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History
Today is Tuesday, Nov. 1, the 305th day of 2005.
There are 60 days left in the year.
1512, Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.
1604, William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
1765, the Stamp Act went into effect, prompting stiff resistance from American colonists.
1870, the United States Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations.
1920 Charles Gilpin opens in "Emperor Jones" at Provincetown Playhouse in New York.
1937 Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. succeeds his father and becomes the new senior minister of Abyssinian Baptist Church in NYC.
1944, "Harvey," a comedy by Mary Chase about a man and his friend, an invisible 6-foot-tall rabbit, opened on Broadway.
1952, the United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands.
1961 Albany students organized by SNCC, sat down in a white-only waiting room in a bus station to test compliance with the Interstate Commerce Commission ruling barring segregation in interstate bus and train stations.
1973, following the "Saturday Night Massacre," Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork appointed Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox.
1979, former first lady Mamie Eisenhower died in Washington, D.C., at age 82.
1991 Judge Clarence Thomas formally seated as 106th Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court. He replaces Thurgood Marshall who was the first Black Associate Justice
Ten years ago: Bosnia peace talks opened in Dayton, Ohio, with the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present. The House voted to ban so-called "partial birth" abortions by a vote of 288-139.
Five years ago: Yugoslavia's new democratic government joined the United Nations after eight years of U.N. ostracism under former strongman Slobodan Milosevic.
One year ago: American contract worker Roy Hallums was one of several people kidnapped during an armed assault on the Baghdad compound where he lived; Hallums was rescued by coalition forces on Sept. 7, 2005. A 16-year-old Palestinian laden with explosives blew himself up in an outdoor market in Tel Aviv, killing three Israelis. U.N. nuclear agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei urged Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and called on North Korea to dismantle its weapons program.
Missing in Action
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1965 KNIGHT BILLY CLIMAX GA 01/27/73 PRG SAYS DIC CACCF=REMAINS RECOVERED TIME OF LOSS 10/22/68
1966 CARPENTER ALLAN R. SPRINGVALE ME 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1966 WEAVER GEORGE R. JR. LANCASTER PA
1968 KENNEY HARRY J. CINCINNATI OH
1969 ADVENTIO RUDOLPHO ANDRES
1969 BAILEY DANIEL T.
1969 PARTINGTON ROGER D. SPARTA IL
The Gulf News
Mehlis returns to Beirut
Agencies
Beirut:
The UN team investigating the murder of former Lebanese Premier Rafik Hariri arrived back in Beirut on Tuesday.
Detlev Mehlis, who was heading the inquiry said in his interim report that the plot included Syrian and pro-Syria Lebanese officials and pointed the finger at Damascus for misleading the UN team.
On Monday night The UN Security Council voted unanimously for a resolution demanding Syria cooperate with a UN inquiry into the death of a former Lebanese prime minister or face possible "further action."
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=189723
Iran says it launched its first satellite into orbit
AP
Tehran:
Iran said yesterday it has joined the club of countries enjoying space technology after launching its first satellite last week in a joint project with Russia, state-run television reported.
Sina-1 was launched from Plesetsk launch pad in northern Russia on Thursday, the report said.
"By placing Iran's Sina-1 (Z-S.4) in its designated orbit, we have practically joined the group of countries enjoying space technology. It was a big achievement," the broadcast quoted Telecom Minister Mohammad Soleimani as saying on his return to Tehran from a four-day visit to Beijing.
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=189620
Bahrainis to be freed from Guantanamo during Eid
By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief
Manama: A number of Bahrainis detained by US authorities at Guantanamo Bay will be freed during the Eid holidays, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.
A ministry spokesman on Sunday evening said that the information had been conveyed by US officials, but no details about the number or names of the detainees were given.
"The release is the outcome of the efforts and contacts by the competent authorities in Bahrain, particularly the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Interior, based upon the directives of the country's leadership as well as those of the lawyers appointed by the families of the detainees," the spokesman said.
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=189609
US claims precision strike against Al Qaida hideout
Agencies
Ramadi, Iraq : US planes bombed a house near the Syrian border early Monday in what the military said was a precision strike on an Al Qaida leader.
The jets also used precision-guided munitions to attack a second house suspected of being a base for attacks against American and Iraqi forces, the US command said.
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=189715
King Abdullah performs umrah
Reuters
Makkah: Jordan's King Abdullah performs umrah with his son Prince Hussain (left) and his wife Queen Rania (right), in Makkah on Sunday.
King Abdullah arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday for talks with Saudi officials to discuss the Iraqi crisis and Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=189614
Border guards seize 2 tonnes of hashish
Reuters
Riyadh:
Saudi Arabian border guards seized more than two tonnes of hashish on an island off the kingdom's Gulf coast, Al-Riyadh newspaper said yesterday.
This was one of their largest drug hauls in recent times.
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=189613
Preacher jailed for inspiring 9/11 bombers rejects killing of innocents
AP
Tangiers: For the first time since his imprisonment two years ago, Morocco's most famous jailed cleric is smiling.
Mohammad Al Fazazi, accused of inspiring the September 11 terrorist attack as well as strikes in Morocco and Spain, was transferred to a studio-like cell with a private kitchen, bathroom and colour TV that allows him to watch his favourite all-news Arab channel, Al Jazeera.
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=189629
The Miami Herald
Lack of power severely limits elderly in care facilities
BY CHUCK RABIN
crabin@herald.com
Haydee Lezcano is 77, has chronic high blood pressure, and uses an oxygen tank to treat shortness of breath. Her third-floor apartment lost power when Hurricane Wilma hit and is still in the dark.
Unable to make her way down any of the dark staircases at Samari Towers in Hialeah Gardens, Lezcano has not been outside for eight days. One day last week she had to borrow an oxygen tank from a neighbor.
She has been eating and drinking thanks in large part to the Hialeah Gardens government, which has visited every day with food and drink. But her apartment is hot and she says she gets anxious when it gets dark.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13048479.htm
Miami-Dade schools to resume Thursday; Broward out all week
By MATTHEW I. PINZUR and HANNAH SAMPSON
mpinzur@herald.com
School will resume Thursday in Miami-Dade County, but remain closed in Broward through the end of the week, district leaders announced today.
Miami-Dade's 327 schools were repaired and ready by Monday, Superintendent Rudy Crew said, but electricity was restored more slowly than utility officials originally expected.
''The impact is devastating,'' Crew said.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13052357.htm
Bottled water from Dania distribution site may be unsafe
By WANDA J. DEMARZO
wdemarzo@herald.com
The state Department of Health is advising residents who received Nirvana water at the Dania Beach distribution site to throw away the one-liter bottles because the water may be unsafe to drink.
Health department officials say the free water, distributed along with free ice from lots 0914 and 0915 at Dania Beach City Hall, 100 W. Dania Beach Blvd., may be unsafe to drink because it contains algae.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13051715.htm
Nearly a half-million homes still powerless in Broward and Miami-Dade
BY JOHN DORSCHNER
jdorschner@herald.com
Restoration efforts are slowing down as crews deal with more complicated problems, but South Florida will soon get a boost as workers move in from the Gulf Coast, Florida Power & Light executives said Tuesday afternoon.
''We're in the tough stage of the restoration,'' said FPL Vice President Geisha Williams at a press conference.
With the fixing of substations and main distribution lines, workers are now focusing on more time-consuming repairs, which involve going into backyards, replacing individual poles and stringing individual lines.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13046267.htm
Boil water order in section of Coral Springs
By WANDA J. DEMARZO
wdemarzo@herald.com
The Broward County Health Department has issued a boil-water order for a portion of Coral Springs.
The order applies to any customer who pays their water bills to the City of Coral Springs and lives in the area bordered by Wiles Road to the north, Royal Palm Boulevard to the south, the Sawgrass Expressway to the west and State Road 7 to the east.
A boil water order remains in effect for the City of Fort Lauderdale, Hillsboro Beach, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, North Lauderdale, Oakland Park, Sea Ranch Lakes, Tamarac- east of 31st Avenue only, Wilton Manors, Port Everglades, and the community of Hacienda Village in Davie.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13052155.htm
Homeowners scramble to get tarps on roofs
Fixing roofs became a matter of urgency Monday, as rain clouds gathered and life began to return to normal in South Florida.
BY ERIKA BOLSTAD AND WANDA J. DeMARZO
ebolstad@herald.com
Looking anxiously to increasingly cloudy skies, thousands of people across South Florida scrambled Monday to complete makeshift repairs to roofs damaged one week ago by Hurricane Wilma.
By day's end Monday, more than 10,000 people in 10 Florida counties were expected to have applied for temporary roofs through Operation Blue Roof, the program administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. An estimated 2,000 of those homeowners applied Monday, said spokeswoman Nancy Regalado, and the Corps had plans to expand the program to three other counties hit by the storm.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13048537.htm
FPL: Wind felled poles - not rot
Strong winds, not poor maintenance, caused utility poles to break or topple, FPL says.
BY DAVID OVALLE AND JACK DOLAN
jdolan@herald.com
Thousands of utility poles snapped and toppled during Hurricane Wilma because of freakishly strong gusts, not because of poor maintenance, Florida Power & Light officials said Monday.
FPL has examined 900 downed poles since last week's storm and found no evidence that deterioration, substandard materials or failure to anchor them deeply enough contributed to their demise, company officials said.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13047908.htm
Pets, owners reunite at shelters
Some lucky pet owners looking for their lost dogs or cats are finding them at South Florida animal shelters.
BY NATALIE P. McNEAL AND ELINOR J. BRECHER
nmcneal@herald.com
The morning after Hurricane Wilma, Melissa DeBooy's mother-in-law allowed her pit bull to use the bathroom in the backyard. That was the last DeBooy saw of her dog until Monday, when she claimed Bambi at the Humane Society of Broward County.
''I'm in shock, I thought that I had lost her,'' DeBooy said. ``God was watching over me.''
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13047901.htm
The Times Picayune
La. Legislature to look at tax relief, budget cuts
11/1/2005, 3:31 p.m. CT
By MELINDA DESLATTE
The Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Levee oversight, New Orleans schools and an array of divisive matters that could bog down lawmakers are on the lengthy list of hurricane recovery topics included in a special legislative session called by Gov. Kathleen Blanco, who had initially pegged it for limited emergency needs.
Among the hot-button issues the governor is backing are stronger statewide building codes, a revamp of the New Orleans school system that would take control of the city's failing schools away from the troubled local school board and unified state oversight of the fractured system of levees that protect coastal areas, towns and New Orleans.
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1130856842143202.xml&storylist=louisiana
Corps wanted gate instead of levee walls
But local agencies blocked structure
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
By Mark Schleifstein
Staff writer
An Army Corps of Engineers proposal to build a gate across the 17th Street Canal instead of building levee walls along the canal's banks was shot down in 1990 by the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board and the Orleans and Jefferson parish levee boards because of fears the gate could cause flooding from rainwater accompanying a hurricane.
Corps officials still think the proposed structure, known as a "butterfly gate," would have made more sense than building the levee walls that failed and flooded much of the area during Hurricane Katrina, but they agreed to scrap the plan because of the local agencies' concerns, said Al Naomi, corps project manager for the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity levee protection program.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-4/113083204513840.xml
St. John, FEMA choose mobile home sites
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
By Allen Powell II
River Parishes bureau
After nearly a month of discussions, St. John the Baptist Parish officials and the Federal Emergency Management Agency have agreed on several sites for temporary housing communities for Hurricane Katrina evacuees and industrial workers.
Sites in Reserve, LaPlace and Edgard are being considered for a total of 169 travel trailers and mobile homes, said Natalie Robottom, the parish's chief administrative officer. Previously, the parish declined to release which sites were being considered because all the discussions were preliminary, Robottom said.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-4/113083081113840.xml
Michael Moore Today
November 21, 2005 Issue
Copyright © 2005 The American Conservative
Forging the Case for War
Who was behind the Niger uranium documents?
by Philip Giraldi
From the beginning, there has been little doubt in the intelligence community that the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame was part of a bigger story. That she was exposed in an attempt to discredit her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, is clear, but the drive to demonize Wilson cannot reasonably be attributed only to revenge. Rather, her identification likely grew out of an attempt to cover up the forging of documents alleging that Iraq attempted to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger.
What took place and why will not be known with any certainty until the details of the Fitzgerald investigation are revealed. (As we go to press, Fitzgerald has made no public statement.) But recent revelations in the Italian press, most notably in the pages of La Repubblica, along with information already on the public record, suggest a plausible scenario for the evolution of Plamegate
http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_11_07/feature.html
Questions About Vietnam War Raised by Controversial NSA Article
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4744
Trial Could Pit Libby's Interests Against Bush's
By Jim VandeHei and Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post
Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, is expected to plead not guilty to charges that he lied and obstructed justice in the CIA leak probe when he is arraigned Thursday, setting the stage for a possible courtroom fight in which Libby's interests could collide with those of the Bush White House, according to several Republican officials.
Libby, who was charged with five felonies, is putting the finishing touches on a new legal and public relations team. It will argue in court and in public that he is guilty of nothing more than having a foggy memory and a hectic schedule, according to people close to him. He is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court before Judge Reggie B. Walton.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4743
White House Rebuffs Calls for Shakeup
By Terence Hunt / Associated Press
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://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4740
Syria's future in doubt as pressure mounts
By Carol Giacomo / Reuters
By tightening the diplomatic noose around Syria's leadership, the United States is aiming to ensure a weakened, compliant government in Damascus without the use of military force.
The Bush administration, tempered by the Iraq experience, appears to be approaching the conflict over the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri with more caution.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4736
Labor Dept. Is Rebuked Over Pact With Wal-Mart
By Steven Greenhouse / The New York Times
The Labor Department's inspector general strongly criticized department officials yesterday for "serious breakdowns" in procedures involving an agreement promising Wal-Mart Stores 15 days' notice before labor investigators would inspect its stores for child labor violations.
The report by the inspector general faulted department officials for making "significant concessions" to Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, without obtaining anything in return. The report also criticized department officials for letting Wal-Mart lawyers write substantial parts of the settlement and for leaving the department's own legal division out of the settlement process.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4745
Guantanamo Desperation Seen in Suicide Attempts
One Incident Was During Lawyer's Visit
By Josh White / Washington Post
Jumah Dossari had to visit the restroom, so the detainee made a quick joke with his American lawyer before military police guards escorted him to a nearby cell with a toilet. The U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had taken quite a toll on Dossari over the past four years, but his attorney, who was there to discuss Dossari's federal court case, noted his good spirits and thought nothing of his bathroom break.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4734
Military Faces Parental Counterattack
High School Recruitment, a Longtime Tradition, Raises Worries in Wartime
By Lori Aratani / Washington Post
For as long as Principal Alan Goodwin can recall, military recruiters -- in their crisp, carefully pressed uniforms -- have stopped by Walt Whitman High School to chat with students about the benefits of a career in the armed forces. They set up tables, greeted students with a firm handshake and passed out glossy brochures.
But a visit this fall to the Bethesda school by recruiters had parents firing off frantic missives on the school listserv. They demanded to know exactly what recruiters were doing on campus and why the parents had not been told in advance. Goodwin was puzzled.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=4735
Coalition of the Unwilling
Counter-recruiters arm potential GI's with facts about the war in Iraq
by Anya Kamenetz
October 28th, 2005 5:41 PM
One Saturday this summer, Monique Dols, a Columbia University senior and a national leader of the Campus Antiwar Network (CAN), saw again why she has been working so hard to reach potential military recruits. "We were handing out flyers for an event with the brother of a military resister," Dols says of that day in Washington Heights. "Three 16-year-old [ROTC] cadets walked by in full military uniform. We started talking to them, and it turned out they were completely against the war. They had joined because it was an after-school program that provided structure and something for them to do. The priorities of a society that puts millions into military recruitment and continually cuts funding for after-school programs, that's backward, and that's the reality people are responding to."
http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0544,kamenetz,69514,15.html
BUSH THE CANDIDATE PROMISED TO UPHOLD THE HONOR AND INTEGRITY AT THE WHITE HOUSE...
"I will swear to uphold the laws of the land. But I will also swear to uphold the honor and the integrity of the office to which I have been elected, so help me God," said then-Governor George Bush [CNN, "Inside Politics," 8/11/00]
"Americans are tired of investigations and scandal, and the best way to get rid of them is to elect a new president who will bring a new administration, who will restore honor and dignity to the White House." [Then-Governor George Bush on CNN's "Burden of Proof," 9/15/00]
"Americans want to be assured that the next administration will bring honor and dignity to the White House." [Then-Governor George Bush on CNN's "Capital Gang," 8/13/00]
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/28/11422/749
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