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OBAMA’S ADDRESS TO THE NATION
Lancair technology ‘ Time to turn at work in the Gulf the page’ on the Iraq war
The Redmond kit-plane maker’s materials are being used in unmanned ocean vehicles to help monitor the BP oil spill
By Nick Grube The Bulletin
Residents of the quiet, wellkept RiverRim neighborhood in southwest Bend aren’t happy about a DMV office moving into the Brookswood Meadow Plaza in December. They say the DMV, which expects to serve an average of 369 customers per day, will increase traffic in the community, wreaking havoc on the privately maintained roads and endangering the many children who play in the neighborhood, go to a preschool inside the plaza, or walk across Brookswood Boulevard to Elk Meadow Elementary School.
By Helene Cooper and Sheryl Gay Stolberg New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama declared an end Tuesday to the seven-year U.S. combat mission in Iraq, saying that the United States has met its responsibility to that country and that it is now time to “turn the page” Inside to pressing problems at home. • Reactions In a prime-time address from GOP from the Oval Office, Obama and Iraqis, balanced praise for the troops Page A4 who fought and died in Iraq with his conviction that get- • Oval Office ting into the conflict had been redecorated, a mistake in the first place. Page A4 He also used the moment to emphasize that he sees his primary job as addressing the weak economy and other domestic issues — and to make clear that he intends to begin disengaging from the war in Afghanistan next summer. Seeking to temper partisan feelings over the war on a day when Republicans pointed out that Obama had opposed the troop surge generally credited with bringing Iraq a measure of stability, the president offered some praise of his predecessor, George W. Bush. See Obama / A4
The Wave Glider travels on the water’s surface, using the motion of waves to propel itself and solar energy to power its monitoring equipment below the surface. Submitted photos
‘Horrible idea’ “It’s a horrible idea,” RiverRim resident Stephen Waite said. “Do you want a 16-year-old, who is already very nervous about driving, test-driving around the streets where kids play? Well, I know I don’t.” While DMV officials promise driving tests won’t take place on the RiverRim neighborhood’s private streets, there’s still some anxiety about the volume of traffic coming down Brookswood Boulevard. See DMV / A5
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o monitor the waters in the Gulf of Mexico for oil, BP will be using vehicles containing components developed by Redmond kit-plane maker Lancair — for use in the water. Lancair — an industry leader in the use of composites — developed similar material used in the hulls of the Wave Glider, the unmanned ocean vehicles BP has deployed in the Gulf to detect oil in the water, listen for marine mammals, and record weather and water temperature data. The Redmond company also provides the material to protect the vehicle’s solar panels and integrate them with the hulls, said Tom Bowen, Lancair’s chief operating officer. It’s part of Lancair’s move into the unmanned, or autonomous, vehicle industry, a sector that could change the company and help boost em-
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ployment in Central Oregon. Other companies in the region have also entered the industry. “It has the potential to (make) obsolete the fact that we used to produce airplanes,” Bowen said Tuesday. “That’s pretty far-fetched. Our heart and soul is still airplanes. “But it could.” Last week, BP deployed two Wave Gliders to monitor the waters between the shoreline and the oil well that exploded April 22 and destroyed the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, according to a company news release. It plans to send out two additional Wave Gliders next month. The vehicles, made by Liquid Robotics, of Sunnyvale, Calif., use waves to propel themselves and solar energy to power the monitoring equipment. See Lancair / A5
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Will Mexico’s prize catch ‘La Barbie’ stand trial in U.S.? By Tim Johnson McClatchy-Tribune News Service
MEXICO CITY — Clambering to proclaim victory after more than three years of bloody narcotics warfare, Mexican authorities paraded a Texas-born accused kingpin before the media Tuesday and offered abundant details of his climb through the
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violent drug underworld before his capture in a mountain hideout. While speculation surged that Mexico would deport Edgar ValdezVillarreal, a 37-year-old former football star from Laredo, Texas, to stand trial in the United States, where he’s still a citizen, there was no immediate sign of action by Mexico or the U.S.
National security spokesman Alejandro Poire described Valdez-Villarreal as “highly dangerous,” a reference to his drug cartel’s practice of beheading its enemies. The accused drug lord “has one foot in the airplane bound for the United States,” the usually well-informed El Universal newspaper reported.
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Security officials paraded the handcuffed Valdez-Villarreal, who’s known by the unlikely nickname of “La Barbie,” before the media early Tuesday in an airplane hangar. Hooded security agents stood at his side, and a black helicopter provided the backdrop. See La Barbie / A5
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Obama tries to make progress on several fronts in Middle East By David E. Sanger New York Times News Service
President Barack Obama is attempting a triple play this week that eluded his predecessors over the past two decades: simultaneous progress on the most vexing and violent problems in A N A L Y S I S the Middle East — Israeli-Palestinian peace, Iraq and Iran — in hopes of creating a virtuous cycle in a region prone to downward spirals. History shouts that all the odds are against him. White House officials, eager to show concrete progress on the hardest foreign policy challenges at a time when Obama is struggling with a range of domestic issues, contend that the president has changed the political climate in all three arenas and has the best shot in years at creating positive and interlocking results. See Policy / A4
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President Barack Obama, in a speech from the Oval Office on Tuesday, formally ended the U.S. combat mission in Iraq. Claiming no victory, he said the country’s most urgent priority now must be fixing its own sickly economy.
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