 Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said Monday tests show all of the 1,146 bolt assemblies that used epoxy and more than 300 other areas in a Big Dig connector tunnel where the ceiling collapsed are now considered unreliable. Romney, speaking at a Statehouse news conference where he drew charts and diagrams of the problems, said those areas will have to be reinforced. "In grabbing ahold of these bolts and pulling on them with excess force, they're letting go a lot earlier than they should have," Romney said. "When I say earlier, they're letting go at lower pressures than they were designed to handle. That suggests that this epoxy system is not working the way it had been designed and engineered to work — and for that reason we can't count on it." Last week, days after 12 tons of ceiling panels came loose and fell on a car, crushing the passenger, ...
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 Americans Start To Flee Lebanon |
Only weeks ago, it would have been unthinkable: military helicopters flying American citizens out of Beirut. Now, in a city under siege, 64 Americans are known to have escaped by late Monday — but there were signs of movement on the diplomatic front. U.S. Marines are racing to complete evacuation plans for thousands of Americans in Lebanon, many destined to flee the battle zone aboard a rented cruise ship. Hundreds of French citizens and other Europeans, many in tears, boarded a ferry to Cyprus Monday. Within earshot, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Israeli jets continued their assault, CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports, while in Beirut's port, a Greek ferry waited to evacuate more than 1,000 people and the first busses pulled up for the mass evacuation. ...
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| U.N. Human Rights Experts Tell U.S. to Set a Better Example for the World |
The United States must set a better example for the world in areas ranging from its treatment of Latin American migrants to its handling of detainees in the war on terror, U.N. human rights experts said Monday. The U.N. Human Rights Committee is conducting a periodic review of Washington's adherence to the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The committee is expected to issue conclusions before the end of the month. Criticism by the panel brings no penalties beyond international scrutiny. Member Hipolito Solari Yrigoyen, an Argentine lawyer and human rights activist, said he worried about U.S. efforts to deal with illegal migrants from Mexico. Hundreds of National Guard troops have been deployed along the border in an effort to stop illegal immigration. ...
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| Wash State Gov. Gregoire sends Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez $50 million bill |
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Gov. Chris Gregoire sent an invoice of nearly $50 million to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Monday, saying the federal government needs to reimburse the state for the cost of housing criminal illegal immigrants.Gregoire said that even though it's the federal government's responsibility to incarcerate illegal immigrants who have committed crimes, the state has been doing it for years. From July 2004 to June 2005, Gregoire said the state paid more than $27 million to house 995 prisoners. The Department of Justice has only reimbursed the state $1.7 million, and still owes $25.3 million.She's seeking an additional $24.4 million reimbursement for the months from July 2005 to this May.Gregoire said that the states have been forced to pick up cuts in Medicaid and homeland security and shouldn't have to shoulder the incarceration costs....
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| British Police Won't Face Charges. You didn’t really expect it, did you? |
Police officers who shot and killed an innocent Brazilian mistaken for a suicide bomber will not face criminal charges, but London's Metropolitan Police will be prosecuted for violating health and safety laws, prosecutors said Monday. Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was killed by police on a London subway train in July 2005. The shooting occurred two weeks after four suicide bombers killed themselves and 52 commuters on three subway trains and a bus, and a day after a failed set of attacks. Police, who have apologized for the killing, said later they had mistaken de Menezes for one of the suspects in the failed attacks. Stephen O'Doherty, senior lawyer from the Crown Prosecution Service's Special Crime Division, said there was no realistic prospect of convicting any officer of a crime. Who said crime don’t pay? You just have to be a member of the Protected Species, and then you can get away with lying and murder. Maybe even get promoted...
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| Highlights of G-8 Summit |
Leaders of the Group of Eight major industrial countries took the following actions at their annual economic summit, which concluded Monday in St. Petersburg, Russia: MIDDLE EAST: Adopted a declaration that blamed the Mideast fighting on the militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah, and urged Israel to exercise restraint. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposed sending an international peace-keeping force to Lebanon to stop Hezbollah from bombing Israel, an idea the United States and other countries said was worth considering. The joint declaration papered over sharp differences between President Bush's position in support of Israel and the views of other G-8 countries that Israel was employing excessive force in bombing Lebanon. ...
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