Syria hands Saddam's half-brother to Iraq

Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, who shared a mother with Saddam, was nabbed along with 29 other fugitive members of the former dictator's Baath Party in Hasakah in northeastern Syria, 30 miles from the Iraqi border, the officials said on condition of anonymity. The U.S. military in Iraq had no immediate comment.


I thank Syria for the expression of Good Faith. Indeed it is.

We have other people to reassure their beliefs will be honored but only in peace. I trust Syria to meet that challenge.

Lebanon needs security and peace. They deserve it.

In addition, we all have a far greater responsiblity. It is also to our children and their future. Both in peace within the borders of our country and within their communities. They also need a happy Earth to live on. God loves all of us. God gives us no gifts. God expects stewardship for the reward we are all promised.

Sharon orders all ministries to tally and submit disengagement bill to treasury

Israeli settlers last week at an Emergency Disengagement Meeting

This is heartbreaking for these people. They and we love Israel enough to do the right thing. We trust Prime Minister to lead.


Jordan's Abdullah considers visiting Israel in coming weeks

By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent
Jordan's King Abdullah is considering extending a trip to the Palestinian Authority planned for the coming weeks and making a visit to Israel.

Israel nixes meeting of prisoner panel in wake of TA attack

In the wake of Friday's suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni on Sunday informed the Palestinian Authority that Israel is opposed to a meeting of the joint committee to discuss the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

Human Right's Watch, Israel :: http://hrw.org/doc/?t=mideast&c=isrlpa The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories :: http://www.btselem.org/English/index.asp Rabbis for Human Rights :: http://www.rhr.israel.net/ 

Human Rights Watch, Palestinan Authority :: http://hrw.org/doc/?t=mideast_pub&c=isrlpa Human Rights Solidarity for Palestinian :: http://www.sphr.org/ 

Human Rights Watch, Lebanon :: http://www.hrw.org/doc?t=mideast&c=lebano The Institute for Human Rights, Lebanon :: http://www.humanrightslebanon.org/ 

Human Rights Watch :: Syria :: http://www.hrw.org/doc?t=mideast&c=syria The Syrian Human Rights Committee :: http://www.shrc.org.uk/default.aspx  

The Permanent Trauma of Terrorists 

Morning Papers

Rooster "Cock-A-Doodle-Do"

"Okeydoke"

February 26…

1766: Empress Catherine II (the Great) grants freedom of worship in Russia.

1802, Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist, and playwright

1916, Jackie Gleason, comedian and actor

1928, Fats Domino, rock-and-roll pianist, singer, and songwriter

1829, Levi Strauss, creator of blue jeans

1808, Honoré Daumier, French painter and caricaturist

1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from the Island of Elba to begin his second conquest of France.

1848, the Second French Republic was proclaimed.

1848: Karl Marx and Friederich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto in London.

1919: The United States Congress establishes the Grand Canyon as a national park.

1929, President Coolidge signed a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park.

1932, Johnny Cash, country music singer

1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, was ratified.

1962 US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation

1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission

1970 Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album

1970 "Georgy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 4 performances

1972 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125

1973 Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m

1974 Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris

1975 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)

1979, a total solar eclipse cast a moving shadow 175 miles wide from Oregon to North Dakota before moving into Canada.

1985: Tina Turner wins two Grammy Awards for her hit song "What's Love Got to Do With It?"

1987, the Tower Commission, which probed the Iran-Contra affair, issued its report, which rebuked President Reagan for failing to control his national security staff.

1993: A terrorist bomb explosion kills five people and badly damages the World Trade Center in New York, New York.

2003, the Supreme Court ruled that federal racketeering and extortion laws had been wrongly used to try to stop blockades, harassment and violent protests outside clinics.

Missing in Action

1966 NEWTON DONALD S. SAN PEDRO CA
1966 WILLS FRANCIS D. LA PLANTA MD
1971 HARRISON LARRY G. WILLIAMSTON NC
1971 SWANSON JON E. DENVER CO

February 27…

1594: Henry IV is crowned king of France in Chartres.

1807Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet was born in Portland, Maine.

1869 Alice Hamilton, physician and pioneer in industrial toxicology

1899, Charles Best, Canadian physiologist

1902, John Ernst Steinbeck,
American writer and Nobel laureate, who described in his work the unremitting struggle of people who depend on the soil for their livelihood. Born in Salinas, California, Steinbeck was educated at Stanford University. As a youth, he worked as a ranch hand and fruit picker. His first novel, Cup of Gold (1929), romanticizes the life and exploits of the famous 17th-century Welsh pirate Sir Henry Morgan. In The Pastures of Heaven (1932), a group of short stories depicting a community of California farmers, Steinbeck first dealt with the hardworking people and social themes associated with most of his works. His other early books include To a God Unknown (1933), the story of a farmer whose belief in a pagan fertility cult impels him, during a severe drought, to sacrifice his own life; Tortilla Flat (1935), a sympathetic portrayal of Americans of Mexican descent dwelling near Monterey, California; In Dubious Battle (1936), a novel concerned with a strike of migratory fruit pickers; and Of Mice and Men (1937), a tragic story of two itinerant farm laborers yearning for a small farm of their own.

1922: The United States Supreme Court declares the Nineteenth Amendment constitutional, thereby guaranteeing women's voting rights.

1932 Elizabeth Taylor, actress

1960, the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets, 3-2, at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, Calif. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)

1972, President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued the Shanghai Communique at the conclusion of Nixon's historic visit to China.

1973: Sioux Native Americans seize and hold Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, demanding a United States Senate investigation of Native American problems.

1979, Jane M. Byrne confounded Chicago's Democratic political machine as she upset Mayor Michael A. Bilandic to win their party's mayoral primary. (Byrne went on to win the election.)

1982 Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million

1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta GA

1982 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1983 Eamonn Coghlan sets indoor mile record of 3 49.78

1983 Jan Stephenson wins Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Golf Tournament

1984 WRC-AM in Washington DC changes call letters to WWRC

1984 Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 meters)

1984 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa

1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief

1985 US dollar is worth ƒ3.9355 (Netherlands)

1987 Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff

1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption

1987 "Washington Week In Review", 20th anniversary on PBS

1987 Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76 meters)

1988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympics 500 meter speed skating in record 39.1

1988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympics figure skating

1988 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open

1989 German war criminals Austria der Fünten/Fischer, freed in Holland

1990: The Exxon Corporation is indicted on five criminal charges relating to the 1989 Alaskan oil spill.

1991 Noureddine Morcelli set 1500 meter mark at 3 34 16

1991 Singer James Brown is released from prison

1991 Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat & Kuwait is liberated

1992 Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years

2003: A design by architect Daniel Libeskind is selected to be built on the former site of the twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center.

Missing in Action

1967 ALWAN HAROLD J. PEORIA IL
1967 HUIE LITCHFIELD P. WARSAW NC BLOWN OFF CARRIER SANK NO RECOVER
1967 LETCHWORTH EDWARD N. LIBBY MT BLOWN OFF CARRIER SANK NO RECOVER
1967 SAUSE BERNARD J. JR. BALTIMORE MD BLOWN OFF CARRIER SANK NO RECOVER
1967 ZEMPLE RONALD L. GRAND RAPIDS MN BLOWN OFF CARRIER SANK NO RECOVER
1968 HARTZHEIM JOHN F. APPLETON WI REMAINS IDENTIFIED 03/17/99
1968 MILIUS PAUL L. WAVERLY IA
1968 PALMER GILBERT S. BIRMINGHAM AL
1968 WRIGHT THOMAS T. GARY IN
1971 BABCOCK RONALD L. TUCSON AZ
1971 LEWIS LARRY G. ASHVILLE NC
1971 MOONEY FRED NORTHUP OH
1975 DILLON MICHAEL 03/75 RELEASED
1975 AYRES VICKI 03/75 RELEASED

The Daily Star - Lebanon

Iraqi forces capture top aide to Zarqawi
Sistani endorses Jaafari's nomination
Compiled by Daily Star staff
Saturday, February 26, 2005

Iraqi forces captured a top aide to Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who leads an Al-Qaeda-linked insurgency in Iraq, during a violence-ridden day which saw 13 civilians killed. The violence came as Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, endorsed Ibrahim al-Jaafari's nomination for prime minister.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=13007

Sharon accepts invitation to Tunis
Visit can 'pave the way for a new era of relations'
By Marius Schattner
Saturday, February 26, 2005
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has accepted an unprecedented invitation from Tunisian President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali to visit the North African country, his office said Friday, amid a renewed Israeli diplomatic push in the Arab world.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=13008

Assad calls for dialogue with U.S.
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Saturday, February 26, 2005

ANKARA: Syrian President Bashar Assad has said in an interview with a Turkish newspaper that he wants direct dialogue with the United States in hopes of easing mounting tension between the two countries."Talks on security issues must not be broken. The only way to do this is through dialogue," Bashar said in an interview published in the daily Hurriyet newspaper on Friday.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=13006

Two years on, world remains at loggerheads over Darfur
By Mohammad Ali Said
Saturday, February 26, 2005

Mohammed Ali Said
Agence France Presse
KHARTOUM: Two years after an ethnic minority uprising prompted Sudan's government to unleash a savage crackdown in Darfur, 1.6 million displaced people face the threat of famine and the world remains at loggerheads how best to intervene.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=12981

Lebanese government eager to cooperate with United Nations investigation team
By Leila Hatoum
Daily Star staff
Saturday, February 26, 2005
BEIRUT: Lebanon's Justice Minister Adnan Addoum insisted the Lebanese government will cooperate with the United Nations investigation team as it visited the scene of the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri. Following a meeting with the UN team, Addoum said: "The Lebanese authorities will provide all help possible to the United Nations team of investigators, and will provide them with all available information obtained by the judiciary investigation."

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=13004

British offer expertise to Hariri assassination investigation
By Khalil Fleihan
Daily Star correspondent
Saturday, February 26, 2005
BEIRUT: Britain has offered its expertise to investigators regarding the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, according to Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammoud, who was quoting British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Baroness Symons.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=13002

Syria Times

Official source: Syria has nothing to do with bombing
An official source at the Foreign Ministry has denied the statements of the Israeli زDefense Minister,س Shaol Mofaz on Syriaصs responsibility for the Tel Aviv bombing of 25.02.2005.

http://www.teshreen.com/syriatimes/_first.asp?FileName=20050227050545

Hezbollah denies involvement in Tel Aviv bombing
Lebanese Hezbollah categorically denied Saturday that it had anything do do with an overnight suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

http://www.teshreen.com/syriatimes/_first.asp?FileName=20050227050607

Abbas blames third party for Tel Aviv bombing
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vowed on Saturday to bring to justice those behind a deadly suicide bombing in Tel Aviv and blamed an unnamed third party for trying to sabotage peace efforts.

http://www.teshreen.com/syriatimes/_first.asp?FileName=20050227050634

Syria Today

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad signed an agreement with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on January 25 during a four-day state visit to Moscow which included a deal to write off nearly three quarters the debt Syria had run up with its ally during the Soviet era.
“We highly value your positions and we share common interests,'' Assad told Putin, saying he welcomed a stronger Russian role in the Middle East .

http://www.syria-today.com/issues/issue_3/news_highlights/syria_russia.htm

European Union Middle East Envoy Marc Otte said Syria was “ready to resume peace negotiations with Israel without preconditions", following a meeting with the President and Foreign Minister on February 7.

http://www.syria-today.com/issues/issue_3/news_highlights/eu_envoy.htm

US President George Bush put further pressure on Syria during his State of the Union address on February 2, saying the country, “still allows its territory, and parts of Lebanon, to be used by terrorists who seek to destroy every chance of peace in the region.”

http://www.syria-today.com/issues/issue_3/news_highlights/syria_us.htm

The UN Security Council voted unanimously on January 28 to adopt a proposal ruling that the Shaba farms, the area of land at the northern edge of the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since the Six Day War in 1967, and claimed by Lebanon, belonged to Syria .
The proposal, which was drafted by France and co-sponsored by the United States, Britain, Denmark and Greece, also concluded that Israel has fully complied with UN Security Council Resolution 425, which obligated it to withdraw to the UN-delineated blue line border.

http://www.syria-today.com/issues/issue_3/news_highlights/security_council.htm

Two men accused of involvement in a bomb attack and gun fight at a disused UN building in Damascus' suburb of Mezze last April that left killed four people were sentenced to death by hanging SANA reported on December 29.
The report said the state security court ordered that the two men be hanged, a ruling that cannot be appealed, while two other defendants were sentenced to forced labour for life.
Another 18 defendants received jail terms of between one and 20 years.

http://www.syria-today.com/issues/issue_3/news_highlights/ruling_attack.htm

Aktham Naise, the head of the Committees for the Defence of Democratic Liberties and Human Rights in Syria, was awarded the annual Swiss-based Martin Ennals Foundation award for Human Rights Defenders on January 12.

http://www.syria-today.com/issues/issue_3/news_highlights/naise_award.htm

TOO MANY ENTANGLEMENTS !!

On February 2 the Syrian cabinet endorsed a bill exempting Lebanese citizens from all entry taxes usually paid when they cross the border into Syria either by air, land or sea. The bill also exempts Lebanese vehicles from all taxes except the initial entry duty.
The move follows the signing of an agreement between Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Otri and Lebanese Prime Minister Omar Karami, at the end of January, mandating the Syrian-Lebanese economic committee to prepare for the unifying of customs duties between the two countries within five years.

http://www.syria-today.com/issues/issue_3/news_highlights/tax_exemption.htm

Ken Charman, Economist and Team Leader for the EU-funded Institutional and Sector Modernisation Facility (ISMF), on an economy at the crossroads.

For many years, Syria has been a closed economy hampered by under-performance. The country has long depended on oil reserves to provide foreign exchange and macroeconomic stability, but with oil production now in decline, the pressure for change is considerable. At the same time, Syria has to diversify its economy in the face of a host of regional problems. The good news, however, is that these issues are not necessarily connected to the domestic policy challenges that must be addressed if growth and diversification of the economy are to transpire.

http://www.syria-today.com/issues/issue_2/economic_analysis/economic_analysis_1.htm

THE STRUGGLE FOR MEDIA REFORM

Syria's media is now facing major challenges from both inside and outside the country. However, responding to these may offer great opportunities. Rhonda Roumani takes a closer look.

http://www.syria-today.com/issues/issue_2/features/media_feature_1.htm

GOOD IDEA !!

IN CLOSE ASSOCIATION

The newly-initialled Association Agreement between Syria and the EU will mean both political and economic changes in the relationship between Damascus and Europe , as Andrew Tabler explains.

http://www.syria-today.com/issues/issue_2/features/association_feature_1.htm

The Jerusalem Post

Mofaz freezes PA town handovers
Syria and Islamic Jihad are responsible for Friday night's suicide bombing in Tel Aviv and Israeli officials will meet with ambassadors of all member of the UN Security Council to demand a strong condemnation of Syria, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1109301662303

Four killed, 50 wounded in attack
Israel will focus its anticipated reprisal for Friday night's Tel Aviv suicide bombing on targeting Islamic Jihad in Syria, the group believed to have dispatched the bomber, Defense Ministry officials said Saturday.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1109387975271

Rice: PA must take action
The US on Friday condemned the suicide bombing in Tel Aviv and demanded that the Palestinian Authority take steps to combat terrorist organizations.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1109301662805

Comrades in death
It was a surprise birthday party that turned into a nightmare.

Close-knit members of a reserve IDF combat unit and their loved ones who gathered Friday night at the Stage nightclub to help one of the reservists celebrate his 30th birthday lost four of their group when a suicide bomber blew himself up.

Among the victims were Yitzhak Buzaglo, 40, of Moshav Mishmar Hayarden in the Upper Galilee who was a father of two, and Yael Orbach, 28, of Rehovot who was three weeks shy of her wedding. Also killed was carpenter Aryeh Nagar, 37, another member of the unit who came for the celebration. The coordinator of the birthday party, Ronen Reuvenov, was the fourth victim. His name was released Sunday morning.

Reuvenov 30, from Tel-Aviv, was described by his sister Orley to Army Radio Sunday morning as, "someone who wasn't afraid of anything. He believed always that everything would be all right."

Buzaglo's wife, Linda, and Orbach's fiancee, Ophir Gonan, are among the seriously wounded.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1109387974746

Mehereta, symbol of Ethiopian pride
Mehereta Baruch might have fallen short of her aspiration to represent Israel in New York City when she came in second on the reality TV show The Ambassador. But she soared to the top of the list of most recognizable Ethiopian-Israelis, earning the role of representing her community within Israel itself.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1109387976245

Haaretz

Diplomats: Iran acquired nuclear arms technology by late 80s
By The Associated Press
VIENNA - Iran, through the black market network, had accumulated all the knowledge it needed by the late 1980s to set up technology that can be used to make nuclear weapons, diplomats have said.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/545230.html

Working together against terror
When the defense minister was asked recently what the fate of the cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians would be if Israel responded with force to a terror attack within the country, he responded that "the test is one of intentions." If it turns out that Mahmoud Abbas, as opposed to Yasser Arafat, is not intent on terror but is working to put a stop to it, if the Palestinian Authority leadership does not initiate, encourage or economically support terror, and if it does what is at this stage its limited best to stop attacks, it would be unwise to renew military activities after an attack. Such a decision would cancel out the achievements already visible on the ground that were brought about by bilateral cooperation.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/545226.html

The Gulf News

Palestinians arrest suspects in Tel Aviv blast

Agencies
Ramallah: Scrambling to save a battered truce, Palestinian officials arrested three West Bank suspects yesterday after a suicide bombing that killed four Israelis.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153799
Israel blames Syria for bombing

AP
Occupied Jerusalem: Israel's defense minister blamed Syria and a Palestinian militant group based there for a suicide bombing that killed four Israelis outside a Tel Aviv nightclub and shattered an informal truce, prompting him to freeze plans to hand over security responsibilities in the West Bank.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153916

Killings do not serve any purpose

Whoever thought another suicide bombing in Tel Aviv would achieve its purpose is no friend of the Palestinians; nor, apparently, an advocate of peace.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153762

Egypt to have direct presidential polls

By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Special to Gulf News
Cairo: The Egyptian President yesterday ordered parliament to amend the Constitution to allow direct presidential elections.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153795

Intellectual forum will seek ways to combat rise of extremism

By Mohammad Almezel, Bureau Chief
Manama: Leading intellectuals from the Arab world will begin a forum in Bahrain today in an attempt to find ways to combat the rise of extremism and promote moderation.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153772

Weed out the seeds of suspicion

Across the Arab world, much seems to be marred by tides of disarray and fragmentation. Furthermore, accusatory finger-pointing against Islam has intensified in recent years, especially since the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Could it be argued that the Arab and Muslim worlds are in crises?

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153763

Arab bank told to stop wire transfers

Agencies
Washington: The United States has ordered Palestinian-managed Arab Bank Group to convert its New York branch to a federal banking agency, ending the branch's wire transfer business.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153794

Set of twins is born every 10 minutes in Egypt

By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Special to Gulf News
Cairo: Now a mother of triplets, Magada recalls that 15 months after her marriage she did not get pregnant and had to seek fertility treatment.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153771

Oman close to being declared malaria-free
Staff Report
Muscat: Oman is a step closer to being declared malaria-free by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Ministry of Health has said.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153750

Quake toll put at 602 dead and 991 injured

Reuters
Tehran: Iran said on Friday the powerful earthquake which struck the southeast of the country last week killed 602 people and it did not expect to find many more bodies buried under the rubble.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153774

They need an Ayatollah.

'Zionist holiday' sparks protest

AP
Baghdad: A government decision to alter the traditional Iraqi weekend has sparked ire and protests among many who resent being forced to take a day off that many here associate with the Jewish day of rest.

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/RegionNF.asp?ArticleID=153791

The Boston Globe

Israel links Syria to blast, freezes West Bank pullback
By Corinne Heller, Reuters February 27, 2005
JERUSALEM -- Israel declared Syria responsible yesterday for a Palestinian suicide attack on a Tel Aviv nightclub Friday night that killed four Israelis and wounded dozens more. The attack threatened to taint the conciliatory atmosphere that has taken hold since Yasser Arafat died in November.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/02/27/israel_links_syria_to_blast_freezes_west_bank_pullback/

Mubarak pushes freer Egypt voting
Move would allow for more candidates
By Paul Schemm, Globe Correspondent February 27, 2005
CAIRO -- President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt asked the country's parliament yesterday to amend the constitution to permit a multi-candidate presidential election this fall, a surprising step toward democracy in the Arab world's most populous nation.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/02/27/mubarak_pushes_freer_egypt_voting/

Iraq oil pipeline blown up
Newscaster is found dead; US soldier killed
By Sameer N. Yacoub, Associated Press February 27, 2005
BAGHDAD -- A major oil fire raged yesterday after insurgents blew up a pipeline in the north of the country. The family of an anchorwoman for a US-funded state television station -- a mother of four who was repeatedly shot in the head -- found her body dumped on a street in the northern city of Mosul.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/02/27/iraq_oil_pipeline_blown_up/

Russia, Iran put off deal on nuclear fuel Still working out delivery disputes
By Associated Press February 27, 2005
TEHRAN -- Last-minute disputes yesterday forced Iran and Russia to postpone the signing of an agreement to supply Iran with fuel for its first nuclear reactor, a deal strongly opposed by the United States.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/02/27/russia_iran_put_off_deal_on_nuclear_fuel_still_working_out_delivery_disputes/

VLADIMIR IS INTERESTED IN THE WTO !!

Oil and Russian hubris
February 27, 2005
Thomas Oliphant -- WASHINGTON
IT IS time for Americans to pay less attention to words and more attention to the ugly realities of a misbehaving nation with nuclear weapons and disturbing intentions.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/02/27/oil_and_russian_hubris/

Romney walking political tightrope
By and Raphael Lewis, Globe Staff February 27, 2005
Governor Mitt Romney's entrance into national politics is forcing him to walk a careful political path, as he delivers out-of-state speeches that critique Massachusetts and its perceived liberal excesses while he pledges to pass an ambitious agenda with the help of newly wary Beacon Hill Democrats.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/02/27/romney_walking_political_tightrope/

A top Democrat takes up cudgel
Reid battles Bush on Social Security
By Rick Klein, Globe Staff February 27, 2005
SEARCHLIGHT, Nev. -- Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, two months into his new job as the Democratic leader, declared Friday that his party is ''winning" the fight against President Bush and his plan to remake Social Security.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/02/27/a_top_democrat_takes_up_cudgel/

Some top Democrats tout moving primary to May
Other party leaders, GOP doubt proposal
By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff February 27, 2005
Leading Democrats in Massachusetts are lobbying Beacon Hill lawmakers to push the date of the state primary elections from September to May or early June, a move that would not only transform state politics but, party leaders are convinced, could also help them recapture the governor's office in 2006 after a 16-year drought.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/02/27/some_top_democrats_tout_moving_primary_to_may/

Mass. colleges see costs rise, aid fall
Needy students getting hit hard, officials report
By Jenna Russell, Globe Staff February 27, 2005
Massachusetts cut spending on grants and scholarships for college students by more than $20 million in the past five years, at the same time enrollments increased, and public campuses, battered by state budget cuts, boosted tuition and fees by 50 to 75 percent, according to state budget records and officials.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/02/27/mass_colleges_see_costs_rise_aid_fall/

More young women in Hub pursuing careers in wine
By Caitlin Curran, Globe Correspondent, 2/20/05

A cellar master at Grill 23 & Bar in Boston, Nina Seymour, 31, says "It's easy to sell wine - I love it."
Cat Silirie remembers being interested in wine when she was 14 and a busgirl at a small restaurant in South Florida, where she grew up. "At the time, I loved to talk about wine," says Silirie, as she sat at the bar in The Butcher Shop, a South End restaurant where she is the wine director. "I never thought it would become my career."

http://bostonworks.boston.com/globe/articles/022005_wine.html

In Scituate, a tragic list of loss
By Stephanie Ebbert and Joanna Weiss, Globe Staff February 27, 2005
SCITUATE -- In an impromptu ceremony last week, Chris Field attached another photograph to the dashboard of his Dodge Neon Sport. Then he realized he was running out of space for tributes to lost friends.

Every day, he had been driving with an eye on two prayer cards from the funerals of Scituate High School classmates -- Greg Moynahan, who died in a car crash last spring, and Matt Lynch, thrown from a car and killed seven months later, both in their early 20s. On Monday, he added a snapshot of Michael O'Connor, 22, missing since a fishing boat caught fire offshore last weekend.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/02/27/in_scituate_a_tragic_list_of_loss/

But Winnipeggers say there's more to their city than frigid temperatures
than frigid temperatures
By Linda Matchan, Globe Staff February 27, 2005
WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Lorraine and Ed Palamar were working on a crossword puzzle recently in this brutally cold prairie city, when they found themselves stumped.

The clue was ''Great white north." As in Canada. ''We couldn't imagine what it was," said Lorraine, who has spent most of her 70 years in Winnipeg, where the temperature regularly plummets to 30 below in the winter and hit 54 below one day last month, factoring in wind chill. ''We were thinking, is it the Yukon? is it Northwest Territories?"

http://www.boston.com/travel/articles/2005/02/27/but_winnipeggers_say_theres_more_to_their_city_than_frigid_temperatures/

The Moscow Times

Global Eye
Core Values
By Chris Floyd
Published: February 25, 2005
Day in and day out, patriotic American dissidents on both the left and the right keep shovelling through the bloody muck of the Bush Imperium. The filth is endless, Augean; Salon.com recently catalogued 34 ongoing major scandals, equalling or surpassing the depravity of Watergate. Yet still the patriots bend to the task, tossing up steaming piles of ugly truth before the public.

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/25/120.html

Teen Spirit
Photographer Sergei Chilikov turns his lens on Samara teenagers in a new exhibition at XL Gallery.
By Romilly Eveleigh
Published: February 25, 2005
Below a clothesline in someone's grimy backyard, a group of boys are engaged in what looks like a raucous fistfight. Elsewhere, panic-stricken men in sunglasses and military uniforms haul a bare-chested youth across the beach. Out in the countryside, a circle of friends strike poses next to a rusting bulldozer.

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/25/103.html

Michael Moore Today

PM fires back in missile row; U.S. plans to fire over Canada without seeking permission
Toronto Star
Canada's rejection of missile defence is a historic shift in its relationship with the United States and could have deep unforeseen consequences, analysts warn.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1567

Suicides in Marine Corps Rise by 29%; Fast Pace of Operations Are Believed to Contribute
By Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post
The Marine Corps suffered a 29 percent spike in suicides last year, reaching the highest number in at least a decade, with the demanding pace of military operations likely contributing to the deaths, the top-ranking U.S. Marine said yesterday.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1554

The Crawford Deal: did Blair sign up for war at Bush's Texas ranch in April 2002?
We know that arguments raged about the legality of the war right up to a crucial cabinet meeting on 17 March 2003, two days before the attack began. But now new evidence pieced together by the 'IoS' strongly backs the suspicion that the PM had already made the decision to strike a year earlier.
By Raymond Whitaker / Independent
It was one of the most tense cabinet meetings Downing Street had seen in living memory. "We were on the brink of war," recalled Clare Short, who was there. The consequences would be dramatic, not only for those round the table, but for millions of Iraqis and hundreds of thousands of British and American troops.
The date was 17 March 2003,

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1575

The Guardian Unlimited

Blair is election liability, warn Labour aides
Gaby Hinsliff, political editor
Sunday February 27, 2005
The Observer
Tony Blair risks becoming an electoral liability, according to government ministers as the Prime Minister faces fresh accusations that his 'presidential style' is starting to affect Labour's support.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1426456,00.html

Our hands are clean: Palestine President
Abbas says suicide attack on nightclub was bid to sabotage peace process
Jason Burke, Gaby Hinsliff and Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv
Sunday February 27, 2005
The Observer
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas angrily accused a 'third party' yesterday of sabotaging the Middle East peace process by orchestrating the suicide bombing on Friday night, as Israel threatened a resumption of targeted killings of militants.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1426307,00.html

Judges to rule on terror orders
Martin Bright and Jason Burke
Sunday February 27, 2005
The Observer
The Home Secretary will have to apply to a judge within 24 hours of issuing 'control orders' to limit the movement of terror suspects under proposals being considered by Charles Clarke. The government is set for a climbdown over its Prevention of Terrorism Bill by allowing a judge to be involved at a far earlier stage in the decision.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1426451,00.html

A schism that threatens us all
Rowan Williams must confront those who would destroy the liberal traditions of Anglicanism
Will Hutton
Sunday February 27, 2005
The Observer
The genius of the Anglican Church has been the depth of its embedded tolerance. Walk into any one of its churches that stud our cities, towns and villages and you can almost smell the reflective friendliness seeping out of the walls. This is a church that since Henry VIII' s break with Rome has been squaring biblical injunction with the way the English actually live their lives, throwing the mantle of Christian solidarity around believers, half-believers and sceptics alike. As a national church, its job is to include and tolerate us all; it is everyone's friend in need.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1426330,00.html

A genius explains
Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant. He can perform mind-boggling mathematical calculations at breakneck speeds. But unlike other savants, who can perform similar feats, Tammet can describe how he does it. He speaks seven languages and is even devising his own language. Now scientists are asking whether his exceptional abilities are the key to unlock the secrets of autism. Interview by Richard Johnson

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1409903,00.html

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"Bird On a Wire"


The Wichita Eagle

Park City man held in 17-year killing spree
BY HURST LAVIANA AND TIM POTTER
The Wichita Eagle
Police have booked Dennis Rader, 59, on 10 counts of suspicion of first-degree murder
A man suspected of being Wichita's BTK serial killer has been arrested and is now tied to 10 killings dating to 1974, Wichita police said Saturday. Dennis Rader, 59, has been booked on 10 counts of suspicion of first-degree murder, authorities said. He is expected to be charged this week.

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/11002959.htm

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BTK arrest, justice long in coming
Wichita slept easier last night, thanks to the diligence of law enforcement and the teamwork of multiple agencies. Three decades after the BTK strangler began his series of terrible crimes, and 11 months after he resumed his cat-and-mouse communications with media and police, the authorities believe they have caught BTK.

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/editorial/11001646.htm

The Chicago Tribune

Gang-busting Chicago cop now hunts for insurgents
Jim Roussell finds that cracking the case as a Marine in Iraq isn't much different from tracking hometown crooks
By Mike Dorning, Tribune correspondent. Staff reporter David Heinzmann contributed from Chicago
Published February 27, 2005
MAHMOUDIYA, Iraq -- Jim Roussell and the Marines he works with broke the Abu Ali cell of the Iraqi insurgency in much the same way he caught gang leaders on Chicago's West Side.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0502270538feb27,1,2773144.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Wichita police arrest suspected `BTK' killer
By Jon Yates, Tribune staff reporter. Tribune news services contributed to this report. "Chilling words from a killer" sidebar by the Associated Press. "BTK Strangler timeline of events" sidebar from
Published February 27, 2005
WICHITA, Kan. -- Decades after he terrorized residents of this Midwestern city and days after his last letter taunting investigators, the serial killer known as the BTK Strangler has been arrested, police said Saturday.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0502270509feb27,1,1790102.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Can Vatican run with an ill pope?
If he's incapacitated, pontiff can delegate authority to aides
By Tom Hundley, Tribune foreign correspondent. Tribune staff reporter Steve Kloehn contributed from Chicago
Published February 27, 2005
ROME -- For at least a decade, the Roman Catholic Church has learned to live with the physical limitations of its ailing leader, but Pope John Paul II's latest health crisis will undoubtedly intensify concerns about who runs the church when the pontiff is so obviously enfeebled.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0502270525feb27,1,1134740.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Bringing justice to Darfur
Published February 27, 2005
Diplomats at the UN are haggling over what set of judges will hear a war crimes case out of the tragedy in Darfur, which has taken some 70,000 lives. While the diplomats negotiate in New York, the presumed war criminals in Sudan go on with a program of rape and murder and the forced exodus of some 2 million people.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0502270439feb27,1,3476660.story?coll=chi-newsopinion-hed

The World According to Wal-Mart

By BARRIE MCKENNA AND PETER KENNEDY
Thursday, February 24, 2005 Updated at 8:57 PM EST
From Friday's Globe and Mail
Wal-Mart's customer-sucking suburban superstores have long been blamed for wrecking small towns.
But suddenly the company has run smack into a new and more formidable foe: Big City North America.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050224.wwalmart0224/BNStory/Business/

Wal-Mart Loses $7.5 Million Discrimination Suit
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York jury awarded a former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. employee who suffers from cerebral palsy $7.5 million in a discrimination lawsuit, the worker's lawyer said on Thursday.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7731983

Wal-Mart executive in LA to promise more stores in California
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - After losing campaigns to build massive stores in Southern California last year, Wal-Mart officials were back in Los Angeles - vowing to continue their efforts to expand Supercenters in its most important growth market.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/10980193.htm

Labor: No deals for Wal-Mart
Diane Stafford's Feb. 17 Business Monday At Work column, Wal-Mart dances around law, could not be more wrong in suggesting that the U.S. Department of Labor's enforcement settlement against Wal-Mart was somehow a ''sweetheart deal'' for the company.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/10976431.htm

Japan Isn't Buying The Wal-Mart Idea
Its Seiyu affiliate is struggling to put Everyday Low Prices into practice
Time was, Japan had a well-deserved reputation as a black hole for foreign retailers. Its close-knit webs of suppliers, customers raised on high-cost department stores and mom-and-pop shops, and a Byzantine distribution system made Japan nearly impenetrable to outsiders. Three years ago, though, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT ) bought a stake in struggling Seiyu Ltd. as relaxed restrictions on retailers and changing consumer attitudes appeared to create an opening for its big box stores.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_09/b3922073.htm

Winn-Dixie files for Chapter 11; Wal-Mart effect blamed for woes
Southern icon must scale back, become nimbler, analysts say
By ELLIS MNYANDU
Reuters News Agency
Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - Page B8

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050223/IBWINN23/TPBusiness/International

Developer Drops Plan for City's First Wal-Mart
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: February 24, 2005
Facing intense opposition, a large real estate developer has dropped its plans to include a Wal-Mart store in a Queens shopping complex, thwarting Wal-Mart's plan to open its first store in New York City, city officials and real estate executives said yesterday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/24/nyregion/24walmart.html?oref=login

Wal-Mart CEO Takes Offensive to Counter Critics
By Nichola Groom
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The head of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. went on the offensive on Wednesday against critics who say the world's largest retailer pays its workers too little and does not provide adequate health benefits.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=7719928

Wal-Mart fun: College kids play football, more in aisles
Ann Zimmerman and Laura Stevens
Wall Street Journal
Feb. 23, 2005 02:34 PM
FLAGSTAFF - On a snowy Monday night recently, Northern Arizona University freshman Natalie Eickmeyer finished her studying and decided to go out and have some fun. So at 10 o'clock, after scouring a dormitory for participants, she and five friends headed to the Wal-Mart discount center.

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0223Wal-Mart-Games-ON.html

Union supporters to rally at Colorado Wal-Mart
08:58 PM EST Feb 25
LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) - Supporters of an effort to unionize part of a Wal-Mart store in Loveland, Colo., planned a demonstration outside the store Wednesday.
The 17 employees of the Wal-Mart's Tire and Lube Express section will vote Friday morning on whether to form a union. Wal-Mart opposed the vote, but the regional office of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board ruled last month in favour of the workers.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050223/w022346.html

The Wal-Mart Manifesto
The retail giant's CEO says his company pays workers handsomely. He doesn't want you to believe him.
By Timothy Noah
Posted Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005, at 9:14 AM PT
H. Lee Scott Jr., the chief executive officer of Wal-Mart, argued in a speech yesterday in Los Angeles (click here to listen to it) that Wal-Mart is a force for good in the economy. Scott is hardly the first corporate chairman to echo "Engine" Charlie Wilson's claim that what's good for General Motors is good for America. And many independent observers have noted that Wal-Mart's relentless downward pressure on overhead has been a boon to American consumers. (In a recent New Yorker column, James Surowiecki took this further, arguing that the retail economy has become a sort of dictatorship of the consumer, and that Wal-Mart, which earns only pennies on each dollar of sales, is merely doing what it must to stay alive.)

http://slate.msn.com/id/2113954/

The Daily Mail and Guardian

Israel and Palestine condemn bombing
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas angrily accused a "third party" on Saturday of sabotaging the Middle East peace process by orchestrating the suicide bombing on Friday night, as Israel threatened a resumption of targeted killings of militants.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198412&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/

Millions spent to grab Oscar glory
South Africa's eyes will be on Yesterday, Darrell Roodt's film nominated in the best foreign film category.

Sunday night's Oscar ceremony will be the most expensive privately funded bonanza of all time. The prize-giving event itself has been both remodelled and drastically cut in length in an attempt to shore up falling television ratings, but the promotional expenditure surrounding the annual awards has spiralled out of control.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198413&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/

A city's gay activists defy conservatives
The Odyssey youth centre is hidden behind an unmarked door on an anonymous site near downtown Spokane. Nothing betrays its purpose to the outside world.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=198414&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/

Police arrest 90 after Limpopo 'witch-hunt'
Ninety youths have been arrested in Giyani and one boy is dead after 39 houses were torched in what appeared to be a witch-hunt, Limpopo police said.

http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=198361

Jailed Journalists

Iranian blogger jailed for 14 years
By Lester Haines
Published Thursday 24th February 2005 09:30 GMT
An Iranian blogger accused of spying and counter-revolutionary activities has been jailed for 14 years. Newspaper editor Arash Sigarchi - whose blog criticised an Iranian crackdown on similar websites which has resulted in around 20 arrests - was himself cuffed in January on charges of "espionage, insulting the founder of Iran's Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei, and current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei", the BBC reports.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/24/iranian_blogger_jailed/

Journalist is jailed for 14 years after 'insulting' authority
By Daniel Howden
25 February 2005
A prominent Iranian journalist and blogger has been sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges ranging from spying to aiding counter-revolutionaries. His sentence comes as part of the latest clerical crackdown on freedom of speech.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=614531

Tehran — A journalist has been sentenced to 14 years in jail for criticizing Iran's clerical rulers and working with a U.S.-funded radio station, his lawyer and a colleague said Thursday.

Charges against Arash Sigarchi include provoking people to riot through his writings, co-operating with hostile governments and counterrevolutionary groups and insulting the authorities, lawyer Mohammad Saifzadeh said.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050224.wiran24/BNStory/International/

Turkish Prime Minister's Lawsuits Draw Cartoonists' Ire
Some fear an erosion of free speech after two artists are fined for satirical drawings.

By Amberin Zaman, Special to The Times
ANKARA, Turkey — This nation's best-known political cartoonists gathered in Istanbul on Wednesday to protest legal action taken by the prime minister against artists who criticized him through their work.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-cartoon24feb24,1,5215576.story?coll=la-headlines-world

Jailed journalist faces new threats

The wife of jailed Sierra Leonean journalist Paul Kamara, Isatu Kamara, has received reports that her husband has been violently threatened by army officers, and fears that he may be killed.

http://www.indexonline.org/en/indexindex/articles/2005/1/sierra-leone-jailed-journalist-faces-new-thr.shtml

Iran jails blogger for 14 years

Millions of Iranians view the internet as a place to express themselves
An Iranian weblogger has been jailed for 14 years on charges of spying and aiding foreign counter-revolutionaries.
Arash Sigarchi was arrested last month after using his blog to criticise the arrest of other online journalists.
Mr Sigarchi, who also edits a newspaper in northern Iran, was sentenced by a revolutionary court in the Gilan area.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4292399.stm

IFJ Calls on Egypt to Free Jailed Journalists
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 11:11 am
Press Release: International Federation of Journalists
IFJ Calls on Egypt to Free Jailed Journalists After Book Fair Censorship Sparks Free Expression Fears
The International Federation of Journalists today accused the Egyptian authorities of censorship and intimidation of independent journalism after a crackdown on activists working at the Cairo International Book Fair.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0502/S00238.htm

Elizabeth Farnsworth reports from Iran on the reaction of democratic reformers to the U.S. government’s pressure on the ruling regime.
JIM LEHRER: Now, the second of Elizabeth Farnsworth's reports from Iran. This covers the reaction of democratic reformers to the U.S. Government's pressures on the ruling regime.

ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Dr. Mohammed Reza Khatami is a man of many talents. He's a physician, a kidney specialist, at a hospital in Tehran, and a key leader of what's left of Iran's reformist political movement. He founded the political party that brought his brother, also named Mohammed Khatami, to the presidency for two terms, promising reforms which would open Iran up to political debate and more democracy. Then, in 2000, Dr. Khatami received the most votes of anyone in parliamentary elections. With other reformists, he passed laws limiting key powers of the hard-line conservative clerics who oversee and often overrule elected officials here. But those clerics struck back. They vetoed the reformist laws and then, last year, banned Dr. Khatami and almost all the reformists from standing for election again.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june05/iran_2-25.html

F.C.C. to Review Decision on Sale of 4 Stations
By STEPHEN LABATON
Published: February 26, 2005

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 - The Federal Communications Commission, in an abrupt about-face, has decided to reconsider a staff decision that allowed a prominent Oklahoma politician convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice to sell a group of radio stations, officials said on Friday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/business/media/26radios.html?

The Washington Post

Children Going Hungry

By David K. Shipler
Sunday, February 27, 2005; Page B07

If you spend a day in a malnutrition clinic, you will see a dismal parade of babies and toddlers who look much younger than they are. Underweight and developmentally delayed, they cannot perform normally for their ages. Some are so weak that when you hold them in a standing position, their knees buckle. When they lie on their stomachs, they cannot push themselves up. Long after they should be able to roll over, they can only flop around listlessly.

Doctors describe these conditions as "failure to thrive." If President Bush's budget is enacted, there will be many more children in America who fail to thrive.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54744-2005Feb25.html

A Plot Thickens
Three Decades After Chile's Right-Wing Coup, Historians Have Yet to Dot All the i's. But One Thinks He May Have Crossed a K.
By Lynne Duke
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 27, 2005; Page D01
What a dream. So bizarre. How strange to see himself shrunken, like a pocket-size person. But there he was, Kenneth Maxwell, renowned scholar, rendered a tiny creature trembling at the windswept ramparts of his dream. Gargantuan figures loomed above, gazing down on this mere morsel.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56719-2005Feb26.html

The Cheney Observer

Halliburton has successful field trial
Halliburton's Sperry Drilling Services announced the completion of two field trials of its third generation Geo-Pilot 5200 Series system.
The 5200 Series Geo-Pilot system completed its first field test for an operator in Canada, drilling the entire section (2,445 ft / 745 m) in 51 drilling hours, the company says. By choosing to use rotary steerable technology versus a conventional mud motor in the slimhole section of the well, the customer was able to eliminate the additional trip and rig time required to rearrange heavy-weight pipe, as is common in conventionally drilled horizontal wells.

http://ogj.pennnet.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ONART&C=TOPST&ARTICLE_ID=221948&p=9

Home > HALLIBURTON ADDS SMARTSECTION® SOFTWARE TO GEOGRAPHIX® TOOLKIT
HOUSTON, Texas – Halliburton Digital and Consulting Solutions, a division of Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), announced today that it has acquired the smartSECTION® geologic software business from A2D Technologies, a TGS-NOPEC Company. SmartSECTION software provides the industry's leading raster image cross-section application and pioneered the use of depth-calibrated well log images for a faster, more affordable approach to high volume well log correlation and geologic interpretation.
i-Newswire, 2005-02-24 - "The acquisition of smartSECTION computer programs significantly expands the well log correlation and subsurface interpretation capabilities in our GeoGraphix® suite of software," said Jonathan Lewis, vice president, Innovation and Marketing, Halliburton Digital and Consulting Solutions. "Our customers, who are analyzing increasingly large volumes of log data, will significantly benefit from the ability of smartSECTION software to quickly identify unconformable and structural relationships."

http://i-newswire.com/pr7959.html

Home > HALLIBURTON COMPLETES SUCCESSFUL FIELD TRIAL OF GEO-PILOT® 5200 SERIES SLIMHOLE ROTARY STEERABLE SYSTEM
AMSTERDAM & HOUSTON, Texas – Sperry Drilling Services, a product service line of Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), announced today the successful completion of two field trials of its third generation Geo-Pilot® 5200 Series system. With the addition of the 5200 Series system to the FullDrift® drilling suite, Sperry can offer a slim hole point-the-bit rotary steerable solution capable of significantly extending horizontal production sections and reaching small targets from existing structures. This can eliminate huge capital investments and extend the useful life of production facilities by restoring production levels.
i-Newswire, 2005-02-24 - The 5200 Series Geo-Pilot system completed its first field test for an operator in Canada, drilling the entire section ( 2,445 ft / 745m ) in 51 drilling hours. The system performed flawlessly over a wide range of deflection settings. By choosing to use rotary steerable technology versus a conventional mud motor in the slimhole section of the well, the customer was able to eliminate the additional trip and rig time required to rearrange heavy-weight pipe, as is common in conventionally drilled horizontal wells.

http://i-newswire.com/pr7960.html

Halliburton division acquires A2D software business
Monica Perin
Houston Business Journal
Halliburton Digital and Consulting Solutions, a division of Halliburton Co., said Wednesday it has acquired the geologic software business of A2D Technologies.

http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2005/02/21/daily34.html?jst=b_ln_hl

Bush looks for Russian soulmate of his first term
By Neil Buckley and James Harding
Published: February 23 2005 00:05 Last updated: February 23 2005 00:05
When President George W.Bush of the US sits down with Vladimir Putin on Thursday at a castle in Bratislava for their 12th meeting, he may once again be trying to peer into the soul of his Russian counterpart.
The relationship has cooled since Mr Bush first met Mr Putin in 2001 and declared he had looked into the Russian leader's eyes and seen the soul of someone he could trust.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f4a56126-852d-11d9-a172-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=d4f2ab60-c98e-11d7-81c6-0820abe49a01.html

MPDCL to spell out Dabhol equity plan in HC today
SANJAY JOG
Posted online: Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 0000 hours IST

MUMBAI, FEB 23: The Maharashtra Power Development Corporation Ltd (MPDCL) on Thursday would spell out in the Bombay High Court its strategy on making payment of $9 million for picking up equity of the bankrupt Enron Corp in the now-fallen Dabhol Power Company (DPC).

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=83439

Alba commends last batch of 134 'Training for Bahrain' graduates
Under the patronage of His Excellency Sheikh Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa, Minister of Oil and Chairman of Alba, Aluminium Bahrain honored the final batch of 'Training for Bahrain' graduates at a grand ceremony held in the Gulf International Convention & Conference Centre – Gulf Hotel.

http://www.ameinfo.com/news/Detailed/54555.html

WAM: Gasco, Bechtel sign $ 1.46 billion EPC agreement
Publication Date: Feb 23,2005, 15:08
SUMMARY: Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd. (GASCO) and Bechtel Corporation, USA signed the EPC Agreement for Onshore Gas Development Phase III (OGD III) Project on Feb 20 in ADNOC.
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UAE steps up gas drive with $1.4b Bechtel deal
Khaleej Times - 23/02/2005

ABU DHABI — Abu Dhabi Company for Gas Industries (Gasco) yesterday concluded an agreement with US Company Bachtel to design, execute and operate the third phase of developing offshore Habshan Gas project costing $1.4 billion.
Others who bid for the contract included Paris-based Technip, Chiyoda Corporation JGC both from Japan.
The project would be completed in a maximum of 40 months time from conclusion of the contract, adding that production will commence in the first quarter of 2008.
The project targets the production of 125,000 barrels per day of crude oil and 12,000 tons of liquid natural gas and 3200 tons of Ethane gas.

http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=81349

Safety concerns raised at Darwin gas plant
Four hundred workers are gathered at the gates of Darwin's LNG project at Wickham Point because of safety concerns.
The workers have been gathering at the main entrance of the power operation since 7:30am.
Talks have started between the safety committee and Bechtel management.
Workers say there have been too many incidents putting their safety at risk.
The Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union says its members are not involved, and the dispute is strictly between the Australian Workers Union and Bechtel.
A spokeswoman for Bechtel says site managers are meeting with the AWU's senior organiser Francis Chambers to discuss the situation.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200502/s1307300.htm

Main Event: American Energy Policy
BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK
ENVIRONMENT 11.1.2001
The smoke was still thick over Manhattan when the first jackals appeared. The world in shock, a motley crew of lobbyists and pundits crept toward the carcass of atrocity to pick at the meat and claim a piece of the spoils. With reality seemingly turned upside down, it was a fair assumption that there would be much up for grabs.

http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=164

Haiti's jailed ex-PM on hunger strike

By Joseph Guyler Delva
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Haiti's imprisoned former prime minister, Yvon Neptune, says he has started a hunger
strike to protest his detention.
Neptune, who was arrested eight months ago, said in a letter to several foreign ambassadors that he began the hunger
strike on Sunday and would continue it until he is freed by Haiti's interim government, which he said jailed him for political
reasons.

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5564816

Schiavo debate taps into faith, fear
At issue: Quality of life and the manner of death.
By Sandy Bauers
Inquirer Staff Writer
Tens of thousands of e-mails and phone calls have surged into Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's office - 35,000 since Monday alone.
Hundreds of bloggers have weighed in.
Vigils have been held, talk-show guests have pontificated, politicians have weighed in.
The Vatican has launched an appeal. One advocacy group is raising money for newspaper advertisements.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/11000663.htm

RIGHT WING POLTICS AND THE LUDICROUS USE OF THE SCHIVO CASE. They are Anti-Constitutionalists. It is all too obvious. They don't believe in separation of Church and State seeking 'moralists' in office to dominate the politics removing rights from all others, using tactics that undermine the integrity of the USA Constitution while playing on human emotion of sympathy and fear. YOU COULD BE NEXT !!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HOW CAN THE U.S. SUPREME COURT AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE GREATEST NATION IN THE WORLD STAND BY AND WAIT FOR TERRI TO BE STARVED TO DEATH WITH OUT HEARING HER CASE?
Terri, America's Daughter....
By Kenneth Lewis, Publisher of ChristianNewsToday.com
Who is Terri?

Theresa Marie Schindler was born in Pennsylvania on December 3, 1963 to Mary and Robert Schindler. (Terri's baby picture)
Her parents tell stories of Terri's devotion to family pets and to animals of every sort. Her sister and brother label Terri a lover of music - especially piano.

http://www.christiannewstoday.com/CWN_140.html

Jeb Bush could save Terri's life ... if he wanted to
Posted: February 22, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Doc Washburn
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court paved the way for the execution of Terri Schiavo, beginning today. She is the brain-damaged woman whose husband has been trying to starve and dehydrate her to death for years.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42971

100,000 PETITIONERS ASK
GOV. BUSH TO SAVE TERRI SCHIAVO
Dr. Gary Cass, executive director of the Center for Reclaiming America, will deliver to a representative of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush a petition containing
the names of over 100,000 people who have signed an online petition on behalf of Terri Schiavo at a press conference today at 2 p.m. (Feb. 25) on the Plaza Level of the State Capitol Building in Tallahassee, Fl.

http://www.theempirejournal.com/0225054_100.htm

Why JEB, if you take a look at the above article by siding with Anti-Constitutionalists and Religious Bigots you can pick up another 100 thousand votes !!

In Florida, Jeb Bush Down Slightly

CREDIT: Flag courtesy of ITA’s Flags of All Countries used with permission.
(Angus Reid Consultants - CPOD Global Scan) – Support for Jeb Bush fell this month in Florida, according to a poll by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. 52 per cent of respondents in the Sunshine State approve of the governor’s performance, a three per cent drop since December.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=6097

Delay, Delay, Delay, Muddle, Muddle, Muddle
DANIEL RUTH
Published: Feb 27, 2005
It's merely a guess - and an admittedly presumptuous one, too - but here's some unsolicited advice for attorney George Felos - as long as Jeb Bush reigns over Florida, your client Michael Schiavo will never be permitted to allow his brain-damaged wife Terri to die.

http://www.tampatrib.com/MGB3HGSGO5E.html

Richmond Times Dispatch

House wants to lift ban, seek natural gas offshore
BY GREG EDWARDS
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Feb 24, 2005
Virginia's House of Delegates agreed yesterday to seek the opening of waters off Virginia's Atlantic coast for natural-gas exploration and production.

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031781208842&path=%21news%21politics&s=1045855935264&tacodalogin=no

ABC

Democrats urge more assistance for Corby
The Federal Government has again been accused of not doing enough to help a Gold Coast woman who is standing trial in Indonesia on drugs charges.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200502/s1310942.htm

Life News

Arlen Specter Wants Deal With Pro-Abortion Democrats on Pro-Life Judges
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Senator Arlen Specter wants to strike a deal with pro-abortion Democrats who oppose a slate of 20 pro-life judges President Bush recently gave to the Senate for confirmation. Specter is also concerned about the effects of the so-called "nuclear option" and instead wants to try his hand at dealmaking first.

http://www.lifenews.com/nat1205.html

Keeping the Democracy in Democrat

Once reliably Republican, New England now backs Democrats
BY STEVENSON SWANSON
Chicago Tribune
BOSTON - (KRT) - In the coloring-book view of American politics, where Republican states are red and Democratic states are blue, the map of New England has undergone a shade shift.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/10538254.htm

Democrats call Smith no-show on assisted suicide
02:27 PM PST on Thursday, February 24, 2005
By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The lack of comment from Republican Sen. Gordon Smith on a Supreme Court decision this week to take up the Bush administration challenge of Oregon's landmark assisted suicide law is drawing criticism from Democrats and advocates of the law.

http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_022405_politics_assisted_suicide.ddeaf2b4.html

Democrats ask DA to investigate Kline's meetings with board
JOHN HANNA
Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. - Two Democratic legislators asked Shawnee County's district attorney Thursday to investigate private meetings between Attorney General Phill Kline and State Board of Education members.
Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, of Topeka, and Rep. Paul Davis, of Lawrence, said Kline hasn't provided enough information to show the gatherings were allowed under the Kansas Open Meetings Act.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/10984181.htm

Some Democrats Not Pleased With Easley's Budget
Many Upset Over Certain Suggested Tax Increases
POSTED: 4:54 pm EST February 24, 2005
UPDATED: 5:17 pm EST February 24, 2005
RALEIGH, N.C. -- With nearly $1 billion in new spending and millions of dollars in higher taxes, it is not surprising Republicans are critical of Gov. Mike Easley's budget plan. However, the criticism is coming across party lines from Democrats as well.

http://www.wral.com/news/4230120/detail.html

Hollywood Bets on Chris Rock's 'Indecency'
Published: February 27, 2005

THE total box office for all five best-picture nominees on Sunday's Oscars is so small that their collective niche in the national cultural marketplace falls somewhere between square dancing and non-Grisham fiction.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/arts/27RICH.html

Sydney Morning Herald

West Bank curfew after four killed in club blast
By Jonathan Saul and AP
February 27, 2005
The Sun-Herald
Israeli troops imposed a curfew on a West Bank village yesterday, arresting five people and telling a family that their son was the suicide bomber who earlier killed four people in an attack on a Tel Aviv nightclub, Palestinian security officials said.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Middle-East-Conflict/West-Bank-curfew-after-four-killed-in-club-blast/2005/02/26/1109180165018.html

New AIDS-type virus in Africa
February 27, 2005
The Sun-Herald
Two new retroviruses never before seen in humans have turned up among people who regularly hunt monkeys in Cameroon, researchers say.
As with AIDS, these viruses insert their genetic material directly into cells and perhaps even into a person's or animal's chromosomes.
Closely related versions of the viruses cause leukaemia and inflammatory and neurological diseases.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University plan to focus on Central Africa.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Health/New-AIDStype-virus-in-Africa/2005/02/26/1109180166837.html

RA expels 3 over killing
February 27, 2005
The Sun-Herald

The Irish Republican Army has expelled three members accused of last month's murder of a fellow Catholic in a bar in Belfast.
The rare, if not unprecedented, expulsions followed a high-profile campaign by the family of the victim, Robert McCartney, 33, to bring the killers to justice.
Two of the three were high-ranking. However, the IRA army council said it had not ordered the killing and warned against anyone trying to intimidate his family.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/IRA-expels-3-over-killing/2005/02/26/1109180166834.html

Unwanted Pregnancies

Free condoms Monday to Sunday
John Nowakowski
For the Kaimin
Condoms in the morning, condoms in the evening, students can get condoms anytime. There is no reason for students living in the dorms to have unprotected sex, thanks to the efforts of volunteers with Condom Access for Responsible Encounters.

http://www.kaimin.org/viewarticle.php?id=4050

Self-abortion kills woman
February 25, 2005
A 23-year-old woman from Talisay City died in an apparent unsuccessful attempt to abort the child she had been carrying in her womb by herself.
The woman, Claudeth Aviles, was found by relatives in a pool of blood in her own home in barangay Lagtang , a fetus still lodged in her sex organ.

http://www.thefreeman.com/local/index.php?fullstory=1&issue=articles_20050225&id=27934

Contraceptive coverage gaining in Legislature
By David Steves

The Register-Guard
SALEM - The Oregon Legislature renewed one of its most long-running debates Thursday, when a Senate committee passed a bill that would require health insurers to cover contraceptives.

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/02/25/c1.cr.contraceptives.0225.html

Consumers rally for birth control
Champaign group holds meeting to raise awareness of emergency contraception
The Champaign County Health Care Consumers are holding a community meeting today at the Illinois Disciples Foundation, 610 E. Springfield Ave ., from 7 to 9 p.m. in support of improved access for women to emergency contraception.
Destiny Lopez, director of the Emergency Contraception (E.C.) Access Campaign, will be the night's keynote speaker. Lopez has been instrumental in helping to raise awareness about E.C. and to pass several bills in the New York legislature dealing with E.C. access.

http://www.dailyillini.com/news/2005/02/24/News/Consumers.Rally.For.Birth.Control-875819.shtml

Sex & GOP 'Values'
Thu Feb 24, 2:49 PM ET

Op/Ed - The Nation
The Editors
Mourning the loss of "moral values" voters, Democratic leaders have been softening the party's language on reproductive rights. In a recent speech, Senator Hillary Clinton (news - web sites) called abortion "a sad, even tragic choice for many," praised faith-based programs and said, "the jury is still out" on abstinence-only education. New DNC chair Howard Dean (news - web sites), meanwhile, said the party ought to make space for "pro-life" Democrats and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has actively courted at least two of them for key Senate races in 2006. These gestures, along with the ascension of antichoice Senate minority leader Harry Reid, have prochoice groups rightly concerned about the party's will and ability to defend reproductive rights.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2281&ncid=742&e=1&u=/thenation/20050224/cm_thenation/20050314editors

Seeing both sides in ‘Vera Drake'
By ROBERT W. BUTLER
The Kansas City Star
Conventional wisdom holds that the Oscar-nominated “Vera Drake,” now entering its third week at the Tivoli in Westport, is an “abortion-rights” movie.
Mike Leigh's drama is about a cheery London housewife circa 1950 who has a secret life as a back-alley abortionist. And certainly many of those who have purchased tickets to “Vera” fall into the abortion-rights camp.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/columnists/robert_w_butler/10972246.htm

Sex education policy at LISD remains controversial
By Katherine Amerson/The University Daily
February 24, 2005
Teaching an abstinence-only education policy in the Lubbock Independent School System, as well as across Texas, has proved to have an adverse effect on teenagers, said Planned Parenthood Development Officer Tina Brogan.

The unwanted pregnancy rate and the sexually transmitted disease rate in Lubbock is disturbing, Brogan said.

http://www.universitydaily.net/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/24/421d634a374e6

Consumers rally for birth control
Champaign group holds meeting to raise awareness of emergency contraception
By Nick Escobar
Published: Thursday, February 24, 2005
The Champaign County Health Care Consumers are holding a community meeting today at the Illinois Disciples Foundation, 610 E. Springfield Ave ., from 7 to 9 p.m. in support of improved access for women to emergency contraception.
Destiny Lopez, director of the Emergency Contraception (E.C.) Access Campaign, will be the night's keynote speaker. Lopez has been instrumental in helping to raise awareness about E.C. and to pass several bills in the New York legislature dealing with E.C. access.

http://www.dailyillini.com/news/2005/02/24/News/Consumers.Rally.For.Birth.Control-875819.shtml

Abortion rights under attack:
Why are the Democrats giving up?
February 25, 2005 Page 12
ELIZABETH SCHULTE looks at the Democrats’ retreat on a woman’s right to choose.
A WOMAN’S right to abortion is one of the few issues where the Democrats can still claim that they look different from the Republicans. But for how much longer?

http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/532/532_12_AbortionRights.shtml


I was appalled to say the least by this article. Everything is black and white with no shades of gray. People always want to pigeon hole sexuality and control it. Do women have brains? Do they have self directed will? Do they hide their 'birth control' pills in the back of the underwear draw as they put on their Catholic School Girl Uniform at the age of seventeen years old? Yes, they do.

I went to a public school system. I did well. I was social. Good heavens I participated in underage drinking, had a date for the prom and went to the gynecologist at the age of seventeen years old for my first birth control pills. I dated the same young man from then on. He was in college and we were married the summer he was entering his Senior year. My mother always thought I was a perfect child and a virgin when I got married. I don't why? Denial I guess. I used to stay overnight at the college. I mean where did she think I slept? In the car? I used birth control until the age of 23 when we 'cognitively' decided to have our first child.

You know, I had a friend who lived across the road from me. She attended a Catholic School all her life. She used to 'moon' guys out the window of her school bus. I never did that. She knew what condoms were and how to use them long before I did. She was always willing to entertain my imagination with her stories a many to improve my competency. She was sexually active at the age of sixteen and had a 'little black book' that was not at all little. She wore uniforms to school everyday to classes. I didn't. I wore underwear everyday with my clothes. She didn't. She went on weekend trips with the competition band. I didn't. I went to college. She didn't.

This article is so bad for the imagine a woman has of herself that it should be outlawed. It stereotypes and seeks control where the control never existed in the first place. When women grow up with healthy ideas of sexuality and sensuality they turn out to be responsible for their sexual activity and their sexual health to the point where their mother's actually believe they are virgins to the day they get wed. Young women mature at different rates and in different ways. When a young woman feels ready, safe and secure in herself she should have the choice of keeping her virginity or not. They needs to make their own moral decision regarding the feelings they are having with burgeoning needs and desires. Sexuality does not wait for a calendar date to manifest. A woman is her own person and that is why a society has a responsibility to provide her a safety net.

This is irresponsible stereotyping of women that never works but only serves to cause self-esteem issues resulting in behaviors that are not necessarily healthy.

A Man's Debate: Nice Lucy vs. Sexy Sally
By Christian Savage
Published: Wednesday, February 23, 2005
"When a young man walks the streets of life, there are two types of women that he must choose from in deciding which one to court: Nice Lucy over here and Sexy Sally over there; the Christian gentlemen will choose Nice Lucy, while the unbeliever would choose the latter," are the fiery words of the immortal sermon delivered by Pastor Jack Raeside of Beacon Bible Church in the Bronx. First and foremost, based on Pastor Raeside's sermon, what is the fundamental difference between Nice Lucy and Sexy Sally?

http://www.mcquadrangle.org/news/2005/02/23/Perspectives/A.Mans.Debate.Nice.Lucy.Vs.Sexy.Sally-874784.shtml

This is manipulative government. Mr. Kline is playing politics with women's privacy. You'll excuse me but most physicians are directed by their state licensing agencies to come forward to protect minors in abuse situations. Any of the 90 cases he is seeking invasion of privacy fell under 'Reporting Laws.' These are standard laws and the citation below is specific for Kansas. If a physician performs abortions it does not mean he breaks the law. Quite the contrary. They practice under rights allowed them. They obey all laws and would not think twice to of reporting any and all child abuse. The Kansas State Attorney General Mr. Kline is abusing his power of office to make a false case for invasion of privacy.

State-Specific Information Search Results: Kansas

http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov/general/statespecific/results.cfm?state=%27KS%27&Laws=1&phonenums=1&calendar=1&submit=Submit

Kan. AG seeks late-term abortion records
By JOHN MILBURN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline speaks during a news conference in his office, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005, in Topeka, Kan. Kline is seeking the complete medical records of nearly 90 women who received late-term abortions to search for evidence of crimes, according to court documents. (AP Photo/The Topeka Capital-Journal, NIck Krug)
TOPEKA, Kan. -- The Kansas attorney general, a staunch opponent of abortion, has demanded the medical records of nearly 90 woman and girls who had late-term abortions, saying he needs the material to investigate crimes.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Abortion%20Investigation

`Pro-life' Romney rankles anti-abortion activists
By David R. Guarino
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Anti-abortion activists chided Gov. Mitt Romney [related, bio] yesterday for his new, self-attached ``pro-life'' label, saying efforts to appeal to conservatives are in vain because his position mirrors that of liberal Democrat Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio].

http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.bg?articleid=70103

Feminist Daily News Wire
February 24, 2005
Supreme Court Refuses to Reconsider Abortion Rights Decision
On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from Norma McCorvey, also known as Jane Roe, to overturn the landmark case she won in 1973 that legalized abortion. The justices rejected McCorvey’s bid to reopen Roe v. Wade without comment or recorded dissent, reports Reuters. The move is not surprising, according to the Los Angeles Times, as the reopening of a case due to “changed circumstances” rarely occurs. McCorvey’s case is based on anecdotal “evidence” that abortion harms women.

http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8918

The law is the law.

Jesuit Gonzaga University Favours Gay and Pro-Abortion Campus Clubs, Persecutes Christians
SPOKANE, February 24, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Gonzaga University, the Catholic college in Spokane, Washington, owned and run by the Jesuit order, has made its stand on the side of abortion supporters and homosexual activists against Catholic and pro-life groups on campus.

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022403.html

Pure politics.

Abortion foes hail House vote
Measure requring 24-hour waiting period passes and proceeds to Senate
By CARLOS CAMPOS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/24/05
Legislation aimed at reducing abortion in Georgia easily passed the House on Wednesday and will head to the Senate for consideration.
House Bill 197 had bipartisan support in a 139-35 vote, though all 35 dissenters were Democrats.
The bill would require women seeking an abortion to wait 24 hours after being informed by a doctor of the medical risks of the procedure, gestational development of a fetus, fetal pain and alternatives including adoption.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/legis05/0205/24legabortion.html

Anti-abortion bills advance in S.D. Legislature
Lawmakers hear from both sides of issue
By Joe Kafka
Associated Press Writer
PIERRE - A trio of anti-abortion bills drew impassioned but polite testimony Wednesday in the Legislature from those on sharply opposite sides of the highly emotional issue.

http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/10979170.htm

Late-abortion ban defeated
Committee cites harm to doctor-patient confidentiality
By Melissa Cassutt
Denver Post Staff Writer
The House Judiciary Committee defeated a proposed bill criminalizing late-term abortions Thursday, saying the bill penalized doctors and interfered with the doctor-patient relationship.

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~61~2731160,00.html

Bill would augment abortion instruction
Women who want an abortion in Indiana would be told they can view an ultrasound of the fetus and hear the heartbeat, if there is one, before going ahead with the procedure, under a bill approved Thursday by the Indiana Senate.

http://www.indystar.com/articles/2/224903-5822-009.html

I THINK MOST 'MEN' are personally opposed to abortion. They don't have the investment.

Howard Dean says “Personally Opposed” to Abortion is Pro-Choice, not Pro-Life
NEW YORK, February 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Howard Dean, immortalized by the yell that ended his run at the Democratic nomination, has inadvertently put his finger on a long-standing controversy between pro-lifers and nominally Catholic politicians. Dean, now the Democratic National Committee chairman, was speaking to students at Cornell University when he let slip that politicians know perfectly well that one of their most cherished sound bites is a gross deception.

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022504.html

Abortion tops 1st talk with public by Swann
Friday, February 25, 2005
BY PETER L. DeCOURSEY
Of The Patriot-News
GREENSBURG - Former football star Lynn Swann said last night that he was a conservative who opposed abortion, but that he was still forming his campaign positions.
On most issues, Swann said he was planning to "talk to the people across this state to find out what they want" from a Republican candidate for governor.

http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/110932682014210.xml

Abortion a 30-something choice
Feb 25 2005
Aled Blake, Western Mail

THE number of women having abortions in their 30s has doubled in the past three decades.
The trend for women to get married later and to be more career focused is believed to have had an impact in persuading women that abortions are an option, even when they may be more financially settled.

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=15229280&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=abortion-a-30-something-choice-name_page.html

Abortion Law Filed, Poll Results
by Jessica Cervantez
We now have the final results of our web poll about the newly filed abortion bill being considered by Texas lawmakers.

http://www.ktre.com/Global/story.asp?S=2995873&nav=2FH5WnGC

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