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Tuesday, August 23, 2011 – Daily News 5A WORLD BRIEFING New fight over balanced budget amendment WASHINGTON (AP) — As a ''supercommittee'' tries to find $1.5 trillion in new deficit cuts this fall, Republicans will be press- ing a far more ambitious goal: passing an amendment to the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget. The idea is being pushed most forcefully by conserva- tive activists eager to shrink the government and its spending but disappointed with the results they've achieved so far in Washing- ton, where Democrats con- trol both the White House and the Senate. ''Spending cuts and caps are steps in the right direc- tion,'' said Rep. Pete Ses- sions, R-Texas. But a bal- anced budget amendment is ''the only permanent solu- tion to control government spending and end our nation's spending-driven debt crisis,'' Sessions said. House GOP leaders — short of the two-thirds mar- gin required to pass the amendment — have held off scheduling a vote. But both House and Senate are required to hold votes this fall as one of the conditions of recently enacted legisla- tion to raise the govern- ment's borrowing cap. It's a decidedly uphill battle, even though Republicans control the House with larger num- bers than they had in 1995, when a balanced budget amendment sailed through the chamber with 300 votes. It fell just one supporter short of the required two- thirds margin in the Senate. Nature hike took leader into path of attacker INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — As a 76-year-old scout- master led two young charges on a nature hike, they stopped to identify a tree — a pause authorities say put them in the path of a man who emerged from a nearby home with a 12-inch knife and stabbed the group's leader, leaving him to bleed to death on the trail. The attack Sunday after- noon on the Nickel Plate Trail in Bunker Hill, 60 miles north of Indianapolis, killed Arthur Anderson, a scouting volunteer for 50 years who also mentored young computer whizzes at Kokomo High School and held a patent for an electrical device. Authorities say that after approaching Anderson from behind and stabbing him without provocation, 22-year-old Shane Golitko returned to the home where he had earlier assaulted his mother, breaking her arm, and stabbed his two dogs, killing one of them. He fled in his mother's Jeep, leading police on an eight-mile chase before he was arrest- ed. Authorities said it wasn't clear what set Golitko off, and neither drugs nor alco- hol were involved. ''It was a senseless act,'' said Indiana State Police Detective Tony Frawley, who had stated in a court affidavit that Golitko told him ''that the reason he got the knife from his bedroom was to 'stab the guy with the gray hair.''' 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Todd Green, the son of a prominent aerial stuntman and a skilled one himself, was one of only two people to ever do the stunt, said Kyle Franklin, a stunt pilot and former wing walker who once worked with him. ''He was very good at it. I've seen him do that many, many times,'' Franklin said. ''He was always on spot and did a very good job with everything he did.'' Green, who died Sunday after falling 200 feet from the plane during an annual air show at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, suc- cessfully completed the stunt the day before, said Technical Sgt. Dan Heaton, a base spokesman. His death came a day after two pilots died in sepa- rate crashes at air shows in Missouri and England. US and NATO were crucial, covert partners WASHINGTON (AP) — Through months of mili- tary stalemate in Libya it was an open secret among NATO allies that countries inside and outside the alliance were quietly but crucially helping rebels gain their footing against the much stronger forces loyal to longtime dictator Moam- mar Gadhafi. Covert forces, private contractors and U.S. intelligence assets were thrown into the fight in an undercover campaign oper- ating separately from the NATO command structure. Targeted bombings method- ically took out Gadhafi's key communications facilities and weapons caches. 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The aid included logisti- cians, security advisers and forward air controllers for the rebel army, as well as intelligence operatives, damage assessment analysts and other experts, according to a diplomat based at NATO's headquarters in Brussels. The diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensi- tivity of the issue. Letterman mines laughs NEW YORK (AP) — Even a fatwa is grist for comedy when you're David Letterman. Back from two weeks' vacation and making his first TV appearance since a threat against his life was posted on a jihadist website, the ''Late Show'' host Garrett Metal Detectors The Gold Exchange Mon.-Fri. 10-5:30 • Saturday 11-4 find your fortune www.redbluffgoldexchange.com 413 Walnut Street, Red Bluff • 530 528-8000 played it for laughs during Monday's monologue. Letterman began by thanking his studio audience for being there. ''Tonight,'' he said, ''you people are more, to me, hon- estly, than an audience — you're more like a human shield.'' Then he apologized for having been tardy coming out onstage. ''Backstage, I was talk- ing to the guy from CBS,'' he explained. ''We were going through the CBS life insurance policy to see if I was covered for jihad.'' Until Letterman deliv- ered his jokes, his situation seemed no laughing matter. Last week, a frequent contributor to a jihadist web- site posted the threat against Letterman. He urged Mus- lim followers to ''cut the tongue'' of the late-night host because of a joke and gesture the comic had made about al-Qaida leaders on his CBS show earlier this summer. ''A guy, a radical extrem- ist threatened to cut my tongue out,'' Letterman marveled during Monday's monologue. Then, referring to his disastrous turn hosting the 1995 Oscarcast, he added, ''I wish I had a nick- el for every time a guy has threatened (that). I think the first time was during the Academy Awards.'' NOW CARRYING