Ronald Reagan had just left office, the Christian Coalition was new, "values" had yet to become a buzzword of American politics and six of the current U.S. Supreme Court justices had other jobs when an atheist sued the city of San Diego for permitting a giant cross in a public park. Seventeen years later, the 29-foot concrete monument still crowns a hill over the Pacific, defended by the city's voters and members of Congress. Now the Supreme Court has stepped in, and the case of the Mount Soledad cross could help determine under what circumstances religious symbols are permissible in public places. The cross, dedicated in 1954 in honor of Korean War veterans, was erected by the Mount Soledad Memorial Foundation, a private, nonprofit group that also maintains the monument. ...
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 Helicopters sent to troubled ship |
The Coast Guard and the Air Force sent helicopters Monday to rescue 22 crew members aboard an Asian cargo ship taking on water south of the Aleutian Islands.The 654-foot Cougar Ace, which was carrying nearly 5,000 cars from Japan to Canada, had rolled practically onto its side.Earlier Monday, a Coast Guard plane dropped three life rafts, but roiling waters shoved the rafts underneath the ship, about 230 miles from Adak Island in the Aleutians.Rescuers then dropped an additional raft, but the crew members had taken refuge on the high side of the tilted vessel and the raft was beyond their reach. The crew were wearing survival suits, officials said....
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Editor - 15:25:00 07-24-06
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| Panel chides Bush on bypassing laws. ABA group cites limits to power |
Bush should stop issuing statements claiming the power to bypass parts of laws he has signed, an American Bar Association task force has unanimously concluded in a strongly worded 32-page report that is scheduled to be released today. The bipartisan panel of legal specialists includes a former FBI director, a former federal appeals court chief judge, former Republican officials, and leading scholars.The panel said presidents do not have the authority to declare that sections of the bills they sign are unconstitutional, and that they thus need not be enforced as Congress wrote them.Bush has used these so-called signing statements to challenge more than 750 laws that have been enacted since he took office, more than all previous presidents combined....
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Editor - 15:12:00 07-24-06
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| Oregon troops headed for Mongolia |
CORVALLIS, Ore. More than 90 Oregon National Guard troops are headed for Mongolia next month to help train members of the Mongolian army in United Nations peacekeeping operations.They will join 220 other members of the U.S. military to train more than 600 Mongolian soldiers and more than 200 soldiers from Fiji, Tonga, Thailand, Bangladesh and South Korea....
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Editor - 15:09:00 07-24-06
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| Fighting the Insurgency One Unit's Aggressive Approach 'It Looked Weird and Felt Wrong' |
From its first days in Iraq in April 2003, the Army's 4th Infantry Division made an impression on soldiers from other units -- the wrong one. "We slowly drove past 4th Infantry guys looking mean and ugly," recalled Sgt. Kayla Williams, then a military intelligence specialist in the 101st Airborne. "They stood on top of their trucks, their weapons pointed directly at civilians. . . . What could these locals possibly have done? Why was this intimidation necessary? No one explained anything, but it looked weird and felt wrong." Today, the 4th Infantry and its commander, Maj. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, are best remembered for capturing former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, one of the high points of the U.S. occupation. ...
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| Hikers Lost in N.C. Mountains for 3 Nights Found Alive, Survived on Candy and Creek Water |
Two hikers lost in the rugged North Carolina mountains survived on hard candy and creek water for three nights before they finally found the Blue Ridge Parkway on Monday and waved down a maintenance truck, officials said. The Miami couple had planned to hike to a waterfall a couple of miles from the parking lot and have a picnic, but they lost the trail, said Charlie Peek of the state Division of Parks and Recreation."It's extremely rugged territory, particularly off trail," Peek said.The Mercedes Benz that Craig Patterson, 44, and Julia Martinez, 35, had been driving Friday morning was found in the parking lot that evening — with the picnic lunch still inside. Searchers spent the weekend combing parts of the more than 20-square-mile park for any sign of the pair, and a Highway Patrol helicopter swept the area....
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