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8A – Daily News – Monday, May 2, 2011 Mobs burn embassies TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Angry mobs attacked Western embassies and U.N. offices in Tripoli Sunday after NATO bombed Moammar Gad- hafi’s family compound in an attack officials said killed the leader’s sec- ond-youngest son and three grandchildren. Russia accused the West- ern alliance of exceeding its U.N. mandate of pro- tecting Libyan civilians with the strike. The vandalized embassies were empty and nobody was report- ed injured, but the attacks heightened ten- sions between the Libyan regime and Western powers, prompting the United Nations to pull its inter- national staff out of the capital. The bombing did not slow the attacks of Gad- hafi’s forces on rebel strongholds in the west- ern part of Libya that has remained largely under the control of the regime. The rebel port of Misrata, which has been besieged by Gadhafi’s troops for two months, came under heavy shelling Sunday and at least 12 people were killed, a medic said. Gadhafi has repeated- ly called for a cease-fire, most recently on Satur- day, but has not halted his assault on Misrata, a city of 300,000 where hundreds have been killed since the rebellion against Libya’s ruler erupted in mid-Febru- ary. The rebels, who con- trol most of eastern Libya, have been unable to gain an advantage on the battlefield despite weeks of NATO airstrikes. Alliance offi- cials and allied leaders emphatically denied they were hunting Gad- hafi to break the stale- mate between the better trained government forces and the lightly armed rebels. Believers stream into churches to give thanks and mourn BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Macolee Muhammed accepted the prayer of a relief worker who stopped by what was left of her Birmingham home. It didn’t matter that she was Muslim and he was a Southern Baptist. ‘‘If you came here to help, the only person who sent you was God,’’ she said. The storms that roared across the South last week flattened churches and crushed the homes of pas- tors and parishioners in a ragged stretch from Mis- sissippi to Virginia. At least 342 people were killed and thousands more hurt. So on the first Sunday after the disaster, believ- ers streamed into houses of worship to give thanks for being spared, to mourn the dead and to ponder impossible ques- tions. Why did some sur- vive without any explana- tion? Why did others die for no apparent reason? Many people in this highly religious region saw God at work, even amid the devastation. WORLD BRIEFING Pope beatifies John Paul II before a crowd of 1.5 million VATICAN CITY (AP) — Some 1.5 million pil- grims flooded Rome Sun- day to watch Pope John Paul II move a step closer to sainthood in one of the largest Vatican Masses in history, an outpouring of adoration for a beloved and historic figure after years marred by church scandal. The turnout for the beatification far exceeded even the most optimistic expectation of 1 million people, the number Rome city officials predicted. For Catholics filling St. Peter’s Square and its sur- rounding streets, and for those watching around the world the beatification was a welcome hearken- ing back to the days when the pope was almost uni- versally beloved. ‘‘He was like a king to us, like a father,’’ Maryn- ka Ulaszewska, a 28-year- old from Ciechocinek, Poland, said, weeping. ‘‘I hope these emotions will remain with us for a long time,’’ she said. Pope Benedict XVI praised John Paul for turn- ing back the seemingly ‘‘irreversible’’ tide of communism with faith, courage and ‘‘the strength of a titan, a strength which came to him from God.’’ John Paul is universal- ly credited with helping bring down communism in his native Poland with support for the Solidarity labor movement, acceler- ating the fall of the Iron Curtain. Your Business can be featured in the... Gabrielle Giffords — is off until at least next Sun- day because of a technical problem. The latest cul- prit, believed to be a bad fuse box, illustrates just how complex these space machines are and why NASA’s goodbye to the 30-year shuttle program may be a long one. Commander Mark Mo. asks SCOTUS to block blast CAIRO, Ill. (AP) — A legal fight over whether the Army Corps of Engi- neers should blast open a levee to relieve the rain- swollen Mississippi River went to the nation’s high- est court Sunday as the Illinois town the breach is meant to help during record flooding was cleared out. As Missouri asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the corps’ plan, struggling Cairo near the confluence of Ohio and Mississippi rivers resem- bled a ghost town as Illi- nois National Guard troops went door to door with law enforcers to enforce the mayor’s ‘‘mandatory’’ evacuation order the previous night. About 20 to 30 fami- lies were allowed to stay — a courtesy extended only to adults — in the 2,800-resident town after signing waivers acknowl- edging that they under- stood the potential peril, National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Heath Clark said. ‘‘If you’re (possibly) losing everything and don’t know where to go, you wouldn’t want to leave, either,’’ he told The Associated Press during a staging area in the Cairo High School cafeteria. The corps is consider- June 4-5, 2011 10,000 total distribution! 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Russia said Sunday that the bombing of the home of Gadhafi’s youngest son raised ‘‘seri- ous doubts’’ about NATO’s assertions that it is not targeting the Libyan strongman or his rela- tives. ‘‘Disproportionate use of force ... is leading to detrimental consequences and the death of innocent civilians,’’ the Russian Foreign Ministry warned. International law does not explicitly forbid attacks on military com- manders during wartime, but the U.N. Security Council mandate autho- rizing NATO action charged alliance forces with establishing a no-fly zone and protecting civil- ians from attack. Security council mem- bers Russia, China and Brazil have warned that attempts to change the regime or eliminate its members would be a vio- lation of the mandate. Revolving door connects Japanese nuke industry TOKYO (AP) — Near- ly 10 years after Japan’s top utility first assured the government that its Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant was safe from any tsunami, regulators were just get- ting around to checking out the claim. The move was too little, too late. But even if there had been scrutiny years before the fury of an earthquake- powered wave swamped the six atomic reactors at Fukushima on March 11, it is almost certain the government wouldn’t have challenged the unre- alistictype:italic; analysis that Tokyo Electric Power Co. had submitted in 2001. An Associated Press review of Japan’s approach to nuclear plant safety shows how closely intertwined relationships between government reg- ulators and industry have allowed a culture of com- placency to prevail. Regulators simply did- n’t see it as their role to pick apart the utility’s raw data and computer model- ing to judge for them- selves whether the plant was sufficiently protected from tsunami. The policy amounted to this: Trust plant operator TEPCO — and don’t worry about verifying its math or its logic. This kind of willful ignorance was not unique within a sympathetic bureaucracy at the Min- istry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The agency has multiple functions — some that can easily be viewed as having conflict- ing goals. The ministry is charged with touting the benefits of nuclear energy, selling Japanese technolo- gy to other countries — and regulating domestic nuclear plant safety. Until January, it was led by a former engineer in the nuclear plant design section at Hitachi Ltd. Next Sunday earliest launch date CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s space shuttles are drag- ging their tails toward retirement. The high-profile voy- age of Endeavour — the next-to-last space shuttle flight led by the husband of wounded Rep. Kelly and his five crew- mates quickly headed back to Houston on Sun- day morning, two days after their first launch attempt was foiled. Giffords wasn’t far behind; she was in Hous- ton by midafternoon, ready to resume rehab at the hospital where she’s been undergoing treat- ment since January, after being shot in the head in an assassination attempt. She had arrived in Florida Wednesday to take part in the excitement of the launch countdown and to see her husband blast off. It was not immediately known if she would be back for a second try. Her presence added to the drama surrounding Endeavour’s liftoff. So did that of President Barack Obama and his family. They were disap- pointed not to see a launch on Friday, but still dropped by for a tour at Kennedy Space Center anyway. Obama hinted he might make a return visit to see the very last shuttle launch this summer. War on obesity escalates The images are striking: Overweight boys and girls staring somberly from bill- boards and online videos, real-life embodiments of the blunt messages along- side. ‘‘Chubby kids may not outlive their parents,’’ for example. Or: ‘‘Big bones didn’t make me this way. Big meals did.’’ The ads — part of a new ‘‘Stop Child Obesity’’ cam- paign in Georgia — won some enthusiastic praise for their attention-grabbing tac- tics. But they also have out- raged parents, activists and academics who feel the result is more stigma for an already beleaguered and bullied group of children. ‘‘Billboards depicting fat kids are extraordinarily harmful to the very kids they are supposedly trying to help,’’ said the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, which called for the billboards’ removal. The Georgia Children’s Health Alliance, which cre- ated the ads, said they were necessary to jar parents of obese kids out of a state of denial that their children had a problem. Workers demand job security BERLIN (AP) — Some 400,000 people took to the streets in Germany on Sun- day as marchers around the world demanded more jobs, better working conditions and higher wages on Inter- national Workers’ Day. In Turkey, some 200,000 protesters flooded a central plaza in Istanbul, making it the largest May Day rally there since 1977, when at least 34 people died and more than 100 were injured after shooting triggered a stampede. Turkish unions weren’t allowed back until last year. Across Germany, some 423,000 people took to the streets to demand fair wages, better working con- ditions, and sufficient social security, the country’s unions’ umbrella-group, DGB said. Union group head Michael Sommer said the turnout — similar to last year’s — was a clear mes- sage to the government that it should give up its refusal to introduce a national min- imum wage.