The Boston Globe
National Guard: Enough GIs for storm duty
August 29, 2005
WASHINGTON --Though thousands of National Guard personnel from Louisiana and Mississippi are serving in Iraq, officials say more than enough personnel were available for disaster duty Monday as Hurricane Katrina slammed ashore.
"Only about half of available forces are mobilized in Louisiana and forces are available from neighboring states if needed," said Lt. Col. Mike Milord, a spokesman at National Guard headquarters outside Washington.
Some 3,500 Army National Guardsmen from Louisiana were deployed to help hurricane victims and another 3,000 were on standby.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/29/national_guard_enough_gis_for_storm_duty/
After Gaza, fear rises of West Bank violence
Recent attacks fueled by pullout
By Anne Barnard, Globe Staff August 29, 2005
SHILO, West Bank -- Minutes after Asher Weissgan, a Jewish settler, fatally shot four of his Palestinian co-workers in this West Bank settlement, he calmly told a security officer that he hoped the killings would stop the removal of settlers from the Gaza Strip that Israeli forces had begun that morning.
The shooting on Aug. 17 occurred less than two weeks after an Israeli Army deserter opposed to the pullout gunned down four Arabs on a bus in northern Israel.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/29/after_gaza_fear_rises_of_west_bank_violence/
Ex-Aryan headquarters goes up for auction
August 29, 2005
HAYDEN, Idaho --The former headquarters of a white supremacist group is headed for the auction block because no one picked up the mortgage payments after the group's founder died in September.
Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler died of a heart attack at age 86, leaving an unpaid balance of $91,486 on the home.
Human-rights advocates say the looming sale is one of many signs the Aryan Nations is in decline.
"He was the glue of the Aryan Nations movement in the Northwest, if not the country," said FBI agent Norm Brown, supervisor of the Inland Northwest Joint Terrorism Task Force. "As a result of his death, we've seen a marked decrease in Aryan Nations activity in the Inland Northwest."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/29/ex_aryan_headquarters_goes_up_for_auction/
Roberts pushed for Reagan policies
By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press Writer August 29, 2005
WASHINGTON --Supreme Court nominee John Roberts pushed the Reagan-era Justice Department to get its conservative policies enacted into law to make it more difficult for future presidents to abrogate them, documents showed Monday.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/08/29/roberts_pushed_for_reagan_policies/
Jellyfish cause reactor shutdown in Sweden
August 29, 2005
STOCKHOLM, Sweden --A Swedish nuclear power plant shut down one of its three reactors Monday because of an abnormal accumulation of jellyfish in the cooling system.
The Oskarshamn plant in southeastern Sweden uses water from the Baltic Sea in its cooling tanks.
The water has been unusually rich in jellyfish in recent weeks, but the problem grew worse Monday morning, forcing officials to shut down the reactor.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/29/jellyfish_cause_reactor_shutdown_in_sweden/
Germany school reopens after 2002 rampage
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder speaks during the reopening ceremony of the Gutenberg high school in Erfurt, eastern Germany, Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. The German high school where a former pupil killed himself and 16 others during a shooting rampage was officially reopened Monday in a ceremony attended by Schroeder. The Gutenberg high school has undergone a 10 million Euro (US$12.3 million) renovation since April 26, 2002, when 19-year-old Robert Steinhaeuser fatally shot 12 teachers, a secretary, two students and a police officer before turning his gun on himself. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
By Jochen Wiesigel, Associated Press Writer August 29, 2005
ERFURT, Germany --A German high school where a former student killed 16 people and then himself during a shooting rampage three years ago was officially reopened Monday in a ceremony attended by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/08/29/germany_school_reopens_after_2002_rampage/
1 dead in Sri Lanka newspaper office blast
By Shimali Senanayake, Associated Press Writer August 29, 2005
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka --Attackers on a bicycle hurled grenades at a Tamil-language newspaper office in the capital of Colombo, killing a security guard, police said Monday.
The attack on the Sudar Oli newspaper, allegedly linked to the country's Tamil Tiger rebels, came eight days after two bombs were thrown at another office of the newspaper in Colombo. No one was injured since the bombs did not explode.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/08/29/1_dead_in_sri_lanka_newspaper_office_blast/
Shi'ite infighting opens new front in Iraq
By Mariam Karouny August 29, 2005
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A power struggle in Iraq between powerful Shi'ite factions could complicate efforts to stabilize the country as it heads toward a referendum on its new draft constitution, officials said.
Clashes that erupted last week between supporters of a powerful Shi'ite party in the governing coalition and militiamen loyal to a maverick Shi'ite cleric brought into public view long-standing faultlines in Iraqi politics.
Officials fear tensions will heighten before an October 15 referendum on a draft constitution passed without support from Arab Sunnis, whose community is the seat of an insurgency against the Shi'ite-led government and U.S. forces defending it.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/29/shiite_infighting_opens_new_front_in_iraq/
For women and children
August 29, 2005
DURING FOREIGN wars and disasters, women and children suffer egregious abuses. They are raped, killed, or forced into servitude as soldiers, domestics, and sex slaves. They desperately need more protection than the vital but limited food-water-and-shelter response of international aid efforts.
A bill in Congress would enhance emergency aid, making the United States a leader in cracking down on sexual violence and abuse as well as in quickly rebuilding educational and economic activities.
A coordinator would be appointed in the State Department or the US Agency for International Development who would work to ensure that emergency aid always included strategies to protect women and children.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2005/08/29/for_women_and_children/
The Times Picayune
Katrina's western eyewall passes over New Orleans
Power outages widespread, including Superdome
LATEST ON KATRINA:
Hurricane Katrina plowed into this below-sea-level city Monday with howling, 145-mph winds and blinding rain that ripped away pieces of the roof of the Superdome, knocked out power and flooded some homes to the ceilings.
Katrina edged slightly to the east shortly before making landfall near Grand Isle, providing some hope that the worst of the storm's wrath might not be directed at the vulnerable city. Martin Nelson, a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center, said the northern part of the eyewall came ashore at about 5 a.m. central time.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/weather/
The Telegraph
Bush-baiter Cindy to widen campaign
Cindy Sheehan in Crawford, Texas. (Reuters)
Crawford (Texas), Aug. 27 (Reuters): Iraq war protester Cindy Sheehan, whose vigil near President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch has become a symbol for the anti-war movement, said yesterday she plans to focus on Congress, starting with house majority leader Tom DeLay, a Bush ally and fellow Texan.
Sheehan has been demanding a meeting with Bush to discuss the US presence in Iraq, where her son was killed in 2004.
She plans to begin a bus tour next Thursday from Bush’s ranch to the White House to campaign for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.
One of DeLay’s Texas district offices would likely be the first stop, she said. That is about a 5.5 hour drive from Bush’s ranch in Crawford, where he is on a month-long vacation.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050828/asp/foreign/story_5166053.asp
Africa split hope for Delhi’s UN bid
K.P. NAYAR
New York, Aug. 27: India and other members of the Group of Four (G4) states — Brazil, Germany and Japan — will allow their joint resolution for permanent seats in the UN Security Council to lapse in the General Assembly.
So will the Africans, who have moved a resolution that has come in the way of the G4 bid to secure an expansion of the Security Council.
Both resolutions will lapse on September 13, the day Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives here to address a special summit of UN members to commemorate the world body’s 60th anniversary, move ahead on reforming the UN and set the stage for mankind’s goals for the new millennium.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050828/asp/nation/story_5166144.asp
New Zealand Herald
Katrina lashes US shore, one million evacuated
A woman walks through a street in the deserted French Quarter of New Orleans after authorities told residents to evacuate. Picture / Reuters
29.08.05 5.15pm
NEW ORLEANS - The fringes of potentially catastrophic Hurricane Katrina began whipping Louisiana today as about a million people fled from the low-lying New Orleans area.
The brunt of Katrina, which had 265km/h winds on Sunday evening local time, was expected to crash ashore around sunrise on Monday (about 10pm NZT). Its winds, tides and heavy squalls had already started arriving before nightfall.
The storm had weakened slightly from the morning, when it boasted 280km/h winds, but it remained a savage Category 5 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10342989
The deepening climate crisis
Hurricane Katrina hit South Miami hard, not long after Hurricane Dennis had also wreaked destruction there. Picture / Reuters
29.08.05
By Elizabeth Nash
The category four storm threatening to cause havoc around the Gulf of Mexico is another example of the way global warming is altering the world's weather systems, environmental campaigners say.
As Hurricane Katrina bore down for a second time on Florida - with New Orleans in Louisiana
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10342880
Iranian boy sues Australian immigration over detention
29.08.05 1.00pm
SYDNEY - A ten-year-old Iranian boy will make legal history today when he sues the Australian Immigration Department and a detention centre operator in the NSW Supreme Court for causing him psychological damage.
News Ltd newspapers say Shayan Badraie used to be a vibrant, bubbly boy who enjoyed playing with his toy car collection.
But now, with a psychiatric illness, he is withdrawn and has trouble eating, sleeping and socialising with his classmates at his western Sydney school, his family and legal team say.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10342962
Air NZ warns 2006 profit could fall 40 per cent
29.08.05 1.00pm
By Rachel Pannett
National carrier Air New Zealand today warned its 2006 earnings could plunge by as much as 40 per cent if sky high oil prices continue.
"If fuel prices persist at current levels, then the potential exists for the current year performance to be around 40 per cent below the 2005 result," Air NZ chairman John Palmer said.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10342965
Shell New Zealand chairman resigns
29.08.05 2.50pm
The chairman of Shell New Zealand has resigned for family and personal reasons, the company said today.
Paul Zealand will be replaced by Shell's country manager for Commercial Exploration and Production Dr Ajit Bansal, until the company names a full-time replacement.
Mr Zealand -- who has spent 24 years with Shell -- has also resigned as general manager of Shell Todd Oil Services, where he will be replaced by New Zealander Rob Jager.
He will leave both positions at the end of September.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10342988
The weather at Scott Base, Antarctica (Crystal Ice Chime) is:
Scott Base
Clear
-25.0°
Updated Monday 29 Aug 8:59PM
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
48 °F / 9 °C
Mostly Cloudy
Humidity:
82%
Dew Point:
43 °F / 6 °C
Wind:
Calm
Pressure:
29.82 in / 1010 hPa
Visibility:
10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometers
UV:
0 out of 16
Clouds (AGL):
Mostly Cloudy 6000 ft / 1828 m
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