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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas Strip is getting the world’s largest Ferris wheel, dubbed the High Roller. Workers hoisted the final 60-foot piece of the 55-story outer... - PAGE B5
September 11, 2013
WEDNESDAY
On Syria, Obama blends threat, hope
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the run-up to a prime-time televised speech, President Barack Obama blended the threat of a military strike with the hope of a diplomatic solution Tuesday as he worked to rid Syria of an illicit stockpile of fearsome chemical weapons.
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Secretary of State John Kerry set a hurry-up trip to Geneva for talks Thursday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and the United Nations Security Council first scheduled,
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and then scrapped, a private meeting on steps to defuse a looming crisis.
Despite expressing skepticism about the outcome of the diplomacy, officials said, Obama and close Senate allies reaf fir med their decision for a pause in attempts to win congressional backing for a strike against President Bashar Assad’s government. And while a presidential statement to that ef fect was possible in Obama’s speech, nationwide
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel pointedly told a congressional hearing it was not time to let the threat lapse. “For this diplomatic option to have a chance at succeeding, the threat of a U.S. military action, the credible, real threat of U.S. military action, must continue,” he declared. At the same hearing, Kerry said any diplomacy “cannot be a process of delay. This cannot be a process of avoidance.”
Heinrich alone in support of strike JILL MCLAUGHLIN RECORD STAFF WRITER
First-time Democrat Sen. Martin Heinrich remained the only New Mexico congressional representative to say he’ll
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Infant severely injured
The 1-month-old boy came into the hospital with what the police referred to as “marks.” The police did not specify what kind of marks or where the marks were found.
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The San Francisco 49ers gave up ground to the Denver Broncos while holding down the top spot in the AP Pro32 power rankings after the first... - PAGE B1
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Easter n New Mexico Medical Center contacted the Roswell Police Department Saturday about an extreme case of child abuse. An infant was brought in to the Emergency Department sometime around 11 p.m.
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vote for a Senate resolution authorizing a U.S. strike in Syria, following President Barack Obama’s speech Tuesday night.
However, the injuries were severe enough that the hospital had the boy air lifted to Albuquerque for continuing treatment. According to the police, the child is listed in critical condition.
Infor mation about the parents has been withheld pending the completion of the investigation. No charges have been filed.
RPD to hold viewing UK councilors visit Roswell for recovered items JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER
The police are holding a viewing of items recovered following a number of vehicle burglaries. They are asking anyone who was the victim of a vehicle burglary between Aug. 19 and Sept. 5, to make a report of the incident and then come to the Roswell Police Department, 128 W. Second St., on Tuesday, Sept. 17, and Wednesday. Sept. 18, to claim any stolen property. Bringing a copy of the report is a must before any of the items can be claimed. The police receive an average of four reports each day about vehicle burglaries, but believe there may be more that go unreported. Items listed on the reports during the threeweek period from Aug. 19
to Sept. 5 include: a Lincoln welder, cookbooks, a Dewalt drill set, other power tools, hand tools and tool boxes, a gas cap, checkbooks, car radios, keys, sheers, a jumper cable, purses, wallets, insurance papers, car titles, prescription medication, electronics and a BB gun. Other items stolen included jewelry, two handguns, cash, shotgun, cellphones, lawn and garden tools, medical and student records, and two rolls of copper wire.
Some streets were particularly hard hit. The police took more than one report from Trailing Heart Road and North Montana Avenue. Other areas of town where vehicle burglaries were reported were:
AMY VOGELSANG RECORD STAFF WRITER
T raveling all the way from the United Kingdom, two men made their trek to Roswell with the intent of connecting through the one unique aspect a New Mexico city could share with a city in Scotland: UFO sightings. Known as the UFO Capital of the World with its surreal number of sightings since 1992, Bonnybridge, Scotland is part of “The Falkirk Triangle,” an area between the cities Stirling, Fife and outer neighborhoods of Edinburgh. With about 300 sightings every year, Bonnybridge has drawn hundreds of tourists from around the world. Intrigued by how Roswell uses the 1947 sighting in correlation with the economy, Falkirk
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Falkirk Councilors Malcom Nicol (left) and Billy Buchanan (right) from Bonnybridge, Scotland pose with Mayor Del Jurney after discussing Roswell’s use of the 1947 UFO crash as an economy boost. Councilors Malcom Nicol and Billy Buchanan made a trip from the Scottish city to the United States. “Although the phenomenon has been growing
since 1992, we have never tried to utilize the phenomenon in the ways See VISIT, Page A3
Poll: Public doubts rise on privacy Richest 1 percent earn biggest share since ’20s WASHINGTON (AP) — Following disclosur es about the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance pr ograms, a majority of Americans believe the U.S. government is doing a poor job of pr otecting privacy rights, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Close to 60 percent of Americans oppose the NSA’s collection of data on telephone and Internet usage. A similar majority opposes the legal process supervised by a secr et
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federal court that oversees the gover nment’s classified surveillance. The American public is still anxious about terrorism as the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches. About six in 10 Americans feel it is sometimes necessary to sacrifice rights to confront terrorism. But suspicions about the government’s promises to protect civil liberties have deepened since 2011. Only 53 per cent now say the government does a good job of ensuring freedoms, compared
to 60 percent two years ago.
The shift in public attitudes follows a thr eemonth barrage of leaks to media organizations by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who r eleased secr et documents about the surveillance agency’s inner workings.
In follow-up interviews after the poll, some respondents described Snowden as a criminal and an attention-seeker. Others called him a whistleblower.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The gulf between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it’s been since the Roaring ’20s. The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country’s household income last year — their biggest share since 1928, the year before the stock market crash. And the top 10 percent captured a record 48.2 percent of total earnings last year. U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost
three decades. And it grew again last year, according to an analysis of Internal Revenue Service figures dating to 1913 by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.
One of them, Berkeley’s Emmanuel Saez, said the incomes of the richest Americans surged last year in part because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that took effect in January.