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History
1776 After American Patriot Nathan Hale stated how he regretted he had only one life to give …, he was hanged.
1839 Ship Captain Michael Healy, inspiration for Jack London's novel, is born in Georgia.
1862 President Abraham Lincoln issues order #139, the Emancipation Proclamation, which is to become effective January 1, 1863.
1927 Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey in the famous "long-count" fight in Chicago.
1947 the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb.
1950 Omar N. Bradley was promoted to the rank of five-star general, joining an elite group that included Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, George C. Marshall and Henry H. "Hap" Arnold.
1950 Dr. Ralph Bunche, Undersecretary of the United Nations, becomes the first Black American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize
1964 the musical "Fiddler on the Roof" opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 3,242 performances.
1975 Sara Jane Moore attempted to shoot President Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but missed.
1980 the Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq erupted into full-scale war.
1985 rock and country music artists participated in FarmAid, a concert staged in Champaign, Ill., to help the nation's farmers.
Missing in Action
1966 KNOCHEL CHARLES A. LAFAYETTE IN
1968 KUHLMANN CHARLES F. NEW BRITAIN CT REMAINS IDENTIFIED 01 SEPT 95
1968 WRIGHT BUDDY 10/06/68 ESCAPED
Haaretz
Court convicts mastermind of Park Hotel seder bombing
By Zvi Harel, Haaretz Correspondent
Tel Aviv District Court on Thursday convicted a Hamas leader from the West Bank of masterminding two deadly terror attacks including the Pesach 2002 suicide bombing at the Park Hotel in Netanya, in which more than 30 people were killed.
Abbas al-Sayed, from Tul Karm, was found guilty of overseeing the Park Hotel attack, that also wounded more than 100 people, as well a suicide bombing attack at a Netanya mall four years ago, in which five people were killed and dozens injured.
Following the Park Hotel attack in 2002 the Israel Defense Forces launched Protective Shield operation and reoccupied all Palestinian towns in the West Bank.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=628056
Likud chair contenders meet to finalize details of Monday ballot
By Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
Chairman of the Likud Central Committee MK Tzahi Hanegbi on Thursday afternoon is set to meet with representatives of the three runners for party chairmanship, Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu and Uzi Landau, in order to finalize the procedures for the Monday's vote holding early party primaries.
Sources in the camp opposed to Sharon fear voting irregularities and have requested to place monitors in all voting stations. Furthermore, the camps disagree on the order of speeches and the speakers.
A Dialogue poll conducted for Haaretz indicated that MK Benjamin Netanyahu had a slight lead over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the debate over the Likud primaries date.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/627777.html
Survey: 25 percent of Israelis can't afford to host during holidays
By Ruth Sinai
A significant number of Israelis will not host guests in their homes this High Holiday season because they can't afford to, according to a study published Thursday.
The results of this survey, conducted for the Latet nonprofit organization, also reveal that more than 40 percent of respondents are facing a more difficult economic situation than last year and would therefore be unable to host during the holiday dinners.
Officials from the organization said that the survey was a fundamental indication to the deepening poverty in Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/628079.html
Everlasting love
By Shmuel Rosner
WASHINGTON - Five Knesset members were in America two weeks ago: Yuri Stern, Yair Peretz, Eliezer Sandberg, Gilad Erdan and Gila Gamliel - not close friends. They came, they flew south, they met preachers and believers from large Christian congregations, and went back. There were good conversations, they say. It's no surprise - the two sides agree on everything: The disengagement is problematic, the administration must not be allowed to pressure Israel, the Palestinians must be told to dismantle the terror organizations before Israel continues to speak to them. And they also talk about a new initiative: tens of thousands of signatures on a petition to transfer the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. It won't help, it won't harm.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/627751.html
Pullout opponents remanded for plan to set cars alight in Tel Aviv
By Zvi Harel, Haaretz Correspondent
The Tel Aviv District Court on Thursday ordered that two brothers opposed to the disengagement be remanded in custody until the end of legal procedings against them for a plot to set fire to vehicles on a major highway.
The prosecution states that Elitzur and Harel Lonstein acted out of ideological motivations when they and Avraham Lebkovitch allegedly put forged license plates on two vehicles and tried to set them alight on the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv.
It was only due to a technical hitch that the plan was not carried out and police were able to arrest them.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/628073.html
Shin Bet `failed to prevent' Jewish terror
By Amos Harel
Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin said yesterday that he viewed the two Jewish terror attacks carried out during the disengagement period, in which a total of eight Arabs were killed, as a failure on the part of the security service.
On August 4, Eden Natan-Zada, a Jewish soldier who defected from the Israel Defense Forces to protest the disengagement plan, shot dead four Israeli Arabs in the northern town of Shfaram. On August 17, Asher Weisgan, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Shiloh, opened fire on Palestinian coworkers, killing four.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/627742.html
Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin: Palestinian Authority `barely functioning, cannot control Gaza militants'
By Amos Harel
The Palestinian Authority is "barely functioning," and its ability to enforce its authority on the terror organizations in the Gaza Strip is "slight" if it exists at all, Shin Bet security services head Yuval Diskin said yesterday. Speaking at a press conference in Tel Aviv, Diskin also warned Israelis against visiting Sinai during the holidays.
Diskin said Hamas was positioning itself as the PA's equal in the Gaza Strip, and is no longer willing to accept PA orders.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/627741.html
Hamas leader says charter is not Koran; group could one day recognize Israel
By Arnon RegularHaaretz Correspondent and Agencies
Hamas may one day amend its charter calling for the destruction of Israel and hold negotiations with the Jewish state, Prof. Mohammed Ghazal, the movement's leader in the Nablus area, said yesterday. "The charter is not the Koran," said Ghazal, who heads the Civil Engineering Department at A-Najah University and has long been seen as a relative moderate.
But another senior leader, Mahmoud al-Zahar, said in Gaza that Israel could not be recognized as "the legal owner of any part of Palestine," and that such theoretical debate served nobody….
...Ghazal said it was too early to talk about recognizing Israel "while Israel doesn't recognize me as the victim".
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/627737.html
BBC News
Gridlock as masses flee US storm
Residents flee
Heavy traffic and shortages of food and fuel are hampering the mass evacuation of a vast stretch of the US Gulf Coast.
More than one million people are trying to leave before Hurricane Rita, a Category Five storm, makes landfall.
The storm is heading towards Texas with winds of 175mph (280km/h) - more powerful than Hurricane Katrina which devastated New Orleans last month.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4269994.stm
Oil workers flee as Rita advances
A hurricane can have a devastating effect on oil production
Oil companies in the US have begun closing Texas refineries threatened by the onslaught of Hurricane Rita.
The production cuts in Texas, which processes a quarter of US oil, come as the industry is struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina's devastation.
The fear of further damage has boosted oil prices, with US light crude trading at $67.82 a barrel in London, 1.5% up on New York's closing price of $66.80.
London Brent crude was quoted 1.3% higher at $65.57 a barrel.
Hot spot
Hundreds of workers have been evacuated by the energy firms as Hurricane Rita heads towards Texas after pounding Florida and Cuba.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4270404.stm
Basra governor demands UK apology
Petrol bombs were thrown at British armoured vehicles on Monday
The authorities in Basra will not co-operate with British troops until they get an apology for a raid to free two UK soldiers, its governor has said.
Mohammed al-Waili has also demanded compensation for damage caused by the raid on Monday and a "guarantee that it does not happen again".
Britain has defended its action, saying the soldiers were handed to militiamen by rogue elements in the police.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4271234.stm
Kennedy says Blair costing lives
Kennedy speech
Tony Blair's pride and his "blind support" for George Bush are costing lives in Iraq, says Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy.
Mr Kennedy told the Lib Dem conference in Blackpool the presence of UK troops in Iraq was now part of the problem.
And he claimed the "war on terror" had increased the threat of terrorism.
He also insisted he would lead the Lib Dems into the next election and attacked people who thought they had "better ideas" about leadership.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4269622.stm
Nigeria militia storm oil station
Asari accused the government of being a dictatorship
A militia group from Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta region has seized an oil pumping station, in protest at the arrest of its leader.
More than 100 armed men in boats stormed the Idama flow-station, sources close to the Chevron oil company said.
The occupation came after militia leader Mujahid Dokubu-Asari was remanded in custody for two weeks by a judge in the capital, Abuja.
He wants more control of oil resources for the Ijaw people of the Niger Delta.
'Disarmed'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4270582.stm
The Jerusalem Post
Regency wants to disengage evacuees
By JPOST.COM STAFF
The Regency Hotel (formerly the Hyatt) in Jerusalem announced Thursday that Gaza evacuees that had been residing there since leaving their homes must vacate the hotel, triggering renewed criticism of the government's solutions to evacuees' housing.
A Regency spokesman said that the hotel couldn't continue to house the evacuees because it needed to provide room for tour groups that had booked in advance for the fall holidays. Evacuees were assured that other hotels in the Jerusalem area would take them in.
Many evacuees, however, are not ready to leave the hotel that they have called home for the past five weeks.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1127355598204
Egyptian export ban raises lulav prices
By MATTHEW WAGNER
The price of lulavs may triple this year after Egypt, in an attempt to prevent damage to its date trees, prohibited the export of palm branches, causing a severe shortage.
Consumers will end up paying approximately NIS 75 instead of NIS 25 per branch, said one lulav trader. However, consumers who bought lulavs as part of a closed set at a prearranged price would probably not be affected much. Instead, the rise in lulav prices would be absorbed by the traders, he said.
Lulavs are used during Succot to perform the biblical commandment to "take... branches of palm trees" together with willow branches, a citron and myrtle branches and "rejoice before the Lord your God."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1127269284764
King Abdullah meets US rabbis
By NATHAN GUTTMAN
Washington
Jordan's King Abdullah met Wednesday with a group of American rabbis and called for interfaith dialogue and mutual forgiveness and reconciliation.
"We face a common threat: extremist distortion of religion and the wanton acts of violence that derive from there," said King Abdullah, adding, "the only antidote is that we work together in a spirit of mutual cooperation and respect to defeat the common enemy. We must move beyond the language of mere tolerance towards true acceptance".
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1127355597789
French Jews seek reparations
By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER
Some 21,000 French Jews have come forward seeking compensation from their government for the property their families lost due to anti-Jewish policies during World War II.
But to the government-appointed claim-procession commission currently in Israel seeking deserving heirs, it is the individual stories that are most important, such as that of Maurice. Maurice's father was murdered in a concentration camp.
After the war, his mother married a man whose wife and children were also deported from France and killed. Maurice was resentful and found it difficult to accept this "new father," who behaved "aggressively toward him," as he told the commission. He ended up deciding to leave France and move to America.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1127269284779
Germany: Schroeder, Merkel seek 'grand coalition'
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
BERLIN
Germany's two biggest parties, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's center-left Social Democrats and conservative challenger Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, will meet for coalition talks on Thursday, a Social Democratic party official said Tuesday.
The two parties have enough seats between them to form a government and put an end to the country's political stalemate. But they would have to overcome differences on policy and principles ranging from taxes and labor regulations to European Union membership for Turkey.
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