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18 years as a rapist’s prisoner: mum of 2 SACRAMENTO, Calif. - She was only 11 when they took her in 1991, a 4-foot, 6-inch fifth-grader walking to school in a pink windbreaker and pink stretch pants.

For 18 years, police say, a convicted rapist and his wife kept Jaycee Lee Dugard hidden in their Antioch, Calif., backyard, living in a tent or shed away from the legions of law officers searching for her. Over the years, authorities say, her abductor - Phillip Craig Garrido, 58 - impregnated her twice and she gave birth to two girls, now 15 and 11.

This is the horrifying ordeal law enforcement officials described today after revealing that Dugard, now 29, had been found safe after all these years and reunited with her mother this morning.

“She was in good health, but living in a backyard for 18 years does take its toll,”said El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar.

The apparent end to a case that sparked national headlines began with a suspicious campus police officer at University of California Berkeley on Wednesday. Authorities said the officer spotted Garrido with two young children on campus, where Garrido apparently had gone to distribute religiousthemed literature, a frequent hobby of his. Upon questioning, the officer discovered Garrido was a parolee and contacted his parole agent.

That agent summoned him to his office yesterday, where Garrido arrived in the company of his wife, two small children and a female adult identified as“Allissa.”

After some questioning, authorities said, Garrido confessed to kidnapping Dugard. In a separate room, Dugard told authorities that she was, in fact, the little girl kidnapped from Meyers, Calif., in 1991.

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Get ready for the big one Wellington, Aug 28 NZPA - The 5.2 earthquake that woke many Wellington residents overnight should jolt people into preparing for a large scale disaster, the Wellington City Council says.

The tremor hit the capital at 2.10am, centred 20km south of Wellington and 30km deep.

The quake was a“big jolt”which should be enough to remind Wellingtonians sooner or later a full-scale emergency would hit the city, council emergency preparedness manager Fred Mecoy said.

The quake was centred underwater in the Cook Strait, which

also served as a reminder that people on the coastline were at risk of being overwhelmed by a quake-generated tsunami, he said.

They would only have a few minutes to get to higher ground and should plan how they would do that, Mr Mecoy said. “In the middle of the night, it’s far better after a quake to be up the hill wishing you were still in bed, than in bed, wishing you were up the hill...”

People should also have a well-stocked emergency kit, including working torches, a supply of batteries, water, food and other necessities of life.

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Swine flu vaccine for NZ delayed Wellington, Aug 28 NZPA - The arrival of a swine flu vaccination in New Zealand has been delayed by a month.

The 300,000 doses of a vaccine from Baxter Healthcare, ordered by the Government, were expected to be delivered by early August.

However, the company told the Ministry of Health the first shipment would not arrive in New Zealand until early next month, deputy director

of public health Darren Hunt said in a statement today.

The Government had an option arrangement with Australian pharmaceutical company CSL for their vaccine, but had not yet considered whether it was necessary to purchase it, he said.

Both vaccines would undergo clinical trials and would only be used once licensed by Medsafe, Dr Hunt said.

The required two doses of the Baxter vaccine, which had been expected to be licensed in December, was initially to be offered to frontline health staff and emergency personnel.

Dr Hunt said today if a vaccination campaign were to proceed, frontline health workers would likely begin to be vaccinated early in 2010.

Late next month the World Health Organisation (WHO) would consider whether to include the swine

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flu strain in next year’s seasonal flu vaccine for the southern hemisphere.

The ministry would take this into considerations, Dr Hunt said.

In New Zealand 16 people have died from swine flu and the coroner is investigating other deaths.

There are 3127 confirmed cases, but the actual Continued on P2

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off BEAT MADONNA BOOED AT CONCERT BUCHAREST, Romania, Aug. 28 (UPI) – Pop star Madonna drew jeers from a 60,000-strong crowd at a Romanian concert when she denounced the discrimination against Gypsies, footage on YouTube shows.

Gypsies, who are also known as Roma, are among Eastern Europe’s most socially and economically disadvantaged minorities.

E! News said the singer was greeted with loud booing, as well as a limited amount of applause and cheers, at a Bucharest show Wednesday night when she preached tolerance to the crowd.

“We believe in freedom and equal rights for everyone, right? Gypsies, homosexuals, people who are different; everyone is equal and should be treated with respect, OK? Let’s not forget that,” E! News quoted Madonna as saying. monkeys catch toddler albuquerque, new mexico, Aug. 28 (UPI) – A 2-year-old boy who climbed a retaining wall at an Albuquerque, N.M., zoo ended up in the clutches of monkey tails, zoo officials said.

The monkeys at Rio Grande Zoo thrust their tails through a mesh fence and took hold of the boy’s feet Wednesday, KOAT-TV, Albuquerque, reported.

The child suffered only a few scratches from nearby rocks.

“The monkeys wrapped their tail around the child’s feet, and he got a little bit excited, and the monkeys may have gotten excited also,” said Rick Janser, a zoo official.

The boy’s father was able to unwrap a monkey’s tail and free his son. The boy’s family said three monkeys wrapped their tails around the boy’s feet, but not all at once.

The zoo has since moved another planter in front of the low retaining wall to keep the monkeys away from people, KOAT said.

Wednesday marked the first time the monkeys had grabbed a person, Janser said.

“We try to make it as safe as possible,” he said. “We can’t anticipate all scenarios.” news you can depend on havana, cuba, Aug. 28 (UPI) – A Cuban retiree says the country’s toilet paper shortage has created a lucrative business for seniors -- buying and reselling newspapers as an alternative.

The Havana retiree said he and other seniors line up before dawn to buy surplus newspapers from distribution points for factories and offices that have closed for economic reasons and shortages of electricity and raw materials, The Miami Herald reported.

The man, who requested anonymity to avoid possible trouble with authorities, said the seniors buy the newspapers, including the Communist party’s Granma, for 20 Cuban cents -- about .007 U.S. cents. They then resell them to neighbors for up to 20 Cuban pesos, about 71 U.S. cents, for use as toilet paper.

Cuban officials were quoted by the official Radio Rebelde as saying the government plans to import a lot of toilet paper by the end of the year to ease the shortage. . a bad spray day NICEVILLE, Fla., Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Police in Florida said they arrested a woman for attacking a smoker with air freshener sprayed from a can.

Niceville police allege the woman was waving the can of Glade Potpourri Air Freshener around the other woman’s head while dispensing its contents at a Niceville apartment complex Friday, the Northwest Florida Daily News of Fort Walton Beach reported.

The woman then allegedly pointed the can at the back of the other woman’s head and sprayed it for nearly a full minute. Police said she told the victim she would keep using the spray can as long as the victim kept smoking in front of the attacker’s apartment.

“I will do it again, and take it to the Supreme Court because I have the right to breathe fresh air,” the police report quoted the suspect as saying.

The woman was arrested and charged with battery.

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Family whacked with $90K fine Wellington, Aug 28 NZPA - Members of the Crafar farming family, which controls some of the North Island’s biggest dairy farms, have been heavily fined for “dirty dairying”.

Hillside Ltd, and brothers Allan and Frank Crafar were each fined $29,500, and Allan’s wife, Elizabeth Crafar, was fined $1500 by Judge Laurie Newhook in Hamilton District Court.

The convictions were for a total of 34 charges relating to the“systemic failure”of an effluent system on a farm near Hamilton.

The fines for pollution on the Collins Rd farm, southwest of Hamilton, between October 2007 and April 2008, totalled $90,000.

The farm was operated by a sharemilker but Judge Newhook,also a judge in the Environment Court,had earlier found that the Crafars, as company directors, bore ultimate responsibility for the offending.

The Waikato regional council (Environment Waikato) alleged the farm, operated by the family’s

firm in conjunction with sharemilker Ivan Lammas, had dairy effluent seeping from ponds, discharges from feed pads on to yards and land, discharges from a broken irrigator hose, overflows from sumps, over-irrigation of paddocks, and after being urged to rectify effluent issues on the property, breaching an abatement notice.

The council, which brought the charges against the Crafars under the Resource Management Act, said the sentences were a sign of the court’s and community’s intolerance of poor practices by the Crafars.

“The court has sent a strong message that it will not tolerate environmental offending of this kind,” the council’s regulatory committee chairman Ian Balme said.

“Directors of companies have a clear responsibility to ensure their sharemilkers are doing things properly,” he said.“They can’t blame poor effluent management on someone else”.

The council enforcement manager Rob Dragten said letting excessive dairy effluent into waterways risked making people sick and could stimulate the growth of weeds.

When the brothers were convicted, the Green Party called on the Fonterra cooperative to use financial penalties against them.

Party co-leader Russel Norman said dirty dairying was potentially damaging the nation’s “clean and green”reputation and Fonterra needed to apply financial penalties to recidivist polluters.

It could also tell milk tankers not to collect from farms which illegally polluted rivers and streams, he said.

Dr Norman last year called for courts to levy larger fines after the nation’s biggest fine for a single dairy effluent discharge, $37,500, was imposed in the Environment Court at Napier over the Crafar Group’s breach of resource consent on Taharua Farm, 40km southeast of Taupo.

School staff face tougher vetting Wellington, Aug 28 NZPA - A parliamentary committee is proposing police vetting of non-teaching staff in schools and early childhood education centres within two weeks of the staff starting work.

The education select committee has put the law change into the Education Amendment Bill, which deals with a wide range of issues around school governance and teacher registration.

The committee said it was clear in the bill that vetting would be required before non-teaching staff had unsupervised access to children, but it was not clear that it would also be required for non-teaching staff who would not have such access.

The committee has inserted another clause which would require police vetting of people living with a home-based early childhood education provider.

number of cases would be much higher as only a small proportion of people with symptoms are being tested, Dr Hunt said.

The WHO said transmission of the virus was declining globally, particularly in the southern hemisphere as temperatures warmed.

However, there was risk of further spread in highly populated areas in Asia and Africa where community spread had begun.

The virus was now the dominant influenza strain is most parts of the world, and was expected to remain so during the coming flu season in the northern hemisphere,WHO said.

The swine flu vaccine has meanwhile come under sustained attack by two scientists in the latest edition of Investigate magazine, who warn that the vaccine contains potentially dangerous chemicals because of its rush to market, and could harm more people than it saves.

Harry Potter star Rupert Grint, (left), was terrified when doctors diagnosed swine flu, but relieved to find his worst symptom was a sore throat

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It said current law excluded from the home of a provider anyone who was believed to have a criminal conviction or could pose a risk to children.

It said most service providers used police vetting to meet this requirement but it believed the process should be extended. The bill has been reported back to Parliament and MPs will vote on the changes when it comes up for its committee stage.

Tourism industry edgy about mining Wellington, Aug 28 NZPA - Opening the conservation estate to mining could put New Zealand’s $20 billion tourism industry at risk, the Tourism Industry Association said today as opposition to the Government’s decision to carry out a stocktake of valuable mineral resources increased.

Greenpeace said the mining industry should identify which areas of conservation land it was interested in mining and said it had previously indicated it wanted national parks opened up.

The warnings followed an announcement by Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee that the Government was planning a stocktake of mineral resources in conservation land protected under Schedule Four of the Crown Minerals Act. The estimated value of untapped minerals in New Zealand has been put at about $140 billion and around 70 percent of that involves conservation land.

“We certainly have no intention of digging up the Crown’s conservation estate.This is a stocktake, which is perfectly reasonable,” Mr Brownlee told reporters yesterday.

Could pristine landscapes like Haast on the West Coast be spoilt? The government calls it scaremongering. PHOTO: Neroli Nolan

Tourism Industry Association chief executive Tim Cossar said New Zealand’s natural scenery and landscapes were the main reason international visitors came here.

“Taking a long-term view, it may be that tourism is a more valuable and sustainable industry to New Zealand’s economy than mining,”he said.

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Kiwi dollar nudges 69 Wellington, Aug 28 NZPA - The New Zealand dollar huffed and puffed but did not break through the US69c level today but it continued to exhibit strength on key cross rates.

By 5pm the NZ dollar was at US68.65c from US67.92c yesterday.

For the third time this week it was briefly above US68.90c but was unable to push on to top US69c, a level untouched since last September.

ANZ bank said the overnight trading was “crazy”.

With no real drivers, currency markets sprang to life, with the euro rising more than a full cent against the greenback in the space of a few minutes.

The British pound, and Australian and NZ dollars joined in and spiked sharply higher,ANZ said.

The moves seemed to have all the hallmarks of a

lack of liquidity and a squeeze higher as stop losses were triggered.

ANZ chief foreign exchange dealer Murray Hindley said the currency spent most of the domestic session around US68.70c to US68.80c and trading was quiet.

He said there were options protecting US69c, which roll off soon.

The NZ dollar has lifted above 42 pence, the highest level in 12 years, and was 42.14p at 5pm.

Against the euro the NZ dollar was 0.4780 at 5pm from 0.4766 at the same time yesterday. It gained to 64.30 yen from 63.65 yesterday.

The NZ dollar was A81.82c from A81.99c yesterday, and the trade weighted index rose to 63.66 from 63.30 yesterday.

Global warming not so hot for Windfarms Wellington, Aug 28 NZPA - NZ Windfarms Ltd says it does not know if it can pay its debts as they fall due while it considers issues with the turbines at the Te Rere Hau wind farm near Palmerston North.

The board talked up its buyout of its joint venture partner wind farm but said it would not finalise funding until it had a better understanding of the implications of not receiving certified turbines and had established that the turbines were fit for purpose.

“The consequences of not having finalised its funding strategy is that there exists at the date of this report an uncertainty that the company is in a position to pay its debts as they fall due.”

The auditor had flagged the fundamental uncertainty while giving an unqualified opinion.

“The board and management are totally focused

on obtaining independent expert advice on whether the turbines supplied and to be supplied are fit for purpose and if they are not, what is required to make the turbines fit for purpose”.

The financial statements were prepared on the assumption that the business is a going concern.

“The continued operations of the group are dependent on the ability to fund future activities from operational cashflow and funding,” the company said.

The company reported a $961,000 profit in the year to June 30, down 60.3 percent from the $2.4m profit last year.

It had $10.47m cash at the end of the year, down from $58.5m last year.

The company bought the 50 percent interest from NPBB Pty for $20.1m, paying $18m on March 17, with $2.1m due on September 17.

Watery grave gives up more names Wellington, Aug 28 NZPA - Tongan police today disclosed the identity of the second French national who drowned on the Princess Ashika ferry when it sank off Tonga on August 5.

The victim’s name was Sami Chakroun, 31,Tonga’s assistant police commander Itu Tupouniua told a German press agency, Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA).

The disclosure followed last week’s release of the names of 70 people who drowned, which included two Germans and a French woman.

Mr Tupouniua said authorities have confirmed that one Hungarian passenger also perished on the boat.

But other survivors had not positively identified the man from pictures.

“I can only publicly reveal at this stage that he is a male who bought his ferry ticket at lunchtime from the office.We have his details and have informed our Foreign Ministry and been in contact with Hungary’s embassy in Canberra,Australia,”Mr Tupouniua told DPA. “We should be in a position to release his details next week.”

Police have now released the names of 71 people confirmed missing at sea out of 72 missing persons.

Most were Tongan, but the foreigners included: Sisiliah Rachelmana, Puleheloto, a 24 year old Niue policewoman of New Zealand citizenship, two 28year-old Germans, Christian Langanke, and Diana Gmeinder, a French woman, Pauline Henry, and Daniel McMillan, a British man who had been living

in New Zealand, whose body was recovered.

The wreck is at a depth of 110m, and Tonga’s government has not decided whether to seek help from other countries to retrieve bodies.

According to a New Zealand expert in the use of remote-operated underwater vehicles, Keith Gordon, some of the difficulties of depth could be mitigated by using a ROV to provide real time viewing to workers on the surface.

“I would think the bodies could be recovered with the aid of ROV technology and at not a great cost,” Mr Gordon told NZPA after viewing photographs of the sunken ferry.

He said “100 metres is not deep, there would not be the need for saturation diving systems and the ROV systems would not need to be large deep water sophisticated systems”.

“The great visibility would also greatly aid such an operation”.

“Also doing the operation the `Pacific Island’way could greatly alleviate logistical costs involved,”he said.

Mr Gordon -- who has his own remote operated vehicles -- is best known for his book Deep Water Gold on the salvage of a wartime wreck, the RMS Niagara, off the Hen and Chicken Islands.

New Zealand and Australian salvage workers used makeshift equipment to recover 555 gold bars from a strong room deep in the hull of the ocean liner in 1941 -- at a depth of 121 metres -- using a human observer in a diving chamber to direct the operations.

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13 yr old sailor in custody Utrecht, Aug 28 AP - A Dutch court has put a 13-year-old New Zealand-born girl under the temporary care of state authorities, delaying her hopes of becoming the youngest person to sail solo around the world.

The court has ordered state child care authorities to take responsibility for Laura Dekker for two months while an independent child psychologist assesses her capacity to undertake the risky voyage.

The girl was not in court but her father listened to the decision today from the three judges. Neither he nor the family’s lawyer made any immediate comment.

Social workers had argued Dekker is too young to weigh up the dangers of the two-year-voyage, and

psychologists believe the isolation it involves would be damaging at an important time for a young girl’s development.

Dekker has requested her municipality to deregister her as a resident so that she can move to New Zealand, where she was born on a yacht, but it is understood her New Zealand passport has expired.

If she moved to New Zealand she could be refused permission to sail by Maritime New Zealand, which can stop vessels departing if the voyage might endanger the life of the sailor or likely rescuers.

Dekker had planned to start her round the world attempt on September 1, when she will be 14.

EDITORIAL

28 August 2009

Editorial

Family Matters

By Bob McCoskrie

National shoots itself in the foot Political commentator Graeme Hunt called it right this week. Appearing on Larry Williams’ Newstalk ZB show on Thursday evening, Hunt described Prime Minister John Key’s decision to kill the smacking debate “his first big mistake of this term”.

Hunt is bang on the money. Regardless of the intellectual rights or wrongs of corporal punishment, it is a brave or foolish government that ignores such a massive referendum result as a near 90% majority opposed to the current smacking law.

This week, Key had the chance to kick for touch and effectively allow National MPs a conscience vote on ACT MP John Boscawen’s private member’s Bill on amending the smacking law.

Instead, Key invoked the ghost of Helen Clark’s Nanny State, decreeing within hours that he would forbid National MPs from giving their support to any law change.

It could have been John Key’s private decision, but that’s unlikely. Instead, the culprits for this

faux pas are likely to be found on the ninth floor of the Beehive in the panel of bureaucrats and party apparatchiks who advise the National Party leader.

These men and women are, by and large, socially liberal conservatives rather than true conservatives.

They’re comfortable mixing in Grey Lynn circles and see National’s political future as essentially a continuation of Labour Lite on the social front.

Key’s advisers believe National can enjoy a long term on the Treasury benches if it reaches out to the middle classes who voted Labour for the past three elections.

In this sense, Key is falling into the same advice trap that cost George W Bush his legacy. Bush’s advisers were primarily liberals in conservative drag, often mocking the Republican Party’s more grassroots conservatives behind their backs. They ultimately paid that price at the ballot box – with McCain as the lib-con who led them to defeat.

The problem for John Key, and more crucially for his advisers, is to realize how much the zeitgeist has

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changed.The landslide win for National at the last election was not so much a positive vote for Key as it was a negative vote against the Nanny State regime.A failure to appreciate this will surely signal a short political career for the Nats, and quite possibly the rise of ACT, albeit that it too has shades of the lib-con to it.

In trying to assure New Zealanders that he can protect them from the intrusions of CYFS, without changing the law, John Key risks burning his trust with the electorate: at some point all governments are voted out, and if the law has not been changed by then what’s to stop a new regime from giving it much sharper teeth by mere decree?

Key told ZB’s Mike Hosking this week he was prepared to see his government die in a ditch at the next election because of its refusal to amend the smacking law.The question that went unasked, and unanswered, is “why?”

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Linked by the Cold War’s end

By Marc S Ellenbogen

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, (UPI) -- The Big Dipper accompanied me the entire way from Weinheim, Germany, to Prague -- a six-hour drive down the Autobahn A6. My thoughts were thrown back in time. Remarkable changes have taken place since the fall of communism 20 years ago.

I had taken the drive many times from Heidelberg to Pardubice in the early ‘90s. It was a drive that used to take me anywhere from 10-12 hours because there were limited highways.The communists did not want the West connected to the East.

Trucks travelling down the country roads in those early days also slowed traffic immensely.

This time I was travelling back to Germany, heading to the wedding of a young friend of long standing. Now in his 30s, I had met Ruben de Graaf’s family in Ludwigshafen -- where my mother was born -- in 1994. It was actually the family cat Hagar who had come sauntering down to meet my cat DB. One day I walked in to find Hagar stuck in my 200 year old curtains. He had climbed through the tipped-window. Like all cats, he was on the prowl.

And my cat became Hagar’s babe.

A long and deep friendship began between me and the de Graaf family. I would report back to them often about the changes in Central Europe.Walter was a businessman. Rosie worked for a prominent department store in Mannheim. The two teenage sons, Ruben and Daniel -- both now partnered with former East Germans -- became an ersatz family for me.

In the early ‘90s I was involved in the changes in the Czech Republic and other emerging economies.

I was in my early 30s -- the same age Ruben and Daniel are now. I developed lasting and deep ties to Czechs and others. My own family hailed from Central Europe and Germany.

I have been interviewing people about their experiences and Cold War recollections.

A former news editor and general manager of a national German TV station recounted the story in Berlin recently of his meeting Marcus Wolf, the GDR’s top spy (The spymasters’spymaster,Atlantic Eye, Nov. 14, 2006, UPI). Wolf had come from a Jewish Schwabian family. Wolf and Horst -- the news editor -- had intense discussions in 2004 -- two years before Wolf’s death -- because they both used the same spa in Italy.

Wolf was deeply disturbed by how he had been treated at the fall of communism. He had tried to give a speech in October 1989 in Berlin to the freedom movement, two weeks before the fall of

the wall, and was booed by a crowd numbering many tens of thousands.Wolf had already left his post in 1987. Wolf’s book Troika talks about his experiences.Wolf’s family had left Nazi Germany for Russia -- lest we forget, a U.S. ally at the time.

Wolf showed self-critique. He had a Buergerliches Disputations Geist.

At a private good-bye honouring his retirement, Peter Raeder, the Norwegian senior diplomat and outgoing ambassador to Prague, introduced me to Jan Hajek. Hajek’s father had been the Czechoslovak foreign minister in the government under Dubcek’s reform Communists in the late ‘60s. Jan, the son, had left Czechoslovakia in the 1980s for Norway because the secret police constantly harassed him. Czech Communists mostly despised the reform Communists.

Jan Hajek, an architect, showed great pain at the legacy of his father. He was conflicted by the tendency of people like me to lump all communists into one kettle (a complicated matter I will cover in more detail in a later column). Jan did not justify communism. After all he left. But a son loves his father.And his father also paid a price later during the deep days when the Prague Spring was trounced

by Warsaw Pact troops.

In the late ‘90s I met Boris Pankin, the last Soviet foreign minister. Pankin was also the last Soviet ambassador to Prague. Pankin was the highestranking Soviet diplomat to stand against the putsch against Gorbachev in the early ‘90s. Pankin had

stood down Czechoslovak troops who were preparing to put down the Velvet Revolution in 1989. He not only stood down the troops, he stood down the Czechoslovak government as well.Vaclav Havel, a hero in his own right, would become president of a free Czechoslovakia.

At lunch today with Maestro Vladimir Ashkenazy, his wife Dodi, the outgoing Canadian Ambassador Michael Calcott and my colleague Paul Andritzky, Ashkenazy recounted staying in London in 1963, “I did not defect, I just stayed behind.”He met his Icelandic wife in London. She was forced to become a Soviet citizen.“You are joining the freest country in the world,”the official had said to her.The same day Dodi secretly asked the Icelandic government for her passport back. It will take a year, the Icelanders said to her; 24 hours later she again had her passport.

Ashkenazy would give up his Soviet passport in protest of the Soviet invasion of Prague.

It would be 25 years before Ashkenazy would step foot in Moscow again.

Seven lives. Five stories. All interconnected by the Cold War.

UPI International Columnist Marc S. Ellenbogen is chairman of the Berlin, Copenhagen and Sydney-based Global Panel Foundation and president of the Prague Society. He has advised political candidates and is a founding trustee of the Democratic Expat Leadership Council.

The acting principal Family Court judge has made a call to open up adoption beyond married heterosexual couples. The purpose of adoption is not to provide a child to adults, but rather to provide a family to a child. Same sex couple and single parent adoption potentially harms children because it intentionally creates motherless and fatherless families. There is no shortage of couples willing to adopt.

And research on de-facto couples reveals that many cohabiting relationships are relatively transient, even where children are involved. A Norway study found that children of cohabiting couples were 2½ times more likely to experience parental divorce, and a massive British study found that ‘nearly one in two cohabiting parents split up before their child’s fifth birthday compared to one in 12 married parents’ and three quarters of family breakdown affecting young children involves unmarried parents.

The argument of discrimination and Rights doesn’t apply because the law already discriminates against single men adopting girls, couples adopting under the age of 25, adults in a polygamist relationship adopting, and an adult with a record of violence.

Non-discrimination in adoption is an adult-centred policy.

The granting of special rights to some – in this case samesex and de facto couples – can also mean that other people (children) lose their rights. But we must give primary consideration to the best interests of the child.

The Spanish Association of Paediatrics has opposed same-sex adoption and a multi-party Commission of the French National Assembly Jan 2006 said “the best interests of the child must prevail over adult freedom… even including the lifestyle choices of parents.” The Commission did not support adoption by single parents or same sex couples.

Research is clear that children do best with their biological parents married to each other and is superior to any other structure. While not always possible because of breakdown, death and other factors, when we look at the difficult issue of adoption, we must aim to give the child to be adopted the very best option we can – to be adopted by a mum and a dad.

Family Groups Get Offensive Material Withdrawn The decision by Australian clothing chain Cotton On Kids to withdraw their offensive and sexualised babywear from their 17 NZ-based stores is to be welcomed.

This came about as a result of pressure from Family First NZ, the National Council of Women, Vision Network, and ����������������������������������������������������� Child Alert NZ (ECPAT) ������������������������������ amongst others who called for a boycott of the company.

In response to our complaints, the company emailed Family First and said: “The Cotton On Group is an organisation that respects family, social and moral values and as a result would like to announce that the issue has been taken seriously and in agreeance, willingly extends an apology to those who have been affected by the slogans.

“The Cotton On Group will also take the following actions in its Cotton On Kids brand to rectify the situation; - Stop production and withdraw the current items carrying the offensive slogans - Review the ongoing slogans range to ensure no reference is made to categories pertaining to sexually explicit behaviour, child abuse, drugs and profanity.”

This is a great result. Statements like “I’m a tits man”, “The condom broke”, “Pardon my nipple breath”, “I’m living proof my mum is easy” and “Mummy likes it on top” may be funny in an adult-setting but they are completely inappropriate when associated with very young children, and also when other young siblings are seeing the statements as well.

Family First was successful with a similar call in 2008 when retailer Jay Jays pulled their Little Losers line of clothing shirts to teenagers and children as young as 10, which contained slogans such as “Miss B**ch”, “Miss Wasted” and “Miss Floozy”, and for boys “Mr Well-Hung”, “Mr Pimp”, “Mr A**hole” and “Mr Drunk”.

We would ask the whole business community, which includes retailers, advertisers and the media, to demonstrate social leadership in this area. The sexualisation of children is a serious issue and this babywear is just one example of many where profits are being put before the safety and wellbeing of our children and families.

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28 August 2009

Outside View: A glimmer of optimism?

Pakistan has said repeatedly that its nuclear weapons are fully secured and there is no chance of them falling into the hands of Islamist extremists

By Harlan Ullman

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, (UPI) -- Despite a continuing flow of depressing reports from Pakistan about the safety and security of this strategically vital American ally, on the eve of President Asif Ali Zardari’s first anniversary as president, the latest news, at least anecdotally, offers a glimmer of optimism.

Predictions of dire outcomes leading to a failed government overthrown by an army coup are being replaced with signs of real progress, even though economic and political forces conspire to breed poverty and illiteracy, and huge gaps between rich and poor exemplified by the landed gentry and those who work the land for a pittance remain reminders of Pakistan’s potential fragility. Still, indications of improvement are present and growing.

Politically, the government seems to be finding its feet. It has taken many crucial and long overdue

actions from beginning the reform of the Federal Criminal Regulations of 1901 in the northwest territories to forming a united front with the opposition in the fight against the insurgents and extremists with the support of PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif.

And the government is addressing the economic crises with greater focus and cohesion.

As a result, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s approval ratings are moving up, reflecting changing public attitudes towards the government. While Zardari’s poll numbers are low, he has begun to reverse adverse opinion by agreeing to seek repeal of the 17th Amendment to the Pakistani Constitution that will reduce presidential power in favor of the prime minister and has recently removed a number of government officials accused of being his political cronies. He also has moved to assume greater civilian control of the government and the army.

A driving factor responsible for these changes has

been a major shift in public opinion that has turned against the Taliban because of outrageous conduct towards Pakistanis from murder to mayhem. This has enabled the government to take strong measures to improve security across much of the country.

Military operations in Swat have been accompanied by increased anti-terrorist activities by Pakistani police and security forces.These positive steps have been greatly reinforced by the targeting and killing of Baitullah Mehsud -- a major victory for the Pakistani government.

In Islamabad, police and security forces are aggressive at checkpoints in stopping and inspecting all manner of vehicles.Terrorist attacks are declining.

And Interior Minister Rehman Malik now deems security conditions in Islamabad safe enough to reduce protection for many high-level visitors.

Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, an investment banker in a former life, believes the economy has bottomed out and is improving. Moody’s has upped the debt rating of Pakistan to stable, and legislation is being offered to encourage foreign investment by establishing an arbitration commission, putting in place bankruptcy laws consistent with Western business practices and moving the Investment Board directly under the prime minister’s authority to give it greater power. Clearly, more needs to be done. But given Pakistan’s close encounter with near insolvency late last year, full marks are in order -- so far.

Further, the return of the internally displaced persons and refugees from Swat to their homes has been handled competently,overcoming forecasts of humanitarian disaster. For better or worse, this success story has not been reported. It certainly should be.

In a visit to army headquarters in Rawalpindi, a definite air of confidence is apparent among senior Pakistani officers. No doubt the Swat operation has been crucial. One also gets the feeling that the army is prepared to do more in South Waziristan despite the absence of lift and other capabilities and so far largely unfilled attempts by the United States to make that support available.

That said, Pakistan is Pakistan, and the obstacles and challenges are immense.Years of military rule have led to a languishing of educational institutions, basic infrastructure including power and transportation as well as hobbling a transition to a truly democratic state.Thousands of madrassas still teach radical ideologies that are inimical to Islam. And many Pakistanis continue to regard India as the primary enemy along with strong anti-U.S. leanings that are not ameliorated by the military escalation in Afghanistan. In fact, most Pakistanis believe that a Western withdrawal from Afghanistan will lead to a reduction in violence and a reduction in crossborder raids by the Taliban who will no longer need refuge in Pakistan.

But pessimism over Pakistan’s future is not without justification. Conditions could deteriorate. An upsurge in terrorist attacks could undo much of this progress and challenge government control.

In the early years of World War II, as the Axis victories began to falter, Winston Churchill could declare that this was not the end, nor the beginning of the end. Instead, Churchill observed this was the end of the beginning.

That condition one hopes applies to Pakistan.

(Harlan Ullman is chairman of the Killowen Group that advises governments and businesses.)

Iran’s Sajjil missile ‘threatens Europe’

By UPI intelligence analysts

TEL AVIV, Israel, (UPI) -- Uzi Rubin, former head of Israel’s ballistic missile defense program, says Iran has made a technological and strategic breakthrough with its Sajjil-2 intermediate-range ballistic missile, which will be able to hit a swathe of European states in three to four years.

That assertion, initially made to Jane’s Defense Weekly and reiterated at a U.S. Army-sponsored missile defense conference in Huntsville, Ala., on Aug. 20, intensified concerns that Iran has stepped up its drive to acquire ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

On the face of it, Rubin’s comments gave weight to Israeli fears that Iran will soon pose an existential threat to the Jewish state.

Israeli leaders have been pressing the United States to take firmer action to ensure that Iran does

not acquire nuclear weapons and have suggested unilateral pre-emptive strikes if something is not done soon to curb Tehran.

Rubin masterminded the development of Israel’s Arrow anti-missile system, the top layer of the country’s emerging multilayered missile defense shield, from 1991 to 1999.

He said that the two-stage Sajjil-2 has an estimated range of 1,560 miles, not 1,250 miles as previously thought, and that the successful testing of a solid-fueled missile on May 20 was a major breakthrough for Iran.

This was because unlike the Shehab-3, Iran’s operational ballistic missile already deployed with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Sajjil uses solid propellant rather than the less reliable liquid fuel. It is the first Iranian missile to do so, opening the door for more advanced technology.

Rubin did not specifically say that the Iranians would have produced a nuclear warhead for the Sajjil-2 in the timeframe he cited. But Israeli officials have claimed that Tehran could produce a nuclear warhead within a year once Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gives the go-ahead.

In May, 12 prominent U.S. and Russian analysts gave a different view in a report issued by the EastWest Institute, a New Yorkbased think tank that monitors global security issues.

The report said it would take Iran six to eight years to develop a ballistic missile with a 460pound conventional warhead and a range of 1,250 miles, and

six years to develop a nuclear warhead.

The U.S. Air Force’s National Air and Space Intelligence Center said in a June report that Iran, even with help from foreign sources, would need six years to produce an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States.

Based on its demonstrated achievement in solid propulsion and staging, Iran will face no technological challenges in doubling the Sajjil’s range with a 1-ton warhead, Rubin told the Huntsville conference.

“If they push it -- put all the budget, put all the engineers -- three or four years is all it would take to give the Sajjil a range of around 2,500 miles, enough to hit London.Will they do it? I’m not sure.”

But he noted that the predictions about Iran’s

ever-growing missile reach are coming true, perhaps sooner than anyone thought.“I think there was an underestimation of Iranian capability.”

Rubin’s conclusions would appear to inject a new urgency in U.S. efforts to install a fixed missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic to protect the United States, a proposal that has drawn vehement objections from Moscow.

In that regard, on Aug. 20 the Boeing Co. came up with a novel system that may overcome Russian opposition to U.S. missile installations on its doorstep: 10 47,500-pound mobile interceptors that could be airlifted in giant Boeing C-17 transports to temporary launch sites and then flown back to the United States when no longer required.

28 August 2009

ANALYSIS

WORLD

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in 60 seconds SEQUEL TO KIWI PILOT’S NY crash WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. regulators called for changes in air traffic over the Hudson River to help prevent another midair collision like the one that killed a New Zealand helicopter pilot and eight other people Aug. 8.

The National Transportation Safety Board recommended today that helicopters and planes fly at different altitudes and that pilots undergo specialized training before being allowed to fly along the Hudson and around the Statue of Liberty, The New York Times reported.

The recommendations came in a letter to J. Randolph Babbitt, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, about three weeks after a sightseeing helicopter and a small plane collided and fell into the Hudson.

The advisory is a break with practice for the NTSB. Normally the agency makes recommendations only after its investigation, which typically takes about a year.

The NTSB pointed to the need for pilots to receive airtraffic advisories and safety alerts during flights and noted navigating along the river -- where about 200 aircraft fly daily -- can require use of more than one radio frequency.

The board wants pilots to be urged to listen to a common radio frequency, announce their position and listen for other traffic, the Times said.

The burden for avoiding collisions in lower altitudes over the river now falls primarily on pilots, charged with looking out their windows for other aircraft.

An FAA advisory panel also has been looking into the collision and is to send a preliminary report Friday to Babbitt.

British people now own lost Viking hoard LONDON, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- A hoard of Viking silver discovered in a field near Harrogate is being acquired for the British nation, officials said today.

The silver, which officials say is the most important Viking find of its type in the country in 170 years, is to be jointly owned by the British Museum and the Museums of Yorkshire Trust, The Guardian reported.

David and Andrew Whelan, the father and son who discovered the hoard in 2007 using a metal detector, will split the purchase price, 1.1-million pounds (almost NZ$2.6 million), with the owner of the remote field where it was found. The money has come from a variety of sources, including donations raised by public subscription and government funds through various agencies.

The Whelans discovered a silver-gilt chalice used as a container for coins -- some from as far away as Russia and Afghanistan -- and jewelry. Archaeologists believe the chalice was buried by a wealthy Viking around 927, the year King Athelstan, son of Alfred the Great, defeated the Vikings in Northumbria.

“It certainly seems likely that it was buried with the intention of him coming back for it and for whatever reason he did not,” said Gareth Williams, curator of medieval coins at the British Museum. “The hoard seems to have been buried in the middle of nowhere but presumably there was some sort of landmark there, a tree or a big rock to tell him where it was.”

Japan’s govt. faces tough election battle TOKYO, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso’s ruling LDP, already facing an uphill election battle, took another hit Friday as the jobless rate reached record high.

With the opposition Democratic Party of Japan predicted to win by a big margin in Sunday’s elections -- in which the economy is one of the main issues -- Aso’s Liberal Democratic Party heard the jobless rate in July rose to 5.7 percent from 5.4 percent in June, leaving 3.59 million people without employment.

Analysts said the new jobless report is likely to be another setback for the already embattled Aso’s government.

The news comes at a time when a recent Kyodo News survey showed the opposition DPJ could win more than 300 seats in the powerful 480-seat lower house of parliament, while Aso’s LDP could see its strength drop to just above 100 from its current 300.

The LDP has governed Japan through most of postWorld War II years.

28 August 2009

The sun sets on Kennedys’ Camelot Washington (dpa) - Thousands of mourners gathered to pay their last respects to Democratic Party icon Edward Kennedy as his casket was opened for public viewing today at the presidential library in Boston of his brother, John F Kennedy.

Kennedy’s family earlier held a private Mass at the senator’s home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

A hearse and motorcade then made the three-hour journey north to the state capital, Boston, following a route past important sites in the lives of Kennedy and his family.

Among the landmarks was Faneuil Hall, a colonial-era marketplace and meeting hall in the heart of Boston.The city’s Mayor Thomas Menino rang its bell 47 times - one ring for every year that Kennedy served in the US Senate.

Known as a “lion”of the Senate and the voice of his left-leaning Democrats in the chamber, Edward “Ted”Kennedy died Wednesday afternoon NZ time after a lengthy battle with brain cancer.

Thousands of his supporters gathered along the motorcade route in Hyannis Port and Boston to catch a glimpse of the hearse, carrying the senator’s casket and followed by members of the Kennedy family.

Thousands more waited in line to view the casket at the JFK Library and Museum, where it will remain open to the public until tomorrow afternoon. Uniformed members of each branch of the US military helped carry Kennedy’s casket into the building.

Ted Kennedy helped build the library in honour of his brother, who was assassinated as president in 1963.

The family is planning another memorial service Friday night at the library and a funeral mass Saturday morning at Boston’s Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica. Hundreds of dignitaries and all four living former US presidents were expected to attend the funeral.

President Barack Obama, whose bid for the White House received a big boost from Kennedy’s endorsement in early 2008, will deliver the eulogy at the Boston funeral,White House spokesman Bill Burton said.

A burial service will be held Sunday morning NZ time at Arlington

Bombings kill and maim across Pakistan Islamabad (dpa) - At least 28 people were killed today in two separate attacks in Pakistan’s troubled north-west region – one of them involving a US missile drone, government officials said.

A suicide bomber struck at a Pakistani security post on the border with Afghanistan when members of tribal police, known locally as the Khasadar force, gathered at the Torkham border checkpoint in the north-western tribal district of Khyber for an iftar, a meal to break the daily fast during the Muslim month of Ramadan.

“The initial reports show that a suicide bomber, apparently a young man, who was carrying bottles of mineral water, approached on foot and blew himself up,”said Tariq Hayat Khan, the top government official in the district.

At least 22 people were killed. Security officials recovered the charred body of the suspected suicide attacker.

The Torkham border crossing is on the main land route used to ferry almost 75 per cent of the fuel, food and military supplies to NATO forces from Pakistan’s port of Karachi to Afghanistan.

Taliban militants have attacked NATO supply convoys, disrupting supplies several times this year.

Separately, a suspected US missile strike killed at least six al- Qa’ida-linked fighters in another tribal district. The attack took place in the South Waziristan district, a stronghold of slain Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud and a safe haven of fighters conducting cross-border raids into Afghanistan on US-led international forces.

WORLD

28 August 2009

Brit becomes youngest circumnavigator London (dpa) - A 17-year-old Briton who overnight became the youngest person in the world to sail solo around the globe said he was looking forward to a wholesome meal and uninterrupted sleep.

“I’ve made it, I’ve made my dream come true and it feels amazing,”Mike Perham said in TV interviews after he crossed the finishing line at Lizard Point, in Cornwall, just before 0900 GMT Thursday (9pm last night NZ time).

He set out from Portsmouth in the south of England on November 15 last year for his 40,000kilometre voyage that took him via Portugal, the Canaries, South Africa,Australia and New Zealand and through the Panama Canal.

“It’s beginning to sink in what I’ve done and I’m feeling very proud of myself and the people who have helped me make this happen.”

Perham beat the record of American Zac Sunderland, who was about three months older than the Briton when he completed a similar voyage in July.

Previously, the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe, sailing solo, non-stop and unsupported was Australia’s Jesse Martin, who sailed from Melbourne, aged 18, in the late 1990s.

The Briton, whose father is a naval officer, has been sailing from the age of seven and crossed the Atlantic single-handed when he was 15, setting a world record.

He had originally intended to complete his latest challenge without interruption, but technical problems forced him to make several stops.

“This is another incredible achievement, and it marks Mike as the consummate record-breaker someone who’s continually prepared to set them-

night’s sleep - after only being able to take naps of a maximum of 20 minutes in the last nine months and 13 days, he said last night.

Perham also had a word of support for Dutch teenager Laura Dekker, aged 13, who is currently awaiting legal clearance to be permitted to sail around the world.

“It’s very young, but age is not the only thing that matters,”Perham said about her ambition.

During his voyage, Perham stopped repeatedly for repairs,capsized once and battled hurricane weather and 15-metre-high waves.“There were times when I asked myself ‘why are you doing this?’,”he said.

Perham, who is keen on all water sports but also loves mountaineering, camping, biking and skiing, is due to resume his studies for a diploma at a leading Sports Academy next month.

During his circumnavigation, the physical demands of sailing meant that Perham needed to eat almost constantly to fulfil the minimum daily intake of 5,000 calories, organizers of his voyage said.

In addition to consuming large quantities of pasta and rice, about two-thirds of the calories Perham also had a word of support for Dutch teenager Laura Dekker, aged 13, who is currently awaiting legal clearance to be came from specially made freeze-dried food, and permitted to sail around the world: “It’s very young, but age is not the only thing that matters” the remaining third from tinned food. selves new and more challenging goals,”said Craig Navy, which sent a vessel to escort Perham across Sleeping was limited to small bursts of between FILE Glenday, editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records the finish line.“The Royal Navy is delighted to par- 20 minutes and one hour when his 4.6-metre boat ticipate in welcoming him back home to the UK as was managed by an electronic auto-pilot and guided in London.

“Even the most experienced of sailors would be and honoured and much-respected fellow-seafarer,” by radar. tested by the mental and physical stamina required a message said.

In calm conditions he listened to music on his But Perham, who is planning to mark his return iPod, watched DVDs, updated his blog or talked to to achieve a record of this magnitude.The fact that Mike achieved it at such a young age is a testament with huge celebrations when he sails into Port- friends and family back home via satellite phone. to his courage and unparalleled sense of adven- smouth on Saturday, had more trivial things on his “It does get lonely, no doubt about it, but that’s mind. ture.” part of the challenge,” he said about the experiHe wanted to have a proper meal and a good ence.

Compliments also came from Britain’s Royal

Obama now less popular than Bush WASHINGTON, Aug. (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama’s job approval rating has fallen to its lowest level yet -- 50 percent -- seven months into his term, a Gallup Poll indicated today.

At the same time, the proportion of people who said they disapprove of the job the Democratic president is doing climbed to 43 percent, nearly its highest level, says Gallup’s daily tracking poll, based

on surveys conducted Tuesday through Thursday.

Other polls have put Obama’s job approval rating at 51 percent in recent days, the Chicago Tribune reported today.

And Gallup noted the president’s declining ratings come amid growing concern about healthcare reform he has advocated.

Just after his inauguration in January, Gallup

had put Obama’s public job approval at a high of 69 percent.

Falling below 50 percent before November in the first year of office would mean the third-fastest plunge in a president’s rating since World War II, Gallup said.

Republican Gerald Ford, who took over after Richard Nixon left office in disgrace, hit that low

“Probyn said he heard her scream” distributed over the years and despite the fact that a drawing of a suspect seen driving away with the girl is a close likeness to Garrido’s wife, Nancy.

Nancy Garrido was booked into El Dorado County Jail with her husband this morning on kidnap and other charges.

Corrections officials said Phillip Garrido served time in a federal prison in Nevada for sexual assault and earlier had served time in Lompoc for a kidnap case.

His high school sweetheart and ex-wife, Christine, said he had faced rape and kidnap charges in the 1970s that led her to divorce him.

“This just blows me away,” she said of the latest revelations in the Jaycee Dugard case.

The blue-eyed, blonde girl was abducted while walking to school June 10, 1991, near her home in Meyers, south of South Lake Tahoe.

Carl Probyn, Jaycee’s stepfather, said today that his wife and daughter flew to Northern California to meet Dugard and that his wife,Terry, spoke with the young woman by phone last night.

The Probyns, who are separated, live in Southern California, Carl in Orange County and Terry in Riverside.Terry Probyn and their daughter, Shayna, 19, boarded a 6 a.m. (NZ 1 a.m today) flight to the San Francisco Bay area to meet with Dugard, Carl Probyn said.

“I’m just pleased that she is alive and well,”said Probyn, a 60-year-old Orange County wallpaper contractor.

Dugard’s disappearance prompted a massive search, nationwide publicity and one of the largest police investigations in the region.

Dugard was on her way to school when authorities said she was pulled into a stranger’s car just a block from her home.

Probyn said he heard her scream and saw a man and a woman drive his stepdaughter away in a gray two-tone sedan.

Dugard was never seen again.

Authorities say she was hidden in “a backyard within a backyard”in an Antioch home the entire time, shielded from view by tents, sheds and, apparently, the same vehicle that had been used to abduct her.

Neighbors told The Sacramento Bee today that they had called police about two years ago to report that there were tents on Garrido’s property and children at the home.They knew Garrido was a sex offender required to register on the state’s Megan’s Law Web site. However, they said nothing ever came of the call.

California parole officials called a press conference today to explain that their Bay area agent was central to the discovery of “Allissa’s”real identity.

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Undersecretary of Operations Scott Kernan said Garrido had been under the supervision of state parole agents for 10 years and had been subject to home and office visits and had to wear

a GPS ankle monitoring device.

He had transferred his parole from Nevada to California in 1999, but El Dorado sheriff’s officials said they believe Garrido had been in Antioch since the abduction.

“He had no parole violations,”Kernan said.“He was compliant with his conditions of parole.”

From time to time, Dugard’s case would be revisited by reporters, but her family had no idea what had happened to her until about 11am yesterday NZ time (4 p.m. California), when Shayna Probyn called Carl Probyn and said,“Mom has something to say to you.Are you sitting down?”

His wife told him:“They found Jaycee. She is alive.”

The couple cried for about 10 minutes as they spoke to each other.

Probyn said FBI agents had called his wife at work and told her they had Jaycee.Thinking it was a joke, she told the caller she did not appreciate what she thought was a ruse.

The FBI then put the young woman on the telephone.

“My wife said that who she spoke to remembers everything,”Carl Probyn said.“My wife and Jaycee were joined at the hip.”

(Staff writer Kim Minugh and staff researcher Pete Basofin contributed to this report.)

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in the third month of his presidency; Democrat Bill Clinton, in his fourth. Father-son presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush stayed above the 50 percent mark about three years; and Lyndon Johnson and Nixon, more than two, Gallup said.

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Time for Silver Ferns to step up: Taumaunu

By Cathy Walshe of NZPA

Wellington,Aug 28 NZPA - There will be no backward step from the Silver Ferns as they front up for tomorrow’s final game in Auckland against a World 7 netball team that have already comprehensively outplayed them twice.

Beaten 44-48 in the first test on Monday against the composite team of current internationals and former stars, the Silver Ferns’ first-quarter disintegration in the second test in Rotorua on Wednesday left them with no chance of levelling the series.

Trailing 7-15 after 15 minutes, the New Zealanders regrouped and managed to stem the haemorrhage of goals to eventually concede the match 44-53.

Silver Ferns coach Ruth Aitken and assistant Waimarama Taumaunu acknowledge that a lack of consistency, poor communication and a high error rate have meant their team have performed nowhere near potential.

But Taumaunu said today that now was not the time ease back and play conservatively.

“We’re going to persevere with trying a new mid-

court combination,”she told NZPA. She conceded there could be “consequences” if the game plan didn’t work, but said the long-term benefits of getting it right outweighed any disadvantages.

Taumaunu wouldn’t be drawn on names, but said in terms of strategy, the Silver Ferns would try to keep ball speed up and move away from a holding midcourt game.

In the first test in Wellington, Liana BarrettChase started at wing attack,Temepara George at centre while Laura Langman reverted to her more favoured wing defence position.

The combination struggled to find any sort of rhythm, but was given plenty of time to gel before Maree Bowden replaced Barrett-Chase for the final quarter.

In Rotorua, Aitken started with the same midcourt which opened two days earlier but was forced into wholesale changes after 15 minutes.

Barrett-Chase was benched, George moved from centre to wing attack and Langman shifted from wing defence to add drive at centre, and replaced by new cap Larrissa Willcox.

Aitken has a range of combinations at her dis-

posal tomorrow, with perhaps the most likely involving more court time for Bowden.

The Tactics midcourter, who stepped up her game a notch over the trans-Tasman league after an uncertain international season last year, could earn a start at wing attack tomorrow.

With George at centre and Langman back at wing defence, the combination could provide the Silver Ferns with enough drive to prevent a series whitewash.

Taumaunu said the mood in the New Zealand camp had picked up over the last day.

“It’s not nice to lose -- no-one sets out to lose like that. But we’ve done our analysis, watched the videos, talked about it and the girls look a little happier now.”

She said one positive aspect of Wednesday’s game was the improvement in New Zealand’s circle defence, as new captain Casey Williams and Joline Henry lifted their game noticeably.

Retention of turnover ball was also better than on Monday,Taumaunu added, but problems with the Silver Ferns’ centre pass had not improved, which was a concern.

While the World 7 series is beyond salvage, the

Silver Ferns are playing for a lot more than just pride at Waitakere’s Trust Stadium.

There are five matches next month against world champions Australia, followed by the inaugural world series in Manchester in October.A test against England, and two against Jamaica soon after, conclude a hectic international calendar for the Silver Ferns.

Hunter-Galvan denies intent, banned for 2 years

By Daniel Gilhooly of NZPA

Wellington, Aug 28 NZPA - A positive drugs test for New Zealand Olympic marathon runner Liza Hunter-Galvan has brought opprobrium from the athletics community but provided an important reality check, according to the sport’s boss.

United States-based Hunter-Galvan was handed a two-year suspension after becoming the first New Zealander to test positive to the use of banned substance erythropoietin (EPO).

The Sports Tribunal of New Zealand announced the ruling today, at the completion of a five-month process that began with an out-of-competition test conducted at her San Antonio home on March 23.

The 40-year-old teacher and mother of four admitted to taking EPO three times, in February and March this year, the last dose just three days before her positive test.

She told the Sports Tribunal she then stopped taking the drug, which promotes the growth of red blood cells to improve endurance, because of side effects such as headaches and stomach and chest pains.

With New Zealand still basking in the glow of another world championships gold medal to shot putter Valerie Vili last week,Athletics New Zealand (ANZ) chief executive Scott Newman dreaded the negative news that was always coming after HunterGalvan’s B-sample tested positive in June.

“The only feeling really is disappointment, because she’s let so many people down,” Newman told NZPA. “Everybody is incredibly annoyed. Some of the chat groups I’ve seen already, there are athletes saying how disappointed they are. So she’s let the sport down in this country.”

New Zealand’s robust reputation will be tarnished but Newman hopes an excellent drug-free record will still be acknowledged internationally.

It is 11 years since the last positive test for an elite New Zealand athlete. Russian-born pole vaulter Denis Petouchinski was found to have used banned steroid stanozolol and was stripped of his Kuala Lumper Commonwealth Games silver medal Newman said the Hunter-Galvan outcome would send a crucial message to New Zealand athletes.

“It’s very sad that one of our elite would choose

to do this but we’re not naive,”he said.

“We don’t imagine that our athletes aren’t exposed to this at most major international competitions and I guess some will be tempted for some reason.

“In this case Liza was tempted and we’re incredibly disappointed about that.”

Newman admitted it came as a major surprise to he and his organisation when informed that HunterGalvan’s A-sample had returned positive at a Los Angeles lab in May. “Particularly that is was EPO, it’s quite significant.

“It seems to be one of the `in’ drugs around the world at the moment and for one of our athletes to be taking EPO came out of the blue.

“Usually it’s marijuana or your asthma-type drugs, there’s a slip-up now and then.

“But EPO isn’t something you take by chance.”

Controversy has followed Hunter-Galvan, who shifted from Auckland to the United States as a teenager to take up an athletics scholarship.

She was left out of the initial athletics squad for both the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and the

2008 Games in Beijing. On both occasions she successfully appealed her omission, basing her case last year on a personal best time of two hours 30 minutes 39 seconds set in Amsterdam.

She placed 51st at Athens and 35th at Beijing.

The six-time San Antonio marathon champion was 39th at the 2005 world championships and did not finish at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

In February 2007 she earned headlines for another reason. She was involved in a motor accident that left her eldest daughter,Amber, 11 at the time, in a coma with a serious head injury from which she recovered.

Hunter-Galvan’s suspension begins on May 29, the date of her provisional suspension following the failed B-sample test.

S he and her lawyer yesterday contended in a phone teleconference with the Sports Tribunal that her suspension should begin on her testing date, two months earlier.

However, Drug Free Sport NZ successfully argued that she had not shown the “prompt”admission of her guilt needed to backdate the ban until then.

Sharapova’s US open seeding hit by ASB winner New York (dpa) - The three-year Grand Slam seeding dominance of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal has been broken by Andy Murray as the new British world number two takes the second spot at the US Open starting Monday.

With top seed Federer back on his number one ranking and Nadal down to third, the pair has still been drawn into the same half at Flushing Meadows.

“I played great in Cincinnati,”said Federer, who won that title last weekend handily over Murray.“I hope things can go well at the Open.”

Federer begins his campaign for a sixth consecutive title at the event, where he last lost in 2003, playing unknown American wild card Devin Britton after today’s draw.

Murray starts with Latvian Ernests Gulbis, billed as a name to watch a few seasons ago but still to fulfill potential.

Nadal will provide a huge opening test for returning Frenchman Richard Gasquet, who will be playing on the Tour for the first time since April 30 after proving his innocence in a suspected doping case.

Gasquet crashed out of qualifying last weekend in New Haven, denying himself match play before the year’s final major.

Federer, bidding for a 16th Grand Slam title, is

pencilled in for a possible quarter-final with Nikolay Davydenko, while Murray could renew his rivalry with Argentine Juan Del Potro in the last eight.

In women’s play, Russian Dinara Safin takes the top seeding and opens against a wild card in the shape of Australian Olivia Rogowska, the number

167 teenager who won her lone Grand Slam match in the Paris first round last spring.

Holder Serena Williams starts with compatriot Alexa Glatch, while third-seeded sister Venus plays Vera Dushevina. Former champion Maria Sharapova has a modest 29th seeding as she comes back

from nearly a year of shoulder worries, and a loss last week to ASB Classic winner Elena Dementieva .

Belgian Kim Clijsters, who lifted the trophy in 2005 a year before Sharapova, continues her comeback to tennis that began this month as she plays Viktoriya Kutuzova of Ukraine.

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28 August 2009

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TV & Film

District 9

nCast: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Vanessa Haywood nDirector: Neill Blomkamp nLength: 112 min. nRated: R (bloody violence, pervasive strong language) n

The way WWII might have ended...

Inglourious Basterds

Tarantino frequently seems to be testing how much he can get away with.The answer: a lot.

Pitt plays Raine as a caricature, a fast-talking, slow-chewing, unsophisticated Tennessee hillbilly.

Likewise, Martin Wuttke is all sputtering and overacting as the Fuhrer himself.

Odder still, there’s virtually no character development. The various personalities don’t grow or change - they’re as frozen as flies in amber.

Yet it works. The scenery chewing is offset by Quentin Tarantino’s“Inglourious Basterds”may be several solidly grounded performances.The inconthe most inventive, outrageous film of the year, a gruous musical choices and unusual casting - Mike Hebrew revenge fantasy in which Jewish comman- Myers in a straight role as a stuffy British intellidos bring WWII to an abrupt end by targeting the gence officer - are countered by the realism of many German high command. of the scenes. For every excess, an element grounds That isn’t the way the history books tell it, but the story in the plausible. after seeing this overripe wonder you may prefer To the extent it has a plot, the film centers on Tarantino’s take. the efforts of the Basterds to wipe out the entire Though it features among its players Brad Pitt Nazi hierarchy at the premiere of a new propaganda and several excellent European actors,“Inglourious” film at a Paris cinema. Their plan is to infiltrate hasn’t any real stars. as members of an Italian film making crew with Or rather, the only star that matters is the man explosives beneath their tuxedos. In other words, behind the camera.

Jewish suicide bombers.

From the very first frame with its crashing spaUnbeknown to the Americans, the cinema’s ghetti Western music and opening words - “Once blonde owner (Melanie Laurent), a Jew passing as upon a time in Nazi-occupied France ...”- this movie gentile, is working on her own plot and has filled is about a filmmaker strutting his stuff. the building with highly flammable reels of aging Tarantino daringly sets the tone from the outset celluloid. with a 20-minute scene at a kitchen table between Subplots swirl.The lady cinema-owner is wooed slickly affable SS officer Hans Landa (a scene-steal- by a German sniper (Daniel Bruhl) whose Sgt. ing Christoph Waltz) and a nervous French farmer. York-like exploits have made him a national hero.

Like a cat toying with a quivering rodent, Landa politely asks for a glass of milk, makes small talk, lights his pipe and eases into the reason for his visit - to track down a local Jewish family that has eluded capture.

“Inglourious Basterds”is being sold as an action film (and there is some truly horrifying yet weirdly comical violence here ... remember“Pulp Fiction”?), but most of it is like this opening sequence - long conversations that unfold in real time.

In the hands of almost any other filmmaker we’d grow weary of all this talk, talk, talk. But Tarantino fashions each encounter like a one-act play filled with subtle shifts in emphasis and packed with ever-changing dynamics. Even when the topic is benign, something sinister always lurks just below the surface.

The misspelled “basterds” of the title are a unit of Jewish GIs recruited by taskmaster Aldo Raine (Pitt) for a special job.They’ll parachute into Europe and terrorize the enemy by killing without mercy and scalping the dead.

Raine hates the “NAT-zees” and proclaims:“We will be cruel to the Germans.”

And cruel they are, becoming the bogeymen of every schnitzel-eater’s nightmares.

nCast: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Melanie Laurent nDirector: Quentin Tarantino nRated: R for strong graphic violence, language and brief sexuality; some dialogue in French and German with subtitles nLength: 2:33 n

In fact, he plays himself in the big movie produced by propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels (Sylvester Groth).

A famous German actress (Diane Kruger) works undercover with the Americans. A Brit officer (Michael Fassbender) is assigned to work with Raine’s scalp-takers. Eli Roth (the director of “Hostel”) is “the Bear Jew,”particularly feared for his practice of using the heads of captured Nazis for batting practice (his colleagues carry guns; he has a Louisville Slugger). Pay attention and you may even hear over a radio the voice of Tarantino regular Harvey Keitel.

So effective is Tarantino’s high-wire act that 2.5 hours fly by.There may be little that’s profound or meaningful in “Inglourious Basterds,” but as pure entertainment it has few peers.

WHAT’S IN A NAME? Though he borrowed the title, Quentin Tarantino did not base his“Inglourious Basterds”on the 1978 Italian war film“The Inglorious Bastards,”a sort of “Dirty Dozen”clone.

What’s with the peculiar spelling? In one brief shot we see “Inglourious Basterds”carved into the stock of the rifle carried by backwoods Tennessean Aldo Raines (Brad Pitt).Apparently Raines is spelling challenged.

“Bastard,”Tarantino told the New York Times, “sounds like it has an ‘e.’”As for “Inglourious”? “I can’t tell you stuff like that. It’s a movie thing.”

- Robert W. Butler

This might go down as the year that science-fiction cinema, despite the deafening crash and clangor of sparring robots, began to rediscover its brains, heart and soul.

In “Moon,” Sam Rockwell gives a stellar performance as a lonely lunar worker sinking ever deeper into despair and possible delusion. Now comes “District 9,” an impressively eye-popping yet cannily intelligent blast of social commentary from first-time features director Neill Blomkamp that may be remembered as a classic of the form.

When aliens arrive in a derelict ship that hovers over Johannesburg, seemingly blotting out half the sky, neither the heady promise of beneficial first contact nor the harrowing prospect of ruthless invasion are realized. Instead, it’s discovered that those on board are not diplomats or soldiers but refugees of sorts, malnourished, frightened and confused.

Not knowing what to do with them, the government (through an organization called Multi-National United or MNU) brings the aliens - who look like bipedal crustaceans - into the city yet separate them from humans by forcing them to live in District 9, which soon turns into a sordid shantytown. However, distrust and disgust seem to be the only feelings humans and aliens have for each other, so MNU builds a new, more remote facility, District 10.

Enter Wikus Van de Merwe (Sharlto Copley), a goodnatured yet middling MNU corporate hack who nabs a high-level promotion, no doubt thanks to his well-placed father-in-law. His new job: overseeing the eviction and relocation of aliens from District 9 to District 10.

But Wikus is in way over his officious head. The day turns into an orgy of ineptitude and violence. To make matters worse, he has accidentally ingested an alien substance, an action that leads him to see the world through the eyes of his captives.

Although analagous to the real-life events of apartheidera District 6 in Cape Town - in which 60,000 people were forcibly removed from the city centre and placed in the dusty Cape Flats - “District 9” speaks to contemporary times where much of the world, through war, famine, or despotism, is on the move, seeking refuge.

But “District 9” is no dry exercise in social studies. Produced by New Zealand’s Peter Jackson (“The Lord of the Rings” trilogy), the film turns into a full-blown action film, perhaps too much so by the end. Yet, it’s savvy in its use of technology - the aliens feel as authentic as any of the humans - without being overwhelmed by it.

South African-reared/Canadian-based Blomkamp, whose 2005 “Alive in Joburg” short subject provided the basic premise for this film, veers between documentary and narrative styles in “District 9” without ever being jarring.

Though the movie could’ve been set anywhere and made its same points, that it takes place wholly in urban Africa and is peopled solely with black and white South Africans - unusual for a movie aimed at a mainstream global market - make “District 9” completely original.

But what keeps the film anchored most in reality is Copley who, in what is his first feature as well, turns in a performance that is both riveting and moving. Like Rockwell’s character in “Moon,” Wikus discovers a depth of humanity he never knew he had precisely at the time when humanity may be turning its back on him.

“District 9” is not without its flaws. Still, Blomkamp has created a unique universe that, like the best science fiction, takes us to a world we’ve never seen while reflecting a world we all know too well.

By Cary Darling

REVIEWS

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28 August 2009

Music

God’s rocker Ex-Korn guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch brings his newfound love for God to concerts

By Sue Nowicki McClatchy Newspapers

MODESTO, Calif. - Brian “Head”Welch was riding high as a founding member and lead guitarist of Korn - raking in millions of dollars each year, partying with the rich and famous, travelling the world on tour, married to a beautiful wife with a precious daughter.

But there was the pit beneath the literal high, a daily addiction to crystal meth, including seeing his wife also get hooked and running off with a two-strike felon, hearing his bandmates bickering over music and personalities, and becoming a single dad with a young daughter who began singing the band’s lyrics,“All day I dream about sex.”

“I put those words there, and my angel was singing it,”Welch said.

He tried rehab, but said he couldn’t kick the habit.

Then a friend took him to a church where he heard about the redeeming power of a life with Jesus. He said that power helped him kick his drug habit and become a better dad.

In 2005,Welch shocked the music world and his Korn bandmates when he walked away from the multiple platinum and two-time Grammy-winning group. For the next few years, he lived on money socked away from his years with Korn and the royalties that followed. In 2007,Welch came out with a book, followed in 2008 with a new album, both titled “Save Me From Myself.”This year, he hit the road with a new band.

Expect the kind of heavy-metal rock music that put Korn on top of the charts, but with lyrics that showcase Welch’s change in values. The music and message won’t be soft, he said, but it will be real.

The 39-year-old Bakersfield, Calif., native spoke recently from Phoenix, where he lives with his 11year-old daughter, Jennea. Here’s what he had to say about his life, his faith and his music: Q:What was it like growing up in Bakersfield?

A: I was kind of a quiet kid.When I was younger, I was pretty close with my parents. But my mom and dad had some problems, so I liked to go in my room and do music. I got picked on a lot when I was in junior high school. I was chubby, and I just couldn’t fight. I poured myself into my music with all that stuff going on.

Q:When did you start playing the guitar?

A: I was 10 years old. I remember listening to my parents’eight-track tapes - Queen and Billy Joel. I wanted to play drums because I liked the beat. But my dad talked me into playing the guitar because it was quieter. I started with beginner lessons, then I figured stuff out on my own. I guess I was born with a good ear. I took more advanced lessons when I got to the electric guitar later on.

Q: Korn started with your Bakersfield friends, didn’t it?

A:We started jamming in little odd bands around town when we were about 16.We would start bands and break up and do that again until we graduated from high school.A few of the guys moved to L.A.and started a new band.I moved there and they asked me to join them.The band was called Creep.Then we got our lead vocalist,changed the name to Korn and it took off about a year later. I was 22 when Korn started.

Q:When did you start doing drugs?

A: I tried smoking marijuana when I was 8 years old. One of my friend’s older brother smoked weed.

My friend stole a roach from him. Then I tried it again in high school, but I didn’t like it. So I started drinking beer.Around 21, I tried meth one night and got pretty bad hooked with it.Three of the guys in the band were doing it pretty bad.We quit when we got signed. It crept back into my life for the next 10, 11 years. I got into cocaine a little bit.Vicodin. I stayed away from heroin and things people die from.

But drinking beer was my main thing.

TOP: Les Paul is transported from Mitchell International Airport on the Gibson Bus to the Downer Theater where the PBS documentary Les Paul Chasing Sound is premiering. Paul arrived for two days and nights of activities, including a concert at the age of 92. The legendary Les Paul invented the solid body electric guitar which has become the Gibson Les Paul. May 9, 2007. GARY PORTER/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/PSG). BOTTOM: 93-year-old guitarist Les Paul responds to a rousing greeting from the audience prior to playing a benefit concert Saturday, June 21, 2008 at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, Wis. Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/PSG

Q: How did you rediscover God? A:After my wife got hooked on drugs and took off with those scary guys, I said I wouldn’t do drugs any more. But after a couple of years, I started drinking with friends, and one of them said he knew a dealer, and it happened so quick.

Once I started using crystal meth, I became an everyday user. I took it when touring and used it at home. I tried to go to rehab and get clean.

As a last resort, I went to church with friends.

The pastor said (God could help me). I thought, I’ll just try it. I was at home in Bakersfield, and I felt like my heart was just changing. A couple of weeks later, I had the strength to throw away my drugs. I felt so much love from God that I wanted it all the time.

Q:What did you learn from your Korn years?

A: A lot. I learned about the touring business.

About the music business. Life lessons. I learned that everything comes with a price and (the rich, famous life) is not what everyone thinks.True happiness for me can only come from God and realizing how much he loves me and everyone else on the earth.

Q:You have a whole bunch of tattoos.Are they all Christian images and words?

A: I’ve got a Korn album cover on my left arm.

I’ve got my daughter’s portrait on my arm. I’ve got some pictures of Jesus. I’ve got some Scripture on there, too. I wasn’t hurting myself any other way, so I was going to get some tattoos. I’m stopping for a while because it hurts.

Q:Your music is still very heavy metal.What has changed from your years with Korn?

A:The lyrics are definitely different.There’s a positive message in the songs. I get to share my heart.

I think I’m evolving to a certain sound. I think my next album will be sort of different, but still on that heavy edge. I kind of have a desire to have a different band name.We’ll see how it happens.

Q:What’s the most important thing in your life?

A: Relationship with God all the way, and my daughter.That’s it. Everything falls into place after that. It’s a personal relationship; I’m not some sort of wing nut. People thought I was a nut for a long time. My (Korn) fans hated me, but I didn’t care. I was in la-la land over here with God.

Q:What have you learned about God in the past four years?

A: So much. His mercy and grace - I make mistakes all the time. I’ve got anger problems still, after all these years. Sometimes the potty mouth comes out. It doesn’t matter what we do; it’s all about what God did with Jesus.You just try your best and he takes care of the rest.

Q:What has surprised you the most about God? A: How awesome he can communicate through things. If you ask God to show you how to recognize how he communicates, he will. He does it different to everyone, so I don’t like to talk about it.A lot of people don’t believe in it.They’re really missing out.

Q: Do you have a message for your old Korn fans?

A: I’m starting out new right now. My crowds are 200-600 people, so it’s nowhere near what we used to have with Korn. I wouldn’t mind them coming to check me out. I still love them, and I’m just glad I’m alive. I was heading down fast.You can’t do those type of drugs every day and not eat properly. I would have been dead by now if I hadn’t stopped.

REVIEWS

28 August 2009

NEW CD RELEASES Ursa Major

0Third Eye Blind 0Sony Even after six years, it seems front man Stephan Jenkins hasn’t spent enough time away from Third Eye Blind. Comeback album “Ursa Major” is just as much a product of his struggles with writer’s block as were its repeated delays.

Retreads of his Californian trio’s sunny alt-rock tunes lack their predecessors’infectious hooks.Awkward appeals to lesbians and rap stars abound.And the instrumental closer“Carnival Barker”inexplicably aborts after less than 90 seconds, fading out just as the pretty thing begins to coalesce. It’s hard to expect much from a band that was good only for its singles over a decade ago, but considering that“Ursa Major’s” most salvageable song is the pleasantly modest“Monotov’s Private Opera,”maybe it’s time for another break.

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Books

The Kennedys inspired eloquence True Compass

0Edward M Kennedy 0Twelve (544 pages,)

The words are what woos us. The words written about Ted Kennedy and the rest of the Kennedy family, and the words spoken and written by the family members themselves.The words that come from historians and hangers-on, from admirers and skeptics, from novelists and songwriters, from cousins and pundits and pals.

The Kennedys are as much a literary phenomenon as a political one, a fact that President Barack Obama seemed to acknowledge with his statement in the wake of Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s death at 77 from brain cancer Tuesday: “An important chapter in our history has come to an end.”

Not scene. Not screen. Not moment. But “chap-Jakob Dorof ter.”

The Kennedy influence on our cultural life may Stefon Harris & Blackout have coincided with the rise of television and mod0UrbanUS ern media, but the essential narrative of this singu0Concord lar American family has always made its way to us in the form of literature.

From the advent of what might be called the Vibraphonist Stefon Harris’ new CD is just the Kennedy era - the election of John F. Kennedy to the coolest Stevie Wonder album never made. It projects presidency in 1960 - it has come in a constant stream a sly old-style funk and a gentle tunefulness that of words: the books and the magazine articles, the intermixes electronic instruments with subtlety, as memoirs, the critiques, the shamelessly flattering if Harris were cooking with just the right amount profiles and the vicious takedowns. of herbs.

And the words keep coming. The publisher of “Gone,”Harris’riff on the Gershwins’“Gone, Gone Ted Kennedy’s memoir,“True Compass,”announced Gone”from“Porgy and Bess,”is a most relaxed meld- yesterday that publication will be moved up from ing of pop and hip-hop, while“For October to Sept. 14. Earlier this year,“The Kennedy You”finds Casey Benjamin sing- Legacy: Jack, Bobby and Ted and a Family Dream ing 1970s style through the wavy Fulfilled”by Vincent Bzdek was published. lines of a vocoder. Peter Frampton The Kennedys are a unique and astonishing US never sounded so good. family for many reasons - wealth, smarts, sky-high The quintet, which occasion- ambition juxtaposed with lowdown scandal, a tradially is expanded with strings and woodwinds, tion of public service, good looks and breathtaking unrolls a gentle take of Wonder’s 1974 tune tragedy - but what distinguishes them from other “They Won’t Go (When I Go)” that doesn’t dis- remarkable families, what makes them resonate, please. Jackie McLean’s“Minor March”juxtaposes are the words. For all the significance we ascribe to a marchlike madness with a cooking jazz interlude. images, the real power resides in words.

Benjamin proves to be mean on alto here, too, and It was a lesson young John F. Kennedy underthe bandmates - keyboardist Marc Cary, bassist stood when he wrote his first book,“Why England Ben Williams, and drummer Terreon Gully - are Slept”(1940), based on his undergraduate thesis at clean and pure.

Harvard University. Later, as a senator, he wrote It’s rare for a top-flight jazz band to break it all “Profiles in Courage”(1955), which won the Pulitzer down so amicably.The closing“Langston’s Lullaby,” Prize. Robert Kennedy also wrote books and sought for Harris’son, sounds like Weather Report getting out authors as friends and mentors. beautiful.

The Kennedys understood the gravity and sig-Karl Stark nificance of well-chosen words.As a clan, they were often accused of embodying style over substance, Tito Puente but it was the substance of literature - the ability 0Dance Mania of a phrase to go straight to the heart of an issue or 0Sony historic moment in time, sealing it forever within

a graceful cocoon of the perfect words - that they reached for, again and again, to make their mark This reissue reintroduces us to on the world. percussionist Tito Puente’s bestAt Robert Kennedy’s funeral in 1968, Ted selling recording. The two-disc Kennedy said, “My brother need not be idealset from 1957 is full of the Latin ized or enlarged in death beyond what he was dance craze that was coursing in life; to be remembered simply as a good and through Manhattan’s Palladium decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, Ballroom at the time. saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and Puente, who was born in Harlem of Puerto Rican tried to stop it.” parents and died in 2000 at 77, was an excellent And when his nephew, John F. Kennedy Jr., died in leader who arranged well and played a plethora of 1999,Ted Kennedy said,“We dared to think, in that instruments, from his signature timbales to piano, other Irish phrase, that this John Kennedy would saxophone, and congas. live to comb gray hair. ... But like his father, he had The tempos here were likely a few clicks short every gift but length of years.” of his live performances. But they go down easily.

To utter such words, one must understand how The collection is full of great dance tunes as well much words matter. as muscular horn lines, ardent vocals, fierce solos, Many people grew up reading about the Kennedys, and a consummately free spirit. Ray Barretto and and whether those readers loved them or resented Mongo Santamaria are two of the great musicians them, they kept on reading. represented here.

The hagiography started in the wake of President – Karl Stark Kennedy’s death in 1963, and never let up. Books

such as “The Pleasure of His Company”(1966) by family pal Paul B. Fay and “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye” (1972) by Kennedy aides David F. Powers and Lawrence O’Donnell launched a new genre: books that made dashing, debonair heroes out of the glamorous clan, casting them as American royalty.

But there were naysayers too, of course, and those books also helped define the Kennedy legend.

Henry Fairlie’s eloquent, embittered“The Kennedy Promise” (1973) complained that the martyrdom of John and Robert Kennedy had done neither the Kennedys nor the country any favours. David Halberstam’s “The Best and the Brightest”(1972) demonstrated how the most appealing elements of the Kennedys - radiant confidence, intelligence, self-assurance - could provoke the tragic consequence of the Vietnam War. Even the criticism of the Kennedys by its fiercest detractors rings with a distinctive literary quality.

With Ted Kennedy’s death, a torch has been passed - and a page has been turned.

Smart retirement is not an oxymoron The Smartest Retirement Book You’ll Ever Read 0Daniel R Solin 0Penguin (272 pages)

TED KENNEDY: THE LAST WORD They can’t be separated. A book about any single member of the fabled Kennedy family - most notably Ted, John or Robert - always somehow ends up being about the rest of the family too. A group portrait seems inevitable.

Some of these books are out of print, but readily available in libraries or through used-books sites online.

Non-fiction: -”Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography”(1999) by Adam Clymer. A solid, dependable chronicle of the man deflected from one grand destiny - the presidency - who settled for another one: master legislator.

-Ted Kennedy:The Dream That Never Died (2009)

by Edward Klein. Gossipy and shallow, but still delivers an indelible picture of the senator’s lateblooming, hard-won maturity.

-Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy (2009) by the Boston Globe staff.Written with clarity and balance, the definitive story of a legend by the hometown reporters who knew him best.

-Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye (1972) by David F. Powers and Kenneth O’Donnell. An affectionate, cheerfully biased memoir of the Kennedy presidency, including an engaging portrait of Ted as a handsome, happy natural on the campaign trail.

-The Lost Prince:Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1969) by Hank Searls.Ted’s older brother Joe comes alive in this poignant account of a patriot.

-The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (1987) by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The author has admitted that portions were swiped from other sources, but still a fascinating look at the complex family tensions simmering inside Ted Kennedy and his siblings.

Fiction -Black Water (1992) by Joyce Carol Oates. Slender but devastating dramatization of a handsome senator and the pretty young woman doomed by his negligence - and his appetites.

-American Adulterer (2009) by Jed Mecurio.

Deliberately crafted to read like a psychiatrist’s case study, the novel explores the sexual compulsions that bedevil a politician who very much resembles a John or a Ted Kennedy.

-America America (2008) by Ethan Canin. The presidential hopes of“Sen. Bonwiller”are upended by a drunken-driving accident in this saga about social class, idealism and political expediency.

“The Smartest Retirement Book You’ll Ever Read” by Daniel R. Solin. Penguin Group. 272 pages.

I currently have no plans to retire. As long as I still have most of my marbles, I’ll just keep working, though I may eventually be forced to stop. This is highly unlikely (yeah right), but to be prudent I ought to prepare for the possibility that my earning days could end. I’ll need to look closely at what remains of my 401(k) and other savings so that the funds will last at least as long as I do. Reading this book is smart.

Dan Solin’s previous entries in this series,“The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read”and “The Smartest 401(k) BookYou’ll Ever Read,”were clever, breezy guides to navigating through the financial morass without getting hurt. Really, the info contained therein would undoubtedly be sufficient for anyone seeking to manage their finances through post-employment life. Still, the publishing business being what it is, Solin was undoubtedly encouraged to continue. And that’s fine. This new book gets into the basics of investment, stocks and bonds in context with the present economic scene, so reading the earlier volumes doesn’t mean that you won’t get anything out of this one.

In fact, in addition to advice on retirement accounts, Solin casts his wise eye and sharp pen on other important subjects like reverse mortgages, age of social security distribution, prenuptial agreements for seniors, options and implications of delaying retirement, and the locally ubiquitous phenomenon of“senior seminars”involving a“free” meal at a ritzy restaurant accompanied by a steaming side dish of potentially costly advice.

The best thing that Solin brings to the party is his shrewd and skeptical approach to the art and science of investing. Have an account with a brokerage? Close it, he instructs.Those guys are just trying to sell you stuff that you may or may not need in order to generate fees for themselves, not returns for you. And be sure to have a will that reflects your current wishes so your heirs, not the state, get whatever is left of your estate.You may not agree with everything Solin writes (especially if you’re a professional whose livelihood depends on fees), but there’s no question that his focus is on what’s best for individuals, not institutions.

Throughout, Solin writes clearly with style and humour but stays on topic and doesn’t bloviate or pontificate excessively. He includes a number of charts and other tools to figure out what to do with your money so it grows into the amount you will need to live on for the rest of your days. He also includes a pretty clever bibliography that painlessly presents his sources and offers options for further reading and investigation.

The only thing about this booked that bugged me was the brevity of each chapter - some about a page and a half. Seemed to me that in most cases, several could have been neatly combined.This may seem like nitpicking, but the narrative would have flowed a bit better and maybe a couple of trees could have been spared in the process.

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28 August 2009

Photos of Nancy and Philip Garrido, arrested yesterday, and (centre), an identikit from 1991 of the woman seen bailing a screaming 11 year old Jaycee Dugard into a car. (Photo: Sacramento Bee/California Dept of Corrections)

The darkest secrets

Sex offender, wife, arrested for 1991 kidnapping

By Sam Stanton, Kim Minugh, Bill Lindelof and Ryan Lillis McClatchy Newspapers

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jaycee Lee Dugard was only 11 when she was snatched off the street in El Dorado County, Calif. For the next 18 years, she was confined in a shed or a tent.

She never went to school. She never saw a doctor.

She never got a first date or went to a prom, and she bathed in a makeshift, outdoor shower in an Antioch, Calif., backyard.

Her closest human contact, police say, was with the 58-year-old convicted rapist who they allege kidnapped her, then impregnated her twice starting when she was 14.

This morning, the person last seen as a little fifthgrader in a windbreaker and pink stretch pants was reunited with her joyful mother. Now 29, she is in good health, police say, except for the horror of what she has endured.

“Living in a backyard for 18 years does take its toll,”El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said.

Authorities say she was taken by an Antioch couple, Phillip Craig Garrido and his wife, Nancy.They allegedly kept her in isolation in their backyard without detection, despite the fact that Garrido is on lifetime parole for kidnap and rape and subject to home visits by a state parole agent.

No one knew she or her daughters - now 11 and 15 - were there until this week.

The break in the case came when a police officer at University of California-Berkeley became suspicious.

Authorities said the officer spotted Garrido with two children on campus, where Garrido apparently had gone to distribute religious-themed literature, a frequent hobby of his.

Upon questioning, she discovered Garrido was a parolee and contacted his parole agent in Concord, Calif. That parole agent summoned Garrido to his office yesterday, where he arrived in the company of his wife, two girls and a woman identified as “Allissa.”

After some questioning, the agent became concerned.

“The parole agent had never seen these individuals - Allissa and the two young children - during his visits to the house and thought that the females in Garrido’s company were suspicious and contacted the Concord Police Department,”Kollar said.

When police arrived, the women were separated from Garrido. He eventually confessed to having kidnapped Dugard, police said, and in separate questioning“Allissa”confirmed that she was, in fact, the girl kidnapped from Meyers, Calif., in 1991.

The Garridos were booked into the El Dorado County Jail today on rape, kidnapping, conspiracy

and other charges and each was being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

Dugard had not surfaced since the abduction, despite all the fliers distributed over the years and despite the fact that a drawing of a suspect seen driving away with the girl is a close likeness to Garrido’s wife, Nancy.

The day she was taken, Dugard set off from her home in Meyers to walk to her school bus stop. Each morning, she would check the clock on the microwave at 8:05 a.m., then head off.

On that day, as her stepfather, Carl Probyn, watched from the house, a car made a sudden Uturn and cut the girl off. Someone reached out and dragged her inside as she screamed.

Then she was gone.

The day of the abduction, Phillip Garrido was on parole, subject to stop by any law officer and to searches and surprise visits at his home.

He had been convicted of federal and Nevada state charges in connection with a Nov. 22, 1976, incident when he was 25 and kidnapped a woman from the Tahoe Basin, drove her to a warehouse in Reno and sexually assaulted her. His attorney blamed the crime on Garrido’s five-year abuse of the hallucinogenic drug, LSD, according to McClatchy Newspapers archives.

Garrido was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison and five years to life in Nevada prisons. But, after stints in federal prisons in Leavenworth, Kan., and Lompoc, as well as a Nevada state prison, he was released on lifetime parole in 1988.

He was under federal supervision from 1988 until 1999, when California parole agents took over his case. “He had no parole violations,” corrections Undersecretary of Operations Scott Kernan said.

“He was compliant with his conditions of parole.”

State corrections officials said Garrido had been on “passive”GPS monitoring since sometime between 2006 and 2008, meaning parole officers did not continually track him electronically. His movements could be traced, but there were no restrictions on where he could go.

They said his home typically would have been visited by his agent three times a month and that he would have been expected to make regular office visits, as well.

However, spokesman Gordon Hinkle said officials could not provide the dates or frequency of actual visits to the home Thursday because the records still were being reviewed.

Garrido apparently lived at the Antioch home, 180 miles from the site of Dugard’s abduction, from the time he got out of prison.

Christine Murphy, Garrido’s high school sweetheart and first wife, said that Garrido had grown up in the Contra Costa County area and had graduated from Liberty Union High School in 1968 or 1969.

Murphy, reached by telephone at her home in the

Midwest, said her former husband had been a musician and drug abuser and that she divorced him after he committed the Nevada rape and kidnap.

“Last I heard, he found God,” she said.“He was marrying a Jehovah’s Witness lady, somebody he met who visited in Leavenworth.”

Garrido maintained a blog that featured religious-themed writings, and neighbors in Antioch described him today as a mysterious man who rarely interacted with them.

Even more rare, they said, were glimpses of an older woman they assumed was his wife and Garrido’s young children, whom some neighbours believe were home-schooled.

Not one neighbour said they ever saw Dugard.

A few said Garrido’s mother lived at the home, too, and suffered from dementia. Neighbours reported ambulances responding to the home several times in recent months.

Many said they were aware that Garrido was a registered sex offender and that they kept their distance.

“That’s all you can do, is steer clear,” said Betty Unpingco, 52, who lives a few doors down.

Haydee Perry, 35, moved into her boyfriend Damon Robinson’s house, next door to Garrido, a couple months ago. She’s visited Robinson’s home for a few years and said she only saw one little girl living there. Perry estimated she was 11.

She said the girl was nervous, uneasy and “not right.”

“It was not normal behavior,” Perry said.“She wouldn’t smile. She would just give this blank stare.”

Perry didn’t know the little girl’s name but said she looked very similar to the pictures of Dugard on television, with light skin and blonde hair.

The little girl reportedly told Perry that she had two older sisters, one a young teen, the other 28.

Perry never saw either of them.

Sometime around 2001 or 2002, the Unpingco family hosted a high school graduation party for one of their daughters. They borrowed speakers from Garrido, their neighbor, and when they saw him loitering out in the street, they invited him in, said Monica Unpingco, now 33.

That was before they knew Garrido was a convicted sex offender. But they knew something wasn’t right when he had too much to drink and began “acting really weird”around the teenage girls, she said,“eyeing them and saying things he shouldn’t have been saying.”

Neighbour Damon Robinson said a friend of his grew nervous after seeing tents in Garrido’s backyard and what she thought were people living in them. She called the sheriff’s department, but Robinson said Garrido managed to deter the deputies, and they left without searching the home.

“All they had to do is look over the fence,” said

Robinson, 38.“That girl would have been back with her family, no doubt.”

But the El Dorado County undersheriff said it would not have been that simple.

Kollar described a collection of two tents, two sheds, a shower and an outhouse hidden from the rest of the world by a fence lined with trees, garbage cans and an old dishwasher.

The only access was through a narrow gap in the fence with a tarp hanging over it.

The largest shed was 10 feet by 10 feet, and none of the structures was higher than 6 feet, Kollar said.

One of the sheds was soundproofed and could only be opened from the outside. Electrical cords were all that powered the structures.

The tents were situated to “isolate the victims from outside contact,” Kollar said,“as if you were camping.”

Parked in the backyard was a vehicle matching the description of the one involved in Dugard’s abduction.

There was no evidence that any of the alleged victims ever left the compound before the 15- and 11-year-old girls were spotted Wednesday on the Berkeley campus. Both of the young girls were born at the house, Kollar said.

Dugard was likely taken straight to the home in Antioch after she was abducted, Kollar said. As far as investigators know, she never tried to make contact with the outside world.

“None of the children had ever gone to school.

They’d never been to a doctor. They were kept in complete isolation in this compound,”Kollar said Authorities say they still have DNA testing to complete, but that they have no doubt the 29-yearold woman is Dugard.And they were certain enough to break the news to the family before it became public.

For Dugard’s family, the end to the nightmare came at about 4 p.m.Wednesday California time.

The couple is separated and both live in Southern California, Carl Probyn in Orange County and Terry Probyn in Riverside.

Their 19-year-old daughter Shayna called Carl Probyn at about 4 p.m. Wednesday and said, “Mom has something to say to you.Are you sitting down?”

Then Terry got on the phone with the news.

“They found Jaycee; she is alive,”she said as the couple began to cry over the phone.

Terry Probyn had been called by FBI agents at work and given the news, but she initially thought it was a cruel joke.

Then an agent put Jaycee on the phone.

“My wife said that who she spoke to remembers everything,”Carl Probyn said.“My wife and Jaycee were joined at the hip.”

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