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4B – Daily News – Wednesday, November 24, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING TSA workers facing thankless task TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — They’ve been called molesters, threatened with physical violence and ordered not to touch ‘‘my junk.’’ One woman headbutted a TSA officer who was searching her laptop. Other screeners report being punched, kicked and shoved during patdowns. However, secu- rity officers performing increasingly invasive searches say they want Thanksgiving travelers to know they’re just doing their jobs, and trying to save lives. ‘‘Even though the agents face some consid- erable stress from passen- gers, they are determined to keep the traveling pub- lic safe,’’ said Sari Koshetz, a TSA spokes- woman in Tampa on Tuesday. To be sure, most pas- sengers are docile when going through an airport’s security checkpoint. But Ricky D. McCoy, a lead transportation officer and president of Local 777 Illinois and Wiscon- sin, a union for the TSA workers, said the atmos- phere has changed in the past two weeks. Last week, for instance, McCoy explained the search to a passenger. ‘‘The guy looked me straight in the face and said, ’I don’t know what I might do to you if you touch me,’’’ McCoy said. Vatican says condoms are the lesser of two evils VATICAN CITY (AP) — In a seismic shift on one of the most profound — and profoundly con- tentious — Roman Catholic teachings, the Vatican said Tuesday that condoms are the lesser of two evils when used to curb the spread of AIDS, even if their use prevents a pregnancy. The position was an acknowledgment that the also named the Archdio- cese of San Antonio and Archbishop Jose Gomez, alleging that church leadership should have known Fiala was abusive. NYU prof gets 3rd eye NEW YORK (AP) — church’s long-held anti- birth control stance against condoms doesn’t justify putting lives at risk. ‘‘This is a game- changer,’’ declared the Rev. James Martin, a prominent Jesuit writer and editor. The new stance was staked out as the Vatican explained Pope Benedict XVI’s comments on con- doms and HIV in a book that came out Tuesday based on his interview with a German journalist. The Vatican still holds that condom use is immoral and that church doctrine forbidding artifi- cial birth control remains unchanged. Still, the reassessment on condom use to help prevent dis- ease carries profound sig- nificance, particularly in Africa where AIDS is rampant. Officials: Jawbone does not belong to Holloway SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A jawbone found on an Aruba beach does not belong to miss- ing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, pros- ecutors in the Dutch Caribbean island said Tuesday. The jawbone is human, though it is unclear who it belongs to. Dutch investigators compared the lone tooth on the bone with dental records supplied by Hol- loway’s family and ‘‘it can be ruled out that the bone fragment came from Natalee Hol- loway,’’ the prosecutors said. The bone was found recently by a tourist on a beach, and Aruba prose- cutors had asked foren- sic scientists in the Netherlands to analyze it. They assured that the Holloway case has ‘‘the constant attention from law enforcement on the island.’’ But John Kelly, an attorney for Holloway’s mother, Beth Twitty, hinted that the media apparently found out first about the test results. Britain imposes new quota on workers LONDON (AP) — Britain will impose a tough annual limit on the number of non- Europeans allowed to work in the U.K. and slash visas for overseas students as it seeks to dramatically reduce immigration, the gov- ernment said Tuesday. Home Secretary Theresa May told the House of Commons that the number of non-EU nationals permitted to work in the U.K. from The Red Bluff Daily News is pleased to offer Geographic Targeting on America’s Leading Online Network… April 2011 will be capped at about 22,000 — a reduction of about one-fifth from 2009. But thousands of people who are allowed to work in Britain on intracompany transfers aren’t included in those figures — or under the new quota. Critics said that means it’s unclear how Prime Minister David Cameron’s gov- ernment will meet a pledge to cut net immi- gration, which also includes students and families of visa holders, to below 100,000 by 2015, from about 196,000 last year. ‘‘We can’t go on like this, we must tighten up our immigration sys- tem,’’ May told legisla- tors as she announced details of the new rules. Public anxiety over immigration — and the burden on public ser- vices caused by new arrivals — was a key issue during the coun- try’s national election, when then-leader Gor- don Brown was angrily challenged by an elderly voter over workers arriving from eastern Europe. Former priest accused of trying to hire hit man SAN ANTONIO (AP) — In a murder-for- hire case worthy of a Dan Brown novel, a Roman Catholic priest has been arrested on charges that he solicited a hit man to kill a teenager who had accused him of sexual abuse. 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They said Fiala got as far as negotiating a $5,000 price for the slaying before investi- gators moved in. The 52-year-old cler- gyman was arrested Nov. 18 at his suburban Dallas home and jailed on $700,000 bond. In April, he was named in a lawsuit filed by the boy’s family, who accused Fiala of molest- ing the youth, including twice forcing him to have sex at gunpoint. The abuse allegedly took place in 2007 and 2008, when Fiala was a priest at the Sacred Heart of Mary Parish in the West Texas commu- nity of Rocksprings, a rural enclave known for sheep and goat herding. The family’s lawsuit A New York University arts professor might not have eyes on the back of his head, but he’s com- ing pretty close. Wafaa Bilal, a visual artist widely recognized for his interactive and per- formance pieces, had a small digital camera implanted in the back of his head — all in the name of art. Bilal said Tuesday that he underwent the procedure for an art pro- ject that was commis- sioned by a new muse- um in Doha, Qatar, in the Arab Gulf. Titled ‘‘The 3rd I,’’ it is one of 23 contempo- rary works commis- sioned for the opening of the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art on Dec. 30. The exhibi- tion is entitled ‘‘Told/Untold/Retold.’’ ‘‘I am going about my daily life as I did before the procedure,’’ the Iraqi-born artist said in a statement. Bilal, who is teaching three courses this semester at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, will wear the cam- era for one year. It is 2 inches in diameter and less than an inch thick. Most hopeful day in 30 years of AIDS In the nearly 30 years the AIDS epidemic has raged, there has never been a more hopeful day than this. Three striking developments took place Tuesday: U.N. officials said new HIV cases are dropping dra- matically worldwide. A study showed that a daily pill already on pharmacy shelves could help prevent new infec- tions in gay men. And the pope opened the way for the use of con- doms to prevent AIDS. ‘‘I don’t know of a day where so many pieces are beginning to align for HIV preven- tion and treatment, and frankly with a view to ending the epidemic,’’ said Mitchell Warren, head of the AIDS Vac- cine Advocacy Coali- tion, a nonprofit group that works on HIV pre- vention research. ‘‘This is an incredibly oppor- tune moment and we have to be sure we seize it.’’ President Barack Obama said the ground- breaking research on the AIDS drug ‘‘could mark the beginning of a new era in HIV prevention.’’ The U.N. report said that new cases dropped nearly 20 percent over the last decade and that 33.3 million people are living with HIV now. ‘‘We can say with confidence and convic- tion that we have broken the trajectory of the AIDS pandemic,’’ said UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe in Geneva. Activity overloaded voting in ’Dancing’ finale LOS ANGELES (AP) — Is a voting bloc of Sarah Palin supporters enough to give daughter Bristol the mirrorball trophy on ‘‘Dancing With the Stars’’? Will Jennifer Grey’s perfect score and superior dance skills land her the win? And how will vot- ing issues at ABC Mon- day night affect the out- come? ‘‘Dancing’’ produc- ers said Tuesday that ‘‘a record amount of activi- ty’’ overloaded its online and telephone voting systems after Monday’s episode. ‘‘Some viewers reported experiencing difficulties registering their votes for the Danc- ing with the Stars finale, which affected each finalist equally,’’ show producers said in a statement. ‘‘The issue was promptly addressed’’ and voting times were not extend- ed. Finalists Grey, Bris- tol Palin and Kyle Massey performed their last dances for viewer votes on Monday’s episode, which count for half of their overall scores toward the title. Grey comes into Tuesday’s season finale in first place. The 50- year-old actress and her professional partner, Derek Hough, earned a perfect score of 60 for their two dances on Monday’s show. Massey finished in second place with 56 points, while Palin landed in third with 52 points. All three will perform two dances on Tuesday’s show before a new ‘‘Danc- ing’’ champ is named. Detroit Thanksgiving parade sinks Mayflower DETROIT (AP) — Think your holiday travel plans are tough? Imagine being a Mayflower descendant who’s been bumped from Detroit’s Thanksgiving parade. June Gorman, gover- nor and historian of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in Michigan, tells The Detroit News she thought Thursday’s 1.5-mile trek down Woodward Avenue would be a perfect match for the nonprofit group with more than 500 Michigan members. Gorman said eight to 10 members dressed in period garb planned to carry the organization’s banner. Instead, she says their application was denied without reason. Anthony Michaels, parade president and chief executive, said the group failed to include a video and pictures with their application. He said it’s not uncommon to get rebuffed from the ‘‘enter- tainment-oriented parade’’ that has about 150 groups vying for 64 available slots. www.redbluffdailynews.com