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This year’s fireworks show is at the Municipal Recreation Complex. For a guide to today’s events on the Plaza and the fireworks show, see Page A-6 NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

EGYPTIAN ARMY OUSTS PRESIDENT Military promises new elections, but move could provoke Islamist insurgency

One of the private residences built around the LifeWay Glorieta Conference Center. The new owners of the property want to take over 60 private lodges and houses that have been built on leased lots on the property over the last 60 years. COURTESY KRQE-TV

Residents at Glorieta center face eviction Buyers of property want to use private homes built on leased land to house campers, families, staff By Tom Sharpe The New Mexican

CAIRO — The passions fueling Egypt’s political turbulence arose directly from the “Arab Spring” of 2011, but they have deeper roots in a decades-long struggle over the nation’s identity between two authoritarian forces — Islamists and a secular military state. Egypt won its independence from Britain after a 1952 revolution by army officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser. From the start, the military was set against the Muslim Brotherhood, a growing and at times violent underground Islamist movement. Strong in the provinces and among professionals, the Brotherhood espoused Shariah, or Islamic law, and went so far as to attempt political assassinations to wear

A Texas nonprofit that is acquiring the LifeWay Glorieta Conference Center wants to take over 60 private lodges and houses, including seven permanent residences, that have been built on leased land. LifeWay Christian Resources began letting 25-year leases to churches, other organizations and individuals soon after it acquired the 2,400 acres abutting the Santa Fe National Forest in the 1950s. But in recent years, the lease terms have been reduced to five years, two years and one year as LifeWay has moved toward selling the property southeast of Santa Fe. Pat and John Carlson of Fort Worth, Texas, bought a home and signed a short-term lease with LifeWay eight years ago. After LifeWay announced it was selling the tract and the buyer wanted to oust the leaseholders, someone remarked to them, “Only a fool would sign a lease like that.” “He was correct,” Pat Carlson said. “Only a Christian who was foolish enough to believe that because the contract was written by a Christian organization that they would always conduct themselves the way that Christ would have conducted himself. In a secular world, the homeowners would have never signed a lease like that.” Anthony Scott, executive director of Glorieta 2.0, a nonprofit formed by a group of Texas businessmen who hope to close on the property in September, said, “I believe that Jesus was a man of reconciliation —

Please see ANALYSIS, Page A-4

Please see EVICTION, Page A-4

Opponents of Egypt’s Islamist leader, President Mohammed Morsi, celebrate outside the presidential palace Wednesday in Cairo. After months of political turmoil and days of tense protests, Morsi was removed from power by the military. HASSAN AMMAR/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Analysis: Decades-long struggle between military, Islamists continues

By Abigail Hauslohner, William Booth and Sharaf al-Hourani The Washington Post

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AIRO — A year after coming to office, Egypt’s first democratically elected president was swept aside by the military leaders who long presided over this country and proved Wednesday in a series of extraordinary maneuvers that they never really left. President Mohammed Morsi’s dramatic fall from power came after months of political turmoil and days of tense protests, as millions of Egyptians took to the streets to call for his exit. Those protesters were jubilant Wednesday night, celebrating the ouster of a leader they viewed as both autocratic and incompetent. But Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood supporters were irate, and Morsi himself was adamant that he remained the nation’s president. Aides said early Thursday that he was under house arrest as security forces rounded up at least a dozen top Muslim Brotherhood leaders, shuttered

By Jeffrey Fleishman Los Angeles Times

Please see OUSTS, Page A-4

ANALYSIS: HEALTH CARE REFORM

Pressure mounts on Obama after delay of employer mandate By Dan Balz

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The surprise decision to delay the requirement that businesses offer health insurance to their employees or pay a penalty represents a significant symbolic setback for the Obama administration, one that focuses attention on a larger question: Can government effectively implement something as big and complex as the Affordable Care Act? That question has been at the heart of the debate over the law from its outset, coloring the long and contentious discussions that preceded its congressional passage along partisan lines in 2010, and following it every step of the way as the administration has begun to put its pieces into place. President Barack Obama long has argued that debates over the size and scope of government — of which health care has become the most important

Please see MANDATE, Page A-4

Index

Calendar A-2

Classifieds B-5

Comics B-12

Aides say President Mohammed Morsi is under house arrest, and leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood are being arrested.

Pasapick www.pasatiempomagazine.com

Pancakes on the Plaza Breakfast served 7 a.m. to noon; all-day events include children’s activities, musicians and an arts and crafts show. Tickets for breakfast are available on the Plaza for $7. Visit www. pancakesontheplaza.com for more information.

Obituaries Charlotte E. Egan, 104, July 1 Benito Arturo Gonzales, 79, June 29 Tino James (T.J.) Quintana, 24, June 28 PAGE A-10

Lotteries A-2

Suit seeks N.M. recognition of gay marriages in other states By Barry Massey

The Associated Press

Same-sex couples are asking the state Supreme Court to decide whether New Mexico recognizes gay marriages from other states, potentially providing them a range of benefits involving tax, health care and inheritance laws. The lawsuit announced Wednesday broadens the legal questions before the state’s highest court on the issue of same-sex marriage. Two Santa Fe men brought a case last week asking the Supreme Court to order the local county clerk to issue them a marriage license, which had been denied.

Today

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Police notes A-10

Editor: Rob Dean, 986-3033, rdean@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Brian Barker, bbarker@sfnewmexican.com

Please see LAWSUIT, Page A-5

‘Lone Ranger’: Hit or miss?

Evening storm. High 86, low 58.

Opinion A-11

The latest lawsuit, which was filed late Tuesday, also seeks to have the court declare that gay marriage is legal but poses an additional question on whether New Mexico recognizes same-sex marriages from other states. Lawyers said it’s important for the court to answer the question about out-of-state gay marriages because of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which had prevented same-sex couples from qualifying for federal tax, health care and pension benefits otherwise available to married couples. The lawsuit said some federal and state benefits

Sports B-1

Time Out A-8

Scoop A-9

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