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On the heels of the football team’s disappointing forfeit of a rare victory, the school’s soccer team drops from 4-0 to 0-4 for the season as NMAA officials rule three players were academically ineligible. sPorts, B-1
Federal officials say the Jemez Mountain salamander’s habitat is threatened by wildfires, roads, campers and even cyclists. Page C-2
President expresses doubt about diplomatic effort to remove chemical weapons
obama: threat is key to pressuring syria What kind of “ world will we live
By Steve Terrell The New Mexican
President Barack Obama Obama addresses the nation in a live televised speech from the East Room of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, blending the threat of military action with the hope of a diplomatic solution that would strip Syria of its chemical weapons. EVAN VUCCI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Plan to seize chemicals faces challenges
By Christi Parsons, Michael A. Memoli and Paul Richter Tribune Washington Bureau
By Joby Warrick and Loveday Morris
WASHINGTON resident Barack Obama suspended his drive to win congressional authorization for punitive military strikes against Syria on Tuesday, as his administration and U.S. allies began the diplomatic haggling with Russia that could lead to a peaceful resolution of the crisis. In a rare prime-time address from the White House, Obama declared that he saw “encouraging signs” in negotiations sparked by an unexpected Russian proposal to place Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles under international control. But the president also counseled caution, and argued that U.S. must maintain the threat of an attack to put pressure the Syrian government. In vivid language, Obama charged President Bashar Assad’s government “gassed to death” more than a thousand people in the Damascus suburbs Aug. 21. “What kind of world will we live in if the United States of America sees a dictator brazenly violate international law with poison gas and we choose to look the other way?” Obama said in remarks delivered from the East Room. “Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security, are at stake in Syria, along with our leadership of a world where
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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, left, speaks with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, Syria, in 2010. More questions than clarity surround a Russian-brokered proposal to place Syria’s chemical arsenal under international control. The overall framework remains unclear, as well as how the plan would be verified and enforced. FILE PHOTO OF SANA, THE OFFICIAL SYRIAN NEWS AGENCY
“It is doable, and potentially a great idea, but let’s not be naive,” said Jean Pascal Zanders, a Belgian arms-control researcher and writer for The Trench, a
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blog focusing on weapons of mass destruction. “If you can get around the legal and logistical
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Apple will offer two new smartphones, one the most ‘forward-thinking’ and the other a ‘fun and colorful’ stripped-down version for those who have less to spend on gadgets. Page a-2
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in if the United States of America sees a dictator brazenly violate international law with poison gas and we choose to look the other way?”
As diplomats wrangled over competing plans for securing Syria’s chemical weapons, armscontrol experts warned Tuesday of the formidable challenges involved in carrying out such a complex and risky operation in the midst of a raging civil war. U.N. teams dispatched to Syria for the mission would be attempting something new: finding and safeguarding a long-hidden arsenal in a country that has long stood outside key international arm-control agreements, all while exposed to crossfire from Syria’s warring factions. Although the mission might be worth the risks, experts say, it would be costly and timeconsuming, especially if the goal includes the physical destruction of Syria’s thousands of chemical warheads and rockets as well as hundreds of tons of liquid toxins kept in bulk storage throughout the country.
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robert Boswell The author reads from and signs copies of his novel Tumbledown, 6 p.m., Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 988-4226. More events in Calendar, Page A-2
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A group calling itself New Mexico Competes is paying for radio ads defending Gov. Susana Martinez’s role in the recent controversial shake-up of the state’s governmentfunded mental health system. The 60-second spot features a female voice over pensive piano music, saying Martinez is “cracking down” on Medicaid Susana fraud but “special Martinez interest groups” want her to “look the other way.” At the end of the ad, listeners are urged to call the Governor’s Office and urge her to “keep fighting the fraud, protecting Medicaid for the most vulnerable.” It’s apparently the first political ad to arise from the behavioral health controversy, which has been the
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Man found dead near Rosario Cemetery Bruised body turned over to OMI for exam By Chris Quintana The New Mexican
The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the death of an unidentified man whose bruised body was found Tuesday morning on a dirt path north of the downtown area, just a few feet east of Rosario Cemetery. The department’s public information officer, Celina Westervelt, said police were interviewing two men who may have witnessed the man’s death. However, no one had been arrested in connection with the death as of Tuesday night. A police department news release stated that the man’s body was bruised in several places, suggesting he was involved in a fight, but the cause of death wasn’t immediately
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