Rooster "Crowing"
"Okeydoke"
History…
1835 Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile
1898 Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters
1921 National Hospital Day 1st observed
1928 Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy
1928 Opium laws enforced
1932 Over two months after he was kidnapped, American aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby is found dead in Hopewell NJ Lindbergh had paid the ransom on April 2.
1933 the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration were established to provide help for the needy and farmers.
1942 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz
1942 Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.
1949, the Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin Blockade.
1951 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
1952 Charlton Playground named in the Bronx
1953 KUHT TV channel 8 in Houston TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 Chicago Cub Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0)
1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Alpine Civitan Golf Open
1963 Race riot in Birmingham AL
1964 Manlio Brosio chosen as secretary-general of NATO
1965, West Germany and Israel exchanged letters establishing diplomatic relations.
1970, the Senate voted unanimously to confirm Harry A. Blackmun as a Supreme Court justice.
1970 KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte MT (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 Race riots in Augusta GA; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic
1978 The U.S. Department of Commerce declares that hurricanes will no longer be named exclusively after women.
1982 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike (Rabbit is Rich)
1984 South Africa prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years
1985, Amy Eilberg was ordained in New York as the first female rabbi in the Conservative Jewish movement
1991 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic
1992 1st Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest
1997 Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
Missing in Action
1967 ASHLOCK CARLOS PHILADELPHIA PA
1967 AGOSTO SANTOS JOSE PR 01/23/68 RELEASED / POW EXCHANGE
1967 GRENZEBACH EARL WILFRE JR. WORCHESTER NY
1967 GADDIS NORMAN C. KNOXVILLE TN 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 JEFFERSON JAMES M. SAN DIEGO CA POSS DEAD REMAINS ID 06/05/00
1967 PITMAN PETER P. ATLANTA GA
1967 STEWART ROBERT A. WASHINGTON DC
1968 BUCHER BERNARD L. EUREKA IL "EXPLODE, NO SEARCH, HOSTIL"
1968 COEN HARRY B. RIVERTON WY GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1968 CRAVEN ANDREW J. WILMINGTON NC GROUND ATTACT POSS KIA
1968 HEPLER FRANK M. GLENSIDE PA "EXPLODE, NO SEARCH, HOSTIL"
1968 LONG JULIUS W. JR. PULASKI WA 03/16/73 RELEASED BY PRG
1968 LONG GEORGE W. MEDICINE KS "EXPLODE, NO SEARCH, HOSTIL"
1968 MOORE MAURICE H. BALTIMORE MD GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1968 MC ELROY JOHN L. SCHENECTADY NY "EXPLODE, NO SEARCH, HOSTIL"
1968 MORELAND STEPHEN C. LOS ANGELES CA "EXPLODE, NO SEARCH, HOSTIL"
1968 ORR WARREN R. JR. KEWANEE IL
1968 RANSBOTTOM FREDERICK J. OKLAHOMA CITY OK GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1968 SIMPSON JOSEPH L. DENVER CO GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1968 SKIVINGTON WILLIAM E. JR. LAS VEGAS NV GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1968 SANDS RICHARD E. SPRINGFIELD IL
1968 STULLER JOHN C. FALLS CHURCH VA GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1968 WIDNER DANNY L. GRAHAM TX GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1968 WILLIAMS ROY C. WOODVILLE TX GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1968 WIDDISON IMLAY S. WOODS CROSS UT GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1970 PREISS ROBERT F. JR. CORNWALL NY REMAINS RETURNED IDENTIFIED 06/30/98
1972 ADAIR SAMUEL Y. JR. MADISON GA REMAINS RECOVERED 11/74
1972 BOGARD LONNIE P. MATARIE LA
1972 CRESSEY DENNIS C. CHEYENNE WY 11/74 REMAINS RECOVERED
1972 OSTERMEYER WILLIAM H. ORLANDO FL
12 Indiana power plants on list of dirtiest in U.S.
Report underscores the potential health threat from coal smokestacks throughout the state.
By John Strauss
john.strauss@indystar.com
An environmental group on Wednesday named 12 Indiana coal-burning power plants, including one on the Southside of Indianapolis, among the 50 "dirtiest" in the country for producing health-damaging pollutants.
Plainfield-based Cinergy/PSI had three of its power plants among those listed. Company officials said they have spent millions of dollars to clean emissions and are scheduled to spend millions more on improvements during the next few years.
The report underscores the potential health threat from power company smokestacks throughout Indiana. With one exception, the Indiana companies did not challenge the group's findings.
The report, "Dirty Kilowatts: America's Most Polluting Power Plants," compiled data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration for sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury and carbon dioxide. The mercury data were from 2002, and the rest of the information came from 2004.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050512/NEWS01/505120468/1007/LIVING
What we are breathing
Here's what 12 Indiana power plants ranked among the nation's 50 dirtiest are emitting, according to the Environmental Integrity Project. Some made the list for multiple pollutants.
• Carbon dioxide: Released by four plants in Jasper, Porter and Warrick counties, it can reduce oxygen delivery to the heart and brain.
• Nitrogen oxides: Released by four plants in Jefferson, Lake, LaPorte and Porter counties, they can damage the respiratory system and cause premature death.
• Sulfur dioxide: Released by six plants in Floyd, Lake, Marion, Vermillion, Vigo and Warrick counties. High levels can cause temporary breathing problems for asthmatics. Long-term, it can cause respiratory illness and aggravate heart disease.
Sources: EPA, Environmental Integrity Project
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050512/NEWS01/505120468/1007/LIVING
Bush asked to explain UK war memo
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Eighty-nine Democratic members of the U.S. Congress last week sent President George W. Bush a letter asking for explanation of a secret British memo that said "intelligence and facts were being fixed" to support the Iraq war in mid-2002 -- well before the president brought the issue to Congress for approval.
The Times of London newspaper published the memo -- actually minutes of a high-level meeting on Iraq held July 23, 2002 -- on May 1.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/11/britain.war.memo/index.html
The End Of Pensions
Dan Ackman, 05.11.05, 8:35 AM ET
NEW YORK - In the future, will any company offer a pension? The answer is probably not, and the future is getting closer all the time.
Yesterday a U.S. federal bankruptcy judge approved a plan by UAL (otc: UALAQ - news - people ), the parent company of United Airlines, to transfer its pension plans, which are underfunded by $9.8 billion, to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., which is itself underfunded.
http://www.forbes.com/2005/05/11/cx_da_0511topnews.html?partner=daily_newsletter
Star News
Women still feel free to drop tops at Topsail Beach
From time to time, visitors to Topsail Beach uncover something unexpected: a glimpse of a woman sunbathing topless.
And it’s perfectly legal.
Unlike its island neighbor Surf City, Topsail Beach doesn’t have an ordinance prohibiting women from baring their breasts in public. As a guideline, the small town uses state law that does not distinguish between men’s and women’s bare chests.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200550510021&source=email
Hospital funds: Only a Band-Aid?
Federal program aims to ease cost of treating immigrants
A federal program that will provide almost $5 million to North Carolina hospitals that care for illegal immigrants may benefit larger institutions such as New Hanover Regional Medical Center, but smaller facilities say the aid might not be worth the effort.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services program came out of 2003 legislation and will provide a $1 billion pot of money emergency health care providers can dip into over the next four years.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200550510023&source=email
Doctors, Azalea Festival leader receive honors
This year’s Star-News Lifetime Achievement Awards go to three men of far-reaching vision, Dr. Daniel Gottovi, Dr. R. Bertram Williams Jr. and Hugh Morton.
The two doctors helped shape the medical services field in Southeastern North Carolina. Mr. Morton, owner of Grandfather Mountain, was instrumental in starting the N.C. Azalea Festival and bringing the Battleship North Carolina to Wilmington.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200550511022&source=email
The buzz on mosquitoes
A few precautions can reduce bites from skeeters and ticks this summer
Be prepared: Area residents will soon feel the bite of last week’s rainfall and this week’s warm weather.
Millions of tiny mosquito eggs have hatched in mud flats, salt marshes and backyard birdbaths in recent days. They’re on track to sprout wings and satisfy their appetite for blood by next week unless we do something about it.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200550511026&source=email
Topsail Beach mayor quits amid public pressure
TOPSAIL BEACH Weeks after making accusations that the town’s volunteer firefighters attended training session under the influence of alcohol or drugs, Mayor Jimmy Morris resigned Wednesday night.
Residents clapped as he walked out of Town Hall. Mayor Pro tem Howard Braxton will be the town’s mayor and the board will remain a five-member board. The town will hold a special mayoral election in November and the winner will finish the four-year term.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200550511029&source=email
Game’s social, legal costs probed
By Margaret Lillard
RALEIGH - If North Carolina joins every other state on the East Coast and creates a lottery, the cost of policing it and offering help to problem gamblers could cost several million dollars a year, witnesses told a Senate committee Wednesday.
The state likely would use the lottery’s own proceeds to pay for such programs, although that’s not addressed in either the House-passed bill to create a lottery or the Senate’s budget proposal, which included lottery provisions, approved last week.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005205120335&source=email
FBI head praises Saudi crackdown
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - FBI director Robert Mueller praised progress in Saudi Arabia’s crackdown on militants Wednesday, a day after the kingdom said it had captured one of al-Qaida’s key "ideologues" in a shootout.
Saudi police wounded and arrested Abdul Aziz bin Rasheed al-Anzy, one of the editors of online al-Qaida periodicals that call for jihad, or holy war, and incite aggression, the Interior Ministry said.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005205120322&source=email
Area golfers take chance at Open
WALLACE The cheers were always there. So was Cortney Brisson’s game when it counted.
The Bladen County native and Wallace resident birdied the first hole of a playoff Wednesday evening to advance to U.S. Open sectional qualifying in Rockville, Md.
It will mark the second time in three years that Brisson has made his way out of the local stage. The first was in 2003 when he progressed all the way to the U.S. Open at Olympia Fields.
This trip came only after Brisson chipped in for birdie from the back fringe on his 72nd hole. That prompted a roar from a partisan crowd that was audible from one end of the River Course to the other.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200550511019&source=email
New research center to focus on terrorism
RALEIGH - Two universities and a North Carolina-based contract research organization have formed a new center to study terrorism and ways to prevent attacks.
Researchers and scholars from Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Research Triangle Institute International will work together to study terrorism and look for strategies to prevent attacks.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005205120340&source=email
He’s never been so insulted
SANFORD, FLA. - A county Republican chairman says his bid to head the state party was sabotaged because a letter falsely accused him of having been married six times. The right number, he says, is five.
"That’s unconscionable," Seminole County Republican Party Chairman Jim Stelling said Tuesday in the trial over his defamation suit. "I have four children and eight grandchildren that I love dearly. I believe in family values."
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005205120341&source=email
The Cheney Observer
A SIMPLE VOTE ON JUDGES. How can a vote for judges be simple? Perhaps Bush can explain that one. At least try because I know this is nothing but pure manipulation over judges that were already voted on and defeated.
Bush calls for simple vote on judges
By Holly Yeager in Washington
Published: May 9 2005 18:22 Last updated: May 9 2005 23:26
President George W. Bush weighed in forcefully on Monday on a debate that threatens to bring the Senate to a near-standstill, calling on members to “put aside the partisan practices of the past” and allow an up-or-down vote on his candidates for the federal courts.
His comments, four years to the day after he nominated his first group of judges, come as a show-down nears on Senate rules governing debate on judicial nominees. Mr Bush complained that Democrats had used the filibuste-- a procedure that allows just 40 members of the 100-seat chamber to block a vote -- to prevent a vote on confirmation of several of his court choices.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/6bf871be-c0ac-11d9-a3da-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=46d6f5a8-d260-11d8-b661-00000e2511c8.html
Grenade reportedly thrown toward Bush during Georgia speech
05.11.2005, 12:04 AM
WASHINGTON (AFX) - An apparent hand grenade was thrown close to US President George W. Bush on Tuesday as he gave a speech in front of tens of thousands of Georgians in Tbilisi, the US Secret Service said.
A Secret Service spokesman said the agency, which is charged with protecting US presidents, was only informed of the incident by Georgian officials after Bush had left the country.
http://www.forbes.com/finance/feeds/afx/2005/05/10/afx2016719.html
Democrats To Get Some Bolton Data
(CBS/AP) At the State Department's urging, Senate Democrats narrowed their request for internal government documents bearing on John R. Bolton's fitness to be the United States' ambassador to the United Nations.
Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have threatened to force a delay in the panel's planned Thursday vote on Bolton unless they get the information they want. They planned a private strategy session Tuesday and were hoping to receive more material from the State Department later in the day, said Norm Kurz, a spokesman for the committee's senior Democrat, Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/10/politics/main694203.shtml
Pastor Who Ousted Democrats From Church Resigns
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Chan Chandler endorsed Bush from the pulpit during last year's presidential campaign, saying John Kerry supporters needed to "repent or resign."
Waynesville, NC -- The Baptist pastor accused of running congregants out for not supporting President Bush resigned Tuesday night.
The Reverend Chan Chandler had called a meeting Tuesday night at the East Waynesville Baptist Church but did not announce an agenda.
Congregants of the 100-member church say Chandler endorsed Bush from the pulpit during last year's presidential campaign and said that anyone who planned to vote for Democratic nominee John Kerry needed to "repent or resign."
They say he continued to preach about politics after Bush won re-election. That led to a church gathering last week in which the nine members say they were ousted.
http://www.wfmynews2.com/news/local_state/local_article.aspx?storyid=40809
The less thought of Bechtel and Iraq
By Jeffrey St. Clair
Republished from Counterpunch
On the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Bechtel issued its revenue numbers for 2005.
On the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Bechtel, the gargantuan global construction firm based in San Francisco, issued its revenue numbers for 2005. While the situation continued to deteriorate for the US military forces in Iraq, Bechtel reported more fragrant news.
Although the privately-owned company doesn’t disclose its profits, Bechtel did announce that its income was soaring to new heights not seen since the 1960s when the company was damming some of the world’s most glorious canyons, building some of the most dangerous nuclear plants and constructing military bases for the staging of the war on Vietnam.
For the year 2004, Bechtel brought in more than $17.4 billion, a record haul for the company. That makes two record years in a row. Last year Bechtel earned more than $17 billion for the first time. Both records were all the more impressive given the senescent condition of the economy.
http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/2768/Bechtel_More_Powerful_than_the_US_Army
RETRO - Follow the Thought Stream - Have we made progress? NO, NO, NO !!!
The Cheney Observer Revisited
More than 50 arrested after Iraq car bombs, as Bush vows polls to go ahead
12-21-2004, 07h09
Ahmad Al-Rubaye - (AFP)
NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - US President George W. Bush vowed that Iraqi elections would go ahead as planned despite a wave of deadly insurgent attacks, as Iraqi authorities announced 51 arrests following Sunday's devastating car bombings.
http://www.turkishpress.com/world/news.asp?id=041221070954.uvb4ssjc.xml
Dealing with Putin giving Bush headaches
AWKWARD DANCE: The US president still maintains close ties with his increasingly hard-line Russian counterpart. But tensions have worsened over the Ukraine election
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/12/22/2003216238
ANOTHER MINOR MISCALCULATION
Bush blames Iraqi troops for setbacks
SHAKEN RESOLVE: The US president is off on his long vacation, but not before telling reporters that Americans could be forgiven for thinking that Iraqis aren't up to the task
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2004/12/22/2003216180
Bush Opens Door to Imported Drugs
oo many restrictions are attached, Congressional backers of the idea say.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-122104reimport_lat,0,5553658.story?coll=la-home-nation
A threat to the Kurds
Dec 21, 2004 — ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan urged President Bush to act against Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq during a telephone call on Tuesday, Turkish officials said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=349210
11/01/99
Text: Scheffer Makes Case for War Crimes Prosecution of Saddam Hussein
(Address to Iraqi National Congress in New York Oct. 29)
David Scheffer, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for War Crimes Issues, has laid out the U.S. case for prosecuting Saddam Hussein and a handful of close associates before an international war crimes tribunal.
In a speech delivered before the Iraqi National Congress in New York October 29, Scheffer accused the Iraqi regime of nine counts of possible war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Three of these continue to this day. They are:
-- "Since the 1980s, possible crimes against humanity for killings, ostensibly against political opponents, within Iraq;
-- Since 1991, crimes against humanity and possibly genocide against the Iraqi Kurds in northern Iraq, and
-- Since 1991, crimes against humanity and possible genocide against the peoples of the southern Iraqi marshes."
"Before any government entertains further thoughts about deeper relations with the Iraqi regime, the factual record of this criminal enterprise needs to be fully appreciated," Scheffer told the INC.
http://www.usembassy.it/file9911/alia/99110119.htm
Russia's Gazprom to sell oil unit in apparent bid to escape US legal action
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia's state-run gas behemoth Gazprom announced that it would dispose of an oil unit in an apparent bid to escape US legal action over the forced sale of the main asset of the stricken Yukos oil giant.
http://www.turkishpress.com/business/news.asp?id=041221184044.0vmtzp8t.xml>
Iraqi northern oil pipeline hub ablaze after attack
Updated 04:16am (Mla time) Dec 22, 2004
Agence France-Presse
KIRKUK, Iraq -- A grid of intersecting export and domestic oil pipelines in northern Iraq was on fire Tuesday, belching black smoke and shooting out bright red flames.
http://news.inq7.net/world/index.php?index=1&story_id=21998
Darfur rebels attack oil institutions
Sudan, Politics, 12/21/2004
The Sudanese government accused the Darfur rebels of attacking oil establishments in Darfur south where battles were renewed between the two sides and the African Union forces were obliged to provisionally postpone the monitoring mission.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/041221/2004122105.html
Maintenance at Athabasca Oil Sands upgrader extended to end of January
Canadian Press
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
CALGARY (CP) - The Athabasca Oil Sands Project will continue to lose production through to the end of January as more repairs are needed on the Scotford upgrader at Fort Saskatchewan, northeast of Edmonton.
http://www.canada.com/businesscentre/story.html?id=616bb063-abd4-4e70-8fc7-b55f648a325e
Elf Petroleum Executes N800m IPP
This Day (Lagos)
December 20, 2004
Posted to the web December 21, 2004
Mike Oduniyi
Lagos
As public power supply continues to decline, French oil firm Elf Petroleum Nigeria Limited, is currently buidling an N800 million Independent Power Project (IPP) in Rivers State.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412210108.html
USA: EXXONMOBIL: Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil Announce Commencement of Major Activities for $12 billion Qatargas II Project
Publication Date: Dec 21,2004, 12:58
SUMMARY: Qatar Petroleum and Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced that the companies are commencing a number of significant activities to advance the $12 billion Qatargas II project, which will supply LNG from Qatar to the United Kingdom by the winter of 2007/8.
http://webbolt.ecnext.com/coms2/description_41181_EXXONMOBIL211204_CON
NNPC Sacks 2,355 Workers Five Days to Xmas
Vanguard (Lagos)
December 21, 2004
Posted to the web December 21, 2004
John Ighodaro, Hector Igbikiowubo & Luka Binniyat
Port Harcourt
IT was a black day yesterday for 2,355 workers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) after they were laid off even as the second floor of the Port Harcourt office of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was razed yesterday.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412210525.html
continued...
"Okeydoke"
History…
1835 Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile
1898 Louisiana adopts new constitution with "grandfather clause" designed to eliminate black voters
1921 National Hospital Day 1st observed
1928 Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy
1928 Opium laws enforced
1932 Over two months after he was kidnapped, American aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby is found dead in Hopewell NJ Lindbergh had paid the ransom on April 2.
1933 the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration were established to provide help for the needy and farmers.
1942 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz
1942 Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
1943, during World War II, Axis forces in North Africa surrendered.
1949, the Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin Blockade.
1951 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
1952 Charlton Playground named in the Bronx
1953 KUHT TV channel 8 in Houston TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1955 Chicago Cub Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0)
1958 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Alpine Civitan Golf Open
1963 Race riot in Birmingham AL
1964 Manlio Brosio chosen as secretary-general of NATO
1965, West Germany and Israel exchanged letters establishing diplomatic relations.
1970, the Senate voted unanimously to confirm Harry A. Blackmun as a Supreme Court justice.
1970 KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte MT (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 Race riots in Augusta GA; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA American Defender-Raleigh Golf Classic
1978 The U.S. Department of Commerce declares that hurricanes will no longer be named exclusively after women.
1982 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike (Rabbit is Rich)
1984 South Africa prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years
1985, Amy Eilberg was ordained in New York as the first female rabbi in the Conservative Jewish movement
1991 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic
1992 1st Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest
1997 Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
Missing in Action
1967 ASHLOCK CARLOS PHILADELPHIA PA
1967 AGOSTO SANTOS JOSE PR 01/23/68 RELEASED / POW EXCHANGE
1967 GRENZEBACH EARL WILFRE JR. WORCHESTER NY
1967 GADDIS NORMAN C. KNOXVILLE TN 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1967 JEFFERSON JAMES M. SAN DIEGO CA POSS DEAD REMAINS ID 06/05/00
1967 PITMAN PETER P. ATLANTA GA
1967 STEWART ROBERT A. WASHINGTON DC
1968 BUCHER BERNARD L. EUREKA IL "EXPLODE, NO SEARCH, HOSTIL"
1968 COEN HARRY B. RIVERTON WY GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1968 CRAVEN ANDREW J. WILMINGTON NC GROUND ATTACT POSS KIA
1968 HEPLER FRANK M. GLENSIDE PA "EXPLODE, NO SEARCH, HOSTIL"
1968 LONG JULIUS W. JR. PULASKI WA 03/16/73 RELEASED BY PRG
1968 LONG GEORGE W. MEDICINE KS "EXPLODE, NO SEARCH, HOSTIL"
1968 MOORE MAURICE H. BALTIMORE MD GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1968 MC ELROY JOHN L. SCHENECTADY NY "EXPLODE, NO SEARCH, HOSTIL"
1968 MORELAND STEPHEN C. LOS ANGELES CA "EXPLODE, NO SEARCH, HOSTIL"
1968 ORR WARREN R. JR. KEWANEE IL
1968 RANSBOTTOM FREDERICK J. OKLAHOMA CITY OK GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1968 SIMPSON JOSEPH L. DENVER CO GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1968 SKIVINGTON WILLIAM E. JR. LAS VEGAS NV GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1968 SANDS RICHARD E. SPRINGFIELD IL
1968 STULLER JOHN C. FALLS CHURCH VA GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1968 WIDNER DANNY L. GRAHAM TX GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1968 WILLIAMS ROY C. WOODVILLE TX GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1968 WIDDISON IMLAY S. WOODS CROSS UT GROUND ATTACK POSS KIA
1970 PREISS ROBERT F. JR. CORNWALL NY REMAINS RETURNED IDENTIFIED 06/30/98
1972 ADAIR SAMUEL Y. JR. MADISON GA REMAINS RECOVERED 11/74
1972 BOGARD LONNIE P. MATARIE LA
1972 CRESSEY DENNIS C. CHEYENNE WY 11/74 REMAINS RECOVERED
1972 OSTERMEYER WILLIAM H. ORLANDO FL
12 Indiana power plants on list of dirtiest in U.S.
Report underscores the potential health threat from coal smokestacks throughout the state.
By John Strauss
john.strauss@indystar.com
An environmental group on Wednesday named 12 Indiana coal-burning power plants, including one on the Southside of Indianapolis, among the 50 "dirtiest" in the country for producing health-damaging pollutants.
Plainfield-based Cinergy/PSI had three of its power plants among those listed. Company officials said they have spent millions of dollars to clean emissions and are scheduled to spend millions more on improvements during the next few years.
The report underscores the potential health threat from power company smokestacks throughout Indiana. With one exception, the Indiana companies did not challenge the group's findings.
The report, "Dirty Kilowatts: America's Most Polluting Power Plants," compiled data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration for sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury and carbon dioxide. The mercury data were from 2002, and the rest of the information came from 2004.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050512/NEWS01/505120468/1007/LIVING
What we are breathing
Here's what 12 Indiana power plants ranked among the nation's 50 dirtiest are emitting, according to the Environmental Integrity Project. Some made the list for multiple pollutants.
• Carbon dioxide: Released by four plants in Jasper, Porter and Warrick counties, it can reduce oxygen delivery to the heart and brain.
• Nitrogen oxides: Released by four plants in Jefferson, Lake, LaPorte and Porter counties, they can damage the respiratory system and cause premature death.
• Sulfur dioxide: Released by six plants in Floyd, Lake, Marion, Vermillion, Vigo and Warrick counties. High levels can cause temporary breathing problems for asthmatics. Long-term, it can cause respiratory illness and aggravate heart disease.
Sources: EPA, Environmental Integrity Project
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050512/NEWS01/505120468/1007/LIVING
Bush asked to explain UK war memo
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Eighty-nine Democratic members of the U.S. Congress last week sent President George W. Bush a letter asking for explanation of a secret British memo that said "intelligence and facts were being fixed" to support the Iraq war in mid-2002 -- well before the president brought the issue to Congress for approval.
The Times of London newspaper published the memo -- actually minutes of a high-level meeting on Iraq held July 23, 2002 -- on May 1.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/11/britain.war.memo/index.html
The End Of Pensions
Dan Ackman, 05.11.05, 8:35 AM ET
NEW YORK - In the future, will any company offer a pension? The answer is probably not, and the future is getting closer all the time.
Yesterday a U.S. federal bankruptcy judge approved a plan by UAL (otc: UALAQ - news - people ), the parent company of United Airlines, to transfer its pension plans, which are underfunded by $9.8 billion, to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., which is itself underfunded.
http://www.forbes.com/2005/05/11/cx_da_0511topnews.html?partner=daily_newsletter
Star News
Women still feel free to drop tops at Topsail Beach
From time to time, visitors to Topsail Beach uncover something unexpected: a glimpse of a woman sunbathing topless.
And it’s perfectly legal.
Unlike its island neighbor Surf City, Topsail Beach doesn’t have an ordinance prohibiting women from baring their breasts in public. As a guideline, the small town uses state law that does not distinguish between men’s and women’s bare chests.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200550510021&source=email
Hospital funds: Only a Band-Aid?
Federal program aims to ease cost of treating immigrants
A federal program that will provide almost $5 million to North Carolina hospitals that care for illegal immigrants may benefit larger institutions such as New Hanover Regional Medical Center, but smaller facilities say the aid might not be worth the effort.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services program came out of 2003 legislation and will provide a $1 billion pot of money emergency health care providers can dip into over the next four years.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200550510023&source=email
Doctors, Azalea Festival leader receive honors
This year’s Star-News Lifetime Achievement Awards go to three men of far-reaching vision, Dr. Daniel Gottovi, Dr. R. Bertram Williams Jr. and Hugh Morton.
The two doctors helped shape the medical services field in Southeastern North Carolina. Mr. Morton, owner of Grandfather Mountain, was instrumental in starting the N.C. Azalea Festival and bringing the Battleship North Carolina to Wilmington.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200550511022&source=email
The buzz on mosquitoes
A few precautions can reduce bites from skeeters and ticks this summer
Be prepared: Area residents will soon feel the bite of last week’s rainfall and this week’s warm weather.
Millions of tiny mosquito eggs have hatched in mud flats, salt marshes and backyard birdbaths in recent days. They’re on track to sprout wings and satisfy their appetite for blood by next week unless we do something about it.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200550511026&source=email
Topsail Beach mayor quits amid public pressure
TOPSAIL BEACH Weeks after making accusations that the town’s volunteer firefighters attended training session under the influence of alcohol or drugs, Mayor Jimmy Morris resigned Wednesday night.
Residents clapped as he walked out of Town Hall. Mayor Pro tem Howard Braxton will be the town’s mayor and the board will remain a five-member board. The town will hold a special mayoral election in November and the winner will finish the four-year term.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200550511029&source=email
Game’s social, legal costs probed
By Margaret Lillard
RALEIGH - If North Carolina joins every other state on the East Coast and creates a lottery, the cost of policing it and offering help to problem gamblers could cost several million dollars a year, witnesses told a Senate committee Wednesday.
The state likely would use the lottery’s own proceeds to pay for such programs, although that’s not addressed in either the House-passed bill to create a lottery or the Senate’s budget proposal, which included lottery provisions, approved last week.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005205120335&source=email
FBI head praises Saudi crackdown
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - FBI director Robert Mueller praised progress in Saudi Arabia’s crackdown on militants Wednesday, a day after the kingdom said it had captured one of al-Qaida’s key "ideologues" in a shootout.
Saudi police wounded and arrested Abdul Aziz bin Rasheed al-Anzy, one of the editors of online al-Qaida periodicals that call for jihad, or holy war, and incite aggression, the Interior Ministry said.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005205120322&source=email
Area golfers take chance at Open
WALLACE The cheers were always there. So was Cortney Brisson’s game when it counted.
The Bladen County native and Wallace resident birdied the first hole of a playoff Wednesday evening to advance to U.S. Open sectional qualifying in Rockville, Md.
It will mark the second time in three years that Brisson has made his way out of the local stage. The first was in 2003 when he progressed all the way to the U.S. Open at Olympia Fields.
This trip came only after Brisson chipped in for birdie from the back fringe on his 72nd hole. That prompted a roar from a partisan crowd that was audible from one end of the River Course to the other.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200550511019&source=email
New research center to focus on terrorism
RALEIGH - Two universities and a North Carolina-based contract research organization have formed a new center to study terrorism and ways to prevent attacks.
Researchers and scholars from Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Research Triangle Institute International will work together to study terrorism and look for strategies to prevent attacks.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005205120340&source=email
He’s never been so insulted
SANFORD, FLA. - A county Republican chairman says his bid to head the state party was sabotaged because a letter falsely accused him of having been married six times. The right number, he says, is five.
"That’s unconscionable," Seminole County Republican Party Chairman Jim Stelling said Tuesday in the trial over his defamation suit. "I have four children and eight grandchildren that I love dearly. I believe in family values."
http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005205120341&source=email
The Cheney Observer
A SIMPLE VOTE ON JUDGES. How can a vote for judges be simple? Perhaps Bush can explain that one. At least try because I know this is nothing but pure manipulation over judges that were already voted on and defeated.
Bush calls for simple vote on judges
By Holly Yeager in Washington
Published: May 9 2005 18:22 Last updated: May 9 2005 23:26
President George W. Bush weighed in forcefully on Monday on a debate that threatens to bring the Senate to a near-standstill, calling on members to “put aside the partisan practices of the past” and allow an up-or-down vote on his candidates for the federal courts.
His comments, four years to the day after he nominated his first group of judges, come as a show-down nears on Senate rules governing debate on judicial nominees. Mr Bush complained that Democrats had used the filibuste-- a procedure that allows just 40 members of the 100-seat chamber to block a vote -- to prevent a vote on confirmation of several of his court choices.
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Grenade reportedly thrown toward Bush during Georgia speech
05.11.2005, 12:04 AM
WASHINGTON (AFX) - An apparent hand grenade was thrown close to US President George W. Bush on Tuesday as he gave a speech in front of tens of thousands of Georgians in Tbilisi, the US Secret Service said.
A Secret Service spokesman said the agency, which is charged with protecting US presidents, was only informed of the incident by Georgian officials after Bush had left the country.
http://www.forbes.com/finance/feeds/afx/2005/05/10/afx2016719.html
Democrats To Get Some Bolton Data
(CBS/AP) At the State Department's urging, Senate Democrats narrowed their request for internal government documents bearing on John R. Bolton's fitness to be the United States' ambassador to the United Nations.
Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have threatened to force a delay in the panel's planned Thursday vote on Bolton unless they get the information they want. They planned a private strategy session Tuesday and were hoping to receive more material from the State Department later in the day, said Norm Kurz, a spokesman for the committee's senior Democrat, Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/10/politics/main694203.shtml
Pastor Who Ousted Democrats From Church Resigns
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Chan Chandler endorsed Bush from the pulpit during last year's presidential campaign, saying John Kerry supporters needed to "repent or resign."
Waynesville, NC -- The Baptist pastor accused of running congregants out for not supporting President Bush resigned Tuesday night.
The Reverend Chan Chandler had called a meeting Tuesday night at the East Waynesville Baptist Church but did not announce an agenda.
Congregants of the 100-member church say Chandler endorsed Bush from the pulpit during last year's presidential campaign and said that anyone who planned to vote for Democratic nominee John Kerry needed to "repent or resign."
They say he continued to preach about politics after Bush won re-election. That led to a church gathering last week in which the nine members say they were ousted.
http://www.wfmynews2.com/news/local_state/local_article.aspx?storyid=40809
The less thought of Bechtel and Iraq
By Jeffrey St. Clair
Republished from Counterpunch
On the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Bechtel issued its revenue numbers for 2005.
On the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Bechtel, the gargantuan global construction firm based in San Francisco, issued its revenue numbers for 2005. While the situation continued to deteriorate for the US military forces in Iraq, Bechtel reported more fragrant news.
Although the privately-owned company doesn’t disclose its profits, Bechtel did announce that its income was soaring to new heights not seen since the 1960s when the company was damming some of the world’s most glorious canyons, building some of the most dangerous nuclear plants and constructing military bases for the staging of the war on Vietnam.
For the year 2004, Bechtel brought in more than $17.4 billion, a record haul for the company. That makes two record years in a row. Last year Bechtel earned more than $17 billion for the first time. Both records were all the more impressive given the senescent condition of the economy.
http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/2768/Bechtel_More_Powerful_than_the_US_Army
RETRO - Follow the Thought Stream - Have we made progress? NO, NO, NO !!!
The Cheney Observer Revisited
More than 50 arrested after Iraq car bombs, as Bush vows polls to go ahead
12-21-2004, 07h09
Ahmad Al-Rubaye - (AFP)
NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - US President George W. Bush vowed that Iraqi elections would go ahead as planned despite a wave of deadly insurgent attacks, as Iraqi authorities announced 51 arrests following Sunday's devastating car bombings.
http://www.turkishpress.com/world/news.asp?id=041221070954.uvb4ssjc.xml
Dealing with Putin giving Bush headaches
AWKWARD DANCE: The US president still maintains close ties with his increasingly hard-line Russian counterpart. But tensions have worsened over the Ukraine election
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/12/22/2003216238
ANOTHER MINOR MISCALCULATION
Bush blames Iraqi troops for setbacks
SHAKEN RESOLVE: The US president is off on his long vacation, but not before telling reporters that Americans could be forgiven for thinking that Iraqis aren't up to the task
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2004/12/22/2003216180
Bush Opens Door to Imported Drugs
oo many restrictions are attached, Congressional backers of the idea say.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-122104reimport_lat,0,5553658.story?coll=la-home-nation
A threat to the Kurds
Dec 21, 2004 — ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan urged President Bush to act against Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq during a telephone call on Tuesday, Turkish officials said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=349210
11/01/99
Text: Scheffer Makes Case for War Crimes Prosecution of Saddam Hussein
(Address to Iraqi National Congress in New York Oct. 29)
David Scheffer, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for War Crimes Issues, has laid out the U.S. case for prosecuting Saddam Hussein and a handful of close associates before an international war crimes tribunal.
In a speech delivered before the Iraqi National Congress in New York October 29, Scheffer accused the Iraqi regime of nine counts of possible war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Three of these continue to this day. They are:
-- "Since the 1980s, possible crimes against humanity for killings, ostensibly against political opponents, within Iraq;
-- Since 1991, crimes against humanity and possibly genocide against the Iraqi Kurds in northern Iraq, and
-- Since 1991, crimes against humanity and possible genocide against the peoples of the southern Iraqi marshes."
"Before any government entertains further thoughts about deeper relations with the Iraqi regime, the factual record of this criminal enterprise needs to be fully appreciated," Scheffer told the INC.
http://www.usembassy.it/file9911/alia/99110119.htm
Russia's Gazprom to sell oil unit in apparent bid to escape US legal action
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia's state-run gas behemoth Gazprom announced that it would dispose of an oil unit in an apparent bid to escape US legal action over the forced sale of the main asset of the stricken Yukos oil giant.
http://www.turkishpress.com/business/news.asp?id=041221184044.0vmtzp8t.xml>
Iraqi northern oil pipeline hub ablaze after attack
Updated 04:16am (Mla time) Dec 22, 2004
Agence France-Presse
KIRKUK, Iraq -- A grid of intersecting export and domestic oil pipelines in northern Iraq was on fire Tuesday, belching black smoke and shooting out bright red flames.
http://news.inq7.net/world/index.php?index=1&story_id=21998
Darfur rebels attack oil institutions
Sudan, Politics, 12/21/2004
The Sudanese government accused the Darfur rebels of attacking oil establishments in Darfur south where battles were renewed between the two sides and the African Union forces were obliged to provisionally postpone the monitoring mission.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/041221/2004122105.html
Maintenance at Athabasca Oil Sands upgrader extended to end of January
Canadian Press
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
CALGARY (CP) - The Athabasca Oil Sands Project will continue to lose production through to the end of January as more repairs are needed on the Scotford upgrader at Fort Saskatchewan, northeast of Edmonton.
http://www.canada.com/businesscentre/story.html?id=616bb063-abd4-4e70-8fc7-b55f648a325e
Elf Petroleum Executes N800m IPP
This Day (Lagos)
December 20, 2004
Posted to the web December 21, 2004
Mike Oduniyi
Lagos
As public power supply continues to decline, French oil firm Elf Petroleum Nigeria Limited, is currently buidling an N800 million Independent Power Project (IPP) in Rivers State.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412210108.html
USA: EXXONMOBIL: Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil Announce Commencement of Major Activities for $12 billion Qatargas II Project
Publication Date: Dec 21,2004, 12:58
SUMMARY: Qatar Petroleum and Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced that the companies are commencing a number of significant activities to advance the $12 billion Qatargas II project, which will supply LNG from Qatar to the United Kingdom by the winter of 2007/8.
http://webbolt.ecnext.com/coms2/description_41181_EXXONMOBIL211204_CON
NNPC Sacks 2,355 Workers Five Days to Xmas
Vanguard (Lagos)
December 21, 2004
Posted to the web December 21, 2004
John Ighodaro, Hector Igbikiowubo & Luka Binniyat
Port Harcourt
IT was a black day yesterday for 2,355 workers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) after they were laid off even as the second floor of the Port Harcourt office of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was razed yesterday.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200412210525.html
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