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8A Daily News – Friday, August 12, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Spokesman says Texas Gov. Rick Perry is running AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry is running for president, a spokesman confirmed Thursday, a move certain to shake up the race for the GOP nomina- tion much to the delight of conser- vatives looking for a candidate to embrace. Perry spokesman Mark Miner said the governor would make his intentions known on Saturday while visiting South Carolina and New Hampshire just as most of his presidential rivals compete in a test vote in Iowa. Official word of Perry’s entrance into the race came just hours before eight candidates, including GOP front-runner Mitt Romney, were to appear on stage during a nationally televised debate. It wasn’t much of a surprise. The longest-serving governor in Texas history has flirted with a presidential run since spring and has spent the past few months courting Republicans in early vot- ing states and laying the ground- work for a campaign. He met pri- vately with potential donors from California to New York and gave rabblerousing speeches to party faithful, casting himself as a fiscal- ly responsible social conservative. His intentions became even clearer over the past few days when officials disclosed that he would visit an important trio of states, a campaign-like schedule timed to overshadow the debate and the Iowa straw poll and, per- haps, wreak havoc on a field led by Romney. Romney has a pointed debate at Iowa state fair DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Seven Republican presidential contenders hope to use Thursday’s debate in the leadoff caucus state of Iowa to cast themselves as Mitt Romney’s strongest rival. Front- runner Romney’s day, meanwhile, got off to a rough start with a con- frontation with voters at the Iowa State Fair. The former Massachusetts governor, who lost the GOP nom- ination in 2008, faced tough ques- tions on Social Security. Growing exasperated and raising his voice, Romney told one questioner, ‘‘If you want to speak, you can. But it’s my turn.’’ As he wrapped up, he joked, ‘‘These guys up front won’t be voting for me.’’ Romney is hoping things in Ames Thursday night more close- ly resemble a June debate in New Hampshire where he emerged largely unscathed. He enjoys a commanding lead in fundraising and opinion polls and wants to protect both by sticking to his message about the economy. At least two of his rivals — Rep. Michele Bachmann and for- mer Gov. Tim Pawlenty, both of Minnesota — are hoping for a last-minute boost before an impor- tant weekend Iowa test vote that could make or break their cam- paigns. Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman is looking to make a strong impression in his first debate, and Texas Rep. Ron Paul is out to show his ideas are more mainstream than fringe. Paying for empty planes On some days, the pilots with Great Lakes Airlines fire up a twin-engine Beechcraft 1900 at the Ely, Nev., airport and depart for Las Vegas without a single passenger on board. And the federal government pays them to do it. Federal statistics reviewed by The Associated Press show that in 2010, just 227 passengers flew out of Ely while the airline got $1.8 million in subsidies. The travelers paid $70 to $90 for a one-way ticket. The cost to taxpayers for each ticket: $4,107. Ely is one of 153 rural com- munities where airlines get sub- sidies through the $200 million Essential Air Service program, and one of 13 that critics say should be eliminated from it. Some call the spending a boon- doggle, but others see it as a crit- ical financial lifeline to ensure economic stability in rural areas. Steve Smith, executive direc- tor of the Jackson, Tenn., airport authority, also has seen empty or near empty flights take off, since the airlines get paid per flight, not per passenger. The subsidy amounted to $244 for each of the 2,514 people who flew out of Smith’s airport last year, though few if any passengers knew that. ‘‘They fly the empty plane so they can still get the money,’’ Smith said. Witnesses say helicopter on fire when it crashed KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan children retrieved souvenir-sized pieces of a heli- copter shot down by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan where witnesses on Thursday described seeing the chopper burst into flames and break apart before falling from the sky, killing 30 U.S. troops and eight Afghans. Coalition forces finished recovering the victims’ remains and big sections of the wreck- age. Yet small, twisted pieces of the Chinook CH-47 remain scattered on both sides of a slow-flowing river in Wardak province where it crashed before dawn Saturday. Farhad, a local resident, told Associated Press Television News that the helicopter was shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade fired from a nearby knoll as it was preparing to land. ‘‘As soon as it was hit, it started burning,’’ he said, stand- ing in a field still littered with small pieces of the chopper, including a part of a scorched rifle stamped ‘‘Made in Ger- many’’ and a piece of charred paper with typewritten first aid instructions. ‘‘After it started burning, it crashed. It came down in three pieces,’’ he added. ‘‘We could see it burning from our homes.’’ UK’s Cameron vows tough measures LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday that Britain would look to the United States for solutions to gang violence after nights of riots and looting, and promised authorities would get strong powers to stop street mayhem erupting again. Cameron told lawmakers he was ‘‘are acting decisively to restore order on our streets,’’ as police raided houses to round up suspects from four nights of unrest in London and other English cities. 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