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8A Daily News – Thursday, September 19, 2013 WORLD BRIEFING Trajectory of sarin rockets key to linking Syria to chemical attack BEIRUT (AP) — The trajectory of the rockets that delivered the nerve agent sarin in last month's deadly attack is among the key evidence linking elite Syrian troops based in the mountains overlooking Damascus to the strike that killed hundreds of people, diplomats and human rights officials said Wednesday. The Aug. 21 attack precipitated the crisis over Syria's chemical weapons. The U.S. threatened a military strike against Syria, which led to a plan negotiated by Moscow and Washington under which the regime of President Bashar Assad is to abandon its chemical weapons stockpile. A U.N. report released Monday confirmed that chemical weapons were used in the attack but did not ascribe blame. The United States, Britain and France cited evidence in the report to declare Assad's government responsible. Russia called the report ''onesided'' and says it has ''serious reason to suggest that this was a provocation'' by the rebels fighting the Assad regime in Syria's civil war. The report, however, provided data that suggested the chemicalloaded rockets that hit two Damascus suburbs were fired from the northwest, indicating they came from nearby mountains where the Syrian military is known to have major bases. Mexico floods kill 80 ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — The death toll from days of flooding in southern and central Mexico rose to 80 on Wednesday, and new reports of landslides in a village near the resort of Acapulco threatened to drive the number of casualties even higher. Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said federal authorities had reached the village, known as La Pintada, by helicopter and had airlifted out 35 residents, four of whom were seriously injured in the slide, but they had not yet seen any bodies. ''It doesn't look good, based on the photos we have in our possession,'' Osorio Chong said, while noting that ''up to this point, we do not have any (confirmed) as dead in the landslide.'' Earlier, speaking to local media, Osorio Chong said ''this is a very powerful landslide, very big ... You can see that it hit a lot of houses.'' Mexico was hit by the one-two punch of twin storms over the weekend, and the storm that soaked Acapulco on Sunday, Manuel, re-formed into a tropical storm Wednesday, threatening to bring more flooding to the country's northern coast. With a tropical disturbance over the Yucatan Peninsula headed toward the same Gulf coast hit by Hurricane Ingrid, the country could face another double hit, just it struggles to restore services and evacuate those stranded by last weekend's flooding. they have a key piece to the puzzle: A 1969 Camaro, just like the one the teens were driving, was pulled from a lake with the skeletal remains of three people inside. And that wasn't the only discovery. A second car containing remains, an early 1950s Chevrolet, was also recovered from Foss Lake. Custer County Sheriff Bruce Peoples believes it may solve another case in which two men and a woman disappeared a year before the teens vanished. Virus or bacteria? Experimental test aims to help docs tell no longer safe, where is safe if that even doesn't exist anymore?'' said Col. Kathy Platoni, a reservist who keeps a gun under her desk after witnessing the shooting at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009, when Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan killed 13 people. In the wake of this week's deadly rampage at the Washington Navy Yard, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered the Pentagon to review security at all U.S. defense installations worldwide and examine the granting of security clearances that allow access to them. ''We will find those gaps and we will fix those gaps,'' Hagel vowed on Wednesday. Navy Yard, Fort Hood attacks shatter sense of security at US bases Avoid Armed guards stand at the gates. IDs are needed government to pass through electronic barriers. And uniformed shutdown, members of the American military — well-trained GOP House and battle-tested — are everywhere, smartly leaders say saluting as they come and go. And yet, twice in less than four years, a person with permission to be there passed through the layers of protection at a U.S. base and opened fire, destroying the sense of security at the installations that embody the most powerful military in the world. ''It is earth-shattering. When military bases are To instill and reinforce "pride in place" among those of us blessed to live here. WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans vowed Wednesday to pass legislation that would prevent a partial government shutdown and avoid a historic national default while simultaneously canceling out President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, inaugurating a new round of political brinkmanship as critical deadlines approach. Obama swiftly condemned the effort as attempted political extortion, and the Republicanfriendly Chamber of Commerce pointedly called on lawmakers to pass urgent spending and borrowing legislation — unencumbered by debate over ''Obamacare.'' The two-step strategy announced by House Speaker John Boehner marked a concession to his confrontational rank and file. At the same time, it represented a challenge to conservatives inside the Senate and out who have Red Bluff Garden Club presents "An Elegant Garden Party" spent the summer seeking the votes needed to pull the president's cherished health care law out by its roots. They now will be called on to deliver. ''The fight over here has been won. The House has voted 40 times to defund, change Obamacare, to repeal it. It's time for the Senate to have this fight,'' said Boehner, an Ohio Republican. As outlined by several officials, Boehner and the leadership intend to set a House vote for Friday on legislation to fund the government through Dec. 15 at existing levels while permanently defunding the health care law. The same bill will include a requirement for Treasury to give priority to Social Security and disability payments in the event the government reaches its borrowing limit and cannot pay all of its obligations. 6 killed as Canada bus crashes through barrier OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Passengers screamed ''Stop! Stop!'' seconds before their bus crashed through a crossing barrier and into a commuter train during morning rush hour in Canada's capital on Wednesday, killing six people and injuring 34. 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''I drank so much I was blacked out,'' Cordle told Franklin County Judge David Fais near the end of a 38-minute hearing. ''So I would say this was a binge drinking situation, correct, Mr. Cordle?'' Fais asked. Submerged cars found in Oklahoma may solve mysteries SAYRE, Okla. (AP) — When three teenagers from this small Oklahoma town disappeared on their way to a high school football game in 1970, rumors swirled as to what happened to the trio. Some thought the three had stumbled across a drug deal at a rural airstrip and been killed. Others said they might have run away to California. ''There have been theories from everybody,'' said Dayva Spitzer, publisher of The Sayre Record newspaper and a longtime resident. ''Everyone suspected foul play. ... But every lead just went nowhere.'' Now authorities believe Starting on September 3rd STOVE JUNCTION BBQ PELLETS Blue Sun Hair Studio!! 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Today, when symptoms alone aren't enough for diagnosis, a doctor's suspicion guides what tests are performed — tests that work by hunting for evidence of a specific pathogen. Fever and cough? If it's flu season, you might be tested for the flu virus. An awful sore throat? Chances are you'll get checked for strep bacteria. A negative test can leave the doctor wondering what germ to check for next, or whether to make a best guess. Wahlberg no longer a high school dropout BOSTON (AP) — Mark Wahlberg is now a high school graduate — 25 years after dropping out of a Boston high school. The 42-year-old actorproducer finished his diploma requirements after taking classes online. He dropped out of Copley Square High School, now known as Snowden International School at Copley, in the ninth grade. Wahlberg wrote of the struggles he faced growing up surrounded by ''drugs, violence and crime'' in a column in The Huffington Post on Monday. 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