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Saturday, March 30, 2013 ��� Daily News 3A WORLD BRIEFING Syrian rebels are in strategic battle BEIRUT (AP) ��� Capitalizing on a recent influx of weapons, Syrian rebels are waging a strategic battle for the southern part of the country and seeking to secure a corridor from the Jordanian border to Damascus in preparation for an eventual assault on the capital. On Friday, the rebels celebrated their latest victory: They seized full control of Dael, a key town along a main highway, after forces of President Bashar Assad���s regime all but withdrew from the area. ������God is great! We are coming, Bashar!������ armed fighters cried overnight Thursday after they captured the last of the military checkpoints in the town where Assad���s forces had been holed up, according to amateur video posted online. Dael is one of the bigger towns in the southern Daraa province, where the uprising against Assad began in March 2011, when security forces arrested high school students who scrawled antiregime graffiti on a wall. Activists say it was in Dael that the first statue of Assad���s father and predecessor, the late President Hafez Assad, was first toppled shortly after the protests broke out. Obama presses plan for more private spending MIAMI (AP) ��� Trying to show that the economy remains a top priority, President Barack Obama promoted a plan Friday to create construction and other jobs by attracting private money to help rebuild roads, bridges and other public works projects. Obama fleshed out the details during a visit to a Miami port that���s undergoing $2 billion in upgrades paid for with government and private dollars. The quick trip was designed to show that the economy and unemployment are top priorities for a president who also is waging high-profile campaigns on immigration reform and gun control. Obama said the unemployment rate among construction workers was the highest of any industry, despite being cut nearly in half over the past three years. ������There are few more important things we can do to create jobs right now and strengthen our economy over the long haul than rebuilding the infrastructure that powers our businesses and economy,������ Obama said. ������As president, my top priority is to make sure we are doing everything we can to reignite the true engine of our economic growth ��� and that is a rising, thriving middle class.������ Among the proposals Obama called for, which require approval from Congress, are: drumbeat of warfare ��� seemingly bringing the region to the very brink of conflict with threats and provocations ��� Pyongyang aims to force Washington to the negotiating table, pressure the new president in Seoul to change policy on North Korea, and build unity inside the communist country without triggering a fullblown war. North Korea wants to draw attention to the tenuousness of the armistice designed to maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula, a truce Pyongyang recently announced it would no longer honor as it warned that war could break out at any time. In July, it will be 60 years since North Korea and China signed an armistice with the U.S. and the United Nations to bring an end to three years of fighting that cost millions of lives. The designated Demilitarized Zone has evolved into the most heavily guarded border in the world. Despite North Korea���s battle cries, no one expects war Dawn of the civilian drone age promises multiple benefits SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� Across North Korea, soldiers are gearing up for battle and shrouding their jeeps and vans with camouflage netting. Newly painted signboards and posters call for ������death to the U.S. imperialists������ and urge the people to fight with ������arms, not words.������ But even as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is issuing midnight battle cries to his generals to ready their rockets, he and his millionman army know full well that a successful missile strike on U.S. targets would be suicide for the outnumbered, out-powered North Korean regime. Despite the hastening KWIK KUTS 20 Cowboy Poet, ANY RETAIL PRODUCT with any chemical service of $50 or more 2 Regular $ Haircut Recovering addict hailed as hero PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� A recovering drug addict with a long rap sheet is being hailed as a hero for jumping onto subway tracks in Philadelphia to rescue a man. Thirty-two-year-old Christopher Knafelc was waiting for a train at a station in north Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon when he saw a man walk off the platform and fall on the tracks. He jumped down to help the man, knowing that another train would be arriving in a few minutes. Knafelc tells the Philadelphia Daily News he has struggled with drug addiction for most of his adult life but is getting his life back on track. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority spokeswoman Jerri Williams says she thinks Knafelc ������kind of surprised himself������ by his good deed. She says this could mean the start of really good things in his life. Gun proponents launch free shotgun program TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) ��� A campaign promising free shotguns for people in Tucson���s most troubled neighborhoods has divided some residents in a community still reeling from a shooting rampage in 2011 that killed six people, left a congresswoman and several others 00 off Reg. $13.95 Not good with other offers Expires 4/30/13 With coupon April 16, 7:00 p.m., State Theatre. 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While towns in Idaho, Utah, Virginia and Pennsylvania have debated ordinances recommending gun ownership, the gun giveaway effort appears to be the first of its kind. ������If you are not willing to protect the citizens of Tucson, someone is going to do it, why not me? Why not have armed citizens protecting themselves,������ said Shaun McClusky, a real estate agent who plans to start handing out shotguns by May. Arizona gun proponents have donated about $12,500 to fund the gun giveaway and McClusky, a former mayoral and city council candidate, hopes to collect enough to eventually arm entire neighborhoods. Now Serving Beer & Wine Baxter Black, Family Hair Salon % off WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The dawn of the age of aerial civilian drones is rich with possibilities for people far from the war zones where they made their devastating mark as a weapon of choice against terrorists. The unmanned, generally small aircraft can steer water and pesticides to crops with precision, saving farmers money while reducing environmental risk. They can inspect distant bridges, pipelines and power lines, and find hurricane victims stranded on rooftops. Drones ��� some as tiny as a hummingbird ��� promise everyday benefits as broad as the sky is wide. But the drone industry and those eager to tap its potential are running headlong into fears the peeping-eye, go-anywhere technology will be misused. Since January, dronerelated legislation has been introduced in more than 30 states, largely in response to privacy concerns. Many of the bills would prevent police from using drones for broad public surveillance or to watch individuals without sufficient grounds to believe they were involved in crimes. Stephen Ingley, executive director of the Airborne Law Enforcement Association, says resistance to the technology is frustrating. 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