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4B Daily News– Wednesday, May 9, 2012 WORLD BRIEFING US sends airport security countries WASHINGTON (AP) — In the wake of a terror- ist bomb plot disrupted by the CIA, the U.S. advised some international air- ports and air carriers Tuesday about security measures for passengers traveling to the U.S. The guidance from the guidance to other focused Tuesday on North Carolina, as voters decid- ed whether to make it the 30th state to pass a consti- tutional amendment defining marriage as sole- ly between a man and a woman. In the final days before Transportation Security Administration was a reminder of methods the U.S. provided to these international airports and carriers in the past six to eight months to help pro- tect against threats from liquid explosives and explosives hidden inside a person's body or clothes or in printer cartridges. All are methods officials said al-Qaida's spinoff group in Yemen has con- sidered for plots against the U.S, according to an American official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the details of the guidance. The CIA recently foiled a bomb plot in Yemen in which officials say a suicide bomber was to have detonated an explosive on a U.S.- bound flight. ''The seizure of this device is a reminder that our adversaries continue to be interested in target- ing the aviation sector,'' Homeland Security spokesman Matt Chandler said Tuesday afternoon. Chandler said the govern- ment issued the guidance reminder ''to underscore the importance of these ongoing measures to air carriers and foreign gov- ernment partners.'' He said there is currently no credible or specific infor- mation about a terror the vote, members of President Barack Obama's cabinet expressed support for gay marriage and former Pres- ident Bill Clinton record- ed phone messages urging voters to reject the amendment. Opponents also held marches, put up television ads and gave speeches, including one by Jay Bakker, son of tel- evangelists Jim Bakker and the late Tammy Faye Bakker. threat to the U.S. Despite the discovery of a sophisticated new al- Qaida airline bomb plot, congressional and securi- ty officials suggested there was no immediate need to change airport security procedures, which already subject many shoeless passengers to pat-downs and body scans. for survival WASHINGTON (AP) — GOP Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar faced the biggest threat of his near- ly four-decade career Tuesday, North Carolina voters weighed a gay- marriage ban and Democ- rats were picking a nomi- nee to challenge Republi- can Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in a June recall election. Indiana's Lugar fights owed Mitt Romney's all- but-certain presidential primary victories in three states, expected to bring him close to the 1,144 he The races overshad- needs to clinch the nomi- nation. Even Romney, the for- mer Massachusetts gover- nor, was essentially ignor- ing primaries that were likely to hand him 100 or so delegates of the 288 he still needed heading into Tuesday's contests. He spent the day campaign- ing Michigan, where he castigated President Barack Obama as an ''old-school liberal'' whose policies would take the country back- ward. day's far-flung voting were certain to give clues about the state of the elec- torate — and highlight the political minefields facing both Republican and Democratic candidates — six months before the general election. The outcomes of Tues- against Mourdock. Republicans need to gain four seats to take control of the U.S. Senate, and a Lugar loss ''only gives Democrats a pickup opportunity,'' said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. Europe's political testiness might not further jeopardize his re- election, adding him to the recent roster of politicians whose careers have been short-circuited by econom- ic anger. At the same time it has shifted Europe's political balance to the left and in favor of the type of eco- nomic growth policies that Obama has advocated both for Europe and for the United States. For Mitt Romney, the In Indiana, Lugar bat- tled for political survival against a tea party-backed GOP challenger, state Treasurer Richard Mour- dock. A Lugar loss was likely to put the Indiana seat up for grabs and Democrats were promis- ing to compete hard spread to US WASHINGTON (AP) — The elections that drove Nicolas Sarkozy out of power in France and left Greece scrambling to build a coalition government pose a financial threat to the United States that could undermine President Barack Obama's efforts to cast himself as the agent of a U.S. economic revival. For Obama, the danger is that any economic tur- moil unleashed by the French and Greek elections will spill over to the United States, slow the recovery even more and, ultimately, Meanwhile, supporters ran their own ad cam- paigns and church leaders urged Sunday congrega- tions to vote for the amendment. The Rev. Billy Graham, who at age 93 remains influential even though his last cru- sade was in 2005, was featured in full-page newspaper ads supporting the amendment. all-but-certain Republican presidential challenger, the results in Europe under- score how deeply econom- ic unease affects politics. They feed his camp's underlying storyline: that Obama's economic poli- cies would not safeguard the United States from a widening European reces- sion. But as a rejection of aus- terity measures, the Euro- pean elections also present a cautionary tale for the type of belt-tightening that Romney and congressional Republicans have embraced. GOPblocks debate on Dems student Both sides spent a combined $3 million on their campaigns. Experts expect the measure to pass, despite the state's long history of moderate politics. Calif man SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A trauma surgeon said Tuesday that continu- ous compression of a Cal- ifornia homeless man's chest during a confronta- tion with police officers caused breathing prob- lems that led to his death. The testimony by Dr. Michael Lekawa Chest compression led to death of homeless loan bill WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill Tuesday to preserve low interest rates for millions of college students' loans, as the two parties engaged in election-year choreography aimed at showing each is the better protector of fami- lies in today's rugged econ- omy. The 52-45 vote to begin debating the legislation fell eight votes short of the 60 needed to proceed and stalled work on an effort both parties expect will ulti- mately produce a compro- mise, probably soon. For now, each side is happy to use the stalemate to snipe at the other with campaign- ready talking points while they are gridlocked over how to cover the $6 billion cost. during a hearing in response to intense ques- tioning by attorneys for two Fullerton police offi- cers charged with killing 37-year-old Kelly Thomas during an investi- gation of a reported car burglary at a transit hub last July. Lekawa noted that sur- came veillance video and audio recordings of the incident showed that Thomas' voice changed from initial shouts of ''I can't breathe'' to long, drawn- out moans before he stopped talking altogeth- er. ma surgery at University of California, Irvine Med- ical Center — where Thomas was taken after the confrontation — said he believes the incident caused Thomas' respira- tory problems, which deprived his brain of oxy- gen. Lekawa, chief of trau- Kidnap- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the vote showed that despite GOP claims that they sup- port preventing an increase in student loan rates, ''Republicans showed today that it's only talk.'' He also noted that the likely GOP presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, supports a temporary exten- sion of today's low rates and needled, ''I suggest he pick up the phone and call Sena- tor McConnell.'' That was a reference to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who said the battle is a phony one manufactured by Democrats to woo votes from students. Both parties say they want to extend low interest rates. NC in the national spotlight RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The national debate over gay marriage and mother GUNTOWN, Miss. (AP) — The net widened Tuesday in the case of a Mississippi man suspect- ed of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter and fleeing with her two younger girls as authorities charged his wife and mother in con- nection with the abduc- tion. slaying case widens with arrest of wife As an intense man- hunt for Adam Mayes and the two young girls continued, his wife, Teresa Mayes, and moth- er, Mary Mayes, were arraigned in a Hardeman County, Tenn., court- room. Teresa Mayes, 30, was charged with espe- cially aggravated kidnap- ping and Mary Mayes, 65, was charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping.