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ANALYSIS
Hopes for peace with Taliban dim By LYNNE O’DONNELL Associated Press
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EMILY BARKER, 7, left, and Rielle Goulet, 7, danced on North Seventh Street while local band Grist For the Mill played on stage Saturday at the third annual Westsylvania Jazz and Blues Festival. Emily is the daughter of Eric and Barbara Barker, of Indiana; Rielle is the daughter of Robert Penner and Nicole Goulet, of Indiana. During the festival, the lineup for the 2016-17 Ovations! season was announced. See Page A-5.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s government has offered the new Taliban leader a choice: make peace or face the same fate as his predecessor, killed in a U.S. drone strike last week. But Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada is a hard-liner who has used his religious credentials to justify the Taliban insurgency that has killed or wounded tens of thousands of Afghan civilians as a “holy war� and his succession has inspired little hope for an end to the bloodshed. For many Taliban fighters, the movement’s leadership lost Islamic legitimacy last year, when it emerged that its founder, one-eyed Mullah Mohammad Omar, had been dead for years and that his deputy, a wealthy drug smuggler named Mullah Akhtar Mansour, had been running the war in his name. The revelation caused a split at the top of the Taliban, and provoked mistrust among fighters. Several factions broke away, and some began fighting Mansour loyalists. The Taliban leadership is now desperate to close these Continued on Page A-8
Poll: Few happy with choices for president By JULIE PACE and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press
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ALLENTOWN — Mary Heintzelman shakes her head in disgust over the presidential election. “I don’t think we have a candidate that’s really suitable to be president in either party,� says Heintzelman, an administrative assistant from Whitehall, Pa. Her
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son suggests she write in a candidate when she votes in November, but the 68-year-old says despondently, “I don’t even know who to write in.� Heintzelman is hardly alone in her angst over the prospect of a November matchup between presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and likely Democratic pick Hillary Clinton. While 65 percent of Americans say
they’re interested in the White House race, just 23 percent say they’re excited as the presidential contest shifts from the primaries to the general election, according to a poll by the Associated PressNORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The malaise crosses party lines. Majorities of Republicans and Democrats say the election has left them angry, helpless and frus-
trated. Only 13 percent of Americans say they’re proud of what has transpired in a campaign where surprising candidates have thrived and Trump in particular has defied political norms. Election experts say the gap between Americans’ high interest and low excitement makes the race to succeed President Barack Obama highly unpredictable. Continued on Page A-8
Woman recounts military service of seven brothers By MARY ANN SLATER news@indianagazette.net
Jean Pugh, 79, a native of Northern Cambria, grew up in a farmhouse with a revolving door. The daughter of Eva and Henry Davis, she was the youngest of 10. Eight brothers were sandwiched between Pugh and her late sister, Kathryn, who would have turned 101 this year. From the time she was a toddler in the early 1940s, Pugh learned a lot about fond farewells, welcome homes and heartfelt wishes of good luck. Seven of her eight brothers were drafted into the
U.S. Army and seven served as they were commanded. All returned to the United States, full of life and an appreciation for liberty. Pugh’s eighth brother, Carman, was not drafted because of Army rules that the youngest son in a family could remain at home. He now is retired and lives in Ohio. As Memorial Day approached, Pugh found herself thinking about those seven brothers, all now deceased, and the duties they so willingly performed for the nation. “I feel their service to the country is worth recognition,� she said. “Since there
were so many of them and they all came back. I think that is sensational.� Pugh lives with her husband, Malcolm, in a home adjacent to the Northern Cambria farmstead where she grew up. Recently she sat at her kitchen table and showed off a family picture taken about 1943, and talked about the places far and wide where her brothers served. The three oldest served during World War II — Henry Jr. was a pilot stationed in India, Tom saw combat in Germany, and Bill was an Army cook in Texas. Continued on Page A-5
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PICTURED, front row, from left, are Robert Davis, Jean Pugh, Ronald Davis and Carman Davis; second row, Arthur, Henry, William, Albert and Thomas Davis; and third row, parents Eva and Henry Davis and sister Kathryn Haagen.
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Family .........................D-6 Food ............................D-7 Leisure..................E-1-E-8 Lottery.........................A-2 Op/Ed..........................A-7 Sports...................C-1-C-8 Today in History ........D-8 Viewpoint....................A-6
61 81 Storms possible this afternoon and tonight. Page A-2
Obituaries on Page A-4 GORTON, Robert Wendell, 79, Saltsburg HOLZWORTH, Roy William, 83, Indiana Late death FRY, Raye Ann (Wolf), 47, Glen Campbell
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GREEN LIGHT The World Health Organization on Saturday rejected a call from 150 health experts to consider postponing or moving the Summer Olympics due to the Zika virus in Brazil. Page B-3
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