stand guard outside King's Cross Underground station that was hit by an explosion, in central London, late Thursday July 7, 2005. A string of rush-hour explosions tore into at least three London subway trains and a double-decker bus on Thursday in the worst attack on London since World War II, killing at least 37 people and injuring 700. Britain's foreign secretary said it had the hallmarks of al-Qaida. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
July 8, 2005
WASHINGTON --Four Americans were injured in the bombings in London and two of them remained hospitalized Friday, State Department spokesman Tom Casey said.
The other two also received hospital treatment and had been released, Casey said in a brief announcement that provided no details, except that all apparently were tourists.
Casey cited privacy regulations that limit what the U.S. government can say about American casualties without permission from the injured or their families.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/07/08/4_americans_reported_injured_in_london/
Blogs seen as powerful new tool in U.S. court fight
By Donna Smith July 8, 2005
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Political groups preparing to battle over the first U.S. Supreme Court nomination in 11 years have a powerful new tool -- Internet blogs -- to spread information quickly and influence decision makers without relying on traditional media.
Web logs likely numbering in the dozens provide a way for the thoughtful and the passionate to publish their views. Politicians are taking notice as they prepare for the first high court nomination fight since the Internet became common in American households.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/07/08/blogs_seen_as_powerful_new_tool_in_high_court_fight/
Sharon muzzles ministers on London blasts
By Matt Spetalnick July 8, 2005
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Ariel Sharon has imposed a gag order on his cabinet over the London bombings to avoid offending British sensibilities with comparisons to his country's fight against Palestinian militants, officials said.
The prime minister muzzled his normally talkative cabinet after Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom seemed to equate Thursday's deadly attacks with suicide bombings against Israeli civilians, comments that Israeli commentators said were ill-timed.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/08/israels_sharon_muzzles_ministers_on_london_blasts/
Israeli guard shoots dead Palestinian teen -police
July 8, 2005
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli guard killed a Palestinian teenager on Friday while shooting to disperse stone-throwing protesters at a barrier being built near the Israeli-West Bank boundary, Israeli police said.
Medics at Ramallah Hospital confirmed they had the body of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy shot in the chest at the site but would not give further details.
Israeli police said an armed Israeli guard had opened fire when protesters hurled rocks at them near the village of Beit Likiya in the West Bank, killing a Palestinian teenager.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/07/08/israeli_guard_shoots_dead_palestinian_teen__report/
U.N. moves quickly to calm Kosovo after drownings
By Branislav Krstic July 8, 2005
MITROVICA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - The United Nations moved quickly to calm Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority on Friday after three children drowned in a village where a similar incident last March sparked deadly riots.
"This was an accidental drowning. There was no foul play," U.N. police spokesman Larry Miller said just an hour after the deaths of the Albanian children were reported.
He spoke to Kosovo's public radio and television, which also reported Monday's deaths as an accident. The U.N. mission later issued a statement stressing no foul play was suspected.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/07/08/un_moves_quickly_to_calm_kosovo_after_drownings/
Asahi - Japan's Reaction to the violence in London is distraction. Hm. They address the issues of G8 and not the violence. Sorry, it had such deep impact on that society.
$45 billion needed to fight HIV/AIDS
07/06/2005
By TARO KARASAKI, Staff Writer
KOBE-With prevention the ultimate solution, the world's richest nations must come up with $45 billion (4.950 trillion yen) to win the battle against AIDS, says the director of HIV/AIDS at the United Nations World Health Organization.
Funds pledged so far simply don't go far enough, said Jim Yong Kim, who spoke at the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, which ended here Tuesday.
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200507060133.html
Cover Story: Going aloft
07/08/2005
By HIROHIKO NAKAMURA
The Asahi Shimbun
Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi will be among seven "human guinea pigs" who will blast off Wednesday in the first U.S. space shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster nearly ２ 1/2 years ago.
Although the 40-year-old Noguchi is a space novice, he was tapped to head important but risky tasks during three scheduled spacewalks on his Discovery mission.
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200507080336.html
Noguchi on mission to clear the way for people to journey to Mars
07/08/2005
By TOMOHIRO MURAYAMA
The Asahi Shimbun
At age 40, astronaut Soichi Noguchi says he's never felt more ready for his journey of a lifetime.
Noguchi was originally slated to fly to the International Space Station in March 2003. But the Columbia tragedy scuttled those plans. The Return to Flight mission on Wednesday marks NASA's confidence that it has done everything possible to ensure the safety of future flight crews.
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200507080334.html
12 employees of water pipe manufacturer died of asbestos-related diseases
07/08/2005
The Asahi Shimbun
Twelve employees of a now-defunct pipe manufacturer have died of asbestos-related diseases since 1982, company officials said Friday, as the health ministry took further measures against this growing problem.
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200507080265.html
Japan strengthens anti-terror measures
07/08/2005
The Asahi Shimbun
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi expressed outrage at the terrorist attacks in London as his government Friday strengthened anti-terror measures at transportation centers, military bases and other areas around Japan.
Koizumi was attending the Group of Eight summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, when three bombs exploded in the London subway and another destroyed a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour.
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200507080228.html
EDITORIAL/ Aid for Africa: G-8 summit faces a Herculean task on many fronts.
07/06/2005
On Saturday, 10 cities around the world including Tokyo hosted "Live 8" rock concerts to raise public awareness for assistance to African nations. A galaxy of stars ensured that millions of fans turned out for the events.
The "8" refers to the Group of Eight industrialized nations whose leaders are meeting from Wednesday in Gleneagles, Scotland, for their annual summit. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who will chair the meeting, has made aid to Africa a major plank of his foreign policy. Thanks to his unswerving commitment, assistance to African nations is expected to be a key agenda item at the gathering of world leaders.
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200507060105.html
The Washington Post
Bush, Blair Deadlocked on Global Warming
By Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 7, 2005; 7:52 a.m.
GLENEAGLES, Scotland, July 7 - President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair failed to reach agreement on international efforts to combat global warming today, as the two leaders declared a shared belief that humans are contributing to rising temperatures but deadlocked over a solution.
On the first full day of meetings between the world's eight major industrial powers that were disrupted by bombings in London, Bush and Blair emerged from breakfast at this highland golf resort to tell reporters that a new international pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions could be at least seven years away.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/content/articles/gleneagles070705.html
Attacks Bear Earmarks Of Evolving Al Qaeda
Targets, Timing Both Familiar
By Steve Coll and Susan B. Glasser
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, July 8, 2005; Page A01
After Sept. 11, 2001, the world learned that counterterrorism specialists had seen that kind of attack coming, they just did not know when and where it would take place. In a similar sense, they saw yesterday's London bombings coming, too; they have been warning of such a strike on European soil for much of this year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/07/AR2005070702389.html
Walking Off the Fat, Across the Land
At 400 Pounds, a Californian Set Off for New York. In Arizona, He's at 350.
By Amy Argetsinger
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 8, 2005; Page A03
PEACH SPRINGS, Ariz. -- This week, his 13th on the road, has been the hardest thus far for Steve Vaught, a 400-pound man trying to walk across America.
On Sunday morning, he found a creek just as the desert heat forced a midday break. But when he woke from a nap and tried to fill his water bottles, the stream had already gone dry. Late that night, he walked right past his scheduled motel stop in Truxton, a flyspeck on historic Route 66 so slight it vanished when the sun went down.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/07/AR2005070701972.html
U.N. Nuclear Agency Expands Treaty
By GEORGE JAHN
The Associated Press
Friday, July 8, 2005; 8:24 AM
VIENNA, Austria -- An 89-nation conference on Friday approved broadening a treaty meant to keep nuclear material from the hands of terrorists, opening the way for states to ratify the agreement.
Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, called the development an "important step toward greater nuclear security by combating, preventing, and ultimately punishing those who would engage in nuclear theft, sabotage and even terrorism."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/08/AR2005070800469.html
Questions Remain on the Leaker and the Law
Rove's Talks With Time Writer May Be a Focus
By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 8, 2005; Page A02
The jailing of New York Times reporter Judith Miller on Wednesday put the issue of press freedom and the confidentiality of sources on front pages across the country, but the heart of the case remains what it has been from the outset: whether senior Bush officials broke the law in the disclosure of a CIA covert operative's identity.
Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has spent the better part of two years trying to answer that question, in a case that grew out of the angry debate over whether President Bush and his advisers hyped or falsified intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify going to war with Iraq in the spring of 2003. At issue is whether administration officials misused classified information to try to discredit one of their potentially most damaging critics.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/07/AR2005070702215.html
Ten Philippine Cabinet Members Resign
President Arroyo Faces Increased Pressure to Step Down
By Alan Sipress
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, July 8, 2005; 12:00 PM
MANILA, July 8 -- Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo faced intense pressure Friday to step down as ten of her cabinet members and former President Corazon Aquino added their voices to those demanding her resignation.
Arroyo had sought to preempt a potentially fatal cabinet mutiny earlier in the week by firing her entire team. But the month-old leadership crisis escalated dramatically when disaffected cabinet secretaries, including most of her top economic advisors, announced at a morning news conference that it was Arroyo who must go.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/08/AR2005070800347.html
BBC
London bombs killed 'at least 50'
Police say there is nothing to suggest a suicide bombing
More than 50 people died in the London bomb attacks, the head of the Metropolitan Police has said.
Forty-nine people are so far confirmed dead, but Sir Ian Blair said an unknown number of bodies remain in the blast-hit Tube train at Russell Square.
The police had an "implacable resolve" to track down those responsible for the bombings, the Met Commissioner said.
The police chief confirmed that 13 people were killed in the bus blast at Tavistock Square alone.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4663931.stm
Several injured in London blasts
Passengers were evacuated from King's Cross station
Several people have been injured after explosions on the Underground network and a double-decker bus in London.
A police spokesman said there were "quite a large number of casualties" at Aldgate Tube Station.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4659093.stm
G8 leaders agree $50bn aid boost
World leaders gather as the G8 summit in Gleneagles ends
The G8 meeting has ended with an agreement to boost aid for developing countries by $50bn (£28.8bn).
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said there was also a commitment to find an end date for farm subsidies and a will to find agreement on trade liberalisation.
On climate change, he said an agreement had always been unlikely, but crucially the US had accepted that global warming was an issue.
NGOs are critical of the deal, calling it a "vastly disappointing result".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4662297.stm
G8 calls for new climate dialogue
The science is such that "we know enough to act now", the G8 says
The G8 leaders have promised a "new dialogue" on climate change.
Their communiqué, released at the end of the Gleneagles summit, states that global warming is a "serious long-term challenge" for the entire planet.
And the nations promised to act with "resolve and urgency" to reduce the gas emissions thought responsible - but they specified no targets or timetable.
Instead, the UK Prime Minister Tony Blair says the G8 countries will meet in November for further discussions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4664549.stm
G8 pledges $3bn to Palestinians
Mr Blair wants to focus on Palestinian living standards
The G8 has pledged a $3bn (£1.72bn) aid package for the Palestinian Authority.
Speaking at the Gleneagles summit, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said the funds were to help Israel and the Palestinians co-exist in peace.
He described the package as a "contrast with the politics of terror", referring to Thursday's bomb attacks on London.
The G8 offer follows a pledge of $350m by the United States, some of which is to be spent on housing and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4664479.stm
Militants shun Abbas unity offer
Mr Assad (R) is trying to help the Palestinian groups end divisions
Several Palestinian militant groups have rejected an offer by President Mahmoud Abbas for them to join a national unity government.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine made a counter-proposal for a committee to oversee Israel's pullout from Gaza.
Mr Abbas was in Damascus on Thursday, where some militant leaders are based.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4663429.stm
Sasser creator avoids jail term
Sven Jaschan spent four days on trial
A German youth has been given a 21-month suspended sentence after being convicted of creating the Sasser worm which crippled computers worldwide.
Sven Jaschan was found guilty of computer sabotage and illegally altering data, said a court official.
He evaded a jail term as he was tried as a minor since he was 17 years old when he wrote the worm.
Sasser wrought havoc when the Windows worm struck in May 2004, swamping net links and making computers unusable.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4659329.stm
Drought-hit Portugal fights fires
Portugal faced similar fires last summer
Hundreds of firefighters are trying to douse brush fires that have spread through northern and central Portugal.
Three important highways were closed, including part of the main road between Lisbon and second city Oporto.
Residents tried to beat back the flames nearing their homes with the branches of trees and buckets of water.
Authorities said the fires, which sprung up in the early hours of Friday, may have been started deliberately.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4665267.stm
Of Interest
Wind Farm in San Gorgonio Pass
In southern California, high and rugged mountains encircle the Los Angeles Basin like a fortress. Only a few passes exist that are large and level enough for ground transportation infrastructure like highways and train tracks. The passes create intense natural wind tunnels suitable for power generation from wind turbines.
This image shows wind turbines in the San Gorgonio Pass, which cuts a wide gap through the San Bernardino Mountains to the north and the San Jacinto Mountains to the south. The burnt-orange landscape is dotted with shrubs or small trees. Turbine access roads branch out from numerous “handles”like multi-pronged rakes. The blades of the turbines cast black shadows on the ground. The silvery braided channels of a dry wash weave across the upper right corner of the scene.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16966
The Moscow Times
4 Blasts Rip Through Central London
By Jane Wardell
The Associated Press
Mike Finn-Kelcey / Reuters
An emergency worker walking near the double-decker bus that exploded at 9:47 a.m. Thursday in London. Three Tube blasts occurred about an hour earlier.
LONDON -- A string of rush-hour explosions tore into at least three London subway trains and a double-decker bus on Thursday in the worst attack on London since World War II, killing at least 37 people and injuring 700.
Prime Minister Tony Blair blamed Islamic terrorists, saying those behind the attacks had acted "in the name of Islam" but that he knew most Muslims worldwide "deplore this act of terrorism."
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/07/08/001.html
Putin Calls for United Front on Terrorism
By Simon Saradzhyan
Staff Writer
President Vladimir Putin offered his condolences over Thursday's bomb attacks in London and said the attacks showed that the civilized world was not united enough in fighting terrorism.
Speaking at the Group of Eight summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, Putin also said there should be no "double standards" in assessing terrorist attacks, in an apparent reference to bomb attacks in Russia that have claimed the lives of thousands of people.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/07/08/002.html
Relatives of Slain Reporters Speak Up
By Carl Schreck
Staff Writer
Relatives and colleagues of journalists slain in Russia say that law enforcement authorities are stonewalling investigations into the murders, creating what press freedom advocates say is a situation in which journalists can be killed without repercussions.
"Unfortunately, the message now is that you can kill a journalist in Russia and probably get away with it," said Ann Cooper, executive director of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/07/08/013.html
New York Times Reporter Jailed
By Pete Yost
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed for refusing to divulge a confidential source to a grand jury investigating the Bush administration's leak of an undercover CIA operative's name. Another reporter, Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, agreed to talk and avoided jail.
Cooper agreed to cooperate with prosecutors Wednesday after disclosing that his source had given him permission to do so hours earlier. The about-face came after nearly two years of refusals to disclose the information.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/07/08/251.html
Uzbekistan Signals It Is Reconsidering U.S. Air Base
The Associated Press
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan -- Uzbekistan on Thursday signaled that it was reconsidering the future of the U.S. air base on its territory.
The Uzbek Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the air base at Karshi-Khanabad, which American forces use to support operations and supply humanitarian aid to neighboring Afghanistan, was intended only for combat operations in northern Afghanistan during the overthrow of the Taliban regime after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/07/08/017.html
Solar Sail Vehicle to Attempt First Controlled Space Flight
The Associated Press
A solar sail vehicle designed to be propelled by the pressure of sunlight was to be launched into space from a Russian submarine Tuesday as part of a joint Russian-U.S project attempting the first controlled flight of a solar sail, Federal Space Agency officials said.
A Volna booster rocket was to launch the unmanned spacecraft from a submerged submarine in the Barents Sea at 11:46 p.m., said Konstantin Kreidenko, an agency spokesman. The aim is for solar energy to push a giant, reflecting sail through space the way wind propels sailboats across water.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/06/22/018.html
At Least One Russian Killed in Crimean Beach Landslide
The Associated Press
KIEV — A landslide buried a Black Sea beach in Ukraine with soil on Tuesday, killing at least one Russian sunbather and trapping as many as four others, emergency officials said.
The landslide, which occurred around noon, sent some 600 cubic meters of soil onto the beach near Sevastopol, said Dmytro Boguslavskiy, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/06/22/013.html
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