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1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart conducts the premiere of his singspeil The Magic Flute, just over two months before his death.
1921 Outfielder Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hits his 60th home run of the season, breaking his own record and setting a mark that would last until 1961.
1946 Following World War II, the International Military Tribunal in Nürnberg, Germany, sentences 11 leaders of Nazi Germany, including Field Marshal Hermann Göring, to death for crimes during the war.
1949 The Berlin airlift, caused by the Soviet blockade of overland traffic to West Berlin, ends after more than 277,000 flights from Western nations, which supplied the city with food and fuel for nearly 11 months.
1955 Actor James Dean dies at the age of 24 in an automobile accident in California, having starred in only three motion pictures.
1972 Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente collects the 3,000th and final hit of his career, three months before dying in a plane crash while on an earthquake relief mission.
Missing in Action
1965 CHESNUTT CHAMBLESS M. LITTLE ROCK AR PROB DEAD REMAINS RECOVERED 03/20/85
1965 CHWAN MICHAEL DANIEL BAYONE NJ PROB DEAD REMAINS RECOVERED 03/20/85
1965 KILLIAN MELVIN JOSEPH COUNCIL BLUFFS IA PROB DEAD REMAINS RECOVERED 03/20/85
1968 FIESZEL CLIFFORD W. LUBBOCK TX
1968 SMITH HOWARD H. OKLAHOMA CITY OK
1968 SPINELLI DOMENICK A. OAK HARBOR WA LISTED ON THE WALL AS OHIO
1968 VAN RENSELAAR LARRY J. LAS VEGAS NV COMPLETE REMAINS RETURNED 1989 FAMILY ACCEPTS 7/90
1971 BOND RONALD L. HADDONFIELD NJ
1971 DONOVAN MICHAEL L. NORTON KS
The Sydney Morning Herald
Climate change warning - this time it's personal
By Wendy Frew Environment Reporter
October 1, 2005
Eastern suburbs residents will be the first to be warned of how climate change threatens every aspect of their lives in what could be the largest environment campaign in decades.
In a project they hope to take nationwide at a cost of up to $2 million a year, Australia's main environment groups will next week start door-knocking in Sydney's east to talk about what predicted climate changes could mean for beaches and parks, health and hip pockets.
Supported by Greenpeace, WWF Australia, Climate Action Network Australia, the Nature Conservation Council of NSW and Environment Victoria, the Power to Change campaign will also include mail drops, street stalls and public meetings.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/climate-change-warning--this-time-its-personal/2005/09/30/1127804662703.html
Michael Moore Today
DeLay Faces Tough Road Back to Top
Indictment, Ethics Questions, Abramoff Case Are Obstacles
By Dan Balz / Washington Post
For the first time in more than a decade, Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) arrived at work yesterday without a leadership title attached to his name. Sidelined from his post as majority leader by a criminal indictment in Texas, the man who accumulated extraordinary power on his way up the ladder faces a difficult and uncertain road back to those heights.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4332
SEC Opens Full Probe Into Frist Stock Sale
By Jonathan M. Katz / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - While insiders at HCA Inc. (HCA) were selling millions of dollars of their own stock this year, they were also painting a sunny picture of the company's outlook for investors. Federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating the sale of HCA stock by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., whose family founded the company that grew into the nation's largest for-profit health care chain.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4322
Condoleezza Rice: Civil Rights Struggle Didn't Affect Me
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Most people who were alive at the time would tell you they had a lot of feelings during the civil rights era. But not Condoleezza Rice.
The secretary of state said she was too young and too busy to feel much of an effect from the massive social changes during the 1960s. Rice said she was only 12 or 13 and that all she did "was play the piano and ice skate."
Rice said because of that, she didn't focus much on what she now calls "the counterculture."
Rice didn't give up a whole lot during the interview with Fox News Channel. Asked if she ever did drugs -- Rice didn't answer, urging her interviewer to go back to questions about foreign policy.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4341
Pentagon still not reimbursing troops who buy own body armor
By Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Nearly a year after Congress demanded action, the Pentagon still hasn't figured out a way to reimburse U.S. troops for body armor and equipment they purchased to better protect themselves while serving in Iraq.
For Marine Sgt. Todd Bowers that extra equipment — a high-tech rifle scope bought by his father for $600 and a $100 pair of goggles — turned out to be a life-or-death purchase. And he has never been reimbursed.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4340
A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
By The Associated Press Thu Sep 29, 8:23 PM ET
As of Thursday, Sept. 29, 2005, at least 1,933 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the
Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,499 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq_us_deaths
HUD chief foresees a 'whiter' Big Easy
By Brian DeBose / Washington Times
A Bush Cabinet officer predicted this week that New Orleans likely will never again be a majority black city, and several black officials are outraged.
Alphonso R. Jackson, secretary of housing and urban development, during a visit with hurricane victims in Houston, said New Orleans would not reach its pre-Katrina population of "500,000 people for a long time," and "it's not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4349
Ex-secretary asked to apologize for linking crime, blacks
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Friday criticized former Education Secretary William Bennett for remarks linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies.
"The president believes the comments were not appropriate," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.
Bennett, on his radio show, Morning in America, was answering a caller's question when he took issue with the hypothesis put forth in a recent book that one reason crime is down is that abortion is up.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4348
Others deny DeLay didn't get chance to tell his side
By Janet Elliott / Associated Press
AUSTIN - The day after U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay's grand jury indictment, his lawyer and the jury foreman on Thursday appeared to contradict the Texas politician's assertions that he was not given a chance to speak before the jury.
The foreman, William M. Gibson Jr., a retired state insurance investigator, said the Travis County grand jury waited until Wednesday, the final day of its term, to indict him because it was hoping he would accept jurors' invitation to testify.
DeLay said in interviews that the grand jury never asked him to testify.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4347
Uzbeks Stop Working With U.S. Against Terrorism
By Robin Wright / Washington Post
After cutting off U.S. access to a key military base, Uzbekistan has also quietly terminated cooperation with Washington on counterterrorism, a move that could affect both countries' ability to deal with al Qaeda and its allies in Central Asia and neighboring Afghanistan, U.S. officials said.
The government of President Islam Karimov, one of the most authoritarian to emerge from the collapse of the Soviet Union, has made a broader strategic decision to move away from the 2002 agreement made with President Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and is cooling relations with Europe as well, the officials said.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4342
Housing for Storm's Evacuees Lagging Far Behind U.S. Goals
By Eric Lipton and Leslie Eaton / New York Times
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 - After Hurricane Katrina left hundreds of thousands of people homeless, the Federal Emergency Management Agency signed contracts for more than $2 billion in temporary housing, including more than 120,000 trailers and mobile homes. But the agency has placed just 109 Louisiana families in those homes.
A month after the disaster, the federal government's temporary housing effort is stumbling.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4336
The Seattle Post Intelligencer
Hurricane Otis strengthens, nears Baja
By IGNACIO MARTINEZ
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico -- Newly formed Hurricane Otis swept toward a sparsely populated stretch of Baja California on Friday, forcing dozens of people to evacuate low-lying neighborhoods in this western resort city.
Mayor Luis Armando Diaz led a contingent of police officers going door to door and asking residents to leave the outskirts of Cabo San Lucas, where many poor families live in flimsy shacks.
Only a few dozen people had left their homes, but authorities hoped to move out as many as 1,000 by late evening. Five shelters were opened.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Mexico%20Hurricane%20Otis
Three die in medical helicopter crash
By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SEATTLE -- The pilot and two nurses aboard a medical transport helicopter were killed when the aircraft crashed into Puget Sound north of Seattle on a flight back to its base, authorities said Friday.
Remains of the three people were found Friday in the large debris field left by the Agusta A109/Mark II twin-engine helicopter when it plunged Thursday night into the sound off Edmonds, about eight miles north of here, said Airlift Northwest, the operator of the aircraft. No patient was aboard the helicopter.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known, authorities said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=WA%20Helicopter%20Crash
Judge gives feds deadline for salmon plan
By BRAD CAIN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A federal judge Friday gave federal agencies one year to come up with a new plan to keep threatened and endangered salmon from getting killed by the government's hydroelectric dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers.
Federal officials had asked for two years. But U.S. District Judge James Redden went along with the one-year timetable sought by environmentalists, Indian tribes and fishermen.
"We're running out of time," the judge said. "This time we're going to do it."
Salmon are dwindling in the Columbia Basin because of the combined effects
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Salmon%20Dams
Statues of ancient goddesses discovered
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
ATHENS, Greece -- The life-sized marble statues of two ancient Greek goddesses have emerged during excavations of a 5,000-year-old town on the island of Crete, archaeologists said Friday.
The works, representing the goddesses Athena and Hera, date to between the second and fourth centuries - during the period of Roman rule in Greece - and originally decorated the Roman theater in the town of Gortyn, archaeologist Anna Micheli from the Italian School of Archaeology told The Associated Press.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1501&slug=Greece%20Ancient%20Statues
U.S. millionaire prepares for blastoff
By MIKE ECKEL
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
U.S. astronaut William McArthur, center, Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev, right, and U.S. space tourist Gregory Olsen, left, wave after a news conference at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Friday, Sept. 30, 2005. The next U.S.-Russian space crew, including U.S. space tourist Gregory Olsen, will blast off to the International Space Station on Saturday, Oct. 1. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- U.S millionaire scientist Gregory Olsen, the world's third space tourist, bid farewell to his family Friday during final preparations for his flight to the international space station with a Russian-American crew.
The 60-year-old founder of an infrared-camera maker based in Princeton, N.J., reportedly paid $20 million for a seat on the Expedition 12 flight.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1501&slug=Russia%20Space
Ranchers still waiting for disaster cash
By MARY CLARE JALONICK
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- Livestock producers around the country are still waiting for agricultural disaster payments Congress approved a year ago to help them deal with an ongoing drought.
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and other senators are pressuring the Department of Agriculture to distribute money that Congress appropriated in an October 2004 spending bill. Baucus, who met with Deputy Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner Friday to discuss the issue, said that only 13 percent of the checks have been distributed to qualified producers.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Livestock%20Drought
Ky. governor'ss ex-chief of staff charged
By MARK R. CHELLGREN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A special grand jury examining alleged political hiring by Gov. Ernie Fletcher's administration on Friday indicted his former chief of staff and a representative of his local outreach office.
Daniel Groves, who resigned as chief of staff in the past month, and Vince Fields were each charged with three counts of violating state personnel laws to fill state jobs with Republicans.
The grand jury previously charged nine current and former members of Fletcher's administration, including high-ranking officials and the chairman of the state Republican Party.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Kentucky%20Politics
American accused in Afghan worker's death
By MATTHEW PENNINGTON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Guards for a U.S. security firm obstructed an investigation into whether one of its supervisors fatally shot his Afghan interpreter, an Afghan police chief said Friday.
Noor Ahmad, 37, was shot in the head Tuesday at the compound of his employer, U.S. Protection and Investigations, at Tut village in Farah province's Gulistan district, police and provincial officials said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Afghan%20Shooting
U.S. views on North Korea prevail at U.N.
By GEORGE JAHN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
VIENNA, Austria -- The U.N. atomic watchdog agency took North Korea to task Friday for breaching the nuclear arms control treaty but welcomed its pledge to give up atomic weapons in a resolution that highlights U.S. priorities for future talks with Pyongyang.
China refrained from co-sponsoring the text in a reflection of its displeasure with a text focusing on Washington's priorities. Still, diplomats noted that the resolution was submitted to the 139-nation International Atomic Energy Agency's General Assembly only after Beijing indirectly signed off on it.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Nuclear%20Agency%20NKorea
North Korean workers speak about nukes
By BURT HERMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
DIAMOND MOUNTAIN, North Korea -- Parroting the official stance of their government, North Korean workers at this tourist resort insist their country should not give up its nuclear weapons until after it gets something from the United States.
The comments this week by North Korean workers at the Diamond Mountain tourist enclave, which South Koreans and foreigners can freely visit, embody the wide gap in perspective that remains between the North and the United States despite a breakthrough Sept. 19 agreement at six-nation arms talks in Beijing.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=NKorea%20Nuclear
Bush is imposing other religions on Saudi Arabia? What? Where does he get the nerve? That is not the USA. It's a sovereign nation. This is an outrage. Bush imposes religious standards but not child labor laws or environmental standards. Oh, my God.
Bush delays action against Saudi Arabia
By BARRY SCHWEID
AP DIPLOMATIC WRITER
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has postponed punishing Saudi Arabia for restricting religious freedom, giving the U.S. ally six more months to show it has made progress in its treatment of religious minorities.
One year ago, the State Department declared that religious freedom was absent in the Arab kingdom. Under U.S. law, the Bush administration could have imposed sanctions such as trade restrictions - as it has done with some other countries.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slug=Religious%20Freedom
Poll: Most New Yorkers would back Hillary
By MARC HUMBERT
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Over half of New York voters say they definitely will vote to re-elect Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton next year, and she holds big leads over all her potential Republican rivals, according to statewide poll released Friday.
The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion poll also found that a narrow majority of the state's voters do not want the former first lady to run for president in 2008.
The poll found 52 percent of registered voters said they would definitely vote to re-elect Clinton, while 32 percent said they would definitely vote against her.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1132&slug=New%20York%20Senate
Mayor: NYC has flawed security structure
By SARA KUGLER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants the New York Police Department to take control of the city's bridges, tunnels and airports during disasters, saying Thursday the current multi-agency command structure is "backward."
Bloomberg said the NYPD is "the agency generally recognized as the most sophisticated counterterrorism force in the world," and should be calling the shots if a catastrophe strikes any of those targets.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1135&slug=Mayor%27s%20Race%20Security
Russian ammo dump fire prompts evacuation
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW -- A fire at a navy ammunition depot caused artillery shells to explode, forcing the evacuation of thousands in a remote eastern region Saturday, officials said.
Some 4,000 residents from five towns in the region of Kamchatka had to leave their homes, news agencies reported, quoting the local Emergency Situations Ministry.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Russia%20Ammo%20Fire
Rwandan pleads innocent to genocide charge
By SUKHDEV CHHATBAR
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Rwanda genocide accused, Joseph Serugendo, right, talks to his lawyer Charles .Maruma, centre, and Consta Hometow, a court official, left, on Friday Sept. 30, 2005, before he pleaded innocent at the UN Court in Arusha,Tanzania. Joseph Serugendo, who was arrested in Libreville, Gabon on Sept. 16, who according to Prosecutor William Egbe was a key leader of the Interahamwe militia, an extremist Hutu force that led the genocide. No date has been set for Serugendo's trial.(AP Photo/ Sukhdev Chattbar)
ARUSHA, Tanzania -- A former technical director at a radio station that promoted Rwanda's 1994 genocide pleaded innocent Friday to five counts of genocide and crimes against humanity at the U.N. tribunal trying accused masterminds of the 100-day slaughter.
Joseph Serugendo, who was arrested in Libreville, Gabon, on Sept. 16, was also a leader of the Interahamwe militia, an extremist Hutu force that led the genocide, prosecutor William Egbe said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apafrica_story.asp?category=1105&slug=Rwanda%20UN%20Tribunal
U.S. insists no plans to invade Venezuela
By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
CARACAS, Venezuela -- The United States is not planning to invade Venezuela, the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela said Thursday, disputing claims by President Hugo Chavez.
Chavez has said his government has documents showing Washington has a "Plan Balboa" to invade his oil-producing countrywide with aircraft carriers and planes. He said Venezuela is preparing to repel any attack.
"No 'Plan Balboa' exists," Ambassador William Brownfield said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Venezuela%20US
Eight dead, 12 missing in Amazon shipwreck
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A passenger boat arrives with survivors of a shipwreck on the Amazon River to Itacoatiara, in the Brazilian Amazon, on Friday, Sept. 30, 2005. An Amazon River passenger ship crashed into two barges and sank, leaving at least eight people dead and a dozen missing, Brazilian authorities said Friday. (AP Photo/Chico Batata, Diario do Amazonas)
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- An Amazon River passenger ship crashed into two barges and sank, leaving at least eight people dead and a dozen missing, Brazilian authorities said Friday.
The wooden ship was traveling on a remote stretch of the Amazon late Thursday night when it collided with the barges carrying commercial trucks, said Capt. Edlander Santos of the Brazilian navy. The ship was en route to the jungle city of Manaus, 1,700 miles northwest of Sao Paulo.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Brazil%20Amazon%20Shipwreck
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