When school was canceled to accommodate a campaign visit by Bush, the two 55-year-old teachers reckoned the time was ripe to voice their simmering discontent with the administration's policies. Christine Nelson showed up at the Cedar Rapids rally with a Kerry-Edwards button pinned on her T-shirt; Alice McCabe clutched a small, paper sign stating "No More War." What could be more American, they thought, than mixing a little dissent with the bunting and buzz of a get-out-the-vote rally headlined by the president?Their reward: a pair of handcuffs and a strip search at the county jail.Authorities say they were arrested because they refused to obey reasonable security restrictions, but the women disagree: "Because I had a dissenting opinion, they did what they needed to do to get me out of the way," said Nelson, who teaches history and government at one of this city's middle schools....
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 U.N. Humanitarian Chief Denounces Israeli Airstrikes After Seeing Destruction in South Beirut |
The U.N.'s top humanitarian official on Sunday denounced the Israeli airstrikes that have devastated Beirut and southern Lebanon, saying civilians were paying a "disproportionate price" in the attacks targeting Hezbollah strongholds. Jan Egeland inspected the destruction in south Beirut a predominantly Shiite area that has suffered the brunt of the bombings. Israeli strikes hit the neighborhood hours before Egeland's arrival and six more missiles pounded it later, the first daytime attack there in days. "It's terrible. I see a lot of children wounded, homeless, suffering. This is a war where civilians pay a disproportionate price in Lebanon and northern Israel. I hadn't believed it would be block by block leveled to the ground," he said. "A disproportionate response by Israel is a violation of international humanitarian law." ...
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| Report: Passengers, Crew on Flight to Las Vegas Quarantined After 11 Become Ill |
A section of the airport at Las Vegas, Nev., was closed for several hours after a flight arrived from Denver with 11 sick people on board, officials said Sunday. Passengers and crew members on United Airlines Flight 1491 were quarantined for several hours Saturday night at McCarran International Airport while the plane, passengers and luggage were checked by hazardous materials experts, said Elaine Sanchez, a spokeswoman for the Clark County Fire Department at Las Vegas. Four of the victims were flight attendants, Sanchez said. Sanchez said the cause was still being investigated. A passenger, Don Yarbrough, told KUSA TV of Denver that investigators believed the victims reacted to a cleaning fluid containing ammonia that had been used on the plane after it arrived in Denver from Cancun, Mexico. ...
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| Zimbabwe Eyes Plan to Spy on Citizens. Question is, will he copy the American Snitch on your neighbor “Tips program,” or the lesser efferent Nazi system? |
Times are hard and getting harder in Zimbabwe, where people too proud to cry about hunger, joblessness and misrule could soon find it too dangerous to joke about them. Parliament plans to debate proposals next month to empower the secret police to eavesdrop on mail, e-mail and phones without any court approval. The government denies any sinister intent, saying it is putting its anti-terrorism legislation in line with international practice. But Zimbabwe is not on the front lines of the war on terror, and government agents could use the proposed powers to monitor the communications of the political opposition, journalists and human rights activists who are critical of President Robert Mugabe. He is just doing what most Governments today have fooled their people into accepting under the Phony pretext of the War on the Boogieman. And in this, the US government leads the world in conning the people into accepting being spied on, and spying on others as being normal. ...
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| Senior officials believe U.S. will give Israel a week to complete military offensive in Lebanon |
On the eve of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Jerusalem, senior officials believe Israel has an American nod to continue operations against Hezbollah at least until next Sunday. Rice will first explore ways with Israel's leadership to end the crisis and begin to shape a new order in Lebanon. She will return next Sunday to try to implement a cease-fire. From Jerusalem, Rice will go on to Rome to meet senior delegates from the United Nations and Arab states. They will discuss formulating a political arrangement and a plan to rehabilitate Lebanon. From Rome she will travel to an Asian conference in Malaysia, from where she will return to Israel. ...
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| 2 N.J. teens killed, 2 injured in lightning strike Four hit while seeking shelter after storm disrupts soccer game |
Four teenagers playing soccer were struck by lightning Saturday night while seeking shelter from a storm, police said. Two were killed and two were injured.The teens, ages 16 to 19, were playing soccer outside Montvale Memorial School around 6 p.m. when they saw lightning strike nearby, police said. Two ran for shelter while two started walking off the field.One of the teens who was running heard thunder and turned around to see lightning strike Lee Weisbrod, 19, of River Vale, and Steven Fagan, 18, of Woodcliff Lake, knocking them to the ground, police said. The other teen called 911 on his cell phone. Police officers from Montvale and neighboring Park Ridge arrived and tried to help the teens, performing CPR and using a defibrillator on the more seriously injured ones.Weisbrod and Fagan, who suffered severe burns and trauma, were taken to Pascack Valley Hospital in Westwood, where they died around 7 p.m., authorities said....
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