The Jerusalem Post
PM: 'Not all West Bank settlements will remain'
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday that the large settlement blocs in the West Bank would "remain in our hands permanently."
According to the prime minister, speaking to Channel 10, "Not all the settlements that are today in Judea and Samaria will remain under Israeli control. The discussion over the borders and the settlements is the last stage of the negotiations according to the road map."
When asked about his Likud rival Binyamin Netanyahu, Sharon lashed out at Netanyahu, calling him "a man who deals poorly with pressure and panics. Israel is a special country. Our problems are more complex than those of other countries. In order to run this country, you have to have good judgment and nerves of steel."
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Suleiman and Abbas discuss pullout
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Egyptian Intelligence Chief Gen. Omar Suleiman held talks in Gaza City on Monday with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad on the latest developments regarding Israel's disengagement plan.
Suleiman is the first senior Egyptian official to visit the Gaza Strip after the evacuation of the settlements there. An Egyptian security team headed by Suleiman's deputy, Mustafa Buhairi, has been in the Gaza Strip for several weeks now to help the PA in imposing law and order and assuming control over the dismantled settlement areas.
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2 yeshiva students stabbed by neo-Nazis
By JPOST.COM STAFF
A group of neo-Nazis stabbed two Kiev yeshiva students on an underpass Sunday evening, while on their way home from the yeshiva.
Mordechai Ben Avraham, 28, one of the students attacked, was in critical condition and undergoing brain surgery Monday. The other student was lightly wounded.
No suspects were identified as of Monday morning.
Rabbi Moshe Asman, of the Kiev Jewish community, was in contact with the police and promised that the stabbings would be dealt with seriously. Kiev police also made similar assurances, Army Radio reported.
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Moroccan Jews try to help immigrants through familiar process
By DANIELLA CHESLOW
Last week, Irina Abu-Oucha, 22, walked away from Ofakim with a scholarship for NIS 3,000.
Abu-Oucha, who is studying psychology at the University of Haifa, is from Ma'alot-Tarshiha. Her parents, one an Israeli-Arab and one from Bulgaria, have little connection to Morocco.
But Abu-Oucha was one of 180 students to receive scholarships from the World Federation of Moroccan Jewry, awarded at Ofakim's Salute to Moroccan Jewry celebration. About 60 percent of those receiving scholarships had no connection to the North African country, said federation president Sam Ben-Chetrit.
"I saw an advertisement at the city hall," Abu-Oucha said, explaining how she had heard about the scholarship. "I know people in the municipality. It's not such a big town, and everyone knows each other."
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Beersheba bombing 'heroes' recovering
By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
The two security guards who saved the lives of dozens of passengers at Beersheba's central bus station and suffered severe injuries when a suicide bomber blew himself up on Sunday morning are out of danger, a Soroka University Medical Center spokeswoman said on Monday.
Lui Abu-Jama, a 27-year-old man from the Beduin town of Aroer in the Negev, and Pavel Sorotzkin, a former Russian immigrant from Beersheba, prevented the terrorist from alighting and thus prevented many from being killed.
Although they both suffered serious burns, shrapnel wounds and other damage and were in unstable condition during the 24 hours after being admitted to Soroka, both have undergone surgery and are stable and out of danger.
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Full speed ahead for southern fence
By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN
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security fence that could have stopped a suicide bomber from reaching Beersheba on Sunday are now hastening its completion and have started erecting five kilometers a week.
The first 32-kilometer section stretching from Moshav Nehusha south of Beit Shemesh to Shomriya is expected to be completed by mid-October, six weeks ahead of schedule, a senior IDF officer said Sunday.
But the remaining – and crucial – 26-kilometer stretch that would block the lower Hebron Hills of the West Bank, where some 420,000 Palestinians live, from the northern Negev won't be finished until next summer, if not later.
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The San Francisco Chronicle
Bay Area Red Cross workers head to hurricane area
Relief workers from the Bay Area chapter of the American Red Cross were heading to Little Rock, Ark., this morning to prepare to distribute food and aid to those affected by Hurricane Katrina.
“This could become the biggest hurricane to which the American Red Cross has ever responded,” said Alan McCurry, an executive vice president for the organization in Washington, D.C.
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Hurricane Katrina Rips La., Miss. Coasts
By ADAM NOSSITER, Associated Press Writer
(08-29) 08:37 PDT NEW ORLEANS, (AP) --
Hurricane Katrina plowed into this below-sea-level city Monday with howling, 145-mph winds and blinding rain that flooded some homes to the ceilings and peeled away part of the roof of the Superdome, where thousands of people had taken shelter.
Katrina weakened overnight to a Category 4 storm and turned slightly eastward before hitting land at 6:10 a.m. CDT near the bayou town of Buras, apparently sparing this vulnerable city from the storm's full fury.
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SF school district workers call in sick
(08-29) 09:47 PDT San Francisco (SF Chronicle) -- A number of custodians, cafeteria workers and secretaries for the San Francisco Unified School District made good on their threat to call in sick this morning, the first day of school, to underscore their dissatisfaction with their union’s stalled contract negotiations.
District spokeswoman Lorna Ho said the absences were not expected to cause a significant disruption. “We planned for the worst when we heard there might be a sick-out,” Ho said.
She said it was too early to tell how widespread the action was. “We clearly do have some people at the central office who are not here,” she said.
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Evacuations Ordered Around Rail Car Leak
(08-29) 08:31 PDT CINCINNATI (AP) --
Homes within one-half mile of a leaking railroad car were ordered evacuated Monday morning because of concern about a highly flammable liquid whose fumes are hazardous to breathe.
Rush-hour commuters from the city's east side were diverted around the site.
The leak occurred Sunday near Lunken Airport, which handles mostly private and corporate planes.
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CALIFORNIA
Firefighters struggle with 3 big wildfires
Hundreds of firefighters battled to contain Sunday at least three major blazes across California that had burned through thousands of acres and destroyed more than two dozen buildings.
Residents of Manton in the Tehama County foothills 30 miles northeast of Red Bluff began returning home to examine the destruction caused by a fire that started Friday afternoon and led to the evacuation of the entire town. Thirty structures were destroyed in the community of about 500 and 20 were damaged, said Elmer Benson, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Three firefighters received minor injuries.
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ARCTIC OIL
Oil is the lifeblood of Alaska, with residents ready to drill
Inhabitants of the Last Frontier see economic opportunity -- and with Bush and the Republicans in power, timing is right
Fairbanks, Alaska -- When Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski took office in 2003 facing a $1 billion budget deficit, he made clear how he would pull this resource-rich state out of its fiscal crisis.
"What is our plan for increasing revenue?" Murkowski said in his first address to the state Legislature. "In a single word -- oil."
The newly elected Republican governor said Alaska needed to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and elsewhere to make up for declining revenues from Prudhoe Bay, with oil flowing at only half-capacity through the trans-Alaska pipeline.
This fall, Murkowski and other Alaskan officials are expected to get their wish: Congress appears likely to approve a budget bill that would allow drilling on the 1.5 million-acre coastal plain of the refuge.
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The Buffalo News
Study finds coffee is rich in antioxidants
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Associated Press
8/29/2005
WASHINGTON - When the Ink Spots sang "I love the java jive and it loves me" in 1940, they could not have known how right they were.
Coffee not only helps clear the mind and perk up the energy, it also provides more healthful antioxidants than any other food or beverage in the American diet, according to a study released Sunday.
Of course, too much coffee can make people jittery and even raise cholesterol levels, so food experts stress moderation.
The findings by Joe A. Vinson, a chemistry professor at the University of Scranton, in Pennsylvania, give a healthy boost to the warming beverage.
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Katrina threatens oil refining activity
By JUSTIN BACHMAN
Associated Press
8/29/2005
NEW YORK - With crude oil prices already at record levels, Hurricane Katrina targeted the heart of America's oil and refinery operations Sunday, shutting down an estimated 1 million barrels of daily production and threatening to curtail refining activity in the region.
Katrina, a Category 5 storm expected to strike near New Orleans early today, was churning through the Gulf of Mexico. The area is crucial to the nation's energy infrastructure - offshore oil and gas production, import terminals, pipeline networks and numerous refining operations throughout southern Louisiana and Mississippi.
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Sharpton links protest to civil rights campaigns
By SAM COATES
Washington Post
8/29/2005
Associated Press
Cindy Sheehan, left, gets consolation from the Rev. Al Sharpton and Evan Bright, who joined her Sunday at the protest site.
CRAWFORD, Texas - The Rev. Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist and former presidential candidate, rallied antiwar protesters here Sunday, drawing comparisons to the civil rights movement on this anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
Speaking at a morning prayer meeting, he called Cindy Sheehan, who first arrived here 22 days ago to protest the war in Iraq, "the conscience" of the nation.
"I come today because I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families and in particular Cindy," he told the crowd of 400. "I wanted to come on that anniversary to be with ordinary people, as I think Doctor King would have wanted."
Sharpton said opposition to the war in Iraq is not a partisan act. "This is not about politics. This is not about Republican or Democrat. This is not about what party you're a part of. This is about right and
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The Korean Herald
North Korea proposes meeting in week of Sept. 12
North Korea yesterday proposed reopening six-party talks on its nuclear programs in the week beginning Sept. 12. South Korea also said the recessed talks will likely resume in mid-September instead of this week as was previously agreed by the member countries.
"We told the United States through contacts in New York that we can't join the six-party talks while war exercises that we oppose are under way," North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency quoted an unnamed Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying. The statement was referring to joint South Korean-U.S. military drills that began last week.
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Crude oil prices soar to a record above $70
Crude oil prices that soared to a record level above $70 roiled local bourses yesterday with concerns that lofty energy costs could erode corporate profits and hamper consumer sentiment.
The U.S. benchmark, West Texas Intermediate, for October delivery soared to a record $70.80 a barrel in after-hours trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange after Hurricane Katrina forced companies, including Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., to shut down operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Ex-leader Park on list of 3,000 Japan collaborators
A civic organization yesterday disclosed a list of 3,094 Koreans who they claim collaborated with the Japanese authorities during Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of Korea. Those named include former president Park Chung-hee and the former heads of major newspapers.
This is the first time a full list of pro-Japanese collaborators has been collated since Korea was liberated from Japan on Aug. 15 in 1945. But, the disclosure is likely to spur controversy over the standards by which the alleged collaborators were selected and could result in those accused filing lawsuits against the Institute for Research into Collaborationist Activities who researched and disclosed the list.
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Doosan Heavy to tap Chinese nuclear reactor opportunities
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co. said yesterday it agreed to cooperate with China's largest power facility builder Harbin Power Equipment Co. in bidding for new projects in the world's fastest growing market.
The deal promises Doosan an opportunity to expand its power generating equipment business in China as HPEC agreed to make joint bids for plants planned by the Chinese government for Quinshan, Zhejiang Province.
Doosan Heavy chief executive Kim Dae-joong and HPEC Chairman Geng Lei signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday on the mid-term partnership for possible power plant projects in China in the future.
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U.S. government supports Korean free economic zones
Korea's free economic zones are expected to play a central role in trade and investment relations between the United States and Korea, says the minister-counselor of commercial affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul.
Carmine D'Aloisio, who has lived in Korea for two years, stressed in an interview with The Korea Herald that the embassy and the U.S. government warmly welcomes the economic zones that form the centerpiece of the Korea's plan to develop into a business hub of Northeast Asia.
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Michael Moore Today
The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 21)
Not One More
-- a message from Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, Texas
A photographer friend of mine went down to Crawford to the Pro-War, Anti-Peace rally today. There were about 1500 people there he said. He also said that it was the most "third reich" spectacle that he had ever seen in America.
My friend said that the speakers were whipping up the crowd into a frenzy of hatred for me (like they already didn't hate me?) and for the peace movement. My friend said that the entire theme of the rally was: "Cindy is killing American troops by her anti-American protest." Oh really, isn't George Bush killing innocent Americans and Iraqis by sending them to fight in an illegal and immoral war for power and greed? I think the real culprit is my neighbor: George.
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Crawford changed by Sheehan effort
Rival camps inundate tiny town
By M.S. Enkoji / Sacramento Bee
CRAWFORD, TEXAS - There was a time when this place could have been the answer to a pretty darn good trivia question. And then, Cindy Sheehan came to town.
Just a month ago, Sheehan, the Vacaville mother of a soldier slain in Iraq, began a lonely, anguished vigil under the blazing Texas sun, encamped in a tent, estranged from her husband and largely ignored by the world.
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They Are Stardust, And in Texas
At the Crawford Protest Camp, Growing Echoes of Woodstock
By Mike Allen / Washington Post
CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 21 -- Camp Casey, which started with one mom and a grievance, mushroomed over the weekend into a massive settlement with a party tent for 2,000, a shuttle-bus service and an elaborate catering operation that deposited a 26-foot-long refrigerator truck, generators, and restaurant-quality ranges and warming ovens in a field next to President Bush's ranch.
The hippie crowd that originally was drawn to Cindy Sheehan's protest is still in town -- activists from Food Not Bombs are sleeping in an old school bus that has been painted sky blue and can be started only with jumper cables. But now they have been joined by liberals from throughout the West who are double-parking their hybrid-fueled cars to take part in a peace protest with a budget that is $120,000 and rising.
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Who's Next?
By Karen Houppert / The Nation
The US Army Recruiting Command has a motto: "First to contact, first to contract." In the school recruiting handbook the Army gives to the 7,500 recruiters it has trawling the nation these days, the motto crops up so often it serves as a stuttering paean to aggressive new tactics--tactics that target increasingly younger students.
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Bring Them Home Now Tour
From Camp Casey, Crawford to Washington DC
From George Bush’s door step to Communities along the way, We Demand That:
Elected Representatives Decide Now to Bring the Troops Home
We Take Care of Them When They Get Here
We Never Again Send Our Loved Ones to War Based on Lies!
We are currently at a significant turning point in how the American public views the war in Iraq. As the death toll in Iraq rises, Cindy Sheehan’s vigil near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, has captured the hearts and minds of thousands of Americans. Bush’s approval rating is falling. The voice of military families, who have lost loved ones and those with loved ones in harm’s way or about to deploy, can activate the American people. The voice of veterans, both of this war and of previous wars will also build the movement to end the war. Together these critical voices can demand that President Bush make the decision now to bring the troops home.
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Iraq war protestor says to shift focus to Congress
By Jeremy Pelofsky / Reuters
CRAWFORD, Texas, Aug 26 - 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 on Friday she plans to focus on Congress, starting with Bush close ally and fellow Texan House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
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Senator Will Ask Rumsfeld to Testify to Panel on Iraq
By Carl Hulse / The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 - With lawmakers facing tough questions at home about the war in Iraq, Senator John W. Warner, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, says he intends to summon Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld quickly for a hearing when Congress returns next week.
Mr. Warner, a Virginia Republican who is one of the most important Congressional voices on military policy, said mounting numbers of dead and wounded Americans, the contentious process of drafting an Iraqi constitution and the economic cost of the war were adding up to new anxiety in Congress.
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Army Contract Official Critical of Halliburton Pact Is Demoted
By Erik Eckholm / The New York Times
A top Army contracting official who criticized a large, noncompetitive contract with the Halliburton Company for work in Iraq was demoted Saturday for what the Army called poor job performance.
The official, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, has worked in military procurement for 20 years and for the past several years had been the chief overseer of contracts at the Army Corps of Engineers, the agency that has managed much of the reconstruction work in Iraq.
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Militants, swept from battleground, return when troops leave, U.S. says
By Tom Lasseter / Knight Ridder
AR-RAMADI, Iraq -- Iraq's insurgency has concentrated much of its fight against U.S. and Iraqi forces in towns along the murky waters of the Euphrates River, beginning with Al-Qaim on the Syrian border and running through towns such as Al-Hadithah, Al-Haqlaniyah, Hit, Ar-Ramadi and Al-Fallujah. They're all in Al-Anbar province, the heartland of Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority, which dominated the government under Saddam Hussein.
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Army Contract Official Critical of Halliburton Pact Is Demoted
By Erik Eckholm / The New York Times
A top Army contracting official who criticized a large, noncompetitive contract with the Halliburton Company for work in Iraq was demoted Saturday for what the Army called poor job performance.
The official, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, has worked in military procurement for 20 years and for the past several years had been the chief overseer of contracts at the Army Corps of Engineers, the agency that has managed much of the reconstruction work in Iraq.
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The Birmingham Post Herald
Preacher rants but ignores Jesus
Faith Matters by JAMES L. EVANS
BIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD
Pat Robertson, founder and host of the 700 Club, demonstrated this week just how far right-wingChristianity has drifted from the teachings of Jesus. During a recent telecast, Robertson said he believes the United States should assassinate Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela.
The remark came during one of Robertson's characteristic tirades. He does this quite often on his show.
… Even though Robertson later apologized for his remarks, it is hard not wonder how a Christian leader could even think such a thing. It would appear that Robertson has been more influenced by the gunslinger culture of the Wild West than by the sober teaching of Jesus about violence.
In Tombstone, the sheriff may go down to the OK Corral and shoot the bad guys before they get out of hand. But the vision of Jesus suggests that we try to overcome evil with good, not with more evil.
James L. Evans is pastor of Auburn First Baptist Church.
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