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History
1759 Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred
1793 Execution of the Girondins at Paris, during the Reign of Terror
1815 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp
1893 Football player, William Henry Lewis, named All-American, 1893
1899 W.F. Burr patents railway switching device Oct.31,1899 Patent # 636,197
1900 Actor and singer, Ethel Waters was born, 1900
1900 Blues singer and actress Ethel Waters, who stars in "Member of the Wedding" on Broadway, "Cabin in the Sky", "Africana", and noted for her song "Stormy Weather", is born in Chester, PA
1908 4th Olympic games end in London
1922 Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy
1940 Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto
1945 Educator, Booker T Washington, inducted into the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.
1952 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated-Marshall Islands
1956 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole-Rear Adm GJ Dufek
1956 Britain & France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal
1956 Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
1963 Ed Sullivan witnesses the Beatles & their fans at London Airport
1963 Leaking propane gas explodes, kills 64 at "Holiday on Ice" (Indiana)
1964 Barbra Streisand's "People," album goes #1 for 5 weeks
1968 President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
1969 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
1980 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m)
1983 Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia
1984 Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as the ship caught fire
1987 1st jockey to win 9 races in 1 day (Chris Antley at Belmont)
1987 A pair in Coventry, England ties the world record for the longest singles tennis match at 80 hrs 21 minutes
1988 Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia
1998 AP reports the DNA investigation confirms the findings linking President Thomas Jefferson to Sally Hemings through the Eston Hemings line.
Missing in Action
1965 ADAMS SAMUEL GOLDENROD FL 12/65 PRG DIC LIST
1965 DUSING CHARLES G. CHARLESTON SC 12/65 DIC-ON PRG DIC LIST
1965 MOORE THOMAS BATON ROUGE LA 12/65 DIC-ON PRG DIC LIST
1965 POWERS TRENT R. MINNEAPOLIS MN EJECTED SAFELY / REMAINS RETURNED 09/25/87
1967 FANNING HUGH M. FORT WORTH TX REMAINS RECOVERED 07/17/84 ID RECINDED
1967 KOTT STEPHEN J. GREENVILLE SC REMAINS RECOVERED 07/17/84 - FAM DOES NOT ACCEPT
1968 SWANSON ROGER W. ST PAUL MN
1969 GAUTHIER DENNIS L. ROCHESTER MI
October 30
1965 PAGE JASPER N. HATTIESBURG MS 11/04/65 ESCAPED 1ST OUT OF SVN/ALIVE AND WELL 98
1973 SAKAMOTO HIDEAKO JAPAN RELEASED 01/30/74
October 29
1963 PITZER DANIEL L. FAIRVIEW WV 11/11/67 RELEASED IN CAMBODIA DECEASED
1963 ROWE JAMES N. MC ALLEN TX 12/31/68 ESCAPED KILLED IN PHILLIPINE INSIDENT 04/21/89
1963 VERSACE HUMBERTO R. NORFOLK VA 09/22/65 POSS EXECUTED PRG DIC LIST
1968 BEZOLD STEVEN MC KITTRICK MO
1968 HARRISON DONALD L. CHAMBLEE GA NO SUBSEQUENT INFORMATION
1968 HUNTER JAMES D. PORTLAND TN
1971 OAKLEY LINUS LABIN CARTHAGE AR
1972 SULLIVAN JAMES E. HULL MA "DEAD, HANOI RADIO REMAINS RETURNED 08/14/85"
The Seattle Post Intelligencer
Fading Beta leaves thousands in shelters
By FILADELFO ALEMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
A panoramic view of Malacatoya river is seen one day after Hurricane Beta crossed over Nicaragua, Chontales, some 56 miles (90km) northeast of Managua, Monday, Oct. 31, 2005. The hurricane made landfall Sunday morning before quickly weakening to a tropical storm and eventually becoming a tropical depression. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Thousands of people remained in shelters in Nicaragua and Honduras on Monday after Hurricane Beta swept across the Central American nations, flooding rivers, downing trees and destroying houses, churches, medical centers and schools.
The remnants of Beta drifted over the eastern Pacific on Monday, and forecasters said there was a slight chance the storm
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1102AP_Hurricane_Beta.html
White House rebuffs calls for shakeup
By TERENCE HUNT
AP WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT
Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, husband of CIA operative Valerie Plame, gestures during an address at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, Oct. 31, 2005. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
WASHINGTON -- The White House on Monday rebuffed calls for a staff shakeup, the firing of Karl Rove and an apology by President Bush for the role of senior administration officials in the unmasking of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
Three days after the indictment and resignation of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, the administration said it would have to remain silent as long as there was an investigation of the leak and legal proceeding under way. Bush ignored reporters' questions during an Oval Office meeting with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1151AP_CIA_Leak_Investigation.html
Gregoire orders flags lowered for Rosa Parks
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Gov. Christine Gregoire, following the lead of the White House, on Monday ordered that flags be lowered to half-staff at all state agencies and colleges on Wednesday to honor the late civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.
Funeral services were held in Washington D.C., Monday for Parks, who died last Monday at 92. She was called the mother of the civil rights movement, after her arrest in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man.
Gregoire's order covers from sunrise to sunset on Wednesday, the day Parks is interred. President Bush previously issued a similar order for federal buildings and military installations, naval vessels, and U.S. embassies.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Gregoire_Parks.html
Torture suit begins for Salvadoran officer
By WOODY BAIRD
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A former Salvadoran Army colonel was in a U.S. court Monday to defend himself against accusations that his soldiers tortured and killed civilians during El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s.
A civil lawsuit filed against Nicolas Carranza, 72, accuses him of crimes against humanity. A 10-member jury was seated Monday afternoon, with testimony scheduled to begin Tuesday.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Torture_Lawsuit.html
Halloween is Hurricane Wilma's new victim
By DENISE KALETTE
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
With no power in the Sunrise, Fla. Party City, Sarah Nottingham had to shop for her Halloween outfit Monday, Oct. 31, 2005 by looking at signs in the window of the store rather than go inside the store. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
MIAMI -- Little ghosts and goblins in cities across South Florida were stuck inside Monday night as officials urged parents to cancel this year's trick-or-treating because of the damage from Hurricane Wilma.
The power was still out in many places, and storm debris made some streets and sidewalks hazardous.
"In Miami Springs, they always have parties and tell stories. And now they have canceled that," said a disappointed Mika Lorenzo, 9. He still planned to wear his knight's costume.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Hurricane_Halloween.html
Texas judge orders mayor to leave town
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GEORGETOWN, Texas -- A Texas mayor can't set foot in the small city he leads until a criminal case against him is over, but he still plans on running it.
Bartlett Mayor Bobby Hill, 61, was arrested last week and accused of stealing money and services from his 1,500-person city, about 53 miles northeast of Austin. State District Judge Ken Anderson ruled Monday that until the case is over, Hill must live outside city limits.
"He can do the job as mayor from wherever he's at," said his attorney, Marc Ranc.
Ranc said the mayor's job is only a part-time position, and Hill can still conduct city business by phone and do paperwork at home.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Mayor_Arrested.html
'View tax' triggers revolt in rural N.H.
By KATHARINE WEBSTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
John Chandler stands in his back yard with a view of the White Mountains in a Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2005 photo, in Hill, N.H.. Views have become so valuable in some New Hampshire towns that assessors are giving them a separate line on appraisal records. Chandler objected when a revaluation doubled the value of his property in Hill because of its view. He says the view is obscured by pollution most of the time, and besides that he's legally blind. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
ORFORD, N.H. -- The one-room cabin David Bischoff built in a cow pasture three years ago has no electricity, no running water, no phone service and no driveway. What it does have is a wide-open view of nearby hills and distant mountains - which makes it seven times more valuable than if it had no view, according to the latest townwide property assessment. He expects his property taxes to shoot up accordingly.
Bischoff and other Orford residents bitterly call that a "view tax," and they are leading a revolt against it that has gained support in many rural towns in New Hampshire.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_View_Tax.html
Methodists defrock lesbian minister
By LUCAS L. JOHNSON II
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Rev. Irene "Beth" Stroud, left, hugs her partner Chris Paige following a news conference, Monday, Oct. 31, 2005, in Philadelphia. The highest court within the United Methodist Church defrocked the lesbian minister Monday for violating the denomination's ban on "self-avowed, practicing homosexual" clergy. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A lesbian minister was defrocked Monday by the highest court within the United Methodist Church, which found that she violated the denomination's ban on "self-avowed, practicing homosexual" clergy.
The decision is a victory for traditionalists in one of several mainline Protestant denominations split over the role of gays and lesbians in the church.
The UMC's nine-member Judicial Council - seven of whom heard the case Thursday in Houston - issued the ruling through its Web site. The denomination's communications office is based in Nashville.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Methodists_Gays.html
DeLay reports record funds for defense
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Democratic state district Judge Bob Perkins, shown in this photo from Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005, has been subpoenaed to testify Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2005, at a hearing to determine whether he is too biased to preside over U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay's criminal case. DeLay's attorneys want Perkins replaced as the presiding judge because of multiple contributions he's made to Democrats. Perkins was expected to file a motion to quash the subpoena. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck) (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Tom DeLay's Legal Expense Trust reported Monday that it raised $318,000 in the third quarter to help the Texas Republican fight state charges of conspiracy and money laundering.
The fund spent $278,466 during the three-month period that ended Sept. 30, but most legal costs for the Texas case are yet to come as the former majority leader prepares for a possible trial.
The Houston-based trustee, Brent Perry, has said this was the fund's best quarter since it was started in June 2000. In prior years, the trust paid legal expenses for a now-closed civil racketeering lawsuit filed by Democrats and for several ethics investigations that led to criticism of DeLay by the House ethics committee.
The maximum annual donation under House rules is $5,000. Of the $318,000 raised, $141,000 came from corporations, political committees and one union - a $1,000 donation from the United Transportation Union PAC in Cleveland.
DeLay and two political associates are accused of funneling corporate money to Texas legislative candidates, in violation of a state law prohibiting use of corporate funds in state campaigns.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1153AP_DeLay_Legal_Defense.html
Article raises questions about Vietnam War
By KATHERINE SHRADER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- The National Security Agency has been blocking the release of an article by one of its historians that says intelligence officers falsified documents about a disputed attack that was used to escalate the Vietnam War, according to a researcher who has requested the article.
Matthew Aid, who asked for the article under the Freedom of Information Act last year, said it appears that officers at the NSA made honest mistakes in translating interceptions involving the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident. That was a reported North Vietnamese attack on American destroyers that helped lead to President Johnson's escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1152AP_Vietnam_Intelligence.html
Pluto has three moons, Hubble images show
By ALEX DOMINGUEZ
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BALTIMORE -- Pluto has three moons, not one, new images from the Hubble Space Telescope suggest. Pluto, discovered as the ninth planet in 1930, was thought to be alone until its moon Charon was spotted in 1978.
The new moons, more than twice as far away as Charon and many times fainter, were spotted by Hubble in May.
While the observations have to be confirmed, members of the team that discovered the satellites said Monday they felt confident about their data.
"Pluto and Charon are not alone, they have two neighbors," said Hal Weaver of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Follow-up observations by the Hubble are planned in February. If they are confirmed, the International Astronomical Union will consider names for the objects.
Earlier this month another group of astronomers, who claim to have discovered the 10th planet in the solar system, also said that body had a moon. (Whether the group actually discovered a new planet has not been confirmed.)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1501AP_Plutos_Moons.html
Congo army, troops flush Rwandan rebels
By ANJAN SUNDARAM
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Two unidentified Rwandan Hutu rebels, left, that were captured during a joint military operation by the Congolese army and U.N. are seen some 70km from the town of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, Oct. 31, 2005. Congo's army launched a U.N. backed military operation on Monday to drive out the rebels who hide deep in the thick forests of the eastern Congo.(AP Photo/Anjan Sundaram)
VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Congo -- Hundreds of government troops backed by U.N. peacekeepers began flushing heavily armed Rwandan rebels from eastern Congo on Monday, destroying insurgent camps and sending smoke rising above the restive region.
The operation in North Kivu province involving 2,000 Congolese troops and 500 peacekeepers was the first time Congo's government has used force against the Hutu rebels since a deadline for the departure of all foreign armed groups expired a month ago. At least a dozen rebels were captured.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1105AP_Congo_Rwanda_Rebels.html
Canada starting to accept more immigrants
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OTTAWA -- Canada is on track to accept 245,000 immigrants this year - a number that would increase under a new policy set to be unveiled by the government.
Immigration Minister Joe Volpe was to unveil the sweeping changes to Canada's immigration policy later Monday, announcing the government intends to take in as many as 300,0000 new immigrants annually within the next five years.
Volpe said Ottawa plans to increase temporary workers to tackle the enormous backlog of 700,000 prospective immigrants.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1101AP_Canada_Immigration.html
Summary Box: Zanzibar holds regional vote
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WHAT'S AT STAKE: Many saw the vote as a test of whether Western-style democracy can work in this devoutly Muslim part of East Africa. The last two elections also were tainted by violence and charges of fraud.
VIOLENCE: Clashes erupted after police and the ruling party tried to truck in hundreds of people to vote against the objections of local residents.
TURNOUT: Voters turned out in heavy numbers to choose between the socialists who have ruled the Indian Ocean archipelago for nearly 40 years and an opposition group promising wholesale economic reforms.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1105AP_Zanzibar_Elections_Summary_Box.html
Three kidnapped children rescued in Haiti
By ALFRED DE MONTESQUIOU
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Police rescued unharmed two kidnapped children and a foster child of an American missionary couple during a raid on an apartment in Haiti's capital, officials said Monday.
Police said Hannah Lloyd, 3, her brother David, 5, and their Haitian foster sister Miriam Meinvil, 7, were unharmed. They are the children of Pentecostal minister David Lloyd and his wife, Alicia, of Claremore, Okla.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1102AP_Haiti_US_Kidnapping.html
Musharraf condemns India bombings
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan -- President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Monday condemned this weekend's deadly bombings in India as "a dastardly terrorist attack," and said Pakistan would fully cooperate in any investigation.
"Pakistan stands with India," Musharraf said at a news conference in this garrison city near the capital of Islamabad.
Pakistan-based Islamic militants have been suspected in Saturday night's bombings, which killed 59 people in New Delhi, but Indian officials appeared hesitant to immediately place blame.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1104AP_Pakistan_India.html
The Jerusalem Post
Sharon pledges to strike at sources of terror
By SHEERA CLAIRE FRENKEL
Avoiding the controversy of his aborted ministerial appointments, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's address at the opening of the Knesset's winter session on Tuesday focused on regional politics.
While making a renewed call for a return to the road map, he called on the Palestinian Authority to dismantle terror groups and pledged his commitment to the construction of the separation fence.
"Israel will continue to protect itself and hurt the terrorists," said Sharon. "We have no choice. We will continue to build the security fence with no political, practical, or budgetary problems."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1129540640558&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Sharon distributes portfolios to allies
By GIL HOFFMAN
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's cabinet voted on Sunday to approve Sharon's appointments of several of his top political allies to key positions in the cabinet.
The vote passed unanimously, with every Likud minister voting in favor. But Labor ministers walked out before the vote, protesting Sharon's decision not to allocate any new positions to Labor and the lack of coordination between Sharon's office and Labor on key issues in recent weeks.
The appointments will come to a vote as a bloc on Monday in the Knesset, where Sharon is expected to have a difficult time passing them. Likud leadership candidates Binyamin Netanyahu and Uzi Landau, several Likud rebel MKs, and Labor MKs Amram Mitzna, Ilana Cohen, and Amir Peretz all intend to vote against them, virtually guaranteeing a majority against the appointments.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1129540627571&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Golan Druse suspected of attacking IDF
By DAVID RUDGE
Three teenage residents of the Golan Heights Druse village Majdal Shams have been arrested on suspicion of throwing petrol bombs at IDF troops while they were on patrol in an armored vehicle along the border with Syria.
They were detained near the beginning of October but the matter was only officially announced on Monday following the lifting of a court imposed publicity ban.
The three were allegedly members of a local cell and they were responsible also for putting ladders against the security fence to test the response time of IDF troops.
The majority of the Golan Heights Druse refused to accept Israeli identity cards when the Knesset in 1981 extended Israeli law to the region that was captured from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1129540642350&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Jihad fires 5 Kassams from Gaza
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH AND JPOST.COM STAFF
Less than a day after top Islamic Jihad leaders announced they would maintain a mutual ceasefire, at least five Kassam rockets were fired from the northern region of the Gaza Strip into the western Negev Sunday night.
No damage in life or property was reported.
The attacks came in immediate response to a military operation in Kabatiya, in which three Islamic Jihad fugitives were killed by the IDF after prolonged gunbattles Sunday night.
Two of the Islamic Jihad operatives were shot in West Bank town of Kabatiya near Jenin, after IDF forces, including Nahal brigade and elite units, surrounded a house in the afternoon where they were hiding. The two were linked to last week's suicide bomb attack in Hadera in which five Israelis were killed.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1129540633099&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
PA academics take to the streets
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Palestinian lecturers and legislators demonstrated in Gaza City on Monday in protest against recurring attacks on the president of Al-Azhar University.
The university, the largest in the Gaza Strip, decided earlier this month to suspend studies until further notice after some students assaulted its president, Dr. Adnan al-Khaldi, and other staff members. Sources in the university said the attackers were members of the ruling Fatah party.
Chanting slogans against the growing state of anarchy and lawlessness, the protesters marched toward the offices of PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza City. They also urged PA Interior Minister Nasser Youssef and the commanders of the security forces to take drastic measures against the perpetrators, including depriving them of graduation certificates.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1129540641345&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
UNSC okays weakened Syria resolution
By NATHAN GUTTMAN
Washington
The UN Security Council unanimously adopted Monday a watered-down resolution calling on Syria to cooperate with the international investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, but not mentioning the possibility of imposing sanctions if Damascus does not comply.
The resolution, presented by the US, France and Britain, demands that Syria provide all the information needed for German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis's investigation in the month and a half remaining until his team files its final report. It also requires Syria to allow the team to question government officials about possible involvement in the bombing that killed Hariri on February 14.
The resolution passed warns Syria that it might face "further action" if it does not show full cooperation with the Mehlis investigation and requires Syria to detain and hand over individuals needed for questioning and demands that assets of those suspected of being involved in the murder be frozen.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1129540636773&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Our wild week surviving Wilma
By LINDA MAURICE
HOLLYWOOD, Florida - We are slowly beginning to join the modern world again. Slowly being the optimum word. I am going to be really bummed if our power chooses now to surge again (which has been happening all Shabbat afternoon, as FPL - Florida Power & Light - works on all the grids and substations) and I lose this text.
Yes, we survived Wilma. Last Sunday night it was starting to get windy, and by Monday at 6:30 a.m. it was starting to howl. We had a few pretty scary hours up until about 1 p.m. The shutters rattled and whooshes of wind went all around the house. We had always heard that you are safer in a part of the house without windows, so we pulled a mattress into the hallway and all hung out on it. At one point I got restless, so I folded laundry. Hey, routine is good.
We couldn't see anything that was going on except through the little pane of glass in our front door. Through that we watched our neighbors front tree get whipped apart, another one fall and everything just whirl around. Water was blowing under the front door and seeping in all around the sides from the force of the wind.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1129540635834&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Learning the hard way
By PEGGY CIDOR
Rahel 13, wants to go to school. She's supposed to be in ninth grade now. She says she's a good pupil and likes her classes.
She also insists that she is an honorable haredi girl, who dresses modestly, lives a modest life, observes the commandments, and wants a shidduch (match) to a good man.
But Rahel still hasn't begun the school year because she hasn't been accepted into any educational institution within the haredi system.
She is convinced that she has been rejected from four of the most prestigious schools, despite her high grades and commendable behavior, for one reason only: because she is Sephardi and the schools are Ashkenazi.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1129540639818&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The Times-Picayune
Nagin serves city budget sunny side up
ALSO: Be nice or leave; Yet another task force
Saturday, October 29, 2005
By Frank Donze and Bruce Eggler
Staff writers
Delivering what may be the darkest financial forecast in New Orleans history, Mayor Ray Nagin did something remarkable this week: He kept the message upbeat.
Even though wide swaths of his largely empty city still sit in darkness every night, Nagin told City Council members Thursday that from now on he intends to accentuate the positives, starting with a prediction that the post-Katrina New Orleans will be safer, smarter and bigger.
"It's going to happen," he said after outlining a 2006 operating budget with a gaping $205 million hole in it: "500,000 to 600,000 people will live in New Orleans in the next three to five years. You can bank on it!"
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1130573314302830.xml
New Orleans' swamps turn into dumping ground, and environmentalists say it's a Superfund in the making
10/31/2005, 4:48 p.m. CT
By CAIN BURDEAU
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A swampy section of New Orleans is becoming a dumping ground for paint cans, broken furniture, insulation and the whatever else is in the rubble of this city.
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1130799242187003.xml&storylist=louisiana
Post-hurricane White House plan adds $55 million for NOAA
10/31/2005, 3:42 p.m. CT
By CURT ANDERSON
The Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane forecasting and research improvements — including a new "hurricane hunter" airplane — are part of a Bush administration proposal to provide an additional $55 million this year for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-20/113079534588200.xml&storylist=louisiana
FEMA's money trail 'transparent as mud'
Process of awarding contracts is unclear
Monday, October 31, 2005
By Sean Reilly
Newhouse News Service
WASHINGTON -- Eric Tolbert spent almost three decades on emergency response teams, starting as a paramedic in his native North Carolina and rising to a top job at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Early this year, Tolbert left government service for an executive post at PBS&J, a prominent Miami-based engineering firm. Since then, PBS&J has become a behind-the-scenes player in a contracting team that has garnered more than $145 million in government work related to the Hurricane Katrina and Rita recovery efforts, according to interviews and government records.
In an e-mail exchange this week, Tolbert said he played no role in winning that business and has "meticulously" abided by rules limiting contacts between former federal employees and their old agencies for at least a year. But the episode typifies the murky methods FEMA has used in shoveling billions of rebuilding dollars to private contractors.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/washington/index.ssf?/base/news-1/113077254331270.xml
Tanker truck crash closes eastbound I-12
Monday, 11:30 a.m.
The eastbound lanes of Interstate 12 south of Covington are closed due to an overturned tanker-truck carrying hazardous materials, authorities said.
The accident occurred around 10:30 a.m. near the Louisiana 21 exit. The cause of the one-vehicle accident is under investigation. The driver was taken to a hospital; his condition was not immediately available.
Information on the tanker's cargo was not available.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_10_31.html
New Orleans, LA
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Humidity: 51%
Wind: E, 11 mph
Barometer: 30.11 inches
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http://www.nola.com/weather/
New Orleans Miscellaneous
New Orleans Nagin´s "Bring Back" Commission Meetings Set
The Commission established by Mayor Ray Nagin to help set policy and a framework for rebuilding the City of New Orleans wille be meeting this Monday. Also, subcommittees are being formed. The information regarding the general meeting, the subcommittee meetings and prior minutes can be found on the website, http://www.bringneworleansback.org/. Here is a copy of the minutes from the last Commission meeting:
Members Present: Boysie Bollinger, Kim Boyle, Cesar Burgos, Joe Canizaro, Scott Cowen, Archbishop Hughes, Mel Lagarde, Rev. Fred Luter, Barbara Major, Alden McDonald, Mayor C. Ray Nagin, Dan Packer, Anthony Patton, Jimmy Reiss, Gary Solomon, Oliver Thomas and David White
Members Absent: Wynton Marsalis
http://www.bayoubuzz.com/articles.aspx?aid=5367
Boy trumpeter from New Orleans is star of nation's biggest Halloween event
By VERENA DOBNIK
Associated Press Writer
October 30, 2005, 8:49 PM EST
NEW YORK -- The leader of New York's Village Halloween parade will not be a drag queen on roller skates. It will not be a giant caricature of President Bush. It will not be a naked man covered in glitter.
The star of the parade will be a little trumpeter from New Orleans _ 10-year-old Glenn Hall III, whose house and horn were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. In New York, he got a new trumpet that he will play Monday in what is billed as the country's biggest public Halloween event.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--halloween-hurrica1030oct30,0,4545131.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
Pumpkins, "Voodoo" fight New Orleans fires
Sun Oct 30, 2005 5:53 PM ET
By Kevin Krolicki
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The drivers of Strike Team Two, a gypsy water convoy battle-hardened from fighting Western wildfires, sleep in a tent on the fringe of New Orleans and wait for orders to roll out the pumpkins.
As part of an experiment in applying backwoods fire-fighting tactics to the urban wilderness, New Orleans' fire department has turned to grizzled U.S. Forest Service contractors to help keep the wreckage left by Hurricane Katrina from going up in flames.
"The more uncivilized it got here, the more we fit in," said Rob Bozeman of Boulder, Colorado, laughing.
http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2005-10-30T225255Z_01_MOL063990_RTRUKOC_0_US-HURRICANES-FIRES.xml
Meeting raises possibility that Nagin may have political future
By KEVIN McGILL
Associated Press Writer
October 30, 2005
There were fewer than 300 seats and more than 500 people jammed into the hotel for a town hall meeting. It was overcrowded and under-air conditioned (nothing new in post-Katrina New Orleans), dozens of unhappy people lined up behind a single microphone and the scene appeared set for an ugly political inquisition as Mayor Ray Nagin entered the room - 30 minutes late.
Nagin made an opening statement on housing, then turned it over to the audience.
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051030/APN/510300626&cachetime=3&template=dateline
The Arab News
Musharraf Praises US and NATO for Earthquake Aid
Khaled Almaeena & Samir Al-Saadi
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, 1 November 2005 — In a two-part press conference that bracketed iftar, Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf yesterday condemned terrorist attacks on India while praising the US, UN and NATO assistance that has been provided in the aftermath of the deadly earthquake.
He also saw the opening of border points in Kashmir as a great opportunity to advance the Indo-Pak peace process.
Musharraf termed the recent bombings in the Indian capital of New Delhi “a dastardly attack.”
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=72561&d=1&m=11&y=2005
Kingdom Condemns Delhi Blasts
Arab News
JEDDAH, 1 November 2005 — Saudi Arabia yesterday condemned the deadly weekend blasts in New Delhi and urged the international community to join hands to root out terror.
“The Kingdom while denouncing this criminal act reiterates its belief that the entire world community must unite to confront and root out terrorism,” said a government spokesman.
More than 60 people were killed in blasts Saturday at two busy markets in New Delhi. The spokesman extended the Kingdom’s condolences to the Indian government and people as well as families of the victims.
Saudi Arabia, itself a victim of terrror attacks, proposed the creation of a UN-backed international center to combat terrorism at a counterterrorism conference it hosted in Riyadh last September.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=72562&d=1&m=11&y=2005
Editorial: Delhi Blasts
1 November 2005
Saturday's murderous blasts in New Delhi show once again that the war on terror will go on for a long time and will have to be fought on many fronts. They also add weight and urgency to King Abdullah’s suggestion some time back that an international center should be established to counter terrorism.
The death of 60 more innocent people will perhaps now push the international community further toward the creation of such a powerful body to root out terror. However much individual police forces may be pooling information and expertise on an ad hoc basis, there is clearly a need for properly structured coordination of the global effort to smash the evil of international terror. The menace is global. It must be confronted globally.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=72568&d=1&m=11&y=2005
Yawning Gap Between Parents and Children
Javid Hassan & Ali Al-Zahrani, Arab News
RIYADH, 1 November 2005 — Absence of dialogue between children and their parents has created a situation in which a section of the youth has been forced to contact psychiatrists who serve as a channel for the release of their suppressed feelings.
Interviews with a cross-section of young Saudis showed depth of the feelings that they cannot ventilate, the hopes that lie entombed in their hearts, and the fears that they cannot express. Being at the receiving end at school, at home, in the mosques, and, indeed, in the society at large, they have found themselves buried in the cocoon of silence. Participants in the national dialogue have called it “a time bomb waiting to explode”.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=72563&d=1&m=11&y=2005&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
UN Tells Syria to Cooperate
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News
Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shara, right, chats with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan before the start of the Security Council meeting. (AFP)
WASHINGTON, 1 November 2005 — The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution yesterday demanding Syria’s full cooperation with a UN investigation into the assassination of Rafik Hariri, Lebanon’s former prime minister, and warning of possible “further action” if it does not.
The resolution demands that Syria fully assist German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis’ investigation into Hariri’s murder on Feb. 14 in Beirut by detaining for questioning at a location of his choosing anyone named by the UN as a suspect in the crime.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=72557&d=1&m=11&y=2005
Arabs Shouldn’t Abandon Syria
Linda Heard, sierra12th@yahoo.co.uk
If I weren’t so vain, the antics of many of the world’s leaders would have me tearing my hair out. Indeed, some of them shouldn’t be called leaders at all since they are obviously entirely disconnected from the wishes of their own peoples, preferring (or perhaps obliged) instead to follow US diktats.
Here, the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immediately springs to mind. He appeared to be one of the most gung-ho and hawkish pro-Bush European heads, yet, lo and behold, he now asserts that he repeatedly tried to talk the American president out of invading Iraq.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=72569&d=1&m=11&y=2005
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