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History …
1833, Robert Ingersoll, lawyer and agnostic
1865, Gifford Pinchot, forester
1897, Louise Bogan, poet and critic
1921, Alex Haley, Alex, American author, whose books helped popularize the study of black history and genealogy. Born in Ithaca, New York, Haley was educated at Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College and at Elizabeth City Teachers College. From 1939 to 1959 he served in the United States Coast Guard, where he worked as a journalist. After retiring from the Coast Guard, Haley moved to New York City to pursue a writing career. In 1962 he interviewed American trumpeter Miles Davis for Playboy magazine. Also for Playboy, Haley interviewed American political activist Malcolm X, with whom he later collaborated to write The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965). The book, which recounts the life of Malcolm X and the evolution of his political and religious thought, had a strong influence on black nationalists. It also received praise from critics and was widely read in colleges and universities.
1926, Aaron Klug, molecular biologist
1933, Jerry Falwell, evangelist
1841 African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivers his first
public speech before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in
Nantucket. Having escaped from slavery only three years earlier,
Douglass is legally a fugitive when he delivers his speech about
his life as a slave. The Massachusetts Society immediately hires
Douglass as a full-time lecturer.
1873 John Rosamond Johnson is born in Jacksonville, Florida. He will,
with Bob Cole, be part of the famous vaudeville team Cole & Johnson.
He will best be remembered as a composer who, with his brother James
Weldon Johnson providing the lyrics, will write "Lift Every Voice
and Sing."
1841, Fugitive slave Frederick Douglass, soon to be a well-known orator, speaks before a mostly white abolitionist meeting for the first time on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket.
1860, the nation's first successful silver mill began operation near Virginia City, Nev.
1909, the SOS distress signal was first used by an American ship, the Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, N.C.
1921 Alex Haley is born in Ithaca, New York. He will become an award-
winning author, most notably for his authorship with Malcolm X of
the latter's autobiography and for "Roots", which will win a special
Pulitzer Prize. "Roots" will be his most successful work, selling
over 1 million copies and contributing to a new interest in African
American history.
1925 Carl T. Rowan is born in Ravencroft, Tennessee. He will become one
of America's most outspoken journalist with NBC News and The Chicago
Daily News. As an author, he will write "Dream Makers, Dream Breakers:
The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall," "Breaking Barriers," "Wait
Till Next Year," "Go South in Sorrow," and "South of Freedom." He
will be appointed to the positions of Director: U.S. Information
Agency and U.S. Ambassador to Finland. He will join the ancestors on
September 23, 2000.
1934, the first federal prisoners arrived at the island prison Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.
1942 Otis Taylor is born. He will become a professional football player with
the Kansas City Chiefs, playing wide receiver. He will be the UPI AFC
Player of the Year in 1971, and will help lead his team to Super Bowl
I and a victory in Super Bowl IV.
1948 Amanda Randolph appears on the television series "The Laytons" on the
Dumont Network. She and Bob Howard of CBS' "The Bob Howard Show",
which premiered earlier in the summer, are the first African Americans
to be featured in a national network television series.
1949 Peter Murray Marshall of New York is appointed to the American Medical
Association's House of Delegates.
1952, Sixteen-year-old Hussein ibn Talal is proclaimed king of Jordan after his father is declared unfit to rule. King Hussein I remains on the throne until his death in 1999.
1960 The African country of Chad declares independence from France.
1962, the Soviet Union launched cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev on a 94-hour flight.
1962 After integrated groups try to use the facilities, police close the
Municipal parks and library in Albany, Georgia.
1964 A racially motivated disturbance occurs in Paterson, New Jersey.
1965 Racially motivated disturbances start in the Watts section of Los
Angeles, California. In six days, the death toll will stand at 34,
1,032 persons will be injured, 3952 will be arrested and $ 35
million in property will be lost.
J Rosamond Johnson, author, actor and co-composer (with hisJames Weldon Johnson) of "Lift Every Voice And Sing", born in Jacksonville FL, 1873-1954Watts Riots in Southeast LA, 1965
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/K-12/Today_B_History.html
1965: Black anger over discrimination and unemployment erupts in the first of six days of rioting in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.
1965 - The U.S. Senate confirms the nomination of Thurgood Marshall as U.S.
Solicitor General.
1980 - Reggie Jackson hits his 400th homer.
1992: The largest mall in the United States, the Mall of America, opens in Bloomington, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1997: Bill Clinton is the first U.S. president to use the line-item veto (a power granted by Congress to the president in April 1996 but ruled unconstutional by the Supreme Court in 1998).
Missing in Action
1967 BERUBE KENNETH ALLEN MONSON MA
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
Governor to declare emergency as new fire near Davenport prompts evacuations
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gov. Christine Gregoire prepared to declare a wildfire emergency Thursday, as firefighters scrambled to keep up with a half-dozen large wildfires in Eastern Washington.
Gregoire scheduled an afternoon news conference at her office in Olympia to sign an emergency declaration. At least a half-dozen large fires were burning across the state Thursday, and dozens of residents were evacuated from their homes.
U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Suspected insurgents ambushed a group of U.S. military engineers on Thursday, killing one U.S. service member and wounding another, the military said.
Militants attacked the engineers' convoy with small-arms and rocket-propelled grenades near a road construction project in eastern Paktika province, the military said in a statement.
The wounded service member was taken to a nearby U.S. base for medical treatment, it said, without giving details of his condition.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Afghan%20Service%20Member%20Killed
Roberts advocated noncommittal stances
By JESSE J. HOLLAND
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge John Roberts, left, walks out of the office of Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., right, after a meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2005, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee John Roberts advised then-high court nominee Sandra Day O'Connor in 1981 to stand firm in her insistence not to talk about specific court cases like Roe v. Wade, saying it could bring up impropriety and possibly disqualification issues later.
In documents released by the National Archives Thursday, Roberts - then special assistant to Attorney General William French Smith and assigned to help O'Connor through her confirmation process - wrote O'Connor to rebut a university professor's memo.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1154&slug=Roberts%20Documents
Dean predicts changes for 2008 primaries
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CONCORD, N.H. -- Democratic National Party Chairman Howard Dean says there may be some changes in the 2008 presidential primary calendar, but nothing radical.
"There will be a little surgery, not major surgery," said Dean, a doctor, former Vermont governor and presidential hopeful in 2004.
For decades, the Iowa caucuses have been the first nominating contest, followed closely by New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1131&slug=Dean%20Primary
Sunnis warn Iraq charter may be delayed
By ANTONIO CASTANEDA
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Iraqis march with a portrait of the late leading Shiite cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim as they commemorate the anniversary of his death, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005, in the holy city of Najaf, 165 kms. (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Hakim was killed in a car bombing of a Shiite shrine in Najaf on Aug. 29, 2003. Al-Hakim's brother, Iraqi Shiite leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, said on Thursday Shiites should have their own federal region taking in all the Shiite areas in oil-rich southern Iraq. (AP Photos/Alaa Marjani)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A Shiite leader on Thursday threw his support behind a federal system of government that would create a Shiite south and a Kurdish north, but Sunni Arabs warned the move could postpone completion of a new constitution with a deadline only four days away.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Iraq
Saddam could be executed after first trial
By BASSEM MROUE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein could be executed after his first trial if he is convicted and sentenced to death for his alleged role in a 1982 Shiite massacre, even though he faces other charges, an official close to the proceedings said Thursday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Iraq%20Saddam
Lebanese forces arrest Muslim cleric
By JOE PANOSSIAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
A Lebanese police officer, left, and a Lebanese security man, right, guard the building of Future TV channel, started in 1993 by former slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, where Islamic fundamentalist cleric Omar Bakri was arrested by Lebanese police in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005. Lebanese police have arrested Bakri who is being investigated in Britain for his remarks on the London bombings, security officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Lebanese police have arrested Omar Bakri, the Islamic cleric who is being investigated in Britain for his remarks on the London bombings, security officials said Thursday.
The officials refused to say when and where Bakri was arrested. But the local Future TV channel reported that he was arrested Thursday as he left after giving an interview at its building in western Beirut.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Lebanon%20Cleric%20Arrested
Mauritanians say they're not terrorists
By AHMED MOHAMED
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania -- Islamic leaders freed from jail after last week's coup in Mauritania said Wednesday they were wrongly branded as terrorists - and that the toppled president himself was responsible for any extremism in this overwhelmingly Muslim nation.
Experts also said U.S.-allied President Maaya Sid'Ahmed Ould Taya's allegations that Islamic terrorists were at work in Mauritania were exaggerated, adding to widespread resentment that led to his downfall in an Aug. 3 military putsch.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=Mauritania%20Freed%20Islamists
Boston Globe
British Airways cancels Heathrow flights
August 11, 2005
LONDON --British Airways canceled all flights due to depart from London's Heathrow airport Thursday afternoon and diverted arriving flights after a labor dispute escalated.
Sixty-two short-haul and 44 long-haul outbound flights were canceled, while 14 short-haul flights and an unknown number of long-haul flights which were en route to Heathrow were being diverted to other airports in Britain. Other BA flights bound for London were being canceled before taking off.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/08/11/british_airways_cancels_heathrow_flights/
7-Eleven settles dispute over checking age of tobacco buyers
By David Koenig, AP Business Writer August 11, 2005
DALLAS --Convenience-store leader 7-Eleven Inc., the nation's largest cigarette seller, has agreed to toughen its procedures to catch underage shoppers who try to buy tobacco products.
Tobacco is 7-Eleven's biggest-selling product, accounting for 29.1 percent of its sales in the United States and Canada last year.
In a deal announced Thursday and covering stores in about 30 states, including Massachusetts, 7-Eleven agreed not to place tobacco signs next to products popular with minors, to ban vending machines for tobacco and remove outward-facing window signs for tobacco within 500 feet of schools or playgrounds.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/08/11/7_eleven_settles_dispute_over_checking_age_of_tobacco_buyers/
Supplier of Big Dig concrete investigated
Assurances voiced on safety
By Raphael Lewis and Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff August 11, 2005
State and federal prosecutors are investigating allegations that Aggregate Industries, the largest supplier of concrete to the Big Dig, delivered substandard concrete to the $14.6 billion project on hundreds of occasions and falsified records to conceal the poor quality, Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly said yesterday.
http://www.boston.com/news/traffic/bigdig/articles/2005/08/11/supplier_of_big_dig_concrete_investigated/
Closure over 2 who fell in Vietnam
Mass. Marines' remains found after 37 years
By Raja Mishra, Globe Staff August 11, 2005
They were teenage toughs, Paul Czerwonka and Joseph Cook, sporting slicked-back hair and leather jackets and dingo boots.
Czerwonka never ran from a fight, and soon he volunteered for one, in Vietnam, with the US Marine Corps. Before heading to war, the Massachusetts duo bonded on predeployment assignment in Hawaii, chasing girls and swilling beer. CZ, as the grunts called him, would get them into trouble; Joe's wit would get them out of it.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/08/11/closure_over_2_who_fell_in_vietnam/
A survivor's drive fulfills MIA mission
By Bryan Bender and Charlie Savage, Globe Staff August 11, 2005
WASHINGTON -- On Mother's Day weekend in 1968, a few dozen Marines and special forces stationed at a jungle outpost near the border between Vietnam and Laos were overrun by the surging North Vietnamese Army.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/08/11/a_survivors_drive_fulfills_mia_mission/
North Carolina chamber passes $17.2 billion budget
August 11, 2005
MIAMI (Reuters) - North Carolina's House of Representatives gave final approval to a $17.2 billion budget that raises the state tax on cigarettes, keeps some expiring taxes alive and increases pay for state workers.
The two-year plan calls for an 8 percent increase in overall spending from the previous $15.9 billion budget and was passed on Wednesday by a vote of 61 to 59 in the state's Democrat-run lower legislative chamber.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/08/11/north_carolina_chamber_passes_172_billion_budget/
Wildlife moves to stay cool in a warmer world
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent August 11, 2005
OSLO (Reuters) - Salmon swim north into Arctic seas, locusts plague northern Italy and two heat-loving bee-eater birds nest in a hedge in Britain.
Signs of global warming fed by greenhouse gases produced by human activity, or just summertime oddities?
In the United States, some warblers are flying north to Canada. In Costa Rica, toucans are moving higher up into the mountains, apparently because of rising temperatures.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/08/11/wildlife_moves_to_stay_cool_in_a_warmer_world_1123792492/
Michael Moore Today
Welcome to Cindy Sheehan's Blog
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 5)
-- a message from Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX
Today started at 4am when the rain started blowing into my tent and my head and my feet started getting soaked then thunder and lightening came over my tent. I was really frightened for my life, so I abandoned ship and went into Crawford.
By the time we made our way through the floods and got into Crawford, I had a fever, sore throat, and bad headache. So I was made to rest and not have any interviews until noon.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php
Dear Mr. Bush,
On August 3 you said the soldiers who were killed in Iraq, "died in a noble cause."
Cindy Sheehan's son Casey died in Iraq, but she takes no comfort in your words.
She wants to meet with you to ask you directly: Why did my son die? What was the noble cause that he died for?
We, the American people, urge you to meet with Cindy Sheehan to answer her questions.
http://elandslide.org/elandslide/petition.cfm?campaign=cindy
The Lone Star Iconoclast - Crawford, Texas
President Bush Ditches Mother Of Slain Soldier
By Nathan Diebenow
Associate Editor
CRAWFORD — The mother of a U.S. soldier slain in Iraq was denied a face-to-face meeting with President Bush here Saturday after she walked through a ditch-like path in the August heat to the President’s Prairie Chapel Ranch.
“I didn’t come all this way from California to stand here in a ditch,” said Cindy Sheehan, 48, co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace, attempting to continue her trek to the ranch.
Even though two of the President’s aides later agreed to deliver her message to him, Sheehan said that she would remain in Crawford for the whole month, if need be, until she is granted a private audience with the commander-in-chief to ask him for what “noble cause” did her son die overseas.
http://198.65.14.85/News/2005/31-40/32news01.htm
Globe and Mail
IAEA Expresses Serious Concern over Iran
Vienna — The UN nuclear watchdog expressed “serious concern” Thursday over Iran's resumption this week of nuclear activities that could lead to an atomic bomb, but the agency left open the possibility of further negotiations.
The International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board of directors adopted a resolution that said “outstanding issues relating to Iran's nuclear program have yet to be resolved.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050811.wiran0811/BNStory/International/
The Jerusalem Post
Yesha Council launches Operation 'Orange Dawn'
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Over 150,000 anti-disengagement protesters packed Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on Thursday for what will, in effect, be the last stand of the anti-disengagement orange camp.
The Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip (Yesha Council) launched what it called Operation "Orange Dawn", which aims to "disrupt or delay the destruction machine until new elections or a national referendum on disengagement are announced."
Yesah leaders called on the protesters to head down south next week. Council Chairman Bentzi Lieberman told Channel 2 that the goal of the operation was not to enter Gush Katif "because that is impossible" but rather to arrive at the Kissufim entry route to Gaza and remain there "without using any violence" against IDF soldiers or police officers.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1123727187894
IAEA settles for Iran condemnation
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
The UN nuclear watchdog agency's 35-nation board adopted a resolution Thursday expressing "serious concern" over Iran's resumption of uranium conversion - a process that some fear could be used to help build a bomb - and asked it to stop.
The resolution said "outstanding issues relating to Iran's nuclear program have yet to be resolved, and that the agency is not yet in a position to conclude that there are no undeclared nuclear materials or activities in Iran."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1123727188266
Aliyah down in first half of 2005
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Aliyah decreased in the first half of 2005, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported Thursday. Between January and June, 8,120 people made aliyah, a decrease of five percent from the same period in 2004.
New immigrants from the United States numbered 429, as opposed to 507 last year.
Immigration from the former Soviet Union decreased by 18% from the first half of 2004, and totaled 3,649.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1123727187803
The Arab News
Turki Blasts Britain on Saudi Dissidents Issue
Arab News
LONDON, 11 August 2005 — Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to London blasted the British government for ignoring his constant warnings on Saudi dissidents, a British newspaper reported yesterday.
Prince Turki Al-Faisal, a former chief of Saudi intelligence, told The Times he had been “going round in circles” with British authorities over the threat posed by Saudi dissidents in Britain.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=68255&d=11&m=8&y=2005
Louvre to Exhibit Islamic Artifacts in Riyadh Museum
Mohammed Rasooldeen, Arab News
RIYADH, 11 August 2005 — The world famous Louvre Museum in Paris will mount an exhibition of Islamic artifacts at the national museum here next January, according to Erick Pinon, cultural attaché at the French Embassy.
Pinon said Prince Waleed ibn Talal, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company, donated a gift of $20 million to the Louvre as part of his effort to promote Islam in the West.
“The exhibition in the capital will be a major step in the cultural relations between Paris and Riyadh,” Pinon said, adding that such activities could bring the two countries still closer.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=68261&d=11&m=8&y=2005&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
Jeddah’s Sewage Problem to Be Finally Solved
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News
New water pipes being installed in a Jeddah street this year. (AN photo by Salman Marzouki)
JEDDAH, 11 August 2005 — Water and Electricity Minister Abdullah Al-Hussayen has promised to end Jeddah’s sewage water problem within four years. “Once the ongoing sewage pipeline project is completed, we hope the problem would be solved once and for all,” he said.
Speaking to reporters after inspecting the sewage pipeline project in Jeddah on Tuesday, the minister said works on the project are now in progress in the northern part of the city. “Contracts will be awarded soon to implement the project in South Jeddah,” he said.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=68259&d=11&m=8&y=2005&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
Street Dwellers Affect Businesses Negatively, Say Merchants
Manal Quota, Arab News
JEDDAH, 11 August 2005 — Businesses are suffering a downturn in sales due to beggars and itinerant hawkers roaming the streets. Their presence irritates and discourages customers from entering stores which results in businesses losing profits. Authorities realize this is a continuing problem and have taken direct action against the beggars and unauthorized hawkers.
Beggars of all ages crowd the fronts of malls and shops looking for easy targets. Some beggars have severe deformities but most are perfectly healthy.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=68260&d=11&m=8&y=2005&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
Passport Errors Causing Serious Problems
Manal Quota, Arab News
JEDDAH, 11 August 2005 — Misinformation entered on passports by the Passports Department is causing problems for Saudi travelers. Names misspelt and birthdates incorrectly transcribed from Hijra to Gregorian dates are the main difficulties. Travelers to the US, where accuracy is particularly important due to computer-held data, frequently encounter long delays at immigration.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=68264&d=11&m=8&y=2005&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
Police Called to End Wedding Fight
Arab News
MAKKAH, 11 August 2005 — When most people express their joy and happiness at a wedding by dancing and singing, one newly-wed’s family faced a different situation. Al-Madinah newspaper reported that the police were called to a wedding hall in Makkah because of a fight between the families of the bride and groom. The bride’s family had refused to hand the bride over to her husband, and this led to harsh words which in turn led to an actual fight. After the police arrived, the matter was peacefully resolved and the bride and groom left for their honeymoon.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=68292&d=11&m=8&y=2005&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
New York Post
REV.'S SECRET 'LOVE' SHACK
August 11, 2005 -- St. Patrick's Cathedral's top priest and his longtime leggy assistant turned a quaint Hamptons hideaway hotel into their personal love nest — keeping their tryst so hush-hush, they didn't even use their own names in the registry, sources told The Post yesterday.
An employee of the White Sands Resort Hotel, a secluded oceanfront inn nestled in the dunes, said neither Monsignor Eugene Clark, 79, nor his married gal pal, Laura DeFilippo, was listed as a guest on July 21.
That's when the two were secretly videotaped entering the hotel to rent a room in the early afternoon. They left about 51/2 hours later with their heads bowed, wearing different clothes — she in sexy short-shorts.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/26878.htm
Haaretz
Soldier jailed for eight years for killing British activist in Gaza
By The Associated Press
A military court sentenced a former Israel Defense Forces soldier to eight years in prison on Thursday, after finding him guilty of the fatal shooting of a British pro-Palestinian activist in 2003.
Taysir El-Heyb was convicted in June of manslaughter for shooting activist Tom Hurndall in the head during a military operation in the Gaza Strip in April 2003. Witnesses said Hurndall, 22, a member of the International Solidarity Movement, was helping Palestinian children avoid IDF tanks.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/611406.html
Travel warning remains in effect for Israelis headed to Turkey
By The Associated Press
A travel warning urging Israeli citizens to avoid Turkish beach resorts will remain in effect due to a continued threat of attack, an Israeli security official said Thursday, despite arrests in Turkey of those involved in an alleged Al-Qaida plot to attack Israeli cruise ships on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.
The official said Israel believes the Turkish arrests have not halted the plot, and that other suspects remain at large.
"It's not enough for us," said the official. "We can't say that the situation allows us to cancel the travel warning."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/611417.html
IDF, police wrap up final evacuation exercise ahead of pullout
By Amos Harel and Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondents
Israel Defense Forces and police on Thursday afternoon wrapped up their final joint training session ahead of next week's evacuation from the Gaza Strip. The drill's commanders lauded the forces' conduct.
Border Police Commander Roni Ohana said that "the behavior of the soldiers and police officers brought to light mainly their mental preparation, their sensitivity and at the same time their determination."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/611440.html
New York Times
U.N. Agency Sets Deadline for Iran to Suspend Nuclear Program
By THOMAS FULLER,
International Herald Tribune
Published: August 11, 2005
VIENNA, Aug. 11 - The governing board of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency passed a resolution today that imposes a September deadline on Iran to again suspend its nuclear program, diplomats here said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/11/international/middleeast/12irancnd.html?hp&ex=1123819200&en=1fc141886e882558&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Key Shiites Demand Autonomy in Southern Iraq as Deadline Nears
Published: August 11, 2005
Filed at 11:11 a.m. ET
NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - With four days left until Iraq's leaders have promised a draft constitution, powerful Islamist leaders made a dramatic bid on Thursday to have a big, autonomous Shi'ite region across the oil-rich south.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-iraq.html?hp&ex=1123819200&en=b933c30af5d19a23&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Bush to Meet With Foreign Policy Team in Crawford
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 11, 2005
Filed at 12:07 p.m. ET
CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) -- President Bush is looking at world hot spots from Baghdad to Pyongyang, without leaving Texas.
Keeping up an annual tradition, Bush was meeting with his defense and foreign policy teams on Thursday at his ranch, where he is spending August.
Vice President Dick Cheney and top-rung advisers, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, will come casual for serious talks about issues ranging from ongoing violence in Iraq and standoffs with Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs to anti-American sentiment abroad, especially in the Middle East.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bush.html?hp&ex=1123819200&en=5434868215d389f9&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Afghanistan Attack May Have Hit Civilians
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 11, 2005
Filed at 9:41 a.m. ET
QALAT, Afghanistan (AP) -- Villagers in southern Afghanistan said Thursday that U.S. airstrikes during operations against militants this week killed civilians and wounded others, including an infant. A U.S. service member was killed in the east -- the sixth American fatality in a week.
Zabul province Gov. Ali Khail said U.S.-led coalition forces had ''made a mistake'' during recent operations in the province, but gave no details. The U.S. military denied any civilians had been in the area of the Day Chopan district where the fighting had taken place on Monday. The military said earlier that 18 suspected insurgents and one U.S. service member were killed in the fighting.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Afghan-Violence.html?
States Opposing Plan to Shutter Air Guard Bases
By ERIC SCHMITT
Published: August 11, 2005
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 - A proposed overhaul of more than two dozen Air National Guard units has emerged as the most contentious issue in the Pentagon's larger plan to close, consolidate or realign hundreds of military sites nationwide.
Nineteen F-15 fighter jets based at the Oregon Air National Guard compound in Portland might be moved.
The Air Force wants to retire aging aircraft from many Guard units, close or consolidate some of their bases and give some units new missions, like flying remotely piloted Predator aircraft, that are better suited to today's national security environment, Air Force officials say.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/11/politics/11bases.html?hp&ex=1123819200&en=13d850aeaee63b75&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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