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8A – Daily News – Wednesday, May 26, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING 1,200 troops to be sent to Mex. border WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will send 1,200 National Guard troops to boost secu- rity along the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said Tues- day, pre-empting Republi- can plans to try to force votes on such a deployment. Obama will also request $500 million for border pro- tection and law enforcement activities, according to law- makers and administration officials. The moves come as chances for action on comprehensive immigration reform, Obama’s long-stat- ed goal, look increasingly small in this election year. But Obama is under pres- sure to do something with the issue front and center after Arizona’s passage of a tough crackdown law. The National Guard troops will work on intelli- gence, surveillance and reconnaissance support, analysis and training, and support efforts to block drug trafficking. They will tem- porarily supplement border patrol agents until Customs and Border Protection can recruit and train additional officers and agents to serve on the border, an administra- tion official said. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of a public announce- ment, disclosed the plans shortly after Obama met at the Capitol with Republican senators who pressed him on immigration issues including the question of sending National Guard troops to the border. Arizona Republican Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl have been urging such a move, and Republicans planned to try to require it as an amendment to a pending war spending bill. Oil well plug effort readied WASHINGTON (AP) — BP readied yet another attempt to slow the oil gush- ing into the Gulf on Tuesday as a government report alleged that drilling regula- tors have been so close to the industry they’ve been accepting gifts from oil and gas companies and even negotiating to go work for them. President Barack Obama prepared to head to the Gulf on Friday to review efforts to halt the disastrous flow. Scientists said underwa- ter video of the leak showed the plume growing signifi- cantly darker, suggesting heavier, more-polluting oil is spewing out. BP’s next effort to stop the gushing oil will, perhaps Wednesday, is to involve a procedure called a ‘‘top kill,’’ in which heavy mud and cement are to be shot into the well to plug it up. The procedure has never been tried a mile beneath the sea, and company execu- tives estimate its chances of success at 60 to 70 percent. In Washington, the Obama administration said it has been laboring to root out problems at the agency that regulates offshore drilling. North Korea cuts ties with South Korea SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Relations on the divided Korean peninsula plunged to their lowest point in a decade Tuesday when the North declared it was cutting all ties to Seoul as punishment for blaming the communists for the sinking of a South Korean warship. The announcement came a day after South Korea took steps that were seen as among the strongest it could PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OFFICE TWO, 2010 William Murphy 30 years experience as an attorney. 23 years as a public servant. Experienced. Independent & Fair. Paid for by the committee to elect William Murphy Experience and Temperament Count WilliamMurphy4Judge.com take short of military action. Seoul said it would slash trade with the North and deny permission to its cargo ships to pass through South Korean waters. It also resumed a propaganda offensive — including blar- ing Western music into the North and dropping leaflets by balloon. North Korea said it was cutting all ties with the South until President Lee Myung-bak leaves office in early 2013, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a dispatch monitored in Seoul late Tuesday. The North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunifica- tion said it would expel all South Korean government officials working at a joint industrial park in the north- ern border town of Kaesong, and South Korean ships and airliners would be banned from passing through its ter- ritory. The North’s committee said it would start ‘‘all-out counterattacks’’ against the South’s psychological war- fare, and called its moves ‘‘the first phase’’ of punitive measures against Seoul, suggesting more action could follow. GOPsenators vent anger WASHINGTON (AP) — If President Barack Obama thought having a private lunch with Republi- can senators would ease par- tisan tensions in Congress, he grabbed the wrong recipe. The president walked into a remarkably con- tentious 80-minute session Tuesday in which GOP sen- ators accused him of duplic- ity, audacity and unbending partisanship. Lawmakers said the testy exchange left legislative logjams intact, and one GOP leader said nothing is likely to change before the November elec- tions. Obama’s sharpest accuser was Bob Corker of Tennessee, a first-term sena- tor who feels the administra- tion undermined his efforts to craft a bipartisan financial regulation bill. ‘‘I told him I thought there was a degree of audac- ity in him even showing up today after what happened with financial regulation,’’ Corker told reporters. ‘‘I just wanted him to tell me how, when he wakes up in the morning, comes over to a luncheon like ours today, how does he reconcile that duplicity?’’ Four people who were in the room said Obama bris- tled and defended his administration’s handling of negotiations. On the way out, Corker said, Obama approached him and both men repeated their main points. Gunmen battle Jamaican security forces KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Thousands of police and soldiers stormed the Jamaican ghettos where reggae was born Tuesday in search of a reputed drug kingpin wanted by the Unit- ed States, intensifying a third day of street battles that have killed at least 30 peo- ple. The masked gunmen fighting for underworld boss Christopher ‘‘Dudus’’ Coke say he provides services and protection — all funded by a criminal empire that seemed untouchable until the U.S. demanded his extradition. Coke has built a loyal fol- lowing in Tivoli Gardens, the poor West Kingston slum that is his stronghold. 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On Tuesday, masked gunmen in West Kingston vanished down side streets barricaded with barbed wire and junked cars. The sound of gunfire echoed across the slums on Jamaica’s south coast, far from the tourist meccas of the north shore. Rand Paul adjusts image BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Dressed in doctor scrubs, senatorial candidate Rand Paul sought to ditch the image of politician in his first campaign appearance since a round of interviews in which he dismayed fel- low Republicans by dis- cussing his views on racial segregation. Paul spoke to a friendly audience at a civic club Tuesday in his hometown of Bowling Green. He drew chuckles when he described last week’s campaign victory with the words of English novelist Charles Dickens: ‘‘It was the best of it times. It was the worst of times.’’ Last week Paul suggest- ed that the federal govern- ment shouldn’t have the power to force restaurants to serve minorities under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. 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