Vol 18 No 36, Thursday April 19, 2011

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OBAMA HITS THE ROAD President Barack Obama takes his deficit reduction events in three states that are important to his reproposal on the road this week with town hall-style election bid in 2012.

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N EW S BR I EF S FREEDOM RIDERS DISCUSS ‘60S CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE AT SYLVIA’S Civil rights activists gathered over the weekend to look back at the strides they made in the 1960s and to inspire the next generation.

Several of the original “freedom riders” met at Sylvia’s soul food restaurant in Harlem to tell their stories.

Fifty years ago, the freedom riders took buses to the deep south, aiming to desegregate public transportation.

Activists hoped to raise money to send young New Yorkers to Jackson, Mississippi, where more Freedom Riders will gather for the anniversary.

They hope their stories will prompt younger generations into action.

“While I celebrate what we achieved in 1961, I really feel despair for the tremendous pressures that are on all of our inner city Black and Latino young men and women, and really feel it’s time for a new civil rights movement and a new quest for social justice,” said Lew Zuchman, an original freedom rider.

The reunion in Jackson will take place from May 22-26.

NYCHA COMPUTER GLITCH AFFECTS SECTION 8 TENANTS A glitch in the New York City Housing Authority’s new computer system appears to be preventing some tenants from moving into their apartments.

In a letter to NYCHA, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said the backlog of tenants still waiting for paperwork, which was created by the glitch, needs to be cleared quickly.

He said without the “move-in letter,” tenants could face eviction, loss of their Section 8 voucher and even homelessness.

A NYCHA spokesperson says the agency is working hard to address the concerns.

STATE LAWMAKERS SEEK CRACKDOWN ON CAR INSURANCE FRAUD New York’s already high car insurance rates went up again last year, helped in part by insurance fraud.

Insurance rates are up 4 percent statewide since last year.

Now a coalition of elected officials and community leaders is hoping to crack down on the fraud that is leading to higher rates.

The group wants lawmakers to make it a felony for people to stage accidents and cash in on no-fault payouts.

They also want medical providers convicted of fraud to be barred for receiving future payments.

New York drivers pay an average of $1,200 a year for coverage.

Fraudulent claims cost insurers and drivers more than $240 million last year.

The State Senate insurance committee will hold a hearing on the matter on April 26.

45% don’t owe U.S. income tax

By JEANNE SAHADI The fastest way to make the taxaverse incensed is to tell them that nearly half of U.S. households end up owing no federal income tax when all is said and done.

But like most statistics, it is often misunderstood — and, in the case of those trying to stir political outrage, misrepresented.

For tax year 2010, roughly 45% of households, or about 69 million, will end up owing nothing in federal income tax, according to estimates by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. Some in that group will even end up getting paid money from the federal government.

That does not mean such households end up paying no taxes whatsoever. For instance, those in the group still pay other taxes such as state and local income taxes, as well as property and sales taxes.

And the group doesn’t necessarily get off scot-free when it comes to payroll taxes — which support Social Security and Medicare.

More than two-thirds — or 49 million of the 69 million households — pay payroll tax. Of those, 34 million end up paying more in payroll taxes than they get back on their federal return. The other 15 million pay payroll tax but they get enough refundable credits to offset what they paid.

Contrary to what many assume, membership in the group isn’t restricted to the poor.

It’s true that the vast majority of the 69 million households make less than $50,000 — with very heavy

representation among households making less than $30,000.

But nearly 5 million households in the group make somewhere between $50,000 and more than $1 million. The vast majority of that group — 4.3 million — make between $50,000 and $100,000.

Another 485,000 make between $100,000 and $500,000. And the remaining 18,000 make $500,000 or more Very high-income households can fall into the non-payer group if they get their income from taxexempt bonds or overseas sources for which they get foreign tax credits, according to Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center.

Other data from the IRS show that the tax bite on the very highest income taxpayers has fallen as their incomes have risen. In 2007, the top 400 individual tax returns had an average adjusted gross income of $345 million, up from $47 million in 1992. But their average tax rate was just 17%, down from 26% in 1992.

How did we get here?

The ranks of those whose federal income tax burden nets out to zero — or less — have grown in recent years for two reasons.

The first is temporal.

The downturn in the economy has hurt household incomes and various stimulus bills offered Americans temporary tax breaks to mitigate the economic pain — thereby further reducing their tax bills.

The second is more systemic.

The tax code is filled with hundreds of tax breaks to encourage

Tax fraud prosecutions are rising WASHINGTON — U.S. tax prosecutions have risen by a quarter in the past decade, driven by offshore cases, Internal Revenue Service figures show.

Federal prosecutors filed 1,250 tax cases in 2010, a 25.3 percent rise over 2001, USA Today reports. IRS recommendations for prosecution hit 1,507, up from 1,002 in 2001.

“The time that we’re spending on

tax investigations has gone up,” said Steven Miller, the IRS deputy commissioner for enforcement. “That’s resulted in a lot more prosecutions in that area.”

The IRS also has opened at least 10 overseas investigation offices in the past two years, Miller said.

Last year’s figures include charges or guilty pleas involving Americans accused of evading taxes

economic activities the government favors, tax experts say. For instance, the law offers credits to supplement the wages of lowincome workers, help families pay for college and encourage them to buy homes and have children.

Temporary tax policies, such as the Bush-era tax cuts and the tax breaks passed under President Obama, have also increased the ranks of the non-payers.

If most tax breaks were removed, the Tax Policy Center estimates, the percentage of households with no federal income tax liability would drop to 27% from 45%.

The question of who pays and who doesn’t is not a trivial matter.

And Washington policymakers may soon start to deal with the issue in a more explicit way as the national debate over how to rein in future deficits kicks into high gear.

Obama’s bipartisan debt commission, for instance, has recommended that reforming the tax code can help not only with deficit reduction but with creating a simpler, more modern, and economically efficient tax system.

Since the hundreds of tax breaks on the books reduce federal revenue by an estimated $1.1 trillion every year, the debt panel suggested eliminating most if not all of the credits, deductions and personal exemptions, and use the newfound revenue to do two things: pay for lower income tax rates and help reduce deficits.

Generating bipartisan support for tax reform is easy. But getting to “yes” on the details and figuring out who should pay more, less or nothing at all will be a much tougher fight.

But it’s a fight lawmakers are gearing up to have. on profits hidden in secret Swiss accounts.

Swiss bank UBS agreed last year to give U.S. authorities records for 4,450 American clients, challenging Switzerland’s traditional secrecy.

And last week, a New York woman pleaded guilty to filing a false 2008 return that concealed $8.3 million in HSBC India accounts.

“We are focusing more and more on offshore; there is no question about that,” Miller said.

The IRS also is cracking down on fraud by tax preparers.

Tobacco taxes drive lucrative smuggling WASHINGTON — An illegal market in cigarettes, fueled by recent tobacco tax hikes, has spawned a smuggling industry attracting violent gangs and traffickers, officials said.

Cigarette taxes, increased in 27 states during the past three years with the intention of bringing revenue to cash-strapped local governments, have sparked a surge in tobacco trafficking as smugglers flood high-tax states with cigarettes from low-tax states, USA Today reported.

“Everybody out there (involved in illegal trafficking operations) is tapping into tobacco,” said Larry Penninger, acting director of the tobacco diversion unit of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

For example, Penninger said, traffickers can smuggle a truckload (typically 800 cases) of cigarettes from a low-tax state such as Virginia into New York and sell them at $13 a pack.

New York has the highest tobacco tax in the country.

Cigarette smuggling activities cost states and the federal government about $5 billion annually, U.S. government estimates say.

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President Obama hits the road to spread his economic message WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama takes his deficit reduction proposal on the road this week with town hall-style events in three states that are important to his reelection bid in 2012.

Obama heads to northern Virginia today; Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California, tomorrow; and Reno, Nevada, on Thursday to take questions on the economy and his plan, unveiled last week, that would end Bush-era tax breaks for the wealthy and cut spending.

Yesterday, Obama kick-started the message campaign by giving interviews at the White House with local news stations in Denver; Raleigh, North Carolina; Dallas and Indianapolis.

“I hope you’ll take a break from either friending or defriending each other” to RSVP for the Wednesday event, which will be live-streamed to “answer questions from folks across the country,” Obama said in a video invitation posted yesterday on YouTube.

The president’s blitz comes as Congress faces two major fiscal issues in coming months: passing a budget for fiscal year 2012, which begins October 1, and raising the federal debt ceiling so the government can continue meeting its obligations.

It targets two traditional Republican states he won in 2008 — Virginia and Nevada — as well as reliable Democratic territory in California and its 55 electoral votes, the most of any state.

Congressional Republicans are demanding significant fiscal reforms, such as a balanced budget amendment and mandatory spending caps, in exchange for their necessary support to raise the debt limit.

Democrats respond that the debt limit issue should be separated from any politically inspired fiscal mandates because any question of whether the government can pay its debt will bring damaging repercussions from markets and the international community.

The first evidence of such a reac-

tion came yesterday, when Standard & Poor’s lowered its outlook for the nation’s long-term debt.

While reaffirming its top-tier rating for the U.S. economy, S&P lowered its outlook for America’s longterm credit rating to “negative” from “stable” based on the uncertain political debate around the nation’s fiscal problems. It said resolution of major issues was unlikely ahead of the 2012 elections.

The report by one of the major agencies that evaluates debt ratings sent stocks tumbling, with the Dow Jones industrial average sinking more than 200 points in early trading.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, said yesterday the S&P report underscores the need for immediate reforms to ensure America’s fiscal health.

Republicans will not move forward on a measure to raise the country’s debt ceiling unless “it is accompanied by serious reforms that immediately reduce federal spending and end the culture of debt in Washington,” Cantor said in a statement.

At the White House, Press Secretary Jay Carney said that although the S&P rating showed the need for agreement on deficit reduction, the president believes that the prospects for a deal are better than expected by S&P. He reiterated the White House position that raising the debt ceiling should be handled separately from fiscal reform measures.

“The issue is, the debt ceiling has to be raised, and it cannot be held hostage to a process that is very difficult and very complicated,” Carney said. “We cannot make it conditional.”

Calling the possibility of a U.S. default on its debt obligations “unthinkable,” Carney said congressional leaders from both parties have indicated that the debt ceiling will be raised and said Obama “takes them at their word.”

While opposing a direct linkage between raising the debt ceiling and fiscal reforms, the White House con-

cedes that simultaneous steps are needed to reduce mounting deficits and the national debt.

The U.S. debt is expected to hit the country’s $14.294 trillion ceiling next month, though congressional leaders say the Treasury can take steps to put off the deadline until early July.

On the broader fiscal reform issues, Obama and congressional Democrats seek to distinguish their policies from Republican calls for shrinking spending and the size of government.

A 2012 budget proposal passed Friday by House Republicans with no Democratic support would cut $4 trillion in spending over the next decade by overhauling the Medicare and Medicaid government health care programs, cut non-military discretionary spending and reform the tax code to lower rates and eliminate loopholes.

The goal is leaner government

without the unsustainable cost increases currently plaguing Medicare and Medicaid, along with lower tax rates to stimulate economic growth.

Democrats call the GOP plan unbalanced, saying it gives the wealthy tax breaks while placing the burden of reduced spending on the most vulnerable elements of society.

Obama’s vision, unveiled last week, also seeks $4 trillion in deficit reduction but over 12 years, and includes tax reforms to lower some rates and eliminate loopholes while ending Bush-era tax cuts for families earning more than $250,000 a year.

The president also called for further reforms to Medicare and Medicaid while maintaining their current structure, along with spending cuts, including the military budget. The House Republican plan would leave military spending untouched.

WASHINGTON — A year after British oil giant BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, support for oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is rising, some U.S. politicians say.

A week before the April 20 anniversary of the oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers and triggered a world’s worst 200-milliongallon, off-shore spill, the House Natural Resources Committee cleared three bills pushing faster and wider access. One of them would deem drilling permits to be approved if the administration does not act on applications within 60 days, The Washington Post reports.

“Some of the members of Congress are acting as though the Deepwater Horizon well oil spill never happened,’’ Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said last week.

“Some people have gotten amne-

sia and washed their hands of any responsibility for action,’’ Bob Graham, the former Florida governor and senator who was co-chairman of the presidential commission on the leak, told The Miami Herald.

But drilling supporters said it can be done safely with proper safeguards.

Rising gasoline prices and the perception that the damage was not as great as feared have contributed to a shift in opinion.

A recent poll by Quinnipiac University found 60 percent of Floridians backing expanded drilling, up from 42 percent last summer, the Herald reported Sunday.

“Each day away from the tragedy saw a resurgence of support,’’ said Dave Mica, executive director of the Florida Petroleum Council.

Air traffic controllers not paid to nap, LaHood says Support for gulf drilling on rise WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood assured the public that the federal government was implementing new measures to ensure that air traffic controllers do not fall asleep on the job.

Several separate incidents have alarmed regulators and safety advocates in recent weeks, including a lone controller at Washington’s Reagan National Airport who fell asleep on March 23 with two jetliners en route.

“Paying controllers to sleep will not be part of what we do at the FAA,” LaHood said on “The Early Show” yesterday. “We’re not going to pay controllers to nap.”

FAA officials started a multi-city tour today in Atlanta to discuss new regulations on rest and scheduling with controllers and emphasize their

responsibility.

“We believe that these controllers are well-trained. We believe they’re well-rested. But, we will do more. We will do what we have to do. We will not continue the kind of activity where seven controllers have fallen asleep,” LaHood said on the news broadcast.

“That’s the reason that our administrator and the president of NATCA (the National Air Traffic Controllers Association) are traveling the country to listen, to talk to controllers,” he said. “We’re going to do a top-tobottom review of our procedures.

The new guidelines give air traffic controllers more hours off, limits the controllers ability to swap midnight shifts, and by staffing more FAA managers during late night and early morning hours.

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Did Tea Party-inspired Republicans steamroll Democrats?

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Special to the NNPA from thedefendersonline.com Democrats control two of the three institutions that determine federal priorities and laws, but you would never know that by the way Tea Party-inspired Republicans in the House steamrolled President Obama and Senate Democrats in the latest budget showdown designed to cut $38.5 billion from the fiscal year that is already half over.

In exchange for approving budget funding to keep the federal government afloat through the fiscal year that ends September 30th, Republicans demanded significant spending reductions. Slightly more than half of the cuts are aimed at favorite GOP targets: education, health, and labor programs. Of the $38.5 billion in overall reductions, roughly $20 billion would come from domestic discretionary programs and $17.8 billion would be taken from mandatory programs.

In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency, another favorite whipping boy of conser-

vatives, had its budget slashed $1.6 billion, representing 16 percent of its budget.

That was just a prelude to an even larger battle to raise the federal debt limit, which must be done before early July to prevent wreaking international havoc and sidetracking the nation’s fragile economic recovery.

Republicans, many of whom were disappointed that even deeper cuts were not made for this fiscal year, are gearing up for that battle as well as another epic standoff over the 2012 budget.

If Republicans win, the cuts will strike at the heart of the Obama agenda while maintaining tax cuts for the wealthy and protecting big business.

President Obama has been both praised and criticized over the way he operates, preferring to let Congress take the lead on such important issues as health care and budget reform.

In an attempt to show that he is not just an idle bystander, the president gave a speech last week at George Washington University in which he sought to contrast his approach to reducing deficits with his GOP critics.

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Taking direct aim at House budget chairman Paul D. Ryan (D-WI), the author of a sweeping GOP proposal that would drastically reduce social spending, Obama told his Washington, D.C. audience: “These are the kind of cuts that tells us we can’t afford the America that I believe it,” he said. “I believe it paints a vision of our future deeply pessimistic. that’s There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.”

A more responsible approach, Obama argued, would be to implement an assortment of measures designed to make the wealthy pay their fair share, including eliminating tax cuts for those making more than $250,000 a year ($500,000 for couples) and raising the cap on when employees stop paying into Social Security each year, which is now about $108,000 a year. Obama also favors corporations assuming a larger share of the burden, especially those that pay little or no federal taxes because of loopholes. Tradition-

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The journey towards housing fairness continues A new report from the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) in Washington, D.C. describes an investigation of 624 bank-owned properties in four markets: Dayton, Ohio; Hartford, Connecticut; Maryland’s Price George’s County; and Richmond, Virginia. Field staff visited and evaluated the exterior condition of REO properties in these markets based on a 100-point scale. The goal was to determine whether banks and their third-party contractors were equitably maintaining the properties owned.

In three of the four metro areas, properties located in either White or stably integrated neighborhoods were managed substantially better than those in communities of color.

In the White or integrated communities, REO properties showed evidence of well-maintained lawns, secured entrances and professional sales marketing. By contrast in communities of color, poorly maintained yards, unsecured entrances, poor curb appeal and appearances of abandonment were evident.

The report notes that while Prince George’s County is a “rare example of a racially and ethnically integrated suburb”, its Black neighborhoods,

scored well below those of its integrated neighborhoods.

According to NFHA, “A bank risks violating civil rights laws if it owns a home in an African American or Latino neighborhood and fails to take the same steps to maintain, market, and sell it as it would take for a home in an area with a largely white population.”

The NFHA report also calls for banks, federal regulators, and local governments to take measurable steps to erase the noted disparities.

“It is imperative that banks take affirmative steps to maintain, market, and sell all REO properties according to fair housing best practices standards. It is also imperative that federal regulators and enforcement agencies examine the ways in which banks and the vendors that they hire conduct this business” advised NFHA. “Lastly it is imperative that local municipalities and residents remain vigilant and ensure that the concentration of REO properties is not impeding fair housing choices.”

The irony is that these findings and recommendation are emerging during the nation’s observance of Fair Housing Month. The month-

long observance is intended to commemorate the historic signing of the Fair Housing Act on April 1l, 1968.

Enacted four years after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination by race in housing sales, rentals, and financing and was signed into law by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Later in 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Fair Housing Amendments which prescribed powers for the Department of Justice along with enforcement penalties and expanded protected classes to include disabilities and familial status.

Yet, despite the passage of time and the enactments, fair housing has yet to reach many Americans of color. The laws may have changed; but discriminatory practices still remain in the housing industry.

The journey towards housing fairness continues.

Republicans steamroll Democrats?

“I said, ‘You want to repeal health care? Go at it. We’ll have that debate.

You’re not going to be able to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget. You think we’re stupid?’”

Tough talk aside, it is still unclear how Boehner, with the White House and Senate controlled by Democrats, was able to win a disproportionate number of concessions from Democrats.

In a speech to the GOP faithful in Stamford, Conn. after the vote, Boehner said he never thought there would be a government shutdown. “…The goal is not to shut down the government. The goal is to cut spending in Washington, D.C., he said.

Another Boehner goal was to place Obama and Senate Democrats on the defensive by going to the brink and giving the impression that unless they got the spending cuts they wanted, the federal government would

indeed shut down. Republican leaders with control of only the House played a game of political chicken and are bragging that Democrats blinked.

But, Obama and his supporters are also claiming victory, noting that GOP budget reduction goals for this year fell from $100 billion initially to $38.5 billion and that they were able to stave off efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.

While both sides are claiming victory, each is preparing for the next bruising round of budget fights.

By CHARLENE CROWELL When the Center for Responsible Lending examined the demographics of the housing crisis, it determined that for every 100 African American homeowners with a mortgage, 11 have either lost their homes or were at imminent risk of foreclosure. For Latino families, the figures were even worse – 17 of every 100 Latino homeowners with a mortgage are affected by foreclosures. From 2009 through 2012 African American and Latino communities will together lose $350 billion due to depreciation in values from nearby foreclosures.

Just as communities of color were targeted for high-cost subprime mortgage loans, now the high concentration of foreclosed properties in these same communities has led to yet another dilemma: a disproportionate share of neglect among bankowned foreclosures. Also know as real-estate owned (REO) properties, these formerly-occupied homes are bringing blight and contributing to further deterioration of the quality of life in communities of color.

Continued from page 4 ally, Republicans have opposed this approach to reducing the size of government.

Obama is hoping to bridge part of the ideological gulf by falling back on some of the recommendations of his bipartisan deficit commission that favored raising some taxes and placing caps on mortgage deductions.

Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, said poor and middle-class citizens are bearing the brunt of the cuts.

“Poor and middle-class families have already received more than their fair share of pain in this economy,” Miller said, “while the wealthy and special interests have paid no price.”

On the surface, it seems like Obama and the GOP share the same goal. The president wants to reduce the federal budget deficits by $4 trillion over 12 years. Republicans want to cut $4.3 trillion over 10 years. The sticking point is how best to reduce the growing deficits – and that’s where differing political philosophies take center stage.

“Here are two numbers to keep in mind when thinking about the House Republicans’ budget plan: They want to cut spending on government programs over the next decade by $4.3 trillion. And they want to cut tax revenues over the same period by $4.2 trillion,” the New York Times pointed out in an editorial. “Government spending needs to be brought under control. But slashing vital services just to pay for more tax cuts is bad

public policy and bad economics.”

The Education, Labor and Health and Human Services departments represent approximately 28 percent of non-defense spending. Yet, they will make up 52 percent – $19.8 billion – of the cuts this year. There is also an across-the-board department and agency cut totaling $1 billion.

The District of Columbia was also a loser in the budget process after House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) backed a provision than bans federal and local spending for abortions and insisted on a private school voucher plan. Mayor Vincent C. Gray and several members of the city council were arrested at a Capitol Hill rally protesting the action by Congress.

Boehner was able to push the budget measure through the House with a significant number of Democratic supporters that made up for GOP defections from the conservative Tea Party wing. It passed the House on a vote of 260-167, with 179 Republicans supporting it and 59 Republicans opposing.

More Democrats opposed the compromise than supported it; 108 voted against the measure and 81 voted for it. Division among Democrats was underscored by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) decision to vote against the budget measure and former Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) backing it.

The Senate passed the budget bill 81-19.

According to CBS News, Obama was overheard telling donors in Chicago how he had stood up to John Boehner.

— Charlene Crowell is the Center for Responsible Lending’s communications manager for state policy and outreach. She can be reached at: Charlene.crowell@responsiblelending.org.

— George E. Curry, former editorin-chief of Emerge magazine and the NNPA News Service, is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. He can be reached through his website, www.georgecurry.com. You can also follow him at www.twitter.com/currygeorge.

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South recovering from storms, death count climbs

By WENDELL MARSH WASHINGTON — At least 45 people died from tornadoes, thunderstorms, flooding and hail across the southern United States over the weekend, and officials said the death toll may rise as the cleanup continues.

The nasty storms killed 22 people in North Carolina, seven each in Arkansas and Alabama, five in Virginia, two in Oklahoma and one each in Mississippi and Tennessee, according to state emergency officials.

Some forecasters expect another round of severe weather to hit the central Plains and the Mississippi and Ohio valleys today.

“Beginning late today and tonight, a small area from eastern Kansas to western Kentucky could have a few localized gusty storms before a more widespread severe weather threat unfolds,” metrologist Bill Deger of Accuweather.com said.

The Midwest is expected to get a mix of snow and rain

The remains of a destroyed Lowe’s Home Improvement store is pictured after a tornado in in Sanford, North Carolina. around the Great Lakes, according to the Weather Channel, and flood warnings were in effect along and near the Ohio River in Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois, the National Weather Service reported.

In Chicago, a dusting of snow fell overnight after temperatures dipped to freezing or below. Temperatures were in the high 30s on Monday, slowing the melting of the spring snow.

North Carolina accounted

for the bulk of casualties and property losses from the weekend weather, with 22 people killed and about 130 others injured. Significant damage was reported in at least 26 counties and power outages affected more than 200,000 people.

The storms began in Oklahoma on Thursday, then moved through the South and hit the East Coast by Saturday. There were 241 tornadoes reported, with 50 confirmed.

Seven people died as a result of the storms in Alabama, seven died in Arkansas, and Mississippi and Tennessee each reported one death.

Two people were killed in Oklahoma when a tornado flattened buildings. Virginia’s Office of the Medical Examiner has confirmed five weather-related deaths and was examining others to determine if the storms were the cause of death.

National Weather Service forecasters say northern New Jersey saw some minor flooding yesterday, but that worse is yet to come. They say that flooding on the Passaic River, near Little Falls, could crest at the major flood stage this evening.

“If you had asked me last week, I would have said never,” said Henry Underhill, business administrator of Little Falls. He said the river has risen 5 feet in the last two days. He said it’s possible that roads in the residential area near the river would have to be closed, and depending on how high the river rises, it may flood homes too.

The storm over the weekend dumped 3.12 inches of rain on the Philadelphia area, according to the weather service.

While the many other parts of the country were suffering from storms and flooding, a severe drought has led to unprecedented wildfires in the Southwest.

Texas Governor Rick Perry has requested a Major Disaster Declaration for the entire state, as brush fires which have burned more than 1.5 million areas continued yesterday.

The fires have been whipped by 60-miles-perhour wind gusts and fueled by brush dried out by record low humidity.

“We’ve got real strong winds, real dry air, real low humidities, couple all that with dry fuels, which we have a lot of, and the fires are running pretty hard,” Marq Webb of the Texas Forest Service said yesterday.

So far a total of 7,800 separate fires have destroyed 244 homes, including ten homes in southwest Austin which were destroyed Sunday.

Chicago Mayor-elect For second year, U.S. jail population down Emanuel picks school head

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel has named the man in charge of schools in Rochester, N.Y., to head Chicago’s public schools.

Emanuel announced yesteray that Rochester Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard (above) will become Chicago Public Schools CEO. Brizard was alongside Emanuel as he made the announcement at a high school on Chicago’s South Side. Emanuel called Brizard an “experienced educator and proven manager.”

Emanuel said he interviewed six or seven candidates for the job. Brizard said students must be put first and “there is no great calling” than education.

Brizard replaces Ron Huberman, who resigned in November after Mayor Richard Daley said he wouldn’t seek another term.

Huberman said he had no desire to serve another mayor.

Huberman’s last day in the $230,000-a-year job was Nov. 29. Daley quickly appointed an interim chief.

WASHINGTON — For the second consecutive year the U.S. jail population has dropped — by 2.4 percent in the 12 months ending June 30, Justice Department officials said.

Report author Todd D. Minton, a statistician at the Bureau of Justice Statistics, said the number of inmates in local jails mainly operated by a local law enforcement dropped from 767,434 to 748,728, following a 2.3 percent decline in 2009.

This is the second time the jail population declined

since Bureau of Justice Statistics began its Annual Survey of Jails in 1982, Minton said in a statement.

In addition, the jail incarceration rate in 2010 declined to 242 jail inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents — the lowest rate since 2003, the report said.

Jails typically hold inmates while they await court action, serve a sentence of one year or less, are held pending arraignment or awaiting trial or awaiting transfer to serve time in state or federal prison.

Jails operated at 86 percent of their capacity at midyear 2010, the lowest percentage since 1984, the report said.

Los Angeles County reported a drop of 3,007 inmates during the 12 months ending June 30 followed by: Maricopa County, Ariz., which was down 1,196 inmates; Orange County, Calif., was down 1,143; Philadelphia was down 1,111; Fresno County, Calif., was down 1,105 and Harris County, Texas, down 1,096.

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COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

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The Jeff King Band swings at The Inkwell

Jeff King Tenor Sax

Craig Harris Trombone

The Jeff King Band swings at The Inkwell, one of the new locations for the Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival. The band

consists of some of Brooklyn’s finest jazz musicians, lead

by Jeff King the musical director for the CBJC. The festival is in its 12th

Richard Howard trumpet

George Gray drums

year and if the music played that night is any indication, this festival will be around for many many years.

The Jeff King Band

featuring Vanessa Rubin will be at the New York Aquarium on April 30th 4 P.M to 7 P.M no admission fee. It is the climax of the

Bryce Sebastion 12th Annual Jazz find out where the Jeff Festival, To find out King band is playing information about the next go to festival go to www.jazzking.net - Photos by www.cbjcjazz.org to

Spring Into Health at the Liberty Café soup kitchen Every Monday morning since March 14, 2011, Dr. Holson Hector from M & H Family Health Care arrives at the Liberty Café soup kitchen located at 275 Liberty to offer free health screenings to the soup kitchen patrons. At his side is Tanisha John, the Outreach Coordinator for Neighborhood Health Providers, who speaks to the community residents about the health insurance options available to them through the health plan.

Dr. Hector is concerned about the growing number of community residents with high blood pressure (a

Tanisha John Outreach Coordinator Neighborhood Health Provider and Dr. Hector. silent killer), diabetes, eases when given the heart disease and poor proper information and eating habits in East health care options.

New York and the surThe Liberty Café rounding communities feeds between 300 and of Brownsville, Ocean 500 men, women and Hill and Canarsie; most children daily with free of which are preventa- hot meals. Should they ble and/or treatable dis- need to have a private

M & H Family Health Care Dr. Holson S. Hector and patient Carmen Comacho. consultation with either the doctor or health insurance provider,

there is a medical facility set up on the premises equipped with heat

and air conditioning.

- Photos By Lem Peterkin

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Libyan forces pound Misrata, 1,000 evacuated by sea

By MICHAEL GEORGY BENGHAZI, Libya A chartered ship evacuated nearly 1,000 foreign workers and wounded Libyans from Misrata yesterday as government artillery the bombarded besieged city that now symbolizes the struggle against Muammar Gaddafi’s rule.

“We wanted to be able to take more people out but it was not possible,” said Jeremy Haslam, who led the Internatio na l Organization for Migration (IOM) rescue mission.

“Although the exchange of fire subsided while we were boarding ... we had a very limited time to get the migrants and

Rebel fighters are seen at the eastern entrance of Ajdabiyah.

Libyans on board the been wounded. ship and then leave.”

Libya’s third-largest A rebel spokesman city, Misrata is the said four civilians were rebels’ main stronghold killed and five wounded in the west and has by government shell- been under siege by fire which pounded pro-Gaddafi forces for Misrata for a fifth day the past seven weeks. yesterday. He raised Evacuees say condiSunday’s death toll to tions there are becom25, mostly civilians, ing increasingly desbecause several of the perate and hundreds of wounded had died, and civilians are believed to said about 100 had have been killed.

Uganda opposition politician arrested for 3rd time

By GODFREY OLUKYA KASANGATI, Uganda - Police in Uganda battled protesters for the third time in a week and again arrested the country’s top opposition politician yesterday, and the Red Cross said one protester died after being tear gassed.

Police arrested Kizza Besigye and about a dozen members of parliament while trying to walk to work. Police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba said Besigye was arrested for trying to hold a political demonstration.

Besigye was arrested twice last week while trying to walk to work to protest the high cost of gas and food. Last week violence broke out during his second attempt and he was shot in the hand by police.

Besigye took second place in Uganda’s February presidential election to President Yoweri Museveni. A leader in Besigye’s political party, the Forum

“The Gaddafi forces are shelling Misrata now. They are firing rockets and artillery rounds on the eastern side — the Nakl el Theqeel (road) and the residential areas around it,” Abdubasset Abu Mzeireq said yesterday morning.

The Ionian Spirit steamed out of Misrata carrying 971 people, most of them weak and dehydrated migrants mainly from Ghana, the Philippines and Ukraine, heading for the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in eastern Libya.

It was second vessel chartered by the IOM, which took out nearly 1,200 migrants from Misrata last Friday.

Among the rescued group were 100 Libyans, including a child shot in the face, the IOM said in a statement.

“We have a very, very small window to get everyone out. We do not have the luxury of having days, but hours,” said IOM Middle East representative Pasquale Lupoli.

“Every hour counts and the migrants still

in Misrata cannot survive much longer like this.”

Pro-Gaddafi forces have also kept up an offensive on the rebels’ eastern frontline outpost of Ajdabiyah, which rebels want to use as a staging post to retake the oil port of Brega, 50 miles to the west.

One witness said he saw around a dozen rockets land near the western entrance to Ajdabiyah on Sunday and many fighters fled as explosions boomed across the town.

Sunday marked a month since the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution authorizing force to protect civilians in Libya, leading to an international air campaign.

Despite NATO air strikes against Gaddafi’s armor, rebels have been unable to hold gains in weeks of back-and-forth fighting over the coastal towns in eastern Libya.

With NATO troops bogged down in Afghanistan, Western countries have ruled out sending ground troops, a position rein-

forced by the British prime minister on Sunday.

“What we’ve said is there is no question of invasion or an occupation — this is not about Britain putting boots on the ground,” David Cameron told Sky News in an interview.

Scores of volunteer fighters and civilian cars carrying men, women and children on Sunday streamed east from Ajdabiyah up the coast road toward Benghazi, where the popular revolt against Gaddafi’s 41-year rule began in earnest on February 17.

The United States, France and Britain said last week they would not stop bombing Gaddafi’s forces until he left power, although when or if that would happen was unclear.

The rebels pushed hundreds of kilometers toward the capital Tripoli in late March after foreign warplanes began bombing Gaddafi’s positions to protect civilians, but proved unable to hold territory and were pushed back as far as Ajdabiyah.

Egypt stocks extend decline amid corruption probe

By TAREK ELTABLAWY

Ugandan's burn tires to block the road as they demonstrate against the high cost of fuel and food in the capital Kampala. for Democracy, said yes- after inhaling tear gas. terday’s arrest was Protests were held in unfair. other parts of the coun“He has a right to try also. walk if he wishes so,” The Kampala-Jinja Ann Mugisha said. highway, which links A spokeswoman for Kenya to Uganda and Uganda’s Red Cross, Rwanda, was blocked by Catherine Ntabadde protesters who piled said, said one person stones on the road and died after being tear hurled them at vehicles gassed by police. The passing by. Police said victim fainted and peo- more than 20 vehicles ple around him poured were damaged.

The deputy water into his mouth in an attempt to revive spokesman for police, him, which Ntabadde Vincent Sekate, said said was dangerous. authorities would conShe also said a six- tinue to crack down on month-old baby girl had protesters “because to be taken to a hospital what they are doing is in critical condition illegal.”

CAIRO - Egypt’s benchmark stock index tumbled over 3 percent yesterday, pulling the market lower for a second consecutive day as investor worries mounted that an investigation into the head of a leading Mideast private equity firm signaled a major widening in anti-corruption

probes.

The Egyptian Exchange’s benchmark EGX30 closed 3.17 percent lower at 4,956 points, deepening the previous day’s 3.43 percent decline.

The drop pushed the index’s year to date losses to over 30 percent - a clear reflection of the crisis of investor confidence confronting the Arab world’s most populous nation in the wake of

the uprising that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak.

Brokers said the drop was fueled by authorities’ decision to ban Ahmed Heikal, the chairman of Citadel Capital, from traveling abroad and a decision late last week by an Egyptian government agency to rescind preliminary approval to sell 20 million meters of land to the Egyptian Resorts Company.

Five die in Sudan military helicopter crash KHARTOUM - A Sudanese army helicopter crashed yesterday in North Darfur, killing all five people on board, an army spokesman said, in the second such accident in less than a week.

“The helicopter, trying to land at El-Fasher airport experienced a technical problem and crashed,” Sawarmi Khaled Saad told AFP.

“The aircraft was completely destroyed and all five people on board were killed.

Three of them were crew and two were passengers. They were all in the army,” Sawarmi added.

The crew members were all officers while the passengers were ordinary soldiers, according to official Sudanese media.

The aircraft had just completed a regular flight around the state capital of North Darfur when it went down, the spokesman said.

But a military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Russianbuilt Mi17 aircraft crashed three kilometres (two miles) from El-Fasher airport, without giving a reason.

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Zimbabwe’s president defends troubled coalition

By GILLIAN GOTORA H A R A R E , Zimbabwe Zimbabwe’s president defended the nation’s bitterly divided coalition government as the southern African country yesterday marked 31 years of independence from Britain.

President Robert Mugabe said the coalition he joined after violence-plagued elections in 2008 missed some objectives “here and there” and faced “outright misunderstandings,” but strove for national unity despite Western interference.

Monday is the anniversary of Zimbabwe’s 1980 independence.

Critics blame Mugabe for stalling reforms under the power-sharing deal and not stopping surging political violence.

After recent, repeated medical treatment in Singapore, Mugabe, 87, strode the length of two soccer fields to inspect a

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe military parade in the “Please, let there be rate independence blazing sun during no violence, no fighting anniversary message independence celebra- against each other,” issued by his party, said tions yesterday.

Mugabe said Monday. the coming year holds In a robust 30In the past, calls for “many challenges, danminute address at a his supporters to settle gers and difficult choic50,000-seat sports sta- their differences with es. dium afterward, he rivals peacefully have “There will be many called for peaceful cam- gone largely unheeded. treacherous voices to paigning ahead of fresh Mugabe has said he try and convince you to elections he wants this regretted joining the cast away your determiyear. coalition with Prime nation for a new, demoAt a regional summit Minister Morgan cratic Zimbabwe,” he last month, an ailing Tsvangirai, the former said.

Mugabe was transport- opposition leader, and International human ed around the conven- wants early elections to rights group Amnesty tion center in an elec- bring it to an end.

International said tric golf cart.

Tsvangirai, in a sepa- Monday that Zimbabwe

S. African government spokesman says race matters JOHANNESBURG The government spokesman isn’t apologizing for saying race still matters in postapartheid South Africa, even though his pronouncements on mixedrace South Africans have competed in the headlines with his statements on policy.

Jimmy Manyi, who is Black, told reporters yesterday he has worked to help transform an economy shaped during

apartheid, when Blacks were denied opportunities. He says South Africans can’t “gloss over” the past, and that he is not racist for raising issues such as statistics that show Black South Africans remain the country’s poorest, and that white South Africans continue to hold most top-level jobs in the private sector.

Since Manyi took over as spokesman for the Cabinet and head of the government’s communi-

cations department in February, critics have accused him of racism, or of at least being preoccupied by race, pointing to comments he made before his appointment that could be read as implying he thought too many mixed-race South Africans lived in western South Africa. A mixed-race Cabinet minister publicly scolded Manyi for the comments.

“When you drive transformation, you

Cameron insists no ground forces for Libya LONDON - Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted that Britain will not send ground forces into Libya but conceded the limits set by the UN resolution were making the campaign more difficult.

“What we’ve said is there is no question of an invasion or an occupation, this is not about Britain putting boots on the ground, this is not what we are about here,” he told Sky News television.

He stressed international forces would not go beyond the terms set by UN Security Council Resolution 1973, which authorises all necessary means to protect civilians in Libya but rules out a foreign occupation force.

“It is because we have said we are not going to invade, we are not going to occupy (that) this is more difficult in many ways because we can’t fully determine the outcome with what we have available,” said Cameron.

remove people from their comfort zones,” said Manyi, who also is president of the Black Management Forum, an independent group founded to support Black business leaders and to encourage South African corporations to promote Black managers.

“The disparities that were inherited in 1994, we’re still dealing with them, and they’re still defined along racial lines,” Manyi said.

In an interview a year ago, Manyi was quoted as referring to an “oversupply of coloreds,” as mixed-race South Africans are known, in the country’s Western Cape Province. Manyi said the comments, seized upon by opposition parties after he was appointed government spokesman, were part of a broader discussion of employment patterns in the country.

human rights abuses continue and give rise to fear.

“People in rural areas in particular remain in fear” after years of violence orchestrated by Mugabe party militants and police and military loyal to Mugabe, Amnesty said.

An opposition group once allied to Mugabe said three decades under the control of Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party had led to worsening poverty, hunger and a crackdown on opponents.

“The question is whether people are really free,” said Methuseli

Moyo, spokesman for the revived ZAPU party in western Zimbabwe.

On Monday, Mugabe again accused the West of interfering in Africa.

He accused Western nations of breaching the United Nations charter with their bombardment of Libya.

Europe and the United States wanted to make it their “sacred mission to interfere” in other countries’ affairs, he said.

“When will they ever realize there is international law. They tear the U.N. Charter to pieces” for their own political and economic interests, he said.

Zi mbab we, Z am bia i n tug o f war o v er Vic Fa lls

Zimbabwe's tourism earnings jumped 47 percent last year to $770 million, as the number of visitors rose 15 percent to 2.3 million nationally, with Victoria Falls the country's biggest attraction, according to the tourism ministry.

Photo/Stephane de Sakutin

By JEAN LIOU VICTORIA FALLS, Zimbabwe “Tourists are back!” said Knowledge, all smiles at the Victoria Falls tourism office.

His sentiment is shared widely in this resort town on the edge of the mile-wide waterfall, where it’s hard to remember that three years ago Zimbabwe was trapped in a seemingly endless spiral of hyperinflation, hunger and political violence.

Victoria Falls had become a ghost town as tourists opted for the comforts and safety of resorts on the Zambian side of the Zambezi River, where the once sleepy town of Livingstone enjoyed a tourism boom as Zimbabwe collapsed.

“The Zambian side has definitively profited from all the problems in Zimbabwe,” said Sarah, who sells excursions for at the Zambezi Sun, part of a South African hotel chain that opened on the Zambian side in 2001.

Hotels, lodges and other tourist attractions have mushroomed over the past decade around Livingstone, which became so popular that it now boasts several daily direct flights to South Africa.

But a brand new curio market on the main road lies empty as tourists fly in and hop across the border.

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CARIBBEAN BRIEFS

Trinidad PM calls for unity

ONE FAMILY.

Whether West Indian, African or African American.

One God, One Aim, One Destiny.

Guyana minister wants heath care to be free for all CARICOM citizens GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana’s Health Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, who is also the chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Council for Human and Social S e r v i c e s (COSHOD), has called on all regional governments to provide medical services to its citizens.

Speaking at a COSHOD conference in Georgetown, Guyana, Ramsammy said that there was an obligation on the part of governments to offer cost-free health care to all citizens of CARICOM. He pointed out that nearly 90 percent of all health services in Guyana are obtained through the public health sector. He said that free health care is accessible to anyone accessing health services in the public sector.

Other regional governments should do likewise and disclosed that each member state of CARICOM invests about ten percent of its national budget in health.

CARICOM heads to hear about regional corruption PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister, Kamla Persad Bissessar, who is the head of regional security for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), said she intends to bring allegations of corruption at the CARICOM

Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS) to the attention of other member states in order to institute an audit at the agency.

The Sunday Express newspaper reported that Persad Bissessar made the statement in an email, in response to a request for a comment on the allegations.

The prime minister said, “Should the allegations be true, it is indeed cause for grave concern. Corruption of any kind is a cancer eating away at the heart of every person who should benefit from projects, since every dollar corruptly taken means one dollar less for the benefit of people; and it would be even more appalling for an organisation charged with responsibility for assisting in the fight against crime to, itself, be ensnared in criminal activity.”

“In the circumstances, I will bring same (allegations) to the attention of CARICOM heads and request that a full investigation be undertaken, including an audit, and for steps to be taken for transparency and accountability,” Persad Bissessar stated.

Heavy rains cause extensive damage in St. Vincent KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent — The country’s Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, visited the northeast coast of St. Vincent to assess the damage after heavy rains last week.

The damage is described as extensive and is estimated to be in the millions.

However, a thorough assessment of the damage is expected to be done.

Trinidad and Tobago prime minister, Kamla Persad Bisssessar tion and sacrifice.”

Hanuman was noted, are qualiThe Trinidad Express report- ties now more necessary than ed that using the life and accom- ever. Our ability to remain complishments of the Hindu deity petitive in a tough global village Bhakta Hanuman as an example will depend on how we collecof what the power of unity and tively chose to improve national hard work can accomplish, she productivity.” said, “We are at a stage in our Division, she said, can never country’s life when commitment serve the national interest Speaking at the Hanuman to duty, responsibility to the because it will always threaten Jayanti celebrations at the Divali national interest, sacrifice, self- the future.

“This is why I continue to Nagar site in Chaguanas, Persad lessness and co-operation are Bissessar told the Hindu devo- necessary to lay new founda- work tirelessly to unite our people around the common vision of tees gathered there, “There is no tions for a sustainable future.

“Dedication to one’s work, achieving peace and a happier need for destructive competition and conflict. All of our interests focus, courage and a lack of society,” she added. can be served through co-opera- fear, of the kind for which

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has called on citizens to unite and work together in the best interest and development of the country.

Jamaican government tables $545 billion budget for 2011/12

By BALFORD HENRY KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica’s Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, tabled Estimates of Expenditure totaling JA$545 billion (US$6.4 billion) for 2011/12, in the House of Representatives on Thursday.

The gross budget figure is approximately $556 billion but, minus

appropriations-in-aid (daily incomes) which add up to $11.2 billion, it nets at $544.7 billion for the fiscal year. This is approximately $48 billion more than last year’s revised figure of $497 billion.

The bulk of the allocations go, as usual, to the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, followed by Education, National Security and Health.

The Ministry of Finance and the Public,

as is normal, gets a huge chunk of $322 billion in recurrent (housekeeping) and capital (projects) appropriations, the bulk of which will service the country’s huge debts.

There is also $6.7 billion in contingencies, which includes $4.6 billion for retroactive (back) pay to government workers, of which the teachers will get $2.5 billion arising from the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT)

award. There is $1.4 billion for general allowances and $700 million for select groups.

In addition, $500 million will be spent on recruiting Cuban health personnel, $1.1 billion to meet anticipated increased electricity costs, $475 million to liquidate outstanding arrears for drugs and $63 million to assist in establishing the Jamaican embassy in Brazil.

Former St. Kitts-Nevis cabinet minister accused of trying to snatch opposition leadership BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (CUOPM) — A local political pundit in St. Kitts and Nevis sees Friday’s march by former government minister

Dwyer Astaphan as a first move to snatch the leadership of the opposition People’s Action Movement (PAM) from attorney Lindsay Grant.

“Dwyer has been a

crafty politician and has observed very carefully over the past several months the failed leadership of Lindsay Grant and the scandal surrounding the Marriott Affair where he (Grant) was recorded negotiating in a cor-

rupt way, the sale of government land to a potential developer if he had won the 2010 general election for a campaign contribution of US$1.7 million,” said the political pundit, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

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Will Egypt’s former ruler Mubarak ever face trial?

By MIRAL FAHMY CAIRO An authoritarian leader is forced to resign after protests against his corruption-tainted rule. He is charged with graft and murder, but ill health stalls his interrogation.

He dies before he is put on trial. fate of The Indonesia’s President Suharto, who died 10 years after mass demonstrations swept him from power in 1998, could be a scenario the generals now ruling Egypt are considering for deposed President Hosni Mubarak, 82 and ailing, who still wields considerable clout within the army.

Yet significant delays in putting Mubarak on trial risk a return of the mass demonstrations and chaos that swept him from power on February 11 and hammered Egypt’s economy, analysts say.

The protests have largely died down, but normality has yet to

return to a country central to stability in the Middle East.

“The military council has made it very clear from the very beginning that they would like Mubarak to be able to retire with dignity, and this could go on for a long time, like Suharto,” said Elijah Zarwan, senior analyst at the Egypt of the office International Crisis Group, a policy advocacy organization.

“They’re caught between their desire to maintain stability and their sense of duty to a respected commanderin-chief. The military are very reluctant to put him on trial, and this could go on for a very long time,” he said.

The similarities between Mubarak and Suharto, who died aged 86, are striking.

Both hailed from the military, governed with an iron-fist for 30 years, oversaw free-market reforms that triggered an economic boom for some and then were tossed from power by a disenfranchised population weary of authoritarian rule.

Like Mubarak,

Gulf troops staying until Iran “threat” gone: Bahrain MANAMA/DUBAI Bahrain’s foreign minister said yesterday Saudi and UAE forces called in to help quell street unrest would leave only when “any external threat” he associated with Iran was seen to be gone.

Pro-democracy demonstrators in Bahrain have denied any link with the Islamic Republic.

Bahrain’s prime minister described the several weeks of anti-government protests by the Sunni Muslim-ruled country’s disaffected Shi’ite majority as a coup attempt and said those who took part would be held to account.

The mostly Shi’ite protesters in the outpouring of unrest in February and March demanded more free-

dom, an end to discrimination and a constitutional monarchy in Bahrain, a U.S. ally that hosts Washington’s Fifth Fleet.

Bahraini rulers crushed the protests last month, deploying security forces in the capital and calling in troops from Gulf neighbors Saudi Arabia and the UAE under the aegis of a Gulf defense pact, a move demonstrators saw as an act of war.

Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed al-Khalifa hinted that Gulf troops could be there for some time, saying they would remain until what he described as a threat to Gulf Arab countries from nearby Shi’ite power Iran was over.

- Fredrik Richter & Martina Fuchs

Clashes in Yemen coastal town wound 88

By MOHAMED SUDAM

Protesters holding posters of former president Hosni Mubarak chant slogans in support of Mubarak in downtown Cairo April 17, 2011.

Photo/Youssef Boudlal Suharto was charged by the interim military remains in a hospital in with corruption. But ill rulers, a step seen as the Red Sea resort of health, and his endur- appeasing demonstra- Sharm el-Sheikh, a town ing appeal to many tors who may suspect he frequented during Indonesians, ensured he they were shielding his presidency and to never stood trial. He Mubarak from punish- which he fled after his died in 2008. ment. resignation.

UNSPECIFIED But an unspecified illSecurity sources say ILLNESS ness — state television there are no plans so far Bringing Mubarak to said it was a heart crisis to move him to a milijustice was one of the but medical sources now tary hospital in the capikey demands of the pro- say he is in good health tal, despite an order by democracy protesters — has stopped him the prosecutor to do so, who deposed him. He returning to Cairo for partly because Mubarak was ordered detained for questioning. himself is refusing to be questioning last week The former president transferred.

Most Japan voters want new PM, approve quake tax

By LINDA SIEG & YOKO KUBOTA TOKYO - Most Japanese want a new prime minister to lead rebuilding after last month’s earthquake and tsunami, newspaper polls showed yesterday, as the head of government was again scolded in parliament for his handling of the nuclear crisis that followed.

Japan is struggling to bring the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant under control after it was crippled by the March 11 natural disasters, a process that could take the rest of the year.

Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said on Sunday it hoped to achieve a cold shutdown

to make the reactors stable within six to nine months.

That timetable would only be met if “everything goes smoothly,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said. The full recovery could take even longer and rebuilding the shattered northeastern coast has yet to begin.

The cost of material damage alone from the quake and tsunami has been estimated at $300 billion, making it the world’s most expensive natural disaster. More than 13,000 people have been confirmed dead and tens of thousands made homeless.

Nearly 70 percent of people surveyed by the Nikkei business daily said Prime Minister Naoto Kan should be replaced, and a similar number said the government’s response to the nuclear crisis was not acceptable.

Kan was criticized

again in parliament yesterday for his response to the nuclear disaster.

An opposition lawmaker suggested he had been ill-prepared from the start, pointing to Kan’s admission that he could not recall the details of a drill last year that simulated a Fukushima-type incident.

“Prime Minister Kan is working hard and he must be experiencing difficulties. But many people have questions about his leadership,” opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmaker Masashi Waki told the upper house budget committee.

Kan said he and his government were doing their best.

“Japan has experienced many crises in the past, but I believe this is the biggest crisis in the 65 years since the end of World War Two,” he told a parliamentary panel yesterday.

SANAA - Clashes broke out in Yemen’s Sea port of Red Hudaida yesterday, wounding at least 88 people as plainclothes police fired shots and teargas at protesters who responded by hurling stones, witnesses and doctors said.

Residents told Reuters that plainclothes police armed with bats, pistols and stones, attacked thousands of protesters who had marched into the streets outside the square where they have been camped for weeks in demonstrations calling for the end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 32-year rule.

“We’re appealing for help in medical supplies as we’re really suffering from a severe shortage ... the medical situation is really bad,” said protester Abdul Jabar Zayed. “We have some friends missing and we think they were arrested, we are still making calculations but no specific number yet.”

A first round of clashes hurt 15 people, two were shot and the others were beaten or hit with stones, doctors said, and protesters began to withdraw back to their camp.

But clashes erupted again as riot police fired shots and tear gas at a group of protesters, witnesses said.

Protesters responded by marching out of their camp again, this time headed for Hudaida’s main thoroughfare, residents told Reuters.

Five people were shot and 68 were beaten or were suffering from teargas inhalation, they said, and clashes were ongoing. Zayed told Reuters that protesters had built a roadblock to try to prevent police from getting closer to the demonstrations.

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One Thought - One Humanity

For the conclusions of these stories check out the April 14th - April 20th, 2011 issue of The New American, which hits newsstands every Thursday Janet Jackson is about to make history in Paris. She will be the first female pop artist to perform under the I.M.Pei glass Pyramid at Paris’ famed Louvre Museum. She will be giving a live show during the biannual fundraising event “Liaisons au Louvre.”

The President of the museum said, “Janet Jackson is one of the world’s greatest artistic treasures. Accordingly, we are profoundly honored, and believe it most fitting, that her performance in the Louvre Museum will be yet another masterpiece captured under our glorious glass Pyramid. I believe the evening with Janet Jackson will be a great ‘coup’ for our institution!” Janet herself was just as flattered, saying, “The Louvre and its stunning glass Pyramid are equaled only by the priceless treasures that are housed within its impressive walls. It is an honor to be asked to participate in such an incredible evening at this historic location.

‘Liaisons au Louvre’ will be an unequaled event, raising much needed funds for this institution and the preservation of art that moves the soul.” Oui oui! If anybody’s making a trip to City Of Love on June 14, please report back to us!

The wife of Hot 97 personality Funkmaster Flex has announced that she and her husband have separated. It is unknown whether the separation is related to Flex’s February arrest.

His wife released the following statement to urbanmag-online.com: “After almost 18 years of friendship and marriage it is with great regret that I announce my husband Aston Taylor, also known as Funkmaster Flex, and I are separated. We have

tremendous love and respect for each-other, and will continue to work on our professional projects together. Our top priority has and will always be our children! I personally ask that the press keep in mind Flex is the celebrity, not myself or my children, please respect our privacy!”

The separation falls right on the heels of hard times for another Hot 97 deejay, Mr. Cee, who was embroiled in a highly-publicized arrest for public lewdness.

Rapper Nicki Minaj has been confirmed as the opening act for Britney Spears’ upcoming tour. Nicki Minaj will hit the road with Spears after she finishes her dates with Lil Wayne’s “I Am Music II” tour. The rapper will perform on the Britney’s opening date, which is June 17th in Sacramento, California.

Nicki Minaj, who replaces singer Enrique Iglesias, will hit 26 cities across the United States with Britney.

Despite both being members of the Dr. Dre musical family tree, 50 Cent and Ice Cube have never collaborated either in film or music.

That’s going to change, according to 50, who revealed via his Twitter account that he and Cube have something in the works. It should be noted that in the Tweet, 50 doesn’t specify whether the collaboration will be in a movie or in the studio.

In addition to having recorded with many of the same artists, Cube and 50 are both notable for having taken their talents to the silver screen. Cube has been doing film since 1991 with Boyz n the Hood, and his filmography includes the Friday and Are We There Yet? series, in addition to several others. 50’s film

career began with 2005’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’, and will continue with the upcoming film Things Fall Apart.

Singer Keri Hilson bared it all in Alllure magazine’s Annual Nude Issue. The pretty girl rock singer says of her decision to pose nude, We do a lot of things to seek validation: I have to get more expensive handbags or fake lashes or fake boobs. This shoot was about dropping all that. It’s so empowering to embrace my insecurities.

Eddie Murphy’s days as a donkey are OVER ... because last night outside Mastro’s steakhouse, the comic legend told us, “No more Shrek ... I’m Shrek’d out!” Maybe he’ll finally get back into stand-up (fingers crossed)?????

Since her injection into the world of R&B, Young Money songstress Shanell has been in hot pursuit to bend and break genre barriers. With the release of her official lead single “My Button,” it seems she has taken a big step in the right direction. On “My Button,” Shanell takes a humorous route in describing a woman’s frustration during a disappointing moment of passion with a lackluster lover. This message will become more apparent on the accompanying music video, which is being shot later this month by celebrated movie and music video director Sanaa Hamri. Shanell is poised to be the next star to come out the Young Money camp, a crew that includes Nicki Minaj, Drake and Lil Wayne. She is currently featured on Lil Wayne’s “I’m Still Music” tour plus she is also the artistic director on the trek.

Beyonce hires 200 African dancers for new video Beyonce reportedly flew 200 African dancers to Los Angeles, according to Sister 2 Sister magazine. A source said the dancers will help her incorporate some of their native moves into her “Girl” music video.

A commenter on Beyonce’s fan site gave more details, saying: “My friend got there and there were like 200 or more people in the room. A lot of Bey’s old dancers and probably every major dancer and choreographer you could think of. The song is called “Girl”. The video is being directed by Francis Lawrence. He was also there. 8 or 9 choreographers contributed to the routine.

Danielle Polanco and Luam were 2 of those choreographers. Beyonce was there of course going over the routine and they were figuring out which pieces of the choreography they would be showcasing in the music video.

The theme of “Girl” is like a female empowerment/girl power type of song that is a definite club banger with Top 40/Worldly appeal. The beat is driven by a sample of a popular club song that a lot of you will probably recognize. There’s a breakdown in the song that is described as absolutely fucking disgustingly sick! Definitely an anthem in the style of her singing. My friend doing the choreography with her couldn’t remember exact lyrics, but and there will be like 100 of them “Girl…girl….girl” is repeated a lot behind her carrying sticks and marching. Men will be used as props through out the song.

“More on the choreography. No and actors with the girls coming all males will be dancing except these 2 in their faces and intimidating African men that do this sick solo them. Again, the concept wasn’t African intro with footwork at the revealed so that’s just connecting top of the routine. There may be the dots with the choreography and more, but at the meeting today only small information that was given. It those 2 men were dancing. One of definitely looks like Bey will have an the choreographers was an African army or lesion of girls for one of the guy from an African dance compa- scenes that is presumably being shot ny. Bey will have an army of like on the 13th. Expect a full out dance 100 or more girls. 20 of them will be number with lots of choreography.”

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Oprah Winfrey’s cable network to travel overseas

By PAUL THOMASCH Three months after Oprah Winfrey’s cable television channel premiered in the United States, preparations are underway to introduce the network to international audiences.

Executives from Discovery Communications Inc, a co-owner of the network, said early discussions have been held with distributors in foreign markets, adding that they expected talks to turn more serious later in the year.

“We’re confident there are markets it will do well in,” Mark Hollinger, who heads up Discovery’s international business, said at a presentation on Friday. “We’re confident there will be an international launch of the channel.”

Hollinger declined to identify countries in the expansion plan. Other than the United States, the Oprah Winfrey Network can currently be seen only in Canada.

“We’ve said, ‘Let’s focus on the U.S. for now; we’ll tend to this a little later this year,’” Hollinger said.

A joint venture between Discovery and Oprah Winfrey’s production company, OWN launched in the United States early this year as a largely female-oriented network with a combination of lifestyle, advice and uplifting shows. Ratings have been mixed so far.

But Winfrey, regarded as the most influential woman on U.S. television, is expected to devote more energy to OWN in the coming months after the last original episode of her popular syndicated TV show, “The Oprah Winfrey

Show,” airs on May 25.

Discovery’s international plans for OWN are part of its increasing effort to build up its business abroad. Chief Executive David Zaslav spends up to 40 percent his time outside the United States, he said, visiting markets such as Chile, Romania, Russia and India.

His efforts are shifting the financial balance of Discovery. Five years ago, only 10 percent of its business came from overseas markets.

Today, around one-third of its does.

Given the rapid subscriber growth in developing markets, Zaslav said he would not be surprised if the company reached a “tipping point” in several more years that would make the international business bigger than the domestic.

“These are markets that feel like the U.S. 10 years ago,” he said, a period he described as a “perfect storm” for the business when audience ratings, subscriber numbers, and spending on cable advertising were booming.

An added advantage for Discovery is that many of its adventure and science shows seem tailor-made for interna-

tional audiences, since they usually avoid inside jokes or cultural references that can make comedies or dramas tricky to export.

The result is that much of Discovery’s budget — it now spends $1 billion a year on content — can be used for shows that play both in the United States and abroad. By contrast, said Hollinger, other media companies operating abroad “have to produce all of their content on a local level or acquire it.”

An area Discovery is approaching more cautiously is 3-D. While it has launched a full-time 3-D U.S. TV network, it has no current plans to follow suit overseas, executives said.

“Right now, it may be that in a lot of markets a full channel is not the route to take,” said Hollinger, adding that video-on-demand 3-D would be more likely.

Jennifer Hudson dedicates Kanye West’s hit ‘Stronger’ named new album to life reflections greatest workout song of all-time

By ALLEN STARBURY

Who wouldn’t agree that Jennifer Hudson hasn’t been through more than hell and back over the past few years, from competing on “American Idol” to striking gold with a record deal then to losing three family members (her mother, brother, and 7year-old nephew) in one fell swoop. But finding joy again in the birth of her son David Jr. The singer decided to use her next album as an outlet to reflect on life.

She titled it, “I Remember Me.” “The name of the album is ‘I Remember Me’, I came up with the title as I always say that in 29 years I feel like I have lived four different lives. I almost can’t even recognize that person from ten years ago,” she says. “The way to identify myself is

from my hands and from a familiar face. Those are the things that make me say, ‘Oh, I remember this, I remember that, I remember me and who I used to be.’

That’s where the name of the album came from.”

She adds, “I’m looking at me now and I’m like, ‘Who am I?’, not just physically, but even when I look around at my environment, this wasn’t here ten years ago and I wasn’t who I am today.”

She adds, “It didn’t take as long of a process to record this album as it did the first one. It’s also a completely different experience. I feel like it’s at the next level and I’m in a different place. I feel like the album reflects that and there’s a real energy from all the people I worked with.”

What’s the current most popular workout song of alltime? It’s Kanye West’s “Stronger,” according to Gold’s Gym, who says the song recently beat out the “Rocky” theme.

Gold’s Gym recently polled it’s customers and fitnessminded celebrities about their favorite song to pump some iron too ... and it was Kanye’s hit, “Stronger”, that seems to get everyone into the workout mood.

The fitness company conducted its first ever March Music Madness competition — a nationwide poll of its customers — and asked celebrities to come up with a bracket filled with 64 popular tracks.

“I was thrilled to hear that ‘Stronger’ won the March Music Madness Bracket Challenge,” said former New York Giants player Michael Strahan, who nominated West’s song.

Hundreds of songs were submitted by celebs, music fans and gym members, while over 20,000 votes were tabulated. “Stronger” made it to the “final four” alongside

Eminem’s “Lose Yourself,” Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow,” and Gun N’ Roses “Welcome to the Jungle.”

Gold’s Gym also offered the person who selected the winning song to receive a $5,000 donation to the charity of their choice.

“The song brings back great memories of Super Bowl XLII (The New York Giants came out to ‘Stronger’ before beating the New England Patriots 17-14) and is still on my iPod everyday in the gym,” Strahan explained. “What’s even more special is that I get to share this win with my

friend Sammy Arthur, with the proceeds going to his charity, The Health & Humanitarian Aid Foundation.”

“Stronger” was one of Kanye’s smash singles from his 2007 release, Graduation.

Aside from Strahan’s pick, other celeb picks included the Technotronic hit “Pump Up the Jam” (Will Ferrell), Brooke Shields nominated “Hot Blooded” by Foreigner, pro skateboarder Ryan Sheckler picked “KickStart my Heart” by Motley Crue; and volleyball-playing vixen Gabrille Reece works up a sweat to “B.O.B.” by Outkast.

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‘Priority’ waiting list to provide housing for thousands with developmental disabilities

By DAN GOLDBERG TOMS RIVER - Mike Festa is beaten down and losing hope that his son will be all right when he is gone.

It’s evident in the folder overstuffed with hundreds of documents that he keeps in the basement of his Toms River home, in his voice when he dials Trenton searching for answers, in his sigh as he describes the thousands of hours spent in a decade-long fight to find a suitable home for his 35-year-old autistic son, Michael.

Michael is sweet and sociable but subject to seizures and incapable of living on his own. He lives with his parents, who are his around-theclock caretakers, but who also know they need to find a home that will provide for their son when they no longer can.

“How much time do I have?” asked Festa, who is 61. “I don’t know. My wife and I can pass any time. If we do, Michael becomes an emergency ward of the state, and then they put him anywhere.”

And not necessarily a place suited to his delicate emotional needs - a thought that terrifies Mike and Joy Festa.

New Jersey considers Michael a priority for housing and services because his parents are

older than 55. Yet he is but one of 4,879 “priorities” on an 8,000-person waiting list for people with developmental disabilities.

The Department of Human Services, facing a severe housing shortage and an unrelenting budget crunch, was able to remove 229 names from the waiting list this fiscal year.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this.

In 2005, amid much pride and anticipation, the state created the Special Needs Housing Trust Fund, signed into law by Sen. Richard Codey when he was acting governor. It was expected to provide 10,000 new affordable housing opportunities for people with developmental disabilities and mental illness by dedicating $200 million to create new homes.

But six years later, $168 million has been spent to provide housing to 1,500 people with special needs, according to state officials. That’s 84 percent of the money to achieve 15 percent of the goal. The state Department of Community Affairs expects only another 500 units to be created with the remaining money.

That means thousands of people like Michael are growing old with their parents, while hundreds more, not fortunate enough to have caring or capable

families, are warehoused in county hospitals or housed in shelters.

When the money is gone, infrastructure for special-needs housing will become nearly impossible to fund, said Ed Murphy, executive director of the Housing Supportive Coalition for New Jersey, which works to provide homes for those with special needs.

PLANNED STIPEND The state is not walking away from the problem. As reported last month in The StarLedger, Human Services is readying a proposal that would provide an annual stipend of at least $10,000 to families taking care of adult children with developmental disabilities. The money could be used to pay for part-time aides, summer camps or vehicles with wheelchair access, but it does not address the need for supervised care when parents die.

“The lack of decent, affordable housing is what keeps parents up at night,” said Phillip Lubitz, advocacy director for the New Jersey chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. “The question I hear over and over again is, ‘What is going to happen to my son or daughter after I am gone?’ “ State officials and activists agree the trust failed to create the

10,000 beds it promised for a number of reasons, including well-intentioned hyperbole that initially overestimated the number of beds that $200 million could create.

“I think it was unrealistic from the start,” said Alison Recca-Ryan, director of the New Jersey Corp. for Supportive Housing, which tries to help communities create permanent housing for the homeless.

The economy also played a role. The law allowed the specialneeds trust to fund up to 80 percent of construction costs for housing, but the hope was that other money - such as the balanced housing fund - would contribute more than 20 percent.

The economy dried up those other funds faster than anticipated, leaving the special-needs trust to foot a larger percentage of each housing start.

The situation is further complicated by the Olmstead decision, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says federal law protects the right of disabled people to live in “the most integrated setting” safely possible.

Last year, in response to a lawsuit brought by the nonprofit advocacy group Disability Rights New Jersey, which alleges the state is violating the law by not reducing its 8,000-person waiting list, the

state told a federal judge it was too broke to comply with Olmstead.

U.S. District Court Judge Anne Thompson ruled a trial would be needed to determine whether the state is justified in postponing a plan to move people out of state-run developmental centers because it can’t afford to pay for them. No date has been set.

The state continues to face legal pressure to find supervised housing for disabled people because of two other pending cases.

Disability Rights is suing the state for failing to move people with developmental disabilities who want to live in community housing from state institutions.

The state is in the midst of complying with a 2009 settlement, stemming from another lawsuit brought by Disability Rights, that requires New Jersey to spend $5 million a year to move medically stable patients from public psychiatric hospitals until 2014.

Lori Grifa, commissioner of the Community Affairs Department, which manages the trust fund, said she is optimistic the state will find a solution and be able to continue to build housing for those with special needs.

“We’re not in crisis mode,” she said. “I’ve already begun looking

at other places. Because of our concern about exhausting the fund, we have gotten very creative.”

8,000 people with developmental disabilities are waiting for housing 8,000 people with developmental disabilities are waiting for housing New Jersey’s Special Needs Housing Trust Fund was supposed to fund housing projects for people with developmental disabilities. There are now 4,879 “priorities” on an 8,000-person waiting list for people with developmental disabilities. The Department of Human Services, facing a severe housing shortage and an unrelenting budget crunch, was able to remove 229 names from the waiting list this fiscal year. Video by John O’Boyle Watch video Grifa mentioned looking to municipal and federal governments for other pools of money, but she acknowledged that once the trust fund is gone, a reliable source will have disappeared.

“It’s an everyday conversation for us,” said Kevin Martone, deputy director of Human Services. “Most would agree we don’t have enough funds to meet the demand.”

If something were to happen to Mike and Joy Festa, the state would find a place for their son, but perhaps not an appropriate one.

N.J. judge unloads on convicted ex-Assemblyman Joseph Vas as two of his associates are sentenced

By TOM HAYDON PERTH AMBOY Even before former assemblyman and Perth Amboy mayor Joseph Vas appeared in court for sentencing yesterday on corruption charges, a judge blasted him as “coercive” and “strong-arming” in dominating the people around him.

“My sense since he

stepped into my courtroom is he felt he is running the show,” Superior Court Judge Anthony Mellaci, sitting in Freehold, said.

Mellaci’s comments came amid sentencing for two other men tied to the case - Frank Domingues and Richard Briggs, president and vice president, respectively, of Imperial Construction. They had pleaded guilty to corpo-

rate misconduct for agreeing to pay $58,000 on a lavish opening of the Perth Amboy Safety Complex, and then inflate invoices to cover costs.

Vas, originally scheduled for sentencing at 9 a.m., entered the courtroom about 2:30 p.m., after raising $404,636.68 to cover fines and restitution as required under a plea agreement he entered

in November.

“How does someone come up with $400,000 in four hours when he couldn’t do it in five months?” Mellaci said, as he lashed out at the former four-term mayor. “You could have been (a) hero. Now you’re nothing more than a common criminal.”

Vas was sentenced to eight years in prison, and must serve at least

five years before being eligible for parole. He had pleaded guilty to two counts of official misconduct and single counts of theft and money laundering to receive illegal campaign contributions.

Vas was accused of billing the city of Perth Amboy for $5,000 worth of clothing, sneakers and other personal items, and of conspiring to rig a lottery

that gave city employee Anthony Jones the chance to buy a house built through a federal program for first-time home buyers.

The sentence will run concurrent with a 61/2year prison term Vas received last Tuesday on federal corruption charges.

Mellaci said he would have sent Vas to prison yesterday if he hadn’t paid the $404,636.16.

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Alcohol-energy drink combo riskier than booze alone

By MAUREEN SALAMON Combining the caffeine jolt of energy drinks with the intoxicating effects of alcohol is riskier than drinking alcohol alone, a new study suggests.

Adding to growing research on the effects of trendy cocktails such as vodka and the energy drink Red Bull, scientists from Northern Kentucky University split 56 college students between the ages of 21 and 33 into four groups. The students received either an alcoholic beverage, an energy drink, a mixed drink with both ingredients, or a placebo.

All drinks were made to look and taste like alcoholic energy drinks, so participants did not know which they were consuming.

Researchers measured how quickly the students could execute and suppress actions after the dose and asked them to rate feelings such as stimulation, sedation, impairment and levels of intoxica-

tion.

All of the students who alcohol showed drank impaired impulse control.

But those who drank the alcoholic energy drink perceived themselves to be less impaired than those who drank the same dose of alcohol alone, the study authors said, which could make them more likely to take risks such as driving while intoxicated.

“This study demonstrates these drinks are different . . . and consumers should be aware,” said study author Cecile Marczinski, an assistant professor in the department of psychological sci-

ence. “It might be appropriate to put warning labels on energy drinks saying they should not be mixed with alcohol.”

While combining alcohol with caffeinated beverages is nothing new — hence the ubiquitous rum and Coke — energy drinks contain about three times the amount of caffeine as cola, making them especially stimulating, Marczinski said.

Prior surveys suggest that 30 to 50 percent of U.S. teenagers and young people consume energy drinks, which may also contain stimulants such as guarana. The

U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned ready-made alcoholic beverages with added caffeine in November 2010 after a year-long review of scientific literature.

Preparing and serving mixed drinks that combine caffeine and alcohol in bars, parties or elsewhere is legal, however.

The stimulation from caffeinated alcoholic drinks counters the sedating effects of alcohol, making drinkers feel like they’re not quite as affected by the liquor, Marczinski said. However, the energy drinks don’t alter the level of behavioral impairment, just the perception of it.

“I’m most concerned about impaired driving,” she said.

“Typically, a lot of people’s judgment is not good even at the best of times when they’re drinking alcohol. It’s really that sleepy feeling that cues people it’s time to go home.

This might extend the whole party experience longer than it should.”

She and the other researchers noted that further studies are needed to

determine whether the energy drink cocktails are escalating risky drinking practices among young people, who already demonstrate high levels of binge drinking.

The study is published online in advance of the July 2011 print issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.

Bruce Goldberger, director of toxicology at the University of Florida College of Medicine, said his research in this area indicates that drinkers are more likely to drive if they mix alcohol with energy drinks. Other studies show increased risks of violence, unprotected sex and even sexual assault among those who consume this combination, he said.

“There’s this perception that if you drink caffeine, it will sober you up, and it’s just completely not true,” Goldberger said. “Because the effects of the caffeine work in one region of the brain and the effects of the alcohol work in another, so they don’t cancel each other out. Some people call it wideawake drunk.”

Study: First baby over age 45? Expect complications

By KERRY GRENS A study of older new mothers in Israel finds that 8 in 10 experienced health problems during their pregnancies, and nearly half of their babies were smaller than average.

First-time births over age 45 have more than tripled over the last decade in Israel.

Though they still represent a small fraction of all births, the researchers note that the study highlights a downside to using assisted reproduction technologies to make first-time motherhood possible later and later in life.

The researchers gathered data on 131 mothers ranging in age from 45 to 65, who gave birth at the same hospital in Israel between 2004 and 2008.

Four of every 10 women developed pregnancy-related diabetes, and two of 10 had preeclampsia, a potentially dangerous condition that includes high blood pressure and protein in the mother’s urine.

One third of the babies were born prematurely, and nearly all were delivered by a cesarean section.

“This study shows that pregnancy after the age of 45

is in fact a risky proposition, and this provides a basis upon which women of this age group can be counseled” about those risks, said Dr. Richard Paulson, director of the in vitro fertilization program at the University of Southern California, who was not involved in the study.

In the U.S., first-time births to mothers over 45 still make up a very small percentage of all deliveries. In 2010, they totaled 2,028, with just 165 of those babies born to new mothers aged 50 and up, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In the Israeli study, the risk of having a baby born early or underweight was higher for women over age 50, than for women in their late 40s.

Two out of every three babies born to the mothers aged 50 to 65 weighed less than 2,500 grams (about 5 and a half pounds), and half were born prematurely. That compared to one out of three babies born either underweight, or prematurely, or both to mothers 45 to 49.

The study, published in the journal Fertility and Sterility, did not compare the women to mothers less than 45 years

old, but the authors write that other studies have found much lower rates of pregnancy-related health problems and premature births in younger mothers.

All of the women in this study had experienced fertility problems and more than half had been pregnant before. All but five of the 131 women underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF), in which a fertilized egg is implanted into the mother’s uterus.

Nearly a third of the women had a chronic disease like high blood pressure or diabetes before they got pregnant.

Paulson told Reuters

Health that there is no policy dictating how old a mother can be to undergo IVF, although his clinic’s policy is that women over age 50 who already have health problems are not candidates for the procedure.

Interestingly, the mothers over age 50 were more likely to have a boy than the mothers in their late 40s.

“There’s no reason for that,” Paulson said. “It just shows you that statistically significant results can sometimes happen by chance.”

The health risks for older mothers are well established, however.

Paulson said that the way

to mitigate those risks is to consider alternative procedures.

Women might consider “gestational surrogacy,” in which another woman carries the child, but the father’s sperm and sometimes the mother’s egg are used to create the embryo.

Paulson also said that starting motherhood at an advanced age may carry risks, “but they’re not prohibitive risks. People of all ages are interested in having a child and completing their families.”

The study did not look at the excess cost of having a baby at an advanced age.

Parents, saying ‘um’ and ‘uh’ may aid learning Parents who say “um” and “uh” when speaking to their toddlers aren’t setting a bad example; they’re actually helping the children learn language more efficiently, according to researchers.

The study of children ages 18 to 30 months found that older children paid more attention to an image of an unfamiliar item when a voice explaining the item stumbled and said, “Look at the,

uh...”

When a parent fumbles for the correct word, it signals to a child that he or she is about to learn something new and should pay close attention, said the team at the Baby Lab of the University of Rochester in New York.

This effect was only significant in children older than 24 months, likely because younger children haven’t yet learned that

stumbles and hesitations in speech (called disfluencies) tend to precede new or unknown words, explained lead author and graduate student Celeste Kidd and colleagues.

“We’re not advocating that parents add disfluencies to their speech, but I think it’s nice for them to know that using these verbal pauses is OK — the ‘uhs’ and ‘ums’ are informative,” Kidd said.

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Diet soda doesn’t raise diabetes risk

By GENEVRA PITTMAN Diet soda and other artificially-sweetened drinks – previously implicated in raising the chance of developing diabetes - are not guilty, suggests a new study from Harvard University researchers.

In a large group of men followed for 20 years, drinking regular soda and other sugary drinks often meant a person was more likely to get diabetes, but that was not true of artificially-sweetened soft drinks, or coffee or tea.

Replacing sugary drinks with diet versions seems to be a safe and healthy alternative, the authors said in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

“There are multiple alternatives to regular soda,” Dr. Frank Hu, one of the study’s authors, told Reuters Health.

“Diet soda is perhaps not the best alternative, but moderate consumption is not going to have appreciable harmful effects,” he said.

Prior studies have suggested that people who drink diet soda regularly might be more likely to get diabetes than those who stay away from artificially-sweetened drinks.

But this study indicates that the link is a result of other factors common to both diet soda drinkers and people with diabetes, including that they are more likely to be overweight.

In other words, people who are already diabetic or overweight are drinking more diet soda for those very reasons.

Hu and his colleagues analyzed data from more than 40,000 men who were followed between 1986 and 2006. During that time, participants regularly filled out questionnaires on their medical status and dietary habits, including how many servings of regular and diet sodas and other drinks they consumed every week.

About 7 percent of men reported that they were diagnosed with diabetes at some

point during the study.

The researchers found that men who drank the most sugar-sweetened beverages - about one serving a day on average - were 16 percent more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes than men who never drank those beverages.

The link was mostly due to soda and other carbonated beverages, and drinking non-carbonated sugar-sweetened fruit drinks such as lemonade was not linked with a higher risk of diabetes.

When nothing else was accounted for, men who drank a lot of diet soda and other diet drinks were also more likely to get diabetes.

But once researchers took into account men’s weight, blood pressure, and cholesterol, those drinks were not related to diabetes risk.

That finding is “confirming the idea that it’s really these differences between people who choose to, versus don’t choose to, drink artificially-sweetened beverages”

that is related to diabetes, Dr. Rebecca Brown, an endocrinologist at the National Institutes of Health, told Reuters Health.

“People who are at risk for diabetes or obesity ... those may be the people who are more likely to choose artificial sweeteners because they may be more likely to be dieting,” said Brown, who has studied artificial sweeteners but was not involved in the current research.

The study also found that drinking coffee on a daily basis - both regular and decaffeinated - was linked to a lower risk of diabetes.

Researchers aren’t sure why that is, but it could be due to antioxidants or vitamins and minerals in coffee, Hu said.

Brown said that while there are still some health concerns about artificial sweeteners, none have been proven.

“I certainly think that we have better evidence that drinking sugar-sweetened beverages increases health risks,” Brown said.

“Certainly reducing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption by any means (including substitution with diet drinks) is probably a good thing,” she added.

Inability to spot lies, sarcasm may warn of dementia

By STEVEN REINBERG People who no longer recognize sarcasm or lies may be showing early signs of dementia, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco report.

The findings may help doctors diagnose which type of dementia a patient has and start to treat it early, the researchers said.

“The different dementia patients tended to have difficulty identifying the form of sarcasm we used for our study,” said lead researcher Katherine P. Rankin, a neuropsychologist and associate professor of neurology.

Whereas many dementia patients could easily recognize a lie, patients with frontotemporal dementia were unable to pick out either sarcasm or lies.

The results of the study were scheduled to be presented Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Honolulu. Research presented at meetings is considered preliminary until it is published in a peer-reviewed journal.

For the study, Rankin’s team asked 175 people, over half of whom had dementia,

to watch videos of two people talking. At different spots in the tape one person would lie or say something sarcastic. Viewers were given verbal and nonverbal clues to help pinpoint the false or insincere statements, the researchers noted.

The study participants were then asked yes/no questions about what they had seen.

People suffering from corticobasal syndrome, progressive supranuclear palsy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia were included in the study, as well as healthy individuals.

The researchers compared their scores with the results of brain scans that measured loss of volume related to dementia.

Healthy people easily picked out the lies and sarcasm, but those with frontotemporal dementia found it hard to distinguish among lies, sarcasm and fact. Patients with other types of dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease performed better on this test, Rankin’s team found.

The ability to identify lies is centered in the frontal lobe of the brain, which

degenerates with frontotemporal dementia, Rankin noted.

This social decline can be an early sign of frontotemporal dementia, the most common form of dementia among people under 65, according to Rankin. Other early signs of the disease can be dramatic changes in behavior or personality.

These changes are often taken as signs of depression or a midlife crisis, and not recognized for the serious condition they represent, Rankin noted.

“We wanted to know if we could use this test [to gain] a better idea of what disease the person has,” she said.

They discovered they can, she added.

“We want to find these people early,” she explained.

“We want people to recognize that these social lapses are actually a disease — parts of their brain are being eaten away.”

People who age without suffering neurodegeneration usually do not have a significant loss of their ability to recognize sarcasm and deception, the researchers pointed out.

Dr. Sam Gandy, associate director of the Mount Sinai Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center in New

York City, said “neuroanatomy can be surprising.”

“Phenomena that sound very complex can sometimes be very discretely localized,” he added. “Language, shortterm memory, and recognition of ‘self’ are examples of clearly complex phenomena that can be dramatically affected by rather small lesions.”

This study provides strong evidence that sur-

prisingly discrete lesions — in this case, lesions caused by neurodegenerative disorders — can abolish perception of sarcasm and sincerity, Gandy said.

“The fact that Rankin and colleagues were clever enough to formulate the problem properly so that the study could be undertaken is a testament to their skills as outstanding bedside clinical neurologists,” he said.

Kids may mimic how parents handle pain Family behavior can influence how children cope with pain, a new study contends.

Researchers in Croatia assessed what they refer to as pain catastrophizing, or an exaggerated negative mental state in response to actual or anticipated pain.

Their study involved 100 people with chronic pain, 85 of their spouses and 100 of their first-born adult children.

“We found that parents’ pain catastrophizing scores predicted their adult chil-

dren’s results, irrespective of the level of actual pain experienced by the adult patients,” wrote Suzyen Kraljevic, of Split University Hospital, and colleagues.

“Since, during childhood, parents serve as a model that children imitate, it is possible that children use social and communicative tools that they have observed in their parents to manage their own distress in a similar context,” the researchers concluded. “Families may develop a specific cognitive style of dealing with pain.”

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LG Display flags sector recovery on steadier prices

By MIYOUNG KIM SEOUL — LG Display, the world’s No. 2 flat-screen maker, is starting to see signs of recovery in depressed TV panel prices as it forecasts a return to profitability in the current quarter after reporting its second consecutive quarterly loss.

Panel makers, led by Sharp Corp., are reducing production, after the powerful earthquake and tsunami in Japan last month, but demand from television and computer makers is too weak to absorb even lowered supplies, sending prices of large-

sized LCD panels down more than one third over the past year.

But the pace of decline has been easing in recent months, raising hopes that demand from TV makers has finally improved. So far, booming demand from smartphones and tablets has been a rare bright spot in the LCD market, which has been in a glut since the summer of 2010.

“A meaningful recovery in the sector is not in sight yet. But panel restocking is expected to begin in late May because of seasonal demand in the third quarter,” Ji Mokhyun, an analyst at Meritz Securities, said on Monday.

The positive outlook

by LG Display, which kicked off earnings for major Asian LCD makers ahead of results due from Samsung Electronics and AU Optronics, bodes well for the sector as most panel makers including Samsung are widely expected to report heavy losses for January-March.

“There are several signs that indicate overall price trend has now turned upside and we expect even depressed TV panel prices to rebound from the mid second quarter as TV makers are preparing to build up inventory ahead of new model launches,” LG Display Chief Financial Officer Jung Ho-young

IMF criticizes response to overheating risks WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund yesterday criticized developing countries for not responding strongly enough to the surge of hot money into their markets, saying the result could be a hard economic landing.

After meeting in Washington D.C. on Friday, the IMF said in a note to G20 major economies that huge inflows of speculative capital had sped up economic growth in emerging markets, but also pushed up inflation and the response by developing country governments had “been insufficient to address these rising pressures, portending risks of a hard landing.”

It said while capital flows to emerging markets have moderated, and in some cases been reversed, they remained high and volatile.

The IMF said emerging market economies have tried to slow the flows through a combination of macroeconomic policies as well as capital control measures, but are delaying further macroeconomic

responses such as raising interest rates.

In Brazil, the IMF said there was scope to continue monetary policy tightening, while in China there should be less reliance on quantitative limits and reserve requirements and more focus on raising interest rates.

The IMF warned last week that overheating pressures were growing in fast-growing emerging market economies that was leading to asset bubbles.

Countries such as Brazil have pushed back, blaming near zero interest rates in the United States for sending investors elsewhere in search of returns, and telling the IMF to pay closer attention to the source of the flow. Brazil has resisted efforts to restrict the use of capital controls.

Meanwhile, the IMF said the recovery in advanced economies were moving too slowly. In the United States, improvements in the housing and labor markets have been slow and without an increase in exports, growth will remain

subdued.

The Fund said the U.S. dollar was on the strong side of fundamentals, and a further depreciation of the U.S. unit against undervalued currencies would help to cut the U.S. current account gap.

The IMF repeated that the Chinese yuan was “substantially undervalued,” while the values of the euro and Japanese yen are broadly in line with fundamentals.

The IMF said the risk of a near-term spike in oil prices back to 2008 peaks, when prices went close to $150 a barrel, has “increased materially”.

Global oil prices have risen to $127 highs this month on concerns that a prolonged conflict in Libya could affect supplies.

The IMF said the Libyan supply setback was comparable to development around the time of the Iraq war in 2003.

Libyan production declines equivalent to 1.5 percent of global supply have been broadly offset by higher production elsewhere.

told analysts.

LG Display, a key panel supplier for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, expects TV panel prices to stop sliding and rebound from the mid second quarter, while overall shipment volume of flat screens was likely to rise by late-teen percentage from the previous quarter.

“We are seeing real demand pick up and also very encouraged by strong sales data from China, although it may not be felt by the same degree across the overall panel makers...But the overall condition is improving and our positive growth guidance for both volume shipment and price is a conservative one taking into account potential disruptions in supply from Japan,” said LG Display’s Jung.

Highlighting soft demand from TV makers, Philips Electronics said on Monday it would transfer its TV business into a joint

venture with TPV Technology after reporting weaker-than-expected quarterly net profit.

The Dutch consumer electronics company is one of the main clients of LG Display along with LG Electronics and Toshiba Corp.

“Japan’s earthquake will have a positive impact on panel supply-demand balance by curtailing production.

But it is not good in terms of LCD parts supply, leading to a parts shortage. The impact is neutral,” said Ji. LG Display, which competes with Samsung, Sharp and Taiwan’s Chimei Innolux, said January-March operating loss was 239 billion Korean won ($220 million), worse than the consensus forecast of a loss of 123 billion won polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. But the result was broadly in line with StarMine’s SmartEstimates, which places more weight on recent forecasts by top-rated

analysts and expected a downside surprise of 92 percent to 235 billion won in the firstquarter operating loss.

Last week, HSBC lowered its growth forecast for the global LCD TV market to below 10 percent for this year, as most households in advanced countries have already traded their bulky tube TV sets to flat-screens.

In Japan, Sharp, which is estimated to produce around 8 percent of global LCD supply, suspended production at two TV panel plants last week until early may due to slumping domestic demand for TVs and shortages of a gas used in panel production.

LG Display shares have fallen about 9 percent so far this year, lagging a 4 percent gain in the wider market, which hit a record high this month.

Ahead of the results, LG shares closed down 0.6 percent in a flat broader market.

Boeing readies flight training for Dreamliner

CHICAGO — Boeing Co. said that it had gotten approval from regulators in several countries for flight training campuses for its 787 Dreamliner, which is due for first delivery this year.

The world’s secondlargest plane-maker after EADS unit Airbus

said its Dreamliner training devices — including flight simulators — were ready to be used with training courses. The company has training courses in Seattle, Singapore, Tokyo, London and Shanghai.

Full-flight simulators and other flight train-

ing devices for commercial pilot training require approval from each airline’s home country.

The Dreamliner is about three years behind its original schedule, but Boeing is set to deliver the first plane to All Nippon Airways in the third quarter.

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GM eyes doubling of China sales by 2015

By BEN KLAYMAN SHANGHAI — General Motors plans to more than double its sales in China to around 5 million units by 2015, its China head said yesterday, unveiling the five-year company’s plan for the world’s biggest auto market.

In a briefing ahead of the Shanghai Auto Show, which launches today, GM China chief Kevin Wale said GM planned to introduce some 60 new and upgraded models in China over the next five years — about 12 of them being Buicks and

15 Chevrolets.

Wale said GM will step up engineering, product investment and other items in China to between $5 billion and $7 billion in the next five years.

The 2015 target would be up from 2.35 million units sold by GM in China in 2010. In the previous two years, GM more than doubled its volume in China.

“We’ve set aggressive goals with our five-year plan. We are confident that we will achieve every one of our goals,” Wale told reporters.

Detroit-based The automaker over the next five years plans to production expand

capacity of light trucks and commercial vehicles in China to 3.7 million vehicles annually, up from the current 2.8 million capacity. on keep “We’ll facilities expanding wherever we can,” Wale said.

GM is looking to tap a market that it expects will continue to grow strongly, even though it may slow from last year, when the vehicle market expanded by one-third.

GM and its rivals are rolling out new models for the Chinese market, looking to gain a foothold particularly in the smaller cities where much of the growth is

expected over the next five years.

“We still expect the market to grow between 10 to 15 percent this year,” Wale said, referring to the broader China market.

As part of its plans, GM aims to work with local partner SAIC Motor Corp (600104.SS) to develop next-generation electric vehicle architecture (EV) adapted to the Chinese market, Wale said, adding that GM aimed to build battery electric vehicles in China.

GM plans to launch the new Baojun brand, which it is producing through a venture with southern in SAIC

China, at 150 dealerships and to expand quickly, he said.

GM also unveiled targets for other markets.

Tim Lee, president of international GM’s operations, told the briefing that the company planned to team up with its partners to introduce light commercial vehicles to India. international GM operations Vice President of Sales Susan Docherty added that GM expects sales of Chevrolet vehicles in its operainternational tions, including China, to more than double in five years.

Chevrolet sold 1.1

million vehicles globally in the first quarter, up 15 percent from a year earlier, Docherty said.

GM sold 1.2 million Chevrolets in its international operations unit last year, a 40 percent increase from 2009 and more than double from five years ago.

Chevrolet vehicles constitute about 35 percent of all GM international operation sales.

GM said late last year it expects exports of its China-made Chevrolet Sail to more than quadruple this year due to rising demand for low-cost quality vehicles in emerging markets.

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Citi profit falls as revenue shrinks, expenses surge

By MARIA ASPAN Citigroup Inc.’s firstquarter profit fell 32 percent as shrinking loans and poor trading results pressured revenue while expenses surged.

The results highlighted how the thirdlargest U.S. bank, which teetered on the brink of collapse in the financial crisis, has stabilized but is still struggling to generate real growth.

The results were better than expected, which supported Citigroup’s stock on a day when the U.S. equity market was falling.

But like other big banks, the company’s profit came mainly from dipping into money previously set aside to cover bad loans.

“We’re not seeing a lot of revenues being thrown off by main businesses ... They haven’t been able to turn recovery into growth,” said Len Blum, a managing partner of investment firm Westwood Capital, who personally owns bank stocks.

All three of the biggest U.S. banks — Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup — have posted shrinking loan books for the first

quarter, raising questions about the strength of U.S. economic growth.

The biggest boon for banks right now is that credit losses are dropping. Citigroup’s credit losses fell 25 percent in the quarter and steadily declined all last year, allowing it to dip into reserves previously set aside to cover losses.

Citigroup is among the most international of the major U.S. banks, and that helped some businesses in its Citicorp unit, where the bank houses the operations it plans to continue operating over the long term.

Citicorp’s Latin American consumer banking, investment banking and transaction-processing services all posted higher income from continuing operations, for example, even as North American investment banking and transaction-processing operations posted profit declines.

BEATING ESTIMATES Overall, Citigroup earned $3.0 billion, or 10 cents per share, in the first quarter, beating analysts’ average forecast of 9 cents a share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. A year earlier it earned $4.4 billion, or 15 cents per share.

Revenue dropped 22

percent to $19.73 billion. In its securities and banking business, fixed income trading revenue fell 29 percent to $3.8 billion.

Operating expenses rose 7 percent to $12.33 billion. Citigroup said this was in part due to higher legal expenses, but on a conference call with reporters, Chief Financial Officer John Gerspach declined to say why those costs had risen.

Gerspach said the bank will incur $25 million to $30 million in annual costs, as well as one-time charges of $45 million to $50 million over the “next few quarters,” related to a foreclosure-related settlement with bank regulators.

Last week, 14 banks including Citigroup agreed to overhaul their mortgage operations and compensate borrowers who were wrongly foreclosed upon, as part of a settlement with bank regulators.

The foreclosure mess that began in the fourth quarter of 2010, with borrowers accusing major banks of repossessing homes without having the right paperwork in place, will increase costs at several large U.S. banks.

Gerspach said Citigroup would hire up

500 people as part of the settlement. JPMorgan Chase & Co last week said it might have to hire up to 3,000 people to comply with the settlement.

Citigroup’s higher compensation expenses in the quarter may be linked to efforts to build up its investment bank and other businesses. Gerspach told reporters such investments are a priority that must be balanced with discipline on expenses.

On a conference call with investors, Chief Executive Vikram Pandit said the bank is building its investment banking franchise.

In 2010, the bank posted its first annual profit since 2007, showing that Pandit had turned the bank around after it received $45 billion of government funds over the course of three rescues.

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Kenya’s Mutai wins Boston in record 2:03:02

By JIMMY GOLEN BOSTON Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai won the Boston Marathon in 2 hours, 3 minutes, 2 seconds - the fastest anyone has ever run the 26.2 mile distance.

The previous best of 2:03:59 was by Haile Gebrselassie in Berlin 2008.

Because yesterday’s race had a strong tailwind on a downhill course, Mutai’s run is not recognized by track’s international governing body as a record.

But Mutai was almost three minutes better than the course record set just last year by Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot.

Caroline Kilel won the women’s race to complete the Kenyan sweep, outsprinting American Desiree Davila to win by two seconds, in 2:22:36. Davila led as late as the final stretch on Boylston Street and ran the fastest time ever for a U.S. woman, five seconds faster than Joan Benoit finished to win in 1983.

No American - man or woman - has won Boston since Lisa LarsenWeidenbach in 1985. Ryan Hall ran the fastest marathon ever for an American, finishing fourth in 2:04:58, and Kara Goucher ran a personal best 2:24:52 to add a fifth-place finish to her third in 2009.

Winner Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya crosses the finish line of the 115th Boston Marathon in Boston.

Kilel and Mutai each earn mark.

Four men, including Hall $150,00 for the win, and Mutai gets $50,000 for the and third-place finisher Gebregziabher world best and another Ethiopian $25,000 for the course Gebremariam, broke the 2:05 milestone that just 12 record.

A year after Cheruiyot months ago had seemed lowered the course record by insurmountable on the hilly more than a minute, the run- Boston course.

Mutai and Moses Mosop ners lined up in Hopkinton with temperatures in the ran side-by-side for the final high 40s and a wind at their miles before Mutai pulled back - perfect marathoning ahead for good on Boylston Street and won by four secweather.

Kim Smith, a New onds. The 19th Kenyan winZealander who lives in ner in the past 21 years, Providence, took off at a Mutai raised his arms in the record pace and led the air and grinned; Cheruiyot, women’s race for more than who injured his side in a car 20 miles. The men were more accident in Kenya, dropped steady, and they were the out in the first half of the ones to take down the old race.

Prospect charged in locker room theft Three suspects, including a highly touted Georgia prep football prospect, have been arrested for thefts from Georgia’s locker room, according to area media reports.

Deion Bonner, Marquis Hawkins and a third suspect, a juvenile who was not identified due to his age, were arrested and charged with theft by taking, a misdemeanor, University of Georgia police said. All three are from Carver (Columbus) High School.

Bonner, an 18-year-old defensive back whom the Atlanta Journal-Constitution named one of the state’s top 10 prospects for 2012, was charged with one count of theft by taking. Hawkins, 17, was charged with two counts and the juvenile was charged with three counts. The juvenile is 16 years old, the Augusta Chronicle reported.

Bonner and Hawkins were booked at Athens-Clarke County Jail on Monday morning.

The suspects are alleged to

have taken iPods and iPhones from the lockers of seven Georgia players during an open house on April 7.

Marquise Hawkins — who, according to the AJC, is not a college football prospect — is the twin brother of Carver quarterback Marqui Hawkins, who is a prospect for the Class of 2013, Carver coach Dell McGee said, according to the report. McGee said he was unable to comment on the charges.

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SPORTS

Wa d e e x p e c t e d t o play in Game 2

By TIM REYNOLDS MIAMI - Dwyane Wade may be adding a new playoff accessory: Goggles.

One day after missing practice with a migraine, Wade is expected to be with the Miami Heat on Monday night when they host the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 2 of an Eastern Conference first-round playoff series.

Wade returned to the team for its morning practice, wearing lenses to protect his eyes while doing some light shooting.

“He is feeling better,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.

“He was wearing the shades.

Guys were calling him ‘Blade.’ ... He’s feeling significantly better from yesterday.”

Wade played through a headache in Game 1 and scored 17 points, the last five coming in the final 94 seconds to help Miami seal the win. He told the team before Saturday’s game that he was not feeling great, though he played 35 minutes in Game 1 without any obvious problems.

“Very encouraging,” Heat forward LeBron James said after seeing Wade on Monday morning. “We want to be as close to full strength as possible.”

The 76ers expected Wade to play, and coach Doug Collins even had some comedy ready for the news that the 2006 NBA finals MVP was back at practice.

“I have a set of cymbals that every time he runs by the bench, I’m slashing them,” Collins said. “And I went out and bought the brightest flashlight I could find, and every time I get eye contact I’m shooting it at him. He’s going to be great.

He always is. He’s a lot like (Michael Jordan). I think his mental capacity to fight through these things is off the charts and we expect him to be terrific.”

Migraines have bothered Wade since his childhood, and have flared up at least twice this season.

He missed a Heat game

against Toronto on Jan. 22 with the headaches, returning to the lineup five nights later in Madison Square Garden against the New York Knicks sporting a pair of orange-tinted goggles to protect his eyes from light.

Wade made 13 straight shots from the field in one stretch with the glasses, though he said afterward that he found them awkward at times.

If Wade, as expected, chooses to wear goggles again, he has a pair that the NBA has already approved.

The league - which banned a pair Wade planned to use earlier this season in what Spoelstra lightheartedly dubbed “Goggle-gate” - said the lenses should not totally conceal his eyes from defenders, noting that would be an unfair advantage.

The migraines have typically shown up about once every couple years, which makes the issue even more befuddling for Wade, since he’s never been able to identify the exact triggers. He missed a game in January 2005 with a migraine and many practices during college at Marquette with the problem, though never had to sit out for a headache before turning pro.

“He’s as tough of a guy I’ve ever seen playing through sprains, bumps, bruises, hip-checks, all of these things,” Spoelstra said.

“A migraine is a completely different affliction. People who’ve never had one before, including myself, we can’t relate. My father used to get them all the time and it’s a scary ailment.”

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SPORTS BRIEFS Cheyenne Woods wins ACC crown

The Woods name has often been found atop Sunday leaderboards but with Tiger Woods taking the week off after his fourth-place Masters performance, it was his niece’s turn to carry on the family tradition.

Wake Forest junior Cheyenne Woods won the ACC women’s individual title with a 5-under 208 to finish seven shots ahead of her nearest competitor, North Carolina junior Allie White.

“Today, I really felt confident all day and knew I could hit the shots that I wanted to,” Woods told ACC.com. “That was important on this course because the greens are so slick that you have to land the ball in the right spots.”

Tiger Woods took to Twitter to congratulate his niece saying, “My niece, Cheyenne, just won the ACC golf title by 7 shots! That’s awesome, I’m so proud of her.”

A Phoenix native, Cheyenne Woods is the daughter of Tiger Woods’ half-brother, Earl Woods Jr., and became the Demon Deacons’ third consecutive individual champion.

North Carolina won the team competition at the ACC Women’s Golf Championships which began Friday and was played at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. The Tar Heels were followed by Duke, Virginia, Wake Forest and Florida State.

Red Sox drop Carl Crawford to 7th BOSTON — Manager Terry Francona massaged his batting order yet again.

Monday’s Boston Red Sox lineup featured J.D. Drew hitting in the leadoff spot, while struggling left fielder Carl Crawford was dropped by Francona to seventh in the order.

Crawford began the day batting a woeful .127 and has been pressing badly (he had a RBI double in four at-bats in Monday’s 9-1 victory over Toronto). Francona thought batting Crawford seventh might take a little pressure off of a player who signed a seven-year, $142 million contract in the offseason.

“Right now he’s having a tough time, and when you’re leading off it gets magnified,” Francona said early Monday. “Moving him down should help him. If he doesn’t get hits it should lessen the burden.”

Francona elected to keep several left-handed hitters in the lineup for Monday’s Patriots’ Day game even though the Blue Jays are throwing a left-hander, Ricky Romero. That’s because the matchups against Romero are favorable — Drew (.450, 9 for 20 with one home run) and Jacoby Ellsbury (.417, 5 for 12) have hit him well. They have been replaced by Mike Cameron and Darnell McDonald in a few games against lefties this year, but not Monday.

Jason Varitek, meanwhile, will be at catcher for the second time in three games. The veteran captain will have the task of helping Daisuke Matsuzaka bounce back from a horrendous seven-run, eight-hit, two-plus-inning outing in his previous start.

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SPORTS Sources: Zach Randolph gets new deal

By CHRIS BROUSSARD Hours after Zach Randolph helped the Memphis Grizzlies win their first playoff game, the franchise rewarded him with a four-year, $71 million contract extension that was agreed to Saturday night, according to league sources.

Of the $71 million, $66 million is fully guaranteed and the fourth and final year of the deal is a player option, sources said.

Randolph has incentives based on individual and team achievements of $1.3 million each season, according to sources.

Randolph, a 10thyear veteran, led the Grizzlies to a stunning 101-98 victory over the San Antonio Spurs

Sunday afternoon. The 6-9 forward posted game-highs of 25 points and 14 rebounds as 8th-seeded Memphis dropped the Western Conference’s top seed.

It was the Grizzlies’ first playoff victory in 13 tries. They’d been swept in their three previous trips to the playoffs.

With the 29-year-old Randolph as a foundation piece, Memphis appears to be one of the league’s most promising young squads. In addition to Randolph, who averaged teamhighs of 20.1 points and 12.2 rebounds this season, the Grizzlies also signed Rudy Gay and Mike Conley to long-term deals within the past year.

Acquired prior to the 2009 season in a trade with the Los Angeles

Clippers, Randolph is in his second season with Memphis and has career averages of 17.6 points and 9.2 rebounds.

Randolph was drafted 19th overall by the Portland Trail Blazers

in 2001. After six seasons with the Blazers, Randolph spent a little over a year with the New York Knicks followed by a year with the Clippers before landing in Memphis.

Cowboys staff, players together at event GRAPEVINE, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys and their coaches were back together for one night.

The team held their seventh annual Taste of the NFL: The Ultimate Cowboys Tailgate Party on Sunday night, and several coaches and players attended the event.

Contact between NFL coaches and players is prohibited because of the lockout, but the league made an exception for long-standing charity events.

With a wry smile, Cowboys coach Jason Garrett summed up

how several of his conversations would likely go.

“We’ll talk about the bread and the water,” Garrett said.

The event has provided funds for 3 million meals for needy children in North Texas through the North Texas Food Bank.

Chefs from some of the top restaurants in the area had 19 eating stations, as well as a silent and live auction.

Asked if the conversations would be awkward, Garrett said: “Not awkward at all.

We’re all here for this event. The way the

rules have worked, we’re allowed to be here together. Everyone is focused on being here, having a good time and supporting this event.”

L i n e b a c k e r DeMarcus Ware hosted the event at the Glass Cactus at the Gaylord Texan Resort, and never thought of locking himself out of it.

“Giving back is what I do,” said Ware, who has hosted it for the past six years. “To be able to do that even though with what’s going on with the NFL, it doesn’t matter. I’d do it regardless.”

Along with Ware, current players Jason Witten, Andre Gurode, Stephen McGee, Phil Costa, L.P. Ladouceur and David Buehler attended.

Assistant coaches Rob Ryan, Wade Wilson, Wes Phillips, John Garrett, Brian Baker and Joe DeCamillis were on hand, too, as well as assistant director of player personnel Todd Williams.

Former Cowboys running back Preston Pearson, who co-hosted the event, agreed with Garrett but knew the lockout cloud would still be there.

UNC’s Barnes returning for sophomore season CHAPEL HILL, N.C. North Carolina’s Harrison Barnes will return for his sophomore season instead of declaring for the NBA draft.

Barnes was the Atlantic Coast Conference rookie of the year, averaging nearly 16 points. The 6-foot-8

forward was widely regarded as the nation’s top freshman entering the season and helped the Tar Heels win 29 games and the ACC regular-season championship before falling a win short of the Final Four.

The Tar Heels will return all five starters

and their top seven scorers from last season, making them a favorite to enter the year ranked No. 1.

“As a team, we’re preparing for a special season,” Barnes said in a statement from the school Monday. “My offseason plans are to diligently work on honing

my basketball skills in all areas with one team goal in mind - to bring the 2012 national championship home to UNC.”

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Chauncey Billups likely out Tuesday BOSTON — Knicks point guard Chauncey Billups is more likely to play in Game 3 than Game 2 of New York’s playoff series against the Boston Celtics after straining his left knee in the fourth quarter of an 87-85 loss on Sunday.

“I don’t know. I don’t know. It’s really sore today,” Billups said.

“We’ll see what happens. We’ll see how it goes.”

The Knicks and Celtics resume the series on Tuesday in Boston. Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni described Billups as “very questionable” for Game 2 and probable for Friday’s Game 3 — the first home playoff game for New York in seven years.

“We’re just going to treat it and see if I can get better,” Billups said.

“I think everything is up in the air and day to day. This is the worst time to get hurt in the first round in the first game of a tough series.

I know the team needs me. It’s just frustrating.

But it’s kind of the way

the ball bounces sometimes and hopefully I can get back soon.”

This is now Billups’ third injury since being traded to the Knicks along with Carmelo Anthony on Feb. 21. On March 1 against the Magic, he suffered a deep left thigh bruise and had to miss six games. Then on April 6 against the Sixers, he left the game with a right thigh contusion, but he was able to return two nights later against the Nets.

Anthony said Billups’ uncertainty for Game 2 is a big concern for the team.

“You don’t want to lose a guy like that in the midst of a battle like the one we’re in right now,” Anthony said. “I just pray it’s nothing serious, and just be confident and pray once again he’s able to go tomorrow. It affects us big time. We’re losing one of our soldiers, our leader, but at the same time it’s go-time, it’s playoff time. We have to have guys that step up, everybody gotta step up.”

Especially Toney Douglas. If Billups is not ready to go Tuesday, the secondyear point guard will get the start and 12year veteran Anthony Carter will back him up. D’Antoni was very pleased with how Douglas performed in his first-ever playoff game. Even though he scored eight points, he never looked rattled and nailed the potentially game-clinching 3pointer with 37 seconds left to give the Knicks an 85-82 lead.

“Toney played well last night, hit some big shots,” D’Antoni said.

“You hate to lose Chauncey, obviously, but at the same time we feel good.

Toney’s gonna just have to save his energy up. He’s gonna play a lot of minutes.”

During the regular season, Douglas averaged 10.2 points and 2.7 assists in 23.8 minutes off the bench, but as a starter in nine games (eight due to Billups’ DNPs), he improved his numbers to 13.9 points and 5.7

assists. Most impressively, he improved his scoring every month from December to April, finishing the last month of the season averaging 14.4 points.

Not to mention, he led the league in most 3pointers made after the All-Star break (68). He also ended with two stronger months distributing the ball, averaging 4.7 assists, which was a concern of D’Antoni’s earlier in the year.

In preparation for the playoffs, Douglas said he’s had to adjust to bigger playbooks, as well as longer practices and film sessions, but he has a lot of confidence going into Game 2. If he gets the call Tuesday, he may look to run more offensively to try and tire out an older Celtics team. He plans to talk to Billups more about Game 2 strategy when they arrive back at the hotel Monday afternoon, but he’s already learned quite a bit from Mr. Big Shot.

“A lot of things — just talking to him, just

being smarter as a player,” Douglas said. “It’s not always about outrunning people, outquickness or being more athletic. I’m just picking his brain and learning a lot of wisdom from him, like with timing and scoring, know when to push the ball and know when not to, know when to give people the ball.”

With Billups most likely out (he plans to

be in the arena either way), it’ll be up to Anthony and Amare Stoudemire, especially, to give Douglas direction on the court.

“As leaders of the team, we have to make sure we keep him motivated,” Stoudemire said. “We have to teach him what it takes to win in the playoffs, how to keep his composure and never get out of control. We’ve got confidence in him.”

Huskies honor ed with parade, ra lly in Har tfor d

By PAT EATONROBB HARTFORD, Conn. Fans lined up four and five deep at spots Sunday to catch a glimpse of Connecticut’s basketball team as it paraded through downtown to celebrate the program’s third national title.

The Huskies rode on a double-decker bus waving to an estimated 40,000 fans who celebrated their 53-41 win over Butler on April 4 in Houston. They were escorted by bands, jugglers, politicians and even dogs from a local Siberian Husky club.

Center Alex Oriakhi blew kisses, and star

guard Kemba Walker took pictures of the crowd as fans held up signs. One read, “One Nation Under Kemba.”

Walker said the celebration helped him grasp the magnitude of his team’s accomplishment.

“It was crazy,” he said. “It’s hit me, but not as much as it hit me today. I just keep thinking to myself, ‘Wow, we’re really national champions.’ To see those people come out and show support, it’s crazy. It’s surreal.”

Myrna Rivera, 43, of Hartford, brought her family. She said the UConn basketball teams set a great example for the children.

“It shows the youth

in Connecticut that they can work hard and be the best that they can be,” she said. “This is what the boys’ and the girls’ basketball teams represent, giving hope to those that feel there is no hope.”

The parade wound its way from the Capitol and around Bushnell Park, before heading down Capitol Avenue for a rally on the north steps of the state house.

Coach Jim Calhoun, who brought three of his grandchildren along for the bus ride, made no promises about the future. He has indicated he plans to return next season but said he’s taking his time before finalizing that decision.

“The promise I will make to you is that the basketball team at UConn will give everything in its heart and soul to make sure we have another rally next year,” he said.

This was the eighth time there has been a parade in Hartford to celebrate a UConn national championship.

This is the men’s third championship.

The women’s basketball team has won seven.

The state held a rally but no parade after the women’s championship in 2003 after the start of the war in Iraq. In 2004, an estimated 300,000 people showed up for a joint parade after both men’s and women’s teams won

NCAA titles.

Cathy Maher, 29, of Cromwell, was attending her first UConn victory parade.

“I think this is the basketball capital of the world,” she said. “It’s really exciting.”

The team captured the imaginations of many fans with an amazing postseason run that included five victories in five days to win the Big East tournament in New York, and six consecutive wins in the NCAA tournament.

“It’s good for the state of Connecticut,” said Doug Wilson, 34, of Plainville. “It’s good for the people, the fan base. And I’m glad the men finally won,

because the women have like seven national championships. I get tired of the women sometimes.”

Many of the fans said they came just to get a glimpse of Walker, who announced last week he is leaving school a year early to play professionally in the NBA. Teammates pointed and laughed at one sign, which depicted Walker, a Bronx native, in a New York Knicks jersey.

Walker averaged 23.5 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.5 assists during his junior season. He scored a school record 965 points, accounting for 45 percent of the Huskies’ offense.

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MAGIC’S HOWARD WINS 3RD STRAIGHT DEFENSIVE AWARD

NEW YORK - Orlando Magic Award three straight seasons.

Only Dikembe Mutombo and Ben center Dwight Howard is the first player to win the NBA Wallace, with four each, have won the more times.

Defensive Player of the Year award The league announced Monday

that Howard received 585 points, including 114 first-place votes, from a panel of 120 sports writers and broadcasters. Boston’s Kevin Garnett finished second with 77 points and

Dallas’ Tyson Chandler was third with 70.

The 6-foot-11 Howard ranked second in the NBA at 14.1 rebounds per game and fourth in blocks with 2.38.

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