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(12/05/01 4:07am)
LANCASTER, Ky. -- The Garrard Fiscal Court has decided to fight the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky in its civil suit to have the Ten Commandments display taken down from a wall in the county courthouse.\nIn a special meeting Tuesday, magistrates went into executive session to discuss the suit -- filed last week by the ACLU against County-Judge Executive E.J. Hasty.\n"We're going to leave (the display) hanging," said Magistrate Ronnie Lane in his motion. He said an attorney will be chosen at the next fiscal court meeting.\nMagistrate Norman Davis seconded Lane's motion. The vote by the five county representatives was unanimous. Magistrate F.C. Foley could not be reached for comment after the meeting, but three of the four remaining magistrates left no doubt about their convictions.\n"I'm not letting the ACLU tell us what we have to (do)," Lane said after the vote.\nLane said his constituents are telling him they want the display to remain.\n"I'm just doing what I think is right," said Norman Davis, who had seconded Lane's motion.\nThe display was posted in December 1999 after the court approved the request to post it by a local minister. It includes a large copy of the Commandments surrounded by a quote from Abraham Lincoln, copies of The Mayflower Compact, the preambles of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of Kentucky and others.\nCounty Attorney Jeff Moss said he has been contacted by three legal firms offering to take the case at no cost. He noted that no county funds to date have been spent on the display.\nNov. 27, the ACLU also filed suit in federal court against Mercer County Judge-Executive Charles McGinnis, as well as against Rowan and Grayson counties.
(12/03/01 4:16am)
JERUSALEM -- After a series of suicide bombings against Israel that killed 25 people and wounded nearly 200, Yasser Arafat ordered dozens of Islamic militants arrested and promised harsh action. But Israel was deeply skeptical, with hard-liners calling for the removal of the Palestinian leader. \nThe carnage began in Jerusalem just before midnight Saturday, when two suicide bombers set off their nail-filled bombs on Ben Yehuda street, an area of cafes and bars packed with young Israelis. Ten people, mostly teens, were killed, and 150 were wounded. \nAt noon Sunday, another Palestinian blew himself up in a bus in the northern port city of Haifa, sending bodies flying and destroying the vehicle. Fifteen people were killed and 40 injured. \nThe Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the bombings, in retaliation for Israel\'s slaying of a Hamas leader nine days ago. Three suicide attackers were killed in the bombings.
(11/27/01 4:23am)
KOENIGSWINTER, Germany -- When Afghan delegates and U.N. mediators begin talks Tuesday at a secluded hotel overlooking the Rhine River, it will not be the first time the course of history is negotiated at the former government guest house. \nIn 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stayed in the stately Petersberg mansion, when he met with Adolf Hitler to try to avert World War II. In 1999, Western countries and Russia negotiated the terms of Yugoslavia's surrender following the NATO bombing campaign that year. \nNow, the future of Afghanistan is at stake in the most concerted effort to bring peace to the country in the last two decades. Secluded at Petersberg will be 32 Afghan delegates, 22 who will sit in the talks and 10 advisers, representing the northern alliance and three exile Afghan groups. The talks, which will be led by the United Nations, are expected to go on for days, and possibly weeks. \n"The people of Afghanistan desperately need peace to rebuild the country," Ahmad Fawzi, a U.N. spokesman for the talks, said in Koenigswinter. "I think by agreeing to come the parties have made a good start." \nThe delegates will spend the duration of the talks at Petersberg, perched on a hilltop above the former German capital of Bonn, and reached by a single road. The location was chosen not only for security reasons, but also to remove the delegations from what Fawzi called "daily pressures," a move the United Nations hopes will give the delegations perspective to reach a consensus. \n"It's a very simple agenda really," Fawzi said. "We're talking about the possibility to form a transitional administration for Afghanistan, as soon as possible because speed is of the essence in view of the situation on the ground." \nGerman Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer will greet the four delegations when the conference opens on Tuesday. At that point, German officials will step into the background, while the delegates and advisers seek consensus on what the United Nations hopes will be the first agreements defining Afghanistan's political future. \nGerman officials emphasize their role is as host, not facilitator. Other interested nations, notably the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom, also will observe from the corridors. \nSparing no effort to make the delegates feel comfortable, German officials have set up three prayer rooms, for Sunni and Shiite Muslims, as well as for female worshippers, and have ordered evening buffets of chicken and rice dishes with dried fruit to break the daily Ramadan fast. \nThere are limits to what will be accommodated: Delegates must check any weapons before entering the talks. \nGermany emerged as the host of what many experts expect will be difficult, even contentious talks, due to its long-standing cultural and political ties with Afghanistan and its image as a neutral party. \nBerlin quietly hosted four meetings over the last two years of Afghan parties and interested nations, including the United States and Pakistan, demonstrating its ability to create a relaxed atmosphere for difficult discussions. The last set of the talks was held in July, a Foreign Ministry official said. \nBut cultural ties are much older, extending to the early 20th century, and including the founding of a German secondary school in Kabul attended by the Afghan elite. The two countries maintained friendly relations throughout the last century and changing governments in both countries, helped by the fact Germany had no interests in the region, said Citha Maass of the Foundation for Science and Politics in Berlin. \nDuring the last two decades of fighting in Afghanistan, Maass said Germany maintained relations with all the warring factions. Today, it is home to some 80,000 Afghan exiles, the largest community in Europe. \nMore recently, Germany has taken a lead role organizing international aid to Afghanistan. \n"Germany is one of the few powers that can be taken seriously by all sides," said Almut Wieland-Karimi of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Berlin. "The Americans and Brits disqualified themselves, if not before, finally with the military action."\nThe U.N. spokesman, Ahmad Fawzi, said the United Nations was imposing no conditions on the Afghans. \n"It's their choice. They know what the international community has to offer," Fawzi said. "Without peace there will be no development. Without peace there will be no investment." \nIf the talks succeed, Afghanistan could have its first stable government since the 1970s, and the international community is poised to offer hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of dollars to a bankrupt nation in desperate need of reconstruction. \n"This is a golden opportunity for Afghanistan," Fawzi said.
(11/05/01 5:03am)
CRANE, Ind. -- Though the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center is helping supply weapons America needs to win the war against terrorism, the facility could lose the battle to survive government cost-cutting.\nCongress is hammering out a national defense spending bill that likely will include provisions for downsizing or closing dozens of military installations by the middle of this decade. Though no official list of targeted bases has been released, business owners and officials in southern Indiana fear one could be the 60-year-old Crane facility.\nCrane provides thousands of jobs on site and through contracts and generates about $241 million a year in wages, according to an economic study last year by the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs.\n"If Crane is ever closed, the impact would be devastating in every way -- economically, employment, culture," said Jim Shelton, manager of Technology Service Corp., a Monroe County company that does business with Crane. "There would be a giant hole left in southern Indiana."\nShelton and several other officials and business leaders have formed the Southern Indiana Business Alliance to sound the alert about Crane in the eight rural counties that surround the 32,000-acre base.\nBut they may have a tough job drumming up interest.\nFormer Crane commander Steve Howard, who now heads the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce, said the intensified activity around Crane since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks makes it difficult to convince people that base closings are a possibility.\nJust four days after the attacks, the Senate voted 53-47 to begin a new round of base closings. Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Evan Bayh, D-Ind., supported the measure. And on Oct. 15, eight former defense secretaries signed a letter favoring base closings and sent it to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.\n"Our biggest enemy right now is complacency here in Indiana," Howard said. "Things are happening in Washington. People think Crane has always been around and always will be."\nLinton Mayor Jimmie K. Wright has seen Crane weather all types of threats, both foreign and domestic.\n"Crane got looked at hard in 1995, but they are about the last major military installation in the state. I think they\'ll be OK," Wright said.\nMost people know the facility as a storage site for some 650,000 tons of munitions, enough to supply the Army and Navy for the first 30 days of a full-scale war.\nCrane's other role is technical, with about a third of its 3,200 workers employed as engineers, scientists and high-skilled technicians manufacturing items like night-vision goggles and guidance systems for aircraft.\n"Their high-tech performance is what keeps them vital, not the lobbying in Washington," Wright said.\nBut Pete Sepp, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union in Alexandria, Va., said lobbying is what has kept many military installations alive.\n"Most of these military installations serve a political purpose rather than national security," he said.\nSepp said most communities that feared economic calamity when their bases closed survived by converting the facilities into industrial parks and other uses for the private sector.\nBut Howard said Crane is an exception because the area is isolated and lacks commercial development.\nRick Graves, who owns a plumbing, heating and air conditioning business in Switz City, said two of his 20 employees are detailed directly to Crane, while much of the work he does in houses comes from people who work there.\n"They are a major factor down here," Graves said. "We'd like to see them here always"
(10/10/01 4:53am)
CAIRO, Egypt -- Osama bin Laden's spokesman on Tuesday called for a holy war against U.S. interests everywhere and praised the hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon for their "good deed." \n"America must know that the storm of airplanes will not stop, and there are thousands of young people who look forward to death like the Americans look forward to life," Sulaiman Abu Ghaith said. \nThe message from Abu Ghaith was the second statement from al Qaeda since the launch of U.S.-led airstrikes against Afghanistan Sunday. Bin Laden issued a videotaped message that same day, though it appeared to have been recorded before the attacks began. \nAbu Ghaith, who addressed his message "to the entire Islamic nation," said that President Bush had launched a "crusade" against Afghanistan with the launch of strikes and Muslims worldwide must respond. \nJihad, or holy war, "is a duty of every Muslim if they haven't got an excuse," he said in the videotaped statement broadcast on the Arab television news station Al-Jazeera. \n"The American interests are everywhere all over the world. Every Muslim has to play his real and true role to uphold his religion and his nation in fighting, and jihad is a duty," he said. \nIf Muslims do not take up their duty, "it will be shameful," he said. "This battle is a decisive battle between atheism and faith." \nHe praised the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, saying the hijackers "did something good" and took the battle to the heart of America. \n"The Americans have opened a door that will never be closed," Abu Ghaith said of the continuing air raids on Afghanistan. "America must know that the battle will not leave its land until America leaves our land; until it stops supporting Israel; until it stops the blockade against Iraq." \nThat echoed bin Laden's statement Sunday, which aimed to cast the fight as one that pits the West and Israel against the interests of Muslims everywhere, particularly the Palestinians and Iraqis. \nAn editorial staffer at Al-Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar, Ibrahim Hilal, said the channel received the tape at its bureau in Kabul, the Afghan capital, Tuesday. Al-Jazeera did not say when the videotape was recorded. The station also broadcast bin Laden's statement Sunday. \nAbu Ghaith wore a white turban, similar to that worn by Osama bin Laden, the chief suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks. He was dressed in white robes and stood against a dark brown background. \nIn closing his remarks, Abu Ghaith thanked God for the chance to wage holy war.
(06/28/01 4:00am)
Proposed plans to enlarge the bleacher entrance and add two balconies overlooking the corner of Waveland and Sheffield at Wrigley Field in Chicago are seen in this artist's rendering, introduced June 18, during a news conference at the ballpark in Chicago. All plans need City of Chicago approval.
(06/21/01 4:00am)
Baltimore Orioles Cal Ripken tips his cap to the crowd at the game where he broke Lou Gehrig's record of consecutive games in Baltimore on Sept. 6, 1995.
(05/04/01 4:00am)
Superbowl
(05/04/01 4:00am)
Dale Earnhardt
(05/04/01 4:00am)
Coach Knight in Texas