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Thursday, January 12, 2012 – Daily News WORLD BRIEFING GOP race shifts to South, Romney looking strong COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Mitt Rom- ney swept into South Carolina on Wednes- day in pursuit of a confirming victory in the race for the Republican presidential nomi- nation, buoyed by a second straight elec- toral triumph, bulging campaign coffers and warm words from the state's pre-eminent practitioner of tea party politics. ''I don't want to be overconfident,'' said the Republican front-runner. But increas- ingly, he was talking about his plans for challenging President Barack Obama in the fall, not his primary foes of the moment. Running out of time, his GOP rivals showed no sign of surrender. Newt Gingrich welcomed Romney into the first Southern primary state with a fresh attack on his business career and a new tele- vision ad painting him as a flip-flopper on abortion. Said former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, ''South Carolina is going to be different. It is wide open for anyone.'' Texas Gov. Rick Perry drawled his way through a busy campaign day, displaying a Southern attribute that Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, could not hope to match. Fed survey shows final 6 weeks of last year were among the best for the economy WASHINGTON (AP) — The final weeks of 2011 were among the econo- my's strongest as Americans shopped and traveled more, ending the year with a shot of optimism for 2012. That's the bright picture the Federal Reserve sketched in a survey released Wednesday. It said all but one of its 12 banking districts experienced some growth from late November through the end of the year. Some sectors of the economy, notably housing, remain weak, the Fed said. But consumers spent more freely. Factories made more goods. Americans stepped up travel. And the auto industry enjoyed its best stretch of the year. Economists noted greater confidence in the tone of the report. For example, the central bank described auto manu- facturing as ''vibrant'' in several dis- tricts. Consumer spending was deemed ''robust'' in the Dallas region. ''It has been quite a while since we have seen the Fed use words like vibrant and robust to describe any part of the economy,'' said Brian Bethune, an eco- nomics professor at Amherst College. ''I think one of the things driving the stronger language is that things are bet- ter than the Fed had been expecting.'' Blast kills Iranian nuclear official TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — It seemed a clockwork killing: Motorcycle riders flashed by and attached a magnetic bomb onto a car carrying a nuclear sci- entist working at Iran's main uranium enrichment facility. By the time the blast tore apart the silver Peugeot, the bike was blocks away, weaving through Tehran traffic after what Iran calls the latest strike in an escalating covert war. The attack — which instantly killed the scientist and fatally wounded his driver on Wednesday — was at least the fourth targeted hit against a mem- ber of Iran's nuclear brain trust in two years. Tehran quickly blamed Israeli- linked agents backed by the U.S. and Britain. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton denied any U.S. role in the slay- ing, and the Obama administration con- demned the attack. However, provoca- tive hints from Jerusalem reinforced the perception of an organized and clandes- tine campaign to set back Iran's nuclear ambitions. The day before the attack, Israeli mil- itary chief Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz was quoted as telling a parliamentary panel that 2012 would be a ''critical year'' for Iran — in part because of ''things that happen to it unnaturally.'' The blast killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a direc- tor of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, the centerpiece of Iran's expand- ing program to make nuclear fuel. Roshan, 32, had planned to attend a memorial later Wednesday for another nuclear researcher who was killed in a similar pinpoint blast two years ago, Iranian media said. Joran van der Sloot pleads guilty to killing 21-year-old Peruvian woman LIMA, Peru (AP) — After Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty Wednes- day to the 2010 murder of a Peruvian woman he met at a Lima casino, his lawyer argued that the killing was tragically triggered by fallout from the very event that originally brought his client notoriety. The ''persecution'' suffered by Van der Sloot after the unsolved disap- pearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway five years earlier scarred him psychologically with a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder, defense attorney Jose Jimenez told the three female judges who are to sentence his client Friday. The young Dutchman has been the prime suspect in the Holloway case since she disappeared on Aruba five years to the day before the killing of the 21-year-old Peruvian woman, business student Stephany Flores. With the evidence against him in the Peru killing strong, Van der Sloot entered a guilty plea Wednesday at his lawyer's urging, hoping for a reduced sentence. ''I truly am sorry for this act. I feel very bad,'' the 24-year-old defendant said, showing no emotion in a brief admission of guilt in fractured Span- ish. He did not use the Dutch transla- tor provided for the proceeding. For the first time since 1965, homicide drops off list of top 15 causes of death ATLANTA (AP) — For the first time in almost half a century, homicide has fallen off the list of the nation's top 15 causes of death, bumped by a lung illness that often develops in elderly people who have choked on their food. The 2010 list, released by the govern- ment Wednesday, reflects at least two major trends: Murders are down, and deaths from certain diseases are on the rise as the popu- lation ages, health authorities said. Homicide was overtaken at No. 15 by pneumonitis, seen mainly in people 75 and older. It happens when food or vomit goes down the windpipe and causes deadly dam- age to the lungs. This is the first time since 1965 that homicide failed to make the list, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Pre- vention. The CDC's latest annual report on deaths contained several nuggets of good news: Brown winter means more green ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The warm, brown winter that has disappointed snow lovers in much of the U.S. has put more green in the pockets of state and local governments that had their budgets bust- ed last year by the high cost of keeping streets and highways clear. 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