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‘Frozen’ boosts Norway’s tourism
Grant revives SFPS dropout program plans Nonprofit’s $25K gift will allow district to start recruiting students By Robert Nott
Number of U.S. tourists in Norway has jumped as fans of the Disney movie are making trips to see the landscape that inspired the animated film.
Union in uproar over Christus’ ‘gag order’ plans Hospital wants to punish employees who speak about staffing levels. PAge B-1
Taliban death threat led to U.S. action Officials said they kept quiet on swap for Sgt. Bergdahl because the Taliban threatened to kill him if the deal was public. PAge A-3
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Vet: D-Day battle nearly forgotten
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Santa Fe Public Schools is moving forward with its plan for a high school dropout recovery program after a local nonprofit pledged $25,000 in startup funds for the effort, called Engage Santa Fe. On Thursday, district officials announced the Santa Fe Community Foundation grant, which will allow the district to start recruiting students in July. But officials said the program’s success will depend on additional support from the community and the district’s ability to attract and retain at least 75 dropouts. “It’s a heavy lift,” Superintendent Joel Boyd said Thursday. “But the community needs this.” Details of the program — such as who will teach and where it will be housed — remain unclear.
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In disguise, Boko Haram slays hundreds
ABOVE: Jose Jiménez, 89, shown Thursday at his home in Tesuque, displays some of his mementos from World War II. Jiménez parachuted behind enemy lines on D-Day. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN TOP: Allied troops crouch behind the bulwarks of a landing craft as it nears Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, during a landing in Normandy. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO
liberty and freedom, you pay a price. ... But after 70 years, people don’t really know what happened. They don’t remember D-Day.” Jose Jiménez
By Haruna Umar
The Associated Press
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — When men wearing military fatigues and carrying weapons showed up in pickups, villagers thought Nigerian soldiers had finally come to protect them from Boko Haram. But it was a disguise. The gunmen rounded up everyone in the village center and then started shooting. Altogether, Boko Haram militants slaughtered hundreds of people in three villages in the far northeast corner of Nigeria, witnesses said Thursday, describing the latest attack by the Islamic extremist group that drew international attention for the kidnapping of more than 300 schoolgirls. A community leader who witnessed the killings
Tesuque paratrooper recalls bloody invasion 70 years later By Robert Nott The New Mexican
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osé Jiménez was the last paratrooper to jump out of a burning C-47 as the airplane headed for a crash landing in Normandy at about 1:30 a.m., several hours before the Allied coastal assault of June 6, 1944 — D-Day. With less than 200 feet between him and the ground, his parachute opened just in
time to save his life. Jiménez landed in a farm field that German troops had flooded in a defensive action. His M1 carbine got wet and wouldn’t work. Within seconds, a German sniper situated in a nearby tree began firing at him. Jiménez made his way to a dead comrade, grabbed his Tommy gun and blasted the sniper out of the trees. For the 19-year-old from Chupadero, World War II had begun.
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What followed was three intense days of combat and at least two months of mop-up operations. And death. Around Jiménez, friends fell under the guns of German combatants. Jiménez learned to kill to stay alive. “You get used to it,” he said Thursday, during an interview in the living room of his Tesuque home. “Somebody kills your buddies, you don’t care if you get killed. It’s
World leaders and dignitaries including President Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II will gather to honor the more than 150,000 American, British, Canadian and other Allied D-Day veterans who risked and gave their lives to defeat Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. For many visitors, the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial,
By Greg Keller
The Associated Press
U.S. assault troops, laden with equipment, wade through the surf to a Normandy beach in June 1944 to support those who had gone before in the D-Day assault. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — Ceremonies to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day are drawing thousands of visitors to the cemeteries, beaches and stone-walled villages of Normandy this week, including some of the few remaining survivors of the largest sea-borne invasion ever mounted.
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