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8A – Daily News – Tuesday, September 7, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING Combative Obama assails GOP MILWAUKEE (AP) — A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign- season assault on Repub- licans for causing Ameri- cans’ hard economic times. GOP leaders instantly assailed Obama’s propos- al as an ineffective one that would simply raise already excessive federal spending. Many congres- sional Democrats are also likely to be reluctant to boost expenditures and increase federal deficits just weeks before elec- tions that will determine control of Congress. Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, cau- tioned, ‘‘If we are going to get anything done, Republican cooperation, which has been all but non-existent recently, will be necessary.’’ That left the plan with low, if not impossible, odds of becoming law this year. When Congress returns from summer recess in mid-September, it is likely to remain in session for only a few weeks before lawmakers return home to campaign for re-election. Administration offi- cials said that even if Congress quickly approved the program, it would not produce jobs until sometime next year. That means the proposal’s only pre-election impact may be a political one as the White House tries to demonstrate to voters that it is working to boost the economy and create jobs. Hurricane watches issued NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities urged people to move to shelters while officials in Texas distrib- uted sandbags and warned of flash floods as Tropical Storm Hermine strength- ened and headed toward the northwestern Gulf coast on Monday. Hermine will probably make landfall around mid- night just south of the U.S.-Mexico border, threatening to bring as much as one foot of rain- fall to some areas battered by Hurricane Alex in June. Remnant rains from Alex killed at least 12 people in flooding in Mexico. Hermine ‘‘will briefly be over Mexico, and then we’re expecting it to pro- duce very heavy rainfall over south Texas,’’ said Eric Blake, a hurricane specialist at the U.S. National Hurricane Cen- ter. ‘‘We’re expecting widespread rainfall totals of 4 to 8 inches with iso- lated amounts of a foot possible. Especially in the hilly and mountainous ter- rain that could cause life- threatening flash flood- ing.’’ The storm’s winds strengthened to about 60 mph (95 kph), and by Monday afternoon it was located about 100 miles (165 km) south-southeast of Brownsville, Texas. Tropical storm force winds extended out up to 105 miles (165 kms) from the storm’s center. While it is likely to hit just south of Matamoros — across the border from Brownsville — at tropical storm force, it has the potential to build intto minimal hurricane strength, Blake said. Iranian woman could be executed TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery con- viction said Monday that he and her children are worried the delayed execution could be carried out soon with the end of a moratorium on death sentences for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. In an unusual turn in the case, the lawyer also con- Lunch Special 399 $ 4 to choose from! $ to Prime Rib Special $5.99 599 Served 11am-2pm Mon.-Fri. No substitutions 7875 HWY 99E LOS MOLINOS, CA 384-1265 American Embroidery Mart 446 Antelope Blvd. #34 (530) 527-4446 Custom and corporate logos for embroidery. “If I can hoop it, I can embroider it.” No job is too large or too small. No minimum order required. Tuesday - Friday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm e-mail: info@americanembroiderymart.com Mention this ad Jeannie Garton Saw & Mower ORLAND We are the one stop shop for all your outdoor power equipment needs. 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Ashtiani was convicted in 2006 of having an ‘‘illicit relationship’’ with two men after the murder of her hus- band the year before and was sentenced at that time to 99 lashes. Later that year, she was also convicted of adultery and sentenced to be stoned, even though she retracted a confession that she says was made under duress. One of 1st blacks to attend Ark. school dies LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation’s first major battle over school segregation, has died. He was 68. Thomas died Sunday in Ohio of pancreatic cancer, according to a Monday statement from Carlotta Walls LaNier, who also enrolled at Central High School in 1957 and is presi- dent of the Little Rock Nine Foundation. The integration fight was a first real test of the federal government’s resolve to enforce a 1954 Supreme Court order outlawing racial segregation in the nation’s public schools. After Gov. Orval Faubus sent National Guard troops to block Thomas and eight other stu- dents from entering Central High, President Eisenhower ordered in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division. Soldiers stood in the school hallways and escort- ed each of the nine students as they went from class- room to classroom. Each of the Little Rock Nine received Congression- has an alternate - and sharp- tongued - view. Money really can improve happiness WASHINGTON (AP) — They say money can’t buy happiness. They’re wrong. At least up to a point. People’s emotional well- being - happiness - increas- es along with their income up to about $75,000, researchers report in Tues- day’s edition of Proceed- ings of the National Acade- my of Sciences. For folks making less than that, said Angus Deaton, an economist at the Center for Health and Well- being at Princeton Universi- ty, ‘‘Stuff is so in your face it’s hard to be happy. It interferes with your enjoy- ment.’’ Deaton and Daniel Kah- al Gold Medals shortly after the 40th anniversary of their enrollment. President Clin- ton presented the medals in 1999 to Thomas, LaNier, Melba Patillo Beals, Minni- jean Trickey Brown, Eliza- beth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Ter- rence Roberts and Thelma Mothershed Wair. Suicide attack in Pakistan kills 17 LAKKI MARWAT, Pakistan (AP) — A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategi- cally important town in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes. About 40 people were wounded in the attack in Lakki Marwat, which sits on the main road between Punjab province, Pakistan’s largest and most prosper- ous, and the North and South Waziristan tribal regions. A Pakistani army offen- sive pushed many militants out of South Waziristan in October. The militants still control much of North Waziristan, where U.S. drone aircraft have been conducting a campaign of targeted killings. Hours after the attack, officials said a suspected U.S. missile strike had killed three alleged militants in North Waziristan, home to the Haqqani network, a militant group battling U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Two Pakistani intelli- gence officials told The Associated Press that a mis- sile hit a vehicle in the Datta Khel area on the Afghan border Monday evening. The officials spoke on con- dition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information Woman chastised by Rep. Frank now running against him BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank’s retort was an Inter- net sensation. Questioned at a town hall last year about the ‘‘Nazi policy’’ of health care reform, Frank told the speaker who made the com- ment that talking to her was ‘‘like arguing with a dining room table.’’ Fast forward to this year, the questioner, Rachel Brown, is challeng- ing the 15-term Democrat’s re-election bid. Brown said her exchange with Frank inspired her to run against him in the Democratic pri- mary in the state’s 4th Con- gressional District. ‘‘I didn’t realize at the time that if you had a better idea, you should take their seat,’’ said 29-year-old Brown, a devotee of econo- mist Lyndon LaRouche. Frank, not surprisingly, neman reviewed surveys of 450,000 Americans con- ducted in 2008 and 2009 for the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index that included questions on peo- ple’s day-to-day happiness and their overall life satis- faction. NKorea preps for political convention SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Huge posters plastered across the North Korean capital hailed the nation’s biggest political convention in 30 years as a historic event as the world watched Monday for signs that the coun- try’s next leader was mak- ing his public debut. Party delegates from all corners of North Korea were gathering in Pyongyang, state media said. Thousands practiced waving pink and red plas- tic flowers in a weekend rehearsal of celebrations at Kim Il Sung Square, China’s Xinhua news agency said. The capital was fes- tooned with posters urg- ing North Koreans to ‘‘make this a festive event that will shine in the his- tory of our country and people.’’ One North Kore- an professor told broad- caster Associated Press Television News the party meeting marked a ‘‘turn- ing point’’ for the com- munist nation. 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