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Wednesday, September 29, 2010 – Daily News – 5B WORLD BRIEFING Obama seeks to fire up Dems with rallies ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Buck up. Stop whining. And get to work. Clearly frustrated by Repub- licans’ energy — and his own party’s lack of enthusiasm — President Barack Obama scold- ed fellow Democrats even as he rallied them Tuesday in an effort to save the party from big GOP gains in the crucial midterm elections. In the final month of campaigning, he’s try- ing to re-energize young voters, despondent liberals and other Democrats whose excitement over his election has dissipated. ‘‘It is inexcusable for any Democrat or progressive right now to stand on the sidelines,’’ the president declared in a Rolling Stone magazine inter- view. He said that supposed supporters who are ‘‘sitting on their hands complaining’’ are irresponsible because the con- sequences of Republican con- gressional victories could be dashed Democratic plans. He gave an example during a backyard conversation with New Mexico voters, arguing that Republicans would reverse the progress he’s made on edu- cation reform and student aid. ‘‘That’s the choice that we’ve got in this election,’’ Obama said, underscoring the stakes of Nov. 2 before heading to a rally at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. It’s the first of four large ral- lies planned for the campaign homestretch as the president tries to rekindle some of his 2008 campaign magic and fire up young supporters and others who helped elect Obama but who Democrats fear may stay home this fall. Top lieutenants Vice President Joe Biden, Democratic Party Chairman Tim Kaine and Cabinet mem- bers also fanned out on other college campuses to call party foot soldiers to action. Mexican hillside collapses; at least 7 dead OAXACA, Mexico (AP) — A hillside collapsed on hundreds of sleeping residents Tuesday in a rural Mexican community drenched for days by two major deaths in southern Mexico, Cen- tral America and parts of South America. Jimmy Carter taken off flight with illness CLEVELAND (AP) — For- mer President Jimmy Carter, on a trip promoting his new book, developed an upset stomach on a flight to Cleveland on Tuesday and was staying at a hospital overnight at his doctor’s recom- mendation. Carter’s grandson, Georgia state Sen. Jason Carter, said his 85-year-old grandfather was doing fine. ‘‘He’s definitely resting com- fortably and expected to continue his book tour this week,’’ Jason Carter said. ‘‘I haven’t talked to him, but nobody in the family is concerned.’’ storms, killing at least seven and leaving at least 100 missing, dis- aster officials said. The death toll could rise much higher in Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, a town about 130 miles (220 kilometers) southeast of Mexico City. Oaxaca state Civil Protection operations coor- dinator Luis Marin said 100 peo- ple were confirmed missing, but Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz told the Televisa television network 500 to 1,000 people could be buried. At least 100 homes were buried, and residents who made it out have had no success in dig- ging out their neighbors, said Donato Vargas, an official in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec reached by a satellite telephone. ‘‘We have been using a back- hoe but there is a lot of mud. We can’t even see the homes, we can’t hear shouts, we can’t hear anything,’’ he said. An eighth person was killed in another mudslide in the state of Oaxaca. Weeks of heavy rains, including those brought by Hurricane Karl and Tropical Storm Matthew, have caused havoc and dozens of other The former president planned to stay the night at MetroHealth hospital in Cleveland, according to a statement from the Carter Center, an Atlanta-based nonprof- it known for its international work on human rights and public health. He planned to resume his book tour Wednesday in Washington D.C. ‘‘He is fully alert and partici- pating in all decision-making related to his care,’’ hospital spokeswoman Christina Karas said. ‘‘The decision to admit him overnight is purely precaution- ary.’’ 2 polls show declining confidence NEW YORK (AP) — Ameri- cans in both the living room and the boardroom are growing more fearful about the economy, creat- ing a Catch-22 for the job market: Shoppers won’t spend until they feel more secure, and business won’t hire until people start spending. The eroding views were revealed Tuesday by two separate surveys, one that found everyday Americans are increasingly pes- simistic about jobs and another that found CEOs have grimmer predictions about upcoming sales. ‘‘The economy is stuck in an unvirtuous cycle,’’ said Mark Vit- ner, an economist at Wells Fargo. ‘‘Consumers are waiting for more jobs to be created, and businesses are waiting for consumers.’’ The monthly consumer confi- dence index from the Conference Board, a private research group, fell to 48.5 in September, its low- est point since February and down from 53.2 in August. Economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters were expecting 52.5 for Septem- ber. It takes a reading of 90 to indi- cate a healthy economy — a level not approached since the recession began in December 2007. Gunman opens fire at University of Texas AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A student wearing a dark suit and a ski mask opened fire Tuesday with an assault rifle on the Univer- sity of Texas campus before flee- ing into a library and fatally shoot- ing himself. No one else was hurt. The shooting began near a fountain in front of the UT Tower — the site of one of the nation’s deadliest shooting rampages more than four decades ago, when a gunman ascended the clock tower and fired down on dozens of peo- ple. Within hours of Tuesday’s gunfire, the school issued an all- clear notice, but the university remained closed, and the area around the library was still consid- ered a crime scene. ‘‘Our campus is safe,’’ school President Bill Powers said. Austin Police Chief Art Aceve- do expected the school to be ‘‘completely open and back to normal’’ by Wednesday morning. $1.15B to rebuild Haiti; none of it has arrived PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Nearly nine months after the earthquake, more than a mil- lion Haitians still live on the streets between piles of rubble. One reason: Not a cent of the $1.15 billion the U.S. promised for rebuilding has arrived. The money was pledged by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in March for use this year in rebuilding. The U.S. has already spent more than $1.1 billion on post-quake relief, but without long-term funds, the reconstruc- tion of the wrecked capital cannot begin. With just a week to go before fiscal 2010 ends, the money is still tied up in Washington. At fault: bureaucracy, disorganization and a lack of urgency, The Associated Press learned in interviews with officials in the State Department, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the White House and the U.N. Office of the Special Envoy. One senator has held up a key authorization bill because of a $5 million provision he says will be wasteful. Meanwhile, deaths in Port-au- Prince are mounting, as quake sur- vivors scramble to live without shelter or food. ‘‘There are truly lives at stake, and the idea that folks are spend- ing more time finger-pointing than getting this solved is almost unbe- lievable,’’ said John Simon, a for- mer U.S. ambassador to the African Union who is now with the Center for Global Develop- ment, a Washington think tank. Basic knowledge of religion is lacking A new survey of Americans’ knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering ques- tions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths. Forty-five percent of Roman Catholics who participated in the study didn’t know that, according to church teaching, the bread and wine used in Holy Communion is not just a sym- bol, but becomes the body and blood of Christ. More than half of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the person who inspired the Protestant Refor- mation. And about four in 10 Jews did not know that Mai- monides, one of the greatest rabbis and intellectuals in histo- ry, was Jewish. The survey released Tuesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life aimed to test a broad range of religious knowl- edge, including understanding of the Bible, core teachings of different faiths and major fig- ures in religious history. The U.S. is one of the most religious countries in the developed world, especially compared to largely secular Western Europe, but faith leaders and educators have long lamented that Ameri- cans still know relatively little about religion. 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