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6A Daily News – Saturday, May 28, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Bad readings in 2009 Air France crash PARIS (AP) — Con- fronted with faulty instru- ment readings and alarms going off in the cockpit, the pilots of an Air France jet- liner struggled to tame the aircraft as it went into an aerodynamic stall, rolled, and finally plunged 38,000 feet into the Atlantic Ocean in just 3 1/2 minutes. But the passengers on that doomed Rio de Janeiro- to-Paris flight were proba- bly asleep or nodding off and didn’t realize what was going on as the aircraft fell nose-up toward the sea, the director of the French acci- dent investigating bureau said after releasing prelimi- nary black-box data on the June 1, 2009, disaster. All 228 people aboard the Airbus A330 died. The brief, highly techni- cal report by the BEA con- tains only selective remarks from the cockpit recorder, offers no analysis and assigns no blame. It also does not answer the key question: What caused the crash? But several experts familiar with the report said the co-pilot at the controls, at 32 the youngest of the three-man cockpit crew, Cedric Bonin, may have responded incorrectly to the emergency by pointing the nose upward, perhaps because he was confused by the incorrect readings. Perry will consider running AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — After months of resisting calls to join the race, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Friday he would consider seeking the Republican presidential nomination, potentially reshaping the GOP field. At the same time, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is heading to New Hampshire next week, fur- ther stirring speculation that he will jump into the still- gelling field of GOP candi- dates to take on President Barack Obama. Perry, the longest serving governor in Texas history, would bring conservative bona fides, a proven fundraising record and a fresh voice to the field. Even as Perry’s closest advisers say he has no intention of getting in the race, he has methodically raised his pro- file, fanning interest. ‘‘I’m going to think about it,’’ Perry said Friday. ‘‘I think about a lot of things.’’ That was enough to set off speculation Perry would jump into a campaign that lacks a clear front-runner. Russia offers to mediate exit for ex- ally Gadhafi DEAUVILLE, France (AP) — Russia abandoned one-time ally Moammar Gadhafi and offered Friday to mediate a deal for the Libyan leader to leave the country he has ruled for more than 40 years. The striking proposal by a leading critic of the NATO bombing campaign reflects growing international frus- tration with the Libyan cri- sis and a desire by the Kremlin for influence in the rapidly changing Arab land- scape. With Gadhafi increas- ingly isolated and NATO jets intensifying their attacks, Russia may also be eyeing Libya’s oil and gas and preparing for the prospect that the lucrative Libyan market will fall into full rebel control. ‘‘He should leave,’’ Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said of Gadhafi. ‘‘I proposed our mediation services to my partners. Everyone thinks that would be useful.’’ The proposal thrust Medvedev into the spotlight at a summit in France of Group of Eight rich nations. Talk of this year’s Arab world uprisings has domi- nated the summit. Mladic could be extradited as early as Monday BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Ratko Mladic is eating strawberries and receiving family visits in a Serbian jail, but as early as Monday the ex-general could be on his way to face a war-crimes tribunal in The Hague, possibly joining his former ally Radovan Karadzic on trial for some of the worst horrors of the Balkan wars. The former Bosnian Serb army commander known for his cruelty and arrogance began issuing demands from behind bars Friday, calling for a TV set and Tolstoy novels, and regaining some of his trade- mark hubris after a pre- dawn raid in a Serbian vil- lage the day before ended his 16 years on the run. Now a disheveled old man, his family claim he’s too ill to stand up to the rig- ors of a genocide trial and that he’s not guilty of crimes including his alleged role in the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II, the massacre that left 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Srebrenica enclave in Bosnia dead. Serbia’s war crimes court ruled that te 69-year- old is fit to stand trial and that conditions have been met for him to be handed over to the U.N. tribunal in The Hague. A defense lawyer said Mladic would appeal the decision on Monday. The former fugi- tive could be extradited within hours if that appeal is rejected. His defense is demand- ing that an ‘‘independent medical commission’’ examine Mladic — prefer- ably one from Russia, a his- torical friend of the Serbs. Instead the government dis- patched the health minister, a former friend, who deemed him stable. Obama honors Holocaust victims WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday honored the memories of those slain in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazis, telling one elderly man that the memo- rial was a ‘‘reminder of the nightmare’’ of the Holo- caust in which 6 millions Jews were killed. The president also helped placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, dedicated to all unidentified soldiers who have given their lives to Poland in past wars. By paying homage to Poles who fell in World War II at two symbolically potent sites, Obama’s gestures were sure to carry great weight in a country whose identity is still profoundly shaped by the death and destruction inflicted on it by Nazi Germany. In the final phase of his European trip, the president greeted Holocaust survivors and leaders of Poland’s Jewish community at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes. He smiled, shook hands and hugged those gathered under a light rain, including some who shared memories of having met Obama at earlier times. ‘‘What a wonderful visit. I’ll have to bring my daugh- ters,’’ Obama said as he exited the memorial. The monument in the former Jewish ghetto commemo- rates the tens of thousands of Jews killed in a 1943 uprising against the Nazis during Germany’s brutal occupation of Poland dur- ing World War II. Squeezing the pump means squeezing the budget NEW YORK (AP) — There’s less money this summer for hotel rooms, surfboards and bathing suits. It’s all going into the gas tank. High prices at the pump are putting a squeeze on the family budget as the tradi- tional summer driving sea- son begins. For every $10 the typical household earns before taxes, almost a full dollar now goes toward gas, a 40 percent bigger bite than normal. Households spent an average of $369 on gas last month. In April 2009, they spent just $201. Families now spend more filling up than they spend on cars, clothes or recreation. Last year, they spent less on gasoline than each of those things. Jeffrey Wayman of Cape Charles, Va., spent Friday riding his motorcycle to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, a day trip with his wife. They decided to eat snacks in a gas station park- ing lot rather than buy lunch because rising fuel prices have eaten so much into their budget over the past year that they can’t ride as frequently as they would like. ‘‘We used to do it a lot more, but not as much now,’’ he said. ‘‘You have to cut back when you have a $480 gas bill a month.’’ Clinton tells Pakistan to take action on militants ISLAMABAD (AP) — The killing of Osama bin Laden is a watershed moment for Pakistan’s confrontation with home- grown terrorism, U.S. Sec- retary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Fri- day. She sought to patch relations rocked by knowl- edge that the terror master- mind lived for years in a country receiving billions in U.S. counter-terror aid and that the U.S. didn’t trust its ally enough to alert Pakistani leaders that the raid was coming. ‘‘We have reached a turning point’’ following the long hunt for bin Laden, Clinton said after intensive meetings in the Pakistani capital under tight security. ‘‘It is up to the Pak- istani people to choose what kind of country they wish to live in,’’ Clinton said, ‘‘and it is up to the leaders of Pakistan to deliver results.’’ Clinton and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, praised Pakistan’s stand against some militants and challenged its lead- ers to take decisive steps to jointly take on al- Qaida. Both the senior leadership of al-Qaida and the Taliban are thought to live in Pak- istan, and affiliated mili- tants use safe havens in Pakistan to attacks U.S. forces fighting next door in Afghanistan. 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