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History
1720 Quaker John Woolman, pioneer abolitionist, is born in New Jersey.
1803 the U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.
1892 the city of Chicago dedicated the World's Columbian Exposition.
1898 The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company is founded in Durham, NC.
1903 a joint commission ruled in favor of the United States in a boundary dispute between the District of Alaska and Canada.
1944 during World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur stepped ashore at Leyte in the Philippines, 21/2 years after he'd said, "I shall return."
1947 the House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence and infiltration within the American motion-picture industry.
1964 the 31st president of the United States, Herbert Hoover, died in New York at age 90.
1967 seven men were convicted in Meridian, Miss., of violating the civil rights of three murdered civil rights workers.
1968 former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
1973 in the so-called "Saturday Night Massacre," special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox was dismissed and Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus resigned.
1979 the John F. Kennedy Library was dedicated in Boston.
1968 Evangelist Solomon Lightfoot Michaux, who feeds thousands and organizes the black vote, dies in Washington, D.C
Missing in Action
1966 EDWARDS HARRY S. JR. DECATUR GA REMAINS RETUNED 09/96
1966 PURRINGTON FREDERICK R. NORTH DARTMOUTH MA 02/18/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1966 WAGENER DAVID R. ANN ARBOR MI REMAINS IDENTIFIED 04 SEPT 97
1967 WOMACK LONNIE H. 10/24/67 NOT HEARD OF SINCE
1968 BRIDGES JERRY G. COLUMBIA TN
1968 DEITSCH CHARLES E. MT DORA FL
1968 KNIGHT HENRY C. LA HABRA CA
1968 MELDAHL CHARLES H. MONROE WA
1968 STANTON RONALD V. MASSILLON OH
1969 STUBBS WILLIAM W. NEWPORT WA
The Indystar
Katrina contracts benefiting Indiana RV companies
By Madhusmita Bora
maddie.bora@indystar.com
Hurricane Katrina did more than just leave a trail of destruction on the Gulf Coast.
It paved the road, albeit tragically, for Hoosier businesses to land a fourth of the $2.3 billion in federal contracts issued to rebuild the region.
A train near Muncie recently carried trailers headed for victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The units were made by Gulf Stream Coach in Nappanee, Ind. - Michael Conroy / Associated Press
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Indiana's burgeoning recreational vehicle industry landed the bulk of the business to provide temporary housing for Katrina victims.
Most of those orders -- $521 million worth -- went to Nappanee-based Gulf Stream Coach. The company received the second largest contract among all the businesses hired by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide Katrina relief.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051020/BUSINESS/510200506
Hoosiers give more than most Americans
Study: More than 79% of households donate to charity
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Source: The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
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And we're almost twice as likely as the rest of the country to give to groups that help with such basics as food and shelter, according to a report released today by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
Some of the findings seem obvious: Wealthier people give more.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051020/NEWS01/510200483
One ticket holds winning Powerball numbers
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Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa -- A ticket sold in Oregon matched all six numbers drawing in Wednesday's Powerball game to win the $340 million jackpot.
The drawing capped off a day of heavy sales in all 27 states where Powerball is played, plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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It was the largest jackpot in the game's history and the second-biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history.
The winning numbers drawn Wednesday evening were 7, 21, 43, 44, 49 and 29.
There were 47 tickets sold that matched the first five numbers drawn but failed to match the Powerball to win $200,000.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051020/NEWS01/510200496
Strong sales lift Lilly's quarterly profits
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Star and wire service report
Drug maker Eli Lilly & Co. said today its third-quarter profit rose 5 percent on strong sales and a higher-margin product mix.
Net income grew to $794.4 million, or 73 cents per share, from $755.2 million, or 69 cents per share, a year ago. Foreign exchange rates and a favorable product mix increased gross margins by 1.2 percentage points to 76.5 percent.
Revenue rose 10 percent to $3.6 billion from $3.28 billion last year, led by a 13 percent surge in sales of diabetes products to $652.8 million.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial expected Lilly to post earnings per share of 71 cents per share on revenue of $3.62 billion.
Sales of the anti-psychotic Zyprexa, Lilly' lead product, rose 1 percent to $1.04 billion, while sales of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder treatment Strattera fell 14 percent to $140.9 million from a year ago.
Zyprexa's sales stand to benefit from a major, federal government-sponsored trial of schizophrenia drugs that found patients taking Zyprexa had fewer hospitalizations and were able to stay on the drug longer than patients taking rival drugs.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051020/BUSINESS/510200505
Report: Lilly tied strings to Ga. offer
Associated Press
ATLANTA -- Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co. proposed giving up to $5 million to Georgia's Medicaid program if the state lifted restrictions on four of the company's drugs.
The offer was described in documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Indianapolis-based company's proposal contradicts past statements by aides to Gov. Sonny Perdue, who said the donation came with no strings attached.
The money, described as a "benevolent offer" by a Perdue spokesman, would help pay the costs of developing the governor's Medicaid reform proposal, state officials said.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051020/BUSINESS/510200499
Stripped down
Adrienne learns how to strut her stuff at an aerobic striptease class held in Broad Ripple.
By Adrienne Murrill
adriennemurrill@intakeweekly.com
Rounding bases: Adrienne Murrill (right) learns a sexy turn with classmate Sheena Nilferli, 30, at Landsharks, 810 Broad Ripple Ave. -- Michelle Pemberton / INtake
Although I've never been to a strip club, I have to admit I know a thing or two.
At least I do now that I've been to Sky Block's new striptease class at Landsharks. Block was a go-go dancer at Mars, a dance club in Bloomington, when she went to Indiana University.
When she saw that the striptease workout wasn't catching on in Indy like it was on both coasts, Block watched Carmen Electra's "Aerobic Striptease" videos and devised her own routines.
Now the workout that received Oprah's stamp of approval has finally made it to Indianapolis.
http://www.intakeweekly.com/articles/1/023473-5881-160.html
Michael Moore Today
Rove Told Jury Libby May Have Been His Source In Leak Case
Top Aides Talked Before Plame's Name Was Public
By Jim VandeHei and Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post
White House adviser Karl Rove told the grand jury in the CIA leak case that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, may have told him that CIA operative Valerie Plame worked for the intelligence agency before her identity was revealed, a source familiar with Rove's account said yesterday.
In a talk that took place in the days before Plame's CIA employment was revealed in 2003, Rove and Libby discussed conversations they had had with reporters in which Plame and her marriage to Iraq war critic Joseph C. Wilson IV were raised, the source said. Rove told the grand jury the talk was confined to information the two men heard from reporters, the source said.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4587
Bush whacked Rove on CIA leak
By Thomas M. DeFrank / Daily News
WASHINGTON - An angry President Bush rebuked chief political guru Karl Rove two years ago for his role in the Valerie Plame affair, sources told the Daily News.
"He made his displeasure known to Karl," a presidential counselor told The News. "He made his life miserable about this."
Bush has nevertheless remained doggedly loyal to Rove, who friends and even political adversaries acknowledge is the architect of the President's rise from baseball owner to leader of the free world.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4574
Colin Powell's Former Chief of Staff Has at Cheney;
"...we have courted disaster in Iraq, in North Korea, in Iran."
Cheney cabal hijacked US foreign policy’
By Edward Alden / Financial Times
Vice-President Dick Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the government's foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world, the top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed on Wednesday.
In a scathing attack on the record of President George W. Bush, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said: “What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4589
Defense lawyer in Saddam trial kidnapped: police
Thu Oct 20, 2005 3:15 PM ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A defense lawyer involved in the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven others has been kidnapped by gunmen, said police and Interior Ministry sources.
Police said initial reports identified the abducted lawyer as Saadoun Dulaimi. A legal source confirmed the kidnapped man was involved in the trial which started on Wednesday.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2005-10-20T191527Z_01_ROB069309_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-SADDAM-KIDNAP.xml
With Superdome Situation 'Past Critical' FEMA Head Stayed Cool; "...wait service from the restaurant staff, eating, etc. Thank you."
FEMA Official Says Boss Ignored Warnings
By Hope Yen / Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Federal Emergency Management Agency officials did not respond to repeated warnings about deteriorating conditions in New Orleans and the dire need for help as Hurricane Katrina struck, the first FEMA official to arrive conceded Thursday.
Marty Bahamonde, a FEMA regional director, told a Senate panel investigating the government's response to the disaster that he gave regular updates to people in contact with then-FEMA Director Michael Brown as early as Aug. 28, one day before Katrina made landfall.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4592
Spain Orders Arrest of U.S. Soldiers; Judge's requests for help with investigation went unanswered
Spain orders arrest of US soldiers over death
Judge calls for extradition of men who served in Iraq -- Journalist died in press hotel hit by tank shell
By Giles Tremlett / Guardian
A Spanish judge issued international arrest warrants yesterday for three US soldiers who face being put on trial in Madrid for the killing of a Spanish television cameraman during the Iraq war.
Lieutenant Colonel Philip de Camp, Captain Philip Wolford and Sergeant Shawn Gibson of the US Army's 3rd Infantry Division were wanted for questioning as suspects in the killing of José Couso, from Spain's Telecinco channel, according to the warrants.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4593
Rep. DeLay is booked in Texas
RICHMOND, Texas (CNN) -- Rep. Tom DeLay turned himself in to the sheriff's office in his home county of Fort Bend, Texas, on Thursday for booking on state conspiracy and money-laundering charges.
Once inside, he was fingerprinted and his mug shot was taken. He was later released after posting a $10,000 bond, according to The Associated Press.
Before dawn, several reporters and camera crews could be seen in front of the sheriff's office, staking out a spot in hopes of capturing images of the fallen House majority leader as he entered the jail, not far from his home in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4590
Tom DeLay Mug Shot
Republican pol is booked on conspiracy, money laundering charges
OCTOBER 20--Here's the Tom DeLay mug shot snapped this afternoon when the deposed House majority leader appeared at a Harris County, Texas sheriff's office to be booked on conspiracy and money laundering charges. The Republican pol, 58, was forced to submit to a brief photo and fingerprint session after a District Judge yesterday issued an arrest warrant for him. The congressman is scheduled for his initial court appearance tomorrow in Travis County District Court. (2 pages)
SAY CHEESE: Click here for TSG's extensive, entertaining mug shot gallery
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1020051delay1.html
A Daily Look at Military Deaths in Iraq
By The Associated Press 2 hours, 7 minutes ago
As of Thursday, Oct. 20, 2005, at least 1,988 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 1,541 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians.
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The AP count is 11 higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated at 10 a.m. EDT Thursday.
The British military has reported 97 deaths; Italy, 27; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 17; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Slovakia, three; Denmark,
El Salvador, Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand, two each; Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia one death each.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq_us_deaths
1 in 4 Iraq vets ailing on return
By Gregg Zoroya / USA Today
More than one in four U.S. troops have come home from the Iraq war with health problems that require medical or mental health treatment, according to the Pentagon's first detailed screening of servicemembers leaving a war zone.
Almost 1,700 servicemembers returning from the war this year said they harbored thoughts of hurting themselves or that they would be better off dead. More than 250 said they had such thoughts “a lot.” Nearly 20,000 reported nightmares or unwanted war recollections; more than 3,700 said they had concerns that they might hurt someone or “lose control with someone.”
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4577
HomeFromIraqNow.org
http://www.homefromiraqnow.org/
Australian TV says shows footage of Taliban burning
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian television broadcast on Wednesday footage of what it said was U.S. soldiers burning two dead Taliban fighters as they faced Mecca and using the charred and smoking corpses in a propaganda campaign in southern Afghanistan.
The television report said U.S. soldiers burned the bodies for hygienic reasons but then a U.S. psychological operations unit broadcast a propaganda message on loudspeakers to Taliban fighters, taunting them to retrieve their dead and fight.
In Washington, the U.S. Defense Department expressed concern over the report and promised that it would be "aggressively investigated."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4585
A Web of Truth
Whistle-Blower or Troublemaker, Bunny Greenhouse Isn't Backing Down
By Neely Tucker / Washington Post
Bunny Greenhouse was once the perfect bureaucrat, an insider, the top procurement official at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Then the 61-year-old Greenhouse lost her $137,000-a-year post after questioning the plump contracts awarded to Halliburton in the run-up to the war in Iraq. It has made her easy to love for some, easy to loathe for others, but it has not made her easy to know.
In late August, she was demoted, her pay cut and her authority stripped. Her former bosses say it's because of a years-long bout of poor work habits; she and her lawyer say it's payback for her revelations about a politically connected company.
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