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6D – Daily News – Thursday, September 23, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING Obama reintroduces health law FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Blaming himself for coolness to his health care overhaul, President Barack Obama is seeking to reintroduce the law to voters who don’t much like or understand it six months after he signed it. The White House gath- ered patients from around the country who have benefited from the mea- sure, and the president rolled up his sleeves to address them Wednesday in a sunny Virginia back- yard, highlighting changes that take effect at the six-month mark on Thursday. These include a ban on lifetime coverage limits, as well as free cov- erage for preventive care and immunizations. Young adults will be able to stay on their parents’ plans until they turn 26, and kids with pre-existing health conditions won’t be denied coverage. ‘‘We just got to give people some basic peace of mind,’’ the president said, ‘‘I thank you from the bottom of my heart,’’ Norma Byrne of Vineland, N.J., told the president, explaining she was benefiting from the law’s provisions that are closing a Medicare cover- age gap for prescription drugs. But such gratitude isn’t the norm. Republicans circulate ’Pledge to America’ WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican 82ND Annual leaders are vowing to cut taxes and federal spend- ing, repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law and ban federal funding of abortion as part of a campaign mani- festo designed to propel them to victory in midterm elections Nov. 2. The ‘‘Pledge to Ameri- ca,’’ circulated to GOP lawmakers Wednesday, emphasizes job creation and spending control, as well as changing the way Congress does business, according to Republicans who have been briefed. It pairs some familiar Republican ideas — such as deep spending cuts, medical liability reform and stricter border enforcement — with an anti-government call to action that draws on tea party themes and echoes voters’ disgruntlement with the economy and Obama’s leadership. The plan is emerging less than six weeks before elections in which Repub- licans are favored to add substantially to their ranks, perhaps enough to seize control of the House. ‘‘Regarding the poli- cies of the current govern- ment, the governed do not consent,’’ reads a pream- ble to the agenda. ‘‘An arrogant and out-of-touch government of self- appointed elites makes decisions, issues man- dates, and enacts laws without accepting or requesting the input of the many.’’ Violence erupts in east Jerusalem JERUSALEM (AP) — Crowds of Palestinian youths violently ram- paged in east Jerusalem Wednesday following the shooting death of a local man, clouding fragile peace efforts even as the Palestinian president sig- naled he may back away from threats to quit nego- tiations if Israel resumes West Bank settlement construction. At one point, Israeli riot police stormed the hilltop compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary — the most explosive site in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the place where the last Palestinian uprising began almost exactly 10 years ago. That uprising — which killed thousands of people over some five years of violence — erupted after a failed U.S.-led peace effort at Camp David. Wednesday’s outburst comes less than a month after the sides resumed peace negotiations, at a tense moment when those talks are already facing possible collapse over Israel’s plans to end its 10-month slowdown of construction in the Jewish settlements of the West Bank. The ‘‘moratorium’’ on construction was declared last November under intense U.S. pres- sure to help coax the Palestinians into talks with the government of Prime Minister Ben- jamin Netanyahu, who — despite having accepted the principle of a Palestinian state — inspires very little faith in the Palestinians. Netanyahu said all along that the measure would end on Sunday — and the Palestinians have threatened to walk away from the talks if this occurs. The impasse and loom- ing deadline have created a palpable tension that has built throughout the week. Feature your female employees Run photo and bio on your business, career, Magazine-size supplement to The Daily News Published Tuesday, October 19 Advertising Space Reservations Deadline OCTOBER 18-22 Thursday, October 7 This special edition will be pre-promoted in the Daily News and will be published on high-bright paper. 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Bernice King, the Kings’ younger daughter, deliv- ered the eulogy. She is also a pastor there. The men who sued were 17- and 18-year- old members of the church when they say Long abused his spiritu- al authority to seduce them with cars, money, clothes, jewelry, inter- national trips and access to celebrities. Craig Gillen, Long’s Saddam ’delighted’ by 1998 embassy bombings WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, a prominent member of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle, told the FBI that the dictator ‘‘delighted’’ in the 1998 terrorist bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa but had no inter- est in partnering with Osama bin Laden, declassified documents show. ‘‘Saddam did not trust Islamists,’’ to test the theory that Saddam and his intelli- gence services had some form of cooperation with al-Qaida prior to the U.S. invasion in 2003. The FBI had previ- ously released sum- maries of its 20 sessions with Saddam, in which he denied any relation- ship with bin Laden but appeared to acknowl- edge that some Iraqi officials had met him. Pastor of megachurch denies claims he coerced Aziz said, according to hand- written notes of a June 27, 2004 interrogation, although he viewed al- Qaida as an ‘‘effective’’ organization. The FBI notes are among hundreds of pages of interrogation records of top Iraqi offi- cials — including Sad- dam — provided to the AP this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. While most of the Saddam records had been previously released, the National Security Archive, an independent research institute at George Washington University, said the FBI had previ- ously refused to declas- sify Aziz’s records. The records are from an FBI operation code- named Desert Spider, which sought to compile evidence of the Saddam regime’s war crimes and sex from men ATLANTA (AP) — The prominent pastor of a 25,000-member megachurch near Atlanta denies allega- tions in a lawsuit that he coerced three young men from the congrega- tion into a sexual rela- tionship, his attorney said. Lawyers for two of the men, now 20 and 21, filed the lawsuit Tues- day in DeKalb County Court against Bishop Eddie Long. The third lawsuit was filed Wednesday. The Asso- ciated Press generally does not identify people who say they were vic- tims of sexual impropri- ety. President George W. Bush and three former presidents visited the sprawling New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in the Atlanta suburb of Lithonia for the 2006 funeral of attorney, says the pastor ‘‘categorically denies the allegations.’’ Woodward unearths tensions over war plan WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s early attempts to seize control of a neglected Afghanistan war yielded a strategy that pleased almost no one and hasn’t turned the tide of a conflict near its 10th year. Just how contentious that plan has been, inside the Obama White House as well as outside, is cap- tured in Bob Woodward’s new book. The account exposes the roots of an Afghanistan exit plan dri- ven more by politics than national security and shows the president wor- ried about losing the sup- port of the public and his party. ‘‘I have two years with the public on this,’’ Obama is quoted as say- ing at one point, referring to what the administra- tion still considers a finite well of public patience. Such private fears have been aired publicly. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said the United States and its NATO part- ners must show clear progress by the end of this year or risk a col- lapse of public support. The book, ‘‘Obama’s reveals that Wars,’’ Obama’s aides were deeply divided over the war even as the president agreed to nearly triple troop levels in a gamble reminiscent of former President George W. Bush’s Iraq war ‘‘surge.’’ 2 new horned dinosaur species SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Scientists said Wednesday they’ve dis- covered fossils in the southern Utah desert of two new dinosaur species closely related to the Triceratops, including one with 15 horns on its large head. The discovery of the new plant-eating species — including Kosmocer- atops richardsoni, consid- ered the most ornate- headed dinosaur known to man — was reported Wednesday in the online scientific journal PLoS ONE, produced by the Public Library of Science. The other dinosaur, which has five horns and is the larger of the two, was dubbed Utahceratops gettyi. ‘‘It’s not every day that you find two rhino-sized dinosaurs that are differ- ent from all the other dinosaurs found in North America,’’ said Mark Loewen, a Utah Museum of Natural History pale- ontologist and an author of the paper published in PLoS ONE. ‘‘You would think that we know everything there is to know about the dinosaurs of western North America, but every year we’re finding new things, especially here in Utah,’’ he said.