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4B – Daily News – Monday, May 31, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING A dispiriting summer of oil, anger BOOTHVILLE, La. (AP) — There is still a hole in the Earth, crude oil is still spewing from it and there is still, excruciatingly, no end in sight. After trying and trying again, one of the world’s largest corpora- tions, backed and pushed by the world’s most powerful government, can’t stop the runaway gusher. As desperation grows and ecological misery spreads, the operative word on the ground now is, incredibly, August — the earliest moment that a real resolution could be at hand. And even then, there’s no guarantee of success. For the United States and the people of its beleaguered Gulf Coast, a dispiriting summer of oil and anger lies dead ahead. Support our classrooms, keep kids reading. DONATE YOUR VACATION newspaper dollars to the Newspaper In Education Program HELP OUR CHILDREN Oh ... and the Atlantic hurricane season begins Tuesday. For more details call Circulation Department (530) 527-2151 D NEWSAILY RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 PHONE: (530) 527-2151 FAX: (530) 527-5774 545 Diamond Avenue • P.O. Box 220 • Red Bluff, CA 96080 The latest attempt — using a remote robotic arm to stuff golf balls and assort- ed debris into the gash in the seafloor — didn’t work. On Sunday, as churches echoed with prayers for a solution, BP PLC said it would focus on containment rather than plugging the undersea puncture wound, effectively redirecting the mess it made rather than stopping it. Yet the new plan carries the risk of making the torrent worse, as top government officials warned Sunday. ‘‘We failed to wrestle this beast to the ground,’’ said BP Managing Director Bob Dudley, doing the rounds of the Sunday talk shows. First family sleepover in Chicago home CHICAGO (AP) — Good friends, good food and the comforts of his own home. President Barack Obama enjoyed all three when he brought his family home to Chicago for a long Memorial Day holiday weekend. It was the first family’s first sleepover at their red-brick home in more than a year. Obama’s only public appearance Sunday was for a roundtrip to a private gym for a workout. Top advisers also updated him on efforts to manage the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The president was due back at the White House on Monday after paying respects to the nation’s war dead during Memorial Day observances at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill., south of Chicago. 1,000th GI killed in Afghan war KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — The 1,000th Amer- ican serviceman killed in Afghanistan was born on the Fourth of July. He died several days before Ameri- cans honor fallen troops on Memorial Day. Marine Cpl. Jacob C. Leicht was killed Thursday when he stepped on a land mine in Helmand province that ripped off his right arm. It was the 24-year-old Texan’s second deployment overseas. Leicht had begged to return to the battlefield after a bomb took out his Humvee in Iraq. He spent two painful years recover- ing from face and leg injuries, all the while pining for combat in letters from his hospital bed. He finally got back to the front lines, but was killed less than a month into the tour of duty he desperately wanted. ‘‘He said he always wanted to die for his coun- try and be remembered,’’ said Jesse Leicht, his younger brother. ‘‘He didn’t want to die having a heart attack or just being an old man. He wanted to die for something.’’ An Associated Press tally shows Leicht is the 1,000th U.S. serviceman killed in the Afghan con- flict. The first death — near- ly nine years ago — was also a soldier from the San Antonio area. The AP bases its tally on Defense Department reports of deaths suffered as a direct result of the Afghan conflict, including person- nel assigned to units in Afghanistan, Pakistan or Uzbekistan. Other news organiza- tions count deaths suffered by service members assigned elsewhere as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, which includes operations in the Philip- pines, the Horn of Africa and at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Leicht’s brothers told the AP the military also told the family that his death put the toll at 1,000. When military officers went to tell Leicht’s parents their adopted son had died in combat, sheriff’s deputies had to help navigate them to the 130-acre family ranch tucked deep in the Texas Hill Country. Thousands protest Ariz. immigration TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Supporters and opponents of Arizona’s tough new crackdown on illegal immigration held separate rallies in Phoenix, drawing thousands of people from around the country. Marchers carrying signs, banners and flags from the United States and Mexico filled a 5 mile stretch of central Phoenix, demanding that the federal government refuse to cooperate with Arizona authorities trying to enforce the law. Police declined to esti- mate the size of the crowd, but it appeared at least 10,000 to 20,000 protest- ers, some bused in from around the country, braved 94-degree heat. Organizers had said they expected the demonstration to bring as many as 50,000 people. Some used umbrellas or cardboard signs to protect their faces from the sun. Volunteers handed out water bottles and set up water stations. About 20 people were treated for heat or fatigue-related symptoms, and seven of them were taken to a hos- pital, said Phoenix police spokesman Sgt. Tommy Thompson. There were no arrests or other incidents. The law’s opponents gathered at capitols in states including Texas and Oregon, and about 300 people protested at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. 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