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4B – Daily News – Wednesday, October 20, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING Military recruiters told to accept gays SAN DIEGO (AP) — The military is accepting openly gay recruits for the first time in the nation’s history, even as it tries in the courts to slow the move- ment to abolish its ‘‘don’t ask, don’t tell’’ policy. Some gay activist groups were planning to send people to enlist at recruiting stations to test the Pentagon’s Tuesday announcement. Meanwhile, a federal judge in California who overturned the 17-year policy last week was likely to reject the govern- ment’s latest effort to halt her order telling the military to stop enforcing the law. The Justice Department will likely appeal if she does not suspend her order. The Defense Department has said it would comply with U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips’ order and had frozen any dis- charge cases. Pentagon spokes- woman Cynthia Smith said recruiters had been given top- level guidance to accept appli- cants who say they are gay. GOP election push in liberal House bastions HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (AP) — In the congressional district that’s home to the Kennedy family compound, a Kennedy public skating rink and a Kennedy museum, the heart of liberalism is beating uneasily. Republican Jeff Perry is making a serious bid to take over a seat held by Democrats for nearly 40 years — and it’s just one of nearly 100 seats across the country that now appear under at least some threat of slipping away from the majority party and giving con- trol of the U.S. House to the GOP. At least 75 House seats — the vast majority held by Democrats — are at serious risk of changing hands, and roughly 25 more where Democrats were assumed to have the upper hand have tightened in recent weeks, raising the possibility that some could flip to the Republicans as well. Perry, a Massachusetts state representative, is in one of those contests here in the 10th Con- gressional District, which stretches from Quincy, just out- side Boston, along Cape Cod and across to the vacation play- grounds of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. He is talking tough on taxes, immigration reform and the health care law, and he’s locked in a competitive race with Democrat William Keating for the open seat. It’s a surprising turn in Massachusetts and just one of nearly a dozen contests across the country illustrating trouble in Democratic paradise. O’Donnell, Coons spar in debate over US Constitution WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Republican Christine O’Donnell challenged her Democratic rival Tuesday to show where the Constitution requires separation of church and state, drawing swift criti- cism from her opponent, laugh- ter from her law school audi- ence and a quick defense from prominent conservatives. ‘‘Where in the Constitution is separation of church and state?’’ O’Donnell asked while Democrat Chris Coons, an attorney, sat a few feet away. Coons responded that O’Donnell’s question ‘‘reveals her fundamental misunder- standing of what our Constitu- tion is. ... The First Amendment establishes a separation.’’ She interrupted to say, ‘‘The First Amendment does? ... So you’re telling me that the sepa- ration of church and state, the phrase ’separation of church and state,’ is in the First Amendment?’’ Her campaign issued a state- ment later saying O’Donnell ‘‘was not questioning the con- cept of separation of church and state as subsequently estab- lished by the courts. She simply made the point that the phrase appears nowhere in the Consti- tution.’’ Shots fired at Pentagon a ’random event’ WASHINGTON (AP) — Someone fired shots at the Pen- tagon early Tuesday in what security officials described as ‘‘a random event.’’ No one was injured in the pre-dawn incident in which shots were fired into two windows at the sprawling Defense Department just across the Potomac River in suburban Virginia. Steven Calvery, director of the civilian Pentagon Force Protection Agency, told reporters that a number of his officers reported hearing five to seven shots fired at about 4:55 a.m. EDT near the south park- ing lot of the Pentagon. The Pentagon building and the roads leading it were briefly shut down as officers did an initial sweep of the area. An internal search of the iconic structure found frag- ments of two bullets still embedded in two windows — one on the third floor and one on the fourth. The bullets had shattered but did not penetrate the windows, Calvery said. The windows were part of offices that are being renovated and they were unoccupied at the time. Calvery said he didn’t know what kind of weapon was used but that it was probably a high- velocity rifle. No suspects were arrested, he said. ‘‘Right now we consider this a random event,’’ he said. State legislators join to deny citizenship to illegal’s kids PHOENIX (AP) — Law- makers in at least 14 states announced Tuesday they are working on legislation to deny U.S. citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants, although they weren’t specific about how they plan to do it. Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce said he and the lawmakers have a working draft of their model legislation and have consulted constitutional scholars to change the 14th Amendment and deny automatic citizenship. ‘‘This is a battle of epic pro- portions,’’ Pearce said Tuesday during a news conference at the Arizona Capitol. ‘‘We’ve allowed the hijacking of the 14th Amendment.’’ Pearce declined to say how the legislation will differ from similar measures that have been introduced in each two-year congressional session since 2005. None of them made it out of committee. He and another Arizona law- maker did argue that wording in the amendment that guarantees citizenship to people born in the U.S. who are ‘‘subject to the jurisdiction’’ of this country does not apply to the children of illegal immigrants because such families don’t owe sole alle- giance to the U.S. Sculpture stirs Israeli emotions JERUSALEM (AP) — A lifelike sculpture of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is stirring high emotions among Israelis. Sharon, the tough army gen- eral turned politician who led Israel during the trying years of the second Palestinian uprising and uprooted Israeli settlers from Gaza in 2005, suffered a devastating stroke on Jan. 4, 2006, that has left him comatose for nearly five years. An art exhibit opening this week in Tel Aviv, which fea- tures a wax figure-like sculp- ture of Sharon in his hospital bed, has enraged his political supporters. ‘‘There’s no art here, only sickening voyeurism,’’ said Yoel Hasson, a parliament member from Sharon’s Kadima party. ‘‘This is not the way I would like to remember Sharon,’’ said Raanan Gissin, Sharon’s former adviser and confidant, after vis- iting the Tel Aviv art gallery where the sculpture is exhibit- ed. ‘‘I think Sharon would say, ’I would rather not be remem- bered, than be remembered that way.’’’ Google to bring Dead Sea Scrolls online, giving free access to ancient text JERUSALEM (AP) — The Dead Sea Scrolls, among the world’s most important, myste- rious and tightly restricted archaeological treasures, are about to get Googled. 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