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Thursday, January 30, 2014 – Daily News 1D WORLD BRIEFING Modest snowfall creates chaos in Atlanta ATLANTA (AP) — Rescuers rushed to bring blankets, food, gas and a ride home Wednesday to thousands of Atlanta schoolchildren and motorists stranded all night long in classrooms and freezing cars after a snowstorm of less than 3 inches paralyzed the South's flagship city. As National Guardsmen and state troopers fanned out, Mayor Kasim Reed and Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal found themselves on the defensive, acknowledging that the storm preparations and the response could have better. But state officials also blamed forecasts that said conditions wouldn't be so bad. The icy weather wreaked similar havoc across much of the South, closing schools and highways, grounding flights and contributing to at least a dozen deaths from traffic accidents and a mobile home fire. Yet it was Atlanta, home to major corporations and the world's busiest airport, that was Exhibit A for how a Southern city could be sent reeling by winter weather that, in the North, might be no more than an inconvenience. The mayor said the city could have directed schools, businesses and government offices to stagger their closings on Tuesday afternoon, as the storm began, rather than dismissing everyone at the same time. Bitterness, rancor stirred by Syria's civil war on full display at Geneva GENEVA (AP) — The bitterness and rancor stirred by Syria's civil war were on full display this week at peace talks Syrian official rejects call for transitional govt in Switzerland — and not just in the closed room where rival delegations are seeking a way to end the three-year conflict. For the first time since the country devolved into its bloody civil war, supporters and opponents of President Bashar Assad — many of them journalists — are meeting face to face. The mix is producing more than just awkward moments between people with vastly different views. In the hallways of the U.N.'s European headquarters and on the manicured lawns outside, tempers have flared. Scuffles have broken out as journalists interrupt rival reports, government officials have received extraordinary public grillings, and a distraught mother confronted the Syrian government delegation at their hotel. More than 130,000 people have died since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011, and millions of people have been uprooted from their homes. The conflict has pitted neigh- bor against neighbor. People who were once friends have stopped talking to each other. Journalists who once worked together have been separated. Sectarian tensions, once tamped down under Assad's grip, have exploded into the open. Many journalists have been forced to leave the country, either thrown out by the regime or going into self-imposed exiled in order to continue their work freely. Many have switched jobs to work with opposition or government outlets. GENEVA (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad's adviser on Wednesday rejected the opposition's call for a transitional governing body and suggested for the first time that a presidential election scheduled to be held later this year may not take place amid the raging violence. The comments by Bouthaina Shaaban in an interview with The Associated Press came as U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi announced that the first phase of the Syria peace talks in Geneva will end on Friday, as scheduled, and that the gap between the government and the opposition remains ''quite large.'' ''To be blunt, I do not expect that we're going achieve anything substantial'' by Friday, he told reporters Wednesday. ''I'm very happy that we are still talking and that the ice is breaking slowly.'' Brahimi said both sides will decide when the second phase of the talks will take place — most likely after a oneweek break. 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