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1792 the French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy.
1814 General Andrew Jackson appeals to free Blacks to join the army in a war against the British.
1815 General Andrew Jackson honors courage of Black troops who fought in the Battle of New Orleans.
1897, the New York Sun ran its famous editorial that declared, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus."
1937, "The Hobbit," by J.R.R. Tolkien, was first published.
1938, a hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming more than 600 lives.
1949, the People's Republic of China was proclaimed by its Communist leaders.
1964, Malta gained independence from Britain.
1970, "NFL Monday Night Football" made its debut on ABC-TV as the Cleveland Browns defeated the visiting New York Jets, 31-21.
1973, the U.S. Senate confirmed Henry Kissinger to be Secretary of State.
1981, the Senate unanimously confirmed the nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the Supreme Court.
1989, Hurricane Hugo crashed into Charleston, S.C.
1998 Olympic Track Star Florence Griffith Joyner dies suddenly. She is noted for winning 3 gold medals and 1 silver at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea
Missing in Action
1966 AMMON GLENDON L. MUNCIE IN REMAINS RETURNED MONTGOM HANOI 08/29/78
1966 BAUDER JAMES R. LA CANADA CA
1966 MILLS JAMES B. BAKERSFIELD CA
1967 KIEN NGUYEN THAI VIETNAM COMMANDO RELEASED 09/24/84 ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 JUDGE MARK W TORRANCE CA NOT ON ANY OFFICIAL LIST REMAINS RECOVERED
1967 PLUMADORE KENNETH L. SYRACUSE NY
1967 VESCELIUS MILTON J. MILFORD MI REMAINS RECOVERED 08/14/85
1969 CECIL ALAN B. HOLDENVILLE OK
1969 JACKSON JAMES W. JR. ATLANTA GA
1971 CARROLL ROGER W. JR. KANSAS CITY MO REMAINS RETURNED 06/94 IDENTIFIED 10/95
1972 COOK DWIGHT W. CENTER POINT IA REMAINS RETURNED 06/94 IDENTIFIED 06/95
Sun Herald
Rita unleashes Category 5 fury over gulf
PAM EASTON
Associated Press
GALVESTON, Texas - Gaining strength with frightening speed, Hurricane Rita swirled toward the Gulf Coast a Category 5, 165-mph monster Wednesday as more than 1.3 million people in Texas and Louisiana were sent packing on orders from authorities who learned a bitter lesson from Katrina.
"It's scary. It's really scary," Shalonda Dunn said as she and her 5- and 9-year-old daughters waited to board a bus arranged by emergency authorities in Galveston. "I'm glad we've got the opportunity to leave. ... You never know what can happen."
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12697184.htm
GULFPORT 'You need to develop blueprint for future'
By GEOFF PENDER
SUN HERALD
GULFPORT - President Bush sat quietly for nearly half an hour, listening, as Gov. Haley Barbour and local business and government leaders kicked off their first meeting on how best to rebuild Katrina-ravaged South Mississippi.
Bush told the local leaders he didn't want to interrupt business - any more than a presidential visit necessarily interrupts business - because he believes it's important that "Mississippi people lay out the vision for what this important part of the world to look like" when it's rebuilt, not the federal government.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12699185.htm
Levees better, but city still at brink of disaster
By PETE CAREY
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
Hurricane Katrina so weakened New Orleans' 350-mile levee system that it probably can't protect the city from flooding even in a relatively minor storm, officials with the Army Corps of Engineers said.
While workers have closed most of the breaches that allowed the city to flood after Katrina, none of the burst levees has been returned to its pre-flood height, corps officials said. Many other sections of the levee have washed away or have eroded enough that even a small rise in the surrounding waters would spill into the city.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12699216.htm
BILOXI Coliseum damage in the millions
Operating at 'bare bones' after 5 layoffs
By TOM WILEMON
tewilemon@sunherald.com
BILOXI - The Mississippi Coast Coliseum, one of the few beachfront landmarks to withstand Hurricane Katrina, has been a staging area for rescue and relief efforts. But it wasn't unscathed.
The arena and convention area sustained between $15 million and $20 million in damage, according to preliminary damage assessments.
Coliseum Director Bill Holmes and staff members briefed commissioners Tuesday morning.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12699257.htm
The Advocate
Katrina's death toll climbs past 1,000
By ADAM NOSSITER
Associated Press Writer
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Searchers smashed through doors in New Orleans on Wednesday, bringing their hunt for the dead to homes that had been locked and to blocks hardest hit by Katrina's flooding. Behind those doors, officials said they expected a sharply escalating body count even as the overall death toll passed 1,000.
"There still could be quite a few, especially in the deepest flooded areas," said U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Jeffrey Pettitt, who is overseeing the retrieval of bodies. "Some of the houses, they haven't been in yet." Officials said searchers are beginning to find more children.
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House OKs tax breaks for Katrina victims
By MARY DALRYMPLE
AP Tax Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House approved $6.1 billion in tax breaks Wednesday to help families recover from Hurricane Katrina and to encourage Gulf Coast businesses to reopen their doors, or at least keep employees on the payroll.
The House passed the bill 422-0 as the Bush administration urged residents to get out of the way of another approaching storm, Hurricane Rita, threatening Louisiana and Texas.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
'The conscience of the Holocaust'
By Danica Kirka
Associated Press
VIENNA, Austria - He lost 89 family members, survived a dozen Nazi camps and weighed less than 100 pounds when an American armored unit liberated Mauthausen in 1945.
Simon Wiesenthal, 96, who drew on his memories of the Holocaust to fight for justice for its victims, died in his sleep yesterday at his Vienna home. He had dedicated himself to tracking down Nazi war criminals and to being a voice for the six million Jews who perished.
He was very open about why he became a Nazi-hunter: He didn't want to meet millions of Holocaust victims in the afterlife and admit he had forgotten their suffering.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12698364.htm
Casinos get break on taxes
Many would be built in areas with abatements.
By John Sullivan
Inquirer Staff Writer
When legislators voted to allow gambling companies to open casinos in Pennsylvania, they justified the move by saying that heavy taxes on the slots operators would bring in as much $1 billion in revenue.
But as the state is tallying up what it will take off the top, it is handing millions of dollars back to the wealthy gambling corporations because some of the proposed slots-parlor sites are in special tax-abatement zones.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12698360.htm
Phila. snubbed in bid for emergency-radio funds
By Jennifer Lin
Inquirer Staff Writer
What do Pocatello, Idaho, and Bismarck, N.D., have that Philadelphia doesn't?
Big-time federal dollars to improve emergency radio communications.
The Philadelphia Police Department learned Monday that it was turned down for a $6 million grant to wire the city's rail tunnels so police, firefighters and paramedics could use their radios underground.
Instead, 26 other cities will share $92.8 million from the U.S. Department of Justice.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12698365.htm
Towns get back in game
By Reid Kanaley
Inquirer Staff Writer
Steel made Coatesville. Paper built Downingtown.
A generation ago, those industries streaked the skies with smoke and steam, employed the men (mostly it was men), and fed Main Street economies in these neighboring, traditionally rival central Chester County communities.
Not anymore.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/special_packages/wwl_downingtown/12698290.htm
List of the accusations involving Philadelphia Archdiocese priests
By Craig R. McCoy, Nancy Phillips and Mark Fazlollah
INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS
The sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church surfaced in 2002 with revelations of rampant victimization in Boston and quickly enveloped the church nationwide.
Since then, the Philadelphia Archdiocese has said that at least 44 diocesan priests had been credibly accused of abusing minors over the previous half-century.
Several other priests from religious orders who either served in the archdiocese or lived there have also been accused of abuses.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/12666751.htm
The Jerusalem Post
Giuliani: Sharon a great leader
By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER
If Ariel Sharon were gearing up for an American-style stump campaign, he picked up a key endorsement and excellent ad soundbites when Rudy Giuliani compared the prime minister to Babe Ruth and said he deserved to be included in John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.
"I have tremendous admiration for your prime minister. I think he's one of those really unusual people that knows how to put the good of the country in front of everything else," Giuliani said in response to a question from The Jerusalem Post at a press conference held Wednesday night.
The former mayor of New York was in town to speak at Ness Technologies' annual conference on leadership in Tel Aviv Thursday.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1127269284680
Alleged would-be El Al hijacker nabbed
By YAAKOV KATZ
The Shin Bet and the police's International Serious Crimes Unit arrested on Wednesday Tawfik Fukara who allegedly tried hijacking an El Al plane in 2002, upon his arrival at Ben Gurion Airport.
Fukara, a 26-year-old Israeli-Arab from the Galilee village of Bouina Nejidat, has been held up in Turkey ever since November 2002 when he allegedly tried hijacking an Istanbul-bound El Al flight with a pocket knife.
Following his arrest, Fukara was transferred to Turkish authorities for questioning and had admitted that he intended to hijack the plan and force the pilot to crash it into a building in Tel Aviv in a 9/11-like attack.
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PM: No limit to the chutzpah!
By TOVAH LAZAROFF AND JPOST STAFF
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday evening rejected the demand that he state he will remain in the Likud party if he loses the September 26 central committee vote to move up the primary elections in the Likud.
Minister of Agriculture Yisrael Katz and chairman of the Likud faction in the Knesset MK Gidon Sa'ar said in a Tel Aviv press conference earlier on Wednesday that they would support moving up the Likud primaries if Sharon refused to declare that he would remain in the party even if he lost the September 26 vote.
Sharon was reacting to these demands when he told central committee members assembled at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, "The convening of the central committee is an attempt at ousting me, and those trying to do this are now coming to me with demands. I ask: can you oust and then make demands?"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1127182727066
'PA is crumbling, Fatah in disarray'
By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN
The Palestinian Authority is crumbling, its leader Mahmoud Abbas is too weak to enforce law and order, his Fatah party is in disarray and Hamas is taking control of the Gaza Strip, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin said on Wednesday during a rare on-the-record briefing with military reporters.
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"The Palestinian Authority is barely functional," Diskin said at his headquarters in Ramat Aviv. "(Abbas) has no apparatus to control Fatah. He is a general without soldiers. Giving him more weapons won't give Fatah strength. He needs more motivation."
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PA won't dismantle militias
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday rejected an appeal from the Quartet to dismantle armed militias and called on the international community to stop meddling in the Palestinians' internal affairs.
Ministers of the Quartet – the United States, the United Nations, Russia and the European Union – said in a joint statement Tuesday that following Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip, Palestinians needed to "dismantle terrorist capabilities and infrastructures."
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Musharraf's speech - historic?
By DANIEL PIPES
When the Malaysian currency tanked in late 1997, the country's then-prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, said he had "definite information" that Jews were the cause.
"We do not want to say that this is a plot by the Jews, but in reality it is a Jew who triggered the currency plunge, and coincidentally [financier George] Soros is a Jew." Mahathir went on to say that just as "the Jews would rob Palestinians... this is what they are doing to our country.
Mahathir's anti-Semitism is so typical of discourse in the Muslim world over the last generation that I have found an "uneasy parallel" between it and Nazi Germany of the 1930s.
This background makes clear the historic nature of a speech by the president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, to the American Jewish Congress on September 17. More coincidentally, he too singled out George Soros as a symbol of Jewish financial prowess, but very differently.
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