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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012
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France on alert as police seek clues to gunman have no images of his face, he said. Molins said the investigators have not abandoned any of the leads, adding that there is only one man in each of the crime scenes. The investigation is focused on identifying and localizing the killer, he said. There killings come about a month ahead of the first round of the French presidential election on April 22. The Toulouse area was put on the highest terror alert. The area’s alert was raised to “scarlet,” the first time in France such as level was reached. France has been under a “red” rating since the London bombings in July 2005. Scarlet allows security forces to close schools, public transport and tunnels. All the major candidates in France’s presidential election have suspended their campaigns. President Nicolas Sarkozy, Socialist challenger Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Francois Fillon appeared together last night at a service at a Paris synagogue. They were in Toulouse earlier in the day.
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Reinaldo Ruiz lights up his cigar at Havana’s Conde de Villanueva hotel, home to one of the city’s most popular cigar rooms. Below, a woman smokes a cigar at the annual cigar festival gala dinner in Havana.
Old Havana restaurants quietly going smoke-free this here,” he said, as aromatic smoke rose from the thick ash at the end of his stogie. “This is why we are here. Not to sit inside a small smoking lounge, no. Never.” Officials say the Conde de Villanueva, a favorite of cigar tourists like Kuntze, will continue to let guests and diners smoke. At least nine state-run restaurants in the small, touristpacked colonial area of Havana have banned smoking inside since the end of 2011, and more will do so in the near future, said Tannya Sibori, publicity manager for Habaguanex, the state-run business that administers tourist concerns in Old Havana. Only sealed, air-conditioned dining rooms are affected, and Habaguanex restaurants all still have open-air spaces for smokers. There is no word on a ban for bars or nightclubs, and the owner of one of Havana’s private restaurants said he had received no guidance on whether the “paladares” must follow suit.
BY PETER ORSI
Associated Press
HAVANA — It’s a quintessentially Cuban experience: Capping off a meal with a snifter of rum and an aromatic cigar. This Caribbean nation is renowned around the world for its pungent Cohibas, Montecristos and Romeo y Julietas, but on the island, stogie-lovers are increasingly being told to take it outside. A number of state-owned restaurants in Havana’s picturesque colonial quarter have quietly gone smoke-free indoors in recent weeks as authorities there enforce a 2005 measure that has been almost universally flouted across the country. The goal is to improve the culinary experience and safeguard the health of both diners and employees, but it’s also raising eyebrows among cigar aficionados and cigarette smokers who say the right to light up is part of the tropical country’s charm. Already, public smoking bans have spread to cities worldwide, from New York to Beijing. “No-smoking areas? It’s incredible!” said Michael Kuntze,
a 59-year-old German day care manager who was savoring a long cigar and sipping rum and cola in the Hotel Conde de Villanueva, home to one of the city’s most popular cigar rooms. Kuntze and six other smokers from Hamburg were on a nine-day tobacco tour, sampling more than three cigars daily and selecting 50 each to bring home. “That [no-smoking ordinances] is what we have in Europe, in Germany, but we don’t want • TURN TO HAVANA, 2A
Cubans hope pope will address array of concerns BY MIMI WHITEFIELD
McClatchy News Service
charity “to proclaim the word of Christ and the conviction that this is a precious time to evangelize.” But the list of topics those in South Florida hope he will address is long, ranging from calling for Catholic education in Cuba to meeting with dissidents on the island to requesting freedom for jailed U.S. subcontractor Alan Gross. There were results from the 1998 visit by Pope John Paul II to Cuba, and many would like to see some this time around also: After pope John Paul’s visit, a new convent and seminary opened, the government permitted occasional Masses and addresses to be broadcast on statecontrolled media — and Christmas became a national holiday. “There’s a long way to go, however, and I think Benedict will address that,” said Msgr. Franklyn M.
MIAMI — For centuries, pilgrims have come to the Our Lady of Charity shrine with wishes for a cure for ill health, a better economy and improved relationships. Now Cubans inside and outside the island also have a long list of wishes for Pope Benedict XVI when he visits Cuba to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of a statue of the Virgin. Pope Benedict, who begins a two-country visit in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato on Friday, will arrive in Santiago de Cuba on March 26 to mark the Jubilee year of the discovery in the Bay of Nipe. The statue of the Virgin, who became Cuba’s patron saint in 1916, is now ensconced in a shrine in El Cobre. The pope has said he comes to Mexico and Cuba as a pilgrim of • TURN TO POPE, 2A
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PARIS — The man who killed four people at a Jewish school Monday and three military personnel of Arab descent last week planned his attacks, shot victims at close range and may continue his spree, a French prosecutor said Tuesday. “We are faced with a determined individual, ready to act again,” Francois Molins, the Paris prosecutor said at a press conference in the French capital. French police have launched an intensive effort to identify the assailant, with more than 200 investigators working on the case. The school killings, which left a rabbi and three children dead, were the deadliest attacks on a Jewish target in France since 1982. The same weapon was used to kill three soldiers in attacks on March 11 in Toulouse and on March 15 in Montauban, 30 miles away. In all attacks, the helmeted attacker arrived and left on the same scooter. The shootings left a 17year-old student and a black soldier in critical condition. The investigators have about 7,800 hours of video footage to go • TURN TO FRANCE, 2A through, and although they know n Israel criticizes EU official for comment on the killer is about 5-foot-10, they France attack, 6A
Lengthy court martial likely for Robert Bales BY JOHN SCHWARTZ
New York Times Service
U.S. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales has yet to be formally accused of the act that the Army suspects him of committing: the nighttime massacre of 16 civilians in a village a mile from his post. But once preliminary charges are announced — as early as this week — the military justice system will proceed deliberately, regardless of the enormity of the charges and the international repercussions of the acts involved. It is a system designed to be flexible enough to be convened on a battlefield, and broad enough to deal with anything from theft and insubordination to atrocity. Experts agree there will be no quick resolution in this case, especially if the charges carry the death penalty, which U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said last week “could be a consideration” in the case. That, said John Galligan, a military lawyer in private practice in Texas, would mean “it’s going to take several years.” Many of the early details pro-
BALES vided by military sources about the rampage in Afghanistan have not been confirmed, and the case could founder in the courtroom on questions of evidence collected under difficult conditions thousands of miles away, potentially with few of the safeguards that courts in both the military and civilian worlds rely on when it comes to building a trustworthy account. To Eugene R. Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School, • TURN TO BALES, 2A
Job seekers get asked for Facebook passwords BY MANUEL VALDES AND SHANNON MCFARLAND Associated Press
SEATTLE — When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password. Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a few character questions when the interviewer turned to her computer to search for his Facebook page. But she couldn’t see his private profile. She turned back and asked him to hand over his login information. Bassett refused and withdrew his application, saying he didn’t want to work for a company that would seek such personal information. But as the job market steadily improves, other job candidates are confronting the same question from prospective employers, and some of them cannot afford to say no.
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When Robert Collins of Baltimore returned from a leave of absence from his job as a security guard in 2010, he was asked for his Facebook password during a reinstatement interview. In their efforts to vet applicants, some companies and government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person’s social networking
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profiles and instead asking to log in as the user to have a look around. • TURN TO PERSONAL, 2A
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