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A1 Thursday, January, 2010 Email: [email protected] Website: www.arubatoday.com Thursday, January 7, 2010 INSIDE TODAY Anti-whaling U.S. NEWS boat damaged HOLOCAUST during protest SHOOTER at sea ROHAN SULLIVAN Associated Press Writer SYDNEY (AP) — A clash Wednesday off Antarctica between a Japanese whaler and a boat from a protest group partly bankrolled by former game show host Bob This undated file photo Barker left the anti-whaling provided by the Talbot County, Md., Sheriff Office vessel badly damaged and shows James von Brunn. each side accusing the other A government official said of life-threatening behavior. Wednesday Jan. 6, 2010, von The bow of the Ady Gil — a Brunn, the 89-year-old man sleek, wave-piercing power accused of a deadly shooting Icicles cling to oranges Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010, in Lakeland, Fla. Farmers spray their crops to help boat that resembles a stealth at Washington’s Holocaust protect them against the cold temperatures. Temperatures in the area dipped into the mid-20’s, and bomber — was sheared off by museum in June 2009 has died farmers are working to salvage millions of dollars’ worth of strawberries and other crops. the Shonan Maru. in a prison hospital in Butner, Associated Press It was the latest in a series North Carolina. of escalating confrontations Read more on Page A5 Persistent cold tightens between the U.S.-based SPORTS NEWS Sea Shepherd Conservation ZERO OUT Society and the Japanese whaling fleet. grip on much of the U.S. Only minor injuries were reported aboard the Ady Gil. New Zealand’s marine safety By RANDALL DICKERSON heaviest snow from the fast- Nashville. He said the cold authority said it was launching Associated Press Writer moving system would fall on shot wouldn’t be spent until an investigation into the clash NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Iowa, Missouri and Illinois, it plunged southeastward and and that Australia’s equivalent freeze that lingered over much with 4-6 inches predicted along moved well beyond Cuba into body would be cooperating of the nation Wednesday was with some locally heavier the Caribbean. closely. expected to be followed by amounts through Thursday. Continued on Page 5 Continued on Page 9 strong winds and more bitter In a rare turn for the South, cold through the Midwest forecasters warned that and deep into the South. The snow and ice were possible unusually persistent Southern Thursday from South Carolina In this Jan. 5, 2010 photo, cold snap has been blamed to Louisiana and wind chills Washington Wizards’ Gilbert for at least six deaths and in the region could get down Arenas watches a free-throw threatened to freeze Florida to near zero at night. attempt. Arenas was suspended citrus crops. The cold was “This air mass originated on without pay Wednesday, Jan. expected to continue through the ice cap at the top of the 6, 2010, by NBA commissioner the weekend. The National world,” said Bobby Boyd, a David Stern Weather Service predicted the weather service forecaster in Read more on Page A12 SECTION B Local News 1 Classifieds 12 Latino 15 A2 UP FRONT Thursday, January 7, 2010 Obama announces $250M teacher training initiative putting them to work. will help train more than 100,000 “I believe so strongly in the work teachers and prepare more than that you do,” Obama said at a 10,000 new educators in the next ceremony in the White House East five years. Room. “And as I mentioned to some Support is expected from Intel of you, because I’ve got two girls Corp., the National Math and upstairs with math tests coming up, Science Initiative, PBS and I figure that a little extra help from the National Science Teachers the best of the best couldn’t hurt. Association, the Woodrow Wilson “So you’re going to have National Fellowship Foundation assignments after this,” he said. The and the presidents of more than audience laughed. 75 of the country’s largest public “These awards were not free,” he universities. added. Obama also called on the 200,000 Obama said teacher quality is scientists who work for the federal the most important single factor government to help by speaking that influences whether students at schools and participating in succeed or fail in the “STEM” fields hands-on projects to help stoke a of science, technology, engineering youngster’s curiosity in science. President Barack Obama smiles as he arrives in the East Room of the White and math. But, he said, U.S. students “Make no mistake: Our future is on House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010, to speak at a ceremony honoring trail their peers around the world. the line,” he said. “The nation that educators for awards received for excellence in mathematics and science teaching He said a substantial shortage of out-educates us today is going to and mentoring. Associated Press teachers in these subject areas will out-compete us tomorrow.” deepen unless steps are taken to Obama, who has included students By DARLENE SUPERVILLE students from the middle to the top reverse the trend, and that doing so in several science events at the Associated Press Writer of the pack in those subjects in the requires outside help because the White House, said he would do his WASHINGTON – President Barack next decade. federal government cannot do it part, too. Planning is under way for Obama announced a $250 million Obama also gave awards for alone. a White House science fair to honor initiative Wednesday to train math excellence in teaching and Obama said the $250 million in student winners of national science and science teachers and help meet mentoring to more than 100 public and private investments for and technology competitions, he his goal of pushing America’s educators — and joked about his “Educate to Innovate” campaign said. • TOMORROW • Don’t miss FREE Shirt Friday! Bonus BINGO Thursday! Super 4-Card BINGO starting at 1pm! $6 for 4-Card BINGO! • 8 games to play! Open daily 6pm to 2am $1,000 in CASH PRIZES! Happy Hour from 6 to 8pm Additional $500 CASH PRIZE in our Early Bird Drawing •SPORTS BOOK• when you purchase your card prior to 12 noon! Bet on all your favorite sports! Where Aruba goes to play! Open daily 10am to 4am • J.E. Irausquin Blvd #47 • 583.5000 • www.casinoalhambra.com Must be an Alhambra Advantage member. All programs and promotions are subject to change or cancellation without prior notice. U.S. NEWS A3 Thursday, January, 2010 CIA attack a blow but won’t stop anti-terror hunt A DAM GOLDMAN — perhaps even a triple-agent they called tradecraft, or PAMELA HESS — who had been considered agency procedures. Associated Press Writers a key asset. Al-Balawi was Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow WASHINGTON (AP) — invited inside the outpost at the Brookings Institute The deaths of seven CIA facility bearing a promise of Saban Center and a former employees in Afghanistan information about al-Qaida’s CIA officer, said the agency probably will not be the last. second in command, presumed would now likely be scrubbing The U.S. isn’t pulling back to be hiding in Pakistan. its other sources in the region on covert operations to hunt A federal law enforcement to ensure they are legitimate. terrorists there and in Pakistan official said Tuesday that the “If the other side was running and will go on taking chances bomber entered the base by this one person against us, on human tipsters to help. car and detonated a powerful how confident are we of In fact, the United States explosive just outside the base’s everyone else?” Riedel said. struck back at militant targets gym where CIA operatives “You have to take a period to in Pakistan on Wednesday and others had gathered. assess where you are.” with explosives apparently It was unclear whether the However, Riedel said the CIA Jordanian boys climb the wall of an UNRWA clinic, where launched from an airborne explosives were hidden in a is aware, especially after the Jordanian suicide bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi drone — the first responses suicide vest or belt, but they Dec. 25 attempted bombing used to work as a physician in Zarqa city, East of Amman, Jordan, since the bombing that killed set off a “significant blast,” of an airliner in Detroit, that Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010. Suicide bomber Al-Balawi struck a key CIA several top CIA operatives said the official, who spoke it doesn’t have the luxury of base Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan, near the at a secretive eastern Afghan on condition of anonymity time. Pakistani border last week, killing seven CIA employees and a base reportedly used as a key due to the sensitivity of the Riedel said the bait that al- Jordanian intelligence officer. outpost in the effort to identify investigation. Balawi was offering — the Associated Press and target terror leaders. A small team of FBI agents, location of al-Qaida No. 2 or other operatives outside intelligence and military The attack was a lethal message including bomb and evidence Ayman al-Zawahri, was too the base, current and former officials said. that the Obama administration technicians, flew to the tempting to resist. views its airstrikes as too remote Afghan base soon after “We haven’t had real location effective to abandon, even the blast, the official said. on either him or bin Laden in though they are unpopular The team, which is working years,” he said. with civilians and the U.S.- closely with the CIA, has since Bad as the suicide attack was, backed governments in both returned and is still trying to several current and former Afghanistan and Pakistan. identify the components of the intelligence officials said The apparent strikes killed at explosives and whether they the CIA has a deep bench of least 12 people in an area of included shrapnel. operatives with experience in Pakistan’s volatile northwest Several current and former Afghanistan, after eight years teeming with militants intelligence and defense of active warfare and the suspected of directing the officials said the deaths of Cold War decades in which suicide attack last week across the CIA agents and the others Afghanistan was considered the border in Afghanistan. were a foreseeable cost of strategic. The U.S. deaths were a doing business with unsavory There are no immediate reminder that while the use of people in dangerous places. plans to close the once-secret drones may lessen the risk to “The attacks confirm what has military base where the American pilots, the CIA-run been the CIA’s view all along: bomber killed the CIA base operation has its own human that undertaking intelligence chief for Khost province and Achilles’ heel: the intelligence operations requires taking wounded the Kabul deputy agents who practice old- risks, and while those risks station chief, and the CIA is fashioned spycraft to pinpoint can be diminished by excellent expected to quickly rebuild its the targets. tradecraft, hard work, and operations there. The attack came as a a severe smart people, they can never A U.S. intelligence official blow to the expertise and talent be eliminated,” said former said the agency has increased pool of the CIA in a little- CIA officer Steven Cash. the size and scope of its understood country where its The CIA is taking heat from operations in Afghanistan spies are now most at risk. some of its own former and is continuing its Charles Faddis, a former employees, however, for counterterrorism mission as agency case officer, said it apparently taking unnecessary before. was a major strike to agency risks in this case by failing to Military officials said there operations in Pakistan and search the bomber before he may be additional security Afghanistan. penetrated the base’s security precautions for people “CIA is a small outfit,” perimeter. They also raised entering the kind of forward said Faddis, who recently questions about why more operating base that houses the published “Beyond Repair,” than a dozen U.S. personnel CIA operation. But the CIA a scathing assessment of the were close by when al-Balawai controls many of the decisions agency. “You don’t lose this detonated explosives strapped about whom to meet and many people in one strike and to his body. where, and how thoroughly to not feel it acutely.” Two CIA operatives might search a presumed informant. The bomber, a Jordanian have been plenty, former Informants are sometimes doctor identified as Humam CIA officials said. The invited to secure bases because Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, officials spoke on condition of the security risk involved in was apparently a double agent of anonymity to discuss what sending undercover employees A4 POLITICS Thursday, January 7, 2010 Two democratic senators and one governor set to retire LIZ SIDOTI Dodd announced his AP National Political Writer retirement Wednesday. The WASHINGTON — With 66-year-old is chairman the 2010 election year of the Senate Banking barely under way in the Committee, which was United States, two senators at the center of efforts to and one governor — all deal with the economic Democrats — ditched plans meltdown. to run for re-election in the And he has played a latest signs of trouble for prominent role in the President Barack Obama’s contentious debate about party. overhauling health care, Taken together, the taking over for his friend decisions by Senators Chris Sen. Ted Kennedy during This combination of three images taken Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010 shows, from left: Sen. Chris Dodd, Dodd and Byron Dorgan as his illness and then after D-Conn., Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter. With the 2010 election year well as Colorado Governor his death. Dodd underwent barely under way, two senators and one governor — all Democrats — ditched plans to run for re- Bill Ritter caused another surgery for election in the latest signs of trouble for President Barack Obama’s party. bout of heartburn for Associated Press prostate cancer in August; Democrats as they struggle he said it was in an early, to defend themselves in a Now, with Dodd, Dorgan will have to defend four even with commanding treatable stage. sour political environment and Ritter out, Republicans open seats in the Senate. majorities, Obama has Hours after Dodd’s for incumbents, particularly have even more to crow The other two currently struggled to keep his party announcement, fellow the party in charge. about, if not better belong to Senators Ted united on health care and Democrat Richard As 2009 ended, Democrats opportunities to pick up Kaufman, who replaced other initiatives. Blumenthal, one of the watched a string of their Democratic-held seats. Vice President Joe Biden, Among governors, state’s most popular House members announce Democrats, who have a and Roland Burris, who Democrats are seeking politicians, announced retirements and one 60-40 Senate majority that replaced Obama. Kaufman to maintain their 26-24 he would run for Dodd’s congressman defect to the includes two independents and Burris are not running majority in a year when seat. He is the longtime Republican Party. who vote with them, now for election to the seats. those elected will oversee the Connecticut attorney Republicans, for their part, redrawing of congressional general. are defending six open and legislative districts for In North Dakota, Dorgan’s seats. the next decade. announcement Tuesday All seats in the House of Republicans and that he would retire stunned Representatives and a third Democrats alike say they Democrats. They were of the seats in the Senate now expect competitive confident that the 67-year- will be on the ballot in races for Dorgan’s Senate old moderate Democrat the November midterm seat in North Dakota, a would run for re-election election. Analysts generally Republican-tilting state, in the Republican-leaning expect Democrats to and the governor’s seat in state even as rumors lose seats, while keeping Colorado, a pivotal swing intensified that the state’s their majorities in both state that has trended toward Republican governor would chambers. Democrats in recent years challenge him. But the loss of even a few but may be shifting back In Colorado, Ritter seats in the Senate could be toward Republicans. announced Wednesday detrimental to Democrats, In Democratic-leaning he won’t seek re-election who need 60 votes to Connecticut, Dodd’s as the western state’s overcome Republican retirement may actually governor this year, saying procedural obstacles. If heighten the likelihood he needs to spend more Republicans continue to that the seat he’s held for time with his family. stand united against Obama, five terms will remain in Elected in 2006, Ritter was it could lead to political Democratic hands. among those Democrats gridlock in the second half The party can now recruit a who helped the party make of his four-year term. more popular candidate to inroads into what was once That increases pressure on run, bolstering the prospects a solidly Republican state. Obama to get any major of thwarting a Republican He helped pave the way for legislation — such as victory. The former Obama to win Colorado in his health care overhaul presidential candidate’s 2008 and had been widely or a climate change bill poll standing has fallen considered a rising star in — passed this year. Yet precipitously since 2008. the Democratic Party. REGIONAL A5 Thursday, January, 2010 Accused Holocaust museum gunman dies DEVLIN BARRETT for the suspect, who prior to the shooting had written racist Associated Press Writer and anti-Semitic screeds on the Internet. WASHINGTON (AP) — The 89-year-old white supremacist Officials at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a charged in a deadly shooting at Washington’s Holocaust statement saying their thoughts and prayers remained with museum died Wednesday in North Carolina, where he’d been Johns’ family. “Officer Johns died heroically defending held while awaiting trial, authorities said. the museum, visitors and staff. This tragedy is a powerful James von Brunn died at a local hospital in North Carolina, reminder that our cause of fighting hatred remains more said Denise Simmons, the spokeswoman for the federal urgent than ever,” the statement said. prison where von Brunn had been held. He had been suffering One of the two guards who fired back at von Brunn said from chronic congestive heart failure, sepsis and other health he had mixed feelings about his death. “I’m shocked. I’m problems, she said. Von Brunn, who faced charges that glad he’s gone. I wish he had his day in court, but it’ll never carried the death penalty, had been receiving medical care for come,” said Harry Weeks of White Plains, Md. months at the prison complex in Butner, which is known for Weeks returned to work in August and said he thinks often This undated file photo provided by the Talbot its medical facilities for aging and sick federal inmates. His about his slain colleague. “There’s not a day that goes by that County, Md., Sheriff Office lawyer, A.J. Kramer, called the death “a sad end to a tragic I don’t miss him,” Weeks said. shows James von Brunn. situation” and declined to make further comment. A seven-count indictment against von Brunn charged him A government official said Authorities say von Brunn carried a rifle as he walked up to with first-degree murder, killing in a federal building and Wednesday Jan. 6, 2010, von Brunn, the 89-year-old man the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10 and then bias-motivated crime. The indictment also accused him of accused of a deadly shooting shot security guard Stephen T. Johns, who was black, as he seeking to intimidate Jewish people at the museum. at Washington’s Holocaust opened the door for von Brunn. He was wounded by gunfire Von Brunn had a racist Web site and wrote a book titled “Kill museum in June 2009 has died from two other guards. the Best Gentiles,” alleging a Jewish conspiracy “to destroy in a prison hospital in Butner, Officials at the prison hospital had previously said chronic the white gene pool.” He also claimed the Holocaust was a North Carolina. Associated Press medical problems had complicated a psychiatric evaluation hoax. trees. Experts say the cold-blooded bitter cold and snow have been so reptiles become immobilized when the good for business, he had to turn away temperature falls into the 40s and they dozens of repairs this week. lose their grip on the tree. “My building is only so big and I can In Indianapolis, frozen hydrants only take so many,” he said. frustrated firefighters as they tried Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has to put out a Tuesday night blaze at a declared a state of emergency in Perry commercial building. County, where water line breaks have Officials said the city of Des Moines is left large swaths of the area without likely to exhaust the remainder of its $3 water. million annual snow removal budget Much of the Blue Ridge Parkway with this week’s storm, expected to in North Carolina and Virginia was dump up to as much as 10 inches of closed to motorists because of heavy snow in some areas. That is on top of accumulations of snow and ice as well the more than 28 inches of snow that as downed trees. fell there in December. In Maine, a pilot died Monday after he Pasquale Mariniello, left, and Rossella Esposito, of Naples, Italy, walk in the sand in the South Beach area of Miami Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Jan 6, 2010. The morning Oklahoma’s two largest school districts reported ice buildup on the wings of his temperature in Miami-Dade was in the low 40’s. have canceled classes for the rest small plane and it crashed into a river Associated Press of the week because of subfreezing channel. Searchers were also looking PERSISTENT COLD in fires started by stoves and space temperatures. Some of the schools for an 18-year-old snowmobiler who Continued from Front Page heaters. in several other states, including disappeared on New Year’s Day. And Authorities said four people in The frigid weather hampered northern Mississippi, Alabama and Missouri, in Wisconsin a 7-year-old boy died Tennessee, one in Mississippi and one firefighters and even made life hard were expected to close Thursday when he fell through ice into a river in South Carolina have died from the for Florida’s tree dwelling iguanas. because of the weather. while sledding with friends. cold since the weekend. They included In central and south Florida, farmers In the Dakotas, Interstate 90 between In coastal North Carolina, volunteers a man with Alzheimer’s who wandered tried to salvage citrus and vegetable Rapid City and Mitchell in South were scrambling to save endangered out into his yard in Nashville and froze crops by spraying them in protective Dakota was closed Wednesday because sea turtles that were stunned by the to death, and a homeless man found layers of ice and covering them in of zero visibility that led to backed-up cold and stranded off the Outer Banks. dead in a tent in South Carolina. plastic. traffic and some crashes. Southern supermarkets were doing a The total doesn’t include people who It was so cold in Florida, freezing Joe Dietrich, who owns a snowblower brisk business in staples like bread and died in car accidents on icy roads and iguanas were seen falling out of repair shop in Bismarck, N.D., said milk.  A6 WORLD NEWS Thursday, January 7, 2010 U.S. mother, baby girl killed by elephant in Kenya Monday morning when the K-12 school held a memorial capital, Nairobi. elephant charged, said Kenya service Wednesday. Brown was a 1989 graduate Wildlife Service official Walking tours of Kenya’s many of Miller Place High School Michael Kipkeu. national parks are common, on eastern Long Island, New The family was hiking on a though hikers are advised to York, and was a graduate of nature trail about 1 mile from have an armed guard with Binghamton State University the Castle Forest Lodge, where them if the park is known to with a degree in psychology, the family was vacationing, have elephants, said Kentice said her father, John Laurie. said the owner, Melia van Tikolo, a spokeswoman for She later received a masters in Laar. the Kenya Wildlife Service. library. “The elephant emerged from “It was a lone elephant and She joined the Peace Corps the bush at full speed without lone elephants can be quite in 1999 and spent two years any warning,” van Laar said. dangerous,” Tikolo said. in Bangladesh before being “Everybody ran away, but the “It probably felt quite transferred after the Sept. 11 lady, burdened by the weight threatened.” attacks. Later, she worked for of the baby, perhaps, or in Tikolo said deaths by charging the Peace Corps in Uganda. Friends and colleagues wait outside Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi, panic, was not able to run fast elephants are rare in Kenya, “She was an excellent student Kenya to attend funeral services Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010 for U.S. enough.” though they happen about and beautiful person,” Laurie teacher Sharon Brown, 39, and her daughter Margaux, 1, who were trampled to death by an elephant while on a guided nature Officials identified the woman once a year. said. “She was loved by walk on Monday . as Sharon Brown, 39, and Because the Castle Forest everybody and loved to travel Associated Press said her daughter’s name was Lodge lies just outside the extensively.” By JASON STRAZIUSO and the 1-year-old daughter Margaux. boundary of Mount Kenya After leaving the Peace Corps, Associated Press Writer she held in her arms, officials Brown, originally from New National Park, the family was Brown returned to New York NAIROBI, Kenya – A lone said Wednesday. York, and her husband are walking with a hotel guide, briefly before working for a elephant charged out of the Four adults and the baby were listed as faculty members at who is not allowed to carry a year as a librarian at Antioch brush as an American family walking with an unarmed the International School of gun, said Tikolo. The national University New England in was hiking near Mount Kenya guide just outside Mount Kenya. 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Qena is one church bishop, security and of Egypt’s poorest and most hospital officials said. conservative areas. The attack took place in Christians, mostly Coptic, the early morning hours in account for about 10 percent the town of Nag Hamadi of Egypt’s predominantly in Qena province, about Muslim population. 40 miles from the famous Muslim-Christian clashes, ancient ruins of Luxor. largely confined to the Bishop Kirollos of the Nag south of the country in Hamadi Diocese, a hospital recent years, have seeped administrator and a local into the capital. As Islamic security official all said conservatism gains seven people were killed ground, Christians have Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox church, leads prayers at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, early Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010. Gunmen attacked in a drive-by shooting in the attack. The security increasingly complained outside a church in southern Egypt in the town of Nag Hamadi in Qena province, as worshippers left official said three people about discrimination by the a midnight Mass to celebrate Coptic Christmas. were seriously wounded as Muslim majority. Associated Press well. In summer 2008 in southern expansion of a Coptic villagers’ homes because a the Egyptian Initiative for The security official said Egypt, a Muslim man was Orthodox monastery, and priest was seen holding Mass Personal Rights, a rights two gunmen drove by a killed in clashes over the Muslims torched Christian inside a house, according to group. A8 WORLD NEWS Thursday, January 7, 2010 Officials: Suspected U.S. drones kill 13 in Pakistan RASOOL DAWAR have been carried out without Associated Press Writer at least tacit support from the ISLAMABAD (AP) — Haqqanis, who control large Suspected U.S. drone missile swaths of Khost province. Any strikes killed 13 people in other militants who operate in Pakistan’s volatile northwest Khost, including al-Qaida, do Wednesday, the latest of five so only with the permission or such attacks in the past week cooperation of the Haqqanis. targeting an area believed The Jordanian man who blew to be a hideout for militants himself up duped agents into involved in a suicide attack on granting him entry by leading a CIA base in Afghanistan. them to think he would help The strikes highlight track down al-Qaida’s No. 2 Washington’s growing leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, reliance on unmanned aircraft officials have said. to control militants staging Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al- cross-border attacks on U.S. Balawi, a 32-year-old doctor, troops in Afghanistan. The was allowed to enter without Obama administration has being closely searched and pressed Pakistan to crack then blew himself up during down on such groups, but a briefing, killing seven CIA the government has resisted, employees and a Jordanian saying it has its hands full intelligence agent. battling local Taliban militants The network targeted in the Pakistani tribals stand among the debris of houses after a suspected US air-strike in Jani Khel area waging war against the state. aftermath of the attacks is led in northwestern Bannu district in 2008. US missiles flattened an extremist fort used as a training U.S. military commanders by Jalaluddin Haqqani, who centre in Pakistan’s tribal belt on Wednesday, killing four militants in the fourth such strike in a are especially concerned was a respected commander week, Pakistani officials said. about the Haqqani network, and key U.S. and Pakistani (AFP File/Karim Khan) an Afghan Taliban group ally in resisting the Soviet with links to al-Qaida which North Waziristan. in Pakistan than had his officials. Union after its 1979 invasion operates from Pakistan’s Since the attack, suspected predecessor. A second strike occurred as of Afghanistan. Haqqani, North Waziristan tribal area. U.S. drones have carried out In the first attack Wednesday, people were retrieving bodies believed to be in his 60s or Analysts suspect the group an unusually high number of a suspected drone fired two from the rubble of the house, older, is said to be too ill to played a role in the Dec. 30 strikes in North Waziristan, missiles at a house in the killing six more, said the do much now, and his son attack that killed seven CIA part of a larger trend of Datta Khel region of North officials, speaking on condition Sirajuddin has taken over employees in Khost province, President Barack Obama using Waziristan, killing seven of anonymity because they the network. Some analysts just across the border from the aircraft more frequently people, said two intelligence were not authorized to talk to suspect Pakistan’s reluctance the media. Four foreigners, to go after the Haqqanis is including two Arabs, were driven by its desire to use among the dead; it was unclear the group as a future asset whether they were militants or to influence Afghanistan civilians, according to another and stay ahead of its bigger pair of intelligence officials, regional rival, India, after the speaking on condition of Americans withdraw. anonymity for the same But Shah, the former tribal reason. The identities of the security chief, said that even others killed were unknown. if Pakistan wanted to target U.S. officials rarely discuss the Haqqanis, its ability is the missile strikes but say they limited by the shortage of have taken out several top al- human intelligence in North Qaida operatives. Waziristan. Mahmood Shah, a former Pakistani intelligence officials security chief for Pakistan’s have said that at least 30 of semiautonomous tribal area, their operatives have been said he believes the drone killed over the past year in strikes over the past week North Waziristan. are retaliation for the suicide Shah said the lack of attack against the CIA. intelligence hampers The Americans “have the effectiveness of the concluded that the Haqqani drone strikes by making network is causing major it more difficult to choose problems in eastern accurate targets. “Pakistan’s Afghanistan, and they seem intelligence ability is almost determined to hit the network, zero in the border region so we should expect more because of the high rate of frequent attacks in North killing spies,” said Shah. “In Waziristan,” said Shah. such situations, these attacks Analysts say it would have are proving counterproductive been difficult for the suicide and producing more attack at the remote CIA base to militants.” WORLD NEWS A9 Thursday, January, 2010 ANTI WHALING out of business if he had $5 Continued from Front Page million,” Barker said earlier. Japan kills about 1,200 whales “I said, ‘I think you do have a year during the December- the skills to do that, and I have February season. Sea Shepherd $5 million, so let’s get it on,’ sends ships to try to stop the so that’s what we did.” Japanese hunt, which Tokyo Both sides involved in says is for scientific research Wednesday’s incident gave but conservationists suspect conflicting versions of what is a cover for commercial happened. whaling. Sea Shepherd said the Shonan Sea Shepherd’s aggressive Maru deliberately rammed and confrontational tactics the 78-foot (24-meter) Ady have drawn criticism in the Gil as it sat idle in the water past from Greenpeace, which near Commonwealth Bay. is seeking to change Japanese Representatives of Japan’s attitudes toward whaling by Institute of Cetacean Research, cultivating political allies in which oversees the whaling parliament. fleet, said the activists caused Sea Shepherd’s efforts have the incident when the carbon spawned the Animal Planet fiber and Kevlar trimaran TV series “Whale Wars,” veered into the Shonan Maru’s which has helped win the path. group high-profile patrons. The whaling institute said the Among the group’s financial Ady Gil came “within collision backers is Barker, the former distance” of another ship on “Price is Right” host who Wednesday, the Nisshin Maru, This photo provided by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society shows the Japanese whaling ship recently gave Sea Shepherd $5 and repeatedly dangled a rope the Shonan Maru firing high-powered hoses at the Ady Gil in the frigid waters of Antarctica on million. The activists named a that could have entangled the Wednesday Jan. 6, 2010. The conservation group said its vessel had its bow sheared off after it was vessel the Bob Barker, which ship’s rudder and propeller. hit by the Shonan Maru, near Commonwealth Bay. The clash was the most serious in the past several was near the scene of the clash The Ady Gil’s crew lobbed years, during which the Sea Shepherd has sent vessels into far-southern waters to try to harass the and rescued the crew of the small projectiles designed to Japanese fleet into ceasing its annual whale hunt. stricken Ady Gil. release a foul smell, and the Associated Press Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd’s whalers responded by firing had come to a full stop before Animal Planet spokesman to show restraint in the frigid founder, vowed to continue to high-powered hoses to keep being struck, or if the Shonan Brian Eley said Sea Shepherd waters, warning that they confront the whaling fleet. the Sea Shepherd vessels Maru turned to port before it has no editorial control over are far away from rescue if “The Japanese whalers have away, the institute said in a struck the Ady Gil. “Whale Wars” and that it pays anything goes wrong. now escalated this conflict statement. The clash represented a the group a nominal fee for “The government is very very violently,” Watson said Locky Maclean, the first departure from the usual space on its vessels and for concerned at this collision,” in a statement from aboard mate of the Steve Irwin ship, confrontations, said Jules meals and incidentals. Australian Environment another Sea Shepherd vessel, said one of Ady Gil’s crew Boykoff, assistant professor Asked if producing the show Minister Peter Garrett said. the Steve Irwin, which he appeared to have suffered of politics and environmental raises the risk of violent “We condemn any dangerous is captaining. The vessel, two cracked ribs, but the five studies at Pacific University confrontation, Eley replied: or violent activity that takes named for the late Australian others aboard were uninjured. in Oregon. “Our production crew did place in the southern oceans. conservationist, was about Toshinori Uoya, a spokesman “Certainly when an actual Sea not direct or control Sea Safety at sea is an absolute 570 miles (900 kilometers) for Japan’s Fisheries Agency, Shepherd ship gets rammed, Shepherd’s actions. We have priority in this dangerous and away from the Ady Gil. which provides grants to the that is an escalation,” Boykoff documented what happened, inhospitable ocean area.” “We now have a real whale war institute and oversees whaling said. “I think getting rammed, and our viewers can make New Zealand Foreign Minister on our hands now and we have policy, said there were no regardless of whose fault it their own judgments.” Murray McCully deplored the no intention of retreating,” he injuries on the Japanese side. was, shows there is violence Australia and New Zealand clash and urged both sides to added. Glenn Inwood, a spokesman involved.” Although it would — both opponents of whaling “put a greater premium on Barker, a longtime animal for the whaling institute, focus attention on whaling, — have maritime safety human life in such a harsh rights advocate, said news of said the Ady Gil was moving Sea Shepherd’s tactics might authority in the region where environment.” He said would the clash came as a shock. toward the Shonan Maru and turn off other animal rights the Japanese hunt occurs, and take up the issue with Japanese “To think I had just become the crash occurred because activists, he added. they have urged both sides authorities. involved in it, then they had of an apparent miscalculation Greg McNevin, a Greenpeace the worst accident that they’ve by the activists. He said video International spokesman had. I thought, ‘Barker, what shot from the Shonan Maru in Amsterdam, would not have you brought onto these shows the conservationists’ comment on the incident people?’” he said. boat moving toward the whaler directly, but said his group He said he steadfastly supports just before the collision. stopped sending ships to the Sea Shepherd and was grateful “The Shonan Maru steams Antarctic to confront whalers that his namesake ship was to port to avoid a collision. in 2008 in order to focus its able to help. I guess they, the Ady Gil, efforts on changing opinion in “I knew that they get in there miscalculated,” Inwood told Japan. and try to get between the AP. “We don’t condone violence whalers and the whales,” said Video shot by Sea Shepherd in any form, no matter who Barker, 86. shows the Ady Gil bobbing does it,” McNevin said. Watson and Barker met in the water in front of the “Greenpeace’s position was through a fellow activist. Shonan Maru, which then that we would only place “He said he thought he could struck it. It was not clear from ourselves between the whale put the Japanese whaling fleet either video if the Ady Gil and the harpoon.” A10 PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday, January 7, 2010 Actor Gary Coleman Man seeks payment for LA from Jackson estate hospitalized in LA LOS ANGELES – A man LOS ANGELES – “Diff’rent a hospital. He didn’t have is seeking $3.3 million for Strokes” actor Gary Coleman details. the city of Los Angeles from is in a Los Angeles hospital Malcolm says tests were Michael Jackson’s estate to for tests after saying he didn’t negative and the actor was cover the cost of the King of feel well. alert and feeling fine but may Pop’s public memorial, court Coleman’s agent, Robert remain hospitalized overnight filings show. Malcolm, says the 41-year-old before returning to his Utah Jose F. Vallejos filed a actor had given interviews to home. creditor’s claim for the money complain about a scene in his Coleman, had two kidney on Wednesday, stating he is latest movie and went to his transplants, played Arnold FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2008 entitled to seek reimbursement hotel room to rest Wednesday. Jackson on the popular 1980s file photo, actor Gary Coleman as a taxpayer. Malcolm says Coleman then sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes.” appears on the the NBC ‘Today’ A representative of the estate began feeling unwell and His hospitalization was first program in New York. was taken by ambulance to reported by TMZ.com. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file) had no immediate comment. FILE - In this March 17, 2005 Los Angeles paid millions of file photo, pop star Michael Lawyers talk next move in Polanski case dollars for police overtime Jackson arrives at the Santa and sanitation costs for the Barbara County Courthouse By LINDA DEUTSCH, July memorial at Staples in Santa Maria, Calif. AP Special Correspondent Center, which is owned by (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, LOS ANGELES – With Roman Polanski file) entertainment giant AEG under house arrest in Switzerland, lawyers in Live. City leaders have amounted to an illegal gift of his 32-year-old sex case are gathering in a Los wrangled for months over public funds. The filing states Angeles court Wednesday to discuss future how to try to recoup some of the money should be returned legal moves that could resolve the marathon the money from AEG Live, to the city treasury. prosecution. but no resolution has been Attempts to reach Vallejos The hearing is described as a status conference reached. failed. A phone message before Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza, There have been indications left for his attorney, Jeff who has presided over earlier proceedings in the city came out ahead after Grotke, was not immediately the case. hosting the star-studded returned. A three-judge panel of the California 2nd memorial broadcast around The administrators of District Court of Appeal criticized Polanski last the world. A city report Jackson’s estate will have to month for fleeing the country and refused to found the July 7 memorial decide on the merits of paying dismiss the case in which the director pleaded was a $4 million boon for out claims. guilty to one count of sex with a 13-year-old hotels, restaurants and other Already, several of Jackson’s girl in 1977. It did, however, suggest two legal businesses. former collaborators, attorneys options that could lead to his freedom now: FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 29, 2008 file photo, Vallejos’ petition claims the and those who sold the pop file a motion to be sentenced in absentia, or Roman Polanski is seen in Oberhausen, western estate benefited from the singer goods or services have drop his extradition fight, return to the United Germany. use of public resources that sought reimbursement. States and be sentenced in person, most likely (AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil, File) not resulting in additional jail time. no further jail time, reneged and was planning Actor Nicolas The appeals court said there was probable to sentence him more harshly. Cage owes judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in Judge Espinoza said earlier this year there the case that should be investigated. But appeared to be “substantial misconduct,” but back taxes on the court’s strongest point was to urge that Polanski had to return to the United States to the case be concluded, calling it “one of the argue for the case to be tossed out. RI mansion longest-running sagas in California criminal Polanski has refused to return and is fighting justice history.” Polanski’s lawyer asked for extradition from Switzerland, where he was MIDDLETOWN, R.I. – Actor a private conference in the judge’s chambers, arrested in September when he arrived for a Nicolas Cage owes roughly but a prosecutor prevailed in asking to make film festival. $128,000 in unpaid taxes on a Wednesday’s session public. Deputy District The Swiss Justice Ministry declined to comment mansion in Rhode Island. Attorney David Walgren said media presence Wednesday on the details of the Polanski case Lynne Dible, finance director would prevent misconceptions of what might or to answer questions regarding a possible for the town of Middletown, FILE - In this Sept. 15, be said behind closed doors. He cited a history sentence in absentia. says Cage is delinquent on 2009 file photo actor Nicolas of “in chambers” conferences in the case that Instead, ministry spokesman Folco Galli property taxes from the last Cage participates in the became controversial. referred to a 1990 Swiss-U.S. treaty on three quarters. press conference for ‘’Bad Polanski, the famed director of “Chinatown” extradition requiring the alleged crime be The Oscar-winning actor sued Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans’ during the Toronto and “Rosemary’s Baby,” was accused of punishable by at least one year imprisonment his former business manager International Film Festival in plying Samantha Geimer, who was then 13, to make extradition a possibility. in October for $20 million, Toronto. with champagne and part of a Quaalude pill Prosecutors say Polanski is subject to a sentence claiming the man’s advice (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File) then raping her during a modeling shoot at of two years; the defense says he already served led him toward financial ruin. Jack Nicholson’s house in 1977. a sentence handed down by the original judge Records show Cage owes countersued, saying Cage’s Polanski was initially indicted on six felony in the case plus five months spent in a Swiss millions of dollars in unpaid lavish spending is to blame. counts, including rape by use of drugs, child jail and more recently under house arrest. taxes to the IRS, and the actor Cage’s attorney did not molesting and sodomy. He later pleaded guilty The treaty also spells out that if a sentence is says he’s had to sell numerous immediately return a call in a plea bargain to one count of unlawful handed down before extradition, the person assets because of his finances. seeking comment. The Rhode sexual intercourse. He was sent to prison for a must have to serve at least six months in prison. Cage’s ex-business manager, Island home is on the market diagnostic study. The judge, who had promised Otherwise, the person can’t be extradited. Samuel J. Levin, has for $12 million.

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A1 Thursday, January, 2010 Email: [email protected] Website: www.arubatoday.com Thursday, January 7, 2010 INSIDE TODAY Anti-whaling U.S. NEWS boat damaged HOLOCAUST during protest SHOOTER at sea ROHAN SULLIVAN Associated Press Writer SYDNEY (AP) — A clash Wednesday off Antarctica between a Japanese whaler and a boat from a protest group partly bankrolled by former game show host Bob This undated file photo Barker left the anti-whaling provided by the Talbot County, Md., Sheriff Office vessel badly damaged and shows James von Brunn. each side accusing the other A government official said of life-threatening behavior. Wednesday Jan. 6, 2010, von The bow of the Ady Gil — a Brunn, the 89-year-old man sleek, wave-piercing power accused of a deadly shooting Icicles cling to oranges Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010, in Lakeland, Fla. Farmers spray their crops to help boat that resembles a stealth at Washington’s Holocaust protect them against the cold temperatures. Temperatures in the area dipped into the mid-20’s, and bomber — was sheared off by museum in June 2009 has died farmers are working to salvage millions of dollars’ worth of strawberries and other crops. the Shonan Maru. in a prison hospital in Butner, Associated Press It was the latest in a series North Carolina. of escalating confrontations Read more on Page A5 Persistent cold tightens between the U.S.-based SPORTS NEWS Sea Shepherd Conservation ZERO OUT Society and the Japanese whaling fleet. grip on much of the U.S. Only minor injuries were reported aboard the Ady Gil. New Zealand’s marine safety By RANDALL DICKERSON heaviest snow from the fast- Nashville. He said the cold authority said it was launching Associated Press Writer moving system would fall on shot wouldn’t be spent until an investigation into the clash NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Iowa, Missouri and Illinois, it plunged southeastward and and that Australia’s equivalent freeze that lingered over much with 4-6 inches predicted along moved well beyond Cuba into body would be cooperating of the nation Wednesday was with some locally heavier the Caribbean. closely. expected to be followed by amounts through Thursday. Continued on Page 5 Continued on Page 9 strong winds and more bitter In a rare turn for the South, cold through the Midwest forecasters warned that and deep into the South. The snow and ice were possible unusually persistent Southern Thursday from South Carolina In this Jan. 5, 2010 photo, cold snap has been blamed to Louisiana and wind chills Washington Wizards’ Gilbert for at least six deaths and in the region could get down Arenas watches a free-throw threatened to freeze Florida to near zero at night. attempt. Arenas was suspended citrus crops. The cold was “This air mass originated on without pay Wednesday, Jan. expected to continue through the ice cap at the top of the 6, 2010, by NBA commissioner the weekend. The National world,” said Bobby Boyd, a David Stern Weather Service predicted the weather service forecaster in Read more on Page A12 SECTION B Local News 1 Classifieds 12 Latino 15 A2 UP FRONT Thursday, January 7, 2010 Obama announces $250M teacher training initiative putting them to work. will help train more than 100,000 “I believe so strongly in the work teachers and prepare more than that you do,” Obama said at a 10,000 new educators in the next ceremony in the White House East five years. Room. “And as I mentioned to some Support is expected from Intel of you, because I’ve got two girls Corp., the National Math and upstairs with math tests coming up, Science Initiative, PBS and I figure that a little extra help from the National Science Teachers the best of the best couldn’t hurt. Association, the Woodrow Wilson “So you’re going to have National Fellowship Foundation assignments after this,” he said. The and the presidents of more than audience laughed. 75 of the country’s largest public “These awards were not free,” he universities. added. Obama also called on the 200,000 Obama said teacher quality is scientists who work for the federal the most important single factor government to help by speaking that influences whether students at schools and participating in succeed or fail in the “STEM” fields hands-on projects to help stoke a of science, technology, engineering youngster’s curiosity in science. President Barack Obama smiles as he arrives in the East Room of the White and math. But, he said, U.S. students “Make no mistake: Our future is on House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010, to speak at a ceremony honoring trail their peers around the world. the line,” he said. “The nation that educators for awards received for excellence in mathematics and science teaching He said a substantial shortage of out-educates us today is going to and mentoring. Associated Press teachers in these subject areas will out-compete us tomorrow.” deepen unless steps are taken to Obama, who has included students By DARLENE SUPERVILLE students from the middle to the top reverse the trend, and that doing so in several science events at the Associated Press Writer of the pack in those subjects in the requires outside help because the White House, said he would do his WASHINGTON – President Barack next decade. federal government cannot do it part, too. Planning is under way for Obama announced a $250 million Obama also gave awards for alone. a White House science fair to honor initiative Wednesday to train math excellence in teaching and Obama said the $250 million in student winners of national science and science teachers and help meet mentoring to more than 100 public and private investments for and technology competitions, he his goal of pushing America’s educators — and joked about his “Educate to Innovate” campaign said. • TOMORROW • Don’t miss FREE Shirt Friday! Bonus BINGO Thursday! Super 4-Card BINGO starting at 1pm! $6 for 4-Card BINGO! • 8 games to play! Open daily 6pm to 2am $1,000 in CASH PRIZES! Happy Hour from 6 to 8pm Additional $500 CASH PRIZE in our Early Bird Drawing •SPORTS BOOK• when you purchase your card prior to 12 noon! Bet on all your favorite sports! Where Aruba goes to play! Open daily 10am to 4am • J.E. Irausquin Blvd #47 • 583.5000 • www.casinoalhambra.com Must be an Alhambra Advantage member. All programs and promotions are subject to change or cancellation without prior notice. U.S. NEWS A3 Thursday, January, 2010 CIA attack a blow but won’t stop anti-terror hunt A DAM GOLDMAN — perhaps even a triple-agent they called tradecraft, or PAMELA HESS — who had been considered agency procedures. Associated Press Writers a key asset. Al-Balawi was Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow WASHINGTON (AP) — invited inside the outpost at the Brookings Institute The deaths of seven CIA facility bearing a promise of Saban Center and a former employees in Afghanistan information about al-Qaida’s CIA officer, said the agency probably will not be the last. second in command, presumed would now likely be scrubbing The U.S. isn’t pulling back to be hiding in Pakistan. its other sources in the region on covert operations to hunt A federal law enforcement to ensure they are legitimate. terrorists there and in Pakistan official said Tuesday that the “If the other side was running and will go on taking chances bomber entered the base by this one person against us, on human tipsters to help. car and detonated a powerful how confident are we of In fact, the United States explosive just outside the base’s everyone else?” Riedel said. struck back at militant targets gym where CIA operatives “You have to take a period to in Pakistan on Wednesday and others had gathered. assess where you are.” with explosives apparently It was unclear whether the However, Riedel said the CIA Jordanian boys climb the wall of an UNRWA clinic, where launched from an airborne explosives were hidden in a is aware, especially after the Jordanian suicide bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi drone — the first responses suicide vest or belt, but they Dec. 25 attempted bombing used to work as a physician in Zarqa city, East of Amman, Jordan, since the bombing that killed set off a “significant blast,” of an airliner in Detroit, that Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010. Suicide bomber Al-Balawi struck a key CIA several top CIA operatives said the official, who spoke it doesn’t have the luxury of base Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan, near the at a secretive eastern Afghan on condition of anonymity time. Pakistani border last week, killing seven CIA employees and a base reportedly used as a key due to the sensitivity of the Riedel said the bait that al- Jordanian intelligence officer. outpost in the effort to identify investigation. Balawi was offering — the Associated Press and target terror leaders. A small team of FBI agents, location of al-Qaida No. 2 or other operatives outside intelligence and military The attack was a lethal message including bomb and evidence Ayman al-Zawahri, was too the base, current and former officials said. that the Obama administration technicians, flew to the tempting to resist. views its airstrikes as too remote Afghan base soon after “We haven’t had real location effective to abandon, even the blast, the official said. on either him or bin Laden in though they are unpopular The team, which is working years,” he said. with civilians and the U.S.- closely with the CIA, has since Bad as the suicide attack was, backed governments in both returned and is still trying to several current and former Afghanistan and Pakistan. identify the components of the intelligence officials said The apparent strikes killed at explosives and whether they the CIA has a deep bench of least 12 people in an area of included shrapnel. operatives with experience in Pakistan’s volatile northwest Several current and former Afghanistan, after eight years teeming with militants intelligence and defense of active warfare and the suspected of directing the officials said the deaths of Cold War decades in which suicide attack last week across the CIA agents and the others Afghanistan was considered the border in Afghanistan. were a foreseeable cost of strategic. The U.S. deaths were a doing business with unsavory There are no immediate reminder that while the use of people in dangerous places. plans to close the once-secret drones may lessen the risk to “The attacks confirm what has military base where the American pilots, the CIA-run been the CIA’s view all along: bomber killed the CIA base operation has its own human that undertaking intelligence chief for Khost province and Achilles’ heel: the intelligence operations requires taking wounded the Kabul deputy agents who practice old- risks, and while those risks station chief, and the CIA is fashioned spycraft to pinpoint can be diminished by excellent expected to quickly rebuild its the targets. tradecraft, hard work, and operations there. The attack came as a a severe smart people, they can never A U.S. intelligence official blow to the expertise and talent be eliminated,” said former said the agency has increased pool of the CIA in a little- CIA officer Steven Cash. the size and scope of its understood country where its The CIA is taking heat from operations in Afghanistan spies are now most at risk. some of its own former and is continuing its Charles Faddis, a former employees, however, for counterterrorism mission as agency case officer, said it apparently taking unnecessary before. was a major strike to agency risks in this case by failing to Military officials said there operations in Pakistan and search the bomber before he may be additional security Afghanistan. penetrated the base’s security precautions for people “CIA is a small outfit,” perimeter. They also raised entering the kind of forward said Faddis, who recently questions about why more operating base that houses the published “Beyond Repair,” than a dozen U.S. personnel CIA operation. But the CIA a scathing assessment of the were close by when al-Balawai controls many of the decisions agency. “You don’t lose this detonated explosives strapped about whom to meet and many people in one strike and to his body. where, and how thoroughly to not feel it acutely.” Two CIA operatives might search a presumed informant. The bomber, a Jordanian have been plenty, former Informants are sometimes doctor identified as Humam CIA officials said. The invited to secure bases because Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, officials spoke on condition of the security risk involved in was apparently a double agent of anonymity to discuss what sending undercover employees A4 POLITICS Thursday, January 7, 2010 Two democratic senators and one governor set to retire LIZ SIDOTI Dodd announced his AP National Political Writer retirement Wednesday. The WASHINGTON — With 66-year-old is chairman the 2010 election year of the Senate Banking barely under way in the Committee, which was United States, two senators at the center of efforts to and one governor — all deal with the economic Democrats — ditched plans meltdown. to run for re-election in the And he has played a latest signs of trouble for prominent role in the President Barack Obama’s contentious debate about party. overhauling health care, Taken together, the taking over for his friend decisions by Senators Chris Sen. Ted Kennedy during This combination of three images taken Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010 shows, from left: Sen. Chris Dodd, Dodd and Byron Dorgan as his illness and then after D-Conn., Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter. With the 2010 election year well as Colorado Governor his death. Dodd underwent barely under way, two senators and one governor — all Democrats — ditched plans to run for re- Bill Ritter caused another surgery for election in the latest signs of trouble for President Barack Obama’s party. bout of heartburn for Associated Press prostate cancer in August; Democrats as they struggle he said it was in an early, to defend themselves in a Now, with Dodd, Dorgan will have to defend four even with commanding treatable stage. sour political environment and Ritter out, Republicans open seats in the Senate. majorities, Obama has Hours after Dodd’s for incumbents, particularly have even more to crow The other two currently struggled to keep his party announcement, fellow the party in charge. about, if not better belong to Senators Ted united on health care and Democrat Richard As 2009 ended, Democrats opportunities to pick up Kaufman, who replaced other initiatives. Blumenthal, one of the watched a string of their Democratic-held seats. Vice President Joe Biden, Among governors, state’s most popular House members announce Democrats, who have a and Roland Burris, who Democrats are seeking politicians, announced retirements and one 60-40 Senate majority that replaced Obama. Kaufman to maintain their 26-24 he would run for Dodd’s congressman defect to the includes two independents and Burris are not running majority in a year when seat. He is the longtime Republican Party. who vote with them, now for election to the seats. those elected will oversee the Connecticut attorney Republicans, for their part, redrawing of congressional general. are defending six open and legislative districts for In North Dakota, Dorgan’s seats. the next decade. announcement Tuesday All seats in the House of Republicans and that he would retire stunned Representatives and a third Democrats alike say they Democrats. They were of the seats in the Senate now expect competitive confident that the 67-year- will be on the ballot in races for Dorgan’s Senate old moderate Democrat the November midterm seat in North Dakota, a would run for re-election election. Analysts generally Republican-tilting state, in the Republican-leaning expect Democrats to and the governor’s seat in state even as rumors lose seats, while keeping Colorado, a pivotal swing intensified that the state’s their majorities in both state that has trended toward Republican governor would chambers. Democrats in recent years challenge him. But the loss of even a few but may be shifting back In Colorado, Ritter seats in the Senate could be toward Republicans. announced Wednesday detrimental to Democrats, In Democratic-leaning he won’t seek re-election who need 60 votes to Connecticut, Dodd’s as the western state’s overcome Republican retirement may actually governor this year, saying procedural obstacles. If heighten the likelihood he needs to spend more Republicans continue to that the seat he’s held for time with his family. stand united against Obama, five terms will remain in Elected in 2006, Ritter was it could lead to political Democratic hands. among those Democrats gridlock in the second half The party can now recruit a who helped the party make of his four-year term. more popular candidate to inroads into what was once That increases pressure on run, bolstering the prospects a solidly Republican state. Obama to get any major of thwarting a Republican He helped pave the way for legislation — such as victory. The former Obama to win Colorado in his health care overhaul presidential candidate’s 2008 and had been widely or a climate change bill poll standing has fallen considered a rising star in — passed this year. Yet precipitously since 2008. the Democratic Party. REGIONAL A5 Thursday, January, 2010 Accused Holocaust museum gunman dies DEVLIN BARRETT for the suspect, who prior to the shooting had written racist Associated Press Writer and anti-Semitic screeds on the Internet. WASHINGTON (AP) — The 89-year-old white supremacist Officials at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a charged in a deadly shooting at Washington’s Holocaust statement saying their thoughts and prayers remained with museum died Wednesday in North Carolina, where he’d been Johns’ family. “Officer Johns died heroically defending held while awaiting trial, authorities said. the museum, visitors and staff. This tragedy is a powerful James von Brunn died at a local hospital in North Carolina, reminder that our cause of fighting hatred remains more said Denise Simmons, the spokeswoman for the federal urgent than ever,” the statement said. prison where von Brunn had been held. He had been suffering One of the two guards who fired back at von Brunn said from chronic congestive heart failure, sepsis and other health he had mixed feelings about his death. “I’m shocked. I’m problems, she said. Von Brunn, who faced charges that glad he’s gone. I wish he had his day in court, but it’ll never carried the death penalty, had been receiving medical care for come,” said Harry Weeks of White Plains, Md. months at the prison complex in Butner, which is known for Weeks returned to work in August and said he thinks often This undated file photo provided by the Talbot its medical facilities for aging and sick federal inmates. His about his slain colleague. “There’s not a day that goes by that County, Md., Sheriff Office lawyer, A.J. Kramer, called the death “a sad end to a tragic I don’t miss him,” Weeks said. shows James von Brunn. situation” and declined to make further comment. A seven-count indictment against von Brunn charged him A government official said Authorities say von Brunn carried a rifle as he walked up to with first-degree murder, killing in a federal building and Wednesday Jan. 6, 2010, von Brunn, the 89-year-old man the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 10 and then bias-motivated crime. The indictment also accused him of accused of a deadly shooting shot security guard Stephen T. Johns, who was black, as he seeking to intimidate Jewish people at the museum. at Washington’s Holocaust opened the door for von Brunn. He was wounded by gunfire Von Brunn had a racist Web site and wrote a book titled “Kill museum in June 2009 has died from two other guards. the Best Gentiles,” alleging a Jewish conspiracy “to destroy in a prison hospital in Butner, Officials at the prison hospital had previously said chronic the white gene pool.” He also claimed the Holocaust was a North Carolina. Associated Press medical problems had complicated a psychiatric evaluation hoax. trees. Experts say the cold-blooded bitter cold and snow have been so reptiles become immobilized when the good for business, he had to turn away temperature falls into the 40s and they dozens of repairs this week. lose their grip on the tree. “My building is only so big and I can In Indianapolis, frozen hydrants only take so many,” he said. frustrated firefighters as they tried Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has to put out a Tuesday night blaze at a declared a state of emergency in Perry commercial building. County, where water line breaks have Officials said the city of Des Moines is left large swaths of the area without likely to exhaust the remainder of its $3 water. million annual snow removal budget Much of the Blue Ridge Parkway with this week’s storm, expected to in North Carolina and Virginia was dump up to as much as 10 inches of closed to motorists because of heavy snow in some areas. That is on top of accumulations of snow and ice as well the more than 28 inches of snow that as downed trees. fell there in December. In Maine, a pilot died Monday after he Pasquale Mariniello, left, and Rossella Esposito, of Naples, Italy, walk in the sand in the South Beach area of Miami Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Jan 6, 2010. The morning Oklahoma’s two largest school districts reported ice buildup on the wings of his temperature in Miami-Dade was in the low 40’s. have canceled classes for the rest small plane and it crashed into a river Associated Press of the week because of subfreezing channel. Searchers were also looking PERSISTENT COLD in fires started by stoves and space temperatures. Some of the schools for an 18-year-old snowmobiler who Continued from Front Page heaters. in several other states, including disappeared on New Year’s Day. And Authorities said four people in The frigid weather hampered northern Mississippi, Alabama and Missouri, in Wisconsin a 7-year-old boy died Tennessee, one in Mississippi and one firefighters and even made life hard were expected to close Thursday when he fell through ice into a river in South Carolina have died from the for Florida’s tree dwelling iguanas. because of the weather. while sledding with friends. cold since the weekend. They included In central and south Florida, farmers In the Dakotas, Interstate 90 between In coastal North Carolina, volunteers a man with Alzheimer’s who wandered tried to salvage citrus and vegetable Rapid City and Mitchell in South were scrambling to save endangered out into his yard in Nashville and froze crops by spraying them in protective Dakota was closed Wednesday because sea turtles that were stunned by the to death, and a homeless man found layers of ice and covering them in of zero visibility that led to backed-up cold and stranded off the Outer Banks. dead in a tent in South Carolina. plastic. traffic and some crashes. Southern supermarkets were doing a The total doesn’t include people who It was so cold in Florida, freezing Joe Dietrich, who owns a snowblower brisk business in staples like bread and died in car accidents on icy roads and iguanas were seen falling out of repair shop in Bismarck, N.D., said milk.  A6 WORLD NEWS Thursday, January 7, 2010 U.S. mother, baby girl killed by elephant in Kenya Monday morning when the K-12 school held a memorial capital, Nairobi. elephant charged, said Kenya service Wednesday. Brown was a 1989 graduate Wildlife Service official Walking tours of Kenya’s many of Miller Place High School Michael Kipkeu. national parks are common, on eastern Long Island, New The family was hiking on a though hikers are advised to York, and was a graduate of nature trail about 1 mile from have an armed guard with Binghamton State University the Castle Forest Lodge, where them if the park is known to with a degree in psychology, the family was vacationing, have elephants, said Kentice said her father, John Laurie. said the owner, Melia van Tikolo, a spokeswoman for She later received a masters in Laar. the Kenya Wildlife Service. library. “The elephant emerged from “It was a lone elephant and She joined the Peace Corps the bush at full speed without lone elephants can be quite in 1999 and spent two years any warning,” van Laar said. dangerous,” Tikolo said. in Bangladesh before being “Everybody ran away, but the “It probably felt quite transferred after the Sept. 11 lady, burdened by the weight threatened.” attacks. Later, she worked for of the baby, perhaps, or in Tikolo said deaths by charging the Peace Corps in Uganda. Friends and colleagues wait outside Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi, panic, was not able to run fast elephants are rare in Kenya, “She was an excellent student Kenya to attend funeral services Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010 for U.S. enough.” though they happen about and beautiful person,” Laurie teacher Sharon Brown, 39, and her daughter Margaux, 1, who were trampled to death by an elephant while on a guided nature Officials identified the woman once a year. said. “She was loved by walk on Monday . as Sharon Brown, 39, and Because the Castle Forest everybody and loved to travel Associated Press said her daughter’s name was Lodge lies just outside the extensively.” By JASON STRAZIUSO and the 1-year-old daughter Margaux. boundary of Mount Kenya After leaving the Peace Corps, Associated Press Writer she held in her arms, officials Brown, originally from New National Park, the family was Brown returned to New York NAIROBI, Kenya – A lone said Wednesday. York, and her husband are walking with a hotel guide, briefly before working for a elephant charged out of the Four adults and the baby were listed as faculty members at who is not allowed to carry a year as a librarian at Antioch brush as an American family walking with an unarmed the International School of gun, said Tikolo. The national University New England in was hiking near Mount Kenya guide just outside Mount Kenya. 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Qena is one church bishop, security and of Egypt’s poorest and most hospital officials said. conservative areas. The attack took place in Christians, mostly Coptic, the early morning hours in account for about 10 percent the town of Nag Hamadi of Egypt’s predominantly in Qena province, about Muslim population. 40 miles from the famous Muslim-Christian clashes, ancient ruins of Luxor. largely confined to the Bishop Kirollos of the Nag south of the country in Hamadi Diocese, a hospital recent years, have seeped administrator and a local into the capital. As Islamic security official all said conservatism gains seven people were killed ground, Christians have Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox church, leads prayers at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, early Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010. Gunmen attacked in a drive-by shooting in the attack. The security increasingly complained outside a church in southern Egypt in the town of Nag Hamadi in Qena province, as worshippers left official said three people about discrimination by the a midnight Mass to celebrate Coptic Christmas. were seriously wounded as Muslim majority. Associated Press well. In summer 2008 in southern expansion of a Coptic villagers’ homes because a the Egyptian Initiative for The security official said Egypt, a Muslim man was Orthodox monastery, and priest was seen holding Mass Personal Rights, a rights two gunmen drove by a killed in clashes over the Muslims torched Christian inside a house, according to group. A8 WORLD NEWS Thursday, January 7, 2010 Officials: Suspected U.S. drones kill 13 in Pakistan RASOOL DAWAR have been carried out without Associated Press Writer at least tacit support from the ISLAMABAD (AP) — Haqqanis, who control large Suspected U.S. drone missile swaths of Khost province. Any strikes killed 13 people in other militants who operate in Pakistan’s volatile northwest Khost, including al-Qaida, do Wednesday, the latest of five so only with the permission or such attacks in the past week cooperation of the Haqqanis. targeting an area believed The Jordanian man who blew to be a hideout for militants himself up duped agents into involved in a suicide attack on granting him entry by leading a CIA base in Afghanistan. them to think he would help The strikes highlight track down al-Qaida’s No. 2 Washington’s growing leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, reliance on unmanned aircraft officials have said. to control militants staging Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al- cross-border attacks on U.S. Balawi, a 32-year-old doctor, troops in Afghanistan. The was allowed to enter without Obama administration has being closely searched and pressed Pakistan to crack then blew himself up during down on such groups, but a briefing, killing seven CIA the government has resisted, employees and a Jordanian saying it has its hands full intelligence agent. battling local Taliban militants The network targeted in the Pakistani tribals stand among the debris of houses after a suspected US air-strike in Jani Khel area waging war against the state. aftermath of the attacks is led in northwestern Bannu district in 2008. US missiles flattened an extremist fort used as a training U.S. military commanders by Jalaluddin Haqqani, who centre in Pakistan’s tribal belt on Wednesday, killing four militants in the fourth such strike in a are especially concerned was a respected commander week, Pakistani officials said. about the Haqqani network, and key U.S. and Pakistani (AFP File/Karim Khan) an Afghan Taliban group ally in resisting the Soviet with links to al-Qaida which North Waziristan. in Pakistan than had his officials. Union after its 1979 invasion operates from Pakistan’s Since the attack, suspected predecessor. A second strike occurred as of Afghanistan. Haqqani, North Waziristan tribal area. U.S. drones have carried out In the first attack Wednesday, people were retrieving bodies believed to be in his 60s or Analysts suspect the group an unusually high number of a suspected drone fired two from the rubble of the house, older, is said to be too ill to played a role in the Dec. 30 strikes in North Waziristan, missiles at a house in the killing six more, said the do much now, and his son attack that killed seven CIA part of a larger trend of Datta Khel region of North officials, speaking on condition Sirajuddin has taken over employees in Khost province, President Barack Obama using Waziristan, killing seven of anonymity because they the network. Some analysts just across the border from the aircraft more frequently people, said two intelligence were not authorized to talk to suspect Pakistan’s reluctance the media. Four foreigners, to go after the Haqqanis is including two Arabs, were driven by its desire to use among the dead; it was unclear the group as a future asset whether they were militants or to influence Afghanistan civilians, according to another and stay ahead of its bigger pair of intelligence officials, regional rival, India, after the speaking on condition of Americans withdraw. anonymity for the same But Shah, the former tribal reason. The identities of the security chief, said that even others killed were unknown. if Pakistan wanted to target U.S. officials rarely discuss the Haqqanis, its ability is the missile strikes but say they limited by the shortage of have taken out several top al- human intelligence in North Qaida operatives. Waziristan. Mahmood Shah, a former Pakistani intelligence officials security chief for Pakistan’s have said that at least 30 of semiautonomous tribal area, their operatives have been said he believes the drone killed over the past year in strikes over the past week North Waziristan. are retaliation for the suicide Shah said the lack of attack against the CIA. intelligence hampers The Americans “have the effectiveness of the concluded that the Haqqani drone strikes by making network is causing major it more difficult to choose problems in eastern accurate targets. “Pakistan’s Afghanistan, and they seem intelligence ability is almost determined to hit the network, zero in the border region so we should expect more because of the high rate of frequent attacks in North killing spies,” said Shah. “In Waziristan,” said Shah. such situations, these attacks Analysts say it would have are proving counterproductive been difficult for the suicide and producing more attack at the remote CIA base to militants.” WORLD NEWS A9 Thursday, January, 2010 ANTI WHALING out of business if he had $5 Continued from Front Page million,” Barker said earlier. Japan kills about 1,200 whales “I said, ‘I think you do have a year during the December- the skills to do that, and I have February season. Sea Shepherd $5 million, so let’s get it on,’ sends ships to try to stop the so that’s what we did.” Japanese hunt, which Tokyo Both sides involved in says is for scientific research Wednesday’s incident gave but conservationists suspect conflicting versions of what is a cover for commercial happened. whaling. Sea Shepherd said the Shonan Sea Shepherd’s aggressive Maru deliberately rammed and confrontational tactics the 78-foot (24-meter) Ady have drawn criticism in the Gil as it sat idle in the water past from Greenpeace, which near Commonwealth Bay. is seeking to change Japanese Representatives of Japan’s attitudes toward whaling by Institute of Cetacean Research, cultivating political allies in which oversees the whaling parliament. fleet, said the activists caused Sea Shepherd’s efforts have the incident when the carbon spawned the Animal Planet fiber and Kevlar trimaran TV series “Whale Wars,” veered into the Shonan Maru’s which has helped win the path. group high-profile patrons. The whaling institute said the Among the group’s financial Ady Gil came “within collision backers is Barker, the former distance” of another ship on “Price is Right” host who Wednesday, the Nisshin Maru, This photo provided by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society shows the Japanese whaling ship recently gave Sea Shepherd $5 and repeatedly dangled a rope the Shonan Maru firing high-powered hoses at the Ady Gil in the frigid waters of Antarctica on million. The activists named a that could have entangled the Wednesday Jan. 6, 2010. The conservation group said its vessel had its bow sheared off after it was vessel the Bob Barker, which ship’s rudder and propeller. hit by the Shonan Maru, near Commonwealth Bay. The clash was the most serious in the past several was near the scene of the clash The Ady Gil’s crew lobbed years, during which the Sea Shepherd has sent vessels into far-southern waters to try to harass the and rescued the crew of the small projectiles designed to Japanese fleet into ceasing its annual whale hunt. stricken Ady Gil. release a foul smell, and the Associated Press Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd’s whalers responded by firing had come to a full stop before Animal Planet spokesman to show restraint in the frigid founder, vowed to continue to high-powered hoses to keep being struck, or if the Shonan Brian Eley said Sea Shepherd waters, warning that they confront the whaling fleet. the Sea Shepherd vessels Maru turned to port before it has no editorial control over are far away from rescue if “The Japanese whalers have away, the institute said in a struck the Ady Gil. “Whale Wars” and that it pays anything goes wrong. now escalated this conflict statement. The clash represented a the group a nominal fee for “The government is very very violently,” Watson said Locky Maclean, the first departure from the usual space on its vessels and for concerned at this collision,” in a statement from aboard mate of the Steve Irwin ship, confrontations, said Jules meals and incidentals. Australian Environment another Sea Shepherd vessel, said one of Ady Gil’s crew Boykoff, assistant professor Asked if producing the show Minister Peter Garrett said. the Steve Irwin, which he appeared to have suffered of politics and environmental raises the risk of violent “We condemn any dangerous is captaining. The vessel, two cracked ribs, but the five studies at Pacific University confrontation, Eley replied: or violent activity that takes named for the late Australian others aboard were uninjured. in Oregon. “Our production crew did place in the southern oceans. conservationist, was about Toshinori Uoya, a spokesman “Certainly when an actual Sea not direct or control Sea Safety at sea is an absolute 570 miles (900 kilometers) for Japan’s Fisheries Agency, Shepherd ship gets rammed, Shepherd’s actions. We have priority in this dangerous and away from the Ady Gil. which provides grants to the that is an escalation,” Boykoff documented what happened, inhospitable ocean area.” “We now have a real whale war institute and oversees whaling said. “I think getting rammed, and our viewers can make New Zealand Foreign Minister on our hands now and we have policy, said there were no regardless of whose fault it their own judgments.” Murray McCully deplored the no intention of retreating,” he injuries on the Japanese side. was, shows there is violence Australia and New Zealand clash and urged both sides to added. Glenn Inwood, a spokesman involved.” Although it would — both opponents of whaling “put a greater premium on Barker, a longtime animal for the whaling institute, focus attention on whaling, — have maritime safety human life in such a harsh rights advocate, said news of said the Ady Gil was moving Sea Shepherd’s tactics might authority in the region where environment.” He said would the clash came as a shock. toward the Shonan Maru and turn off other animal rights the Japanese hunt occurs, and take up the issue with Japanese “To think I had just become the crash occurred because activists, he added. they have urged both sides authorities. involved in it, then they had of an apparent miscalculation Greg McNevin, a Greenpeace the worst accident that they’ve by the activists. He said video International spokesman had. I thought, ‘Barker, what shot from the Shonan Maru in Amsterdam, would not have you brought onto these shows the conservationists’ comment on the incident people?’” he said. boat moving toward the whaler directly, but said his group He said he steadfastly supports just before the collision. stopped sending ships to the Sea Shepherd and was grateful “The Shonan Maru steams Antarctic to confront whalers that his namesake ship was to port to avoid a collision. in 2008 in order to focus its able to help. I guess they, the Ady Gil, efforts on changing opinion in “I knew that they get in there miscalculated,” Inwood told Japan. and try to get between the AP. “We don’t condone violence whalers and the whales,” said Video shot by Sea Shepherd in any form, no matter who Barker, 86. shows the Ady Gil bobbing does it,” McNevin said. Watson and Barker met in the water in front of the “Greenpeace’s position was through a fellow activist. Shonan Maru, which then that we would only place “He said he thought he could struck it. It was not clear from ourselves between the whale put the Japanese whaling fleet either video if the Ady Gil and the harpoon.” A10 PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday, January 7, 2010 Actor Gary Coleman Man seeks payment for LA from Jackson estate hospitalized in LA LOS ANGELES – A man LOS ANGELES – “Diff’rent a hospital. He didn’t have is seeking $3.3 million for Strokes” actor Gary Coleman details. the city of Los Angeles from is in a Los Angeles hospital Malcolm says tests were Michael Jackson’s estate to for tests after saying he didn’t negative and the actor was cover the cost of the King of feel well. alert and feeling fine but may Pop’s public memorial, court Coleman’s agent, Robert remain hospitalized overnight filings show. Malcolm, says the 41-year-old before returning to his Utah Jose F. Vallejos filed a actor had given interviews to home. creditor’s claim for the money complain about a scene in his Coleman, had two kidney on Wednesday, stating he is latest movie and went to his transplants, played Arnold FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2008 entitled to seek reimbursement hotel room to rest Wednesday. Jackson on the popular 1980s file photo, actor Gary Coleman as a taxpayer. Malcolm says Coleman then sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes.” appears on the the NBC ‘Today’ A representative of the estate began feeling unwell and His hospitalization was first program in New York. was taken by ambulance to reported by TMZ.com. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file) had no immediate comment. FILE - In this March 17, 2005 Los Angeles paid millions of file photo, pop star Michael Lawyers talk next move in Polanski case dollars for police overtime Jackson arrives at the Santa and sanitation costs for the Barbara County Courthouse By LINDA DEUTSCH, July memorial at Staples in Santa Maria, Calif. AP Special Correspondent Center, which is owned by (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, LOS ANGELES – With Roman Polanski file) entertainment giant AEG under house arrest in Switzerland, lawyers in Live. City leaders have amounted to an illegal gift of his 32-year-old sex case are gathering in a Los wrangled for months over public funds. The filing states Angeles court Wednesday to discuss future how to try to recoup some of the money should be returned legal moves that could resolve the marathon the money from AEG Live, to the city treasury. prosecution. but no resolution has been Attempts to reach Vallejos The hearing is described as a status conference reached. failed. A phone message before Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza, There have been indications left for his attorney, Jeff who has presided over earlier proceedings in the city came out ahead after Grotke, was not immediately the case. hosting the star-studded returned. A three-judge panel of the California 2nd memorial broadcast around The administrators of District Court of Appeal criticized Polanski last the world. A city report Jackson’s estate will have to month for fleeing the country and refused to found the July 7 memorial decide on the merits of paying dismiss the case in which the director pleaded was a $4 million boon for out claims. guilty to one count of sex with a 13-year-old hotels, restaurants and other Already, several of Jackson’s girl in 1977. It did, however, suggest two legal businesses. former collaborators, attorneys options that could lead to his freedom now: FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 29, 2008 file photo, Vallejos’ petition claims the and those who sold the pop file a motion to be sentenced in absentia, or Roman Polanski is seen in Oberhausen, western estate benefited from the singer goods or services have drop his extradition fight, return to the United Germany. use of public resources that sought reimbursement. States and be sentenced in person, most likely (AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil, File) not resulting in additional jail time. no further jail time, reneged and was planning Actor Nicolas The appeals court said there was probable to sentence him more harshly. Cage owes judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in Judge Espinoza said earlier this year there the case that should be investigated. But appeared to be “substantial misconduct,” but back taxes on the court’s strongest point was to urge that Polanski had to return to the United States to the case be concluded, calling it “one of the argue for the case to be tossed out. RI mansion longest-running sagas in California criminal Polanski has refused to return and is fighting justice history.” Polanski’s lawyer asked for extradition from Switzerland, where he was MIDDLETOWN, R.I. – Actor a private conference in the judge’s chambers, arrested in September when he arrived for a Nicolas Cage owes roughly but a prosecutor prevailed in asking to make film festival. $128,000 in unpaid taxes on a Wednesday’s session public. Deputy District The Swiss Justice Ministry declined to comment mansion in Rhode Island. Attorney David Walgren said media presence Wednesday on the details of the Polanski case Lynne Dible, finance director would prevent misconceptions of what might or to answer questions regarding a possible for the town of Middletown, FILE - In this Sept. 15, be said behind closed doors. He cited a history sentence in absentia. says Cage is delinquent on 2009 file photo actor Nicolas of “in chambers” conferences in the case that Instead, ministry spokesman Folco Galli property taxes from the last Cage participates in the became controversial. referred to a 1990 Swiss-U.S. treaty on three quarters. press conference for ‘’Bad Polanski, the famed director of “Chinatown” extradition requiring the alleged crime be The Oscar-winning actor sued Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans’ during the Toronto and “Rosemary’s Baby,” was accused of punishable by at least one year imprisonment his former business manager International Film Festival in plying Samantha Geimer, who was then 13, to make extradition a possibility. in October for $20 million, Toronto. with champagne and part of a Quaalude pill Prosecutors say Polanski is subject to a sentence claiming the man’s advice (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File) then raping her during a modeling shoot at of two years; the defense says he already served led him toward financial ruin. Jack Nicholson’s house in 1977. a sentence handed down by the original judge Records show Cage owes countersued, saying Cage’s Polanski was initially indicted on six felony in the case plus five months spent in a Swiss millions of dollars in unpaid lavish spending is to blame. counts, including rape by use of drugs, child jail and more recently under house arrest. taxes to the IRS, and the actor Cage’s attorney did not molesting and sodomy. He later pleaded guilty The treaty also spells out that if a sentence is says he’s had to sell numerous immediately return a call in a plea bargain to one count of unlawful handed down before extradition, the person assets because of his finances. seeking comment. The Rhode sexual intercourse. He was sent to prison for a must have to serve at least six months in prison. Cage’s ex-business manager, Island home is on the market diagnostic study. The judge, who had promised Otherwise, the person can’t be extradited. Samuel J. Levin, has for $12 million.

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