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Ukraine official says 8 Russian transport planes have landed in Crimea SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Armed men took control of key airports in Crimea on Friday and Russ- ian transport planes flew into the strategic region, Ukrainian officials said, an ominous sign of the Krem- lin's iron hand in Ukraine. President Barack Obama warned Moscow there will be costs if it intervenes mili- tarily in Ukraine. Serhiy Astakhov, a spokesman for the Ukrain- ian border service, said eight Russian transport planes landed in Crimea Peninsula in southern Ukraine with unknown cargo. He told The Associated Press that the Il-76 planes arrived unexpectedly and were given permission to land, one after the other, at Gvardeiskoye air base, north of the regional capital, Sim- feropol. Astakhov said the people in the planes refused to identify themselves and waved off customs officials, saying they didn't require their services. Russia kept silent on claims of military interven- tion, even as it maintained its hard-line stance on protect- ing ethnic Russians in Crimea, a territory that has played a symbolic role in its national identity. Ukraine's U.N. ambassador said Fri- day that he told the U.N. Security Council that Russ- ian military helicopters and transport planes are entering his country and that Russian armed forces seized Crimea's main airport. Clinton documents reveal 1990s White House strategy on health care, Mrs. Clinton WASHINGTON (AP) — Bill Clinton's aides revealed concern early in his presidency about the health care overhaul effort led by his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and later about what they saw as a need to soften her image, according to documents released Fri- day. Mrs. Clinton now is a potential 2016 presidential contender The National Archives released about 4,000 pages of previously confidential documents involving the former president's adminis- tration, providing a glimpse into the ultimately unsuc- cessful struggles of his health care task force, led by the first lady, and other Clin- ton priorities such as the U.S. economy and a major trade agreement. Hillary Clinton's poten- tial White House campaign has increased interest in Clinton Presidential Library documents from her hus- band's administration dur- ing the 1990s and her own decades in public service. A former secretary of state and New York senator, Mrs. Clinton is the leading Democratic contender to succeed President Barack Obama, though she has not said whether she will run. Friday's documents included memos related to the former president's ill- fated health care reform pro- posal in 1993 and 1994, a plan that failed to win sup- port in Congress and turned into a rallying cry for Republicans in the 1994 midterm elections. As first lady, Hillary Clinton chaired her husband's health care task force, largely meeting in secret to develop a plan to provide universal health insurance coverage. White House aides expressed initial optimism about her ability to help craft and enact a major overhaul of U.S. health care. Regional airlines having trouble finding pilots WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's regional air- lines are having trouble hir- ing enough pilots, the gov- ernment says, suggesting one reason may be that they simply don't pay enough. A pool of qualified pilots is available, but it's unclear whether they are willing to work for low entry-level wages, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Friday. One key economic indi- cator supports the emer- gence of a shortage, some- thing regional airlines have complained of and point to as a reason for limiting ser- vice to some small commu- nities. But two other indica- tors suggest the opposite is true, GAO said. Also, two studies reviewed by the GAO ''point to the large number of qualified pilots that exist, but may be work- ing abroad, in the military or in another occupation, as evidence that there is ade- quate supply,'' the report said. The U.S. airline industry will need to hire 1,900 to 4,500 new pilots annually over the next 10 years due to an expected surge in retire- ments of pilots reaching age 65 and increased demand for air travel, the report said. Eleven out of 12 regional airlines failed to meet their hiring targets for entry-level pilots last year, the report said. However, no major air- lines were experiencing problems finding pilots. Documents abandoned by Ukrainian officials put online KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians are getting an unfiltered look at the opulent lifestyle and alleged machi- nations of fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych and his top officials from thousands of documents being posted online by journalists who say it's more important to record their country's histo- ry — and document possi- ble crimes — than hold them back for their own scoops. Visitors to the Yanukovy- chLeaks.org website can browse what appear to be the expense payments for running the sprawling com- pound just outside Kiev that reportedly was Yanukovych's home. The website had 1,581 docu- ments online by Friday afternoon after attracting more than 300,000 visitors a day for several days this week. ''The recovered docu- ments are being published on this website to make them available to journalists and citizens around the world,'' the site said. ''The investigations based on these documents will also be published here and in Ukrainian media.'' The documents include a payment of over $115,000 for a shooting range with a moving wild boar and $2.3 million for a tea room. Many other payments seem routine, such as money for roads and gardening, and $150 for tennis balls. There were payments to six cooks and three waiters. New Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk has said the country is almost broke and that billions had been taken out of the country. Three Alpine nations moved Friday to block assets that Yanukovych and some of his associates might have stashed away there, and Swiss authorities opened a money-laundering investi- gation into Yanukovych and his son. Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein all have banking systems that have in the past been favored by investors as a place to hide funds. All are at pains to pre- vent their banks being used to hide and launder ill-gotten funds. Upcoming primary elections offer 1st major test of voter ID laws WASHINGTON (AP) — In elections that begin next week, voters in 10 states will be required to present photo identification before casting ballots — the first major test of voter ID laws after years of legal challenges arguing that the measures are designed to suppress voting. The first election is March 4 in Texas, followed by nine other primaries run- ning through early Septem- ber that will set the ballot for the midterm elections in November, when voters decide competitive races for governor and control of Congress. The primaries will be closely watched by both sides of the voter ID debate, which intensified in 2011, the year after Republicans swept to power in dozens of statehouses. For months, election workers have been preparing new voting proce- dures, while party activists and political groups seek ID cards for voters who do not have them. The debut of the new laws in a few smaller- scale elections over the last year has already exposed some problems, such as mismatched names, confu- sion over absentee voting provisions and rules that require voters to travel great distances to obtain proper documentation. In one case, voters had no recourse if their credentials were chal- lenged. RFK daughter acquitted of drugged driving WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Kerry Kennedy was swiftly acquitted Friday of drugged driving in a case that her lawyers said would never have been brought if she were simply "Mary Housewife" rather than a member of one of America's most glamorous political families. After four days of testi- mony, a six-person jury took a little over an hour to find Kennedy not guilty of dri- ving while impaired. She was arrested in 2012 after swerving into a tractor-trail- er on an interstate highway in her Lexus. The 54-year-old human- rights advocate — the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, niece of President John F. Kennedy and ex- wife of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — testified she mistakenly took a sleep- ing pill instead of her daily thyroid medication the morning of the wreck. If convicted, she could have been sentenced to a year in jail, though that would have been unlikely for a first-time offender. Her lawyers made sure that the jurors knew all about her famous family. But after the acquittal, they said she should have been treated like "Mary House- wife." And they accused prosecutors of giving her special treatment by refus- ing to drop the case. From Riyadh to Beirut, growing fear of blowback BISARIYEH, Lebanon (AP) — The once-tranquil, religiously mixed village of Bisariyeh is seething: Two of its young men who fought alongside the rebels in Syria recently returned home radicalized and staged suicide bombings in Lebanon. The phenomenon is being watched anxiously across the Mideast, particu- larly in Saudi Arabia, where authorities are moving deci- sively to prevent citizens from going off to fight in Syria. The developments illus- trate how the Syrian war is sending dangerous ripples across a highly combustible region and sparking fears that jihadis will come home with dangerous ideas and turn their weapons against their own countries. In Lebanon, where long- standing tensions between Sunnis and Shiites have been heightened by the con- flict next door, the fear of blowback has very much turned into reality. 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