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The spectacular rise in U.S. college tuition fees is American families as they grapple with the worst becoming a serious problem for students and many economic crisis since the 1930s.

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N E W S B RI E F S CUOMO: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RESTORES ALBANY’S IMAGE Governor Andrew Cuomo said the outpouring of support he has felt since the passage of New York’s same-sex marriage law is unlike anything he’s ever seen.

Speaking on the radio show “Live From The State Capitol,” a day after being cheered in the annual city Pride March, Cuomo said he believes the issue of marriage equality touched people in a way government seldom does.

The governor said he is aware of the religious sensitivity to the issue, and that he worked hard to address each side in the law.

Cuomo also said the law helped to re-establish the role of state government.

“They’re not laughing at Albany.

We talked in January how Albany had become a punchline for national comedians. And now they’re talking about the great, progressive work that New York did again,” the governor said.

New York’s same-sex marriage law takes effect on July 24.

MTA FALLS BEHIND ON TRASH COLLECTION Trash is piling up on subway platforms.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is regularly failing to meet its own garbage collection schedule, missing more than 100 stations on an average night.

Garbage at busier stations is supposed to be picked up every night, while less busy stations are supposed to have pick-ups twice a week.

City Transit records show the MTA’s eight garbage hauling trains missed more than 900 of their scheduled stops between June 1421.

The nine garbage trucks also assigned to subways missed 260 scheduled stops over the same period.

Part of the problem can be blamed on broken garbage trucks and the fact that collection crews are sometimes shut out of areas where workers are busy.

MTA officials say they are taking steps to address the issue, like adding extra cleaners and truck crews and adding more stops to truck routes.

PARKS SMOKING BAN RESULTS IN ONE TICKET The city’s new public smoking ban has not sparked a ticket blitz.

Only one ticket has been issued since the ban on smoking at public parks and beaches took effect on May 23.

The Parks Department says the single ticket was given to a newspaper photographer who had been provoking officials to fine him.

Under the ban, violators face a $50 fine.

The city has said it expects the law to be enforced mostly by New Yorkers themselves, who are urged to ask people they see smoking to stop.

Most people said they were happy to just butt out.

Michelle Obama’s savvy helps husband

By JEFF MASON WASHINGTON — She does not consider herself a “secret weapon,” but Michelle Obama’s trip to Africa showed the first lady has sharp political skills that White House aides can exploit to help re-elect her husband.

On her second official solo trip abroad, Mrs. Obama played the roles of traditional and non-traditional politician, meeting with the president of Botswana, calling on the first lady of South Africa, and sharing a moment with Nelson Mandela, the former South African president and anti-apartheid icon.

She delivered a well-received speech to encourage young leaders, painted a wall with teenagers infected with HIV/AIDS, and gave, along with her daughters, a lively oral reading of Dr. Seuss’ “The Cat in the Hat” to a group of children.

Audiences were smitten, highlighting her unique ability to connect with people on behalf of and independently from President Barack Obama.

Those skills will now be applied to domestic politics as the 2012 presidential election heats up.

The first lady arrived back in Washington late on Sunday and has a series of fund-raisers for Democrats this week. More campaign-related activities will crop up in her schedule over the coming months.

Despite her popularity at home and abroad, Mrs. Obama downplays her role in the president’s political universe.

“I think my husband is his secret weapon. I mean, people will vote on who they think will make a good president. And they’re going to look at his accomplishments,” she said during an interview in Botswana with reporters traveling with her through Africa.

“They’re going to look at the future — or what kind of future we envision as a country. I think that’s what happened in the last election.

My motto is: Do no harm.”

She does not appear to be doing any harm.

In events throughout her trip audiences lapped up her “mom-inchief” style of international diploma-

cy.

One of her most effective tools: the hug.

At event after event, the first lady wrapped the young people she met in her arms, triggering tears from some who seemed, more than awed by the presence of a famous figure, overwhelmed by the intimacy of her outreach.

Obama is not shy about discussing her initial disdain for politics. She draws laughter regularly when she says she tried to discourage her husband from running for the White House.

But she is a canny politician in her own right. Like the president, she stays on message. She can be wordy but she is deft at dodging a question or steering a conversation toward a theme she finds more comfortable.

Those skills — and her clear ability to connect with people — make her valuable, and she knows that.

But the first lady restricts her schedule to be available to her girls, Malia and Sasha, and White House staff adjust her public appearances accordingly.

“People don’t even ask me to do certain things. The first question is, what are the girls doing? And what

time of the year is this?” she said. “So it’ll be the same thing (for this campaign). But when I get out there, my whole thing is that when I’m out, let’s make good use of my time.”

Analysts say first ladies do not swing elections. But they can, as Michelle Obama and her predecessors have demonstrated, bring in dollars and affect the images of their respective spouses.

“First ladies very often top the list of ‘most admired women’ in polls — but it doesn’t seem to affect the feelings for their husbands,” said John Mark Hansen, dean of the social sciences division at the University of Chicago.

If the feelings shown in Africa are a guide, however, this first lady’s impact will be a net positive in the 2012 campaign and on the continent she just left.

“There’s no better goodwill ambassador, I think, especially to Africa and to South Africa in particular,” said Jennifer Cooke, director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

“Obviously she’ll be a powerful force in the campaign cycle as well.

She’s got a very human, humble touch.”

Clinton calls NY gay marriage vote ‘historic’ WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday that the New York state legislature’s vote to approve same-sex marriage was “historic” and upheld the basic rights of gay people.

Clinton, speaking at an internal gay pride celebration at the State Department, said it was the first such event “following the historic vote in New York, which I think gives such visibility and credibility to everything that so many of you have done over so many years.”

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the same-sex marriage bill into law on Friday, making it the sixth and most populous state to allow gay marriage and

giving gay rights advocates a significant victory ahead of 2012 presidential and congressional elections.

Clinton, who has repeatedly said she is “out of politics” as the top U.S. diplomat, did not explicitly condone gay marriage — something President Barack Obama has also avoided despite moves by his administration to improve protection of gay rights in other areas.

But she did make clear that the Obama administration planned to keep pushing for gay rights both at home and abroad.

“So far as the United States is concerned and our foreign policy, and our values ... gay rights are human rights and human rights

are gay rights,” Clinton told the gay foreign affairs workers.

As a presidential candidate in 2008 Clinton opposed same-sex marriage but did support civil partnerships for gays.

Since becoming secretary of state she has taken a stronger role as a gay rights advocate, and in 2009 oversaw the extension of equal benefits to same-sex partners of State Department employees.

Clinton said U.S. diplomats were working to advance gay rights around the world, including at the U.N. Human Rights Council which recently passed the first ever U.N. resolution recognizing the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people worldwide.

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Americans worried by soaring tuition fees

By VIRGINIE MONTET WASHINGTON — The spectacular rise in U.S. college tuition fees is becoming a serious problem for students and many American families as they grapple with the worst economic crisis since the 1930s.

In the past week Michigan State University announced a 7% tuition hike, Oklahoma State University raised its tuition by 4.8% and the University of Nebraska increased its prices by 5% for incoming undergraduates.

“College prices have been going up faster than any others costs in the American economy, faster even than healthcare and certainly faster than inflation and family income,” said Patrick Callan, Founder of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.

“What we see in this economic downturn is an acceleration of a trend that’s been going on for three decades and it shifts more and more cost on students and families.”

Anger at federal budget cuts to education spilled over into nationwide protests in March and April and students are clearly struggling to cope with the added financial burden.

Natalie Papini will be a junior this year at Middle Tennessee State University, where officials have proposed a 9.8% increase in fees and tuition, according to online publication Inside Higher Ed. “I just think it’s this never-ending cycle. I just see it keep going up and not going down,” said Papini, who receives multiple scholarships but still rents her text books rather than buying them.

“We wouldn’t turn on the heat in the winter to save money and we don’t drive anywhere if we don’t have to,” she said.

Of the more than 2,000 universities offering undergraduate courses in the United States, there is a wide range of pricing, a senior economist at Pew Research Center, Richard Fry, said.

A good portion of those universities, mostly state and regional schools, cost between $3,000 and $9,000 each year (not including food and lodging), while another spectrum of prices at private universities costs students an average of between $21,000 and $42,000 each year. Less than 2% of universities cost more than $42,000 a year.

According to CollegeBoard, which monitors trends in higher education,

only one third of full-time students attend college without some form of financial aid, and more and more students are resorting to loans to make ends meet.

“The way the middle-income families have been paying for this big run-up in price is by borrowing. So student loans have been going up dramatically and every graduate class has borrowed more money,” Callan said.

Total education borrowing increased by 10% between 2009 and 2010, according to CollegeBoard and according to the most recent data from 2008, 61% of dependant students from families with incomes between $60,000 and $90,000 had a median education debt of $17,000.

That number goes up for those at private nonprofit institutions where 75% of students have a median debt of $21,100 dollars and at for-profit colleges 99% finished with an average debt load of $34,600.

“Most people are going to start asking: is the benefit really worth it to go to a more expensive place or can you get a good education at these other places,” Callan said.

According to a study published in May by Pew Research, 57% of Americans think that “the higher education

system in the U.S. fails to provide students with good value for the money they and their families spend.”

“Nevertheless it’s much better to go to college than not go to college, even in a bad economy the unemployment rate among college graduates is lower than it is for non-college graduates,” said Callan.

Fry said college enrollment was still at an all-time high, partly because people are prepared to fork out more because ultimately it pays career-wise to get into the more expensive schools.

But the soaring tuition fees are putting up obstacles to America’s much-vaunted upward mobility. “The system as a whole has become more stratified by income,” said Callan.

Community colleges with lower prices ($2,700 on average) — typically offering two-year vocational courses on simpler no-frills campuses — are filling up with double-digit application growth over the past two years.

“This recession has been so deep and so much more prolonged that it has really driven this very record enrollment in our colleges,” said Norma Kent, spokeswoman for the American Association of Community Colleges.

Obama confident debt deal can be struck

By ALISTER BULL WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is confident Democrats and Republicans can cut a “significant deal” to trim the deficit and increase its borrowing limit to avoid a damaging default, the White House said.

Despite the White House’s optimism, both Republicans and Democrats showed little willingness to compromise after deficit reduction talks led by Vice President Joe Biden collapsed suddenly last Thursday.

With polls showing Americans deeply worried about the sputtering economy, both sides are talking tough in an ideological battle over how best to cut a deficit that is projected to be $1.4 trillion this year.

Republicans say the solution lies in trillions of dollars in spending cuts, while Obama’s fellow Democrats say the deficit cannot be meaningfully

reduced without increasing tax revenues, something their opponents reject.

Obama, under pressure to forge a budget deal that would pave the way for the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling to be raised by an August 2 deadline, met Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid to talk about the way forward.

“The president told me that everyone in the room believes a significant deal remains possible,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters afterwards.

Obama was scheduled to sit down with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell yesterday. McConnell has suggested that a short-term measure to raise the debt limit may be necessary, but other Republican leaders insist that a long-term deal needs to be struck.

“Democrats and the administration have shown themselves willing to take on tough choices and it is important

that Republicans are willing to do the same, take on some of their sacred cows,” Carney said.

Time is running out ahead of the August 2 deadline, when the Treasury says it will run out of money to pay the country’s bills.

Failure to act risks the United States defaulting on its financial obligations, which could push the country back into recession. Carney said that that was not going to happen.

“The president has said this is essential. Leaders of Congress have said this is essential. We must not default on our obligations. We remain confident that Congress will not let that happen,” he said.

McConnell has stuck firmly to his party’s line that revenue-raising measures were off the table.

“I intend to ask the president what he’s prepared to do, outside of raising taxes, about the massive deficits and debt that have accumulated on his

watch,” he told the Senate.

Obama met with House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress. The House is not in session this week and many members, including Boehner, are back in their districts.

Carney said Obama and Biden would continue to talk to members of Congress to get the debt ceiling lifted but declined to give any specific dates for the next meeting.

Supreme Court to decide TV profanity, nudity case

By JAMES VICINI WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said yesterday it would decide whether broadcasters can be fined for showing nudity or airing a single expletive blurted on a live television show.

The justices agreed to review a ruling by an appeals court in New York that struck down the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) indecency policy as unconstitutionally vague.

The Obama administration appealed to the Supreme Court, saying

the ruling prevented the FCC from effectively enforcing broadcast indecency restrictions and strongly defending the policy as constitutional.

The appeals court ruled broadcasters could not be fined for expletives by singer Cher and actress Nicole Richie on awards shows that aired on News Corp’s Fox television network or by U2 lead singer Bono on a different network awards show.

It also threw out $1.21 million in fines for a scene showing a woman’s nude buttocks on an “NYPD Blue” episode shown on Walt Disney Co’s ABC television network.

All the incidents occurred in 2002 and 2003.

The FCC launched a crackdown on indecent content, including one-time use of profanity on live television when children are likely to be watching, after pop star Janet Jackson briefly exposed her bare breast during the 2004 broadcast of the Super Bowl halftime show.

Government lawyers have said the indecency policy covered so-called “fleeting expletives” such as the “Fword” and the “S-word” that denote “sexual or excretory activities,” respectively.

The policy applied only to broadcasts. Neither cable nor satellite channels are subject to FCC content regulation.

Broadcasters challenged the policy on free-speech grounds under the Constitution’s First Amendment and said it had “a severe chilling effect” that amounted to censorship of legally protected expression.

They said the FCC has inconsistently enforced the policy, allowing the television broadcast of the World War Two movie “Saving Private Ryan” even though it had the same expletives.

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‘Giving Black boys a strong start’

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When Shawn Dove was in sixth grade, the students at his New York City school were asked to decide which academic track they wanted to follow for the next two years. He decided to choose “major gym,” just like the rest of his friends. But when he brought the form home to his single mother and said “Hey, Mom—can you sign this for me?,” his mother said, “No—you’re not going to major in gym! There’s no future in gym. You’re taking science and math.” Shawn spent the next two years mad at his mother every day as he could hear the noise and laughter coming from the gym while he went 30 yards down the hall for math and science classes. But then when Shawn finished eighth grade, he understood.

He and the other young people who had majored in science and math had the chance to move on to good high schools like Bronx Science, but Shawn realized those who had taken mostly gym weren’t moving on to much of anything.

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paign for Black Male Achievement for the Open Society Foundations. He shared this story at an achievement gap symposium hosted by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) on June 14 that brought together some of the leading educators, researchers, and policy experts in Washington, D.C. to confront the crisis facing the 3.5 million Black boys from birth to age nine and to highlight programs that are making a difference. A Strong Start: Positioning Young Black Boys For Educational Success addressed the daunting achievement gap many incorrectly believe is too big to solve and shared examples of best practices and leadership that are doing so.

The need to increase and support parent involvement was a key theme throughout the conference. In a week when the nation was preparing to celebrate Father’s Day, scholars noted that the high percentages of Black boys growing up in poverty and in single-mother households has had a devastating effect on Black boys’ outcomes. But as Shawn pointed out in his story, although being

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Many lessons came out of the symposium’s sessions, but above all, speaker after speaker reinforced how critical it is to intervene early. Dr. Iheoma Iruka, a researcher in the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North CarolinaChapel Hill, warned us, “We can’t wait for the gap to show up”—because by the time we measure achievement gaps in school, many Black boys are already behind. She explained that “the social and family disparities exist at birth and continue throughout. When you start at that low level you stay at that low level and the disparity continues.”

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Herman Cain, media off to prickly start

By DEBORAH MATHIS You’d never know it from some news accounts – Are you listening, CBS’ “Face the Nation”? – but, in Iowa, Herman Cain is polling in third place among the eight declared or semi-declared Republican candidates for president in 2012.

For reasons yet unknown, program moderator Bob Schieffer just skipped right over Cain when reporting the results of the Des Moines Register poll. He gave third place to a tie between Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul, both of whom were actually three points behind Cain’s 10 percent showing.

That omission should be a curiosity, if not an offense, to the pollsters, conscientious reporters and political brokers.

It will most certainly offend Mr. Cain, who has, in short order, shown himself to be rather peevish

anyway, especially when it comes to the media. He shouldn’t go off about it, but a little righteous indignation would be understandable.

True, it’s early, and it’s only one poll, but it is Iowa, and if he came in third, he’s entitled to that have people know it. After all, Iowa is the place that energized Barack Obama’s fledgling 2008 campaign like a B-12 shot.

Frankly, Cain is unlikely to have that same catapulting experience, but he apparently intends to maintain his long-shot bid anyway. If so, he might want to come to grips with what he’s in for, right or wrong, if he’s going to stay in this thing.

The media that he so clearly disdains is certainly in it for the long haul. If Cain thinks he’s tasting the sour cup of media scrutiny now, just wait until the campaign gets a little longer in the tooth. If he plans on coming through the Iowa caucuses – and if he envisions himself still

‘Boys a strong start’ Continued from page 4 ing a level playing field for other people’s children, especially poor and minority children. But Black, Hispanic, and other minority children will be the majority of the child population in 2019. As Tulane University professor Dr. Oscar Barbarin put it, Black boys often function like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, giving us our first indication of how well or how poorly our society’s systems are doing. When they are suffering, we should all be paying attention because this is the early warning for everyone—and if we fix our educational system for Black boys, we will fix it for all children.

ETS and CDF—working with many others—are taking steps to focus on this most vulnerable group in America. Our schools and communities are failing the 3.5 million Black boys under age nine in shocking ways. They face a toxic cocktail of poverty, illiteracy, racial disparities, violence, massive incarceration, and family breakdown. A Black boy born in 2001 has a one in three chance of going to prison in his lifetime. But ETS, CDF, and many of the leaders attending the symposium believe that by looking at the early years and providing a high quality continuum of care and high expectations for every child, we can impact and change the odds for young Black boys right now. Focusing on an evidence-based approach to education and early childhood development can

change the trajectory for young Black boys and all underserved children.

CDF and ETS hope by identifying best practices, policies, and strategies that work it will be possible to rewrite the story for young Black boys and replace the cradle to prison pipeline with a pipeline to college, work, and a productive life. This symposium brought together researchers who have analyzed what works specifically for the 0-9 age group of Black boys with scholars and program leaders sharing research-based solutions and effective programs that show negative outcomes can be averted with local investment in local programs, community involvement, nutrition, and, at every stage, parental involvement.

These kinds of proven results provide a guide for policy changes at the state and national level for we don’t have a moment or a child to waste. I hope we will follow this symposium with one on Black boys ages 9-13 and subsequent ones which get them out of high school and into and through college.

President Obama has called education the civil rights issue of our time.

Now is the time for the next transforming freedom moment and movement—to set our children free from illiteracy, low expectations, and jobless, hopeless futures, preparing them to thrive and succeed in the lives God provided them. Children have only one childhood, and for them tomorrow is today. We need to

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standing after, say, South Carolina – he had better start scrubbing himself with Brillo pads because he is going to need some extraordinarily thick skin to survive.

Every serious contender for the highest office in the land is in for it.

If you have no political record or history to speak of, it can be an excruciating experience, as the media scours the planet for any- and everything that may give a clue as to who in the world you are. That resume, for all its glory, simply won’t suffice.

In addition to a candidate’s position on the issues of the day, reporters, editors, and producers will be looking for contradictions and flip flops, extravagances, ignorance about history, policy and procedures; personal and private behavior, whether the political ear is made of gold or tin; chaos, disorganization, conflicts and money woes within the campaign apparatus; person-

al, political and business associates; finances, academic and employment performances; personal relationships, dalliances with the edgy stuff – sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll – and cultural affiliations like church, country clubs and secret societies.

A whiff of scandal in any of these areas, and the heat is hotter than any of those ovens in the pizza stores that Cain used to oversee.

And, yes, his being a Black Republican seeking the presidency makes him a rarity, which will make him more of a curiosity, which will make him more of a target for a media complex that hungers for the “gotcha” moreso in this arena than any other.

From what I know of Herman Cain’s positions thus far, I’m not a fan. But he deserves a fair chance at running, provided he’s qualified.

And one of those qualifications is the ability to withstand the heat that’s sho’ nuff coming.

act with urgency to narrow the achievement gap, stop the erosion of the hard-earned progress of the past 50 years, and move our nation towards true educational equality and excellence for all children. But this will not happen unless adults in all walks of our children’s lives step up and pick up our responsibilities to nurture and protect the next generation. As the symposium was documenting examples of what works to save children and money in the long haul, the very kinds of critical programs and supports we know can close achievement gaps are on the chopping block in statehouses around the country and in our nation’s capital. Providing all chil-

dren a healthy start, quality early childhood experiences, first rate schools with first rate teachers, and stimulating high quality out of school time programs must be the first order of national business in this quick fix, quarterly profit driven culture. Our most dangerous deficit is not the budget deficit—it’s our values deficit.

— Marian Wright Edelman is a lifelong advocate for disadvantaged Americans and is the President of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF). Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation’s strongest voice for children and families.

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DAILY CHALLENGE TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011

Regulator signs off on threatened nuclear plant

By MICHAEL AVOK BROWNVILLE, Neb. — A top regulator said on Sunday that a nuclear power plant threatened by flooding from the swollen Missouri River was operating safely and according to standards.

“I got to see a lot of efforts they’re taking to deal with flooding and the challenges that presents,” Gregory Jaczko, the chairman of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said after touring the Cooper Nuclear Station near the village of Brownville and meeting with plant officials and executives.

“Right now, we think they’re taking an appropriate approach. This is a plant that is operating safely and meeting our standards,” he added.

The plant is located about 80 miles south of Omaha, where snow melt and heavy rains have forced the waters of the Missouri River over its banks, although they have not flooded the plant and receded slightly on Sunday.

Jaczko said he was not doing an official plant inspection. He was briefed by

An aerial view of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant in eastern Nebraska, surrounded by Missouri River flood waters.

NRC resident inspectors — the agency staff who work on-site every day — plant officials and executives, said Mark Becker, a spokesman at the Nebraska Public Power District, the agency that runs the plant.

The power plant sat about 4 feet above the river’s level on Sunday. The river had surged over its banks near the plant and filled in lowlying land near the Cooper plant.

Water levels there are down after upstream levees failed, Becker said, relieving worries that water will rise around the Brownville plant as it has at another nuclear plant north of Omaha in Fort Calhoun.

Art Zaremba, director of nuclear safety at Cooper, backed the assessment.

“The plant is very safe right now, and we’ve taken a lot of steps to make sure it stays that way,” Zaremba

said.

Residents near the plant were largely unconcerned about any potential safety risks from flooding ahead of Jaczko’s visit.

“I just don’t think the water is going to get that high,” said Brownville resident Kenny Lippold, a retired carpenter who has been following each step of the flood preparations in this riverside village of 148 residents.

“They claim that they are going to keep operating,” Lippold said, adding that he will not flee his home of 29 years even though it is less than a mile from the Cooper reactor.

Local shop owner Katy Morgan, 28, said her fears have been assuaged by information she has received via plant officials, who give out emergency radio equipment to residents within a 10-mile radius of the Cooper plant.

“I know everybody freaks out when they talk about nuclear,” said Morton, who runs a boutique on Brownville’s main thoroughfare. “I suppose if there was a drastic increase in the river I would be concerned. If they say ‘evacuate’ then I would be concerned,” Morton said.

Jaczko will visit on Monday the Fort Calhoun plant in the town of Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, about 20 miles north of Omaha, an agency official said.

Flood water up to 2-feet deep is standing on the site of the 478-megawatt Fort Calhoun plant, which will stay shut down until the water recedes, the NRC said.

On Sunday afternoon, workers accidentally deflated an auxiliary berm at the plant, said Omaha Public Power District spokesman Jeff Hanson.

Hanson said the “aqua dam” was a supplemental measure that provided workers “more freedom” but was not essential to keeping the plant dry.

“The plant itself is still protected,” Hanson said.

Floodwater would need to rise over 7 feet to flow over the berms and enter the plant, Hanson said, adding that the supplemental dam was not in original flood prevention plans.

An NRC inspection at Fort Calhoun two years ago indicated deficiencies in the flood preparation area, which have now been remedied, the agency said.

Supreme Court rejects $270 million tobacco lawsuit appeal WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the major tobacco companies of a $270 million award for a Louisiana smoking cessation program.

Altria Group Inc.’s Philip Morris USA Inc., a Reynolds American Inc. unit, a Lorillard Inc. unit and British American Tobacco Plc’s Brown & Williamson unit said Louisiana courts improperly allowed the case to go forward as a class action on behalf of more than

500,000 smokers.

A 2004 jury verdict in the case was the first to require tobacco companies to pay for a program to help smokers quit. The original $591 million award was reduced on appeal to $270 million, consisting of $242 million, plus interest.

The companies said in the appeal the state courts in allowing the class-action lawsuit deprived then of their constitutional due process rights and protections that

would have applied in deciding individual smoker claims.

They said the Louisiana courts denied them an opportunity to contest whether any smokers in the class actually relied on the claimed distortions by the companies of the health hazards of smoking through nicotine addiction.

In September, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ruled the companies would not have to start paying for the 10-year program while

the justices considered the case.

The companies said the case presented issues of “national importance” as class actions play “an increasingly prominent role in the modern legal landscape” and encompass larger groups with disparate claims.

Attorneys for the smokers, who filed the lawsuit in 1996, disagreed and said the case presented no issue of great national importance. They

urged the Supreme Court to reject the appeal.

The Supreme Court rejected the appeal yesterday in a brief order without comment.

The justices rejected the tobacco appeal after last week’s ruling that threw out a massive class-action sexdiscrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the biggest such case in U.S. history. The Wal-Mart ruling will make it harder for similar class-action lawsuits to proceed in the future.

FBI looking to restock its ‘10 Most Wanted’ list WASHINGTON — With the death of the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, and the arrest of Boston crime figure James “Whitey” Bulger last Wednesday, the FBI’s “10 Most Wanted” list has a couple of vacancies.

And it’s not immediately clear who will fill the gap.

An FBI spokesman said the bureau was trying to find replacements, but did not yet know who they would be.

Started in 1950 by the FBI’s first director, J. Edgar

Hoover, the list is “designed to publicize particularly dangerous fugitives who might not otherwise merit nationwide attention,” according to the FBI website.

To choose the replacements for bin Laden, whose face on the 10 Most Wanted list now has a red “deceased” stripe across it, and Bulger, whose mugshot now reads “captured,” the FBI’s 56 local offices submit their “candidates” to the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division.

According to the FBI’s web-

site, the nominees are reviewed by special CID agents, and ultimately forwarded to the FBI director, who gives the final approval.

To be chosen, the individual must have a lengthy criminal record or be considered particularly dangerous.

The FBI must also believe their capture will be aided by the extra publicity the list provides.

A minimum reward of $100,000 is offered for any information leading to the arrest of any of the fugitives.

Bin Laden merited a $25 million reward, and Bulger, who was added to the list in 1999 at the age of 69, a $2 million reward.

Among the remaining Ten Most Wanted are Jason Dereck Brown, accused of murder and armed robbery.

According to the Most Wanted list, Brown speaks fluent French and has a masters degree in international business.

Robert William Fisher is also on the list, wanted for allegedly killing his wife and

two young children, then blowing up the house in which they lived.

According to the description on the FBI website, Fisher “has a noticeable gold crown on his upper left first bicuspid tooth” and “may walk with an exaggerated erect posture and his chest pushed out due to a lower back injury.”

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Khmer Rouge commanders go on trial in Cambodia

By PRAK CHAN THUL PHNOM PENH The four most senior surviving members of Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime went on trial for war crimes yesterday, three decades after their “year zero” revolution marked one of the darkest chapters of the 20th century.

The defendants, all now elderly and infirm, were among the inner circle of the late Pol Pot, the French-educated architect of the Khmer Rouge’s ultra-Maoist “Killing Fields” revolution that killed an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians from 19751979.

Dressed in casual clothes, “Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea, former President Khieu Samphan, exForeign Minister Ieng Sary and Ieng Thirith, a former social affairs minister, showed no emotion as opening statements to the U.N.backed tribunal were read before a packed auditorium in proceedings screened on national television.

Almost a quarter of Cambodia’s population were wiped out under the Khmer Rouge through torture, execution, starvation and exhaustion. Virtually every Cambodian alive today lost family and many want to know why.

“I lost three children, my father and husband,” said Som Hoeun, a 66-year old villager from the southern province of Kompong Speu as she queued up to get into the court.

She said it was worth the wait to see Pol Pot’s top cadres brought to book: “No matter what how long it has been, I’m always hopeful there will be justice.”

The four are charged with committing crimes against humanity and genocide and accused of a litany of crimes under both international and Cambodian laws, including murder, enslavement, religious and political persecution, inhumane treatment and unlawful imprisonment.

All four defendants are expected to enter not guilty pleas. “Brother Number One” Pol Pot, died in 1998.

The opening exchanges centred on Ieng Sary’s move to have his case thrown

out for double jeopardy.

He was sentenced to death in absentia by a court created by Vietnamese invaders in 1979 and pardoned by Cambodia’s then King Norodom Sihanouk in 1996.

“An individual cannot be tried twice for a crime that a court already acquitted or convicted him for,” his lawyer, Ang Udom, said. “Bringing Ieng Sary to trial again is a violation.”

The pardon for Ieng Sary came as part of a peace deal after he and his followers broke with the Khmer Rouge.

But co-prosecutor Chea Leang said his original trial, hastily arranged by Vietnam and held over five days, “was not a standard of justice.” She said Ieng Sary was now indicted for different offences and should not try to evade justice.

UNEXPLAINED EVENTS Except for Khieu Samphan, none of the defendants have shown willingness to cooperate and there are concerns Cambodians will be deprived of the chance to hear first-hand accounts of the motivation and ideology that fueled an unrelenting killing spree by one of

the world’s most enigmatic regimes.

The closest any of the former cadres have come to disclosure is seen in an award-winning documentary film yet to be released in Cambodia entitled “Enemies of the People,” in which Nuon Chea, during six years of interviews recorded with a journalist, admitted those seen as threats to the party line were “corrected” at the behest of the regime.

The filmmakers have said they would not hand over tapes if asked by the court, although material shown in the film can be used by prosecutors once in the public domain.

Wearing dark sunglasses, a ski hat and sweatshirt, Nuon Chea, 84, complained he was in poor health and was too cold and left the courtroom moments after the proceedings began.

He was later joined by Ieng Sary and his wife, Ieng Thirith, who also cited health reasons.

Their lawyers requested future proceedings be held over video link.

The court has handed down just one sentence, a 35-year jail term, commuted to 19 years, for Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, over the deaths of

more than 14,000 people at the notorious S-21 prison. Prison chief Duch has appealed.

His sentence was seen by many Cambodians as too lenient and an unexplained decision this month by judges not to pursue a third case, believed to involve two former military commanders, has prompted resignations by court staff and outrage from rights groups complaining of interference by Cambodia’s government and United Nations inaction.

Many Cambodians fear the old leftist leaders will not live long enough to be tried and the case is a crucial test of whether the multimillion dollar Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), a hybrid international-led tribunal created in 2005, can really deliver justice.

Ou Virak, President of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said the start of the second case was a “cathartic moment” that he hoped would help comfort survivors.

The crimes “remain ingrained in Cambodia’s collective psyche. I hope that this trial ... provides all victims with

some sense of justice, however delayed that justice may be,” Ou Virak said in a statement.

Sentences handed down by the tribunal can range from a minimum five years to a maximum of life in prison. There is no death penalty in Cambodia.

Another villager queuing to get in to the court, Sem Hoen, said she lost four family members under the Khmer Rouge.

“I want them to confess. People won’t stay calm if they don’t say what happened,” she said. “Justice is very important.”

But justice might elude Cambodia. Cases have moved at a snail’s pace in the ECCC its processes are extremely bureaucratic. The defendants are old and in poor health and some might die before a verdict is delivered by the ECCC, which estimates its spending will reach $150 million by yearend.

Prime Minister Hun Sen, himself a former Khmer Rogue cadre, has shown his disdain for the court and last year told U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon that further indictments were “not allowed.”

Syria activists meet, call for change to avert crisis BEIRUT - Some of Syria’s leading intellectuals called yesterday for sweeping political change that could end 41 years of Assad family rule, at a rare conference allowed by the authorities under pressure from a three-month uprising.

The government also announced that it would invite opposition figures to July 10 talks to set the framework for a national dialogue promised by President Bashar al-Assad, and that constitutional changes would be on the agenda.

Facing the biggest threat to his rule since he succeeded his father 11 years ago, Assad has held out the prospect of political reforms while sending his troops to crush protests across the

country.

Many opposition figures have rejected Assad’s call for dialogue as insufficient and some activists refused to take part in yesterday’s conference, saying it could be exploited by authorities while mass killing and arrests continue.

Nevertheless, the conference included outspoken opponents of Assad, some of whom pulled no punches.

“The solution to this crisis has to address its root causes.

This regime must be toppled and replaced with a democratic system,” said leading Syrian writer Michel Kilo, who spent three years as a political prisoner.

Supporters of Assad were also present at the conference, billed as a meeting of independents seeking a way out of the crisis. Organizers

said the gathering had approval from a senior aide to Assad.

Rights groups say 1,300 civilians have been killed in demonstrations and 12,000 people have been arrested since the start of the uprising, which has posed the gravest threat to Assad’s rule since he succeeded his father 11 years ago.

The government says more than 250 members of the security forces have died in clashes provoked by militants.

CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE The July 10 meeting will help launch a dialogue that Assad announced in a speech last week. The state news agency SANA said the agenda would include constitutional amendments, such as changes to an article which

puts Assad’s Baath Party at the center of Syrian politics.

“All the national political and intellectual figures and forces” would be invited to attend the meeting, called by a committee led by Vice President Farouq al-Shara, SANA said.

“The committee confirms that there is no alternative to a political (solution)...and to widely opening the door before all Syrian citizens to take part in building a democratic and pluralistic society,” it said.

Many activists and opposition figures say they will not attend such a meeting because a national dialogue is not possible amid violence and a continued crackdown.

Yesterday’s conference, attended by 150 people, some speakers adopted a softer tone than those calling for

Assad’s removal but nonetheless said demands of street protesters must be met after decades of autocratic rule.

Writer Louay Hussein, another former political prisoner, said repression in the last four decades had undermined Syria. But he emphasized that peaceful means must be found to meet popular demands.

Monther Khaddam, an academic from the coastal city of Latakia, said a wider national dialogue was needed and that intellectuals were “behind street demands until the end.”

Economist Aref Dalila, a major figure behind the gathering, pulled out at the last minute, saying that he did not want to participate in a conference that could be exploited by the authorities while mass killing and arrests continue.

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DAILY CHALLENGE TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011

Warcrimes court issues Kadhafi arrest warrant

By JAN HENNOP THE HAGUE Judges at the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi for war crimes and crimes against humanity yesterday, the 100th day of a NATO bombing campaign.

Britain, which has led the UN-mandated international effort to protect civilians from Kadhafi’s forces, hailed the court’s decision and said members of the Libyan regime should now abandon him.

Italy’s foreign ministry said the decision of the three-judge court, set up in 2002 to try war crimes, confirmed that Kadhafi had lost all “moral legitimacy” and could have “no role in the future of his country.”

ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo had sought the warrants for Kadhafi, 69,

his son Seif al-Islam, 39, and the head of Libyan intelligence, Abdullah al-Senussi, 62, for murder and persecution since midFebruary, when the bloody uprising started.

All three are charged over their roles in suppressing the revolt, in which civilians were murdered and persecuted by Libyan forces, particularly in Tripoli, Benghazi and Misrata, the prosecutor said.

Thousands have so far died in the fighting, while around 650,000 others fled the country.

Another 243,000 Libyans have been displaced internally, according to UN figures.

Moreno-Ocampo said on Sunday that the war crimes in Libya will not stop until Kadhafi is arrested.

“Crimes continue today in Libya. To stop the crimes and protect civilians in Libya, Kadhafi must be arrested.”

The only other warrant issued by the ICC for a sitting head of state, for Sudan’s President Omar al-

Bashir in March 2009, has yet to be served.

Bashir was due to begin a state visit to China later yesterday.

Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague said he welcomed the decision to issue arrest warrants for the three.

“These individuals are accused of crimes against humanity and should be held to account before judges in a criminal court,” he said, calling on the Libyan government to cooperate with the investigation.

“The warrants further demonstrate why Kadhafi has lost all legitimacy and why he

should go immediately.

His forces continue to attack Libyans without mercy and this must stop,” Hague said.

“Individuals throughout the regime should abandon Kadhafi.”

In his submission, Moreno-Ocampo said Kadhafi had a personal hand in planning and implementing “a policy of widespread and systematic attacks against civilians and demonstrators and dissidents in particular.”

“Kadhafi’s plan expressly included the use of lethal force against demonstrators and dissidents,” the submission said.

The Libyan strongman also ordered sniping at civilians leaving mosques after evening prayers. His forces carried out a systematic campaign of arrest and detention of alleged dissidents, it said.

“Kadhafi’s plans carried out were through his inner circle, which included Seif al-Islam, Kadhafi’s defacto prime minister and his brother-in-law Al-Senussi, considered to be his right-hand man,” the submission said.

The ICC is the world’s only permanent, treaty-based court set up to try those accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide if the accused’s own country cannot or will not do so.

NATO meanwhile said it is hitting around 50 targets a day and that its “Operation Unified Protector” was approaching its 5,000th strike sortie.

The airstrikes are mostly in or around Tripoli and Misrata in the west; Brega in the east; and the Nafusa Mountains southwest of

the capital.

The strikes appear to have helped the rebels launch an offensive of their own against Kadhafi’s forces.

However, only in Nafusa does the rebel army of ill-equipped irregulars and defectors appear to be making any sustained progress.

An AFP correspondent at the scene said rebel forces yesterday were around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Tripoli, a day after seizing a hill some 15 kilometres from Bir alGhanam, a strategic point on the road to the capital.

Rebel commanders said the fighting centred on Bir al-Ghanam, a strategic point on the road to the Libyan capital.

Moreno-Ocampo’s investigation follows a referral by the United Nations Security Council on the Libyan conflict on February 26.

The prosecutor’s office launched its investigation five days later. On May 16, MorenoOcampo asked the court for the warrants.

Suda n pr esid ent’s trip to China delayed a d ay

By ALEXA OLESEN BEIJING - The plane carrying Sudan’s president to China was forced to turn back yesterday over Tu r k m e n i s t a n , delaying his scheduled visit to the major economic partner that invited him despite an international warrant accusing him of war crimes.

Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said President Omar al-Bashir would arrive in Beijing after a new flight plan was approved from the Iranian capital, where he had been visiting.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry said he would arrive early today.

The delay forced the rescheduling of a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao and the reasons why the plane had been redirected were not fully explained.

Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Sudan News Agency that al-Bashir’s plane had been instructed to change its route while flying over Turkmenistan but was unable to do so, and instead returned to Tehran, where alBashir had just attended an anti-terror conference. It did not explain why the original route was altered.

The website of the France-based Sudan Tribune cited unnamed sources as saying the presidential plane’s flight path was abandoned after it was

“deemed risky” but didn’t elaborate.

Chinese Foreign Ministry official Guan Enxia said al-Bashir would arrive early today and that meetings with Hu and other Chinese leaders had been pushed to tomorrow.

Al-Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court for allegedly orchestrating atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region on the first such warrant against a sitting head of state.

The Netherlandsbased court has no police force and relies on member states to execute its orders and warrants. China is not a member.

The Sudanese leader rejects the charges, and China, which has major oil investments in Sudan, has expressed

concerns the indictment of al-Bashir could further destabilize the region.

A m n e s t y International earlier said China should withdraw its invitation to alBashir and arrest him if he travels to Beijing.

“If China welcomes Omar Al-Bashir, it will become a safe haven for alleged perpetrators of genocide,” said Amnesty’s Deputy Asia Pacific Director Catherine Baber.

Al-Bashir has traveled without arrest to several other nations, including ICC treaty signatories Chad and Kenya.

His talks with Chinese leaders are expected to focus on promoting peace in the African nation ahead of south Sudan’s independence next month.

Violence has escalat-

In this photo released by an official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, talks, during a meeting with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, rear, in Tehran.

ed in areas contested by the north and soon-tobe-independent south, and China is pressing both sides to peacefully settle the disputes, Beijing’s special envoy for African affairs Liu Guijin said last week.

China has long had close ties with the leaders of the north. It has been courting support in the oil-producing

south, which becomes an independent country July 9.

In an interview with China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency before he left Sudan, alBashir said the split would not affect relations between Sudan and China, even if Beijing were to establish relations with the southern Sudan state.

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Study: Workplace violence, child labor rife in Nigeria

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AFRICAN SCENE

By ROBERT EVANS GENEVA - Some 15 million children work in Nigeria, often in dangerous jobs, and many workers in Africa’s most populous nation live in fear of violence from police and employers, the global labor grouping ITUC said yesterday.

The report said many core international labor standards that the energy-rich African giant has signed up to were regularly breached and there was widespread discrimination against women and minority groups in the labor market.

“Some 15 million children are at work, many in dangerous jobs,” said the ITUC — the Brussels-based International Trade Union Confederation, which represents some 175 million workers in 151 countries, including Nigeria, around the world.

“Unions frequently experience violent attacks and there is little protection from anti-union discrimination,” said the report submitted to the 153-member World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva.

Women and minority groups face discrimination in getting jobs and getting promotion, it said. “The gender pay gap stands at 68 percent and the majority of women are employed in precarious and informal economic activities.”

Official: Boat capsizes in Congo; 19 believed dead KINSHASA, Congo - An official in northeast Congo says 19 people are believed dead after a boat capsized on Lake Albert.

A street vendor sits near posters of former Nigerian military ruler and the presidential candidate of opposition party Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Muhammadu Buhari at a presidential campaign rally for Buhari in Lagos last month.

Photo/Akintunde Akinleye The WTO is this week dis- Labor Organization (ILO) concussing Nigeria’s trade policies, ventions protecting workers’ a process through which all its rights including freedom of members pass regularly, and the unions to organize and ending ITUC insists that the trade body child labor.

But in a statement with the should also look at labor pracreport, which detailed attacks on tices.

But WTO officials, and most workers and union offices, ITUC Secretary Sharan developing country trade diplo- General mats, say labor conditions — Burrow said, “Nigeria has failed despite efforts in the past by the to live up to this. Many Nigerian United States and some workers live in fear of employer European countries to bring and police violence.

“This failure not only hurts them in — remain outside its Nigerians — it also undermines remit.

Nigeria, with a population of efforts by other governments to some 155 million and extensive uphold decent employments oil resources, has ratified all standards in the globalized econeight of the core International omy,” Burrow declared.

Central African Republic to disarm rebels BANGUI President Francois Bozize of the Central African Republic has launched an operation to disarm hundreds of rebels at Bocaranga in the northwest, the president’s office announced yesterday.

The operation involves some 350 former fighters of the People’s Army for the Restoration of Democracy (APRD), with funding from the government, which has come up with 100,000 CFA francs (about 150 euros / 215 dollars) for

each rebel, said the head of the presidential press service, LordEsaie Nganamokoi.

“At last the disarmament is beginning in the Central African Republic,” Bozize said on Saturday as the operation began, according to Nganamokoi, who read out remarks by the leader of the highly unstable and poor, landlocked nation.

“My desire is to move forwards quickly to peace and to respect our commitments,” Bozize said, adding that he had instructed the government “not to abuse the confidence of the former fighters”.

Before the disarma-

ment operation began, the commander of the APRD, Henri Tchebo Wanfio, urged the government “to respect its commitments to make the peace process succeed,” Nganamokoi said.

Disarmament Minister XavierSylvestre Yangongo, a general, stated that “the stage of the disarmament of ex-combattants is beginning, after the recent census conducted by the leaders of politico-military movements and observers from the Economic Community of Central African States.”

Yangongo said that disarmament was the next step after peace

accords signed between the Bangui government and four rebel movements in 2008, which will eventually lead to the reintegration into society of about 6,000 former fighters.

Disarmament operations will later be extended to other regions of the country, where former rebel movements have agreed to lay down their arms.

On June 12, the last major rebel movement active in the Central African Republic, the Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP) signed a ceasefire with the government that is set to lead to a peace accord.

Mahagi territory administrator Christophe Ikando said yesterday that six people were rescued after the boat capsized overnight Friday on the lake that straddles the border between Congo and Uganda. He said 11 of the dead are members of the same family.

Congo is a vast country of jungles and huge rivers in Central Africa with few paved roads.

Many people prefer to take boats even if they do not know how to swim.

The boats are often in poor repair and filled beyond capacity, and the industry is not well-regulated.

15 ex-ministers charged in Ivory Coast ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Fifteen ex-ministers who served under Ivory Coast’s arrested former strongman have been indicted for crimes against the state, embezzlement and other offenses, state media said yesterday.

Fraternite Matin reported that former Prime Minister Gilbert Marie Ake N’Gbo, former Foreign Minister Alcide Djedje, former president of the West African regional central bank Philippe Henri Dacoury-Tabley and the former finance minister were among those formally charged over the weekend. State prosecutors could not be immediately reached to confirm the information.

Dozens of members of Laurent Gbagbo’s entourage had been held without charge since the former president was arrested in April following a five-month standoff sparked by his refusal to accept defeat in last year’s election. International rights groups criticized the detentions and called on Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara to formally charge those in captivity.

Despite repeated promises by the president to bring to justice all those responsible for crimes, not a single member of Ouattara’s forces has been arrested. Last week, local United Nations Human Rights Chief Guillaume Ngefa said that members of Ouattara’s Republican Forces army continued to carry out summary executions and arbitrary detentions. Eight people had been killed in the last week, he said.

On Friday, International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo formally requested to open investigations into crimes committed by Gbagbo and his wife, who are being held separately in the north of the country.

Ouattara’s government will ask that international arrest warrants are issued for other members of Gbagbo’s government, believed to have fled the country, the newspaper reported. Many of them, including youth leader Charles Ble Goude and top security adviser Bertin Kadet, are thought to be hiding in Ghana.

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Court rules against former St. Vincent PM

By KENTON X. CHANCE KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent — The commission of inquiry into the Ottley Hall Marina and Shipyard project in St. Vincent and the Grenadines can now continue after the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal ruled that its proceedings were not biased, as claimed by former

prime minister, Sir James Mitchell.

The commission, which was set up to determine who, if anyone, is culpable for the disappearance of monies allocated to building the marina, went on a two-year hiatus after Mitchell brought a legal challenge objecting to its proceedings, which he said were biasd.

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J a m aica ’s B lu e M o un ta in R an ge be in g co n sid er e d fo r Wo r l d H e r i t a g e S i t e s t a t u s LONDON, England — The Blue and John Crow Mountain Range in Jamaica is among a list of 42 sites around the world being considered for World Heritage Site status by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee, which is meeting in Paris this week.

It joins such international sites as the Congo, which has jointly nominated the Sangha forests with its African neighbours; Barbados, for the Bridgetown garrison; Micronesia and Palau, which have jointly nominated the sites of the massive Yap stone money discs; and the United Arab Emirates, for the oases of Al Ain. The 35th session of the World Heritage Committee will last until June 29 and will discuss 42 nominations for the list, which, for almost 40 years, has aimed to define and cherish places of universal cultural and heritage significance.

Being named on the list of World Heritage Sites carries no special financial or statutory protection. However, countries around the world are keen to be included. Only countries that have signed the World Heritage Convention, pledging to protect their natural and cultural heritage, can submit nomination proposals for properties to be considered for inclusion in UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

The list already covers more than 900 castles, walled towns, derelict ironworks, ravines, bays and churches.

Boliv ia bu s plun ge s in to ra vin e, 28 d ie LA PAZ, Bolivia - Police say a bus has run off a foggy mountain road in Bolivia, killing at least 28 people.

Police Col. Placido Arroyo tells the radio station Fidels that the bus plunged about 300 feet (about 100 meters) down a ravine on Sunday. It was en route from Villazon near the Argentine border to the city of Tarija.

Arroyo says the cause of the accident is under investigation, but he says there was a dense fog at the time of the crash.

It’s Bolivia’s worst bus accident of the year.

Twenty-five people died in January when a bus and a truck carrying passengers tried to cross a flooded road.

lawyer for the government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the case, speaking on the ruling on Thursday, said “one of the grounds of bias on which [Mitchell] relied was the ... summons letter issued by the commissioner and the interim report that the commissioner had sent to the Director of Public Prosecution”.

Astaphan said that the Court of Appeal agreed with the government that the summons letter “constituted no bias whatsoever but that there was an issue to be tried as to whether or not the report constituted a bias and he was sent back to the High Court for trial.”

The trial was completed in two days and the court dismissed the claim form and the

Former prime minister, Sir James Mitchell application and disThe marina, which sole ministerial overcharged the injunction, was build in 1993 when sight for the project, Astaphan said.

Mitchell’s New has denied any wrong“[This] means that Democratic Party was doing and said last the commission of in office, was subse- year, “my conscience is inquiry into Ottley Hall quently valued at as clear as the waters can continue and that between EC$3.5 million flowing down the James Mitchell can now and EC$7 million but mountainside to be summons again to left the nation with a Majorca” - a major participate in the com- debt of EC$200 million. potable water intake in mission of inquiry,” Mitchell, who had St. Vincent.

Astaphan further said.

Cuba and Russia s ign oi l explorati on c ontr acts HAVANA, Cuba — Cuba and Russia on Friday signed three contracts for oil prospecting and exploitation of the Boca de Jaruco oilfield.

Raul Felipe del Prado, director of Cubapetroleo (CUPET), explained that the objective is to recover and increase production in the northern littoral region of Havana, and added that good results are expected with the introduction of the new technology they will use.

He assessed this investment as important for what it represents for the country’s economy, and described it as a milestone in cooperation between CUPET and the Russian company Zarubezhneft, through which they plan other business.

Nikolay Grigonievich, director of Zarubezhneft, pointed out that this association will be beneficial for the two countries, and that he hopes that all prospecting methods to be used will have good results, since they will make it possible to increase the oil recovery coefficient as it is planned.

For his part, Russia’s ambassador to Cuba, Mijail Kaminin, said that economic, commercial and investment relations between the two nations over the last few years are developing with dynamism.

He described as significant the fact that a Russian entity as important as Zarubezhneft has come to stay and to continue cooperating with CUPET for the good of the two states.

In recent statements to the press in Havana, the diplomat reiterated that Russia was, is and will be an ally of Cuba in the island’s struggle against the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by the United States.

Privy Council still needed, says Bahamas Bar Association president NASSAU, Bahamas — President of the Bahamas Bar Association Ruth Bowe-Darville has expressed concern over recent calls for the country to move away from the Privy Council as a final court of appeal in the wake of a controversial ruling on how the death penalty should be applied.

Bowe-Darville said Bahamians who suggest abandoning the Privy Council are “treading in very dangerous water.”

“Criminally, it’s one thing. Civilly, when you’re dealing with financial matters and the economic impact of it, litigants who come before our court, they need that assurance that there is some place of last resort that is independent and seen to be independent,” said Bowe-Darville on Thursday .

“Litigants who come before us with multi-million-dollar cases and they see us as a great financial center, they need the assurance that the Privy Council is there,” she said.

Last week, the Privy Council quashed the death sentence of murder convict Maxo Tido and ruled that the gruesome murder of 16-year-old Donnell Conover in 2002 did not warrant a death sentence.

When police discovered Conover’s body, her skull was crushed and she was badly burned.

But the Privy Council, while recognizing that it was a dreadful and appalling murder, said it did not fall into the category of worst of the worst.

Tido was sentenced more than five years ago.

Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham announced in the House of Assembly yesterday that the government intends to bring a bill to Parliament before the summer recess to deal with “the question of the imposition of the death penalty in The Bahamas”.

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More countries contribute to flood relief efforts in St. Vincent

By KENTON X. CHANCE NEW YORK — St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) continues to receive assistance as it copes with the effects of the flash floods that affected St. northeastern Vincent in April of this year.

Australia, one of the most recent contributors, has pledged to pay the approximately A U $ 3 8 , 0 0 0 (EC$108,400) for relief assistance provided by the Red Cross to the 200 families directly

affected by the disaster.

SVG’s UN mission said in a press statement that a wide coalition of countries have contributed to the relief effort, namely Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Georgia, Pakistan and Taiwan have also contributed to the relief effort.

A u s t r a l i a , Azerbaijan, Georgia and Pakistan, which have also experienced devastating floods in recent years, responded to requests for assisfrom the tance Permanent Mission SVG to the United

Nations.

Georgia, which established diplomatic relations with SVG less than one year ago, has pledged to provide additional resources in the future. Pakistan has also promised further assistance.

Gary Quinlan, Australia’s ambassador to the United Nations, in a letter to his counterVincentian part, Ambassador Camillo Gonsalves, said that, in addition to funding the Red Cross the expenses, Australian government “will also explore future

opportunities to support organisations involved in rebuilding efforts in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines following the immediate disaster relief response.”

Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Pakistan donated a total of US$60,000 (EC$ 160,000) to the relief efforts. Brazil donated U S $ 6 2 , 0 0 0 while (EC$165,500) Taiwan has delivered US$500,000 (EC$1.4 million) of the US$2 million (EC$5.4 million) that it pledged during the recent visit

by Prime Minister

Ralph Gonsalves to that country.

While not related to the flood relief, Qatar’s pledged previously US$1 million (EC$2.7 million) for Hurricane Thomas relief was wired to SVG within weeks of the flood.

A m b a s s a d o r Gonsalves has thanked the countries, noted that while some of the contributions are modest, they represent an important act of solidarity with the Vincentian people and empathy with the victims of the disaster, according to the press

statement.

Between October 2010 and April 2011, SVG was struck by two devastating weather events: Hurricane Thomas and the flash floods in April, with each disaster causing damage of EC$100 million.

Prime Minister Gonsalves and the National Emergency M a n a g e m e n t Organisation have called on Vincentians to be vigilant and prepared for the 2011 hurricane season, which began on June 1 and continues to November

Hugo Chavez’s brother talks of armed struggle

By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER CARACAS, Venezuela - One of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s brothers said Sunday that backers of the hospitalized leftist leader should not rule out armed struggle in the future, though they prefer to maintain power at the ballot box.

Adan Chavez’s statement came as speculation mounted about the health of the president, who has been convalescing at an undisclosed location in Cuba after reportedly undergoing emergency surgery 16 days ago.

Chavez’s older brother said Venezuela’s ruling party wants to retain power by defeating foes in elections. But he told government supporters that they should be ready to take up arms if necessary.

“As authentic revolutionaries, we cannot for-

get other forms of fighting,” he said during a prayer meeting for the health of his 56-year-old brother in the leader’s home state of Barinas.

Quoting Latin American revolutionary icon Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the president’s brother added: “It would be inexcusable to limit ourselves to only the electoral and not see other forms of struggle, including the armed struggle.”

Adan Chavez is a mild-mannered former university physics professor who has a close

relationship with the president while maintaining a low profile. He did not explain why it might be necessary for the president’s backers to consider the possibility of guerrilla warfare in the future, and the statement seemed to clash with Hugo Chavez’s own assertions.

The president, a former paratroop commander, led an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow an earlier government in 1992. But he has repeatedly beaten his adversaries in elections since taking office in 1999 and he has long insisted that he is an authentic democrat who rules out violence as a means of holding onto power.

Despite numerous domestic problems ranging from soaring inflation to widespread

crime, Chavez remains Venezuela’s most popular politician and he has vowed to win re-election next year.

Ramon Guillermo Aveledo, a spokesman for a coalition of major opposition parties, condemned Adan Chavez’s suggestions that government supporters should be prepared to take up arms.

“He’s wrong to talk about violence because the Venezuelan people are peaceful,” Aveledo said in a statement.

Aveledo predicted Hugo Chavez would be defeated in next year’s presidential vote, saying: “He arrived through the ballot and he’ll leave through the ballot.”

Opposition leaders also accused the president of failing to fully inform Venezuelans about his health, saying

the president’s condition following surgery in Cuba should not be shrouded in secrecy.

Despite assurances from top government officials and close relatives that Chavez is recuperating, the president’s silence and seclusion since the operation have spurred growing speculation about how ill Chavez might be.

Opponents say Chavez and his aides should be more straightforward.

“The uncertainty regarding Hugo Chavez’s health and considerable speculation over the real illness affecting him reveal the government’s serious constitutional violations,” said Miguel Angel Rodriguez, an opposition lawmaker.

Under Venezuela’s constitution, Chavez must “give us the diag-

nosis, talk to us about the treatment and answer questions,” Rodriguez said in a statement.

Venezuelan officials have said Chavez is recuperating, but have provided few details.

Fernando Soto Rojas, president of the National Assembly, said rumors that Chavez has been diagnosed with cancer are false. He added that he expected the president to return home before July 5, Venezuela’s independence day.

Chavez’s Twitter stream has been active, but it has not provided any information about his health. Three messages appeared within 30 minutes Saturday afternoon, including one mentioning visits

by Chavez’s daughter Rosines and grandchildren.

Belize government slams Chamber of Commerce over press statement BELMOPAN, Belize — The government of Belize said it takes serious issue with a press release issued last week by the Belize Chamber of Commerce.

In that release, the Chamber disagreed with the government’s acquisition of Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) the main distributor of electricity in Belize, and expressed the opinion that the acquisition was unnecessary and will hurt

investor confidence and saddle Belize with enormous debts.

In a press statement, the government said, “In trying to justify its conclusions, the Chamber took such extraordinary liberties with the facts that government feels obliged to both correct and condemn the Chamber.”

The suggestion that there was an abuse of Parliamentary procedure in the summoning of a special sitting of the

National Assembly, is “patent nonsense and sounds like a politically inspired charge,” the statement said.

“The Standing Orders provide for exactly what was done and there was no violation of either the letter or spirit of the Rules,” according to the government statement.

The Chamber also alleged that the prime minister went back on his promise to give BEL twenty days but the government has denied that

there was ever any such promise.

According to the statement, the prime minister had said that he had been assured by BEL that the last $4 million given by government would have bought around three weeks grace. However, as was made clear in the House presentation, though, it turned out that BEL was not addressing the allimportant question of non-payment to BELCOGEN.

Also, the government said, the Chamber neglected to refer to the fact that BEL’s CEO Lynn Young had in effect walked off by the Friday when the National Assembly notice went out.

“In all the circumstances, government was right to move when it did. To have waited longer would have been playing Russian roulette with the national interest. The Chamber’s supposed concern with

SSB’s investment in BEL and how its shares may have been devalued by Government’s exposure of BEL’s insolvency, rings very hollow. The Chamber has had nothing to say about SSB’s inability for a long while to collect dividends from the Fortis-owned BEL. And government’s acquisition is with a view to returning the company to solvency, which would rescue SSB’s investment,” the statement said.

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One Thought - One Humanity

For the conclusions of these stories check out the June 23rd - June 29th, 2011 issue of The New American, which hits newsstands every Thursday Jennifer Hudson’s “No One Gonna Love You” video is coming soon. And from the looks of the pics on set, Hudson, wearing a black-and-white outfit with matching bowler hat, is every bit jazzinspired. She’s even sitting inside a dance studio!

L.A. Reid has signed a deal to become the chairman of Epic Label Group, a new organization formed which will encompass Epic and Jive Records. Reid will inherit Usher and Pink, two artist whom he discovered, as well as search for new talent to sign to the label.

It is expected that he will direct to company more towards urban acts which was a different agenda of the former companies. The 55-year-old executive will start his post after the fourth of July holiday.

Remy Ma is currently serving an eightyear sentence stemming from 2008 convictions on assault, weapons possession and coercion charges.

After losing her appeal earlier this year, the rapstress, whose real name is Reminisce Smith, will have a parole hearing in September 2014 with an eligibility date set for January 31, 2015, according to court documents. If parole is denied, the 30-year-old, who began serving time on May 21, 2008, may remain in New York’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women until March 23, 2016 - her sentence’s maximum expiration date.

The “Whuteva” spitter was originally charged with shooting Makeda Barnes-Joseph during an altercation over $3,000.

John Legend stunned locals in Philadelphia, Pennsyl-

vania by performing at a local church. The star was a surprise guest at the Calvary Baptist Church in West Philadelphia and sang Aretha Franklin classic How I Got Over with churchgoers. In a video of the performance posted on his Facebook.com page on June 20, he says, “I grew up singing and playing gospel music. I played in a bunch of choirs as a kid, up through going to college. I paid my way through school by being a director of music in church.

“A lot of the greatest soul singers in American history started in the Black church. It’s very obvious when you listen to gospel and soul music, you can see and hear and feel the connection. I haven’t performed in church for a while.

Eva Mendes has been granted a three-year extension of her restraining order against her stalker John C. Luna after he didn’t oppose it. The actress who has claimed she had been living in “constant fear” of John C. Luna, who she says has been harassing her since 2008 asked for an extension to the temporary order and it was approved by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carol Boas Goodson after Luna didn’t oppose it. Goodson said: “I’m surprised he agreed to this, but his signature and initials are there.” In her legal papers which were filed earlier this month - Eva stated: “As a result of Mr. Luna’s conduct directed at me ... including references in a letter that he knows I am willing to die for him, and his showing up at my house on May 31, 2011, looking for me, I am in constant fear.”

He’s always looking for new avenues for his

talent, and Chris Brown’s latest venture is the New Boyz video for “Better With the Lights Off.” The “No Air” singer dons a LA Raiders shirt as he sings the catchy R&B hook in the clip, sure to be one of the summer’s hottest anthems.

The demand for videos by Nicki Minaj has soared, as the rapper has set a new record for most single week video views, on Music Choice’s Video on Demand service.

The video for the Nicki’s single “Super Bass” has received 1,436,807 views according to Rentrak, a media measurement and research company. The number represents the largest ever recorded for a single week since Music Choice’s Video on Demand launched in November of 2004, according to reps for Music Choice. The millions of views that “Super Bass” has racked up gives Nicki three of the top five best-performing videos of all time videos on Music Choice.

Tyler the Creator broke his foot during a performance in Los Angeles over the weekend. The rapper was performing at the House of Blues on June 18th in Los Angeles, when he sustained the injury. The rapper may re-schedule other upcoming shows in California while he recuperates.

Aretha Franklin has suffered a wardrobe malfunction – but not the kind that usually comes to mind. On Friday, while on the road to promote her album A Woman Falling Out Of Love, the Queen of Soul put the emphasis on “falling” in her Dallas hotel suite – by stumbling over one of her Jimmy Choo spiked heels, which had gotten caught on her toe.

Be greater than AIDS: Get yourself tested!

Greater Than AIDS and GYT: Get Yourself Tested, two leading national campaigns committed to reducing the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, are teaming up for a second year to encourage Americans to get tested and know their status. In the lead up to National HIV Testing Day (June 27), the scaled-up, monthcross-promotion long brings together major media and leading corporate brands know their status. The CDC encourwith community organizations and ages all Americans between the ages state and local health departments of 13-64 to get tested on a routine to carry the message on air and on basis as part of their overall health and well-being similar to cholesthe ground across the nation.

“As we mark 30 years of AIDS, it’s terol, blood pressure, and other worth noting the tremendous screens.

Elements of the Be Greater Than progress made in terms of the lifesaving treatments now available, but AIDS: Get Yourself Tested Month to benefit from these advances one promotion include: * Five-City Summer Concert Tour, must first know their status,” said Tina Hoff, Senior Vice President & in partnership with EMMIS CommuDirector, Health Communication & nications and Radio One, that inteMedia Partnerships, Kaiser Family grates HIV/AIDS information and Foundation, a partner on both cam- testing resources into some of this paigns. “Be Greater Than AIDS: Get summer’s biggest concerts, includYourself Tested is an empowering, ing those sponsored by EMMIS and uplifting message that makes get- supported by Gilead Sciences in ting tested an act of pride, not Chicago (Jamboree, 6/4), New York (Summer Jam, 6/5), Los Angeles shame.”

“Our audience has never known a (Powerhouse, 6/25), and sponsored time without HIV, but through by Radio One in Miami (SpringFest, efforts like GYT, we’re committed to 5/28) and Atlanta (Birthday Bash, empowering them to forge a world 6/18). On air promotions in the lead where HIV doesn’t exist,” said Jason up to the concerts, including DJ call Rzepka, Vice President of Public outs and targeted public service ads, Affairs, MTV. “We’re proud to join will promote testing. Giveaways with this remarkable coalition and and other special promotions will reinforce regular testing as one way support listeners who get tested.

America’s youth can be greater than An on-site information booth will offer more resources. Additionally, AIDS.” According to the U.S. Centers for the “Road to the Chicago’s Jamboree Disease Control and Prevention Concert Testing Tour,” conducted in (CDC), of the more than one million partnership with GYT, is providing Americans living with HIV today, free testing at six Chicago-area colone in five of those infected don’t lege campuses throughout May. - Full Story In This Week’s New American Newspaper -

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U.S. doctors: Ban fast food ads on TV

By FREDERIK JOELVING Fast food ads on TV are making American youth fatter and should be banned in children’s programming, an influential group of doctors said yesterday.

“Congress and the Federal Trade Commission have to get tough with the food industry,” said Dr. Victor Strasburger, who wrote the new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), a group of 65,000 physicians.

“It’s time for the food industry to clean up its act and not advertise junk food to young children,” Strasburger told Reuters Health. “Just by banning ads for fast food, one study says we could decrease obesity and overweight by 17 percent.”

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one in six children and teenagers are obese — up three-fold from a generation ago.

While experts agree there are several reasons for this development, they are increasingly focusing on the role of excess “screen time” — both for its physical effects on kids and the advertising messages that TVs and computers are delivering to them.

Last April, four government agencies requested pub-

lic comments on a set of voluntary principles for marketing food to children, with the Federal Trade Commission calling childhood obesity “the most serious health crisis facing today’s youth.”

But voluntary guidelines won’t cut it, according to the AAP. Nearly a third of American youngsters eat fast food on any given day, the AAP says, with the nation spending in excess of $110 billion every year on things like burgers and French fries — “more than that spent on higher education, computers, or cars.”

In 2009, the fast food industry spent $4.2 billion on ads in various media. And research shows they work.

For instance, one study found kids watching cartoons downed 45 percent more snacks when they were exposed to food ads instead of ads for other products.

The National Restaurant Association did not return a request for comment in time for this story.

Sitting glued to the TV or the computer for hours on end also eats up time that could have been used for physical activities, said Strasburger, and studies have tied certain screen habits to sleep problems.

“I think parents have always thought that if their kids were in their room

watching TV or on the Internet, they were happy and safe,” he added. “The research says, maybe not.”

In one new report, also published in Pediatrics yesterday, preschoolers who had a TV in their bedroom took longer to fall asleep and were drowsier during the day.

Among kids who spent more than 30 minutes playing video games, watching TV or surfing the Web in the hour before they went to bed, 28 percent had sleep trouble, compared to 19 percent of those who had less or no screen time.

Violent content also tended to keep kids up at night, no matter when they watched it.

While the study couldn’t tease out cause and effect, Michelle Garrison, who led the research, said the evidence hints screen may be responsible for at least part of the problem.

“One thing that families can take away from this is to focus on day-time, non-violent media choices,” Garrison, of Seattle Children’s Research Institute, told Reuters Health.

She added that sleep problems can take a toll on daytime wellbeing.

“We see increased behavior problems, we see increased learning problems, and excess weight and obesity,” Garrison said.

Experts say parents should play an active role in

managing their kids’ screen time.

“Parents should serve as positive role models for their children and limit their own as well as their child(rens’)s television viewing,” said Dayna M. Maniccia, of the University at Albany in New York.

In a new study, also in Pediatrics, Maniccia and her colleagues found using an electronic device to ensure the TV turns off at a certain time also appears to be effective.

“Limiting advertisements would be a positive step toward improving children’s health,” Maniccia added in an email to Reuters Health.

“Young children can’t distinguish between ads and programs.”

Several companies have already pledged to shift their advertising toward healthier choices for young kids, yet research from last year shows fast food restaurants are stepping up marketing directed at children and toddlers.

“It’s all just a smokescreen anyway — the big fast food corporations are basically interested in making money, not making good nutritional products,” said Strasburger.

“With billions of dollars in profits every year should come a sense of public health responsibility. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to.”

McDonald’s, which targets kids in much of its advertising, declined to comment.

In the meantime, Strasburger urges families to follow a few simple steps.

“Parents need to listen to the AAP guidelines which say, ‘Limit your child to less than two hours of media time per day, keep the TV set and Internet out of the bedroom and avoid screen time in kids under two.’”

But cutting screen time alone isn’t enough, according to Strasburger.

“We have to give kids healthy alternatives to being couch potatoes,” he said. “The question is, how fat do we want people to become? Congress needs to think about that.”

Drug use may play role in 25% of driver deaths Lifestyle changes might alter breast cancer rates Lifestyle changes such as losing weight, drinking less alcohol and getting more exercise could lead to a substantial reduction in breast cancer cases across an entire population, according to a new model that estimates the impact of these modifiable risk factors.

Although such models are often used to estimate breast cancer risk, they are usually based on things that women can’t change, such as a family history of breast cancer. Up to now, there have been few models based on ways women could reduce their risk through changes in their lifestyle.

U.S. National Cancer Institute researchers created the model using data from an Italian study that included more than 5,000 women. The model included three modifiable risk factors (alcohol consumption, physical activity and body mass index) and five risk factors that are difficult or

impossible to modify (family history, education, job activity, reproductive characteristics, and biopsy history).

Benchmarks for some lifestyle factors included getting at least 2 hours of exercise a week (for women 30-39) and having a body mass index (BMI) under 25 (in women 50 and older).

The model predicted that improvements in modifiable risk factors would result in a 1.6 percent reduction in the average 20-year absolute risk in a general population of women aged 65; a 3.2 percent reduction among women with a positive family history of breast cancer; and a 4.1 percent reduction among women with the most non-modifiable risk factors.

The authors pointed out that the predicted changes in lifestyle to achieve these goals — such as former and current drinkers becoming nondrinkers — might be overly optimistic.

But, the findings may help in designing programs meant to encourage women to make lifestyle changes, according to the researchers. For example, a 1.6 percent absolute risk reduction in a general population of one million women amounts to 16,000 fewer cases of cancer.

The study appears online June 24 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, where the author of an accompanying editorial applauded the research.

The findings provide “extremely important information relevant to counseling women on how much risk reduction they can expect by changing behaviors, and also highlights the basic public health concept that small changes in individual risk can translate into a meaningful reduction in disease in a large population,” Dr. Kathy J. Helzlsouer, of Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, wrote in a journal news release.

Among U.S. drivers who died in a car crash, about one in four tested positive for drugs, a new study has found.

Most commonly, the drivers were found to have been using marijuana and stimulants such as cocaine and amphetamines, and each of these drugs accounted for one-quarter of the positive tests, according to the report published in the July issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

For their study, the researchers analyzed federal government drug test information from 44,000 drivers who died between 1998 and 2009.

It’s not certain that the drugs used by the drivers were directly responsible for the fatal crashes, the researchers said. For example, some people who use illegal drugs may simply be reckless drivers, they explained.

But they noted that a recent government study

found that 14 percent of U.S. drivers who were randomly pulled over tested positive for drugs. The fact that the rate of drug use was 11 percent higher among drivers in fatal crashes does suggest that drug use contributes to road deaths.

“The suspicion is there, because when you look at drivers who’ve been in fatal crashes, the percentage using drugs is a good deal higher,” study co-author Robert B. Voas, of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Calverton, Md., said in a journal news release.

However, when a driver is drinking alcohol in addition to taking drugs, the booze is usually the main impairment to driving, the study authors noted.

“Alcohol is still the largest contributor to fatal crashes,” study lead author Eduardo Romano said in the news release. “Don’t drink or don’t consume drugs when you’re going to drive,” Romano added.

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Jersey City man found not guilty by reason of insanity in fatal stabbing

By MICHAELANGELO CONTE Not guilty by reason of insanity was the judge’s ruling at a hearing in the case of a Jersey City man charged with murdering a commuter near the Liberty State Park Light Rail Station as he headed to work at Exchange Place in 2008.

Doctors for the defense and prosecution agreed that Elgin Louis Taylor Jr., 27, of Communipaw Avenue, could not understand the nature of his actions when he killed Michael Fuccile, 36, of Metuchen on Sept. 4, 2008.

Fuccile was stabbed multiple times in the neck, back and head at 8:30 a.m. as he headed to work at Merrill Lynch’s compliance unit in Global Wealth Management at 101 Hudson St. in Jersey City. Taylor was captured nearby when onlookers pointed him out to police.

“You took a wonderful man,” Fuccile’s tearful wife Nancy said at the hearing. “He was kind. He loved every-

one. He had no hatred.

No prejudice. No ill will. He would have given the defendant the shirt off his back.”

The couple met at Villanova University and married in 1998.

Their children were 3,5- and 7-years-old when their father was killed.

The victim’s mother said when the children visit his grave “They sit on his tombstone and they tell me they are sitting on daddy’s shoulders. ... You do not realize how good was the person who was taken from this world so young.”

The prosecution psychiatrist, Dr. Daniel P. Greenfield, testified Taylor is a paranoid schizophrenic subject to auditory and visual hal-

Elgin Louis Taylor Jr., of Jersey City, is found not guilty by reason of insanity in the stabbing death of Michael Fuccile, of Metuchen, in state Superior Court in Jersey City. At left is his laywer, Don Gardner.

Photo/Reena Rose Sibayan lucinations. He said he Greenfield said ty uncontested, Hudson has a history of Taylor abused drugs County Superior Court episodes beginning in and alcohol, his mental Judge Kevin Callahan his teens that led to hos- problems were “decid- sentenced him to be pitalizations. edly psychotic level dis- confined to a mental Taylor, who showed orders,” and “it would hospital and evaluated no emotion during the be very dangerous for periodically until he is hearing, is now on him not to be institu- no longer a danger. three medications, he tionalized.”

In court, Michael said.

With Taylor’s insani- Fuccile’s father-in-law,

Williams Reynolds, said he was never so happy as when the victim told him he wanted to marry his daughter.

“This is the other half of the family ripped apart,” said Reynolds. “I hope you remember this day, Taylor, for God’s sake, for the rest of your life.”

The last speaker among the family members was Michael Fuccile Sr., who said more than 3,000 people attended his son’s wake and nearly 1,000 were at his funeral.

“Your honor, we came here today to make sure you knew who the man was. To make sure you do not allow him to destroy another family ... so we can leave knowing justice has been done,” the father said before he was overcome with emotion. “That’s it,” he whispered.

Callahan told the victim’s family he did not envision Taylor “being free in a very long time.”

T r enton sellers face a tough market

By ROBERT STERN TRENTON _- Colleen Connolly and Jennifer Godoski leaped at the chance to buy their first house in 2007. That was just before the housing market and the nation’s economy collapsed.

The property in Trenton’s brick-walk-lined, historic Mill Hill neighborhood had been on the market for just one day when the couple, while on their honeymoon, put in their offer, Connolly said.

Four years later, circumstances have changed, and they’re trying to sell. They no longer work in Trenton, as they did when they bought their Clay Street house - and they have a daughter.

But it’s not a seller’s market anymore, so they knew not to expect a one-day turnaround like the previous owners lucked into. They’ve had the house for sale for about

nine months with no offers made, said Kim Ward Bacso, their real estate broker.

People looking to sell nice houses in good Trenton neighborhoods have been frustrated by how little interest there has been despite aggressive traditional marketing campaigns that included online, direct mail and open houses by their brokers, said Bacso, who works out of Lambertville for the N.T. Callaway firm.

In the nine months the Connolly-Godoski house has been on the market, only four parties have made appointments to see it, Bacso said.

“Showing activity is low all across the board, but in Lambertville a similar property would’ve probably had about half a dozen showings in the first month,” she said.

That’s still a far cry from the boom years before the housing bubble burst. Back

then, it wasn’t unusual to have five or six showings a week and it would be rare for a house, even in Trenton, to be on the market for even one month before it was sold, said J. Jay Smith, a Penningtonbased sales associate for Weidel Realtors.

Since buyer interest is so much harder to come by these days, Smith, who specializes in the Trenton housing market, and N.T. Callaway’s brokers with Trenton listings teamed up on an unconventional tandem marketing effort that featured house tours Thursday of 12 residential properties for sale in the city. Despite advance advertising and promotion for the event, only nine parties visited even one of the houses on the tour, according to the tallies Smith and Bacso provided.

Although the dearth of buyers is by no means unique

to Trenton, Bacso said it’s more challenging to draw interest to Trenton than elsewhere. It’s not that there aren’t charming and stately neighborhoods and homes in Trenton, she said. It’s that people, even many of the government workers who commute here daily, simply don’t even think of the city as a place where they could find great homes in inviting neighborhoods.

“It wasn’t an issue with the homes,” Bacso explained.

“They photographed well, are priced to sell, are in aboveaverage condition and have loads of amenities that we know today’s buyers are looking for.”

The buyers just are extremely few and far between.

In April, Trenton had 22 times as many unsold homes on the market as homes under contract to be pur-

chased, according to the East Brunswick-based Otteau Valuation Group’s most recent housing market analysis report for Mercer County.

Countywide, there were 13 times as many unsold homes on the market as those under contract in April, and Princeton Township had the same 22-to-1 ratio of sellers to buyers as Trenton, according to the Otteau MarketTRAC report.

So finding buyers is clearly not just a Trenton problem.

That’s little comfort, though, for homeowners like Connolly and Godoski.

Hoping to increase their prospects of landing a buyer, earlier this spring they reduced the asking price on their showcase-quality, threestory carriage house-style duplex to $229,000, which had already been listed below the $282,000 they paid for it four years ago.

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Chris Brown wins big, Lil Wayne rocks 2011 BET Awards

By ROB MARKMAN Music and Hollywood’s biggest and brightest stars all came out to the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles for the 2011 BET Awards Sunday night. Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, Drake, Trey Songz, host Kevin Hart, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith were all in attendance as BET celebrated the year in music.

The ceremony kicked off in royal fashion as the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, Mary J. Blige, took the stage wearing an all-white jumpsuit performing “Mary Jane (All Night Long)” and “You Bring Me Joy” from her 1994 My Life album. MJB didn’t stop there, bringing out Anita Baker so the two could sing Baker’s 1986 classic “Caught Up in the Rapture.”

Chris Brown came up big, winning the first award of

the night, for Best Male R&B Artist, beating out the likes of Bruno Mars, Usher, Trey Songz and Cee Lo Green. The ever-controversial CB also took home an award for Best Collaboration for his Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymesassisted track “Look at Me Now.” It didn’t end there for Brown. After a snafu that had Rihanna and Drake being announced as the win-

DJ wins $1 million in lawsuit over ‘My Humps’ song

By ERIQ GARDNER Cleveland disc jockey and early rap artist Orrin Lynn Tolliver, Jr. has just been awarded nearly $1.2 million by a New York jury. The award comes after a former friend and collaborator allowed without permission his 1983 song, “I Need A Freak,” to be sampled by the Black Eyed Peas for the group’s hit song, “My Humps.”

In the early 80s, Tolliver formed a concept band called Sexual Harassment and recorded “I Need A Freak” at his friend and collaborator James McCants’ studio at Heat Records.

McCants registered the song with BMI, credited Tolliver as the songwriter, and agreed to pay him 75% of royalties.

In 2000, the song was included on the compilation, “In Da Beginning...There Was Rap,” from Priority Records, which caused Tolliver to send McCants a cease-and-desist letter. His former friend and collabora-

tor denied issuing a license.

However, in the proceeding years, the song was sampled for use by other artists, including by the Black Eyed Peas on “My Humps.”

Tolliver sued McCants for copyright infringement.

During the preliminary stages of the case, McCants offered shifting excuses about what had happened.

He first denied issuing a license. He then claimed he had co-authored the composition and owned it under the work-for-hire doctrine.

He then attempted to obtain a musicologist expert’s report that “My Humps” didn’t sample Tolliver’s work.

Finally, he claimed that he owned the composition by virtue of a copyright assignment.

The judge didn’t appreciate these inconsistent statements and ruled for Tolliver on summary judgment.

The case went to a jury to determine the damages.

Last Tuesday, the jury rendered a verdict. McCants owed Tolliver $816,877.28 in profits and $368,704.31 in actual damages for copyright infringement.

ners of BET’s Viewers’ Choice Award, it was later learned that Breezy was the intended recipient, making that his third win of the night. Brown also lit up the stage performing a string of his own hits and then again alongside Big Sean, who rapped his #1 rap single “My Last.”

Nicki Minaj was a shoo-in for Best Female Hip-Hop Artist, and as expected she beat out Diamond, Lola Monroe and Master P’s daughter Cymphonique. Still, Minaj, who took the stage with her Young Money family, start-

ed her speech with, “Wow, I can’t believe I won.” The crowd laughed before she clarified her point and thanked Lil Wayne.

Alicia Keys shined as well, treating fans to a piano-laced set as she sang new single “Typewriter,” “A Woman’s Worth” with Bruno Mars and “Fallin’.”

Throughout the night, a number of BET-related trending topics popped up on Twitter. #betawards, Wiz & Amber and Mary Mary made the rounds on the social networking site during the night as well as #kelly after Kelly Rowland performed her single “Motivation” with Trey Songz.

The ex-Destiny’s Child member received one of the loudest ovations of the night.

Duo Mary Mary won for Best Gospel Album, and Patti LaBelle received the Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented

by Gladys Knight. A pottymouthed Cee Lo Green, Marsha Ambrosius and gospel’s Shirley Caesar all honored the soul singer by performing a medley of her hits before LaBelle took the stage herself.

Cali Swag District came

out with Doug E. Fresh and memorialized slain CSD member M-Bone, while fallen artists like Clarence Clemons, Nate Dogg, Gil Scott-Heron and Teena Marie were honored with tribute performances by Snoop Dogg, Warren G, Queen Latifah and others.

As the show drew near a close, DJ Khaled, Drake, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne took the stage to perform Khaled’s “I’m on One.” Rozay and Weezy had appeared earlier in the show alongside Ace Hood to rock Hood’s “Hustle Hard (Remix)” and returned, this time with Drizzy in tow.

Beyoncé closed things out with a performance from the Glastonbury festival in the U.K. Wearing a gold glittered top, with her legs on full display, B started things off with “Best Thing I Never Had” and then turned it up for a lively version of “End of Time,” both from her upcoming album, 4.

In the end, the 2011 BET Awards celebrated this year’s best in hip-hop, R&B and gospel as well as honoring living legends. It was definitely a night to remember.

Jackson ‘Thriller’ jacket sells for $1.8M LOS ANGELES — A leather jacket worn by Michael Jackson for his “Thriller” video sold for $1.8 million at an auction on Sunday to a Texas gold trader who plans to use it to raise money for children’s hospitals worldwide.

The black and red calf leather jacket with winged shoulders was one of two used for the shoot. The other one, in scuffed condition, is owned by the Jackson estate.

The one sold by Julien’s auction house in Beverly Hills is in better shape and is signed on the sleeve by Jackson. It was designed by Deborah Landis, the wife of “Thriller” director John Landis. Jackson presented it to the vendors, Dennis Tompkins and Michael Bush, his longtime costume designers.

It sold to Milton Verret of Austin, Texas, who showed up in person to triumph over about a dozen bidders from around the world.

“It is one of the most important pieces of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia in history,” Verret told Reuters. His col-

lection also includes another Jackson jacket and guitars signed by members of U2.

Plans are underway to show the “Thriller” jacket at Dell Children’s Hospital in Austin, before sending it around the world to display during charity events. A portion of the auction proceeds will benefit an animal reserve where Jackson’s two

Bengal tigers reside.

Jackson, who died two years ago on Saturday, filmed the video for the title track to his blockbuster album “Thriller” in 1983.

The 14-minute clip, in which Jackson turns into a zombie and dances with other undead types, is considered one of the most influential music videos ever made.

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Beyonce fulfills ‘dream,’ rocks muddy Glastonbury

By MIKE COLLETT-WHITE PILTON, England — Pop star Beyonce Knowles fulfilled her dream on Sunday, romping through songs old and new to the delight of a huge crowd at the close of this year’s Glastonbury music festival.

The 29-year-old “Crazy in Love” singer was making her debut at one of the world’s biggest live music events, three years after her husband Jay-Z proved the doubters wrong with a set that helped put hip-hop on the Glastonbury map.

“I want you all to know right now you are witnessing my dream,” she called out to tens of thousands of people crammed in front of the main Pyramid stage, including Jay-Z. “I always wanted to be a rock star and tonight we are all rock stars ... I want you to get lost in this music tonight.”

Introduced by fireworks, she produced more on stage to lift the spirits of festival goers who have struggled

through rain and mud to see their favorite acts over the last three days.

Wearing a short gold sequin jacket, she performed a string of hits starting with “Crazy In Love” and including “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” and “Naughty Girl.”

“I still can’t believe I’m performing at Glastonbury,” she said to a sea of screaming fans.

Beyonce matched her dancers step for step in a slick, high energy set, which only fell slightly flat when

she performed songs from her new album “4” released this month.

There were nods to Annie Lennox with “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” to Prince with an ultra-slow version of “The Beautiful Ones,” to Lady Gaga with their duet “Telephone” and her former band Destiny’s Child with a medley of their hits.

Around 180,000 people crammed on to Worthy Farm in picturesque southwest England for the festival, and the abiding memory for

many this year will be the mud.

Heavy rain on Friday and before turned the 900 acre site into a giant bog, although raincoats were swapped for bikinis on Sunday when the sun broke out on a scorching day.

Friday night’s headliners U2 impressed critics with a string of their greatest hits performed in the driving rain.

A small pressure group called Art Uncut inflated a large balloon with the words “U Pay Tax 2?” in protest against the band’s decision several years ago to relocate its operations from Ireland to the Netherlands for tax purposes.

Campaigners complained of rough handling by security guards who forced them to take the balloon down, but festival founder and dairy farmer Michael Eavis shrugged off the criticism, saying the story had been exaggerated.

“It was only one balloon,” he said. “It was all churned up as being a huge thing, but it wasn’t at all.”

Coldplay played the main Pyramid stage slot on Satur-

day, cheered as they worked their way through a mixture of familiar hits and less well known tracks from their upcoming album.

Pulp were surprise guests on the smaller Park stage, and drew a record crowd there of around 30,000. London rapper Tinie Tempah was one of the most popular performers this year, as were the Chemical Brothers, blues veteran B.B. King and Elbow.

Casting a shadow over the event, Christopher Shale, chairman of West Oxfordshire Conservative Association, was found dead in a portable toilet in the VIP camping area on Sunday morning.

Prime Minister David Cameron said he and his wife Samantha were “devastated” at the loss of their friend.

Glastonbury has grown from a humble gathering of 1,500 people on Eavis’ dairy farm in 1970, each paying one pound ($1.60) and receiving free milk, to a giant celebration of music costing 195 pounds for a basic ticket.

There will be no festival in 2012, but Eavis said he already had three major acts lined up for 2013.

Prince refuses to record new music due to lack of digital copyright laws

By CONNIE TANG There has never been any doubt that veteran and legendary musician Prince is a strong advocate against digital piracy. Ever since 2007, Prince has been fighting against copyright issues, such as from suing YouTube, eBay, and even websites that used and featured anything related to him. Just last year,

the singer teamed up with publications to release his album ‘20Ten’ as a covermount, and refused digital download services from having access to the project.

In his latest interview with UK newspaper, ‘The Guardian,’ Prince expressed his disdain for how much the music industry has changed in its new found technological age. The singer noted how though he may have

tons of unreleased material, fans should not expect any new album to come about anytime soon, if at all.

“The industry changed,” he says. “We made money [online] before piracy was real crazy. Nobody’s making money now except phone companies, Apple and Google. I’m supposed to go to the White House to talk about copyright protection. It’s like the gold rush out there. Or a

carjacking.

There’s no boundaries. I’ve been in meetings and they’ll tell you, Prince, you don’t understand, it’s dog-eat-dog out there. So I’ll just hold off on recording.”

“I personally can’t stand digital music,” he continues.

“You’re getting sound in bits.

It affects a different place in your brain. When you play it back, you can’t feel anything.

We’re analogue people, not

digital.”

Also in the piece, Prince talks about his admiration for singers Adele and Janelle Monae, his contempt to Glee covering his “Kiss” record, and his ability to come off as a “loving tyrant” to his band members.

Prince is currently overseas in Europe, and he is set to be the headliner for the Heinken Open’er festival in Poland.

Snoop Dogg to be honored with BMI Icon Award at 2011 BMI Urban Awards Snoop Dogg will be saluted as a BMI Icon at the BMI Urban Awards, slated for Friday, August 26 at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.

BMI President & CEO Del Bryant will share hosting duties with Catherine Brewton, Vice President, Writer/Publisher Relations, Atlanta, as the entertainment community gathers to celebrate the most-performed urban songs, songwriters and producers of the previous year.

The evening will include an

all-star musical tribute to Snoop Dogg, as well as the presentation of the Urban Songwriter, Song, Producer and Publisher of the Year crystals.

BMI Icons are selected because of their “unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers.” As a BMI Icon, Snoop Dogg will join ranks that include George Clinton, The Jacksons, James Brown, Isaac Hayes, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, The Bee Gees, Willie Nelson and Carlos Santana, to name a few.

As Snoop Dogg approaches his 20th year in the entertainment industry, he remains a visionary mc with sharp instinct and velvet delivery.

Since his culture-shaking 1992 debut, Doggystyle, his sound has engrossed listeners—those who recognize their own lives in his songs, and others simply drawn to Snoop Dogg’s authenticity. He is a fiercely imaginative songwriter, capable of cutting rhymes and wry wordplay.

Twelve BMI Awards spanning urban and pop point to

his prominent role in hiphop’s seduction of the mainstream. Songs including “Next Episode,” “Gin and Juice,” “Drop It Like It’s Hot,” “Beautiful,” “Sexual Eruption,” “Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang,” and so many more created the soundtrack of a generation. He has been honored by the American Music Awards, Source Awards, BET Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, and many others, and has also garnered innumerable Grammy nominations.

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Interest rates need to rise globally

By SAKARI SUONINEN BASEL, Switzerland — Global interest rates must rise to avoid high inflation becoming entrenched, the Bank for International Settlements said.

It also warned that delaying deficit cuts could risk intensifying the sovereign debt crisis and have grave consequences were investors to lose confidence in a major economy such as the United States.

“With the arrival of sharper price increases for food, energy and other commodities, inflation has become a global concern,” the BIS said in its annual report.

“Tighter global monetary policy is needed in

order to contain inflation pressures and ward off financial stability risks.”

Of the four major central banks, the European Central Bank is the only one which has raised rates since the intensification of the financial crisis in late 2008.

Central banks may have to raise rates at a faster pace than previously, BIS said, adding that as long as global growth is robust, food and commodity prices may remain high or even rise further.

The Group of 20 economic powers agreed in Paris on Thursday to tackle high food prices by boosting farm output, food market transparency and policy coordination, after world food prices hit a

record high earlier this year.

The deal is another sign that global policymakers are reaching beyond traditional economic policy tools to sustain global growth, which has shown signs of slowdown in recent months.

BIS said inflation expectations suggest central banks’ longterm credibility has so far survived the inflation surge, but added that rates have to rise to ensure this anchoring.

“The great danger is that long-term inflation expectations will start to climb, and current price developments and policy stances are sending us in the wrong direction.”

The annual report also said the Bank of England should think

about tightening its policy in the face of high inflation.

“In the United Kingdom, CPI inflation had exceeded the Bank of England’s 2 percent target since December 2009,” it said. “As yet, there has been no move by the Monetary Policy Committee, but one wonders how long its current policy can be sustained.”

Turning to fiscal policies, the BIS said that a major economy being drawn into the debt crisis could have catastrophic consequences.

“We should make no mistake here: the market turbulence surrounding the fiscal crises in Greece, Ireland and Portugal would pale beside the devastation that would follow a

loss of investor confidence in the sovereign debt of a major economy,” it said.

“The time for public and private consolidation is now.”

It added that markets might not continue to view U.S. public debt as favorably as now were it to continue carrying heavy deficits.

“The current ability of the United States to easily finance its deficit cannot be taken for granted. Past examples of a number of smaller economies in deficit suggest that market confidence can evaporate quickly, forcing sudden and costly adjustment.”

Emerging countries should do their part to reduce global imbalances by easing exchange rate pegs, the BIS said, adding that China should let the yuan appreciate against the dollar.

“The large costs of

monetary instability mean that adjustment should principally work through more flexible nominal exchange rates,” the report said.

“In the case of the United States and China, the costs of that adjustment would probably fall mostly on China.”

The BIS also said that while extremely low interest rates help commercial banks, they can delay necessary action.

“At the same time as ultra-low interest rates have given banks the breathing space to take the necessary actions, they have weakened incentives to pursue the clean-up,” the report said.

“When banks are not forced to write down loans, they are actually provided with incentives to “evergreen”, i.e.. to roll over non-performing loans to firms that should have been bankrupt.”

Nissan targets 8 percent market share, margin in 6 years By CHANG-RAN KIM YOKOHAMA, Japan — Nissan Motor outlined plans to boost both its global market share and profit margin to 8 percent within six years, promising a new vehicle every six weeks on average to woo consumers away from rivals.

The new mid-term business plan, dubbed Nissan Power 88, will focus on the major emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China, as well as newly developing ones in Southeast Asia, Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn said.

“This is the first time that Nissan is starting a (business) plan on the offensive instead of reconstructing something, or defending something,” he told a news conference at Nissan’s headquarters in Yokohama on Monday.

“That’s why we feel very good about (it).”

The market share target would represent sales of more than 7 million vehicles based on Ghosn’s forecast that vehicle sales would

reach more than 90 million worldwide in the business year ending in March 2017.

Ghosn has led Nissan through four growth plans since arriving from partner Renault SA in 1999, turning the near-bankrupt company into one of the most profitable in the auto industry.

With corporate restructuring long completed, its balance sheet back in order and technological investments laid out for electric cars and the lowcost “V-platform” subcompact vehicles, Ghosn said the next phase of growth should deliver a leap in sales and profitability.

Last year, Nissan nabbed a record 5.8 percent share of the global car market, with industry-beating growth most notably in China and Europe. It had an operating margin of 6.1 percent.

As part of the new plan, Nissan said it would build a 200,000 vehicles-a-year factory in Brazil as a first step for expansion there.

The plant, which will be the fifth production base for V-platform cars after Thailand, India,

China and Mexico, is due to be announced by the end of the year.

“If they can really produce 200,000 cars a year in Brazil, that would be good news,” said Toshihiko Matsuno, senior strategist at SMBC Friend Securities.

“By producing overseas, they can lower procurement and shipping costs, and that’s one way to achieve a higher profit margin.”

Ghosn wants the Renault-Nissan alliance to join Toyota Motor Corp., General Motors Co. and Volkswagen AG at the top of the global sales rankings to achieve the scale he believes is needed to win

as development costs pile up to meet tighter emissions and fuel economy standards.

In addition to its operational ties with rivals from Daimler AG and Mitsubishi Motors Corp., Nissan and Renault are currently in talks to jointly take a majority stake in Russia’s top car maker, AvtoVAZ — a move that would place the group at No.3 measured by global sales volume.

Nissan said it would also expand its line-up of the premium Infiniti brand, aiming to take 10 percent of the global luxury car market by 2016/17.

The brand would add three models, including

an electric vehicle, and double the number of markets it sells in to 71 in 2016.

Zero-emission cars will also go from niche to volume during the plan, at the end of which Renault and Nissan expect to have sold a cumulative 1.5 million electric vehicles, Ghosn said.

Nissan is counting on electric cars to play a big role in lifting Nissan and Infiniti’s brand value, which has long trailed that of rivals Toyota and Honda Motor Co. Among other targets, Nissan repeated its goal of grabbing one-tenth of the Chinese market, the world’s

biggest. Japan’s No.2 automaker will announce a China-specific mid-term plan next month, Ghosn said.

Nissan also promised a dividend payout ratio of a minimum 25 percent over the six-year plan, compared with 13.1 percent last year.

It also aims to continue reducing total costs by 5 percent a year to achieve the profit margin target, which is based on an assumed dollar rate of 85 yen.

Nissan last week provided rosier-thanexpected guidance for sales volumes and profits, defying a setback from the disruption caused by the March 11 earthquake.

Coca-Cola to raise prices in July Coca-Cola Co. plans to raise prices on its soft drinks by 3 percent to 4 percent in July, in addition to a 2 percent increase taken earlier this year, a company spokesman said.

News of the increases — to be implemented on July 31 — was first reported by industry newsletter Beverage Digest, which quoted retail customer pricing

letters as saying the increases were due to higher-than-anticipated commodity costs.

Like many food and drink companies, CocaCola is facing higher costs for goods like corn, oil and packaging.

Coca-Cola, the world’s largest soft drink maker, said earlier this year that it expected to raise prices

in that range, but the timing was unknown.

Credit Suisse analyst Carlos Laboy said in a research note that there were concerns the company would wait until after Labor Day, at the end of the summer.

That would make it more difficult for other soft drink makers, like PepsiCo Inc. and Dr. Pepper Snapple, to raise prices on their products

during the key summer selling season.

“Today’s news should provide some relief for all players in the industry in North America,” Laboy wrote.

Beverage Digest reported earlier this month that Pepsi was notifying retailers of price increases of 3 percent to 5 percent between July 10 and around Labor Day.

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Consumer spending breaks 10-month rising streak

By LUCIA MUTIKANI WASHINGTON — Consumer spending failed to rise in May, breaking a string of 10 straight months of gains, as households struggled with rising prices and automakers could not deliver the models Americans wanted.

When adjusted for inflation, spending slipped 0.1 percent, the Commerce Department said on Monday. It was the second consecutive monthly drop.

The report, which confirmed that underlying inflation had quickened, suggested consumer spending would offer little support to the economy in the second quarter. In the first three months of the year, it advanced

at a modest 2.2 percent annual rate, held back by the weak U.S. labor market.

“This is in line with our expectation for very weak consumer spending for the second quarter,” said Yelena Shulyatyeva, an economist at BNP Paribas in New York. “This is the result of weak auto spending as manufacturers have less inventory and prices are higher for available models.”

Disruptions to auto production because of a shortage of parts in the aftermath of Japan’s earthquake left some models out of stock, including top-selling Japanese brands, and encouraged carmakers to lift prices.

BNP Paribas is expecting consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent

of U.S. economic activity, to grow at just a 0.5 percent annual rate in the April-June period.

The U.S. recovery braked sharply at the start of the year, with the economy growing at just a 1.9 percent pace in the first quarter.

Forecasters see second-quarter growth at around 2 percent, but caution risks are tilted to the downside. Many are waiting for May trade data next month to get a clearer picture.

“The trends are continuing with some level of growth, but very slow levels of growth and there is nothing I see on the horizon that’s going to change that,” John Barbour, CEO of educational toy maker LeapFrog Enterprises Inc, said at the Reuters Global Consumer and Retail Sum-

mit.

Spending on durable goods meant to last three years or more fell 1.5 percent after being flat in April. Motor vehicle sales in May set their lowest rate since September.

While the report fits in with other data illustrating a loss of economic momentum, improving auto production and falling gasoline prices should lift spending and growth in the third quarter.

Gasoline prices have dropped about 31 cents from their peak of $4.02 a gallon in early May and, in a sign of an easing of disruptions to auto production, the Chicago Federal Reserve on Monday said its Midwest factory index rose in May. “We doubt the economy’s engines are getting ready to go into

reverse here,” said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ in New York.

A series of other regional factory reports for June, including one from the Dallas Fed on Monday, have economists looking for a soft but positive reading on national manufacturing from the Institute for Supply Management on Friday.

U.S. financial markets were little moved by the data. Stocks on Wall Street snapped back from three days of losses on bets of a nearterm resolution to some of Greece’s fiscal troubles. Prices for U.S. government debt fell, while the dollar was weak against a basket of currencies.

While gasoline prices are retreating, underly-

World Bank to take stock as Egypt scraps IMF loan WASHINGTON — The World Bank said it would have to take stock of plans to lend to Egypt after the International Monetary Fund confirmed the authorities no longer wanted an IMF-backed loan program.

Egyptian Finance Minister Samir Radwan said on Saturday Egypt would not borrow from the World Bank and the IMF after revising its

budget and cutting the deficit target to 8.6 percent of gross domestic product from 11 percent.

A World Bank spokesperson said it was not informed of the decision.

“As far as we are aware these discussions are ongoing and we have heard nothing from the government to suggest the contrary,” a World Bank spokesper-

son said.

“If there is no IMF program, we will have to take stock,” the spokesperson added.

The IMF said Egypt had scrapped plans for a $3 billion IMF loan agreed last month. The World Bank and other international donors usually look to the IMF as a seal of approval to lend to governments.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick

said on May 24 the poverty-fighting institution would make available $4.5 billion over the next 24 months for Egypt. The funding included $1 billion this year in budget support and another $1 billion next year to help cover a huge budget shortfall after the economy was plunged into turmoil by mass protests that drove Hosni Mubarak from

office on February 11.

The World Bank program was also aimed at improving transparency and boosting employment, which were part of demands of the protesters.

Radwan said Qatar had provided Egypt with $500 million for budgetary support in the past week, and Saudi Arabia had offered a similar amount.

Study: Wal-Mart hikes branded diabetes drug prices

By DEENA BEASLEY SAN DIEGO — Bigbox retailers Wal-Mart Stores and Kmart, pioneers in the push to cut consumer prices for generic drugs, have been raising prices for the most popular brand-name diabetes drugs, according to a new study.

Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer began in 2006 to sell some generic drugs in the United States for $4 per monthly prescription — a tactic since adopted by a number of

other pharmacy operators.

“Since 2008, everybody has lowered generic prices to the level of Wal-Mart,” said Dr. Ronald Tamler, an endocrinologist at New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center, and coauthor of the price study. “But the differential in pricing for brand-name drugs is huge.”

His study, presented here at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association, found that pharmacy prices for generic diabetes drugs fell 58 percent between 2008

and 2010, compared with an increase of 113 percent for brand-name drugs.

The study also showed that Wal-Mart has raised prices for the 10 most-prescribed diabetes treatments by 32 percent between 2008 and 2010, compared with an average industry-wide increase of 21 percent, which includes chain drugstores, mailorder firms and independent pharmacies.

Kmart, a unit of Sears Holding Corp, raised its prices by 35 percent over the same two-year period, according to the study.

Neither company responded to a request for comment.

The $4 generics have become a “loss leader” for stores looking to draw new customers, Dr. Tamler said.

“The message used to

be to send uninsured and underinsured patients to Wal-Mart to get a great deal on generic drugs,” he said.

“Now, the message is to tell patients to shop around for their medications.”

ing inflation pressures continue to percolate.

The core personal consumption expenditures price index — which excludes food and energy costs — rose 0.3 percent in May, its largest gain since October 2009, the consumer spending report showed.

Economists saw no immediate problems for the Federal Reserve, though they noted rising inflation could put the U.S. central bank in a difficult position should growth not pick up as expected in the second half of the year.

The Fed has pumped massive amounts of money into the economy to boost growth and employment. Its most recent monetary stimulus, $600 billion worth of government bond purchases, winds up at the end of this month.

Incomes in May rose 0.3 percent for a second month, but disposable incomes adjusted for inflation edged up just 0.1 percent.

With spending weak, savings rose to an annual rate of $591.1 billion from $568.0 billion in April.

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Williams sisters, Wozniacki lose at Wimbledon

By STEPHEN WILSON WIMBLEDON, England - Venus and Serena Williams were eliminated in the fourth round of Wimbledon yesterday, the first time in five years that neither sister will play in the quarterfinals at the All England Club.

Defending champion and four-time winner Serena was the first to go, beaten 6-3, 7-6 (6) by Marion Bartoli of France, cutting short the American’s return to Grand Slam tennis after nearly a year out with serious health problems.

Older sister and fivetime champion Venus was ousted 6-2, 6-3 by Tsvetana Pironkova the exact same score of the Bulgarian’s win in last year’s quarterfinals.

“Definitely not our best day,” Venus said. “I think we both envisioned seeing this day going a little bit different.”

Also knocked out was top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki, who fell 1-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5 to No. 24 Dominika Cibulkova in the Dane’s latest failed attempt to win her first Grand Slam title.

Venus and Serena have won nine of the last 11 titles at Wimbledon, and have

faced each other in four finals.

In 2006, Venus lost in the third round and Serena missed the tournament. This is the first year that, when both sisters were in the draw, both lost before the quarterfinals.

The last time the sisters lost on the same day at a Grand Slam was in 2008, when they fell in the third round at the French Open.

“Obviously it’s not something planned,” Venus said. “We rarely lose on the same day.”

With 2004 champion Maria Sharapova of Russia among those advancing yesterday, it marks the first time since 1913 that all eight women’s Wimbledon quarterfinalists are from Europe - all from different countries.

In men’s play, second-seeded Novak Djokovic kept up his bid for a first Wimbledon title by beating Michael Llodra of France 6-3, 63, 6-3. The two-time Australian Open champion, who can replace Rafael Nadal as the topranked man in the world by reaching the final, lost in the semifinals last year.

Djokovic will next face Australian qualifier Bernard Tomic, who downed Xavier Malisse 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 to become the youngest man to make the Wimbledon quarterfinals since

Boris Becker in 1986.

Fourth-seeded Andy Murray swept Richard Gasquet of France 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-2 - then took a deep bow to the Royal Box, where Prince William and his new bride Kate joined the rest of the crowd in giving the British winner a standing ovation.

“I was obviously very happy after the match,” Murray said. “I think that was the right thing to do.”

Murray, who has made the semifinals the last two years, is trying to become the first British man to win the title at the All England Club since Fred Perry in 1936. He met with the royal couple after the match.

“If I’d known they were coming, I would have shaved,” the Scot said with a smile. “I was thinking to myself as I came off I was sweaty and very hairy. I said to them, ‘I’m sorry, I’m a bit sweaty.’ But it was really nice.”

Murray’s next opponent is unseeded Feliciano Lopez, who came from two sets down and saved two match points in the third set tiebreaker to overcome Polish qualifier Lukasz Kubot 3-6, 67 (5), 7-6 (7), 7-5, 7-5.

Lopez served 28 aces.

With no American women left in the draw, 10th-seeded Mardy Fish made it to his first

Wimbledon quarters by serving 23 aces and beating 2010 runner-up Tomas Berdych 7-6 (5), 6-4, 6-4. Fish saved both break points he faced and finished with 42 winners and only 12 unforced errors. The sixth-seeded Czech hadn’t lost a set in three matches.

After winning last year’s Wimbledon, Serena missed nearly a year after foot surgery and subsequent blood clots in her lungs. She returned two weeks ago at Eastbourne for the first time since then.

Venus also returned at Eastbourne after a fivemonth layoff with a hip injury.

Venus was clearly off the top of her game yesterday, committing 16 unforced errors and converting only one of four break points. She was broken four times.

“I didn’t seem to get the ball in,” Venus said.

“She took her opportunities. I just didn’t put the ball in the court, simple as that.

Unfortunately, I seem not to have my good days against her. But she played well.”

The 33rd-seeded Pironkova, who lost in the semifinals here last year to eventual runnerup Vera Zvonareva, played steady tennis against Venus and never cracked.

“I beat her two times, two consecutive years -

it feels amazing to play such a champion on this legendary court,” the Bulgarian said after holding serve and stroking a backhand winner down the line on her second match point.

“When I come here I just feel so relaxed. I really like the atmosphere here.”

Serena saved four match points before the ninth-seeded Bartoli closed out the contest by hitting a service winner into the corner. It was Serena’s earliest exit at Wimbledon since a third-round loss in 2005.

“I never came here thinking I would lose,” she said. “That’s my attitude. You win some and you lose some. Today just happened to be the one that slipped under me.”

But Serena said she was satisfied getting as far as she did after such a long time away from the game.

“I think I did really well just being able to come back and play and win some matches, and just really play tough,” she said. “Even today I lost, but I was able to kind of hang in there and play tough. And I can only get better. That can potentially be really scary, because I can only go up from here and I can just do so much more.”

Bartoli made the Wimbledon final in

2007, losing to Venus.

Serena had 20 unforced errors yesterday to go with 29 winners, and managed to convert only one of five break points. Bartoli served 10 aces, two more than Williams, and kept down her errors to 17.

It was the first time Bartoli has beaten the American after straightset defeats in their previous two matches.

“Beating Serena is almost like a dream come true,” Bartoli said.

“Even though she didn’t play for almost one year, she’s probably one of the greatest champions in women’s tennis.

“For me to be able come back after having three match points and losing this game at 6-5, and still be able to bounce back, it’s really huge.”

Wozniacki, who has never reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, went up a break against Cibulkova in the third set but couldn’t capitalize, losing serve three times the rest of the way. Cibulkova dictated play most of the last two sets and finished with 44 winners, 11 more than Wozniacki.

Wozniacki has played in only one major final, losing to Kim Clijsters at the 2009 U.S. Open.

Despite the lack of a major title, she will remain No. 1 in the rankings.

West wil l test fr ee agency

By BRETT MARTEL NEW ORLEANS Hornets leading scorer David West has decided to test free agency, even as he recovers from a left knee injury that required reconstructive surgery late last season.

West, a two-time AllStar who was drafted by

New Orleans in 2003, started 70 games last season, averaging 18.9 points to go with 7.6 rebounds before tearing his left anterior cruciate ligament during a game on March 24.

He could have extended his contract for one more season at $7.5 million, but after gauging the progress of his rehabilitation and mulling his options with his agent, Lance Young, he informed the Hornets he

would opt out of the last year of his contract.

“It’s about making the best decision right now for my family,” West said in a phone interview yesterday. “It’s not taking New Orleans out of the equation, just an opportunity to sign better deal, and an opportunity to make sure the decision I make for the next three to four years puts me in the best possible situation to win-not just winning and mak-

ing the playoffs, but legitimately having a chance to compete for championships.”

Hornets general manager Dell Demps said he still hoped to bring West back.

“We have had open communication with David this entire season about his option and knew with either decision that our intention is to pursue David so he can finish his career as a Hornet,” Demps said.

West had surgery April 12 and his rehabilitation is expected to take six to eight months, but he said he is already jogging on a treadmill, keeping up his weight training and even doing some lowimpact work on the basketball court, such as set shots.

“Two days after surgery I dove headfirst into rehab. I haven’t let up. I’m going six days a week,” West said. “I’m

really attacking it and I feel good. I haven’t had any pain.”

It is not clear when free agency will begin because the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement expires at the end of this month and a lockout is widely expected to follow. However, West said he was confident that “players and owners are going to get something worked out, whether sooner or later, that’s fair on both sides.”

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SPORTS BRIEFS Players meet with their attorneys

As the two sides in the NFL labor dispute work toward ending the lockout, a small group of players met yesterday with their attorneys in Minneapolis.

A person familiar with the situation says the players’ side met on its own, without owners. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no labor developments are being made public.

Players have been told in conference calls that there will be more negotiations this week involving Commissioner Roger Goodell, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith, several owners and players.

The players have an antitrust suit against the league that was filed in Minneapolis, and the city also is where the two sides met for court-ordered mediation in May. - BARRY WILNER

Tomlinson enjoying break, back in camp this week FORT WORTH, Texas - LaDainian Tomlinson is enjoying the extended summer break from the rigors of minicamp. After 10 NFL seasons, he has been able to spend more time with family and a nearly year-old son while resting his body.

That doesn’t mean LT hasn’t been with his New York Jets teammates during the NFL lockout.

They recently had a pair of minicamp-like sessions on their own, one in California and another in New Jersey.

Tomlinson is back in camp this week - at Camp LT, his annual event for kids at TCU, where he was a star running back.

Tomlinson says the Jets workouts helped players get back in the swing of things, and that quarterback Mark Sanchez was like a coach helping install plays they would normally be doing during minicamps.

- STEPHEN HAWKINS

Lonnie White took $14K in illegal money LOS ANGELES — Former Southern California football player Lonnie White says he took $14,000 in illegal payments during his four-year career in the 1980s, mostly by selling game tickets allotted to scholarship players.

White made the admission Wednesday in a first-person story for The Daily, an online publication. He was a sports writer at the Los Angeles Times from 1987 to 2008.

White was a receiver and special-teams player at USC, where he played under John Robinson and Ted Tollner from 1982-86. He went to training camp with the New Orleans Saints before his football career ended.

White says he sold the four season tickets provided to every scholarship player, which is illegal. Players also had the option of buying four more tickets to home games.

An attempt to reach White through The Daily was unsuccessful.

USC declined to comment Thursday.

“To this day, it’s something I’m ashamed about,” White wrote. “Rent was overdue, and my household bills were delinquent. I needed the money to live. So accepting the $14,000 in different forms of ‘benefits’ over my college years three decades ago was an act of survival.”

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Jessica Breland wins Inspiration Award NEW YORK — Jessica Breland is always happy to share her story of overcoming Hodgkin’s lymphoma with the hope it can be helpful to someone else.

The former North Carolina basketball star, who returned to the court last fall after sitting out one season while undergoing treatments, was honored Sunday night as the selection for the Honda Inspiration Award.

“I’m just very honored to have an opportunity to receive this award,” she said earlier in the day. “I just enjoy being able to help other people, and to inspire other people ... I guess is something that’s meant for me to do.”

The award, given annually to a female college athlete who has overcome adversity to excel in her sport, is fitting for Breland.

The forward, who now plays for the WNBA’s New York Liberty, was diagnosed with the disease in May 2009 and received chemotherapy. She sat out a season, returned to the sport after about 11/2 years away and averaged 12.5 points and 7.0 rebounds as a senior.

“Just grateful for having the opportunity to be here,” Breland said. “Grateful to get back to the court and play my last year with my teammates at UNC.” The inspiration award is part of the collegiate women sports

awards, with 12 winners selected as the top women in their respective sports. From those 12, three finalists are selected for the Honda-Broderick Cup as the College Female Athlete of the Year.

Former UConn basketball star Maya Moore, who shared the honor with Penn State volleyball star Megan Hodge last year, is a finalist again this year, along with Nittany Lions volleyball player Blair Brown and Villanova cross country and track standout Sheila Reid.

Breland’s father, Charles, a close friend and Tar Heels coach

Sylvia Hatchell were in attendance at Sunday’s dinner where she received the award.

Afterward, Breland acknowledged being a little nervous while making her acceptance speech.

“It was a very emotional night,” she told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

“Taking all that I have been through ... and just being able to stand before people and share my story, that stuff is really emotional.”

The disease is in remission, though doctors have told Breland she won’t be considered cancerfree until five years have passed since her final treatment.

She feels healthy, having gone through a full college season and training camp with the Liberty, but hopes to keep improving her conditioning.

“I feel like I can get a lot better,” Breland said, “and that’s always good to have the feeling of being able to get better.”

Breland is thankful for all cards, notes and gifts she received while she was undergoing treatments, saying they “helped a whole lot.” She is also appreciative of the support she had from teammates and family members, who pushed and motivated her to get better.

All in all, Breland considers herself ‘lucky’ and says she wouldn’t change a thing about her experience.

Jimmy Butler joins Bulls, hangs with D-Rose

By ANDREW SELIGMAN DEERFIELD, Ill. - Jimmy Butler was at the airport in Houston on his way to Chicago when he got the text message from Derrick Rose.

A few hours later, they were hanging out and watching the BET Awards. How soon it’ll be before the Bulls’ MVP and their firstround draft pick are on the court together remains to be seen.

With the collective bargaining agreement about to expire and a lockout looming, a huge cloud of uncertainty is hovering over the NBA. Even so, general manager Gar Forman insisted it’s business as usual for now, and yesterday, that meant introducing Butler.

Taken 30th overall last week, Butler joins a team that won a leagueleading 62 games. It’s another big turn in a dramatic story for a player who was once a homeless teenager.

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Revenue sharing still a dispute in NBA labor talks

By BRIAN MAHONEY NEW YORK Commissioner David Stern agrees with his players: NBA teams need to do a better job sharing revenues.

They disagree over when that should happen, and what input the players should have in the system.

Players contend that a revenue sharing plan belongs in the new collective bargaining agreement. Owners say the plan is coming, but only after the CBA is settled.

“We’re of the opinion that any shortfalls that they’re suffering, that they can be rectified through revenue sharing,” players’ association executive director Billy Hunter said last week. “And while we’ve had some discussions about revenue sharing, they have not disclosed to us an iota of what their proposed revenue sharing plan might look like, what the contribution would be coming from the owners of

the respective teams, et cetera.”

Owners will be briefed on both collective bargaining and revenue sharing today during a Board of Governors meeting in Dallas, with the CBA set to expire at the end of Thursday. Owners and players then plan to meet Wednesday and/or Thursday, perhaps giving them one final chance to avoid a lockout.

The union would surely like details of the board’s revenue sharing discussion, but isn’t likely to get much.

“Whether or not that would precipitate a move by us beforehand or whatever has yet to be seen,” Hunter said.

“But, yeah, we would definitely like to know and see it. We’d like to not only see it, but to incorporate it as far as the collective bargaining. It should be incorporated in the CBA.” Not so, says Stern.

“We can’t make the final push on revenue sharing until we know what the yield or not of the labor deal is,” he said.

Stern has previously said the CBA and revenue sharing were on separate tracks, one needing to be completed before the other.

Owners want to see what their savings will look like from the players before they commit to how much additional money would go to each other, but players want to be assured revenue sharing won’t be a tool to control salaries, such as by making teams stay below a certain spending limit to qualify for it.

The league has projected losses of about $300 million this season. Players believe the number is lower and could be addressed if teams making money help those who aren’t, and called for expanded revenue sharing in their initial proposal for a new CBA. “When this whole process started, the first theme that we tried to agree on was that this needed to be a partnership. So if this is a partnership, we’re working from that concept, then you have to be willing to discuss all of these

pieces, including revenue sharing,” Lakers guard and union president Derek Fisher said.

“If they are reporting losses, if you’re trying to get to a certain point on the page, revenue sharing can help you in some way, even just a little bit.”

Owners say it can’t, because the current system guarantees they will lose money and thus have nothing to share.

“As we’ve said repeatedly, if we lose money on an aggregate basis, we can’t possibly revenue share our way to profitability,” Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver said.

NBA teams share money from the national TV contracts and the funds collected from teams that exceed the luxury tax. Contrast that with the NFL, which shares about 80 percent of all revenue from media deals, national sponsorships and merchandise sales, and 34 percent of ticket sales after the home team has collected its 66 percent of the gate.

Wealthy teams such

Nike faces antidrug backlash to T-shirts PORTLAND, Ore. — Nike Inc. is being blasted for replacing its signature “Just Do It” slogan on some T-shirts with the phrases “Dope,” “Get High” and “Ride Pipe.”

The shoe and athletic apparel company said the terms are part of the lingo used by the skaters, snowboarders and participants in other extreme sports it’s trying to target with the shirts. But critics say the slogans endorse drug use.

Boston’s mayor has asked Nike to remove a display of the shirts.

And an Oregon antidrug group condemned them in a letter sent to 1,500 people — including some at The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy — urging them to let Nike know they disapprove of the slogans.

“It’s gone past edgy,” said Tom Parker, spokesman for the Oregon Partnership. “Sure it is the language of skateboarders and surfers, but it’s also the language of addicts.”

Boston’s mayor, Thomas M. Menino, this week sent a letter to the general manager of a Niketown store in a popular shopping district in Boston after he saw the shirts in the store window. He asked that they be taken down, saying the company failed to take drug abuse seriously.

“Your window display of Tshirts with drug and profanity wordplay are out of keeping with the character of Boston’s Back Bay, our entire city and our aspirations for our young people ... not to mention common sense,” Menino said in the letter.

The Nike shirts became available on June 1 in conjunction with the launch of an action sports campaign. The “Dope” shirt shows the image of a pill bottle upended with surfboards and skateboards pouring out. Not all the shirts have controversial terms. Other shirts include the phrases “F Gravity” and “Get Wet.”

Nike, based in Beaverton, Ore., recently has increased its marketing surrounding extreme sports and said the new shirts promote sports — not illegal drug use.

“Sport is an antidote to drugs,” Nike spokeswoman Erin Dobson said in a statement. “There is no better adrenaline rush than catching a wave or landing a trick. The language is the same that skaters, BMX’ers and surfers use every day around the world.”

Skateboarders say references to pot smoking are common in extreme sports. “It’s part of the culture,” said Mike Hirsch, 45, a skateboarder since the 1970s and owner of the SoCal Skate Ship in Mission Viejo, Calif.

Hirsh doesn’t sell Nike products at his store, but said he doesn’t think the shirts should be pulled because of the terms. “I’m not a big fan of it, but it’s part of the street culture and always has been,” he said.

as the Lakers and Knicks then have a much greater advantage than ones without good season-ticket bases or lucrative TV deals, and the little guys have already asked Stern for help. Eight owners sent Stern a letter in September 2006 stressing the need for better revenue sharing - and Hunter hinted at a divide that exists among ownership.

“Now it all comes back into play, and by that I mean it was three, four years ago when you had those eight owners in the small market who sent a letter to David saying we need a much more, a vibrant revenue sharing system. That we could resolve our issues and problems if we had rev-

enue sharing and I know that that’s still the theme that’s going on,” he said.

Stern and Silver insist owners are on the same page, noting the labor relations committee consists of owners from both large and small markets.

They had been scheduled for a conference call to discuss revenue sharing Friday that was delayed, likely to yesterday, after a long bargaining session with the players. And they deny keeping the union in the dark about their plans.

“The answer is that we’ve had a full discussion with the players about everything and we’re prepared to discuss everything with them,” Stern said.

Ohio St. trustee sees cracks in values COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State needs to do a lot of “soul-searching” in the wake of the memorablia-for-cash and tattoos football scandal that forced coach Jim Tressel to resign and quarterback Terrelle Pryor to leave school, a university trustee said Friday.

After weeks of silence, the oversight panel for Ohio State — a school of more than 50,000 students — is beginning to comment on the memorabilia scandal. It will spend up to six weeks reviewing the athletic department’s entire response to the scandal, though members say they do not know of any other NCAA rules violations right now.

“We have a lot to look at in sort of the soulsearching of what is most important in the game of life,” trustee Jerry Jurgensen, retired chief executive officer of Nationwide Insurance, said in remarks to the full board on Friday.

“The cracks here weren’t really cracks of rules and procedures,” he said. “They were cracks in a value system.”

Jurgensen, often an independent voice on the board, was quickly contradicted by board chairman Les Wexner, billionaire chairman and founder of Limited Brands and a major donor to the university.

“I don’t think we have a lot of soul-searching to do, not at all,” Wexner said. “We have a lot of heart-celebrating to do for the good that this university does.”

Neither Wexner nor Jurgensen would comment after the board meeting. Ohio State president Gordon Gee took Wexner’s side, saying “The university is moving forward and we feel very strongly about the fact that we have much to celebrate today.”

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