Peninsula Daily News for Sunday, October 23, 2011
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Briefly: Nation Nevada moves caucus to Feb. 4 after backlash
ties say a hunter mistook him for a bear. Christopher Ochoa, 20, of French Camp, Calif., and a friend were hiking through a field in western Oregon on the way to Silver Creek Falls Park MANCHESTER, N.H. — Friday evening. Facing boycott threats from Ochoa was wearing dark-colcampaigns, incentive offers from ored clothing when an Oregon the Republican National Comman, 67, hunting for bear with mittee and the private blessing his 12-year-old grandson saw of the Mitt Romney campaign, Nevada Republicans voted Sat- something moving in the brush and fired one shot from a urday to set their caucuses for .270-caliber rifle, striking Feb. 4. Ochoa, the Marion County SherThe move ends an increasingly bitter standoff among rival iff’s Office said. states and for the first time The Sheriff’s Office said the clarifies the path to the Republi- hunter hasn’t been charged. can presidential nomination. The shooting appeared to be New Hampshire’s top elecaccidental, the Sheriff’s Office tion official had warned that said, but the case was turned Nevada’s initial insistence to over to the local district attorhost its contest in mid-January ney’s office. could force the Granite State to The hunter cooperated with schedule the nation’s first detectives, according to a press Republican primary election in release from the Sheriff’s Office, roughly six weeks. and there was no indication Nevada’s will be the West’s that he was impaired by drugs first stop in the race for the or alcohol. Republican presidential nomination and the fifth contest Today’s news shows overall, after Iowa, New HampGuest lineups for today’s TV news shire, South Carolina and Florshows: ida. ■ ABC’s “This Week” — Secretary The calendar scramble had of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Sen. consumed Republican officials John McCain, R-Ariz. ■ NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Clinin early voting states and comton; 2012 GOP presidential candidate plicated candidates’ decisions Ron Paul; White House adviser David about travel, the timing of telePlouffe. vision advertisements and the ■ CBS’s “Face the Nation” — 2012 distribution of limited resources. GOP presidential candidates Michele
Hiker mistaken for bear SUBLIMITY, Ore. — A California member of the Marine Corps Reserves was shot and killed in Oregon after authori-
Iraq future uncertain as U.S. pullout looms By Lara Jakes and Rebecca Santana The Associated Press
BAGHDAD — For the first time in decades, Iraqis face a future on their own, with neither Saddam Hussein’s iron fist nor the United States’ military might to hold them together. This has been both their dream and nightmare: They wanted American troops (the occupiers) to go, but they wanted American troops (the protectors) to stay. Now many fear an increase in violence, growing Iranian influence and political turmoil after President Barack Obama’s definitive announcement that all U.S. forces will leave by the end of the year. In conversations with The Associated Press, Iraqis across the political, religious and geographic spectrum Saturday questioned what more than eight years of war and tens of thousands of Iraqi and U.S. lives lost had wrought on their country. They wondered how their still
struggling democracy could face the challenges ahead. “Neither the Iraqis nor the Americans have won here,” said Adnan Omar, a Sunni from the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Rifaat Khazim, a Shiite from the southern city of Basra, said, “I do not think that this withdrawal will bring anything better to Iraq or that Iraqi leaders will be able to achieve stability and security in this country. “Most of the Iraqis yearn now for Saddam’s time. Now, Iraq is defenseless in the face of the threats by the neighboring countries.”
A sense of disbelief Across the country there was a strong sense of disbelief. The Americans, having spent hundreds of billions of dollars, lost nearly 4,500 troops’ lives and built up sprawling bases as big as many Iraqi cities, would never really leave, many Iraqis thought. Some celebrated the exit of foreign occupiers and the emer-
gence of real sovereignty. But there was also an apprehension, almost a sense of resignation, that things will get worse. Though greatly reduced from the depths of near civil war from 2006 to 2008, shooting and bombings rattle Iraqis daily. Significantly all the elements from those darkest days remain: al-Qaida militants, Shiite militias, Sunni insurgents. Resentment still simmers among the Sunni Muslim minority over domination by the Shiite majority; Kurds in the north still hold aspirations of breaking away. Nearly 40,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq, all of whom will withdraw by Dec. 31, a deadline set in a 2008 security agreement between Baghdad and the administration of then-President George W. Bush. U.S. officials, from Obama to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, stressed that Washington will continue to have a strong diplomatic relationship with Baghdad.
Bachmann and Rick Santorum. ■ CNN’s “State of the Union” — Vice President Joe Biden; Clinton; Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. ■ “Fox News Sunday” — Clinton; Bachmann; Sen. Lindsey Graham R-S.C.
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Briefly: World ‘Unwanted’ names shed by 285 Indian girls MUMBAI, India — More than 200 Indian girls whose names mean “unwanted” in Hindi chose new names Saturday for a fresh start in life. Officials of the central district of Satara in Maharashtra state held a renaming ceremony in hopes of giving the girls new dignity and help fight widespread gender discrimination that gives India a skewed gender ratio, with far more boys than girls. Some of the 285 girls chose to name themselves after Bollywood stars; some opted for traditional names with happier meanings, such as “Vaishali,” or “prosperous, beautiful and good.” The plight of girls in India came into a focus as this year’s census showed the nation’s sex ratio had dropped over the past decade from 927 to 914 girls for every 1,000 boys under the age of 6. Such ratios are the result of abortions of female fetuses or sheer neglect leading to a higher death rate among girls. Part of the reason Indians favor sons is the enormous expense of marrying off girls. Also, Hindu custom dictates that only sons can light their parents’ funeral pyres.
Shark kills diver CANBERRA, Australia — A great white shark killed an American recreational diver on Saturday — the third fatality in recent weeks off southwest Australia that has shaken beachloving residents and sparked fears of a rogue predator targeting humans. Australia averages fewer
than two fatal shark attacks a year nationwide. Shark hunters have set baited hooks off the coast, and the state government is considering more aircraft surveillance off west coast beaches as whales migrating in larger numbers attract more sharks. Police said they will release the name of the 32-year-old man today. The shark struck 500 yards north of the tourist haven of Rottnest Island, which is 11 miles west of a popular Perth city beach where a 64-year-old Australian swimmer is believed to have been taken by a great white Oct. 10. The two tragedies follow the Sept. 4 death of 21-year-old bodyboarder whose legs were bitten off by a shark at a beach south of Perth.
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A snapshot is taken by one of the many men, women and children who lined up to view Moammar Gadhafi’s body, which was laid out on a mattress on the floor of an emptiedout vegetable freezer in Misrata, Libya, on Saturday.
Liberation declaration slated as Gadhafi body lures viewers
Afghanistan neighbors
By Kim Gamel
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday urged Afghanistan’s Central Asian neighbors to play a role in securing and rebuilding the country as American forces withdraw over the next three years. Clinton told an audience in Tajikistan that Afghanistan’s reintegration into the regional economy would be critical to its recovery from war, as well as for better conditions in surrounding countries. Afghanistan has been at “the crossroads for terrorism and insurgency and so much pain and suffering over 30 years,” she said. “We want Afghanistan to be at the crossroads of economic opportunities going north and south and east and west, which is why it’s so critical to more fully integrate the economies of the countries in this region in South and Central Asia.” The Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s new leaders will declare liberation today, officials said, a move that will start the clock for elections after months of bloodshed that culminated in the death of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. But the victory has been clouded by questions over how Gadhafi was killed after images emerged showing he was found alive and taunted and beaten by his captors. The long-awaited declaration of liberation will come more than two months after revolutionary forces swept into Tripoli and seized control of most of the oilrich North African nation. It was stalled by fierce resistance by Gadhafi loyalists in his hometown of Sirte, Bani Walid and pockets in the south. Sirte was the last to fall, but Gadhafi’s son and one-time heir apparent and many of his fighters have apparently escaped, raising
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fears they could continue to stir up trouble. With Gadhafi gone, however, the governing National Transitional Council was moving forward with efforts to transform the country that was ruled by one man for more than four decades into a democracy. In Tripoli, residents said they were relieved Gadhafi was killed, not captured, allowing the nation to move forward without fear that his supporters would try to sabotage the transition to democracy.
Now, new leaders can start “If there was a trial, it would take some time. . . . Maybe there would be revenge attacks,” said Hosni Bashir, an oil worker who was attending the first meeting of a new political party in a Tripoli hotel. “Now, they [Libya’s new leaders] can start.” The transitional leadership has said it would declare a new interim government within a month of liberation and elections for a constitutional assembly
within eight months to be followed by a parliamentary and presidential vote within a year. Gadhafi’s blood-streaked body has been put on display in a commercial freezer at a shopping center in Misrata as Libyan authorities argued about where to bury the remains. Abdel-Basit al-Mzirig, the deputy justice minister, said Gadhafi will be buried according to Islamic tradition, but his burial place will be kept secret. Fathi Bashagha, a spokesman for the Misrata military council, said the body of Gadhafi is in the custody of prosecutors and that they will be the ones to decide, along with the NTC, whether an autopsy is necessary. At least four groups of doctors have examined the body and determined the cause of death was a bullet to the head and stomach, but “so far there is no autopsy,” he said. International rights groups, including Amnesty International, called for a probe into the killing.
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Nation: Icon Pete Seeger joins Occupy protesters
World: 4,000 in Germany protest banks’ dominance
World: Election today for birthplace of ‘Arab Spring’
World: Defunct satellite pieces to hit Earth today
FOLK MUSIC LEGEND Pete Seeger joined in the Occupy Wall Street protest Friday night, replacing his banjo with two canes as he marched with throngs of people in New York City’s tony Upper West Side past banks and shiny department stores. The 92-year-old Seeger and about 1,000 people sang and chanted as they marched peacefully over more than 30 blocks from Symphony Space, where the Seeger and other musicians performed, to Columbus Circle. At the circle, they were joined by ’60s folk singer Arlo Guthrie in a round of “We Shall Overcome,” a protest anthem made popular by Seeger.
AROUND 4,000 PEOPLE took to the streets in Frankfurt to protest the banks’ dominance in what is continental Europe’s financial hub. Police spokeswoman Isabell Neumann said Saturday the Occupy Frankfurt protesters marched peacefully through the city. Some protesters have been camping out in front of the European Central Bank’s office tower in Frankfurt since a demonstration of around 5,000 there last week. Several hundred protesters criticizing banks and capitalism as a whole also took to the streets in Berlin, where about 4,000 had turned out last weekend.
TUNIS WAS FILLED with rival rallies throbbing with music as the political parties marked the end of three weeks of campaigning for the Tunisia’s first truly free and multiparty elections since its independence from France in 1956. Tunisians today will elect an assembly that will appoint a new government and then write the country’s constitution to replace a half-century-old dictatorship that was overthrown by a popular uprising Jan. 14. Tunisia’s revolution set off a series of similar uprisings across the Middle East that are now being called the Arab Spring.
PIECES OF THE defunct satellite that is hurtling toward the atmosphere are expected to crash to the Earth today, according to the German Aerospace Center. Pieces of the ROSAT scientific research satellite are expected to hit sometime this morning European time. Most parts will burn up during reentry, but up to 30 fragments weighing 1.87 tons could crash into Earth at speeds up to 280 mph. The satellite could hit almost anywhere along a vast swath between 53-degrees north and 53-degrees south that comprises much of the planet outside the poles.