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History
1664, the Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who renamed it New York.
1826 Edward A. Jones graduates from Amherst and later founds College in Sierra Leone.
1907 First baseman Walter "Buck" Leonard, star Negro League's baseball player is born in Rocky Mount, N.C. He was noted for his smooth, powerful stroke which produced both a high batting average and an enormous home-run production. He was the highest paid player after Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige at that time.
1930, the comic strip "Blondie," created by Chic Young, was first published.
1934, 134 people died in a fire aboard the liner Morro Castle off the New Jersey coast.
1935, Senator Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was shot and wounded; he died two days later.
1945, Bess Myerson of New York was crowned "Miss America" in Atlantic City, N.J., becoming the first Jewish contestant to win the title.
1951, a peace treaty with Japan was signed by 48 other nations in San Francisco.
1965 Actress Dorothy Dandridge, first Black woman to receive an Academy Award nomination, dies in Hollywood, CA. She was nominated for an Oscar in "Carmen Jones"
1974, President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Nixon.
1975, Boston's public schools began their court-ordered citywide busing program amid scattered incidents of violence.
1994, a U.S. Air Boeing 737 crashed into a ravine as it was approaching Pittsburgh International Airport, killing all 132 people on board.
2001 Venus Williams defeats her sister, Serena, in a historic tennis match at the U.S. Open. Venus wins her second consecutive U.S. Open title and competes in the first Grand Slam final between siblings in 117 years and the first women's final televised in prime time.
2002 The Liberation Bookstore of Harlem celebrates it’s 35th Anniversary as a landmark center of love and learning. The bookstore has been a continuous inspiration for millions of readers and researchers for 35 years.
Missing in Action
1965 GOODWIN CHARLES B. HASKELL TX
1965 RUDOLPH ROBERT D. ENCINO CA IMPACT OBS NO PARA BEEP REMAINS RETURNED 1988
1968 PRIDEMORE DALLAS R. EAST LIVERPOOL OH KIDNAPPED
1972 GERSTEL DONALD A. MATTESON IL
Quotes of the Day regarding Cheney's visit:
He was asked what went wrong. He stated they were measuring everything against former storms that game ashore in the Gulf region. They never anticipated this level storm.
"I think this media opportunity today is a terrible waste of time and taxpayer money," she said. "They've picked a nice neighborhood where people have insurance and most are Republicans."
Cheney was asked about criticism that relief efforts were being led by Chertoff and FEMA Director Mike Brown, both political appointees with no disaster recovery experience.
The vice president said he believes that Bush "struck the right balance between political appointees and career professionals to oversee the relief efforts."
Sun Herald
WAVELAND: Food convoy, officials arrive from Miami-Dade County, Fla.
WAVELAND - Jackie Gunn said the worst part of Hurricane Katrina wasn't the flood surge that wrecked her home.
Or swimming for her life. Or, at age 69, spending her first homeless night wet and alone in an abandoned house.
The worst thing was when someone stole her only flashlight.
"That's when I really felt alone. That's when it really hit," she said.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12584074.htm
BILOXI: Katrina claims 5,014 structures
BILOXI - Biloxi lost about 20 percent of its structures to Hurricane Katrina, said Community Development Director Jerry Creel.
Creel said the city lost 5,014 structures of the city's 25,575 structures and that some of those still standing will later be condemned. The office complied maps that will become more detailed as the city's assessment of the damages moves forward. The Department of Community Development began with a "windshield assessment." There will be more details added to the city's damage database as more buildings are condemned.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12584269.htm
OCEAN SPRINGS: 'I heard a whirling noise and the whole roof came up …'
OCEAN SPRINGS - Doug DeSilvey didn't just lose everything on Aug. 29, he lost everyone.
Four members of his family -- his ex-wife Linda Allen DeSilvey, 57, with whom he had a close friendship; their daughter Donna K. DeSilvey, 35; his former mother-in-law Nadine Allen Gifford, 79; and her husband Edward "Ted" Gifford, 79 -- had all gathered in the Giffords' home on Point Porteaux Road in the Gulf Hills community in Ocean Springs to ride out Hurricane Katrina.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12584867.htm
Dry spell predicted
Weather across the Gulf Coast will continue in an unusually quiet September pattern for the next several days, with mostly fair skies and relatively low humidity.
High pressure is building Thursday across Tennessee, preventing the formation of showers and thunderstorms. Dew point temperatures at Biloxi are forecast to remain in the low to mid 60's today and Friday - a nice break from humid conditions of recent weeks.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/special_packages/hurricane_katrina/12592388.htm
Haaretz
Sharon delays razing of Gaza Strip synagogues
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided Thursday night to postpone the demolition of synagogues in the Gaza Strip, despite a Supreme Court decision earlier in the day allowing the razing of the buildings.
Sharon complied with a request by Defense Ministry Shaul Mofaz, who suggested trying to find ways to avert the demolitions, and to transfer responsibility for the houses of worship to other parties.
A final decision on the matter will be made at a cabinet meeting on Sunday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/622813.html
IDF kills Palestinian near evacuated southern Gaza Strip settlement
Israel Defense Forces soldiers shot two Palestinians who approached an evacuated Gaza Strip settlement on Thursday, killing one and wounding the other, witnesses and medics said.
Doctors said that 20-year-old Rafah resident Bashir Sufi was killed in the incident, and that a 14-year-old boy was wounded in the leg.
An IDF spokeswoman said troops fired at a group of Palestinians seen cutting through the fence around Rafiah Yam. The soldiers were patrolling the settlement and had earlier come under fire from Palestinian gunmen in the area, the spokeswoman said. There were no Israeli casualties.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/622633.html
Medical experts: Yasser Arafat died of AIDS or poisoning
An analysis of the confidential medical report on Yasser Arafat's death reveals three main possibilities as to the cause: poisoning, AIDS or an infection.
Israel and foreign doctors who have seen the report say the details do not lead to a conclusive determination on what caused the death.
After Arafat died on November 11, 2004 at a military hospital in Paris, copies of the pathology report compiled by the hospital staff - and kept under wraps until now - were handed over to Arafat's widow, Suha, and senior Palestinian Authority officials. The report's findings are now being published for the first time in the revised edition of "The Seventh War" by journalists Amos Harel and Avi Isacharoff, to be released next week by Yedioth Ahronoth in Hebrew.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/622564.html
IDF prosecutors charge West Bank Palestinian with Al-Qaida link
Israel Defense Forces prosecutors charged a Palestinian on Thursday with undergoing training at an Al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan, but said the defendant later declined an offer to join Osama bin Laden's global network.
While Al-Qaida has often attacked Israelis abroad and champions the Palestinian cause, security experts believe its presence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is negligible due to doctrinal differences with dominant local Islamist groups.
The indictment filed at Judea Military Court alleged that Mahmoud Waridat, a 26-year-old West Bank man arrested in July, received training in small-arms and bomb-making at "al-Farouq," an Al-Qaida camp outside Kandahar, in the summer of 2001.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/622819.html
Meals4Israel.com is a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles. Our mission is to raise money for Soup Kitchens in Israel.
Fact: Every day one out of five Israelis goes hungry.
Fact: 618,000 of those are Children.
http://www.meals4israel.org/
The Times Picayune
Opinion: Rebuild our shock absorbers
Louisiana's leaders at home and in Washington, as well as this newspaper, have been sounding the alarm about our coastline for years, begging Congress and the Bush administration to provide the resources needed to address decades of erosion caused by human activity as well as natural forces.
We said the stripping away of our coastal marshland left our area naked to the onslaught of hurricanes. We said communities would be battered, oil and gas networks would be shut down, and lives would be lost.
Today, there is no comfort for us in the phrase, "We told you so.''
The price tag for protecting this region was $14 billion. Does anyone think that price is too high now? Just last month, however, the Bush administration was actively fighting even modest efforts to start the flow of money, $540 million over the next four years, provided in the energy bill. Despite White House opposition, Congress approved that start. Last month, that seemed like progress. This month, it seems like a cruel joke.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09.html
Concerns grow about toxic floodwaters
9/8/2005, 11:19 a.m. CT
By SHARON COHEN
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Soldiers toting M-16s strengthened their grip on this swamped city as concerns grew about the risks posed by the rank floodwaters. Officials braced for what could be a staggering death toll by readying 25,000 body bags.
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/base/national-51/112618194291941.xml&storylist=hurricane
A week in the ruins of Mississippi
By Leslie Williams
Staff writer
Bay St. Louis. Ms. - I had planned to ride out Hurricane Katrina in a schoolhouse-turned shelter about seven miles north of Pass Christian. When, on the day before landfall, police advised that the building - DeLisle Elementary - was no longer on the list of approved shelters, I cast about for an alternative bse of operations.
Not unlike the little pigs of fairy-tale fame fleeing the I'll-blow-your-house-down wolf, I join family members - including my mother, retreating from her home in Bay St. Louis, and a sister with her three children from Diamondhead - at the house built by my brother, Thyrone, with invaluable help from an uncle. The house, barley north of Interstate 10, is a solid, spacious, one-story structure, and my brother, like our late father, is a man of action during and after natural disasters.
The lens opens here on the personal, week-long journey of a Times-Picayune reporter struggling with other coastal Mississippi residents in Katrina's whirlpool of misery.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09.html
650 rescued since Wednesday
Nine days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the New Orleans area, search-and-rescue patrols are still finding people who have been stuck in their homes since the storm.
Maj. Gen Ron Mason said National Guard helped rescue more than 650 people in between Wednesday and Thursday morning from the flood-ravaged region: Five hundred by high-clearance trucks, 150 by boat and 37 by air. "The mission of saving lives is an ongoing mission," he said.
Mason estimated that fewer than 10,000 people remain in New Orleans, and said the Guard has yet to receive orders from Gov. Kathleen Blanco to aid in the mandatory evacuations being carried out by police. Rather than forcing people from their homes, Mason said, the guard has been able to persuade many holdouts to leave by explaining that it will be months before electric power, plumbing and other basic services are available.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09.html
200 feared dead in Jefferson
By Michelle Krupa
West Bank bureau
An estimated 200 Jefferson Parish residents have perished in Hurricane Katrina, their bodies likely trapped in homes in the West Bank neighborhoods of Westminster and Lincolnshire where flood waters rose as high as four feet and many residents didn't have the means to evacuate, Emergency Managment Director Walter Maestri said Thursday.
Federal and local officials are expected to begin recovering the dead in those areas, as well as in swamped portions of Old Metairie and around Airline Highway, on Friday or Saturday while workers restore utilities so Jefferson can become a staging area for the recovery of Orleans and St. Bernard parishes, Maestri said.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09.html
The Jerusalem Post
Despite convictions, Mordechai's rank stays
By JPOST.COM STAFF
The Winograd Commission, tasked with deciding upon the rank of Maj.- Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Mordechai determined Thursday that he will not be demoted in rank, in spite of his 2001 sexual harassment conviction.
The committee argued that although his future in the IDF had been permanently halted, Mordechai brought honor to Israel throughout his career and thus had earned his rank.
Former Defense Minister Mordechai was convicted of two counts of sexual harassment - one against an IDF officer and the second against a Likud employee.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1126145969686
Gov't readies to exit Gaza
By DAN IZENBERG AND JPOST STAFF
The country is quickly preparing for next week's impending total evacuation from Gaza.
A group of 1,500 IDF soldiers arrived in Gush Katif on Thursday on a mission to collect the rubbish left behind.
Meanwhile, the High Court of Justice was set to continue on Thursday its discussion regarding the petitions against demolishing the synagogues in Gush Katif and northern Samaria.
The petitioners believed that the ruling would be given on Thursday, since the IDF's exit from Gush Katif was expedited.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1126059636334
Israel to return Hizbullah member's body
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Israel will return the remains of a Hizbullah fighter killed two months ago in a gun battle along the Israel-Lebanon border, officials said Thursday.
The military said it agreed to handover the body in response to a formal request from the Lebanese government. Hizbullah TV reported the handover would take place later Thursday. The Israeli army declined to confirm the information, but said the handover would happen by Saturday.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1126145967852
Army: New Gaza fence is formidable barrier
By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN
Remote control machine guns, robotic jeeps, a double fence, ditches and pillboxes along with digitally-linked commanders are all part of the IDF's new 60-kilometer layered protection around the Gaza Strip.
Built at a cost of over NIS 1 billion over the past 15 months, it promises to be one of the most formidable barriers in the world. Beyond the double fences, the IDF intends to keep a low profile, substituting a string of fortresses with highly mobile units and hidden patrols. Decoys may also be used.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1126059637154
Yushchenko taps an eastern governor to be acting prime minister
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KIEV, Ukraine
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Thursday tapped a regional governor from eastern Ukraine to be the acting prime minister after dismissing the government led by his Orange Revolution ally, Yulia Tymoshenko.
Yuriy Yekhanurov, 58, a former deputy prime minister and economics minister, is the governor of the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1126145967613
Bosnia to replicate 600-year-old haggadah
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
It survived the Spanish Inquisition, Nazi invaders, the Bosnian war and the ravages of time. Now, for the first time, replicas of the Sarajevo Haggadah - a 600-year-old Jewish manuscript - are to be sold to the public.
A total of 613 replicas of the document are to be printed and made available by next Passover, Jakob Finci, the head of the Jewish community in Bosnia, told The Associated Press Thursday.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1126145966797
Israel manages win in Faroe Islands
By ALLON SINAI
Goals by Avi Nimni and Yaniv Katan helped the national soccer team overcome a spirited Faroe Islands 2-0 to keep the blue-and-whites' World Cup qualification hopes alive, but Israel's fans were left with as many questions as answers after the unconvincing victory against the mostly semi-professional Faroese.
The win gives Israel 15 points with one game left in their qualification group, but even a win against the same side in its final qualifier on October 8 at Ramat Gan guarantees nothing. Grant and co. are not in control of their destiny and will need favorable results between their Group 4 rivals – France, Ireland and Switzerland. The group winner will automatically qualify for the World Cup in Germany next summer, while the runner-up will move on to a home-and-away playoff series against another second place finisher.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1126145964050
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