Santa Fe New Mexican, November 8, 2014

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3 S.F. soccer teams head to title games

Obama picks AG nominee

Stolen car tied to slain teens Shoe prints, blood, drugs found in 2nd vehicle may match crime scene

The president is expected to name Loretta E. Lynch as his nominee. PAGE A-3

By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican

Ex-Sheriff Rodella granted appeal Capital boys, St. Michael’s girls and Santa Fe Prep boys advance to championships today. PAGE B-1

Spaceship pilot’s survival ‘no minor miracle’

About five miles from where two teens were found shot to death Oct. 25 in a car off N.M. 14 south of Santa Fe, sheriff’s deputies found a bloodstained Toyota Camry that had been

Tommy Rodella to argue that key witness lied. PAGE A-6

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reported stolen, and shoe prints surrounding it might match those found at the homicide scene, a court docu-

u Civilian test pilots live on the edge of danger. PAGE A-4

By Helene Cooper and Michael D. Shear The New York Times

Santa Fe Ski Team member Itai Rosen, 9, helps organize ski gear for the annual ski swap on Friday afternoon. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Sales from annual swap meet benefit Santa Fe Ski Team By Dennis J. Carroll For The New Mexican

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ndrew Lehman, 11, and his brothers Oliver, 12, and Benton, 14, scurried around the Genoveva Chavez Community Center basketball court Friday, sorting donation tags and generally making sure that everything was in place for this weekend’s big Ski and Sports Swap. The benefit for the Santa Fe Ski Team, held before each winter sports season for as long as anyone present could remember, probably could have gone off without the help of the Lehman brothers, who are team members. But according to Andrew, “it would take a lot longer” to get ready. The swap was expected to draw 200 to 300 sellers who had decided that they had either outgrown, got bored with or just got fed up with the winter sports gear and clothing taking up their closet and garage space. Most every ski shop in town also

Ski Team volunteer Michael Austin tries on boots during the Ski and Sports Swap at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center.

donated items, everything from skis and boots to boards and clothing, some of which are expected to be sold at half the original retail price.

Panel urges lifting ban for females over 30 By Abdullah al-Shihri The Associated Press

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — It’s only for women over 30, who must be off the road by 8 p.m. and cannot wear makeup behind the wheel. But it’s still a startling shift. The Saudi king’s advisory council has recommended that the government lift its ban on female drivers, a member of the council

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has authorized the deployment of an additional 1,500 U.S. troops to Iraq in the coming months, doubling the number of Americans meant to train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces as they plan a major offensive expected in the spring against Islamic State fighters who have poured into the country from Syria. Pentagon officials said military advisers will establish training sites across Iraq in a significant expansion of the U.S. military campaign in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State. A Defense Department official said a number of military personnel would deploy specifically to Anbar province, the Sunni stronghold in western Iraq that was the scene of bloody fighting for years after the 2003 U.S.led invasion. In recent months Sunni militants with the Islamic State have

Please see IRAQ, Page A-4

More than 20,000 items were up for grabs. And it wasn’t just ski gear that covered the Chavez Center’s

Please see SKI, Page A-4

Saudi women may get to drive — but no makeup

A Saudi Arabian woman drives a car in 2011 as part of a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving. CHANGE.ORG

send another 1,500 U.S. troops to Iraq to serve as advisers, trainers and security personnel.

Obama doubles advisers to 3,100 in country

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President Barack Obama plans to

More U.S. troops tapped for Iraq

By Brian Melley

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New slopes for old ski gear

Retired test pilot shares similar incident he survived in 1966 in N.M. MOJAVE, Calif. — There were no ejection seats and no easy ways out of SpaceShipTwo if disaster struck. As the doomed flight rocketed past the speed of sound some eight miles high and then shattered seconds later, the odds of survival were slim. Remarkably, as sections of the cockpit, fuselage, a wing and motor rained down over the Mojave Desert and pieces of the lightweight craft tiny enough to travel 35 miles were picked up by the winds, a single parachute was seen in the sky. Pilot Peter Siebold was alive and drifting to safety. “It’s no minor miracle that he did survive and survive in relatively good shape,” Virgin Galactic Chief Executive George Whitesides said this week. How Siebold, 43, outlasted the fall from extreme altitude a week ago while co-pilot Mike Alsbury, 39, died is not yet clear, but Siebold is not the first to live through such a harrowing ordeal. Bill Weaver has been telling a similar story for decades. The former Lockheed test pilot was torn from the seat of an SR-71 Blackbird at 78,800 feet above New Mexico on Jan. 25, 1966. The plane was going more than triple the speed of sound. As Weaver banked into a turn, a malfunction caused one engine to

ment says. Deputies found the Camry abandoned in a field west of N.M. 599, hidden from the highway behind a large evergreen bush, according to an affidavit that deputies filed to obtain a search warrant. The driver’s side front door was open. On the Camry’s driver’s seat, “which appeared to have been wiped by some sort of cleaning agent,” deputies found several suspected blood

told The Associated Press Friday. The Shura Council’s recommendations are not obligatory on the government, but simply making the recommendation was a major step after years of the kingdom staunchly rejecting any review of the ban. There have been small but increasingly bold protests by women who took to their cars over the past year. The driving ban, which is unique in the world, is imposed because the kingdom’s ultraconservative Muslim clerics say “licentiousness” will spread if

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women drive. The council member said the Shura Council made the recommendations in a secret, closed session held in the past month. The member spoke on condition of anonymity because the recommendations had not been made public. Under the recommendations, only women over 30 would be allowed to drive and they would need permission from a male relative — usually a husband or father, but lacking those, a brother or

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Obituaries Susan Anneke Chittim, Oct. 30 Rito Aras Avitia, 49, Nov. 5

Sheldon “Shelly” Levin PAGE A-10

Today Sunny. High 59, low 33. PAGE A-12

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