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4B – Daily News – Thursday, April 14, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Obama pitches spending cuts, higher taxes on wealthy WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama cou- pled a call for $4 trillion in long-term deficit reductions with a blistering attack on Republican plans for taxes, Medicare and Medicaid on Wednesday, laying down markers for a roiling debate in Congress and the 2012 presidential campaign to come. Obama said spending cuts and higher taxes alike must be part of any deficit-reduc- tion plan, including an end to Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy. He proposed an unspecified ‘‘debt failsafe’’ that would go into effect if Congress failed to make sure the national debt would be falling by 2014 relative to the overall economy. ‘‘We have to live within our means, reduce our deficit and get back on a path that will allow us to pay down our debt,’’ the president said in a speech at George Washington University a few blocks from the White House. ‘‘And we have to do it in a way that protects the recovery, and protects the investments we need to grow, create jobs and win the future.’’ Obama’s speech was salted with calls for bipartisanship, but it also bristled with attacks on Republicans. They want to ‘‘end Medicare as we know it,’’ he said, and to extend tax cuts for the wealthy while demanding 33 million seniors pay more for health care. ‘‘That’s not right, and it’s not going to happen as long as I am president,’’ he vowed. NATO launches new airstrikes in Libya on targets held by Gadhafi AJDABIYA, Libya (AP) — NATO launched new airstrikes Wednesday on targets held by Moammar Gadhafi as the rebel movement urged a stronger air campaign that will allow them to advance on Gadhafi’s territo- ry. In Tripoli, meanwhile, Gad- hafi’s finance minister angrily denounced proposals by rebel leaders that they be given some of the regime’s assets that were frozen as part of international sanctions. ‘‘That is financial piracy,’’ Finance Minister Abdulhafid Zlitni said of the idea. In all, about $120 billion in Libyan assets were frozen as part of international sanctions, Zlitni told a news conference. Concerning Wednesday’s bombings, a NATO official con- firmed a strike on at least one ammunition bunker outside the Libyan capital, Tripoli. He asked that his name not be used because the military alliance was not yet releasing the infor- mation publicly. Libya’s official JANA news agency reported airstrikes Wednesday in three other places: Misrata, Libya’s third- largest city; Sirte, a Gadhafi stronghold and home to the Libyan leader’s tribe; and Aziziyah, about 22 miles (35 kilometers) south of Tripoli. Jana said the strike in Misrata was in an area ‘‘populated with residents.’’ Mubarak detained for investigation CAIRO (AP) — Ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons were detained Wednesday for investigation of corruption, abuse of power and killings of protesters, bringing cheers of victory from activists who hoped it marked a turning point in Egypt’s turbulent tran- sition to democracy. The 82-year-old Mubarak was under detention in a hospi- tal, a step prosecutors depicted as a precaution to monitor his health while under question- ing. His sons Gamal, once seen as Mubarak’s successor, and Alaa, a wealthy businessman, were jailed in Cairo’s Torah prison, where a string of for- mer top regime figures — including Mubarak’s prime minister, ruling party chief and chief of staff — are already languishing, facing similar cor- ruption investigations. The detention of the man who ruled Egypt unquestioned for 29 years set a new land- mark in the already unprece- dented wave of upheaval shak- ing the Middle East. It was arguably the first time an authoritarian leader in the Arab world has been brought to jus- tice by his own people, given that Saddam Hussein was top- pled and later captured by American troops, who handed him over for trial and execu- tion by Iraq’s new Shiite rulers. Corruption had been rife under Mubarak’s regime. In a country where 40 percent of the population lives on $2 a day or less, many resented the business tycoon-politicians elevated to power by Gamal Mubarak and accused of loot- ing the nation’s coffers to enrich themselves. Upset mom drives minivan into Hudson NEWBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A woman upset with the father of her children packed her four youngsters into her minivan and drove into the frigid Hudson River, killing everyone except her 10-year- old son, who managed to roll down a window of the sinking vehicle and swim to shore. The dead youngsters ranged in age from 11 months to 5 years. A relative had called police Tuesday night to report a dispute at the home of Lashanda Armstrong, 25. Shortly afterward, she drove off a boat ramp several blocks away from her apartment in this struggling city 60 miles north of New York City. Officials believe Lashaun Armstrong, 10, hit the button on a power window to escape from the driver’s side as the minivan began to sink in the 45-degree water. Fire Chief Michael Vatter said the vehi- cle went under within two minutes. Airline lose your bag? Gov’t says you should get your fee back NEW YORK (AP) — You’ve already paid $15, $20, even $35 to check your bag on a flight. Then the airline loses it. You don’t even get your money back. The government wants to change that, tackling two of the biggest complaints about the air travel industry — poor service and the explosion of fees — at once. Major air- lines, which collect $3.3 bil- lion in bag fees each year, are opposed. The airlines charge $15 to $35 to check a bag, $20 to $45 to check a second and more for the third and beyond. Most airlines won’t provide a refund, even if it takes days to return a passen- ger’s suitcase. They say the rule would raise prices for everyone. ‘‘I am going to pay you $25 to deliver my bag to X destination, it should be there waiting,’’ says Joseph S. Rosenberg of Roanoke, Va., who had to buy a suit at the last minute this week after an airline lost his bag on a flight to a business meeting. Republicans inlcude Dems’ Medicare cuts in their budget WASHINGTON (AP) — In a postelection reversal, House Republicans are sup- porting nearly $450 billion in Medicare cuts that they criti- cized vigorously last fall after Democrats and President Barack Obama passed them as part of their controversial health care law. The cuts are included in the 2012 budget that Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., unveiled last week and account for a significant share of the $5.8 trillion in claimed savings over the next decade. The House is expected to vote on the blueprint this week. Ryan’s spokesman, Conor Sweeney, said the cuts are virtually the only part of ‘‘Obamacare’’ — the term that Republicans use derisive- ly to describe the health care law enacted last year — that the Wisconsin Republican preserved when he drafted his budget. Suspect appears in court for cold-case murders of 4 SAN RAFAEL (AP) — A man accused in four Califor- nia cold-case killings made his first appearance in court to face murder charges. Joseph Naso arrived in the Marin County courtroom Wednesday in shackles and a red-striped shirt. The balding and bespecta- cled 77-year-old didn’t say anything, and the judge post- poned his arraignment while the court determines who will be his defense attorney. The women slain in the 1970s and 1990s all had allit- erative first and last initials, and authorities are trying to determine whether that’s a coincidence or the pattern of a serial killer. Investigators say a search of Naso’s home in Reno, Nev., turned up evidence linking him to bodies found across Northern California. Now detectives are looking into whether he could be tied to cold cases as far away as New York. Ohio police chief cancels hundreds of tickets HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — Motorists are off the hook for more than 900 speeding tickets automatically issued by a mobile police camera in southwest Ohio. The camera had been sta- tioned in a park in Hamilton on April 2 at the same time a youth soccer tournament, the Mid-American Soccer Clas- sic, was being held. Police Chief Neil Ferdel- man tells The JournalNews of Hamilton that he canceled the tickets because of the tourna- ment, which he says drew many out-of-towners who were unaware the camera was in use. The tournament’s director says there would have been consequences for next year’s event if Hamilton had decid- ed to pursue the tickets. At $95 each, the 900 tick- ets would have totaled more than $86,000. The chief says 70 of the tickets were mailed. Those motorists have been sent letters telling them: never mind. Witnesses: Slain officer saved partner’s life TRUMANN, Ark. 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