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8A Daily News – Friday, July 13, 2012 WORLD BRIEFING Penn State probe says Paterno and hushed up sex abuse — Joe Paterno and other top Penn State officials buried PHILADELPHIA (AP) Paterno, then-university President Graham Spanier and two other Penn State administrators allowed San- dusky to prey on other boys for years, said the report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh, who was hired by the university's trustees to investigate. behavior ''callous and shocking.'' ''Our most saddening and sobering finding is the total disregard for the safety and welfare of Sandusky's child victims by the most senior leaders at Penn State,'' Freeh said at a news conference in Philadelphia upon the release of the 267- page report. ''The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for 14 years to protect the chil- dren who Sandusky victim- ized.'' He called the officials' child sexual abuse allega- tions against Jerry San- dusky more than a decade ago to avoid bad publicity, according to a scathing report Thursday that exposed a powerful ''cul- ture of reverence'' for the football program and por- trayed the Hall of Fame coach as more deeply involved in the scandal than previously thought. The alleged cover-up by further stain Paterno's repu- tation. The revered coach who emphasized integrity both on and off the field and ran what was considered one of the cleanest pro- grams in sports died of lung cancer in January at age 85, months after he was sum- marily fired by the trustees. Scathing report erases Paterno its headquarters, and there were renewed calls to remove a Paterno statue out- side Beaver Stadium. More than 100 killed in munity. was considered special, immune from the corrup- tion of college athletics by virtue of Joe Paterno's high ideals, long list of victories and even longer list of grad- uates. Now to many, perhaps most people outside Penn State, that's been exposed as an illusion. goodwill For decades Penn State ian activist group says more than 100 people have been killed in a new 'massacre' in the central province of Hama. Syria massacre BEIRUT (AP) — A Syr- There were no additional details on the attack late Thursday and no further confirmation beyond the report by the Local Coordi- nation Committees, a net- work of activists. regime for the alleged attack. The LCC blamed the The violence in Syria has morphed into an armed insurgency. The findings of the $6.5 million, eight-month inves- tigation into one of the biggest scandals in the his- tory of college sports could A blistering report released Thursday found Paterno helped hush up alle- gations of child sex abuse against a former assistant that went back more than a decade, sacrificing the ideals he preached to pro- tect his football program. Paterno, former FBI Direc- tor Louis Freeh said, was ''an integral part of this active decision to conceal.'' Nike announced it was stripping Paterno's name from a child care center at Biden rallies for Obama at The vice president did not specifically cite Rom- ney's argument to the NAACP on Wednesday that he could serve African- Americans better than Obama, the nation's first black president. Romney was booed when he said he'd repeal Obama's sweep- ing health care reform law but otherwise got a polite reception as he reached out to a traditionally Democrat- ic voting bloc. the NAACP's annual con- vention one day after Rom- ney addressed the group, offered what amounted to a rebuttal of the Republican rival as both campaigns sought support from a key constituency in several swing states. Biden, appearing before Vice President Joe Biden rallied support for President Barack Obama before the nation's largest civil rights organization on Thursday, declaring that Republican challenger Mitt Romney's election-year agenda would hurt — not help — working families in the black com- NAACP HOUSTON (AP) — far more rousing reception as he outlined differences between Obama and Rom- ney on health care, educa- tion, energy, women's rights and research, saying the two rivals had ''fundamentally different visions.'' Biden offered a rundown of Obama's first term, pointing to a landmark health care law, launching the mission that killed al- Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and the decision to rescue the financial system and U.S. automakers Gen- eral Motors and Chrysler. Biden predictably drew a US records $904.2 billion deficit is almost certain to face re- election having run trillion- dollar-plus deficits in each his first four years in office. That would likely benefit his opponent, GOP pre- sumptive nominee Mitt Romney. Obama and congression- al Republicans remain at odds over how to lower the deficit. Unless their dis- agreement is broken, a series of tax increases and spending cuts could kick in next year. Economists warn that could dramatically slow an already weak U.S. econ- omy and even tip it back into a recession. get Office predicts the deficit for the full year, which ends on Sept. 30, will total $1.17 trillion. That would be a slight improve- ment from the $1.3 trillion deficit recorded in 2011, but still greater than any deficit before Obama took office. The Congressional Bud- White House seeks to charge terror commander BAGHDAD (AP) — The White House is asking Iraq to hand over a Hezbol- lah commander who was accused of masterminding a 2007 attack that killed five American soldiers, a senior U.S. official said Thursday, though two Iraqi courts have declared him not guilty. through June WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. budget deficit grew by nearly $60 billion in June, remaining on track to exceed $1 trillion for the fourth straight year. Through the first nine months of the budget year, the federal deficit totaled $904.2 billion, the Treasury Department reported Thurs- day. President Barack Obama The case is a tricky after- math of the long U.S. mili- tary campaign in Iraq that ended last year and has ele- ments of both Iraqi and U.S. internal politics. Ali Mussa Daqduq has been released from prison but is being held under house arrest in Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone as Washington seeks to bring U.S. charges against him. Daqduq, a Lebanese citizen, is consid- ered a top threat to Ameri- cans in the Middle East.