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8A Daily News – Tuesday, August 21, 2012 Akin fights to save Senate because the conversation was private. Rep. Todd Akin fought to salvage his Senate cam- paign Monday, even as members of his own party turned against him and a key source of campaign funding was cut off in outrage over the Missouri congressman's comments that women are able to prevent pregnancies in cases of ''legitimate rape.'' campaign ST. LOUIS (AP) — Akin made no public appearances but went on former Republican presi- dential candidate Mike Huckabee's national radio show to apologize. He vowed to continue his bid for higher office. ''The good people of Missouri nominated me, and I'm not a quitter,'' Akin said. ''To quote my old friend John Paul Jones, I have not yet begun to fight.'' Obama assails WORLD BRIEFING filmmaker Romney ads WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday defended the tone of his campaign in this sum- mer's combative ad fight with Republican challenger Mitt Rom- ney, contending he is pointing out real differ- ences while Romney is making a welfare-work claim that is ''patently false.'' But Akin seemed to be losing political support by the hour as fellow Republicans urged him to abandon a race the party had long considered essential in their bid to regain control of the Sen- ate. Incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill is seen as vulnerable in public opinion polls and because she has been a close ally of President Barack Obama. An official with the National Republican Sen- atorial Campaign Com- mittee said the group's head, Texas Sen. John Cornyn, called Akin on Monday to tell him that the committee had with- drawn $5 million in advertising planned for the Missouri race. The official spoke to The Associated Press on con- dition of anonymity In his visit to the White House briefing room, Obama at least partly upstaged a joint campaign appearance by Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, in New Hampshire, their first together after they spent the past week campaigning separately. Romney accused Obama of distorting the GOP ticket's tax poli- cies, continuing the presidential campaign's sharply personal tone. ''It seems that the news conference called on short notice, also denounced the weekend comments by a Republi- can Senate candidate in Missouri and used them to draw clear distinc- tions between his views on abortion and those of Republicans. The com- ments by candidate Todd Akin gave Obama an opportunity to weigh in on a social issue that has been largely absent from the presidential campaign and to make a direct appeal to female voters. Obama, in a brief first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth,'' Romney told about 3,000 people at an out- door rally in Manches- ter, N.H. Augusta National finally has women in ''Top Gun'' and ''True Romance,'' For the first time in its 80- year history, Augusta National Golf Club has female members. green jackets NEW YORK (AP) — The home of the Mas- ters, under increasing crit- icism the last decade because of its all-male membership, invited for- mer Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina financier Darla Moore to become the first women in green jackets when the club opens for a new season in October. Both women accepted. ''This is a joyous occa- Tony Scott touched many in the Hollywood com- munity: — ''Tony was my dear friend and I will really miss him. He was a cre- ative visionary whose mark on film is immea- surable. My deepest sor- row and thoughts are with his family at this time.'' — Tom Cruise. — ''My deepest sym- pathies go out to Tony's family. He was a great director and wonderful collaborator. He will be deeply missed.'' — Eddie Murphy. — ''Tony was always tion would widen the con- flict considerably. ''It doesn't just include Syria. It would concern allies in the region, includ- ing Israel, and it would con- cern us,'' Obama said, warning the Assad regime and ''other players on the ground'' that the use or movement of such weapons would be a ''red line'' for the United States. The U.S. has been reluctant to inter- vene militarily so far. Last month, the Syrian basis,'' Obama said. ''Part of what we've got to do is to make sure that this model works but it doesn't make our guys more vulnerable.'' That vulnerability, how- ever, has been exposed in a strikingly deadly way in recent days. Justice sion,'' Augusta National chairman Billy Payne said Monday. The move likely ends a debate that intensified in 2002 when Martha Burk of the National Council of Women's Organizations urged the club to include women among its mem- bers. Former club chair- man Hootie Johnson stood his ground, even at the cost of losing Masters television sponsors for two years, when he famously said Augusta National might one day have a woman in a green jacket, ''but not at the point of a bayonet.'' Tony Scott With a career that spanned three decades and included hits such as Hollywood reacts to the death of filmmaker sensitive to the needs of an actor. We've lost a wonderful, creative tal- ent.'' — Gene Hackman. — ''Tony was one of the good guys. He was a man's man who lived life as hard and as full as any- one I've ever met, but there was always a sweet- ness to his toughness. He was truly in love with his profession, and he is already missed.'' — Kevin Costner. Airstrikes, shelling and executions leave 100 regime confirmed for the first time that it possessed chemical weapons by threatening to use them in case of any foreign aggres- sion. The warning was seen as a sign of desperation as Assad's grip on power slipped. It came shortly after rebels assassinated four of the president's top security officials, the biggest blow to the regime in the entire uprising. Obama 'deeply beyond the Pussy Riot concerned' over Afghan — Government forces pummeled the battered city of Aleppo with airstrikes and tanks and shelled parts of Damascus and southern Syria Monday, killing at least 100 people during a major Muslim holiday, rights groups and activists said. dead in Syria TEL RIFAT, Syria (AP) insider attacks WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Monday he is sticking to his war strategy of using U.S. troops to advise and mentor Afghan forces, even as a suddenly growing number of Ameri- cans are being gunned down by the very Afghans they are training to take on insurgents. The violence escalated dramatically after a one-day lull on Sunday, the start of the three-day Eid al-Fitr holiday which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The renewed fighting showed President Bashar Assad's regime is not letting up on its drive to quell the 17-month-old uprising out of respect for the occasion. In Washington, President Barack Obama said U.S. thinking on military involvement in Syria would change if chemical or bio- logical weapons came into play in the civil war. He told reporters the use of such weapons of mass destruc- In just the past 10 days, Afghan forces have attacked their coalition part- ners seven times, killing nine Americans. For the year there have been 32 such incidents, killing 40, compared to 21 attacks killing 35 troops in all of 2011. ''We are deeply con- cerned about this, from top to bottom,'' Obama told a White House news confer- ence. But he said the best approach, with the fewest number of deaths in the long run, would be to stick to the plan for shifting secu- rity responsibilities to the Afghans. ''We are transitioning to Afghan security, and for us to train them effectively we are in much closer contact — our troops are in much closer contact with Afghan troops on an ongoing two-year prison sentence handed down to punk rock band Pussy Riot for a provocative protest inside a Moscow cathedral called attention to just how hard President Vladimir Putin is clamping down on minor displays of dissent. But Russia isn't the only country where people are punished for offenses that many in the West might consider trivial. People can spend years in prison for insulting the king in Thai- land, slaughtering cattle without government per- mission in Cuba, selling land to Israelis in the West Bank and having gay sex in Ethiopia. A British man was sent to jail for stealing a bot- tle of water. verdict MOSCOW (AP) — The While blasphemy is con- sidered a serious crime in much of the Muslim world, a Christian girl in Pakistan has been arrested after furi- ous neighbors accused her of burning pages of the Quran. Angeles at 95 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, punctuating her jokes with her trademark cackle, died Monday morning in her Los Ange- les home at age 95. ''She died peacefully in her sleep and with a smile on her face,'' her longtime manager, Milton Suchin, told The Associated Press. Diller, who suffered a Phyllis Diller dies in Los near-fatal heart attack in 1999, was found by her son, Perry Diller. The cause of her death has not been released. She was a staple of nightclubs and television from the 1950s — when female comics were rare indeed — until her retire- ment in 2002. Diller built her stand-up act around the persona of the corner- cutting housewife (''I bury a lot of my ironing in the backyard'') with bizarre looks, a wardrobe to match (by ''Omar of Omaha'') and a husband named ''Fang.'' Schedule of Events Thursday, August 16th • Miss Corning Program Veteran's Memorial Hall, 6 pm Monday, August 20th • Missing Olive Contest Clues Begin Wednesday, August 22nd • Annual City Water Festival Thursday, August 23rd • Olive Festival Mixer Northside Park, 6 - 8 pm Sponsored by the City of Corning Bell Carter Breakroom, 6 - 8 pm Look for directions from the parking lot. 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